Fate/Grand Order II - Top Kōhai

[nightwyrm]

I'm near the end of Babylonia and I have finally tasted for myself the power of Merlin-JAlter crits.

King Hassan is f-ing awesome too. You should definitely use the story supports for the last chapter.

[Yael]

Finally beat Babylonia. This was actually harder than Camelot in my view.

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To be honest, half of the adventure was easy, but when the Lahmu showed up, things just escalated quickly.

The Corrupted Ushiwakamaru fight (the 2nd one) was pretty harsh, it took me four attempts to get past it, but other than that, no other fails. I ended up using a total of 3 Command Spells on this Singularity, all of them in different fights.

And the story was just great, fun fact: After Medusa Lily sacrifices herself to defeat Gorgon, I got my weekly ticket and rolled her! Yes!!! I was having problems deciding on whether get Gorgon or Medulily in the 4* ticket next year, now I don't have to choose :)

Story was great, lot of tension during the later stages, and, again, I consider this harder than Camelot, even if others say otherwise.

[ImperatorV]

Just got through section 16, and wow did that get dark fast.

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Also Ana's smile in her last moments AAAAAAARRRRGGG!

Need to roll her now, more then ever.

[HMS Invincible]

Babylon is brutal, I need to reform my lineups. Need to make a buster crits team with Hans. Maybe emiya or Hercules. Altria alter isn't cutting it.

[Hunter Noventa]

I'm only in Chapter 14 myself, the hardest thing so far was the Ishtar fight.

Gotta balance getting those Master Missions done too. Hrm.

[nightwyrm]

This week's master missions are easy to complete, just run Fuyuki X-F 5 times.

[Hunter Noventa]

This week's master missions are easy to complete, just run Fuyuki X-F 5 times.

Yep, found that out myself, that wasn't bad. Helped that I level up and got an AP overfill recently.

[Leecros]

I didn't feel like Babylonia was harder than Camelot in my experiences, but it's important to keep in mind that I started shortly before Camelot was released and I went into it with my best servant being Scathach...going into a singularity that was very saber-heavy.

Meanwhile, the hard fights in Babylon involved mostly non-saber, Divine Enemies which Scathach excelled at dealing damage with due to her third skill and if all else failed I had a Bond 10 Heracles to fall back on.

Honestly, what Singularity you find easy or hard largely depends on what resources you have available at this point. You can't always make up your lack of something through supports.

[Hunter Noventa]

I didn't feel like Babylonia was harder than Camelot in my experiences, but it's important to keep in mind that I started shortly before Camelot was released and I went into it with my best servant being Scathach...going into a singularity that was very saber-heavy.

Meanwhile, the hard fights in Babylon involved mostly non-saber, Divine Enemies which Scathach excelled at dealing damage with due to her third skill and if all else failed I had a Bond 10 Heracles to fall back on.

Honestly, what Singularity you find easy or hard largely depends on what resources you have available at this point. You can't always make up your lack of something through supports.

Agreed, it is down to RNG, though not quite as badly as some of the other events can be. I'm lucky enough to have at least 2 4* servants maxed for every class, if not a 5* for some of them, so I can usually field a combination that works out.

Of course, even having messed up a couple times (sometimes I still mix up what's weak to what, or misread the enemy prediction bit) and can possibly power through it even then.

At least Babylon doesn't have the irritating puzzle-like fights like the Knights of the Round...except maybe for Quetzacoatl. With her its entirely possible you have nothing leveled that can deal any damage to her, which is quite possibly the grossest thing ever.

EDIT: Oooh boy. Chapter 15. The Gorgon battle was a near thing, but suitably dramatic. But Kingu was a slog. I only won because of Merlin and Tamamo spamming their NPs and merlin's HAX skills. But all the damage had to come from little Jackie. It was safe, to be sure. But still a bit overly long.

[Yael]

EDIT: Oooh boy. Chapter 15. The Gorgon battle was a near thing, but suitably dramatic. But Kingu was a slog. I only won because of Merlin and Tamamo spamming their NPs and merlin's HAX skills. But all the damage had to come from little Jackie. It was safe, to be sure. But still a bit overly long.

This singularity aids making up minds to love that useless mage of flowers~
Now I want him, but not THAT bad, as I know at least half my friend list will get him so an available Merlin won't be an issue.

[Hunter Noventa]

This singularity aids making up minds to love that useless mage of flowers~
Now I want him, but not THAT bad, as I know at least half my friend list will get him so an available Merlin won't be an issue.

I'll certainly do a pul on whatever banner features him, but no need to go all out, just as you said.

I remain very pleased to have gotten Minidusa though, I used her on the fight before that and saw her NP many times. I'm a sucker for Eye Lasers.

[Resileaf]

I would very much like Minidusa in my team because her NP is cool as heck. Merlin would be nice to have because of just how powerful he is, but I'm already confident someone else in my friend list will get him and level him, so I'm not entirely worried about it.
Neither of them I am going to splurge for, however. Only King Hassan can satisfy my gacha wants.

[NeoPhoenix0]

This singularity aids making up minds to love that useless mage of flowers~
Now I want him, but not THAT bad, as I know at least half my friend list will get him so an available Merlin won't be an issue.

don't fall for it! Remain strong and don't let the smug mage know he's useful.

[Resileaf]

don't fall for it! Remain strong and don't let the smug mage know he's useful.

See, that's another excellent point.
If you summon him, he wins.

[Yael]

Only King Hassan can satisfy my gacha wants.

Now that's one that should be rolled for.

See, that's another excellent point.
If you summon him, he wins.

The trick is, after we playing him through Babylonia, he already won.

[Nerocite]

Carmillla was my surprise MVP for Babylonia, there were a lot of female bosses who got Iron Maiden'd.

[Hunter Noventa]

Last 2 chapters, now we're getting into the BS mechanics. You can tank 3 ST NPs every turn, right? Or take damage every round and have your order shuffled around? This will be, uh, something.

[Yael]

Last 2 chapters, now we're getting into the BS mechanics. You can tank 3 ST NPs every turn, right? Or take damage every round and have your order shuffled around? This will be, uh, something.

Yeah, this isn't even its final form though.

[Hunter Noventa]

Yeah, this isn't even its final form though.

I dunno, I found the final boss easier. There's something very wrong with having Jackie get the finishing blows though...

[NeoPhoenix0]

Chapter 14 is the best and worst chapter. Too bad it's prprobab going to be like a year till we get a chance of getting her...
Also our choices have consequences now. I was close to beating super quetz but when I start considering command seals as part of a strategy it's not worth it. Even if it would be awesome.

[Hunter Noventa]

Chapter 14 is the best and worst chapter. Too bad it's prprobab going to be like a year till we get a chance of getting her...
Also our choices have consequences now. I was close to beating super quetz but when I start considering command seals as part of a strategy it's not worth it. Even if it would be awesome.

Yeah I like that our choices can actually affect the battles now.

With Babylonia over I'm off to grinding embers and skill gems for Minidusa and Useless Goddess

[ImperatorV]

Well, I made it to the end. Overall, this has been my favorite Singularity, with literally every character having at least one moment I can love, and the massive desperation of the later sections... Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia may be my favorite video game storyline of all time.

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...And gosh darn it Onee-chan! Big sisters are not supposed to make their little brothers cry and then turn out to be completely fine!

I was originally not going to roll for Quetz and Gorgon, but that's out the window now. Guess I won't have any Quartz for Merlin and Musashi... Dang it. Why do all the best banners have to be so close together? And I still don't have Ana!

[Saambell]

I wouldnt worry about Quetz, Ana, or Gorgon. They are all being added to the Common Pool, so you will have literally every other chance at them. Meanwhile Merlin and Musashi are Limited as far as I know, so it would be wiser to save for Limited Banners and hope for those others later in other banners. Heck, you COULD even pull Ana and Merlin in the same 10 Roll.

[Yael]

I wouldnt worry about Quetz, Ana, or Gorgon. They are all being added to the Common Pool, so you will have literally every other chance at them. Meanwhile Merlin and Musashi are Limited as far as I know, so it would be wiser to save for Limited Banners and hope for those others later in other banners. Heck, you COULD even pull Ana and Merlin in the same 10 Roll.

Well, yeah. But then agan the rate up is lost and we get spooked by... y'know... that celtic legend.

[nightwyrm]

I wouldnt worry about Quetz, Ana, or Gorgon. They are all being added to the Common Pool, so you will have literally every other chance at them. Meanwhile Merlin and Musashi are Limited as far as I know, so it would be wiser to save for Limited Banners and hope for those others later in other banners. Heck, you COULD even pull Ana and Merlin in the same 10 Roll.

Quetz and Gorgon are both storylocked and that's almost as bad as limited.

[Hunter Noventa]

...I out of sheer randomness threw a ticket at the Christmas banner that's still up (Featuring Amakusa Shirou) and got Xuanzang, which is freaking awesome.

[Leecros]

...I out of sheer randomness threw a ticket at the Christmas banner that's still up (Featuring Amakusa Shirou) and got Xuanzang, which is freaking awesome.

I used to have that kind of luck, but now I don't.

Now all I get out of my gacha rolls is disappointment...

[Resileaf]

If Tiamat in her first two fights wasn't an avenger, I think Jeanne, Jalter and Merlin would have been a pretty damn powerful team. With Tiamat getting everyone's NP to full just about every round of battle, I could spam everyone's NP and be just about invincible. XD
Sadly, Jeanne wouldn't be able to survive the class disadvantage.

There's also quite a lot of "Survive X number of turns" fights in this chapter.

[Hunter Noventa]

I used to have that kind of luck, but now I don't.

Now all I get out of my gacha rolls is disappointment...

I avoided the greed sensor by saying 'screw it', I guess. I think that's only what...my 4th 5* servant? Jack the Ripper, Tamamo no Mae, Useless Goddess and now Xuanzang.

I certainly won't be having any luck in the near future, between all of those and getting Minidusa earlier.

[Leecros]

There's also quite a lot of "Survive X number of turns" fights in this chapter.

That was kind of irritating to me because I feel like most of those fights were actually winnable. They would be hard, but definitely doable.