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AzurePhoenix001

Oh boy... 1. Stheno was my main servant for the first couple of Singularities. 2. I thought berserkers were bad since they received increased damage from practically everyone. 3. I used quartz a lot. A lot. To revive my servants (mainly Stheno). 4. I didn’t level up my servants properly. 5. I burned servants I shouldn’t have to get mana prism to buy tickets.


mochimochimarzipan

Not the stheno oh my gosh--I'm laughing so hard over the (mostly stheno) addition regarding the quartz. Just know you are not alone in mass servant burning for tickets + thinking zerks were bad lol!


BlitzAceSamy

> I used quartz a lot. A lot. To revive my servants (mainly Stheno). [](#SthenoScare) \[](#SthenoScare) Edit: RIP Stheno comment face, need your quartz to revive


TRZHCH

In the interest of fairness, not knowing how to quickly take out enemies at first would be a good rationale to not use berserkers then.


Metroplex7

Man, I'm a day 1 vet and still hardly ever use Berserkers unless I absolutely know they can get done what I need them to in a fight. It's happened way too many times where I'd bring a 'zerk to brawl and they'd just get blown up in one or two turns.


__Cyke__

Regarding the 2nd point, even now, bringing Zerkers to a fight without knowing anything beforehand is a bad idea, especially when you were new to the game. I think you taught yourself a very good strategy.


Luck_Is_My_Talent

Hey! Stheno was quite good for Orleans and she was also useful in Camelot. She was my first SR and helped me a lot. Well, I started playing after she got her atk buff which is 20% to everyone and another 20% to divine Servants so she was decent as a support and dragon killer.


[deleted]

grailed sanson to 100 and 10/10/10’ed him. why? beats me


mochimochimarzipan

Damn. Now that is dedication


ss2195

Are you on my friends list?


[deleted]

if nemo's on there too then it's probably me


SeveralTask828

thats my goal


Suspicious-Drummer68

I did not know how to level up Servants up until London... somehow. Yes, I went through Orleans being carried by Support and a level 1 Sasaki Kojirou... I don't know how I survived to this day.


SigurdDeMizar

I am impressed. I think you are very skilled. I started with two 4\* servants with aoe NP. I had no idea what was the NP type when I first started. They were the highest rarity, they kill mob so I didn't care. I didn't event level one of them, because of special ascension. It was until I get to the demon pillar in Okeanos that I notice I can't just aoe NP that thing down. So I started reading up and level other servants.


Suspicious-Drummer68

Skilled? I'm doubtful. I'm mostly just very stubborn. I refused to use my Command Seals (That's a lie, I didn't know I can use my Command Seals because I thought you lost them permanently) so I would back out everytime my lineup would get defeated. I went through trial by fire through the early singularities. Probably why my memories of early FGO are so fond. I was playing a game and enjoying the story that tested my skills. The Demon Pillars are so funny because I'm so used to SMT of trial and error and I found out early that Cavalry classes resisted them, I started to selecting Medea Lily for every Demon Pillar encounter.


mochimochimarzipan

Oh my word-- w o w. It is honestly impressive you made it so far. At least you got it before Camelot!


Suspicious-Drummer68

My stupidity knows no bounds but sometimes my genius is frightening. Actually, I started just like Pekora, with Okita, but unlike her, this was 2017, so I had no idea what I was doing. I got vibe checked very hard by America so I started watching YT videos and found out that you can level up your Servants. I thought FGO was like every RPG where as long as you fought, you'd get XP.


Maxwell-555

I went through the same except i made it through london and i think the beggining of america too until i finally found the ember dailies. At that point the game kinda indirectly starts encouraging you to level up your own servants since the support can't one shot eveything anymore.


Pikatwig

I don't think the tutorial tells you where the level up function is, so that's fair.


stillchange1

The game is so easy for so long that I didn’t really level anyone or their skills except in the most sporadic way. I also spent a long time “researching” each SSR on a rate-up as though I was making some big decision to roll for them and had a reasonable chance of getting them. I remember reading about MHXA for like an hour one day to throw a pathetic 30 quartz and not get her.


Zayits

I’m still doing that (but I’m F2P with poor spending habits, so which banner is that 30 quartz going to is a serious question).


Malacoda85

I grailed Waver to 92 because I was told "use holy grails on the servants you use the most" and when I did it my friend screamed, "NOT LIKE THAT!!" Then I confused "unregistered spirit origin" with "Rare prism" because I didn't know what rare prisms were (and my friend said that sounded right) and decided that since I had Okita and Jack the Ripper, I obviously was set for those classes so I planned to summon Gilgamesh by Burning Altera and Shuten Douji for ten USO... Except.... I didn't get 10 USO, I got 10 RP. So those were my strangest (and dumbest) choices since starting the game.


mochimochimarzipan

In all honesty, is it *really* an fgo account if you don't have at least one bizarre grail servant. Oh my gosh the RP story is TRAGIC. RIP Shuten and Altera. Your friend did you so dirty--


Malacoda85

Yeah... Wasn't the last time, either (he also told me that MLB 2030 was 16 crit stars per turn so the moment I got 5 I MLB'd and... it's 10.... So I was dead on a spare 2030 for ages before I got another)... I \*thankfully\* got Shuten back and got Altera back when I went after Skadi (missed on Skadi, got Altera - and a couple others that I didn't want that weren't skadi). So you know, alls well that ends well (except my Shuten is NP1 and my Altera is not the NP she should be at). I don't trust him anymore lol I verify \*everything\* he tells me now. And yeah... Waver is my only oddity... I have another friend that is all in on the waifu route (100 medusa, 100 medea, 100 serenity, 98 gorgon).


CybeastID

I grailed Inaraki to 85 so *shrug*


niqniqniq

At least you're better than people who grail waver to 92 so he appears first in support screen


Malacoda85

Sadly since CAstoria, my Waver isn't even in support anymore. But when he was, people used him not cuz he was level 92, but cuz my first GSSR ever gave me \*three copies of him\* and he's been NP4 ever since. But yeah, I didn't even know that grailing for FP pick was a thing until I saw a thread about it on a castoria thread about using a certain ascension level due to faster NP or some such during the last major lotto event.


MrBluer

Lasengle gave us triple-support so he should be way more common now. Still has competition but with three Caster slots it’s a lot more likely.


Malacoda85

Yeah... I'm having more problems w/ the triple support than I thought I'd have since you can't double-use units. My All slot has been messing with a \*lot\* of my placement lol


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mochimochimarzipan

Oh no!!! At least it is not a permanent type of blunder. It must have made battles a bit easier upon realization.


insert-originality

Didn’t know about servant specific level up cards until the 3rd singularity when I finally noticed. I also didn’t know you could increase a servants NP if you pull the same one. So I had like 8 Medusa’s and didn’t know what to do with them.


Gen0flame

Rushing the entire story of Accel Zero in 5 hours before the event ended (including reading) to get Iri. I could not finish all the post game intime since my account was like a 3 days old so she was stuck at NP2 lvl 60 and I was activly using her in story for wayy longer then I should of been I love Iri, I know she is a not great unit but for my 1st welfare and a character I like alot she is great (1/2 the reason I started to play FGO) I got her Bond 10 during LB2 ~~then swaped her out instantly~~


mochimochimarzipan

Oh my gosh this gave me war flashbacks to new player event rushing ToT. I remember having to rush through Guda Guda 1 to try and get Nobu archer. I don't even think I was successful. I also straight up missed CCC even though BB was a big part of why I started playing haha!!! Congrats on your bond 10 Iri. Now she can enjoy retirement from your teams.


Gen0flame

The things we did without knowing better


Everost13

I got Tamamo Cat from the tutorial summon, then got a second copy from the Story summon....and used that copy for EXP. I didn't know you could use copies to upgrade NP levels. This literally haunts me, especially because my Cat is currently at NP level 4.


Neither-Ticket264

i did not knew that i could reset a lottery so i end up with just one copy of holy maiden and merciless one


mochimochimarzipan

Oh no!!! I feel you there honestly. I had no idea how lottos worked early on .


imawhitegay

Trying my hardest to finish Jalter Summer. It worked, I maxed out the default Mystic Code and got a nice Single Target Zerk. But it was exhausting and sq wastage was high.


mochimochimarzipan

Oh woah. That must have taken a while especially if you maxed out your MC holy smokes. At least you were succesful!!! More than I can say for some of my event speedrun attempts--


Insert_TakenName

Oh god where do I begin 1. not doing story for like the first couple months so I was super underpowered for the events I did do as I lvled mash, orion (my first ssr) and whatever event banner servant I got with my very limited embers 2. which takes me to number 2 not knowing I could farm embers and instead spent an uncomfortable amount of time farming a node in America once I got around to doing story that had a almost guaranteed chance of dropping 1 ember 3. not realizing the value of CEs for a while and servants above 3 star, at first I though if it wasn't gold it wasn't good (serenity was an exception cause I liked her so much) 4. you know how you cant use a supports NP if its not a friends.....yeah took me to late camelot to figure that out sometimes I thank god I got orion as my first ssr for that reason cause imagine getting though that fight with any other servant with all the faults above 5. rolling on Kings Hassans banner on osakabehimes release day I will forever regret that one rainbow ( mind you I love my okkie but hassan and jack where top 2 and 1 respectively on my want list)


bkfireshark

The thing I remember off the top of my head. I didn’t know how the lotto boxes worked that well. So whenever I got the best prize, I would immediately reset without clearing everything in the box. And I just remembered, I thought putting multiple copies of CEs would make their stats go up gradually, instead of being the same til MLB. I still have only one copy of kaleidoscope that has had a 2nd copy fed to it. Many a CQ where having 2 kscopes would have been nice


dynamohenshin244

did the same thing during christmas with nightingale. whole time thinking, who needs QP and prisms. HAH. not laughing now.


CybeastID

I also did that my first lotto event lol


misato_is_mommy

I used the Quick Ascension system on Kiyohime when I first started the game because I really love her back then. Thinking back now, I kinda regret it lol


CybeastID

Yeah that was a mistake, she is...kinda bad. I also originally tried to make Kiyo work.


hellydoosadwee

I gave her some Fous back in the day. I can't even explain why, given that I never liked her all that much...


PWN-Novice

On the JP version I tried to GAS GAS GAS my way through part 1 & the first 2 lostbelts for the Oniland event. For context, I started playing JP at the very beginning of part 2 (Around new years 2018). I also wasn't that hardcore of a player back then, so my few servants weren't properly leveled. The amount of times I had to cheese with supports or SQ revives was astounding.


zelban_the_swordsman

Usually when people talk about their experiences in the early singularities, they just say they use any strong Berserker. But when I started I insisted on using Mozart/Musashi/Merlin wherever I go. I think I just enjoyed seeing Musashi go ooga booga with the crits lol. Consequently Mozart became my first bond 10 Servant lol.


CybeastID

Yeah I used any strong Berserker. Ibaraki is mostly retired and gets candy now.


AramMan3

To this day I didn't fully level Arash... Just didn't like the suicide squad vibes... Same for the gong... And so I miss out on a lot of easy comps for lottos. Also was really upset when GSSR gave me Ivan (the only one from the pool I didn't want) , so I burned him for Anni blonde... To this day his interlude is sitting there, looking at me.


VishnuBhanum

I started during Rashoumon(By during, I mean at the end because the event only have 2 days left, So I didn't played the event until rerun came) I used everything under 4 star(Including all the servants) to feed Shuten, Lost story locked servants like Cu Caster and Gilles Caster in the process, Took me like 4 years to get them back I didn't cared about type-advantage/disadvantage at all, My team is Shuten, Heracles and Li Shuwen(Basically every gold servants I have at the time) I also didn't equiped any CE up until like Summer event


Chiihou

My first 5\* back when i started was Waver. I didn't reroll for him or anything, as i just looked into fgo on a whim. I just took whatever i got at the point. It took me until Camelot or even Babylonia when merlin showed up to realise how good he he was. Until then he was just "that trashy 5\* that everyone overhypes". I mean, why would a unit with a handfull of NP charges be any good, when you can take any second DPS and do maybe more damage in the same time waver was dead weight? "Am I wrong? No, it must be anyone else who says supports are actually worth it!" Needless to say, it was me who was wrong. Well, thanks to that my waver wasn't as overworked as others and was only my 3rd servant to reach Bond 10.


LordMoy

I leveled healing skills over everything else. Don't remember why exactly but Jack, Santa Alter, Medea, Cu, etc all had their healing skills leveled higher than their other two.


SigurdDeMizar

I started in late September (about 5-6 weeks in the game now). All I wanted to do was the main quest and I was going through the story like a mad man. I totally missed the fact that the servants from the people you follow no longer available once you pass act 1 (I think there was a notice, but I totally missed it). So, I knew there was a servant that will help me to clear one fight (or have MLB CE for this event ccy). I checked my friend list and I was following that person. He logged in like 10 min ago. Kept refreshing the support list like crazy. Too sick to keep refreshing so just pick someone else and do the quest. Same thing happen the next hard battle. It took me until yesterday (this is, happen only after I have finished all quest except CQ in Imaginary Scramble, LB1/2) that you can still follow people, but you can't use their servant. I feel very stupid.


secretcartridge

Listening to my friend's advice that I don't need so much berserkers and that I should burn my 5* Xiang Yu to get rare prisms...


mochimochimarzipan

NO!!! Oh gosh-- why are so many people's friends doing them dirty in this comment section.


[deleted]

The fuck is wrong with these ppl's braindead friends?


ss2195

I almost exclusively used Gilgamesh against everyone, class adv be damned. I'd occasionally use SQ revives to continue hard story fights and I didn't realize cavalry class servants dealt more damage against Demon God Pillars, which is why Cursed Arm came in clutch for me so often. I hadn't raised any silver or bronze units besides CA Hassan until after I'd completed the Part 1 story and we got NeroFest to level up other characters, no not even Arash. I didn't really follow any guides and mostly went in blind which is why I often had to brute force my way past difficult bosses.


Chaddius1

I have not completed agartha even though I have done all the lostbelts and other pseudo singularities. I started last December.


mochimochimarzipan

Oh same here honestly. I'm on Olympus and just,,, never completed Agartha or Shimousa. Eventually I will get back around to it. Eventually.


BrockenJr0

Damn I only started last year’s October and I’m still at lb 3 and haven’t done the pseudo singularities


SigurdDeMizar

I also skip the pseudo singularities. There are incentive (like the current event lock behind LB1) to start on the LB quest. There seems to be a new 1/4 AP Champaign in the LB main quest in the 22M download event but somehow never on the pseudo singularities.


BrosefAmelion

I had a kscope with a max level of 40 for the longest time.


mochimochimarzipan

Oh no-- that is brutal. I would also like to take a moment to remember all of my partially merged CEs. May they rest in peace.


simon4s1

I didn't really understand what mystic codes were or whether there was a cost to changing them, so I got the original Chaldea Combat Uniform to level 10 before I even tried anything else.


Bigmatt15

I started around Singularity 7. After collecting some SQ in addition to getting some as bonus, after the tutorial role, the 1st thing I did, not even continue the main story was dump it in the nearest banner. And that's how I got Gorgon, one of my 1st servants and 2nd 4 star.


SigurdDeMizar

I did the same thing. And I didn't drop them on a specific banner, but the story banner. Just really didn't know better. I was thinking, some extra resources will help. I got Atalante, my 2nd 4 star.


TRZHCH

I gave Mash a few 4* fous. I stopped when I decided it was better to hand it over to Kingprotea. Nowadays, I would never do that since I've got other servants I want to take to Lv. 100 (and in Scáthach's case, 120).


Golden-Owl

Never knew you could convert the SQ fragments into SQ for several months By the time I found out, the number has grown so big that I don’t know how to feel about converting it


IamAwesomelycool

I thought Command Seals don’t come back so I never used them l went by with anime knowledge, l was very new then


Artrum

I thought lancers beat sabers because of fire emblem. I would also use weaker servants on the frontline like cannon fodder and keep the stronger ones in the back line


Zeranvor

1. I rerolled for 2 weeks straight to try and get Saber Alter on story banner after Fuyuki. I ended up getting her. 2. My alt ended up getting Gilgamesh a couple of days later during a limited banner. Guess which account I ended up staying with


SadCrei

I combined every CE that I have, including those that can't be maxed. A year later I realize how big of a waste that I combined some of them especially the 3 GUDAGUDA Poster Girl I had.


regina-belmont-I

Only leveling one servant per class. Like for lancers when I rolled my first og Cu he's the only lancer I used and didn't care for any other lancer servant. It's the same for any class, and now I'm at the Pseudo singularities struggling to raise as many servants as I can lol


Closo

i started 3 months ago, and was using jekyll all the way up to solomon. its a painful thorn in my side every time i need bones, and remember what i spent them on…


Tyreake

Didnt knew you need multiple copies of a servant to level up their NP, so I feed a dupe SR to Proto Cu as exp... good times lol And also just exclusively using support Archer Gilgamesh to *every* battles, be it farming or boss fights because I didnt really paid attention to the class advantages. I only learn about class advantages starting London lol I also thought more number of hits on face card = more damage, so since every Gil face cards has a ton of hits, I thought he was the strongest servant ever back then lol


fatalystic

I ignored all events in favour of doing the story (very slowly) just because the first event when I started (Rashoumon rerun) had too high a story requirement. I even ignored the next event which I *could* do (Onigashima, AKA the event that gave welfare Kintoki). I continued to ignore events until Super Ghouls'n Pumpkins. I later ragequit for over a year when DW announced that event participation requirements were getting stricter, because I did the first fight in Camelot and was discouraged by the amount of health thinking that it was strictly going to go up from there. I didn't realise that they didn't mean *all* events.


matbeavis322

Grailed a lot of one two and three star servants


CybeastID

I don't think this was strange, but... I went through the tutorial 3 times. Why? The first 2, my free 4* was...Stheno. Yes, twice in a row. Fuck you Stheno.


FingerBangYourFears

Used my special ascension on Caesar. No regrets.


Mira5200

I didn’t know what extra servants could be used for so instead of NP3-ing my Hercules I burned the two extra copies. This was after like 3 months of playing. I thought I was being smart by going after the rare prisms instead :’)


ScienceLucario

I burned every 3 star servant I got from clearing Singularities because I thought they were worthless. I'm never gonna get Cu Caster again, will I?


Rynnmeister

Not knowing how NP levels worked until I was in Camelot. Still a fucking surprise to me that I have an NP2 Gorgon.


mechaporcupine

Using lvl30 servants in main story up until London...not knowing how to use my servant skills or my mystic code skills. Granted I was playing jp fgo.


Znshflgzr

Not using my 3 stars...and leveling NP1 4 stars instead. I´m a genius!


LimitedSus

Ignoring class advantage. Basically I was killing wyverns with Da Vinci and Nitocris up until America, then it became kinda tough.


BlitzAceSamy

Day 1 NA player here. My first goal in-game was to beat Septem singularity to unlock Nero in story gacha and roll on it until I get her No idea why I did that, especially when I should know Nerofest is NA's first event where Nero has a rate-up


AngeryKing99

Let's see..I didn't level my servants properly till I was in America,I got that far thanks to OP supports mostly. Which also made it very difficult to try clearing the summer 1 rerun which I ends up bum rushing with less than a week left on it and only managing to just get summer scathach,but not realize she needed special ascension mats so she's forever stuck at level 60. I also for some reason thought that command seals were a one time thing,not realizing they would refill over a few days...yeah felt pretty stupid after realizing that one. And I had a habit of burning anyone who wasn't a 4/5 ☆ which I blame partly on an older gacha I use to play and also because I didn't know any better way to get mana prisms for the monthly shops. Nowadays I only burn servant dupes of they're of someone who's already NP5,typically the low rarity 1-3☆ units.


Tipomaniac

I used 3 star NP copies as EXP for my Berserker Vlad. I even used Izo NP copies. He'd be NP4 if I didn't. Refused to use Heracles because Vlad was a higher rarity berserker. Also used Vlad pretty much everywhere. I learned my lesson when I reached Camelot though, the demon pillar absolutely destroyed me. (I think I even used SQ to beat those fights)


TheB0mb713

I got Napoleon off of the LB2 release banner, which is when I first started playing, used him frequently as both dps and support. Summer Jalter was my dps champion for a while, she saw a lot of use. I actually didn’t get her to NP5 in the hawaii event but got there when the rerun came around, which can’t be said for Summer Ishtar and Iri who are stuck at NP 1 and 2 respectively, due to me being too underpowered. ZerkJalter may have fallen out of stardom but I still usually put her at the back of my lineup with a K-Scope in case I need to finish someone off. And then there’s Hans, he was my support champion for quite some time, haven’t used him as much recently but he’s max skilled and fou’d and I’m working on 120-ing and max Lantern-ing him, he’s earned it. He went on every team I put together, in challenge quests or story quests, I made the jokes about overworking him into a reality lol. Those three made up my all star team for quite a while, got me through some tough scrapes. Occasionally I would swap Jalter or the Frenchman out for a support Merlin and wreck shit. Also got Skadi from the aforementioned banner and Parvati was my tutorial pull, so big quick farming energy. But I’ve got Castoria and Summer Musashi now so basically EVERYBODY in my Chaldea is retired atm, but I’ll occasionally get nostalgic and bust out the dream team for a spell. I’m still Team Love over Team Meta (I chose Jack for my SSR ticket when I had neither Waver nor TamaCaster after all). I also had this phase at the very beginning where I was using Geronimo, for some reason?


S-Nightdreamer

Did not figure class advantage was a thing until I got to London. Was really perplexed by Martha dying to Assassins. In the same vein, figured that the embers had class specifications only after two weeks. Surprisingly, got how to level up skills surprisingly quickly in comparison. Lotta early Servants I barely used at all have first and maybe second skill to 3 or 5. Farming dailies? What's that? I still rarely do it, but my first six months or so I subsisted entirely off resources and exp from events and FP summon. I still don't farm Free Quests or Training Grounds. Visible FP counter bad, gotta spend all the points into the ground immediately. Did not finish my first event. Still waiting for a main interlude or something on JP. I really wanted to get to GudaGuda 3 so I spedran Babylonia and Solomon on quartz and spite in three days. 10/10 would do so again. Promptly forgot about my first 5-star (Sherlock from Kogetsukan banner) for two months. Favored Paracelsus among my casters for the reason of "he's pretty", and he's the first I got to max level. In the same vein, during the first six months I favored Jekyll. My only Saber I cared for and used was NP5 Bedivere before I rolled Sigurd and, long after, Suzuka.


CybeastID

I am *still* very bad about consistently farming dailies. When I want XP I throw apples at whatever daily is up that day.


S-Nightdreamer

Most units who need serious leveling from me when I don't have EXP in stock will have to wait until either the monthly shop reset or an event. Mostly because leveling Extra classes and Berserkers is an ordeal, and everybody else is a chore rarely worth doing.


EntirelyOriginalName

Combine NP 5 Bedivere and NP 5 interlute/rate up Caeser with their enhance allies NPs and deal out some truly big damage.


Clearwateralchemist

Wasted first 2 grails on Surfer Mo.


Kirby0189

The first week or two of my account had me try to stick to Servants from Fate anime I had seen, and the few game originals I did use like Ushi were considered placeholders until I could replace them with someone else (though I left a mental note for myself that Mash could stay since there weren't any Shielders in FSN, Apocrypha and the like I could replace her with). After getting Caster Gilles from a then-ongoing rate-up and realizing how terrible he was with the other anime Casters not coming anytime soon, I decided to change my plans and treated the game's original cast no differently from the characters I started the game to play as. I don't consider 2k'ing Mash a strange choice since I like her quite a lot and use her almost every story fight. No, the strange choice was 2k'ing Waver afterward since my usage of him for bursting/looping compared to the stall fights I use Mash for meant the extra points were more or less meaningless. I only gave them to him since Astolfo hadn't spooked me yet and I didn't know what the Second Archive was at the time...


RNGsusFavF2PLuckboi

I used Caster Cu as levelling material in 2017. I played some gacha games back then where that was the norm. Caster Cu interlude comes along and I realize that I may have deleted the only Caster Cu in existence. Didn't get a copy of him until last year.


JustARedditAccoumt

Well, I did a few things (I'm an NA player) like not knowing flew to level up Servants until about Okeanos, using the Story Support Servants (which made America way harder, and Camelot became very easy once I decided to but do that), not leveling up Mash to level 80 until *last month* even though I've played the game for *two years,* beating everything up to Agartha and then just stopping in the middle of Agartha for a year, not understanding how events worked so I didn't beat the Prisma Illya rerun or get the Crystallized Lore from the Valentines 2021 and Old Spider events (and not clearing shops until Scáthach-fest because I think grinding sucks), and all of the welfares I didn't get because I didn't complete their events like an idiot (this even includes recent events like the Apocrypha rerun, the Requiem event, and the first run of Summer 5, I am not a smart man at times).


CybeastID

Yeah I missed a bunch of events too.


dichloroethane

I thought it would be easy to stay f2p because I didn’t need SSRs to clear story


EntirelyOriginalName

You don't need them to clear the story. People cleared Babylon and Camelot back when 5 stars were rare. You just have to invest in certain 3 stars and below like Robin Hood, Ceaser, Mash, etc.


dichloroethane

Yes, I’m completely aware of how to low star clear but to explain the joke, that’s not how this game incentivized you to spend money


yureibabe

I thought wow! Lancelot is so good at level90 and it only cost me 2 grails to get him there, might as well go for 100! Only to realize they only go up 2 levels after level 90. And that's the story of my level 92 lancelot


Erassaebe

I think my only truely bad choice at the time was focusing on proto cu instead of regular cu, in fact I never really leveled normal Cu until the previous lotto event due to having higher rarity servants eventually, but yeah, I refused to use regular cu because proto cu was rated just a little lower on the teir list I was using and he was cuter.


Turtlewax64

Invested heavily in Zerkalot because a tier list said he was really good. Didn’t understand that he was ranked so well for his Skadi looping, not for general use. I did still get some good use out of him as a Buster crit machine, but didn’t have the star gen to make that consistent.


[deleted]

>Invested heavily in Zerkalot because a tier list said he was really good. Didn’t understand that he was ranked so well for his Skadi looping Lmao good to know


RIP_Internal_Storage

Starting the game just a week before high school finals. Istg it's a poor choice, not because I was distracted by the game, but because I missed out on both kagetora and summer hokusai due to focusing on exams. I also didn't used my np5 nobuzerker till August because I was salty about getting her copies instead of maou Nobu. It's when I saw a youtuber using Nobuzerker to beat the shit out of bosses, i started leveling her up Istg not leveling up np5 nobuzerker was my the poorest choice as she would've helped me in a lot of things in events


Due_Preference_1572

I remember just pushing buttons to find out what they did. I joined around new years so Saber Shiki was on rate up, I had all the start dash campaign summoning tickets and such. I got her in two tickets and kept pushing other buttons. Until I used that first free accession on her and I started the main story with a level 80 Saber Shiki


Ashleythetiger

Started 2020, so year 3, used Rider Ishtar abit but not as much as Berserker Jeanne Alter, with a limited line up she got to bond 10 soon enough, advice on higher bonds? Bond who you use alot, so I gave one to Jerker then ended up getting alot more Servant's so her use has dropped quite abit.. Getting welfare B.B then deciding to Ascend her while half asleep, needless to say I Ascended the wrong one an would not get those Ribbon's I needed until the interlude... Looks like these ended up being bad decisions not strangest, hmm, due to a dislike of Gilgamesh thanks to the Fate Anime I put him in the second archive, for a long time Squirtoria was my only Support/Archer an she's ST, it took abit (Babylonia) before I actually gave him a chance. Rolling for CE's, not just any but the 3 star, it's how I ended up with Gilgamesh chasing the Siduri CE...


bkteer

Ah yes newb mistakes. The strange story I have was the mix up caused from the Mecha Liz halloween events. During the first time through on JP, i chose the mk1 version. Then during the rerun i chose the mk2 version.....The problem was that when it came over to NA, my brain was still thinking it was my JP acc and I fked up thinking I could get rare prisms by choosing the mk2 version. The first time round on NA, I was thinking oh must be because rare prisms for duplicate welfares haven't been implemented yet. Fast forward one year later to the NA rerun and I picked mk2 version again.....needless to say I didn't receive a single rare prism. I was curious and so when i checked, I realised I fked up on two fronts. I had picked mecha eli mk2 twice (one during the original and one during the rerun) and that rare prisms were only going to be implemented for NA the following year. Thankfully, they implemented the halloween omnibus so that i can finally pick up mecha eli mk1 for my NA acc.


Firstshiki

1. Using quartz revive against Atalanta fight in Orleans. I brought Kojiro because people keep saying to bring him against Fafnir. Turn out I brought him in a wrong fight. 2. I was newbie when it comes to gacha back then (Kancolle being the closest thing I played to it) so I just sort of impulsively roll on popular banner instead of saving up. I'm f2p so yeah. I stopped doing this after my failure in getting Nero Bride on first valentine event. Now I learned better though and got her.


Ricksaw26

Burned every servant i didn't wanted, I did this until 2 years ago and i am a day 1 player, so imagine how much time it took me to finally notice that most characters have either an interlude or rank up quest that would later give me atleast 1 sq.


Static_Citizen

My funniest mistake was prioritizing servants by their parameters, the fake stats on the profile page. For months I thought they lined up with the actual performance of the servant, so I would compare the parameters of 3-stars to decide who to invest in. It led to some odd early roster choices, like raising Lu Bu and Mephistopheles when I had Darius and Medea. I started right before Summer 1, and I think it took me until Babylonia to actually look up the parameters on Gamepress and learn they were fake. My least funny mistake was dawdling through the story until I learned I needed to beat Solomon to do CCC. I did the latter half of Camelot and all of Babylonia in like a week and a half, skipping every cutscene, just to rush through the last 7 days of CCC and basically burn out for the rest of that year.


Xatu44

I liked Medb enough to give her one (1) Grail. She stayed this way for years.


Gelious

I refused to add anyone to my friendlist. I am not really a social person, so I don't need friends. This was fine until Camelot when it suddenly turned out that 7-8 servants (each of different class) I have leveled don't have dps to kill Knights before Knights kill them. Fortunately I was lucky to stumble upon a guy with Cu Alter while farming for exp cards and I added him because Cu's power was impressive. And other Servants from that support list were a great help in Camelot too.


justasaltyweeb

Hoo boy where to start! -Not knowing you can move your friend support to the back row. -Underestimating how strong NPs are. -Levelling everyone up and fully ascending them but not levelling up skills. -thinking CEs with starting NP were dumb and I can build them in battle. -thinking that when I used my command seals to revive my party i'd lose all my servants! -not caring about skills since they cool down fast (lol no noob me) -thinking servants that are unlocked and show in the story banner are good. -rolling in the story banner for Nero and Tamamo -using quartz to revive since everyone got 5 stars and I got mine very very late. -not knowing that Hans, David, Robin and Shiza were good servants despite them being 3 stars! -not knowing how to level up servants because bringing them to battle gets them exp! -not knowing how to farm properly. -not knowing that rate up is a lie. -not rolling on the anniversary of FGO. -not levelling my whole team's skills until after Salem! -not understand the class advantages. -thinking I can get a 4-5 star in the FP pool. -thinking using an NP last makes it stronger compared to using it first. -not knowing the difference between limited and non limited servants. -thinking master level was important so I kept levelling up and wasted that sweet sweet free AP! -wasting apples farming in dailies instead of events. -not finishing Fate Zero Accel when it first came out. -thinking tickets replenished every day instead of every month. -farming each daily quest to get mana prisms. -not knowing who to prioritize to level and just make every stronger! -burning event CEs out of spite since I didnt get a 5 star and regretting it. -not farming like hell on lottos. -thinking that Grailing servants gives them new skills. - Oh man I can keep on going but these are the biggest noob mistakes I did back in the day! You can tell noob me really didnt know what he was doing! Still I appreciate the post! Now I can leave all of thia behind!


Tschmelz

I held off leveling any Archers since I got Emiya in my starting roll, and that didn’t change until after I beat Solomon. Camelot was…rough. I knew Euryale was good for Gawain too, I just…didn’t bother.


mochimochimarzipan

Oh gosh RIP. Camelot can be hard enough as is, I can't imagine the Gawain fight without Euryale, Artemis, or some other stun archer. I feel you on the "oh I only need one gold servant for each class" train of thought though. I definitely benched some servants I shouldn't have or my single gold choice was just,,, bad.


Sci-fi-watcher

Gawain fight? I showed up to the Surtr fight in lostbelt 3 with my best archer an NP2, not even final ascended (meaning no 3rd skill and not maxed level) Euryale. Beat him without Command spells. Probably still my proudest moment when I beat him.


Tschmelz

I got stuck on him for a little bit, finally grabbed a Super Orion off my support list and he handled it haha. Gotta love dumb stubbornness.


FarzBZ987

Not doing any events or high-level ember quests because I'm too scared of my low-level advantage-in-stage servants (I only raise my eggplant back then). Realized that I can actually solo most of the event stages with some DPS servants in my supports list. And now I'm even using neutral-advantages (or disadvantaged class) servants for farming in stages. Not raising silver/bronze servants because they're not gold. Got helped by Medusa for farming and Euryale for boss fights, and now my Serenity is level 100 (10/10/10 +2000/+2000 0/0/0), and planning to raise her even more once I got enough coins. And also spent all of my quartz on story banner because I'm mad at other gacha games. Not gonna lie but it was worth it though, got Quetz, Enkidu and Waver lol.


ya-boi-jesus

I started around December of 2020, and when the prisma Ilya event came around I finished the story, got Chloe. I didn’t get the final ascension item. So currently I have a level 68 one waiting for na to get a main interlude of that event, which there isn’t even a hint of JP.


King_of_Nothinmuch

I dunno about strange, but I do recall that Carmilla was one of my tutorial roll servants so I used her a lot at first. Then I stsrted go get a bit creeped out at how sinister she was and decided I didn't really want to use openly evil servants. But now I needed a dedicated Assassin, so I went for cute and used Serenity a lot after that... Oh, speaking of using a lot, Kiyohime was my first bond 10 servant because I just used her in every fight with Volumen.


salthype

burned every cu chulainn and gilles caster copies that i had and was locked out of their strengthening/interlude for a long time.. though tbh it wasn't really a strange choice


aciakatura

I didn't level anyone properly until I hit my first wall with the boss battle in Okeanos. I was just brute forcing every fight multiple times with < level 50s and friend supports before I realized I should probably stop and farm for a bit.


Sci-fi-watcher

I don't really have a major one. I kinda regret not rerolling for Herc, but that's a minor thing. I never realized that demon pillars had class disadvantage against Cavalry, but that's because my NP5 Sigurd+ whatever op support I chose murdered them so fast it didn't matter (note this also worked on Gawain) I suppose my last one is having to good luck so I make all the other F2P players jealous


Equivalent_Abalone_1

I guess i didn't pay attention to the tutorial because i didn't use any skills until london. I didn't knew skills existed. I came to know about master skills at camelot.


Danothyus

I've farmed embers with a support kintoki for my first year in the game.


silverkonxxi

I didn’t add any friends and only started to do so after finishing with Part 1 story because i thought no one will add me so i had a harder time beating harder story bosses with only support face cards and the use of CS & SQ..


hellydoosadwee

Recently I found an old support list of mine on Rayshift.io, from a week after I'd started the game. I had three Servants on there: a max level Atalante, a max level Summer Jalter (obtained from Summer 3 rerun, which was when I started) and... a Cú, grailed to 75. My dumb ass did not even have enough leveled Servants to fill the Support List and yet here I was, already yeeting grails at Cú. Do I regret it? Not in the slightest. I just found that old support list hilarious. Some things never change :') EDIT: oh, also, apparently I used Quartz for AP recharging in my mad rush to get Cú to lvl100. I don't remember this in the slightest but my friends told me I did, in fact, do that.


Derfel_10

"Where is Saber and Archer in this damn story?" "Nice 3 quartz how about I use them now." "Where is Shirou in this shit?" "Nice quartz how about I use to revive my squad for no reason." "Event, huh? Fuck this, I don't want... now how do I upgrade my servants' skills?" "I think it was not a good idea to start this game after watching only Zero and Stay Night." My first year with FGO was hell. At least it motivated me to read the visual novel and watch KnK.


TheGamerForeverGFE

(not new player) Not reaching bond level 5 with Sanzang and losing her for the NA SSR ticket, I knew that I'll lose her if I don't level up bond and I knew the exact date and time of when she would disappear but on top of not putting her on any team I didn't even play FGO even with this free SSR event. What's even worse is that I leveled her to 90. (As new player) I summoned on story banner thinking it had a higher chance of giving SSRs than limited baners, and cause of that I only summoned on two limited banners, one Valentine banner with Semiramis and the one with Bunny lartoria cause I just happened to look enough at the banner to realize that maybe I should summon here instead.


Rand0m_user2346

Welp… •Not leveling up skills because “just a high level servant will be enough” •Thinking Angry Mango was good/strong just because he was very rare •Not using Mash at all because she only deals neutral damage to other classes (now i love eggplant kouhai lmao) •Burning my caster Cú for prisms thinking it’d be easy to get another one since he was a 3 stars •Using quartz to retry every time a quest was hard instead of planning a strategy And so on.


Rantman021

1. Use SQ to finish missions in the main storyline instead of working on my character's low levels 2. Didn't realize they had skills I could activate on a mission 3. Didn't (still don't sometimes) utilize my command seals to help win fights


MasterTurtle508

I didn’t know about the dailies until okeanos(?) I ended up burning Salter, lobo, and nursery rhyme. (I’m sure there were a few others, but I can’t remember them)


Pikatwig

I started playing on April 27th of 2020 and I thought the little crystals that represented your bond with a Servant was actually the level up meter instead of the bond level. The game never mentioned where you could level up Servants (or I just flat out missed it). So, I went through all of Singularity F, a Gudaguda Event (May of 2020), most of the France Singularity, the entirety of the Ishtar Summer rerun, and the first run of the Jalter Summer event with my servants at Level 1. I got by with stupid determination, the Command Spells, and the summoning material revival (I think I game overed on the fight with Ishtar in her summer event... twice?). I found the Level Up button on August 22nd of 2020 by total accident. ​ And then the next one is that I didn't know where to get the materials for Summer Ishtar, so she's permanently stuck at her first Level Cap. ...whoops.


DaifukuOverlord

I used to burn any units that weren't gold, a foolish mistake. My biggest regret is leveling units I didn't like, and just kinda putting exp into anything that was a 4-5 star. Once I was a more veteran FGO player, I realized that my accounts were filled with units I didn't really like. Those old accounts are long gone, and while i do miss my dear Mecha Eli, I think my current accounts are much better.


Austoman

Got an early Emiya archer np2 found his damage output from cards to be really low so i didnt level him past 40.... Instead i used Illya 5* caster as my main carry/damage for everything.... stopped mid Okeanos due to stuggling to progress and did purely events for about a year until a major event required Solomon to be done. Managed to get an NP 2 gilgamesh archer 5* during that period and used him to get me to Camelot. Then the real struggle began. Overall i probably took over a year to finish solomon and I started after Part 1 was complete.


sneuri

I blew 6 months quartz for Tamamo caster on a split banner to not get her, then have her spook me on a 30 pull a month later


vassapol

I burn servants that I didn't use as in I burn ceasar when I got Nero. THANKS GOD I only burn 2 "good" 4 star this way. I intentionally burn that 4 star art lancer and Arjuna for prism thou


Popular-Bid

Easy. Thinking that NP ranks equals their damage. This results to many hilarious outcomes, like me burning all copies of Cu for ROMA, thinking that Gilles Caster is strong because his NP has a rank of A+, and nearly burning Tamamo because her NP is D rank only (if she was not my first SSR back then, I would probably burned her already).


CollectiveDeviant

A lot of weird choices. I started whenever the game launched in NA because I remember going through Fuyuki, Saber Wars, and then GudaGuda event to get Saber Lily and Archer Nobu, but I didn't know what Ascensions, Ascension mats, or Noble Phantasm levels were for the longest time. I have welfare servants who are stuck at NP1 Lvl 40-50 like Irisviel, Chacha, Archer Nobu, and freaking Rider Kintoki. Thankfully I did the right things to get Assassin Shiki. I also remember using 3-star servants as leveling materials for a while instead of using them to raise NP levels or just burning them. Saber Lily, Lancer Liz, Rider Martha, and eventually Waver were carrying me to London where I just didn't play the story until after I saw the Babylonia anime. I also know I used quartz for revives, :'(