User blog comment:Calatore/Opinions on 3-star Palingenesis/@comment-217.87.121.51-20160806133534

Mmh... I'm thinking about which three star I should spend my grails on, but the decision is really hard, especially as a newbie who is hated by the gacha after that single bout of extreme luck getting Waver and Carmilla. There are a lot of roles my three-stars have to fill right now:

Saber - Fergus

Archer - Ko-Gil

Lancer - Cu Chulainn Prototype

Rider - Kintoki

Assassin - Carmilla

Caster - Waver

So I'd say I should exclude all the gold Servants from the get-go. Waver shines through his skill anyway, so even while I do equip him with arts-damage-boosting CE's to make him wreck smaller critters, he can't be expected to take on a boss, so I tend to borrow a Xuanzang for that job. Setting up Medea for the job instead sounds thrilling, I adore her lorewise, but having two top-Casters seems like a waste.

In the case of Carmilla the question doesn't even arise because I never bothered to level anyone else than her, so I can't really say whether I would like to have one of the others replace her, even though Carmilla's use as a crit-heavy Assassin is kinda unusual and takes some effort to pull off.

Haven't used Kintoki much since I got him, so I can't say whether he needs the boost or not, but right now I say he's deadly enough as he is.

Cu Chulainn might be a good choice that doesn't need much thinking. But even at lvl 70 his survivability makes him so dangerous that I do think he keeps reliable no matter his level.

Archers are my problem kids, quite literally in the case of Ko-Gil and Billy. Ko-Gil crits like crazy, but is fairly useless when he doesn't and at least when I play the enemy always gangs up on him, with his squishy nature biting me in the ass. Upgrading him for the extra hitpoints seems futile to me. I think I'd rather go with Robin Hood for the extra punch, but it is ridiculous that he is one of the few 3-stars I don't have. David's stats look amazing, but the ones I've borrowed during Journey to the West didn't play all that remarkable. Euryale however is ridiculously deadly under the right conditions and would profit extremely, however I don't like using my upgrades on an Archer that mostly shines against male enemies.

Fergus seems to be the optimal solution for me. It also feels somehow right considering that he was the first Saber I got in my tutorial role and stuck with me as my only Saber (until Gilles arrived, but I don't use him except as an XP dump). You said in that deleted convo with that troll that he is difficult to work with, but I had the opposite impression. Fergus is actually rather boring with his "just hit 'em and hit 'em hard"-approach of forgoing his NP for extremely deadly buster-chains since his regular damage far exceeds Gae Bolg's special attack. He dodges if he needs to, so he keeps reliable and very straight-forward, I would even say bordering to boring in comparison with the more flashy diving saves of the likes of Cu and Sasaki.

I guess I'm in a pinch here. Fergus and Cu being the obvious choice, one of my Archers also being in desperate need of it and of course Medea remains a possibility...