GUDAGUDA Meiji Restoration - Servant Recommendations

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At first sight, the Meiji Restoration event may seem complicated due to Masters have to pick a side every round, but once the event plays out it is rather straightforward. Sadly, in terms of enemy composition, this event does feature many quests with mixed enemy classes, which can frustrate building a rapid farming.

Masters can at least pick and choose which nodes to farm. New Masters in particular can try to avoid problematic enemy classes and focus on the nodes they can clear well. The truly greedy Masters will of course let the material drops decide which side they support. However, it is extremely important that Masters try to evenly climb the points ladder in the long run - the best points node that opens after the 3rd battle phase drops both points after all.

The event Craft Essence - Wolves of Mibu, grants a significant damage boost to the entire party. This effect even occurs when it is equipped on a backline Servant. This boost is a “power mod”, similar to Anti-Trait bonus from skills like Scathach’s God Slayer or Minamoto no Raikou’s Mystic Slayer, so it is highly recommended for newer Masters to take advantage of it to comfortable farm during the event. Multiple CEs stack, but they do so additively (which means each additional equipped Wolves of Mibu is relatively less effective). Masters that want to maximize faction points or drops per AP may not have the CE slots to equip one though.

Similarly, Servants who appear in the story of this event and featured on the event pickup gacha will also enjoy similar damage boost. It is highly recommend to bring these Servants to battle, as they will generally outperform non-event Servants.

In general, it is safer for newer Masters, or faster for those wanting to speed up their farming, to have at least one copy of Wolves of Mibu equipped and to balance out the remaining Craft Essence slots for bonus currency or event points. Do save multiple copies of Wolves of Mibu until after clearing the Challenge Quest against Hijikata, as they trivialize the quest with enough stacking. In fact, it should be possible for even the newest Masters to clear the Challenge Quest by borrowing a powerful solo Servant from a friend!

Note: Starting from this event, we will be changing the format for the farming Servant recommendation section. The Servant roster is ever expanding, and as a result keeping the same format will make the section quite wordy as well as unnecessarily hard to navigate for users. We simplified the node-specific recommendations by including them in the Quick Farming Guide.

What remains in this guide are general recommendations applicable to all nodes.

The supports are the backbone of any team and heavily determine how well a team performs. In general, having at least one relevant Support per frontline is a good rule of thumb to clear quests efficiently and safely.

Wave Clearers are not mandatory, but they significantly speed up the process of farming with their AoE damage. Competent Wave Clearers should be able to wipe out an enemy wave, preferably by charging their NP quickly, and/or significantly weaken bosses while they take out the accompanying mobs with the same blow. With many mixed class waves, Berserkers perform extra well in this event.

In general, AoE Servants can often pull double duty for strong boss killing as well when farming. However, especially for new Masters, sometimes a big burst of damage to a single target is necessary. Ideally, an AoE Servant is a better pick as all best farming quests don't have a single boss enemy in the final wave for the Meiji Restoration event. Yet, there is one great use for ST Servants with an NP charge: quickly disposing of the powerful wave 2 enemies that are in every high level farming quest.