Namero

Last year I +10ed ninja Lyn on her debut, and later wound up with a second copy that is up to +7 before her banner returned thanks to the Hero Rises and so on. I wonder if the same will happen with Ninja Corrin since I also completed her on her debut... I also finshed Ullr. So that means all offensive mythics are presently +10. And a few other characters I finished recently.

I doubt anybody at all saw Fae coming. After Lilina, I figured anybody with a significant role could easily end up being what they start using once all the lords were out of the way. "A new hero, a mythic I need a few copies of, and a very handy dragon I'd like more of, can't go wrong with Blue!", I thought. Boy, was I ever wrong...

Mila is the first mythic I've made a second +10 copy of. So many teams use two dancers that it felt necessary for AR. And various other units I got to +10 recently.

+5? LMAO! As somebody that has +10ed numerous units right off their debut banners, that would normally be more than enough to +10 a unit. I remember +10ing fallen Edelgard at her debut in just 928 orbs. Now I got 2 more of her along with three of Flayn and numerous other unwanted units all for just one copy of Leif. To think there was a short period before the banner where I was debating if I might want to +10 him like I did with Bride Catria... F*** that! I'm not even going for a second copy now! (The very first ever duo/harmonic I won't summon a merge and/or a second copy of!) Anything like that ever happens again and I'll probably just ditch seasonal banners altogether and commit to sparkable banners only in the future.

I think this banner set a brand new record for worst luck ever. I got Larcei, Lewyn, and Julia within the first 300 orbs, and then then starting sniping colorless for Leif... It took 1,868 orbs in total to get one copy of him, with over 22 pity breakers along the way! I'm genuinely curious, what are the odds of that? One out of one million or less? And here I was thinking about 1100 orbs for one copy of Sothis on her debut banner was the the worst it could ever get...

What do you think of this tank-killer team I assembles for this week? I never expected a blue unit to take down a fully invested Brave Ike even with such a build! lol

I recently got a few more seasonal units finished including Winter Altina, Winter Hilda, and Winter Cecilia. Talk about Christmas in July! lol And I finished some more mythic heroes this month. And some various old units have been completed.

In terms of utility this looks like the most underwhelming mythic hero we have yet gotten. I would argue that both Legendary Lucina and especially Legendary Chrom are more useful units than her for AR. The one and only thing she has going for her is hyper offense, but anybody in the upper ranks of AR knows how little use that alone tends to be. lol Maybe is she had some gimmick like getting another action if she KOs and enemy or provided some sort of team support, but as she stands she looks to be nothing more than a burden to make light season a pain any time she is the bonus unit of the weak...

Is that... an OC that isn't mythic/seasonal locked? But... how is that possible?! lol I'm rather surprised. Nifl comes out of nowhere and is suddenly added to the summoning pool and we have only seen her in a TT. I wonder if she'll be playing a role in anything else in the near future?

Now I finished Bride Catria. To finish her, Fallen Edelgard, and Ashera all in a month's time... I don't think I've done that many brand new +10s in such a short time ever before... I also got some other good flying units to join her in triangle attacking things. Along with some other old units.

It hasn't even been 24 hours since Ashera's release... and I already got her to +10?!?!?! It's a new record!

This is probably the fastest I have ever +10ed a unit... The second I saw how broken this new fallen hero was, I simply had no choice...lol Rather than just a pic, I made a whole showcase video for this one to show share just a few of the countless builds I'm working on for it. I would say this is by far the most versatile and broken armor unit we've gotten yet!

With the latest Legendary Banner, I finished some more legendary/mythic heroes. And with the CYL reruns I got a few more brave heroes finished. And Lonqu recently became my latest common unit to +10. I'm still debating the best uses for him... Maybe as a partner for Xane to grant a ton of speed and attack while somebody like Mila grants a ton of def/res. lol

For the first time ever, I've +10ed a mythic/legendary hero straight from their debut banner! In total it took about... 2,200 orbs... ouch! I had been planning for it for a while, hoping that if this was the new mythic that adds a slot to Light season in AR, thy would be green that way I could get them while finishing Freyja (I already had Edelgad at +10, but her fodder is somewhat nice at least). I didn't want to have to wait another three months while being forced to keep this unit in only the extra slot without lowering my score, so I rushed to finish it. I also got the last copy of Legendary Lucina I needed to finish her. I hope she gets remixed with other old legendary units before long; her being gone until freaking January makes it seem like she should be on the remixes by now. In my rush to stock up on near/far save a few weeks ago, I also finished these: And after all these years I finally finished the Reinhardt! I had him at +9 for the longest time (maybe because the final merge would not raise atk lol), but finally finished him with the resplendent that arrived. When Ayra got her refine recently, I was sitting on several manuals of her that I then decided to merge since her new weapon seemed really good. I decided to full the last five I needed from the banner with her and Halloween Nowi for a chance to finish her or a seasonal out of season, and was surprised to get five of her and only one of Nowi; normally I'd be annoyed by that, but not this time since her refinement just seemed way better. lol And random pulls finally got me the last copy of Eldigan I needed to finally finish him. And I just now pulled the last Spring Myrrh I needed to finish her. Last year it was Spring Idunn, this year it was Myrrh; I guess dragons with bunny ears are too tempting with how broken they are! lol

I think I finally did it! I've created the ultimate offense team that that turns AR into a complete zero-effort cake walk! lol I've been using this team and lost zero units this week without even really trying. Every single friend map I've tested this on has been beaten. Things that used to scare the pants off me like Ruptured Sky dou Alfonse/Lysithea/Thrasir, Lunge Eliwood, Legendary Alm, Blazing Light Ophelia, and the like are all nothing more than fleeting thoughts now! lol I think the one and only unit in the entire game I need to watch out for is Legendary Chrom with a pre-charged Deadeye, but even that ain't too threatening; with some careful positioning to have Edelgard smash his skull in, or a simple use of Idunn's skill, and even he poses little threat. I just have to keep them all clumped together and they can march across just about any map without a care in the world. I just move into enemy range, tank everything with no effort, then let Reginn and Edelgard clean house. To think AR could go from a nightmare to a cake walk from the introduction of just two new skills; I never imagined there could be one individual banner that could change the game this much! lol

A few weeks back I lived the nightmare of wanting to get the last copy of Dimitri I needed and wound up getting freaking 12 of Julia and one of Seiros. I was a bit desperate since it looked like Dimitri would be gone until July. They really need to avoid having recent units be gone for half a year after just one rerun.

These results are looking even more disappointing than last year. Last time, I remember academy Edelgard being in the top ranks and thinking, "Why in the world are people voting for a unit in the normal summoning pool that you can get easily? Do they think this is a popularity contest?!". A whole bunch of people wound up supporting Leif in the first voting round just to make sure Edelgard didn't win. Now we have three brave heroes in the top ranks??? You can flat out select one of them for free already, their banner allowed every single unit to be sparked and will definitely get a revival later, and they will regularly be on normal banners, not to mention they are also in the normal summoning pool. I already got a +10 brave Edelgard without even trying for her. I can understand legendary/mythic heroes getting selected since they can be a major pain to get with how horrible the odds on those legendary/mythic banners can be, but why are so many folks going for mythic Altina again? She was given out for free last year, and has lost a lot of usefulness thanks to Plumeria and Reginn. Wouldn't it make more sense for people to be voting for winter Altina? Flying Altina is kind of outdated while winter Altina is one of the craziest units in the game! I hope people didn't get them confused... I'll never forget the time people wound up voting for Legendary Lyn; I can't help but think they were all just confused and didn't realize you could scroll through that search-for-a-hero thing and just chose her because she looked like the best of what was at the very start of it.

These new savior skills are what interest me the most on this banner. I think I'll want at least a couple copies of those skills since they can open up some interesting possibilities, especially if you combine them (I assume it only fails when two units within two spaces both have Near or Far Save, but will work if one of each is within two spaces). Since it is armor only, I'll have to think carefully about which armors would be best suited for them. One I immediately thought of giving the Far Save to is my +10 Spring Idunn; being within two spaces of an ally means enemies can't do follow up attacks and with those already crazy high defenses nothing short of legendary Chrom with a pre-charged Dead Eye can take her out (especially if I give her Dragon Wall from the spare Seiros I manualed). Perhaps brave Hector would be a good candidate for the Near save; just replace Ostian Counter with Close Guard 4 and such and then he'll shrug off close attacks. Then the fun part is using them together. Imagine having a frail support unit like Flayn along with a glass cannon like Ninja Lyn in a T shape, square, or other formation where they are both within two spaces of those two protector units (and the protectors being within two spaces of each other preferably); Suddenly any ranged unit that attempts to attack Flayn or Lyn has Idunn jump in the way and (Between Dragon Wall and Flayn) barely take any damage at all, and if somebody like Eliwood comes along to attack, he'll instead be hitting Hector. Then the enemy turn ends and Flayn and Lyn are free to snipe or heal without a worry as long as they stay within two space of their protectors! Certain strategies like cav lines and turn-one-all-out-attacks are going to lose a lot (if not all) viability from something like that; Just park your I-can-tank--any-ranged-unit protector right in the middle of everybody and suddenly they can't do jack to your team! lol

After pondering who might be best for that new bow we got, I finally decided to build up Norne. I also recently pulled the last copies of Mareeta and Brave Edelgard I needed to finish them.

Has anybody ever beaten a map in Aether raids just to suddenly get some error message that will not allow them to claim their victory? Today I beat a map without losing any characters and then right after the "stage clear" appeared it suddenly popped up a message saying "a communication error has occurred. support code: 803-3001" and then forced me to return to the title screen. It prompted me to resume via bookmark, which I did making it go right back to the "stage clear" part only to have it pop up the exact same error message again and send me back to the title screen again! It did so over and over and over until I had no choice but to delete the bookmark in order to resume the game without that stupid error preventing me from doing anything. As a result, I lost 100 points of Aether (I used the boost x 2) since the stupid Escape Ladder doesn't do anything if it thinks you quit a match. Now I think I will not be able to reach tier 38 despite the fact that I am normally one of the people that ranks first place nearly every week in Aether Raids. This just had to happen during the first week of this Vault of Heaven stuff... If Vault of Heaven involves us getting utterly cheated via error messages, I do not like it at all.

When this wound up being my first summoning session of the year, I wondered if it could be a sign of good luck on this banner, and for a time it seemed to be. I decided to snipe blue and green and was getting Alfonse or Peony in what seemed like every other session. I got to the point of having peony finished with a couple extra copies and Alfonse all the way to +9, then this happened! I would've gone insane had I gotten the wrong unit at that point, but luckily I didn't.

A new year, a new set of +10s! I pray the mythic we get at the end of this month isn't a light one with the new extra-unit effect... I soooo do not want to be pressured to stock up on a new mythic at the end of the month after how drained I always am from the New year overload!

I thought the changes to the pity system would make getting an extra copy of Reginn less painful. I thought wrong. lol Over 600 orbs for just one copy with every possible red pity breaker along the way! That included the last merge I needed to finish male Byleth. It's hard to believe that 47 speed stat is already starting to look a little slow...

I finally got to the point of being settled with AR that I now regularly end the week tied for 1st place, and now they have to go and screw around with it again! Let's see... So that blue aura behind the mythics on the bonus list means they are the ones that allow you to lose one unit without penalty on offense, or lose 20 less points on defense? Here is the big question: does that still apply if those units are in the "extra" slot that can only be filled via the new mythics like Reginn? I dislike being forced to use a unit like Freyja when I already had a +10 Eir, Peony, and Mila. But if putting a unit like Freyja in the extra slot (once a light mythic with the new effect arrives) will make things less painful if that still gives the one-loss-protection bonus. Apparently a character in that slot does not affect scoring, does it affect anything else? Would having another mythic in that slot still give blessed units the extra HP/other stat?

And now I have finished Hel on just her second appearance. This build let's her beat just about anything that does not make guarentted follow up attacks. It's easier to pull when the unit appears alongside other new units. I remember when Legendary Eliwood made his debut, I got a single copy and then ran away from red since I didn't want to risk getting another copy of Ryoma. lol But now Eliwood is done as well. I also recently got the last Brave Hector I needed to finish him.