Sunwoo

Heyo, I just wanted to verify two things before I do something stupid. 1. Does the damage reduction on Armored Floe/Beacon count for Hardy Bearing's condition? 2. Does Lucia's no-special thing override both of Vital Astra and Godlike Reflexes? I swear I remember hearing that she could use one of them, but I also got my Lucia fairly recently so I didn't pay much attention to that. Thanks in advance.

I'm only going to include characters that I don't think are a lock for a future banner (so no remaining Engage royals). 1. Tormod 2. Stefan 3. base Saleh 4. FE4 Claud 5. Midir (or whatever his name was localized to) 6. Coirpre 7. Sleuf 8. Amalda 9. Eyrios 10. Linoan 11. Shin 12. Dayan 13. Artur 14. Muarim 15. Janaff 16. Jade 17. Pandreo 18. base Seadall 19. Elphin 20. Edain So basically a lot of dudes and a lot of characters from games that aren't very popular. If I got Tormod and no one else this year, I'd still be thrilled. EDIT: Fuck, I forgot Zeiss. I guess you could replace Elphin or Edain with him, I don't know.

I do, but that's nowhere near as fun as it would be to smash Seithr and her multiple personalities' hopes and dreams

It's kind of annoying that the game's writers just assume everyone still playing this game is even okay with the creepy goddesses continually hitting on you. If the game is going to insist that it's "catering" to me, I want an option to say no to unwanted stalkers. This game is basically a stereotypical isekai, I guess.

So, my various tickets did get me focus units and 5-stars. Just ... uh, not the right ones. Got two 4-star Lyres, a 5-star Kaden, Syrene, August, Ced, and Brave Claude. Of all these guys, August was the only one who was new. Well, I guess it's better than getting nothing at least. Also, free-pulled 5-star m!Kana on this year's banner, which was nice.

I feel like I'm most likely choosing red, which has a lot of characters I want and even duplicates of the ones I already have aren't bad. But colorless and green are also good choices too. Really, the only bad choice for me is blue because I already have nearly half the characters there and the only one I'd care to get whom I don't already have is Zelgius.

This is fair, although I feel the writers' intent then was less "Corrin is as dumb as a rock" and more "Corrin's so pure-hearted their siblings would rather protect them than lose that charm". At least, that's how I interpret it because I imagine the writers didn't actually intend for players to see the stand-in avatar representing them as being dumber than a brick. Went back and checked the script, this is fair. That said, both Sigurd and Deirdre just come off as being really worried about each other's safety in ways that contradict each other's wants. Sigurd worries about Deirdre staying safe (and if you kill Sandima before meeting Deirdre again, she tells Sigurd how she's being hunted) and as far as he knows, her staying away from the battlefield is the best way for her to stay safe. (Manfroy has plot bullshit armor, not going to hold that against either Sigurd or Deirdre.) Deirdre wants Sigurd to stay alive and she knows that he can't avoid fighting, so the only way she can think of to keep him safe is to be beside him on the battlefield to back him up and heal any wounds he may get. At the very least, it doesn't come off as Sigurd browbeating Deirdre to keep her as a domestic wife and mother against her wishes.

Interesting, this is the first time I've heard anyone blame Sigurd for Deirdre being kidnapped by Manfroy. I've seen the cartwheels people have done trying to blame Deirdre, but I'm not buying this one either. Also, unless there's an updated and more accurate translation of Genealogy's script that I'm not aware of, I gotta disagree with the assessment that Deirdre "chafes against" a more motherly role. The script on SF never suggests that she hates being a mother or not being on the battlefield, nor does it suggest that Sigurd tries to force Deirdre off the battlefield after their marriage. If I had to make a deduction from the script, he's concerned about Seliph having at least one parent and probably didn't have an issue with her fighting alongside him otherwise. And Deirdre's more worried that he's putting himself in danger rather than being upset she's been relegated to the castle. [There was a quote from the script here, but it broke my entire fucking post so I deleted it] Not giving an opinion on whether I think Sigurd is dumb or not, but this is a really uncharitable interpretation of his and Deirdre's interactions after being married. Also, it's hard to say who is actually the dumbest or smartest lord because of how variable the writing can be with how it tries to portray characters' intelligence. For example, Corrin comes off dumb to the players, but it also doesn't feel like the writers intended for them to be stupid. Rather, it feels like a badly written way of portraying Corrin as a charming and kind-hearted soul whose messianic pull is resisted only by the "really bad people". Ike is certainly not a genius in tactics or politics skills, but the story also has Ike realize those limitations and he comes off smarter for knowing when to bow out and put more competent people in charge. Edelgard is apparently supposed to be politically savvy and smart, but she also gives off the impression of someone who thinks she's smarter than she actually is. At times Claude being a schemer feels more like an informed attribute than his deviousness being worked in organically into the script. And it's hard to tell whether Ephraim is incredibly dumb or incredibly lucky or incredibly smart for pulling off all the bullshit he does, because the only time the game lets him fail is on his own mode when confronted with Lyon. Which clearly only happens as a direct parallel to what happens to Eirika on her path. I could tell you who I think were intended to be the "smart characters" by the writing, but that doesn't mean I think they always get it across.

Yay, it's a NY banner ... and I don't care about anyone on it. Honestly, all of the book 7 OCs were pretty uninteresting to me so I guess I wasn't going to care for them on character. Kanas are Kanas. The skill level here looks mostly tame, or as tame as Kvasir and Seithr's prfs can get. Demote scowl and dragon wall is nice, too bad we can't get those in the regular pool. Overall, I'm pretty happy I can skip this.

I accidentally beat abyssal with a random ass team I'd had up for something else without realizing it at first, and was so baffled that I went back and beat it again just to be sure. Abyssal Camilla died very easily to Ratatoskr. So easily in fact that it was kind of confusing.

Huh, apparently we're getting 5 compensation orbs for an incorrect skill description on Legendary Camilla. Such an odd thing to get compensation orbs over, considering all the things that went wrong before that we didn't get orbs for, but not complaining I guess.

I was hoping to free pull winter Ephraim on today's revival banner, but got no blues and got a free winter Fae instead. Apparently she likes showing up for me. I have no idea what to do with her anymore, but guess I'll merge her or hold onto her fodder or something.

Thanks SF, I really wanted you to save the last post I made on here Also, all I want for NY is a banner where I don't give a shit about anyone on it because I need those orbs for something else

I was originally going to do a few pulls on red and colorless if we got tickets. But we didn't get any, so I just did the first circle and left. Even so, I somehow got my first Medeus ever.

;/ In theory, I'm not opposed to getting Ilyana someday. But there were a lot of characters in the earlier books that I would've liked to see before her. Also, I can't believe that she now makes CYL4 units eligible. Those are some of the last units who need a Resplendent.

I didn't realize that Ilyana was that much of a jump ;/ I swear there's an Ilyanadev, what else can explain how she wormed her way onto the Tellius kids banner instead of Elincia or another Greil Mercenary or Nephenee? Also, wasn't a big fan of Yunaka in her own game (never could get past the "zappy" thing, and even her more serious side didn't feel so well integrated amongst the carefree cast of Engage), and her being the Christmas host neither lowers nor increases my opinion of her. That said, this Christmas certainly was ... kind of questionable. I expected tickets and when we didn't get them chose not to do more than the first circle for the legendary. I liked getting the grails, trait fruits, and even the Celestial stone is fine (although I would've liked more than one). But arena medals? Seriously? And while stamina potions would normally be cool, I still have WAY too many from that time Askr gave us like 500 stamina potions. Double SP not being active this weekend was also really annoying for me because I like to use double SP weekends in conjunction with TT+ so I can get SP on my newer units. And of course I couldn't do that because double SP was broken. How the fuck do you break double SP weekend anyway? Shouldn't there be a code that just ... makes it active if it's a weekend?

Wow, I can't believe Ratotoskr is already getting kicked all the way back to August. Assuming they don't move her up in the schedule between now and then, is that the longest a new legendary or mythic hero had to wait for their next rerun?

I don't actually agree that m!Corrin is popular enough to justify holding onto for this long. Also, considering that f!Alear and f!Shez got their legendary forms rather quick while m!Shez still doesn't have one and m!Robin only got his earlier this year, and m!Alear's base form took 6 months after f!Alear to show up when all the other avatars had been added at around the same time, this more seems to suggest that whoever's in charge of character decisions in Heroes does not see adding male characters/legendaries/mythics as a priority. Especially when m!Byleth is the only male avatar to get a legendary before his female counterpart, and f!Byleth released in the same year as him. By your logic, m!Corrin should've gotten a legendary some time before Camilla anyway since Camilla's more popular than he is.

Huh. I'm legitimately surprised by that. But I guess this just leaves me overall more confused as to WTF is going on with Fates character choices sometimes.

Wait, did m!Corrin really rank higher than all the other Fates bros in CYL7? What is his average CYL rank compared to Takumi, Leo, Xander, and Ryoma? I always thought that between the five of them at least, m!Corrin was the least popular. That's absolutely fair. But it guess it's more of a consistency thing at this point, especially since based on story there's really nothing suggesting that Fae and Myrrh are more legendary than Nils. Also, he apparently still scored higher than Guinevere in CYL7 XD;

I'm not gonna lie, I raged pretty hard when I saw her. Like, I guess I'm not opposed to Camilla existing as a legendary entirely, just because I guess it's likely that all of the Fates siblings are going to make it in at this point. But IS's priorities on who they are and aren't releasing are seriously wack. And yes, I realize that I'm going to sound like a broken record at this point, but where the actual fuck is male Corrin? I'm not just asking out of principle, I really do want him and I would like to get him if they would put him in the damn game already. I don't care if he's the "unpopular" Corrin. He's just as much the main character as his female counterpart is, and considering how blatantly f!Corrin represented only Nohr, I want a Corrin that represents Hoshido. As in, the path that I actually picked. He should have been in this game a long time ago. "But he's not popular at all --" He's more popular than the likes of Deirdre, Fae and, Nanna and likely other female legendaries who've already made it in. He's probably more popular than Guinevere after her base form was added to the game. But if not m!Corrin, I would've preferred to get Leo as the next Fates legendary sibling because, like Hinoka, he's the one who becomes king at the end of the route he's not playable in. Leo should've come before Camilla just for that. This one is IS's own fault for having Camilla give the crown to Leo even though she was the next rightful heir, I'm sure IS be kicking themselves over that one. Plus it's just kind of tiring that the bar for legendaries (and mythic characters) is just lower for female characters than male characters. We haven't seen Sothe or Nils yet, who are basically "canon love interest" and "dragon kid", which apparently make one eligible for legendary status. I would understand if we just had a lot less female characters as legendaries, but at this point it is so lopsided towards the female characters it's not even funny and we still don't have three of the male avatar counterparts. For people who wanted her, I'm happy for you. But I'm kinda bummed out and I'm not going to pretend like I'm not.

Apparently not sparking on 3H winter was a good decision for me, considering that it gave me more orbs to pull on other banners, and I got Harmonic Ayra and Mercedes from the first DSH banner, winter Marth on his rerun, and Duo Kagero and Orochi and Butler Sigurd on the new DSH.

As someone who never really liked 3H all that much anyway but has a soft spot for Ferdinand and Mercedes, I was disappointed that Tea Ferdinand and backpack Mercedes were stuck with their Academy alts (which I personally think looks the least good) instead of either timeskip or 3Hopes. It's almost like what is the point of these characters having three distinct appearances when Heroes adamantly refuses to use them? (Also, they really should utilize on RD Mist, who is one of the few Tellius characters who looks vastly different between games.) @XenomataI feel like 3H's staying power comes from a few things: 1) The avatar, because of-fucking-course it does 2) 3H has a more serious and grounded tone than Awakening, Fates, and Engage. That fools some people into thinking it's vastly different than the other "newer games" and "superior" for being "more seriously" 3) On the surface, the story is less crappy than Fates and Engage. Of course, I personally think it all falls apart if you look at it more deeply, but that's my opinion and neither here nor there. Basically, it had a lot of elements that gave it staying power and was released at the perfect time in Heroes' run, where we were getting into POWERCREEP HELL so all 5-star 3H units were crazy good for when they were released. SoV didn't have that because year 1-2 units were relatively tame, even the 5-stars, and for whatever reason Heroes refuses to capitalize on Engage and the game itself got slammed for being too goofy compared to 3H.

There's a reason I decided not to spark on this banner even though I usually spark on the Christmas banners.

Freyr is tanky as fuck. Not gonna lie, the thought of doing abyssal scared the shit out of me, but I eventually ended up doing it. Ended up beating it with Brave Seliph, Legendary Deirdre, Soiree Reinhardt, and Legendary Leif. Thankfully, my successful attempt had Freyr chase Leif to the right side of the map, which gave me some breathing room to get rid of everything else. And even after he was the only enemy left on the map he was still way too tank.