Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25036438-20170720123624/@comment-28209103-20170721044356

In short, what Valeth just said.

If I were to write it in even more detailed manners there's a lot of thing to consider when you just started

1. you don't have a lot of materials, this is especially true for the NA server but will still be relevant in the real chapter. Buster and Quick aside, a good arts team required a decent level of Skill

2. Getting 1 star aside, getting spesific 2 or 3 stars are harder that it looks, not to mention aiming for certain combo like CA Hassan, Cu Proto and Jing Ke, or tank team of Hans, Boobica and Mashu. Unless you're huge whale chance that it'll be much later before you can actually get full set of those servant much less of NP 5 them. However even if you do aim for those team I can say with confidence that it won't matter for long because

3. Chance are high that you'll prefer to use whatever gold you'll get later on. While Bronze and Silver are viable but a lot of best team requires gold servant as it's engine, and it's usually better to build an engine around the gold you have.

Now in terms of team building there's other thing to consider

1. A good team is centered on strategy, this is especially true for low rarity team for they're lacking in stat. Now in NA the servant list and materials are not diverse enough for good low rarity team, meanwhile in JP server the Gold already outnumber the SIlver and Bronze, thus unless you love to challenge yourself there's no point in using Bronze-Silver only team unless you're THAT unlucky

2. For Gold, a good team means a team with good synergy, for Bronze and Silver a good team means a team specialized to tackle certain quest, this is especially true for high level quest. Unlike Gold team, a Silver-Bronze team means you need total control of your team to survive and there's no universal setup. which is why :

3. Your so called Arts/Buster/Quick team are usually filled with high rarity servant, and to some degree some bronze and silver servant, however those Bronze and silver are usually cheap subtitute for gold. tho after Interlude some servant like Euryale become centerpiece but those are exception.

Thus, there's no universal good arts/buster/quick team with low rarity. even if I give you the tank Arts team of Mashu, Boobica and Hans, chance are you might lose Hans or Boobica mid way if you're unlucky. Thus as I said you might want to worry bout it later. Here's certain rule I held as new player

For all server :

Try to get CA Hassan, Cu Chulainn, Hans Christian Andersen, and St. George, and put them on priority list after your zerker team. this is harder than it seems cuz till today I have yet scored a single St. George and CA Hassan, with only single level of Hans. after that try to level Asterios, Mata Hari, Mozart and Shakespeare then Robin hood and Diarmuid and Ushiwakamaru.

while this won't net you a Buster/Arts/Quick team like you hoped, it'll net you strategic flexibility for bronze that I mentioned above. Hans in particular are cookie cutter that basically are Lite-Merlin so he's a keeper. Trust me, you'll appreciate having them one day when you're stuck somewhere and requires spesific strategy to breakthrough.

For NA Server :

1. Unless you're extra lucky player with tons of SSR or SR, take Heracles and go full zerker team, they're viable until London and it'll let you farm those 40 AP EXP cards super early, no joke I did it at level 20 with Darius, Heracles TamaCat and Lancelot all at level 40 (Herc at level 50) just borrow a support with strong AoE for clincher.

2. Gold rarities matter. simply because you can't Ascend your servant past 1st ascension and thus the higher level ceiling from gold helps a lot.

For JP Server :

1. Just look for friend with JAlter, or Cu Alter, or Bond CE Herc. Trust me you'll stop worry bout building team

2, Since you won't have to worry bout your team you can use the time between to level more servant on top of those mentioned above like Euryale (for Camelot) and farm any gold that you have.

If you follow leveling strategy above you should be able to blast through the story mode,, probably you'll find some problem fighting Quetzlcoatl on Babylon but that's it.

But what about challenge event? those servant I named above are the usual suspect when you're going to tackle even challenge quest using Bronze or Silver only. they're the cookie cutter that if used right are better than gold albeit they have low stat.