Wonder which heroes will be involved in the next Forging Bonds event, because so far they've used the most recent released ones, and the Event Calendar doesn't have any new batches between now and the next Forging Bonds. I doubt Ylgr, Surtr, and Gharnef will going on a potentially wacky campaign together, but the idea tickled me a bit.
Honestly it might just be the Adrift units. Or I could see them doing something different like all four Askr heroes maybe in prep for book 3
Wonder how viable putting Pivot on him would be; having the AI shoot himself forward and force the players to deal with him.
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Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
Finished off the second half of Book II and the remaining three Paralogues today. Benched Anna for Surtr on my story team; after all the trouble he put me through Surtr is gonna do some work for me.
Had a poor aether run today. Got 3x80 then a loss for not paying attention.
While I’m still ranked well at 4280, I haven’t eaten the lift loss from failed defenses since I broke 4K today.
I think the big bummer is that ranking seems to continue carrying over for who knows how long meaning falling behind isn’t necessarily a short term issue.
I figured out you should create multiple teams for attack because you can choose the team after seeing the defense setup. If you didn’t create multiple teams prior to spending your aether, tough luck!
Always watch for the lunge tricks and wings of mercy.
I hit tier 11 and immediately got slammed on defense and lost 80. The thing is, my current setup seems decent and sometimes gets wins or at least kills a couple. It just doesn't reward you for that. You need to somehow have perfect defense over a 24 hour period to avoid getting docked? I don't think anyone can do that!
Maybe once we get six defenders and more traps or something.
If some of the winning party is killed it will reduce the amount of Lift lost, so hope any losses will be narrow ones and then for 20 hours after the loss you can get obliterated without penalty. Which seems kind of unfair now that I think about it.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
So my offense strategies for Aether Raids usually comes down to one of three strategies, which I see if they are viable in this order:
1) Bait enemies out with Fae or L!Tiki. Clean up with them and Vanessa support.
2) Steamroll as many enemies as possible in a single turn with Reinhardt/B!Lyn and two dancers.
3) Cherche and Aversa power hour.
Just ran into a defense team that had Armor Jakob with a Brave Bow/Deathblow/Bold Fighter/Ignis, backed with Elise, B!Lyn, and a dancer, with a full mix of tactics. The two cavs didn't have an assist, so the AI would move them before the dancer. Because of the map layout, there was no way for me to safely bait out the enemies. And I couldn't even guarantee clearing everyone out with Rein/Lyn, and leaving any one of the three alive would result in me losing a character. Cherche could move in to kill Jakob, but then there was no way to pull her out to safety without someone else being killed.
Think I was staring at that map for a solid 25 minutes before I realized that Aversa would debuff Jakob enough that she could attack him and survive the counter. Not the most intuitive strategy, but I found the line. Feels good.
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Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
Poked around in the Seal Forge for the first time and saw I could make Armored Boots, so I did and equipped it on Surtr. Man, using him on the early Book III story maps is going to be like firing a nuclear missile at a housefly. It's going to be great.
After extreme failures on the previous two Mia banners (went to >5% focus rate on each of them. Pitybroken by Lyn on one banner, failed to get anything at all from the Halloween one before it went away), I got both her and Reinhardt off today's banner in 50-60 orbs. Rein's new for me, and he isn't -Atk, so he'll get some use. New Mia is +Spd/-Def, a huge improvement over my previous +Def/-Atk one.
Looks like she's back to being my summoner support. Sorry, L'arachel.
I got a +atk/-hp Reinhardt on two pulls so I was happy. Seems like his base kit is fine other than the special
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
I got a Reinhardt on my free pull, which is like... Ugg... I have a +10 of him already AND multiple extra copies because he literally fodders for nothing 1st Whale Problems... (I ought to just build up a second Brave Reinhardt at this point...)
Finished for this season of Aether Raids. Here's my current spot:
I'm sure some more people are going to pass me by the end of the day, and I might very well get dinged another 80 (although my last defense was a success), but I'm happy with that. My current concern is that I'm nowhere near being able to add a fifth unit to my teams, so I'm expecting things are going to get really tough for me next season.
Uurfh... I'm 40 lift away from the next tier, meaning I'm about to get slapped down to the bottom of tier 12 score range. And I lost a couple units this season. Feels bad man. I suppose it's better to get it out of the way early and not care so much about placement, it is only going to get more obnoxious from here if I were too invested.
*yawn* Um, thanks for letting me save money I guess. I'll try to get one Hrid and maybe pull a bit on blue for Lucinas and Hectors, but otherwise a pretty terrible legendary banner
Also I did kind of crappy with Aether Raids. Dunno where I ended up but I think I got 25 Grails. I'll need to stoop less next season.
Hrid looks cool. DC and Omnibreaker means everyone eats a double and moonbow if debuffed, which the rest of his kit assures. Except for bullshit dazzling staves, of course! Cuz those have no counter!
Speaking of which, I just faced my first 5 man defense in Aether raids. Featuring your friends Veronica, Aversa, Surtr, and a dancer!!
He had a really good layout. Even had a LEphraim there to repo Veronica and shut down my plans of throwing Ike in there to murder Veronica and the rest of em. I had to eat a unit death to crack them, because Veronica was getting danced no matter what.
As annoying as that was, I still think the money play is to basically ignore investing in defense. Consistently scoring 100's is far more important than occasionally blunting the 80 pt loss. I'm trying to save to 300 to get another attacker slot.
I upgraded my pot twice and the option to upgrade it disappeared from the list. With the current max Aether at 200 (which if you play as often as you can, really just means 100 more at the start of a week), smashing pots and fountains only restoring enough to let you battle one additional time for every 5 or 6 battles you manage to get both, and no option to upgrade the fountain, I don't see how it's even possible to battle the minimum amount of times needed in a week to raise your Tier at the higher ones. For the most extreme example, you'll need to battle a minimum of 17 times to get from the bottom of Tier 20 to Tier 21, and at that Lift it costs 103+ Aether to battle.
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New Hector looks weird. He's got a sword and he's riding a horse for some reason?
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
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Whelp, merged her up as high as I could:
WTB added to grails plox. She's pretty nice in Grand Conquests to debuff everybody with panic status, so I wanna get her a bunch of merges to also be pretty good otherwise.
(I honestly might replace that A skill... I'm thinking the extra HP is maybe more beneficial for how I use her... Kinda want to put that Arena BST skill in there but I only have one spare Laegjarn so I dunno...)
Edit: Nevermind, I didn't realize that skill was HP+4. One more point of HP isn't gonna make a huge difference.
Damn, I'm actually going to have to prepare a solution to gimmick builds instead of just relying on conventional approaches. Just lost to a triple pain savage blow + dancer build because I didn't have a 50+ RES or anti-colorless unit prepared.
Aether Raids has gotten real weird now. I just did my free run, couldn't get either of the 2 pots, and advanced a tier. Went to run my second run... What? Not enough Aether? I had 57 and needed 58. Looks like from here on out it will be just as likely to run 1x per day as 2x. Progress will be super slow!
At least my first defense was a win today, so I saved lift there. Got lucky cuz my next 2 were total defeats.
I'm a (mostly) f2p player that's been on from the start but I've been shy about promoting and merging so I have a nice stack of manuals and feathers. What would people suggest as an initial target for a 5*+10? I see adult Tiki come up and I have enough manuals (although missing an ideal IV). Other potential targets include Reinhardt, Nowi, Soleil, female Corrin, Gwendolyn, and Nino. Probably any other unit that's been 3/4* from release I have a good number of manuals/copies for.
I also have a nice 300 orb pile I was thinking about blowing on this legendary banner (red+blue seems good?).
I'm a (mostly) f2p player that's been on from the start but I've been shy about promoting and merging so I have a nice stack of manuals and feathers. What would people suggest as an initial target for a 5*+10? I see adult Tiki come up and I have enough manuals (although missing an ideal IV). Other potential targets include Reinhardt, Nowi, Soleil, female Corrin, Gwendolyn, and Nino. Probably any other unit that's been 3/4* from release I have a good number of manuals/copies for.
I also have a nice 300 orb pile I was thinking about blowing on this legendary banner (red+blue seems good?).
My first three 5*+10 promotions were Fae, ATiki and Sheena as they worked both for high BST (scoring for arena and arena assault) and very good enemy phase units. I still use them constantly.
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
I'm a (mostly) f2p player that's been on from the start but I've been shy about promoting and merging so I have a nice stack of manuals and feathers. What would people suggest as an initial target for a 5*+10? I see adult Tiki come up and I have enough manuals (although missing an ideal IV). Other potential targets include Reinhardt, Nowi, Soleil, female Corrin, Gwendolyn, and Nino. Probably any other unit that's been 3/4* from release I have a good number of manuals/copies for.
I also have a nice 300 orb pile I was thinking about blowing on this legendary banner (red+blue seems good?).
My first three 5*+10 promotions were Fae, ATiki and Sheena as they worked both for high BST (scoring for arena and arena assault) and very good enemy phase units. I still use them constantly.
Yeah I'd say just about any dragon or armor unit is a solid choice. I'd say for the armors Effie is probably the best "F2P-friendly" one since she's really strong. And yeah, all the dragons are good as long as you get them refined Lightning Breath+ and preferably Aether.
Aether Raids has gotten real weird now. I just did my free run, couldn't get either of the 2 pots, and advanced a tier. Went to run my second run... What? Not enough Aether? I had 57 and needed 58. Looks like from here on out it will be just as likely to run 1x per day as 2x. Progress will be super slow!
At least my first defense was a win today, so I saved lift there. Got lucky cuz my next 2 were total defeats.
It's definitely getting trickier. I haven't yet really invested in developing more than 1-2 basic teams, but really need to do that at this point.
Has anyone purchased the 5th team member slot? Does it apply to both O and D? Or is it 300 stones for each? Do you get the Aether Dew stuff for buying the slot like you do for buildings?
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Warlock82Never pet a burning dogRegistered Userregular
Aether Raids has gotten real weird now. I just did my free run, couldn't get either of the 2 pots, and advanced a tier. Went to run my second run... What? Not enough Aether? I had 57 and needed 58. Looks like from here on out it will be just as likely to run 1x per day as 2x. Progress will be super slow!
At least my first defense was a win today, so I saved lift there. Got lucky cuz my next 2 were total defeats.
It's definitely getting trickier. I haven't yet really invested in developing more than 1-2 basic teams, but really need to do that at this point.
Has anyone purchased the 5th team member slot? Does it apply to both O and D? Or is it 300 stones for each? Do you get the Aether Dew stuff for buying the slot like you do for buildings?
I've been saving up for it. I think I'll be able to afford it at some point this week. I'm pretty sure it's separate for offense and defense tho since you can purchase two defense slots and only one offense.
And yeah, I have been fucking up a lot lately. I may need to rethink my strats a bit. I have problems with Reinhardt teams... (moreso because the maps are player-built so it's easy to make the layouts ass)
I'm a (mostly) f2p player that's been on from the start but I've been shy about promoting and merging so I have a nice stack of manuals and feathers. What would people suggest as an initial target for a 5*+10? I see adult Tiki come up and I have enough manuals (although missing an ideal IV). Other potential targets include Reinhardt, Nowi, Soleil, female Corrin, Gwendolyn, and Nino. Probably any other unit that's been 3/4* from release I have a good number of manuals/copies for.
I also have a nice 300 orb pile I was thinking about blowing on this legendary banner (red+blue seems good?).
I'd throw Cherche and Cordelia into the mix as well.
I'm a (mostly) f2p player that's been on from the start but I've been shy about promoting and merging so I have a nice stack of manuals and feathers. What would people suggest as an initial target for a 5*+10? I see adult Tiki come up and I have enough manuals (although missing an ideal IV). Other potential targets include Reinhardt, Nowi, Soleil, female Corrin, Gwendolyn, and Nino. Probably any other unit that's been 3/4* from release I have a good number of manuals/copies for.
I also have a nice 300 orb pile I was thinking about blowing on this legendary banner (red+blue seems good?).
I'd throw Cherche and Cordelia into the mix as well.
Agree. Honestly if you're willing to refine her personal weapon, Camilla is also pretty dang good now.
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Honestly it might just be the Adrift units. Or I could see them doing something different like all four Askr heroes maybe in prep for book 3
*insert whale sounds*
(I need to give him Aether at some point still)
Such a huge difference between -atk and + atk when a superboon is involved. Here mine sits with 52 at +0!
While I’m still ranked well at 4280, I haven’t eaten the lift loss from failed defenses since I broke 4K today.
I think the big bummer is that ranking seems to continue carrying over for who knows how long meaning falling behind isn’t necessarily a short term issue.
Always watch for the lunge tricks and wings of mercy.
Maybe once we get six defenders and more traps or something.
They really didn’t provide incentive for defense, unless they start rewarding you lift for a successful defense.
1) Bait enemies out with Fae or L!Tiki. Clean up with them and Vanessa support.
2) Steamroll as many enemies as possible in a single turn with Reinhardt/B!Lyn and two dancers.
3) Cherche and Aversa power hour.
Just ran into a defense team that had Armor Jakob with a Brave Bow/Deathblow/Bold Fighter/Ignis, backed with Elise, B!Lyn, and a dancer, with a full mix of tactics. The two cavs didn't have an assist, so the AI would move them before the dancer. Because of the map layout, there was no way for me to safely bait out the enemies. And I couldn't even guarantee clearing everyone out with Rein/Lyn, and leaving any one of the three alive would result in me losing a character. Cherche could move in to kill Jakob, but then there was no way to pull her out to safety without someone else being killed.
Think I was staring at that map for a solid 25 minutes before I realized that Aversa would debuff Jakob enough that she could attack him and survive the counter. Not the most intuitive strategy, but I found the line. Feels good.
Looks like she's back to being my summoner support. Sorry, L'arachel.
Which Reinhardt? For Swordhardt, that's pretty accurate. Might want to also upgrade C for horse emblem as appropriate.
--Mark Twain
I'm sure some more people are going to pass me by the end of the day, and I might very well get dinged another 80 (although my last defense was a success), but I'm happy with that. My current concern is that I'm nowhere near being able to add a fifth unit to my teams, so I'm expecting things are going to get really tough for me next season.
I’m hoping the reset the ranks so everyone has a shot at the top ranks.
*yawn* Um, thanks for letting me save money I guess. I'll try to get one Hrid and maybe pull a bit on blue for Lucinas and Hectors, but otherwise a pretty terrible legendary banner
Also I did kind of crappy with Aether Raids. Dunno where I ended up but I think I got 25 Grails. I'll need to stoop less next season.
Speaking of which, I just faced my first 5 man defense in Aether raids. Featuring your friends Veronica, Aversa, Surtr, and a dancer!!
He had a really good layout. Even had a LEphraim there to repo Veronica and shut down my plans of throwing Ike in there to murder Veronica and the rest of em. I had to eat a unit death to crack them, because Veronica was getting danced no matter what.
As annoying as that was, I still think the money play is to basically ignore investing in defense. Consistently scoring 100's is far more important than occasionally blunting the 80 pt loss. I'm trying to save to 300 to get another attacker slot.
WTB added to grails plox. She's pretty nice in Grand Conquests to debuff everybody with panic status, so I wanna get her a bunch of merges to also be pretty good otherwise.
(I honestly might replace that A skill... I'm thinking the extra HP is maybe more beneficial for how I use her... Kinda want to put that Arena BST skill in there but I only have one spare Laegjarn so I dunno...)
Edit: Nevermind, I didn't realize that skill was HP+4. One more point of HP isn't gonna make a huge difference.
At least my first defense was a win today, so I saved lift there. Got lucky cuz my next 2 were total defeats.
I also have a nice 300 orb pile I was thinking about blowing on this legendary banner (red+blue seems good?).
My first three 5*+10 promotions were Fae, ATiki and Sheena as they worked both for high BST (scoring for arena and arena assault) and very good enemy phase units. I still use them constantly.
Yeah I'd say just about any dragon or armor unit is a solid choice. I'd say for the armors Effie is probably the best "F2P-friendly" one since she's really strong. And yeah, all the dragons are good as long as you get them refined Lightning Breath+ and preferably Aether.
It's definitely getting trickier. I haven't yet really invested in developing more than 1-2 basic teams, but really need to do that at this point.
Has anyone purchased the 5th team member slot? Does it apply to both O and D? Or is it 300 stones for each? Do you get the Aether Dew stuff for buying the slot like you do for buildings?
--Mark Twain
I've been saving up for it. I think I'll be able to afford it at some point this week. I'm pretty sure it's separate for offense and defense tho since you can purchase two defense slots and only one offense.
And yeah, I have been fucking up a lot lately. I may need to rethink my strats a bit. I have problems with Reinhardt teams... (moreso because the maps are player-built so it's easy to make the layouts ass)
I'd throw Cherche and Cordelia into the mix as well.
I should actually maybe try and roll for Bowcina tomorrow...
Agree. Honestly if you're willing to refine her personal weapon, Camilla is also pretty dang good now.