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I don't think anything about this indicates that happening. Camus was the early June GHB, Legion is the late June one, and Clarissa will probably be the early July one unless they put someone else ahead of her for some reason like how Lloyd jumped in front of Camus. Speaking of Lloyd, I wonder when they'll do Linus. Now that the rest of the Four Fangs have been released, particularly Lloyd, it'd be a bit odd for them to hold off for long.

Two GHBs per month, two new banners per month, bonus hero rotation every 2-3 weeks to make that happen twice per month on average too. The math checks out.

I use Bluestacks and have never had any issues like that.

Hey, I got -Res Katarina and -HP Luke too! I might give Luke the HP+3 seal when I try using him. Although better and better seals are becoming available.

You mentioned trying to speedrun. People often try to go for low turn counts when they can to get a good speed score, so I thought that was what you were referring to.

Don't worry about speed if you aren't clearing it in the first place. Having a low turn count only matters if you actually get to the end.

Interesting. I guess it would be hard to pick a "class" for them, since they're so generic.

Got my first five characters to capped HM! I realized early on that they'd all hit 2k over the course of the event, but it took some time to become clear that it'd be this fast. Olivia was first, since she'd already been really high due to dancer utility, while the other four were my initial Tempest Trials team. Now that they're all capped, I've been using Tharja/Sharena/Julia/Serra instead, and at this rate, most of those will hit 2k by the end as well. Probably not Tharja, but who knows? Marth lagged behind a bit, since once m!Robin hit 2k, I brought in Tharja but that bumped him out of my red slot. So I ended up having to have him keep showing up on secondary teams over the course of a few trials to scrounge up the last 20 or so HM and catch up to the others.

y!Tiki m!Robin Merric Marth Ogma Lilina Hector Sharena (upgraded) Priscilla Anna (upgraded) s!Camilla Raven s!Lucina Julia Xander (upgraded) Reinhardt (upgraded) Boey Camus (upgraded) "Marth" (tempest) Katarina Luke Planning on upgrading Alfonse and Cecilia at the end of the Tempest Trials, since I should hit 40k feathers by then. I could upgrade one now but there's no point since I wouldn't be able to train them yet.

It's hard to be too specific on this one. If you pull reds, you have about a 10% chance of getting a 5*, which is great, although I'd say Roderick has the most exciting skill lineup and he's blue. Reinhardt is great, though, so if you want him and don't have one already, that could also be useful. Not having a bonus unit is annoying, though. I ended up putting my feathers to upgrading the Askr trio so I wouldn't have to worry about that, although it's a lot of feathers. (Still need to do Alfonse, but I have the feathers for him by now. Not in a rush because I'm using all my stamina on Tempest Trials anyway.)

Made it to 50k! Second perfect run, too, and one of my first runs with Tharja. I was worried about how well she'd do as a 4*, but apparently I shouldn't have been concerned.

My m!Robin just hit 2000 HM, so it's time to try using 4* Tharja. Which also means bringing in Sharena and Serra for their buff skills, except the first time I forgot to actually have Sharena switch in Fortify Def in place of Spur Atk. Whoops.

Ardent Sacrifice and Reciprocal Aid are two classic ways to get Nino-like characters into Desperation range without personally getting hit. So if you have a character able to contribute one of those, it could make it easier to use Desperation.

I feel vindicated for using Goad Cavalry for my cavalry team.

I wonder how future Ploy skills will work. Will Res Ploy require more Atk? Will Spd Ploy require more Def?

It's from the "swap spaces" mode. All start-of-turn-1 effects get unloaded while you're there.

If a character has Luna at 1 cooldown before activating the seal, that's only possible when they were just deployed in a previous Tempest Trials map.

I don't think the interface would really work. In Heroes, you have characters use active abilities by picking a target (ally or enemy) for them to use that ability on. There aren't abilities that don't have targets. Furthermore, even with shared HP, it would be such a huge increase in offensive power.

There was a Blazing Shadows trailer. This banner doesn't have a main character like the last three, but Katarina is clearly the most "main" character, being the most iconic of the newly added characters in FE12. Which is the same reason she appeared first here. Her placement in the trailer wasn't a coincidence: she wouldn't have made sense anywhere else, because of who she is. Edit: Looking back further, the two sibling banners also each have a 5* locked character featured first in their trailers: Ephraim and Eldigan. That's a perfect six for six.

The first two "new character" banners were weird, having mixes of characters from various games and splitting up the associated ones. The later banners haven't followed that pattern. Of the "new character" banners, out of the four so far that focus on a single game, the first character appearing in the trailer (Karel, Alm, Ike, and Celica) has stayed 5* locked every time. This time around, that's Katarina.

The datamine apparently contains info on a healer voting gauntlet.

It's been a usual two week length. They always announce the end date when a banner launches.

I don't think it's reasonable to assume that they're necessarily holding to such short patterns rather than mixing things up. The first Exp skill we got was Axe Exp on s!Chrom, a 5* exclusive seasonal unit, then we got Bow Exp on Faye, a 5* exclusive regular unit, then B Tome Exp on Mae, a 4*-5* unit who could learn the full B Tome Exp line at 4*. Two Owl tome users so far being 4* does not mean they're unwilling to make any Owl tome user a 5* exclusive. Firesweep Bow being 5* exclusive does not mean they're unwilling to make any Firesweep weapon user a 4*. There are plenty of factors to consider, and some of them change with time: having two Owl tome users available at 4* could mean less of a need for a third at 4*, while having the previous Firesweep weapon user a 5* exclusive could mean now it's time to have one at 4*. But really, what it comes down to is that Luke and Roderick are a pair, so they'll both get the same treatment, and they're also the most minor characters on the banner. Katarina is the most prominent character and the one appearing first in the trailer, like Alm, Ike, and Celica in their trailers. That's reason to expect her at 5*.

Like previous "new character" banners, they're currently only available through the banner and therefore at 5*, but after the banner ends, half of them will become also available at 4*. My guess is Luke and Roderick.

Apparently they're just called "Legion's Axe" and "Clarisse's Bow", despite being inheritable and having the same two "regular/plus" versions as other inheritable weapons. Wonder if we're going to keep getting more weapons with that naming structure. I'm assuming they'll show up on random enemies in the Training Tower, which will be funny. Now that we're getting two other ways of inflicting the Panic effect and we're finally getting Swift Sparrow on a non-seasonal character, I wonder how long it'll take for us to get another way of inflicting the Candlestick's no-counter status. And another ranged attacking flier, for that matter.