The banner is long and there will be tickets. Must resist the urge to drop all my orbs Friday. The banner should even overlap a little with the legendary reveal for Jan, which has a real shot of being Deghinsea. I'd definitely go after him if it is!
Gotta love the summoning simulators to drive home just how huge the variance is. Ran 300 orbs a bunch of times and got everything from 2 bad pitybreakers to 4 focus units + 5 pitybreakers.
Really helps lower expectations!
As well as make me mad at how terrible so many pitybreakers are. Gray? Luke? Ugh.
Are they always transformed if they meet the requirements?
Looks like it. So an all beast team is always transformed, period?
That seems to be the case.
I am curious if we're due for a Fates banner after this. The list of top CYL2 winners still not in the game are:
Selkie Fates
Keaton Fates
Panne Awakening
Kaden Fates
Velouria Fates
Tibarn Radiant Dawn
Haar Radiant Dawn
Ranulf Path of Radiance
...
It's like all Fates beasts at the top there. Considering the Radiant Dawn banner followed this list semi faithfully (though it skipped Ranulf for Reyson and skipped the non-beasts, though this makes sense since, like I said, it would have been kinda weird to put Leanne on a banner before Reyson).
I think it will depend on whether they are worried about "beast fatigue" of doing two beast banners in a row. But they *are* the next highest on the list. So we might get that, followed by the promised Binding Blade banner in March (plus valentine's sprinkled between).
While I'm predicting things, based on the CYL results I'm saying Binding Blade will be: Rutger, Lugh, Sue, Echidna, with Idunn GHB. Taking a bit of a gamble on this because I feel like they will want to balance genders (the top four are actually all male, assuming you rightfully skip Idunn who is a "villian"). This also covers all four colors assuming Rutger is red, Lugh is blue, Sue is colorless and Echidna is green.
But, if I'm wrong, for those curious, here's the top choices in order:
Idunn
Rutger
Lugh
Dieck
Gonzalez
Lot
Sue
Perceval
Echidna
Wolt
Melady
(I'd actually really like Gonzalez to be honest but I doubt we get him unless he replaces Echidna)
I also suspect we're due for a Blazing Blade banner soon, maybe in April or May? Lot of high choices:
Louise
Nils
Rath
Pent
Erk
Sain
Athos
Guy
...
Honestly I think the first four work nicely, though if we *do* get Sue, Rath might be held off for Erk or something just so we're not getting two bow ponies in a row. *shrug* Rath is super popular tho. Either way, I almost guarantee Pent & Louise will share a banner.
Edit: All of this said, CYL3 aught to be coming real soon too, so that might influence some of the character rankings. BUT, I assume there's a few months at least of lead time on all of these characters so I imagine we'll be working off CYL2 results until at least Summer.
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I forgot about Rath! Put in Rath! I've wanted him in for a long time.
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Ha, I just occurred to me that the top 4 Fates characters, Kaden/Selkie and Keaton/Velouria, are both parent/child pairs. That's a banner that basically makes itself :P
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I am less familiar with the Fates children since I only got about halfway through Birthright before I gave up and then just watched LPs of all three games in which Mangs didn't recruit hardly any of the children
I honestly probably should give Conquest a try though, the *gameplay* of it looked fun, even if the story was pure garbage.
Jumped on that Julia refine. Can never have too many good dragon counters. Maybe time to remove her Triangle adept so she can kill a wider variety of them.
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After all this time, I still never got her.
For business reasons, I must preserve the outward sign of sanity.
--Mark Twain
Oh boy, 5 red orbs on the first screen! Surely Tibarn is hiding behind one!
...yeah. That about sums it up. 320 orbs, 3 five stars. One -spd Nailah (at least I got her), a shitty Brave Roy, and an Owain I didn't want. Sigh. Still have orbs left, but I'm waiting on the tickets.
Got a +Def/-HP Nailah, which doesn't seem great, but still usable. Considering passing her B skill to someone else, though... would really love to have a character who can reliably deal with staves.
Given that I don't care about the hit to arena score, there's also the possibility of passing both Distant Counter and Null C-Disrupt 2 to A-Tiki. She doesn't have nearly as much Res as the likes of Fae, but she could probably still do the job of swatting a healer away.
Got a +Def/-HP Nailah, which doesn't seem great, but still usable. Considering passing her B skill to someone else, though... would really love to have a character who can reliably deal with staves.
Given that I don't care about the hit to arena score, there's also the possibility of passing both Distant Counter and Null C-Disrupt 2 to A-Tiki. She doesn't have nearly as much Res as the likes of Fae, but she could probably still do the job of swatting a healer away.
Why would you pass distant counter to her instead of just using Lightning Breath?
Got a +Def/-HP Nailah, which doesn't seem great, but still usable. Considering passing her B skill to someone else, though... would really love to have a character who can reliably deal with staves.
Given that I don't care about the hit to arena score, there's also the possibility of passing both Distant Counter and Null C-Disrupt 2 to A-Tiki. She doesn't have nearly as much Res as the likes of Fae, but she could probably still do the job of swatting a healer away.
Why would you pass distant counter to her instead of just using Lightning Breath?
So that she could use Breath of Fog instead. It's a side-grade at best, but I think it's worth considering in this case.
This banner brought mostly tears. Used the tickets. Terrible 5 star rate, no Tibarn. At least I got 2 nailahs, but both IVs suck so I might need to merge instead of creating 2 healer killers.
I was cursed by the fucking -atk +HP IV. Literally 3 times, and two were new units for me who I might have been excited about - Sanaki and Brave Ephraim. One of the Nailahs was also this IV. Aargh. Now I'm salty and need a break.
Feeling the uselessness of even hundreds of orbs makes me very certain I'll never spend again barring some massive discount though. Can't believe how little potential value you get for $75.
I did get one of the herons and Brave Ephraim in about 110 orbs, didnt check IVs on the heron lady before starting to level her... but she's primarily there for support anyways.
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Looks like it. So an all beast team is always transformed, period?
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Really helps lower expectations!
As well as make me mad at how terrible so many pitybreakers are. Gray? Luke? Ugh.
That seems to be the case.
I am curious if we're due for a Fates banner after this. The list of top CYL2 winners still not in the game are:
Selkie Fates
Keaton Fates
Panne Awakening
Kaden Fates
Velouria Fates
Tibarn Radiant Dawn
Haar Radiant Dawn
Ranulf Path of Radiance
...
It's like all Fates beasts at the top there. Considering the Radiant Dawn banner followed this list semi faithfully (though it skipped Ranulf for Reyson and skipped the non-beasts, though this makes sense since, like I said, it would have been kinda weird to put Leanne on a banner before Reyson).
I think it will depend on whether they are worried about "beast fatigue" of doing two beast banners in a row. But they *are* the next highest on the list. So we might get that, followed by the promised Binding Blade banner in March (plus valentine's sprinkled between).
While I'm predicting things, based on the CYL results I'm saying Binding Blade will be: Rutger, Lugh, Sue, Echidna, with Idunn GHB. Taking a bit of a gamble on this because I feel like they will want to balance genders (the top four are actually all male, assuming you rightfully skip Idunn who is a "villian"). This also covers all four colors assuming Rutger is red, Lugh is blue, Sue is colorless and Echidna is green.
But, if I'm wrong, for those curious, here's the top choices in order:
Idunn
Rutger
Lugh
Dieck
Gonzalez
Lot
Sue
Perceval
Echidna
Wolt
Melady
(I'd actually really like Gonzalez to be honest but I doubt we get him unless he replaces Echidna)
I also suspect we're due for a Blazing Blade banner soon, maybe in April or May? Lot of high choices:
Louise
Nils
Rath
Pent
Erk
Sain
Athos
Guy
...
Honestly I think the first four work nicely, though if we *do* get Sue, Rath might be held off for Erk or something just so we're not getting two bow ponies in a row. *shrug* Rath is super popular tho. Either way, I almost guarantee Pent & Louise will share a banner.
Edit: All of this said, CYL3 aught to be coming real soon too, so that might influence some of the character rankings. BUT, I assume there's a few months at least of lead time on all of these characters so I imagine we'll be working off CYL2 results until at least Summer.
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I honestly probably should give Conquest a try though, the *gameplay* of it looked fun, even if the story was pure garbage.
Also Julia's Naga refine is nuts
Edit: Hmm...
It may be time to merge up Beruka...
'Against dragon foes, neutralise skill "damage from staves is calculated normally".'
Are there any dragon healers?
I have read that wrong and it does not actually do that. Someone made a mistake on the description (copy pasted Eir's skill description no doubt)
That actually doesn't work in Awakening, at least. Never looked into it for Fates.
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Looks like it doesn't work for Fates either, they keep their weakness.
Alright, so it's strictly a FEH game balance thing since the alts don't have the inflated ManadDragaLaguBeast BSTs
--Mark Twain
Edit: Btw, Mythic Summon Banner this month. All aboard the Yune hype train! Woo wooooo!
...yeah. That about sums it up. 320 orbs, 3 five stars. One -spd Nailah (at least I got her), a shitty Brave Roy, and an Owain I didn't want. Sigh. Still have orbs left, but I'm waiting on the tickets.
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I made out of this round a happy camper.
Sumia
Tibarn +ATK -spd
Lene
Leanne +ATK -def
Nailah +ATK -hp
Nailah +DEF -atk
also some nice 4* fodder and another merge for Soleil
\o/
Was hoping to get one focus and did! I’m done here (and am out of orbs).
Given that I don't care about the hit to arena score, there's also the possibility of passing both Distant Counter and Null C-Disrupt 2 to A-Tiki. She doesn't have nearly as much Res as the likes of Fae, but she could probably still do the job of swatting a healer away.
Why would you pass distant counter to her instead of just using Lightning Breath?
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So that she could use Breath of Fog instead. It's a side-grade at best, but I think it's worth considering in this case.
I was cursed by the fucking -atk +HP IV. Literally 3 times, and two were new units for me who I might have been excited about - Sanaki and Brave Ephraim. One of the Nailahs was also this IV. Aargh. Now I'm salty and need a break.
Feeling the uselessness of even hundreds of orbs makes me very certain I'll never spend again barring some massive discount though. Can't believe how little potential value you get for $75.
I did get one of the herons and Brave Ephraim in about 110 orbs, didnt check IVs on the heron lady before starting to level her... but she's primarily there for support anyways.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy