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  1. 19 minutes ago, wheelsonfire said:

    Still find the tone change a bit jarring, but I will be used to it… The characters knowing Peony is definitely interesting, but I've played a bit too much Bravely Default to trust her immediately… I cannot don't like all innocence equates to childish, thing… It's been done way too much, and it's perfectly possible for a serious assault to have an innocent moment, have something that takes them back to the days of innocence or makes them feel innocent, or even just remember the days of innocence, probably in greater detail than a child ever would… I get that it's Shanrea’s defining trait, but we've already had three books with her, I feel like her character should at least be expanded upon… I'm hoping that's what we get, to be honest… I feel like it's odd that the male figure is seemingly on the characters side and the female is not… I'm used to various having a fairy queen… I guess with elves, it can go either way, even though they look like fairies…

     

    I've just had a thought… If this is Norse mythology, then the end of it is Ragnorok… Are all parties moving towards that with their fighting? It would make sense if they were, considering war seems to be raging in all the realms, and every realms the heroes leave after they're done either has a lot of people dead, with a ruler left with a world in shambles, or no ruler at all… And considering Askr lost its king with the prince and princess being away, and we have no idea what state Embla’s in other than having a pacifist on the throne, the mortal world doesn't seem too stable either… I hope Ragnorok won't be the final outcome, considering other stories that have had it turn out bittersweet at best, and even the ones with more positive endings still have a lot of casualties…

    The tone change is something to get used to yes, but i am having a difficult time with it. Its like its not fiting Fire emblem heroes at all: i mean i get it its a Dreamworld soo it has to be different.

    I am usually very fond of OC chars, but the new fairies just dont click with me at all from a Design point of view. Usually the OCs shared some kind of design similarity with the ornaments but here its kinda missing, Aside from the that one big thing on Peony chest. So yeah this is a first in FEH where i am really not digging the OC at all and the world behind it.

  2. 26 minutes ago, XRay said:

    I guess it just takes getting used to. I think facing difficult teams in Aether Raids makes me a better player overall.

    I am not talking about AR

    I mean in general. When I see 1 unit and 3 dancers stuff in on offense (not defense) in AR or in Abyssal map videos i just roll my eyes

    @daisy janeI dont use any Dancers at all in Abyssal (or only 1 depending whicht Team i am running) maps and use 1-0 Dancers in AR.

  3. 29 minutes ago, XRay said:

    I think Spd is not waste and you should still bump it up to around 50+ to stop Alm: Saint King from doubling the tank.

    not to mention with the new skill of Mareeta, points in Spd might matter because its a flat out Damage reduction.

    Assuming it is an upgrade from Hit and Run. this means only Melees can use this skill, but the skill can be very powerfull.

    Sothis for example could become quite bulky with this skill and her special, considering she has very high spd

  4. 3 hours ago, NoNameAtAll said:

    Wow, I wasn't sure how bad I was expecting Book 4 to be, but they managed to surpass my expectations. As if Book 3 being edgy-dark wasn't dumb enough, they go in completely the opposite direction with this.

    Also I like how Alfonse's dad has the sleeping sickness.

    Y'know, just to totally ignore what happened in Book 3.

    When IS doesnt want to spoil Book 3 because you can start Book 4 without playing Book 3 *sigh* This is so garbage imho and limits story developing immensly

  5. 1 hour ago, BoaFerox said:

    It's surprising that it took them this long to do something about Arena. When they implemented the bonus kill system I got the impression that almost nobody wanted it or liked it, so I would think the feedback must have been pretty harsh. That change was implemented without warning and made the Arena essentially a completely different mode to what it had been up until that point, so as expected it would be controversial, yet they haven't touched the mode at all until now for some reason.

    They changed it it back then so people would pull for Bonus units to score higher and start investing into high BST cheerleaders. They are changing it now because:
    Alot of people have built up their Cheerleaders and Duellskills A-Slot skills arent making such an impact as they wanted (prolly).

    With this change they can actually promote easier Pair-up Legendaries, because you only need to kill 1 unit with the bonus unit, meaning the rest can be handled by Pair-up Legendaries with Arena stat bonus blessing or by new/higher 185 BST units.

    It also opens up the possibility for people to invest more into Tier 4 offensiv skills outside of AR. (mind you you didnt want to kill a unit with a Cheerleader).

    This is just a change from IS to make pulling for Arena worth it again in the future.

  6. 49 minutes ago, GrandeRampel said:

    I'm not here to tell you how to enjoy the game, but the point of a cross-over game at least in my opinion is to see something you are interested in cross-over with something you didn't know about before. And you start to become interested in that unknown new thing exactly because it interacted with the thing you already loved.

    In your list you excluded Shadow Dragon, Echoes, Mystery, Genealogy, Thracia, Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn because you don't know them.

    That's seven. You have excluded more games and characters than you have included. You are essentialy not interacting with half the cast of FEH, including the ones you get for free like GHBs and stuff.

    I don't know, it kind of feels like a waste of a good game to only use half of it.

    Oh i would be interested in playing remakes/rerealeses (virtual console) of those games. Sadly there is no way to play them legally on the Switch or PC. And I am not gonna purchase a Gamecube to play Radiant Danw for example. (oh i forgot to mention i did play shadows of valentia too, one of the reason why my Sonya is +10)

    I do interact with the characters i get for free (or from lucky banners) but the hard fact remains i am not emotionally attached to them. The approach to those characters is very logical and clinical from my side. Not a good personal skill/weapon/stat spread? benched. While I do invest in characters i am emotionally attached to.

    Besides after 2 and half years of Fire emblem heroes my roster is so big that well... whats the point of adding new chars to it when i am not emotionally attached to them? Nostalgic can be a strong selling point, but if its a character i didnt even know existed, it would not check that box. All thats left then is Design and skill set.

  7. 10 minutes ago, Garlyle said:

    Thracia may be the least known Fire Emblem game, but also heavily underpresented in Heroes. As someone who managed to win in Thracia, seeing these 3 faces in Heroes puts a smile on my face.

    It's so good, that even if we get no more Thracia banner in the future, I'm satisfied with the lineup from it.

    And thats totally fine, for you its the best banner for me it tells me nothing. Hence why i disagreed 🙂

  8. 18 minutes ago, Baldrick said:

    What do you think Meet the Heroes and Forging Bonds is for? If one refuses to learn about new characters and instead chooses to be wilfully ignorant, then their opinion of new banners is without merit.

    They never should have stopped multi-game banners IMO.

    There is a difference between ignorant or just not interested.
    I am more attached to the following Fire emblem games/chars because those are the ones i played:
    Three Houses
    Fates
    Awakening
    Blazing Blade
    Binding Blade
    Sacred Stone
    and the OC of *shockingly* FEH.

    I am not rating the banner for everyone, but for my personal view: 0 value. I dont know the game the chars are from, i dont know the chars, hence it has no attachement from my side. Thats a fact. In that regard the Banner has 0 value for me. (read for me and prolly assumebly for the majority of other people).

    Now please dont misunderstand this in the way that i dont want this banners to happen. Thats far from the truth. Infact the Sigurd banner exposed me to Thracia and made me aware of that game and i do encourage such banners, but i wouldnt bet on a Thracia "only" banner to bring in the big bucks for IS. Hence the reason why they throw in the Mythic Hero and left the Farfetched Heroes banner out. They want to have at least 1 ace for every banner so they get a better pull result over the year instead of 1 high peak.

    But this implies that we have reached the bottom of the barrel imho.

  9. Just now, EdelgardHresvelgTargaryen said:

    So I guess Eir was thrown into the unknown with Fjorm and shall never be heard of ever again.

    There is no other way to handle this when there are no requirements to start with Book 4. or Book 3 or Book 2. None of them required the completion of the previous Book, so its kinda hard for them to go on overarching storytheme when there are no requirements.

    An easy fix would have been a Summary of the events pre Book 4, that simple IS, that simple...

  10. 6 minutes ago, GrandeRampel said:

    Pretty good banner. Peony's inclusion is a bit weird. I'm half-thinking that this is a stunt pulled by a Thracia fan in the development team to convince the higher ups to allow more Thracia banners in 2020.

    "See boss? Thracia banners can sell really well. Nevermind that it only sold well because of the new waifu on it, you don't need to know that detail boss :)"

    Honestly that's not a bad idea. Imagine if they release a new banner with three Thracia units and Lif. With how many thirsty people I've seen BEGGING for him, that banner is guaranteed to do extremely well. And when a Thracia banner becomes the best selling banner of the year, you have to approve more Thracia banners.

    It's a dirty and cheap trick, but if it ends up working I will not be questioning results.

     

    EDIT: @Hilda thank you for giving me the perfect example of why my argument makes sense. Even if in your case it would need to be Bruno and three Thracia units instead of Lif for the Thracia banner to suddendly become the most popular banner.

     

    oh i get why IS is putting the new Mythic into the mix with this banner and why its not a Farfetched Heroes banner. They are scrapping whats left on the bottom of the barrel. I think i am not the only person, infact i would say i would be a majority of the people that didnt even know about Tharcia before Fire emblem heroes and I still dont know that game well. That game got exposed to me via FEH. So far the only things i know:
    Sigurd and Deirdre had a love thing going? In any case Arvis burned Sigurd to ze ground and Julia is the daughter of Arvis and Deirdre. Meanwhile Julius is their son. While Seliph is a Bastard son of Sigurd and Deirdre? In any case there was alot of burning and abduction going on.

    So for them to not implement the Farfetched heroes banner is a strategic move to ensure that future banners have at least one unit that apeals to a portion of the audience.

  11. 59 minutes ago, Vicious Sal said:

    The skill ceiling being lowered is not what worries me by itself, it’s the skill floor being raised, which might jeopardise my rewards since more people can more easily contend for the max rewards. This pushes the max arena score up and forces me to fish more for max score matches.

    This is intended by IS, because they want to push people to pull for the new high BST: 185 Armor and Tier 4 Skills. Which will hit us prolly around in 3 Months or less.

    Most current or future Tier 4 Skills are useless in Arena because you A: Either running a Duell A-Slot skill or B-doesnt give much cheerleading or C-is too powerfull and might net in a kill for the wrong unit.

    This way they can prompt new devestating Tier 4 skills like Quick-Vantage-Brash-Riposte 88939885393 and you still get the bonus kill +12 with that one bonus unit, because you only need to kill 1 enemy with it per battle.

  12. 2 hours ago, Garlyle said:

    This is possibly the best banner I have seen in a very long time. These are exactly the Thracia units Fire Emblem Heroes was missing badly, even Mareeta is not corrupted anymore. Holy molly, even Tanya is here?

    Now we have an official name for the Pugi as well. Makes a lot more sense than Bhuj.

    Good job IntSys.

    I like to disagree, because frankly, none of this chars tell me anything, because barely anyone knows/played Thracia

  13. 2 hours ago, XRay said:

    I am going put my thoughts on the Refines in spoilers just in case.

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    Arthur
    Ouch. He is missing that key Penalty nullification during combat. He could have been a super tank that rivals Sharena, but nope. It is not bad, just unimpressive and not enough to make him a standout choice.

    Mathilda and Clive
    Pretty nice boon for cavalry supertanks. I lean towards Clive being a bit better since he got Slaying Spear.

    Mia
    Pretty good.

     

    I think people are underestimating Arthur's refine. It might not look awesome on paper, but this thing can definitly put in some work and can be easy activated in Aether Raids, especially with his Balanced stat spread. I mean its not optimal, but its far from not being usable and not good

  14. 16 minutes ago, Vicious Sal said:

    The Arena change is horrible. It removes the last part of skill Arena had is now gone. It’s purely scoring based now since one bonus kill is enough. Anyone can do that. So it means we’ll need to fish more for the highest possible score. It just means the entire arena becomes a score check, whereas it at least now was at least a tiny little more skill based. 

    I kinda get this, but on the other hand just building 3 units as cheerleaders and artificially lowering their killing power so they dont kill stuff just by initiating is kinda wasted potential too.

  15. 25 minutes ago, Anacybele said:

    I thought Altina was supposed to be a counter to Brave Ike? She's definitely not. Mine was killed easily by him. Though I don't know why when she's a red unit and he's green.

    Did you player or Enemy phase him?

    What skills was he running?

    Did Altinas Special activate?

    All Questions that need to be answered before engaging him. She only counters him if her Special activates. Her Special is the direct counter to the Urvan refine damage reduction not Altina herself as a unit.
    You definitly dont want to playerphase a B!Ike when he is running some form of Breath (skill or Lucina buff) and Aether/OffensivSpecial, but he will definitly/most likely will die when you enemy phase him with Altina and Quick Riposte, because her Special will activate twice then (unless he runs guard or null follow up).

    Counters need some strategies too. And if you cant tell why she died then you prolly didnt check his stats/skill set?

  16. 4 minutes ago, Arcanite said:

    Why dont we talk about something else!

    Like uhhhh....

    How useful Altina is in arena!

    Personally, I think her special trigger is super OP. Fierce stance with Vantage seems nice and cheesy. I guess you could opt for guidance or something too. The fact that she's a flier is just amazing. Good for using tactic skills and stuff ~

    The fact she is a flier is actually holding her back in my opinion, because you cant replace her A-Slot skill with something different, unless you give her Iotes Shield in the Sacred Seal slot or give up on tackling Archers. But then again there are so many Sword Infantry users soooo... and allready 3 Brave effect users sooo... more diversity is good.

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