Eridras

Here's my waifu. I just need to pull another Peri(don't want to sacrifice my only one) to finish off Threaten Defense and I'll be good. She was fed a 5* Effie for Deathblow 3, and Raven for Brave Axe +. Raven is still the only 5* I've promoted for Skill Inheritance and I'm still not super happy with the decision. She's +1 because two weeks after I promoted her from 4*, I pulled a 5* from the Wyvern banner.

I spent my last free arena swords of this week testing out a new arena team. Team "Alm is Window Dressing" is doing very well, and it's kind of nice having to think again in the arena rather than autopiloting Horse Emblem to easy wins. It took until Saturday to get my first arena defense this week. Oddly, Alfonse as bait for Azura/Reinhardt/Eldigan didn't work as well as Celica leading.

If it helps, I spent well over 150 orbs gunning for Ike, and got a Caeda and nifty 4.75% pity rate. I also went for Ryoma on the Herofest banner and got a second Alm instead.

If I knew for sure that you needed a defense, I would have! As it was, I wanted to test my new team of Alm, Celica, Julia, and Azura. Interestingly enough, we almost had the same team.

Is your current arena team Ike, Celica, Julia, and Ninian? I just ran across it in the arena! Gave me quite a scare, but it was the twin bridges map, so I was luckily able to separate Ike from the rest of the team. My own Celica did a lot of the heavy lifting.

Of my 32 5* units, I have 11 with +Atk, 10 with -Res, and 6(included in the earlier numbers) with both.

Yeah, knowing I'm going to end up with ~1500 SP at level 40 is kind of making me not want to level her right now. My last few big projects either had double SP or I leveled a 4* of the unit at the same time as the 5* to take care of half of the inheriting.

Very nice! Once I get more feathers I'll promote someone for LnD 3 to get my Celica up to your level. I'm really curious to see how she works with this build, though I was thinking Renewal for mine.

How is Fury doing for you on Celica? I'm still deciding between that and LaD2 for mine. Also, are you using Fury 2 so Renewal completely brings her back to full health, or lack of Fury 3? Thanks!

My Celica is +Atk, -Res, which makes Life and Death a bit more appealing than Fury, I assume?

Mystletainn Swap (Reposition is bad for Horse Emblem, since forests prevent it from working) Bonfire (+18 damage on a 2 turn cooldown is awesome) Fury 3 Vantage (I had a lot of Vantage 3 fodder for arena points, plus Eldigan just needs to take 5 damage from the enemy to enter activation range) Hone Cavalry (to boost Cecilia and Reinhardt. Cecilia has Fortify Cavalry to make Eldigan even tankier) I've heard people say Quick Riposte is also good for him, though in that case I'd run Ignis so as not to "waste" a Bonfire activation on a counter attack.

That's my Eldigan, and he's an awesome tank with that boon/bane. A lot of people stop doubling him with 31 speed, making him very durable.

My saved 22 orbs got me my second ever Hinata and my first (4*) Lucius. I cracked and bought 23 more orbs, and was happily rewarded with my third double-5* pull. Both Celica and Tharja were +Atk, -Res, too!

Sent! I've got a Bonfire/Vantage +1 Eldigan in lead.

Tried for the last time to get Ike. First pull had two red orbs: 4*Roy and 3*Sophia. Yay TA3! Second pull also had two red orbs: 4* Ogma and 4*Tiki. Yay Bonfire! Twenty one orbs left for tomorrow. With the new story missions and whatnot, I should have 40ish orbs for pulling by the end of the day.

I could have sworn that I was on Team Julia...of course, I'm part of the problem.

Anna has nothing, Azura obviously has Sing, Reinhardt has Draw Back, and Eldigan has Swap.

Has anything been said about you getting all the rewards for each rank if you end up skipping ranks? As in, if I jump from rank 10 to rank 12, do I get the rank 11 and 12 rewards? I assume not, but it'd be nice.

The first member of my defense team is just bait. It's the danced, Hone Cavalry-ed, Death Blow 2-ed Reinhardt who's probably securing my rage-surrenders. One defense so far this week, I used to get 3-6 defenses a week before the 1.3 arena change.

Horse Emblem continues to be fairly easy to use. I did have my first, then second deaths due to not fully paying attention and missing that a defense tile turned a usual one-shot into alive-with-5hp. Needed to burn two swords because of that. Clarine has actually been really useful for keeping Eldigan topped off when he tanked a variety of armors. Funniest moment this week was when Cecilia tanked a Hector while sitting on a defense tile.

@Othin @Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi @LordFrigid Thanks for the kind words! Next week I'll be more selective with my swords to settle more comfortably in the top 10k. Though it would be neat to hit exactly rank 10,000 again

I fully admit that this is the stupidest thing to get excited over, but thanks!

VICTORY!

Rank 9964 with 8 minutes left! It's going to be close!

It only needs to work once! I can imagine some team with two greens whose run this team can screw up.