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"20 weeks for one full pull" really isn't an accurate description for a bunch of reasons: With the Arena change, active Arena players should be getting 3-4 orbs per week from the Arena, for a total of 4-5 weekly orbs. So the baseline is really one pull per 4-5 weeks, although that's still very slow. The "2 orbs per day" bonus isn't gone forever. It's gone away and returned multiple times already; it'll be back again eventually. Each new banner comes with either a Paralogue for about 10 more orbs or a new story chapter for about 20 more orbs. Each month, there's a Voting Gauntlet with 20 orbs and a bunch of monthly quests. May increased the number of monthly quests by quite a bit, with a total orb haul of at least 30 from what I remember. There are also assorted other ways of getting orbs like miscellaneous quests and special maps that get released occasionally. Whales aren't going to be meaningfully affected by a lack of free orbs because they buy far more orbs than the number of free ones anyway. But it sounds like more typical players occasionally do some spending when out of orbs when something cool comes up, like the Hero Fest banner.

I've usually been going for Spur Attack and Spur Speed on characters without movement type buff skills, since those are pretty much always helpful and tend to be easier to use than Hone despite not having Blade interaction. Which has the nice benefit of meaning Veronica wouldn't be too much of a concern for my own team.

It sounds like a big question is what order follow-up attacks happen in if both characters have follow-up attacks and Vantage is in effect? That's an interesting question, and I've never heard of people looking into that. Since people seem to be giving different ideas, has anyone tested that or found reports from testing it?

It should get easier over time, as more lower-scoring players catch up to the top ranks.

Carrot weapons are pretty funny in general. I've seen regular Camilla with Carrot Axe a couple of times.

...Why. Who would do this.

Low. The next Tellius banner will probably focus on the Dawn Brigade, so it'll probably be a while before we get a third one with other characters like Mia. Erk probably won't be anytime soon either because we already had plenty of FE7 characters to start and got more in the Blazing Shadows banner. Similarly, Ayra and Ferry seem unlikely until we start digging a ways into FE4 Gen 1. Ayra is one of the more prominent characters in FE4 Gen 1, but I don't think she'll be in the first banner: that one seems more likely to be Sigurd/Dierdre/Quan/Ethlyn. So I'd expect it'll be months before any of those show up. (I'm not sure if Erk and Ferry will be in at all; it depends on how complete they go. Ayra and Mia should be safe bets eventually, just not particularly soon.)

While training up my new Boey and 4* Lloyd, I decided to give the Hard version of this a shot with the two of them joined by Clarine and Olivia. Didn't work when they were a few levels below 30, but after training them up a bit more to 29-30, I was able to pull it off.

I just try to focus on his sprite and avert my eyes from the art. They clearly know what color scheme he's supposed to have, and the artist had to have seen him to make the grey-but-otherwise-identical version of his outfit. I don't understand how this happened.

17 unique ones now! 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 Getting to be a lot of greens - four green mages and seven greens total.

I think this might be the first GHB I beat on Lunatic on my first try. The enemies are arranged unusually generously, so I never had to take more than one or two attacks at a time while backing up through the available space.

At least Lloyd's sprite gets his color scheme right. Not sure how it got so messed up in his art. Managed to get Boey with the gauntlet orbs! First focus pull since Spring Festival, too. I don't need a bonus character, but Gronnowl looks like a low of fun.

I had trouble with that even with a bunch of 5*s. Dealing with the mages in their whole enclosure area is tricky and can require particular abilities (ranged attacks, fliers, movement assists) that may require dipping into 4*s for their specific abilities rather than raw stats. You have both m!Robin and f!Robin trained up, right? Do you have any red mages trained?

I upgraded Xander and was plenty happy with the decision, and I'm expecting to have plenty of feathers to upgrade Camus as well when he's released so I can use them together.

I expect Ashnard to be added eventually as a dragon knight with swords, to be able to use Gurgurant. Similarly, when they dig further into FE4, Altenna and Travant make sense to include as dragon knights with lances to use Gae Bolg and Gungnir. As for tome fliers, Aversa will probably cover red at some point, perhaps with Goetia. It's not as exciting as other ultimate weapons, but more ultimate weapons is always cool. Not sure about blue, though. Perhaps Sumia, since she can naturally promote to Dark Flier?

Ooh, Murdock is another good one. With Narcian already available, he'd make perfect sense, and it'd be cool to have him on an armor team with Zephiel. And like both Narcian and Zephiel, being available through a GHB should make him available at 3*, if that counts.

Dalsin would be an axe armor if added, and probably Brom too because he was an Axe General in FE10. Although while both feel appropriate for 3*, there's currently no method by which characters are newly being added to the regular summon lineup at 3*, just focus units at 4* and 5*. So we'll have to see if that changes at some point. Of course, characters can also be added through GHBs, making them available to anyone (as long as they can complete them), and those have always included a 3* version so far. Lombard seems like a likely candidate for a GHB in the future as the most notable Helswath user if they decide to add all the FE4 ultimate weapons eventually, which would certainly make him an axe armor. Xavier is another possible candidate: he's a playable character but could seem suitable for a GHB (like Navarre and Xander, he's well known for appearing as a noteworthy enemy) and while he can use four weapon types, he joins with an axe and a bow and with those as his highest weapon levels. Although having him as the first bow armor would add more to the game, really. As Narcian and Raven show, you don't need to (primarily) use an axe in your own game to have one in Heroes, anyway, so who knows.

They didn't have to give out 3* Catria. If they had a problem with giving out 3* versions of characters currently only available at at least 4*, they could have avoided requiring her for a quest in the first place. The fact that they were willing to give out 3* Catria shows that it's an option: they usually stick to 3* characters when possible, but 4* ones like Effie and Sheena are absolutely viable.

Wolf Berg should have Distant Counter when Walhart eventually gets released, since being 1-2 range is its only real ability. Helswath is another 1-2 range ultimate axe, although even if it gets included, its most likely user is Lombard, who's an armor, so they might give it some other ability like how the Binding Blade and Eckesachs have 1-2 range in their games but no Distant Counter here.

Because only tiers 15 and below offer that. You have to take the highest tiers one at a time.

That 5 put me at exactly 20. Still no 5*s out of it, although at least I got Rebecca as a new 4*.

I'm at 10k. I should hit my next 20k by the end of the arena season, which means it'll finally be time to complete the Askr trio. I don't particularly like Alfonse, but never needing to worry about bonus units again will be nice.

I got 2100+500, 2100+500, 1900+1600 for a total of 8700. Not bad, even though I'd been hoping for better. The total rank turned out very close.

I want Walhart. :(

Guess I'll just burn my remaining 400 flags at the next two opportunities if we're not getting another multiplier.