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The latter part of this is a sentiment I fully endorse! I don't mind seasonal alts, but I definitely am all for the entirety of the Whitewings getting more representation. Surely this has to happen sometime? Please not at the same time though! I only have so many orbs, so my hope there would be that the banner would be generous enough to grant me both...!

Indeed! Here's something of what it would look like:

I would likely vote for some combination of Minerva, Tiki, Est, and possibly Mia. Since we're assuming the split vote issue is fixed, I feel both Tiki and Mia would stand a better chance of at least breaking the top 10. I am very fond of the other Whitewings as well, Est just happens to be my favorite, and she traditionally gets the least amount of votes, so I'm inclined to give her extra support. Yeah, although I feel that eventually they're going to have to give her a personal weapon. I just recently got her to 5*+10, so I'm really hoping they do! Minerva as a pegasus knight would be great! This has been something I've wanted for a long time.

I wasn't expecting the Abyssal difficulty to be... quite so easy. I actually ended up just clearing it on the first attempt. A major factor, though, is that there weren't swarms of reinforcements. That results in things being much simpler!

Let's go Team Lilina, let's take home a win from the entire tourney! If anyone would like my Cherche to mow down their foes, my ID is 8608857766! Just let me know if you send a friend request. I can also put up Est, if people are needing blues. All my other 5*+10s are red.

Congrats Team Lilina, we did it! I'd give some shout-outs here, but I don't think I got paired up with a helper from anyone on SF. But hopefully my Cherche made the rounds, and served useful!

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I've joined Team Lilina! My Cherche is happy to help out anyone who would like her assistance. My friend code is 8608857766, let me know if you send me a request!

I finally managed to clear the Abyssal Tiki! I was busy doing some other things when she first came out, but decided to take her to task today. To do so, I reluctantly switched my Summoner Support from Brave Lucina to Tiki (my support had been set to Lucina since the beginning, hence the reluctance, but Tiki is one of my favorite characters as well, and I have a feeling that I'll enjoy having it on her for future Abyssal battles). I also switched Tiki's Ally Support from her adult summer version to PA Azura. With all these shifts, Tiki pretty much emerged as the ultimate tank, cutting down huge swaths of enemies foolish enough to challenge her. The best part was the ending, where the Superior Tiki emerged victorious! Congrats Tiki! You have matured well. Very nice! That's quite an impressive clear! Tiki had some monstrous stats, so being able to defeat her in one shot, on a defensive tile, is quite a feat!

Sorry to hear that. You could also give one of the emulation methods for the computer a go. If you're interested, there's a thread on here that's titled "How to play FEH on a PC," or something like that. I could find it for you, if you'd like.

Absolutely, it's a huge investment. But, basically, I was just making the slight point that some of us F2P players have made it to T21 at least once! There are, at least, a few of us, although we're small in number! I stand corrected on the first point! While 75 orbs a week is still a little on the high side, it's really not a ridiculous statement, like I initially thought. As to the second point, my understanding was that you intended that to be based on Arena crowns. This is, after all, a thread based on what those crowns could be used for. But I'm glad you clarified! That does make sense. Even with that, though, I still want everyone to clear the content. Some of the content is at least hard for most people, like Infernal variations on LHBs or BHBs. I don't like the idea of people being able to skip that. But I would have no problem with, say, daily or monthly quests being fulfilled through other means.

I doubt that they will be able to be used for anything that improves in-game performance, and I definitely think they should steer clear of that. Instead, I could see them implementing something that could alter the aesthetics of the game -- like reskins of accessories or something like that. While accessories are fun, they don't affect gameplay, and so I think that would be an acceptable addition for most people. I'm F2P, and I reached T21 the first week it was implemented. But, fair enough, T21 is primarily for the whales. 75 F2P orbs per week? What game are you playing? That's not even remotely near what we get (although, with that said, I do get what you're getting at). In any case, honestly, I would hate this. You already have the option to skip content you don't enjoy -- you just don't get the rewards for that. This aspect, in part, levels the game between whales and F2P. Currently, everyone can only get the rewards for any event by actually doing the event. Everyone has to go through the same grind and complete the same sort of content in order to get the rewards for that content. But, with your suggestion, whales would get an exemption from that process, and this actually gives whales an exemption from playing certain aspects of the game. I think this would be a pretty divisive mechanic. The F2P method is to spend feathers on the Arena core, not orbs. It's much easier to promote, say, Sheena to 5*+10 than it is to summon 11 copies of a 5* unit.

I'd like for her to get a personal weapon as well! Lady Blade sounds good for her, although I would like it to be better than just a glorified gem weapon. I actually just finished getting her to 5*+10 this week with the aid of HM grinding, so I'd really enjoy seeing her get something nice. My Palla is actually still using her native Ruby Sword at the moment, as I feel like the moment I promote someone to give her something better, they're going to come out and announce her personal weapon. In fact, that's probably what they're waiting for. They're probably just sitting around with a fully developed weapon for her, watching my account for the right moment, just to laugh as the 20k feathers I'm going to invest in her weapon becomes meaningless!

Definitely going with Lilina for the first round! Let's burn all of Earth to the ground with Forblaze!

Glad you like it! It's a fun set on the manaketes. As for where to put QR on her, really, either the SS or the B-passive are good options, so go with whichever you prefer. One advantage to using the QR seal is that it frees up her B-passive to run Guard, which helps her out against common threats in the Arena, like Bold Fighter Zelgius. Being able to block out large burst damage from specials really helps her survivability, especially in the upper echelons. Hence this is a particularly good option if she's in your core Arena team, or if you were thinking of adding her to it. The advantage to using QR as the B-passive, however, is that it frees up her SS slot to run something that will bolster her defenses, such as Distant or Close Def. You might find this more useful in some of the more difficult PvE content, where the enemies have vastly inflated stats.

I'd say give it to Nowi or some other manakete you're fond of. Nowi would perform quite well for you with Steady Breath, Quick Riposte, & Aether. If Nowi is doubled, Aether will activate on her follow-up riposte, so she potentially could be activating Aether on every engagement. This results in both excellent damage and excellent sustain. Used right, she can power through several rounds of combat without really taking damage, since Aether would be healing her back up. I'm very fond of this build on my +10 adult Tiki, and I frequently prioritize using similarly built manaketes for modes that use brigades (e.g., Rival Domains, etc.). In addition to what DehNutCase said, you can also hand out some Firesweep weapons. While we're still waiting on a Firesweep Axe, the Firesweep Lance is in the 4* pool. The principle is the same as with healers, of course, and you'd probably want to pair them with a dancer so that you could adequately kite her. If you wanted a really budget build, you could even use a 4* Firesweep Lance or Sword with Poison Strike, and just deal chip damage and kite until stronger units can finally finish her off. It's at least an option to consider.

Tikiiiii! And here I was wanting to save orbs to possibly pull more on the Muspell banner, or save for Halloween. But I'm definitely going to do at least a bit of pulling for my favorite dragon. Her skill set looks powerful too. I also wouldn't mind getting a better nature for my Spring Catria, but I'm already happy with my Micaiah.

Thanks! Although my Camus has already maxed out his HM, I'm continuing to use him, since I'm actually pretty short on Pass fodder. My only Gaius went towards giving Camus Pass, and I'd like to sit on what few Firs and Cordelias I have. Who knows when I'll have to give someone else Pass! The funny thing is that the skill is actually in reasonable demand for these HM farms -- it used to be virtually useless! I really do like these HM farms. I'm very close to getting Palla to +10, and this is speeding up the process quite a bit. I need about 8k more feathers to achieve that, although I still need to replace her weapon and give her a proper skill set. Still, this is good progress!

Thanks for this! The autobattle for this method just worked immediately for me, so I'll definitely be doing some good HM grinding this week. For some other weeks, I couldn't get the autobattle methods to work, so I'm glad this one is good to go. Yeah, I would like to see Kris get in too. They're a holdout lord/main character, and they do deserve to get in.

I've been around since launch week, and have been consistently on ever since. I didn't have a tablet at the time, so I could only play on emulators. I had pretty terrible luck at the beginning, with no 5* units. Even grabbing a 4* unit was something of a rarity. Really, I should've rerolled, but meh, I didn't. Est was a star unit for me for awhile, since I had no 5* units. Roy was my first 5* unit, and I still have him, although I don't really use him so often. Est, however, has blossomed into a 5*+10. What's even better is that the first one I pulled (+Spd/-Def) serves as the base! I also remember the Emulator Apocalypse with, if I remember correctly, the 1.8 ver. update. Suddenly, none of the emulators worked anymore. Fortunately for me, someone discovered a version of Bluestacks that still could run it! Ah, yes, I remember the 803-3001 days... Glad I don't have to deal with that anymore!

@Zeo I definitely don't mind being tagged, so feel free to do so. I also can sympathize with the plight of having a lot of premium unused fodder, as I tend to sit on mine rather than use them. As a general remark on some of the fodder, I think Warding Breath would best be used on a dragon, and I find Flashing Blade to generally be an inferior option to other A-passives. I just merge my Mias, rather than save any for Flashing Blade fodder that I know I'm not going to use. I'll spoiler this since it was kinda long. Hope that input helps, and maybe gives you some things to consider!

No, I said this isn't the place to discuss that. I adhere to that. I'm fine talking about the Gamepress tier list, but not here, because this isn't the proper place for such a discussion.

What information did I provide that is "wrong"?

Seriously? This isn't the place to air out your complaints with a tier list. This is the QnA thread. Let's just limit it to that, not anything more.

Different tier lists result in different rankings, I suppose. Gamepress puts him in the bottom 4 red mages, and I'd personally consider him to be down somewhere near the bottom as well. But one nice feature about this game is that every character can be built to where they can be useful, should one want to put sufficient investment into them.