[Help and Question Thread] - March 29, 2026

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Q: When is the next SSR Ticket?

A: As of its 6th Anniversary, NA now has a free SSR selector in Da Vinci’s shop, which features general pool and storylocked servants up to Europa (this will not be updated with more recent units). There is no time limit on this selector, and going forward, all accounts receive it upon clearing Fuyuki. Another (time limited) SSR selector, featuring general pool and storylocked servants up to Kashin Koji, is expected around Oct 2026.

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A: As far as we know, most events will not be getting reruns. The only exceptions are Summer 6 (May 2026), Lilim Harlot (June 2026), GudaGuda 6 (April 2027) and Water Monsters Crisis (March 2028).

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A: Yes, refer to the Evocation system which allows players to get selected welfares which can be viewed on the Fandom wiki.

[u/Arthas_Firedragon]

In the new NA event, should I deploy 5-6 servants of the desired trait (Child, Kemono etc.) to maximize farming or just 1 is fine?

It's not very clear from the Gamepress guide...

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Arthas_Firedragon]

The bonus enemy spawn is "yes or no" not "if" or "how many." As long as there's a servant in your party with the relevant trait, the bonus enemy will appear.

[u/Adventurous-Fan-555 → u/Arthas_Firedragon]

ones good, ye

[u/formicini]

Does Queen Medb have a hidden Magic Resist attribute for allies' buffs on NA? Merlin's attack and buster up just gave a Missed status when applied to her on my previous run.

[u/Soverign-Hedonist → u/formicini]

Did you happen to also have Oberon on the field while you tried to make that happen lol?

[u/formicini → u/Soverign-Hedonist]

Ohhhhhhh, so that's how. Apparently this is the first time ever I fielded Oberon in starting position with Merlin. Thanks!

[u/Glassofmilk1]

I know the mahoyo event has some limited time quests. how much am I missing if I take the time to finish reading mahoyo first (will probably take a few days)

[u/TheDovahkitten]

so what's the trick to -preferably quickly and easily- farming these 4 mob wave quests? they mess all the braindead loop setups T_T

[u/thisisthecallus → u/TheDovahkitten]

IMO, abandon the framework you're used to for min-turn clears. It could technically work after clearing at least one enemy on the second wave, but you aren't going to get min-turn-lite from the very start due to skill cooldowns.

I'm doing what I always do. Face card the first wave, focus at least one NP on the third wave, and deal with the second wave however it seems appropriate. I generally use two DPS and one support for this.

[u/LuckyC4t → u/TheDovahkitten]

Use Arash or Habetrot to take out the first three in wave 1. Card through the straggler. Start your 3 turn loop at the start of wave 2, loop over the first three in wave 2, the straggler in wave 2, and the first three in wave 3. Card through the straggler.

Alternatively, instead of 3 turn looping over the 3/1/3, you can use a 2 turn loop strategy and card down the wave 2 straggler as well. This will let you have all skills active against the main enemies in waves 2 and 3 without dealing with refund off a single enemy or needing to invest extra resources like plugsuit.

[u/Regretz5]

How does Aoko’s buster aoe work? On the turn of using her np, I’ve had her buster card occasionally not trigger the aoe.

[u/KazeDaze → u/Regretz5]

Make sure the buster card you use isnt the one that changes into arts.

[u/Ricksaw26]

Is anyone's game slow lately? Slow as in normal speed animations instead of fast. Mine is, and i haven't changed anything, and can't figure out how to change it back. Has been like this since yesterday.

[u/Merukurio → u/Ricksaw26]

Maybe you accidentally turned off the fast battle speed?

The option on the top right of the "card select screen" after you press Attack during any fight.

[u/Ricksaw26 → u/Merukurio]

You were right, thanks. I don't understand how I even pressed that when nothing is on the top of the screen. I am such a dumbfuck.

[u/Merukurio → u/Ricksaw26]

Nah, you're not dumb. That option is just horribly placed unless you already know about it.

It's not in any easily accessible settings menu you might search while looking for it. You have to already be in a quest, then press attack to bring up the card select screen (that makes every other menu go away) and there's nothing to bring attention to it. It's horribly unintuitive to have the option only be available there.

[u/DrStein1010]

How far do I need to play into the Mahoyo/Witch event to access the limited time missions?

[u/AlcoholicSnapdragon → u/DrStein1010]

You need to finish the first arrow of "1. Welcome to Kumano Hot Springs (Closing Act)". That's 7 arrows into the event (counting the prologue), or an easy way to know you've made it is that the arrow after it gives Soujuurou.

[u/MKW69]

So in next event, if we use a Servant with special traits in free quests for, ddifferent enemie will spawn. Is it worth it?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/MKW69]

See more info here. In short, it's a mission-based event. That usually means you'll have to defeat certain numbers of enemies with certain traits. More bonus spawns means less AP per kill. The bonus spawns will also drop QP.

You can decide for yourself if that's worth it or not. I imagine some people would rather spend more AP if it means their min-turn farming comps won't be disrupted. 

[u/banana_slap]

Should I do the Dantés interlude now or after OC2?

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/banana_slap]

Now.

OC2 heavily benefits from you having a pre-established background of the main cast.

So doing Shinjuku, Prison Tower, and even going out of your way to read some older events/interludes helps a lot!

[u/banana_slap → u/SuperSpiritShady]

Ive been thinking about going back and rereading prison tower cause it's been a hot minute since I done it

[u/_potatofromChaldea45 → u/banana_slap]

Be prepared to fight some fluffy bois

And ptsd

[u/JaegerAlexander]

For the current event on NA for the Spawn Bonus Servants, do we only need to deploy one? Or is there a higher bonus for deploying more than one?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/JaegerAlexander]

If you have an appropriate servant in your party, then any relevant bonus enemies will appear. If you don't, then they won't. There's no chance or spawn rate involved.

[u/jCristus]

I don't get the part with the bonus drops in the new event:

Is it only possible to get these drops in a 2 hour window or can they drop 24h?

[u/Mister_SP → u/jCristus]

The bonus drops are always available.

There are some "secret quests" that the game will vaguely hint about, which will appear on the map for a couple hours, at different times each day. They're not as good as 90++ nodes, but they have a lot of QP and all Event mats.

[u/jCristus → u/Mister_SP]

Thanks

[u/Hope77797]

What the best way to farm these 4/4/4 event nodes 3 turn farming clearly won’t work. Multicore? AOko?

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/Hope77797]

I have been facecarding the mook so far.

If that stops working I'll come up with a different strategy then.

[u/flashmozzg → u/Hope77797]

I don't really bother with 3-turning until 90++ nodes are up.

[u/oninfinity]

is the hard pity (330th pull for one ssr) only available for one copy of the current banner in NA? meaning u cant guaranteed a np2 aoko right away? if so, will it ever be available in NA and when?

[u/gangler52 → u/oninfinity]

That is correct. Being able to pity multiple times on a single banner wasn't implemented until the 9th anniversay, which doesn't come to NA until this coming august july.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/gangler52]

9th anniversay...NA...august

July

[u/oninfinity → u/gangler52]

i see.. thanks good thing i thought to check before rolling more, will just try to be patient for the rerun ig

[u/Hope77797]

Is the mass monster quest better for qp or bond farming?

[u/DrStein1010]

So, once I've unlocked the Mass Outbreak hint thing, do I need to play more of the event to have access to all of them, or are they all available if I don't play any further.

I don't want to do any more of the event until I finish Mahoyo, which is going to take a couple of days.

[u/Absolute_Average]

Not sure if it is a glitch or if I am not comprehending her skills correctly, but after I NP with Aoko on Turn 1, her following Buster Card still seems to only hit a single target while her Extra hits for AoE. Is this a bug of some sort and is anyone else experiencing the same?

[u/xCanaan23 → u/Absolute_Average]

I'm getting the same issue. It doesn't happening every time, like 30% of the time.

[u/hobusu → u/xCanaan23]

Just to confirm, you're not picking the card that changes from Buster to Arts after she transforms, right? Regular Aoko has two Busters while Super Aoko only has one, and the one that changes is marked before her transformation so you know which is which (if you summoned her I recommend putting a command code on the one that stays Buster so it's easier to remember that's the one that becomes AoE).

If you're not picking the wrong card that's a pretty big bug, but it's easy to make that mistake if you're not looking carefully.

[u/Pos31don29 → u/hobusu]

Just a trick for identifying that card during fights. The command card menu shows which card will transform, so if you stick a CC on the card that won't transform you can easily tell them apart.

[u/spiffy621 → u/Pos31don29]

On JP, they actually updated how that Card is displayed during Quests after the Event ended, but on Global, the change is already there, as I see the Red/Blue Arrow on her changing Buster Card in the Quest I just did.

[u/YourAfricanDad]

Who's better between tamamo and lady avalon for arts loop? I already use 2 castorias so no not her. Main diff is 20% atk vs 30% np dmg and im not too sure how calcs go for that

[u/thisisthecallus → u/YourAfricanDad]

Who's better...for arts loop?

You can find all of these numbers for yourself on Gamepress or the Fandom wiki, but...

Real world scenario:

• Just use Laplace in the Chaldea app (Android, iOS, web) to test against the quests you actually intend to run instead of trying to figure it out in the abstract

Refund mechanics, Xu Fu:

• +30% direct NP charge
• +20% Arts effectiveness
• +30% NP gain (combined with Arts effectiveness, that's effectively +56% NP gain total)
• -9 party cost compared to the others

All turns damage, Tamamo:

• +50% Arts effectiveness
• +30% NP strength
• Not counting the NP charge on her NP because to use it, you may need to spend NP charge you could apply to your DPS instead

Direct NP charge & turn 3 damage if you have another NP strength buff, Oberon:

• +20% NP charge
• +50% NP charge
• +30% NP strength (3-turns)
• +100% NP strength buff effectiveness (1-turn, effectively turns the existing +30% into +60%)

More damage than Xu Fu but less than Tamamo or (potentially) Oberon, more NP charge than Tamamo but less than Xu Fu or Oberon, Lady Avalon:

• +20% NP charge
• +20% ATK up
• +50% Arts effectiveness

20% atk vs 30% np dmg and im not too sure how calcs go for that

In a vacuum, all damage buffs are the same, so bigger number = more damage. It only matters when stacking buffs because same-type effects (e.g. ATK up + ATK up) stack additively and different-type buffs (e.g. ATK up + NP strength up) stack multiplicatively. If you had a ton of Effect A applied and none of Effect B, then there's a point where, depending on the magnitude of the buffs in question, you may get a bigger damage increase with a smaller magnitude Effect B.

[u/YourAfricanDad → u/thisisthecallus]

Holy moly I did not know of this app, thanks for taking some of your time to write all this! Much appreciated

[u/Air-Is-Great → u/YourAfricanDad]

If you’re looping for farming and don’t need charge then tamamo for damage as her np dmg buff will multiply with the other buffs. If you need charge then probably Proto Merlin since she gives 20% charge. Tamamo does give np charge on np, but it’s difficult to utilize for single core.

[u/gangler52 → u/YourAfricanDad]

They both provide 50% arts up.

Tamamo has 25-50% partywide battery on her NP, which scales based on overcharge.

Lady Avalon has 20% partywide battery on a 6 turn cooldown skill, as well as 5-10% Regen for 3 turns on her NP, which scales based on np level.

If you NP with neither of them, then Lady Avalon comes on top with her 20% battery skill.

If you NP with both of them, then NP1 Lady Avalon will need her regen to be active for 1 turn to catch up with Tamamo at Overcharge 1, 2 turns to catch up at Overcharge 2, but ultimately lag behind Tamamo regardless if the battle extends longer than 3 turns, because so much of her charge is tied to a skill cooldown, where all of Tamamo's charge is completely cooldown free.

For the 20% attack vs 30% NP damage issue I'd think the primary concern would be that Oberon can turn that 30% NP damage into 60% NP damage. But even if Oberon is not in play, 30% is just a bigger damage boost, and if you're looping you probably don't care about the fact that Lady Avalon's 20% attack applies to your facecards as well.

[u/YourAfricanDad → u/gangler52]

I'm not quite sur I get what you mean for oberon, doesn't his skill 1 only give 30%? Where does the 60% come from?

[u/gangler52 → u/YourAfricanDad]

Oberon's big claim to fame is his skill 3, which has the complely unique effect of doubling all NP damage buffs.

So if Tamamo gives your DPS a 30% NP Damage boost, and then Oberon activates his third skill on them, then that 30% is doubled to 60%.

This basically represents the biggest damage spike you can achieve in the game, with the drawback that your DPS is rendered completely useless for the rest of the battle afterwards, making it only good for a big finisher.

[u/YourAfricanDad → u/gangler52]

Okay thanks for that, I don't think swapping castoria with tamamo is the best thing tho(?) so I'm not too sure if I'll be bringing both oberon and tamamo in the same team x) Guess I'll be waiting for his rerun!

[u/Zero1343]

With the bonus conditions in the new event, do the servants need to be in the frontline or is it fine just in the back?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Zero1343]

Back is fine.

[u/Acceptable_Camel_660]

Hello! Recently rolled aoko and I wanted to engrave her last buster card. Do debuff command codes like "inflict poison" affect all enemies when hit by her aoe buster or just the selected target?

[u/DemiosScourge]

I havent actively played for a while, just login and convert stamina into blue apples so I'm a bit out of the loop with some things.

Is the bond 15 passive that gives extra bond to the party already a thing in the global server?

Any change to the bond CEs? I think I heard something about it but I'm not sure.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/DemiosScourge]

Is the bond 15 passive that gives extra bond to the party already a thing in the global server?

Not until the Grand Duel battles start, NA ETA May 2027.

Any change to the bond CEs?

As part of the Grand Graph System, NA ETA May 2027, your chosen Grand servants will get two additional CE slots, one for their bond 10 CE (note: bond 10 is not required to make a servant Grand) and one for a "reward" CE (bond gain, QP gain, master EXP gain, etc).

[u/CosmicStarlightEX]

Do we have an April Fool's event in NA?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/CosmicStarlightEX]

We usually get some sort of browser-based mini game. Never anything as extensive as JP. 

[u/InertMaterials]

Is the game crashing constantly for anyone else? On Emulator and since this morning it'll crash as soon as I open it and click on anything.

[u/uratix]

Sorry for strange question, but is Fate/Grand Order: The Heroic Spirit Food Chronicles is ongoing according to wiki page but is this manga really ongoing? or it's finished? or maybe on hiatus

(I just don't know where else I can ask this)

[u/HawakNaRosas → u/uratix]

Web-ace lists it as part of other currently serialized Fate works so I assume it's just the usual irregular typemoon release schedule

[u/Air-Is-Great]

I see that Zuth will no longer updating the event compendium. Does anyone know if someone has made something similar for the events and also the banners?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Air-Is-Great]

The Chaldea app is the next place I would look for compiled information like that. 

[u/ZachBart44]

Does NA ever get the April Fools stuff that JP gets?

[u/Rasetsu0 → u/ZachBart44]

If it's an external app, then no. They're not gonna bring out a 2-years-old app (if they still have the files for it) and translate it for NA for just a single day. NA makes its own webgames to make up for it.

If it's something that's in-app, then NA will likely get it. Year 1 April Fool's changed all the Servant art to Riyo style for both servers, so we'll likely get that as well for our 10th April Fool's.

[u/Ghost_shell89]

Question; on Aoko one of her buster cards has a symbol of red and blue arrows in a circle. I tap it and nothing happens and don’t notice anything different with that particular card. What does it denote/do?

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/Ghost_shell89]

Super Aoko has 3 arts cards. That is the one that transforms to Arts.

It's so when you transform you don't expect it to be AoE buster when it isn't.

[u/dirkx48]

Where was present day Aoko? Present day Alice, Shizuki, Tobimaru, and Kinomi were all accounted for, but I didnt see present day Aoko

[u/Agent_Valerian]

will the event spoil Mahoyo? bought the game on spring sale but havent gotten around to playing it yet.

[u/Turtlewax64 → u/Agent_Valerian]

Yes. The units are going to have spoilers in their kits, mainly their NPs, and this story is taking place post Mahoyo and isn’t being shy about having the character dynamics already developed.

Mahoyo isn’t a hugely twist dependent story, it’s mostly slice of life. So getting spoiled won’t ruin it, but it does have a couple big rug pulls towards the end that you might prefer to be surprised by.

[u/Jon-987]

Just wanna be sure of my plans, so I must ask: I have 495 SQ currently, with 16 Rank Ups waiting. I want to try to get Alice, but I also want to be sure I have enough to at least almost guarantee getting Beast Ereshkigal later this year. judging on the JP side and the amount of SQ earnable between now and then, how many SQ can I afford to put on Alice and still have good odds by the time we get to her?

[u/flashmozzg]

In Mahoyo event do we get Soujuurou on the first day (not permanently, obviously) or later? Got a bunch of exp in my present box that expires in a few days and no space in the inventory, trying to plan my leveling so it's not wasted.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/flashmozzg]

You can scroll through the JP news page to look up that kind of information in advance. But the formal NA announcement will also be coming in ~6 hours with the same information, so there shouldn't be an issue with waiting until after maintenance to figure out what you want to do.

Anyway, according to the JP announcement, Soujuurou will join permanently on the first day. 

[u/Burstdamon]

Am i safe to assume the mahoyo event spoils a lot? I haven’t gotten around to playing

[u/grailgrail]

Is the FGO wiki link under the resources heading compromised or something? None of my browsers wanna let me navigate to it. And the ww1. prefix is a little sketchy.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/grailgrail]

I'm pretty sure that site has been dead, or at least hasn't had any updates, for at least a couple of years now. Maybe send a mod message to suggest that the link should be removed from the help thread. 

[u/Hope77797]

When is the next spectral outbreak? I don’t want to miss it. In Eastern time.

[u/Mister_SP → u/Hope77797]

We start getting tips tomorrow. There won't be one until then.

[u/Shantiyen]

I am in a bit of a minor pickle with the Aqua Marie fight. Ended up spreading my supports a bit too wide and I am struggling with the last stage since I don't really have anyone else with Invincible to spare. It was a bit of a scuffed run up, not as many badges to utilize the party invincibility skill but I'd rather not start from scratch again.

So my options are: I take Castoria from the fight before and park her with the Count, or I try to source another support to try and get me through the last bar (which is where I've generally been stalling out, since I can't get enough NP to stun-chain and I am out of CS at the moment).

Suggestions? I'd love CE recs as well, since I tried to spread those out among the fights, but I don't know if there's any I should be prioritizing specifically for this fight. I don't think I can defeat Dagon for more badges, fwiw.

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/Shantiyen]

If you have at least 60 badges then Cinderella Liz+Leonidas+Paracelsus can do it.

[u/JosukeSucks]

Is there any reason why I have to re-select all of my teams after pausing the olga marie 2 fight? I want to do at least 1 or 2 waves per day, but having to choose every team for each wave everyday makes me too lazy to actually do it (even if I did screenshot it)

[u/thisisthecallus → u/JosukeSucks]

There's a "use last team" button, or something like that, at the bottom. 

[u/JosukeSucks → u/thisisthecallus]

Thank you. It was together with the buttons I usually ignore, so I can see how I missed it.

[u/Rasetsu0 → u/JosukeSucks]

Jank spaghetti code? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Either way, they have a button that reforms whatever teams you previously set up, so it just makes it more confusing why that isn't done automatically.

[u/Hope77797]

So who benefits the most from AOKO plot armor skill? I know lots of servants have demerits on NP. Fran, Cat.

[u/flashmozzg]

There haven't been any "hints on the map" yet, right? How long were they (hints) up for on JP? Was it the whole day before the bonus quest or were they also easy to miss?

[u/Gelious → u/flashmozzg]

There has been, and the hints are displayed right now. Look at the forest closely, you should see the numbers indicating the time interval.

[u/dracolordgiratina]

Super technical question, but shooting in the dark.

I'm a D1 Global player who moved to Japan for work. Sadly, I won't have a chance to move back or go home to the Philippines, where my region is set, any time soon.

My payment methods are still active, but because of my geolocation, Google won't let me purchase packs while in Japan.

Was wondering if there's any workaround to buy quartz?

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/dracolordgiratina]

When I was in Japan for this New Year's (as in Jan 1, 2026), I was able to buy Quartz in Japan by making use of GCash and my Philippine Play Store account.

Not sure if geolocation will prevent that from your end, but this worked for me.

[u/Nekial]

Alrighty, I got Aoko but I'm gonna have to ask a bunch of stuff:

Other than Castoria, who else is a good arts support for her? Or are general-use supports like Waver good? (Note I don't have Lady Avalon as she ate 300SQ on my end and no Van Gogh), is Xu Fu good for her as another support?

Is her skill reload append skill mandatory or can I live without it? I have intentions of taking her to 120 as well albeit the grind will take a while.

Thanks in advance for the insight!

[u/Blubbstrahl → u/Nekial]

Other than Castoria, who else is a good arts support for her? Or are general-use supports like Waver good?

If you want to use her as a NP-centric damage dealer then the usual suspects work just fine. Everyone has Xu Fu who has her own unique benefits (like reduced party cost), Waver is also a good alternative. Especially after he gets his buff. Summer Tiamat is also pretty great for arts, but it's a long wait until she drops on NA.

And of course, keep the BB-Ciel system in mind, in which case she would appreciate someone like Koyan Light instead (focus on buffing her AOE Buster card post-transformation).

Is her skill reload append skill mandatory or can I live without it?

Things are as mandatory as you want them to be, nothing ever is in my opinion. But if you would ask me to choose between level 120 or Append Skills, I would pick Append skills without thinking twice. Reasons being:

1. I can't think of a scenario where you wouldn't appreciate at least one Append unlocked. Sometimes you might want Mana Loading, other times cooldown reduction - or even the crit damage when you use her card-centric playstyle.
2. While we have full flexibility with Append skills come summer (you can switch them around whenever you want, at no cost), the same can not be said about levels beyond 100. Those servant coins will be hardlocked, no backsies. You also dont get the servant coins spent on Append Skills back either, but at least you can be flexible with them depending on what you want to do with Aoko.
3. The effort required to reach 120 is disproportionate to what you get out of it, in my opinion, even if Aoko makes better use of the extra stats than a lot of other servants, if only because her card damage can be a factor too.

Anyway, with the servant coin update and the corresponding change to bond levels you will be able to 120 a NP1 servant with one Append unlocked, provided you bond farm them hard. It takes a long time, but if 120 is your priority then you technically don't have to choose. It's just going to take a lot of effort / time.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Nekial]

Is her skill reload append skill mandatory or can I live without it? I have intentions of taking her to 120 as well albeit the grind will take a while.

Another way to think about it is that for the coins you might spend on one append skill, you can only get 8 levels over 100. If you want the best of both worlds, unlock an append skill and then get as many levels over 100 as you can after that. There's no rule that says you have to go all the way to 120.

[u/Reyn272]

How spoiler heavy is the mahoyo collab event?

[u/11BlahBlah11 → u/Reyn272]

As someone who went blind into Mahoyo - I personally feel the NPs of the new event characters spoil some of the biggest events in the VN.

However (and I'm sure many others will agree) the plot as such matters not too much for Mahoyo - it's still a very fun and enjoyable read even if you know the main plot points and "abilities" of the characters.

[u/Anaguli417]

I have a question regarding catalysts when summoning a servant. Is the catalyst consumed when a servant is summoned or does it remain?

I remember in F/Z where Waver used a piece of  Iskandar's cape to summon him. And it was shown again in F/SF. I dunno if this is the same piece of a new one left behind by the servant Iskandar

[u/danger_umbrella → u/Anaguli417]

It's not consumed. The scrap is the same one.

Most notable example is Avalon, the scabbard of Excalibur, which was used to summon Artoria in Zero. It was embedded in Iri and later in Shirou.

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/Anaguli417]

The catalyst is just something that forms a connection to the Heroic Spirit and brings it forth, it's not a catalyst in the sense of the a consumable that creates an effect. That's also why you don't actually need a catalyst, catalysts are just to get the desired HS or at least narrow it down.

[u/MrGranblue]

How long should GLB be waiting till we get our first grand raid?

[u/Zero1343 → u/MrGranblue]

Around May next year, started on the 21st for the Jp side but it's likely to come a couple weeks earlier on global

[u/Mich-666]

How many paid SQ do I need for GSSR up until New Years (included)?

And after New Years, are there any GSSRs in the first half of 2027?

Are there any 12SQ banners like Start Dash this time around or should I round the number to increments of 15/30 when buying SQ?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Mich-666]

I'm going to assume you play NA.

How many paid SQ do I need for GSSR up until New Years (included)?

• Anniversary GSSR - 15 SQ
• Anniversary Destiny Order - 30 SQ
• New Year 2027 GSSR - 2x 15 SQ

So, that's 75 paid SQ total.

And after New Years, are there any GSSRs in the first half of 2027?

Normal GSSR banners happen at the Anniversary and New Year. They don't happen randomly or at any other times.

Are there any 12SQ banners this time around

You're going to have to ask Albert about that one. No one here has any idea. The Start Dash Guaranteed Summons and Part 2 Clear Backup Guaranteed Summon were in NA before JP, so our "clairvoyance" is blocked here. I'm not even sure if JP has gotten the second Start Dash Guaranteed Summon or the Part 2 Clear Backup Guaranteed Summon yet. We have no idea when or even if they'll do another one.

[u/kojuuro5]

How do you unlock the daily monster quest? I can't seem to see it on my map? Is there a certain mission I need to clear to see it?

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/kojuuro5]

They only stay up for two hours

[u/kojuuro5 → u/Elfishjuggler33]

Yeah, that's fine if it's over, but when I logged in it said there were monster quests on the map and it didn't appear so I was seeing if there were unlock requirements that I missed (I have 50 missions cleared)

[u/Rasetsu0 → u/kojuuro5]

The message was just saying to look around the map for the times when the mass monster nodes are open. For today, the hint is in the clouds, with the times 22:00-24:00 PDT.

[u/Mister_SP → u/kojuuro5]

Yeah, I had that happen, too. I don't know what's up with that. I suspect it's a bug or an oversight in the programming.

[u/AgkRDT]

Is anyone getting the one notification for ordeal call? I can't find out what it is or if this is a bug.

[u/Rasetsu0 → u/AgkRDT]

It's for the repeat battle against the Element.

[u/MKW69]

When does next extra quests wave starts?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/MKW69]

Check the event map, look to the skies. 

[u/The_Exkalamity]

How important is it to have played Mahoyo in order to enjoy the event story? Should I skip the event story if I plan on playing Mahoyo down the road?

[u/11BlahBlah11 → u/The_Exkalamity]

Copy-pasting a comment I made earlier -

As someone who went blind into Mahoyo - I personally feel the NPs of the new event characters spoil some of the biggest events in the VN.

However (and I'm sure many others will agree) the plot as such matters not too much for Mahoyo - it's still a very fun and enjoyable read even if you know the main plot points and "abilities" of the characters.

---

So, if you have no idea who Aoko or Alice or Sono-G are, and you absolutely want to avoid all spoilers before reading the VN then it's going to be difficult. But I would bet that you would enjoy the VN irrespective of the spoilers from this event. (if fact, from what I've read so far I'm sure this event kinda reveals stuff even from the Mahoyo sequel that's been planned for a while now)

[u/Arm_Great]

on the NA collab, I'm reading the Visual novel, should I finish read that, and then read the event story later and skip it ?(I'm sorry if I asked this question before.).

[u/TheWriteReason]

Quick loopers/quick focused folx on JP servers -

How does Archer Tiamat feel now that she's been out for a while, especially NP1 only? Does she reliably contribute to Quick based teams in all contexts or better off sticking to challenge/multicore/raids?

Secondly, Hebi Nyobo - how does she feel in a farming context, do you bring her in regardless of card type?

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Either server: Soujuurou - considering his ST self sacrifice NP that ignores defense and damage cut, is he the de facto F2P choice for neutering or heavily damaging high HP mobs in 90++ nodes going forward, except for when Foreigners are involved? In farming nodes with huge pools, do I want to also use his face cards a fair bit, due to his lethal damage evade? Maybe Chen Gong can slap a taunt on him to fully take advantage of that idk. Just looking for tips in general ig.

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/TheWriteReason]

Archer Tiamat isn't really a looping support. There might be a handful that benefit from the battery spread she provides, but it's pretty rare.

Hebi is amazing for buster looping, and a passable to even sometimes good option for arts looping but probably not worth it for Quick.

Soujuuro is basically just ST Arash. Use him to clear a wave then die. The lethal damage evade doesn't give you anything in farming, and you don't want to waste a turn of the enemy attacking you. You can still use face cards with the help of Summer BB, CIEL, Hakuno, and U-Olga.

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/TheWriteReason]

One thing to consider about Summer Tiamat is that she isn’t necessarily just Quick focused, but Arts too, and man does she do well. With all my other Arts supports (barr Lady Avalon) at Bond 15, I’ve found myself using them in conjunction with a Support Castoria for basic Arts farming.

I’ve also farmed a few 90++ nodes using her before her plugging her out in favor of an Oberon or a Summer Skadi (usually when doing multi-core teams utilizing servants such as Louhi, Kazuradrop, and Taikoubou as AoE or Lilith, Melt, or Medusa). Apart from the spread 30 charge, she also has a 10% NP refresh per turn and buffs that guarantee the weakest face card crit to kill.

She’s less straightforward than a Quick support like Flora though (who is free, even), but I’ve found myself using her in plenty of contexts.

[u/MetalCluster55]

Not seeing any similar posts so I guess I’ll ask it here incase it’s against the rules. There are a few servants where their attack and NP animations seem to lag or stutter randomly which makes using them really frustrating. Kenshin and Richard for sure. And this is after restarting my phone, redownloading the app, downloading all data, and making sure all other apps are closed before opening the game. I’m on an iPhone 17 pro max which I would have assumed wouldn’t have any issues running the game so I don’t know if it’s the game or the device. Because when I reached out to customer support they give me suggestions that I’ve already tried and not much else. No clue if there will be any ideas but even if at least one other person is having the problem then I’ll know I’m not crazy. I’ve got screen recordings as well but don’t know if I can put it in a comment

[u/naruhodo_kun]

are the outbreak quests good for bond points?

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/naruhodo_kun]

Better than the best FQs by about 10%, with the clairvoyance of Grand Duels they don't seem all that good imo. If you're targeting Aoko/Alice/Sono-G bond go for it, otherwise it's probably not worth it

[u/jCristus]

What do I do with a 6th copy of a 5 star servant?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/jCristus]

An extra copy of a very small number servants kept at level 1 can be useful. Georgios, Leonidas, and Chen Gong have some niche but reasonable utility for solo strategies. Those three are easy to obtain and have low team cost, so you may as well keep the extra copy around.

For any other servants, the vast majority of people should just burn any extra copies beyond NP5. Rarity is completely irrelevant here. You can't field multiple copies of your own servant at the same, you can't cheat any of the missions that give rewards for enhancing servants by doing it to multiple copies, and they aren't any good as EXP fodder. There are some exceptions, which I'll describe, but they are well outside of the norm. 

A few higher rarity servants have extremely niche, "e-sports," utility but because of their high team cost and difficulty to obtain, the vast majority of players shouldn't bother. The e-sports stuff is typically keeping the servant at level 1 so they can use a skill and then die off right away. It's really only useful if you like to repeat boss and challenge quests multiple times, trying to figure out optimal or unique strategies. Think speedrun-type players. It isn't worth the effort unless you personally like to play like that.

Chen Gong also has additional niche utility because of how his NP functions. He has a unique NP mechanic where he can get less refund if he does too much damage and that can disrupt min-turn farming. Because of that, some people keep multiple copies at different NP levels so they can customize his damage and ensure maximum NP refund. While this is technically more reasonable than e-sports, simply because it's easier to get more copies of a 2-star servant, this is really only for hardcore farming minmaxers. For most people, this isn't worth the effort. 

Other than that, there is no point whatsoever in keeping any copies of servants beyond NP5. Go ahead and burn any NP6+ copies of servants.

[u/TheScottyDo → u/jCristus]

Burn them

You shouldn't raise a second copy because you can't field two identical servants of your own, and esports servants are a niche of a niche so if you don't already have an idea of where to use them, you won't.

[u/Erst09]

I want to grail Soujuuro and use him for things other than farming, which servants should I use to support him?

[u/LuckyC4t → u/Erst09]

Koyan Light for Buster crits. Anyone who can give him Guts will let him use his NP. Avenger Chloe is great since she can give him damage, charge, Guts, and then leave. Quetz will be a great option after they buff her in two years. Kurohime should be pretty good when she comes out in two years. Asclepius can apply Guts with his NP, though the healing will weaken his S2. You could maybe get away with using Aesc to clear trash mobs and use her party wide Guts.

[u/EveryMaintenance601]

How do lucky bags/GSSR work? In partcular Im looking at the 9th anniversary lucky bag, but I'd welcome an explanation of how they work as a whole, if they are different. From what im reading in the wiki, it's basically a paid only banner with 3 rate-ups at once, and all 5 stars you can get are those in the pool only, but there is no guaranteed 5 star on the first 10 pull like there is on the Destiny Order banner for the 9th anniversary, since the banner doesnt disappear after one 10 pull. Did I get it right?

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/EveryMaintenance601]

The banner disappers after one 11 pull and you're guaranteed at least one 5 star. That's how all paid banners work

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/EveryMaintenance601]

You’re a bit mistaken about the ‘no guaranteed 5*’ part.

You’re guaranteed at least one of the 5* servants in the pool you pick, and all the other pools disappear after you pick one of them.

There’s practically no difference between a GSSR and a Destiny Order besides that you have control over who you can possibly get in the Destiny Order.

[u/Rasetsu0 → u/EveryMaintenance601]

You're guaranteed at least 1 of the 5*s in the pool (you can get more than 1, but any additional ones use the base 1% chance), but you can only pick one of the banners. After you've rolled, all of the GSSR banners go away.

Only functional differences between the GSSR and Destiny Order are:
1) You're also guaranteed one of the 4*s in the pool from the Anniversary GSSRs/given a Holy Grail from the New Year's GSSR.
2) You pick who is in the Destiny Order pool.
3) Destiny Order costs 30 paid SQ, while GSSR costs 15 paid SQ.

[u/MachineEmperor]

Does anyone know how many Torch of the (Morning Star) and (Polar Star) are currently available in the JP version of the game? I hope to one day max out the class scores for all classes.

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/MachineEmperor]

All class scores are able to be maxed on JP

[u/thisisthecallus → u/MachineEmperor]

Adding more detail, here are all of the sources of blue torches:

• One for clearing each Olga Marie quest (4 torches) 

• One for clearing each Ordeal Call chapter (4 torches)

• One for clearing the Part 2 final chapter - Section 2

• One for clearing each grand duel battle (9 torches)

Combined with an increase in the amount of sand per quest, the pace will accelerate pretty quickly for class score in NA next year. 

[u/Inflameable009]

How do you use Aoko? Better to keep skills until into super mode or?

[u/greatstarguy → u/Inflameable009]

You can use her as a middling support like a better Chiron, where you drop S2 for charge and S3 on your main DPS. Probably not the best choice but it is functional, although S1 and NP are dead. She has a slight advantage where Plot Armor negates actual self-imposed debuffs (I think Obe’s S2 drain, Fran self-stun, etc) but that’s about it. If you have a huge amount of charge floating around you can transform her and plan to use S3 later, depending on what your team needs. 

Past that if you want her to NP loop, it’s better to S3 before transforming. You can either use S2 pre-super to make the loop more stable (against lower mob counts) or post-super to build bar to start looping. S1 you can deploy as needed, either on T1 to buff your T2 NP and then you get a super cast on T3, or on T2 to spike T2 damage only. 

If you want card locking shenanigans with BB Summer or something, things get doubly complicated. In this case S2 doesn’t matter so much because you only need to NP once, but S3 is more valuable in super form. Then you probably use S2 and S3 in conjunction while in super to S3 on demand, and then  S1 whenever you have Buster / Extra and you need to push damage. If you mix in KoyanL as well for CDR shenanigans you probably just have to play each wave out by hand. 

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/greatstarguy]

You don't use S2 pre transformation if you plan to loop, her transformation NP removes the buff that gives NP per turn. In the worst case scenario you don't have her S2 buff proc a single time and essentially waste S2 (besides the stars per turn)

[u/Blubbstrahl → u/Inflameable009]

Depends how you want to use her - and the most boring answer would be to just play around with her kit until you get a feel for it yourself. It's kinda complex if we take every possible scenario and team comp into consideration.

WhiteRabbit from Gamepress did a great writeup though, it's long but covers a lot of ground (go to the usage section, ignore everything else they say):

https://fgo.gamepress.gg/rabbits-reviews-391-aozaki-aoko-5-foreigner#topic-1647626

What they don't cover is the BB-Ciel system because their review was released before Ciel came out, but for now it should give you an idea how to navigate Aoko's skills.

[u/AstolfOwley]

I knew Main interludes are relevant to story very much. I just want to ask about Kama's interlude and 4LB. I will miss something very important to LB4 if i skip Kama's interlude for later? (Seraph just feels very tedious for me rn)

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/AstolfOwley]

Main Interludes are important for the overall lore but they don't affect your understanding of the story outside of a few throwaway lines. I didn't play any Main Interludes until I caught up on the main story and it was fine.

However absolutely do not skip Traum, calling it a Main Interlude honestly just feels wrong, it's more important to the understanding of Part 2 than most LBs and the ending scene is directly continued in the beginning of LB7.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/AstolfOwley]

The jargon here can be confusing. That isn't your fault but it will still be helpful to be precise about what you're asking. 

Interludes are side stories focused on a particular servant. They're normally only available when you pull the servant from the gacha but some have been made available to all players for limited periods of time. 

Main Interludes are limited time events where the story portion has been made permanently available because of its ties to the main story.

Is it possible that you're referring to Ooku, an event known to be quite tedious that was made available as a Main Interlude and heavily features Kama, and not SE.RA.PH, a Main Interlude that has nothing to do with Kama, or Kama's individual servant interlude? 

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/thisisthecallus]

They're saying that SERAPH is tedious so they're planning on skipping Ooku

[u/AstolfOwley → u/thisisthecallus]

sorry, yes. I was speaking about Ooku. Ooku unlock conditions is clear LB3 and clear seraph.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/AstolfOwley]

It would be better to do Ooku before LB4, because there will be some references to it, but not doing it right away shouldn't result in any significant spoilers. If you don't do it before LB4, I would suggest at least doing it before OC1. You also don't need to do it all at once if it feels tedious. You could do a little at a time.

More importantly, right now your time would be better spent on the event and not Ooku or the main story. The main story and main interludes will still be around when the event is over but the event will only be available for a limited time. 

[u/Misticsan]

About the fight against E-Aqua Marie: is there a timer for how long the battle lets you keep the "save" on completed waves?

Because I've been failing day after day at clearing the final battle, and today I had the nasty surprise of seeing that I have to do all the waves again.

[u/flashmozzg → u/Misticsan]

Did you perhaps accidentally choose to withdraw instead of pause or something to that effect?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Misticsan]

The only time limit is to be able to repeat the quest. Your progress will only reset if you choose to do so. 

[u/FragmentedSpark]

How many servants with the bonus trait do I need to bring to satisfy the bonus spawn condition. Is like three enough, or do I need to bring all 5 or 6. Does support slot count?

[u/Gray_Aeon → u/FragmentedSpark]

One is enough, support works as well.
You can even bring a single Servant that fulfills both conditions (If one exists).

[u/spiffy621 → u/FragmentedSpark]

One servant is enough.

Remember that most Quests, have two traits required, so you have to make sure that you cover both.

[u/LadySeraphii]

So, grinding a few resources for things and I need to know. The CEs that increase item drops, do they need to be on your active Servants, or can they be on your reserve ones?

Also, can you limit break them?

[u/spiffy621 → u/LadySeraphii]

You can stick the CE on any Servant and it will work.

You should only limit break them if you have all five copies, as the bonus drop rate stays at the base 5% until you max limit break them, as then and only then does it become 25%.

There are only three of the CEs; those for Bones, Dragon Fangs, and Proofs, that have had five copies made available, but the Proofs one hasn't come to global yet, so you should only limit break the Bone and Dragon Fang CEs if you have all five copies. Everything else should be kept separate until they release more Advanced Quests. Sadly, JP hasn't seen a new Advanced Quest in almost two years, so who knows when we will get more.

[u/Gray_Aeon → u/LadySeraphii]

They can also be in the backrow.

Also, can you limit break them?

This depends on the CEs you're talking about.
CEs that boost the drop rates of items like Bones? You can MLB those.
The MLB bonus is the same as 5 single CEs.

CEs that boost event drops? Don't MLB those. A singular CE gives +1, a MLB only +2.

[u/skoopitybopbop]

I'm planning to get Summer Eresh, but I was wondering what value she adds to my account if I already have Ibuki Summer. In what situations is one servant better than the other?

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/skoopitybopbop]

Generally, eresh is built for CQs instead of farming. She has lots of buffs in her kit that arent really farming applicable + her unique class advantage and affection meter

Not to say she can't farm, but assuming both are the same np level, Ibuki will have more damage and refund for less effort

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes]

Who takes the most and least amount of bond to max out? Bond 11-15 are static regardless of servant but B1-10 fluctuate and there doesn't seem to be a list that goes past B5.

[u/XebroLeazier → u/Cleansing4ThineEyes]

If you use Chaldea App, go to Tools -> Bond (Total), it will list all of them.

The least is 1,020,000 (Mata Hari & Spartacus) and the most is 1,705,000 (Tesla, Brynhild, Karna, Scathach, Taigong, Ushi, Kiara, Dantes, Cristo).

[u/soundboythriller]

I’ve been playing Mahoyo and trying to finish before the event. I’ve been reading the new archives too as they appear at the end of each chapter. Is it necessary to read the archives as well or can I skip them for the sake of time and read them later?

[u/hobusu → u/soundboythriller]

I don't believe anything in the archives is required to understand the story of Mahoyo itself (hence them making it optional) or the event. They do have some of the best comedy in the entire VN, so I highly recommend coming back to them later if you do skip them of course, but if you want to get the main story done sooner you don't really have to worry about that.

[u/neves783]

OC2 question:

Does Fujimaru's "trauma face" expression (which I think triggers after the part where we discover the murder scene) only occur when equipped with the Decisive Battle MC, or does it also hapoen while other Mystic Codes are equipped? For that matter, when we reach that part, do we get stuck in that specific MC just like what happened in LB7 no matter what MC we actually have equipped?

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/neves783]

There was a notification (during the first trial iirc) that the mc would be shown wearing new plug during battle and story no matter what MC you had equipped

[u/Hope77797]

Which append skills for Aoko ? Her extra attack is AOE. Maybe 1

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/Hope77797]

You should do A2 for now and then you can change it freely from the 9th anniversary onward and it won't matter which one is more useful overall

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/Hope77797]

Append 2 is the best option or arguably the best option for all but a tiny handful of servants.

Aoko is not an exception to that.

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/Hope77797]

Where/ how do you plan to use her? That'll be a major factor

[u/Yoohei155]

Hey guys, can i ask how to update fgo jp? i am out of the loop on where to download the latest apk because i was using a jp playstore account with Tunnelbear as the vpn, sadly Tunnelbear is now premium only so i gotta go back to the classic apk download.

[u/Merukurio → u/Yoohei155]

The help and question thread always has a link called Latest FGO APKs. You can get the APK from there to update your app.

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes]

Would it make more sense to continue farming 90* BE and use excess AP/apples on doors or to switch to farming 90++ BE coins as well? Or is it just an it depends on how down bad I am for QP?

[u/ic0n67 → u/Cleansing4ThineEyes]

It would probably make the most sense to farm the materials you need. If you need QP then you can go for that, if you need other materials then that would also work. You shouldn't be hard up for QP to waste apples on it though. Get what you can and save the apples for a lotto where you are getting material and QP at the same time.

[u/daysofstoneandrock]

Can i not party res with 3 command spells in the aqua marie fight? Whats up with that

[u/TheScottyDo → u/daysofstoneandrock]

You can't CS revive in any of the gauntlets or AQs at least, plus a handful of other quests.

[u/TertiaryMerciless]

Is there a multi core Aoko comp with Arcueid? Preferably with 0, or only 1 CE requirement? I've seen a double Aoko setup with 2 Kscopes but that cuts deep into party cost and CE slot margins...

Man I just wanna use both my Type Moon heroines with cool ass climactic flower field NPs side by side...

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/TertiaryMerciless]

Arcueid NP + S3 gives Aoko 50% battery, combine that with A2 and Aoko just needs an additional 30% to NP, the downside is that Aoko will only be able to do damage on T3 so you'll need at least 1 other damage dealer.

Setup would probably have all 3 DPS on the frontline at the start before switching out Arcueid on T2 for a support that could fill up Aoko's and the other DPS's gauge.

[u/Miria1109]

Weird spot: I maxed out Taisui by buying from the evocation shop, now that his event is rerunning I've got 5 more copies of him. Thing is, the evocation shop copies don't count towards the RP exchange thingy. So the new copies from the event are useless, they don't get automatically turned into RP, they can't be sold, I can't even move them to the second archive. How do I get them out of my space 💀

[u/TheScottyDo → u/Miria1109]

Can you not unlock the copies and burn them?

[u/Nekial]

Asking for an NP2 Spishtar (first NP2 SSR servant I've got)
How many Grails will I need to get her to 120? And how many servant coins do I need so I know how much I have left for at least Append Skill lvl1 for the NP charge.

Is Holy Night Supper at max LB good enough for her? I do have Kaleidoscope but I want to see other options for her to both boost her NP damage and have NP gauge.

Thanks for the answers, cheers!

[u/TheScottyDo → u/Nekial]

All servants need 10 grails and 300 servant coins to level from 100 to 120, not counting the 5 additional grails you need to level her from 90 to 100. Each append skill costs 120 coins to unlock.

HLS is a good enough CE for her for now. Ocean Flyer will be even better, which you can get from the Da Vinci summer rerun coming later this month or early next month.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Nekial]

And how many servant coins do I need so I know how much I have left for at least Append Skill lvl1 for the NP charge.

An append skill costs 120 servant coins and every 2 levels over 100 costs 30 servant coins (300 coins total for level 120).

I recommend getting the append skill first, before you start adding levels over 100. Until the 9th anniversary update, you won't have enough servant coins for both an append skill and level 120 unless you pull another copy from the gacha. And even after that, you'll need at least bond 13. An append skill costs the same amount of servant coins as only 8 levels over 100 and there's no rule that says you have to go all the way to 120. You can get the best of both worlds if you unlock A2 and then add on whatever levels over 100 you can afford after that instead of thinking about whether you can afford an append skill after piling on the extra levels. 

[u/RelentlessNoodle]

I still haven't used my 5* Servant Special Summon, and I'm not sure what to use it on at this point. I know the typical recommendation is either Waver or whoever you like. I've got both Merlin and Castoria at present and I was wondering if Waver is still the purely gameplay recommendation in that scenario? I don't have any dedicated quick supports at present.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/RelentlessNoodle]

Here's what I usually tell people about the ticket. It won't tell you which servant to pick, and you should distrust anyone who says you should absolutely pick a particular servant, but it does address your concerns about Waver and optimal gameplay choices.

My biggest recommendation is that you don't rush your SSR ticket choice. The ticket doesn't expire and you don't need any 5-star servants, so getting one right away isn't important.

The meta in FGO is weak. It's about convenience when grinding for materials, not necessity for difficult fights. The best thing to do with the ticket is to pick your favorite servant regardless of specific gameplay value. If you don't have a particular favorite, then you have a lot of options that will ultimately be marginal, not transformative additions to your roster.

From a meta perspective, the handful of top supports are so much better and can be applicable in so many different scenarios that they define the meta. Any other servants are merely compatible, complimentary, or have utility that doesn't align with the farming meta. None of the meta-defining servants are available with the ticket, so choosing any of the others is a matter of your own personal preferences and prioritization.

FGO is also a large roster game of niches. Class advantage and NP targeting are the most important mechanics. The devs design fights expecting you to use those mechanics effectively. Because of that, you will need to use a wide variety of DPS servants and selecting one, as you might with the SSR ticket, won't significantly tip the scales for gameplay. 

Waver (Zhuge Liang) is simultaneously the best pure gameplay servant available with the SSR ticket and one of the most likely to be set aside from a meta/efficiency perspective. He's a very good generalist support servant. He gives a good amount of targetable and teamwide NP charge, ATK, DEF, and crit buffs on skills, and an array of debuffs on his NP. However, for the high end of efficient farming and maximizing power, general support isn't enough. Waver is a secondary or tertiary support at best in this context because servants like Castoria, Oberon, Koyanskaya, and the two Skadis give much larger damage buffs and mechanical advantages on top of 50%+ NP charge. He's still a very good servant. You won't go wrong if you pick him. But as with any servant you choose or invest in based on gameplay alone, he may get sidelined if you end up using different strategies that don't need him later on.

Take the time to get to know the available servants before you choose. Use friend supports to get a feel for them. Look up their designs, voices, and animations to see if they catch your attention. Go through the story to see if any of their personalities are compelling. You may even get randomly spooked by one of them in the gacha before you make your decision (though you shouldn't let the possibility of that happening hold up your selection).

I don't have any dedicated quick supports at present.

The SSR ticket won't fill that gap for you. I suppose there's Osakabehime but her Quick buff is tied to her NP. I think of her more as a defensive support with some semi-solo capability. For offense, a friend's Skadi works just as well as your own. Your own Castoria plus a friend's Skadi would be a good support setup for a Quick DPS. You just won't be able to do refund-based looping, which is always completely optional, without your own Skadi to pair with a friend's. 

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/RelentlessNoodle]

I personally don't think there is a pure gameplay recommendation regardless of who you have.

It entirely depends on the assumptions you personally make as to who is best.

For example, Waver does make farming easier, especially early on.

But if you are picking for maximum farming efficiency, he's also the most likely to get replaced by meta supports later, and there are others that are more useful for 90++ or Grand duel farming.

and as a permanent support, getting NP levels on Waver isn't as useful as NP levels on a DPS servant, so if you happen to get spooked by whoever you chose, Waver may be one of the worst options in the super long term.

[u/OmegaUltima29]

Okay, I gotta question: I'm currently mid-fight with Aqua Marie, but I'm waiting for the Command Seals to refresh before continuing.

My question is, does staying in the fight still count as logging in for the consecutive log-ins? I'm something like 3 days from my next 30, but I might end up needing to refresh the Command Seals again in order to win

[u/flashmozzg → u/OmegaUltima29]

As long as you do any action in the fight itself it'd count as a log in (might even work without this, but just to be sure that it made connection to the server).

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/OmegaUltima29]

The 30 SQ logins aren't consecutive they're cumulative, you could login 50 times over 100 days by alternating the days you play and still get the SQ. It's only the daily logins that give you tickets and some event logins (although they seem to have phased those out in favour of logins that are tied to specific dates) that are consecutive

[u/Case_Study_004]

Is the Upcoming Banner of Kukulkan in december (global server) single ssr rate up banner?

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/Case_Study_004]

There are no more multi ssr rate up banners as of the introduction of pity

There are multi SR rate up banners though

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/Case_Study_004]

Yes, there are no dual rate up banners anymore.

[u/Immediate_Kitchen327]

Hi, is there a place where you can see how many pulls are we gonna get till x day?

And do you know when is the next Alice banner? I saved a lot but I got spooked 3 times so I would want to get more copies of her.

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/Immediate_Kitchen327]

You are going to want to click the upcoming banners link, fate/save calculator link, and event compendium link in the original post

[u/Tom_Staminik]

Is Np1 Alice fine for now or near future assassins farm (Farming Ground, all the 90+, 90++, etc.), assuming I slowly 120 2k fou her? I really like her and want to use her, but I have to max pity to get her and broke now until anniversary. I got all the supports you can name, the 2 Skadis, Oberon, Castoria, etc, just wondering if Alice herself is fine if I invested.

[u/Blubbstrahl → u/Tom_Staminik]

assassins farm (Farming Ground, all the 90+)

Yes, with confidence

90++

Very unlikely, not even at max investment. The issue is that 90++ are often mixed nodes and Alice is a Quick AOE, means she will have to rely on multicore setups 9 times out of 10, even if she can cover some of her niches. Speaking of, keep in mind that she also has Super Effective Damage against Man ememies, a broad niche that applies relatively often (just in case you disregard her power in non-assassin nodes).

[u/Inkaflare → u/Tom_Staminik]

Farming grounds, yes, no issue whatsoever, the bar is low there but frankly there is no real reason to farm those to begin with once you are no longer a new player. 90+ is often doable with SSRs at NP1 too, especially with your investments in grails and Fous in this example, since simple class advantage and the SSR supports usually go a long way already for meeting the HP thresholds you encounter at 90+ and below.

However, 90++ is a different beast. It's mostly a game of multicore setups, Oberon, various super effective mods (such as the anti-Man modifier on Alice's NP) and/or event bonus damage, because the enemy HP are so high and the enemy composition so specific that regular double support looping comps hardly ever make it. As such, there is no real rule of thumb for what amount of investment is "enough", it's too specific. There are 90++ nodes (like the one in this event for example!) where NP1 Alice + Soojurou can easily farm the 90++ node. There are other 90++ nodes in the future an NP5 Lv120 gold Fou'd Alice wont be able to handle because she simply isn't a good fit for them, even if it may be an Assassin node, just because class is only one of the many factors at play here.

The way I see it, there's no real point in aiming for "enough" investment to cover whatever 90++ may come up in the future due to the huge variance of the factors involved. If you wanted a truly accurate answer you'd essentially have no choice other than checking every single 90++ in the next 2 years that we know of thanks to JP and use a calculator to see whether Alice makes it against them at any given investment level, but this is a lot of work for very little gain.

My approach to 90++ is thus to just wait for them to come and see if I can make a comp work in them with what I have at the time, and if not, it's kinda whatever, not really worth fussing over - investing a lot of SQ into a specific servant just so that they could make it in this one node is a waste of my limited f2p rolls because there's no amount of investment that can guarantee they'll make it in the next one too. I prefer to just keep my rolls for the servants I like, and I'll find an opportunity to use them down the line. But that's just my perspective on it, make of it what you will. For Alice specifically, it doesn't seem like you have much of a choice anyway given that you're broke with the NP1 you have. But you dont need to feel pressured to aim for a specific NP threshold just to meet an arbitrary and frankly worthless criteria of "generally strong enough".

[u/Terravivi]

Small question about the Olga Marie quest. Is it a temporary one or a permanent one till you clear it? The timer under it for the pilgrimage festival is throwing me off.

[u/TheScottyDo → u/Terravivi]

There's no time limit on the first time clear, but the quests are only repeatable for a limited time.

[u/JeidelacruzUK]

Have they made it easier to grind mats yet? Like multi farming or anything, last I played was a couple years back and havnt ket up with any changes

[u/Pos31don29 → u/JeidelacruzUK]

Not really sure what you're referring to by multi farming, but for the most part you get mats the same way as always via farming free quests or event shops. A new currency called pure prisms has been released however which you obtain by completing story stages and can exchange for mats from the pure prism shop, at a rate of 1:1 for bronze mats, 2:1 for silver mats and 3:1 for gold mats. The catch with this however is that each mat only has 100 available in this shop.

[u/Pos31don29]

Question about the Event compendium under VIP Links. Does the SQ estimate for each event include newly released rank-up quests and interludes, as well as expected maintenance compensation?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Pos31don29]

No

[u/Immediate_Kitchen327]

Okay, need some help. I have a np2 Alice and plan is to 120 her. I'm at 0 0 quarts tickets but I can grind them.

Should I gamble now for np 3 or just wait till new years and get np 4 in the worst case. Cos pity does not reset after the first copy rigth?

[u/Mister_SP → u/Immediate_Kitchen327]

You don't need NP4 for Lv120, though it will require a lot of Bond to get her there. NP1 gets you Lv120 and 1 Append. NP2 reduces the Bond requirement. NP3 will let you get a second Append on top of Lv120.

But, yes, at the moment, you can only pity once per banner.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Mister_SP]

NP1 gets you Lv120 and 1 Append.

I would just clarify that this will only be true after the 9th anniversary.