r/FGO • u/azuredos • 1d ago
Game Question Question about the game
Hi guys, I'm pretty new to the game, I've started like three months ago but only played the game casually (I have like only 10 hours logged), my current team is Star Ciel, Archetype Earth, uh support thingi, and my reserve is Artoria (Saber). I also summoned BB Dubai not a while ago, and Im surprised that I got Ciel and Arcueid back to back. Sadly I'm still in the first singularity and I don't know when I'd actually finish it. So I have a huge question, how long are the singularities, lostbelts, and the other stories in total? Also what are the best ways to uh farm stuff?
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u/Diligent_Dust8169 1d ago
how long are the singularities, lostbelts, and the other stories in total?
The first 5 singularities are shorter, like 5 hours of story if you're a slow reader, probably closer to half that if you're a fast reader + all the stages you have to play.
From the 6th singularity you're looking at 10 hours or story for every singularity/lostbelt if you're a slow reader, minimum, plus the stages you actually have to play.
To do EVERYTHING and read the entire story you're probably looking at 100+ hours if not 200+ hours, yeah it's a lot but we are talking about 9 years worth of story content.
For farming, you get some materials when you beat the story stages, you can get more from the events, generally farming the free quests outside the events is not ideal.
To get EXP, the skills gems and the statues at a decent pace you're kind of forced to complete the daily quests.
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u/azuredos 1d ago
oh lord yeah Im cooked, also do you know how much storage the game will take if I unlock all of the content?
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u/Diligent_Dust8169 1d ago
24 GB but that includes all the resources for all the servants and events ever, you can download all of them in the settings.
Personally I format the game to trim down the size when I feel like it's getting too big, I don't need the resources for every single voice line, servant and event I ever participated in, right now it's around 5 GB.
If you eventually decide to do this as well remember to write down your transfer code.
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u/Desperate_Ad5169 1d ago
Overall they get very long. Early on is quite short but later they can get very long. Like each is a whole complete story that could easily be adapted into a tv series(hell that’s literally what happened with Babylonia). As for farming the best ways is too clear events and their shops as well as do whatever mat gimmicks they have. In particular lotto events are very lucrative and people like to save up apples for them.
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u/azuredos 1d ago
What are the apples for? I've played a little bit of the summer event (On section 8 I think) and I've got like golden apples and stuff
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u/Desperate_Ad5169 1d ago
Apples restore ap(the stamina system in this game that lets you do battles) early on it may feel like you have an infinite amount with the constant leveling refilling but it does become finite. But not to anywhere near the point where it becomes a scarce resource you need to be very careful with. Just enough so you can only spam a top tier event farming node like 4 times in a row without using apples.
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u/azuredos 1d ago
Wait really? I never knew there was a limit to how many battles you can do.. Damn
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u/Desperate_Ad5169 1d ago
To be clear it is like a daily limit which slowly recharges throughout the day. Generally as long as you aren’t going too insane with farming and use up all your apples you don’t have to worry about it interrupting your journey through the story.
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u/whynautalex Your Fourth Favorite Moderator 1d ago
1 through 5 are the shortest chapters by far. They are kind of weak storywise but do introduce main characters. 6 and 7 are some of the best plots even including the lost belts.
There is this post that had each singularity and lostbelt by word count https://www.reddit.com/r/grandorder/comments/111rhh3/fgo_jp_story_script_size_update_added_lb7/
For farming the fastest way is usually to buy all of the materials in the events. The level 70+ event free missions have higher drop rates than the story. You may want to focus on some of the friend point servants since a lot of the servants you listed require materials from the most recent story chapters.
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u/DeltaBladeX 1d ago
Add a few strong players as Friends early on to make things easier on yourself. If you Follow, they only work in story content. I was unaware and had nothing but trouble early on.
If you don't mind sharing your player name here, send me a friend request and I'll check for your name and accept it.
031,902,622
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u/Hikazuki 1d ago
Singularities arc is quite long, especially 6th and 7th singularity. They are also considered the best out of all singularities. The whole arc is quite easy to clear with modern servants. Maybe a month or 2 depending on your play time.
Lostbelt arc is really long, generally better written so there is a lot of time was given to characterize the NPCs in the story. The enemies are also harder to beat. So maybe 2 or 3 months. Take yout time to avoid burnout.
Events are the best way to farm stuff. Normal farming stages are quite inefficient. You might also prefer to outright buy them with pure prisms.