Fire Emblem Heroes

Made another try for Mathilda, got my pity increase burned by 5* Peri. Sigh.

I pulled the cavalry banner to try and get Titania.

Only pulled 4 times, but got a non -atk Cherche(for once), 3* Sully and Arthur, and....Linde? She's +def, -HP so she's usable.

Between Linde, Delthea, and Bride!Caeda I'm gonna need to figure out how I want to build them. Especially since I was already working on making Caeda(+Atk) a blade time user, but now Linde is probably the better option.

We have new missions that require Horse Emblem. They're not that hard if you have Xander and Camus.

They're easy even if you don't use them. I used Eldigan and Peri in place of them.

3-4*s can also handle it with few issues if you ensure they have good match-ups going in, especially if they've got someone with Hone Cavalry hanging around to give them extra oomph. I decided to double dip for some Hero Merit and brought along some of my scrubbier 4*s. It's actually funny how easy the Training Tower enemies seem after tackling Chain, Squad and Tempest.

Training a 4* Reinhardt is painful. Can't do anything without his main weapon. But he's got that now and tears through everything easily.

I love when an enemy unit's Vantage works on my favor. Today I encountered 2 Vantage Hectors on Arena, both times, Vantage only made the special charge faster, turning a chipping/softening blow into a kill. Second time was funnier though, Hector and Xander were on defense tiles, Xander was doing 12 damage, Vantage activated, Hector had Bonfire charged, Xander still got just 0 damage and Ignis charged up.

Got Phantom Seal and the last Crystals. I'd go for the Orbs, but the mental fatigue is real. Can't go on.

At least now I can focus on SP grinding, leveling up units I've procrastinated (mostly GH Bs) and getting the rest of the F2P Orbs from Chain Challenge.

So based on the ending cutscene for TT, the next one might be another Echoes one, this time with focus on Celica.

Reward unit's probably someone from her army, then. Maybe that's where Conrad shows up.

My only question would be what maps they would use. Or possibly they may have Celica appear in another region's Tempest Trials?

Well, Chapter 12 takes place in Valentia, and considering how the story is going, Chapter 13 could continue there (unless the Bruno cliffhanger is resolved by Veronica attacking Askr or him running away to another world).

If it does, we'll probably get Mycen and Kliff. We're already swimming in Echoes units to add even more, though.

I managed to land exactly zero Echoes units on Alm's banner with basically all of July's orbs (120+), so I'd rather not have the next TT require Delthea or Matilda for 40%.

"Funnily", both times my pity percentage got reset by a red, +HP -SPD unit despite me sniping only blue. Yes, twice I had to pull a red because of a pull without blue, and twice it happened with the same IV.

At least the second time around it was Eldigan who is usable with -SPD due to being rather slow. But still. Exact same outcome.

Well, double SP and no more ongoing events means I was able to grind without worth and got a lot done.

The icing on the cake waa I pulled a -HP/+ATK Sonya. I just need Fury/Swift Sparrow and Green Tomebreaker, and my Julia alt is set.

With the Echoes banners ending next week and the Summer one not too long after, we can look forward to new banners now.

Clive is set to be the next GHB more than likely and it's possible the July VG is around the corner (no clue what its theme will be).

The end of summer is close. Pollwinners when, IS?

I don't know, Clive doesn't really fit for a GHB. All GHB have been against units you fight in their home games (if you go with F!Robin=Hierophant/Grima). Clive has nothing that unique about him and he's never fought against. Like, the only units with non-unique skills or weapons are Narcian and Navarre (and Narcian was the first GHB while Navarre is implied to have been one of the first finalized GHB thanks to the Direct).

I think it's possible he's the reward for the next Tempest, since that one is also Echoes themed, and Clive is... underwhelming, to say the least, like Tobin. We'd need something like Berkut's GHB (amazing companion units, bad starting positions) which would be kinda repetitive.

F!Robin was a GHB though, so it's possible Clive might be one. Though, I do agree that Tempest Trials reward Clive seems more likely.

I really hope this "next TT is SOV again" theory gets debunked fast. Because that would also mean another SOV update to introduce new maps. In a series with a dozen games to pick from that would start being more annoying than anything else.

I mean, they already introduced five new maps and they didn't use the Fear Mountain and Nuibaba's Abode. So that is seven maps. Then again, they don't seem to like to use defence maps on Training Tower, so who knows.

Some of the new maps would be incredibly easy in the TT. 12-5 screams Distant Counter, for example.

But more importantly, we already got a LOT of SOV recently. They just got seven characters added. It's not like there isna shortage of games to pick from.

Guess we'll see soon.

Yeah, but Nintendo did say mobile games were meant to be advertisements for console releases, and SOV is the newest entry in FE, so it will be squeezed in Heroes until it runs dry. They probably have a "breather" banner prepared to introduce characters from other games, like the Ike banner between Alm and Celica or the New Mystery banner between Celica and the Alm/Celica armies one (the other banners between Celica and the SOV armies were Brides and Swimsuits, seasonal banners that didn't introduce any permanent heroes).

But again, if the story mode is anything to go by, next chapter will also take place in Valentia, even if between chapters we have a Paralogue introducing units from another game.

Also to consider that they just introduced six Gaiden characters. Those plus Celica and TT character would make eight characters. Enough for a full bonus hero lineup.

So after dozen of orbs trying for Delthea just to get Mathilda from Alm's Army banner, I try my luck in Celica's.

I get Sonya and Leon in the same session.

edited 22nd Jul '17 6:52:01 PM by 1337x

So, since this last TT is over, what are the units that annoyed you the most throughout your runs?

To me, those were:

• Kagero, because I did not run Flier Emblem to optimize HM, and as such, she was a ludicrous pain to deal with.
• Faye, because in the later stages she is annoyingly tanky, cannot be baited, and loves to teleport all over the field
• Roderick because holy hell what a nightmare a 3 Mvt, Drag Back, extremely fast unit can be

And dishonorable mentions go to Frederick (on map 7, he made it impossible for me to pull Celica because my Mae did not one-shoot her on counter, meaning that he killed her off with WOM), Boye (the 40+ DEF mage with Bonfire), Takumi, and F!Corrin (who can get some of the most humongous statlines possible through RNG on top of an annoying moveset).

Overall I would say red units tend not to be too annoying, except of course when the game decides that Vantage Ryoma should be a thing. Most of them have trash RES and I had Mae, which explains my relative lack of annoyance at them;

As for worst map, I'd like for anyone who isn't running flying emblem to try to argue that it wasn't the fucking valley.

I hated that one Echoes map with the two hills and the fort in the top corner. Most because the game loved putting Reinhardt and Kagero in the two slots nearest to your starting position.