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By this point, my best characters have little to no need for Hero Merit, so I've started saving them for if I'm really desperate and fielding fun secondary teams ahead of them, particularly Lilina/Camus/Julia/Lissa. On a recent run, I lost Camus on Map 5 and didn't think the remaining three would be able to make it to the end, but they did somehow. Veronica's map almost went very wrong at the beginning when I only fully noticed Cain after I'd already moved Julia to bait Olwen, but fortunately she came a bit short of hitting her to below half health and putting Cain's Wings of Mercy online.

I also got to 19! Was barely in the top third of the people moved up, though, which means I'm probably not going to make it into the 35% threshold for 20 this time around unless I can somehow improve my score to at least 4850. Also didn't get any defense feathers. I did get enough to hit 20k again, although I'm holding off on using them to upgrade Alfonse in case the next GHB turns out to have a character I'd like to upgrade and use in his place. Not like I'll have the stamina to train him anytime soon, anyway.

All I know is that my current pace (which hit 30k for Masked Marth this morning after just missing her last night) has pretty consistently been a few thousand short of the top 10k.

Man, when the Hero Merit first started rolling in I figured I'd have my first five characters at 2k by the end of the event, but now I'm realizing that's seeming like it'll turn out to be an underestimate. Olivia is already capped as expected because she was already almost there due to being my only dancer, but looking at my main team, Anna will probably hit the cap tomorrow with Marth, m!Robin, and Priscilla only a day or two behind. Apparently half the event is enough time to accumulate ~1500 HM, and aside from Tharja, the characters lined up to replace my current main team when it caps are already at 500 or more as well.

The rewards drying up at higher levels is painful. I'd been ready to get something at 32,500 because it was another 2.5k, but nope, by this point it's just every 5k, until 50k where it drops further to every 10k.

That's because they release two new banners per month, which is slightly less than one every two weeks, so it can't keep up with always rotating the arena bonus units every two weeks. I'm guessing we'll get a Jugdral banner. We already have Seliph (and Julia), but no Sigurd.

Having all level 40 units is expected at this level of play, yeah. Support/bonus units are sometimes fine to have at lower levels, but for the main teams, you really need whoever you want to be using at 40. I got into the habit of training all my (non-duplicate) 5*s to 40, along with a lot of 4*s, so I have plenty of spares on hand for this.

She didn't sound any more masculine in Awakening, did she? When early trailers and stuff were being shown, people didn't take long to realize she was female.

I'm about 90 points shy of 30k. Not interested in staying up any later, so I'll get Masked Marth in the morning since there's no hurry.

The next banner hasn't been announced yet, but since the bride banner ends Wednesday morning, we should be getting a trailer for it soon.

I have enough trained 5*s that I can stick to just 5*s and support units and pretty much never run out before I run out of teams. Been spending pretty much all my stamina throughout the event on the highest difficulty and only lost twice. What characters are you using?

At this point, I'm starting to care more about Hero Merit than points. I should get the second seal by the end of the first week, which is the last reward I really care about, but there's so much Hero Merit to get that I'll probably end up continuing to play as much as I can, even past 100k. Haven't used any Stamina Potions yet, though. It does seem like a good time for them, but I'm playing plenty without them. Plus, it'd be cool to make it to 100k without using any.

Lack of characters in the datamine doesn't mean anything. We're going to get a new banner on Wednesday, so the update for that one is the one that would contain this month's second GHB. Looking at the schedule so far, each month has two new banners: one in the first half and one in the second half. Each one contains a new GHB character that gets released while that banner is going on, but that GHB character doesn't become a bonus hero until the characters from the following banner are bonus heroes. Ike banner: Xander is released, Zephiel is bonus hero Celica banner: Lloyd is released, Xander is bonus hero Bride banner: Camus is released, Lloyd is bonus hero And so forth. So Camus not being a bonus hero yet is perfectly in keeping with the usual schedule. To be fair, it's true that the Tempest Trials are breaking the usual schedule. It's possible that they'll skip a GHB and make Masked Marth the bonus hero after Camus instead of giving that bonus hero spot to a late June GHB character. But there isn't any reason to assume that. Even if they don't want the GHB to overlap with the Tempest Trials event, they could have it be in the last week of June. As for them releasing all the story heroes, that's definitely not relevant, since we already got Lloyd as a new one. Even if we do miss one GHB for this event, I'm sure they'll go right back to releasing new GHBs starting in early July.

It should be possible to calculate lowball estimates by seeing what scores correspond to what rankings. For example, I don't have exact numbers on hand but I passed 20k points without making it into the top 10k players, so if we take the top 10k players and say they all have at least 20k points, that's a total of at least 200 million points. I think the goal is a billion, which is a fair bit more than that, but that's a pretty serious underestimate even for the small fraction of total players it covers. So if more people post their scores and rankings, that'll make it possible to get more exact estimates that will be a lot higher, and probably will turn out to already be past the target. For example, if it turns out that the top 1k players all have passed the 50k threshold by now, that'd be 50 million points, although it'd mean that only 9k of the top 10k players would be covered by the 20k points estimate (because the top 1k is now in the 50k points estimate), meaning that part of the estimate would drop to 180 million but the total estimated points would go up to 230 million. And so on.

If they do both versions of him that way, I think it'd be more appropriate for the Black Knight to be the GHB version while Zelgius is the Tempest Trial version, because the Black Knight is his more iconic form and the one in a more traditional villain role. Of course, we don't know if they really are planning on doing all alter egos for this in the first place. I didn't see a point in having Navarre as a GHB character. He could have just as easily been included in the regular summon lineup, and besides, I think the antagonists are a lot more exciting.

Got to 20k! Should be able to reach at least 22k tonight, possibly hitting the next orb milestone if the battles go well.

That's wild. Only shows the first six battles, though?

I knew Smite would let you punch characters across rivers and chasms, but it only just occurred to me that it could also let you punch characters up or down cliffs.

On one of my recent runs, the final map was four greens and Gwendy, so I decided to bring in Lilina instead of a blue for my super team and she ended up soloing the map. First turn, I gave her a Spur Spd boost from Hector to let her double Gwendy and two-round her with Olivia's help, then she killed Cecilia on the enemy phase with Quick Riposte. Second turn, she had Growing Flame charged and used it to obliterate Boey and injure Veronica, who she finished off on the enemy phase. Third turn, all that was left was Frederick, who had gotten close so she just blasted him.

Vantage Xander is great. Ironic how good he is at fighting Veronica, too, considering his loyalty to her in the story.

Under the current system, the four miscellaneous bonus heroes includes two heroes available free through the Hero Battles and two others, usually available at 3-4* but occasionally 4-5*. I think so far they've all been heroes in the initial lineup.

It's more demanding in terms of total time, but at the same time it's honestly easier to keep up with because it uses stamina. And the battles and rewards are a lot more exciting. I don't think I could handle this every month, but I do prefer it.

There should be 13 GHBs left this year, all before the next FE game will be released. They're not going to make those all FE2E characters, especially since there are only like three good picks among that game's antagonists. --- My picks: Walhart because I love him and he'd be the perfect compliment to Xander and Camus to finish my cavalry team. Although the fact that he'd be so similar to the two of them is probably a reason he won't be released especially soon. Lyon because he's one of my favorite antagonists. Aversa because she'd be a red tome flier and maybe her Goetia spell will finally actually do something like it always should have. Travant, Ishtar, Arvis, Julius, and I guess Lombard to cover the enemy-only ultimate weapons from FE4. Old Arvis and Bloom would also be cool if added as armored mages, although I hope Young Arvis and Ishtar get in first since they're the more iconic representatives. Ashnard would be another cool flier. On the same note, The Black Knight would be a nice addition to armor teams. I'm not as enthusiastic about him, but I'm sure he'll get released eventually and I'll 5* him in a heartbeat because armor teams always need more Distant Counter users. On that note, Hardin would be a lance armor with built-in Distant Counter due to Gradivus, at least in his emperor form. He's another one I don't care too much about as a character, but he seems like a likely pick at some point and he'd be plenty useful. Dheginsea would be cool because more dragons. He could even bring one of the as-yet unreleased dragon buff skills, too.

She sometimes backs into that spot to kill someone. That time, it was Reinhardt right after he killed the enemy Reinhardt. If it happens again, I'll see if I can take more specific note of the positioning leading up to it.

Entered the final map with Reinhardt, Olivia, and 1 HP Hector. Didn't think there'd be any way to pull it off, but it turns out there's one way.