Fate/Grand Order - English

[forumghost]

Tamamo's greatest thing is the party-wide skill reduction, which even on JP there isn't a good alternative. Arts is still the safest way to clear any hard content.

Not because of Tamamo though. Arts teams are the best for hard content because stall teams are best for hard content.

[SpoonyViking]

Both are terrible though.

I mean I could get into this discussion once again and talk about how all of that is part of what makes them and the entire story of King Arthur great, but I'd rather not.

Yeah, ghost, don't be a sourpuss!

[Wandering Swordwoman]

yeah and Tamamo is an arts so it's still counted

[Mattias]

Fucking Chicago. 48% gear drop chance my ass. I ran through over thirty times today and only got one.



So about the Solomon Raid, it's one time only right? So theoretically what happens if someone starts playing FGO in February or something? They go through all the singularities, read this plot that took a year and a half to unfold and then they get to the final chapter and it's just not there? Beat Tiamat, Chaldea under attack, ????, everything's alright here's Shinjuku Alter?

[Tobias]

Hey dude, mellow out my bro, I’m sure they will have some kind of alternative scenario. Probably not as rewarding, but you won’t need a party, instead you can solo-mon!

[Iceblade44]

Fucking Chicago. 48% gear drop chance my ass. I ran through over thirty times today and only got one.



So about the Solomon Raid, it's one time only right? So theoretically what happens if someone starts playing FGO in February or something? They go through all the singularities, read this plot that took a year and a half to unfold and then they get to the final chapter and it's just not there? Beat Tiamat, Chaldea under attack, ????, everything's alright here's Shinjuku Alter?

Naw you can still fight in the Salomon chapter. It's just the raids are gone and it progresses as any old one

[pinetree]

Fucking Chicago. 48% gear drop chance my ass. I ran through over thirty times today and only got one.



So about the Solomon Raid, it's one time only right? So theoretically what happens if someone starts playing FGO in February or something? They go through all the singularities, read this plot that took a year and a half to unfold and then they get to the final chapter and it's just not there? Beat Tiamat, Chaldea under attack, ????, everything's alright here's Shinjuku Alter?

After a raid is done there's a story chapter, just like Rashomon.
The story chapters will stay there forever for people to play.

[Wandering Swordwoman]

But the gears and pages won't come out like the raid?

[Draconic]

So, when Probabky Not A Spoiler At This Point But Just In CaseTaiga says Kuku’s gonna make me cry, she’s referring to Quetzalcoatl, right?

Good grief, they are butchering him. I mean, I love this chapter but the Mesoamerican stuff is a mess.

I’m assuming that there’s only one possible reason for Quetzalcoatl to be called ‘Kuku,’ and that’s because s/he’s a feathered serpent, which is also the form taken by another god in another culture: Kukulkan. But Kukulkan is an entirely different type of god, from an entirely different pantheon.

Not to mention where Quetzalcoatl is Aztec, and is disgusted by human sacrifice, Kukulkan presides over human sacrifices. Also, he’s Yucatec Mayan, and has an entirely different story.

That said, this Quetzalcoatl seems more like Kukulkan than Quetzalcoatl, what with the violence and human sacrifice. …And I’m beginning to think that the only reason they made this goddess Quetzalcoatl was because they wanted to make a Rider who rode a Quetzalcoatlus. (They could have done it anyway…)

[Kratosirving]

most main quests tend to have fixed drops, so I bet if you look at the story chapters for the 'final battle' against each pillar they'll either have or not have any drop rate.

But yeah basically, if you're not ready to be a part of the raiding, you're going to miss out on the chance to farm any mats. And unfortunately on my end, considering that the one I need to farm for Pages is the one that has its own bulli meme like Ishtar and Ibaraki do, I feel that he might be dead by the time I wake up the next morning to start farming him, lol.

[Draconic]

Also, not related at all, but…

I'm going to be in the minority and say that I liked Tiamat's siren-like wailing, it was appropriately eerie and the dissonance between her monstrous form and her voice only added to the effect, and I liked the visual nods to Dark Sakura. That said, I wish her base form wasn't so sexualised; it wasn't just cheap, it actively harmed her visual design.

Is that so?

In that case, you’re REALLY not gonna like this…

OH DEAR MERCIFUL GOD, TIAMAT, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU?!
I’m torn between wanting to give her a sympathy hug, and wanting to run further away than I would if I saw her in primordial dragon form…

please tell me that this isn’t ‘coming soon to smartphones in Japan…’

[Kratosirving]

Eh, they just wanted to make a Summer Tiamat!

[Deathhappens]

most main quests tend to have fixed drops, so I bet if you look at the story chapters for the 'final battle' against each pillar they'll either have or not have any drop rate.

But yeah basically, if you're not ready to be a part of the raiding, you're going to miss out on the chance to farm any mats. And unfortunately on my end, considering that the one I need to farm for Pages is the one that has its own bulli meme like Ishtar and Ibaraki do, I feel that he might be dead by the time I wake up the next morning to start farming him, lol.

Yeah, I wanted some hearts and gears off him (it?) too. Reset is in the mornings for me, but it's still a workday...

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Also @An Abstract Platypus?; you forgot to close a collapse tag above.

[DAK]

In that case, you’re REALLY not gonna like this…

OH DEAR MERCIFUL GOD, TIAMAT, WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU?!
I’m torn between wanting to give her a sympathy hug, and wanting to run further away than I would if I saw her in primordial dragon form…

please tell me that this isn’t ‘coming soon to smartphones in Japan…’

That's just fan art though, Tiamat official artist just draws it for fun.

[Daneel Rush]

So, when [COLLAPSE=Probabky Not A Spoiler At This Point But Just In Case]Taiga says Kuku’s gonna make me cry, she’s referring to Quetzalcoatl, right?

Good grief, they are butchering him. I mean, I love this chapter but the Mesoamerican stuff is a mess.

I’m assuming that there’s only one possible reason for Quetzalcoatl to be called ‘Kuku,’ and that’s because s/he’s a feathered serpent, which is also the form taken by another god in another culture: Kukulkan. But Kukulkan is an entirely different type of god, from an entirely different pantheon.

Not to mention where Quetzalcoatl is Aztec, and is disgusted by human sacrifice, Kukulkan presides over human sacrifices. Also, he’s Yucatec Mayan, and has an entirely different story.

That said, this Quetzalcoatl seems more like Kukulkan than Quetzalcoatl, what with the violence and human sacrifice. …And I’m beginning to think that the only reason they made this goddess Quetzalcoatl was because they wanted to make a Rider who rode a Quetzalcoatlus. (They could have done it anyway…)

Why are you speaking like they are isolated, separate things? There was cultural exchange between the Mexica, the Toltecs and the Mayans, and their Feathered Serpent gods are closely related. While it is true that Kukulkán is likely to be older than Quetzalcoatl, by the time of Chichen Itzá his cult was heavility influenced by the latter. The Mexica legends of Quetzalcoatl state that, following his disgrace at Tollan, the god sets out until he reaches Tlapallan (Yucatán), and the Great Lord Kukulcan of Chichen Itzá is identified as the Mexica Quetzalcoatl, both by traditional legends and archaeological evidence (similar figures of beareded men using the feathered serpent as their emblem). Really, syncretism is not exclusive to the Old World.

Also, the whole thing about Quetzalcoatl opposed to human sacrifice is exclusive to the legends of Tula. There are even more references to Quetzalcoatl partaking of it, both in Yucatán and in Tenochtitlán.

[pinetree]

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Just keep reading

[Draconic]

Will do, and I’ll admit you’re right, Daneel.

If I’m right, this is a MASSIVE SPOILER

‘Nice try old man. I’ll admit, you’ve got a kind of Noah-ish vibe going on, but you are SO NOT Ziusudra! I remember EXACTLY where I was the last time a very strange person disappeared in front of me after speaking with your dialect, and who I was with!’
Ritsuka wisely kept his thoughts to himself as the old man seemed to flicker out of existence between blinks, a cold sweat coating his brow.

“Holy crap, Fou… we’re lucky to be alive!”

Fou seemed to understand, seeming to be rather distressed himself. They wasted no time running back to the embasy and slamming the door shut.

”Three storms… three goddesses… but who are they? And even if I find out, how will I know which is which? I can’t even tell which one Ishtar is…”

[eddyak]

What are you talking about, that's clearly just a regular old man talking cryptically in a way that will never be of any use to you at any point. Just like your maths teacher.

[Draconic]

Or Yoda…

[Tamamo-no-Mae Goshujin-sama]

Well the next event, the Solomon Raid, looks like it will rely on your bond points for power. I hope everyone is ready. I have right now 5 level 10 Bond Servants Tamamo Caster and Cat, Gil Archer, Chu Lancer, and Lily Saber.