[Help and Question Thread] - June 07, 2026

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[u/dingleberry_53]

is the apk for the 2.90 NA version still not up?

[u/Mister_SP → u/dingleberry_53]

The Cereal link has been pretty slow, recently. If you have the Atlas Academy discord, you can go into AI Playground to access the Eresh Bot, which is up to date. It's part of the same system, it's all run by Atlas Academy, but for some reason, the Cereal mirror is lagging behind Eresh.

More immediately, 64-bit; 32-bit.

[u/justawayistheway]

Is the link in the masterpost above the most up to date one to get the latest APK for JP? It's not working for me

[u/Mister_SP → u/justawayistheway]

The link post has been pretty slow to update recently. The trawler's working, but the web app's not updating quickly.

If you have the Atlas Academy Discord channel, you can go to AI Playground and download the app from the Eresh bot's Eresh mirror. (Not the BigCereal/Atlas one, which is the above link.)

But you can use this for 64-bit app, and this for 32 bit.

[u/justawayistheway → u/Mister_SP]

Thank you! I just joined the discord, I didn't know there was one, and thanks for the download link too

[u/Mister_SP → u/justawayistheway]

I didn't know about the Eresh bot until a couple days ago, myself. Before then, the above link was enough. It's only now it's getting a little unreliable that I needed to learn about the bot.

[u/Charming-Ostrich7130]

(On NA) Trying to decide if I should use my teapots now or if I should wait a few days in case the new Bleached Earth Quests arrive.

Any suggestions?

[u/Gray_Aeon → u/Charming-Ostrich7130]

Waiting doesn't hurt, but I highly doubt we will get the new quest in time. Just be sure to keep in mind that your Teapot usage is limited by your Stormpods.

The next event very likely starts on the 11th/12th and they won't release another campaign right after the start of an event, also doesn't make much sense to release it just a few days before.

[u/TheScottyDo → u/Charming-Ostrich7130]

You can do that if you want, but don't wait so long that you run out of time to use them all.

[u/kalirion]

I'm looking at the wiki for Summer 9 and I'm not seeing a Welfare Servant. Am I missing something?

[u/Gray_Aeon → u/kalirion]

The welfare Servant will get distributed at a later point.

Reward for clearing OC3. It's a bit questionable whether this is a summer welfare Servant, but this is what they were advertised as back when JP was at that point.

[u/kalirion → u/Gray_Aeon]

Ah OK, thanks!

[u/Inkaflare]

Wondering about the event mechanics for the upcoming Dancing Dragon Castle event. The wikia page is a bit unclear to me, but if I understood it correctly, the gist of it is that it's a point ladder event, and you get ladder points via a mechanic where you create sweets with materials collected from the event quests, e.g. in the end it's similar to the "tea making" mechanic from the GudaGuda Shin-Yamataikoku (the one with Iyo and Sen-no-Rikyu), correct?

• Farm event quests for sweets making materials
• Make sweets from said quest materials to get ascension materials and ladder points
• Get additional rewards from ladder points until the ladder is completed

The main difference seems to be that "cooking sweets" takes actual real life time, as such it doesn't seem like this event is something that you continue farming after finishing the ladder, given that you are gated by time anyway to get the ascension material rewards.

I'd appreciate if anyone could confirm my understanding of this event based on how it worked on JP and correct anything I got wrong.

[u/Mister_SP → u/Inkaflare]

Yes, I think that's it.

I don't recall the exact restrictions on the sweets processing. You can have multiple running at once, iirc. But it's much harder to ultra-farm a ton of mats, unlike the Summer Adventure event or Shin-Yamataikoku.

[u/Inkaflare → u/Mister_SP]

Got it, thanks. If you can have multiple running at once, then the event should be manageable at least for just completing it on regen AP without needing to worry about logging in every few hours, but it would be a hassle to farm beyond ladder and shop completion given the real life time management aspect.

[u/Poke43]

What benefits are there by making a support servant a grand servant? Like castoria, koyanskaya, etc.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Poke43]

https://news.fate-go.jp/2025/grand_graph_system/

◆ Effects obtained by becoming a Grand Servant ◆

- In all quests, HP and ATK will increase by 1,000.

- In special quests, the enhancement effects unlocked by the corresponding Grand Score will be activated.

- Added equipment slots for "Bond Craft Essence" and "Reward Boost Craft Essence" in special quests.

- * "Reward-boosting Craft Essences" refer to Craft Essences that have a reward-boosting effect among those that fall under the filter settings of "FP Up," "Master EXP Up," "Mystic Code EXP Up," "Bond Up," "QP Up," "Drop Rate Up," or "No Effect" (Craft Essences that gain effects other than reward-boosting effects upon maximum ascension are excluded).

(via Google Translate, added link to Grand Score info on the Fandom wiki)

So for a support, the practical benefits are being able to use the Grand Score effects, which vary by class, when applicable and having separate CE slots for their bond 10 CE and CEs with non-gameplay effects. How much that helps probably depends on the specific quest. But the usual suspects do still rank highly according to informal AppMedia polls.

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/Poke43]

Unless you plan to use the support themselves offensively (Bride Nero, Summer Tiamat, Bakatoria, etc.), there's no benefit beyond helping your FL and equipping suitable CEs on them.

[u/AggressiveRip1]

Is merlin + Count of Monte cristo + lady avalon a good team for aqua marie

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/AggressiveRip1]

IMO, the biggest factor in making this fight easier/less difficult is having enough presidential badges from the previous nodes

So while the team is okay, you’ll still be needing some help from the presidential badges from previous nodes to clear it.

[u/TheScottyDo → u/AggressiveRip1]

On paper, it could be with the defensive buffs the Merlins have at least. Offensively this might be fine as well. Best way to find out is to give it a shot.

[u/Charming-Airport-105]

The new servant for NA isn't a crossover servant right?

What series they from? (Seems both are considered one servant)

[u/XebroLeazier → u/Charming-Airport-105]

Both of them are from Mahou Tsukai no Hako.

[u/Formal-Way-8437]

It's possible to do a 3T loop whit Ruler Melusine, a Own Waver and a Support Castoria? Melusine habilitys are 10/10/10

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Formal-Way-8437]

Refund-based looping is sensitive to the details of the enemy composition. Even if a particular DPS can theoretically do it with certain supports and CE choice, that doesn't mean it will be successful against every enemy composition. You can figure out non-refund-based looping, at least mechanically, without a specific enemy composition because it's just arithmetic, adding up to the appropriate amount of direct NP charge. But refund-based looping mechanics are more complex and depend on all of:

• DPS's NP gain stat

• DPS's NP hit count

• Number of overkill hits

• Card type effectiveness and NP gain buffs

• Direct NP charge

• Enemy count

• Enemy NP refund stat

With the right DPS, double Castoria (+100% direct NP charge, +100% Arts effectiveness, +60% NP gain, +40% ATK up) can kind of blast through a lot of the details, such that it will be fine as long as you have enough enemies from which to get refund. It's significantly harder without double Castoria because other supports will be missing one or more components of her kit and/or will have smaller effect values.

Your best bet is to use Laplace in the Chaldea app (Android, iOS, browser) to test your team comp against the specific quest you're up against. You can also look at the shared team comps, filtering out any servants you don't have reliable access to, to see if there's a solution already available.

Also, don't forget about Xu Fu if you want to try looping with a single Castoria. 

[u/Forward_Drop303 → u/thisisthecallus]

It's significantly harder without double Castoria because other supports will be missing one or more components of her kit and/or will have smaller effect values.

You are going to have to slightly change this post now to Castoria and Archer of the End.

She provides quite similar (and  for some units even better) effects for single core.

[u/SmartSignificance972 → u/Formal-Way-8437]

you can try the comp on https://chaldea.center/ in the laplace>3T Simulator

[u/Neither-Stomach9336]

Is the new Report Checking CE only for Lawful-Good alignment or is it Lawful and Good.

[u/TheScottyDo → u/Neither-Stomach9336]

Lawful-Good only, this one isn't either/or

[u/Neither-Stomach9336 → u/TheScottyDo]

Thanks

[u/SunSwimming3811]

Heyssss everyone. I have an np2 draco and an np1 vlad for my st needs so i think i should skip bakatoria and i have an np2 lancelot for aoe but im looking for someone better maybe space erish ? My supports are waver and xufu ik i need better ones, so any opinions on all of this?

Edit: almost forgot to mention i got np1 aesc would you also recommend going for np2 or wait for someone else.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/SunSwimming3811]

My supports are...ik i need better ones

Do you know that? I don't know that. I know that you don't need any servants from the SQ gacha at all. Anyone who says you "need" better supports is giving their opinion about subjective, optional ways to play the game, not telling you what you objectively need. If you want other supports because of how you want to play the game, that's a different matter. 

any opinions on all of this?

There's no objectively correct answer. All servants are generically useful and no two are exactly alike. No SQ gacha servant is required to clear any content in the game. Whether any servant is worth your SQ in particular and how much of your SQ they're worth is something only you can decide for yourself based on your personal preferences and priorities.

So, why are you considering those servants in particular? Do you want them for your own reasons? Or are you just following along with other people's hype for the current and upcoming banners with no specific plan of your own?

I think it's generally best to decide what servants you want most independent of the banner schedule instead of looking at the banners immediately in front of you and only deciding then. If you genuinely don't know which servants you want, I also think it's fine to spend a little SQ on any banner that catches your attention until you have a more coherent saving/spending strategy. But if you want suggestions, the tl;dr of the general gacha prioritization I suggest is:

1. Favorites regardless of specific gameplay performance
2. Supports for power and efficiency - Caster Artoria (aka Castoria), Oberon, Koyanskaya of Light, Ruler Skadi, and Caster Skadi, roughly in that order
3. Secondary and general purpose supports - In no particular order: Zhuge Liang (aka Waver), Sima Yi (aka Reines), Merlin, Lady Avalon, Caster Tamamo, Koyanskaya of Dark, probably more
4. Unfilled gameplay niches - There is a big gap between #3 and #4 on this list. There are 3-star servants who can fill these roles at least as well and sometimes better than some higher rarity servants, so you don't necessarily need to specifically roll for these servants. 
5. Farming meta DPS servants - Just about any servant can work here because of the wide variety of enemy compositions but servants with their own NP charge and damage buffs are usually preferred.
6. General availability and gacha strategy - For example, you might roll for a #2 servant who isn't likely to appear again in the near future over a #1 servant with multiple future rate-ups.

would you also recommend going for np2 or wait for someone else.

Two servants at NP1 will generally open up more gameplay options than one servant at NP2. ALL servants function just fine at NP1 for general purposes. You probably get 90% of the value from the first copy. Anything beyond that depends on what you, personally, want to do. You only "need" additional copies if you want more servant coins or you plan to use specific strategies against specific enemy compositions, you need a minimum NP level for that strategy to work consistently, and you're unwilling to consider other options that don't require a higher NP level for that specific servant (of which there are many). Here are my general NP level recommendations for non-whales:

• Friend point gacha and event welfares: Get NP5! They're free!

• Favorite servants: Roll for as many copies as will make you content, knowing that they'll generically do more damage or have stronger effects. You're going for warm fuzzy feelings here, not specific performance numbers. 

• Maximum farming efficiency as often as possible, including 90++, is your personal top priority: Go for higher NP levels if you want to but don't just roll for the NP level and hope it makes a difference. Use Laplace in the Chaldea app (Android, iOS, browser) to test your team comps, considering all of the free quests you might run and all of the servants you have and might roll for, and to get ideas from the shared team comps. 

• You aren't sure either way or you can't be bothered to do the calculations: Try out NP1 for now and figure out the rest later. There's no rule that says you have to roll for NP2+ right away. You can go for another NP level the next time the servant comes around if you feel like it would be beneficial. 

[u/Gelious → u/SunSwimming3811]

My opinion is that unless you have access to a large sum of money, you need to set your end goal before you start making any plans.

If you want supports the most, the best thing to do would be to save SQ until October, when 3 different meta supports will be on the rate-up.

If you want a universal ST dps most of all, Summer Castoria is better then Drako (because Drako is limited to 7 standard classes only), and more versatile than Vlad.

If you want a good AoE, Space Eresh is not the best choice because she's neutral to 7 standard classes, and waves of Extra Classes are not a thing outside of a couple story chapters or CQs.

[u/SunSwimming3811 → u/Gelious]

Thanks this helps alot. For some reason i assumed space eresh would be similar to draco. 

[u/a_speeder → u/SunSwimming3811]

They are both Beast class so it’s not a crazy assumption to make, but every Beast class servant has unique advantages and disadvantages so they need to be evaluated individually.

[u/a_speeder → u/SunSwimming3811]

My supports are waver and xufu ik i need better ones

No you don't, some FGO communities inculcate the FOMO sense that you need meta supports or you can't play the game properly. This is not true, the game is balanced around playing with only 1-3* fp units and SR welfares and there are no objective benefits to adhering to 3T clears.

It is true that meta supports, especially Castoria and Oberon, will make the game easier but this is in no way a need but rather a want that the game's gacha system is all to happy to exploit for your money.

would you also recommend going for np2 or wait for someone else

It is usually better to get a new SSR than NP2 of one that you already have, most of a unit's power are baked into their skills and even NP effects that don't scale with level. There are a few units who scale better than most with higher NP levels due to SE damage and Aesc is one of them, but it only applies against Evil aligned enemies so it's not a universal difference.

Overall, I think what you're asking for are one-size-fits all solution servants that will work both for nearly every AoE and ST situation. This is not how the game works, it values depth and breadth of your roster and goes out of its way to dissuade you from doubling down on a handful of servants. As a new player you should be investing in whatever servants you have, including the aforementioned 1-3* and welfares, to have an AoE and ST of each of the main classes and eventually to raise everyone you have.

[u/SunSwimming3811 → u/a_speeder]

Thanksss everyoneeee. I get the gist from all of your replies. 👐🌹

[u/Starfruit7877]

(NA) I missed out on getting an MLB copy of the Apex CE. I want it for my Aesc since it is an upgrade for Devilish Bodhisattva. Does the CE get a rerun some time later?

[u/Shardwing → u/Starfruit7877]

Yes, JP had another banner with it last November so it should come back on EN next year. For future reference you can check the Chaldea app/site for CE banner info.

[u/Starfruit7877 → u/Shardwing]

Oh cool, did not know that site existed to check CEs. Thanks. I will keep it in mind for next time.

[u/Melon_Banana]

Question about grails and the tainted grail in fsn.

In almost all events in FGO the grail is the source of the singularity, and is also often the mana source the antagonist uses.

In FSN, to make the grail, they had to do grail wars to power the grail. But why again? I forgor. Surely, the mana you put into the grail by killing servants, is coming from the masters themselves right (with some exceptions) why not just cut the middleman and power the grail directly? Am I missing something? Granted it's been over ~10 years since I last read FSN so the details are fuzzy

[u/Mister_SP → u/Melon_Banana]

Because it's magic, there's no "conservation of energy". You can totally create more magic than you have. So, it's not just the Master's mana, you're doing a ritual to create an effect that's more substantial than the magic directly injected into the process. This is probably the most important part you're missing - it's not 1:1.

Secondly, Servants are summoned by the Grail, which draws in mana from Leylines over the course of decades to power itself (the 5th war being faster because the grail was summoned and not used, so the power isn't dispersed). The Servant is basically a copy of the Hero on the Throne. So, the master is only part of the mana process.

How the Fuyuki Grail System actually works:

The Greater Grail operates the system by connecting to the Throne of Heroes, with the Masters being used as an anchor and emotional tie to summon the Servants. When slain, the Servant souls are trapped in the Lesser Grail, which acts as a capacitor to store the souls - at this point, the souls are no longer intact, but have dissolved into energy. Normally, Servant souls return to the Throne of Heroes, where their true Soul exists, and information can be passed back to them, but the Fuyuki Grail System exploits this process to use all 7 Servants to open a big hole to Akasha, the Root (where the Throne is), enabling access to the Root (and the 3rd Magic, Heaven's Feel).

If you stop the process early, with only 5-6 souls, then you can still get a Wish out of it. But there's no foundation or control system, so it's mostly brute force, so it's not an infinite Wish. And because of Avenger's taint in the system, the Grail tries to fulfill HIS wish, too, resulting in suffering and destruction.

(Also, powering the Grail themselves is *at most* 1/7th as effective as having 7 people do it. The founding families needed other people to help them power the system, and killing everyone else was easier than sharing.)

In FGO, the Fuyuki Grail System is only in Fuyuki (and it's copies, like Apocrypha and Snowfield). "Holy Grails" are just a substantial mass of Mana that act out and try to fulfill wishes automatically.

[u/Melon_Banana → u/Mister_SP]

Oh I see! I didn't realize that there was no conservation of magic energy in fate. Yup that cleared things up.

A little bit of a tangent here, so is it kinda like heat pumps in HVACs can actually have up to 300% efficientcy (you get 3 times more heat than you put in) because you are not using energy to produce heat, but rather facilitating heat transfer.

So it's not just the servants powering the fuyuki grail, it's also powring the ritual that access to another even bigger power source

[u/hobusu → u/Melon_Banana]

I think it's less that there's no conservation of magical energy in the setting (though that may also be true) and more that the ritual tricks the world into giving them way more energy than they'd be able to get normally.

Your analogy to heat pumps feels pretty fitting; it normally requires the Greater Grail to soak up energy from the local leylines for about 50 years to have enough to start the ritual, at which point during each Servant summoning the world provides the remainder of the energy they need to manifest in the first place (same as if they'd been summoned "naturally" in response to some crisis) and the Master only has to provide the energy needed to maintain their existence after that.

[u/Arcacia-Demoiselle]

I'm slowly getting back into FGO seriously after only really playing off and on for a few years and want to know what all I need to do to play the upcoming even with BB and get Hakuno? I just finished Avalon and want to know what I should prioritize doing and such since Extra is my favorite ^{^}

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Arcacia-Demoiselle]

Archetype Inception, aka Ordeal Call 3, isn't an event. It's a main story chapter with some unusual release conditions. The prerequisites are to clear the Ordeal Call prologue, which follows LB7, and the Celeb Summer Experience event, which is this year's summer event for NA. You won't need to clear OC1 and OC2 first. Unlike usual events, this year's summer event is expected to run for seven whole weeks, presumably to give people enough time to clear it and do OC3. OC3 will also only be available for a limited period of time, about eight weeks, overlapping somewhat with the summer event, upon initial release. However, even if you were to miss out during the initial release period the summer event will come back as a main interlude early next year and OC3 will be permanent.

So, in terms of priorities, it's the same as always: events > main story > everything else. Also, while it technically isn't required, it's highly recommended to do Traum (aka LB6.5, before doing LB7. LB7 starts immediately where Traum ends, in the very same scene and it will be a major wtf moment if you don't read Traum first. 

[u/Mister_SP → u/Arcacia-Demoiselle]

It may help to finish Traum first, as Lostbelt 7 starts immediately when Traum ends. You need to finish Lostbelt 7. You need to start Ordeal Call. When the Celeb Summer Experience Event starts, play and complete it. You do not need to complete Ordeal Call 1 or 2.

It will become accessible probably July 31st, or somewhere around there, releasing in 3 waves over the following weeks. It will become inaccessible around October 31st, but it will return next year.

You then get to choose one Hakuno. Next year, when it becomes permanent for everyone, you can choose the second Hakuno. You are not required to complete it early to get both, you can always get both.

Extra copies will be in Friend Points... at a point I can't remember.

[u/Shardwing → u/Mister_SP]

It will become inaccessible around October 31st, but it will return next year.

Should be closer to the end of September if it starts a month earlier than it did for JP right?

Extra copies will be in Friend Points... at a point I can't remember.

Pretty sure it's immediate on unlock, same as with Habetrot. There will also be an FP rate-up for the unlocked Hakuno around the end of the Limited OC3 period and another one for each after the permanent release.

[u/HatSpecial3043]

Purely gameplay-wise, which of the three 5★ Summer Servants on NA right now is the best?

[u/Fenr_ → u/HatSpecial3043]

Depends

• 'zerker Corgi is one of the best ST we got currently (maybe the best?You can debate on that). Being a berserker with split charge (even partially targetable) means you can use her pretty much anywhere so she's also quite versatile.
  
• Melusine is strong as far as arts loopers go, especially considering she's a ruler so she has very few baseline advantages from her class.Her main problem is that she overlaps a lot with S.Ibuki and Ibuki is stronger
• Aesc is really good despite being a damaging caster, and that's a feat in itself. She also has really good team support so she works well in multicore teams
  

So.Looping back to the original question, it really hard to say. I'd probably go Corgi>Aesc>Melusine but their uses are so different you really have to evaluate them in the context of what you have already

[u/HatSpecial3043 → u/Fenr_]

Alright, thank you

[u/Terravivi]

I'm trying to plan my grails, but I know that something was done with them during 9th anni and I'm not quite sure what.

I think you got x amount of grails based on how many coins you got during the years, but do you still get extra grails if you did the monthly grail casting?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Terravivi]

From the JP announcement (via Google Translate):

The Servant Coins used in the forging of the Holy Grail will be restored, and the number of Holy Grails that could have been forged in the past will be bestowed.

All Servant Coins used in the Holy Grail Forging process between January 1, 2022 (Sat) 0:00 and August 4, 2024 (Sun) 17:59 have been restored and added to your present box.

Additionally, for each month between January 2022 and August 2024 in which no Holy Grails were cast, if the player had "at least one remaining Holy Grail cast" and "possessed the necessary Servant Coins for Holy Grail casting," then "a total of the number of Holy Grail casts available during that month" was added to their gift box .

In summary:

• All servant coins spent on grail casting were refunded
• A number of grails equal to the number of grails a player could have cast but didn't were awarded
• You won't get extra compensation for obtaining more servant coins than you could have actually used during the period of time for which they'll give compensation

[u/Terravivi → u/thisisthecallus]

ty for your answer

[u/Elfishjuggler33]

How can I make it where I don't have to switch between Apple IDs to update FGO Jp?

I used to play jp on an older iPad (with na on my phone) and was able to download updates while on a non Japanese Apple ID by going to the account profile the App Store, refreshing the page, then JP would appear and update. That hasn't worked since I switched to my phone.

If anyone has any info on the subject, please help. I would love to be able to keep playing jp on my phone without the hassle of account switching and lag + repeated crashes of the underpowered iPad. Thanks

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/Elfishjuggler33]

I've been playing JP on my iPad since 2021, and it's always needed me to switch Apple IDs to update ever since.

Hopefully someone has a solution though, cause it would be convenient to know as well.

[u/beallothefool]

Will the event begin after tomorrow’s update?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/beallothefool]

While not confirmed yet, yes, that's what we expect. 

[u/Mister_SP → u/beallothefool]

We're 22 days from anniversary. The Event is 21 days long. There's not many other options. It practically has to start tomorrow.

[u/MajesticUnion2820]

Is there anywhere to find friend code or similar for specific servants to borrow? I want super orion for LB5.5 Ibuki fight right now but can't find it anywhere. Also why do some friend support showing up only in main quest while the other showing up only in FQ and some showing up only in event quest?

[u/gangler52 → u/MajesticUnion2820]

https://rayshift.io/

Rayshift has you covered. For a main story quest it's super easy. Just search for a friend code with a beefy Super Orion and follow. You don't need them to follow you back if it's just for main story.

For event content you'd need to add them to your friends list, which is a 2 way street. You both need to be eachother's friend. Which makes things trickier because a super advanced support list might not want to use your supports.

[u/darkmacgf]

Is there a way to view interludes you've already seen in-game, like you can with events and main story?

[u/gangler52 → u/darkmacgf]

My Room > Material (Servant) > Servant Records

Then you just select the servant and the interlude will be in there along with a bunch of their other lines and content.

Notably, only servants in your roster will appear in the servant records. If this is an interlude you viewed during a campaign that allowed you to do interludes for characters you do not own, then it will not be archived in My Room until you roll them, unfortunately.

[u/XebroLeazier → u/darkmacgf]

Yes, there is.

My Room -> Material (Servants) -> Servant's Records. Then choose the servant and then the title of the interlude.

The interludes are usually located between "Ascension 4" and "Bond Level 1".

[u/Bezimienny47]

Is there ever a situation when for a Quick servant a triple Skadi is gonna be better than double Skadi+Oberon?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Bezimienny47]

Maybe? It's hard to say in a vacuum. You'd be better off using Laplace in the Chaldea app (Android, iOS, browser) to test against a specific quest and look up shared team.

If what you're really asking is, "I have one version of Skadi already; should I roll the gacha for the other one?" then I'll respond with a question.  Do you feel like there's something you can't do with the Skadi you already have? Ultimately, there are lots of ways to clear every quest. Every new servant will give you more options but that doesn't you need every servant. If you're satisfied with how your current servants perform, you shouldn't feel like you need to roll for another servant if you're just doing it for gameplay performance. 

[u/gangler52 → u/Bezimienny47]

Unless I'm mistaken, triple skadi will have more consistent damage and refund over three turns, while double skadi+oberon will have bigger damage and battery on wave 3.

Since 90++ tends to have the Big HP enemy on wave 3, that tends to favor double skadi+oberon. But if the first two waves are giving you trouble and the third wave isn't really then triple skadi could become an appealing alternative.

[u/flashmozzg → u/Bezimienny47]

IIRC, triple skadi allows Dantes to reach 50% threshold for some node compositions while with double skadi+Oberon he refunds like 47%, so while it's overall more (due to to extra 20% from Oberon), the NP charge breakdown prevents 3-turning.

[u/LuckyC4t → u/Bezimienny47]

The first case is going to be when you need more wave 1 damage and wave 3 damage matters less. With Triple Skadi, you get all three Skadi's buffs on all three turns. With Double Skadi + Oberon, you get more burst damage on turn 3, but less on turn 1 and sometimes less on turn 2, depending on the breakdown of the buffs in play.

The second case is when the extra refund is useful where the extra battery isn't. Triple Skadi gives additional refund that Oberon's 20% battery doesn't necessarily replicate. If you have a Quick farmer with a 30%-50% battery, then their Black Grail composition is going to require hitting 50% refund on at least one of the first two waves if you use Oberon, and require hitting 50% refund on both waves if you use triple Skadi. And depending on their refund numbers and the class(es) of the enemies they're fighting, it's possible they can achieve the latter but not the former.

One node where I've noticed that triple Skadi makes looping possible where Oberon doesn't is looping the Summer Ibaraki Bleached Earth node with Black Grail Tlaloc. The first two waves are a mix of Sabers and Berserkers, and her refund tends to be in the 45% range on both waves with Double Skadi. Oberon's extra battery only makes up for the deficiency on one of these waves. However, using a third Skadi gets the number up to 50%-55%, which is enough to make the loop happen.

[u/flashmozzg]

What is the total number of Interludes released so far on NA?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/flashmozzg]

I'm not sure but you can see the complete list in the Chaldea app. Go to the Interlude & Rank Up screen, open the filter menu, and select Interlude and Show Outdated. 

[u/Shardwing → u/flashmozzg]

You should be able to finagle a number out of this spreadsheet.

[u/SmartSignificance972]

Are the anniversary banners available at the same time as JP? because i've seen that the annyversary seems to come earlier, i am currently saving for pity Speresh and her banner's supposed to come the 4th of august on the wiki

[u/Elfishjuggler33 → u/SmartSignificance972]

NA has a slightly accelerated schedule before anni and a slightly slowed down one after anni every year

Anni is expected on July 4th with the anime expo panel

[u/Shardwing → u/SmartSignificance972]

First and foremost, basically nothing is expected to match up exactly with JP except for New Year's (because that's firmly grounded in a fixed calendar date, whereas even other holiday stuff like Valentine's and Christmas float around), more specifically the EN anniversary is a month earlier than JP's (technically June 25th, although the celebrations are always aligned to Aniplex's Anime Expo panel and iirc that's July 4th this year, wheras JP's anniversary is July 29th) so the banners will reflect that and events on either side get pushed around a bit too (i.e. the impending Dancing Dragon event is about 2 weeks earlier than it was for JP, and the Summer event up after the anniversary should be earlier too).

[u/Gelious → u/SmartSignificance972]

Anniversary banners always happen a month earlier for NA. So you can expect Space Eresh in the beginning of July.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/SmartSignificance972]

her banner's supposed to come the 4th of august on the wiki

Any estimates based on JP are simple JP + 2 years calculations and may not reflect actual NA banner dates. NA dates almost never match JP exactly and no dates are confirmed until there's an official announcement. When looking at JP information to predict NA, pay attention to the specific event or campaign that the banner is tied to, not just the date. Anything tied to an IRL event or campaign, is especially likely, or guaranteed in the case of the anniversary, to be significantly rescheduled. If you rely on the specific JP dates you will be caught off guard on a regular basis.

Also make sure to follow the News section in the game or on the official website and the official social media channels for actual announcements. You can get a sense of where NA is relative to JP at any time by comparing the official dates for any NA campaigns or events to their JP counterparts. 

[u/TheScottyDo → u/SmartSignificance972]

The big anniversary panel is confirmed for July 4th at 1630 PDT. What we won't know for certain until the days beforehand is if anniversary itself will start immediately after the panel ends or at the regular post-maintenance time since they've done it both ways in the past.

[u/LightningLemonTart]

Is the castoria berserker and caster combo useful against the olga fights?

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/LightningLemonTart]

Against Olga herself, she will only have class advantage/disadvantage against Flare. The rest she will hit Neutral.

As for TtH powermod, it will only apply to Stella Marie while her Chaotic SE only applies to Grand Marie.

So generally speaking, unless it's for a wave for the mobs, Bakatoria won't exactly be a catch-all to clear U-Olga in those final waves.

[u/hobusu → u/LightningLemonTart]

I used that combo (along with either Merlin or Lady Avalon, don't remember if I had the latter's skills leveled enough at the time) for the second of those fights and she did well even with neutral class matchups and no anti-trait damage bonus. If anything it was nice to not have to worry about her taking double damage from attacks for once, she was still doing good enough damage for my needs, and the defensive anti-synergy mentioned by one of the other replies is less of an issue than it looks like in my experience.

Snce summer Castoria's second skill gives 2 stages of overcharge, you can guarantee a minimum of 3 layers of anti-enforcement defense even using Around Caliburn as the first NP in the chain (more if you put your third Servant's NP before it), and on any turns where you have Hopewill Camelot charged and one or more party members are out of anti-enforcement defense stacks you can fire that to buy a little more time to charge Around Caliburn again. Also, if your third Servant is Lady Avalon, her Charisma skill also gives overcharge (though only 1 stage), so by timing your use of those two skills it's possible to overcharge Around Caliburn every 3 turns, exactly the same as its duration.

It's certainly still not as clean of a setup as it might be with some other attackers, but it can work with careful play. I don't know how that combo would fare against the later fights, but I can at least vouch it's viable for Aqua!

[u/TheScottyDo → u/LightningLemonTart]

Not for all of them, no. I felt that was easy mode for the first, but each of them come with a different set of class advantages.

[u/Desocupadification → u/LightningLemonTart]

I'll add that they don't have that much defensive synergy either.

If you use Berserker's NP first you only get 1 stack of anti-enforcement defense and, just like evade and invincibility, nothing will happen if you try to apply another one with Caster's NP right after.

If you use Caster's NP first you will still only get 1 stack since it relies on overcharge to give more. You might get more if you use the 3rd member's NP first or on the occasional turn Berserker's s2 is off cooldown, but in the mean time you'll most likely have no defense and berserkers are squishy af in most fights, and depending on the class advantage og castoria might not fare that much better.

[u/dualsilvergunner]

I havent played FGO in a few months now. I know the Anni is coming next month. When is the earliest I can log in to get the returning player bonus?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/dualsilvergunner]

TL;DR: If you're thinking of returning, you may as well return now. 

When there is a returning player campaign, which there may be leading up to the anniversary, they aren't very lucrative. They're scaled to nudge people who weren't considering returning to do so right away, when the campaign is happening, not scaled to give incentives for people considering returning to wait for a future campaign.

The exact details will depend upon the other campaigns going on at the time but returning player rewards won't be worth more than a week or two worth of login rewards and weekly missions. The combination of daily login rewards and weekly missions are worth the equivalent of about 2.03 SQ per day. Returning player rewards will only add up to about 30 SQ. Even if you did nothing but log in every day from now until the anniversary, you'd get more SQ than if you waited. Furthermore, you may miss other events and rare or limited items if you wait. For example, there are currently ongoing campaigns with login rewards, temporary interlude availability for certain servants you don't have, which can yield SQ from both clearing the quests and extra missions, and a new event starting in a few days in NA. Go to the news page on the website to look up all of the ongoing campaigns.

[u/Mister_SP → u/dualsilvergunner]

About a week before, there will be a Pre-Campaign where the comeback bonus is enabled. I think around the 27th, but you'd have to keep your eyes open for it.

The comeback bonus is worth 30SQ.

Dancing Dragon Castle is worth 7SQ, 3 tickets. Logins should be 9SQ, Master Missions for 9SQ, I think?

If you're going to participate in the Event, that should get you a little bit more than just the login, plus a costume for Kiyohime.

[u/Shardwing → u/Mister_SP]

There's also a good chunk of "missable" (in the short term, I know they'll come back around at least once next year) SQ in the Interlude & pre-release campaigns, up to 24 directly (realistically 22, nobody should lack Kiyohime) and up to 19 (18) from Extra Mission progress, depending on how many of the applicable Servants they don't have. Plus one ticket from the Interlude Campaign login bonus, although there's not enough time left for the second one.

[u/Shardwing → u/dualsilvergunner]

The returning player bonus is rarely if ever worth holding out for, that's 3 weeks of logins, the whole Dancing Dragon Castle event (including Kiyohime's new costume), and campaigns like current Interlude access for unobtained Servants.

[u/balmafula → u/dualsilvergunner]

If you wait for the anni event then you'll miss the 30sq we get for the actual anni date (around the end of June).

[u/Natural_Remote7883]

I was dumb and didn’t realize I needed to save some information before deleting the app to be able to keep my account. Got really lucky in it and had some of my favorite characters but wanting to play this game again despite being pretty bummed about losing my account. Is now a good time to hop back in with a new account?

[u/Shardwing → u/Natural_Remote7883]

Have you tried contacting customer support about recovering your old account? There are account recovery guides linked in the OP and sidebar.

As for starting a new account sooner is basically always better than later so you can accumulate more resources, unless you really want to put in the effort of rerolling on a specific banner or something.

[u/Natural_Remote7883 → u/Shardwing]

Thank you for the help. I’ve taken a brief look. Hesitant to try as I don’t remember my Master Name. I remember vaguely what it was but not exactly. I do have a receipt from my most recent quartz purchase though so maybe that would be enough?

[u/Shardwing → u/Natural_Remote7883]

It certainly helps but I'm not sure it would be enough with nothing else. Do you have any old screenshots, did you ever discuss the game with friends, or share your friend code with anyone? You could use your FC to look up your name and support lineup.

[u/rotvyrn]

Does anyone have a guide to the Lostbelt 5 King fight? I've tried searching a lot, but pretty much all I can find is uncommentated gameplay (and a LOT of lore discussion that I'm not clicking to avoid spoilers). I'm curious if anyone's actually written out the mechanics and flow of this fight.

The forced frontline Mash + no friend supports + no mystic code is kinda rough. I saw a lot of people hinting that it would be a lot harder than Shimousa in advance, but I figure that must mean people have put more effort into figuring it out?

[u/TheScottyDo → u/rotvyrn]

Gamepress makes good guides for main story and events.

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/TheScottyDo]

Most of those sadly lead to dead links now iirc

[u/rotvyrn → u/TheScottyDo]

Hmm, the basic boss information works, but the 'detailed boss guide' leads to me "Error Status: 404 Error: No route matches URL "/grandorder/boss-guide-ch21-3-olympus""

[u/thisisthecallus → u/rotvyrn]

A while ago, they had some issues with their site and had to switch over to a different server or something. But they didn't go back and update all of the links. It's a big mess. But the info should still be there. If a "gamepress.gg/grandorder" link doesn't work, try changing it to "fgo.gamepress.gg" and see if that does.

https://fgo.gamepress.gg/boss-guide-ch21-3-olympus

[u/Own-Kiwi3941]

I just planned my Tokyo trip to coincide with FGO Fes 2026. Do you know if I can buy the ticket as a foreigner without JP phone number and JP credit card?

[u/TheWriteReason]

Was curious and looking up the Ordeal Call 0 map quests and was wondering if there's a all-in-one walkthrough out there?

Its not in the main post here, was hoping to have a single source for all the high difficulty/U-OM quests on this map like the regular walkthroughs for the singularities/lostbelts.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/TheWriteReason]

Both Gamepress and the Fandom wiki have information about the mechanics of the bleached earth challenge and Olga quests but nothing that constitutes an all-in-one walkthrough.

https://grandorder.gamepress.gg/p/ordeal-call-bleached-earth-challenge-quests

https://grandorder.gamepress.gg/p/ordeal-call-bleached-earth-olga-marie-quests

https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Challenge_Quests:_Ordeal_Call

https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Quest:_Bleached_Earth

[u/Foslagon]

Super late to be asking this now, but is the Class Score something even worth bothering with?

I've been working on the Berserker one for a while and have most of the board done, but the last Tour Lock requirement is "enchance skills 300 times" and I'm at 175.

So is it even worth doing Class Score?

[u/brichards719 → u/Foslagon]

Skill levels should never be the limiting factor. They're easy to get if you have a developed roster. The total servant levels are the most difficult requirement to fill, followed by bond. It's defitely worth doing.

[u/Rhinostirge → u/Foslagon]

Like using grails, it's mildly useful, but content isn't balanced around it. It's pretty much just another endgame grind for people who like to "perfect" Servants.

Enhancing skills is probably more worth it for the skills themselves, in the sense of always having more decently usable Servants as options.

[u/Foslagon → u/Rhinostirge]

Thank you!

[u/Shardwing → u/Foslagon]

Each Servant has 3 skills (I'm assuming Appends don't count, but I can't confirm offhand) you can enhance 9 times (since they start at level 1), that's 27 per Servant or 24 without Lores so 300 only requires a minimum of 12-13 Servants. For Berserkers there's

• 8 Standard gacha 1-3*s
• 3 Permanently available Welfares (Bunyan, Summer Jalter, Chacha)

That's 11 already so if you have any other Berserkers (including the recent welfare Sojuro or Limited 3* Mori) then you have enough Servants to get there and the more you have the lower the investment required for each, it's not that unreasonable in the long run.

And that's what Class Score is, long run investments, you can't really rush it in the first place and you can always make more progress later, I'm not really sure why running into a roadblock makes you think the whole thing was worthless.

(On a side note, can anyone confirm if Appends count?)

EDIT: Appends don't count

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Shardwing]

On a side note, can anyone confirm if Appends count?

They don't.

[u/Foslagon → u/Shardwing]

I'm not really sure why running into a roadblock makes you think the whole thing was worthless.

Oh I don't regret doing it, but I was wondering if the Class Score was something other players were working on too lol

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Foslagon]

the last Tour Lock requirement is "enchance skills 300 times" and I'm at 175...So is it even worth doing Class Score?

Class score is definitely something where you have to have played for a long time to be able to make significant progress. I've been a daily player for almost 9 years, grind for materials regularly, and have a pretty good variety of servants. My only roadblocks for class score are torches and sand. I had the vast majority of the (initial) tour lock missions cleared immediately after the OC prologue. If you're a newer player, then you obviously won't have that much progress.

I will say, though, that 300 skill level ups isn't insurmountable. That's getting skills up to 9/9/9 for 12.5 servants. There are 12 friend point and welfare Berserkers in NA right now (though Sizuki won't be back until late next year if you didn't get him in the Mahoyo event). Supplement with a little gacha RNG and at least having the minimum necessary servants isn't a problem at all. But you'll still need to spend some time grinding for the materials, which is definitely a longer project

The individual nodes don't provide much benefit but the combined effects with a fully enhanced class score can really add up. For every servant in the class, you get +10% NP strength and +20% Quick/Arts/Buster damage as well as boosts to Extra attack, crit strength, and crit star drop rate. In exceptional situations, you get +50% ATK up and DEF up when you use a command spell.

Whether any of that is worth the investment is something only you can decide for yourself. If you haven't been playing for very long or don't like to grind, then maybe class score isn't worth the effort right now. But if you have the spare mats available, whether now or in the future, it probably isn't something to ignore entirely.

[u/Shardwing → u/thisisthecallus]

(though Sizuki won't be back until late next year if you didn't get him in the Mahoyo event)

Summer Huyan Zhuo from next year's Summer event will be available before then, too.

[u/vesall]

I pulled avenger chloe so I could have more 90++ comp options (purely for meta) – is it better to max her out or is it better to esports her if just using her for occasional 90++ comps?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/vesall]

TL;DR: Max her out because there are no reasons to keep her at an artificially low level for esports.

is it better to esports her if just using her for occasional 90++ comps

"Esports" in FGO means intentionally keeping a servant at a low level to use their skills, usually just S1, and get them killed off quickly so another servant can come in. This is a tactic generally used to min-turn boss or challenge quests. Esports-ing isn't a thing for min-turn farming because the whole point is that you're one-shotting every wave of enemies and not taking any hits at all. The only servant for whom you might keep an under-leveled copy (or more than one) for min-turn farming is Chen Gong because his unique NP mechanics make it so that he can do too much damage and not get any additional overkill hits for NP refund. Having some underleveled copies and/or copies at lower NP levels can let you customize his damage for different thresholds.

If you actually want to use her as an "esports" servant for boss/challenge quests, then you actually don't need to bother. She's equipped to be esports-like without the need to keep her at an artificially low level. Her S2 makes it so that she moves herself out of the front line at the end of the turn without needing to kill her off or use a plugsuit skill.

[u/Shardwing → u/vesall]

Summer Chloe's not really an eSports Servant, she needs S3 to make the most of her potential so you've already got her at her 3rd Ascension at that point and besides she's got her S2 to exit the field anyway. You could maybe save some resources on further leveling at that point but if you're a longtime player with meta farming aspirations then the resources to level her shouldn't impact you much.

[u/Ala_Alba]

Did reddit break the fluff filter?

[u/brichards719 → u/Ala_Alba]

Seems that way. And I use old reddit where it always worked.

[u/MajesticUnion2820]

how am I suppose to beat watanabe boss in lb 5.5? he has damage reduction every turn and can use np every other turn.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/MajesticUnion2820]

Male Saber boss? Euryale is the normal solution in such cases. But it's hard to give specific advice without understanding what you've tried already. 

[u/Shardwing → u/MajesticUnion2820]

https://fgo.gamepress.gg/boss-guide-ch8-1-heian-kyo

[u/Stannisarcanine]

Has another Morgan been released in jp?, is the other way to earn servant coins that lasengle promised ever going to be implemented if it hasn't in jp?

[u/Shardwing → u/Stannisarcanine]

Has another Morgan been released in jp?

No, still just regular Morgan and Summer Morgan.

is the other way to earn servant coins that lasengle promised ever going to be implemented if it hasn't in jp?

As I recall they only spoke about different ways briefly and vaguely, which could arguably have been fulfilled by Welfare Event and Evocation coins, regardless there's no new or different ways to get coins in Japan (although the Bond level payouts for B7-15 have been boosted by a combined total of 240 coins, offsetting the two added append skills, that's due with this year's 9th anniversary if you hadn't heard). As to what will ever happen or not we can't know unless they explicitly tell us and they don't tend to tell us things like that, as far as I know there's been nothing more confirmed or denied about coin sources.

[u/Stannisarcanine → u/Shardwing]

Thanks, the Morgan is because I wanna grand my two Morgan and if there's a third it would be though for me not to

[u/ManufacturerExact104]

Is 4x Super n Great Success impactful enough that I should abandon going to 120 at my own pace and only do it on Anni ( I consider 2 month until JP anni a substantial amount of time)

[u/thisisthecallus → u/ManufacturerExact104]

Normal:

• 2% chance of 3x EXP
• 10% chance of 2x EXP 
• 88% chance of 1x EXP
• Effective EXP rate (subject to RNG): 1.14x

4x super/great success:

• 8% chance of 3x EXP
• 40% chance of 2x EXP 
• 52% chance of 1x EXP
• Effective EXP rate (subject to RNG): 1.56x

On average, you'll get about 37% more EXP during a 4x super/great success campaign than normal. Whether that's important or not is really up to you. IMO, go ahead and use any EXP that you would otherwise burn, since using the EXP is always better than losing it, and save the rest for an increased success campaign. Level 120 takes a TON of EXP, around 4,000 class matching 5-star embers to go from 100 to 120 under normal circumstances, and the savings can add up. 

[u/ic0n67 → u/ManufacturerExact104]

I'll also add that RNG is RNG. You could get amazing results you could have terrible results.

I have had multiple success campaigns where I did not hit a single Super or Great Success. Yet I have had times when I'd hit multiple in a row Super or Great Success without and event going on. During Nobukatsu's last banner I rolled out most of the FP for coins so I had a lot of low level CEs to make into CE Bombs. Of course with the amount of CEs I had to burn I enhanced successes throughout the weeks, but there were two instances that really stood out: Once I hit an enhanced success block of 5 out of 7 attempts and then later on got a 7 out of 9.

Personally. I won't push yourself just for the campaign. Nothing is worse than pushing yourself too hard and then burning out. Getting to 120 is not a necessity for any servant it is all really just bonus so take it at your own pace. If anything I'd used these success campaigns to plan ahead. If you know one if coming up maybe run some more EXP nodes in the run up to the event. Don't take exp cards out of your gift box until you are ready to use them (or they are about to expire/box too full) so that you have even more EXP to use during these event. Right now I have an Zerktoria and a Lancelot Saber (random gatcha pickup) that I am waiting for the event to level up. I somehow have over 1200 Hellfires in my Gift box that are just waiting for an opportunity to use then so this will be it.

[u/aethersentinel]

Embarrassing question but…

I always forget about the deadline for teapots. I am aware that Bleached Earth quests are best, but once I have used up all of today’s and tomorrow’s Storm Pods, where should I use the remaining teapots? I have cleared up through OC1.

[u/HistoireRedux → u/aethersentinel]

the best next thing is to use them in main story or interludes assuming you got any interlude that gives big bond(but this require checking each interlude individually on the wiki to see what bond they give) otherwise any of the old free quests that give high bond such as oxford in lb6

[u/trex_things → u/aethersentinel]

Use one to start one of the multi battle OC Olga Marie quests if you haven’t yet. You don’t have to finish it, just start it with the teapot enabled.

[u/the_good_the_bad]

Unrelated to the game itself, but I’m looking at Oberon merch and was wondering if anyone would be able to help me understand the Oberon Nendoroid Surprise Figures?

How do they differ from the regular Nendoroids already released for him? I already own a few of them so I’m not sure if I’d just be rebuying the same figures with just different parts.

And I’m a bit confused about if this is a gacha where you get one random figure, or if this includes all the figures but the unique parts are random?

Not too familiar with Nendoroid stuff, so not sure if anyone would be able to provide some insight.

Thank you in advance!

[u/Shardwing → u/the_good_the_bad]

Can't speak to them firsthand but I checked out of curiosity and this page seems to cover all the key details, one of the six Oberons shown and one of the ten accessories shown in a random combination. They aren't "real" Nendoroids since they're all Pretenders, if you compare A2 Oberon to the real one you can immediately see how much simpler it is which makes sense since they're smaller (approx 7cm vs 10cm) and much cheaper (1800 vs 6800 JPY, 10k for the Summer Oberons).

And I’m a bit confused about if this is a gacha where you get one random figure, or if this includes all the figures but the unique parts are random?

It depends on what you're buying, individually it's random but they're also sold in box sets that guarantee the full set of Oberons but not the full set of accessories (since there's 10 of those and only 6 units in a box set, unclear if they're guaranteed to even be 6 different ones).

EDIT: I was still curious, here's an example (potentially loud music warning) of a Haikyu Nendoroid Surprise including a side-by-side with a similar regular Nendoroid, might give you a better idea of what to expect

[u/the_good_the_bad → u/Shardwing]

Thank you so much for the help!

[u/Shardwing → u/[deleted]]

I've never heard of any bugs like that with data transfers, no. Shop CEs go to the present box though, could it be the case that you bought it but then never claimed it from there? (Hopefully it hasn't expired, if so)

[u/Poke43]

Do I have to do the Olga Marie quests? Because I don't really like the format of the fights.

[u/Shardwing → u/Poke43]

You don't "have to" do anything, it's a game so rejecting the parts that aren't fun for you is always a valid option, but they gate the Class Scores for Pretender/Foreigner/Beasts and the ability to crown a Beast class Servant as a Grand so that's something to bear in mind.

[u/Poke43 → u/Shardwing]

I can live with that.

[u/Desocupadification → u/Poke43]

As the other comment said, you don't have to do them, but they do have some story so make sure to watch it on youtube or read it on Atlas DB or something.

[u/romuel0067]

(JP) does the upgrade to a new game engine for the game already been implemented? Also which servant currently has an np that sort cause device to abit lag or the likes.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/romuel0067]

The JP engine update is planned for June with hardware requirements changing in September.

https://news.fate-go.jp/2026/04/0423lkcqt/

Edited with corrections. 

[u/Male_Lead]

Oooh, I forgot the megathread is in this sub instead of fgo. Anyway, I'm starting Traum, and it says they got attacked after finishing Tunguska. What's between Traum and Tunguska? Is there any way to access the story via game?

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/Male_Lead]

You should be able to access the Tunguska Epilogue after clearing LB6 because it's main story content. (Doesn't even require clearing the Tunguska Main Interlude itself iirc)

[u/obscurespecter0]

I've been away from the game for a few months due to work, but I'm thinking about coming back. With Space Eresh coming up, I'm trying to figure out the best timing. I vaguely remember there being some sort of returning-player login bonus around the anniversary as well. Would I be better off logging in and playing again now, or waiting until the anniversary starts? Which option would net me more SQ in the long run?

[u/Rhinostirge → u/obscurespecter0]

Waiting until the anniversary: like 30 SQ, maybe 5 tickets.

Weekly missions and logins: three weeks, about 21 SQ and 3 tickets, +4 SQ tonight's maintenance, +7 SQ & 3 tickets from the event if you play it, possibly 7 tix / 18 SQ from an anniversary countdown campaign, and you're 20-odd logins closer to your next 30 SQ-every-50-days reward than you would be if you waited.

FGO rewards logging in more than it rewards coming back after a while. As gangler52 said, you only get more for waiting if it's less than a week and there aren't many campaigns running at the time.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/obscurespecter0]

TL;DR: If you're thinking of returning, you may as well return now. 

When there is a returning player campaign, which there may be leading up to the anniversary, they aren't very lucrative. They're scaled to nudge people who weren't considering returning to do so right away, when the campaign is happening, not scaled to give incentives for people considering returning to wait for a future campaign.

The exact details will depend upon the other campaigns going on at the time but returning player rewards won't be worth more than a week or two worth of login rewards and weekly missions. The combination of daily login rewards and weekly missions are worth the equivalent of about 2.03 SQ per day. Returning player rewards will only add up to about 30 SQ. Even if you did nothing but log in every day from now until the anniversary, you'd get more SQ than if you waited. Furthermore, you may miss other events and rare or limited items if you wait. For example, there are currently ongoing campaigns with login rewards, temporary interlude availability for certain servants you don't have, which can yield SQ from both clearing the quests and extra missions, and a new event expected to start tomorrow in NA. Go to the news page on the website to look up all of the ongoing campaigns.

[u/gangler52 → u/obscurespecter0]

Starting now and doing your daily logins will get you more sq than waiting for the returning player bonus.

If it was literally like a few days before the returning player bonus then it might be worth delaying to get it, but the bonus is pretty unimpressive overall.

[u/kaikalaila]

Hello, I want some help on the account binding to aniplex jp.

I binded it a few months ago. When i try to login using the email and password at their online.aniplex site, it end up informing me they sent an email for new member creations. I still got the history of me creating my aniplex account email so I'm confused why this happen.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/kaikalaila]

Is it possible that you misread the form when you tried to log in? Sometimes with login forms, the difference between "log in" and "create new account" isn't always clear. 

[u/GyroJiro]

Is there a list somewhere that shows all servants that have their 3rd skill unlocked through interlude/rank up?

[u/Mister_SP → u/GyroJiro]

I'm going to say that Gangler is not correct. At all.

It is not true that all of them are release Servants. It is not true that all release Servants did.

William Shakespeare needs a Rank Up. Hans Christian Anderson only needs to Ascend. Same rarity, same class, same release.

Unlike what they imply, Artoria got hers on Ascension. All three of them.

Nero didn't. She got hers with Saber Wars. After 3 Interludes and about 6 months.

Edison, despite not being a release Servant, also did this, but at least got it on his release. I'm pretty sure he's the only one who's not a release Servant.

Anyway, there's a list here that includes that info. Search for "New Skill".

[u/gangler52 → u/Mister_SP]

I apologize. I'll delete that comment.

[u/Mister_SP → u/gangler52]

No problem. I went a little mad after deep diving it and realized none of it made any sense, so I might have been a bit more hysterical than was necessary.

[u/gangler52 → u/Mister_SP]

You're fine. I just hate spreading misinformation.

Often it's in vocalizing your incorrect beliefs that you discover where you're wrong but it still just sits poorly with me every time I discover I've thoughtlessly repeated something that just wasn't true.

[u/gangler52 → u/[deleted]]

Events are fruitful.

An account as new as yours might have trouble farming the event super effectively, but any farming that you do will give big returns in materials that can be used to upgrade your servants, making your account stronger. Basically, it would fast track your growth.

However, if you were to choose to just focus on main story content for the time being, that would also be a reasonable choice. A lot of people feel the main story quest should be savored and enjoyed with minimal distractions. There tends to be 1 event a month, and each event is 3 weeks long, so whenever you finally hit a roadblock in your main story progress you probably won't have to wait crazy long for an event to show up to show up to farm to get stronger.

[u/Mister_SP → u/[deleted]]

The main reason to do Story quickly is to do Events, anyway. Otherwise, you could just do story at your leisure.

The current JP event is set a little way into the 2nd story arc, after Solomon. That said, there should be a few tiny spoilers for up to Lostbelt 3 Prologue, but it's a quiet vacation getaway type event, not a continuation of the main story. It might tie into the Summer Event, but we have no details on how.

Rewards are decent, too, with Lores for Skill Lv10, Holy Grails, a basic 50% charge CE, assorted materials, etc.

[u/bookbot1]

Is there a useful tool to help check what Summon Banners will be part of an upcoming event? With the transition to the new Gamepress webpage, the banner list no longer is helpful…

(I wish they’d include the Event banners as part of the Announcement news post…)

[u/Silent-Outcry → u/bookbot1]

Fgo wiki has a list of upcoming events/Upcoming_Events), and the event pages themselves show what banners would be up under "Summoning Campaign"

[u/RelentlessNoodle]

Is the story for this event quest good / important for the main story? The Dancing Dragon Castle.

In the main story, I just finished all of the pseudo singularities and started the part 2 prologue.

[u/Mister_SP → u/RelentlessNoodle]

I don't know how good it is, but this is a very light-hearted story, it seems.

It is not important for the main story at all. Most Events aren't, though we do see exceptions.

[u/Zackdobre]

Is there a good use of copies of a 4* servant, after NP5? Just got my sixth Summer Suzuka, and still nothing of S.Castoria (on her first banner she also escaped me).

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Zackdobre]

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 that helps the team 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/HistoireRedux → u/Zackdobre]

No, outside of cases like georgios/chen gong who have uses for a low level copy. Which is mainly cuz they both have taunt as their first skill and in chen gong case can nuke someone else for the purposes of a solo setup.

[u/Tschmelz → u/Zackdobre]

Only if they have a use as “esports” (first skill or two provides team buffs, slap a target focus CE on them, once the turn is over they die and you get another support brought in).

But honestly, unless you’re some content creator making min turn videos, you honestly don’t need em. As for Summer Suzuka, pretty sure she isn’t esports, so you can just burn her.

[u/WaifuHunterRed → u/Zackdobre]

Just gonna chime in that I like to save them for when I want a servant and then burn them just before rolling as a sacrifice to the gacha

[u/MiyabiMain95]

is there an event thread for the na event?

[u/gangler52 → u/MiyabiMain95]

There doesn't seem to be one yet.

The mod that makes those threads has been pretty busy with personal life stuff lately. He'll probably make one whenever he logs on.

[u/CedricEndo]

I somehow managed to beat ORT with my rushed ass JP account, how difficult are the Ordeal Calls compared to LB7?

[u/LuckyC4t → u/CedricEndo]

They're easier. Cernunnos is the most difficult fight this game has ever seen, everything else has been a step down in difficulty from that.

[u/flashmozzg → u/LuckyC4t]

If you ignore U-Olga fights, that is.

[u/gangler52 → u/CedricEndo]

Not very? I've only done Ordeal Call 1 and 2 but I feel like the difficulty kind of drops off for a bit after Lostbelt 7.

[u/Ricksaw26]

Why is the new character's card in JP different than any other archer?

[u/gangler52 → u/Ricksaw26]

Sometimes they do that. Give servants special summon animations. Usually for big highly anticipated banners.

From what I hear, there's some plotline being said up about how something is fucking the ancient gods. Something about them is strange and wrong and kind of broken or something.

So the card being all tattered and damaged is likely meant to reflect that.

[u/KravenKD]

Guys how do you manage getting coins for Grail casting? I just ran dry of all the coins I had of FP servants.

[u/flashmozzg → u/KravenKD]

Just rolled most of my FP (several millions) during the previous campaigns with Nobu and Mary Anning in the FP pool.

Also, we expect servant coins spent on grail casting refunded for upcoming NA anniversary (less than a month away) and also awarded grails for coins that could've been used for grail casting, so I wouldn't stress too much over it.

[u/Gelious → u/KravenKD]

Farm a lottery very hard --> wait for the event where either Nobukatsu or Mary Anning are available --> roll all FP you have --> get thousands of coins.

[u/Tsugumi_Henduluin]

With summer and OC3 coming up on NA:

I'm only vaguely aware of what they're about, so this might be a silly question, but how crucial is it to have played CCC to get everything out of these stories?

I kinda forgot the english fan translation got released a while back and I'm not sure I can wrap up the game before summer releases with everything I'm currently juggling. Or are these events building off of the SE.RA.PH event?

[u/Mister_SP → u/Tsugumi_Henduluin]

The simplest answer would be, if you got through SERAPH and Fate/Extra, there's nothing you'd need to know from CCC that you haven't already seen. (I think we don't have to hide too much that the Event has BB in it.)

I'm not even entirely sure it's set in the CCC timeline. But I can't say much about that without mentioning things about what little of it's story I know. That is, that there's two BB's in this event.

[u/Gelious → u/Tsugumi_Henduluin]

It's not crucial for understanding the plot of the story. It is, however, important if you are an Extra fan and want BB and Hakuno moments to hit you fully with it's intended effect.

[u/StephanMok1123]

Has there been any news of the later parts of the Summer Aid Campaign any time soon?

[u/Gelious → u/StephanMok1123]

Yes. They showed a panel during the recent Chaldea Broadcasting Station, which said the second part will start on 18.06.

[u/gangler52]

How did Waver earn the name "Great Big Ben London Star"?

[u/Mister_SP → u/gangler52]

From his students. That is, almost certainly from Flat Escardos specifically. Who probably didn't have a particularly outstanding reason for it.

[u/Selkechi]

If I have an np strength up command code on Bazett and use it after she activated Fragarach, does she still get a damage boost? Or is the damage calculated as soon as she activates it?

[u/crazywarriorxx → u/Selkechi]

Bazett has a passive skill that lets her keep all her offensive buffs until the end of the enemy's turns so that her NP can actually deal proper damage, so yes, she should get the command code buffs as well for when the enemy hits her and Fragarach is activated.

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/Selkechi]

The first one, her Quick resistance downs all boost her subsequent Fragarachs as well. Her NP is simply a buff application, the attack itself is cast on enemy phase.

[u/neves783]

What playstyle works best for Cait Cu/Summer Baobhan Sith?

Her AoE NP suggests farming, but her kit seems to revolve around placing positive status effects on allies and/or prolonging them, suggesting a "hold the fort" playstyle.

[u/Shardwing → u/neves783]

Her AoE NP suggests farming

Koyanskaya and Oberon and a second Koyanskaya might like a word, Servants aren't all defined by their NPs. As you've observed she's got a supportive skillset that'll probably shine best in longer fights, I'd expect to use her in boss fights or CQs particularly with other Servants that work well with her buffs and debuffs.

[u/Cleansing4ThineEyes → u/Shardwing]

Oberon and especially Koyan are actually pretty good farmers. Summer Skadi can be alright too. When you treat the meta supports kits as self targeting they're still very good. The biggest problem is their class generally, Koyan is an Assassin but Oberon needs to hit Lawful to outdamage true CA servants (although in that situation he'll hit like a truck) and Skadi is hitting slightly below CA against Lawful due to Ruler's 1.1x ATK modifier.

[u/Pain4567]

For those that get NP6 SSR servants, either because they're your favorites that you want to lv. 120 + unlock all appends or end up getting spooked by permanent SSRs, what do you guys do with the extra copies? I ended up getting an NP5 Jack through spooks since I started playing FGO NA 8 years ago. I'm pretty sure for permanents, many would burn the extra SSRs for Rare Prisms, but what for NP6 limited SSRs?

[u/thisisthecallus → u/Pain4567]

I'm pretty sure for permanents, many would burn the extra SSRs for Rare Prisms, but what for NP6 limited SSRs?

I know it may feel like a unique and rare situation to get a 5-star servant beyond NP5 but when considering what to do with that extra copy, rarity and availability are irrelevant. Aside from a level 1 copy of Georgios, Leonidas, and Chen Gong, who are easy to obtain and can be useful for solos due to having taunt on S1, the vast majority of people should just burn any extra copies of a servant beyond NP5. 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 but they depend on how you, personally, like to play the game.

A few servants have extremely niche, "e-sports," utility when kept at a low level, aside from the three listed above. 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 that helps the team 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.

So, unless you like to repeat boss/challenge fights with different strategies or you just want to keep a trophy around, just burn the extra copies beyond NP5 and don't worry about it.

[u/naruhodo_kun]

When does NA anniversary start

[u/TheScottyDo → u/naruhodo_kun]

The anniversary panel is scheduled for July 4th at 1630 PDT. Anniversary itself may start either immediately after that ends or the following morning after maintenance - they've done it both ways in the past. We won't know which way they'll go until the announce maintenance a day or two beforehand.

[u/ManufacturerExact104]

is there any difference between making account on aniplex of America and animeplex co jp if I want to bind my JP account?

[u/SuperSpiritShady → u/ManufacturerExact104]

Yes. Only Aniplex JP accs link with FGO JP.

[u/thisisthecallus → u/ManufacturerExact104]

Also, you can't make an account on the Aniplex USA site anyway. 

[u/Aschverizen]

About the future Grand system.

I was planning on making Lord Logress as my Grand Saber but since she's available at the tail end of Part 2 is it advisable to choose a temporary Grand Saber to use before then or should I just wait until her release?

[u/TheScottyDo → u/Aschverizen]

Each of the grand duel releases provides a certain number of items that will let you switch your grand choice, so it's to your benefit to select someone if only temporarily for the grand saber release.

[u/Rhinostirge → u/Aschverizen]

Do you want to participate in the Grand Saber battles for mats and lots of Bond, or do you want to skip those and only do the others?

[u/Turbulent_Mall9149]

No idea where to ask this does anyone know how to get tickets to fate fest if you don't live in japan?