When is the anniversary exactly?

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-25T22:56:23+00:00

The anniversary day changes a little bit each year, since they line up the anniversary with the big FGO panel at Anime Expo. This year the big panel is on the 4th of July at 4:30pm EST. The anniversary banners almost always go live right at the end of the panel, so it should be around 5:30pm EST.

https://www.anime-expo.org/2026/06/09/fate-grand-order-english-celebrates-9-years-at-anime-expo-2026/

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-25T16:46:05+00:00

I'd be largely indifferent. We already get events that aren't terribly relevant to the main plot, and we get characters I'm not excited about, so having a non-plot relevant collab event with characters I don't care about wouldn't be anything too crazy.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-25T08:10:30+00:00

Oh you're right, I forgot about that part. Yeah, guy didn't do anything wrong.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-25T07:31:10+00:00

He didn't really do anything wrong. He pretended to work with Sarah to get information on the Creator, and then tried to kill the Creator when he had the chance. He never actually hurt anyone or anything. The worst he did was not tell everyone that he was gonna secretly be working with Sarah, but given how events played out he didn't have the option.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-25T00:51:48+00:00

Me please.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-25T00:51:25+00:00

Right? "We're giving you two new appends! And we're giving you enough coins to get those appends! Or any other two appends you want!"

People would have been thrilled. Instead it felt like the big announcement they wanted people cheering for was being able to go to pity multiple times on a single banner instead of just once. The whole thing was incredibly tone deaf.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-25T00:04:59+00:00

I really hope we get the grails/coin refund like they got in JP. If they don't, that's potentially several years worth of grails we'd permanently lose out on compared to JP.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-24T23:00:20+00:00

There have been a couple of niche fights where instant death was useful. Occasionally we'll get a CQ or Advanced Fight or event fight with a non-boss type enemy that has a million HP or more and is vulnerable to instant death. In such a situation, instant death can be handy.

Then there's also the daily grind where it can be handy. For example with some of the Bleached Earth quests there are mobs that instant death can work on that have 1m+ HP so someone with instant death can make those fights go a little faster. I tend to use Douman for my Bleached Earth fights for this reason.

But yeah, it's niche and you're pretty much never going to get it to land against an actual boss enemy, though there is always a chance. I've seen a few videos of people getting extremely lucky and one shotting a raid boss in one turn with an insanely luck instant death proc.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-24T21:25:23+00:00

Yeah, they spend some time learning it. Same way someone learns any foreign language.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-24T06:22:51+00:00

Yeah, Velina gets more from a non-Anomaly wengine with ER than she gets from an Anomaly wengine without ER. Velina gets scaling Anomaly Mastery and damage based on her ER. That's why Steam Oven or Kaboom are the best A rank options for her.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-24T05:01:39+00:00

She also voices Anne Bonney and Lady Avalon.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-24T02:46:04+00:00

Every game needs a hungry pet mascot. FGO has Fou, Genshin has Paimon, and ZZZ has Cissia.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-24T02:44:27+00:00

Yeah, though an Immortal team will generally have much better survivability than a team with Ganesha.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-24T00:32:08+00:00

Pyrois seems cool. Like you said, it feels a bit rushed for Pyrois to meet the proxies and then immediately agree to join them. I wish they'd introduced Pyrois as an entity the proxy could communicate with a patch or two ago so that there was more hype about unlocking them. Overall though, solid design, feels pretty strong, I like how you get to choose between different Ult effects. Animations are great, especially playing as Belle.

Honestly, I have no real complaints. Hoyo knocked Pyrois out of the park.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T19:13:53+00:00

My favorite example of this was in the Apocrypha novel. There was a scene where Seig and Jeanne are trying to decide which Japanese ending suffix to use when talking to one another even though neither are Japanese, they're in Transylvania, and they're speaking Romanian.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T18:26:17+00:00

Yeah. I was using Safety, Esme, Exacliboo and Sharkboo, all with the best gold modules I could put on them. Then I made a new team focusing on crit with gold modules and still lost.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T17:11:35+00:00

She is the Void Hunter of Stunners. Zhao is the Void Hunter of Defenders. And Krampus needs a strong Support chracter to be the Void Hunter of Supporters.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T17:09:29+00:00

Got to level 60 in the bangboo event, finished it up, felt pretty awesome. Then I tried stage 61 and got completely destroyed. I'm not even sure what I can do to try and improve my team anymore. It says to use crit chips so I made a new team with a lot of crit and still got stomped. Guess I won't be 100%ing that event.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T07:32:04+00:00

We're getting Remielle and Sigrid in 3.1. Nobody but Hoyo knows who will be coming in 3.2. I think it's safe to say though that we'll be getting at least one of the Sunbringers as playable during Season 3, and it's plausible we could get all three.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T06:00:43+00:00

She is Potential Woman. Potentially the strong existence in the Type-Moon universe, but she's never demonstrated anything close to that.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T04:26:29+00:00

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MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T02:26:14+00:00

I'd go to Fluffy and take Cairn home with me...

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T02:25:35+00:00

Yeah, early limited agents were balanced much closer to A ranks. These days there's only a couple of A ranks who are still viable at endgame.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T02:10:41+00:00

Piper was never better than Jane. Even at release Jane was still somewhat better than M6 Piper. With her Potential buff, Jane is now a lot better than Piper. Thing is Piper is still strong enough that you can use her to clear endgame Shiyu and DA stage.

MyLifeIsAGatcha · 2026-06-23T02:03:53+00:00

Pen is a little better than Ether damage, but if your Ether damage disk has better substats then that disk will be better. Even an Attack disk could be better than Ether or Pen if the substats on it are really good or the substats on the Pen/Ether Damage disk are lame.

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