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as nice as the art for the echoes gang is, none of the characters especially appeal to me. I'll just go ahead and use my orbs on spring as planned. And I guess i'll use my 19 orbs instead ofa 20 thanks to no daily orb!

Did people see alm and confuse him with Ike because that would be amazing Arthur run update: everyone got less than half on the starting stratum. Despite this clearly adding up to over 1, no one got any hero merit in their status screens.

I have 4 arthurs and 3 of them are level 1, so let's get this grind party started

The higher leveled enemies you face, the more you earn I did a quick run in the top tier, for example, and got ~4.6 HM for everyone

It's technically not the second HALF of april, but I'm guessing the first maps will be on the 14th. We still only have the spring festival banner, so we'll need at least one new banner to replace it and those always come with paralogues unless they decide to rerun an old banner or something. May as well show off the new mechanic there

Reading the notice board's explanation on seals is interesting. It looks like you can only ever get one of a specific type of seal, and you can move around who has what seal. So the example was Elidgan with a Speed+1; you would only have ONE Speed+1 seal, but you can put it on eldigan or swap it to another hero.

*sighs* yeah thats abotu what i figured. an extremely slow way of grinding feathers with a relatively small cap. oh well, my 3 stars will appreciate paying for themselves, i guess. downloading the update now, at least

I don't see us getting generic dragons without access to Wyrmslayers. Right now I think the only anti-dragon stuff are the 3 falchions and the naga spell. While I do think beastkillers will come eventually, they probably weren't included from the start (aside from 3 specific units, 2 of which are GHBs) since they get stat penalties. And normal magic users are 2 range, which have another penalty and tend to be frail. Generic dragons probably wouldn't get stat penalties and attack using magic and likely have decent defenses over all. Not as terror inducing as armors, but probably something you want more units in the possible pulls to have a counter too, you know?

I bet there will be some wings of mercy units thrown in too

yeah there's no way real zephial wont be nerfed across the board with a set up like that

Are the "story" versions of the GHB units actually indicative of their playable versions, weapons aside? I always figured they had inflated stats and would pull whatever skills off the wall. 9-5 Xander in particular seemed insane from what I remember.

Watch it be Effie again

noooo don't give them ideas. Though, that reminds me, is Panic the only weapon that turns buffs into debuffs? Aside from Veronica's tome, I mean. With how many ways to buff there are currently, it feels like a way to counter those would be more useful and also widely available. And not on a healer, preferably.

Hope Zephial's map isn't a pain, i'd like a 4 star version of him without much hassle.

i feel like the intent WAS to make it arena-specific and it was just an oversight but convenience is equally possible yeah

side note i found it funny that they put that quest under the "arena" label considering it was just looking for *any* level 10+ unit you defeat in battle, regardless of where the battle was

if you can get reinhardt to his early thirties, you can usually ballpark the calculations fwiw

Ugh, I really hope the we're not without a daily orb for a while. The defeat 20 enemies quest should always be active if you're not going to give away daily 2 orbs. you gotta have at least one daily orb, heroes!

I feel like I never see people use them, ever. And personally any kinshi knights I tried just fell flat

Yeah I forgot to mention that. Lucina & the trio are the only gen 2 exceptions. The trio because they're in as Fates variants, Lucina because..........Lucina. You gotta have lucy! I really hope they do Severa & Inigo in an interesting way. Like maybe promote them? Severa could be bow knight, Inigo could use axes as a hero? Something like that. Just anything than more swords because they woudl absolutely be released with Owain in whatever banner and it would be three swords and that would be The Worst.

This reminds me https://www.nintendo.co.jp/fe/kakusei_bk/kekka/index.html The initial batch of awakening characters are the top ten of both men & women except for Gerome & Morgan. I presume Morgan was swapped out for Sully since she joins with Virion and so Stahl could have his red counterpart while Gerome was swapped with Donnel because....??? Fred & Lissa also get in since they're your first four characters with chrom & robin. Ok yes technically "Owain, Severa & Inigo" aren't in and will almost definitely get proper releases later, but I thought it was interesting that they decided to more or less follow Awakening's popularity poll while Fates went with the royals + their retainers

excusing the release banners (which basically were just grab bags), the voting banners and the GHB banners (both of which just come & go unrelated to other banners) we've only had Family Bonds, Sibling Bonds, Blazing Shadows & Spring Festival. & i'm not excusing the SF because it had new characters (even if they are variants), a paralogue, and a full two weeks of activation like FB, SB & BS We don't really have a pattern to speak of at this point

at the very least they could play up their offensive niche as "magical daggers" I fully expect there to eventually be some offensive unit that gets an actual heal skill (exclusive to them, likely) before healers get any sort of real buff.

All the healers just run together for me. Even more than most other units, they feel so interchangeable. I gave Clarine Physic I had lying around and that's about it since mobile physic users felt the most flexible. My kingdom for an offense focused healer with a new colorless spell, just for variety

Morgan & Kana can transform just fine! I mean I doubt they'd give us manakete Roy, but there's nothing like genetic reasons necessarily stopping them from doing so.