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12 minutes ago, Ice Dragon said:
A Spd Asset is usually preferred. The pseudo-Glimmer effect from his weapon should be an absolute last resort, and he should be prioritizing getting a follow-up first since, most of the time, a follow-up is better.
The only reason I can see for running an Atk Asset is if you've absolutely given up on landing a follow-up against faster opponents. There are a lot of other factors to consider with this route, though, as if you're aiming towards killing faster opponents, you're going to want some form of percentage damage reduction nullification, but there are very few sources of that outside of the B slot, so you'd likely lose out on Murderous Lion's Sweep effect. Even if you run No Quarter, Dimitri has no easy way of keeping it charged without significant support (or Special Spiral, which kind of defeats the purpose).
And if you were going to be getting rid of Murderous Lion anyways, you may as well just give him Potent 4, as Potent Follow 80% does more damage than his weapon's pseudo-Glimmer anyways.
Thank you very much! I'll just keep the +Spd one then. Thanks again!
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1 minute ago, Ice Dragon said:
No Quarter is probably more future-proof, though.
Thank you!
2 minutes ago, Ice Dragon said:Do you mean Legendary Dimitri? Fallen Dimitri has Murderous Lion, not Atrocity.
Atrocity's additional damage based on Atk adds exactly 1 more damage with an Atk Asset, so an Atk Asset gives 5 more damage, whereas a Spd Asset gives 3 more Spd. I'd lean towards Spd.
I actually did mean Fallen, I just forgot what his Prf skill was. My bad! I assume the same logic applies and +Spd is still better though?
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13 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:
Yeah, go for it if that better suits how you want to use Alear.
I'm not really sure which option suits her better, but you said the Charge makes her better for offensive builds, right?
Also, which is the better boon for F!Dimitri, Atk or Spd? I thought it was Spd at first but now I'm not sure which goes better with Atrocity. Thanks as always, everyone!
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27 minutes ago, Ice Dragon said:
Yeah, that's a pretty standard build for Godlike Reflexes, and you can run it on pretty much any unit that has the Slaying effect. Whether you run No Quarter or Godlike Reflexes is honestly your choice based on your play style and what you want your unit to do. The usual considerations when there are multiple viable builds. Godlike Reflexes obviously gives you quite a bit more damage mitigation, whereas No Quarter deals more damage.
Alear, at the least, does have a better argument for focusing more heavily on player phase compared to other melee infantry due to Liberation granting Charge for more mobility, but that the same time, Godlike Reflexes appreciates initiating the first round of combat to charge it so that you don't have to run Pulse effects.
Thanks as always Ice! Was my idea for a No Quarter kit worth building too?
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I'd like to get your opinion on a F!Alear build I found in Arena yesterday:
QuoteLiberation + GLR + A/S Finish + Buffer 4 + A/S Pledge + DC (M)
It's the GLR, Buffer + Pledge combo in particular that stands out to me. Do you think the +1 charge from Pledge is enough for GLR to be worthwhile? I'm hoping she's on the Engage HoF myself, but I was thinking of something more offensive based on Ice's recommendations a while back (e.g. No Quarter + Potent 4/ any Dodge 4 + Incite Atk/Spd). Thanks in advance!
P.S. I don't have Emblem Marth.
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5 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:
From Hall of Forms, Dragon's Stone is the best inheritable weapon to get for fast dragons. New-Sun Stone is the best inheritable weapon to get for slow dragons.
Thanks! I have New-Sun on her at the moment, I'll try and get Dragon's Stone if it shows up later. I... may have gotten Atk/Spd Pledge instead when I had the chance, forgetting Moonlight Stone has cooldown charge built in 😐
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Is Dragon's Stone the best generic dragonstone in FEH right now? I'd like to pick it up for HF!Corrin in HoF if so. Thank you in advance all!
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17 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:
It's worth noting that a unit is never able to perform a standard follow-up against itself under identical conditions, so no matter how fast a unit is, there's always a reason to at least consider running Potent 4 over other B skills, even on the fastest units.
Potent 4 does lose value the faster a unit is, but whether or not that value falls to less than the value of other options depends on what you need the unit to accomplish.
So Potent doubles as a way to future-proof units against Spd creep too, in other words? That gives it some extra value I think, even if putting it on a current speedster won't mean anything for a few years (or even just one year, if past trends continue). Thanks again!
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@Ice Dragon So is the tl;dr: for Potent 4 that it's good for units with mid-Spd to keep up with the current meta, but the extra 40% hit isn't worth missing out on Tempo or Dodge skills for units with high Spd? Thanks in advance!
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Quick question: @Ice Dragon said Scion Nanna's Spd was decent, but is it good enough to give her the Spd refine for Arcane Charmer or should I stick with Atk? Thanks all!
(P.S. Arcane Staves have 8 different refine options: Wrathful/Dazzling + Atk/Spd/Def/Res! https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/1avui2g/headsup_arcane_charmer_has_a_total_of_eight/)
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1 hour ago, Ice Dragon said:
Note that the point of the enemy-phase half of dual-phase builds in the current meta isn't to be able to tank anything and everything, but to be able to choose to engage an opponent's enemy-phase unit on their weaker phase.
Gotcha.
1 hour ago, Ice Dragon said:Oh, yeah, Earthfire Boost 3 is also a viable choice for the A slot. It gives fewer points of stats than Clash or Prime, but you get Guard on enemy phase and sometimes on player phase. I still think I'd recommend Clash or Prime over Boost, but it's certainly not a bad option (if you can get your hands on it).
And thanks again! If Rosado starts breaking my pities I'll know what to do with the spares!
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23 hours ago, Etrurian emperor said:
It was also a nice showing for Sharena. IS might be very invested in the Alfonse and Veronica ship, but right now it seems Veronica and Sharena have the stronger bond. Its Sharena who's all giddy to meet Veronica, and she acts supportive when meeting her.
Probably a consequence of the Book VI ending being those two at a tea party. It is nice to see non-Alfonse Askrans do something though.
As for the ship... I hope they don't do anything blatant with that while Veronica still looks like a 10 year old. Lif + Thrasir only worked because they seemed to be a few hundred years older and what's a 6~8 age gap then?
23 hours ago, Etrurian emperor said:Kind of weird that they don't bother showing Veronica's mom now her bond with her daughter is a focus.
It either means she's going to die or she's being kept back for the midpoint trailer.
23 hours ago, Etrurian emperor said:You'd think they would get closer once Veronica stopped being Askr's Bowser.
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13 minutes ago, Ice Dragon said:
If you want to run him exclusively on player phase for whatever reason (not completely unreasonable as his Hexblade gives him use as a wall breaker), you'll want to wait for Flared Sturdy to be released first.
I take this to mean he's best as a mixed or enemy phase unit?
Since A/D Clash is easier to get I'll opt for that for the time being. Hopefully we get Alarm Atk/Def and/ or those B skill suggestions in the new Divine Code section. Alarm Atk/Spd seems more valuable and thus less likely to be added and the B skills are pretty old so... here's hoping!
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1 minute ago, Magenta Fantasies said:
Despite that, I at least got a second Emblem Marth, two Legendary Hinoka (fantastic Deadeye and Wings of Mercy 4 fodder,) two Elise/Sakura, and a Spring Triandra. I was very disappointed not to get Ascended Fir while the summoning rate was 8%, but at least she’s part of the normal summoning pool.
I'm happy you got them at least! To be honest my luck has been weird too considering I free-pulled two W!Claudes from the recent Anniversary banner, which is crazy! But when it comes to units I actually want, then... nothing. In any case, I hope both our odds change for the better going forward!
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27 minutes ago, Ice Dragon said:
The Fandom wiki apparently stopped keeping track of orb income after 2022, but ~320 per month was the average for 2022, with ~290 being the lowest yield for a single calendar month and ~380 being the highest.
So you can probably still assume you'll get about ~300 orbs each month.
Thanks! Having said that, given the game has gotten stingier with Orbs over time I assume the real value is around ~250 a month, so I'm still in trouble. I know luck doesn't exist but I really hope I get some in those upcoming banners...
In lighter news (I hope), I think Mauvier is the slow cavalier you advised I look out for before using R!Lif for fodder, right? I believe his best A and C skills are some combination of [Atk/Def Clash or Atk/Def Prime 4] and [Incite or Alarm Atk/Def] respectively, but I'm not sure if he's someone who wants Gambit or some other B skill, even something simple like A/D Near Trace. Does anyone have any suggestions, please?
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4 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:
Fluffy Hat Nanna is also at a Spd stat where if you aren't planning on giving her Dragonflowers, you probably actually do want to run a guaranteed follow-up on her instead of Null Follow-Up. I'm currently using ~42 neutral Spd (after Dragonflowers, but before merges and Asset) as my breakpoint between running guaranteed follow-up and Null Follow-Up for non-staff Arcane weapons, and the breakpoint for staves should probably be higher at ~44 neutral Spd due to the fact that they can't run a Spd refine. Nanna has 41 neutral Spd without Dragonflowers (but has a superboon) and 44 neutral Spd with maximum Dragonflowers, so even with maximum Dragonflowers, she's still only barely out of the gray area.
Oh, that's good to hear, thank you!
4 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:Nope. Arcane weapons and Echo skills can only be inherited from their original units. Once they are transferred once, the only way to transfer the skill again is by merging into a new base.
And this is good to know too, thanks!
New question, am I correct in assuming we get ~300 Orbs per month? As I said in the banner thread, the Elusians were very cruel to me and I only have ~350 left. I'm assuming the AHR banner will be around this time next month and I'm trying to figure out how likely I am to get Peony merges if we get an all Green banner considering each spark will take at most 200 Orbs assuming you only get 1 or no Greens per batch of 5 stones.
Then there's Rearmed Alcryst the month after and maybe someone I want from the Engage HoF banner at the same time... groansIn any case, thanks in advance, all!
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5 hours ago, Ice Dragon said:
Grail units are in the weird space where they're easy to get, but have a high opportunity cost to use as skill fodder, so I typically don't count them when looking for easy sources of skills.
Even then, Atk/Spd Catch 4 is on so many units now (5 units in the 5-star standard summoning pool and 6 units in the Legendary/Mythic/Emblem rotation) that it's easily still the lowest priority of Hortensia's skills to use for fodder.
Fair enough, thanks!
Also, it seems my luck on banners is still atrocious. It took 73 pulls to get both sisters (including the first spark for Hortensia). Considering I also wanted a few Peonies and Alcrysts for cloning skills too... yeah, it's not looking good for me.
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15 hours ago, Jotari said:
As these two games in particular get brunt of this "ignoring weapons" blind spot. No doubt because the weapons themselves have less plot relevance, but they still exist damnit. Use them!
I get the annoyance, but if it's any consolation
Spoilerhis lance has inbuilt Hexblade, so it functions as magic weapons do in FEH. Partial credit, at least?
Speaking of Mauvier, I'll tag this because his GHB isn't until tomorrow:
SpoilerHe actually has a good stat line! Just a few weeks ago I was telling Ice Dragon how unlikely it'd be to get a tanky F2P cavalier, yet here we are. Crazy. And as someone on Reddit pointed out, because his base skills are terrible you don't lose much if you merge him up.
(Unless he's the only F2P source of Rouse Atk/Def. I don't think so but I haven't had time to check yet.)
3 minutes ago, ARMADS!!! said:For you or anyone else that wants a more digestable explanation of what each thing does, here's Phoenixmaster's "easier to read" post of this banner on Reddit (for who doesn't know Phoenixmaster, he's THE dude that sumarizes skills in new banners and in refines, among other stuff), it's just missing the breakdown for what each non prf skill does but still more useful than nothing:
Just a heads-up: Arcane Charmer doesn't have Follow-Up denial. That's a typo he fixed when he made his "who uses Arcane Charmer best" video.
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We still haven't fallen into the trap of "only story for Part 1 and 5" yet which has me both surprised and happy. I liked the implication that Anna has done black ops missions before (unless I'm reading too deep into Part 4) but it won't mean much if she goes back to not mattering after this. Ratatoskr's sisters still doubt her and while I thought Hraesvelgr was sent for Veronica's mom she got stabbed by someone I assume was drugged by Nidhoggr (which lines up with the poisoning we see in the trailer). Either that or Hraesvelgr can shapeshift.
Despite the added story though, we didn't get any bizarre "cutscene -> random quote from Hero" situations. I wonder if IS' writing team is listening to feedback after all?
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5 hours ago, Tybrosion said:
He, Seteth and Navarre are all voiced by Takehito Koyasu. Don't be surprised if Saber and/or Lon'qu also show up in Kagetsu's Forging Bonds.
Oh? Interesting. I wonder if they'll do something funny with the FBs in other languages too?
8 hours ago, Mercakete said:Also, Hortensia getting an attacking special surprised me. Have we gotten a staff unit with one of those before?
Every 5* healer since Duo Elise/ Sakura last year has had one along with a 4* variant of Dazzling/ Wrathful Staff.
5 hours ago, Florete said:Not in the summoning pool, but Zephia in the grail shop has Atk/Spd Catch 3.
I had a feeling we were missing something obvious, thanks! That makes getting Hortensia's skills even easier! Though if you want both parts of her healing assist you have to give up at least one of her Weapon, Special, A or B Skills...
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19 minutes ago, Ether said:
I plan to do that exact inheritance chain for my Halloween Mia, it's going to put in good work for prfless/older staff units. Probably won't perform as well as Hortensia herself because of her C skill but expectations etc. She might prefer a more offensive arcane staff down the line, but we don't know how long it will take to get one, and this staff itself is still quite potent.
Thanks! I still have a Winter Eirika I could give it to as well, since she isn't ever doubling anything on her own. Anyway, hopefully now we finally have an Arcane staff it won't take too long for us to get a second. I hope your Mia serves you well!
21 minutes ago, Ether said:I believe that arcane/echo skills can only be passed on by their original holders. Hortensia can inherit Soaring Echo(and it's quite potent on her since she has a Prf C) but she can't pass it on to anyone else.
That's a shame, things would have been so much simpler if that were the case. Thank you very much!
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Would slapping Ivy and Hortensia's kits on a Scion Nanna be a good idea? i.e.
QuoteArcane Charmer + [Healing Skill] + Glitter of Light + Atk/Spd Catch 4 + Poetic Justice + Deadly Miasma + Soaring Echo
or would she be happier with a Spd-oriented staff?
Also, if I inherit an X skill to a Rearmed Hero (or Arcane weapon to an Attuned Hero) can I then inherit it onto other characters through them? I know if you put one of those skills on a regular unit it's locked to them forever but I don't know if those Hero types are exempt from that rule.
As always, thank you all in advance!
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31 minutes ago, Etrurian emperor said:
But Seteth's gonna be there too for Kagetsu and that's pretty nice
That's gonna be hilarious xD Thanks for the info!
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There go my Orb saving plans. I'd really like to get both sisters. After so much waiting I'm honestly surprised we actually got an Arcane Staff, but as everyone expected if we were to get one it would be with Hortensia. I'll prioritise her over her sister. Thankfully this banner lasts until March 7th, so I can wait for the Voting Gauntlet to end before deciding how much more I want to commit. In other words, if Peony loses I'll come back and try to get more copies of both sisters.
1 hour ago, Etrurian emperor said:Two popular and cool guys, and two plot important ladies. I can respect the self restraint of not sacrificing Kagetsu for goldmary.
The trailer made me remember that despite only appearing a single time the track ''tear streaked'' is an absolute banger.
Agreed on both counts! We even get Mauvier as a GHB (though I can't think of any female contestants left for the role from Engage outside maybe Marni, who isn't nearly as popular).
6 hours ago, Humanoid said:Sextuple SI when?
Give it another 4/5 years... sigh
My other major gripe is Kagetsu having Atk/Spd Ideal 3 instead of Atk/Spd Finish 3. Ideals have been around for years (Null Follow-Up too) why not give us something useful with our demotes?!
P.S. Making an Elusia banner right after CYL tells me IS is doing what they did for 3H: wait until just after whoever they expected to win CYL did so before adding them to the normal pool to get them more votes. It didn't work this time, but unless Yunaka is in the very next Engage banner I bet she'll get the same treatment in Feb 2025.
What ideas for seasonal themes you would like?
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This will likely ruffle a lot of feathers, but I think it'd be nice to get a "World of Steel" banner where Heroes dress up in modern clothes, even if it's just a one-off seasonal a la bath towels and picnicking. Just so we can finally get more of Kozaki's "Modern AU Lucina" if nothing else.