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

[commandercool]

The harder defensive battles are pretty fun. Definitely made me think. At some point I'm going to have to find room to 5* Wrys. I don't use him in PVP but he's such an all-star in scenario maps that he deserves it. Wish I had Elise for my healer slot, but Wrys is preeeetty rad.

Actually best case scenario for healer would be a flying staff user so I could put some flying Camilla boosting skills on them, but that wouldn't be super easy to work in. Maybe a summer Hinoka or something?

[Conqueror]

flying staff user

Elincia, maybe

[Edible]

We need a mounted archer before we get any other new unit types :|

The popularity of Hector is pretty great, I agree.

Man, I really need to +1 my Xander.  Lord knows I've invested enough in him as it is, but... 22k more feathers...

[Mеа]

Kinshi knights would be cool, I always liked those birds. I like birds.

The new map tiles seem to be leading the meta away from otks, (maybe?), so that's cool.

[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.

So much for that.  They've been pretty consistent with updated banners every two weeks, wonder what's going on?  Tellius banner is currently scheduled through Monday which is also longer than usual.

[commandercool]

I don't know where the influx of stones and feathers and came from, but they helped me get one step closer to 5*ing all the starters.



Two down, Alfonse to go...

Anna has been pretty fun to play so far in PVP and I think the Escape Route from her weapon should push her over the edge to actually being really good as well.

[Edible]

Celica banner details are out.

Hold onto your butts - Genny has Wrathful Staff as a passive skill, which removes the staff attack penalty :V

[7TC7]

I kinda want all four of them, so I'll probably get nobody. Who'd be the best Wrathful Staff user?

[Edible]

Probably Elise.

[OverlordChirei]

>all magic users, new skill that encourages more weak magic users

yes, feed my score

[commandercool]

FCorrin->Worried
BunCam->Very worried
Camilla Classic->Pew pew pew!

[MewMewHeart]

FEHeroes Celica banner: moneymoneymoney!!!

Me: NOOOOO!!!!! T-T

[Edible]

Well, there goes all my luck for a while.

Decided to spend 20 orbs and see if I could get Leo.  A longshot, but the Celica banner isn't super appealing to me.

Saved 15 orbs, though, because I somehow got him on the first pull.

[MewMewHeart]

Got Ursala on my team now thankfully after funny jebaiting her with Azura/F.Robin strats and vantage Ryoma wrecking her cronies. It was best vengeance served cold. As much as I want Leo and Linde I'll have to pass so I can save up for Celica to go with my Alm. 

[7TC7]

I knew it! I knew Julia VS Tharja would be a thing. They keep switching who's leading. This is actually exciting! Go Julia!

[Edible]

I knew it! I knew Julia VS Tharja would be a thing. They keep switching who's leading. This is actually exciting! Go Julia!

Seems that whenever they switch, Tharja's leads are pretty significant while Julia's leads are very marginal.  But it's cool that it's so close.

[The Greatest Dog]

As a member of team Julia, that just means more 3x bonus times. I can't complain about that.

[commandercool]

Yeah, if I'm understanding this system correctly fighting in weaker teams will substantially boost your final score, right? And isn't there a payout for final score? That kind of incentives people to back what they think will be unpopular armies which is really interesting.

[Edible]

Well, there goes all my luck for a while.

Confirmed, as the combined rest of my orbs on the Celica banner netted an avalanche of 3-stars.

Also, these new lunatic maps are no joke.

Edit: Spoke too soon, made the huge mistake of grinding out 5 more orbs, getting four colorless and a green, and winding up with Boey of all things.  Ugh.

[7TC7]

I kinda want all four of them, so I'll probably get nobody.

60 Orbs in and still holding true so far. Did however get 4 Star Effie and Cordelia, so it wasn't a complete waste. Now to grind out those lunatic quests and maybe get another shot at it.

[Conqueror]

11-5 is a real-doozy since I don't have a decent green or red mage to deal with Boey. Even then it wouldn't be that bad except for that fact that the AI doesn't want to move off the defensive tiles and even runs away from me so the 6 turn limit kicks in.

Although mkv beat it with 4 3* units as usual so I guess I can copy his strat if I really want. He doesn't have a 4-unit version for 11-3 though. That mountain is a pain for non-fliers.

[commandercool]

*Gasp* I pulled something new when it's new! I have no idea who this is but she's cute and her weapon seems fucking crazy.

[MewMewHeart]

Wow Robin and Tharja fans are fighting like cats and dogs on the gauntlet...

[commandercool]

Yeah, I'm on team Tharja but I would be totally happy if Robin won because it would be unexpected.

A few hours ago Robin had a significant lead, but I think this new system will generally make races seem closer than they are at the very beginning. Once Team Robin dumps the bulk of their flags during boosted voting times they'll get a huge boost, but that boost is very temporary since they can't have tons of new flags incoming forever. That said, right now I'm saving all of my flags in case Tharja ends up getting far enough behind to get a voting boost. She probably won't, but I want the overall score bump if she does.

[The Greatest Dog]

Without Julia to vote for, and after maximizing my Arena score, I have nothing left to do.




Time to take a break from FE:H for a few days I guess.

[commandercool]

Mae is really interesting. Her weapon is a fairly strong blue spell, but more importantly it gets a huge bonus (+2 to all stats!) for each adjacent ally. This means she sort of works like an even-more-powerful, much-more-unwieldy Blade spell sort of tentpole. Her stats aside from resist are pretty bad without the boost so you have to try to make use of it and it's worryingly map-dependent, but she plays very interestingly.

The downside of pulling her at 5* is of course that I need to get her a ton of new abilities and have basically no way to get SP. Want to trade badges for SP plz Nintendo.

[Mеа]

The owl tomes seem a lot less practical since it requires all of your team to be stuck together. Compared to blade tomes, where you can get good buffs from a single ephraim, eirika, etc, while the other two units can deal with/bait other threats. The upside I can think of though is that it works off of positioning instead of on how your team is composed to support the single blade tome user, lending some more freedom of team skill composition. But since it's not true damage, you might need spur skills to compensate anyway for getting off color kills. Conjectures.

e: hm a blue tome flier/horse could be pretty crazy bulky with only one adjacent ally with the respective fortify skill, that's +8.

e2: with the new fortify res seal, ephraim/eirika can now by themselves buff all four stats of an adjacent (-blade) ally. Insanity.

[OverlordChirei]

ok guys the most important day of your lives playing this game has arrived, it's time to learn how to not die to magic

[hyorinryu]

ok guys the most important day of your lives playing this game has arrived, it's time to learn how to not die to magic

But I rolled Julia a long time ago....

Spoiler:

I cheated and used your Felicia to kill things in the gauntlet. [\spoiler]

[OverlordChirei]

Spoiler:

I cheated and used your Felicia to kill things in the gauntlet. [\spoiler]

so you played the normal way, is what i'm saying