Fire Emblem Heroes: (ed. NOT) Still Waiting for Tellius

[MewMewHeart]

bonus heroes for next season

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX!!!!!! -throws a monitor at Chirei-

[OverlordChirei]

>felicia

Oh, Chirei.

she is confirmed on the same level as the tellius characters therefore she is as important as ike and we like ike

smash 99 confirmed

[Conqueror]

Have any of the bonus units that aren't part of the newly released set been a unit available at 5* only or have they always been units available at 3*?

[Edible]

I'm starting to think the rates on this hero banner are worse than advertised.  Despite the focus % now being higher than I've ever gotten on a previous banner, I still haven't pulled a 5*.

I should have enough orbs for one more go before it's over, so, fingers crossed I guess.

Have any of the bonus units that aren't part of the newly released set been a unit available at 5* only or have they always been units available at 3*?

To my recollection, they've always had at least two 3* available.

[MewMewHeart]

I'm starting to think the rates on this hero banner are worse than advertised.  Despite the focus % now being higher than I've ever gotten on a previous banner, I still haven't pulled a 5*.

I should have enough orbs for one more go before it's over, so, fingers crossed I guess.

To my recollection, they've always had at least two 3* available.

I only pulled a few 5* and yet now my rate is so high for the Hero banner it's not even funny I even tried grabbing as many gray orbs that appeared and no Takumi came UUUUUUGH... GIMMIE MY TAKUMI YOU JERKS!!!!  :matsuriscowl:

[Edible]

"Hmm, probably can't use the same strategy on Xander Lunatic as I did on Xander Hard"

>Stage Clear

[The Greatest Dog]

I personally had to pull out Julia, Lyn, Ninian, and Priscilla all together to beat Xander lunatic. But I'm also bad at this and it took a bit of trial and error.

[Edible]

I think the only trick is having a unit that can take out the sword infantry in the upper right and counter-kill (or at least survive) the mage's counterattack, since after that every other foe comes south into meat grinder territory.

I went with Flier Emblem (Bunnymilla, Hinoka, Clair) and Reinhardt.  Bunnymilla blows up the red sword in the upper-right, green cavalry mage pokes her and she swats him down too.  Everything after that is cake.

[qMyon]

Probably luck. I picked up Hector on my first 5-roll, so there's clearly quite a bit of variance.

[MewMewHeart]

I went with Azura + unit bullshit on Xander and had Ryoma to bait Xander to fight him then Ryoma tanked the spear while Reinhardt took out the sword unit then sang to Priscilla to heal them and I ended up steam rolling them. I call this a not so suitable victory for me, but hey what can you do.... also Xander confirmed honor student.

[Conqueror]

I used dancer + reposition to kill the lance fighter, then dueled everyone else on the next term when they all rushed in. Would have been difficult without good mages.

[commandercool]

I was expecting this to be tricky because I don't have a great way to handle green mages, but after a couple of failed runs I was like "I wonder how much of the stage Olivia can tank if I just park her in the middle?" and the answer turned out to be "All of it, and she'll kill everyone on the backswing too". Olivia sceery.

[Moogs Parfait]

Are there speed grinding strats? I really like this game but I am having a hard time training up new units every 2 weeks with my schedule.

Kinda decided I'm not rolling again till I see swimsuits or Halloween costumes.

[Edible]

Auto battle works pretty well if you can leave your phone alone while doing something else.

[Hikarin]

Auto battle works pretty well if you can leave your phone alone while doing something else.

Where is this fabled "auto battle" of which you speak? It sounds like a good way to burn through my 60+ stampots.

[Conqueror]

Start battle -> Menu -> Autobattle

The AI is terribad though

[commandercool]

Yeah, the AI will block itself from attacking by trying to put your ranged attackers into melee and all sorts of dumb garbage, and I think you have to tap through whenever a unit levels up? Still, if you have stamina to burn and your phone open on your desk next to you or something it might not be a terrible idea.

[Mеа]

Since blazing winds was being very wasted on hinoka, I decided to give her sacred cowl instead (reduce ranged damage by 30%, cd: 2). A little preliminary testing gave me a situation where a takumi was parked behind an azura. Ordinarily this would be an extremely annoying situation but I just sent in hinoka to orko azura who then survived the enemy phase takumi even after taking six dmg from fury 3. Who in turn gets one shot when my turn comes around again.

A takumi would need at least 52 atk to kill my current (unmerged) hinoka if she has sacred cowl up (and factoring in -6hp from fury 3). Which, is literally impossible without buffs unless he's +atk nature and is merged to at least +3 atk. Now this doesn't let her survive brave bow users or any bow units that could double her, but so far my initial premonitions seem on point and positive.

Will report on how it works out if I have anything else interesting to add later.

[commandercool]

So I've been leveling up Anna in my quest to 5* all of the starters, and because she's featured this season obvs. Just noticed that she sticks her tongue out in her critical hit art. So cool.

I feel bad for just slapping Fury 3 on everything, but I have a bunch of Hinatas and it seems good-ish on her between Vantage and her special weapon basically giving Escape Route (once she's 5*, which won't be for another couple of weeks). Just not sure if I want to leave Astra on her, since a frail Fury attacker is unlikely to ever charge it. The idea of enemies being stuck attacking into a Vantage character with Astra up is appealing, but it might be better to just use Moonbow or Dragon Fang.

[Edible]

Wu-Tang Xan ain't nothin' to fuck wit.

[Conqueror]

Huh, looks like Xander is pretty much a mounted Hector. Pretty solid stat spread. Will probably raise him up when I eventually get around to making a cav team.



My main team is more or less complete thanks to double SP week and the hero banner. A lot of possible minor optimization but none I care too much about. I guess the main thing now is waiting for the new big update to hit, with the "permadeath" event and all that.

[The Greatest Dog]

I'm not too big on PvP things but Xander barely nudged me over the 4000 threshold. Pretty nice.

[MewMewHeart]

Wu-Tang Xan ain't nothin' to fuck wit.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I was gonna give him Vantage also! XD

[Edible]

It serves almost no purpose on an otherwise hyper-offensive cavalry team, but it's certainly helped rack up the defensive wins <_<

[Hikarin]

So it seems that Arena is in fact somewhat skill-based...
Been getting around 1500 every week, and I'm staying at Tier 11.

[Conqueror]

I think you need a certain number of points to move up. Btw, are you not using a bonus hero?  They double your points.

Also, update is out. New tier system.

[Edible]

Tempted to pull for Leo or Tharja, but I'm going to hold off on either banner until we see what Celica's is like.

And speaking of Celica, we should be seeing a reveal for her and her crew in the next day or two.

[Hikarin]

I think you need a certain number of points to move up. Btw, are you not using a bonus hero?  They double your points.

Also, update is out. New tier system.

Nah, I use bonus heroes sometimes, but this team has just been working really well, and I try not to mess with that formula too often, since that inevitably screws me over.

[Edible]

The bad news: Every arena team has a hector now.

The good news: Xander is really good against Hector.

Also, I found a +3 5* Shanna with Distant Counter today.  Props to that guy.

[The Greatest Dog]

The popularity of Hector is pretty great, I agree.