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That was one of the reasons I liked the Pirate banner, it always had some randos, they should really take more opportunities to keep doing that, Flora and Felicia's dad on an Ice Tribe banner would be neat (also yeah, it was fire and wind tribes, I guess everyone is expecting ice cause there's probably none to do after that and they'll switch the theme). Unfortunately, as another person that likes the randos but isn't willing to spend money on the game, yeah, it's surely not to our tastes that the game is catering to, so I expect to see someone like... Ugh, Fjorm (or something) on this banner instead, though as long as we get either Flora or Felicia I guess I'm happy enough. Oh yeah, Rearmed Chrom! I completely forgot him! Tbh I don't mind having multiple Asset Heroes on the Fallen banner as it very likely won't be used as a way to "rob" anyone from anyone. Now, thinking back, I wonder why january's NH banner didn't get two Asset Heroes... Every NH banner (barring the CYL) has got it since july of last year (or rather, sorta since june, that got 1 asset hero and one mythic Hero, Heidr, in it), so I'd expect a Thracia banner to have it too, idk.

Mmmm, it's an ok banner and I hardly have significant complaints, but definitively a skip for me (specially given the time of the year it comes at). I really like Merric but I'm not desperated to get him now so yeah, will keep saving orbs instead (also I'm glad that Merric's shoulder pads got the dangling gems in some way, I was really hoping for him to get an alt with that). I think they left Jubelo out to try to make people want him more because, as it has been said here already, this banner really makes it feel like they have no faith in the rest of Archanea's characters... And yeah, it was a gross mistake to put Nyna and Elice on the same banner but guess the mistake is done now so they have to try to create interest on the other characters in some way(?). Yulia should've probably been a 5* but I guess they didn't have too many other options of women to add (the others left are Midia, Marisha and Cecil) and didn't want to put Jubelo as the 4* here on her place cause then Caeda would have been the only woman, so they chose Yulia to make us wait for Jubelo, I think. I actually like how the gender ratio is here: 50/50, a woman is the demote, and one man got to be the asset Hero instead of putting someone like Minerva or Nyna or Katarina or whatever in his place. I can only guess that, with this apparent lack of fate in Archanea, the next banner will run together with OCs at the end of the year (maybe get 3 asset heroes even like A!Sonya's banner, whether it's 2 OCs or 2 Archanea characters). They'll probably keep adding some men on the same way they added Mycen on the Sonya banner, cause out of the 36 playable Archanea characters left to add only 3 are women. If I'm remembering it correctly, there weren't any Asset Heroes in past year's (and 2022's) Fallen banners so I think they'll just do the same thing again and do none. EDIT: I'm glad as fuck thats they didn't add Xane now cause I'm trying to save my orbs.

I always wanted a sacaean banner (I like their clothes a lot), I wonder if it'd feature mainly characters from Sacae like you said or if it'd be only 1 or 2 people from there with the rest being guest like the desert banners, I'd like it either way. The good thing is that this is very possible to happen, they'll have to think of a new theme after the elemental tribes thing ends (which I think will be this year with Ice Tribe) and when the Deserts theme end too, I think they'll start to go with countries/territories as one of the nee themes and Sacae is likely to be one of the first ones on the list. I also didn't know that cherry blossoms/sakura aren't the same as as the ones from cherry trees. In my country, the normal name for sakuras literally translates as "flower of the cherry tree"! ("Sakuras" is also right but it's mostly otakus/people a bit more familiar with japanese culture who say it), though probably most people mix cherry blossom with the flowers of cherry trees, probably the flower aficionados have different names for them even in my language idk. Cooooool, thanks for sharing the information! That will surely be useful for me on the future, as a person that likes both flowers and random trivia. Also, what the fuck pickles are the same as cucumbers????? (I realized that pickles were supposed to look different and bigger when in nature and that the process of turning them into er... pickled pickles would change them a bit but never realized that they were supposed to be cucumbers!) I found out just right now and man... It's like finding out that Santa isn't real but as an adult. I feel a bit dumb now, even, I also just assumed it was some other magical vegetable and never bothered to look up what it looked like. When I was an older kid/tween I remember finding out that guarana is a fruit (at least where I lived at the time -not sure if that's such a huge thing on most of the world - guarana is a flavor of soda pop about as popular as orange soda or cola flavored soda) and I felt dumb as hell cause I just thought that the guarana soda was made of something that is... Well, not a fruit, like Coca cola or whatever. It was another Santa level of realization, and I didn't think there was any of these left to have as an adult lol.

I feel like, for Archanea, a really good Xane (say, if his weapon can copy an ally's weapon effect or skill or something of the like) could sell well, a good staff unit too specially if it's a woman (I mean, maybe I'm a bit out of these things so I'm not 100% sure, but didn't Safy and Tina sell well?), otherwise I guess that Asset Hero Caeda could carry a banner well enough (watch they give her eff against some 4 types of units like her pre legendary alts had + unconditional vantage + DC + one more broken shit like divine vein/start of combat damage/"unit can move 2 spaces away from an unit within 2 spaces"/desperation/whatever else), it'd be like the the A!Elincia banner that was half men and had Elincia and Lucia carry it, they just need Caeda and maybe one more good unit. Also, I think an Asset Hero Nyna might be possible, and if she happened people would go crazy too (specially cause her OG alt is shit), even more if she was another arcane staff (but if that ends up being the case, I'm sure it won't happen to soon, since we just got the first arcane staff...). Basically, my point is that Asset Hero Nyna or Caeda could very likely carry a banner by themselves (maybe with 1 more good unit on the banner), and that any premium staff unit (specially if a woman) and a good Xane could be well selling characters too. I don't think that Archanea is THAT far down on the hole of good options yet. Who knows, maybe Asset Hero Merric is a viable option too (but I'd bet on him being pushed to the end of the year to share a banner with OCs, like Ced last year).

Ended up forgetting and making the thread way later than I normally do these, oops. In any case, the next New Heroes banner is supposed to be out on the 15th or 16th depending on where you live. As usual, what are your guesses, expectations, wants (or not wants), etc?

Oh yeah? Tbh I'm not sure what he was doing at the moment (I was sure that DB was one of them though, cause I didn't know he had mostly only an advisor role in the Super manga) but since BrightBow said "I thought he was in the midst of all kinds of projects", I simply assumed he was likely involved in more projects. Whether he was or not, still may he rest in piece, but I hope he managed to finish most (or all) of his unfinished projects, if he had any. Not sure if it's more sad or happy that he managed to make a creation that lasts longer than his own life (since other people are taking care of it now, I assume, since he wasn't the one of the major contributors as you said), it's a bit of both I guess, and surely a feat worth of respect.

Danm... I was just checking the new threads here to see if there was anything interesting and was hit with this, I wasn't expecting it too. Not even a fan of DB, but still feel a bit sad. It's a shame that his ongoing stories and projects will be left without and ending, that is one of the things I fear the most (for myself and for any person that writes, specially if you have a lot of fans), and I'm sure it's a fear for anyone that has an ongoing story like this or that is a fan of an ongoing story.

Would still be cool if they had kept it though, the fact that they have to be beside each other to get the guaranteed crit makes it reasonable enough to not be a particularly broken even though it's an obviously powerful mechanic. It'd be a bit like the triangle attack. I don't mind them being too poweful in GBA, partly because I usually don't grind for it (and when I do, it tends to be mostly for the conversations and to get paired endings, I use a LOT of characters at once per playthrought so it's annoying to have to send and keep support pairs together all the time, which results in it not becoming to broken for me most of the time), but also cause it makes up for it taking such a ridiculous amount of turns do (and being annoying to do unless you're griding for them, I mean, how many supports you're getting per playthrought if you don't go out of your way to grind?) and the fact that you have a limit of 5 per character, + FE6 and 7 don't even tell you who can support who (and if it wasn't for Eliwood+Hector and Roy+Lilina, you'd need guides- or someone to tell you- to even know supports are a possibility, lol). Also, I find it cool that you have the option of using supports for stuff such as giving Assassin Joshua get very reliable crit rate or other crazily broken stuff, but only if you want to go out of your way for it. I guess that in terms of being broken or not, FE6 had the system be more balanced and less unfair than in the other GBA titles, the former because of the support points limit the whole party could get per chapter instead of 1 level per pair per chapter, and the latter because since the game only had paired endings for Roy, you would't feel like you had to keep griding for supports if you wanted paired endings so the mechanic acted more like any extra thing that gave you some nice boosts and some lore about your units. I still like it more how it worked in 7 and 8, but still, I guess 6 had it be less broken. No I didn't know, but still think it'd have been cooler to get the guaranteed crit with immediate adjacency. Just cause I like gimmicky stuff like that though, not for thinking it's particularly more optimal. Adding another thing I found nice: PoR's bond supports that made some specific characters act as an iron rune to another specific character when besides them (also there's data in the game showing that Greil would protect Titania from crits), and were separated from the normal bond supports (since the pairs are not the same that have normal bond supports). I find this pretty cool and wish they did this sort of thing more times.

I'd say FE7 and 8, I don't put 6 here cause as far as I remember it doesn't do anything better than it does in 7 and 8 (I can be forgetting something though...), and it's worse because instead of being able to raise 1 level of support per pair per chapter (like in 7 and 8), you can only obtain 120 support points per chapter for the whole party , with the amount of turns it takes to grind supports that's pretty annoying. Also, if that counts, another reason for me to prefer FE7/8's support system is that FE6 doesn't have paired endings with the exception of Roy's harem while the other two have. I also like how some characters in FE7 can have special conversations (by pressing talk during a specific chapter) if they have an A or B support together, wish they did this more. Not to say the support system in the GBA games is not a bit flawed, most pairs take a ridiculous amount of turns to get to A, and the "only 5 support levels per character" rule can be rather annoying sometimes. I wonder why they didn't they keep this in SoV, it wouldn't be particularly broken if they did, since we have characters that get 100% crit rate via triangle attack (and for a lot more chapters) in other games anyway. Yeah! That was such a cool detail!

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Oh yeah, good points, guess the other alfar girls are to appear on the next years too. Also I never stopped to think just HOW LONG it's been since Olivia got her last alt, hella weird that she got her OG version and 2 more alts on the first 2 years of the game and then never got anything else, Olivia dev must've been fired for some reason lol. Felix too, I bet.

They're probably saving the other one for next year, I feel like they like to leave obviously incomplete "sets" on purpouse sometines to have people expecting for a character. (Which circles back to: fuck IS for not putting Karel on the banner).

Can't believe Mirabilis is the demote, only reason that could make me want her would be a tier 4 dance skill since I don't like her character and already have other dancers with reliable fancy dances, but... Of course she didn't get it. I mean, she's pretty alright for a demote and the fact she didn't get a tier 4 skill means I won't have to pull on this banner, which is great. I'm almost sure she'll be one of the 4* heroes in one of the next year's anniversary banners too (including the free special hero) so if I ever want her for some reason, I can just wait. I'm pissed at the lack of Karel too cause I was really counting that he was gonna be here, but alas, another reason to not brother wasting my orbs here. Will try my free summon either for the duo or for Sylvain and that's it. Also, great that 3 Houses and Engage got my least favorite seasonal banner, hope that means they'll get less things later on the year, specially Engage. The Engage fatigue is really hapenning now I guess (even though it's good for me that they get the Bunny banner instead of say, the bridal one or something), they already got all the 3 mythic/Legendary/emblem heroes of this year for now, a New Heroes banner and now half of a seasonal banner dedicated to them, and we're on the beggining of march! And I'm sure they'll take part in at least the summer and fallen banners too so there will be more of them in the middle of the year. Glad no one from Engage won CYL at least cause geez... They're really compensating for the lack of representation it had last year. Crux is pretty cool, yeah. And we also got Seadall as 4* dancer, if we count the end of last year, I noticed that they're doing a bunch of 4* dancers too, I wouldn't complain if Tethys or Silvia got an alt soon because of this...

If there's another OC I want it to be Peony or Plumeria cause I'm a sucker for fancy dancers, and also cause then there will be a chance of 3 units I like being present on the banner: Karel (yeah, I'm really assuming HARD that he'll be here), Mirabilis and Peony, and then I might summon a few times instead of completely skipping it. Of course, I'd prefer it if Karel was the TT unit, and the only unit I might want is Mirabilis (even better if she's not good enough for me to feel like I have to spend orbs trying to get her), and the rest of the banner were 3 Houses and Engage or something so I could safely skip it and save my orbs. I think they could do Citrinne yeah, and use that to throw us bunny Alcryst next year by association.

. Lol I thought it were 3 people for some seconds until I realizei ir was a wing. I think Freyr won't be here now (unfortunately), since we already have Lindhardt and most certainly Karel, and I doubt they'll put 3 men here (I mean, guess it's possible, I just think they won't). Also, if I remember correctly, they always put the TT unit on the silhouettes right? If yes then Lindhardt will be the TT+, which means I won't get my Karel for free... Crap. Doubt Karel will be part of the harmonic either so that'd mean he's either the demote or the other 5*, while the harmonic will probably be two women (and I won't be surprised if Eitr or Plumeria are part of it, perhaps with a woman from Engage as was said) and the other unit will very probably be another women too (I wonder what will be the title though, Engage? 3 Houses? Maybe Heroes if neither Plumeria or Eitr make it to the harmonic, with the harmonic being 3Houses-Engage then).

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So the silhouettes are out! One is absolutely Mirabilis (with those wings it has to be one of the fairies, and the hair is too long to be Peony's and is side parted unlike unlike Plumeria's hair that is made of thorns on the tips), and I'd say the other one is most certainly Lindhardt.

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Oh danm... but good luck this time though. If you think you might find yourself on the same situation again, watch a playthrought of the chapter on YouTube to be sure you're not missing any missable step or anything, maybe a triggerable conversation (I wouldn't think that any of them is mandatory, but still worth trying) or something else.

Well, now you become happy that you reached the secret true ending and don't complain. Jokes aside though... Didn't progress past where exactly? You didn't even get the cutscene with Claude meeting Sigurd (when you just seize Madino)? Or you got that one but not the Shannan-Deirdre scene? Are you 100% you actually seized it? If you are sure, then maybe try saving the villages right behind the Castle, I wouldn't think that's mandatory to progress but given the circumstances it's worth trying it.

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