DLNarshen

My feather results: Round 1 (FA!Takumi): 2,500 Round 2 (Takumi): 2,100 Round 3 (FA!Celica): 2,300 (less than 100 ranks outside of the 10k tier...) Cumulative: 3,000 Total: 9,900 I backed the wrong horse each time, it seems. Usually I can get at least one win, but no dice for this one.

I am now out of flags, and sitting at #13 overall. Nowhere to go but down at this point, but I don't expect to fall out of the top 1K...I hope?

I've been waiting a long time for this! After December, I had never had less than 100 orbs stockpiled in the hopes that Lief and Nanna would be released soon. April seems so far off now, but at least that gives me more time to save. 296 orbs and counting. I'm personally hoping Nanna is a staff user, but I have a feeling they'll go the Earth Sword route.

Welp, I was on both Takumi teams, and they both lose. I'll have no bonus unit for the finals, which is a shame since I was doing quite well in the overall score department. I still want to get top 1K, but we'll see.

Season 57 Results: Score: 5,016 Defense: 608 (New Record!) Rank: Tier 20 --> 19 No changes from last week. Dragon emblem was out in full force this week. Not so much because of FH!Robin, but rather because of Nowi. So many people have her built up, and for good reason. She really demands a dedicated counter, and I only had so many for AA. Dragons really neuter the effectiveness of physical range units, rendering FH!Takumi mostly useless for combat. Next week I'll use a bonus unit more suited to handle the dragon threat. Arena Assault: Rank: 3,802 Previous Season Results:

I'm kind of surprised the monthly quests haven't been changed up by now. Even just simple changes that run on a rotation, like one month will include a Training Tower quest requiring a team of tome wielders, or dragons, the next what we normally have. Running the Training Tower with standard -Emblem teams and replaying story maps with the same basic requirements got old a long time ago.

Hey, that's the same nature as mine! +Atk Caeda is always a wise investment. Personally I've been satisfied with Iceberg so far and would recommend it especially if you can get her Hone Fliers support. Narcian should definitely be your next promotion. >:)

Season 56 Results: Score: 5,050 (New Record!) Defense: 606 (New Record!) Rank: Tier 19 --> 20 Changes from last week: -Hinoka got two merge levels (+2 to +4) -Hinoka replaces Triangle Adept 3 with Steady Blow 2 -Caeda got three merge levels (+6 to +9) I spent around 400 orbs of my stockpile on the New Power banner, providing me with two copies of Hinoka and three of Caeda. Too bad all the Caeda were 4*, so good-bye feathers. =( Steady Blow might seem like an odd choice on Hinoka, and that's because it is. Until now, I had forgotten she even had it inherited. She received Galeforce from a B!Roy a few months back, and since it wasn't difficult to inherit both his 5* skills, I went ahead and made the extra effort. Never thought I would actually use it, but here we are. It's not a bad skill at any rate, turning her into more of a player phase unit, and is worth 240 SP to boot. Ideally she'd have Swift Sparrow, but that kind of fodder isn't easy to come by. Arena Assault: Rank: 3,118 It's a little disheartening to see that adding five merges and more valuable skills wasn't enough to get me in the top 3K. Unless I get to work on another merge project immediately, I may just have to accept that the 3K bracket will be out of my grasp as well. Previous Season Results:

That was probably the hardest GHB for me yet, and was an infuriatingly accurate recreation of Conquest's final chapter. Here's my clear, in case anyone wants to see how four 1-range fliers handle this nonsense.

Little late, but whatever. February time. 88 in my barracks, 38 merged or SI'd away.

As much as I want a Thracia banner, I kind of doubt this next one will be it. The next GHB is all but certain to be associated with it, and Thracia has...less than ideal candidates. More importantly though, the next voting gauntlet will likely be associated with the new banner somehow. Otherwise, there's no reason to leave us in suspense on the theme if it's just like anything we've had before. Thracia's presence in the game thus far is limited to two bit characters. Not much to really draw from theme-wise. My guess is either Awakening kids, or FE4 Gen 2. Either one you could make an interesting gen 1 vs gen 2 battle or something.

My haul on New Power after spending some ~70 orbs: Needless to say I got pretty lucky. That being said, I'm also quite conflicted right now. In days past that Hinoka nature would have been absolutely perfect, but now my current +Spd one is probably better with her new weapon... That Seliph is the first I've pulled playing since launch, and a perfect nature Lyn was also a nice surprise. With that, Lucina is the last movie I have to unlock.

Season 55 Results: Score: 5,002 Defense: 600 Rank: Tier 20 --> 19 Changes from last week: -Narcian got another merge (+5 to +6) -Hinoka's Spear was refined While the advantages provided by refining Hinoka's Spear are not as blatant as the Wing Sword, I did appreciate having extra movement options against the usual horse threats. Got myself into a situation on the lava map (the new one with the trenches) where under normal circumstances I would have had to have Hinoka move up two spaces to kill a B!Lyn, which would have exposed her to a B!Ike. With the refinement however, I got out of it by having Hinoka move up only one space, and having Narcian who had been placed adjacent to her warp up and get the kill, and take B!Ike's attack instead. Also, I was too much of a chicken to sack my spare Ike to give Hinoka Heavy Blade. Maybe another week... Arena Assault: Rank: 4,606 Previous Season Results:

I don't have any range armors, so clearing that quest was a trial and a half. After many fails, I eventually cleared it with BK, Amelia, Hector, and V!Eliwood. Hector has to be sent far up the chokepoint to avoid having his Fort Armor Panic Ploy'd, and is brought down within an inch of his life. Don't remember how I did it, but that blue cavalry mage has to be lured out ahead of his mounted companions so Hector can kill him early on too. Otherwise he renders the BK useless. Once he's down though, Vantage BK more or less styles over this map. I don't know if Eliwood or Amelia even entered combat -- their role winded up being providing Goad and March support.

Give Narcian a Rune Axe. :<

Nanna being excluded from the first Thracia banner would destroy me. Other hopefuls of mine, most of whom have little chance, include Machua, Salem, Orsin, Tania, Marty, Fin, and Karin. Thracia has so many good characters, I want them all.

It fixed the glitch where the BGM doesn't play in Navarre's Warrior map. The Zelgius thing is still unfixed as far as I know.

Decided to a do a birthday pull on Love Abounds:

No 40% bonus characters for me this time, and my best 20% combat unit is a 4* Klein. This is going to be quite the slog, at least until I can get the 5* Eliwood. Then maybe I'll switch over to armor emblem + healer and hope for the best.

Yup! I just finished doing so actually, with the arena payout. Next week should be fun.

Season 54 Results: Score: 4,994 Defense: 602 Rank: Tier 19 --> 20 The new update brought upon some significant changes to my core, namely in shiny new Prf weapons for Hinoka and Caeda! Amidst all the doom and gloom surrounding powercreep, it's nice to see that IS is willing to give direct buffs through doling out new skills to older units like this. I'm hoping it becomes a regular thing with new updates. Hinoka's Spear I was initially somewhat iffy on, but I'm beginning to see its value as I play more. Its passive is essentially a free Goad so long as she doesn't stray too far, and stacked with Narcian's she's constantly operating at 60/44 offenses that can't be Panic'd. +Spd is potentially her best boon now, and I couldn't be happier to have never pulled a +Atk one before. It's such a radical change for her that I'm rethinking what build I even want to use with her. TA is a remnant from my initial -Atk Hinoka, but it still helped for killing Swords on enemy phase as a compensation for the Brave Lance's low power. I don't expect that to be much of a problem anymore, and she might be better served with something like Fury or even Heavy Blade from a spare Ike I pulled. Next week I'll have the dew to refine her weapon, and get to play around with movement shenanigans. :) I love the Wing Sword. Aside from looking cool, one-shotting green armors before they can even retaliate and deleting any horse enemy, even Blues, is so satisfying. It was my first choice to upgrade between it and Hinoka's Spear, and once Moonbow had been replaced with Iceberg, Caeda's special procs enjoy the same killing power they did with the Wo Dao. It makes me wonder if, like Hinoka, +Spd becomes a more desirable boon for her. Lyon's fun, despite being incomplete. He gets dibs on the next 4* Roy I pull. Until then, he checks the defensively weak red mages and provides Res buffing support. My core all get blessings, not that they really matter. Arena Assault: Rank: 4,449 My rank keeps going down, despite scoring higher than I normally do. It's a worrying trend, and I fear it won't be long before I'm pushed out of the 5K threshold as well... Previous Season Results:

I've only attempted the Infantry quest so far, and with some difficulty cleared it with A!Tiki, PA!Azura, Nino, and Lyon. Lyon was only there to provide another layer of Drive Res to Tiki so she could survive the second green mage. Narcian is now +6 =) Part of me was hoping they would have added a Lunatic mode to this (as well as Robin's), and Normal modes to the rest. The extra copies would have been nice, especially if these are the only ones we'll be getting over the course of the year.

Not that I was expecting differently, but I was holding on to some slip hope that the GHBs would have been reset on account of the new system. Guess my Narcian will be maxed at +6 for a very long time.

Will have more than 80,000 once the TT ends, and I'm also curious what Raven's new weapon will bring. I have both +Atk and +Spd variants waiting around in my barracks for good news. The main reason I've been hoarding feathers again though is that I'm waiting to see how many character copies will be available from the daily GHB "Elite quests", which I assume will be different from the usual quests we get. I expect at least one copy, but if there's more...hoo boy.

Season 53 Results: Score: 4,848 Defense: 600 Rank: Tier 20 --> 19 First team of FEH's second year, and first time I've been able to run Dragon Emblem in the arena! Myrrh was the final piece I was looking for, and is the glue that holds this all together. Unfortunately, on more than one occasion I forgot she's considered a flier, and left her in range to get killed by a bow user. =( The A!Tiki pictured is the first unit I ever summoned, and the last time she was used in the arena was during the 13th season, which coincidentally was the first one I started making these team sheets. She hasn't gotten any merges thanks to everything taking a backseat to my flier and GHB projects, but pulling a spare B!Ike on Hero Fest means she gets Steady Breath and Aether to play around with, which needless to say is quite the improvement over the Defiant Attack 3 she had before... Ninian is -Atk, but she was surprisingly effective in combat, one-rounding BKs and other reds with middle-ish Spd after a Hone Buff. I had contemplated giving Myrrh my spare Hector for DC, but I found she really doesn't need it, not when she has QR to blow back any melee on enemy phase, and Fae serves the DC-Green niche well enough for our purposes. Arena Assault: Rank: 4,199 Previous Season Results: