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I just pulled a Christmas Sothis. Does she have any use in AR? Offense or defense? If so, what blessing should I give her?

You earn points when you buy items in certain games/apps. FEH happens to be one of them. So if you ever buy orbs, you can earn points. They also have promotions from time to time that give 5x points per $ spent and stuff like that. You can also earn points buy installing certain games. Google Play Points

After dropping ~40 orbs and getting nothing (including all the orbs from the new paralogues), I saw that I had 647 points in my Google Play account. That's convenient because at 650 points I can redeem them for 23 free orbs. Downloaded one of the bonus games to get an extra 5 free points, and quickly redeemed the points for some orbs. The very next summon had 2 green and 2 colorless, I like those odds 😉I was rewarded with this: Super thrilled because that is the Christmas unit I wanted the most. And it seems like she has decent IVs too, +Atk -Res. +Spd would have been better, but I'm not complaining at all. She will help make the TT maps a breeze on auto-battle. It's a shame I promoted & built Marth yesterday to get him ready for the TT, but that's fine. He's not completely useless so it's not really a waste.

Nice! That's such a good feeling. I've only ever gotten a 5* focus with the free pull just once. My free pull wasn't as good. There were 2 colorless and 3 blue. Free pick; Gaius. Decided to spend the 4 orbs to see the other colorless; Sakura 😕

LOL, yeah. There's always new units that we want 😁 It never ends. I probably won't summon much on the Christmas banner until I see what else is coming soon. Since you use B!Ike, make sure you throw orbs at B!Lucina whenever she comes back. You just missed her by a week or two unfortunately

Don't quote me on this, but I read a reply on another forum that said Idunn will be on a banner around Jan. 4th, so you can pick up Fortress Def/Res 3 then. I hope it's true because I'd like to add some merges to mine.

I've been thinking about putting Igrene on my defense team. I have her ally supported with Velouria and equipped with Quickened Pulse seal she has Growing Wind ready at the start of the match. I've been using it to great effect during Grand Conquests. I just park her in front of the enemy spawn, so at the beginning of each round she is able to kill one of the units, and hit every other unit for between 35-45 damage. It's sick. The only issue is getting merges and unfortunately mine doesn't have good IVs (+Def -HP), but since I don't have Ophelia I may just stick Igrene in and see how she does on AR-D.

Yeah, I used Tharja during the last TT and she did well. I left her Vantage build on and it was fine. The only issue of course was Brunnya as the final boss. The color disadvantage was usually too much for Tharja. But F!Tiki and/or Altina was there to pick up the slack. Anyway, I'm building/leveling up Marth right now so we'll see how he fits into my tank team. We'll see how my team does with the boss this time, at least he won't have color advantage over either of my tanks so that's good.

Yeah, I was just reading up on Marth. Looks like he could be a decent support unit. My main team for these multi map battles is W!Cecilia, M!Corrin, B!Ike, & B!Lucinia. Cecilia & Ike have Aether to keep them healed throughout, and Lucina has renewal & Ardent Sacrifice to help out as well. Marth could easily take the place of either Corrin or Lucina, problem is he needs the Falcion refine to be as effective and I just don't have the dew at the moment. And even if I did, there's a few other units waiting on a refine ahead of him. That's too bad, I love having a legitimate excuse for building a new unit 🙂 Maybe I'll upgrade him and start building him anyway and see how he does even without the refine. I guess Corrin is the most expendable on my team so I'll have Marth replace him.

I only have a 4* Marth at the moment. Is it worth the feathers to upgrade him to 5* just for this, or am I better off just waiting until I unlock the 5* Jaffar? Or does just having the 4* Marth on the team help my score even if he's dead weight and doesn't get any kills?

Always check your opponents builds, lol. I had a match today that I thought looked fairly easy for my B!Ike team. Thinks were going good and B!Ike was doing his thing tanking and killing everybody, when all of the sudden Aversa got danced and then preceded to nuke B!Ike off the map. I think it was 72x2 damage! I assumed most people running Aversa in AR would stick to her PRF tome because it's so useful. I guess not... 🙄 I still won the match, but from now I will be checking every unit closely, even the likes f Peony & Azura lol

Thanks for the feedback guys. I guess with more experience I could have played it better. So you think B!Ike would have been fine against Flora? Are there any melee units that I should be wary of when using B!Ike? I don't know if it's just my luck against him, but Tibarn always gives me trouble. The team I used is mainly there to deal with flying teams, I guess I'm not sure why I used them today. Norne is actually pretty tanky, but you guys don't think she has a place in AR? Should I not invest into her any longer? I'm confused by this. Alm doesn't have desperation, and I don't see anything in his weapon/skills that have the desperation effect?

Oh, cool. Glad that's still a thing. Anyway, one step forward, two steps back. I'm still struggling with team deployment. I lost a match today and was hoping you guys can take a look and let me know if it was a matter of sending the wrong team, or if it was just poor play. Here is what I was up against: I was reluctant to bring B!Ike because of the strong red dagger Flora backed up by a dancer. Plus Micaiah. So here are the raiding parties I have setup: EIR, PEONY, B!IKE, B!LUCINA, H!HECTOR EIR, PEONY, B!IKE, B!LUCINA, FJORM <--My highest scoring team at 160, figure I'd use it if the match looks easy EIR, PEONY, THARJA, B!LUCINA, B!CAMILLA EIR, PEONY, AVERSA, NORNE, L!ALM IDUNN, F!TIKI, NAGI, SOTHIS, NINIAN <--My lowest scoring team at 80, used against heavy dragon/armor teams I also have this team setup for Astra season. Haven't filled out the other Astra teams yet ALTINA, L!AZURA, W!CECILIA, M!CORRIN, DUMA So which team would have been the smartest to deploy? I'm still trying to learn what works, and what doesn't. The team I used actually did pretty well. It came down to just Eir & Norne vs Flora. Both my units were in range, but unfortunately Norne would do 0 damage to Flora, so I had to sacrifice Eir by having her attack first and hope that her debuffs would be enough for Norne to finish it. It wasn't. Norne went from doing 0 damage to doing 14 damage, but Flora had 21HP. So close. I'm thinking Norne would have had a better chance if she was light blessed? I haven't blessed her yet because I'm not sure she's gonna have a permanent spot yet. I also realized too late once the match started that Norne still had Noontime equipped from when I used her in the last TT, so a strong offensive special may have let her seal the deal? So what do you think, poor team selection or just poor play/positioning? Also, how do you insert images behind the spoiler tags? I can't seem to figure out how to do it on this board.

I didn't even think about Mordecai. His PRF seems pretty good with his link skill, buffing your tank while debuffing the enemy might come in handy. One bad thing about the new skill change/learn functionality being added to the unit view screen, it no longer shows you what 5* skills they have available if the unit is only 4*. I had to look up Modrecai on the Wiki to see the details of his PRF. I'll keep an eye out for L!Eliwood in the future and keep him in mind. Thanks. I'll read up on Marth. As far as the others, I want to stay away from grail units unless they're really much better than 3-4* summonable units because I already have too many grail projects vying for my meager grail supply

Yeah, I know. I just really like to +1 units that I use often to at least remove the bane. That red in the stat screen really bugs me, lol 😉 Guess I have a bit of OCD. What are some other good non-dancer support units for AR that are easy to obtain? Seth & Titania? Anybody else worth looking at?

Are there any common units that you just never pull? I've been playing for a little over 3 months, and I'm not really F2P any more so I do tend to summon more than I should, and I've never pulled a regular Camilla. It's frustrating because I really need Savage Blow 3 for a build and even though I have like 7 copies of Bantu, I can't bring myself to spend 20k feathers for that skill. It's weird that a 3-4* unit is so elusive.

That's what I figured. I'll stick with +Spd for now and hope I pull a +Res one day. It's a long road to +10 with so many units wanting feathers....

I want to add a merge to my M!Corrin who is ally supported with W!Cecilia and was wondering if I should change his IV while I'm at it. So what would the best IV be? Right now he is +Spd, and I do have a +Atk I can switch to. If neither of those are ideal, what should I be looking for if/when I pull another one?

If I don't have Naga, still go with Res?

I want to refine Cecilia's weapon. Which is better, DEF or RES?

That's funny, I've pulled 3 Reyson's from this banner as well. Weird. It's always good to pull units that you know will be merged, I actually have two Reysons that I'm working on, it's really helpful to have multiple copies in certain modes like Rokr Seiges. I guess I'll need to pull him 22 times...🙄 Anyway, I've been going through the Chain Challenges to earn some more free orbs, and tonight after a rather grueling 10 map battle that brought me down to the last 2 units of my 3rd team, I decided to reward myself with two quick summons hoping it would cheer me up, lol. First grab was Lon'qu. Not quite what is needed to feel better. Then I pick a colorless....... That's more like it (and with optimal IVs; +Atk -Def) 😁 Not quite as useful from a fodder standpoint as HS!Xander, but I'll take it. I haven't summoned too much from this banner yet, but my personal rate is at 14.3% which I think is pretty great, especially compared to the Altina Mythic banner that I finished up at only 5.9%. I guess it was so low because of all the sniping on red I did.

Thanks. Good info. I can't believe I didn't think using WoM to rebuff Tharja. Yeah, pretty simple. I actually already gave WoM to Peony, but I forgot because when i click on her skills it didn't show up because she hasn't learned it yet. Duh, now to grind some SP for her. I'll buy her a dancing seal once I have the spare coins. And I just won my first match of the season. I used B!Ike/Lucina and it was almost flawless. I didn't lose a unit, but I could only smash one pot. What's the deal with the bonus units? I was gonna bring Igrene, but I was able to get the same amount of lift by bringing a light blessed H!Hector and he was more useful. Is there any reason to use a bonus unit over a properly blessed unit? Would I have gotten even more lift if the bonus unit was light blessed?

I've already unlocked the 5th slot. So I will just use 2x Sothis and then the rest with proper legendaries. Looks like I have lift loss down to -50. Also using Alm, Julia, and for my water legendary, I can choose between Azura, Ryoma, or Fjorm. Which would be the most beneficial? Leaning towards Azura. I know I don't expect to win anything, but each kill will save me lift. Thanks, I will do that. How should I decide when to field my tank, or my vantage sweeper? Is it just a matter of looking for things like Hardy Bearing? What other things should I look for that shuts down vantage? Also, what sort of things is B!Ike afraid of? And I love Thraja, but I almost regret making her my sweeper. The problem is on the following player phase if she's deep in enemy territory she's much weaker if she's not able to get any buffs for her tome and sometimes doesn't survive. Is there anything I can give her so she can self buff if I can't get the proper teammate close to her? Or is there anybody who can buff a unit from more than 2 spaces?

So now that I've built up W!Cecilia (Barb Shuriken+, Aether, CC, Special Fighter), I have a 2 decent omnitanks, should I start thinking about blessings now so I can start getting more aether when I do win? But I'm not sure who to give what. I assume during light season I should have both Eir and Peony on the team along with other light blessed units, right? Which tank should I give light to? B!Ike or Cecilia? As far as CC/Vantage users that are built and ready, I have Altina and Tharja. Since Altina is an Astra mythic, it makes sense to use Tharja on light season, right? I see it's also dark season and I have 2x Sothis, where should I be using them? And should I merge them, or is having 2 copies good for anything? I'm still confused about the blessings, and I don't have a lot to give out so I don't want to waste anything on the wrong unit. Here is a list of units that I've been using in my raiding parties, let me know what blessings are safe to give out. W!Cecilia (Summoner support) M!Corrin (Ally support w/Cecilia) Tharja B!Ike B!Lucina (Ally support w/B!Ike) Velouria (Ally support w/Altina) F!Tiki Nagi M!Byleth B!Veronica That's who I've been mostly using along with L!Azura and sometimes a bonus unit. Again, here is a link to my roster, if anyone wants to take a look and let me know if I should be using anybody else in some parties, I'd appreciate it. You can sort just by star rating to make it easier to look at. My Roster at FEHKeeper

Yeah, I really wish I'd not dropped so many orbs on the Takumi banner if I could have done the same on this Special Heroes one and probably ended up with some really good fodder (especially some tasty daggers) 😣 Whoever plans these banners at IS knows exactly what they're doing. Very devious. Anyway, I was able to drop around 30 orbs last night, and ended up with this: I could have saved 15 orbs if I'd just stopped when I got her as she was the first pull on this summon, but because of the pity rate I was hoping for a double 5* pull (has happened to me once or twice), but no luck. Oh well, at least she has decent IVs (+Spd -Def), but I'll probably end up foddering her for Cloud Maiougi+ anyway...