~Beyond the Border~ > Akyu's Arcade
Fate/Grand Order - Round 3
Rei Scarlette:
--- Quote from: commandercool on April 07, 2019, 05:39:32 PM ---I'm still figuring the game mechanics out. Is there anything important I should know?
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Worth noting is that unlike many gacha games, pretty much every servant in FGO is usable and viable, even the low rarity ones, and there's very little in the ways of powercreep. Even the "worst" characters still tend to be quite good. The only one I can think of off the top of my head who is objectively bad is Caster Gilles de Rais, and most people don't have him anyway.
As for Stheno, her Noble Phantasm/"Ultra Move" isn't one that deals damage, but has instant death chance and charm against males. Her main niche is an anti-male charm lockout team, but aside from that, she still deals pretty good damage with her regular facecards just by virtue of being a 4 star unit.
Basically the only most important things to keep in mind is, use whoever you like most because that's what'll get the most enjoyment out of the game for you, don't worry about tier lists (unless that's your kind of thing), and remember that class advantage triangles are really powerful.
commandercool:
I was looking at the new player tips and saw that any unit looks like it can be upgraded to the same level cap, is that right? That's good.
I've only seen one single male unit so far out of all of the maps I played but Stheno did insta-kill him, so that's neat.
What do those critical star items do exactly?
Rei Scarlette:
Each rarity has a different maximum level cap (60, 65, 70, 80, and 90, for 1-5 stars respectively) but by using Holy Grails, any servant's level cap maximum can be increased, and anyone in theory can be level 100. They're a very limited resource though, so grails are typically saved for your very favorites. That said though, anyone taken to their rarity's natural cap will be of quite a fair strength, so no worries on being too underpowered due to the different caps.
3 star servants are the highest you can roll on friend point rolls and those will all have a maximum level of 70, and they're definitely quite capable of handling themselves. The 1 and 2 stars still all have their own uses too though, some of them actually outclassing 5 stars for what they do (Arash comes to mind for being hella good at farming, and Spartacus too)
Critical stars, you can think of each one as being a 10% chance for an attack to crit. All of the stars you have are distributed to random face cards per turn, and that's how the crit system works in this game. 10 stars will guarantee a crit if they all go to the same card, but you usually need more than 10 to force crits unless the character in question has a skill that increases their critical gather rate. Which makes stars more likely to go towards their own cards. If you happen to end up with 50 or more stars in one turn, every available card will have a 100% chance and the extra stars are discarded afterwards.
Kilgamayan:
#1 of grailing is to always prioritize your waifu/hasubando. You have the best waifu in Stheno, so you're already well on your way there!
An important aspect of picking cards to attack with is the Chain mechanic:
* Pick three cards from the same Servant, and they'll get a bonus fourth attack. (This is considered a Brave Chain.)
* Pick three Buster cards, and every attack will get a further attack boost.
* Pick three Arts cards, and every Servant involved will get +20% to their Noble Phantasm Gauge before the attacks begin.
* Pick three Quick cards, and you'll get a bonus 10 stars to be distributed on your next turn (on top of however many stars your attacks generate naturally).
The card type chains can overlap with the Brave chain if your Servant has three cards of the same type, or two cards of the same type as their Noble Phantasm if their Noble Phantasm is ready. Stheno has three Quick cards, so it's possible for her to have a Quick Brave Chain. Mash has two Arts cards and a Arts-type Noble Phantasm, so it's possible for her to have an Arts Brave Chain. (Though, in this particular case, an Arts Brave Chain that involves a Noble Phantasm tends to be pretty pointless, since using a Noble Phantasm requires you to have a full-enough NP gauge in the first place, and a Servant using their NP drains their entire NP gauge. It's only worth doing if the NP Gauge gain you get from the chain and subsequent attacks will push your gauge to the next NP Overcharge level.)
commandercool:
Is the deck persistent? Which is to say, do cards shuffle back in after every turn or do cards that you use get discarded?
What's up with Ishtar? She's Rin, right? Is she like, the Rin equivalent of Shirou's Archer or something?