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Eridras

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  1. The first unit on my first pull was Leo. Back then, he seemed pretty amazing, with his high movement and cool attack, so I didn't bother rerolling. He quickly fell off.  By then I didn't want to lose my time invested, so I stuck with that account. He's +Spd -Res, which would be great...on almost anyone but him. 

  2. Screw you, Oscar!  She showed up anyway!

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    I was quite sad when Oscar popped up first on this pull, thinking he had killed my pity rate. Fortunately, Nephenee showed up right after. 

    62 orbs got me three 5-star units, which is just nuts. I think Nephenee is (+Hp -Res) and Oscar is (+Def -Hp).

    The third 5-star was my first ever Linde, with (+Spd -Atk). The Rezzy curse is limited due to the fact that Blarblade + cares not for an attack bane. 

  3. Lilina with Axebreaker, Ninian, Brave Axe Cherche and Sanaki cleared Infernal for me. Sanaki provided nothing but Hone Attack for Lilina to kill the top axe knight and a Draw Back  on Lilina to pull her out of the range of the blue mage. Ninian had to tank the blue mage once, and Cherche killed it and the lancer. Lilina did everything else. 

  4. I've noticed that my best luck comes from summoning the day a banner comes out, specifically during that same morning. I'll typically pull a 5-star unit every 30 orbs or so, whereas pulls outside of this timeframe tend to be much poorer in terms of orb efficiency.

    Examples include:

    Ninian on my second blue orb during her original banner.

    Alm on my second red orb during his original banner.

    Celica and a 5-star Tharja on the same pull during Celica's original banner, having spent around 60 orbs  

    Three 5-star units from 70 orbs during Nohrian Summer.

    Four 5-star units out of 160 orbs for the CYL banner.

     

     

  5. I had a 3.75% pity rate on the CYL Banner, so I decided to spend 20 orbs on a full pull and stop, whether or not I got a 5-star unit.

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    The results were:

    5* Lilina (+Res, -Hp)

    300 feathers x2

    Fortify Res2 x1 

    Fortress Defense3 x1

    I can live with this. I didn't get too far into the pity rate hole before it was broken, and my old 5-star, +Def -Res Lilina gets a merge and an upgrade.  

  6. 19 minutes ago, DehNutCase said:

    Not really. 28 base speed is a bit too low to matter once you take the -5 hit from a brave. At that point you might as well dump spd completely, since 23 is exceedingly difficult to salvage. (Not sure why you'd want to turn brave Ike into a worse Bartre by giving him a brave axe, though.)

    No, I meant Urvan would matter if Ike had to deal with a melee brave user, in reference to Urvan not working against melee.  It would also work against a Desperation user, I believe. 

  7. 45 minutes ago, DehNutCase said:

    Feels like we have a lot of +res/-spd Ikes for some reason, I have one, IRRC someone else said they had one, and then this one. (Ike doesn't actually care too much about speed, fortunately, so he should be perfectly fine as long as one remembers that speed matters when tanking melees---because Urvan won't work.)

    It'd matter if they were using brave weapons, right?

  8. I started with 160 orbs, and my initial plan was to pull everything.  That plan went sideways immediately, but I still came out pretty well, with these as my notable pulls:

    5* Mist (+Hp, -Res) No harm done, since I pulled her on my first circle, but this spooked me enough that I decided to skip colorless and settled for free Brave Lyn.

    5* Fae (+Hp, -Def) Why hello, Reinhardt counter.  Not the best boon/bane combo, but I'll live with a 50 Hp Reinhardt tank.

    5* Hawkeye (+Spd, - Hp) My SECOND pity-killing Hawkeye, and both of them have had great boon/bane combos, wasted on SI fodder.

    5* Brave Ike (Neutral) Woohoo!  Having spend over 200 orbs going for regular Ike with no luck, I'm pleased that Brave Ike came so quickly.  

    5* Brave Lyn (Neutral) From the free pull.  I can live with neutral for her.

    All in all, four 5-star units out of 160 orbs is quite good, considering I was able to get a focus unit I really wanted.  I'm debating whether or not to go for Roy and Lucina now.  I have a +1 Eldigan and Xander, so Roy is pretty superfluous.  Lucina is quite tempting though, and since she's mainly a buffbot, she can absorb a bad bane more easily than any of the other CYL focuses.  Hilariously, I doubled my number of colorless 5-star units today, since I've avoided colorless orbs like the plague.  

    Also, @Rezzy, I think Spd is a bad boon for Ike because his kit seems to want for him to get doubled.  I read on Gamefaqs that he can have Aether ready after getting attacked once if he gets doubled.  Credit for the little breakdown below goes to Milkman5.

    Aether = 5
    5 - 1 = 4(Urvan)
    4 -1 = 3 (Enemy Attacks)
    3 - 1 = 2 (Counter Attack)
    2 - 1 = (Enemy Attacks)
    1 - 1 = 0(Steady Breath)

     

  9. 40 minutes ago, phineas81707 said:

    No, I don't use Apple...

    EDIT: And I don't know if Australia has this 'Staples'. Certainly not anywhere I could go.

    Ah, foolish me for assuming. If you use an Android device, then maybe look up deals in Google Play cards. 

  10. 54 minutes ago, phineas81707 said:

    I got the $40 one with no 5*. I don't know if I'll be able to grab more...

    If you use an Apple device to play, Staples currently has a 15% off sale on iTunes gift cards above 25$. That's a good way to stretch every penny. I've stopped paying for orbs normally now, it's all off discounted gift cards. 

  11. 1 hour ago, DefyingFates said:

    Quick question before the banner ends: how good is Tana? I finally got Amelia after a pity rate of 4.50, only have 19 Orbs right now and am well aware that trying for Tana means I either need ridiculous luck with the Orbs I'll have by the end of the month or I'll need to spend real money.

    So in other words, I guess what I'm asking is: is Tana worth potentially spending real money on? I know some of you are whales but I'm a F2P player so please keep that in mind D:

    To add on to what has already been said, spending money is still no guarantee of getting Tana, let alone one that's neutral or better. I've purchased 5 of the 23 orbs packs and 1 of the 75 orb pack this summer.  All that got me was...1 5-star unit.  If you're worried about getting your hopes up, then let me tell you that it's a terrible feeling to spend money and not get anything. I can easily absorb the loss, but it still stings. Make sure you can handle not just not getting Tana, but spending money on essentially feathers. 

  12. Here's my Ninian. I've had this version of her (+Atk -Res) since Blazing Shadows, and recently pulled a second one to merge. Since I have a ton of feathers without nothing to promote, I decided to do something I really wanted to do way back in March when she first came out. After an Adult Tiki promotion and Lightning Breath + SI, she's a bit more versatile than before.

    Fury 3 is an artifact from when the skill was a huge boost to your arena score, plus it let her survive a neutral speed Lucina.  I may give her TA 3 if I ever get more Roys, but for now I like the stat boost she gets from Fury, plus the recoil damage helps activate Escape Route more quickly. 

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  13. 11 minutes ago, Anime27Arts said:

    I just want to say luck hates me. I have a rare of 5.00% for the Nohrian Summer Banner and haven't gotten anything at all to show from it.  I have no luck at all and am really losing hope of pulling Summer Leo.

    The desire sensor really is a thing. Summer Leo was the one unit I didn't want from that banner and he ended up breaking my pity rate for Summer Corrin. 

  14. 5 minutes ago, Zeo said:

    Assuming I've done my math correctly and no orbs come from Legion's re-run or the Valter GHB.

    My Current Orbs = 10.

    Remaining TT Orbs (Rewards) = 27

    Double Bonus Orbs from 13th to 25th = 48

    Bonus Orbs from 25th to 31st = 12

    Arena Orbs = 4 (14th) 8 (21st)

    Weekend Orbs = 2 (20th) 4 (27th)

    Calculations Assume 100k points in TT
    Orbs by end of HF = 63
    Orbs by end of TT = 95
    Orbs by end of NS = 109

    If I spend nothing until HF's last day and do one full pull on that banner on the last day that'll leave me with 75 orbs during the Trials on the final day. If I do one or two full pulls on that banner I'll be left with either 69 or 49 orbs remaining to snipe for S!Corrin. All of these estimations assume I don't do any pulls until the final respective days of each banner.

    Discipline will be a necessity for the rest of the month... and those orbs still don't guarantee S!Corrin. It's gonna be a rough wait.

    Every GHB rerun has had three orbs come via "kill x with y" quests. 

  15. 57 minutes ago, Astolfo! said:

    That's like, super ridiculous! My Alm is +Spd though so he gets like, 40 speed at base in TT.

    Why did you choose to take Ardent over Reciprocaid though?

    I prefer the healing to be more controlled.  I also like being able to top off people towards the end of a round so he can regenerate another 20hp at the start of the next one to heal more.  There's also the fact that I have pulled about a thousand Florinas. 

  16. I started with 78 orbs, sniping reds for Ike and the usual red SI fodder.  The only useful fodder I got was a pair of Selenas, and of course no Ikes.  I did get three 5-star units:

    Ryoma (+Hp -Spd) Wrong DC sword!!!!!  Crappy boon/bane as well, so he ended up merged to my +Def -Hp one.

    Hawkeye (+Atk -Res) I'm not even angry he broke my (very small) pity rate, as I've been needing Deathblow 3.  It kind of fits my luck lately that the SI fodder is the one who got the good boon/bane combo.

    Sanaki (neutral) Sure, why not.  I'm now only missing Katarina to have all the more powerful red mages.  Between her and Ryoma this session, it felt like the game was tiptoeing around giving me Ike.

    With three 5-star units in 78 orbs, including the free pull, I think I've used up whatever luck I had on this banner.  Time to start saving again!

     

  17. 55 minutes ago, mampfoid said:

    I tried all new units I got and leveled most of them up. That’s why TT and Squad Assault where no big deal but a nice variety to me. With the time I got units for nearly every possible use, with the big exception of a powerful red mage. Because of that I changed my pulling behavior and pulled (nearly) exclusive red units on the Hone ATK banner for Sanaki. I never got her and now I’m pulling for S!Corrin with the same lack of success. My guess is: pulling for a specific unit reduces the fun in pulling and the lack of positive surprises in pulling reduces the overall fun in playing FEH.

    I’m aware of the fact that I can’t go back to my naïve first days in FEH, since gathering and exchanging information became a part of playing the game, but I think I will never ever “snipe” again for one unit. That’s a too frustrating and expensive process, while pulls of non-focus 5* units tend to be under appreciated.

    Surely I can’t speak for people who spend a lot of money in pulling units, but perhaps some of you had a similar impression while playing FEH in the last months?

    Luck is luck. Athena was the only unit I cared about in a banner with three reds, and I got her very quickly. I sniped for Delthea and got her in 70ish orbs, without Mathilda killing my pity rate. Likewise, I got Summer Elise in 60 orbs without Xander showing up. 

    However, I'm in the same boat as you with Summer Corrin. 200ish orbs and 2 off-focus blues to show for it.  Way back in June, 150 orbs for Ike and nothing. It's fine to snipe for someone, but as with anything gambling related, getting what you want is always a happy surprise. 

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