I think it's trying to communicate with us

 

Agh he's seen my collab! (I hope you liked it?? Also, he's the only Shaman in that game, which is the equivalent of today's Dark Mage, and people rank him as the best of that class out of all Dark Mages. And I'm sorry but Henry is a LOT better, but I digress)

Fire Emblem Heroes, oh shit, OK. Lemme give you a rundown: I've beaten the entire story mode on Normal already and the first three chapters on Hard (stupid Stamina). My first draws really ended up making the game for me: Raigh (from Binding Blade), Matthew (from Blazing Blade), Olivia (from Awakening), and fucking Corrin (from Fates). Corrin is by far one of the most overtly broken units in this game alongside the likes of Lyn and Takumi (fucking Takumi...), and is currently my highest unit at Lv. 29. While my balance does put me at 3 Red 1 Colorless, and while Lances do give me trouble from time to time, with Olivia's dancing, Matthew's debuffing, and Corrin's fucking OPness, they're ultimately taken down rather swiftly.

Long story short I love this game.

 

First thing I rolled was 5-star Leo from Conquest. I was like FUCK YEAH (which is funny cos he's technically the worst member of my party atm lol). A bunch of random 3-stars otherwise, including Lissa from Awakening, who is still in my final party as my one and only healer, and a 3-star Arthur from Conquest who was in my setup for a while cos he hits like a truck and has pretty good stats.

Second set of rolls, I got 5-star Focus Marth. I also got a 4-star Oboro who was also in my setup for a while, as well as a 3-star Tiki.

Third set of rolls, very first roll was a 5-star Focus Camilla, who ended up replacing Oboro in my lineup. Everything else was 3-star.

Fourth set of rolls ruined my streak. Got 4-star Lon'qu and 4-star Ogma, but neither are being used. Everything else was 3-star.

Meanwhile, Samphire has got about 2 4-star heroes and a huge number of repeat heroes that are 3-stars. I'm a lucky fucker.

Beaten all the story except the final mission cos THEY FUCKED ME UP, but I've beaten up to like 7-3 on Hard, and I've only got 1 Hard February mission to go lol.

3669711087 if you want to add me as a friend btw.

UPDATE: Beat the story... and now the Hard missions started. Goddamn it, now I gotta go back and beat each boss chapter again lol

 

better growth% chance, and access to stronger skills. Always worth it imo. With that being said, what happens to their SP and learned skills? Do they keep the skills they have learned, or do they get reset? Does their SP transfer over after upgrading them or not (cos if not, I'm gonna stop using my Oboro)?

 

I'm on the Lunatic missions right now and almost cleared out hard mode of the story :) On Chapter 9-4 right now, still rockin Corrin (who's almost Lv. 40 at 4 stars, it's gonna be a WHILE before his ass can be 5 star), Olivia, Matthew (who's now three stars) and Raigh (now three stars).

 

Finished Normal and all Normal missions, finished Hard and all hard missions, up to 6-1 on Lunatic, though I beat 6-5 first to get the mission beaten.

Got a bunch of 4-stars and 3-stars in my last 10 rolls, including 2 Eliwoods back to back, and another L4 Oboro. Fun.

Dunno if Leo's gonna be able to get all of his abilities before hitting Level 40, so gotta hope for more Leo drops to get all of his abilities, which is a shame.

I know Takumi is borked as fuck, I know Lyn is apparently amazing, and I know Hector is borked as fuck too. Anyone else aware of any other completely busted characters that people should hope to get?

 

As someone who hit the upper rungs of the League, yes I do!

Like you pointed out, Takumi and Hector are stupidly broken, as is Lyn because she has just the right mixture of offense and defense. Tiki and Ryoma are pretty damn good too, and Robin can be a REAL pain in the ass.

Forget Wyrs and the default characters. They're literally the WYRST in the game.

 

I'm considering him against all the other healers he currently competes against: Azama, Sakura, Lissa, Elise, Serra, Maria, and the aforementioned Clarice. Wyrs objectively gets beaten by all of them. Hell he was replaced by a goddamn staff at one point.

 

It's not been too bad for me, even with a backup team. Current team I'm grinding up has a 18-1 record in the Intermediate Arena (all rank 4):
Lv27 Lissa (Rehabilitate / Assault / Kindled-Fire Balm / Renewal 2)
Lv29 Selena (Armorslayer / Reposition / Triangle Adept 2 / Threaten Spd 3)
Lv29 Oboro (Heavy Spear / Rally Defense / Seal Def 3 / Threaten Res 2)
Lv29 Kagero (Poison Dagger / Retribution / Warding Blow 2 / Daggerbreaker 3)

Has trouble vs arrow weilders (Takumi mostly) and has trouble vs Blue Mages (most notably Robin with the weapon that makes his attacks have advantage over colourless characters), but seems to do well overall.

I think Rank 5 Kagero could be a really good unit to have in a final team, assuming the Poison Dagger gets boosted power. Poison Dagger's advantage on infantry units (which would be busted as all fuck if found on someone even more powerful), combined with an archer to hit flying units (Takumi), a character with an advantage on armoured units (Oboro or Selena are both examples, though someone better would be ideal) and someone able to take on characters that can hit your characters really hard (a Green Mage might fit perfectly, covering Oboro and hitting Robin powerfully) would be a really tough team to deal with.

Alternatively, something able to take on cavalry units could be good, though I've not seen anyone with an ability or weapon with that power.

main reason I used that team was cos I ranked Lissa up and needed to grind her up again, Selena is awesome, this was the second Oboro I had and I wanted to see who had better stats, and Kagero has nice boobs

 

Summoned 5 things: another Setsuna (which bugs me cos that's the third one), 3 Donnels (which REALLY bugged me, at least I've got a 4-star one now), and a 5-star Catria. Catria is gonna be brought up the ranks shortly as a potential 4th member... but then I'll be REALLY weak to arrows...

btw Velvet, the Scott that added you that probably has Marth or Lissa up front is me

 

Gronnwolf red spell is super effective on cavalry units, so using a unit with that with Takumi / Kagero / armorslayer might just be the team to beat.

Poison Dagger+ does exist for 5-star Kagero btw. I've not upgraded her yet (cos feathers are rare as fuck), but that makes things a lot more interesting.

p.s. added metamence and pnerd

 

Too bad Hinoka is one of the worst princesses in Fates (I personally love her, talking statistically) ('-')_/ Nah but good job, I've yet to pull a 5-star

 

Well, I just managed to get 5-star focus Roy, but I can't say I'm overly happy about it. Roy is probably one of the worst 5-star focus characters, and there were 2 colourless orbs that didn't result in Takumi, so I can't be happy. RIP my chances of Takumi, considering the summon boards change tomorrow.

 

Eirika - fairly crap
Seliph - fairly crap
Ephraim - fairly crap
Julia - looks like she might be cool

3 new stages are piss easy to do, 9 free orbs are nice tho

New missions to do involve beating the stages in specific ways, such as by having a red mage on your team. Also missions that require you to roll the new characters to get 20 great crests, which is crap.

Eh, I'm almost at 20 orbs, I'll give the thing a roll soon.

 

Good thing I've been training up Raigh since the beginning (words I never thought I'd type). Should be fun, doing the maps now... and by doing I mean letting auto-battle handle Normal for me while I skim the semi-existent story.

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Summons time! Let's see what we get.

2 Green, 1 Red, 1 Blue, 1 Colorless, hmm...

Colorless gave me Serra (four stars). I think I already have a 4-Star Serra so that's OK I suppose.
First Green gave me... Cherche (three stars). I think I have a Cherche too so *shrugs*
Blue gave me... Est (three stars). Not impressed, trash. NEXT
Red gave me... Laslow (three stars). My first Laslow so I'll take it but honey, mama kicks your ass.
And finally, the second green gave me... Frederick (four stars). Not bad, not bad.

Could be better obviously but hey, I'll take what I can get.

 

I got bored and decided to work out the best value option for purchasing orbs, cos I was sat on the toilet and had nothing else to occupy me at the time lol
also note that I couldn't be arsed working it out as x.99, so just take 1p off of each price and that's what it is in the UK

3 for £2 = 1.5 orbs per £
10 for £6 = 1.666 orbs per £
23 for £13 = 1.769 orbs per £
35 for £20= 1.75 orbs per £
48 for £26 = 1.846 orbs per £
75 for £39 = 1.923 orbs per £
140 for £70 = 2 orbs per £

So generally, it's better value to get the more expensive options, with the exception of the 35 orb package being worse value than the 23 orb package.

In other news, Roy continues to be a constant disappointment.

Also for anyone who managed to get Tiki, check whether it speaks like a child or speaks like an adult. Apparently, the child Tiki is better than the adult Tiki. Apparently, male Robin is better than female Robin, and female Corrin is better than male Corrin, from what I've heard.

 

I'm a little interested in building an all-knight team. Admittedly, said team would be quite weak to Magic / Dragons (which is very bad because most of the best units are Magic or Dragons), but the support abilities that knights get to support other knights, the large variety of weapons for knights, and Hector make knights quite interesting.

Spoiler: all-knight team stuff

Hector's Goad Armor (+4 Atk/Spd to armoured allies within 2 spaces) + Distant Counter + Axe
Effie's Death Blow (+6 if starting combat) + Wary Fighter (no follow ups >50%) + Spear
Sheena's Svalinn Shield (Armorslayers don't beat her) + Fortify Armor (+6 Def/Res to adjacent armoured allies) + Axe OR A DECENT RED UNIT / HEALER (I'd probably say Ryoma for distance-counters, Lucina to counter Fae, or Elise for Gravity / Kindled-Fire / Recover)
Blue Mage: Linde - Fortify Res (+4 Res to adjacent allies) + Ardent Sacrifice (heal adjacent ally 10 HP, at the cost of 10 HP to yourself) + Aura (5 HP restored to adjacent allies when you initiate combat) + Blue Magic + huge attack + good speed + low defense which doesn't matter thanks to 2/3 knights | OR Robin - ignore everything else, we'd be using him for Blaraven, so he can hit colourless units super-hard.

Blue Magic, Effie's Spear and the general Resistance boosting can beat Red units.
Hector and Sheena's Axes can take on Blue units, with Sheena's huge resistance (minimum of 30 is huge for a knight) helping to take hits from Blue Mages, as well as her Fortify Armor ability helping the others to take hits in general.
Green units can be a pain. However, Fae is the only Green Dragon atm and she has the weakest Defense stat of all the Dragons. Green Mages aren't too common currently, though Julia might see some use now she's been added thanks to her Naga spell, but they pose the biggest threat of all, if they can get the OHKO. If not, they still lose to the sheer power of the units, and they need to be careful about trying to hit Hector.
Colourless units mostly lose: Healers don't want to mess with any of them (especially Hector), though they do get free heals off if they can stay out of attack range; Archers can't do too much damage to the high-Defense units, and Hector and Robin can counter-attack hard them too; and the most popular dagger units struggle to do damage nor seriously dent the armour of the units unless backed up by strong mages, and Kagero can only hit any non-Knight units hard.

i got bored and wanted to theory some shit lol, I'm well aware they'd actually just get flattened by everything with better mobility and decent magic.

also there's no flying mages yet, figured that was worth noting

I made this post to waste time til 7am GMT, so I could get my daily 2 orbs and do a roll. Let's see:

Rank 4 Clarine - already got that exact unit, not a bad healer though
Rank 3 Cecilia - already got that exact unit, she's terrible lol
Rank 3 Sully - 3rd repeat :<
Rank 4 Lilina - new unit, but with a Rank 5 Level 40 Leo, I won't use her at all
Rank 4 Abel - ok so Abel is apparently alright as an anti-sword unit, might consider using him

Not as good as it could have been, oh well

 

Halfway through Chapter 7 on Lunatic, maxed out my 4 star Corrin so I'ma need those feathers to come in baaad

In the meantime, got 5 more rolls, let's see what we got!

3 colorless, 1 red, 1 blue... first time without a color so interesting.

First colorless... 4 star Felicia! Considering my other two Felicia so far are 1-star and 2-star, I'll happily take it and sacrifice the other two for feathers.
The red gives me... 3-star Lon'qu... yay...?
Second colorless... 4-star Gaius! I don't like Gaius to begin with (see: Top 10 Overrated Fire Emblem Units w/BLAZINGKNIGHT) and I already have a ninja, so he'll just be nice eye CANDY.
The blue gives me... 3-star Robin, but he had a unique animation when I summoned him... odd. He'll be on the backburner.
And the last colorless... another 4-star Felicia... OKAY! (she'll get the Feather treatment too)

 

So he's still Focus, cool

 

Can confirm what pnerd said, happened to me too.

With that said, Robin is actually fairly shite imo. Unless the power boost from being a 5-star character + the power boost from his final weapon makes him a significantly better unit, I might just stop grinding up Robin at this point. Levelled him up to be a 4-star character, and he's just not pulling his weight at all.

Up to Lunatic 9-1 beaten now, 9-2 destroyed me. Think I'm going to need even more powerful units to be able to finish the last 4, and that's with my main 3 (Marth / Leo / Camilla) being maxed out now.