Hey everyone. I created this because yesterday was undoubtedly one of the most stressful days of my life, though I guess I'm the one to blame for that. I wanted to share what I went through and ask you to share similar stories, if any! Sorry if this isn't allowed. Also keep in mind this got pretty long, so make sure you have time to read it.
I only started playing the Prisma Codes event when there were only 5 days left. Being torn between work, doing my daily chores and consoling my depressed friend on Discord took a lot of my time these past few days, so I was off to a late start. But, somehow, I managed to slowly progress the story, successfully defeating Nursery Rhymes, Medea and Helena over these days. It took some time and sweat, but I made it possible.
Yesterday, however, was the worst day.of them all. I was still halfway through Medb, stuck farming some random stage to advance the battle and the missions. It was the last day and my last chance to get Chloe, which I really wanted given how she was a good servant and a free event-limited one. This led me to what I can only describe as torturing myself.
I took advantage of the fact I barely had any sleep yesterday- thanks to some recent problems in my neighborhood- and resumed my battle with Medb pretty early. At 7AM I was already farming my way to Chloe, determined to get her before I went to work, at night. If I didn't manage to get her then, I wouldn't have any other chance. Which led me to spend the entire day playing the goddamn event. Literally the ENTIRE day. I did normal things, such as brushing my teeth, having lunch, and even going to the bathroom with my phone in hand. I didn't stop playing for a second, to the point where I was walking around my house with my portable charger attached to it. I never did anything of the sort before, mind you.
Now imagine speedrunning that event with a slow phone and with the game crashing every 3 minutes, forcing me to waste time on loading sceens and replaying segments of the same battle over and over. You can't imagine how stressful it was. I was in a rollercoaster of emotions, one moment believing I could manage to successfully finish it, but the other reconsidering it and feeling frustrated over how I lost my day and my time. And that's how it went for long, painful hours, forcing my sleep-deprived ass to farm that event endlessly with my weak servants (my strongest servants were a Lv. 50 Ibaraki-Douji and a Lv. 40 Kiyohime, both with the free CE), all for that little shit who simply wouldn't stop spamming the Evade buff.
In the end, however, I was able to manage it. I wasted all my command spells to spam NP's on that shitnugget's ass and befriended like, 13 people who had strong Mama Raikou's to use as support. 20 minutes before I had to leave for work I finally got her, as well as two of the necklace things necessary to ascend her. 54 missions completed somehow.
I'm still not sure if it was worth it, since I haven't played her yet. A part of me feels proud at myself for achieving my goal, but another is still angry at me for successfully wasting an entire day of my life. At the very least, I also got Illya and Nursery Rhymes using my summon tickets. I guess the game felt bad for me, lol.
That's it, I guess. I might fall asleep again since I'm still too fucking tired, but I'd love to hear some of your stories as well. Feel free to share some of them here, and I'll make sure to read them when I wake up, probably three days from now.
Thanks for reading!
Congratz i guess?
I dont have anything much to say. Just put on my headphone then play the game while giggling and laugh alone like a weirdo in my class. Well my friends used to it so no problem and im not really care what people think about me...
Hope you have a good sleep
Thanks! That's how it is for me most of the time as well. Hopefully this will be a one time occurrence in my life, because I assure you it wasn't pleasant. Playing a game you love to the point where you can't stand to look at it... Very depressing.
I slept like a log and feel well rested now. Thanks again :)
Wow, sounds hectic. Hope you don't have to ever go through that sort of experience again, really doesn't sound healthy mentally or physically to be honest.
I don't have any particularly memorable stories to share but I always do like to recount the time back in October of last year where I was pretty close to dropping NA F/GO due to lack of content and lack of good rolls (the only two SSR's I had at that time were Jeanne and Artoria, both of whom I had to reroll days for), and I had decided to quit the day of the Halloween event more or less, but decided to toss my last ticket on the Tamamo banner for shits and giggles. There was no lag, no rainbow orbs, so I sighed and quickly tapped through the animations, but then there she was. Tamamo no Mae, in all her foxy-tailed glory, stood before my eyes. If it weren't for the fact that I was in stats class at the time, I probably would've started squealing in excitement.
Suffice to say, F/GO did not end up getting dropped at all and I still have a lot of fun using my (NP2 now) Tamamo to this day. She's about 360,000 points away from getting max bonded and will be my fourth max bonded Servant!
Yeah, it was a terrible experience. I'm the kind of person who plays a lot of games daily, but I always know my limits. Ignoring those just for a free servant, well, makes me feel kind of stupid, to be honest. But knowing I managed to pull it off despite all the odds that I wouldn't really makes me satisfied. Imagine if after all this trouble I had still failed? I get shivers down my spine just from thinking about it.
Also, that's nice! I really wanted Tamamo, she's one of my favorite servants. Got her summer version and couldn't believe my luck! But yeah, I've also considered dropping the game a few times. But I guess it's impossible, huh?
All my funny stories are tied to the gacha. I went from having average luck to a stupidly EX month this past month. To be fair it isn't a funny story on its own but the friends I made on this site and the memes I've shared have certainly made for a fun month. Thanks everyone for being cool and fun and funny
The funniest part of EX month was definitely how I got Squirtle in the summer banner. I basically whaled all my quartz during the summer banner and got a lot of SSRs including Tamamo and got np3 Martha Ruler and np3 Marie Caster but Squirtle just wasn't showing up. Eventually I relented and decided to buy 1 $80 quartz pack. She still didn't show. So naturally I was happy with a good haul and but supremely sad I hadn't gotten her (I really like her because the swimsuit is the exact same as the one in the Emiya cooking anime volleyball episode). Having accepted that spending more money on quartz might just be never ending and resolving to cut my losses, I also decided to spend any quartz or tickets I got from the event or from daily logins on the banner to maybe get lucky. And then, the first afternoon after I'd spent all my quartz and the first set of three quartz I could roll on a single, an Archer card appeared gold and lo and behold she came home to me^^. Needless to say summer was a rousing success. Oh and I became the most hated and targeted person on this site for that degree of luck :^)
Wow, I sure hate you for that >:( All I managed from the summer event was Tamamo and Scáthach- though I guess she doesn't count. Tried to 10-summon twice and only got CEs and 3-star servants I already had -_-. I'm starting to think all of my luck resides in ticket summons, since I got Tamamo from one of these as well. Either way, congrats for all that luck :) I wouldn't mind if you shared some with me lol.
To be fair all told I did spend about 400 quartz and 10 tickets on both banners :p they were the banners I was going all in on.
My best story is from when the NA singularity was released. I'd been playing for 200 days with no SSR servants in sight (the life of a f2p). Best card was Santa Alter. Threw a tricket at the NA banner, first gold card was CuAlter! I almost let out of my chair I was so pumped. A few days later I x10d the same banner, another CuAlter. Since then I've lucked out a few more times with a Saberface, Jalter and Jack the R. But nothing beat the high if that first SSR.
I was three months into the game roughly a year ago with a fairly weak roster (my only SR servants were Emiya and Saber Lily. Literally just them for three months and nothing else)
I was rewatching Fate/ Stay Night UBW at the time and I was very specifically watching the episode where Artoria fights Heracles and I’d gotten my login bonus for the day which brought me up to an impressive total of three quartz. I threw my 3 quartz at the Story Gacha (I know, I was whaling hard at that point) I specifically did that and not the Rate Up Banner at the time because from the get-go my only goal was getting Artoria who’s always on the Banner for Story Gacha. I did it out of impulse and I certainly didn’t think I’d get anything. Lo’ and freaking behold, Artoria Pendragon pops up on my screen and I’ve just lost all oxygen in my lungs because the gasp could probably be heard from across the street
I was spooked by my first and best SSR and my main goal, Artoria Pendragon. After I got her, my luck flourished. I’ve summoned 19 SSR servants (most unique, some were additional copies) and roughly 30 SR servants all while maintaining a (mostly) F2P account
Congrats on getting KiyoLancer btw
Getting your favorite is the best. I too am very familiar with being so proud you want to tell people who have no idea what’s going on haha
That's nice! I got a few waifus myself, but never one that boosted my luck like that haha. I threw in a few quartz to try and get Artoria or Nero on the Saber banner today, but only got fat boi Caesar :( I still have some time, might give it a final try! Hopefully I'll be lucky enough, though I probably used up all my luck after summoning Illya and Nursery lol
Thanks, I really do think it was the start of something big for me. I gotcha. I threw 3 quartz in today to try and get Lancelot but also ended up getting Caesar haha
Best of luck!
RIP, I got Gilles... lol. Not surprised though, I'm never that lucky in gachas haha
I’m a firm believer that luck fluctuates. I started out unlucky and then I got lucky and soon I’ll probably be unlucky again (in terms of rolling. My current roster can keep my other luck based things in check I think)
As time goes on, the odds of you getting something great increases. That’s due to the fact that every sequence of events inevitably has a break or end. Therefore, you’ll eventually hit that 0.3-0.7 or even that 0.025 probability. I know because I’ve done it 19 times. Those odds seem so small but they do inevitably come up
I see you're optimistic, and that's a great thing! I sure hope it does come eventually. I'll try to save some quartz for the nero festival. Let's hope we'll all have some good luck then :)
lol grats, I guess. your day wasn't completely wasted since you gots Illya and Nursery tho. maybe that's the secret to summoning lolis... :thonking:
nwei, already told this story on another thread but well, might as well share it here.
My best F/GO experience will prolly be that time I got waifu Kiyohime Lancer on summer banner. That servant I was eyeing on since I started playing 3 months ago. When the fb page announced the start of the event a week before, I grinded my ass to farm all her ascension and skill mats. I was already hoarding lancer embers even before the announcement and liek, 4 days before the event started, I already have all ascension mats(cept for shells ofc) and a good amount of skill mats. Saved 25 tickets and 240 quartz and my body was ready.
Then the nightmare begins.. paranoia starts to seep in. I was starting to think "What if I don't get her with all my quartz?" I would wake up at 3 am waking from a dream of me rolling the gacha and getting multiple copies of Kiyohime then end up feeling depressed knowing it's just a dream. That happened every night until the event lmao. one of the best examples of how this game can make people go mental.
I got her on day 1 of the event tho. was thonking if I should wait for her solo rate up. Decided to do so but I still found myself on the summoning screen that night. I was on my last ticket and still no Kiyohime. I decided right there that I'd just save that 1 ticket for her rate up but my thumb still pressed the summon button AND comes the Gold Lancer card. and I shouted KIYOHIME!!! as the light unfolds and bam Kiyohime bebeee. I ran around the house screaming and told all my friends about it. They didn't understand a thing I was saying but was happy for me regardless. hahaha
Hahahah, nice!! That's how I felt when I got Summer Tamamo. I was just casually using my tickets after a failed 10-summon, then BAM, best waifu! Couldn't believe my luck hahah. But other than her I got nothing else from the summer event :/
I don't really have that many great stories. The best I've felt was when I beat the final boss of the fate zero event. My servants were really underlevelled since I had only started a week before, but I managed it and was really happy lol
I also managed to half - solo the demon pillar in okeanos with just iri, that was also pretty great. All my other servants died, iri only had? <1000 hp last, and for some reason the demon pillar just kept debuffing rather than attacking, so I could just spam iri's guts+heal and managed to take down his remaining half bar of health
Well we all been there before when you have to balance life and fun aleast. I've started FGO around when the first Gilgamesh banner went up so close to the begin when the game launched. I've been playing that long so I got stories for both gacha and event's so I go with the gacha. My best pulls we're without a doubt on the Jalter banner I think I had about 400 SQ and 20 tickets went in with the mindset that I just get np1 Jalter. 90 SQ later at my wit's end with it did one more ten pull and got Mordred I was like I'm happy but you get what you get right then I said YOLO and got Karna I was like ok then out nowhere Jalter appear in the ten roll as well. I screamed like Kitasean on his rolls when that happened. So later during the Jalter banner I just got paid and was like you know what let's try for np2 Jalter and I did and got another Jalter and Np2 Karna I was on cloud nine my doods. For my salty rolls it's without a doubt shuten was the most salt of me whaling for her when I already had 2 SSR assassin servants so you can judge me on that ok. So I dig to much of my savings and my paycheck on when I knew that I was going on vacation to go Momocon in Atlanta Georgia with my friends so you can imagine how screwed I was when I had to go down there I limited myself on spending on the gacha as much as possible and got spooked three times off a ticket till finally i said it ain't worth. When I got home though of all the money I wasted and how much work I had to do when I got back to work. Few minutes left for shuten I said you know what one YOLO one ten shot and finally shuten came home so you can imagine how I felt when this happened to much was spent on waifus my doods. So that's how my best rolls and my salty rolls were for me at least. I Got a YouTube channel with FGO content on it. Only boss battles though I post more in the future it Kaze_No_Jentus08 still starting out on it swing by if you guys want.
