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Could be the other way: they thought New Heroes Return banners featuring exclusively Rearmed and Attuned units would be too good so they have to dilute the candidates with these dud units.

So I just happened to see this now, and I initially thought that the +1 to all stats was just a minor additional bonus to powercreep Attuned and Rearmed heroes, and that the ability to equip an Aide would give them a massive combat bonus that would be at least as powerful as Arcane weapons or the X slot. But nope, the +1 to all stats is meant to be the selling point and the Aide is purely cosmetic? So they've just made a variant of Ascended heroes instead, but worse for most units. Wow. But at least you get multiples by pulling the same unit I guess.

Checking in because I optimistically thought that a year after Catria appeared on this banner that there'd be a chance of Palla. More fool me. 🙃 Actually, seeing that Thea art, I'm pretty glad we didn't get Palla. Meanwhile Felicia and Flora just look drunk.

Drive-by snap judgement - Minimum effort Robin Boring edgelord sword infantry remains boring edgelord sword infantry Bernadetta's weird eyes will make it difficult for me to ever sleep again Minimum effort Alfonse As a unit and in the absence of any fliers, Alfonse wins for me just on the basis of raw mobility.

My cunning plan to bait IS into releasing a Palla alt has unfortunately failed.

So today's first ever lot of three revival banners gave me my first ever Ryoma, finally giving me the full set of launch units. I can now properly quit FEH with no regrets. See you in the next game folks!

I actually quite like the approach of creating these alternate Tier 4 skills to existing skill trees. Way, way more player friendly in terms of inheritance than creating entirely new skill trees. They should have made things like Prime branch off Bond, Clash off Catch, Finish off Ideal, etc.

Some New Heroes banners having multiple Asset hero types at the same time really takes the gloss off the Fallen banners, which really don't feel special at all these days. This is especially true as it'd be really hard to make full use of Lumera's SI regardless of breath weapons being fairly niche in the first place. Not that it was particularly relevant anyway with me having all but quit in recent times.

Which three schmucks would accompany Virion in our tutorial team then?

While I don't like Loki as a character, I cannot possibly argue against her inclusion as a Mythic. Hell, if there were only, say, half-a-dozen Mythic heroes total in FEH, Loki would easily be justifiable as one of them. (Askr, Embla, Hel, Thorr, Loki and uh, one of the goats?) If? EDIT: Uhh, that wasn't supposed to be a pun.

Seeing another super premium Azura after bumbling around with my OG 4*+10 Olivia for the Kvasir/Gullveig LHB makes me sad. 😞

I failed to spot Freddy's axe blade at first glance and it made it look like he was a conquistador holding a gun. More guns when?

Did the customary full-round (sans green) on the kid banner and got a +Atk -Spd Duo Robin, figures. Desire sensor successfully fooled? I wrote them off and don't even know what they do, heh.

I'm usually disinterested in the child banner at the best of times. This year is ...extra uninteresting. It's a combination of everyone being foot-locked, and the art. Take the Freddies and run.

Finishing the AHR spark and what a poor finish it was. No 5-stars from pulls #26 to #41, at which point I sparked Peony. Then I decided to break the 3.75% pity rate and did so on the very next and final pull. #2: +Res -Atk Dimitri #3: +Spd -Def Peony #11: +Atk -Def Dimitri #14: +HP -Spd Claude #17: +Def -Spd Claude #18: +Def -HP Claude #24: +Spd -Atk Alear Spark: Neutral Peony #42: +Atk -Spd Peony This means I have eight Peonies in my barracks, and haven't even started using her for skill duplication. I also, uh, pulled a 5* Neutral Chrom from today's TT banner. Yeah, thanks game.

Oh. How ordinary. Even with my free pull I'd probably pull green here.

They won't do Subaki because QR3 is clearly too premium to hand out at 4-star. They won't do Setsuna because the Brave Bow+ Quadsuna meta is clearly OP.

I interrupted my AHR schedule to do a full round on the returning heroes banner, and in doing so picked up my fifth Rearmed Ophelia. That's likely more Arcane Eclipses than I'll ever need, and I haven't even used a single copy yet.

Advanced to 25 pulls. #24: +Spd -Atk Alear New base for my +HP -Def copy. I'm now just as done with Alear as I am with Claude. Dimitri is worth slightly more than them but I'm not too fussed on getting more of him either, so I assume I'll spark Peony. Current totals in my barracks: 6x Peony 4x Claude 2x Alear 2x Dimitri

Can't afford the spark yet, but can't resist getting started with AHR. Let's get halfway there. #2: +Res -Atk Dimitri #3: +Spd -Def Peony #11: +Atk -Def Dimitri #14: +HP -Spd Claude #17: +Def -Spd Claude #18: +Def -HP Claude All focus units, surprisingly. Not a bad start, if a bit Claude-heavy for my liking. Still, got my one missing unit in Dimitri, even if neither of the two copies have decent natures. Hopefully there'll be another one before I'm done.

Surely Dolph and Macellan should be a Duo Hero.

I wonder if IS will distribute the Asset versions of Pegasus Trio between FE1 and 2, or keep it consistent and put them all under the same game.

Nope, infantry only. Alternatives would be Deadly Miasma for pure offense (and it's also quite a bit rarer), or Guidance/Soaring Guidance for support. If you have Soaring Guidance support on her team, that's an even bigger argument for Miasma I suppose. Also, unless you're saving up every Lara for merges, I'd also be tempted to grab Florid Knife (locked to Masked Sothe) instead of Clever Dagger. Maybe grab Nabata Beacon since there's no downside.

The Celestial Stone store resets twice a year, so we get two guaranteed Formas a year, excluding random one-off gifts.

Oh wow, I'd like to think that I would have checked for that had I intentionally pulled for her, but I don't know that for sure. Just another unit in the pile of "can't use yet", featuring inaugural member Rearmed Lif. By the time we get accessible bridge fodder we'll probably have at least another couple infantry Asset heroes. Lif is 18 months old now and I still can't effectively use his Atk/Def Clash. Yeah, I'm pretty keen to start using up my Forma Souls since I'm already unlikely to be able to spend them all before I or IS quit for good. But yet another month of nothing interesting on offer, both with the old 3H and the new 3H HoFs. I guess it might make me slightly more likely to redeem Eldicakes on the current HoF but with a day left, I better get cracking on finding his best build.