I've amassed 714 orbs so far, and over 240,000 feathers in my quest to be a more responsible player. I'd share an image as proof, but imgur doesn't seem to be working on this site any more. I've got a few more in hand, if I can beat the Chain Challenge & Squad Assault maps, but some of them are pretty tricky.
Tomorrow, the first of the summer banners is upon us. Noire looks to be the pick - her art is ridiculous, but she has an innate skill where she can bestow special cooldown on the whole team, provided they are infantry units, and they have a higher attack than an opposing unit, triggered on combat. It's like a heavy blade skill for every other unit, and its effect is integral if you want to use high cooldown skills like aether or galeforce.
The other three, Innes, Cordelia and Tana are appealing in their own ways, but there's nothing that really stands out. Cordelia has a skill that negates buffed stats (via rally atk, etc.), and Tana's weapon has a built in Guidance 2.
As for me, I will hold off on this one. I might try and reach 1000 orbs (and beyond), unless an appealing unit appears on the 2nd summer banner.
The free summon from today's new banner gave me a 5* Ryoma, and the pity summon I decided to spend my remaining 5 orbs (from the daily bonuses) on gave me James in the summer banner.
I usually play the game in English but when I moved to my iPad it set itself to Spanish, so I'm not sure if the name is different, but the James I'm talking about is the only male character in the beach banner.
He uses a flag as an axe.
I have Linus too btw, but be wasn't a banner focus.
I’ve got 290k feathers now, and I think it’s about time I created my second specialised +10. I’ve got a choice between Beruka (+DEF, - RES), who I hear is a good tank unit (albeit, my 2nd green, alongside Cecilia), Donnel (no perfect combination, but the one I’ve favourited is a +HP, which I can try and make work), an Arthur (another green), and Oboro - my personal favourite of the bunch, but I don’t have a +DEF one yet.
I’m leaning towards Beruka to fully +10, but I’m probably going to save the rest of the feathers until I have over 200,000 (accounting for the 3-star to 4-star promotions that some of them will require).
As for the orb front, I’m at a comfortable 955 now - I wasn’t tempted by our 3rd Camilla alt (or the viable Young Tiki), but as to how I hope to spend them, I’m torn between a hopeful Anna alt, Veronica, or a selection of CYL heroes across all colours when it finally releases. Even some regular pulls could prove useful in terms of getting decent +10s down the line, and the skills to kit them out with.
In a way, Myrhh is a flying hector. She's protected from follow up attacks in most cases, and if you put a quick risposte seal on her, or inherit the skill, she can destroy most attackers. Whenever I see her in the arena, I let her attack my Brave Roy, because attacking her is suicide. Regular Roy with his dragon killing sword may fare better though.
I face Hector of all three varieties in pretty much the same way. I wouldn't mind another legendary hero though. I only have Fjorm & Ike, so I'm missing out on a lot of bonuses.
I've reached the 1000 orb milestone! Unfortunately, I think that means I can't buy the starter packs until my orb count goes below 999, but I do have the option to buy orbs normally. I've got this far, having bought a starter pack of 15 orbs and a Black Knight earlier in the year.
Did anyone watch the Feh Channel broadcast? They are going to be throwing out orbs aplenty over the next month, but then again, there will also be daily summoning events. The Arena update though is nice in that bonus units can add to your score when they get a kill, but I doubt I'll ever reach the top of Tier 20 to get the crown, let alone reach Tier 20. Apparently, a crown tier player gets increased rewards at the end of an arena week.
Changes to Grand Conquests and that Friend battle mode look interesting too. I'm a bit disappointed that Tempest Trial units like Clive, Tobin, and crucially Masked Marth are still limited and neutral IV - I was hoping they'd get introduced into the summoning pool proper, and we'd get the opportunity to create viable merges. Now that's something I'd spend my orbs on. GHB units would be welcome too - I'd like to create a decent Ursula while I'm at it.
Maybe that's something they've got planned for the future.
Legendary heroes was a mistake. We've currently got 3 Hectors that are essentially the same (with a fourth one to follow), and while it's nice to see the second coloured bow user (with a very enticing assist skill, although I'm almost certain it is uninheritable), and Lucina is probably the most significant characters in Awakening, but 'Heroes' is crying out for characters that haven't even appeared yet. In terms of Awakening, where's Gregor? Where's Vaike, Cynthia, Owain, Miriel?
Awakening has fair representation at this point, but there are heroes from other games who people would like to see in the game eventually.
More importantly, where's my Anna alt!?
Although Lucina's assist skill looks like it'd be great fun to use, I'm giving the banner a wide berth. Winter Lissa also appears on the banner, and I'd love to be able to get a few merges and spare 'bold fighter' skills, but you do not snipe for units on a legendary banner.
@Tsurii
I flutter between tiers 17 and 19 - I'm due to enter the 19th tier tonight, but I don't really give much thought to how I build my units. Armour heroes like Hardin and Zelgius are common in Arena, simply because they offer more points due to their higher base stats, and the skills that work well on them boost it further. For that reason, Arena is the whale's domain.
This will be doubly so, when a high score depends on how many kills you get with a bonus unit, as a dedicated, but otherwise ftp player like myself cannot hoard orbs, spend them on a good team, and use that team (with the swapped in bonus unit of the fortnight), because every other season features new heroes from the recent, big banners.
I won't be losing any sleep over it, but, while Tier 20 may be within my grasp one day, the exclusive "Tier 21" will be beyond all but the most dedicated.
It's Choose Your Legend time. I was conflicted on who I should choose, and whether I should spend some orbs summoning, but I think I made the right decision. I chose Veronica as my free unit, and while I was feeling a little regret initially (I could have chosen a free Celica and at least foddered off her Death Blow 4, before going in summoning), I'm not confident I would have been able to get a colourless Veronica even if I tried. It was the same last year, when I chose Lyn, and at this point, I have both Roy and Lucina as well, but no Ike.
I did manage to get a copy of each brave hero as well, and I managed to stay above 1000 orbs as well. Of course, their stats are suboptimal - +RES -HP Ephraim, +HP - RES Celica and +HP -ATK Hector, and, naturally, the Veronica was a neutral natured one.
I was pretty lucky at one point, as this image shows:
If the image isn't displaying correctly, I pulled a Cain (3), Sword Reinhardt (5), Boy Morgan (5), Brave Celica (5), Beruka (3) in succession. All 5 stars were my first pull of their kind.
It always pays to finish a summoning session if you get a gold early on, and your pity rate is suitably high.
I also got a flying Oliva earlier on, which is handy, because I could do with a core flier - especially one that can dance. A L'Arachel too, which I had yet to pull.
Otherwise, I got the standard mix of trash, mergables and skill inheritance candidates. I read that there are about 300 free to play orbs up for grabs between now and the end of this brave banner, but I'm going to go back to saving for a special hero to +10. I don't think I could have done it with the orbs I had before spending some of them this banner.
Seeing as I've got those orbs to spare, I might actually try for Gunnthra & Marth. The only legendary heroes I have are Fjorm and Ike. I hope I don't have to use all of my orbs.
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