SakuraFish

It has been 2 months now since I last updated this; still F2P and playing since Day 1. Updates in bold:

Alright let's see.. most of them are for gameplay purposes, the italic ones for Fun. Summoner x Lilina x Hector (As much as I like you Roy, she's mine. And Hector is a Bro) Effie x Amelia Xander x Cecilia Camus x Titania Brave Lyn x Eldigan Alfonse x Sharena (Can't go without incest in my Fire Emblem I'm afraid) Mae x Ninian Nino x Eirika Reinhardt x Ursula Alm x Faye (suck it Celica) Olivia x Klein Caeda x Cherche Hinoka x Bunny Cam Priscilla x Peri Lucina x Nowi (Both needed a partner, and both are from awakening.. yes that's the only Reason) Valter x Camilla (Creepy Fliers unite!) Fae x Y.Tiki Sanaki x Brave Ike (Leftover pairing, but it fits surprisingly well I dare say)

Congratz on your Hector, I aswell own one with that nature. Don't be too discouraged by the nature; he still is very effective and I never noticed the drop in Attackpower to be much of an issue especially should you choose to go classical Bonfire on him. As eclipse already said, his extra Speed can help him to avoid doubles that otherwise might happen, allowing him in return to demolish his enemies. Anyway, time for my own pulls! Free pull on Threaten Defense Banner was a 3* Arthur. Oh well, I do like Swap so I'll gladly take him. Free pull on the new TT Banner: And just because I feel like it, another pull from the CYL Banner. Pity Rate 3.75%, 3 Green 1 Colorless 1 Blue Damn it, no Reds.. I want that Roy... 3* Robin: I will never complain about more Bonfire. 4* Camilla: Already have a 5* one, so she will end up giving Savage Blow to someone. 4* Gunther: Hone Cavalry is always appreciated, my Reinhardt will love to have this on him. 5* Brave Ike (+Def -Res): Nice one. While I don't particularly care about him, I will never say no to a Unit that can withstand Reinhardt. His Def Boon makes him extremely tanky on the physical Side so thats always appreciated. Thank God for the double SP event, otherwise training this dude up would be a nightmare. Why are u no Roy Since the Rate is broken anyway, let's open that colorless one too! 4* Klein (Nature Whatever): Deathblow 3 Fodder! I love it, this will go straight to my Reinhardt, the dude needs every bit of help he can get with his forsaken +Spd -Atk Nature. Today was a very good day for me~

This is absolutely awesome, I never thought someone else would like the idea of Lilina with the Armads. @Vaximillian Thanks for the mention bro, I had probably missed that one otherwise.

I decided to go and finish my streak early this season since I want to avoid the CYL-hell that awaits us as long as humanly possible. Score of 4818 in T19 with (Amelia, Effie, Eirika, Nino+1) is currently Rank 541. With a little bit of fishing I would probably be able to get about 20-30 total points more, but since this will be enough for the Promotion into T20 anyway, I see no reason to bother with that. I'll be missing this team once this season ends; Armors with Armor March are way too fun to use, especially on Maps with lots of forrest. Also Amelia and Effie are an amazing Duo together. Maybe I'll drop Nino and Eirika instead for some Horsefun with Xander/Eldigan and Lyn for an amazing 2 Horse/2 Armor-Team. Unfortunately no Day 1 Defenses this time around, but I have faith that the Team that managed to get 10+ Defenses the last two seasons will be able to trip at least someone during the next days. Also managed to get a deathless Arena Assault Run going for a Score of 4860 which is a new personal best. Starting Team was (Hector, Amelia, Effie, Alfonse). The score should be safe for the 22 Coins + 3k Feathers so I'm completely happy with that. Surprisingly low amount of Reinhardts were encountered this time around; only 1 was trying to get me, but got shut down immediatly by my Cecilia. Instead of Horses however, a lot of Armors were waiting; all with Armor March ofc. Luckily, even with the additional movement armors are still pretty easy to play around, so this streak was actually kinda easy. Honorable Mention to my boy Tobin here who destroyed an 2 Amelia/Hector/Sheena team with the help of Sakura all by himself as well as Bartre who has proven yet again that no Effie can touch his stache. He has helped me every single Arena Assault until now; should I ever have more Feathers than I know what to do with, I'll promote that beast to 5*.

So I somehow completely forgot that the first pull of each banner is free now, and I have exactly 15 Orbs lying around which allows me to potentially fully pull one session. Let's start with the Blade-Banner first! 4 Colorless 1 Green Well... that makes my decision to use my Orbs for my first pull on the SacredStones-Banner alot easier. I'll only open that green one. So with that out of the way, let's go for the Sacred Stones Banner! 4 Green 1 Red Awww... no chance on Tana or Innes.. well, I'm going to open them all anyway. Free Pull: 3* Palla: My Cherche shall soon own Goad Fliers... or so I've heard. 4* Soren (+Atk -Spd): He's slightly better than the (+Hp -Spd) one I already have.. not that it matters though, he will warm the bench nicely. 4* Boey (+Spd -Res): Seems like a good nature to me, maybe I'll use him. He's a new one though, so I'm happy anyway. 3* Cecilia (Neutral): I wish I had a +Spd one... her future is either to be send home or to give Escaperoute to someone. Today is a good day for me it seems~ Also...

Lewyn One of my favourite characters from FE4, and Jugdral is underrepresented anyway. Being a Bard could also potentially allow him to be a Green magic based Dancer. Just don't make the Holsety too broken please. Ishtar Just give me the Goddess of Thunder with her Thorhammer. Arvis Has the potential to be the first Magic based Armorknight. Also is a pretty cool dude and we need Falaflame in the game. Leif Let's just hope that he gets his Lightsword instead of a Staff R.I.P. Lachesis and her Earth Sword. Fin I choose him over Sigurd or Cuan simply because he and his Brave Lance was such an asset in Thracia 776. While I chose Jugral only, seeing peeps from SS, RD (which I don't even like except for the Sothe/Nolan-Brigade) or really, any other game than Echoes, Fates or Awakening for a while would make me incredible happy. Especially the case for Echoes. Also, Valter would most definitely be on this list if he wouldn't have been announced.

After a few tries, I managed to get a deathless advanced streak in the Arena Assault for a Score of 4826 which is currently Rank 874. Of course, the Rank will drop for sure, I'm curious to see where it'll end. 1st Team consisted of (5* Titania+2, 5* Ninian+1, 5* Eldigan, 5* Alfonse) which put me around ~690 points/battle. I could probably improve this a little bit by including my Lucina and Hector into the 1st team, but I wanted to save them up even though I ended up not using them at all in this Run. Also, no Items were used, because I was too dumb to figure out that I have to select them before the first battle. I really like this mode, even if Reindood is more annoying than ever. Only having 2 real counters against this bitch, especially if I have to use one of them in the 1st Team, sucks immensely. Still, the Assault is so much fun. Finally I found a way to use all those 4* and 5* that I trained up but never used just because there were better Units or they would tank my Score. Finally all that effort to train up everyone counts for something. I also really like the aspect that I have to decide which of my best Units to use in a battle and which ones I better save up if their job can be replaced by someone weaker without risking to die. Honorably mention goes here to my 4* Subaki, the perfect backup blue Wall to all Reds, 5* Tobin, who destroyed a Quad-Hector Team with Serras help all by himself, and my 4* Bartre, the one who defies Effie and smites my Cherche into action against that pesky Delthea that threatened me. As for the regular Arena, since I got up to T20 again, it's time to slack off since I can't stay up there anyway. I'll just grab 4100 points and call it a day. Unfortunately, no defenses yet, put there's still plenty of time.

Map 1 was by far the hardest one for me, but after a few tries, I managed to clear the new Squad Assault: Map 1 (5* TAdept Raven Cecilia, 5* Effie, 5*+1 Ninian, 5* S.Gaius): Positioned everyone in T1. T2, Cecilia attacks Takumi, Effie pivots over Cecilia to shield her from Ryoma. Cecilia gets danced to finish Pineappleboy. T3, Effie finishes Ryoma and Gaius kills Hinoka with Ninians help. Sakura attacks but whatever. T4, Effie pivots over Cecilia to get out of Sakuras range, and Cecilia 1vs1 her to death. Map 2 (5* Hector, 4* Sheena, 4* Wendy, 4* Lissa): Typical Vantage/Bonfire Hector, Sheena and Wendy were only there for Armorbuffs, and to fill out the space. Anyway, T1, buffed Hector pulls the enemies from the tile east of the mountain, the other armors surround him, Sheena to his right, Wendy to his south. T2, Hector moves south, Sheena and Wendy to the east. Matthew attacks Wendy, and the other daggers suicide into hector. T3, Wendy moves east, and Hector attacks Matthew. Matthew suicides in EP, as does Serra a Turn later. Map 3 (5* Nino (+Spd; standard Moonbow/Fury3/Desp. build), 5* Eirika (RallyDef, Fort.Res Seal), 5* Cordelia (Reposition), 4* Serra): T1, Buffed Nino deletes the Armor. Cord repositions her to the left. Eirika keeps standing south of Nino. EP1, Tharja moves to the left. T2, Cord moves 1 South, Eirika moves 1 east out of the danger zone. Buffed Nino stays at the Edge of Robins attack-range. EP2 Robin suicides. T3, Eirika moves north of Nino to rally her and gets repositioned to the east from Cordelia. Fully buffed Nino can barely ORKO Tharja, while Eirika shields the group from the AxeCav. T4, Nino finishes the Axecav. Serra chills the entire battle in the southwest corner doing nothing. Map 4 (5* Klein, 5* Cherche (Braveaxe+, DB3), 4* Olivia, 5* Lilina (Axebreaker)): Klein gets deployed on the rightmost slot, Olivia in the second righthand slot. T1, Klein destroys the Wall, gets danced and kills the Mageknight. Rest moves towards the middle. T2, Klein shoots down the approaching Pegknight. T3, Lilina burns Michalis and T4, Cherche onerounds Camus. Olivia helps with positioning to pick out the enemies one by one during T2-4. Map 5 (4* Subaki, 5* Camus, 5* Priscilla, 5* Xander (Siegfried unequipped): To be honest, I pretty much only mimicked MKV's old strat here, with Xander replacing Stahl, Camus doing Donnys Job and Priscilla being the Healer. If this map wouldn't have been in slot 5, I would have probably figured out something on my own, but I was far too lazy to replay 1-4 over and over again.

While I initially wanted to save up a few Orbs for the incoming Hero's Fest Banner, I remembered that the TT is coming soon, and with it (hopefully) a ton of Orbs. 35 Orbs are exactly enough for 2 full Pulls on the Lilina banner, so let's go! 1st Round: 1 Red 3 Blue 1 Colorless ; The one time I want Reds for another Lilina... it finally gives me the Blue Orbs I was craving for the whole time.. god dammit desire sensor. Free Orb: 4* Marth (+Atk -Res): I already have a 4* (+Spd -Res) one I don't care about, so this one will probably either collect dust on the bench or get eaten up for SpurSpd3. 3* Matthew: Hone Spd fodder is always appreciated. 4* M-Robin: I didn't even bother to check his nature before feeding his Bonfire to my lovely 5* Cherche. 3* Shanna: More Desperation fodder, not bad. 4* Reindood (+Spd -Atk): Why are you doing this to me game.. not only do I finally get a Blue tome other than M.Robin and at last my first Reindood but of course his nature is his worst possible one. He still will kick ass in my Horseteam should I promote him and deck him out, but im rather unsure if I'll ever do it tbh. Maybe if I don't have better things to do with my feathers... 2nd Round: 1 Red 1 Blue 1 Green 2 Colorless ; Who wants many Reds for many Lilinas anyway... one day I will have a full Lilina team, I swear! Anyway... 3* Stahl: And I was just running low on Swap fodder. How lovely!~ 4* Chicken Dragon/Fae (+Spd -Def): Niiiiiceeeee. My first one. I have no Idea what to inherit onto her, or what nature she wants, but I wanted to have her for so long. I'll have to think a little bit what I'll do with her in the future though. 4* Mae (+Spd -Def) Jackpot! Instead of that crappy Reindood the game gave me, this beautiful thing will be my Blue Mage of Destruction. She just earned herself the honor of being my next promotion in line , followed by an Odin for Blarblade+. Her A Skill will probably become LnD, though I'll have to check some calcs beforehand. Also, my first Mae ever. 3* Serra & 3* Azama: I honestly don't care. Serra will gladly sacrifice herself to provide Feathers for my beautiful Mae, and Azama can go and donate his Pain Staff to my Sakura. Or he will be turned into Feathers, not sure about that yet. I don't care if I didn't get any 5*s, or if the Reindood is crap. Getting a Mae and a Fae is the best. The only thing that would've made me even more happy now, would've been a Lilina but I certainly won't complain about the stuff I got.

@mcsilas That's awesome to hear. I can't wait for the weekend now, I have tons of Swords that want the 12 SP/Kill. This will make gearing them up so much easier. Thanks for the confirmation on that.

With the daily Orbs, I managed to get up to 45 Orbs. That's way too many Orbs, so let's burn them all! The Delthea-Banner is still taunting me with its 4.50% pity rate, so thats where my Orbs are going! 1st Round: 1 Red 4 Colorless: Why game... ahh fuck it, I'm going to abandon those 4 Colorless, even if it means my mind will never be at easy anymore, worrying what could've been behind them... anyway: 3* Lon'qu: Vantage Fodder. At least it's something useful, so I won't complain. 40 Orbs remain. 2nd Round: 2 Blue 1 Red 1 Green 1 Colorless: That's much better! Not perfect, but better! 3* F.Corn: Decent fodder I guess. Can't have enough HoneAtk3 or Draconic Aura I dare say. 4* Roderick (+Def -HP): Hey, that's a new one for me. Comes with lots of unique skills too! I'm not sure yet if I'm going to use him or burn him... that Firesweep Lance sure is tempting though. 5* Gray (+HP -Atk): Finally a 5*! While you aren't exactly what I was looking for, I'm still happy you are here. Nature is a bit unfortunate with the -Rezzy but the +Hp means I can make better use of that Windboost he has. I'm not really sure what to do with him, but I'm sure he will be useful, if only for that sweet Sword Valor. Does anyone know if it stacks with the Double SP event? Getting 12 SP/Kill would be absolutely amazing! 4* Gordin: I'm not even going to bother to check your nature. I already have a pretty much perfect Klein, so I couldn't care less about this dude. 3* Bartre: More Fury 2 is always appreciated! 20 Orbs remain 3rd Round: Since I'm not getting taunted by that pity rate anymore, the last round goes towards the Cavalry Banner. 1 Blue 2 Red 2 Green: 4* Effie (+Spd -Def): Her nature sucks, and I already have a 5* (+Atk -Res) one, so I don't really have a use for her. Deathblow 2 might come in handy though. 3* Fir: It's been a while since she showed up the last time, but unfortunately for her, I still don't really need/want her. I like Glacies though, so having her might save me a Felicia someday. 3* Hinata: YEEEEES... finally this game sends him to me... this is the first Hinata I've ever gotten and I'm god damn happy about it! Well, you won't stay for long, so don't make yourself too comfortable, I have a certain green haired Loli that wants to meet your Fury3 you. Let's hope that he wasn't the last one to show up, I have LOTS of folk who want his Fury 3. 3* Cherche: Eh whatever. I don't need Pivot and I already have one at 4* with a good nature. Maybe I'm going to sell her for feathers, should I run out of barrack space. For now she can stay though. 5* Titania (+Atk -HP): Hey cool, thats the 3rd 5* Titania the game gave me. Since I'm not needing her to pass on her Emerald Axe+ or her Guard, I'm going to merge her into my +Spd -Def one. 0 Orbs remain. After 140 Orbs without any 5*, my luck has finally returned! Please don't leave me ever again though. :P

Ah thank you very much for the detailed calculation, I'll try to learn how to calculate the chances myself the next time based on this. 9% for each red and blue orb sounds very promising, so I'm going to abandon my habit of full summons for once. Now I only have to wait to get some more Orbs before I start hunting.

So since I'm quite bad at math for things beyond simple calcs, could someone more skilled in it please tell me the chance of getting any 5* out of Blue and Red orbs from the Alm's-Army-Banner if my pity rate is at 4.50%? I'm strongly considering hunt-summoning to improve my chances that the rate doesn't get wasted, but I'd like to know how high they are first.

Sorc!Peri A crazy psychopath using dark magic fits the theme quite nicely I think.

I'm just going to post those that I'm actively using.

I finally reached the 100k points for this Tempest. Unlike the last TT, in which I ran my best Team the whole time for 705 scores, I decided to use the TT to get SP and HM on other Units this time around. While this slowed me down quite a bit, it was totally worth it. Not only was it much more fun, but I also got about 10k feathers for HM alone. I also learned to appreciate certain Units like my Lukas or my Faye a lot more thanks to this as they proved to be much more useful than I ever thought they would be. Also a honorable mention to the Sanaki I thought I would never use, she started going into the TT as a Lvl 30 Unit with no HM at all, and ended it fully SI'd, about 2k SP spare and maxxed out HM; You've done well Girl! This time I won't aim for the 10k feathers bracket, but instead I'm going to focus on simply not dropping out of the 8k feathers. The last time I tried for the top 1k I dropped out of it pretty much last minute, and I simply don't care enough to stress myself for it again. Also, this TT made me hate WoM so much. I lost count on how many times a stupid Fred, Cain or Faye ruined the last Map for me. Celica is annoying enough to deal with, since I'm unable to ORKO her, but having to deal with teleporting, stat-inflated creeps at the same time just sucks.

I used to go back to BW2's PWT and HG/SS/PT Factory (sometimes even the one from Emerald, fighting with rental mons is just way to much fun) quite a lot back when I was still playing Pokemon more competetively. However nowadays I'm rarely playing pokemon at all, and when I do it is mostly casually playing through the games instead of stuff like the battle tower or whatever name it's current iteration has.

Ninja!Peri obtained by S-ranking Kaze

Score: 4824 ---> 2500 Feathers Defense: 378 ----> 700 Feathers Tier 19 -> 20 ----> 3000 Feathers Total: 6200 Feathers + 4 Orbs. Quite a nice season, the promotion to T20 wasn't even close. While I forgot to check the Rank when collecting the feathers, the last Time I checked yesterday it was about 1600 or something like that. Too bad that I can't really achieve much this season though, since actually staying in T20 is way out of my league. A shame, since the current rotation is by far my favourite one. On the bright side, I already got 2 defense wins for safe 700 Feathers, so I can change up to a real defense Team for maybe bumping it up to 900. Funnily enough, both defenses came from the exact same person. What a poor guy, considering my defensteam was a scumbag one consisting of 3 Lvl 1 3* hiding a fully decked out 5* Hector at lvl 40. Not going to burn any crests this season, as long as I'm going to get over 4100 points with my daily swords, I'm set. I got promoted to T20 with 4824 while still having a lot of leeway. 4816 could very well be enough this season, but It's far too early to tell.

While I wanted to hoard orbs initially, spending them is so much more fun. Besides, the new HoneAtk banner features Units I actually want, namely another Nino to save 20k feathers for her Tome. 20 Orbs for one full round, let the fun begin: Awesome pull, Anna smiles upon me once more. I've gotten quite lucky recently; I hope that this won't stop in the near future. I don't know if I'm going to pull from this banner again though, it depends what Banners are going to be there once I hit the 20 Orbs again, because I know I can't save them up anyway.

1. Hinoka: Hone Fliers to be locked behind a rare 5* hurts flying Units so much. 2. Genny: Pretty much the same reason like Hinoka, only for staves. 3. Azura: While I already have 2 Ninians, seeing at least one of the blue dancers be less rare would be kinda nice too, since one simply can't have enough dancers (also mainly because I want an Azura) 4. Fae: The other Colors all have a Manakete at 4-3*, so green should have one too (and again I want one, that damn chicken dragon avoids me like death) 5. Catria: Simply because her sisters don't have the luxury to be pullable at 5*.

My first pull ever was a 5* Y.Tiki. followed by a 4* Wendy, 4* Maria, 4* Wrys and finally a 4* Nino. This pull was my first attempt too, so I didn't even need to reroll for any 5* Unit as I planned to. I still own every Unit except for Wrys, which got burned as a Sacrifice to my Sakura. The Nino eventually got promoted to 5* later and still serves me as one of my best units while the Tiki enjoys her retirement on my Bench after carrying me through the beginning.

Updates in bold. Still F2P since Day 1.

Finally I managed to get my first perfect Score in this TT. Unlike the last TT, Speed is a lot more easy to get perfect, they made the limit for A extremely lenient this time. I think I only ever got B once up until now. Survival on the other hand has proven to be extremely difficult for me to get, as my Team just can't handle the final map, or more specifically Celica the Witch at all. Without major luck for the right enemies, my Team gets completely destroyed here. Still getting 676 points almost every Run is solid enough I guess. Faye has proven to be more useful than I ever thought in replacing Klein, so I guess it's just fair that she has the honor of killing the Witch herself for my first perfect Run. Go girl, get rid of that competitor of yours! @Zeo Congratulations for your first perfect Run aswell. Also your Faye looks quite nice, I wish mine had that 29 Def aswell. Would protect her a lot better than the 22 mine has, considering I have to leave her in enemy Range more than I'd like to.