Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
edited August 2018
Dear game... If you can please not drop my score too much I'd appreciate it. I want my crown dammit:
That said, I have a week to get more Frederick merges. He's already +4. And his Slaying Hammer is friggin AMAZING for scoring bonus point kills. Legit though, I don't even regret pivoting to merging him. I've actually been able to kill Zelgius with him a few times (sometimes requires some previous damage on him, and sometimes he's just too stronk, but still... That's damn good)
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So, I've managed to get Micaiah, but in my search for Elincia, I've instead stumbled upon Kana... and Grima. I guess I can't complain, I didn't have either of them.
i don't know if Spd is too terrible a bane for her if you can get her a swift sparrow /desparation build. She really can't take a physical hit either so those melee that would double are going to kill her regardless and her res combined with the HP boon should compensate
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DuriniaEvolved from Space PotatoesRegistered Userregular
Dear game... If you can please not drop my score too much I'd appreciate it. I want my crown dammit:
What was your score?
Arvis was doing great getting me kills as well. I might actually sniff tier 20 this week.
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Also looks like I have dropped to rank 244 since that picture last night, but the threshold for great summoner is 1-2025 now, so basically free.
Edit: You know, I was real iffy about the arena changes as were a lot of people, rightfully so. But now I'm not sure having experienced it. Great Summoner isn't like this gigantic ass rank for ultra-whales so much (I mean, it kind of is, but it's not requiring 4 +10s like I thought it might) and getting bonus points for your bonus unit actually kind of offsets if you don't happen to have a lot of merges on them. It's weirdly having the opposite effect I thought it might (i.e. make the rich richer with +10 bonus units getting kills and inflating their score even higher)
I’m curious to see how this works out, but I still believe this favors those who spend money over those who don’t due to having more resources. If I have 2 unmerged bonus units each week, that’s fine. Others might have several merged and refined units which makes it easier to get those bonus points.
Having tier 21 might open up some room for more folks to hit and stay in tier 20 though which could be nice.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
I’m curious to see how this works out, but I still believe this favors those who spend money over those who don’t due to having more resources. If I have 2 unmerged bonus units each week, that’s fine. Others might have several merged and refined units which makes it easier to get those bonus points.
Having tier 21 might open up some room for more folks to hit and stay in tier 20 though which could be nice.
Yeah I really wanna see how it shakes out. But so far it's much less ass than I was expecting, so maybe it'll be ok? The main thing I wasn't expecting was that it seems to favor using a bonus unit that can score kills over having high merges, which I think will ultimately help non-whales a bit. Especially when it comes to those GHB units and the like that are super hard to merge up but otherwise not bad units and also free.
All that said, it's earth week so Female Grima is giving me bonus points. I'll have to see how things look next week when it's not an earth season.
i don't know if Spd is too terrible a bane for her if you can get her a swift sparrow /desparation build. She really can't take a physical hit either so those melee that would double are going to kill her regardless and her res combined with the HP boon should compensate
Nothing is really saving 28 SPD, and she isn't taking Nino's job as a green player phase mage, or Deirdre as a green magic wall, so I was hoping there might be a Gronnserpent tome out there I can combine with DD A + Guard and make her a general purpose ranged wall.
Also, I started setting up some equipment sets and I'm sad the rename function is across the board instead of unit specific.
While I am normally sporting Dauntless Lance and Steady Breath these days, I also noticed Neph has a pretty attractive skill set in Slaying lance + spd, luna/aether, fury, wrath, and the flashing blade seal.
Spending some time setting up some equipment sets has made me spot a few units I've completely forgotten to finish learning skills on but have been using for a while now :redface:
I've always viewed Sonya as an offensive green mage. Mine has -res and has had some challenges tanking Reinhardt for example, same with debuffing with her 29 res (I think). I generally don't use her that much save for some AA stuff.
That said, her speed being below 30 makes it challenging to use her for doubling offense, but her +10 dmg to special tome helps if you can trigger that during player phase.
I’m curious to see how this works out, but I still believe this favors those who spend money over those who don’t due to having more resources. If I have 2 unmerged bonus units each week, that’s fine. Others might have several merged and refined units which makes it easier to get those bonus points.
Having tier 21 might open up some room for more folks to hit and stay in tier 20 though which could be nice.
Yeah I really wanna see how it shakes out. But so far it's much less ass than I was expecting, so maybe it'll be ok? The main thing I wasn't expecting was that it seems to favor using a bonus unit that can score kills over having high merges, which I think will ultimately help non-whales a bit. Especially when it comes to those GHB units and the like that are super hard to merge up but otherwise not bad units and also free.
All that said, it's earth week so Female Grima is giving me bonus points. I'll have to see how things look next week when it's not an earth season.
Before, scoring broke down as mostly a merge dependent thing. The skill factor was sustaining a deathless streak, which is arguably easier at the higher tiers once you're mostly out maneuvering armors and the ranged horsemen of the apocalypse are below your score bracket. So the score hierarchy was as follows:
*whales who had specced out +10 versions of whichever units score highest, and +10 bonus units
*players who had built up a +10 core of arena units, even if they aren't the top scorers, and they might not have a +10 bonus unit.
*everyone else.
Now there is an extra skill factor involved of who can make the most kills with the bonus units. Whales with the best of everything still have the highest score potential if they also have the skill to back it up. However now there is more wiggle room for overlap amongst whales who throw money at the problem but lack the skill to orchestrate setting bonus unit kills, and players who have less stellar scoring teams but are adept at setting up bonus unit kills.
I also think that the meta change of prioritizing bonus kills will raise the importance of having a synergistic team with strong builds instead of throwing high scoring units with high scoring skills at the problem. For example, I think that these changes buff the windsweep and watersweep skills. Those skills are useful for for getting off free hits, but the restriction of one attack means that the swept attack is rarely lethal. A downside under most circumstances previously, but potentially a meta upside if it lets you safely setup kills for your bonus unit. I consider this a win for my F!Grima's windsweep/dark breath set. Soften up the enemy with a safe dark breath, then have a bonus unit with an enemy phase set reposition Grima out of the way to welcome the injured and debuffed enemies with open arms.
can someone explain in real words the windsweep/watersweep skills. Is it basically if you have it equipped you can't counter (ala firesweep weapons). If you have the criteria spd> opponent and they are a weapon type your opponent can't counter? I get thrown by the first being called follow up, and the second being called counter. Can still double or are you only able to hit once?
Firesweep lets you attack normally without reprisal on player phase but you can't counter on enemy phase.
Wind/Watersweep lets you attack only once on player phase without reprisal (depending on target's weapon type) but lets you counter normally on enemy phase.
If your unit outspeeds the sword/axe/lance opponent by 1 point or more, then they can't counterattack when you initiate an attack. However, you can't execute a follow up attack (ie, "doubling them" ) . When the enemy initiates an attack, you can still counter attack and execute follow up attacks like normal.
Watersweep works the same, except against different weapon types.
Now got a third free five star from these daily banners. Insane! Tried for neph today and instead got a second Linde... Who was my second ever five star. Her +hp -atk IVs mean she has been benched lately. Took the opportunity to merge into the new -def +res and even get her pref tome.
She is pretty legit when paired with any other magic user! 45 speed on initiation and 57 atk, along with good res tanking at 33.
I like Lyon, Arvis, Xander, Camus, and Linus. All strong with good personal weapons. Lyon is mostly nostalgic over pure power, but with triangle adept he can murder greens and brave Lyn.
How cool is the latest TT? A collage of the final maps of previous TTs, and some reference to relevant lore for Micaiah. AND another merge for my black Knight. What's not to love??
How cool is the latest TT? A collage of the final maps of previous TTs, and some reference to relevant lore for Micaiah. AND another merge for my black Knight. What's not to love??
Getting another Clive instead of a new seal? As much as I've been waiting to inherit some Defense +3...
But really the rewards are good and TT+ is still the best event by lightyears, especially compared to Grind Conquest. They should just replace every event with more Tempest Trials.
I wouldn't be surprised if TT's start giving out fewer seals and more heroes or alternative prizes. Seals are great, but IMO some skills would be too dangerous to create as seals such as DC, vantage, or steady breath. Although the do sort of forestall the inevitable by releasing new skills.
I'm still hoping for a wildcard merge item.
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The +10 Reinhardt/BLyn teams are coming out of the woodwork tonight. They didn't get a win from me, but may misfortune fall upon them.
Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
So as cool as this new FEH quiz thing is... seriously, wtf is this first question? "Please watch this video in slow motion and count the ice shards" is not a "trivia question" :P The answer is 27 btw.
So as cool as this new FEH quiz thing is... seriously, wtf is this first question? "Please watch this video in slow motion and count the ice shards" is not a "trivia question" :P The answer is 27 btw.
thanks for the heads up. I would have completely missed this
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Today was lucky. Found my first Mia and Ares (5*) in my opening circles. Mia is neutral, Ares is +DEF/-ATK. I also found my first 4* Ares, whose IVs were garbage. I fed the 4* one to Alfonse. Vantage with double brazen atk/def is no joke.
i was actually wondering if Effie was going to get a new weapon or something. She was a focus for a bunch of the banners.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
My gut says legendary Marth, but I think we'll know on Sunday night when the trailer for the next banner comes. Almost guarantee the legendary will be from the same game as that banner.
Alfonse actually isn't that bad at combat in the arena these days. He takes after Arden a bit. He's really strong and tough once those brazen skills kick in (69 ATK/54 Def) . I think that I can probably live with him until I finish polishing my arena core and can start investing in a stable of merged bonus units. Especially if a lot of people don't bother with securing frequent bonus unit kills.
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KasynI'm not saying I don't like our chances.She called me the master.Registered Userregular
Bonus unit kills are coming a little easier than I expected, I've been able to get 2-3 a match with Bowcina. The arena changes on the whole still completely blow, though.
I did end my run against a team of 4 greens, including a pair of +10 Myrrh's who were both running Iote's. Seemed kinda purpose-built to troll L! Lucinas, I was rather annoyed.
Well, today was the last daily Summoning Focus..all in all I got one measly 5-star from all of them. That was Hardin though, so I guess I can't complain too much. Gonna need to make an Armor Emblem team at some point.
The idea with deflect melee on slow melee units is so you can initiate and then greatly blunt their double attack. The effect is so strong it can even work against triangle disadvantage.
Then both brazens and vantage are active, and maybe a special...
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That said, I have a week to get more Frederick merges. He's already +4. And his Slaying Hammer is friggin AMAZING for scoring bonus point kills. Legit though, I don't even regret pivoting to merging him. I've actually been able to kill Zelgius with him a few times (sometimes requires some previous damage on him, and sometimes he's just too stronk, but still... That's damn good)
I'll have to think about what to do with that later. Is there a green guard tome? Or is owl the closest thing?
What was your score?
Arvis was doing great getting me kills as well. I might actually sniff tier 20 this week.
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3765
Also looks like I have dropped to rank 244 since that picture last night, but the threshold for great summoner is 1-2025 now, so basically free.
Edit: You know, I was real iffy about the arena changes as were a lot of people, rightfully so. But now I'm not sure having experienced it. Great Summoner isn't like this gigantic ass rank for ultra-whales so much (I mean, it kind of is, but it's not requiring 4 +10s like I thought it might) and getting bonus points for your bonus unit actually kind of offsets if you don't happen to have a lot of merges on them. It's weirdly having the opposite effect I thought it might (i.e. make the rich richer with +10 bonus units getting kills and inflating their score even higher)
Having tier 21 might open up some room for more folks to hit and stay in tier 20 though which could be nice.
Yeah I really wanna see how it shakes out. But so far it's much less ass than I was expecting, so maybe it'll be ok? The main thing I wasn't expecting was that it seems to favor using a bonus unit that can score kills over having high merges, which I think will ultimately help non-whales a bit. Especially when it comes to those GHB units and the like that are super hard to merge up but otherwise not bad units and also free.
All that said, it's earth week so Female Grima is giving me bonus points. I'll have to see how things look next week when it's not an earth season.
Nothing is really saving 28 SPD, and she isn't taking Nino's job as a green player phase mage, or Deirdre as a green magic wall, so I was hoping there might be a Gronnserpent tome out there I can combine with DD A + Guard and make her a general purpose ranged wall.
Also, I started setting up some equipment sets and I'm sad the rename function is across the board instead of unit specific.
While I am normally sporting Dauntless Lance and Steady Breath these days, I also noticed Neph has a pretty attractive skill set in Slaying lance + spd, luna/aether, fury, wrath, and the flashing blade seal.
That said, her speed being below 30 makes it challenging to use her for doubling offense, but her +10 dmg to special tome helps if you can trigger that during player phase.
Before, scoring broke down as mostly a merge dependent thing. The skill factor was sustaining a deathless streak, which is arguably easier at the higher tiers once you're mostly out maneuvering armors and the ranged horsemen of the apocalypse are below your score bracket. So the score hierarchy was as follows:
*whales who had specced out +10 versions of whichever units score highest, and +10 bonus units
*players who had built up a +10 core of arena units, even if they aren't the top scorers, and they might not have a +10 bonus unit.
*everyone else.
Now there is an extra skill factor involved of who can make the most kills with the bonus units. Whales with the best of everything still have the highest score potential if they also have the skill to back it up. However now there is more wiggle room for overlap amongst whales who throw money at the problem but lack the skill to orchestrate setting bonus unit kills, and players who have less stellar scoring teams but are adept at setting up bonus unit kills.
I also think that the meta change of prioritizing bonus kills will raise the importance of having a synergistic team with strong builds instead of throwing high scoring units with high scoring skills at the problem. For example, I think that these changes buff the windsweep and watersweep skills. Those skills are useful for for getting off free hits, but the restriction of one attack means that the swept attack is rarely lethal. A downside under most circumstances previously, but potentially a meta upside if it lets you safely setup kills for your bonus unit. I consider this a win for my F!Grima's windsweep/dark breath set. Soften up the enemy with a safe dark breath, then have a bonus unit with an enemy phase set reposition Grima out of the way to welcome the injured and debuffed enemies with open arms.
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Wind/Watersweep lets you attack only once on player phase without reprisal (depending on target's weapon type) but lets you counter normally on enemy phase.
If your unit outspeeds the sword/axe/lance opponent by 1 point or more, then they can't counterattack when you initiate an attack. However, you can't execute a follow up attack (ie, "doubling them" ) . When the enemy initiates an attack, you can still counter attack and execute follow up attacks like normal.
Watersweep works the same, except against different weapon types.
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She is pretty legit when paired with any other magic user! 45 speed on initiation and 57 atk, along with good res tanking at 33.
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This is finally an opportunity for me earn buckets of SP with Sharena.
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Strong and tough
Armchair: 4098-3704-2012
Getting another Clive instead of a new seal? As much as I've been waiting to inherit some Defense +3...
But really the rewards are good and TT+ is still the best event by lightyears, especially compared to Grind Conquest. They should just replace every event with more Tempest Trials.
I'm still hoping for a wildcard merge item.
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The +10 Reinhardt/BLyn teams are coming out of the woodwork tonight. They didn't get a win from me, but may misfortune fall upon them.
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I’m tempted to pull for one or both since bold fighter is good fodder that I’d give to my Sheena I think.
thanks for the heads up. I would have completely missed this
I'll put it in the OP for an easy link back each day.
Edit: I just realized we actually only have one new banner running right now. It feels weird :P
Edit 2: LOLz
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At least it lets me continue to save. Maybe Alm will be the new legendary instead.
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I did end my run against a team of 4 greens, including a pair of +10 Myrrh's who were both running Iote's. Seemed kinda purpose-built to troll L! Lucinas, I was rather annoyed.
The idea with deflect melee on slow melee units is so you can initiate and then greatly blunt their double attack. The effect is so strong it can even work against triangle disadvantage.
Then both brazens and vantage are active, and maybe a special...