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Success now that the season is already lost I see. Typical!

Went to pity on Misella. Picked up another Misella in there so I'll be able to awaken her if I want. Also got S. Ludger (another choose a stone candidate) and W. Sorey to add to my water collection. It's funny, water is by far the element I have the most SSR's in but they're all spread out.

Been affinity farming so I actually still have around 18,000 gleams left. Undecided if I'll pull on Vicious or Yuna but for now gonna wait to see what other units will be coming out I think.

So my first time through the Misella banner sure was something...

Pull 1: V. Edna (dupe so looks like I'll start her stone)
Pull 2: Limited Misella (whooo!)
Pull 3: Water Rita, H. Estelle, S. Rutee, Aegis
Pull 4: Alisha, Reala (only new character but I was considering pulling her so hell yeah!)

That third pull was crazy. Aegis is a free Ascension/Awakening stone I guess but the others are great for me. I needed more water help and this certainly helps. H. Estelle is maxed out now too. 4 SSRs in one pull is easily the most I've ever gotten.

I fully expect my luck to take a nosedive now.

That's...some kind of luck for sure haha. Odds of that happening have to be pretty dang low.

So seems I got a decent amount of luck on those pulls in terms of amount of SSRs...a lot of them do nothing for me though lol.

Earth Yuri (1 more till max)
Light Estelle (shard)
C. Mikleo
Wind Velvet (shard)
Water Mikleo (most awakened water unit now at 3/5...)
M. Kohaku (haven't sharded the other one I got so looks like I'm building her stone)
S. Yuri
H. Estelle (1 more till max)
M. Rita (oh gosh 5th copy...max the character or the stone...)
Lloyd (shard)

Big ones there for me are C. Mikleo, H. Estelle and both the maids. Not sure what I would have liked but it's actually not too bad.

Yeah going into Saturday night I was right around 80-100 and when I woke up I was like down in the 300's, saw everyone in the top 100 now had like 1,000 point lead on me and was like "welp..so much for that." lol

I tried to get top 100 last week but realized how many refills people do to get there and had to cut my losses Saturday night/Sunday morning and ended up around 170. S. Colette + Kanata has really upped my arena game. Before I'd do like 90 battles at most a week and end at 400-600. Think I did around 110-115 last week.

Yeah I was lucky and maxed Chronos awhile ago and ever since they announced Lilith I started saving arena medals. Except I used 20,000 to get all the summon tickets last month.

I dunno, 8% universal gift of nature is appealing to me! Lilith's Awakening skill is what I'm really after though so I might wait to see how long it takes to farm her.

75 arena tickets and...1 Lilith! Was hoping for more but hell with the rates for arena summons I'll gladly take that!

Now to build her or her stone first. Hmm.

Also someone on reddit did the calculations but between the natural gold medal acquisition and exchanging silver medals for gold, there's a maximum of 9,000 gold medals available per month. So one or the other per month.

Only goes up to Tear/Laphicet banner. So nothing from White Day units to Wind Milla/Reala banner.

Woo! Just as regular tickets eh? That means the units will be a bit more limited than the free daily summons we got.

9,000!? Damn. I was just starting to get the Raid stones (got a Keele and Richter maxed) and I was just starting a Julius one when I heard about the exchange so I'm only like halfway there for one of them lol.

Time to cash in on all my arena medals for tickets!

Yeah there's no timer currently. I can't imagine them adding one for something as time consuming as this but it does say limited so who knows if it'll be up forever. There is almost 8,000 gleamstones available from it all but given the time sink it might not feel like it lol

I'm up to 34k so I should easily hit my goal of 40k by the end of August. But I'm thinking of not pulling for Vicious. Could depend on my rolls for Misella though. And I think I'll skip the Yuna banner. People are thinking we're going to get a swimsuit Orwin next and the theory is he'll be wind to compliment Misella like Yuna/Kanata and Aegis/Vicious do.

Yes but both his boards are more than 60 quests. Looks like there's a total of 656 quests totaling 21,050 AP to fully awaken and transcend Sorey.

Basically it's going to be a slow ass process or take a ton of gels.

Level him to 50 to complete the mission and it will unlock the Ascension Quests 1. I imagine when you've completed those that you'll have to level Sorey up again to unlock Ascension Quest 2 and so on.

Bah. Swimsuit Yuna is fire. =/ Seems more support based with good attack and defense. Cursing all enemies is certainly interesting and putting an enemy to sleep is great for those it works against. Mystic arte gives a hefty attack debuff. And her Awakening skill is fantastic and could certainly help Kanata get off his MA quicker. Hmm.

Yeah I pulled her too during the daily summons. I haven't bothered with her. All defense really. Doesn't provide much hit gen, can't deal much damage, all she can really do is buff defense and attack of your team. She might be one of the few who can buff defense like that? Not sure but it's not that great either way. Her stone has a nice effect but it's a defense orientated stone so boosting the crit rate is kinda pointless. I don't know what her boards look like but I can't imagine they'd make her viable. Will probably keep her stone around to shard it when I'm in a bind honestly.

Hm. Another point in her favor is the new Rondoline stone offers a good attack boost though mystic arte damage booster is probably better generally. We'll see though!

Nice! I wasn't logging who I got from daily pulls but between the daily pulls and the step ups I've done well. Yuna stone is almost maxed, I got a couple light Colette's so her stone is on its way to being maxed.

For characters I've gotten Kongwai maxed and H. Asbel has gotten to 3/5 which is nice. Sorey is maxed now, Gaius was a good get. Got two Alisha's, Llyod maxed. C. Mikleo was obtained at some point, thinking I'll build his stone eventually?

What I'm trying to decide is what to do with M. Rita. I've got 4 copies of her stone. She's more of an arena unit so I don't really need her and her stone is pretty good. But she could be useful in transcendent battles and tower maybe? Hm hm hmmm!

You've got to level Sorey to 50 before you can do the ascension quests as well.

Oh well that's interesting. We're getting quests to get limited characters now. First up is a new Sorey. He doesn't look broken like the anniversary units but lots of hits and really solid attack and defense. And he's water! Wonder how hard these quests are going to be.

Yeah my team of S. Colette, Forte, M. Kohaku, and Kanata has lost only once in the two weeks I've been rolling with it. And that was literally only because I was playing catch up after a long day of drinking and wedding festivities and passed out in bed in the middle of a fight and timed out lol. Usually ends in 2 turns but if there's an evade or if enemy Kanata's survive I have to use Kohaku to take him out lest he crits my team which has exposed me occasionally to Makina but by then I've pretty much won anyway.

I have Cress and Velvet in the backline for extra attack boosts. Velvet hasn't seen any action since I relegated her to the backline and Cress only gets brought out rarely.

My goodness how do you have so much ascension materials? I only have Cress fully transcended.

Kill the Moon was nonsense and dumb.

I've been so unenthusiastic during Jodie's run. Might be due to the group of friends that I used to watch it with kind of falling apart during it but I loved the earlier seasons while watching by myself. Echoing what others have said, Jodie seems fine as the Doctor but never shined due to the material. Felt the same for Colin Baker's run too.

True enough. Hm. Man I might just pull for Misella. Vicious looks good and the 88% defense debuff and double debilitate for 2 turns is nasty but otherwise I dunno. Misella can be used on just about any content given her hit gen prowess and Kanata is just a beast. Vicious though I dunno. Cress has been fine as my earth finisher and with the new event memoria stone he might even get a boost.

So yeah we'll see. Probably gonna wait another week just in case they pull out Kasque on us or something. Nearly to 20k so halfway to my goal of 40k for two cycles of each (or 4 on one)!

S. Aegis + Earth Vicious is gonna be quite the combo.

So that leaves Water, Light, and Dark for Aegis, Yuna, and Orwin. Interesting.

8.5/10

I know that feeling! Fire used to be my weakest team. M. Kohaku and Luke had already pulled it up to respectable levels but S. Colette and limited Kanata have easily made it my best now.

My poor water team needs some love. With S. Aegis being earth thinking Vicious is gonna be water or light but definitely leaning light.

Had a nightmare involving the Haunted Halloween mask from Goosebumps (specifically the 2nd one) that I couldn't watch/read Goosebumps for awhile.

Otherwise probably the Rose Red miniseries. I tended to stay away from scary movies as a kid.

Oof sorry, Shattered. I usually agree but my anniversary pulls have gotten several instances of 2 SSRs in a pull which has made me suspicious...though yesterday's free pull did result in 12 R's so *shrug*

Group 7
Meta Knight (Kirby)

Mega Man (Mega Man)

Group 8
2B (NieR: Automata)

Shulk (Xenoblade Chronicles)

Group 9
GLaDOS (Portal)

Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

Ohhh...I also have Zelos and Velvet fully awakened and Zelos has all his raid bonuses acquired. Tempting me to pull on Misella's banner now...but no gotta wait. It's gonna be up for awhile. I'm now 30k away from my planned two trips around for both Misella and Vicious.

Nice! Congrats! I think my plan is to do two rounds of the step up for both Misella and Vicious. Which means I need to get about 32,000 gleams by the end of August...not sure if that's achievable but gonna try! Means I'm going to probably have to pass on S. Aegis and potentially Yuna if that's what they're going for.

And another 200 pulls would be so sweet!

Lol I love how S. Aegis is like "look at all the hits and attack I can give you guys!" And limited Misella just strolls in and trumps him in both.

My H. Estelle would probably love that Misella stone but she might have to stick with the Edna stone for now.

Yeah assuming no misses, Colette and Forte combine for 92 hits right off the bat in the arena and then Kanata wipes with his AoE. Hell, at that point most AoE attacks would probably wipe a team but Kanata is overkill lol.

My earth team has been able to handle wind content well enough right now that I felt S. Aegis would be more of a luxury for me. Though he does seem to be the ultimate hit gen unit at the moment so if I have the gleams for it i may give him a pull or two.

And yeah makes sense. I'll probably have to pass on Misella and Vicious after going all in on Kanata but I think having at least one of them will be enough.

S. Aegis will have to wait. Got to pity on the Reid/Colette banner, pulled another Colette and chose her as my pity stone as well.

Went to pity on Kanata's banner...had to spend money on gleams to do it but eh, I play this game enough that it was worth it to me. Didn't get another Kanata sadly so had to use the 4 Awakening stones I had saved up to awaken him. Him and Colette are bonkers together. Everything dies in the arena. Had no trouble at all clearing the rest of the transcendent battles either to nab another Awakening stone. August will be here soon so I can awaken Colette at that point if I want.

I'll probably try Awakening Reid as well to cause I really could use a solid water unit but for now I'll just have to fight fire content with fire.

But if S. Yuna comes along I may have to pull for her haha. I might still pull on S.Aegis too once I stock up more on gleams.

Oh dear. All the hits for all content. At least 25% atk boost for party at all times. Probably more given his OL cost. Ridiculous awakened skill.

These new units are fucked haha. Probably going to have to choose between S. Aegis and the current summer banner though for myself.

Man yeah I'm not detail oriented enough to figure all that stuff out. Or maybe I just don't care enough or just don't want to auto? I dunno haha.

Also man...I've gotten pretty lucky with my pulls. I did another go through of the Kanata banner and on one of the steps I got a Yuna and Lloyd (in addition to a Kanata himself). As mentioned I just needed one more Lloyd to max him and now my Yuna stone is one away from max. And today on the free pull I got a Kongwai to max him to...and I maxed Sorey earlier from my pulls as well. So that'd three units I've maxed during anniversary so far...It's like the game knew who I needed and took pity on me...now I have several units who need 2-3 more awakenings to max and not sure what direction I want to go!

Yankees posted...

I'm glad you got Reid. I want Colette, but am undecided on that banner yet. We should know the next one soon

Did 2 more pulls. Got Colette lol. At 7 pulls on the banner. Yeah I might wait till the next set of units is revealed before going any more on this one.

Also another H. Asbel and 2 Alisha from the 3 SSR tickets from the luck tester. Man the game really loves giving dupes at the same time cause those are some long odds!

Nice! I would have loved an Awakening or ascension stone. It seems like the yellow monster soul exchange shouldn't be too hard to acquire so that'll be another Awakening and ascension stone right there.

Also the ones digit is now a 6 instead of a 3 for my gleamstone count which is a much more appealing number lol.

Well anniversary is off to a kickass start so far! Rita was a surprise R -> SSR change. Also got 3 SSR tickets from the luck tester so SSR galore here.

Yankees posted...

Who do you run in the arena? Do you have a good AoE character?

Oh no one of note really. I usually end up in the 400-600 range but I still get hit hard by some Makina's or evasion (latest was a team that had 3 maxed Yuna stones and a maxed Colette stone).

Currently I have Cronos as my AoE nuke and of course Forte for hit gen. I could possibly sub in C. Arche or Luke (both 2 awakened levels) or regular Kanata (3 levels) or Kongwai (4 levels). Everyone else has lower than two levels.

Yeah I got wiped by a non-awakened Kanata who crit my team on turn 1. With my current arena team, choosing between him and Mikana to take out turn 1 is gonna be a pain.

First round of Kanata banner done. M. Kohaku, Reid, and H. Asbel from it. I believe Reid was the last base unit that I needed...not that I really wanted him. Kohaku is a dupe and I've already got her awakened...might keep her stone around. H. Asbel is also a dupe but gets me a step closer to Awakening him.

Think I'm going to go for pity on the Summer Reid and Colette banner cause I really want Reid. With Kanata being around for 45 days I'll eventually hit the pity on that one.

I've seen her a handful of times in arena but she's useless I'll save her for last and she doesn't even reach halfway to her mystic arte. Maybe she'll be more useful in raids or transcendent battles?

I need one more Lloyd to max him so that'd be cool!

But man I have no idea what to pick. I've got a number of units at 4 and 3 awakened levels. Might pick some water units cause that element is really lacking for me. So maybe School Ludger or try to max awaken like...Asbel or something.

First free 10x summon for anniversary was pretty good! Dupe C. Arche (actually pulled her first during the free single pull event) and Laphicet who is new to the team. Off to a good start here!

Still waiting on the collectors edition I ordered from last topic. Should be shipping this month though!

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Shit. Yeah I've been using them to try and get a maxed Cronos stone. Lilith looks kind of busted for arena with 100% paralysis. And 20% reset for fire artes? Damn.

Kanata being fire is interesting cause I don't see how Misella isn't fire either. And with Lilith being fire too there's some big boosts to fire units going on haha

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