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That'd be nice. There's a ton of western stuff they could do, so I hope they go into it. A bizarre thing: Think they should try to do Africa at all (other than egypt, obviously)? No one ever does any thing from the general African continent, I don't even know what their mythology is like. But yeah, S!Alter is a beast, she out damages regular artoria and altera. With her buster up skill she usually averages 50K damage from her NP at level 70.

He has big business ties with Saudia Arabia, it was brought up during the election. Great pictures of him shaking hands with shieks, you can find them pretty easily. Pakistan is weird though, no idea why that wasn't on there.

Gahh, the wait for that's going to be unbearable. Foreign God Hearts, Infinity Gears, Chaos Talons.... it has every ascension material I need.

See, this is what I'm talking about. No where in the text does it say "Muslim Ban" He legit could have gotten away with it, except then on twitter, he actually calls it a "Muslim Ban." I mean, SERIOUSLY. How stupid can you possibly be? That idiot's such an embarrassment it's painful.

Also an option.

Firesweep one would be ideal. The biggest weakness of daggers is that anything strong enough that you actually need to debuff would kill them in one hit anyway (think every tempest trial boss we've ever had). Firesweep would go a ways towards fixing that.

Power creep is inevitable. If it doesn't happen now, it will happen eventually. That said, Nowi and Sakura don't have inflated bst, and none of their skills seem particularly exceptional. As for Jakob and Henry, it's kind of hard to call them power creep since there are no existing armor mages or armor archers to compare them to. What exactly are they an improvement over? Regular archers? I don't think any one's going to be throwing out their Bridelia or Bow!Lyn any time soon. Regular mages? I guess so? Maybe?

Agreed. Idiotocracy is disturbingly accurate. I mean, look, I'm going to wait until an official verdict is handed out before declaring any one guilty or innocent. That's how rule of law works. But my god, is Trump dumb. I mean, just... dumb.

If you're not attached to any of the characters, I'd say just go for Henry. I'm certain there will be another red mage flier at some point, whether it's Aversa or someone else. There are also plenty of generals in the series who can wield bows, so any one of them could replace Jakob. But other than Alvis, there are NO armored mages in the entire series, so they'll only ever be seasonal, if there even are any more

You know what's going to be weird? Flying archers. That's going to be weird.

I was super hyped for her at first, but the more I think about her the worse she seems. Her dagger seems amazing at first, but once you think about it, you realize that it only hits about 8 or 9 more units than a regular poison dagger (Leo, Cecilia, Rein, Olwen, Ursula, S!Camilla, S!Corrin, H!Nowi, H! Henry) and that's it. Unlike a raven tome, it doesn't give her any boosts to defense, so if she doesn't have the resistance, Rein can still just plow through her. And warding stance legitimately is just a worse distant defense 3. I rarely am concerned about my high resistance daggers getting hit by dragons, so that doesn't add anything there, while taking away a huge benefit against daggers and bows. But I'll be pulling for Jakob anyway, so I'm sure I'll get her instead, knowing my luck. Fortunately, it's pretty much impossible for Henry to be bad. At WORST, he'll be able to run TA Gronnraven better than the alternatives.

.....why Blazing Thunder? Out of curiosity. Did it actually do anything?

My number 1, the one I've been regretting ever since her banner, is Celica. So, prior to celica, I grabbed Alm off my first pull from his banner. Alm, of course, is terrible. So I decided right then and there that I wouldn't pull any more Shadows of Valentia banners ever. Celica rolled around and I skipped her. Thing is, I didn't have any red mages, either four or five stars. For months. It began to actually be a problem. Even now, with Arvis and a 5 star Tharja, I still want a Celica. She's just so much better...

I can't tell if this is really the easiest GHB ever, or if our units have gotten so absurd. Cleared infernal on the first try, B!Ike, B!Lyn, B!Lucina, Performing Olivia (wow, that makes me look like a whale. I'm F2P, I swear!) But yeah, B!Lyn just destroys this map, particularly Alvis (he did, what, 10 damage to her? Then she one rounded him.) It took me legit 20+ minutes to finish off the armors though. I just kept pecking them with bow lyn and Olivia shenanigans.

Good to know. Too bad for the hardy bearing seal, would've been interesting.

Awesome, thanks. This could be a really important thing to learn, so definitely keep us posted.

That's absolutely baffling, but I totally believe it. A ton of stuff doesn't work the way it says it should.

True. I'm interested to see the Alvis GHB map... I wonder how it'll be set up.

I know, right? I'm very disappointed, because I will have to use him, as he fills a gap in my ranks for a red mage tank. (Tharja and Lilina just don't have the resistance to perform that role). But yeah, stat-wise, he doesn't bring much to the table. I also don't get why Valflame has a whole bunch of ploys stacked on it. I mean, it's interesting sure, but the Valflame in geneology was all about raw, ridiculous damage. I expected it to be something along the lines of ragnarok, but only for attack.

Indeed. For that reason, I'm much more excited than outraged. I'm really looking forward to using her.

As long as Rein is around, Ayra won't get out of control. But then and again, that's why it's powerCREEP. It doesn't happen fast. But Ayra is really pushing the envelope. Sigurd doesn't do anything too weird, since he's a mage tank without distant counter. Most players want their mage tanks to be either a) mages b) archers or c) distant counters, in order to not waste turns. So Sigurd doesn't really advance an existing part of the meta, he's more of a niche unit. Ayra, on the other hand, completely pushes out existing non-dc swordies. She is so tanky and has such high damage out put that pretty much no one else can compete. She has 40 base speed, which can easily be pushed up to 48 with skills, a speed based heavy blade weapon effect and the single best special in the game. At this point, there isn't a sword that can match her in raw damage, especially if she runs fury (though she'll probably want to stick with desperation) Edit: I also agree that other armors should be allowed to inherit the pursuit ring.

Agreed. The average resistance, median resistance, and maximum resistance of all units in the game is significantly lower than any other stat.

I'm in almost exactly the same position, and I still have no idea. I've got a +att/-spd and a +spd/-def. Gamepress recommends +spd, but that evaluation is really, really out of date, to the point where it talks about surviving against "Marth and Camilla" and being able to double Chrom. In all seriousness, they haven't updated her since skill inheritance came out. That said, she does lose a full 4 speed, dropping from 27 to 23, which is not insignificant. To be honest, I don't really know....

Gaah, sorry to hear you had to break f2p. The good news is, she's got enough speed that -spd isn't a big loss. That uror, though is insane. Makes a lot of the annoying missions, like the current "use 3 heroes" ones a breeze.

Good point. Just saying, it's a good idea to stock pile, as we do have all month.