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[Geriatric hedgehog]

Got Arthur Prototype and then a wild Summer Mordred showed up, as if summoned by his presence. Thought that was rather funny.

When you put it that way, it's blimming hilarious heheh.

Just got her on a ticket but had to do a lot of pulls.

Glad I didn't need to spend all my quartz tho.

That is pretty lucky! Unsurprisingly I got no joy burning up twenty to thirty tickets and then 200sq, thinking that great, this is a repeat of my quest for Merlin, these bloody Casters...but finally got her with 70sq left. Close call but very happy to still have some sq left, to get that one in particular and finally a 5* summon! She should sync nicely with my Hokusai.

EDIT: Every new servant I got in my quest for Castoria. I dunno if I got lucky or unlucky. I'll let you decide

Looks pretty impressive to my inexperienced eyes, especially with another 5*, though a berserker hmmm... I didn't do too badly this time I think, and rather than just getting a bucket-load of Fuumas, I got three 4*s with Lakshmi Bai (supposed to be good I think?), Caster Gil (he's a legend so don't even care if he's not meant to be good, but, he's another Caster among a carton full of other 3* casters that I pulled when all I'll be using now is Castoria heh) and Berserker of El Dorado (don't usually use Berserkers, except for @Vincentdante's Heracles occasionally, so meh). Much better than the only 4* last time around with the lacklustre Siegfried.

These new level 60 Dail(ies?) with 1/2 price AP for the 5th Anniversary are bloody brilliant. Finally managed to level up some of my floundering 3*s to have a half decent roster methinks with Cu, Ushiwakamaru and Medea (now wishing I'd saved that exp for Castoria...) at higher levels, and will hopefully get to level up Serenity (had been levelling up Fuuma but, unsurprisingly, he got the sack after I played Camelot...). So will have the basic classes now finally covered in-house and not be fully reliant on my higher level Sabers (Artoria & Hokusai), Emiya and then Supports for every battle heh. Think I shall be using up dem apples to grind more dailies and stock up on these Exp cards - I really hope the level 60 dailies are here to stay.

 

[Vincentdante]

When you put it that way, it's blimming hilarious heheh.

That is pretty lucky! Unsurprisingly I got no joy burning up twenty to thirty tickets and then 200sq, thinking that great, this is a repeat of my quest for Merlin, these bloody Casters...but finally got her with 70sq left. Close call but very happy to still have some sq left, to get that one in particular and finally a 5* summon! She should sync nicely with my Hokusai.

Looks pretty impressive to my inexperienced eyes, especially with another 5*, though a berserker hmmm... I didn't do too badly this time I think, and rather than just getting a bucket-load of Fuumas, I got three 4*s with Lakshmi Bai (supposed to be good I think?), Caster Gil (he's a legend so don't even care if he's not meant to be good, but, he's another Caster among a carton full of other 3* casters that I pulled when all I'll be using now is Castoria heh) and Berserker of El Dorado (don't usually use Berserkers, except for @Vincentdante's Heracles occasionally, so meh). Much better than the only 4* last time around with the lacklustre Siegfried.

These new level 60 Dail(ies?) with 1/2 price AP for the 5th Anniversary are bloody brilliant. Finally managed to level up some of my floundering 3*s to have a half decent roster methinks with Cu, Ushiwakamaru and Medea (now wishing I'd saved that exp for Castoria...) at higher levels, and will hopefully get to level up Serenity (had been levelling up Fuuma but, unsurprisingly, he got the sack after I played Camelot...). So will have the basic classes now finally covered in-house and not be fully reliant on my higher level Sabers (Artoria & Hokusai), Emiya and then Supports for every battle heh. Think I shall be using up dem apples to grind more dailies and stock up on these Exp cards - I really hope the level 60 dailies are here to stay.

Congrats on Castoria man.

Caster gil is still a pretty great servant so don't worry about that.

 

[Takei Daloui]

When you put it that way, it's blimming hilarious heheh.

That is pretty lucky! Unsurprisingly I got no joy burning up twenty to thirty tickets and then 200sq, thinking that great, this is a repeat of my quest for Merlin, these bloody Casters...but finally got her with 70sq left. Close call but very happy to still have some sq left, to get that one in particular and finally a 5* summon! She should sync nicely with my Hokusai.

Looks pretty impressive to my inexperienced eyes, especially with another 5*, though a berserker hmmm... I didn't do too badly this time I think, and rather than just getting a bucket-load of Fuumas, I got three 4*s with Lakshmi Bai (supposed to be good I think?), Caster Gil (he's a legend so don't even care if he's not meant to be good, but, he's another Caster among a carton full of other 3* casters that I pulled when all I'll be using now is Castoria heh) and Berserker of El Dorado (don't usually use Berserkers, except for @Vincentdante's Heracles occasionally, so meh). Much better than the only 4* last time around with the lacklustre Siegfried.

These new level 60 Dail(ies?) with 1/2 price AP for the 5th Anniversary are bloody brilliant. Finally managed to level up some of my floundering 3*s to have a half decent roster methinks with Cu, Ushiwakamaru and Medea (now wishing I'd saved that exp for Castoria...) at higher levels, and will hopefully get to level up Serenity (had been levelling up Fuuma but, unsurprisingly, he got the sack after I played Camelot...). So will have the basic classes now finally covered in-house and not be fully reliant on my higher level Sabers (Artoria & Hokusai), Emiya and then Supports for every battle heh. Think I shall be using up dem apples to grind more dailies and stock up on these Exp cards - I really hope the level 60 dailies are here to stay.

Good job getting Caster Artoria. The rank up quests occuring over the next few days should have one for Emiya that I highly recommend doing, mainly because it'll let him switch his NP type to arts, making him pair with her greatly.
This new EXP quest is really useful though. For levelling up to level 90 alone it's great, but it's essential for anything above level 100 since the EXP demands are incredibly high.

 

[D1tchd1gger]

Again, never mind all that. Summer Makoto is out in Priconne R, plus Summer Kaori is a free unit in the latest event.

Spoiler: Beach episode attire

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

Again, never mind all that. Summer Makoto is out in Priconne R, plus Summer Kaori is a free unit in the latest event.

Spoiler: Beach episode attire

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Heheh, joker. I'm already addicted to one harem building jrpg whatchamacallit that I don't really have the time for, I am NOT going to be swayed into getting addicted to another!

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

Yoooo

(This is my pull from the paid guarantee I chose.)

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I meant to ask, which of these paid banners would you guys recommend as being of the most utility for a newbie? Don't know enough about the whole roster of characters to know which banner is best to hedge my bets in to have the most sort of servants that would help clear the story in particular as I assume the difficulty ramps up in Lostbelts.

 

[Vincentdante]

I meant to ask, which of these paid banners would you guys recommend as being of the most utility for a newbie? Don't know enough about the whole roster of characters to know which banner is best to hedge my bets in to have the most sort of servants that would help clear the story in particular as I assume the difficulty ramps up in Lostbelts.

You honestly can't go wrong with any of them as they all have some great characters. You could always aim for the one with either Merlin or Skadi in if you need moar casters

Otherwise I say pick a favorite servant.

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

Coolio, I may try for Scathach as a favourite then, and I do need a more powerful Lancer than Cu, though I could grail him I guess. I suspect it would need a fair few grails though, so holding off that for now. I drew Valkyrie previously though I don't think she's meant to be very good? And I believe she is also locked until I clear a Lostbelt. As for Merlin, just thinking about trying for him or any more casters induces PTSD heh.

 

[Vincentdante]

Coolio, I may try for Scathach as a favourite then, and I do need a more powerful Lancer than Cu, though I could grail him I guess. I suspect it would need a fair few grails though, so holding off that for now. I drew Valkyrie previously though I don't think she's meant to be very good? And I believe she is also locked until I clear a Lostbelt. As for Merlin, just thinking about trying for him or any more casters induces PTSD heh.

Well all servants are usable. People judge a servants power based on how fast they can clear the dailies. Like Seigfried used to be the most powerful single target saber at one point, so even though he isn't anymore, he is still good at what he does. But while they and characters like Valkyrie may not be good for the dailies, she and the rest are good at still very good at story content. You don't need to beat lostbelt either so don't worry. All I'm saying is use who you enjoy rather than who is "powerful"

When it comes to casters. In a vacuum Casters are for the most part very weak, characters like Castoria, Merlin etc only excel when teamed up with the correct servants who they power up (I'm one of the rare one's who has a DPS caster on my support), so ya also got to think about team building. For example Castoria is the absolute best Caster for boosting arts based servants, so you would put her in the 3rd slot while you have a good arts servant such as my Sitonai who is on my support as the second slot (although she is single target) but that is just one example

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

But while they and characters like Valkyrie may not be good for the dailies, she and the rest are good at still very good at story content. You don't need to beat lostbelt either so don't worry. All I'm saying is use who you enjoy rather than who is "powerful"

Yeah that's what I was thinking that her skills looked really useful on the surface, but I wasn't looking deeply enough into other specifics which reviewers marked her down on. Cool, good to know I can use her pre-lostbelts and that she'd be worthwhile spending my hard-ground! exp cards on...unless I manage to draw Scathach soon! I'm definitely sticking to using characters I like, but then I do tend to like ones that dish out heavy damage...and survive! The latter is probably why I'm not so hot on Berserker characters, which I should have a natural inclination for.

This is my dilemma right now that having limited time, whilst being impatient and with an early and relatively more limited roster currently, I'm being very selective about how to use levelling up resources on enough of well-balanced characters to have one for each class in the hopes I don't get stumped by the odd challenging boss (Gawain PTSD... These Camelot mythology characters are doing my mental health no favours heh) and can attempt all available quests. For example, I've tried to beat the second memorial quest with the barbatos Demon pillar and I keep getting whooped. Likewise, I couldn't attempt all the big draw quests in the Camelot casino previously and that's irritating for the completionist in me. Probably still need to work on better strategy formulation and not be impatient, and probably just chill out a bit heh. Still, thanks to the new dailies, I've managed to have a fair roster of levelled-up characters now to attempt most things, so getting there.

Thanks for the tips and info as always. As you said, I saw casters as weaker and ignored them early on until realising the importance of good support skills later. Like you, I'd probably have gone for a high damage caster, until I used Merlin for support and saw how useful he was. Good to know about Sitonai, still learning which characters are arts-based so now have one more to use with Castoria alongside Hokusai then heh.

 

[Vincentdante]

Yeah that's what I was thinking that her skills looked really useful on the surface, but I wasn't looking deeply enough into other specifics which reviewers marked her down on. Cool, good to know I can use her pre-lostbelts and that she'd be worthwhile spending my hard-ground! exp cards on...unless I manage to draw Scathach soon! I'm definitely sticking to using characters I like, but then I do tend to like ones that dish out heavy damage...and survive! The latter is probably why I'm not so hot on Berserker characters, which I should have a natural inclination for.

This is my dilemma right now that having limited time, whilst being impatient and with an early and relatively more limited roster currently, I'm being very selective about how to use levelling up resources on enough of well-balanced characters to have one for each class in the hopes I don't get stumped by the odd challenging boss (Gawain PTSD... These Camelot mythology characters are doing my mental health no favours heh) and can attempt all available quests. For example, I've tried to beat the second memorial quest with the barbatos Demon pillar and I keep getting whooped. Likewise, I couldn't attempt all the big draw quests in the Camelot casino previously and that's irritating for the completionist in me. Probably still need to work on better strategy formulation and not be impatient, and probably just chill out a bit heh. Still, thanks to the new dailies, I've managed to have a fair roster of levelled-up characters now to attempt most things, so getting there.

Thanks for the tips and info as always. As you said, I saw casters as weaker and ignored them early on until realising the importance of good support skills later. Like you, I'd probably have gone for a high damage caster, until I used Merlin for support and saw how useful he was. Good to know about Sitonai, still learning which characters are arts-based so now have one more to use with Castoria alongside Hokusai then heh.

Berserkers are great because a lot of their skills are focused around self heals and survivability. Worth levelling at least one imo as they can be very scary. I like Herc because he just... won't... die if you time his skills correctly. I'm also a Tamamo Cat fan (mostly because she was my first 4 star) but her noble phantasm gives her insane health regen and does decent damage to all enemies so when teamed with Mash she can also be pretty hard to kill.

The best advice I can give is you might be in for a bad time if you approach any gacha game with a completionist mind set, but I understand it because I also have that myself. You have to let it go and enjoy the content as it comes rather than rushing it to catch up, you will hit some walls doing that for sure. At the begining there will be events you won't be able to attend and that's fine, I was in that situation once as well. There is another summer event coming soon which is open to all so you have something to look forward too regardless

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

You're right, no point getting ahead of oneself and losing the fun of the game. But, it definitely has been a lot of fun for me to still be so engrossed, especially when time is precious. So yeah, I'm going stop worrying about missing some events, like the recent Seraph one. The next halloweeny sounding one seems right up my street but it's looking like I'll probably miss that too, not having even started the final singularity yet. But, good point on the next summer one and I see there is a welfare lancer in there, just what I need!

 

[Takei Daloui]

Coolio, I may try for Scathach as a favourite then, and I do need a more powerful Lancer than Cu, though I could grail him I guess. I suspect it would need a fair few grails though, so holding off that for now. I drew Valkyrie previously though I don't think she's meant to be very good? And I believe she is also locked until I clear a Lostbelt. As for Merlin, just thinking about trying for him or any more casters induces PTSD heh.

What Valkyrie lacks, she makes up for in being 3 completely different servants. It's fun that she has different forms for her ascensions, one representing each Valkyrie.

For banners, if you're after a servant for pure damage or good damage with Castoria, I'd recommend year 4 or 5. 4 has Summer Jeanne for arts NP looping, has Kama as a strong single target quick servant, Summer BB with her own unique gimmick, and Arjuna Alter who hits like a truck. 5 has Yang as a foreigner servant, with another in the mix there too, Summer Artoria Ruler with her own gimmick, Space Ishtar who can fit any team with a NP type changing skill, Summer Musashi for arts looping, the 5 star Roumulus who is good from what I have heard (I have yet to try him out correctly), and Super Orion.

Alternatively if you went for year 3 to aim for Skadi, there's still good servants like Ereshkigal and Hokusai as noteworthy ones in my opinion.

Year 1 thought if you want to aim for Scathach as a fan favourite will still give you plenty of backups too. Gilgamesh is good even now, Okita is the best (biased), Jeanne Alter still holds out decently, Shuten I know is liked, and Raikou is still a stable for a lot, and golden boy is also pretty good. And there's also Dante here and MHX for cool looking servants.

Well all servants are usable. People judge a servants power based on how fast they can clear the dailies. Like Seigfried used to be the most powerful single target saber at one point, so even though he isn't anymore, he is still good at what he does. But while they and characters like Valkyrie may not be good for the dailies, she and the rest are good at still very good at story content. You don't need to beat lostbelt either so don't worry. All I'm saying is use who you enjoy rather than who is "powerful"

When it comes to casters. In a vacuum Casters are for the most part very weak, characters like Castoria, Merlin etc only excel when teamed up with the correct servants who they power up (I'm one of the rare one's who has a DPS caster on my support), so ya also got to think about team building. For example Castoria is the absolute best Caster for boosting arts based servants, so you would put her in the 3rd slot while you have a good arts servant such as my Sitonai who is on my support as the second slot (although she is single target) but that is just one example

Seigfried was once the most powerful single target Saber? Haha. I assume you meant AOE? Or a different servant?

 

[Vincentdante]

Seigfried was once the most powerful single target Saber? Haha. I assume you meant AOE? Or a different servant?

ah shoot, must have mixed him up yea

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

What Valkyrie lacks, she makes up for in being 3 completely different servants. It's fun that she has different forms for her ascensions, one representing each Valkyrie.

For banners, if you're after a servant for pure damage or good damage with Castoria, I'd recommend year 4 or 5. 4 has Summer Jeanne for arts NP looping, has Kama as a strong single target quick servant, Summer BB with her own unique gimmick, and Arjuna Alter who hits like a truck. 5 has Yang as a foreigner servant, with another in the mix there too, Summer Artoria Ruler with her own gimmick, Space Ishtar who can fit any team with a NP type changing skill, Summer Musashi for arts looping, the 5 star Roumulus who is good from what I have heard (I have yet to try him out correctly), and Super Orion.

Alternatively if you went for year 3 to aim for Skadi, there's still good servants like Ereshkigal and Hokusai as noteworthy ones in my opinion.

Year 1 thought if you want to aim for Scathach as a fan favourite will still give you plenty of backups too. Gilgamesh is good even now, Okita is the best (biased), Jeanne Alter still holds out decently, Shuten I know is liked, and Raikou is still a stable for a lot, and golden boy is also pretty good. And there's also Dante here and MHX for cool looking servants.


Seigfried was once the most powerful single target Saber? Haha. I assume you meant AOE? Or a different servant?

Thanks for the info dude and yeah I'd done a bit of research, was torn between the last two as I just couldn't help being strategic, and ended up going for the year 5 banner as I liked the 4*s there as well. This was my outcome:

I was aiming for Da Vinci on strategy, but hoping for Ishtar or Musashi for just damage-party shenanigans, so was very happy with the outcome. Was hoping for Osakabehime or Okita (as a 4* seeing as I couldn't have the 5* heh) after the hilarious Las Vegas event, but Dino lady cracked me up so happy with her too. Whether she's any good or not, I think we'll be good friends as long as she stays in that Dino guise heh. The rider is meant to be good, as I recall, and being the only 3* that's a very handy np5 straight off and with change to spare as I had one already. So, happy days, but hoping this is not the start of a slippery no-longer-free-to-play-only slope...

Right need to get back to the grind whilst levelling up is multiplied and the ap cost for dailies is halved to level out and stock up on what I can. That Las Vegas event was so perfectly positioned before this one to gather up all that QP! Problem with the newer servants is hitting the Ascension skills material ceiling thanks to Lostbelt items being required, earlier so with Ishtar (at level 70 booo!) but at least Castoria I could get to 80. Oh well let's see. And yeah the multihpersonality Valkyrie is certainly worth levelling up on that gimmick alone heh, but again running out of Ascension materials after levelling up a fair few characters whilst the going is good heh.

 

[Takei Daloui]

Thanks for the info dude and yeah I'd done a bit of research, was torn between the last two as I just couldn't help being strategic, and ended up going for the year 5 banner as I liked the 4*s there as well. This was my outcome:
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I was aiming for Da Vinci on strategy, but hoping for Ishtar or Musashi for just damage-party shenanigans, so was very happy with the outcome. Was hoping for Osakabehime or Okita (as a 4* seeing as I couldn't have the 5* heh) after the hilarious Las Vegas event, but Dino lady cracked me up so happy with her too. Whether she's any good or not, I think we'll be good friends as long as she stays in that Dino guise heh. The rider is meant to be good, as I recall, and being the only 3* that's a very handy np5 straight off and with change to spare as I had one already. So, happy days, but hoping this is not the start of a slippery no-longer-free-to-play-only slope...

Right need to get back to the grind whilst levelling up is multiplied and the ap cost for dailies is halved to level out and stock up on what I can. That Las Vegas event was so perfectly positioned before this one to gather up all that QP! Problem with the newer servants is hitting the Ascension skills material ceiling thanks to Lostbelt items being required, earlier so with Ishtar (at level 70 booo!) but at least Castoria I could get to 80. Oh well let's see. And yeah the multihpersonality Valkyrie is certainly worth levelling up on that gimmick alone heh, but again running out of Ascension materials after levelling up a fair few characters whilst the going is good heh.

Ah, the old fake desire trick to fool the gacha. Hope for one, be happy with the result it tries to disappoint you with by fake baiting it.
Space Ishtar is definitely a good win there. As I said before, she'll match well with Castoria and while her damage is below Musashi, she's also not as easy to kill being an avenger so having few weaknesses will really help.
I don't know how good the Rider is but he is very popular, and lucky there getting him to NP5 immediately. I think he may have been story locked too so it would have been hard to get him normally.
Shame you didn't get a Summer Okita, She's not the greatest servant in the game but she's an Okita, so naturally I rank her way above her actual effectiveness. Though saying that, I still use her as my go to AOE assassin. Once you find servants you like for roles, it's very easy to use them as your defaults for said role.

Yeah, that's a good move. Normally I'd stockpile stuff myself but with chances for 5 times boosts and the half AP, I'm farming like crazy for breaking past level 100. Got to maybe 105 roughly so far, and it'll be nice to get to 110 or at least 108 before this all ends.
Once you get good servants going, there is a new farming quest for QP that is honestly brilliant. With the right QP boosting CEs (you won't have them yet unfortunately) you can get a few million QP in one go, better than the 1-2 million on the previous highest tier. Naturally the quest is tougher like the other new ones but it'll make QP farming easier in the long run for general servants and their skills.
Yeah, materials are always bootlenecks, especially newer ones. I've managed to fully level Castoria but since I haven't farmed much of some of the new currency, only getting some from an event, I can't finish maxing her skills as a result. More resources will turn up in the event shops as they come though, since Summer is a few days away, so you may find some good ones that you need there.
Thankfully servants don't always need the same ascension materials. Though the common materials they need sometimes require large amounts for their skills...

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

Ah, the old fake desire trick to fool the gacha.

Heheh only fooling myself really but yeah that's why I picked that banner as I would have been happy with almost any 5* there. I wanted any of the hilarious Ishtars and the avenger one's versatility helps with her not being vulnerable to everyone like berserkers are is reassuring.

QP not been a problem yet thanks to 300mil from the las Vegas event, and it's definitely more of an issue with shortage of materials, being earlier in the game. I've never really had enough to level up the skills much at all (only managed to get charisma on Saiba to level 6 so far with all other servants barely touched heh). Will get there eventually and probably be looking for the right quests to farm materials but the ap demands look painful so, hey ho. Still, good to know about the QP quests, which is in keeping with the utility for those for the Experience cards that have been a boon for me. I heard the new training grounds aren't as useful for farming though, so that's a shame. Well try the free quests instead for materials.

I don't see myself going past level 90 anytime soon given the limited number of grails overall. I just used two to get Hokusai, to have a second useful one at 90, before getting these two 5*s recently so now shouldn't feel the need to grail any more for a little while. How many of your 5* ones have you taken to 100 and past then? I'm guessing as you need a lot more grails after level 90, that there are only so many that can be levelled. As you said, once I have more favourites for specific tasks I'll work on those and hopefully get more items from the upcoming events.

 

[Vincentdante]

Nier reincarnation still confuses me...

It's like my antithesis gacha. You get a bunch of the same character but with better stars which I would guess makes them better than the default versions? Which means there is never any reason to ever level up anything else once you get a 5 star version?

So what do you do with the old characters? At least in FGO and Genshin low stars are still useful and fun to play. You can't even say that here, besides knowing that you will be wasting resources on 3 and 4 star characters as you know a 5 star version will come to you one day.

at least low star weapons have a story attached to them but even those are a waste for the same reasons. I seriously don't understand the progression system of this game at all.

 

[Takei Daloui]

Heheh only fooling myself really but yeah that's why I picked that banner as I would have been happy with almost any 5* there. I wanted any of the hilarious Ishtars and the avenger one's versatility helps with her not being vulnerable to everyone like berserkers are is reassuring.

QP not been a problem yet thanks to 300mil from the las Vegas event, and it's definitely more of an issue with shortage of materials, being earlier in the game. I've never really had enough to level up the skills much at all (only managed to get charisma on Saiba to level 6 so far with all other servants barely touched heh). Will get there eventually and probably be looking for the right quests to farm materials but the ap demands look painful so, hey ho. Still, good to know about the QP quests, which is in keeping with the utility for those for the Experience cards that have been a boon for me. I heard the new training grounds aren't as useful for farming though, so that's a shame. Well try the free quests instead for materials.

I don't see myself going past level 90 anytime soon given the limited number of grails overall. I just used two to get Hokusai, to have a second useful one at 90, before getting these two 5*s recently so now shouldn't feel the need to grail any more for a little while. How many of your 5* ones have you taken to 100 and past then? I'm guessing as you need a lot more grails after level 90, that there are only so many that can be levelled. As you said, once I have more favourites for specific tasks I'll work on those and hopefully get more items from the upcoming events.

300 million... How much did you farm? I only got to 200 million, though I guess I had to farm nodes less for materials thanks to existing CEs. Still, that's an impressive number.
With Saber, you might want to consider her mana burst over her charisma. That only provides an 18% attack buff to your team for 3 turns, while her mana burst skill gives a 50% buff for one turn, usually to use with her NP but not always, and when you do the rank up quest for it then you'll get an additional 30% NP attack boost and turn all her command cards to buster for a buster chain potentially. These are max levelled numbers for both skills but it does show which skill overall is worth more.

Yeah, farming materials normally is horrible. It's why I never do it. Massive pain so I wait for events and farm out the shops there.

For grailing, I've only taken 3 servants to 100. Okita (Saber) and Hokusai (Foreigner). I've also brought up Summer Okita (Assassin) to level 100, and the only other servants I've grailed have been Sherlock (Ruler) once, Valkyrie (Lancer), Consort Yu (Assassin), and Bedivere (Saber) to signify them as servants I like a lot, not to take them any further in level. Well, except Bedivere who got 2 but he deserved to be a gold servant, not a silver, so I fixed that for him.
For beyond 100, there are 2 that I plan to take to 120. Both are Okita. It's hard there because you also need servant coins, which come from two sources. Banners, which is my main source for Summer Okita due to her being easier to obtain from them, and bond, which is how I've gotten enough for Okita (Saber) to allow her to reach 120. I've had to abandon any skills for her in turn, which is also why I can't do this with Hokusai (Foreigner) currently as I chose to use the servant coins I had for her on extra damage against berserkers.
Getting any 4/5 star to level 120 is basically an issue of how many coins you have and how difficult those coins are to get.

 

[Geriatric hedgehog]

300 million... How much did you farm?

Quite a bit heh, though didn't you need to get that much anyway to finish the event and nab Hokusai? I had a brilliant lvl100 Ishtar archer support with the right event-related attack boosting CEs equipped that I used to demolish one of the lv90 casino quests with only saber enemies heh. Still a grind but oddly satisfying and, now I'm finding, also incredibly useful for stocking up on QP.

With Saber, you might want to consider her mana burst over her charisma.

You're exactly right and I realised that too late into levelling up her skills heh. As you'd advised, I've done the strengthening quests for her and Emiya so that has definitely helped with two of the strongest in my roster.

Yeah, farming materials normally is horrible. It's why I never do it. Massive pain so I wait for events and farm out the shops there.

I may follow your strategy for materials and just stick to event shops instead of wasting my time and ap on poor returns farming, seeing as they're better put to actually progress the story so I can participate in more events.

For beyond 100, there are 2 that I plan to take to 120. Both are Okita. It's hard there because you also need servant coins, which come from two sources.

Gosh, I had not realised that you needed coins for grailing past 100 as well! Bloody gacha game... Well that's good to know, so thank you for the heads up. I'll hold on to those coins rather than use them for skills... I'd started using some for Saber but I didn't plan on grailing her, yet, so not an issue.

Bedivere who got 2 but he deserved to be a gold servant, not a silver, so I fixed that for him.

Heh I know what you mean, and I feel like that way about a lot of the Fate/Stay Night characters (though I suspect most have been 3*ed to show up Saber's recurrently mentioned superiority in the anime...). Cu is especially one I'd want to grail, given his relative invincibility. But, think I'll hold on to those grails for now, until I've decided who my favourites are, as you did with your Okitas.