Fire Emblem Heroes Topic: You knew this was coming!

[Shale]

Three full summons, one off-banner 5 star. But it was Effie, and I also got a 4-star Nowi, so I'll take it.

[Dark Holy Elf]

New banner is: Klein, Lachesis, Olwen, Reinhardt, Sanaki and Eldigan

Two semi obscure characters from Fire Emblem 5, Fail FE6 Archer #2, more incest, and Tallychu's waifu

Actually, this is our first Fail FE6 Archer; you will have to wait patiently for Wolt and Dorothy.

I do think it's a bit weird that the new banner only has 1/6 characters from internationally released FEs; if we don't get any more before March 14 or whatever this does potentially seem like a way to start bleeding fans. But my guess is they're setting up for something reasonably big next: Sanaki being on a sibling-themed banner strongly suggests we'll get Micaiah soon.

Also the next banner has also been leaked, similar to the Fighting Robin one: Effie/Nino/Setsuna/Felicia. It's a more interesting crop of units gameplaywise than Fighting Robin was, at least. Nino being there (along with noted mage-slayer Felicia and noted thief-slayer Setsuna) strongly suggests Ursula is the next Grand Hero battle.

[VySaika]

Dropped 60 orbs on the new banner(all I had stockpiled) because I wanted a Brave Tome mage cav something fierce. Got Olwen and 5* Ogma(considering 4* Ogma is already part of my main arena team I'll take it). Also a few interesting 4 stars to play with on any further "use all sword/lance/axe/bow/whatever" missions that come up.

Very happy with it, since my best blue tome user was Male Robin at 4* who was Def-(on a unit that stacks Def shit and uses a Def based limit). SHould be a ~fun~ new arena team to build up, esp once this season ends and I get the feathers needed to send Nino to 5*.

[Meiousei]

So I rolled on the cellphone account. No focus characters but 5* Cordelia and 4* Male Corrin.

So I decide to roll all my saved orbs on the tablet account. Somehow I got another Seliph, Epharim and Maria. NO. FOCUS. CHARACTERS.

my karma has come back to bite me in the butt big time.

[Captain K]

Finally saved up 20000 feathers.  And had nobody good to promote.  All my characters have terrible natures except Chrom, and Chrom is really bad.  So I promoted Jagen for science, since nobody knows his max stats yet.

[Shale]

I'm holding off on further summoning/promoting until they add ability transfers. It's entirely possible that'll put the whole current meta into a blender.

[Captain K]

Current meta is hacking, so nothing really matters anyway.

[Reiska]

It only gets worse the higher you go, my highest units are in the low 30s and I can easily go through my entire stamina bar without gaining a single level on any of them because of shitty tower maps causing outright wipes or just killing the characters gaining most of the EXP each time.

Mmm...not that I haven't wiped in the training tower, cause I totally have.  But like...the only unit I abandoned levelling cause he died too much was a 3-star Odin whom I was only levelling for the Arena focus hero bonus, before I decided to stop being cheap and promote my 2 star Narcian to 3 star.  But my 2 star Anna is about the same level Odin was and is doing fine.

In general the lower the star level the character the harder it will be to level, of course, since you get a lot more exp when killing enemies higher level than yourself, so having high stats for your level is helpful...which 4 star and 5 star units have.  Getting 4 star heroes to 40 is pretty easy in my experience.  (I didn't have much trouble getting 4 star Ovelia to 40 for instance, even though she's a dancer and "supposed" to be hard to level).

It might just be that I don't have characters with things like "HP" and "defenses" (the best team I can field is Tiki, Kagero, Nino, and Effie).  Mage cavaliers hose Effie pretty good; Kagero has decent res but crap HP, and Nino is made of paper against everything, so.

[Excal]

Mildly surprised that Corrin is a blue mage, though she's still fairly decent.  Also got my third 4-star character in Felicia.  She seems ok, and her silver daggers are nifty.

[Hunter Sopko]

So after so long of bad pulls... this happened:



Sooo yeah. I'm happy.

Olwen got me enough Azure Great Seals to promote Sharena to 5*, so I'm doubly happy all around ^ ^

[metroid composite]

Still haven't opened a second five star.

But I did level a one-star Olivia to level 40!

[Dark Holy Elf]

why

[Laggy]

but why

it's about sending a message

[Luther Lansfeld]

I've gotten 2 five-star Seliphs!!! Who are worse than most of my four star units

[Dark Holy Elf]

If it were a 2* Olivia I'd get it since there's something to be said for getting her as much SP as possible then making her a 3* Level 1 Dancer with all her skills learned in order to cheese the arena. Getting a 1* Olivia to 40 just feels like an exercise in self-hate and mc is one of the DLers I associate less with that than most!


I have gotten two more 5* units, Olwen and Klein. Olwen appears to be +Atk which is really cool for a brave user, it means she'll be able to OHKO Takumi with Hone Attack for instance. Klein... well, my crop of physical 2-range was utter dogshit so it's nice to have one, I guess? Currently also levelling up Nino so I'll have a decent green (as is I don't have a wonderful answer to mage blues like Robin... and Ursula is probably around the corner so yeah).

[metroid composite]

If it were a 2* Olivia I'd get it since there's something to be said for getting her as much SP as possible then making her a 3* Level 1 Dancer with all her skills learned in order to cheese the arena. Getting a 1* Olivia to 40 just feels like an exercise in self-hate and mc is one of the DLers I associate less with that than most!

I mean, my initial thought was the SP, which I quickly realized would be better at 2 star.  But mostly I did it for the comedy.  Specifically, Reddit is constantly complaining about how hard it is to level up 4 star Olivia (whom I found fairly easy to get to 40).

Laggy and I have been laughing at some of the reactions on Reddit all morning; totally worth:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/5xhi7t/one_star_olivia_level_40_stats/

[Shale]

Took another look at the current banner and my roster, figured I probably won't have this good a shot at decent mages for a while, and threw in some more orbs. No featured characters, but 5 star Lilinia with +ATK/-HP. She burns stuff REAL good.

[Grefter]

Playing games to troll Reddit.

NEW META

[Laggy]

Surprise new banners. I see Lucina back up again and regret not having been able to pull her, and I haven't pulled since the first 2 banners. Poke the princesses banner.

1 red, 1 green, 3 colorless. Open Red. Immediately greeted by Lucina animation. +Spd -Atk.

You know what? Okay. I can live with 47 Atk and 39 Spd.

EDIT: I lied, I tried pulling again one hour later because I run Nino and was like "you know Eirika would be really cool, and if I got another Lucina I wouldn't complain."

1 red, 3 green, 1 colorless, open red, 5* Eirika +Spd -Def.

I don't think I will surpass the value of these 10 orbs in a long time.

[Shale]

Same thinking, got another 5* Lilina.

[Meeplelard]

I see 2 new banners, both are 2 Reds + something not red.  Meh, not going to throw a lot of orbs at it, but I feel like if I don't throw 5 orbs at a banner given my stock, I'll be just hording orbs.

So first banner!  1 Colorless, 2 Blue, and 2 Red? Ok, that's worth 3 pulls (I don't need Red AT ALL.)  Colorless is 3* Clarine, 3* Odin, and...OOH! ANIMATION! IT'S ROBIN AN-...3* Robin.  God damn it game, don't give me animations if you're going to do a troll like that! 

Ok, so Robin is cool, but gotta be promoted and that's annoying.  That said, 2nd banner and I get...no Reds.  Do my pulls, I get
3* Gunter
3* Donnel
3* something I got rid of I can't remember because it was a dupe
5* Ephraim
5* Catria

...yeah, I think I'm good.  I wanted to promote Est to 5* for the longest time, but I think getting 5* Catria also works as a solution to that.  Ephraim of course is nice if I need another 5* Blue.  Now all I need is a decent Green, which I can get either by promoting Raven or Nino at some point.

[Dark Holy Elf]

I also got two 5* off two summons (got all five both times, because there was no blue and blue is the colour I'm overstocked on). First was kinda underwhelming beyond giving me a 4* Raven, a much-needed addition to my underpowered axe lineup. Second... ANIMATION!!!!... gives me Roy. Bah. Fortunately, 4*, so doesn't drive down my odds of getting things I actually want. Then I get 5* Eirika and Sheena. Latter of whom is also a princess so I guess that's fitting? Anyway my Eirika is -Spd +Def so she's gonna be much more utility than Laggy's but with Nino and Olwen around to benefit from such things I'll take that any day. Sheena is +Def -Atk so even more extreme than she normally is, tanky with dogshit offence. Not very exciting for a 5* but I did need axe-users and hey now I'm one step closer to being able to do that crazy quest involving using four armour knights in Lunatic 7-5.

I also beat all but the final story map, may detail strats and such later when I don't have to run off to work.

[metroid composite]

So...I woke up at 6am, Laggy told me there was a new banner I should pull on, so I did a couple times without realizing there were two new banners; pulled red a couple times on the ephraim banner.  Oops.

Started with like...73 orbs.  Wasted 14 or so on the Ephraim banner (although I did randomly pull a blue on that banner by accident, so could have gotten an Ephraim), anyway, so 59 orbs or so for the Lucina Erika banner.  Pulled nothing but red every time until I had 3 orbs left.  No 5 stars.  Still haven't pulled a single 5-star since I rerolled on the first day.

Good news, though, I have inspired others to follow in my glorious footsteps; someone got a 2-star Olivia to 40, for science.

[Meiousei]

I decide that (against my better judgement) to roll in the Princes gatcha on the cellphone account. Why against? Because I got clobbered with Chroms and Epharims. Earlier my roll granted me a +Atk, -Spd Reinhardt so I was a bit annoyed with that (and also happy since I have a blue ranged caster). So I rolled. Thinking I won't get a Leo, I type in the chat, eh I probably won't get him, mostly because of the Siblings fiasco. Last orb gives me +Atk, -Res Leo. Well got a red tome user (finally) and now I debate rolling in FGO now.

[Luther Lansfeld]

i finally turned to the dark side and bought orbs, got 5-star eirika.