Arts Reborn! The Game-Changing Power of Castoria

[@zangatsubankai]

I feel the need to point out that she VERY SPECIFICALLY is not "Artoria Pendragon". She's just "Artoria Caster". If that sounds strange...wait for LB6. It gets explained.

[@charlesoshiro5871]

Oh rly? Ty so much for the info. I actually noticed this morning and got pretty annoyed for this. I thought it was just very disorganized.

[@KasumiRINA]

ACKCHYUALLY!!! Stahp it, really)))

[@ABiteOfToast]

Wait so is there an explanation to why they call her Artoria Caster and not Artoria (Caster)? Seems strange to me

[@---rm8do]

@@ABiteOfToast Because the people who raised her literally gave her that surname. You'll see.

[@Mazekial]

Holy crap that’s so friggin’ subtle. I love it.

[@EndymionMkII]

Man, one taste of Castoria and I'm now fully hooked, Arts is back BAYBEEE

[@manwithabasicprofilepic]

I knew she was good from everyone saying so, but the moment I used her for myself, I SAW THE LIGHT!

[@DrHughMonguscoque]

like Skadi but on crack

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

@@manwithabasicprofilepic I didn't realise how easy it would be to refund 100% on NPs with double castoria. Farming just got a lot more brain-dead.

[@justawanderingoldman7699]

@@jeksewnoleeray1020 My NP2 Summer Mordred constantly get 200% overcharge when I farming doors LOL. I use MLB Cute Orangette for CE (a Valentine gacha CE that boost NP damage and NP gain) for this btw.

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

@@justawanderingoldman7699 with mark on a smiling face my Musashi hits 109% against full assassin nodes (NP3 Musashi, lvl 100 mark on a smiling face, double castoria)

[@Finotaisen]

For the skill section, I didn't explicitly say it, but I'm assuming double Castoria. That gets you 60% party charge and means each Castoria only needs 40% from something else like a CE. Also forgot to mention her Bond CE has party NP gain and attack. I don't know if I'd ever run it over an event CE or the other utility picks, but it's an option. Addendum (6/14/2023): With skill skip now on NA, Castoria's ascension no longer affects your farming speed. Use whichever one you want.

[@crosskyle4660]

Finotaisen i am your biggest fan i love your videos is the best yeah oh my name is crosskyle 46 a fgo player as well

[@berkeakkoca4883]

Fino: I'm assuming double Castoria. Me who didn't get Castoria: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@Plainguy8]

you play JP Fino right? I'm kinda shocked you think Jeanne still has a niche when Camelot stall exists

[@ocarinadude762]

@@Plainguy8 she has a niche for players who have her, like most niche’s in this game

[@ocarinadude762]

I’ve used her bond CE before in an CQ before. Don’t remember why, but it was better then the alternatives in that instance

[@firstlast-xg7fx]

Just tallied up all the Casters on my friend list. With both Caster and All slots, it breaks down like this: Castoria: 56 Skadi: 27 Merlin: 24 Waver: 24 Tamamo: 8 DPS Casters: 6 Other Support Casters: 5

[@KasumiRINA]

Remember that it will get skewed towards latest logins, even before I had a bunch of Tamamos that didn't login as often and now those who are more active removed their Skadis too, so I had to roll for DaVinci as supporting Rider Astolfo without own Scathach is impossible now.

[@marcusnel7836]

wow you still have merlin, waver, tamamo on your support list mine is either skadi or castoria. i want to try double merlin with super orion :(

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

Mine is: Castoria: 50 Skadi: 39 Merlin: 12 Waver: 22 Tamamo: 13 Dps: 10 I still have a lot of people clinging to Skadi.

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

@@marcusnel7836 you just have to curate your list a bit to get some Merlins, a lot of people even level them to 100 and put CCs on.

[@justawanderingoldman7699]

As someone who don't have his own Merlin and borrowed him A LOT, this kinda scared me.

[@biskmater1]

Honestly I tried Castoria + Tamamo and it's hella comfy, you wouldn't use it for farming, but I feel invincible whenever I take them both, there's just so much synergy.

[@kodymcbride6901]

Some people say Double Castoria replaces Tamamo. I say use all three for that Arts overkillm

[@maerwyn8901]

mmm big blue damag

[@brunobruno-c1d]

to be fair, she doesnt replaces tamamo cause 0 people would use tamamo for things you'd use castoria for if anything tamamo is now useful due to castoria but yes, all 3 lets go

[@Sven-wu2ek]

You don’t necessarily have to pop her 2nd skill on the dps. The np gain is party wide, so if your dps already has 20% from something (append, ce, battery) you can throw an extra 20% on one of the castorias to get the np if she lacks an append skill. It’s very flexible that way.

[@anonjohn9760]

Summer Jeanne is one example of this - you can get off a Castoria NP first turn if you're willing to add more time to farming for practically no risk for failing a loop, considering how reliable the big sister is at looping even _before_ Castoria.

[@jeksewnoleeray1020]

Definitely great thanks to append skills, if you need the extra damage for the final wave you can get one of your castoria NPs up more easily

[@josecontreras1022]

With Da Vinci Rider easy get the np of the Two castoria, but the append skill IS very useful if you don't use it or don't have Da Vinci Rider

[@lordpaulphilippfernandez9904]

@@josecontreras1022 agreed. With max level skills, you can have a 400% OC LoliVinci NP on T3 powered with double Castoria NPs. I can easily hit 1 million with just their buffs and MLB Black Grail.

[@ChuongDang185]

Castoria/Jeanne/Merlin is going to be a really fun immortal team to try out against hard content and thanks for showing Jeanne some appreciation

[@christiantarnoski1231]

Thats 'cause you didnt saw the "Untouchables" composition: Merlin, Castoria, and one of three servants that have an special trait tied to their np: Overcharge for the whole party. Castoria can outrigth become Jeanne 2.0 with a spamming OC effect.

[@darrenchiam2472]

Not true immortal, because riders and berserkers that can crit hard will still eat through it if they buff enough due to no Def buff. Mash castoria merlin would work better, since it has 2 invuls, healing, and dual stack of def and taunt from mash.

[@lokksiders__2151]

Even though I love Jeanne, having 2 castoria + merlin seem like the better option.

[@9751matt]

@@darrenchiam2472 I think the TRUE immortal team is Castoria, Merlin, Himiko. Himiko's NP is basically the Overcharge Meta, a very rare meta where you can find out ludicrous effects you get when increasing overcharge to 4 or 5 constantly, not just for brief periods from skills of CE's. Merlin can be switched out with Tamamo for super high Np refund and skill recharge engine, but Merlin can make Himiko hit like a truck even more then she usually does, as well as provide invincibility for a rare turn where everyone isn't protected by Castoria Plus Merlin and Himiko can provide a large amount of stars together. In the rare case your fighting an Avenger, welfare BB and many other servants take Merlin or Tamamo's place so damage can be done, as Himiko can no longer waste away the enemy's HP. Now as for an UNCONDITIONAL immortal team, you will need Castoria, Himiko, and either Beni-Enma, Murasaki, or Semiramis. For fighting bosses with buff removal effects, the only weakness of Castoria's defense is removed by the former two's 3rd skill, or Semiramis' upgraded NP. Beni-Enma and Murasaki will naturally benefit from Castoria's arts buff, but Semiramis' actually has 3 arts cards despite being a buster assassin, since she was also summoned as a caster, so she will help with np refund often. Each is an odd pick, but getting no damage even with buff removers is no joke.

[@letsrank9349]

​@@9751mattyou predicted the Immortal team before it became famous.

[@fanter0x]

I like castoria simply because she enables Chen gong to commit war crimes incredibly efficiently

[@exudeku]

Castoria is just an Arts flavored Waver

[@pureequicrystal3812]

@@exudeku Thats great! Another arrow for chen gong to commit genocide with

[@anonjohn9760]

Incredibly based.

[@omarzudan1743]

Legit, I just got 1 mil np damage by shooting Lanling💀

[@KasumiRINA]

@@exudeku nope, better, Waver got nothing on NP recharge or color buffs, just fill and attack.

[@GcYoshi13]

A lot of good info as usual, especially the animation length difference between her 3rd ascension and 1st/2nd one.

[@Jack_Rakan]

I honestly believe the strongest aspect of Castoria is that she yeets about 60% of Skadis off the friend lists. Even if you don't want to/can't run a Castoria based looping strategy, she can still work as a good old fashioned generic support like Waver, that charges up and improves the damage of two of your servants. Something that Skadi was completely trash at because the only thing she brought to the table as a generic support was the 50% charge to one target, and a defense debuff that can and will whiff half the time on exactly the targets you need it to land the most.

[@manwithabasicprofilepic]

The fact Castoria can give NP gain along with a 50% NP charge makes her sooo much more flexible.

[@troy2223]

@@manwithabasicprofilepic don't forget that party wide 30% NP charge!

[@KasumiRINA]

I had quick DPS farmers like Astolfo and a few AoE zerks, all now benched because no own Skadi (and no real quick supports other than her are in the game). Yeah I now farm with Vinci and SpIshtar but for people who don't have them, RIP farming caster nodes.

[@Jack_Rakan]

@@KasumiRINA People who don't have Castoria loopers specifically can still 3-turn farm the same way people 3 turn farmed in the 'stone age' before Skadi: 3 AoE servants with starting charge CE's and plugsuit/Arash. And Castoria is better than Waver (which is what we used at the time) at that type of tactic because of the slightly larger charge. If anything, Castoria's release helped those types of players, because Skadi was on 90% of support lists and she was dogshit at supporting a non-quick team.

[@PureLunari]

@@Jack_Rakan I agree with you on that. Plus, there's her busted NP, the strongest hard defense in the game. What? You're telling me Skadi has an NP?

[@ShiraFuyu2022]

My thoughts for each Cards Supports Buster: can't get along and might ruin each other's momentum or performance Quick: only has 1 and she is not that good for prolonged fights Arts: Synch perfectly and helped each other be it short or long term fights

[@manwithabasicprofilepic]

I don’t know what it is, but Arts Servants are just so much more fun than Quick or Buster.

[@shirokun39]

@@manwithabasicprofilepic u press BIG BLUE button 3 times and win

[@g.griffin1255]

Well that's the current status quo, that is until the recharge meta in JP where double koyan light and oberon make things braindead and you don't even have to care about class types anymore.

[@KasumiRINA]

Arts supports were pretty good before Castoria already (Tamamo, Bride, Lanling, Paracelsus) and busters were okay (farming team with Arash, then main DPS with Merlin, Shakespeare and Chen buffing them was busted, hehe), quick always sucks because you don't have enough supports.

[@manwithabasicprofilepic]

@@KasumiRINA Arts supports were good individually, but together they were clunky and awkward if you were trying to farm.

[@Res_me_plz]

Thanks for the heads up on Castoria. I didn't know that her third ascension was like that.

[@whydoistillusethissite8626]

She made me WORK to get her. 500 F2P quartz that I accumulated by completing each and every interlude and free quest I had available + anni rewards all down the toilet with nothing to show for it but a Napoleon spook and 2 or 3 SRs, but a lucky single pull brought her home. Thankfully NP2 Da Vinci came home MUCH easier, with 9 tickets So now it is time for Loops Galore, and mindless farming. Good luck to anyone still trying to get her, it ain't over till it's over! Now I must resist ALL the temptations between now and New Years for Muramasa (and hopefully snag a lucky NP2 as well)

[@frds_skce]

Lol, didn't even save and got her in 14 tickets and 2 multis

[@reddithirumuri5479]

I saved and got her in 4 tickets

[@giladmachluf3663]

I got her on the second 11-roll, and got spooked by CasGil while going for NP2. Also, Napoleon spooks are the best spooks, got him on the lostbelt banner while rolling for Valkyrie and I regret nothing.

[@zzzzzzz323]

30 summon tickets and 300 SQs ready for space ishtar..... i wasted 300 in the last rerun and i didnt get her so i hope i get Sishtar this time

[@KasumiRINA]

Similar story, I used most of my SQ and all tickets for one Castoria and the leftover pulls got me NP3 Lolivinci and long-awaited NP2 for my most used character: Helena. And a few spooks. But first hundreds of quartz? Only copies of randoms I never use like Tamamo Cat, Beowulf etc.

[@Cyrus21100]

God, Double Castoria and an NP1 SurfMo is frankly insane

[@devilbuster20xx37]

Mordred finally getting a supportive parent.

[@DeMause]

I was already on the arts farming meta before castoria but needed plugsuit to make it work (Jarcher, Tammamo, Bride, Bride). Castoria makes things so much simpler.

[@KasumiRINA]

I had tons of Arts DPS but NO supports (my Paracelsus wasn't max ascended), so I had generic or buster supports buffing my arts DPSes lmao. Now I FINALLY can do arts properly and not just Merlin, Helena and Waver throwing generic attack bonuses and NP fills with arts chains to sustain.

[@sparhawk2195]

The irony is that we'll get, in another year or so, plugsuit 2.0 and Vitch so simpler doesn't last and in some cases makes things get even crazier for damage. Can't get away form that swap.

[@DeMause]

@@sparhawk2195 Eh, Only servant I care about for the next two years is Bazett. As long as I have the mats for her I don't need perfect farming.

[@thefool8224]

i just slapped a sakurascope on arash and then sieg released and farming became so much easier, but i still depended on waver supports to farm reliably. then last year on nerofest everything changed, got waver. then got tamamo during ROMA banner, then merlin on the last day of summer 4 rerun, now castoria with the 9th ticket (after the failure of 300 SQ). now that i wrote it down i realize it has been a weird year

[@PastaAivo]

Never had anything but Arts, so more Arts it is! The funny thing is, Space Ishtar always looped just fine, she just does it roughly twice as well now.

[@Viosviel]

Got space Ishtar on GSSR and Castoria after 46 tickets and 60 SQs. I was bummed at space Ishtar at first because I wanted Musashi but now I'm loving her. After holding back on rolling for so long I got rewarded and I have a lot left for Muramasa.

[@anonjohn9760]

Good news about Spishtar is that she hasn't had her Rerun Banner yet, so if you're willing you can just save SQ to nab a 2nd or 3rd copy if you really want braindead easy farming with her.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@anonjohn9760 OP should do it, I know I will... got lucky SpIshtar with only login ticket I had after wasting EVERYTHING and not getting Skadi, so now I will probably try to go for NP2 at new year. No interesting servants I like before.

[@BoopaKing]

The "Jeanne replacement" thing is kind of funny to me because I've seen the light of the all-mighty stall comp that is Castoria, Jeanne, and Mash Orthenaus. It happened by complete accident in the fight against Wodime, but it was legitimately insane how many NPs I could get off with Castoria's skills, and the sheer ammount of defense from Mash and Jeanne was absurd, so much so that even the miniscule amount of healing from Jeanne's NP alone was more than enough to keep everyone alive. It's the same situation as with Tamamo, where calling her a "replacement" is the wrong way to look at entirely. Try putting them together and you'll see they compliment each other so well that you'd rather use Tamamo instead of a second Castoria in any fight longer than 3 turns.

[@sonokawaray]

Can only speak to my initial experiments using her in Shimousa (which turned out to be useful practice with how many story fights double Castoria isn't an option in), but yeah, rather than replacing anyone I'd agree it's more that she complements everyone else in a big way. I tend to run zerkers or whatever red button heavy hitter will get the job done, and having another 30 - 50% NP charger alongside my Waver meant I could run some meatier damage-boosting CE's on my dps, and the benefit of both targeted and party-wide invulns meant they stayed in the game longer than just whatever time Waver alone could buy with his NP and defense buff. Arts servants may be her best buds, but Buster and Quick also benefit plenty from having her around.

[@alvinreinaldy5148]

yep, that checks out, tamamo for moar arts buff, heal, and cooldown reduction, a castoria for charges, damage, and NOPE'ing damage, and anyone else with regen/def on third spot and the team is practically near immortal

[@ucmanhvuong4301]

that said, once you get himiko, Jeanne is effectively killed off. Wont be needing those heals when you don't even take dmg

[@alvinreinaldy5148]

@@ucmanhvuong4301 we got proto merlin now tho. Time for arts supremacy again

[@ivanbluecool]

Arts teams being friends and able to make themselves go even beyond. Merlin tamamo etc all got a load stronger with castoria for cq and story.

[@KreuzDrache]

After getting 3 Zerk Musashi from the summer event, I decided to get Castoria too. Its nice having a consistent 3-turn strategy for the most part.

[@TheProswagonist]

A really good team for challenging quests in Castoria/Himeko/Merlin. Himeko gives additional overcharge means Castoria's np can take multiple hits, up to 5 if you use all 3 nps the same turn. Merlin gives you healing and him + Himeko gives stars and crit damage when it's opportune to do so. It's an almost unkillable team. Hell, if you play it right, its rare if you even take damage. The only real weakness is that is loses to buff removal enemies.

[@ultralight9625]

I am now addicted to the castria. Arts have never been so good.

[@doanhaiang1081]

Goddamit the intro

[@owo4288]

It's rare to see someone don't dismiss Jeanne entirely because of Castoria.

[@Kyle19819]

If my card is Red my enemies are dead If its Green, the crits are the means If its Blue, Chen Gong has seen you

[@Flaris]

She really is super effective and is a joy to use. Summer Melt has just been running over all her enemies and it’s great. For tougher fights of course have to make choices between Jeanne and Tamamo for filling in the few holes in Castoria’s excellent kit. But that’s about it. Amazing servant.

[@anonjohn9760]

*Sees Intro* Still got the ol' charm, Fino bambino.

[@chironthecuddley6144]

I went from having to 6-10 turn farming to 3 turn looping with Musashi and Castoria. Arts is addicting.

[@goofballjim6167]

Another Zerk Musashi user i see. Is yours Bond 10 if i may know?

[@chironthecuddley6144]

@@goofballjim6167 Not yet, just bond lvl 6 since I got her from her most recent banner, so probably going to hit lvl 7 or 8 after Summer 5.

[@VanessaVersus]

Lucked into NP2 in the same roll, so it's nice to know she'll have application. Time to lie back and Melt everything for the next year while Gonging the things I can't. It's a good time. I will only call her Castria and you cannot stop me

[@00aPPa00]

Yep its castria. Just like God intended

[@KasumiRINA]

CABER. Caster Saber. She is Caber and it is blursed.

[@MTRBR-mp7wj]

Altria gang eyy

[@garbageTruk]

Finally. Been waiting for it since Castoria dropped

[@KnakuanaRka]

6:56 And Rider da Vinci is crazy too. Thanks for the tip on Fionn; I’ve been having some issues farming with DSS Parvati, but I’ll definitely try DCS Fionn, as he’s been gathering some dust.

[@tlsenator1221]

I’ve been waiting for this just to see what meme would be the intro

[@Kiraidi720]

Thanks for mentioning Jeanne is still with a niche considering she still has applications in which Castoria can't shine, they both work extremely well together too, and people who once said she also outdoes Tamamo when that's not really the case either. In fact, if you're willing to be patient, all 3 of them are a disgusting comp for most serious non-Rider fights and supplement the other extremely well (alleviated further once Jeanne gets that coveted upgrade for her skill 2 for it to finally be a goddamn skill). In regards to Castoria herself she brings a new era to this game whether you get her or you use her from a friend's list, that 30% charge and 30% NP gain is a game changer for a lot of units and enables a lot of very F2P-friendly strats (and turns others into more F2P friendly ones as well), I'm very glad I got her for sure. As a little side note, charge appends being introduced this early means her 2nd skill gets a lot more diverse applications than having to beeline them to your main attacker, especially if they already also own a precharge, so there's that nice benefit for NA having introduced some features a lot earlier than anticipated.

[@WitchRegen]

I think the best part about her for me so far is that I can finally use other mystic codes. I was stuck using the plugsuit for pretty much all of Skadi's reign because I didn't have an MLB Kscope. But now with Castoria I (usually) don't need any particular mystic codes or CEs, I can just slap on black grail and go to down with Da Vinci lily or Space Ishtar.

[@chuckthetrooper]

Always expect Fino to come out with the most cursed intros, here’s another to add to the collection lol

[@JPG.01]

Before castoria, I've been running a Paracelsus, Asclepius, Tamamo Team with both Para's and Tamamo's Bond CE with a K-scope on my arts attacker. A very high investment team. And since castoria's release I can't stop giggling about a meme of one castoria saying to the other: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

[@stupogo0]

so for the whole not a Jaenne replacement its very true, ended up using a triple threat stall for Jaenne, Tamamo, and Castoria for the beast in LB5.2 and it took until the final bar for one of those three to go down alternating Jaenne and Castorias NP do good work at keeping the party debuff free

[@VeronicaStorm98]

I got her, and she and my NP5 Da Vinci Rider are inseparable now. I also have a lot of Arts servants, and the buffs they are getting are amazing.

[@ChaosDraguss]

"I think that's fundamentally misunderstanding their respective strengths." Thank you, I've been saying this for two years now.

[@doriansookochoff9768]

I swapped my Skadi to ALL, from Caster on Support 1. This way, people can do Quick looping or Arts looping at their liking if needed.

[@KasumiRINA]

unless your description is important, make "Skadi in all" your subtext under a name if you want people to know it. I put Merlin in all myself.

[@jimboozie962]

I'm so freakin mad I missed Sieg's rerun a few months ago. I ended up grailing my Chen Gong to level 80 just to smoothly farm out most content.

[@KasumiRINA]

My Gong and Arash are at 90 since forever, they were broken even before her, like Chen has Merlin-sized Buster buff for another DPS and kills off a support for free... idiotic!

[@rafplaysgacha]

Nice guide as always Fino

[@BelongsintheTrash]

Thankfully got the 6 copies I needed. Happy Waifu happy Laifu. If she’s my only level 120 servant then so be it.

I remember using one who wishes for salvation on my castoria for some nerofest fights it was hilarious how they couldn't do shit

[@nineflames2863]

Alternatively: Slap a 2030 on her and pair her with Himiko. You get the same result and crits for days on top of it. Definitely my favorite support core in the game.

@@nineflames2863 I did pair her with a himiko from what I remember but I didn't level Morgan at the time because I didn't have enough exp so imagine a level 1 Morgan with level 90 himiko and castoria I have no idea who was the dps I used because I can't remember it was a while ago

[@nineflames2863]

@ The beauty of that combo is that you can use it with just about any buster or arts DPS. And if push comes to shove Himiko can also just kick the enemies' teeth in with her own crits.

@@nineflames2863 true enough now i personally can't wait until we get Kriemhild in na but first I'm saving for koyanskaya of light, Oberon and merlin, Merlin I'm just hoping I'll get them

[@RockOrso2]

Been sub-optimally looping with the double Castoria strat with Hokusai since my Mage's Association Uniform needs EXP to be maxed out, 2004 strats can wait since I've maxed that out pretty quickly.

[@mr.mc.doesntexist7693]

SAAAAME. Thank god for waver for the last few NP charges.

[@lavaracer1]

Managed to get her NP3 without running out of SQ. NP2 and 3 were even from tickets. I did decide to be nice on my support list though. Skadi in caster, Castoria in all

[@kierafurneaux3172]

BING BONG ENABLE THE GONG

[@theemperorofthecrimeworld7381]

the dynamics of an Arteroid

[@synbioskuun]

Pulled Castoria and being able to divorce myself from the combat uniform worked wonders, as now I can focus future Mystic Code xp on other options.

[@bvc5320]

Thanks didn't know about the skill speed. Also Skadi gets glued to the All slot. Castoria has effectively replaced Waver as far as my support list goes.

[@kikikatme]

Levelling Spishtar to 120 rn with the 5x enhance success I calculate will cost about 50 gold apples farming for QP and 5* exp cards and probably take 2-3 days. Happy anniversary!

[@MinniMaster]

There's nothing in this world more satisfying than finally being able to dust off Salieri and use him for real

[@coutiya2007]

Castoria: heh heh, Caltria: geez CABER!: ya got me fam

[@fabriziocossio3336]

Honeslty the best part is putting damage CE on your attacker during a event , something that wasn't entirely possible with skadi It so satisfying to melt every enemy into pieces

[@Triixster]

While rolling for Summer Carmilla, Tamamo spooked me in the same roll I got NP2 Zerksashi. It was a sign….

[@yphoenix5957]

*Continuously pets CArtoria on back of head "This girl? I put this babe in EVERY party slot! Gets the job Done!"

[@1wayroad935]

my NP3 Lvl100 Space Ishtar with the NP charge Append Skill is loving her Of course she is now part of the GONG team

[@user-ky1nx8sl6z]

After finding castoria after 65 tickets and 150sq i still have 1,2k sq for my queen np2 summer kiara i already have alter ego kiara np2 my queen shall rise

[@SlothofBangkok]

I have 1216 quart ready for the queen… the Np2 Art Pogchamp, M-bea and disposable cock wizard from the friendliest I shall be invincible… I am considering fetching Himiko for extra violence (for the eventual fairies genocide)

[@Avalon788]

Goodluck bro. I got 1.8k just to np5 muramasa. Im still not confident i can pull that

[@kevinlima1243]

Castoria Secured, and she's having a nice picnic with my fluffy tails Tamamo and Mr. Cardboard Sieg (Ember picnic). Edit.: I tend to alternate between Arts and Quick memes depending on the nodes I have, so no major problems in re-adapting.

[@ShadowtheRenamon]

Man I am so glad I got her. After like every banner with a big important servant like Spishtar, Orion, ect and getting fucking nothing, getting her on the first day along with Orion was great. And I've already got Gong grailed and like 300 away from max fous too.

[@hauntedastolfobeanplushie1956]

I literally did an 11x pull and got it on the 1st of the cards, then I just played a single pull ticked and got her again lol, don't know anything about meta but I will say she's one of my favorite characters now.

[@adz4528]

The Goddess came home and I grailed and coded her immediately. Now all that's left is Morgan and the FKs.

[@lurker_san416]

When you draw castoria but you only have nP5 salieri siege and chengong

[@VanessaVersus]

They are still excellent options!

[@00aPPa00]

Chen Gong is all you need. Praise the Gong 🙏

[@VanessaVersus]

@@00aPPa00 Yeah but he doesn't look as hot in a penguin parka and black bikini... I think melt stan

[@jeffreyherrera5069]

@@VanessaVersus He might look as good as Lancelot that time he... "played dress-up" for Mash 😆🤣

[@00aPPa00]

U never know what he's hiding under that robe 😏

[@youngcrackpipe740]

Luckily I was able to pull her and I burned all of the QP from the Las Vegas event into leveling her skills. She's amazing, makes QP farming with Da Vinci rider so easy.

[@koyoyoyo1170]

Gong(max lv mana loading)(30%np), Castoria(50% np), Castoria(50%np), reines(50% np), waver(50% np), Oberon(70% np) can 3t through brute force of batteries.

[@maxlee8305]

I see so much castoria supports in the caster slot

[@selay333]

I totally didn’t np4 her and have replaced a few of my usual farm setups.

[@operatorfrostyy1525]

".... We call her castria!" Idk man, i prefer to call her caltria 🤔

[@jeffreyherrera5069]

Me, who calls her "Artorister" and "Altrister the Blue Pill": 🐸 🍵

[@00aPPa00]

And you're correct. Its Caltria but castria is also somewhat acceptable. Castoria is just a headcanon made by people coping too hard

[@thereseavanastrea4662]

I have one thing to say . Caltria

[@trulymrword]

After grinding so many free quests I finally got her, Da Vinci's pain train never ends!

[@ReFriedNoodles]

I just need Himiko or Morgan and the team comp is complete. Gonna abuse the hell out of the "Solemn Defense" during challenge quests.

[@seandephillips6213]

I have Skadi, Merlin, and Castoria, and my free 5 was Waver. I have collected the infinity stones that allow me... to play the game without turning my brain on.

[@gyrozeppeli00]

From now on, you'll be known as: *Castrate*

[@09jorgewords09]

got her without wasting all my SQ, it wasnt much SQ to begin with only the ones we got from anni 5 and a few i had saved for a month, but i still managed to get her at np2 withot even wasting half of the SQ, gonna save and drop probable a multi or 2 for kama just to have an assasin with batery 50% and then save all the way up to muramasa. i can finally put to rest my skadi and valkyrs from farming, but skadi will still be left on my support list on the all class slot.

[@sparhawk2195]

Poor Skadoodle was just a very big bandaid for the problems quick has. Entire combat system needs an overhaul but we're far too along for that ever to happen. I'm half expecting JP to give Skadi some crazy strengthening this year or a new Mystic Code that passively buffs quick in some way. It's pretty much next to dead with how strong Castoria is and then you add in Vitch for buster and Oberon for near universal and Skadi just can't really keep quick up to par with the others. Ice mom needs a hug.

[@Ryuryusu]

My castor Gil has never felt more useful

[@boxorak]

Now The Time Of Salt Has Come, She Is The One Who Devours The Saint Quartz.

[@gilgagimmickkingofheroes6416]

Even if cool swords animations are slower it wouldn't stop me from using it. While min maxing feels smooth it's way more appealing using her third asc

[@KasumiRINA]

No cum hat no lief!

[@poplarz3060]

Still waiting on the quick meta to get an Omni-level quick support.. Skadi is good yes but Koyanskaya and Castoria basically revolutionized their metas.

[@MangaSt]

I am trying double Castoria with my Summer Musashi NP2. First, I coul loop with Tamamo support, Waver and Paracelsus, but isn't 100 reliable. Now, I am Literally scared how easy I could loop in almost all situation. And I tried also the GongSystem with her, 800.000 damage with no problems.

[@reicelestial2478]

Now this is a guide i would need.... IF I HAD HER!

[@alvinreinaldy5148]

have NP2 castoria on JP and usually runs tamamo - dual castoria with 4-sometime-5 star arts DPS. and of course, my farms is practically braindead. cast all skill, repeat hit blue round blue rectangle 3 times. i'd call 'extremely worth it' if i were not on the endgame level. then i got NP4 percival couple weeks ago and honestly, looking at 120-170% refund is hilarious.

[@alvinreinaldy5148]

oh ye, my brainded team from JP standards of 3-3-?: dual castoria with any fitting DPS little bit hard 3-1-1: tri-koyan-maybe oberon. and the latest meme: charlemagne's 99 crit stars

[@theslightlytiltedcat]

I can now watch this without any hint of saltiness in my body because I just got Castoria. Fuck Lasagna.

[@sorcierenoire8651]

Wait, so you're telling me Chen Gong is all I need for ALL except Rider Event nodes? Damn, Im missing out on some good shit!

[@shirokun39]

What do you mean except Riders?

[@yoshishuhaist]

Me farming the extreme rider/saber ember node with chen gong.

[@AeirEclipseHayastin]

The Gong doesn't care what class your enemy is.

[@daolong51279]

Yeah, outside of a few CQs the Gong destroys all. If you are going to grail any servant for power the Gong is where it is at

[@KasumiRINA]

@@shirokun39 casters like Chen do half damage to riders... of course, he's so broken it hardly matters, I was clearing laner waves with Arash since forever.

[@0kunalboro0]

Bruh look at himeko , castoria and merlin team comp... It's nutty af

[@bunnybunny4580]

All I can say is "A necessary sacrifice"

[@jcsoriano916]

I got myself a castoria just for Saito Hajime. Still waiting lmao

[@Fureiji88]

well unless this year's anniversary on JP counters what you just said about quick supports, things only get worse as skadi only ends up getting a give the party an attack buff with her NP like castoria does but the difference is castoria can loop her NP very quickly to spam it while skadi lacks the means to do so. then there's the fact on next year's anniversary and new years we get the 2 halves of koyanskaya who basically more or less make Merlin the more go to option in how your buster teams can do not only more damage but also somehow in still an unexplained way allow buster focused servants to NP loop. again I'm not sure how that works outside of does it give them such high NP gain rates that it's basically like summer nobu doing that only on steroids. so yeah while not quite dead as quick teams still have great uses such as star gen, the quick meta is gonna take a massive fall for awhile unless as I mentioned this year's anniversary servant puts them back on top or on equal footing where all 3 metas have their ups and downs though technically I still say buster still wins not cause of damage but because unlike skadi and tamamo, Merlin came out and has yet to get a skill or np upgrade where no he doesn't need to do 50% charging as his focus similar to tamamo is making sure you DPS is gonna do big boy damage.

[@twistedsword8612]

I kneel to my arts Corgi overlord

[@MrLeemurman]

My problem is not people who have Skadi, but people that still dont have Chaldea TeaTime. Get that shit in your Caster Slot already!

[@justawanderingoldman7699]

Looping aside, her party wide 30% NP charge can make the classic 3T farming (DPS 1 - DPS 2 - Arash - NP charger) FAR better and accessible for F2P. You can now just use MLB Imaginary Element instead Kaleidoscope! Not everyone has Kaleidoscope (especially new players). Of course you can still use Waver or other's 20% party charge if you unlock the starting NP append skill. But why bother to do that if you can borrow a Castoria for NP charger? This will also make your team cost cheaper and you can bring more bond bonus CE or QP bonus CE for farming. Or you can simply bring more expensive servants for bond farming

[@brysene]

This is where I'd put Castoria, IF I HAD ONE

[@A_itsar]

Above np1 might not be really needed for farming but getting np4 in 10multies is nice

[@kingofexecution.9710]

It's easy for me to 3 turn farm now as a f2p

[@dmitrygolubev9398]

Minor correction - Castoria is not a Pendragon.

[@reiji9635]

Castoria haver gang rise up

[@Jrimm]

went all in with 500 SQ and got nothing to show for it, not even spooked by another 5*

[@maxkrepps9474]

question: Is it worth it rolling for np5 castoria? I happen to be at np3 which seems to be basically the peak. The main reason I wouldn't roll would be to roll for the summer servants or da vinci rider. The main thing is that with 2 more levels, I would just get 5% more attack. To clarify though, the main reason to roll would be for the servant coins, presumably for level 120.

[@Herrscher-4]

I managed to get an NP2 Castoria, got her to level 80 9/7/6 I will get 9/9/9