Ivander
@Shishœ
The next Fate/Grand Order event, Journey to the West. has been revealed to begin this Thursday, and it will last until June 13.
^This is Xuanzang Sanzang, the feature 5-star servant you'll be able to pull during the banner, and she is considered to be the best offensive Caster in the game. While the Journey to the West banner will give you your first chance to pull her AND she has her rate up during the time, she will be added to the permanent summoning pool after Camelot comes out. Still, if you want to get Xuanzang early, you have the end of this month until the middle of June to do so.
Xuanzang is also one of the bonus servants for the coming event. Here are the others:
Lancer Li Shuwen
David
Lu Bu
Mordred
Arjuna
Karna
Florence Nightingale
Lancer Artoria Alter
Stheno
Euryale
Medusa
Consider training up these servants if you have any of them, because they will make the grinding process in the coming event easier. Lancer Li Shuwen will also have a rate up in Xuanzang's banner, and considering his rarity nowadays and his overall usefulness (he's considered to be a very good 4-star Lancer), the coming event is a good time to pull him if you are interested.
I'm basically already set for this event since my Mordred team uses two bonus servants: David and Mordred. I might finish training my Medusa as well so that I have a bonus Rider for the event, and with Camelot coming out soon combined with Euryale's bonus boost in Journey to the West, I think now might be a good time to start grinding my Euryale.
I'm also going to try pulling for Xuanzang. Yeah, I know she'll be added to the permanent summoning pool after Camelot, but I like her character from what I've seen of her so far, and so I'm going to see if I can pull her when she first appears. No way I'm going to spend all my Saint Quartz on her though: I currently have 252 of them, and I still want to save a good chunk of them for the summer banner, so I'll probably just use 30-60 SQz and all my summoning tickets to see if I'll get Xuanzang. If I don't get her, oh well.