Usana Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was trying different team comps all week and finally got a defensive win with a 4*+10 Wings of Mercy Blarowl Mae, Fjorm, Water Blessing Sothe, 4*+10 Eirika. Not entirely sure why that combination worked. Someone probably ate a surprise WoM Blarowl. However, I had tried close to that team sans Eirika so it seems Eirika was the game changer. I really wish we could replay defensive wins. Be nice to see what went down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mampfoid Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 1 hour ago, Alkaid said: Yeah that's probably much higher than the worth of any teams I've been making. I'm especially jealous of all those Cordelias and Cherches. I'd have +10'd Cordelia by now if I could, but I haven't seen another of her since early October, despite the million blues I must have pulled since then... Feelsbadman Usually I run Ayra, Cordelia (guidance seal), Brave Ike/PA Azura + bonus(Fjorm now) and it doesn't fail to get at least like 5, but it's just dropping the ball this week. Or it was until I got that 1 defense somehow after shuffling the team. Good luck in your next green and blue pulls then! I need at least other 10 Cordelias, since I like to give Galeforce to everyone (Elincia, Cordelia, BH!Roy and Cherche so far, Minerva, Titania and some others to go). Perhaps I hit a sweet spot with that score range. Some weeks ago, I got more than 40 defense wins to my big surprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenzify Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) So this season I've had more defense wins than usual. I usually just throw my flier team out there if I don't have a bonus character built, or at all, but this season I threw in a +1 Fjorm. Also a +4 NY!Azura who wasn't previously on my main flier team. With those two, a +9 Beruka and Catria (both with water blessings), I'm at 8 defense wins. Probably less than many, but great by my standards. I would guess the existence of a dancer, and a distant counter weapon user is what's changing things up. Edited January 21, 2018 by Frenzify Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroud Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 (edited) I did it. 5,108 points in Arena.. but only thanks to Zelgius. Still. I need 200k more feathers to get all of my core to +10... Edited January 21, 2018 by Stroud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clogon Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 21 hours ago, Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi said: Ah, yeah, in that situation, I'd use him for Distant Counter, then, though I'm a bit of a cheapskate pragmatist and wouldn't really approach it with the "Hector deserves it" angle, so take that with a grain of salt. He is one of my fav lords (I basically like him and Ephiram the most). As a FEH unit, he also helped me get to top tier arena until I got high merges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Dragon Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 I'm assuming all of the defense wins are coming from players doing the Arena quests. I've gotten more than 10 wins per day for the past two days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 21 hours ago, Rezzy said: How does your Dragon team do? I switched to a Flier team + Bonus for my defense, since Horse Emblem doesn't work in the AI's hands anymore. I got two wins this week, but would like to make something more reliable after I had gotten used to 10+ wins every week back in the hay day of Horse Emblem. It does pretty okay for itself. Usually in the 6-10-defenses range unless there's Arena quests going on, then that approximately doubles. I don't run all dragons, though—and didn't run all horses, to be fair. Original defense team was Rein, Xander, Nino and bonus unit. Swapped Rein and Xander for Tiki. They're also not mega-while dragons, so they're running Triangle Adept instead of Steady Breath. I'm a bit surprised that they pick up wins so readily when TA gives them a major weakness that Steady Breath would otherwise semi-circumvent on the physical side, though I'm guessing part of that might be because Tiki's my buffer, running Rally Def/Res, so she might cling to Nowi more readily, making it difficult for greens to approach. Nino's also there to cover them and Draw Back on them, so that might also be a thing. Still surprising, though, considering the glaring common vulnerabilities. 3 hours ago, Clogon said: He is one of my fav lords (I basically like him and Ephiram the most). As a FEH unit, he also helped me get to top tier arena until I got high merges. Heh, I do understand the feeling. Hector's among the characters I favour, but his rarity makes me seriously think twice about doing anything that would involve merging him. For me, the units I want to give pointed inefficient favouratism to are Florina and female Robin, though my concentration on Arena basically means that I've given them strong initial builds, then back-burnered them for a good long while (at least the next 140k feathers are going toward Arena needs). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezzy Posted January 21, 2018 Share Posted January 21, 2018 51 minutes ago, Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi said: It does pretty okay for itself. Usually in the 6-10-defenses range unless there's Arena quests going on, then that approximately doubles. I don't run all dragons, though—and didn't run all horses, to be fair. Original defense team was Rein, Xander, Nino and bonus unit. Swapped Rein and Xander for Tiki. They're also not mega-while dragons, so they're running Triangle Adept instead of Steady Breath. I'm a bit surprised that they pick up wins so readily when TA gives them a major weakness that Steady Breath would otherwise semi-circumvent on the physical side, though I'm guessing part of that might be because Tiki's my buffer, running Rally Def/Res, so she might cling to Nowi more readily, making it difficult for greens to approach. Nino's also there to cover them and Draw Back on them, so that might also be a thing. Still surprising, though, considering the glaring common vulnerabilities. Heh, I do understand the feeling. Hector's among the characters I favour, but his rarity makes me seriously think twice about doing anything that would involve merging him. For me, the units I want to give pointed inefficient favouratism to are Florina and female Robin, though my concentration on Arena basically means that I've given them strong initial builds, then back-burnered them for a good long while (at least the next 140k feathers are going toward Arena needs). Thanks! I might try dragons if my Flier+Bonus team drops off, but it's gotten me 5 Defense Wins the past couple days since I switched to it, so I guess it does better than my Horse Team now. I put the Guidance Seal and the Iote's Seal, which patches up their weakness a bit. I'd need to do some serious SI to get a Dragon Team up to snuff. I only have Baby Tiki, Fae, and Ninian at 5* and none of the have Lightning Breath. I might try getting my Corrin up to 5*, but I guess I'd need that 4th slot for the bonus unit, unless we're lucky enough to see a dragon as a bonus unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clogon Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 2 hours ago, Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi said: Heh, I do understand the feeling. Hector's among the characters I favour, but his rarity makes me seriously think twice about doing anything that would involve merging him. For me, the units I want to give pointed inefficient favouratism to are Florina and female Robin, though my concentration on Arena basically means that I've given them strong initial builds, then back-burnered them for a good long while (at least the next 140k feathers are going toward Arena needs). I agree with this so much. I think my extra hectors will remain unused for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezzy Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Just now, Clogon said: I agree with this so much. I think my extra hectors will remain unused for a while. 2 hours ago, Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi said: Heh, I do understand the feeling. Hector's among the characters I favour, but his rarity makes me seriously think twice about doing anything that would involve merging him. For me, the units I want to give pointed inefficient favouratism to are Florina and female Robin, though my concentration on Arena basically means that I've given them strong initial builds, then back-burnered them for a good long while (at least the next 140k feathers are going toward Arena needs). I used my extra Hector to give Titania DC, but I don't think I'd merge my current one, unless I got an ideal nature to replace my +HP-Res one. I just saw a 4 Merric Team in Arena Assault. I meant to take a screenshot, but sadly forgot to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackc2 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) Currently sitting rank ~9000 in Tier 19 looks like there is a chance I can sneak into tier 20 Edited January 22, 2018 by Mackc2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rezzy Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I'm at a score of 4996 for a rank of 1134/12,150 to move into Tier 20. I'll wait until Tuesday to use any more Crests for the quests. I probably won't have a hope of staying in Tier 20, but might as well try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clogon Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I just realized something. Using 2 legendary heroes with 2 units with their blessings gives more arena points than 4 merges on 1 unit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Usana Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Well whatever Mae/Fjorm/Sothe/Eirika are doing sure is working. Got another 2 defensive wins overnight. Also managed a run that secured 4orbs for me. Had to shuffle in B!Ike to raise my per match point gain. Seems that without my highly merged Amelia I just don't get enough points per run to stay easily in the higher ranks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexmender Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I'm going to need something to close my score range soon, a range of 702-718 is too wide to consistenly get the necessary score for top 5k in AA. I guess I'll need to start merging Ninos to see if that gives me a closer score range. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GinRei Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 On 1/21/2018 at 2:43 AM, Korath88 said: I hate how 4,876 isn't even enough to reach tier 20 now, when a few months back I could get in with 4,830+ BST boosted Armours were a mistake I've been using refined Lightning breath Y!Tiki and double QR+wary fighter Hector with Ninian and Fjorm on defense and its gotten me 2 victories so far. Haven't used Lyn and Rein on my defense teams in a while. While BST boosted Armors are definitely part of it, this week/season in particular is being exasperated by Fjorm and her blessing boost. I know my score range has increased by around 6 points per fight on average compared to the Askr Trio. And that's without fishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuroi Tsubasa Tenshi Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Score report, "Fjorm Skews Everything" Edition: Tier 20 score of 5158(!) (Nino +9 with Aether, Atk Ploy 3 Seal and W-Bless; Nowi +10 with Aether, DD3 Seal and W-Bless; Adult Tiki +7 with Aether, Hone Spd 3 Seal and W-Bless; Fjorm +1 with QR3 Seal) - #720 Arena Assault score of 5132 (Nino +9 with Aether, Atk Ploy 3 Seal and W-Bless; Nowi +10 with Aether, DD3 Seal and W-Bless; Adult Tiki +7 with Aether, Hone Spd 3 Seal and W-Bless; Fjorm +1 with QR3 Seal) - #1420 Kinda wish my scores had been reversed, but let's be real here: getting ~70 points higher than my previous week's score is pretty bonkers. 100 more points was clearly a bit of the RNG working my favour (for once). I would have taken another shot or two at it I had time, but, alas, I did not. Oh, well, I still hit top 1000 again in one of the arenas, even if it's the one that doesn't get me any extra rewards for it. Draug was temporarily useless this week because triple Water Blessing plus Fjorm +1 was worth an 2 pts/match over what I have built for Draug (to be fair, he's still only +6 with a skill set that still has to be fully optimized for points). This should change next season, though, when the elements no longer favour water, meaning I'll be back to running a specific bonus for regular Arena (still Fjorm) and Draug as the AA point slave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinite Dreams Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Results before closing: Arena: 5070 - Rank 2837/5356 to stay in 20. Arena Assault: 5060 - Rank 2499. Getting closer and closer to the 3000 cutoff, oof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charmeleonbrah Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I did unusually well by my standards this week in Arena, netting 9 defense wins. Usually I'm lucky to get 3. This week, I used a team of Quick Riposte dragons: Adult Tiki, Mystery Tiki, and Nowi, plus Fjorm. From the units I saw that I beat, it looked like they were probably in Tier 17-19. Adult Tiki too stronk with 46 Defense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexmender Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Back to tier 20. I'm glad next week is going to be an easy one, that's going to give me the chance to try Micaiah against horses. I also got enough coins to max QR but I still need a ton of red badges.....Grinding the TT is going to be so much fun/s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafiel's Aria Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Normal Arena: Tier 19 --> Tier 20 + Defense Win Awards AA: Top 5k bracket Tier 19 this week was...rough. I gave up on my attempt to break 5k points in the normal Arena after getting my final streak broken one too many times. At first, I thought a score of around 4864 would be more than enough to get me into tier 20. (That was with a few deaths.) But I kept getting closer and closer to the cut-off, so I tried again and got a score of 4918 with a single death. (I just wasn't lucky this week.) I wasn't SUPER close to the cut-off, but it was close enough that I got nervous. I'm not sure if I'll try to fish for an over 5k score this upcoming week or not... Maybe I'll take it easy. XD AA gave me a little bit of trouble, but I've finally gotten to the point where I've built enough well-balanced teams to not have to shuffle everyone around each run. I barely broke 5k (with 5004) which was enough to keep me in my desired bracket! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DLNarshen Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Season 51 (1.3.0 S36) Results: Score: 5,012 Defense: 604 (New Record!) Rank: Tier 20 --> 19 Third time breaking the 5,000 mark, but it wasn't enough to stay in Tier 20 this time around. The thresholds continue to increase steadily, and for the time being I will simply have to be content in Tier 19.5. Hinoka gets to take a break this cycle, as I experiment with the lesser-seen of Narcian's Angels, Shanna. She was the recipient of my Water Blessing, bringing her Spd up to 47 when with Fjorm. Combined with Narcian's Goad and his ally support, this is more than enough to turn her Firesweep Lance into an absurdly powerful tool to eliminate most non-Green threats. Eventually I would like to start investing into merging her more, perhaps when my GHB project starts to wind down. Arena Assault: Rank: 4,563 I drew a 714 in nearly every round except like one, where it was 718. I can probably forget about getting top 3K with any kind of consistency for a while. Hall of Fame: Spoiler Actually found this in the AA rankings before I did my main run. There aren't many +5 Narcians out there, but they're always a treat to see. A Ryoma that deviates a bit from the tried-and-true Fury build, looking to be more tanky at 2 range. Previous Season Results: Spoiler Season 12: 4,678 | 284 | 25,513 Season 13: 4,740 | 0 | 19,082 Season 14: 4,794 | 289 | 6,331 Season 15: 4,820 | 576 | 15 --> 17 Season 16: 4,788 | 568 | 17 --> 16 Season 17: 4,719 | 568 | 16 --> 17 Season 18: 4,776 | 0 | 17 --> 18 Season 19: 4,780 | 0 | 18 --> 17 Season 20: 4,796 | 578 | 17 --> 18 Season 21: 4,806 | 594 | 18 --> 19 Season 22: 4,792 | 560 | 19 --> 18 Season 23: 4,836 | 288 | 18 --> 19 Season 24: 4,828 | 288 | 19 --> 20 Season 25: 4,838 | 582 | 20 --> 19 Season 26: 4,822 | 578 | 19 --> 20 Season 27: 4,808 | 580 | 20 -->19 Season 28: 4,792 | 580 | 19 --> 18 Season 29: 4,830 | 582 | 18 --> 19 Season 30: 4,822 | 582 | 19 --> 20 Season 31: 4,806 | 584 | 20 --> 19 Season 32: 4,820 | 584 | 19 --> 20 Season 33: 4,812 | 582 | 20 --> 19 Season 34: 4,836 | 582 | 19 --> 20 Season 35: 4,822 | 582 | 20 --> 19 Season 36: 4,838 | 578 | 19 --> 20 Season 37: 4,788 | 580 | 20 --> 19 Season 38: 4,854 | 580 | 19 --> 20 Season 39: 4,830 | 582 | 20 --> 19 Season 40: 4,908 | 0 | 19 --> 20 Season 41: 4,920 | 580 | 20 --> 19 Season 42: 4,922 | 580 | 19 --> 20 Season 43: 4,914 | 582 | 20 --> 19 Season 44: 4,966 | 582 | 19 --> 20 Season 45: 5,006 | 600 | 20 --> 20 Season 46: 5,016 | 600 | 20 --> 20 Season 47: 4,976 | 596 | 20 --> 19 Season 48: 4,972 | 596 | 19 --> 20 Season 49: 4,988 | 600 | 20 --> 19 Season 50: 4,984 | 598 | 19 --> 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordFrigid Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 (edited) Offense score of 5162 (T20) remains in T20, combining with a defense score of 624 for max rewards. Teams faced (streak): Spoiler Teams faced (other): Spoiler Using Fae as my bonus unit alongside Celica, Tana, and Julia worked out pretty well, all things considered. I tossed the Close Def seal on Fae (over Distant Def), since Julia has 2-range on lock-down. Between the Arena and the Tempest Trials, I also got to fully use Tana's Galeforce build this season; I had been just AA testing it prior to this week. Self-refreshing opens up so many options for engaging enemies, and I am 100% satisfied with the results. I might consider leaving Spd Ploy on Julia instead of changing back to Res Ploy, since Atk & Spd Ploy support is really strong for that set. After running triple infantry mage + bonus for my defense team for the past few weeks, I switched it to a Flier-based squad (headed by Caeda, naturally). It got solid results, though this makes me feel a little bad: Spoiler Edited January 23, 2018 by LordFrigid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Dragon Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 15 minutes ago, LordFrigid said: though this makes me feel a little bad: I mean, it's their fault for going against your team a second time, especially considering you have a non-generic name and identifiable lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roflolxp54 Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 So, 25 defense wins using Zelgius + Horse Emblem on a map rotation that introduces trench terrain. What the hell even happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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