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What do you think of the new Saber in JP?

https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Beni-enma#Third%20Skill

We just got a amazing arts saber in the form of Prince of Lanling or the new Ruler Qin Shi Huang and Skadi (She powercreep Osakabehime... Though Osakabehime got turn into a quick-buster hybrid)which is a sign of powercreep (powercreep in terms of skill, stats and passives not servant as she isn't obsoleting anyone) and now we have a saber who is downright broken. I'm a veteran player and this is just wow... And the demerits are basically nothing since our attacks get multiplied and added through buffs... And with the buff of Tamamo caster on her first skill giving her an NP dmg up this is just... Looks like the meta in JP will be arts and be replacing quick (The meta in JP are quick servants and buster is just slightly below them). Things are looking bright for ARTS holy sht since they were just used in sustain battles. But this servant takes sustain, damage, passives, skills, dmg up niche, survivability and crit dmg to a whole new level...

Front line-up should consist of :

Beni-Enma (Summer Little/Royal Icing/Black Grail),
Tamamo Caster (2030/Prisma Cosmos/ GUDA GUDA Poster Girl), Waver (Kaleidoscope/ Lunchtime/Teatime/2030/GUDA GUDA Poster Girl/Kaleidoscope),

Backline should be:

Prince of Lanling (GUDAGUDA POSTER GIRL/2030/Kaleidoscope), Caster Gilgamesh (Kaleidoscope/ GUDA GUDA Poster Girl/ 2030)
Merlin (Anything since his main use is to just plugsuit for 2nd skill. His first and second skill are just add-ons)

You can switch the servants depending on the CQ or node. But the enemies getting their NP should not be possible under such circumstances. And also her NP functions like Jack's NP where the bonus dmg against a certain enemy carries to her other cards. What do you guys think of the new saber?

Asked by Chu Yang6 years 5 months ago
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by zer0z 6 years 5 months ago

Yeah she looks pretty strong. A party-wide 40% attack up equivalent, NP seal, party-wide NP battery with 20% at base, enemy crit down, that's substantial. Then there's the ST NP with another 40% damage buff for certain enemies. She sounds better than Nero Bride imo, depending on the situation. That's ridiculous since Bride was seen as the go-to damage/support hybrid. Bride's buffs were all targetable, and this new arts ST saber essentially has bride's most valuable skill with the same numbers, but for the entire party, and a party-wide battery where bride had a targetable NP gain up. Definitely feels like she's powercreeping bride to me.

I'd be glad to see arts servants brought to the forefront again if that happens, but I hope DW brings out some interludes/rank-up quests for some of the older servants too, otherwise it feels like they'd be less and less relevant as the game keeps going. At least increase the hitcounts for some of those earlier arts and quick servants, having 2 hits for arts/quick cards is pretty much a rarity for new JP servants at this point.

Lanling Wang looks even worse imo, his entire skillset looks broken af. I'm noticing a trend with these lostbelt servants too, where they seem to be focused a lot more on control, with a lot of them having more sophisticated NPs rather than just a straight attack with X00% damage. Also on a personal note, I really don't like how his second skill is essentially a targetable version of Ozy's protection of the sun god with a much better cooldown. I know it's a little petty, but it irks me that one of my favourite servant's main selling points - his unique support ability - is now being given to another servant. Can't say it's a bad game design choice if I'm being fair though, this new servant is basically a pretty god-tier arts-crit support that also gives his team plenty of defensive support too (Caster Gil is being hard powercrept tho?).

Dunno how this will affect the meta, but I feel like at this point there is an overepresentation of really, really good arts sabers: Bride, Lancelot, Munenori, and now these two. Seriously what's with that? Quick sabers have Okita and Diarmuid who are both great, and Fran who's okay I guess, but now it looks like buster is the odd duck for ST sabers. Musashi and Rama are the only options there (I think?).

For team comps, putting any mix of Lanling Wang, Beni-enma, Munenori, Lancelot and Tamamo together would be an amazing team for hard content. Lancelot (another ending) + Lanling/Beni + Tamamo for great offensive capability, Munenori + Lanling + Tamamo for stall.

Overall I'm pretty excited for these new servants, if I'm still playing FGO NA 2 years from now I'll probably try to roll for them.

EDIT: well this got out of hand.

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No, it's fine. I do agree with the Ozy part though Lanling makes me think he was made by the same guy who made Merlin. Lanling's ONLY weaknesses are no heals, no def up and you might need to target 2nd skill to himself for 100% chance on 3rd skill unless you YOLO and get all effects. And also, ST Buster except Musashi, Rama and Lancer Raikou have a tough time. Like freaking look at Sigurd he barely keeps up. Sigurd's only saving grace is that he has MONSTROUS base stats and a godly 1st skill other than that he's a meme. Beni-enma is so cute personality-wise, intresting lore-wise, funny in-game wise with the email pen-pal team (Tamamo,Osakabehime and Kiyohime and she seems to be having fun teasing and trolling Tomoe), and overpowered gameplay-wise. And Caster Gilgamesh still has a place in the meta. As he can destroy challenge quests with Hokusai, Hundred Faces Hassan, Lancelot and Archer Artoria. And he seem's preety good with Beni-enma.

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Looks good gameplay wise, although im more salty that its not muramasa😭looks like he'll never be a servant...well i suppose since im on NA i still would have had to wait 2 years if he was released anyway lol

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