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I guess what would give them pause is that it means double the work in terms of art and voice for each new unit banner, if you had say, three 5-star focus units and three more at 4-star. But you wouldn't have them on seasonal banners I suppose, so if the current pattern continues it means they need to make three more new units a month which is not unrealistic. It's also a fair bit simpler than some of the other theoretical fixes where people have proposed banners without 5-star focus units, orb cost discounts, etc.

I went on a point maximisation spree, did a bunch of inheritance and used my water blessings. For a moment I thought it backfired - my first matchup with the new team was a 716 or 718 point team which duly crushed me. But fortunately the lower bound was 704 points and I ground out my arena for the week. 4920 points completely smashed my old record of 4880 (set with horses of course) and should get into T20 easily, but it was bloody hard work and not something I'd look to do regularly. The last fight was particularly nerve-wracking and lasted 20 turns - TA Gronnraven counters 3/4 of my team so there's no room for error. Seeing the point yield I think I can afford to improve the team balance a little while sacrificing a couple points per fight. Maybe ATiki for Nowi. But that's something for future point-inflated weeks. Olivia 4*+10 Nowi+1 Bridelia+1 Fjorm

If you have any good archers to build you could go the triple play by adding a 3* Gordin to the mix and passing all three of Klein's premium skills! Now if only I had a Halloween Jakob...

Just to make it extra baity? If anything it might indicate that they prefer to go with this "solution" to the 3-4* bloat instead of doing any comprehensive overhaul or long term fix.

3* Beruka +Spd -HP. Joy of joys. My dormant second account got 5* Fae as a Freebie, figures.

Alright, I might finally get a 4* Hinata! ....no red orbs. 3* Beruka. Maybe they should have made 3* Focus too?

And the others to 2/3/4 and have them all be worth the standard 200sp.

I don't like MCorrin's puffy cheeks in his Fates portrait. He's fine in FEH though.

Showing growths doesn't mean hiding bases. :P There's no reason not to show more information than the FE series traditionally has. Maybe back in the GBA era it was hard to find a way to elegantly display all the numbers players need look up online, but with the next FE being on the switch, there is no reasonable technical limitation. I mean we already have the option of simplified or complex information display so it's hardly a stretch to include more optional info. Personally I prefer FEH's fixed stat gains over the random growth system, but I realise this is probably an unpopular opinion. For those familiar with the XCOM reboot, there is a "second wave" set of gameplay options you can use to customise several gameplay mechanics, and I'd like to see this be one of the toggles in future mainline FE games.

I'd prefer them easily visible to save time, sure, since I catalogue the natures for every unit I pull. For your purposes however, you can just go to the unlock potential menu and pretend to promote them to see what their 5-star level 1 stats would be. This works for any unit from level 20-40 of below 5-star rarity, so both your Priscilla and Titania are covered (you don't even need 20k feathers to be able to see the preview). EDIT: Ha, beaten not just once but twice.

The other outlier for me is, amazingly, Wrys. I have none in my barracks currently and if I had to guess, I reckon I may have gotten two or three of him, ever.

I believe the threshold for top 10000 is about 4890 so you're clearing that fairly comfortably.

It took me until the November Death Blow banner - 9 months of playing FEH - to see my first Klein. Not a single 4-star one before the 5-star turned up. However I admit my luck's been pretty good since that first one - four more Kleins have since turned up to one lone Leon (all 4-star of course). It helps that the healer buff made me more willing to open grey orbs of course.

Thought I'd try something different for the first time in months and swap out my horses for dragons. Turns out a team of YTiki, Nowi+1, Fae and Ninian don't score any more than the horses did last week (which also featured a dancer, Airzura). Welp, so much for that. With ongoing point inflation I might have to accept bouncing between tier 18 and 19 some weeks in the near future. That said, my best option this week might be to finally use my water blessings - thinking Bridelia+1 and 4* Olivia+10 might be the most versatile users.

FEH is still the most entertaining mobile game I've tried so until something unseats the status quo will remain. Something has to fill in the dead time when working a boring desk job, and this is that something. That said, the diminishing returns are definitely starting to bite - I mean the stronger your barracks already is, the less impact new additions will have, it's only natural. Keeping up with the curve in order to even be able to do stuff like Lunatic GHBs used to be a thing, now that incentive no longer really exists. Yes, Arena is a constant rat-race but I've never cared about arena, especially when "keeping up" means a grand total of 600 extra feathers a week. Thinking back, the last unit that made a significant impact on my gameplay was Black Knight, who made doing stuff with armour teams viable (before that my armour team was Amelia, Hector and some 4-stars). Before him, it was Bowlyn and Summer Corrin. Notably, two of those three game-changers were free. These days, even when I get a unit high on my wanted list such as Celica on the November Legendary banner, I think to myself "cool" then proceed to barely use them (and she doesn't even have a complete skill set yet). I do want Micaiah now but she'd likely meet a similar fate, at best competing with Linde for third-resort blue mage behind Reinhardt and SCorrin. My most wanted unit is probably still Ayra but what would she do for me? Most likely just be the mainstay in the monthly "do 10th Stratum with all infantry" quests. With that in mind, you can see why spending money becomes harder and harder to justify.

QR and Seal Atk are red, Def Ploy is green. To think that yesterday I spent 100 of my 101 coins and 400 of my 419 red badges to upgrade Squad Seal E. Goddammit. At least I'm back up to 69 coins now after arena and TT rewards, and that QR2 seal will do fine for now just like the actual skill, but still it hurts. Small upside I can get away with just grinding out 60 red badges today and get the 400 more next week once TT is done.

Glad to see boss Takumi doesn't come with Vantage, would be a pain to handle with his 64HP pool if I didn't have desperation. He has CC, Desperation and Threaten Speed, and his Fujin Yumi is unrefined.

Thematically, the best effect for Noatun would be that enemies drop Sacred Coins when defeated. :D Can't actually do that for limited resources obviously - if only Arena Medals were called coins... On a more serious note, Noatun and Folkvangr would synergise nicely if you could duct tape them together - something along those lines might be a nice solution.

Got to 20 with arena orbs so I did a one-off summon for Micaiah. The lone blue orb was 5* Catria (neutral) so I think that's my shot at Micaiah gone - with only 9 days left in the banner I'm not prepared to risk the 50-60 orbs we'll get in exchange for potentially nothing. I was so annoyed that I backed out immediately instead of opening the grey orb, which I would normally do after a pitybreaker (but I admit ~130 orbs for Linde and Catria is not objectively bad luck). Oh well, onto the Legendary Heroes banner - surely Miccy will show up in one in a couple months or so. P.S. I have a 4* +atk -hp Catria so not sure it's worth doing anything with this one. I thought maybe give Slaying Lance to my future 4*+10 Est project, but then she probably prefers Brave. But the only other candidate I see is, umm, Spring Xander? (I have no intention to build a +10 Sully, Oboro or Florina).

It is though? I would have thought she'd make more sense as a Legendary Heroes rotation with Gunnthra and whoever is added in the future. However this rotation would get unreasonably long as more Legendary Heroes are added. This is why maybe I could see there being two bonus unit slots eventually for them, and the starter trio earning Legendary status to integrate alongside them. The net effect would be to return to three fixed rotational bonus slots, except rather than one Askrian and two HB units, it'd be two Legendaries and one HB unit. This'd be a few months off though, so a transitional arrangement for now is reasonable enough.

The solution clearly is to just give the remaining sword units staves instead. Coming next month is New Heroes: World of Thracia featuring staff Leif.

If I were an optimist, I'd say it's a temporary removal in order to introduce the new ultimate versions of the Askr trio as Legendary Heroes on the anniversary as a free upgrade and that Megalfonse will restart the rotation. But I'm not an optimist.

No matter how hard IS try, I will never replace Cecilia with Gunnthra. Never! The crazy thing making the Hero Battle units a single rotation is that they'll now be a bonus unit on average twice a year. *Twice*. And of course Fjorm being back means point inflation to get back into T20 next week, so I'll probably have to field my own Fjorm.

For properly hirsute characters, it'd just be Bartre, Dorcas and Saber of the normally summonable heroes currently. Truly tragic. (If you add GHBs then there are just Zephiel and Oliver)

Nyx. What do you mean that's not stubble?