6:08 I got confused, voyager also charges living humans but he himself isn't, idunno why I think a satellite being a living human makes any sense but yeah sorry lol.
Well Mashu is also the Round Table in addition to being a human. So maybe they did the same thing with Voyager, they ground it up and stuck it inside an experimental body.
Arcuied is strong and not broken whatsoever where she is really good in Farming and can do Boss fights. She's a well balance strong Unit where she can do a lot of stuff but she can't fight all enemies like Rulers obviously but she is strong where you can bring her to any nodes.
@@alispeed5095 not really, Caster Vinci, Holmes and Rider Vinci were all considered good or decent when they came out. Heck I'd even argue that Skadi isn't super broken as she was hyped out to be.
@@alispeed5095 That's why no one likes meta slaves... If they keep releasing meta supports every year, there won't be a game to play. That's not a sustainable practice. Besides, there is a balance amongst the meta supports rn, which each cardtype having only 1 50% battery/50% color boost for 3T for each cards. Quick is missing supplementary supports like Oberon/Merlin/Tamamo but no supplementary support has ever been released on anniversary so expecting a Quick "savior" this Anni was stupid.
Original One was used as a title for Crimson Moon in I think either Tsukihime Remake or Notes. Her reason for having it is to represent her connection as a possible revival method for Brunstead, to manifest in her body, since this is the closest she is to the “Original One”, Crimson Moon.
@@netomoreira3525 Pretty much, yeah. There’s a bunch of conditions for this to even happen, plus more theoretical possibilities that likely won’t be relevant, but the term Vampiric’s a bit off. The bloodsucking nature was a defect of the original true ancestors, something Crimson Moon shouldn’t have, and the third ascension represent a possibility if she never knew the taste of blood, I.e. never drinking Roa’s blood.
The Japanese title is 原初の一、"The One that is the Origin", and I believe refers to her compatibility as a host for the Crimson Moon's will. As her profile states, Altrouge's existence as a second candidate is why she can't fulfill that role, so until that score is settled she'll never fully become Archetype Earth, and it's why the passive is a low D. i.e. even Hime is still gimped and not at the peak potential of what Arceuid could possibly become.
@@ZackZeal even though she is not as strong as she would be. She is still one of the strongest nasuverse characters in general regardless of altrouge status. The reason her power is fully nerfed in fgo is because she is under saint graph as a servant and not the celestial egg
@@sommyaruproy8405 characters like melusine or even morgan sometimes can still perform relatively well without double koyan, but arc with and without is like night and day imo.
You just described what's wrong with buster meta. Even if you don't have castoria, you still have many other looping options like paracelsus, nero bride etc, eventhough it won't be consistent. For buster, you need koyanskaya of your own and in most cases, a mlb kscope or a max append skill. Plus, you need to max the skills too. My melt can loop at 6/6/6 just for comparison sake. Buster is too much investment
Arcueid can loop without a koyanskaya of your own if you have a mlb kscope and another 50% charger. But her whole selling point is that she can farm with black grail, since her damage is pretty low due to her class
as an np3 haver, she definitely didn't feel in that expectation of a broken servant like other anniversary servants are, but she's still very strong and she's so adorable, that alone makes up all her shortcomings for me edit: np5 haver now
@Unknown-wb4ex congrats my fella, same here. I made a jp acc just for her, pulled with free ~350 sq cuz I signed up late, didn't receive all the rewards. had two double ssrs I believe. she's not gonna have any rate up, even 2 years later, only in gssr and destiny summons. level her up to 120 cuz she absolutely needs it. mooncancer units lack atk. save coins for the last append skill, gonna be the best way you can loop her without atlas. 2 years later she's still my favorite, consistent. np5 absolutely is a game changer
As someone who doesn't have the top tier farmers like Muramasa, Spishtar, SummerKama, Morgan, etc. Getting her to np2 seems like the game is telling me to have a strong farmer. And good thing I have Castoria and Koyanslight
I put some thought on arcueid and i found out that she is the best farmer if you go all in on her meaning np5 level 120 and fous/append skills. Her value lies in scaling of course she will not have the best damage in the game but for farming being able to run CEless plug less and her ascension 2 np being quite fast just like cascu but with SSR numbers
Despite how I really expected her to be Godjuna level of Busted she honestly feels balanced in the current state of the game Even with the OP passives, utility, 100 np charge she still feels decent at best
I think "decent" might be selling her a little short. She's not going to pull the numbers that AA or Morgan can dish out, but she's arguably the most flexible farmer in the game right now (perhaps tied with Cu Caster?), and isn't tied to specific teams like the usual meta farmers are. She does require at least some investment before tackling down heavier content though, which might be a point against her.
@@kuonjibaskerville2411 Bro, these bots are evolving. They're picking random words from the threads and putting together coherent sentences that are even related to the topic and make sense. Goddamn.
Still think Melusine is a better Buster farmer if you have Koyan and Oberon. Arc tends to fail to kill stuff with slightly above average HP at NP1 if they're not Chaotic (or I guess Man attribute to use Koyan s2) since she is forced to run Atlas if she wants BG, while I never had that issue with Melusine thanks to her higher base atk+Lancer modifier, and ramping damage giving her more overall buffs in wave 3 even discounting Oberon's buffs
Well thats becausw she is. People say nah just because you spend 10s to swap 1 koyans for oberon. But imo thats stupid. Melu is superior on everything. Just everything but those 10s which... idk its a nonsense to think those 10s makes a servant with worst numbers, worst np and more koyan reliant a better servant. Its that simple.
My Arcueid is NP1 and she has difficulty in killing the last wave of ember farming (the highest level one) with double koyanskaya. She can kill it if she has brave chain and even then one of her cards has to be buster, if not, the enemy is left with 500 HP. Just short. Great video, I'm learning a lot. I guess one advice I can offer is write down bullet points if you haven't already.
Well, it's rather common for a servant to not able clear the last neutral wave at np1. You can try using BG tough since arcueid didn't need starting np to be usable
Arc feels pretty disappointing for how much people hyped her as a Buster farmer. While on paper she works as a 6 slot no swap Buster farmer, her low damage pretty much necessitates her using Black Grail, and if you want to bring in Plugsuit then you can just use Melusine. She's still good, but I absolutely feel like people got lost in the hype of her release to say she was a god-tier unit.
Same goes with Constantine XI .Dude was so hype , when people starts to critisize His skill set with 0 synergies they start to defend him like thier own child . Now a month later he feel into irrelevance
Arc would be a must summon for me even without her skills and damage. Been wanting tsukihime servants forever, and now we're finally getting them (maids when lasagnga?) Also, moon cancer is just filled with incredible servants/skills. Mermaid flesh, faceless moon, arcs skill 2, the animations of the cards when they appear, these servants are all insanely stylish.
After using her for farming in this past weeks, i can say for sure that she will be my main farming unit from now on. I also have her at NP2 and honestly i dont have any problem with her damage. Mainly because in an event farming nodes, the last enemy with big HP on the 3rd wave are usually servant which sometime have a chaotic alignment or man attributes (i know she doesnt have a bonus damage againts man, but koyans 2nd skill does. Just slap her with double koyans 2nd skill and she can get a total 100% bonus damage againts man for free). I honestly want to roll for another copy of her for more damage, but since im just an f2p, i have to safe my remaining SQ for the new summer event. Hopefully she will get another banner in the future.
@@ichigo2102 yeah, a sad fact. Currently i have her NP3 (after i post that comment i roll again for another copy), but i need more copy of her so i can able to raise her level to 120 (i already use her coins to unlock her 2nd ap skill).
First impressions are useally blind hype for the most part whenever someone new appears for the most part that isn't a legacy character. People act like a unit is broken. Use them during the event and then never use them again or even remember they exist. Arc isn't that way she's a fine unit. The battery is huge so she'll be like cu caster and be above general use for farming. But I honestly wish people could take a second to actually read the kit before making a final decision. How I process things is long term on what will be helpful and what will go back in the archive.
@@kyshowman6847 can't. I don't have any of the things to make videos with and my phone I play on na on is ancient. So I instead use what I do have with comments to make skits stories and my thoughts on story kits and anything else. It works as I get a good deal of feedback that is positive
I agree, people get caught up in hype a lot when it comes to looking at new Servants. There are certainly strong new Servants released, but for instance I think Space Ishtar + Castoria is still the best general farming team even with Servants like the Koyanskayas, Morgan, and now Arcueid existing (though obviously they're all still very good and among the best in the game).
@@bluess1508 sorry for the late response. RUclips didn't message me. Yeah with space Ishtar she is the exception to meta as she can't be stopped with whatever comes next she just gets better. Arc the battery is honestly her biggest thing making her stand out for ssr but that's it. Her damage is low power without extra pulls but by then anyone is good enough if you go for the extra work.
I quite like the comps with Arc for wave 1, and another dps using her charge + a support to do wave 2 and 3, purely for the comfort of not needing plug or to borrow specific supports, being able to just grab first from the list is comfy
Assuming np2 lv100 and only speaking in terms of 6ce farming.(No black grail) She has the easiest looping requirements but her damage is potato. My normal use for her is as a 1st wave clear and party charger. Arcueid, Morgan(max battery and mana loading) + any dps with 50%battery and max mana loading or any dps+plugsuit oberon has been able to clear pretty much everything ive farmed thus far.
I think the big thing keeping me from splurging at this exact moment is...I already have an NP5 Cu Caster, who I just think is more flexible. His charges are on lower cooldowns which helps him a lot, his Buster bonus stacks unlike Arceuid etc Arc will have better damage in certain situations (although if you hit the damage range, you hit the damage range) and if you decide to roll for more copies but she doesn't feel like a strong enough upgrade if I'm not going to try to roll for NP2 or higher. This was a really good video overall. Really enjoyed it.
Yeah, she ain't gonna one-up CasCu by much at NP2. If you want to replace CasCu, you're better of going for NP3+ and that is only worth it if you like her character.
I do felt a bit down when I see that her Steroids Numbers are pretty standards outside of her Passive which theoretically can stay up 100% of the time. The NP Damage could've been a 30-50% to compensate the massive cooldown for the battery, and of course, Funny Vamp that doesn't charge her own NP Gauge. She's an Anni Servant, a hype one and a powerful one lorewise, so I feel like they should just disregard balancing with her, they already did enough with that by making her a Moon Cancer. but then again, maybe that's just me
@@alispeed5095 it's not she's not game changer or a meta. She's just like your typical top tier arts neutral farmer(i know she is a buster, like i said "like"). Cause ya know every arts top tier can loop with castoria using BG even at 90+ with mroe value cause of plug oberon.
Here’s a hot take: this year’s anniversary was kinda average compared to the last 2 anniversaries anniversaries, like we didn’t even get those boss fights/challenge quest replays, and the Saint Quartz rewards were proportional to how many servants you’d already maxed out and gotten to ascension 4.
definitely not as great as last years. 5th anni was more bare minimum with the only changes was the 30 mp per day and fix command codes. while the quick changes and mighty brave chain were good this year, i don't think it was better than append, lvl 120, free ssr. tons of free quartz is expected for every anni. but you can use all of it of it and not get anything. gameplay changes and mechanics matter more. arc carries this anni.
My opinion on Arcueid is simple She's not broken, but she still is strong in her own right. But none of that matters because she's best fucking girl who should be rolled for regardless (fucking read Tsukihime if you haven't)
First i think she is balanced in a way that she need higher np level to be the best farmer. At lower np level, arcuied would struggle some higher hp node. And there are better option but if you invest on her. She could be best but you are right also.
I pretty much agree with everything here. She is pretty good but not a must roll. Although I have to say she is much more useful for a less developed account. She can clear two waves by her self and then give charge to a second dps. You do not need konyaskya or oberon for that even at np1. Like with those qps nodes you were talking about she cannot kill the 3rd wave so just bring some one who can. Any st Rider with at least 20% charge can np with Arc and another 50% charger. Use your free waver free k scope and your done. We will have to see when actual events come up again but I doubt double dps comps are impratical as you say. All you need is another servant with their second append skill maxed, they can use any ce because you can give them 80% battery. I'd say being able to choose any ce on any suitable servant you want is practical. For the qp node if you want to clear in 3 turns just kill the last wave with Ozy. If you have his append skill you do not even need his 3rd skill. Same amount of free ce slots as before, still 3 servants can use any mystic code and still cleared the quest. Not that impractical.
I don't think they are able to show her true power correctly because first she is very difficult to kill lore wise, but they didn't show it correctly. Second her ultimate one passive skill doesn't work like thst instead it increases her power against a enemy by making her even more powerful than them. Ofcourse, because she is servant, she is weakened but i still think they can do something to solve it like giving her 1.5x or 2.0x damage against everyone including rulers (yeah 2.0x is kinda broken but atleast 1.5x times would be really fine because of her less damage). Third, she should have a way to increase her damage overtime like melusine's buster up or arjuna alter like 3 turn buster resistance. Because her base np damage isn't less actually. It is exactly similar to space ishtar and melusine. But they increases their np damage overtime. At third turn, they themself have 60% buster up in melusine case and 60% to 80% np for space ishtar case.
Honestly the only thing that really gimps her is her class. MoonCancer is just a weak class and I don't even know why she's summoned as a MoonCancer. Yes, she's the literal moon, but come on, she's got nothing to with S.E.R.A.P.H at all.
I thought the video format was great! You came across as clear, knowledgeable and overall easy to follow. I have her at NP3 with a bonus grail and she still has some blatant damage issues when not using BG. That said I agree that for general farming she’s great and super flexible. I think I prefer Morgan overall but I’ll keep using Arcuied until the new toy syndrome wears off lol
Basically Invis & np bat for team, herself w np dmg up(IIRC), debuff and atk up... Pretty much all rounded character... Classic jack of all trades.. Strong but not that Broken... She's fine overall...
Tried out a comp with Morgan (NP3), Arcueid (NP2) and Oberon with no CE, and it works like a charm for casual farming. I'll have to see if that can go the distance in beefier 90+ nodes. To me, Arcueid's biggest selling point is that her flexibility opens up a lot of team ideas that aren't relying on doubling up on Koyanskaya or Oberon. As someone who failed to get either of them, that's invaluable.
It seems she’s probably the quintessential Buster neutral farmer for whales/dolphins able to get her NP2+ and if you want to farm any and everything probably more like NP4 at least. I think arts will be better in general at farming but when it comes to high HP for all 3 waves Buster is better and her normals should be decent by the third wave enough to kill anything big.
Hot Takes: They should buff Arc's skill 1 to seal NPs too. This eas it doesn't feel pike you're losing for using the skill seal. Just like ehat Tamlin Tristan has. Her Invulnerability should be 3 hits. This was its effectively a 1 turn invulnerability Her Breathe of the Planet should have a huge heal that is equal to or greater than Enkidu's. Especially since both Servants use the Breath of the Planet to power themselves up among other things. And its thematic since basically a vampire; a suoer strong one at that too. She needs an aoe NP drain since she's supposed to be a vampire.
I mean it says hot takes, i expect people to disagree with the opinion, this is what makes it fun, I learn to appreciate a lot of servants I dismissed initially through talking to people on forums.
looking at fgo survey, looks like players already comfortable with morgan because she literally can do anything with any support , im not surprised if she became a benchmark for any new servants
I just tried the QP node with my NP2 arcueid(lv110, 2k fous) WITHOUT any CE and she killed the last wave ganesha with np o.o, swaped in Edison for the CD reduction and lvl5 new chaldea mystic code, she did 158.7K damage and ganesha has 132k so it's consistent
Arc is crazy. Just crazy. She has the best loop specs in the entire game; capable of theoretically farming everything plugless at 6CE/5CE. That's insane. No other servant has that except premier Arts, who can no longer do that once the enemy count drops and CasCu who is held back by 3* stats and 0.9x offensive modifier. You need NP5 120 to farm at 6CE but there are certain instances you can make up for it by running BG and 5CE setups or using VOO to clear at 6CEs. Her damage is kinda on the lower end but she her flexibility in setups means you can tweak it to ensure she clears. And this is only considering single DPS setups. She also has a crazy Arc/Oberon/[Any 50% charger with targetable/AE 20% battery] (ex. Morgan and Jaqcues, though Morgan or any Buster servant is preferable to benefit from Oberon's Buster up on W3). That's a triloop setup you can run using your servants alone WITH ANY MC (as long as Arc's append is unlocked), meaning you no longer need to pick specific servants with the specific CEs of your FL, saving a huge amount of time. Granted, it's kinda expensive as you need at least NP2+ Arc and NP4+ Morgan. In stall, she's absolutely a beast. She's a 50% charger for living human allies, meaning that she can get supports like Waver, Reines and Mash to NP on her own. She has buff removal immune Invuln, which means she's gimmick immune to a certain extent. While her stall isn't as broken as the Merlin/Morgan/Castoria shell, it's easily one of the best stall setups in the game. Arc is insane. She's not a servant that causes a paradigm shift in the meta like previous Anni servants, but she's quite easily the best farmer in the game.
The way I view Arc is she's like the french toast of Servant, in that she's perfectly fine and good even with minimal investment and commitment into making her a good unit. Go all out for her, though, like garnishing her with Grails, Gold Fous, and extra copies of herself? She becomes THE indisputable best farmer in the game in terms of flexibility, as she become Cu Caster but Better in all that she does, able to 6 Slot Drop anything short of Ruler Waves or the most blatantly unfair of nodes without mandatory plugsuit usage. Melusine and/or Maou Nobu may beat her out in terms of damage, but she can still do a decent enough job _without_ MORE powerful supports and swaps if one's powerful enough to make up for her relatively low ATK. She's also phenomenal in hybrid attack set-up precisely because of her Instant-NP and NP Charge Support wombo-combo, letting less developed account or the most enterpernuing Masters to find ways to use her to great effect while potentially still having freedom over CEs, and perhaps even the MC too. It's hardly her most ideal use case, but it's one not a lot of other Servants can do so it should be noted! On a last note, I also like how while she is clearly stronger than Summer BB in some aspects, Arc doesn't entirely powercreep them out of existence. Beach Babe still is the queen of Gogh Comps , Card Locking is exclusive to her, and Raw Crit and Buff Power under Double Koyan is still excellent even if it does require Superscope, so those that heavily invest into the best kouhai don't have to feel like they've been left in the dust.
Hey, not rambly at all. In fact, it this hot take soon-to-be-series is what I need for fgo content. Can't moonrunes so a lot of jp reviews I could only understand/catch 10% of the gist
Np5 Arc here. No regrets. Honestly if you got the tools and give investment, she's premier for farming. Also I'm looking forward to using her bond ce in some of the multi dps comps
The main issue I find is that well even with Black Grails she actually can't consistently kill most 90+s unless she's np3(I've run using calcs and multiple sites as well as my own with the damage formula), this is of course even worse than you try to 6s..in fact she performs better with a plug and your usual AD than with a BG and then when you compare her to Morgan and co in similar circumstances she loses out
I don’t think this is a hot take just a very balanced and logical evaluation of this servant’s abilities. I like the sentiment that not every anniversary servant needs to be game changing, honestly the game can’t really change that much at this point anyway. It’s a reality that if you’ve played this game for long enough there’s always a servant better at something than Arcueid but her animations are cool and that’s good enough for me. Still, sucks to get someone for anniversary that I’ll use for a week and leave at bonds 5 forever but that happens for most releases at this point.
Hey Plushie, I really like this video despite of few things we dont have same opinion. Hope u can continue this series. I cant wait to heard your words about all future servant
Honestly she's a well balanced servant and a great anniversary servant. What I think makes a good anni servant is great visuals and something fresh. Her animations and field change mechanic fit those two things, and she's a fan favorite, so in the department, she's great. As a servant, she has a lot of nice skills and potential, but she isn't broken to the point you can just steamroll anything with her. Its a nice change of pace from past anniversaries. A character that you won't regret pulling, but that you also won't regret skipping.
I might sound a bit silly but if final turn damage is a issue you can just use the 2nd skill, use whatever face card then start the farm after that. It might be 4t but you will have double koyans, Black Grail and Oberon with the new plugsuit. If that's not enough i don't know what is
you only need np5, 120, max fou and lmb bg to deal with farming any nodes regardless of level (with dks ofc). jokes aside... arc really need high investment level to do her job effectively (atleast np3 so you can reach lvl120 for the extra stat which she absolutely needed) if only her rainbow passive stack with each other....... 60% rainbow buff uhhhgg....
Her niche it's not a small one, there are 134 Chaotic servant right now, and with time will be more She is a very solid servant, a very good option especially if you dont have a main buster farmer
I went close to pity for this lady but didn’t care because I was rolling for Xu Fu, all I’m going to say as a budding FGO JP player is that she feels like David with some more utility? I don’t prioritize 3T farming but I have a feeling that I’ll be able to do so quite easily with her and F2P units if I allow some CE freedom (which I don’t care about rn because there’s hardly any CE’s I have to need freedom, lol) And she synergizes with Mash fairly well for challenging content. Aside from the pseudo-servant charge, all taunts synergize with single hit survivability with extended durations. It’s kinda basic gameplay-wise but I like it enough that I thought she was as much worth summoning for as Daikokuten. And I liked Daikokuten a lot.
Gotta say she is a blessing to my F2P JP account, while I did have Morgan and Koyan, I didn't have much else, especially CE wise. I COULD farm with Morgan but sometimes damage at NP1 wasn't enough. Arc however, even at lower damage, made things a lot easier on my account... Until she decided to be NP4 in around 300sq when rolling for Xu Fu coins so now damage is no longer an issue I suppose. Definitely worth the investment though if you can get as you said NP2 or above, even just for the 100% battery. I'd have loved to test NP1/2 6 slotting but due to no CEs I couldn't really and no events obviously, but with a (non-MLB) Black Grail at NP1, she did not have that damage for Doors, but it was mostly close and NP2 always hits the damage with it. She has made things so braindead easy, and I can now retire the method of swapping servants, even if that does mean also retiring the Summer Kama team for most things since it was a pain when you don't have your own Castoria. Please no one ask about my Xu Fu coin count, I don't wanna talk about it....
@@senkanna3331 arc literally needs dupes for her to even kill last wave consistently in high level nodes. If you are gonna say "but she does fine in medium diff nodes" then so does a multitude of servants. Getting Oberon is infinitely better than another Arc since he isnt restricted to Melu but a lot of servants will benefit from him.
I don't know where you got that Arc does less damage in triple DPS comps than VVX comps even a single Oberon can make her outdamsge the later in the former and she does respectable damage for reference assuming a 6 slot she'll do 165k at NP5 neutral compared to the 171k she does with Oberon at NP2 mind you. The only time I think its worth to VVX with her is when she is either facing a chaotic enemy or if you are 5 sloting with black grail
I'll be honest Arcueid coming into FGO convinced me to start reading Tsukihime and so far i'm liking it. I have been planning on reading it for a while with the remake being released it made me want to read it a little more but since Arcueid came in to made me more interested. I am at the early stages of the VN hopefully I will have to the time to do it. Because right now I have two jobs one on the weekdays and the other on the weekends. my weekend job is shorter ours but its a fifty fifty on what days I will work there
Great video. Tbh I still consider Melusine to be the prime buster farmer. Six slotting is extremely important to me and Arcueid isn't amazing in that area. Hopefully there will be a future servant like Koyanskaya that will also reduce skill cooldowns and provide big buffs as well.
Not really. Meluko is tied to a plugsuit and need similar loop specs (NP3+) at 6CE. If you want 6CEs and don't mind the plugsuit, Arc can run 6CEs with VV+Edison or VOO depending on whether you need W2 or W3 damage. So, both Arc and Meluko are roughly equivalent in 6CE department. What puts Arc above Meluko is the plugless flexibility and ability to triloop with double DPS setups. Arc's #1 in the entire game at that, tbh. She's expensive, but at that level she's #1.
@@kun2588 I agree that Melusine is tied behind plugsuit but Arcueid damage is no where near Melusine when plugsuiting. And this is mainly because Melusine can actually make use of Oberon when six slotting so her W3 damage will naturally be higher. Her W1 and W2 damage will always be higher since she has more damage steroids. Arceuids damage is still mediocre when plugsuiting which is disappointing while Melusines damage skyrockets so they have no where near "similar loop specs." Also, every looper is expensive. You'll need to get a couple of copies to loop properly so I don't see that as an argument.
@@inderpreetsingh214 No, Meluko doesn't outdamage Arc as easily as you say she does. And Arc has more damage steroids than Meluko on W1 and W2. The following are the NP1 6CE numbers for the two with VV only. Meluko lv.90 NP1 39.6k, 43.2k Arc lv.90 NP1 48.6k, 42.2k Arc also has the option of stacking her S1 on T2 if your running 6CE plugless using Atlas MC on T2 which brings her T2 damage up to 58.3k. So, no she doesn't outdamage Arc cleanly. Now obviously a plug farmer is going to outdamage a plugless farmer on W3. However, If you're not averse to using the plugsuit (as you should be since you're advocating for Meluko) Arc can 6slot w. VOO and her damage is within competitive range of Meluko's W3 damage. It's about ~6k short, but honestly that's more than enough to clear for both of them if you're considering NP3+ as their minimum loop spec. But that is all honestly irrelevant. Farming isn't about a pissing contest. It isn't "oh, my Buster AE can hit more overkill that yours". From a functional perspective, most of the damage Meluko provides (specially on W3) is waay more than necessary. There are other aspects to farming as I will mention below. When I say expensive, I'm talking about party cost. Arc requires multiple NP copies to work, so she's an expensive quartz investment herself. However, her farming setups are much more flexible on party cost enabling insane backline flexibility in terms of farming bond and slotting event CEs. Meluko can only slot 5* CEs if you're above Master level 150 and even then it's when your running Mash and 1* CE holders, so you can't farm bond with other servants. Oh, and plugless is > plugsuit for other obvious reasons.
@@kun2588 She does and here are my calcs. I am using the maketakunai's damage calculator. Both Melusine and Arcueid are level 90 NP1 and regular fou'd. And they are both considered to be running double koyan. Melusine: W1 - 57.3k // W2 - 62.4k Arceuid: W1 - 53.9k // W2 - 46.8k And this damage difference will only increase the more you invest in either servant. I am not considering using Atlas and stacking her S1 on T2 since Arcueid needs as much damage as she can get on W3 since its already so low with Atlas. On W3, forget about it. Melusine's buffs scale so well with Oberon that there is a very large difference no matter who you plugsuit with Arcueid. Not sure how you got that math but if I had to guess, you didn't consider fous. Its important to consider all the buffs since math is always linear when calc'ing np damage. And I agree that at a certain point damage doesn't matter but for Arcueid it really does. Her damage is really low especially when using Atlas and 6 slotting. If you want to farm 90+ nodes, this damage problem will become much more apparent. She can't be super flexible if she can only kill waves in certain situations. If you're okay with not 6 slotting and using a BG then sure she becomes the best servant in the game for you. But for minmaxers, she isn't the best. And I disagree that plugless is always better than plugsuit. 90+ nodes still exist and most of the time require you to use a plugsuit. If you want to do 6 slotting with Arcueid, she has to be extremely hyper invested for her to properly farm waves and even then she still needs plugsuit to do good damage. I agree that plugless has it merits but it also has its limitations.
@@inderpreetsingh214 Yeah, I don't know how you pulled those numbers. I've used the same calculator and plugged the same conditions and quoted the numbers in my previous comment. I've run it thrice now to make sure and received the same results. I don't know what you're doing wrong. Just to make sure that I'm not missing any buffs, Meluko hits W1 with 120% Buster up and 40% attack up whereas Arc hits at 130% Buster up, 30% Attack up, 20% NP damage up and 20% def down. Nothing more, nothing less. I've accounted for 1k fous asw. Hell, even your Arc numbers are bigger than the ones I pulled. The point is that Arc *can* run plugless at 6CE efficiency; Meluko can't. An Omnifarmer doesn't just mean a servant that can clear 90+, it means a servant that can farm every node in the game as the prefix "omni-" implies. And Arc is superior at that; Meluko has only one setup which is plug and relies on a huge party cost whereas Arc can clear certain nodes at 6CE efficiency while still providing luxuries such as more backline slots to farm bond and flexibility with CEs. The gatekeep for Meluko's 6CE farming is party cost. Below master level 150, it is impossible for her to slot 6 5*CEs. Above that she can't farm bond for anyone. Her farming is rigid and inefficient from a secondary benefit perspective. No, my point with stacking Arcs damage on W2 is that in certain nodes the W2 boss is beefier than the W1 one. For example, that Nightingale christmas rerun 90+ node, that had a ~150k mob on W2 while having a 3 mobs on W3 with the largest one being ~100k. I remember it clearly because it was a lotto event that was really hard to minmax. Arc is so flexible, you can bend her to meet the requirements of each node while still having decent enough efficiency and performance. In terms of plug 6-slot efficiency, Arc and Meluko are roughly equal. The W3 damage of Arc in her best plug setup (VOO) is comparable to that of Meluko. In fact, an argument can be made that Arc is superior to Meluko at this because she's never at class disadvantage, but I will set that aside. There are two aspects of min-maxing; one is drop efficiency and the other is time efficiency. Arc clearly wins in the latter as she's capable of dropping one slot in favor of a damage CE to plugless clear any node at NP2 even and has a shorter NP animation in her second ascension. In the case of the former, they're roughly equal. Also the rigidity of Meluko's farming requirements to triloop anything (plugsuit and 2 native SSRs) can cause a bottleneck in her 6CE setups in terms of party cost. Also, Arc's farming setups aren't limited to Koyan alone. An ML unlocked Arc can run Morgan/Arc/Oberon which is a 6CE setup without any major native meta support or reliance on MC. Granted, you need high NP levels on both Morgan and Arc to do decent damage. Look at those setups, there are quite a few vids on them in RUclips. They're indubitably the best at clearing dailies and (depending on investment into your Morgan) can be used in even 90+ event nodes. Plugless, when possible is always superior to plug at the same drop efficiency. And Meluko will never provide that. It's the only asterisk on her as a farmer. I was of the opinion that Meluko was the best farmer in the game due to her consistency but after seeing the sheer versatility and flexibility that Arc offers to tackle different nodes, I cannot in good conscience say that Meluko is superior to Arc. I can see an argument saying that Meluko is equal to Arc in terms of farming from a drop efficiency perspective (even though I'll question their comparative performance in such setups) but I can't see one that says that Meluko is better than Arc.
Turns out great, i was thinking around the same about her and i have her at 110 and NP4 (thanks to free to play gods) lol Anyways she's one of the best farmers now if you have her at least NP2 for sure!
Ironically, she can farm with double koyanskaya plugless, but she can't farm with double koyanskaya oberon. I don't think you can seriously call her the premier buster looper when melusine exists. Yes, arc doesn't require plug like melusine, but arc's damage without plug is so low that she can't farm hard nodes unless if they are chaotic. But even if you DO use plug with arcueid; you have to run double oberon, which means that her wave 1 and 2 damage will be quite bad, and even her wave 3 damage is far behind someone like Melusine.
Is she a good puñl for a f2p new player? I'm afraid having her at np1 won't be worth cuz most ppñ keep saying how huge if an investment she is to be "worth" or "viable".
She is bad for me, because she hasn't problems with battery but with dmg, and then others buster farmers have problems with battery but dont with their damage, so in the end you end losing a CE slot for 6 ce farm and maybe even with black grail she isn't capable of doing too much dmg. While servants like morgan you use plugsuit and there you solved her problem of battery while dealing tons of damage, of course with a battery ce. I expected more of her being a powerful character and an anniversary one but she doesn't changes nothing in the game (asside of her marble phantasm that changes the field)
I agree with the pros and cons stated in the video but I dont get why people are hyping over not needing to use plugsuit. Using Atlas MC is a must if you want to loop her using BG unless im missing something. Being stuck with Atlas MC is even worst than being stuck with plugsuit. Also being able to use BG to reach decent damage is quite a bad thing since it means she needs a fat NP% to make her good while Junao will easily outdamage her with a normal buster CE. Sure her class advantage damage is high but how often can she abuse it? Everyone else abuses zerker class as well. Junao is still the best buster farming servant for me.
Bc plug suit is slow and another support will be tied down and you cant bond another servant instead. Its all about optimization, if you dont mind its not a big deal
@@PlushieMistress True, being able to bond another servant while farming is optimal. Was thinking more about farm looping than bond farming. Another pros of using Arcueid, Wish her damage was slightly higher so she can at least clear the last wave of daily farm quests.
@@Sacri1ege I never had a problem with cleaering the last node of daily farm quests with her and double koyan just use the star bombs at the last wave she may not kill with np alone but the after crits will finish the job
@@nechocat1234 Yea i am aware that you can clear last wave by using her S1 at the last wave and/or using star bombs. My issue there is what if she was used for other nodes with similar or slightly higher HP would she still be able to clear then. An example would be the QP Caster Jinako, what if RNG screws us over and gives all facecard to koyan who is disadvantaged. Sure koyan could still finish her off if she only has abit of HP left, but if its for slightly higher HP? Also, using her S1 at W3 will hurt her damage in S2. Personally, i would much prefer if a servants NP could straight kill the enemy as it removes the RNG factor, dont think anyone likes farming when the last wave is always left with abit of HP.
6:08 I got confused, voyager also charges living humans but he himself isn't, idunno why I think a satellite being a living human makes any sense but yeah sorry lol.
Well Mashu is also the Round Table in addition to being a human. So maybe they did the same thing with Voyager, they ground it up and stuck it inside an experimental body.
Voyager is also a reference to the main character in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
@@WyrmWarrior2Huh, interesting 🤔🧐
Arcuied is strong and not broken whatsoever where she is really good in Farming and can do Boss fights. She's a well balance strong Unit where she can do a lot of stuff but she can't fight all enemies like Rulers obviously but she is strong where you can bring her to any nodes.
The fact that we can call Arcueid “Balanced” really shows how far powercreep has come in this game
That's the issue. Anniversary servants gotta be broken! At least that's what many people xpected hence the negativity
True
I got mine NP4 shes a helluva farmer can even farm wit all bond CEs and shes not as broken as Melu in CQs ngl
@@alispeed5095 not really, Caster Vinci, Holmes and Rider Vinci were all considered good or decent when they came out. Heck I'd even argue that Skadi isn't super broken as she was hyped out to be.
@@alispeed5095 That's why no one likes meta slaves...
If they keep releasing meta supports every year, there won't be a game to play. That's not a sustainable practice.
Besides, there is a balance amongst the meta supports rn, which each cardtype having only 1 50% battery/50% color boost for 3T for each cards. Quick is missing supplementary supports like Oberon/Merlin/Tamamo but no supplementary support has ever been released on anniversary so expecting a Quick "savior" this Anni was stupid.
Original One is quite a weird translation, as it stand for Types, that are the "Ultimate Ones", not exactly...The Originals.
Original One was used as a title for Crimson Moon in I think either Tsukihime Remake or Notes.
Her reason for having it is to represent her connection as a possible revival method for Brunstead, to manifest in her body, since this is the closest she is to the “Original One”, Crimson Moon.
@@hetian9717 hnnm so Original in the vampiric sense, huh? That seems more on the spot.
@@netomoreira3525 Pretty much, yeah. There’s a bunch of conditions for this to even happen, plus more theoretical possibilities that likely won’t be relevant, but the term Vampiric’s a bit off. The bloodsucking nature was a defect of the original true ancestors, something Crimson Moon shouldn’t have, and the third ascension represent a possibility if she never knew the taste of blood, I.e. never drinking Roa’s blood.
The Japanese title is 原初の一、"The One that is the Origin", and I believe refers to her compatibility as a host for the Crimson Moon's will. As her profile states, Altrouge's existence as a second candidate is why she can't fulfill that role, so until that score is settled she'll never fully become Archetype Earth, and it's why the passive is a low D. i.e. even Hime is still gimped and not at the peak potential of what Arceuid could possibly become.
@@ZackZeal even though she is not as strong as she would be. She is still one of the strongest nasuverse characters in general regardless of altrouge status. The reason her power is fully nerfed in fgo is because she is under saint graph as a servant and not the celestial egg
Just roll for arcueid because she's damn gorgeous 💪
main problem with Arcueid
if you don't have your own Koyanskaya, forget about farming with her
I should've mentioned this, she is really heavily reliant on koyan light making her battery twice.
Thats with any buster servant
@@sommyaruproy8405 characters like melusine or even morgan sometimes can still perform relatively well without double koyan, but arc with and without is like night and day imo.
You just described what's wrong with buster meta. Even if you don't have castoria, you still have many other looping options like paracelsus, nero bride etc, eventhough it won't be consistent. For buster, you need koyanskaya of your own and in most cases, a mlb kscope or a max append skill. Plus, you need to max the skills too. My melt can loop at 6/6/6 just for comparison sake. Buster is too much investment
Arcueid can loop without a koyanskaya of your own if you have a mlb kscope and another 50% charger. But her whole selling point is that she can farm with black grail, since her damage is pretty low due to her class
as an np3 haver, she definitely didn't feel in that expectation of a broken servant like other anniversary servants are, but she's still very strong and she's so adorable, that alone makes up all her shortcomings for me
edit: np5 haver now
Hey! I just got her to NP5 on NA....literally just with the quartz they gave us. Can't wait to grail her :)
@Unknown-wb4ex congrats my fella, same here. I made a jp acc just for her, pulled with free ~350 sq cuz I signed up late, didn't receive all the rewards. had two double ssrs I believe. she's not gonna have any rate up, even 2 years later, only in gssr and destiny summons. level her up to 120 cuz she absolutely needs it. mooncancer units lack atk. save coins for the last append skill, gonna be the best way you can loop her without atlas. 2 years later she's still my favorite, consistent. np5 absolutely is a game changer
@@TheLonelyMoonhey im on np3 rn, and already at lvl 120. Do you think it’s necessary to np5 her ? (The fact that there is no rate up for her is sucks)
This style of video was perfectly fine. Hoping to see more
As someone who doesn't have the top tier farmers like Muramasa, Spishtar, SummerKama, Morgan, etc. Getting her to np2 seems like the game is telling me to have a strong farmer. And good thing I have Castoria and Koyanslight
I ended up NP 5ing her since she's not getting another banner, she's my first np 5 and I regret nothing, she's been fantastic
I put some thought on arcueid and i found out that she is the best farmer if you go all in on her meaning np5 level 120 and fous/append skills. Her value lies in scaling of course she will not have the best damage in the game but for farming being able to run CEless plug less and her ascension 2 np being quite fast just like cascu but with SSR numbers
I like that you are diversifying in content
Let’s go, my favourite series
Is fate a series or a franchise?
Despite how I really expected her to be Godjuna level of Busted she honestly feels balanced in the current state of the game
Even with the OP passives, utility, 100 np charge she still feels decent at best
I think "decent" might be selling her a little short. She's not going to pull the numbers that AA or Morgan can dish out, but she's arguably the most flexible farmer in the game right now (perhaps tied with Cu Caster?), and isn't tied to specific teams like the usual meta farmers are.
She does require at least some investment before tackling down heavier content though, which might be a point against her.
@@Talyrion She's more flexible than CasCu as she opens the door for 6CE triple DPS farming.
@Erica Jacobson bot. I knew Damn well an Erica Jacobson didn’t play fgo
@@kuonjibaskerville2411 Bro, these bots are evolving. They're picking random words from the threads and putting together coherent sentences that are even related to the topic and make sense. Goddamn.
@@kun2588 yeah I’ve even seen some talk about doing disgusting things. Extremely annoying
Still think Melusine is a better Buster farmer if you have Koyan and Oberon. Arc tends to fail to kill stuff with slightly above average HP at NP1 if they're not Chaotic (or I guess Man attribute to use Koyan s2) since she is forced to run Atlas if she wants BG, while I never had that issue with Melusine thanks to her higher base atk+Lancer modifier, and ramping damage giving her more overall buffs in wave 3 even discounting Oberon's buffs
Well thats becausw she is. People say nah just because you spend 10s to swap 1 koyans for oberon. But imo thats stupid. Melu is superior on everything. Just everything but those 10s which... idk its a nonsense to think those 10s makes a servant with worst numbers, worst np and more koyan reliant a better servant. Its that simple.
@@pablobg3022 I have never heard of a single person complaining about the plugsuit time, on top of that nobody said that Arc is better than Melusine.
My Arcueid is NP1 and she has difficulty in killing the last wave of ember farming (the highest level one) with double koyanskaya. She can kill it if she has brave chain and even then one of her cards has to be buster, if not, the enemy is left with 500 HP. Just short.
Great video, I'm learning a lot. I guess one advice I can offer is write down bullet points if you haven't already.
Well, it's rather common for a servant to not able clear the last neutral wave at np1. You can try using BG tough since arcueid didn't need starting np to be usable
@@danielak1666 he is obviously using bg
@@danielak1666 he is obviously using bg
Yeah, you're expecting too much from NP1. Even Morgan and Meluko will struggle under those conditions.
@@danielak1666 I use mlb bg. Forgot to mention that.
Her passive is broken af but aside from that she’s pretty balanced. 100% charge feels about right for the “ultimate one” of the moon
Arc feels pretty disappointing for how much people hyped her as a Buster farmer. While on paper she works as a 6 slot no swap Buster farmer, her low damage pretty much necessitates her using Black Grail, and if you want to bring in Plugsuit then you can just use Melusine. She's still good, but I absolutely feel like people got lost in the hype of her release to say she was a god-tier unit.
Same goes with Constantine XI .Dude was so hype , when people starts to critisize His skill set with 0 synergies they start to defend him like thier own child . Now a month later he feel into irrelevance
When the Bustle is Rhythmical. When the Blood Melts. When the ok sorry...
Arc would be a must summon for me even without her skills and damage. Been wanting tsukihime servants forever, and now we're finally getting them (maids when lasagnga?)
Also, moon cancer is just filled with incredible servants/skills. Mermaid flesh, faceless moon, arcs skill 2, the animations of the cards when they appear, these servants are all insanely stylish.
"Been wanting Tsukihime servants forever"
Mf doesn't know that we already have Fujino and two Shiki versions in the game, bruh.
@@thegamerfe8751fujino and shiki r from Kara no Kyoukai not tsukihime.
@@thegamerfe8751 those are kara no kyoukai servants though (melty at best for the shikis)
After using her for farming in this past weeks, i can say for sure that she will be my main farming unit from now on. I also have her at NP2 and honestly i dont have any problem with her damage. Mainly because in an event farming nodes, the last enemy with big HP on the 3rd wave are usually servant which sometime have a chaotic alignment or man attributes (i know she doesnt have a bonus damage againts man, but koyans 2nd skill does. Just slap her with double koyans 2nd skill and she can get a total 100% bonus damage againts man for free).
I honestly want to roll for another copy of her for more damage, but since im just an f2p, i have to safe my remaining SQ for the new summer event. Hopefully she will get another banner in the future.
no arcueid rerun in almost 2 years now 🫡
@@ichigo2102 yeah, a sad fact. Currently i have her NP3 (after i post that comment i roll again for another copy), but i need more copy of her so i can able to raise her level to 120 (i already use her coins to unlock her 2nd ap skill).
Good video, I like this kind of content, Ploosh.
First impressions are useally blind hype for the most part whenever someone new appears for the most part that isn't a legacy character. People act like a unit is broken. Use them during the event and then never use them again or even remember they exist.
Arc isn't that way she's a fine unit. The battery is huge so she'll be like cu caster and be above general use for farming.
But I honestly wish people could take a second to actually read the kit before making a final decision. How I process things is long term on what will be helpful and what will go back in the archive.
Dude, pls make a fgo video at some point.
@@kyshowman6847 can't. I don't have any of the things to make videos with and my phone I play on na on is ancient. So I instead use what I do have with comments to make skits stories and my thoughts on story kits and anything else.
It works as I get a good deal of feedback that is positive
I agree, people get caught up in hype a lot when it comes to looking at new Servants. There are certainly strong new Servants released, but for instance I think Space Ishtar + Castoria is still the best general farming team even with Servants like the Koyanskayas, Morgan, and now Arcueid existing (though obviously they're all still very good and among the best in the game).
@@bluess1508 sorry for the late response. RUclips didn't message me.
Yeah with space Ishtar she is the exception to meta as she can't be stopped with whatever comes next she just gets better.
Arc the battery is honestly her biggest thing making her stand out for ssr but that's it. Her damage is low power without extra pulls but by then anyone is good enough if you go for the extra work.
No, it is really good format in my opinion. it is a great video.
I quite like the comps with Arc for wave 1, and another dps using her charge + a support to do wave 2 and 3, purely for the comfort of not needing plug or to borrow specific supports, being able to just grab first from the list is comfy
As i farm the QP node with my NP5 Arcuied , im just agreeing whenever you shill her , but yeah this video is actually good , hope we see more .
Love the presentation and your thoughts on how she’ll last into the future of the game.
Assuming np2 lv100 and only speaking in terms of 6ce farming.(No black grail)
She has the easiest looping requirements but her damage is potato.
My normal use for her is as a 1st wave clear and party charger.
Arcueid, Morgan(max battery and mana loading) + any dps with 50%battery and max mana loading or any dps+plugsuit oberon has been able to clear pretty much everything ive farmed thus far.
Shed be a reliable omni farmer after an np interlude copium
I think the big thing keeping me from splurging at this exact moment is...I already have an NP5 Cu Caster, who I just think is more flexible. His charges are on lower cooldowns which helps him a lot, his Buster bonus stacks unlike Arceuid etc Arc will have better damage in certain situations (although if you hit the damage range, you hit the damage range) and if you decide to roll for more copies but she doesn't feel like a strong enough upgrade if I'm not going to try to roll for NP2 or higher.
This was a really good video overall. Really enjoyed it.
Yeah, she ain't gonna one-up CasCu by much at NP2. If you want to replace CasCu, you're better of going for NP3+ and that is only worth it if you like her character.
she is just, if you like her roll. If not easy skip.
@@kun2588 uh, what? NP5 Caster Cu at level 70 deals less damage than NP1 Arcueid at level 90 on wave 3, unless you plugsuit Oberon or stuff like that.
@@yggdrasil_ Read what I said again.
@@kun2588 I read what you said again and the person you replied to is still in the right.
I like hearing your insight on the game, the informal nature of it made it feel more comfortable. I for one like this type of video.
I do felt a bit down when I see that her Steroids Numbers are pretty standards outside of her Passive which theoretically can stay up 100% of the time. The NP Damage could've been a 30-50% to compensate the massive cooldown for the battery, and of course, Funny Vamp that doesn't charge her own NP Gauge. She's an Anni Servant, a hype one and a powerful one lorewise, so I feel like they should just disregard balancing with her, they already did enough with that by making her a Moon Cancer. but then again, maybe that's just me
Take it from a guy who’s plays dbl if every anni introduces more power creep shits gonna get wild quick
@@technodry3216 it's not wild yet?
@@alispeed5095 at least every banner isn’t a must roll otherwise content becomes impossible to clear
@@alispeed5095 it's not she's not game changer or a meta. She's just like your typical top tier arts neutral farmer(i know she is a buster, like i said "like"). Cause ya know every arts top tier can loop with castoria using BG even at 90+ with mroe value cause of plug oberon.
@@erjohn5404 not when there 2-1-1 node
Here’s a hot take: this year’s anniversary was kinda average compared to the last 2 anniversaries anniversaries, like we didn’t even get those boss fights/challenge quest replays, and the Saint Quartz rewards were proportional to how many servants you’d already maxed out and gotten to ascension 4.
definitely not as great as last years. 5th anni was more bare minimum with the only changes was the 30 mp per day and fix command codes.
while the quick changes and mighty brave chain were good this year, i don't think it was better than append, lvl 120, free ssr.
tons of free quartz is expected for every anni. but you can use all of it of it and not get anything. gameplay changes and mechanics matter more.
arc carries this anni.
My opinion on Arcueid is simple
She's not broken, but she still is strong in her own right. But none of that matters because she's best fucking girl who should be rolled for regardless (fucking read Tsukihime if you haven't)
First i think she is balanced in a way that she need higher np level to be the best farmer. At lower np level, arcuied would struggle some higher hp node. And there are better option but if you invest on her. She could be best but you are right also.
I pretty much agree with everything here. She is pretty good but not a must roll. Although I have to say she is much more useful for a less developed account. She can clear two waves by her self and then give charge to a second dps. You do not need konyaskya or oberon for that even at np1. Like with those qps nodes you were talking about she cannot kill the 3rd wave so just bring some one who can. Any st Rider with at least 20% charge can np with Arc and another 50% charger. Use your free waver free k scope and your done. We will have to see when actual events come up again but I doubt double dps comps are impratical as you say. All you need is another servant with their second append skill maxed, they can use any ce because you can give them 80% battery. I'd say being able to choose any ce on any suitable servant you want is practical. For the qp node if you want to clear in 3 turns just kill the last wave with Ozy. If you have his append skill you do not even need his 3rd skill. Same amount of free ce slots as before, still 3 servants can use any mystic code and still cleared the quest. Not that impractical.
I don't think they are able to show her true power correctly because first she is very difficult to kill lore wise, but they didn't show it correctly.
Second her ultimate one passive skill doesn't work like thst instead it increases her power against a enemy by making her even more powerful than them. Ofcourse, because she is servant, she is weakened but i still think they can do something to solve it like giving her 1.5x or 2.0x damage against everyone including rulers (yeah 2.0x is kinda broken but atleast 1.5x times would be really fine because of her less damage). Third, she should have a way to increase her damage overtime like melusine's buster up or arjuna alter like 3 turn buster resistance. Because her base np damage isn't less actually. It is exactly similar to space ishtar and melusine. But they increases their np damage overtime. At third turn, they themself have 60% buster up in melusine case and 60% to 80% np for space ishtar case.
Honestly the only thing that really gimps her is her class. MoonCancer is just a weak class and I don't even know why she's summoned as a MoonCancer. Yes, she's the literal moon, but come on, she's got nothing to with S.E.R.A.P.H at all.
I think she should've been stronger considering who she is and the hype around her, shes still good but not broken or game changer
I thought the video format was great! You came across as clear, knowledgeable and overall easy to follow.
I have her at NP3 with a bonus grail and she still has some blatant damage issues when not using BG. That said I agree that for general farming she’s great and super flexible. I think I prefer Morgan overall but I’ll keep using Arcuied until the new toy syndrome wears off lol
really liked the video just do more of them like this
One of your best review vids
Nice, I look forward to more Hot takes videos in the future 👍
Basically Invis & np bat for team, herself w np dmg up(IIRC), debuff and atk up... Pretty much all rounded character... Classic jack of all trades.. Strong but not that Broken... She's fine overall...
Koyanskaya of Darkness is still the premier Buster farmer, she can also do Black Grail/6 slotting with the triple Koyanskaya comp.
Tried out a comp with Morgan (NP3), Arcueid (NP2) and Oberon with no CE, and it works like a charm for casual farming. I'll have to see if that can go the distance in beefier 90+ nodes.
To me, Arcueid's biggest selling point is that her flexibility opens up a lot of team ideas that aren't relying on doubling up on Koyanskaya or Oberon. As someone who failed to get either of them, that's invaluable.
Out of everything in this video, the one I really got is
"Oh, that's how you pronounce Arcueid"
It seems she’s probably the quintessential Buster neutral farmer for whales/dolphins able to get her NP2+ and if you want to farm any and everything probably more like NP4 at least. I think arts will be better in general at farming but when it comes to high HP for all 3 waves Buster is better and her normals should be decent by the third wave enough to kill anything big.
Hot Takes: They should buff Arc's skill 1 to seal NPs too. This eas it doesn't feel pike you're losing for using the skill seal. Just like ehat Tamlin Tristan has.
Her Invulnerability should be 3 hits. This was its effectively a 1 turn invulnerability
Her Breathe of the Planet should have a huge heal that is equal to or greater than Enkidu's. Especially since both Servants use the Breath of the Planet to power themselves up among other things. And its thematic since basically a vampire; a suoer strong one at that too.
She needs an aoe NP drain since she's supposed to be a vampire.
surely this will not anger anyone right?
I mean it says hot takes, i expect people to disagree with the opinion, this is what makes it fun, I learn to appreciate a lot of servants I dismissed initially through talking to people on forums.
I never knew how to say Arcuied until this video, thank you
Loved the vid. I'd like to suggest Space Ishtar be the next Hot Take video.
Great, got NP2 Arcueid, but, I didn't get Light Koyan on the GSSR, until new year it is.
looking at fgo survey, looks like players already comfortable with morgan because she literally can do anything with any support , im not surprised if she became a benchmark for any new servants
I just tried the QP node with my NP2 arcueid(lv110, 2k fous) WITHOUT any CE and she killed the last wave ganesha with np o.o, swaped in Edison for the CD reduction and lvl5 new chaldea mystic code, she did 158.7K damage and ganesha has 132k so it's consistent
Arc is crazy. Just crazy. She has the best loop specs in the entire game; capable of theoretically farming everything plugless at 6CE/5CE. That's insane. No other servant has that except premier Arts, who can no longer do that once the enemy count drops and CasCu who is held back by 3* stats and 0.9x offensive modifier. You need NP5 120 to farm at 6CE but there are certain instances you can make up for it by running BG and 5CE setups or using VOO to clear at 6CEs. Her damage is kinda on the lower end but she her flexibility in setups means you can tweak it to ensure she clears.
And this is only considering single DPS setups. She also has a crazy Arc/Oberon/[Any 50% charger with targetable/AE 20% battery] (ex. Morgan and Jaqcues, though Morgan or any Buster servant is preferable to benefit from Oberon's Buster up on W3). That's a triloop setup you can run using your servants alone WITH ANY MC (as long as Arc's append is unlocked), meaning you no longer need to pick specific servants with the specific CEs of your FL, saving a huge amount of time. Granted, it's kinda expensive as you need at least NP2+ Arc and NP4+ Morgan.
In stall, she's absolutely a beast. She's a 50% charger for living human allies, meaning that she can get supports like Waver, Reines and Mash to NP on her own. She has buff removal immune Invuln, which means she's gimmick immune to a certain extent. While her stall isn't as broken as the Merlin/Morgan/Castoria shell, it's easily one of the best stall setups in the game.
Arc is insane. She's not a servant that causes a paradigm shift in the meta like previous Anni servants, but she's quite easily the best farmer in the game.
She can loop better imo with double oberon in farming nodes. Even in the first wave with BG she have a very good damage.
The way I view Arc is she's like the french toast of Servant, in that she's perfectly fine and good even with minimal investment and commitment into making her a good unit. Go all out for her, though, like garnishing her with Grails, Gold Fous, and extra copies of herself? She becomes THE indisputable best farmer in the game in terms of flexibility, as she become Cu Caster but Better in all that she does, able to 6 Slot Drop anything short of Ruler Waves or the most blatantly unfair of nodes without mandatory plugsuit usage. Melusine and/or Maou Nobu may beat her out in terms of damage, but she can still do a decent enough job _without_ MORE powerful supports and swaps if one's powerful enough to make up for her relatively low ATK.
She's also phenomenal in hybrid attack set-up precisely because of her Instant-NP and NP Charge Support wombo-combo, letting less developed account or the most enterpernuing Masters to find ways to use her to great effect while potentially still having freedom over CEs, and perhaps even the MC too. It's hardly her most ideal use case, but it's one not a lot of other Servants can do so it should be noted!
On a last note, I also like how while she is clearly stronger than Summer BB in some aspects, Arc doesn't entirely powercreep them out of existence. Beach Babe still is the queen of Gogh Comps , Card Locking is exclusive to her, and Raw Crit and Buff Power under Double Koyan is still excellent even if it does require Superscope, so those that heavily invest into the best kouhai don't have to feel like they've been left in the dust.
Hey, not rambly at all.
In fact, it this hot take soon-to-be-series is what I need for fgo content.
Can't moonrunes so a lot of jp reviews I could only understand/catch 10% of the gist
Np5 Arc here. No regrets. Honestly if you got the tools and give investment, she's premier for farming. Also I'm looking forward to using her bond ce in some of the multi dps comps
Same,, got lucky with np5 but lost every fund for proto merlin lol
The main issue I find is that well even with Black Grails she actually can't consistently kill most 90+s unless she's np3(I've run using calcs and multiple sites as well as my own with the damage formula), this is of course even worse than you try to 6s..in fact she performs better with a plug and your usual AD than with a BG and then when you compare her to Morgan and co in similar circumstances she loses out
Tbh while I am not replacing Cú Caster any time soon, I think she makes for a good farmer. She not broken, but she is still good
She's very good but I think not as broken as I would have expected.
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I don’t think this is a hot take just a very balanced and logical evaluation of this servant’s abilities. I like the sentiment that not every anniversary servant needs to be game changing, honestly the game can’t really change that much at this point anyway. It’s a reality that if you’ve played this game for long enough there’s always a servant better at something than Arcueid but her animations are cool and that’s good enough for me. Still, sucks to get someone for anniversary that I’ll use for a week and leave at bonds 5 forever but that happens for most releases at this point.
You know what I hate, when fgo RUclipsrs keep saying that every single fgo character is broken in their videos. Thanks for this!
I do like her Yu Gi Oh style background changing.
Hey Plushie, I really like this video despite of few things we dont have same opinion.
Hope u can continue this series. I cant wait to heard your words about all future servant
Honestly she's a well balanced servant and a great anniversary servant. What I think makes a good anni servant is great visuals and something fresh. Her animations and field change mechanic fit those two things, and she's a fan favorite, so in the department, she's great. As a servant, she has a lot of nice skills and potential, but she isn't broken to the point you can just steamroll anything with her. Its a nice change of pace from past anniversaries. A character that you won't regret pulling, but that you also won't regret skipping.
I might sound a bit silly but if final turn damage is a issue you can just use the 2nd skill, use whatever face card then start the farm after that. It might be 4t but you will have double koyans, Black Grail and Oberon with the new plugsuit. If that's not enough i don't know what is
you only need np5, 120, max fou and lmb bg to deal with farming any nodes regardless of level (with dks ofc).
jokes aside... arc really need high investment level to do her job effectively (atleast np3 so you can reach lvl120 for the extra stat which she absolutely needed)
if only her rainbow passive stack with each other....... 60% rainbow buff uhhhgg....
Boy coming to this vid since it’s gonna be 7 months till she release in NA i wanna 120 np5 her with all the free quartz this anniv
yeah, she need NP 3-4 for (free 6CE slot team) min to clear last wave for lvl 60 QP or XP Node ( 130k+ hp)
ah this, these are kind video i want before i roll a servant what this servant can and cannot do
So BB Summer wihout Crit dmg and star generation but more comfortable and 150% or more damage against chaotics, so a better farmer.
Her niche it's not a small one, there are 134 Chaotic servant right now, and with time will be more
She is a very solid servant, a very good option especially if you dont have a main buster farmer
Felt more like a straight forward first impressions vid, but maybe idk what’d a hot take on Jp
I went close to pity for this lady but didn’t care because I was rolling for Xu Fu, all I’m going to say as a budding FGO JP player is that she feels like David with some more utility? I don’t prioritize 3T farming but I have a feeling that I’ll be able to do so quite easily with her and F2P units if I allow some CE freedom (which I don’t care about rn because there’s hardly any CE’s I have to need freedom, lol)
And she synergizes with Mash fairly well for challenging content. Aside from the pseudo-servant charge, all taunts synergize with single hit survivability with extended durations.
It’s kinda basic gameplay-wise but I like it enough that I thought she was as much worth summoning for as Daikokuten. And I liked Daikokuten a lot.
Gotta say she is a blessing to my F2P JP account, while I did have Morgan and Koyan, I didn't have much else, especially CE wise. I COULD farm with Morgan but sometimes damage at NP1 wasn't enough. Arc however, even at lower damage, made things a lot easier on my account... Until she decided to be NP4 in around 300sq when rolling for Xu Fu coins so now damage is no longer an issue I suppose.
Definitely worth the investment though if you can get as you said NP2 or above, even just for the 100% battery. I'd have loved to test NP1/2 6 slotting but due to no CEs I couldn't really and no events obviously, but with a (non-MLB) Black Grail at NP1, she did not have that damage for Doors, but it was mostly close and NP2 always hits the damage with it. She has made things so braindead easy, and I can now retire the method of swapping servants, even if that does mean also retiring the Summer Kama team for most things since it was a pain when you don't have your own Castoria.
Please no one ask about my Xu Fu coin count, I don't wanna talk about it....
No one asked
the marble phantasm drop my fps to 5 so will only use her if really have to
I think she’s a little bit of a waifu who can be used than broken, if we are going for meta I’m hoping that summer Merlin is gonna be a quick support
Strong af, but not broken nor a must, IMO.
Great review but I have a question, isn’t Melusine just a bit better for farming because she does more damage and can also use Black Grail
Arcuied would be slightly better imo since melusine needs oberon to 3t with no ce
@@senkanna3331 arc literally needs dupes for her to even kill last wave consistently in high level nodes. If you are gonna say "but she does fine in medium diff nodes" then so does a multitude of servants. Getting Oberon is infinitely better than another Arc since he isnt restricted to Melu but a lot of servants will benefit from him.
I don't know where you got that Arc does less damage in triple DPS comps than VVX comps even a single Oberon can make her outdamsge the later in the former and she does respectable damage for reference assuming a 6 slot she'll do 165k at NP5 neutral compared to the 171k she does with Oberon at NP2 mind you. The only time I think its worth to VVX with her is when she is either facing a chaotic enemy or if you are 5 sloting with black grail
No matter what this year ima save for her in july
I definitely feel that condensing the script a bit would benefit the presentation.
Bruh her ascension 1/3 np drains my phone’s battery faster than her ascension 2’s np lmao
Think I will use her as a boss clearer, that castle buff is godlike
I'll be honest Arcueid coming into FGO convinced me to start reading Tsukihime and so far i'm liking it. I have been planning on reading it for a while with the remake being released it made me want to read it a little more but since Arcueid came in to made me more interested. I am at the early stages of the VN hopefully I will have to the time to do it. Because right now I have two jobs one on the weekdays and the other on the weekends. my weekend job is shorter ours but its a fifty fifty on what days I will work there
The manga is super dope
Great video. Tbh I still consider Melusine to be the prime buster farmer. Six slotting is extremely important to me and Arcueid isn't amazing in that area. Hopefully there will be a future servant like Koyanskaya that will also reduce skill cooldowns and provide big buffs as well.
Not really. Meluko is tied to a plugsuit and need similar loop specs (NP3+) at 6CE. If you want 6CEs and don't mind the plugsuit, Arc can run 6CEs with VV+Edison or VOO depending on whether you need W2 or W3 damage. So, both Arc and Meluko are roughly equivalent in 6CE department. What puts Arc above Meluko is the plugless flexibility and ability to triloop with double DPS setups. Arc's #1 in the entire game at that, tbh. She's expensive, but at that level she's #1.
@@kun2588 I agree that Melusine is tied behind plugsuit but Arcueid damage is no where near Melusine when plugsuiting. And this is mainly because Melusine can actually make use of Oberon when six slotting so her W3 damage will naturally be higher. Her W1 and W2 damage will always be higher since she has more damage steroids. Arceuids damage is still mediocre when plugsuiting which is disappointing while Melusines damage skyrockets so they have no where near "similar loop specs." Also, every looper is expensive. You'll need to get a couple of copies to loop properly so I don't see that as an argument.
@@inderpreetsingh214 No, Meluko doesn't outdamage Arc as easily as you say she does. And Arc has more damage steroids than Meluko on W1 and W2. The following are the NP1 6CE numbers for the two with VV only.
Meluko lv.90 NP1 39.6k, 43.2k
Arc lv.90 NP1 48.6k, 42.2k
Arc also has the option of stacking her S1 on T2 if your running 6CE plugless using Atlas MC on T2 which brings her T2 damage up to 58.3k. So, no she doesn't outdamage Arc cleanly.
Now obviously a plug farmer is going to outdamage a plugless farmer on W3. However, If you're not averse to using the plugsuit (as you should be since you're advocating for Meluko) Arc can 6slot w. VOO and her damage is within competitive range of Meluko's W3 damage. It's about ~6k short, but honestly that's more than enough to clear for both of them if you're considering NP3+ as their minimum loop spec.
But that is all honestly irrelevant. Farming isn't about a pissing contest. It isn't "oh, my Buster AE can hit more overkill that yours". From a functional perspective, most of the damage Meluko provides (specially on W3) is waay more than necessary. There are other aspects to farming as I will mention below.
When I say expensive, I'm talking about party cost. Arc requires multiple NP copies to work, so she's an expensive quartz investment herself. However, her farming setups are much more flexible on party cost enabling insane backline flexibility in terms of farming bond and slotting event CEs. Meluko can only slot 5* CEs if you're above Master level 150 and even then it's when your running Mash and 1* CE holders, so you can't farm bond with other servants.
Oh, and plugless is > plugsuit for other obvious reasons.
@@kun2588 She does and here are my calcs. I am using the maketakunai's damage calculator. Both Melusine and Arcueid are level 90 NP1 and regular fou'd. And they are both considered to be running double koyan.
Melusine: W1 - 57.3k // W2 - 62.4k
Arceuid: W1 - 53.9k // W2 - 46.8k
And this damage difference will only increase the more you invest in either servant. I am not considering using Atlas and stacking her S1 on T2 since Arcueid needs as much damage as she can get on W3 since its already so low with Atlas. On W3, forget about it. Melusine's buffs scale so well with Oberon that there is a very large difference no matter who you plugsuit with Arcueid. Not sure how you got that math but if I had to guess, you didn't consider fous. Its important to consider all the buffs since math is always linear when calc'ing np damage.
And I agree that at a certain point damage doesn't matter but for Arcueid it really does. Her damage is really low especially when using Atlas and 6 slotting. If you want to farm 90+ nodes, this damage problem will become much more apparent. She can't be super flexible if she can only kill waves in certain situations. If you're okay with not 6 slotting and using a BG then sure she becomes the best servant in the game for you. But for minmaxers, she isn't the best.
And I disagree that plugless is always better than plugsuit. 90+ nodes still exist and most of the time require you to use a plugsuit. If you want to do 6 slotting with Arcueid, she has to be extremely hyper invested for her to properly farm waves and even then she still needs plugsuit to do good damage. I agree that plugless has it merits but it also has its limitations.
@@inderpreetsingh214 Yeah, I don't know how you pulled those numbers. I've used the same calculator and plugged the same conditions and quoted the numbers in my previous comment. I've run it thrice now to make sure and received the same results. I don't know what you're doing wrong. Just to make sure that I'm not missing any buffs, Meluko hits W1 with 120% Buster up and 40% attack up whereas Arc hits at 130% Buster up, 30% Attack up, 20% NP damage up and 20% def down. Nothing more, nothing less. I've accounted for 1k fous asw. Hell, even your Arc numbers are bigger than the ones I pulled.
The point is that Arc *can* run plugless at 6CE efficiency; Meluko can't. An Omnifarmer doesn't just mean a servant that can clear 90+, it means a servant that can farm every node in the game as the prefix "omni-" implies. And Arc is superior at that; Meluko has only one setup which is plug and relies on a huge party cost whereas Arc can clear certain nodes at 6CE efficiency while still providing luxuries such as more backline slots to farm bond and flexibility with CEs. The gatekeep for Meluko's 6CE farming is party cost. Below master level 150, it is impossible for her to slot 6 5*CEs. Above that she can't farm bond for anyone. Her farming is rigid and inefficient from a secondary benefit perspective.
No, my point with stacking Arcs damage on W2 is that in certain nodes the W2 boss is beefier than the W1 one. For example, that Nightingale christmas rerun 90+ node, that had a ~150k mob on W2 while having a 3 mobs on W3 with the largest one being ~100k. I remember it clearly because it was a lotto event that was really hard to minmax. Arc is so flexible, you can bend her to meet the requirements of each node while still having decent enough efficiency and performance.
In terms of plug 6-slot efficiency, Arc and Meluko are roughly equal. The W3 damage of Arc in her best plug setup (VOO) is comparable to that of Meluko. In fact, an argument can be made that Arc is superior to Meluko at this because she's never at class disadvantage, but I will set that aside.
There are two aspects of min-maxing; one is drop efficiency and the other is time efficiency. Arc clearly wins in the latter as she's capable of dropping one slot in favor of a damage CE to plugless clear any node at NP2 even and has a shorter NP animation in her second ascension. In the case of the former, they're roughly equal. Also the rigidity of Meluko's farming requirements to triloop anything (plugsuit and 2 native SSRs) can cause a bottleneck in her 6CE setups in terms of party cost.
Also, Arc's farming setups aren't limited to Koyan alone. An ML unlocked Arc can run Morgan/Arc/Oberon which is a 6CE setup without any major native meta support or reliance on MC. Granted, you need high NP levels on both Morgan and Arc to do decent damage. Look at those setups, there are quite a few vids on them in RUclips. They're indubitably the best at clearing dailies and (depending on investment into your Morgan) can be used in even 90+ event nodes.
Plugless, when possible is always superior to plug at the same drop efficiency. And Meluko will never provide that. It's the only asterisk on her as a farmer. I was of the opinion that Meluko was the best farmer in the game due to her consistency but after seeing the sheer versatility and flexibility that Arc offers to tackle different nodes, I cannot in good conscience say that Meluko is superior to Arc. I can see an argument saying that Meluko is equal to Arc in terms of farming from a drop efficiency perspective (even though I'll question their comparative performance in such setups) but I can't see one that says that Meluko is better than Arc.
Wait we’re is enkidus breath of the planet
Arcueids actual power and relevance in lore is not properly represented in her gameplay of fate grand order.
Well done Plush!
Turns out great, i was thinking around the same about her and i have her at 110 and NP4 (thanks to free to play gods) lol
Anyways she's one of the best farmers now if you have her at least NP2 for sure!
Ironically, she can farm with double koyanskaya plugless, but she can't farm with double koyanskaya oberon. I don't think you can seriously call her the premier buster looper when melusine exists. Yes, arc doesn't require plug like melusine, but arc's damage without plug is so low that she can't farm hard nodes unless if they are chaotic.
But even if you DO use plug with arcueid; you have to run double oberon, which means that her wave 1 and 2 damage will be quite bad, and even her wave 3 damage is far behind someone like Melusine.
She isn't but she makes buster looping easier.
The closest thing we can get that can boost her damage further is Miss Crane
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Is she a good puñl for a f2p new player? I'm afraid having her at np1 won't be worth cuz most ppñ keep saying how huge if an investment she is to be "worth" or "viable".
Thoughts on/Servant review for Himiko and Douman when?
what if she is compared to melusine?
doesn't melusine with oberon and black grail be better but requires a plugsuit
That thumbnail had me go is he gonna use nanidato with montage
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She is bad for me, because she hasn't problems with battery but with dmg, and then others buster farmers have problems with battery but dont with their damage, so in the end you end losing a CE slot for 6 ce farm and maybe even with black grail she isn't capable of doing too much dmg. While servants like morgan you use plugsuit and there you solved her problem of battery while dealing tons of damage, of course with a battery ce.
I expected more of her being a powerful character and an anniversary one but she doesn't changes nothing in the game (asside of her marble phantasm that changes the field)
I agree with the pros and cons stated in the video but I dont get why people are hyping over not needing to use plugsuit. Using Atlas MC is a must if you want to loop her using BG unless im missing something. Being stuck with Atlas MC is even worst than being stuck with plugsuit. Also being able to use BG to reach decent damage is quite a bad thing since it means she needs a fat NP% to make her good while Junao will easily outdamage her with a normal buster CE. Sure her class advantage damage is high but how often can she abuse it? Everyone else abuses zerker class as well. Junao is still the best buster farming servant for me.
Bc plug suit is slow and another support will be tied down and you cant bond another servant instead. Its all about optimization, if you dont mind its not a big deal
@@PlushieMistress True, being able to bond another servant while farming is optimal. Was thinking more about farm looping than bond farming. Another pros of using Arcueid, Wish her damage was slightly higher so she can at least clear the last wave of daily farm quests.
@@Sacri1ege I never had a problem with cleaering the last node of daily farm quests with her and double koyan just use the star bombs at the last wave she may not kill with np alone but the after crits will finish the job
@@nechocat1234 Yea i am aware that you can clear last wave by using her S1 at the last wave and/or using star bombs. My issue there is what if she was used for other nodes with similar or slightly higher HP would she still be able to clear then. An example would be the QP Caster Jinako, what if RNG screws us over and gives all facecard to koyan who is disadvantaged. Sure koyan could still finish her off if she only has abit of HP left, but if its for slightly higher HP? Also, using her S1 at W3 will hurt her damage in S2. Personally, i would much prefer if a servants NP could straight kill the enemy as it removes the RNG factor, dont think anyone likes farming when the last wave is always left with abit of HP.
@@Sacri1ege np3 is ur answer lol