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Nope, I just got mine. Have you tried all the usual quitting and restarting the app etc.?

Ooh, I wish you luck then. I worked really hard to get Halloween Mia last year, wouldn't mind getting another but with Dozla and L'Arachel being on this year's banner I doubt I'll have the orbs to even try. One of my personal goals is to have every Sacred Stones unit, so those two are going to be my main focus this month I guess. And Tana, until Sunday. I'd like to snag Nephenee myself, but just as you I can't right now so I'll also hold on to hope for the Legendary banners. Hope we both get them eventually!

Yeah, it's pretty awful. I remember getting to 7% on last year's Halloween banner, only to get broken by one single regular Ike... oof. You really start hoping for a session with multiple 5-stars when the rate gets that high, even if the odds of that are still rather low. (High five for same Ishtar *smack*!)

Hi there! For the Heroes' Path quest that requires you to unlock the potentioal of an ally it is sufficient to promote a unit from 3-star to 4-star rarity as well, which is much cheaper and might be a good option if you have trouble deciding who to spend 20000 feathers on right now. If you do want to bring one of the units you mentioned up to 5-star though, both Kronya and Aversa can be good options. Eir already starts off as a 5-star unit, so it's not possible to unlock her potential any further (there are no 6-star Heroes in this game). I would recommend Aversa to begin with; her weapon Aversa's Night which she can get once she's at 5-star rarity can inflict debuffs and panic status on enemies who have lower HP than her and are ajacent to another enemy, which is an amazing supportive effect for the rest of your team. She is also a ranged magic Flier, which is a useful niche to fill considering what your team is. She also requires less rare skills to function well compared to Kronya. There are plenty of strong and useful units in the picture as well (Cherche, Nino, Ares, Cordelia and more), but Aversa is a genuinely good choice, and considering you like her I'd say go for it.

I spent over 250 orbs without getting a 5-star on that banner, got pitybroken by Female Byleth at about 6%... Luckily Ishtar came right after, (+Atk -HP as well), and Byleth isn't bad either. Now all my orbs are going towards another Tana merge, which hopefully shows up before Sunday.

Went over to Olivia's team after Ishtar lost. It's actually a lot nicer than being on Ishtar's team since there are more multipliers and I'm actually getting varied colors on my allies (Ishtar was like 90% red).

Got my first 3-star Bantu today. +Spd -Def, not that nice, but at least he was something new in a full batch of 3-stars. Congrats! I also spent way more orbs than I planned on this banner, that Ishtar sure was tempting. Happy you got her, and with great stats as well!

Thanks! Got a score of 3808 without too much trouble, that seems to be good enough this week. That means I'm tier 21 two weeks in a row for the first time, all thanks to Palla! Looking forward to my one extra orb tomorrow. It's a fun achievement to have done it at least once, but I don't think I'll strive to do it more in the future because using 20 dueling crests just to get a single match with an acceptable score is not fun. This mode could use some maintenance...

I have some characters I really want to +10 that I've already got some merges for, so I would want to choose someone who wasn't already partway there. Perhaps Legendary Azura, she sounds like she'd be such a quality of life upgrade to Arena. On the other hand, I don't have a Pair Up Legendary yet, so Legendary Alm or Legendary Julia would be nice as well.

Congrats on free Elincia! She's a really great unit, I was kind of hoping to get one as well because mine is -Spd, but I got a Tiki instead. I also kind of want Bantu, so I went for a few red stones today while summoning. Not seen him yet though, but I'm sure he'll come eventually. Congrats on that great circle! You certainly got your orbs worth. I had 90 orbs saved up for today to try getting Tana merges (wouldn't mind picking up an Elincia either). It's not that much, I know, but the dancer banner was not very kind to my orb reserves... About 50 orbs in I got a circle with no blue stones, so I pick a red one in hopes of getting Elincia. ...But instead I got a +Spd -Def Young Tiki. Not much to do with her other than merge her, she really has nothing for skill inheritance. I would have preferred Elincia, but I guess I now have a nice +Spd +1 Tiki, which isn't bad. On the very next circle, Tana showed up! Now she's up to +4. I'm hoping to maybe get one more merge before this banner ends. If we're getting a Feh Channel soon, I'm also hoping there will be another run of revival banners announced there...

Thanks for the tip! I was able to use this strategy on one of the castle maps by trapping Claude in a corner on turn 1. I didn't get the max score though, Oscar and Brave Eliwood simply didn't do enough damage, but it was enough to get the accessory at least! Now to hopefully get to use the rest of the axes on Cordelia. But wow, I hadn't even thought about the fact that Pair Up is usable in this mode because I don't have a Pair Up Legendary yet... That seems like it would make it so much easier to bring armored units in here. By the way, I'm in the same outrealm as someone with the name Goosaphone, isn't that some sort of community personality? I feel like I've seen videos from them in the recommended section of YouTube, though I've never watched one.

My favourite character here is probably Nephenee, but I didn't get her. I think I'll go with Ishtar to thank her for showing up as +atk, and then Inigo or Olivia if she loses.

Got Dorcas for free on the Fierce Stance banner! -Atk +Res, which is a bit unfortunate, but now I have every character drawn by Ippei, so I'm happy.

For some reason I had convinced myself that damage outside of battle wouldn't be affected by the multiplier, but if it is I can see why they would do that. Would be pretty funny to see a Røkkr do hundreds of damage to itself with Fury though. I went up to the nice round 3000000 score this round. I have yet to have a game without getting a perfect score this event, but that's probably going to change this round with Claude. Speaking of Claude, does anyone have any good plans for dealing with him? All my strategies in this mode revolves around fliers that will probably get crushed by effective damage pretty fast. I guess I'll have to look into building more Galeforce units with Brave weapons that are infantry or armored units.

"死んでほしいの" is also one of her special activation quotes. The equivalent line in English is "Won't you just die?", which might be too many characters to be a skill name (?). Don't know which I prefer myself, "Killing Intent" sounds better as a name for a skill, but the Japanese name is very fitting for Veronica's personality. I was surprised by Thrasir being a Mythic Hero, but thinking about how she's an undead general of Hel's army I guess she fits decently well as one. I think there are some Legendary Heroes that were less fitting than Thrasir is here. I won't be pulling much here though, even if there are some characters I kind of want. I'm hoping to get as many Tana merges as I can from the upcoming revival banner, so all my orbs will be going there. I have no defensive Mythic Hero yet, but I've never felt the need for one either, especially not after the recent AR changes. If Thrasir had an offensive blessing I would have been more interested.

Why did they make it so that Røkkr take no damage outside of battle exept from AoE specials? The 10 damage from Poison Strike is nothing to a Røkkr's HP anyways, so Poison Strike and Savage Blow wouldn't be very good skills to use in the mode even if the Røkkr weren't immune to them. Am I forgetting some skill that deals damage outside of battle that they specifically made this effect for?

I'm using Catria, Est, Naga and Halloween Mia against Nah and against Ephraim I replace Naga and Est with Cherche and New Year Azura. My approach against pretty much all Røkkr bosses usually involves some combination of the Whitewings with Galeforce and Halloween Mia with Witchy Wand. Against dragon Røkkr I usually bring Naga as well. My main strategy for scoring high is quad hitting and Galeforce. Skills I often use are Triangle Adept (for taking less and dealing more damage to the Røkkr), Renewal (for some passive recovery), Obstruct (for restricting the Røkkr's movement) and Breath of Life (for even more passive recovery, there's rarely time to heal directly). I realize all my strategies are heavily reliant on Witchy Wand though. Everything gets much easier with some reliable way of stopping the Røkkr's Special from going off, I don't really know what I'd do without Halloween Mia.

@mampfoid I don't really post in the specific map threads, but I still watch some of the clears sometimes. I remember your videos very well, even from before when I only lurked here and didn't have a registered account, they are very impressive and a good source of inspiration! Hope you have a nice break, whatever you choose to do. I believe it stands for Real Life.

How high does one usually have to score to remain in tier 21? I usually just bounce between tier 20 and tier 21, but since I have one of the bonus units at +10 this time (Palla) I thought I'd maybe take a stab at tier 21 two weeks in a row.

I really liked this Forging Bonds. I like that lots of characters appeared, and getting an explaination for the dancer limitations was pretty cool, even if the explaination was a bit out of the blue. The way it pokes fun at gameplay mechanics makes it entertaining either way. Having all these characters from different games in the series interacting and finding things they have in common (amnesia etc.) is something that could only really happen in Heroes, and it's the sort of content I hope to see more of. I also think it's good that it explores some lighter themes and doesn't stay on serious topics for too long. Whenever these conversations try to be too profound or serious they often end up feeling like something I've heard before and quickly become boring. They should do it sometimes of course, but I think more often focusing silly antics like this suits the game well.

Are we sure they didn't just word it poorly and they really mean there will be only two Røkkr in rotation each round? I feel like battling two Røkkr at once would require some interface changes, has there been any datamines that suggest this is the case? I really hope we don't have to fight two at once, that sounds incredibly annoying.

Tana is probably my favourite character. I've already +10ed her summer version, so I'm hoping the regular version can be +10 someday as well. I'll tell Sumia to go find you next time I get her:P Thanks! Yeah, Nephenee looks fun, and I've been wanting a bow dancer for a while. Plus her art is realy great and she looks so cute wearing her helmet to a ball. Hopefully she shares with some other good units when she returns on an 8% banner. Congratulations on getting your first Tana btw, and congrats on getting Phina today as well! I actually had some luck on the new banner today myself! I wanted Nagi because I never really felt like I got to use her in the main series (with needing to kill Tiki and all that), so I wanted to use the tickets on green stones. The second ticket gave me a session with no green however, so I pick a red one in hopes of Phina. Oh. That's a lot better than nothing at least! She's +HP -Res, and I already had a neutral one, so I think I'll use her for giving Death Blow 4 and Galeforce to Cherche or Catria. The next few sessions had some green stones at least, but no 5-stars. But using the extra orbs from the new maps, I got... Exactly what I wanted! Sadly she's +Spd -Def, which is about as bad as it gets, but she'll still be able to do her main job of handling Ophelia just fine. Used up all my IV luck on Ishtar yesterday I suppose. I'm really happy I managed to get her in only like 40 orbs, that's a lot less than Ishtar took at least!

I told myself I was going to stay happy getting Rinea for free, but the new dancers were too tempting. I decided to aim for getting either Ishtar or Nephenee, and I've been gradually spending my orbs on that since the banner started... Over 200 orbs in and I slightly regret my decision. I was starting to brace myself for getting pitybroken by something awful, and then I got a really nice batch of only red and colorless stones today. The pitybreak happened, but it was certainly not as bad as I feared. +Spd -HP Female Byleth, she'll appreciate a merge. I did feel a bit frustrated however, not getting a focus unit after all that, and in my frustration I did a stupid yolo summon. And there she was! +Atk -HP as well, it's like all those orbs suddenly paid off at once. Really happy with this outcome, I don't think I'll try anymore on this banner now. Hopefully I can nab Nephenee when she returns. I've had a lot of instances of getting to high pity rates lately, but then I usually get what I want in the end anyways. Also, this was a while ago now, but I managed to get this on Revival Banner 13 two weeks ago:

I was incredibly close to a perfect week on defense, with 10/11 defense matches being successes. Just one person barely managed to give me a -80. Only losing 80 points still lands me in the highest tier for defense, so the result is the same, but it would have felt nice to scroll down a complete list of all yellow text. My defense has been going well lately, probably because of the upgraded ladder making people surrender more and Aversa being annoying this week.

With the Heroes' Path quests making me use Heroic Grails on something and Aversa coming up as a bonus unit in AR, I decided to give her the +10 treatment. I'm glad I waited to +10 her until after she got that rerun last month. She'll be fun to use in AR next week, and she has already proven herself on the defense team this week. I'm considering sacrificing my Laegjarn to her for R Duel Flying, but I would also kind of want that on my Summer Tana... Wonder who would be the most useful as Arena support; Tana with her movement support or Aversa with the panic support. Speaking of Arena, with Palla coming up as a bonus unit there soon I've given her the maximum amount of dragonflowers as well. Now she is truly at maximum investment, looking forward to her crushing some Brave Ikes in the near future!