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I'm thinking of making my L'Arachel +10. I was going to do it eventually, but her being a bonus unit in Tempest Trials pushed her up in the queue. But before I spend a lot of feathers I wanted to ask what her best boon would be, and what the best set to run is. The one I have is +Atk, but I can switch to +Spd easily. Also, is Ivaldi even worth running, or is it completely outclassed by Blárblade+?

No problem, would have been unfortunate to find that out after you spent the orbs. As a general rule, if a weapon has 16Mt (14 for ranged) and does not have a + behind its name, it's not inheritable.

Sol Lance is not inheritable, so I'm afraid that combination won't be possible.

Very nice looking banner. It gets a non-seasonal Witchy Wand into the pool, and Python looks like a great demote and finally brings Blue Tomebreaker to the summoning pool. Valbar at 3-4-star also means a really high BST mergable unit for scoring purposes. A little confused about Catria being here, but seeing how few female units were left to add from Echoes makes it more understandable. She is also the unit I want the most (I really like the Whitewings), so my tickets will be going to red stones, but I won't spend a lot of orbs here as I need to save. She's drawn by lack, who's previously drawn units like Beruka, Fallen Tiki and Hot Spring Camilla in Heroes. This Silque art is some of their best looking art yet I think.

With more ingredients I decided to use the dining hall for a bit. Today's cook was Tana, and she started off by making a 5-star Tender Kebab. Then she made a complete mess out off the rare meat and made a Revolting Jumbo Steak... Followed by a Heavenly Balanced Breakfast which was so good everyone started dancing with disco lights and everything. Seems Tana's cooking skills are a bit fluctuating today. It's a shame the best ingredients got wasted, but I guess that happens sometimes. In all I got enough stars today to get all the feather rewards. That was much easier than expected, 19 days until the next cycle... The reward isn't much, but the animations are pretty great and it's fun to fill in the recipe list, so overall I really like the dining hall.

@Zeo Wow, another one. Next free pull will probably be Soleil, then you'll have pulled an entire banner! @daisy jane Congrats on that nice Halloween Sakura! @Xenomata Congrats on fulfilling a long time goal! @Mercakete That's a great free pull, congrats! I tried a colorless orb myself to see if I could get Halloween Sakura, but I got 4-star Jeorge. Oh well.

This season went pretty bad. I had been looking forward to using Nagi to tank on offense, but I think I had only three matches without any Thrasir, so I barely had the opportunity. It's probably just weird luck, but it feels like Brave Alm and Ophelia were almost absent this week. I also lost a lot on defense, a lot of them to the new Hector. I thought most of the units on my flier ball team running Wings of Mercy would make it at least a little tricky for some, and it did catch one person off guard, but most people just had an easy time picking off the rest of my team after nuking them twice. I might have to come up with a new setup if this keeps happening, but that takes so much effort I'll probably be putting it off for weeks. Luckily the season ended on a match that was completely tankable by Nagi, having only blue mages and ranged colorless attackers, so she got to see a little action at least.

Finished Chamber 20 today. Celica got her refined weapon, Death Blow 4 and Brazen Atk/Spd Sacred Seal, making her a massive destructive force capable of beating enemies many levels above her. In combination with Mae having Reposition and her own refined weapon, not much could stand up to Celica at +6 atk and spd. I agree that it would be nice to have more Stamina for this mode, at least once you get all the rewards. Perhaps just completely remove the need for Stamina once you reach Chamber 20, so you can play what you want for fun.

I think it'd be nice if they could give Rapier to some of the sword lords that are associated with it, like Eirika, Marth and Roy. None of them can match Phina's attack, and Phina is still a dancer, so it's not like she would lose her niche and not be worth pulling for anymore. It'd be a nice reference to the main series, and would give these units some new possible roles to fill, especially for those who's personal weapon refines are starting to show some age. They haven't done those 150 dew new weapon refines in some time though, so I wonder if they've stopped. At least they should give Eirika the Storm Sieglinde. It might not be that good on her, but it bothers me that Ephraim has the Flame Siegmund while Eirika doesn't have the weapon of her legendary version.

@Zeo Whoa, the game seems to be apologizing for something! Siegbert might not be the most spectacular 5-star you can get anymore, but for only 4 orbs I'd also gladly take it. At least he came like this and not when you were at 6.25% on the dancer banner. @daisy jane Great, so happy you got her! Your Mia is the opposite of mine (mine is +HP -Res). No matter the stats she's incredibly useful though, I don't know what I would do without her in Røkkr Sieges. @mcsilas Congratulations on getting Niles! He's still a very unique unit a year after his release, with that high speed he could probably use Special Fighter pretty well. Speaking of Special Fighter... I went for a colorless stone on my free summon hoping for some better stats for Mia, but then... A +Atk -Res Fallen Tiki! I'll gladly take that! The one I have is already +Atk at +1 merge. I could merge her to +2 which would give her a point of speed, but I think using her for Special Fighter might be more useful. Who to give it to though, Amelia already has it... Perhaps Halloween Myrrh? Or Winter Cecilia? I'll have to think about it. Definitely very happy to have pulled her though.

@Zeo Wow, that's really nice for 4 orbs! Good to see the game throwing you a bone after having been really stingy lately. Hector is a really good pull no matter what, but +Atk -Spd makes it even better. I had two green orbs in my first circle so I opened them both, they were both 3-stars. But one of them was Barst so it's not useless at least!

The mode is pretty fun so far! Mae got her personal weapon with the built in Link skill and Reposition, so she's been very helpful. Boey also got his personal weapon with Close Counter, which has made him very easy to use. Alm has been falling behind for a while, but he just got Dracofalchion and Scendscale so hopefully he'll be more useful now.

Wow, you just went and got him right away! Congrats, hope he's lots of fun. Now let's hope Mia doesn't give you any trouble either. Thanks! Yeah, it all went much smoother than expected. Now I'll have lots of options for bonus units in the upcoming Tempest Trial.

Thanks! I wish you luck in getting Mia once her banner comes around! I'm also tempted to try getting Kronya's New Best Friend(s), and the more I look at Ilyana the more I want her too... But I think I'll wait for a while and save up orbs before I dip into this banner again, as it's going to be around for a long time (and I got the most important goals done already!).

I agree! I just got her, and all her lines have great delivery, both in English and Japanese. I especially like when she goes "I'm a monster!" when you tap her on the map. I got Dozla as well, and I really like his lines too. His laugh sounds exactly as I imagined it sounding in The Sacred Stones. I'm so happy these two are together on this banner.

@mampfoid @daisy jane It worked! I bought the two promotion packs and grinded out most of the free orbs available before giving it a try. It took all the tickets and most of the orbs before L'Arachel showed up, but spending only around 70 orbs for her in total is not bad. She's also +Spd -Def, very nice! She'll reach 40 Spd with her weapon equipped then. After this I was expecting to maybe gradually work on getting Dozla throughout the month as I had only 13 orbs left, but on the very next stone after L'Arachel he showed up! L'Arachel must have called for him herself, I didn't even need a Cipher card of him. Dozla is +HP -Def, not as good as L'Arachel but since he came so easily I'll gladly forgive him for that. And so I got exactly what I wanted on the first day of the banner, and the Sacred Stones collection is complete once again. And now the Sacred Stones units even fill a perfectly square area in the catalog!

Yes, I already have defense replays of people using Astra blessed Duo Hector against me in AR. Datamined icons also seem to suggest that future Legendary and Mythic Heroes could also be Duo Heroes, so get ready for more units with built in nuke buttons with no drawbacks.

The notification board now says that the "Build a Field" quest issue will be fixed in a future update. I had also built the field yesterday, so I'm relieved. My AR defense team has already suffered a complete loss to someone who used Duo Hector to bring my team down to 1 HP before engaging. I might have to find some other defense setup than flier ball if this keeps happening. This setup has served me well and I haven't changed it in months, but it leaves the entire team within the three columns that Hector nukes.

I don't think Dragonflowers are the most eregrious resource in terms of not meeting the demand, but adjusting the amount you get of them from certain modes to be a little higher could be a good idea, if only to make those modes more rewarding. The Aether Resort fields were disappointingly bad. They're expensive to grow as well, and 60 R&R Affinity is not really worth 5 dragonflowers a week (at least to me, who wants to use it for other things like music). Some parts of this game has the problem of essentially handing out non-rewards, either the amount you get of a resource is so low that it barely makes a difference or the resource itself is useless. For example, Røkkr Sieges giving 1 Refining Stone as damage rewards, which makes it seem like the mode "gives Refining Stones as a reward", while in reality it's almost nothing. On the other hand there's things like Arena Medals, which have so little value that replacing the reward for getting a streak of 2 in Arena with only 1 feather would make the reward more impactful.

I had a lot of R&R Affinity saved up, so I bought all the new structures, the extra fields and some more spaces for buildings. And now I don't even have enough to grow any Dragonflowers at all... I didn't think it would be that expensive, I should have checked before buying the extra fields. Having an extra field for flowers is useless if I can't plant anything in it. 60 R&R Affinity for 5 Dragonflowers a week seems ridiculously bad, not sure there's even any point to doing it... I kind of want to save my affinity for buying more music (which is also super expensive...).

Aversa is indeed quite sweet, she's a really great help in Arena if you can get her a duel skill. I recently finished mine, and with the help of her and +10 Palla I was able to stay in tier 21 for the first time last week. Last week my score was 3808, but that was only acievable because I had a bonus unit at +10. This week I'm not even trying because I know I can't stay in tier 21, but next week I'll try getting into tier 21 again using Nagi. I usually score between 3725 and 3750 depending on what bonus unit I have, and that tends to be enough to get into tier 21 every other week. The scoring treshold fluctuates a lot depending on what legendary hero is a bonus unit and if it's their season; I've noticed especially high tresholds on Water season with Fjorm as a bonus unit and Earth Season with Legendary Alm or Tiki as bonus units.

I had to go and open my mouth, didn't I... This happened with Spring Marisa as well, why does Sacred Stones get such underwhelming seasonal units (in terms of skills)? I'm still going to summon for them, but I would have liked to be able to look forward to their skillsets as well. L'Arachel could have had Swift Sparrow 3, and Dozla could have had Close Counter or a new Form skill (Close Counter could use more sources and there is still only one Form skill). At least Armor March is useful. They will not be available on this banner specifically, but banners with the units from previous years will eventually be available. They usually show up a few days after the new banner for this year.

Haha, just as planned. Thanks! Yeah, her weapon gives her a lot of extra speed so I think she'll be fine. -Atk might have been harder to overcome. Thanks! I got some L'Arachel cards in that booster box as well, so I think I'll try the same strategy of holding on to a card while summoning, hopefully it works. Yes, "TAAANNAAAAAA!" was pretty much my reaction when she showed up, haha. Too bad about your Lethe, -Atk sounds even worse for her than -Spd, at least she has pretty high speed despite the bane. I'll be sure to tell you if one or both of them shows up (my fingers are crossed too!). @Zeo Congrats on that Nephenee! What a great relief to get to break a pity rate that high right before the end of the banner. @TheSilentChloey Congrats on that free summon! Really fun to get something you really want for free.

I got 5 Tana yesterday! ...From the Fire Emblem Cipher booster box I opened. But I held on to one of those Tana cards for luck while summoning, and I got one in Heroes too! A very lucky circle with three Sacred Stones princesses! I opened all the red stones as well hoping for Elincia to fix her bane, but I got Lethe instead. Lethe is cool though, and I didn't have her, so I'm very happy to get her. Sadly she is +HP -Spd, but with all the Speed she gets from her weapon she'll hopefully still be useful. And Tana is up to +5 merges now, which I'm very pleased about. Very happy I got to break my pity rate before the banner disappeared. On the new revival banner today I went for a green stone hoping for Amelia, but I got 4-star Cecilia. If I had the orbs I would have wanted to get a merge for Amelia as well, but I need to save everything for L'Arachel and Dozla on the Halloween banner now.

Pretty good Feh Channel overall. I like the look of the Halloween units, and I'm happy to get Rolf for free. I really like his Oscar and Boyd pumpkins. I want to uphold my complete Sacred Stones collection, so L'Arachel and Dozla will be my main priority. I love how they look, and they make a perfect duo as scientist and monster. Really exited to get them, I'm hoping they both have good skills and none of them end up looking like a "demote unit" on a seasonal banner (like Spring Marisa or Summer Gunnthrá). Not sure how to feel about duo heroes. Hector and Lilina look really nice, but I wouldn't necessarily have minded if they were just two in one units without the special mechanics to go with it. I don't think this game really needed another gimmick special unit type, and I'm also a bit worried future pairs will feel forced or unnecessary. However, just like with the powercrept dancers on the last seasonal banner, I am exited for what it could mean for Tokyo Mirage Sessions units in the future. The new mode looks like it could be fun. I've spent a lot of time in the Battle Factory in the Pokémon games, and while this is different (more about building units than selecting pre made ones), it looks like it could give some of the same kind of fun as that. The new AR features look neat, I'm glad I have a lot of R&R Affinity saved up. I still think the accumulation of affinity is a bit too slow, even if you spend orbs, so I wish they would have made some changes to that... but I won't complain about more reward sources.