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Dimitri is crazy popular, so any guess not including him is going to be off-base imo, unless there is some truly big mass rally going on that pales in comparison to everything we have seen before. He's already been counted among the most popular Nintendo characters of all time so I don't know why anyone wouldn't predict him winning. On the female end, I am actually not sure if Edelgard is a lock. Her character is pretty divisive all around and polls so far have ranked her quite below the other two lords. Of course there hasn't been a poll in America where she is much more popular over all. My personal prediction is that she'll around rank 5 until the intermediate results are released, upon which her fanbase will do a rally and maybe secure her the second spot overall with the first likely being Anna. As for me personally, my votes will be split between Takumi and Felix.

Celica getting a Legendary alt is great. It was only a matter of time really, but I am glad she is finally here. Unfortunately I won't be able to pull for her, because of the company she keeps and my current orb count being compromised. Red: The worst. I already have all these boys, and while they have good skills, I am not dying for any of them. Blue: Actually pretty good. I already have Dimitri, but wouldn't say no to more of the boy. More Peony couldn't hurt either, especially if I got one with an Atk Boon. Naga I've been wanting for a while, so great colour for me. Green: Celica is beautiful and I want her, but I have zero interest in Edelgard aside from maybe as skill fodder, my Thrasir could use a fix for her Spd bane, but it hasn't been too much of a problem so far (I actually don't use her much). Colourless: Decent. I got like 4 F!Grimas in the past and don't ever even use her anymore, but Eir is always a great pull and I do eventually want to get Claude. I'm not pulling on this banner, but my free pull priority is likely: Blue>Green>Colourless>>>>Red

The Japanese text uses the standard kanji for sword and not the one specific for wooden training sword. Plus, why would Felix bring that incident up in connection with Dimitri potentially snapping a real metal sword in two if it was just a wooden one? You tell me not to make any assumptions, yet you keep making your own. It doesn't even have to be true for all crests, but Dimitri stands out like a sore thumb. There is clearly something weird going on with his physical strength and I wish the game had explored the topic more, maybe even linked it to his psychological state as a sort of foreshadowing.

His supports with Felix have them talk about how he broke a sword as a child by swinging it too hard. That's not something a normal child should be able to do. And unless you say he was just randomly born with superpowers, I don't think there is any culprit other than his crest.

I kind of want either Takumi or Felix dressed up as a grumpy christmas elf. Though given Takumi's enjoyment of holidays, he likely would be happier with it. Having Felix slice people with a giant sharpened candy cane would be amusing though.

Yeah, it's good to have a green armour dragon at all, even if she is subpar compared to what she could be. Hi! Yeah it sucks, but you definitely have it even more rough when you can't even get Sothis. The banner is up for a while longer, so maybe you still can? Otherwise I wish you lots of luck whenever you attempt again.

Thanks and sorry to hear about you having the same level of shitty luck with her. Here's to hoping we'll both be able to fix her one of these days. And yeah, they knew what they were doing when they did that. Give her a superflaw in that stat and everyone will be motivated to spent more orbs to fix her.

I'll try to fix it when she gets rerun, if I can. Planning to run a dragon armour kindergarten for TT though (H!Myrrh, L!Tiki, W!Sothis and F!Tiki)

I know I haven't posted here in ages, but Winter!Sothis had me really excited. I got her pretty quickly, but she of course came with the worst possible IVs: +HP -Spd. I was pretty upset, considering 37 spd isn't all that great anymore and her weapon only slightly balances it out, when she is supposed to be astronomically fast. So much for better scoring too. So I kept going until almost all my orbs were gone (despite wanting to save for more 3H characters orz) and got pity broken by F!Tki, Brave!Micaiah, Ranulf andastly Winter!Nino... who was also -Spd, because of course . Not sure if she has a superbane in it, but it still sucks. I didn't have any other blue mage armour, so I think I'll keep her. I'll fodder or merge the rest. Really should be happier with this outcome, considering how many 5*s I got, but it just feels like opening christmas presents and realizing your parenta fell for a bunch of chinese knockoffs.

Been a while. Three Houses gave me a bunch of new faves too. A - Almedha I'd still like Almedha, but right now I'd prefer to have Annette more B- Brady Got added soI am switchin to Bastian C - Calill D - Dwyer Someone please add Dorothea first actually E - Emmeryn F - Forrest I am sorry Forrest, I love you but Felix is now my second fave overall G - Gregor H - Haar He got added, albeit done dirty. Heather should get in too I - Ilyana Got added, albeit weirdly. Going with Ingrid next J - Jill K - Kurthnaga L - Luthier How is he still not in?? M - Mitama N - Nasir O - Orochi P - Python Pelleas Q - None R - Ranulf Rhea S - Scarlet Not in, but I'd like Sylvain in to complete the childhood squad T - Tethys Tormod U - The only character I know whose name starts like this is Ulki, so I guess him? V - Vica W - None X - None Y - Yune Z - Zihark

I do like Sacred Stones and all, but damn they are really holding off on the Three Houses units, which is just bizarre. With late November now almost guaranteed to be Farfetched, we are looking at January for another chance at one. Wonder if I'll even be playing Heroes anymore at that point. They are really missing out on the biggest hype period. Anyway, these units are all nice and I suppose I could always go for another chance at finally having an Ephraim. However, with how lazy I have become about collecting orbs in this game, I'd do best to just leave it alone untilthe next 3H banner, whenever that will be.

Thanks!

Another SOV banner after 500 years and it doesn't have my man Luthier on it. Guess he's never gonna be added. *sigh* On another note, I am slowly losing interest in Heroes as it feels more and more like a chore. My plans are now to save until I have 500 orbs and then drop the game until more of my Three Houses favs are added. Seeing as the next banner is guaranteed to be Farfetched, I imagine it'll be a while.

Agreed, though I feel Dimitri at least had enough meaningful connections with other characters throughout his route, so it didn't feel like a complete Byleth show. Still salty that they had to be the one to give him the final push to regaining his senses.

With Byleth? I thought the A support was okay (excluding S, because Byleth is too much of a wall to make any of those work), but her tragic backstory in B only highlighted how schizophrenic her characterization is. You get this really extreme tale of abuse and afterwards you can immediately go do a support with another character where the game tells you to laugh at her again. It makes it hard for me take her seriously. It's primarily the fault of the support system, but since Bernadetta isn't a main character, that's where most of her character is developed. And I am also, again, not fond of how much the game pushes the "be the one to heal her pain" angle.

Really happy to Dimitri and Felix so high up. They are both great characters who deserve the attention. Not surprised to see Edelgard where she is. They really should have commited on making her big bad/villain protagonist or super waifu instead of trying to have their cake and eat it too. I am not fond of seeing Bernadetta so high. As someone with anxiety myself, I really don't like how they portrayed her as either a moe blob or a joke character ("Look at her flail and shriek while happy music is playing. Hilarious! Isn't she so wacky and cute? Don't you want to heal her pain with your player love."). I don't want to imply people can't like her or relate to her, but personally I am put off. I am mostly happy with the rest of the placements, though I feel Dorothea should be higher.

lThey pumped all their attention into Hector and forgot to leave anything good the others. L'Arachel is particularly shafted. I don't use Rally Skills, so this is looking like a complete kit replacement aside from.. SS2. This feels spiteful. There is no reason they couldn't have given her 3. I love her as a character, but seeing as I already have a bunch of green tome horses, she just doesn't seem worth the investment. I am feeling pretty bitter about it. sigh

I only have Rinea, so I guess I'll join her despite not liking the character.

If you look at their twitter, you'll notice their art before Heroes is actually pretty good too. It's not a matter of technical improvement, but likely the art was very rushed under a strict timelimit.

Update Time: 23 new 5 stars is a pretty good rate for me.

Yup, nothing to see here. My orbs are save. Hope Rinea at least brings good skills to the table.

Great, if this is indeed Berkut and Rinea and the other two characters are of a similar caliber, they'll really make my decision to save for the next Three Houses banner an easy one.

My personal order of priority for each house (With those who should be on the next banner in bold): Black Eagles: Dorothea > Caspar > Linhardt > Ferdinand > Bernadetta (Could also be Bernadetta given popularity) Blue Lions: Felix > Sylvain > Dedue > Ingrid > Annette > Ashe (After the last banner had two Black Eagles, I feel Blue Lions deserves two reps this time and one should be Dedue out of fairness. Felix or Sylvain could be equally likely, but I think it will be Felix due to his closer relationship to Dimitri) Golden Deer: Leonie > Lorenz > Lysithea > Raphael > Marianne > Ignaz (while I like Leonie and Lorenz more, Lysithea is more popular than either of them and I think she will be a priority) As for possible alts, I can only say what I want: Dancer!Dorothea. Also Dancer!Felix, because of all the hints that he actually loves it, but is too tsundere to admit to it. Valentines!Slyvain is a hopeful given.

I picked Blue Lions first and never once regretted it. Those guys are my babies and I'll treasure them forever. I do like other characters from other houses though, so here are my highlights fir each of them: Dorothea: First off, I just love her design. She is super pretty and really looks like someone who is/used to be an opera star. Then there is her personality: While I am usually not that fond of golddigger types (Charlotte is over the top enough for me to enjoy her), Dorothea really makes me feel for her. She honestly fears not making it on her own in the long run and that if she doesn't find a soulmate she'll be left in the dust with nothing but her perishable looks. That's a really tragic way of viewing herself and her life (considering one of her dislikes is herself). Especially when she is such a loveable person otherwise, often looking out for others and always aiming to bond with them emotionally. (While not afraid to call out shitty behaviour) I had my eyes on her from tue beginning, but I love how sympathetic she turned out to be. Felix: I do admit to liking the tsundere archetype more than most people, so Felix already appealed to me for that reason. However, he is a lot more than that. The fact that he is understandably alienated from Dimitri after witnessing the others violent tendencies and vocally calls him out on it is really good. Seriously, I love Dimitri, but I hate it when some fans just put him on a "boo boo can do nothing wrong" kind of pedestal. Felix can tell what's gonna happen at some point and is in the right, even if his sense of betrayal makes him lash out more harshly than necessary at times. I also really love how he is a "Navarre archetype" that's not simply an edgy loner, but actually really vulnerable to the fact that most of the people around him idealise this concept of self-sacrifice as the ultimate virtue. He just really doesn't want to lose anyone else, while all his friends and family seem to be looking for the most ideal way to die and implicitly expect him to do the same. And it grates him so much, he'd rather just push them away entirely. Ironically, he just cares too much. Then he throws himself into his swordtraining, because it's the one thing he feels he has left for himself and most of the endings where he ends up a mercenary give off the vibe that he's just doing the only thing he can think of. Byleth can even mention how he reminds them of themself in the past: Someone who goes from battlefield to battlefield without a real thought as to why they are doing that or for what exactly. During tea parties and it supports, it becomes clear how he also loves things like cats, dancing, the opera, children etc. yet he hyperfocuses on this one thing to the exclusion of all else. I haven't seen his S-support with Byleth, but the common theme for his supports seem to be about teaching him to let others close again. I don't know, but I am a sucker for this guy, if you couldn't tell. Hilda: I haven't finished her route yet, but I really like this girl. She is deliberately lazy because she fears not living up to other's expectations if she tries. She is actually very powerful and smart, yet doesn't quite believe it. Claude does though, and I really like their interactions. Overall, I didn't expect to like her as much as I do now.

Blue Lions, no question about it. It fels like it has about twice as much content as Black Eagels, which was pretty bare bones.