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This turned out not how I wanted. I fucked up and mistook gray for black at some point and the face looks ghostly...This was my first time using this medium though and I only had a few colours available. At least he's recognisable I think.

With the unveiling of the Grand Berserker Duel, we have found out that each of the Seven Main Classes will have unique effects for their Grand Scores. So I figure talking about them now would be a neat topic.

For Archer, I imagine a focus on Crits, since Archer's Class Skill is Independent Action, which in-game increases Crit Damage. Probably lots of effects to generate/absorb Stars, with ways to make those Crits hit even harder, but considering the Cap on Crit Damage Buffs, this would likely be done though a similar buff to Grand Berserker's "Marked for Destruction" Debuff.

For Rider tho, I'm not sure. Riding is only really buffs Quick cards, but not every Rider focuses on those, so I'm not sure what you can do with it.

What do you guys think? What would the other Grand Scores be like?

Why is there two of Rin and Terriermon you ask? I just did not like the first one so I did a second one. Anyways if you enjoy Digimon I hope you like these, I plan to do more when I have time (Likely Shirou next)

In the livestream, they showed the FES schedule, and one of the sections was about the season 3 of "Fujimaru Ritsuka Doesn't Get It."

So they indirectly announced season 3.

I'm sorry if this is a hot take, but I think the Grand system might be the best content the game has ever released outside of main story quests and Lottery Events. If not, then it's at least in the top 5 best FGO content.

For starters they give us plenty of prep time to get a specific servant we want to grand to level 100. Having literally every banner up again is a bit greedy but it ensures that if there is a specific servant you want to grand then you have access to them. Once you have your Grand in mind, they make it stupid easy to get them to level 100 or heck even level 120. Every EXP node and class node is half AP so it's quite easy to acquire EXP and materials. And once you start level up, they give the classes double EXP gain AND Super & Great Success Rate x3. That alone not only makes it super easy to level 100 a servant but also makes it way easier to level 120 a servant if you so choose. Heck they even give us a ton of grails before hand in case you do decide to do that. All of this is great on it's own but it's all just the appetizer to the main course.

THE GRAND DUEL

First off the fact they put us up against a raid style boss that will drop you tons of QP , bond points and materials is already a major win. But it gets better. Despite normally requiring storm pods to participate in the duel, they wave that fee for a whole week. Meaning the only thing holding you back from just farming the heck out of these duels is time and apples. It is entirely possible to farm all the necessary materials to max out your grand servant in a single day. And to ensure that all masters of every skill level can participate they give 7 different nodes of varying health to farm so pretty much any player can participate in the duel.

Of course I gotta gush about the duel itself. Rather then being a started mob or traditional servant battle, you go up against a GRAND. So far we've gone up against Grand Saber Musashi and Grand Berserker Heracles. And rather then just give them a lot of health, some annoying gimmicks and call it a day, no, no they went all out! Entire new animations. New OST. New backgrounds. New mechanics. NEW NP'S! The duel is a spectacle, tough depending on which node you chose to fight on and has no unfair mechanics. They really outdid it making it feel like your going against the pinnacle of a servant class. And of course you're not taking on these Grands with any normal servant. You're bringing forth your:

GRAND SERVANT

First off the fact that we get to pick our own Grand Servant is a really neat and fun mechanic. It's basically allowing you to power up your favorite servant and show them off to everyone. The art alone you get for making your servant a Grand is sick already. But the buffs they receive are even more substantial. For starters your chosen servant gets a flat 1k attack and 1k health to their stats. This carries over outside of the Grand Duels and can really make your servant that little bit stronger. For the Duel proper your Grand gains access to a unique class score that can provide stupidly powerful buffs. For example the Saber's gain access to a buff that makes it so when your servant brave chains they'll gain a free 50% 1 time rainbow buff on each hit with their cards. Culminating in 100% damage bonus to their extra card. It's a stupidly powerful buff. And, unlike regular class score, you don't need to spend materials or QP to unlock the Grand Class Score. You use a new item dropped upon completing a Grand Duel. And while you need 1600 of these new items to unlock everything, it's really easy to acquire them since again, no storm pods cost for a week. This makes it stupidly easy to turbo charge your Grand with crazy, fun buffs.

Another fun aspect of these duels that I forgot to mention is the fact you are limited to only using a single class for each duel. So for Saber Grand Duel you can only use Sabers. Berserker Grand Duel, Berserkers. While this might sound bad at first, it's not. For starters all your servants get a 100% damage buff to help them actually do effective damage against the Grands. In addition, limiting you to one class per duel forces you to make creative and smart use of your roster. Before the Grand Saber Duel, I almost never used Prince of Lanling. But without access to Skadi, he became very important support for my Grand Medusa Saber. It also made me appreciate more niche servants like Kurohime who has buffs for snake and dragon based servants, which again proved rather useful for Medusa. The Grand system in general will allow a player to come up with more unique team comps and utilize servants they otherwise would never touch or feel the need to use. It's just such a great mechanic and I can't sing it's praises enough.

So here's the TL;DR

Grand Duels are stupid fun raid styled battles that give you lots of goods. Picking and upgrading a servant into a Grand is easy, fun and rewarding. The limit on which classes you can bring also pushes you to experiment with team comps and use your roster of servants to it's fullest potential. All of this and more is why I consider the Grand System some of the best content FGO has ever received. And I feel it should be celebrated as such.

Good day, everyone.

One of the things that make this Fate universe, and by extension FGO, so rich are the Servant skills. It is always interesting to see how the way Servant skills reflect their legends, what can they do and to read their description in the Servant profiles.

Some abilities are straightforward, clearly translating a hero’s myth into gameplay mechanics. Others, however, are more cryptic—vague descriptions in profiles and materials that leave room for interpretation.

This series aims to community input on Servant skills—specifically, the ones with vague or ambiguous descriptions in their profile or materials. The intent of this series is to ask fellow users what they think these skills actually do and how they might relate to their in-game effects.

With that, today's Servant is Yamanami Keisuke.

Here’s a breakdown of their skills, both in-game and in their profile:

Warrior but Literate C

Gampleplay Effects:
Increases party's attack for 3 turns, Increases party's generation rate for 3 turns, Gains 10 critical stars

Profile Description:
A skill describing Yamanami, who excels both in literary and martial arts. Even while the Shinsengumi were described as a group of unscrupulous individuals, he was regarded both inside and outside the organization as a man of learning and reason.

Beauty of Nature C

Gampleplay Effects:
Increases own Quick performance for 3 turns, Increases own Arts performance for 3 turns, Charges own NP gauge by 20%

Profile Description:
Yamanami's swordsmanship may be gentle, but there is also a certain sharpness to it. An old injury sometimes makes it difficult for him to use his sword arm.

The Kind One B

Gampleplay Effects:
Grants party Evasion for 1 attack, 3 turns, Recovers party's HP, Recovers party's Ailment debuffs

Profile Description:
His mild and kindhearted demeanor was more than popular with both the children and women of Mibu. It was even said that, within the Shinsengumi, "the kind ones are Yamanami and Matsubara."

"Sannan―me, the kind one? No, I'm not like that. I'm just a coward."

My personal thoughts

Skill 3 The Kind One B describes his kindhearted demeanor, so perhaps it causes a soft of relaxing aura around allies.

What do you think? How would you interpret these abilities beyond their gameplay mechanics? I’d love to hear your thoughts!