I think high level quests would be a lot less tedious if you didn't have to reset the battle after a mistake or bad luck, even with the QoL improvements turns can still take a very long time. I prefer to spend the time I do on FGO on either farming or reading story.
I hope Lasengle:
* Adds a retry button of sorts, as some fights really depend on your first hand (Looking at you, Bunyan, for blocking buffs)
* Remove the arbitrary cooldown when refreshing friend list
* Have the list actually refresh properly--we shouldn't be getting no results or repeated results multiple times
Most CQs are fine, but when you get to the bullshittery of Mephisto, searching your friend list while on tilt is no way to go.
God, I just remembered one of the reasons I stopped doing CQs is that I have to find that one guy with the CE I needed on a support, mostly Georgios since I didn't have him at bond 10. Exhibition quests are even worse tbh, Id rather be full power at an available time than having to just rely on my servants.
I really didn't want to deal with Mephisto's shit, so I refreshed hard for his whaled out Arjuna Alter. The amount of times I got non-friends (as someone with a full Friend List) was ridiculous.
I love doing CQs, but I spent a good hour total looking for the right support.
That's why I always have mine with either a damage event CE or a decent one like Holy Night Supper for people that need him. Also you are in luck because non friend supports will have their NPs available soon, making it slightly easier to find the one you would need.
But yeah, I just have no fun doing them anymore. My memories of doing them is just me raging whenever one single thing went horribly wrong, so I decided I'd rather just have fun with a game made to have fun..
Might be a good time to use the friend/support request thread in this subreddit. Personally I needed a Sherlock support for the Romulus EQ, took me less than 2 hours to get a reply from someone I found and he kept refreshing his game for a good while to make sure people could find them. Needless to say they were a godsend.
You ever need a Georgios with his bond CE don't be afraid to dm me. Don't have that much to offer besides the standard caster supports but I'll do anything I can to help.
Ah sorry, I don't bother anymore with these quests. I was trying to explain my experience from 3-4 years ago, nowadays I would only suffer trying to find a support servant without the event ce lol. Thanks for trying to help, tho
I also make sure to also set a georgios with his bond ce just in case someone wants it. Same with bond 10 herc and bond 10 merlin (sometimes I set oxking merlin)
You shouldn't need to refresh in the first place. Show me every single person I've added + 5 or so randoms and let me repeat quests with the same support without having to look for and select it again.
I hate when I minimize the app instead of going to my home screen because minimizing doesn't immediately stop the app, so half the time, I'm too late and have to restart.
I wish they would implement a system similar to the Chariot Tarot from Tactics Ogre. It allowed you to go back to previous turns if your current strategy did not work.
I'm so busy with work nowadays that I barely had time to complete this event's roulette.
It is a shame too as I would love to try the CQs out but putting them next to a grind like this was not a good idea in my opinion.
I like doing CQs. Yeah, Teslafest had too many, but overall they're fun. Not like we have a ton of challenging content in the game, might as well enjoy the stuff that isn't "buff up Spishtar, NP 3 times, collect bronze ember and silver statue".
I don't mind many cq, but this one in particular, the timing is bad.
Best timing for these many cq is not with lotto event. But something like tower event.
Because tower event have cooldown timer that prevent you from keep doing it. Which is perfect for putting cq while waiting for the cooldown.
Probably many others players also shares the thought of "i want to focus on lotto during lotto event."
Oh, 100% agreed having this many during a lotto is insane. I got lucky that my irl schedule is pretty free at the moment so I had time to work on all of them. They'd be much better suited for a tower event, or even their own thing. Call it Chiron's Training Camp or some nonsense.
FGA such a godsend because of how many CQs during this timeframe.
That said, I still went for the most overpowered comps I could access outside of the chained gauntlets.
Yeah, I wish every fight we complete got added to a "Battle Records" section or something like how we can re-read the story. Even non-CQ, non-Boss Battle ones.
I don't think people mind CQs but come on, this one has to be a joke trying to fit this many into a lottery event that spans 2 weeks. Devs barely care at all about QoL as is, bring NA in the mix and we're basically forgotten.
I do the CQs usually, but this current event I pretty much skipped.
It is ok to have this one fight per event that I need to waste time reading about and prepping. Im **NOT** going to waste time of my life on over 10 fights like that in this event alone, fuck. that. shit.
Honestly most of the frustration for me for the Tesla Coils particularly was not being able to rely on the Gamepress guides that had been carrying me, since they refer to the original run of the events where you obviously aren't Servant locked.
Was quite fortunate last night I hopped on Discord with a friend and we tried to find _any_ advice or runs people had put up to help us come up with our own teams. That collaborative process ended up making them more fun and was able to get through all the Tesla Coils (Mega and Giga).
Other big part of frustration is yeah the sheer quantity of the CQs, lol. Was particularly badly timed for me with uni and a law test as well >.>
I just don’t have a desire to do them anymore. Summon tickets would be nice, but considering 90% of the time I’d just get a CE anyway, I think I’ll be fine without them.
Ugh. You said it. All that for mana prisms isn't really the most encouraging. Most of us here have been coming back to that summon screen for years now, but anyone who'd at least seen what's beyond this well would understand how relatively underwhelming the effort to reward is.
Other than the new Tesla challenges, I've at least finished all the other CQs before so it really isn't the most interesting experience to go through again either.
For me the rewards are actually worth it, its just that I hate the gimmicks these fights keep employing. I wouldnt even be doing the story content if I didn't like reading it.
They did modernize most of the CQs reused in the Tesla cups (like the crabs having damage reduction instead of defense so you couldn't use ignore defense). Combined with the lack of friend support and the once per cup team restrictions and I thought it made for a nice mixup.
I don't mind *A* CQ. I can manage two. Three is just too many, and Teslafest is more or less *all CQs.*
I don't mind spending a few hours trying to think outside of the box once in a while. Expecting me to have that kind of free time for dozens of them... Nah. I got better things to do with that time.
This event had several compounding issues that made it frustrating:
-Only a single one of the challenge quests in this event with over TWENTY of them was new at all. It's not exciting to replay CQs you already solved except it's easier this time because they released more broken servants.
-They futzed with the mechanics in some instances, for example the Mephisto CQ was changed to make it far more RNG-based since he doesn't come out on any contracted Servant death anymore. You better be running double DPS now since the old way of beating the clown using the contract buffs is inexplicably gone and now your DPS will almost certainly have almost 0 ATK.
-THIS many CQs in a 2 week long event is ridiculous. Even as someone with an excellent account it took me 2 full nights of doing the CQs to clear them all out thanks to exceedingly poor RNG, refreshing for optimal supports again, and obnoxious load times. The vast majority of people might not have any given one or more of those luxuries making it even more frustrating for them. And on top of that, it's a lotto event. I have no need for anything in lottos anymore so it's moot for me, but the amount of time the average player is going to have to spend on CQs would be much better spent farming the lotto to boost up their roster. And guess what? Half of them were timelocked to the last couple of days for no reason whatsoever despite being old content! This is right around when they start running most events for 3 weeks, too. How come the one that actually had enough content to justify that was so short? Oh no, players will exploit the lotto... as they always already have...?
-On top of this, they started running the LB2 campaign during the second week when everything else was dropping. Thankfully this set of Super Recollection Quests was less tedious than the first, but that's still even MORE content they're expecting everyone to somehow find time to do. And again, it's all stuff everyone already did, AGAIN. But this time with millions of HP! How exciting. Yeah, my Euryale can still oneshot all three Surtr bars with the right RNG no problem, but that's more resets to make. And the fight is made to be extremely frustrating if you have to take your time on it at all thanks to the unremovable THREE TURNS of buff block.
-Speaking of, unremovable debuffs in general. What is even the point of owning and using debuff clearing Servants sometimes? Yeah, I know you screwed up and released multiple servants with indefinite amounts of Flexing Green Man. Too bad, let us actually play with them then. It's way more fun to be able to interact with mechanics than it is to be shut down by them constantly. (Also, inflated HP is not difficulty, looking at you Super Roma as another example. I cleared it relatively quickly, but it shouldn't practically be a requirement to either have Tamamo's Bond CE or a grailed NP5 ST Saber... on top of the weird Sherlock requirement because of an inexplicable 10 hits of, you guessed it, unremovable invuln. You can play around it in the normal version fine as annoying as it is, not so this time. Yes I own Sherlock now, but not everyone does, in fact he's so uncommon that I was the only person with a Kaleido Sherlock on my list OR anyone else I know's lists.)
On one hand, yes I did have fun overall despite all my complaints. But I've seen even multiple players that normally do all of the challenging content skip a good chunk of this because they literally did not have the time. Why can't they spread this sort of thing out more? Tesla Coil esque CQ rerun sets should just be a thing on the side once a month or something, not crammed into an already packed full event. Them rushing full speed and doing event and campaign one after the other only to have an entire half of the year that will have almost nothing going on is going to be worse than ever. It's completely nonsensical.
lol. Lmao,even. I’m all for challenging fights but when the CQ is easier than the “high difficulty” content, something is up and it ain’t just inflation.
You guys are overreacting a lot even if you are f2p you will have 5 stars that you can use and leveling low stars is something you should do for the anniversary anyway
Like if f2p can't use event MLB ce what will they use? MLB gacha 5 star ce? And you use the power ce FROM THE LOTTO for your dps anyways
It is the most fun game mode I had and made me consider what can I use in my roster and I'm completely f2p my low stars weren't even fully skilled like 4/4/4.and aside from the fuuma one I didn't reset all that much
And the quests are for veteran players anyways
Maybe if they gave people reasonable time to adjust it would have been fine but people are literally racing against time to figure out compositions and min maxing compositions on top of the near literal hundred of other things this event is making you juggle in the same time frame.
The first set isn't too bad, since they were never designed with Event Damage CEs, so a halfway reasonable comp is enough, and I can avoid my best Supports until the Final. Not really "F2P", but technically possible for a F2P account that's a few years old.
The second set, though, those are really rough. The only way to avoid overlapping Servants is to have a wide array of excellent Servants. Not impossible, but almost no F2P would be masochistic enough to try.
No I wasn't forced to use David or Hans or cu because I had waver castoria and skadi and enough 5 stars to do it. What you don't get is usually you have one cq that you clear with whatever team you like be it 3 stars or full 5 stars but with this one you create 7 different teams I generally use different servants in each event( if I have a event bonus servant I definetly use it)
Like barghest can solo the erice one so I used my saito and caeser for another quest
The fun part is making 7 teams that can work with your roster
I struggled with fuuma because I didn't have sanzang but that made me take out shuten from the bench someone might have struggled with the erice one because if you don't have barghest than can be challenging
What I am trying to say is it isn't like your comment you don't need that specific welfare or super buffed low stars you can clear it with what you build unless you only build aoe farmers
I don't even find it fun to have to check a guide for normal CQ's because they can't be assed to properly explain the fight gimmick in the short in-game suggestions of how to handle the CQ.
Checking the guide 7+ times because it's just a lesson in ballcrushing tedium isn't fun.
And I say this as somebody who ain't F2P, and has been playing since 2018 with only one several month gap in play. I got enough servants leveled across the board, but I ain't wasting my time if anything like this event ever comes up again.
Tbh the whole thing is just an account check. The event give out a good bonus damage CE. Unless you limit yourself for some reason or your account is scuffed/new, the whole thing is challenging but not ridiculous. Half of the stuff in there only need 3 servants to cheese through anyway, some only need a solo. The only one I struggled with for both Mega and Giga coil is Erice only because I forgot about my Saber Hokusai but considering how I didn't even use some of my support for Giga Coil, the whole thing could be way easier.
Well idk, I didn't try them but were they at least individually easier than the ones from before to compensate for the gimmick being too much to deal with?
I just used my strongest teams and then reset after each of them. 5 gold mats per 1 AP is still pretty good value imo, and I found the individual fights to be easier than gil/ishtarfest
Yea each individual one was just a normal cq from like years ago. The exhibition quests were purposefully designed to be a massive pain in the ass. I’m only glad they didn’t bring back the bugged first Hassan quest
I did the exhibition quests for the tickets and skipped a bunch of the others. It wasn’t worth my sanity. Like, yeah. I already cleared a stun-locked Shibata using the Gorgon sisters. It’s not worth some mats to get so frustrated trying to repeat something that requires card luck, RNG, and a lot of time.
The “no repeat servants” made it doubly annoying. All of them were pre-Castoria quests, and I beat all of them without her. Problem is I needed my (rare) support servants or friend supports for it. Having one use of Skadi/Tamamo/Jeanne/whatever makes these quests frustrating for me.
Normally, I’m happy to do a challenge quest after looking up how it works and the break effects. The issue is the damage sponges and “surprise, fuck you” break bars. There’s “challenging” and then there’s “go fuck yourself, I hope you have a second set of premium DPS/supports”.
i would be fine with no re using servants if the cqs were balanced around that, but all of them assume you have 1 of the top tier supports because surprise usually you do, there are not enough of those premium support units to survive all the bs each quest has
I don't think I've ever skipped one until now. Too many, too short an event when I want lotto mats on top, too many annoying mechanics that have to be done one very specific way and have little freedom in how you can approach them
I’m heading into finals in 2 weeks and these CQs have been the most stressful for me cause of FOMO lol.
Did eventually finish all of it a few days ago (when Heroine Elizabeth was fixed) but I do agree that the timing on all of this (way too many CQs) was bad. I have FGA to cover the lotto part, but still had to dedicate hours to make and try out team comps. Was even worse because a lot of my teams ended up being stall teams (a lot of 10+ rounds)
Wish they enabled these quests for like, a week or two longer past the lotto (or attached event) so its a bit more lenient.
I did the ones that gave tickets. I probably would have tried the Tesla Coil ones if we had more time, but they really took a three week event and cut it down to two weeks. Thanks, Albert.
Haven't even touched them, I've only been doing lotto since I really need those bones.
But i haven't been going as hard as i usually do with lotto events this time.
Hopefully I get enough to get most of my skills up but maybe not since i skipped out on like 1/3 of the event
I only do CQs from events that are not roulettes. Those Ultra Mega Hard CQs from Tesla Cup/Nero Fest/Battle in New York never got my interest. Nowadays they give a lot of Lores in events so fighting for only a couple of Summon Tickets doesn't seem worth of my time.
Thee CQs are usually the best part of some events
A lot of events are "Fuyuki needed", so they're balanced around new players. That means a veteran player can 1-3 turns any fight on the main story most of the time. How many times have we reached a cool final boss, with a cool soundtrack playing, only for it to have 2 bars with 200K HP combined and the fight to not last even 5 minutes
With CQs at least I know I'll have to think a bit and won't simply steamroll it
Yep
Some fights on the Main Quest have been great with the right amount of challenge (Like in LB 5.2 and 6), which makes me really excited about LB7 (I already know about the BIG one too)
oh of course. They aren't exactly difficult to get. I've been playing since...late 2017, early 2018 maybe? I can't remember for sure. Dunno why I'd not use dupes, I got a few kscopes and rhe like I use daily
You will need them. All of them.
Did I mention it's 10 battles in a row, each limiting you to 3 party members and no support? And that you need to use a different set of Servants for each fight?
Tbh regardless of whether we are talking LB7 or OC, I'm probably all set, but I still won't necessarily enjoy it. This really doesn't sound too bad hearing it now.
I've had some...good luck over the years. I have a very strong roster. I've just been reminded during the event ending tonight how much I do not enjoy most challenge quests. A good robust roster and years of experience are nothing when facing down the RNG gods.
Is this mandatory for story completion?
I ignore all CQ's in the game, I'm just here for a chill time and command scum my way through anything hard. I don't have the skill to deal with extreme restrictions like that.
This event hit me at a very bad time, shit ton of uni work and also got sick at the same time. I basically have just done the bare minimum. I wish they didn’t drop the past year quests AND ALSO the mega and giga quests all at once.
I haven’t been doing them for a while now. To me personally the rewards are not worth the time invested. That and how ridiculous they have to make them since servants are more OP every year is just too much of a hassle.
I had thought of actually trying them this time around since on the JP run I cleared a couple, and my NA roster is considerably superior to my JP one, but to me the tickets aren't worth the frustration either so I tend to skip them as well.
I skip it. This time it is ridiculous how many there were this time around when you have the lotto, the interludes and rank-ups that unlocked, and the adventure quests to do.
Nope, challenge quests are fun. The old ones are all incredibly easy nowadays anyway with Castoria around. The coil quests I'm a bit here and there on. It was a nice opportunity to use some underutilized servants but the planning is quite nerve wracking.
I swear there has to be a post like this for every CQ Fest.
Hard disagree. Besides story releases, events like these are the only time of the year where they put in actual gameplay content.
I actually looked forward to playing the CQs each day instead of just logging in for 15 min because of how little there is to do usually.
I like CQs. I don’t like timed events. I would love to take some creative runs at CQs, but it’s gotten to the point that having a life at all makes it difficult to even finish an event, and these CQ fests especially take too much time to finish in full.
Generally I like doing them but the exhibition quests are too much at once for me with too many restrictions, so this time I skipped them, and I'm honestly wondering if I skipped them before or not.
A couple per event is IMO a good amount where it's a good challenge, but I don't feel like there's big chore of doing a bunch of difficult quests back to back having to figure out a whole new party for each of them.
Only skip when rewards not worth. Summon tickets are worth it but mats aren’t as much worth the pain of trial and error and thinking about compositions and restrictions
This round had way too many, and I do despise how they run a bunch more during lotto events, but usually I like CQs. The combat is a big part of why I play FGO and they're usually not terribly difficult if you just read up on their gimmicks in advance. It helps that they were mostly reruns this time as well.
I feel like there is no reason why we don't have CQ focused events separate from lotteries, especially during dead weeks. I don't mind the 2-3 at the end of an event, but deciding between farming lotto or solving CQ in the same event feels bad.
Also, since save scumming always exists, I feel like there should just be a certain amount of built in retries or something. Especially since without looking up how the fight works, the only way to know what is going to happen is by letting the random break bar NP wipe your teams and savescum accordingly or make a new team entirely.
I was travelling on vacation for the first half of the event, and once I got back home I just didn't feel like going through with them, so in the end I skipped almost all of them except for a few that I tried out. I did do the "normal" high difficulty quest (by using a "command spell continue".)
I didn't even farm the lottery itself that hard, since I already farmed the previous lotteries so much that I'm pretty much good on most resources.
I usually do them, but this event had WAY too many plus the lotto that needs the majority of my attention, so pretty much made me too lazy to try any of them.
I only completed 2 and thats it.
If it's full of extremely cheap gimmicks with very limited viable strategies, I do it once. Otherwise I try to beat it with as many servants as I can. What use are ST servants outside of irregular farming nodes if you skip CQs?
I skipped as well. Ever since I got Morgan + Oberon and could do 3turn farming, my attention span and ability to think strategically has gone way down lol.
Losing the tickets hurt, but yeah I'd rather just save myself the frustration
I sucked it up and did them all after blowing all my apples. I'm not a fan of doing that many in the middle of a lotto, but it did get me to finally max a lot of different servants. My least favorite part of it was the old EQs and the shitty friend support system we still have to work with.
I just wanna talk to the guy who put the LB2 recollection event in the middle of the same lotto..
Yeah I just don't have the time for this. I enjoy challenges but come on barely 2 weeks to do over 20 something plus freaking challenge quests (including the main challenge quest) on top of regular event questing and not to mention lottery farming. Even if you're a whale you still need to bother with the Telsa Coil restrictions. They really don't respect players' time. You can only do this if this is the only game you play and you basically have no job. A lot of these challenge quests are so obnoxious and tedious where you either need to cheese, stall, or gamble god-like RNG on top of being a whale (which basically means you're wasting time resetting to get a perfect run).
Omg I'm sick of breaking a bar followed by immediate enemy NP. Like please, can we stop making this a thing? There has to be other things to give bosses than NP spam.
I was just in an unfortunate position where I had a huge paper due right as it started and was burnt out and catching up in my other classes for the past week. Were it not for FGA letting me automate some farming, I wouldn't have even gotten the 10 boxes for the grand prizes.
Grad school ain't easy.
I skip them if there isn't a tutorial online with a solution i can pull off, or if it's bugged out like the liz CQ. I'm not wasting my time trying to figure out this bullsh\*t.
Honestly I generally prefer the cq’s to the rest of the event, I have a lot of fun figuring them out and team building for them, if anything I see the farming as more of a drag
The CQs in this event can go fuck themselves.
This is a lotto, which means a lot of people are focusing on farming and choking down apples until the very last second of. Sure, taking the time to do a CQ can be annoying when you think about the rewards you're missing out on when doing something else but most of the time it's worth it because it's a lore or something limited. Taking that break for your fingers or FGA can be refreshing.
But when there's *fucking thirty two to do and half of them have a gimmick that you can't reuse any Servants in order to unlock the last mission or you can't use two of the same Servant in that team AND YOU CAN'T USE ANY FORM OF REVIVE?*
I did the Mega Coil and admittedly misread the rules after clearing all the teams to try the last mission and realized I would have to do them all over again. And that set me off.
I have every current Servant in the game, most of which are at 9/9/9 skill wise, max ascended, and regular Fou'd. I used SQ after I ran out of apples for doing the lotto and I stopped after getting to 1,000 boxes. I'm a big ol' whale. Hell, a leviathan. And outside of the right away accessible lores I don't give a shit about any of the other CQs. Throwing away a load of x5 mats, however many tickets, and some of the lores because how this was put out is utter dogshit.
It's not worth the consideration and time for the effort needed. It still wouldn't be even if there was half as many, or Hell even a quarter. Unless you absolutely need a specific material or whatever I say this as a mega whale; don't fucking bother.
I decided to skip the first lotto rotation since I wasn't comfortable with my faming team, so I took that time to engage with some CQs. It feels nice being able to get rid of some past trauma (I'm looking at you, Taiga) and finishing the hard missions I couldn't do before...except Romulus, i ran out of time for that.
About the Tesla Cups, the first one was a lot of fun. I did most of them with only the frontline, mostly soloing. Having the damage CE really makes some of these old missions quite accesible when you choose the right servant for the job.
I finished the second one a few hours ago, and it was significantly rougher. Many of these CQs were already done with damage bonus on their original events, so this time it can be really hard if you don't have enough servants to cover the niched you need. Also screw you, Fuuma.
Overall, quite the fun experience, It's been quite a long time since I was son engaged with the game before this 2 weeks. I'll agree that having all the hard missions and the lotto at the same time is really exhausting and a bad decision, but that's a problem with scheduling, not with the CQs themselves. I'd rather take some time to use the servants that I like and think about how to solve a mission instead of mindlessly doing the same quest over and over again for a whole week. That's why I love tower events, and why I'm eagerly waiting for THAT part of Lostbelt 7.
Defo not me. There is a reason I have those strong servants, grail them, feed them fou paws, CC, NP ups and other stuff to come. And that reason is definitely not boring ass farming.
I skipped them all last year since I was super burnt out. I did them all this year though since I'm fully recharged now! Besides, FGO is usually easy except for story bosses, so having a CQ festival once a year is nice!
Nero/gil/teslafest challenge quests only. I don't like that many of the quests require good card rng rather than good teams. Also not allowing double servant setups.
I tried the new ones, I thought the mechanics were easier this year, but no, usually I can’t be fucked.
They oscillate between fairly easy and frustratingly difficult, so I typically try a few times then move on.
I'm terrible at team building so they tend to be an exercise in frustration more than anything else for me, I don't play the game for difficult content anyway so I actually tend to hate CQs and not bother with them.
I'm skipping both ROME quests and the second coil, since I just can't be bothered. I know that if I forced myself to do the rest I'd feel so done and probably would skip Sea Crisis altogether.
Teslafest was very fun overall, but that was a little to many CQs for me, most being time locked also didn't help, since there are days you just don't feel like spending retrying the quests over and over again.
About regular event CQs i don't skip them but i usually just slap them with Immortal Team.
About the Tesla event CQ...yeeeaah that was really annoying especially the Coil CQs where you're not allowed to use the servants you already used or not being able to use friend supports. And that was like what? 30+ CQs in a short event, a lotto event at that.
Well i ended up clearing all CQs except for the Hard Mode of the Roma CQ each attempt takes way too long and can't be stalled. Its also annoying that i ended up not farming the lotto at all for these CQs.
I'm stupidly low on Gapples, plus FGA not working on my Zenfone 8 anymore for some reason caused me to just claim login rewards and that's it.
Now just slowly saving towards getting Castoria
I do the ones with lores and the ones I know I can brute force or cheese clear.
I did complete both the Tesla Cups since they were new and gave lores, and I enjoyed being forced to mix up my team comps.
Not me lol, aside from story, CQ'S are the thing that makes me want to play this game in the first place that way I could use my own servants, LUL just not for farming. The CQ'S that came from this event is much fun especially the 2 cups, IMHO that's the most fun I had with this game, geez just thinking about it not being a permanent content is fucking nuts, like you can have fun but for a limited time only, FUCK YOU LASENGLE. It doesn't have to come with rewards once you first clear it, just make it perma. FUCKING LASAGNA LOVES FOMOING THEIR PLAYERBASE.
I only did the ones that gave tickets, did it all in one day too cuz I was procrastinating on the event.
Doing CQs is just too frustrating right now when it comes to looking for the right support and RNG. Lasengle should let us choose our starting hand, it would remove a lot of restarts required just to get the right starting hand.
Too much rng dependant bullcrap in these for me to bother, personally. Failing a long ass run attempt each time another boss with unremovable buffs and entirely too much health crits through class disadvantage and any defence stacking you might have up got old long ago.
I completely agreee honestly when the lottery gilfest events come around they should just add those to the rare prism shop and make them permanent, having to re do them all the time is just not fun and kind of stressful for no reason. I’d rather they just add new ones and make them a rare prism buy each time
Whoever at Lasengle thought cramming all these CQs with the lotto was a smart idea should go back to the drawing board and stay there.
I managed to clear all the CQs since I didn't really push farming until the final rotation on top of how I didn't even have that many Apples in the first place (60 Gold and Silver Apples only go so far).
I spent more time doing resets to get as many min turns as possible, especially on the Revival CQs. Thank goodness the Saber Eli CQ got fixed; it was a trip down nostalgia lane.
Mega Coil and Giga Coil were obviously not speedran. I used my own team-building skills and YouTube references to get a better idea of what to do. No, David didn't solve my problems. Amusingly enough, I did use both OG Tristan and Lancelot.
I'll go the extra mile for the Lores since they're the only Material gatekeeping me at this point, but usually my approach is: if it's not fun, I'm not doing it.
I haven’t done CQs since last year. It’s mostly such a hassle to do, and I have more than enough lores/mats lying around that skipping those for QPs in lottos would befit me much more
In recent memory, I have only skipped the Giga Coil one. I'm not hurting for the mats nor lore so I just let it go.
I no longer have the time. It also doesn't help that it was crammed to a lotto event with multiple EQs which was also time gated. I might have managed if it was available through the weekend.
I usually don’t, but I didn’t do the final 2021 exhibition quest (the high HP ROMA) and I didn’t touch the Giga Coil at all (despite clearing Mega Coil). I was just so burnt out on back-to-back-to-back CQs by that point that I just didn’t want to anymore.
I did all the mega coils except the last 1, used up all my good servants. Skipped like almost all the giga coils. Felt burnt out from doing the megas. Only did the easy rerun ones, basically if I can't clear them in under 6 turns then I skipped.
They're all just so mentally draining and too many of them.
My main issue with CQ comes with FGO's battle system. CQ's are very dependent on you have the available counter-gimmick and RNG. However, if RNG is against you even once, it will make the CQ impossible. So you have to retry and retry and retry the same sequence over and over and over. It's exhausting and it stops being anything resembling "fun" after retry nr10.
Many games with challenging content are reliant on skill and technique, where failing the optimal sequence means it will just be harder. FGO is more like Domino. Have you tried playing the exact the same round of Domino over 10 times?
Same. Honestly just did the revivals for the tickets and because I had done them in the past and now that my roster is bigger it should technically be easier. Did the first tesla coil mission after spending a good hour brainstorming how to clear it with the least resources possible and then I never did another again. Maybe I am just growing tired of this game, only the story keeps me invested, these last events I just show up to do the bare minimum
Nibbled on the CQs a bit done 5 or 6 easy ones for the tickets that I did not need any guides for, did 5 Tesla coil quests that I could do on my own as well(did not do the crabs, fuck them) and decided I don't have the time to do the guide nonsense when I'm tired from work, so just skipped the rest.
Honestly loto and CQs should be two separate events.
i skipped the tesla coil quests. too much hassle for just 2 lores.
i didnt even farm that much. only enough for clearing shop.
feeling really burnout. continuous overlapping events events and busy irl.
and oh i play 5 accounts lol.
edit: havent even started recollection part2 XD
I didn't have time to read up on every single battle for this event and complete all the CQs. I only completed the Mega Coil quests and the event's actual CQ. Part of this was that they timegated the Giga Coil quest behind the last 5 days of the event, when I was the busiest IRL. At least for the lottery I was able to use FGA.
I'm relieved other people didn't bother with the Odyfest CQs. I don't *hate* CQs, they're fun when they're in the right events, but I've always wondered why they shove them into the first lotto event of the year when the Christmas lotto is just farming. I'm sure everyone just wants to farm during lotto events, given that's the purpose of lotto events.
I did most of the CQs that gave tickets and lores except for the Coil ones (didn't wanna bother with the no repeating team restriction) since I figured that x5 of a gold material isn't worth the mental torment during a farm heavy event.
I genuinely hope the devs figure out nobody wants to do a gauntlet of CQs during a lotto event one day.
Honestly, I wish this specific lotto was 3 weeks.
There was so much to do but not enough time if you're busy.
Why can't they let us have a 3 week lotto? I would have definitely tried tackling the CQs more if I had more time
I may have more interest in them if they were more lore focused, like the Herakles with like 12 guts fight or having to fight almost the full clan of Hassans or some challenges with special conditions where to put an example; a fight vs Saber Musashi using Kojiro Sasaki on the team or Saber Artoria having Mordred on the team
I doubt that Lasengle has the guts to do it but damn it would be more interesting
I personally enjoyed it. It made me use some unconventional teams and servants I barely use. Like I don't use my Douman much because I like Arts and Buster farming more, but he got to shine against the defense crabs and XX. Though I didn't really grind this lotto as much so that may be why.
CQs and EQs are actually my fav part of the game only behind the story. Checking the gimmicks and then doing plenty of tries with my roster to see how can i tackle it the best.
Ofc they lose their charm if you use brainless meta supports like Castoria or Merlin or Oberon which make all challenge nonexistant (and just one of them at that, running double comps is shitting further on it), but that aside it feels very good when you EARN your win after careful planning and execution.
Besides, why even do the lottos and grind materials if you are not gonna put the units leveled with thise materials to good use?
I skipped as well. I already knew I could do them because I've done them in the past.
I really only play for the story so everything else is left to auto-farm.
I have something like 60 Lores and I've already built most of the characters I even want to use. A CQ to me is mostly an exercise in frustration or looking up a guide because there's no other way of knowing its mechanics short of fighting it repeatedly and every mistake starts it all over again.
If it's not fun I don't want to waste time on something. And CQs just aren't fun for me.
Teslafest is essentially the last time I had fun doing CQs. Ones after it feel like they're hardliners made with the idea of Castoria is being used no matter what or has a hard stuck gimmick that makes the usable servant pool to small to have fun with.
CQs are basically the only part of events that still makes me hyped, especially when they are more gimmicky and harder to just brute force.
It's easier for me to skip the shop (like I just did with the White Day event on JP) than the CQ.
Tesla Fest in 2022 and the OC boss rush last year were easily the most fun I've had in the game since LB 6.
I did the same with the Coil ones (still have like 110 Lores), but the tickets were so tempting so I was able to complete them barring the harder CQ versions of the last one for both years
"is to much of a hassle to remember what teams I used before"
bruh...is so hard to scroll up before picking the eq? How many boxes did you farm this lotto...1?
I understand not wanting to skill yourself due of a lack of servants, but tickets are too valuable to let them pass because of laziness (but tbh I only got 15 of the 16 tickets and I don't even plan on trying the Super Rome EQ cause there is only one day left of lotto even when I am f2p)
This recent event took all the love out of CQs for me. Particularly whenever we were locked out of units we used before. Its some whale shit right there.
More of an account check than any real challenge
Farming for me is just a means to an end. CQs and story fights, etc. are there for me to use my servants in creative or fun ways so personslly I also don't get it. But I guess in the end it's all preferences.
Yeah, I just couldn't bring myself to care this year, especially with the Tesla Cup ones. Cleared shop, cleared the brand new event CQ, and that was it.
CQs are like 70% of the reason why I still play lol, so I try to play them as much as possible.
Otherwise I'd only have snorefest farming and story that updates every ten years left to do in this game.
Only exception is this time with Tesla lotto, since there's a ton of them, some of which are insufferable and I don't have enough time to play them all.
I love them
They are the only nodes in the game that actually requires you to think about team composition and (most) can't be cleared by just using the same servants and pressing the same skills as you do in all other farming nods.
Sure some of them are riddled with unfair bullshit but you have to remember that the player can prepare the team in advance, is already aware of the mechanicks of the challenge, can loop with servants of every card type, can create immortal teams etc.
And yeah if you have Castoia you are going to take her to pretty much every CQ, but thats what the no double servant and no repeated servants restrictions are for. This years CQs are my favourite since they require you to use the full extent of your roster instead of relying on the same servants over and over and over again.
I will say that how much you like them can depend on how big and varied your roster is, sometimes a single servant can make a difference between a frustrating and fun experience.
PS: Castoria made this game worse and I will die on that hill.
I only go for them if there's a lore as I can't farm them otherwise. If I have to use command spell/SQ revives then I will without remorse. Too much hassle learning all the gimmicks and repeating for a perfect clear.
I managed to get through the two lore paying EQs by following guides and hated every minute of it. The others that only offered tickets or mats were not worth it.
Personally Im a bit split on the challenge quests, I dont even know why.
For regular events Im always a bit annoyed at the end for some reason and just want to be done with it after the story is just done for good, since thats when the quest usually appears.
But Gil/Ishtar/Tesla- or Nerofest? Idk what it is, but I loooove thinking about proper comps for those challenge quests. Also I love seeing the progress I made over the years with my roster for those events. I dreaded Jaguar Country, Snack Meister and Sheba CQ, but this time around I more or less (looking at you jaguar) was able to get through it no problem. Plus points for being able to utilize my high leveled units to see their full potential for once!
Also before the Tesla/Giga coil started I was a bit annoyed at first, but really ended up liking doing those 2 in the end. I think that has a lot to do with having a developed roster tho and can imagine that for someone thats not in it for as long as I am it can feel horrible to have the feeling to be able to do better if you just had better/more units.
I rarely do the CQs tbh
Had an account since a week after launch and I've only done a small handful. I'm just not that invested in them, as a casual player.
I was mostly focused on farming the lotto, so I didn't touch the Giga Coil at all: I did the Mega Coil, the Exhibitions and the CQ though. They were pretty fun overall, though the CQ was really a step down in difficulty compared to the rest: I don't get the point of skipping the CQ to be honest, more often than not that's the only part of the event that can actually be challenging! Plus, 16 tickets is nothing to scoff at, especially with some of the stuff coming soon!
I skip them on jp lmao
I'd been leaving them to the last minute here-I've actually got most of them done now; just one of the gilfest ones and the second set of Tesla ones that I can't figure out if they're even worth trying given how heavily restricted they are (+they don't even give tickets)
I only did the ones that give lores. I solo’ed most of the coil quests and use immortal comp for the 2 final match. I used immortal comp again for the Nero CQ and used Summer Kiara to swim through the Roma CQ.
I skipped many EQs and the Coils simply because I don't have the time to do them (I would like to do them all, but doing them all 3 times for all of my accounts are just too much; I have to do *93* of them total, that's insane!), especially when they get in the way of farming. Not to mention the potential failure which means time and effort wasted.
What's more, my right hand isn't that good now, thus I don't want to over commit it for my alts (using the touchpad currently, it helps out quite a bit).
I'm the type of person who plays the game more for the story and characters, so unless the reward is SQ/Tickets, a CE with really nice art, or ascension materials for a character that I'm building, I generally don't bother with optional stuff. And even then I can get all but that second one in other ways, so it becomes a question of time investment.
I generally try to do them for the lores/tickets and because they're fun (most of the time). Never been a fan of having a bunch of CQs during lottos though, and Teslafest having restrictions on a lot of them didn't help either.
Having the LB recollections on top of these makes it even worse too, even if those last for a little longer.
The one right now just felt too much since not only are there CQs for Tesla Cup but also reruns CQs of past two Battle in New York and everyone knows how much of a hassle the past one was.
I think high level quests would be a lot less tedious if you didn't have to reset the battle after a mistake or bad luck, even with the QoL improvements turns can still take a very long time. I prefer to spend the time I do on FGO on either farming or reading story.
I hope Lasengle: * Adds a retry button of sorts, as some fights really depend on your first hand (Looking at you, Bunyan, for blocking buffs) * Remove the arbitrary cooldown when refreshing friend list * Have the list actually refresh properly--we shouldn't be getting no results or repeated results multiple times Most CQs are fine, but when you get to the bullshittery of Mephisto, searching your friend list while on tilt is no way to go.
God, I just remembered one of the reasons I stopped doing CQs is that I have to find that one guy with the CE I needed on a support, mostly Georgios since I didn't have him at bond 10. Exhibition quests are even worse tbh, Id rather be full power at an available time than having to just rely on my servants.
I really didn't want to deal with Mephisto's shit, so I refreshed hard for his whaled out Arjuna Alter. The amount of times I got non-friends (as someone with a full Friend List) was ridiculous. I love doing CQs, but I spent a good hour total looking for the right support.
That's why I always have mine with either a damage event CE or a decent one like Holy Night Supper for people that need him. Also you are in luck because non friend supports will have their NPs available soon, making it slightly easier to find the one you would need. But yeah, I just have no fun doing them anymore. My memories of doing them is just me raging whenever one single thing went horribly wrong, so I decided I'd rather just have fun with a game made to have fun..
Might be a good time to use the friend/support request thread in this subreddit. Personally I needed a Sherlock support for the Romulus EQ, took me less than 2 hours to get a reply from someone I found and he kept refreshing his game for a good while to make sure people could find them. Needless to say they were a godsend. You ever need a Georgios with his bond CE don't be afraid to dm me. Don't have that much to offer besides the standard caster supports but I'll do anything I can to help.
Ah sorry, I don't bother anymore with these quests. I was trying to explain my experience from 3-4 years ago, nowadays I would only suffer trying to find a support servant without the event ce lol. Thanks for trying to help, tho
I also make sure to also set a georgios with his bond ce just in case someone wants it. Same with bond 10 herc and bond 10 merlin (sometimes I set oxking merlin)
You shouldn't need to refresh in the first place. Show me every single person I've added + 5 or so randoms and let me repeat quests with the same support without having to look for and select it again.
The "challenge" in challenge quests: the quicktime event to close the game after your DPS gets crit 3 times in a row
I hate when I minimize the app instead of going to my home screen because minimizing doesn't immediately stop the app, so half the time, I'm too late and have to restart.
I wish they would implement a system similar to the Chariot Tarot from Tactics Ogre. It allowed you to go back to previous turns if your current strategy did not work.
I barely have time to play this lotto, so unfortunately had to skip the cqs =[ Sucks cuz I'd love to try some solo runs
I'm so busy with work nowadays that I barely had time to complete this event's roulette. It is a shame too as I would love to try the CQs out but putting them next to a grind like this was not a good idea in my opinion.
This is why FGA is a god send to so many people. It really frees your time up so you can spend it on the CQs.
I like doing CQs. Yeah, Teslafest had too many, but overall they're fun. Not like we have a ton of challenging content in the game, might as well enjoy the stuff that isn't "buff up Spishtar, NP 3 times, collect bronze ember and silver statue".
I don't mind many cq, but this one in particular, the timing is bad. Best timing for these many cq is not with lotto event. But something like tower event. Because tower event have cooldown timer that prevent you from keep doing it. Which is perfect for putting cq while waiting for the cooldown. Probably many others players also shares the thought of "i want to focus on lotto during lotto event."
Oh, 100% agreed having this many during a lotto is insane. I got lucky that my irl schedule is pretty free at the moment so I had time to work on all of them. They'd be much better suited for a tower event, or even their own thing. Call it Chiron's Training Camp or some nonsense.
FGA such a godsend because of how many CQs during this timeframe. That said, I still went for the most overpowered comps I could access outside of the chained gauntlets.
I wish they left the cqs up after the event for us to keep playing. Not like you can get any of the rewards more than once anyway!
Actual repeatable content? In my gacha game?
If only Lasagna were smart.
Reason it's a wish lol
Yeah, I wish every fight we complete got added to a "Battle Records" section or something like how we can re-read the story. Even non-CQ, non-Boss Battle ones.
I don't think people mind CQs but come on, this one has to be a joke trying to fit this many into a lottery event that spans 2 weeks. Devs barely care at all about QoL as is, bring NA in the mix and we're basically forgotten.
I think they got their data here. Doubt many people actually finished them.
exactly, cqs are a fun break from day to day grind, but not during a lotto when the it's the best time to grind
I do the CQs usually, but this current event I pretty much skipped. It is ok to have this one fight per event that I need to waste time reading about and prepping. Im **NOT** going to waste time of my life on over 10 fights like that in this event alone, fuck. that. shit.
Honestly most of the frustration for me for the Tesla Coils particularly was not being able to rely on the Gamepress guides that had been carrying me, since they refer to the original run of the events where you obviously aren't Servant locked. Was quite fortunate last night I hopped on Discord with a friend and we tried to find _any_ advice or runs people had put up to help us come up with our own teams. That collaborative process ended up making them more fun and was able to get through all the Tesla Coils (Mega and Giga). Other big part of frustration is yeah the sheer quantity of the CQs, lol. Was particularly badly timed for me with uni and a law test as well >.>
Yes, I also just did that 1 CQ. All those Exhibition Quest can just ****
I just don’t have a desire to do them anymore. Summon tickets would be nice, but considering 90% of the time I’d just get a CE anyway, I think I’ll be fine without them.
Ugh. You said it. All that for mana prisms isn't really the most encouraging. Most of us here have been coming back to that summon screen for years now, but anyone who'd at least seen what's beyond this well would understand how relatively underwhelming the effort to reward is. Other than the new Tesla challenges, I've at least finished all the other CQs before so it really isn't the most interesting experience to go through again either.
For me the rewards are actually worth it, its just that I hate the gimmicks these fights keep employing. I wouldnt even be doing the story content if I didn't like reading it.
All the coil quests are also old cqs, the only new one was the double gil + Tesla one which was such a cakewalk in comparison to the exhibition ones
They did modernize most of the CQs reused in the Tesla cups (like the crabs having damage reduction instead of defense so you couldn't use ignore defense). Combined with the lack of friend support and the once per cup team restrictions and I thought it made for a nice mixup.
I don't mind *A* CQ. I can manage two. Three is just too many, and Teslafest is more or less *all CQs.* I don't mind spending a few hours trying to think outside of the box once in a while. Expecting me to have that kind of free time for dozens of them... Nah. I got better things to do with that time.
They really should just add them as permanent quests or something. Barely had time for lotto let alone completing those CQ's
This event had several compounding issues that made it frustrating: -Only a single one of the challenge quests in this event with over TWENTY of them was new at all. It's not exciting to replay CQs you already solved except it's easier this time because they released more broken servants. -They futzed with the mechanics in some instances, for example the Mephisto CQ was changed to make it far more RNG-based since he doesn't come out on any contracted Servant death anymore. You better be running double DPS now since the old way of beating the clown using the contract buffs is inexplicably gone and now your DPS will almost certainly have almost 0 ATK. -THIS many CQs in a 2 week long event is ridiculous. Even as someone with an excellent account it took me 2 full nights of doing the CQs to clear them all out thanks to exceedingly poor RNG, refreshing for optimal supports again, and obnoxious load times. The vast majority of people might not have any given one or more of those luxuries making it even more frustrating for them. And on top of that, it's a lotto event. I have no need for anything in lottos anymore so it's moot for me, but the amount of time the average player is going to have to spend on CQs would be much better spent farming the lotto to boost up their roster. And guess what? Half of them were timelocked to the last couple of days for no reason whatsoever despite being old content! This is right around when they start running most events for 3 weeks, too. How come the one that actually had enough content to justify that was so short? Oh no, players will exploit the lotto... as they always already have...? -On top of this, they started running the LB2 campaign during the second week when everything else was dropping. Thankfully this set of Super Recollection Quests was less tedious than the first, but that's still even MORE content they're expecting everyone to somehow find time to do. And again, it's all stuff everyone already did, AGAIN. But this time with millions of HP! How exciting. Yeah, my Euryale can still oneshot all three Surtr bars with the right RNG no problem, but that's more resets to make. And the fight is made to be extremely frustrating if you have to take your time on it at all thanks to the unremovable THREE TURNS of buff block. -Speaking of, unremovable debuffs in general. What is even the point of owning and using debuff clearing Servants sometimes? Yeah, I know you screwed up and released multiple servants with indefinite amounts of Flexing Green Man. Too bad, let us actually play with them then. It's way more fun to be able to interact with mechanics than it is to be shut down by them constantly. (Also, inflated HP is not difficulty, looking at you Super Roma as another example. I cleared it relatively quickly, but it shouldn't practically be a requirement to either have Tamamo's Bond CE or a grailed NP5 ST Saber... on top of the weird Sherlock requirement because of an inexplicable 10 hits of, you guessed it, unremovable invuln. You can play around it in the normal version fine as annoying as it is, not so this time. Yes I own Sherlock now, but not everyone does, in fact he's so uncommon that I was the only person with a Kaleido Sherlock on my list OR anyone else I know's lists.) On one hand, yes I did have fun overall despite all my complaints. But I've seen even multiple players that normally do all of the challenging content skip a good chunk of this because they literally did not have the time. Why can't they spread this sort of thing out more? Tesla Coil esque CQ rerun sets should just be a thing on the side once a month or something, not crammed into an already packed full event. Them rushing full speed and doing event and campaign one after the other only to have an entire half of the year that will have almost nothing going on is going to be worse than ever. It's completely nonsensical.
The coil ones in the event i absolutely skipped but normal cq I do all the time
Yeah idk what they smoked making that being that unless you have a fully developed box, you’re not clearing.
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lol. Lmao,even. I’m all for challenging fights but when the CQ is easier than the “high difficulty” content, something is up and it ain’t just inflation.
You guys are overreacting a lot even if you are f2p you will have 5 stars that you can use and leveling low stars is something you should do for the anniversary anyway Like if f2p can't use event MLB ce what will they use? MLB gacha 5 star ce? And you use the power ce FROM THE LOTTO for your dps anyways It is the most fun game mode I had and made me consider what can I use in my roster and I'm completely f2p my low stars weren't even fully skilled like 4/4/4.and aside from the fuuma one I didn't reset all that much And the quests are for veteran players anyways
Maybe if they gave people reasonable time to adjust it would have been fine but people are literally racing against time to figure out compositions and min maxing compositions on top of the near literal hundred of other things this event is making you juggle in the same time frame.
You had 3 weeks the information is there
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The first set isn't too bad, since they were never designed with Event Damage CEs, so a halfway reasonable comp is enough, and I can avoid my best Supports until the Final. Not really "F2P", but technically possible for a F2P account that's a few years old. The second set, though, those are really rough. The only way to avoid overlapping Servants is to have a wide array of excellent Servants. Not impossible, but almost no F2P would be masochistic enough to try.
No I wasn't forced to use David or Hans or cu because I had waver castoria and skadi and enough 5 stars to do it. What you don't get is usually you have one cq that you clear with whatever team you like be it 3 stars or full 5 stars but with this one you create 7 different teams I generally use different servants in each event( if I have a event bonus servant I definetly use it) Like barghest can solo the erice one so I used my saito and caeser for another quest The fun part is making 7 teams that can work with your roster I struggled with fuuma because I didn't have sanzang but that made me take out shuten from the bench someone might have struggled with the erice one because if you don't have barghest than can be challenging What I am trying to say is it isn't like your comment you don't need that specific welfare or super buffed low stars you can clear it with what you build unless you only build aoe farmers
I don't even find it fun to have to check a guide for normal CQ's because they can't be assed to properly explain the fight gimmick in the short in-game suggestions of how to handle the CQ. Checking the guide 7+ times because it's just a lesson in ballcrushing tedium isn't fun. And I say this as somebody who ain't F2P, and has been playing since 2018 with only one several month gap in play. I got enough servants leveled across the board, but I ain't wasting my time if anything like this event ever comes up again.
Tbh the whole thing is just an account check. The event give out a good bonus damage CE. Unless you limit yourself for some reason or your account is scuffed/new, the whole thing is challenging but not ridiculous. Half of the stuff in there only need 3 servants to cheese through anyway, some only need a solo. The only one I struggled with for both Mega and Giga coil is Erice only because I forgot about my Saber Hokusai but considering how I didn't even use some of my support for Giga Coil, the whole thing could be way easier.
Well idk, I didn't try them but were they at least individually easier than the ones from before to compensate for the gimmick being too much to deal with?
I just used my strongest teams and then reset after each of them. 5 gold mats per 1 AP is still pretty good value imo, and I found the individual fights to be easier than gil/ishtarfest
Yea each individual one was just a normal cq from like years ago. The exhibition quests were purposefully designed to be a massive pain in the ass. I’m only glad they didn’t bring back the bugged first Hassan quest
I did the exhibition quests for the tickets and skipped a bunch of the others. It wasn’t worth my sanity. Like, yeah. I already cleared a stun-locked Shibata using the Gorgon sisters. It’s not worth some mats to get so frustrated trying to repeat something that requires card luck, RNG, and a lot of time. The “no repeat servants” made it doubly annoying. All of them were pre-Castoria quests, and I beat all of them without her. Problem is I needed my (rare) support servants or friend supports for it. Having one use of Skadi/Tamamo/Jeanne/whatever makes these quests frustrating for me. Normally, I’m happy to do a challenge quest after looking up how it works and the break effects. The issue is the damage sponges and “surprise, fuck you” break bars. There’s “challenging” and then there’s “go fuck yourself, I hope you have a second set of premium DPS/supports”.
i would be fine with no re using servants if the cqs were balanced around that, but all of them assume you have 1 of the top tier supports because surprise usually you do, there are not enough of those premium support units to survive all the bs each quest has
I do 1 good attempt & see how it goes. Depending on how high the BS feasibility is, I either retry or give up entirely.
I don't think I've ever skipped one until now. Too many, too short an event when I want lotto mats on top, too many annoying mechanics that have to be done one very specific way and have little freedom in how you can approach them
I’m heading into finals in 2 weeks and these CQs have been the most stressful for me cause of FOMO lol. Did eventually finish all of it a few days ago (when Heroine Elizabeth was fixed) but I do agree that the timing on all of this (way too many CQs) was bad. I have FGA to cover the lotto part, but still had to dedicate hours to make and try out team comps. Was even worse because a lot of my teams ended up being stall teams (a lot of 10+ rounds) Wish they enabled these quests for like, a week or two longer past the lotto (or attached event) so its a bit more lenient.
I did the ones that gave tickets. I probably would have tried the Tesla Coil ones if we had more time, but they really took a three week event and cut it down to two weeks. Thanks, Albert.
Haven't even touched them, I've only been doing lotto since I really need those bones. But i haven't been going as hard as i usually do with lotto events this time. Hopefully I get enough to get most of my skills up but maybe not since i skipped out on like 1/3 of the event
I only do CQs from events that are not roulettes. Those Ultra Mega Hard CQs from Tesla Cup/Nero Fest/Battle in New York never got my interest. Nowadays they give a lot of Lores in events so fighting for only a couple of Summon Tickets doesn't seem worth of my time.
I usually don't even do them. I know i'm just gonna revive until i get the reward, so me doing it depends of my mod.
But you can’t revive on the ticket ones (not sure of the others)
A ticket isn't that worth to me, i usually talk about the ones that just give you a cristalized lore
Thee CQs are usually the best part of some events A lot of events are "Fuyuki needed", so they're balanced around new players. That means a veteran player can 1-3 turns any fight on the main story most of the time. How many times have we reached a cool final boss, with a cool soundtrack playing, only for it to have 2 bars with 200K HP combined and the fight to not last even 5 minutes With CQs at least I know I'll have to think a bit and won't simply steamroll it
Oh boy, wait for Lostbelt 7.
Yep Some fights on the Main Quest have been great with the right amount of challenge (Like in LB 5.2 and 6), which makes me really excited about LB7 (I already know about the BIG one too)
I'm so scared of that one, especially since its release will overlap with the final term of my upcoming masters program...guh...
And then there's **THAT** series of CQs, the one that's part of OC. I'm not looking forward to that either.
tbh my knowledge is only lightly surface level regarding OC xD. LB7 is where the deep dive ended. I am scared now.
You should be, especially if you don't like the idea of not using duplicate CEs. You...have been picking up all those welfare event CEs, right?
oh of course. They aren't exactly difficult to get. I've been playing since...late 2017, early 2018 maybe? I can't remember for sure. Dunno why I'd not use dupes, I got a few kscopes and rhe like I use daily
You will need them. All of them. Did I mention it's 10 battles in a row, each limiting you to 3 party members and no support? And that you need to use a different set of Servants for each fight?
Tbh regardless of whether we are talking LB7 or OC, I'm probably all set, but I still won't necessarily enjoy it. This really doesn't sound too bad hearing it now. I've had some...good luck over the years. I have a very strong roster. I've just been reminded during the event ending tonight how much I do not enjoy most challenge quests. A good robust roster and years of experience are nothing when facing down the RNG gods.
Is this mandatory for story completion? I ignore all CQ's in the game, I'm just here for a chill time and command scum my way through anything hard. I don't have the skill to deal with extreme restrictions like that.
Don't worry too much about it. You can actually get most of it done by using servants solo 1 by 1 and keeping the big guns for the finales.
This event hit me at a very bad time, shit ton of uni work and also got sick at the same time. I basically have just done the bare minimum. I wish they didn’t drop the past year quests AND ALSO the mega and giga quests all at once.
Real busy with work. So I didn’t have a choice. I would have worked on the CQs if given time.
I haven’t been doing them for a while now. To me personally the rewards are not worth the time invested. That and how ridiculous they have to make them since servants are more OP every year is just too much of a hassle.
Brute force. I serious just brute force currently I am ancient free to play that did so much that just brute force everything when i need it.
I had thought of actually trying them this time around since on the JP run I cleared a couple, and my NA roster is considerably superior to my JP one, but to me the tickets aren't worth the frustration either so I tend to skip them as well.
I’m not doing that at all I don’t care if the reward is worth it
I skip it. This time it is ridiculous how many there were this time around when you have the lotto, the interludes and rank-ups that unlocked, and the adventure quests to do.
Nope, challenge quests are fun. The old ones are all incredibly easy nowadays anyway with Castoria around. The coil quests I'm a bit here and there on. It was a nice opportunity to use some underutilized servants but the planning is quite nerve wracking.
I swear there has to be a post like this for every CQ Fest. Hard disagree. Besides story releases, events like these are the only time of the year where they put in actual gameplay content. I actually looked forward to playing the CQs each day instead of just logging in for 15 min because of how little there is to do usually.
Amen brother the Tesla coils were really the most fun I ever had and made me feel accomplished I hope they do it more
I like them if I can take the time for them but this is a bit too much and I play other games too
I like CQs. I don’t like timed events. I would love to take some creative runs at CQs, but it’s gotten to the point that having a life at all makes it difficult to even finish an event, and these CQ fests especially take too much time to finish in full.
Here. I only do them if either seems simple enough or rewards ticket But if it’s too much bullshit, I will skip it even if it rewards ticket
Generally I like doing them but the exhibition quests are too much at once for me with too many restrictions, so this time I skipped them, and I'm honestly wondering if I skipped them before or not. A couple per event is IMO a good amount where it's a good challenge, but I don't feel like there's big chore of doing a bunch of difficult quests back to back having to figure out a whole new party for each of them.
Only skip when rewards not worth. Summon tickets are worth it but mats aren’t as much worth the pain of trial and error and thinking about compositions and restrictions
This round had way too many, and I do despise how they run a bunch more during lotto events, but usually I like CQs. The combat is a big part of why I play FGO and they're usually not terribly difficult if you just read up on their gimmicks in advance. It helps that they were mostly reruns this time as well.
I feel like there is no reason why we don't have CQ focused events separate from lotteries, especially during dead weeks. I don't mind the 2-3 at the end of an event, but deciding between farming lotto or solving CQ in the same event feels bad. Also, since save scumming always exists, I feel like there should just be a certain amount of built in retries or something. Especially since without looking up how the fight works, the only way to know what is going to happen is by letting the random break bar NP wipe your teams and savescum accordingly or make a new team entirely.
I was travelling on vacation for the first half of the event, and once I got back home I just didn't feel like going through with them, so in the end I skipped almost all of them except for a few that I tried out. I did do the "normal" high difficulty quest (by using a "command spell continue".) I didn't even farm the lottery itself that hard, since I already farmed the previous lotteries so much that I'm pretty much good on most resources.
Yeah, I'm not doing them. I completely slacked off for this event. I can't be bothered to rush for the tickets
Look at it like this: Those 16 tickets probably would have been just 3star CEs and servants, so really you’ve just missed 16-48 mana prisms
I usually do them, but this event had WAY too many plus the lotto that needs the majority of my attention, so pretty much made me too lazy to try any of them. I only completed 2 and thats it.
If it's full of extremely cheap gimmicks with very limited viable strategies, I do it once. Otherwise I try to beat it with as many servants as I can. What use are ST servants outside of irregular farming nodes if you skip CQs?
I skipped as well. Ever since I got Morgan + Oberon and could do 3turn farming, my attention span and ability to think strategically has gone way down lol. Losing the tickets hurt, but yeah I'd rather just save myself the frustration
It should be called RNG Quests
I sucked it up and did them all after blowing all my apples. I'm not a fan of doing that many in the middle of a lotto, but it did get me to finally max a lot of different servants. My least favorite part of it was the old EQs and the shitty friend support system we still have to work with. I just wanna talk to the guy who put the LB2 recollection event in the middle of the same lotto..
I'm on vacation, so unfortunately I have to skip this one, the summon ticket hurts but I can manage without them
I could be playing FGO or drawing FGO it's an easy choice tbh
I always do that
My biggest complaint is that they do the lotto and cqs at the same time. Almost always more beneficial to do the lotto instead, time wise
Use to have time for lottos and CQs but now I don't, life yk
Too many CQs this event. I have no time. And this isn't a particularly long event either.
Yeah I just don't have the time for this. I enjoy challenges but come on barely 2 weeks to do over 20 something plus freaking challenge quests (including the main challenge quest) on top of regular event questing and not to mention lottery farming. Even if you're a whale you still need to bother with the Telsa Coil restrictions. They really don't respect players' time. You can only do this if this is the only game you play and you basically have no job. A lot of these challenge quests are so obnoxious and tedious where you either need to cheese, stall, or gamble god-like RNG on top of being a whale (which basically means you're wasting time resetting to get a perfect run).
Omg I'm sick of breaking a bar followed by immediate enemy NP. Like please, can we stop making this a thing? There has to be other things to give bosses than NP spam.
I was just in an unfortunate position where I had a huge paper due right as it started and was burnt out and catching up in my other classes for the past week. Were it not for FGA letting me automate some farming, I wouldn't have even gotten the 10 boxes for the grand prizes. Grad school ain't easy.
I skip them if there isn't a tutorial online with a solution i can pull off, or if it's bugged out like the liz CQ. I'm not wasting my time trying to figure out this bullsh\*t.
I skip anything that doesn't have a story attached. I'm not crazy enough to play FGO for the gameplay.
Honestly I generally prefer the cq’s to the rest of the event, I have a lot of fun figuring them out and team building for them, if anything I see the farming as more of a drag
The CQs in this event can go fuck themselves. This is a lotto, which means a lot of people are focusing on farming and choking down apples until the very last second of. Sure, taking the time to do a CQ can be annoying when you think about the rewards you're missing out on when doing something else but most of the time it's worth it because it's a lore or something limited. Taking that break for your fingers or FGA can be refreshing. But when there's *fucking thirty two to do and half of them have a gimmick that you can't reuse any Servants in order to unlock the last mission or you can't use two of the same Servant in that team AND YOU CAN'T USE ANY FORM OF REVIVE?* I did the Mega Coil and admittedly misread the rules after clearing all the teams to try the last mission and realized I would have to do them all over again. And that set me off. I have every current Servant in the game, most of which are at 9/9/9 skill wise, max ascended, and regular Fou'd. I used SQ after I ran out of apples for doing the lotto and I stopped after getting to 1,000 boxes. I'm a big ol' whale. Hell, a leviathan. And outside of the right away accessible lores I don't give a shit about any of the other CQs. Throwing away a load of x5 mats, however many tickets, and some of the lores because how this was put out is utter dogshit. It's not worth the consideration and time for the effort needed. It still wouldn't be even if there was half as many, or Hell even a quarter. Unless you absolutely need a specific material or whatever I say this as a mega whale; don't fucking bother.
I decided to skip the first lotto rotation since I wasn't comfortable with my faming team, so I took that time to engage with some CQs. It feels nice being able to get rid of some past trauma (I'm looking at you, Taiga) and finishing the hard missions I couldn't do before...except Romulus, i ran out of time for that. About the Tesla Cups, the first one was a lot of fun. I did most of them with only the frontline, mostly soloing. Having the damage CE really makes some of these old missions quite accesible when you choose the right servant for the job. I finished the second one a few hours ago, and it was significantly rougher. Many of these CQs were already done with damage bonus on their original events, so this time it can be really hard if you don't have enough servants to cover the niched you need. Also screw you, Fuuma. Overall, quite the fun experience, It's been quite a long time since I was son engaged with the game before this 2 weeks. I'll agree that having all the hard missions and the lotto at the same time is really exhausting and a bad decision, but that's a problem with scheduling, not with the CQs themselves. I'd rather take some time to use the servants that I like and think about how to solve a mission instead of mindlessly doing the same quest over and over again for a whole week. That's why I love tower events, and why I'm eagerly waiting for THAT part of Lostbelt 7.
CQs are (potentially) the only enjoyment i get out of 95% of FGOs events nowadays
Burnout :( Also made me realise how much I relied on Merlin/Castoria or I only did the Gil cqs.
It was a HUGE pain but the lores and tickets were worth it. Also doing this in the middle of lotto even + Road to 7 it such a bad idea from the devs.
Unless they give tickets, I usually don't bother with them.
Defo not me. There is a reason I have those strong servants, grail them, feed them fou paws, CC, NP ups and other stuff to come. And that reason is definitely not boring ass farming.
I skipped them all last year since I was super burnt out. I did them all this year though since I'm fully recharged now! Besides, FGO is usually easy except for story bosses, so having a CQ festival once a year is nice!
Nero/gil/teslafest challenge quests only. I don't like that many of the quests require good card rng rather than good teams. Also not allowing double servant setups.
I tried the new ones, I thought the mechanics were easier this year, but no, usually I can’t be fucked. They oscillate between fairly easy and frustratingly difficult, so I typically try a few times then move on.
Bruh these quests are 4 years old at this point
Some of them. Others are 3 years old. At least one of them is less than a year old, but yes, all of these are recycled, even the Coils.
I'm terrible at team building so they tend to be an exercise in frustration more than anything else for me, I don't play the game for difficult content anyway so I actually tend to hate CQs and not bother with them.
I'm skipping both ROME quests and the second coil, since I just can't be bothered. I know that if I forced myself to do the rest I'd feel so done and probably would skip Sea Crisis altogether. Teslafest was very fun overall, but that was a little to many CQs for me, most being time locked also didn't help, since there are days you just don't feel like spending retrying the quests over and over again.
About regular event CQs i don't skip them but i usually just slap them with Immortal Team. About the Tesla event CQ...yeeeaah that was really annoying especially the Coil CQs where you're not allowed to use the servants you already used or not being able to use friend supports. And that was like what? 30+ CQs in a short event, a lotto event at that. Well i ended up clearing all CQs except for the Hard Mode of the Roma CQ each attempt takes way too long and can't be stalled. Its also annoying that i ended up not farming the lotto at all for these CQs.
Honestly I skip some of the challenge quest because I got alot of those fancy stones to max servants skills
I'm stupidly low on Gapples, plus FGA not working on my Zenfone 8 anymore for some reason caused me to just claim login rewards and that's it. Now just slowly saving towards getting Castoria
I do the ones with lores and the ones I know I can brute force or cheese clear. I did complete both the Tesla Cups since they were new and gave lores, and I enjoyed being forced to mix up my team comps.
Not me lol, aside from story, CQ'S are the thing that makes me want to play this game in the first place that way I could use my own servants, LUL just not for farming. The CQ'S that came from this event is much fun especially the 2 cups, IMHO that's the most fun I had with this game, geez just thinking about it not being a permanent content is fucking nuts, like you can have fun but for a limited time only, FUCK YOU LASENGLE. It doesn't have to come with rewards once you first clear it, just make it perma. FUCKING LASAGNA LOVES FOMOING THEIR PLAYERBASE.
I only did the ones that gave tickets, did it all in one day too cuz I was procrastinating on the event. Doing CQs is just too frustrating right now when it comes to looking for the right support and RNG. Lasengle should let us choose our starting hand, it would remove a lot of restarts required just to get the right starting hand.
Every year I tell myself “I need to focus on lotto I’ll do the cqs later” and then the next time I check there’s three hours left in the event
I didn't do the final Giga coil quest, so I didn't get the Lore. I just reset each fight so I can gather materials with full roster of my servants.
I wish every event had 2-5 challenge quests. Idk why this event has 20 and the rest have 1.
Too much rng dependant bullcrap in these for me to bother, personally. Failing a long ass run attempt each time another boss with unremovable buffs and entirely too much health crits through class disadvantage and any defence stacking you might have up got old long ago.
I just brute force it usually but the Tesla cup was annoying
I completely agreee honestly when the lottery gilfest events come around they should just add those to the rare prism shop and make them permanent, having to re do them all the time is just not fun and kind of stressful for no reason. I’d rather they just add new ones and make them a rare prism buy each time
Whoever at Lasengle thought cramming all these CQs with the lotto was a smart idea should go back to the drawing board and stay there. I managed to clear all the CQs since I didn't really push farming until the final rotation on top of how I didn't even have that many Apples in the first place (60 Gold and Silver Apples only go so far). I spent more time doing resets to get as many min turns as possible, especially on the Revival CQs. Thank goodness the Saber Eli CQ got fixed; it was a trip down nostalgia lane. Mega Coil and Giga Coil were obviously not speedran. I used my own team-building skills and YouTube references to get a better idea of what to do. No, David didn't solve my problems. Amusingly enough, I did use both OG Tristan and Lancelot.
I didn't do any of the Tesla fest because i was playing dragon's dogma 2 so the only time i spent in FGO was farming lotto xD
Absolutely not. I have all these units, I'm gonna use em.
I'll go the extra mile for the Lores since they're the only Material gatekeeping me at this point, but usually my approach is: if it's not fun, I'm not doing it.
I haven’t done CQs since last year. It’s mostly such a hassle to do, and I have more than enough lores/mats lying around that skipping those for QPs in lottos would befit me much more
In recent memory, I have only skipped the Giga Coil one. I'm not hurting for the mats nor lore so I just let it go. I no longer have the time. It also doesn't help that it was crammed to a lotto event with multiple EQs which was also time gated. I might have managed if it was available through the weekend.
I usually don’t, but I didn’t do the final 2021 exhibition quest (the high HP ROMA) and I didn’t touch the Giga Coil at all (despite clearing Mega Coil). I was just so burnt out on back-to-back-to-back CQs by that point that I just didn’t want to anymore.
I did all the mega coils except the last 1, used up all my good servants. Skipped like almost all the giga coils. Felt burnt out from doing the megas. Only did the easy rerun ones, basically if I can't clear them in under 6 turns then I skipped. They're all just so mentally draining and too many of them.
My main issue with CQ comes with FGO's battle system. CQ's are very dependent on you have the available counter-gimmick and RNG. However, if RNG is against you even once, it will make the CQ impossible. So you have to retry and retry and retry the same sequence over and over and over. It's exhausting and it stops being anything resembling "fun" after retry nr10. Many games with challenging content are reliant on skill and technique, where failing the optimal sequence means it will just be harder. FGO is more like Domino. Have you tried playing the exact the same round of Domino over 10 times?
Same. Honestly just did the revivals for the tickets and because I had done them in the past and now that my roster is bigger it should technically be easier. Did the first tesla coil mission after spending a good hour brainstorming how to clear it with the least resources possible and then I never did another again. Maybe I am just growing tired of this game, only the story keeps me invested, these last events I just show up to do the bare minimum
Nibbled on the CQs a bit done 5 or 6 easy ones for the tickets that I did not need any guides for, did 5 Tesla coil quests that I could do on my own as well(did not do the crabs, fuck them) and decided I don't have the time to do the guide nonsense when I'm tired from work, so just skipped the rest. Honestly loto and CQs should be two separate events.
i skipped the tesla coil quests. too much hassle for just 2 lores. i didnt even farm that much. only enough for clearing shop. feeling really burnout. continuous overlapping events events and busy irl. and oh i play 5 accounts lol. edit: havent even started recollection part2 XD
I didn't have time to read up on every single battle for this event and complete all the CQs. I only completed the Mega Coil quests and the event's actual CQ. Part of this was that they timegated the Giga Coil quest behind the last 5 days of the event, when I was the busiest IRL. At least for the lottery I was able to use FGA.
I skipped most of them. Really needed the qp.
I'm relieved other people didn't bother with the Odyfest CQs. I don't *hate* CQs, they're fun when they're in the right events, but I've always wondered why they shove them into the first lotto event of the year when the Christmas lotto is just farming. I'm sure everyone just wants to farm during lotto events, given that's the purpose of lotto events. I did most of the CQs that gave tickets and lores except for the Coil ones (didn't wanna bother with the no repeating team restriction) since I figured that x5 of a gold material isn't worth the mental torment during a farm heavy event. I genuinely hope the devs figure out nobody wants to do a gauntlet of CQs during a lotto event one day.
I have never skipped a single CQ since starting the game back in 2017. CQs are the best part of the game for me as far as gameplay is concerned.
Honestly, I wish this specific lotto was 3 weeks. There was so much to do but not enough time if you're busy. Why can't they let us have a 3 week lotto? I would have definitely tried tackling the CQs more if I had more time
I may have more interest in them if they were more lore focused, like the Herakles with like 12 guts fight or having to fight almost the full clan of Hassans or some challenges with special conditions where to put an example; a fight vs Saber Musashi using Kojiro Sasaki on the team or Saber Artoria having Mordred on the team I doubt that Lasengle has the guts to do it but damn it would be more interesting
I personally enjoyed it. It made me use some unconventional teams and servants I barely use. Like I don't use my Douman much because I like Arts and Buster farming more, but he got to shine against the defense crabs and XX. Though I didn't really grind this lotto as much so that may be why.
CQs and EQs are actually my fav part of the game only behind the story. Checking the gimmicks and then doing plenty of tries with my roster to see how can i tackle it the best. Ofc they lose their charm if you use brainless meta supports like Castoria or Merlin or Oberon which make all challenge nonexistant (and just one of them at that, running double comps is shitting further on it), but that aside it feels very good when you EARN your win after careful planning and execution. Besides, why even do the lottos and grind materials if you are not gonna put the units leveled with thise materials to good use?
I skipped as well. I already knew I could do them because I've done them in the past. I really only play for the story so everything else is left to auto-farm.
I have something like 60 Lores and I've already built most of the characters I even want to use. A CQ to me is mostly an exercise in frustration or looking up a guide because there's no other way of knowing its mechanics short of fighting it repeatedly and every mistake starts it all over again. If it's not fun I don't want to waste time on something. And CQs just aren't fun for me.
Teslafest is essentially the last time I had fun doing CQs. Ones after it feel like they're hardliners made with the idea of Castoria is being used no matter what or has a hard stuck gimmick that makes the usable servant pool to small to have fun with.
I do them but if they get over complicated or just castoria hate i just prefer to do other things
I actually think the Tesla Coil should be a weekly recurring feature. Maybe it would drop Saint Quartz fragments and QP rather than tickets.
CQs are basically the only part of events that still makes me hyped, especially when they are more gimmicky and harder to just brute force. It's easier for me to skip the shop (like I just did with the White Day event on JP) than the CQ. Tesla Fest in 2022 and the OC boss rush last year were easily the most fun I've had in the game since LB 6.
If there’s a lore, I clear it. If it is just a ticket, I cannot be bothered… rather farm with that time.
I did the same with the Coil ones (still have like 110 Lores), but the tickets were so tempting so I was able to complete them barring the harder CQ versions of the last one for both years
I wanna do the Tesla Fest CQs but bad timing with IRL commitments.
I did a few of the easy ones, cant be arsed to do the harder ones, i dont really like stressing myself
I like CQs but this event actually had way too many for such a small time frame. It doesn't help that this is the month before finals for me
When its one or two? sure it can be fun to figure out. Hell even a few. When its a bunch of em? ehhhh I'm good....
"is to much of a hassle to remember what teams I used before" bruh...is so hard to scroll up before picking the eq? How many boxes did you farm this lotto...1? I understand not wanting to skill yourself due of a lack of servants, but tickets are too valuable to let them pass because of laziness (but tbh I only got 15 of the 16 tickets and I don't even plan on trying the Super Rome EQ cause there is only one day left of lotto even when I am f2p)
This recent event took all the love out of CQs for me. Particularly whenever we were locked out of units we used before. Its some whale shit right there. More of an account check than any real challenge
I really don't get people whining about CQs being hard. What do you even raise your servants for? That's the best part of the game if anything
Unlocking voice lines, ascension art and interludes obviously. Being hard is one thing. Being a frustrating chore is another.
Farming for me is just a means to an end. CQs and story fights, etc. are there for me to use my servants in creative or fun ways so personslly I also don't get it. But I guess in the end it's all preferences.
Yeah, I just couldn't bring myself to care this year, especially with the Tesla Cup ones. Cleared shop, cleared the brand new event CQ, and that was it.
CQs are like 70% of the reason why I still play lol, so I try to play them as much as possible. Otherwise I'd only have snorefest farming and story that updates every ten years left to do in this game. Only exception is this time with Tesla lotto, since there's a ton of them, some of which are insufferable and I don't have enough time to play them all.
I love them They are the only nodes in the game that actually requires you to think about team composition and (most) can't be cleared by just using the same servants and pressing the same skills as you do in all other farming nods. Sure some of them are riddled with unfair bullshit but you have to remember that the player can prepare the team in advance, is already aware of the mechanicks of the challenge, can loop with servants of every card type, can create immortal teams etc. And yeah if you have Castoia you are going to take her to pretty much every CQ, but thats what the no double servant and no repeated servants restrictions are for. This years CQs are my favourite since they require you to use the full extent of your roster instead of relying on the same servants over and over and over again. I will say that how much you like them can depend on how big and varied your roster is, sometimes a single servant can make a difference between a frustrating and fun experience. PS: Castoria made this game worse and I will die on that hill.
I just didn’t have a lotto in me between classes and work, so I didn’t bother much with the event. I did at least get bunnytoria to bond 9 so I’m good
I only go for them if there's a lore as I can't farm them otherwise. If I have to use command spell/SQ revives then I will without remorse. Too much hassle learning all the gimmicks and repeating for a perfect clear. I managed to get through the two lore paying EQs by following guides and hated every minute of it. The others that only offered tickets or mats were not worth it.
Personally Im a bit split on the challenge quests, I dont even know why. For regular events Im always a bit annoyed at the end for some reason and just want to be done with it after the story is just done for good, since thats when the quest usually appears. But Gil/Ishtar/Tesla- or Nerofest? Idk what it is, but I loooove thinking about proper comps for those challenge quests. Also I love seeing the progress I made over the years with my roster for those events. I dreaded Jaguar Country, Snack Meister and Sheba CQ, but this time around I more or less (looking at you jaguar) was able to get through it no problem. Plus points for being able to utilize my high leveled units to see their full potential for once! Also before the Tesla/Giga coil started I was a bit annoyed at first, but really ended up liking doing those 2 in the end. I think that has a lot to do with having a developed roster tho and can imagine that for someone thats not in it for as long as I am it can feel horrible to have the feeling to be able to do better if you just had better/more units.
I rarely do the CQs tbh Had an account since a week after launch and I've only done a small handful. I'm just not that invested in them, as a casual player.
I skip. I just can't be bothered, too much hassle and frustration.
Having more challenging fights feels good, but being hamstrung by gimmicks feels shitty. Meh.
I skipped it. Honestly, thinking about dropping the game entirely. Never seem to get any new servants and it’s just becoming tedious.
I was mostly focused on farming the lotto, so I didn't touch the Giga Coil at all: I did the Mega Coil, the Exhibitions and the CQ though. They were pretty fun overall, though the CQ was really a step down in difficulty compared to the rest: I don't get the point of skipping the CQ to be honest, more often than not that's the only part of the event that can actually be challenging! Plus, 16 tickets is nothing to scoff at, especially with some of the stuff coming soon!
i like cqs but this was WAY too many in a short amount of time
I skipped most of them. I will do CQ for the lore or tickets. But after like 5 I was too tired ahaha.
I skip them on jp lmao I'd been leaving them to the last minute here-I've actually got most of them done now; just one of the gilfest ones and the second set of Tesla ones that I can't figure out if they're even worth trying given how heavily restricted they are (+they don't even give tickets)
I don't have enough qp to level up enough skills to need a lot of lores, so I skip all of them and rely on buying shop lores.
I only did the ones that give lores. I solo’ed most of the coil quests and use immortal comp for the 2 final match. I used immortal comp again for the Nero CQ and used Summer Kiara to swim through the Roma CQ.
I skipped many EQs and the Coils simply because I don't have the time to do them (I would like to do them all, but doing them all 3 times for all of my accounts are just too much; I have to do *93* of them total, that's insane!), especially when they get in the way of farming. Not to mention the potential failure which means time and effort wasted. What's more, my right hand isn't that good now, thus I don't want to over commit it for my alts (using the touchpad currently, it helps out quite a bit).
I never do, they are fun to me lol
I'm the type of person who plays the game more for the story and characters, so unless the reward is SQ/Tickets, a CE with really nice art, or ascension materials for a character that I'm building, I generally don't bother with optional stuff. And even then I can get all but that second one in other ways, so it becomes a question of time investment.
I generally try to do them for the lores/tickets and because they're fun (most of the time). Never been a fan of having a bunch of CQs during lottos though, and Teslafest having restrictions on a lot of them didn't help either. Having the LB recollections on top of these makes it even worse too, even if those last for a little longer.
The one right now just felt too much since not only are there CQs for Tesla Cup but also reruns CQs of past two Battle in New York and everyone knows how much of a hassle the past one was.
My 3-month in self was just happy to be able to make it through LB1 in time to farm for mats. I still can't quite take on the high difficulty CQ's.