Fate/Grand Order General Discussion (CONTAINS SPOILERS)

[VTKajin]

These Grand Duels are very easy so far, wonder when the difficulty gets difficult-ish

[rxrx]

Damn, I do not have any suitable candidate for grand lol

[Nuberu]

Guess its hard to balance them when you are locked into just one class. They look tough and require some planning, but that's it.

[Norayd]

apparently every third german dad is sexy in your eyes ?

Let me rephrase that, Grand Caster feels slutty. Like he's still got his big ass robes, but now it's open so we can see his chest muscles, he's got his bare thigh sticking out, there's something about the gap between this art and the regular Caster art that makes it feel like he got bimbofied somewhere along the way, for lack of a better term.

[Oz1337]

So this update did a lot of good things:

- They finally fixed the issue of Bond 15 Servants eating Bond for nothing.
- QP cap increased significally, lotto will be less annoying now.
- You can choose to change the Bond CE effect of the Grand Servant to 50% NP charge, so if they have a shit effect, or worse, an effect with a demerit, you're not punished. Bonus points for keeping the CE art.
- Being able to put EXP CEs with damage CEs for Grand Servants is also great too, yoy don't need to sacrifice Bond for damage. They even count for the total stats.
- The effects for granding a Servant are actually significant enough and not just a damage boost which is what happened with the class score.

It honestly feels that they actually considered issues the playerbase had instead of living in an alternative reality in which those issues don't exist. I'm impressed.

[Norayd]

The only other notable thing is that her NP image is mirrored compared to when they showed it on stream so mayyyyyybe playable one day?

My cope right now is that this is a way for them to tease new AUs. What I'm dreading is that, if it's the case, silver and bronze units are not getting anything because there's no way we get like, Grand Berserker Darius or anything along those lines

[Dark Squirrel]

So this update did a lot of good things:

- They finally fixed the issue of Bond 15 Servants eating Bond for nothing.
- QP cap increased significally, lotto will be less annoying now.
- You can choose to change the Bond CE effect of the Grand Servant to 50% NP charge, so if they have a shit effect, or worse, an effect with a demerit, you're not punished. Bonus points for keeping the CE art.
- Being able to put EXP CEs with damage CEs for Grand Servants is also great too, yoy don't need to sacrifice Bond for damage. They even count for the total stats.
- The effects for granding a Servant are actually significant enough and not just a damage boost which is what happened with the class score.

It honestly feels that they actually considered issues the playerbase had instead of living in an alternative reality in which those issues don't exist. I'm impressed.

It took me far too long to understand what you meant by EXP CEs. So Bond/QP Up CEs, right?

[Oz1337]

Yep. Basically, one slot is for normal damage CEs like BHG, another is the Bond CE slot and the last one is a slot for EXP bonus CEs, and apparently also drop increase CEs since Mona Lisa also goes there.

[astagadragon]

This is the real endgame grind for sure. Massive bond and easy enough battle for required Grand Score? Ppl gonna spam the Duel for sure.

Prediction for next Duel opponents?
Archer = Gil or Super Orion
Lancer = Melusine, Scathach or Quirinus
Rider = Ozy, Iskandar, Nemo or Taigong
Caster = Merlin/Skadi (support NP, too easy as a boss imo) or Casgil/Aesc
Assassin = KH or Tezca
Berserker = Morgan or Junao

[VTKajin]

I just realized how amazing this is for bond farming my Sabers

[Ratman]

Let me rephrase that, Grand Caster feels slutty. Like he's still got his big ass robes, but now it's open so we can see his chest muscles, he's got his bare thigh sticking out, there's something about the gap between this art and the regular Caster art that makes it feel like he got bimbofied somewhere along the way, for lack of a better term.

Dandyfication would truly be a tag straight from hell.

[Dark Squirrel]

Can someone who's either unlocked their Grand Saber or can read Atlas better than I confirm if the bonus is when you choose a Command Card or when you do the associated chain? For stuff like the NP Gain Up or the Crit Dmg Up, I mean.

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Yep. Basically, one slot is for normal damage CEs like BHG, another is the Bond CE slot and the last one is a slot for EXP bonus CEs, and apparently also drop increase CEs since Mona Lisa also goes there.

Thanks. Time to level all those none-Foumes CE I guess. Good thing I'm drowning in CE Bombs.

[manafusion]

Oh yeah, EXP CEs are also included in the total attack of the Grand Servant apart from the normal damage CE, so now there's a bigger reason to level them.

Is this how they fix Grand Saber Summer Gareth?

[Oz1337]

Keep in mind that they could release a new Servant for the Grand slot in case there's not a good one in a specific class.

[Norayd]

The only other notable thing is that her NP image is mirrored compared to when they showed it on stream so mayyyyyybe playable one day?

It's mirrored even compared to the background version in the little intro, though I don't know how much worth you can give that

[manafusion]

So this update did a lot of good things:

- They finally fixed the issue of Bond 15 Servants eating Bond for nothing.
- QP cap increased significally, lotto will be less annoying now.
- You can choose to change the Bond CE effect of the Grand Servant to 50% NP charge, so if they have a shit effect, or worse, an effect with a demerit, you're not punished. Bonus points for keeping the CE art.
- Being able to put EXP CEs with damage CEs for Grand Servants is also great too, yoy don't need to sacrifice Bond for damage. They even count for the total stats.
- The effects for granding a Servant are actually significant enough and not just a damage boost which is what happened with the class score.

It honestly feels that they actually considered issues the playerbase had instead of living in an alternative reality in which those issues don't exist. I'm impressed.

50% NP option for Bond CEs makes a lot of Servants able to use BG if you Grand them as well.

[rxrx]

I missed the livestream, do we have a time limit to grand our servants?

[manafusion]

I missed the livestream, do we have a time limit to grand our servants?

Nope. You just need to clear the pre-requirement Grand Duel battle and then gain access to Grand a Servant of the class you just did. After that, you unlock more Grand Duel battles to farm the new mat to unlock the Grand Score nodes. Bonus is that those nodes are better bond farming nodes as well.

[Pendant]

I'm probably going to have to watch - *shudders* - FGO content to see what I'm supposed to do here. Pray for me.

[gtfrh99]

I missed the livestream, do we have a time limit to grand our servants?

From what I have seen no, but for the first week we can farm the required materials much faster and easier.