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Arena (T20): Score: 3,724, rank: 2,200 (out of 3,282 to promote, out of 16,414 overall) AA: Score; 5,215, rank: 3,408 The T20.5 yo-yo continues! It was painful using Anna to get bonus kills - it took me 83 Dueling Crests to get that streak. 14/20 bonus unit kills for Anna with only her refined weapon - it was tough, but somehow I got it to work. Not surprisingly, with fire season inflating scores I find myself in Top 5K in AA instead of Top 3K like last week. Project Sheena might be starting soon...

Congrats to everybody who promoted at least one tier this week! I figured that this last season is the best shot I will ever get to make T21 with Eir being a bonus unit and with Legendary Azura lining up with water season. I cannot remember being this determined or focused in FEH before. I pulled out all the stops to try to make it, from a new defense map to making 5 teams to counter all possible threats, to inheriting SI from GHB/TT units for the first time ever, to spending tons of feathers for building Galeforce Peri and more. The results: 11,100 lift and rank 1,189! I still to this minute cannot believe I pulled it off! I felt I got very lucky with my match-ups and only had to use the ladder once; I upgraded to level 3 just in case, but it wasn't necessary. @Vicious Sal Thank you for sharing how many folks are in T21! I figured 1500-2000 before I saw your posts, so it's cool to get an exact number! Now for some shout-outs: @Johann Thank you so much for helping me with my defense map! It turned out I didn't need it since I only lost 3 units total this week, so if I had eaten 7 -80s, I'd still have 11,020 lift, enough to make it anyway. I ran into a bit of bad luck with defense match-ups, but it was still pretty effective! @Maaka Thank you for convincing me to give DC to my Fae! I was very apprehensive at first to inherit that skill onto her, but you convinced me, and it paid off big! @Azuris Thank you for your advice and for cheering me on! You certainly helped me make it to the top! @Alkaid What can I say? I cannot thank you enough for helping me out these last few weeks! From convincing me to build Galeforce Peri, which saved my bacon on one of the battles, to other tips and pointers, you have meant the world to me here in AR! I wish I could repay you somehow!

Wow - a lot of great pulls, congrats to everyone! I decided to spend a few of my orbs here - got Green/Colorless/Red/Colorless/Colorless. Open them all up, and I got a +Spd/-Res Bath Sakura! I would have been happy with anyone new within 75 orbs, but wow was that fast! Now I have a different TT bonus unit for the two teams I'll use!

I was taken aback when Leo and Takumi were announced as bonus units, as well as Xander. I really thought it would be OG Elise/Ryoma/Hinoka as the final three bonus units for this upcoming TT - so much for using history. I like having more 2-character focus banners, if only to making pulling for a focus unit a little easier. I got incredibly lucky and got Bath Sakura within just 15 orbs, so I'll have a different new bonus unit for each of my two teams. Now to decide who to field...

My scores: Arena (T21): 3,709, rank 2,654/4,877 - demotion week, so no real effort to try to stay AA: Score: 5,220 (personal high!), rank 2,853 - first time ever achieving Top 3,000!! I know it's a weak-scoring combo with Water/Wind, but it feels great to break into Top 3K in AA after coming close for several weeks! @Maaka Congrats on your high score in arena! Good luck with Naesala!

I made Top 3K in AR again in T20 with 10,120 and rank 2,193! Next week is the serious push for T21 with double Eirs - hopefully I can make it! @Stroud That stinks that you only have one Eir. Maybe you'll get lucky with defenses! If Alkaid can do it with one Eir, so can you! Good luck! @Diovani Bressan That's horrible - I know the feeling of missing by just a little bit. You should make it this next week!

I will make a bet we get a separate TT banner featuring OG Hinoka, OG Elise and OG Ryoma since those three are on the special heroes banner; those three I think will be the final TT bonus units, and these there are all 5* exclusive and haven't been featured in banners in quite a while. I'd be stunned if OG Sakura or OG/Adrift Camilla is featured. For seals, I'd like Atk/Spd Tactic, Brazen ???/???, Atk/Res Bond or Spd/??? (Def or Res) Bond. We'll see...

@KMT4ever Wow - that's incredible luck, especially getting 2 Julias! Congrats! @Mau Not bad for your pulls - a focus unit would be nice, though. @mcsilas Lucky you with the Gray and Julia! Join the -Spd Gray club: I have two myself, one +HP and one +Def. @Landmaster Congrats on the free Lewyn! As @daisy jane said, don't merge them just yet (or at all). @Stroud Good to see you break your pity, even though both Laevatein and Tibarn are -Atk. Stay strong for Rinkah! My free pull on the New Power banner netted no greens (what a surprise), so I picked colorless to try to get some fodder - got a 4* Priscilla for free (future merge WAY down the line).

Nicely done, @Maaka! Nice to have a merged legendary! Good luck in March! My scores and ranks for this last season: Arena: 3,735, rank 1,272/16,849 (promoting to T21, so the yo-yo continues!) AA: 5,219 (personal high), rank 3,123 (OUCH) I only gave L!Azura 11 bonus kills; it's very difficult for her to beat a lot of units without chipping away very slowly. But at least she didn't need 20/20. Relaxation week coming!

@Azuris @Maaka Congratulations on making T21! @Javi Blizz @Stroud Congrats on T20! @Tree Congratulations on making T19! @Nanima @Motendra Congrats on T18! I've made T20 this week with a score of 9,880 with a rank of 2,099! I actually clinched it Saturday with two perfect battles, so I took it easy the final two days. Shout-out to @Alkaid for helping me through the second battle that day - thank you again! Congrats to you for making T21 with only a single Eir to your name - that is absolutely amazing, even with a little bit of luck! Now to relax and just maintain it next week before a serious attempt at T21 next light season.

Congrats to everyone who promoted! Sounds like lots of folks are movin' on up! I'm also moving up to T20 for good with a current score of 9,640! I could still get over 10,000 by the end of the season (like it means much)....

I had to agonize over which red to pull for the free pick in the Sword Valor banner: Red/Red/Colorless/Red/Red (starting from the top and going clockwise). I picked the top red and got...my second 5* Gray! Sadly this copy is +HP/-Spd; my first is +Def/-Spd. I get a feeling I might be inheriting Sword Valor on Flying Olivia soon for training sword units...

Congrats to everyone who got the beasts they wanted and sorry for those who didn't get anybody. My free pulls from the Laguz banner (I have much more ambitious plans in mind): Red/red/red/colorless/red: Top red gives 3* Eliwood Red/blue/red/green/green: Blue gives 4* Shanna! Blue/blue/blue/green/red: Top blue gives 3* Shanna! Green/blue/green/red/colorless: Blue gives 3* Sully (budget Swordbreaker and Draw Back for TT units) Colorless/blue/red/green/colorless: Blue gives 4* Catria (Luna!) No 5* heroes for me, but I got good fodder, so I can't be that disappointed. The chances are much better that you don't get a 5* than get at least one. Time to save for April's legendary banner for OG Fjorm and L!Hector merges again - I hope to have at least 1000 F2P orbs by then (currently at 120 now, should be around 300 by the end of January).

40 total: 10 each at 3,500, replacing the 4 orbs at the top. Free summon tickets at 400 each.

We have 225 orbs the rest of this month if there's no big changes, starting with the next reset, and there's 388 orbs total for January alone, excluding extra weekly orbs for Tier 21. Here's my orb distribution sheet if you want to look.

Thank you! Let me explain to the rest of the forum: she had 1,545 flags left with 7 hours to go. I helped her allocate the flags in such a way so that she'd be down to 0 by the end of the event while spending 400 each hour on the multipliers for NY!Azura and the remaining ones on the non-multipliers. And she did it, with great ranks too! Way to go! I finished Top 5K in Gunnthra's army the final round and Top 5K overall. @Xenomata Shout-out to your Ophelia! Thank you again for adding me! She's quite a beast! @Maaka Shout-out to your Florina again! She's a great unit with DC and Berkut's Lance!

@KMT4ever That's horrible to get that high of a rate and not get anybody. I'm so sorry.... @Mau Congrats on the Laegjarn! You'll get a flier team soon enough! @Glaceon Mage Congrats on W!Eirika! It's better to get than with a bad nature than not get one at all. Trading natures would be nice, though... @Anacybele Sorry about the pitybreaker... It's good to know when to quit. @mcsilas Congrats on L!Azura! That's a great nature for her! @Florete That's brutal. I've been lucky to have never gotten anywhere near that high of a pity rate.

The total bonus is # of mythic heroes times the # of heroes blessed times 10. For example, 2 Eirs with 3 light-blessed heroes gives 2 times 3 times 10 = 60 points more per battle. So you can score 160 points here if you run a bonus unit with three light-blessed heroes since Eir is a bonus unit. The bonus only applies if the applicable season is active, in this case light season is active. You can even increase your score further based on the number of times a mythic hero is blessed. For example, a +5 Eir gives 5 more points per battle after accounting for the other bonuses. So a +5 Eir, unmerged Eir plus 3 light-blessed heroes gives 100 + 2*3*10 + 5 (merges) = 165 points. For 1 Eir, you can score up to 140 before counting Eir's merges. For 2-3 Eirs, you can score up to 160 before counting Eir's merges.

I already spent 400 last hour. I timed it so that I'd have 400 each hour all the way to the end. My post was a couple of hours ago. Anyway, before last hour, 25 of the previous 27 hours were "same hell" - 14, then a multiplier for each, then 11 more.

I have 2400 flags myself. It looks like same hell will end next hour or the hour after that. It's interesting that in the first day Gunnthra outgained Azura, but day 2 Azura outgained Gunnthra. I bet more feather hunters with all those flags joined Azura, so Azura's team probably has slightly more flags even though they might be the smaller army. Edit: Same hell is over!!!

I've lost count of how many times I've seen Surtr pop up in Lunatic 7 while I grind. Thank goodness I do it manually, but he's starting to get on my nerves just a bit when I'm trying to HM-grind 4* heroes. Thank goodness my Aversa has Axebreaker.

Unfortunately this will last even longer than I figured. So if you see a multiplier, spend! If we get same hell again, it'll likely last the rest of the match.

Uh-oh - same hell has started with NY!Azura, the smaller army, leading - this could take 6-9 hours to break out of before the multipliers resume.

I think they're saving the HM increase for the 2-year anniversary next month. By that point it will have been 10 months since the last increase to the HM cap. I wouldn't be surprised if the cap is only raised once a year now that there's a lot more heroes than there were this time last year or at launch for feather farming.

@Usana I'm so happy that got a happy ending out of that! That must have been horrible to get to 5.0%+ twice. @Nanima Congrats on the two legendary heroes! That L!Azura will do wonders for you! I can attest to that. @SatsumaFSoysoy Wow - that's an incredible haul! You got 6 in about 180, I got 8 in about 500 (but with great IVs), so consider yourself very lucky! Congrats on NY!Gunnthra!