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I just went to that map and Celica's. Atk Tactic applied as normal for me on the first enemy phase. Not sure what's going on on your end.

@Azuris Thanks On an unrelated note, the first 4 ghb bonus units seem to be the first 4 released. If the pattern holds the next batch will have Navarre and Zephiel. Naturally Gharnef will be there too, but as a "new unit" and not taking up a ghb slot. It's also interesting that we've gotten Fjorm and L!Ike. Is that slot for legendaries or is it for freebies?. We could see something like Gunnthra there or it could be something like Olivia.

Had a perfect 3 for 3 today on offense, and let me say how happy I am to still have a Loki. Makes alot of common set ups much less threatening. But I fear my total lack of investment in defense is going to catch up with me. Does this map at least look functional?

There's a possibility Bruno and OG Veronica will continue to play a major roll in the story going forward, while the Ice siblings will be phased out. Loki is an interesting case since she clearly will play a large roll going forward but IS may have felt obligated to release her since it was a CYL related banner. I could be wrong but if Veronica fell short I suspect we would have gotten her on that banner.

Really glad to see Gharnef as his absence thus far I felt was bizzare (Medeus when IS) I don't really get the complaints about typing since every character's base form should be cannon friendly and almost every roll that does canonically exist is pretty saturated at this point. I'd like for Malice and Jill to be in the game but I won't pretend for a second the game needs anymore sword infantry or lance/axe flyers. Every unit at this point is going to feel a bit redundant, but that's going to be the nature of things from here on out since we have so many units.

We should have known there was no intention to create color balance when we got our second colored bow. Considering how few cannon friendly options there are left for colorless, my guess would Bow Alm, Colorless Dragon/staff Corrin or if they wanted to get really crazy (which they don't) something like Master Knight Leif. It's worth noting that technically they could fill out the cycle with 5 each in RBG and leave Grima alone for all eternity.

Managed to bounce back from some rough days with a couple of perfect runs today, so I'm sitting at 4,140. Seriously about to switch my Summoner Support onto Loki since Thokk is legit incredible against alot of the maps people are throwing out these days.

Honestly glad IS just decided to dump everything on us over a relatively short period of time so it doesn't hang around and we can just move on.

I'm mostly fine with this banner. People seem to be forgetting that we have a GHB and a Legendary banner up soon, so it's not like Bruno/Hrid have no hope. I have zero interest in Ylgr and Surtr seems fun but not fun enough to pull. I'm in the camp of being pro 2 focus banners for the sniping benefits. There are so many units in the pool now that even merging non 5 star locked units can be a huge pain in the ass if you're not lucky. And honestly i don't think it'll have much of an impact on the rate new units get into the game. IS had every opportunity to add units like Knoll and Reina but decided they weren't popular/marketable enough and opted to but alts on those banners instead. Now they just might opt to cut the alts entirely and I'm mostly fine with that. I understand there are plenty of people waiting on favorites, as am I (RIP Malice, Calill, and Tanith) but the current nature of summoning makes getting particular units a pain in the ass and pilling more units into the pool doesn't help that. I guess I'm at the point were I value my long term projects over shiney new toys, and the prospect of even slightly improved summoning is worth a slower turnout for me at least.

The race is still far too early to call in either division. Representation and saturation has alot to do with how people vote, and so do the new heroes. Where are all the votes that went to people like Leif, Owain, and Veronica going to go?. How much still will Eirika and Marth loose due to finally getting their legendaries? It's also important to remember that we're getting both Chrismas and New Years alts, so someone like Eirika could be getting 2 alts in a very short period of time which could cause people to go in another direction. We also might still have at least 2 legendaries to go since we don't know when the Jan hero (if there is one) will drop in relation to voting. Then we have to consider the ramifications of the leaders being revealed part way through voting and the possibility of a banner dropping mid voting, both of which had a significant impact last time around. Also if IS takes the plot of book 3 a bit more seriously (which there's some evidence of thankfully) a new OC could shake things up. It's way too early to call anything

Maybe we could actually get a 2 man BHB banner without that 3rd wheel they always tak on. Could be really hype if it's for the right unit(s)

I never really considered Hinoka as cheating since eff flyers is free for all bows so it doesn't use up the "free slot" all weapons can have. It's the same logic as L!Tiki's weapon: you can have 2 free effects if 1 is just inherent to your weapon type. Thani is cheating but one of it's effects is a stat boost and the other is very situational so w/e

Meh IS clearly mailed in November but that just means i get to keep saving. Remember if you're mad, the only really meaningful thing you can do is not pull. At least that spellblade skill will be fun to lab if i ever get it down the line.

They don't use the same stones as your regular structures. Its a special event currency.

@mampfoid Yeah you start a new season at the lowest value of whatever tier you finished in.

Well finished somewhere in the 7000s with a fair amount of mistakes along the way, but top 10k was always the goal so mission accomplished. On an unrelated note, I think I'm actually going to use my extra Loki since the ability to break up some of these crazy bait strats with Thokk seams invaluable, going to have to put some time in the lab with her. Also if anyone could clue me in on how to make a functional defense team that lacks most of the usual trappings I'd appreciate it.

Yeah i know i should probably reword/define this stuff. The way I see it there are 4(?) tiers to weapon effects. 1. Stat +3. Self explanatory. 2.These are established generic weapon effects like slaying/wo dao as well as effects that mimic 200/240 SP skills. 3. These are unique effects like Great Flame and Blizzard that are notable in that they are always paired with stat boosts and don't have any corrisponding skills that perfectly mimic their effects. 4.These skills mimic 300 SP skills, namely Distant Counter. To this point IS has not seen it fit to pair a 300 SP skill with any other (non free) effect. The general idea is that a weapon's total effects should add up to 4 given current balance standards. That being said, weapons are certainly not an exact science (like how do you make sense of Felicia's Plate using this) and as I discussed earlier some effects are judged a certain way for particular types of units, although that's nothing new (see how many skills flyers/cavs aren't allowed to run).

@Kaden it's worth noting that Sagittae's status as a "Lopsided" weapon (having a single full effect too strong to be paired with another full effect hence the Def+3) so they might not be willing to throw the "Underdog" effects around everywhere. That being said there is some interesting context to talk about. First sometimes IS just misjudges how strong something is, like with Light Brand. It's also worth noting that Kliff is a ranged unit because of another prf Lopsided Tome, Giga Excalibur. G. Excalibur was released at the same time as Vassal's blade yet the former didn't receive a full 2nd effect. Since both units in question have great stats, that was almost certainly due to typing differences. SF!Nino is a ranged flyer while Karla is a melee infantry. So there's precedent the an effect considered too strong for one type of unit is fine for another. Lastly it's important to remeber that pfr's are just skills locked into a single unit. Odin's Grimmore and Felicias plate are silly weapons balanced by who they're attached to. So if a unit is considered bad enough, nothing's off the table in terms of a new weapon

Way too much magic damage. Azura can be easily delt with by any red unit, and probably alot of green ones, so you jusy bait rein turn 1 and let Veronica come to you. I'd recommend subbing out Mia since she'd likely struggle to get a kill shot on any unit with functional res, and having a unit that can't actually kill anyone makes it easier to "perfect clear" your map.

I think they're better as seals. There isn't a single unit in the game that has a boost as an optimal or particularly desirable A skill, but I could see boosts as good filler in AA or something. Water boost is prob the worst of the bunch though.

Could have sworn we killed this "related banners" theory a while ago. Eirika, Tiki, Lyn, and sort of Marth all didn't have banners for their game foreshadowing their release.

Also @Ice Dragon I've noticed some of the "character's name" weapons have other words in their name in the original Japanese that get taken out. Is that the case for literally all of them?

If the unit's bad enough they'll consider it. Odin's Grimmore is objectively better than Thunderhead, but that's because Odin is Garbage and Olwen is not. Felicia is allowed to have adaptive damage with no strings attached only because of her pitiful base 23 atk. That being said I'm not sure there's a unit offensively inept enough to justify that combo.

What exactly is Florina's role? I can't say I've come across many, let alone any that actually accomplish anything

Can phantom speed cause a unit to become the target of Chill Spd?