Sil/phire

man, the powercreep is hard on this one it feels like. I was really hoping this batch would be unique, and well i think they managed that, except for Marth being a sword again. I do like his design, and in the right set up he'll probably do pretty well but he is the unit i'm least excited about. Eirika -- god, she looks so lovely! that ponytail is really cute; to quote a certain some one from one my favorite anime "that ponytail you had whenever looked so good it was criminal" . In a sense she's just female Ephraim since they're sharing a design, but i do think she owns it and i'm happy with that. I'll love to +10 this girl some day. Obviously, i don't care if the lance niche is overcrowded, i didn't have a favorite cavalry lance unit, but i do now lol. Marianne -- I"m happy, she's not the predictable stuff everyone was waiting for and i think she's certainly got her own niche, i'll definitely experiment with her. Easy pick for me. I'm also happy with her design, i think they could have done better, but given what we got, i think it's fine. I'm even ok with that weird giant lizard of death that's popping in during her attacks. Gravekeeper - Congratulations everyone, you got what you wanted! definitely the most unique and out there of the bunch, and the art is just a lot of fun imo. Not looking forward to the potential headaches this guy might bring on enemy teams, but well. I'll definitely pick one up to play with. And oh great, time to go flower harvesting again, yay. I'll rather wish the powercreep would slow down. Also, all these unique specials. I can't really say if they'll busted or underwhelming, or if some of this units might only be fodder, but i hope they're good rather than not. Like Marianne is supposed to be a dancer but then her dance is on her special? weird. And is Marth's special buff every one at all times or only when fully charged? again, weird.

would +Spd be the best IV for Vika? She can't double otherwise.

so, i did finally get those pirate units. got Surtr after pity breakers, then my last circle included both Duo Hinoka and Naesela. but, the pity breakers... 2x gatrie 1x mamori, forsyth, caneghis, larum also pulled my first Mia and Sigurd.

My one and only wish is: no legendary Deirdre, not yet, pls. I don't have the orbs. I'm convinced she will come, i just hope not yet. I am surprised at how long they have kept both Micaiah and Xander without a lengendary, but also i would like to see Kris get one. colorless Kris as a bow may be? and if xander does get one, i fully expect to see camilla join the club later.

classics never die

I figure there might others who play the game here, but i did not see any topics about it on the first few pages in this section. How do you like game? how far into it are you? Do you have any tips? Are you pulling for anything? Or perhaps hoarding all the gems for that one character you just gotta have? I have been playing for about a month, and honestly the only feature i would like to see is a more meaningful co-op experience implemented, like guilds or something. It's just too meh atm. outside of that, i have been having plenty of fun, not really pulling for anything i'm just saving right now (i did pull on the latest banner though). Hope banners get re-run later, there are some past characters i missed when i joined that i would like.

speaking of merges, i have a -hp +spd fury/desperation Tatiana with flora guide and brazen. but i so do want a +10 tatiana too. should i just build a different one entirely? her 38 hp is just perfect for kicking up desp/brazen on a single combat, and i don't think she can take more than 3 flowers before her perfect hp line breaks. if i do go with a different tatiana, i wonder if a +Atk would be a better choice, but her spd is not terrible either. Also, would pirate Sutr be a better near save tank than Gustav? Gustav does serve me well, and it sucks that Sutr's unique skill is on the C slot of all places, like seriously IS.

Some day, in some alternate dimension, IS will release a Valmese-themed banner with Walhart's soldiers/commanders as the units and a follow-up special with Walhart himself as the star, maybe on a samurai's banner, may be a butler's one, although i wouldn't mind a dancing or groom walhart either. In said dimension, they may also may be try thematic-skills, like "deals +10 damage if the number of pirate units within 4 spaces is greater than the number of enemy units" (pirates do gang up on their targets, right?) on yet another of their many alternate game modes, to avoid a revolt. just one of my many random thoughts.

i don't actually know enough FE to put 20 here, but this are some heroes i have not seen yet but i would like have them added: 1 Ignatius 2 Pheros 3 Farber 4 Yen'fay 5 Validar 6 Priam 7 Flavia 8 Basilio 9 Reina 10 Scarlet 11 Dweyer 12 Caeldori 13 Mitama 14 Ignatius (fates) 15 Sumeragi no specific order. lol that's a lot more than i originally thought.

I like the pirate banner. it's silly, it's dumb, and i think just plain fun. I think i don't mind seeing this stick around. So i wanted, if possible, one of each of the units here. I toyed with the idea of trying to +10 Vika, since she's demote. And i gotta say, that Sutr art is top-tier. So in i go. On the second circle, I got a 5* Vika, not the best IVs but i'm happy. And then.... pull..pull..pull.. at about 4%, i finally catch a 5*...Annette...back up to about 4.25%...Gatrie.....back up to about 4%....Mamori...up to about 4.25%....Forsyth.... silence. deep breathing. I quit the application, uninstall, then install a new version. It seems fashionable to have an f2p account on the side, so i thought, it might be a good time to see what it's like. Hero fest tickets give me a F!Julia, one of my favs, best pull in the whole week. seriously.

my own habit is: I don't skip the summoning animation lol like, if it's only one color i'm sniping for, i'll just tap my phone screen repeatedly to get done with the summonings of colors i don't care about so i can get to next orb of the color i want as quickly as possible, but when i'm picking on a color i do want, i just let it play out completely; like, i don't want to be rude to lady luck if she does chose to surprise me lol

i wish that, besides weapon refines, IS would do stat revisions. Not this "resplendent stat bonus" thing they got going, although those are nice (except they should be accessible to everyone, not just paying players), but instead of +2 across all stats, have more liberty with the values for stats the matter most to a unit or would balance a unit better. Like, may be give Karla +2 speed to complement her refine, and when a unit like F!Corrin got/gets hers, fix that horrible attack stat (like give her +5 atk or something, it'll hardly break the game). Just a thought.

well flying units are probably the units i use the most and the unit i'm experimenting with is a flying blue tome, S!Corrin. this particular type of unit (flying tome) seems pretty restricted in their skill access; there's no NFU, no lulls, no rouse, no spurn, and no tempest skills for them or even special spiral. i can't even use galeforce. here i was already to use up one Shamir for fodder. i hadn't done tome fliers before so i didn't realize how narrow their skill choices are. So i ended up looking at their tomes because, well, her default tome is a joke, so i ended up with the blade. I have placed her on a dedicated team with Peony, NY Plumeria, and normal Plumeria, all of them running Goad Flyers and yeah, the numbers are kind of everywhere, sometimes she's getting +10 Atk and others +40 so that's been a bit tricky to figure out. But really, can this sort of unit be build for a more or less independent, offensive role? I have a halloween Nowi i have been thinking of too and she's also a tome, although in her case her tome actually seems competent which alone may be enough to make her work. I also have a flying Nino, and she's a more popular unit i think, but i have not paid attention to builds people use for her. It feels like outside of flyers-only teams, these type units would struggle alot without plentiful support, but even for a flyers team, melee flyers seem alot stronger.

still trying to save orbs, but i decided to roll a few on at least the first summoning circle of both the skills banner and the mythic banner. I got nothing on the mythic banner, despite opening 3 blues, goodbye 8 orbs. next, i went to pull red on the skills banner; got Knoll on the free pull, and then Leif on the second; like, wrong banner dude, but still he's my first Leif so that was nice for 4 orbs.

i'm not sure how blade tomes work. do they count visible bonuses or in-combat bonuses, or both? I was thinking it would be similar to Bonus Doubler, which only counts visible buffs, so i thought it would only be stuff like rouse and rally skills. but i noticed my unit is getting very widely varying numbers during combat so i'm confused, i have never played with blade tomes before. speaking of tomes, which are the best generic tomes? I just realized how good Floral Guide is and i lost my chance to get some fodder on the last summer banner, so if you could tell what some good ones are, for any or all of the three colors, i would appreacite it so i can keep an eye out for those. So, is there any chance summer lute may show up on a special heroes banner later this year?

i hope Marianne is not a cavalry, i find them pretty boring for some reason and if anything i'll like it to break expectations. She's not getting a legendary alt, and with the popularity of 3Hs they can easily fit her post-time skip alt with any other banner featuring others in their post-time skip alts, which are sure to be coming. It would be cheap to do so here, so if there is any chance to do something out of the ordinary and special with her, this is it. I hope, i really do, but this feels as bad as pulling a character with a 0.001% appearance rate in a genshin/FGO banner. i should try to get on the mindset of having no expectations for this banner, lol. GKeeper sounds like an armored unit and i have no other way of imaging it, probably with a personal save skill built into his weapon and of course distant counter. may be not with the mobility of B!Edel, but may be he'll have some sort of Lilith/Wings of Mercy mechanic were he is able to jump to any space next to an ally after some conditions. But, hey, i'm actually down for flying GKeeper ruling the skies lol. for the others, i don't really have a preference but rather just hope they are good. The fact they are not getting a personal skill sucks but i'm crossing my fingers for personal specials on both.

I haven't touched this one in a while, so a few things, mostly the good ones lol well back when the banner with Flayn/Seteth/Shamir had its rerun a few weeks now, i decided to try a experiment. I wanted to see if it was possible to +10 Shamir before reaching the spark. Before this i had one. The answer? no, lol. Total Shamirs: 4. actually pretty good i think, at least got some nice NFU fodder. I sparked for Flayn btw, so now i finally have 2. Also, both Ashera and Byleth treated me really well. Got both of them on within 3 summoning circles. And F!Julia is FINALLY ALONE. I almost shed tears of joy. F!Ike still gives me nightmares from the first time i tried for her, the next she showed up was color sharing with Say'ri, and i decided to try for merge, and what happens? Say'ri shows up of course. I was too disappointed to try for her again when the bound hero battle with f!Ike happened and skipped that banner completely, but almost as if taking pity on me, she randomly showed up later on a different banner, which felt great. And now that she's here, i definitely went for merges, not missing this chance. she's one of my favorite units in the game, so yeah.

i have tried to get a decent B and C slot skills for Ursula on the HoF, but the game is acting like A/D Far Trace and Fatal Smoke do not exist so what would you guys suggest as possible alternatives? I only have a few torches left to burn but who knows, something good might show up. I have this on her atm: b: chill spd/def = has been very useful on my matches so far. I did have lull atk/spd, not sure if replacing that was a good idea. c: joint drive atk = i have kept this because it is a rare skill, i had rouse atk/res before but i can get that Saleh on the grails. Right now the game is offering me Def/Res Gap and i'm not sure is that would be a better option, it does have more use on matches currently but i only have 1 more stage to clear and i don't really see myself using her as support.

Not really much in this one for me, I think i'll go for a Freyja copy and may be Ogma because I actually like his kit, it think it's fairly solid for a demote unit and if you are F2P i think it's a pretty good grab, Atk/Spd Solo 3 is only +1/+1 lower than it's level 4 upgrade and if his lance is inheritable i think he's good pretty good fodder if you need any of that. The art for Caeda is childish/cutesie which i guess combined with her weapon is directly pointing to her child alt, so i'm thinking of this Caeda more as a teen alt than her adult regular version. Plumeria being in there is pretty random, but then this entire banner is completely random. I would have prefer a Tellius or TMS banner but i guess that isn't happening.

Speaking of, is Raptured Sky better than Moonbow for general purposes? I mean sure it scales with the opponents ATK and some values can be pretty high, but unless it's AR i don't think atk values in other modes make for that much more damage compared to Moonbow. Also, what would be the best IVs for Fallen F!Corrin? I heard she has a Spd super boon and with neutral IVs it sits at a pretty decent 37, a super boon would be 41 which would be very good comparing with what modern units are getting, but im on the fence about making her Atk boon instead thinking that her speed may be not that low and with some investment it could be brought up to date, she doesn't have other ways to double so that's why i'm leaning on the Spd IV. Also, I thought that when you give a skill to one copy of one of your units, other copies you had would also get it. Turns out they don't. Sad stuff, I don't think it would hurt IS to allow this.

well i finished my run w/ the following: unbound blade+ spd rally res+ aether brazen atk/spd windsweep joint drive atk not the c skill i would have preferred. NCD did show up but i opted for windsweep because of a certain very popular colorless beast unit running around lately.....i also didnt see a better special, assist, or a-skill show up. honestly a little depressing. i think it at least gives me a different option to her default build

good point, i just never thought about building her before or how to use her, but pm1 also suggested DC, Time's Pulse, & ninja katana. I do have DC fodder, but not spurn or time;s pulse. i picked brazen atk/spd because honestly nothing better has shown up so far.

ah. well, i already missed out on time's pulse, and spurn and DC have not shown up, or ninja katana. are specific levels where those are more likely to appear or is the rng the same everywhere?

Waiting for the weekend for my arena run, but honestly can't think of a good counter for fedelgard. I don't have armor smashing units, I suppose i could level up Brave eliwood? I'm really hoping Claude and Lilina can carry me through this.

So Hall of Forms, I have this Mareeta build up so far: Unbound Blade+ Blue Flame Brazen Atk/Spd 4 Special Spiral Joint Drive Atk Suggestions for anything else? I have plenty of Torches to burn, and multiple forma souls. Also, potentially, Saias builds? I have this so far: Wargod's Tome Close Defense (ward?) Null C-Disrupt I have focused mostly in Mareeta and honestly have had only vague ideas as to what to pick, I have two copies and her base kit is already really good. I don't know if Spurn would be a better pick over Special Spiral or even her native Close Call, for example, or what a good C skill would be, Time's Pulse did show up once and I thought of going for a special spammer build but unfortunately it conflicted with Brazen Atk/Spd showing up at the same time, and I just couldn't pass that one up (and Kestral Stance wasn't that inspiring of an A-Skill anyways).