Fire Emblem Heroes

I'm the same. Defense used to give me trouble until I switched to Armor Emblem.

I've never had troubles with Defense. I use the team I run against regular Arena. Guess they brute force it?

I recently got a +Def/Res Dorcas. Now I don't really care much for him but I figure I might as well have him built up for the Tempest Trial and should I occasionally need him. Do any of you have any suggestions?

edited 20th Nov '17 2:54:11 PM by RussellStar5641

Last week was the first time in ages I had to wait until the last day to get my def. Usually my fliers catch 3-5 attackers a week.

Also, I looked at the Prf weapons which I think still deserve an upgrade at the moment. I listed Folkvangr, Yato, Regal Blade, Binding Blade, Eckesachs, Fensalir, Noatun, Parthia, Brynhildr, Cymbeline. So, a lot of swords, and a couple of other things - mostly because tomes are overall better (and great ones already got boosted). Sieglinde and Armads are borderline examples, because while they are technically of similar tier to weapons that are going to get a boost (Siegmund & Sol Katti, respectively), their bearers really don't need to be improved at the moment.

Among those, I will make the following bets:

• The Askrian weapons will get boosted together down the line. Not now because they want Fjorm to powercreep the trio a bit, but later.
• Yato will get upgraded when (a) Kana is released holding Omega Yato. Possibly on the COBAW banner.
• Brynhildr will get upgraded when Forrest is released. Also possibly on the COBAW banner. But it's less likely, as at the moment they don't want to buff mounted mages it seems.
• Regal Blade will get upgraded when Linus is released, possibly in Light Brand.
• I have no idea what to do with Binding Blade, Eckesachs and Cymbeline.

I mentioned this before, but Cymbeline will get anti-beast trait when beast units are introduced

@Chris: That does remind me that if they should maybe not have a CYL 2, but still hold a popularity pool. It would be interesting to see how things have changed from when CYL was held. Though maybe they should wait until the next FE game.

Possible indeed.

Also I stayed in Tier 20 for the first time with 4950.

x7 I just assume that if it has Distant Counter, it likely has Vantage.

It's wings of mercy on unorthodox units that tends to make me lose.

I can't wait to run my Wings of Mercy Sharena + 3 Armors team again. My defense wins in one week of running this were something crazy like at least 12...

So, this new Tempest Trial. The first three maps are more or less easy and forgettable. The next three are the Brave Heroes maps, and they are trickier as the pillars make it harder to pull only one enemy depending on who you are facing.

The final map features Bike (middle), one melee (top), one ranged (top left), one melee horse (bottom left) and another ranged (bottom). Ranged horses can engage the top melee right off the bat, but they'll have to tank the nearby ranged afterwards...so, basically, it's a shoe-in for Brave Lyn, unless the ranged is a Brave Bow user.

If you want to down Bike, a red (or green, but red is better) mage is very highly recommended, because Steady Breath + Urvan + Beorc's Blessing means swords will struggle. It's better if said mage is not a Blade because, well, Beorc's Blessing. And with Aether he might screw your time score on his own if you aren't careful to quickly finish him off.

Seals are Close Defense, Savage Blow, and Hone Spd. Nifty.

edited 21st Nov '17 12:45:29 AM by Julep

Holy shit, I think the devs knew they made Julia's boss stage too easy. Getting an A rank in survival is actually tough, no thanks to Bike's One-Man Army stats.

Beorc's Blessing only works on enemy fliers and cavs, so an infantry Gronn/Raudrblade still explodes him. Heavy-hitting swords still do pretty well if Brave Ike initiates, since they'll get in two hits of full damage before needing to worry about Aether. Some ranged support may still be needed to weaken him into two-shot range, depending on the sword, though.

edited 21st Nov '17 1:03:07 AM by KuroiTsubasaTenshi

I've been thinking, I totally forgot Blucina was also a bonus unit. Starting tomorrow in manual battle, I should probably put in "Team Klein & Blucina" as the first team instead of Team Blyn.

In autobattle, my Fury Riders destroy maps quickly but they never complete the last map alive. Not a big problem when I just set up autobattle team 2, then start autobattle again to just go back to what I was doing.

CD and Hone Spd Seals are cool. Savage Blow can lead to some hilarious Splash Damage when stacked with the normal skill.

Don't forget stacking poison strike 3 and deathly dagger on top of that. My jaffar's getting that seal and i'm never taking it off of him.

The absolute joke would be if deathly dagger's forge upgrade allow the splashs damage to kill enemies. suddenly i'd run jaffy a lot more often.

edited 21st Nov '17 4:05:48 AM by Yumil

Finally pulled a Nekura. She's hp+ spd-, so I'm sort of sad, but that sounds like a decent mage QR bait.

EDIT: Tried to double down on my luck and pull a discount green after Nekura, pulled Camilla.

Can I salvage Camilla with 5 stars merges? I still have this second Flyer team to improve. Well, either way, the future of this Camilla is not bright, not with speed down res up.

What do you guys think, should I spend more orbs to go after Vamry while the banner's here or I should just stack orbs for the coming events? For that matter, I don't even have a proper bonus unit for this TT.

edited 21st Nov '17 5:19:02 AM by QuestionMarc

You have no Brave unit, even Lyn/Roy/Lucina? Joshua looks alright, especially with Close Def and the Bonus, he should deal with Bike without too much effort once you reach 30k. There is no real reason to spend your orbs right now (aside from impulse, obviously). And -Spd Camilla doesn't sound good.

I have Brave Lyn, which is better than nothing. It's not one of the 40% units, but I don't think the extra 20% is worth gambling away all the TT orbs I'll get.

As for this specific Camilla, she would be fed to strengthen my atk up def down Camilla, or she would give her Brave Axe + to my Cherche.

My TT team is mutton, Miss Broken, The Boy, and Clarine. So far I'm about 50/50 on whether I make it. Bike is dangerous when I don't bring a mage.

Go for BA+ Cherche. She is an awesome murderbot. She does exactly one thing - kill everything - but she does it very well (okay, she can also tank a lance once in a while).

Draw Back/Hit and Run BA+ Cherche works well, even before you get Death Blow and a Fortify Fliers support.

Right now I go with Brave Lyn, Broy, Roderick and Olinja, and it's fine. Only two non-maxed out units but Broy isn't really made for this TT, since the Brave maps favor ranged units and he is that red who really isn't made to beat Bike.

edited 21st Nov '17 6:56:36 AM by Julep

Okay! Using my own Bike, Nino, Sharena and BK +1, it's going well.

This Tempest's story is actually very funny. Apathetic Citizens much? Quite the Breather Episode after Seliph's meeting with mommy and daddy.

"It can destroy your world!" "Well, how much are you paying?"

The opening is funny. The actual gameplay (and map choice) is not.

On a typical Lunatic 7 run, sure, the first 3 maps or so are taken from the easier Eliwood/Roy stages. But then you get all three CYL paralogue maps with enemies that not only turtle like hell to deflate your speed rating, but also picked in certain comps frequently to screw your squad over. Doesn't help that Bike actually is a tough nut to crack with a rather tricky map.

I'm using Bike, Mia, Azura, and Elise for this one. Raked in 4.5k points at the start.

edited 21st Nov '17 7:49:30 AM by mariovsonic999

This will be my next project.

For now, since Brave Lyn is a good girl that will fetch me a lot of orbs, I decided to treat her a lot.

• Brave Bow +
• Deathblow 3 (but I'll probably keep Sparrow Strike for the quads)
• Quick Riposte 3

I want to publicly apologize for creating such a monster. Ostensibly, I won't deploy it in Arena. Maybe.

edited 21st Nov '17 7:58:17 AM by QuestionMarc

that's weird, my broy has zero problems shredding bike to pieces. in fact he's probably my unit that is the most effective against him barring sanaki and maaaaaaybe elincia.

Those TT stats boosts really does wonders for him.

edited 21st Nov '17 8:06:28 AM by Yumil

Maybe he's +Atk, or merged, or has Spur Cav support, but my Broy will hit Ike for 18-21 + 0.2*18-21 (because Urvan) - so not much, and then that puts him in Aether range. If he attacks again, Ike kills him with his special. Hone Cav doesn't work because Beorc. And he can't give a "big hit" because Galeforce doesn't boost damage.

I manage to down him but Roy definitely needs support - default Roy would actually be vastly superior.

So I'm curious as to how your Roy manages to easily down Ike.

edited 21st Nov '17 8:25:21 AM by Julep

Does anybody have any suggestions on a B skill for Mia? Other than Desperation, I mean (I don't think it works that well for her). I'm thinking Wings of Mercy or Escape Route, but I'm wondering if there are other options.