Updated F2P Farming Team for daily quests - FGO NA

Level up 3 servants, a few skills and have access to a few CEs. If you can do all that, you can be farming for embers and QP much quicker each day.
In this video, I'll explain how to make it happen.
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An interesting feature of these quests that I was not aware of when I made the video:
www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/c...

[@holoenjoyer8470]

Ah yes. This brings back memories. My first video that got me into fgo and helped me to min max my farming set ups. Great to see you made a better and more updated set up for this new age we're in.

[@ethandupras]

Been almost 2 years to the day since that video. Been quite a journey, eh? Glad to have had you with the channel the whole time.

[@jashea7610]

Ayy your budget farming video was what helped me to start farming when I reached Camelot and needed to actually know what I was supposed to be doing due to the difficulty spike. Nice to see the new and improved budget video

[@ethandupras]

I'm glad I was able to help back then!

[@operatorfrostyy1525]

Ayyy i just wanna say thank you for all the fgo video guide that you've made.... it really helped me through, especially during my newbie year. It's been 2 Years since then and i'm still enjoying this game to the fullest :D

[@ethandupras]

Very glad to hear I was able to help!

[@Yoyocreative]

Hi there! I really want to thank you for these videos! I started playing fgo last month and cant spend money on it. It was going great, but after completing okeanos, Things got rough! I found your video of two years ago and started building the team. Now with the updated video, im almost done building the team, and it helped me so much! It took between 12-15 turns to clear the lvl 40 ember quests! Now its 3-5 turns! Thank you so much for breaking it down for us newer players!!!

[@ethandupras]

Thank you for this, Yolanda! I'm always happy to know I've been able to help. I'm easy to get a hold of if you have any other questions about the game!

[@Yoyocreative]

@@ethandupras thank you so much! I'll keep it in mind! 😊

[@reversedaichi7754]

Yo I've been around since the original f2p video you made. I saw it when I was still new and confused with the game. It's nice to see how far I've gotten since then and how much you have improved in terms of quality videos. Keep it up bro 🙏

[@ethandupras]

I really appreciate you sticking with the channel these two years, pal. Here's to many more!

[@CarlinhosKK]

Started playing this game 2 weeks ago, and finished maxing Arash, thanks for the guide

[@ethandupras]

You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy your time with FGO!

[@autumnsummers6115]

Something that can help with Arash's damage is to move Castoria to the frontline and move Lu Bu to the backline. Castoria's first skill gives a 20% attack up in addition to 30% charge, which is enough for Arash to clear anything that isn't a lancer. For lancers, I'll typically use the extra attack buff from my mystic code on Arash instead of saving it until turn 3. Of course, as a tradeoff, you need to make up the charge requirements for your ST Berserker, since Castoria will only have 20% left for them. Personally, I've been using Heracles with a K-scope, but the other options you went over for getting extra charge also apply here, along with possibly using Waver instead of Castoria, as he can give Arash the same attack buff, and has 30% charge left over for the ST Berserker. And/or using a single target servant who has a charge skill themselves, i.e. Bedivere or Billy the Kid.

[@unconstructedphrase8574]

For Me I did a different approach... Turn1 Arash Np(Face Card clean up) Turn2 Spartacus Np(Face Card clean up) Turn3 Friend support ST NP

[@zqiidori4268]

Thank you for the very inspiring video

[@ethandupras]

Glad if it could help!

[@eagle162]

Nice video man ,by the way what did you get from the GSSR Banners anyway.

[@ethandupras]

I rolled the Year 2 banner. Got Caster Da Vinci. Wasn't super thrilled with that result but not heartbroken either. How about you?

[@eagle162]

@@ethandupras the fourth one, got summer BB and Diarmuid saber, I'm lacking in sabers so Diarmuid was one of the servants I was hoping to get,BB I won't lie she wasn't on my most wanted list(the top being Arjuna Alter or kama) I'll probably come around to appreciate her tho. Would you have been satisfied if this is what you got?

[@ethandupras]

Your new Saber is quite good. B.B is a really interesting servant. She gets class advantage against Avengers. You don't fight avengers very often, so that doesn't seem super useful. However, on the rare occasions that you do, they're highly dangerous and it's good to have her to carry you through those fights. She's one of only a couple Mooncancer servants, and they're not always easy to find on the support list (and for now, she's the only real DPS in the class). If you can supplement her with a crit buffer like Merlin or Waver, her crits can be devastating, even against neutral classes. And her card freeze skill can be used to make gimmick teams that can pull off some very cool shenanigans. Overall, she's rather niche and tricky to use, she requires more thought than most servants. But if you can put in the effort, she'll reward it.

[@Koiba-1337]

Thanks man just started a few days ago and will try to get that team cause farming really can get tedious lul. Is it a better idea to farm the ressources for the skill levels in events or in specific story nodes?

[@ethandupras]

You're very welcome, and good question. Unfortunately, there's not really a consistent answer. Sometimes event quests will have better drop rates than are available in the story free quests, sometimes not. The only way to tell for sure will be to go to an online wiki and check. Generally, I don't like farming for material drops and avoid it whenever I can. I get most of my materials from event shops, which takes the RNG out of farming. But it can also mean that I can be waiting a while for an event to come along that has the materials I need in the right amounts, so it can slow down my progression. I'm willing to make that compromise for my own sanity, but if you're not, I totally get it. I have another video about the FGO gamepress wiki. That site will have data on free quest drop rates and similar data for events when they come out for material farming. Happy hunting, and welcome to FGO!

[@Koiba-1337]

@@ethandupras Thanks for the long answer and the tips! I think I will try to farm the skills for my favourite servants for now ( Ushi/artoria) but other than that I will just get embers/ascension materials cause even the first first few nodes of Camelot very hard right now lul. But Im very excited how difficult it will be.

[@ethandupras]

You're very welcome and best of luck, pal! I'm easy to get a hold of if you have any other questions!

[@lalokx7577]

Hi great video, but I have a question, I'm quite new in the game, but I literally have my Arash and Spartacus at the same lv as yours but mines have like 1k less atk. Why is that? I did something wrong when I level them up? I'm using similars CE on both. but I still having issues with their dmg. Also I'm using Kiyohime instead of lubu as your old video but she also have low atk.

[@ethandupras]

The thing that strikes me as most likely in your instance is Fous. You can use these from the enhancement menu. There are two types of Fous, ATK and HP. Each servant can have up too 1,000 extra stats in each category

[@lalokx7577]

@@ethandupras Thx! And yes your right, I was checking after my comment and was that what i was missing.

[@ethandupras]

Happy to help!

[@remydantes12]

Just started playing FGO NA, does this farming teams works for events too? Or just dailies and farming mats in general?

[@ethandupras]

Welcome to FGO, I hope you enjoy your time with the game! The first time I go through an event free quest, I usually make a normal team and play the quest regularly to see what the enemy layout looks like. For example, lots of event quests will throw a mini-boss at you on the second rather than third wave, or at least this used to be fairly common, and an exact replica of this team wouldn't be able to deal with that very well. Arash can usually handle most 1st waves in the game, but ideally you'd want to replace Spartacus and Lu Bu/Kiyohime with class-advantaged servants, as they will out-damage the berserkers, and for event free quests with higher HP totals, the extra damage will be important. If you do replace anyone, you'll just have to do the same kind of simple math to make sure that you've got the right setup for them all to reach 100% NP, between their CE, support NP charger servant, mystic code buffs, their own skills, etc. Does that help?

[@tartarus8290]

Amazing guide, i'm a new player, any advice will be appreciated. I love this game so much yet at the same time this game frustrates me. My biggest problem is the ascension materials. Just finished Camelot yesterday, i used all of my Pure Prism to get ascension materials to max out my Servants that suitable to beat Gawain, Goddes Rhongomyniad, etc. I'm struggling SO MUCH to beat that singularity. i have at least one 4* servant for each MAIN class, all of them are at max ascension yet none of them seems good. Later on i discovered that perhaps the problem was because their skills are at low levels (The highest level rn is around level 4, and most of my servants skills are on level 2/3). Why? because of ascension materials. I grind the hell out of the Training Grounds, yet the drop rate doesn't do me any favor either. For example, i only need 1 claw of chaos left... and guess what, I burn like 3 golden apples just to get ONE Claw of chaos on the Berserker Advanced Training Ground (Has the highest Claw drop rate at this moment in my level). I was like, OK this is absolutely not worth it at all. Not just claw of chaos, almost every ascension materials that i need are very very very hard to obtain, and the better grinding spots are only available on Lostbelt, which is still far beyond. I even struggling so hard just to get ONE low rarity materials such as seed of yggdrassil. Personally, i'm okay with grinding, but the problem is, it cost TONS of AP and the drop rate are stupidly so damn low, like... OH MY GOD you have no idea how salty i am rn :) Well, that's pretty much it, i bet the next Singularity will have another TONS of bullshit enemy with bullshit buff and twist, They probably can do AOE NP with insta death-ignoring invulnerability or some kind of shit. Probably i will be stuck grinding for eternity, hoping to get at least ONE silver ascension material with a cost of 3 golden apples/3 saint quartz each. So that i can level up the suitable servants and move on to another chapter. Pardon me, but at this moments i'm just realy realy mad about the mechanics in this game.

[@ethandupras]

Hey pal, glad to hear the guide helped a little! IMO, far and away the easiest method to get materials is from the limited time events that are usually running all the time. Grinding free quests is a crapshoot like you've seen, and grinding training ground quests for materials other than pieces/monuments/skill gems is not really worth it. But during events, every quest you clear drops event currency, which you can then use to buy materials from the event shop. Plus, you get to keep whatever drops you get from the quests as well. Of course, not every event has every type of item, and you can only buy so many from any one event (usually between 20-50 of each type of item on offer), but because your rewards are at least guaranteed through the event currency, I think being patient and waiting for a good event is often the way to go. As for skills, usually 6/6/6 is plenty strong, unless it's a servant you're using all the time. Camelot is really the only singularity with that level of nonsense in the boss fights, the subsequent chapter bosses will have more hp and damage, but fewer gimmicky buffs and whatnot. If you have discord, shoot me a message, I'm happy to talk in more about any of this or other topics to help you smooth out this early phase.

[@tartarus8290]

@@ethandupras Thanks a lot for the advice man, i really appreciate it

[@teamosalter]

Noble friend, after seeing your guide I started using this team (with the exception of Lu Bu, because I haven't learned how to use him yet) to first level up this same team, and then farm for other characters. What do you think?

[@ethandupras]

Lu Bu is a very straightforward servant. In this case, you just charge his NP to 100% with your support servant, use your Mystic Code damage buff on him if you have one, use his damage buff skills, then use his NP to kill the boss in the third wave. Sounds to me like you're on the right track. Once you've got the members of your farming team leveled, farming exp for other servants will get much faster. And if you need anything, I'm easy to contact, so let me know!

[@ghelobeem5978]

Is golden apple worth using now since AP cost is cut in half in tge daily quest?

[@ethandupras]

5 star embers give a TON of exp, and you can already farm a bunch each day right now because they're half off. And great/super success is currently at 5x the normal rates, so those embers are going to go a lot further than they normally would anyhow. We've also got a lottery event coming up soon-ish. Probably some time in September. If you really want to, you could use a few now, but if I were you, I don't think I'd burn the whole supply.

[@ghelobeem5978]

@@ethandupras thank you, I was just overwhelmed by my pulls, thats why it had me thinking if I need to farm embers ASAP.

[@tardwrangler]

5th Anniversary? I would've thought this game was way older

[@ethandupras]

5th anniversary for the North American/Global server at the time of the video, the original Japanese version is 2 years older. We're coming up on the 6th NA anniversary in a few months from when I'm typing this comment

[@eagle162]

Yo a bit random but just wondering do you have an JP account or know somebody who does.

[@ethandupras]

Can't help you there, sorry!

[@eagle162]

@@ethandupras don't worry about it just wanted to ask how people usually treat both accounts not a big deal. On different note you considered making a video concerning how to go about with support setup or a more specific video on QP saving. Probably would be useful videos.

[@ethandupras]

Thank you for the suggestions! Can you expand a bit on what information you'd want out of those videos?

[@eagle162]

@@ethandupras have not given that much thought really but I suppose how to attract people to your list especially when you don't have Servants of Rarity or extreme usefulness from each class, the same could apply to CEs, went to swap out servants, CE or command codes your list, is it all right that currently you can only level a small number of your servants skill level to 10. For QP again not much thought but I suppose how to save particularly when you want to upgrade multiple servants. Actually another thing that come to mind related to QP is AP I suppose how to time manage that when farming would be useful as well.

[@Aulmait]

Not working, spartacus don't do enough damage with np

[@ethandupras]

Fully leveled? 1k atk fous? Damage skill at lv10? Those are the conditions for the one used in the video and as you can see from the footage, he's fully capable of clearing the wave Edit: Also, mine is at NP5, but that should in all likelihood be the case for you too. But if you haven't checked them, he has a couple upgrade quests, one of which will further buff his NP damage, so also see if you've done that yet.

[@semendemon69699]

would hercules work instead of lu bu and could i use demon king nobunaga instead of arash. i have one kaleidoscope and imaginary element

[@ethandupras]

Herc's damage is probably far lower than Lu Bu's (at least in terms of potential max damage under similar circumstances). Lu Bu has 2 damage buffs (which are much easier to level) instead of one, and is much easier to get to NP5. Could Herc still do it? I don't know, and I can't check him under any circumstances other than mine, which probably aren't similar to your circumstances. In other words, if my grailed, NP5 Herc with a lv10 damage skill can do it, that doesn't necessarily mean yours can too. You'll have to just try for yourself, I'm afraid. You maybe could get away with not using Arash, but you're going to open up other problems for yourself. Arash's real utility is in his ability to remove himself from the battle after he's done being useful by killing himself during his NP, which Nobu can't do. You could maybe use the Chaldea Combat mystic code and swap another servant in manually, but that adds time to each farming run and limits the MC EXP that you can farm during your daily quests to only that one, which may or may not be significant problems for you.

[@semendemon69699]

@@ethandupras rn i got nobu, arash, spartacus. depending on what im facing i switch spartacus out for herc. it works well and i can clear everything in 4 turns usually

[@ethandupras]

@@semendemon69699 By all means, if it works for you, it works for you! The video was made to try to list the minimum requirements for players to make a consistent team, so that as many players as possible could replicate it even if they are brand new or never roll the gacha for higher rarity farming servants. So if you can upgrade servants or CEs featured in the video and still get a result that you're satisfied with, then by all means give it a try.

[@winserrayela2726]

Why can't I use your supports in lb2?

[@ethandupras]

Are we friends or are you following me? If the latter, the follow system currently only works through the end of part 1, or the Salomon singularity. That will eventually change to include all part 2 story quests as well, but who knows when.

[@winserrayela2726]

@@ethandupras oh that explains why thank u for answering my question

[@ethandupras]

No problem! Good luck with the LBs!

[@tobelee6985]

what if I don't have Arash :(

[@ethandupras]

Keep rolling the FP gacha every day with your free 10-spin and any friend points you have. I just did three 10-spins as a test and got 4 copies of him, so he should be pretty easy to acquire

[@Gshadin]

I have the same party, but i finish at around 8 turns each time

[@ethandupras]

Are your skills leveled properly? What kinds of craft essences are you using? Are most of your damage dealers at NP5? Does everybody have full atk fous?

[@Gshadin]

@@ethandupras i have them at lv 70/60/60, their skills are at around level 6 max, have craft essences giving them 60% 50% and 30% starting np, arash and spartacus are np5, while lu bu is np3, they dont have and Fou's put into em, cause i dont have any Each of my attacks deal like 20-30% less damage than what happens in your video

[@ethandupras]

@user-gc5gv3dg2f I think the fous are what is making the difference. You can buy one servant's worth of fous from almost every event, as well as once per month from the da Vinci store for green mana prisms. That's an extra 1k atk stats and when these low rarity servants have such low base atk stats, that extra 1k makes a huge difference to NP damage

[@Gshadin]

@@ethandupras aight i'll focus on that in the near future then

[@Gshadin]

@@ethandupras i hath returned, and with everybody having around +900 atk, the farming is way smoother, thanks for the tip o7

[@unidentifiedperson7340]

Would 3 imaginary elements work with one maxed out for arash?

[@ethandupras]

Of course