Board 8 > Fire Emblem Heroes Discussion Topic Part 19: All Hail The Demon King

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Now if accessories actually gave some units (cough cough Lyn) a much-needed BST boost, that would be a great use for them, but IS isn't smart enough to do that
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I don't really want to be pressured into using silly looking accessories because they make my character better. I have equipped a couple of them, but mostly pretend they don't exist.

They got it right with the sacred seals. Boosts with no aesthetic change. They really need to make it easier to switch them though. We have so many that it has become clunky to work through
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Everything about team building is clunky but sacred seals are definitely the worst. It should just let you equip a seal to as many units as you want as long as they're not on the same team.
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this was a weird week for arena for me. four 704-706 matches in a row i passed on, then four 714-16s that i accepted. finally ending with a 710, which was my threshold in the first place. this was my first time seeing anything above 712, coinciding with my first time using Marth, who's up to +5 now after all that red summoning. i'll be needing him for the new way Arena will operate (when is that changing, again?).

Kenri posted...

Everything about team building is clunky but sacred seals are definitely the worst. It should just let you equip a seal to as many units as you want as long as they're not on the same team.

it'd be nice to have something like that, like maybe switching teams automatically switches your seal loadout. i don't think that exact thing you suggested would work due to modes like AA and CC. though now that i think about it, would it really be so bad if we could re-use seals in different teams for those modes? allowing both that and just being able to change seals/skills between rounds in general would go a long way toword making AA less annoying.
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They clearly don't want reuse to be a thing because otherwise Squad Ace A E I etc wouldn't exist.

That being said being able to auto-assign per team in modes that aren't Arena Assault I don't see any harm in.
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Its very frustrating they havent given us a way to sort SSes still. Just organizing them by almost alphabetical will help a lot.

Im getting tired of getting the non +Atk or Spd Squad Seals. Would be better for them to start giving out the free TT units or something
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The new mode is easily the worst they've ever done. It's glorified Training Tower spam.
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Yeah. I've lost a lot of faith in the game with this mode. Like other new content always felt like they at least had a decent idea but the execution needed refining.

This is like... are they even trying? It's not really a new game mode at all and the "new rewards" are so half assed that I don't care about em at all and I'm the target audience who wanted and was excited for the idea of support conversations in the game
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Disagree pretty strongly, this is much closer to what I want new content to be. Rival Domains is terrible and Tap Battle is fun enough but not really FE. I'm fine with standard FEH gameplay (which, y'know, is good - that's why I'm playing) with support conversations. I'd probably be more excited if I cared about the characters involved this time but that's fine.
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imo, it has some good ideas but the execution is really clunky. The level of randomness involved is just so excessive, and the stamina cost is too high for the rewards it gives out. But I actually like the actual support conversations (especially the group ones) so I'm OK with seeing it more. It would be nice if the gameplay of the matches were even slightly different, though.
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Fire Emblem Heroes at its best has good gameplay. This mode even at the highest difficulty is 100% mindless grinding though. It'd be like if Tempest Trials's highest difficulty was hard.

And uh maybe they get better later but through most of the Bs and they're still painfully boring so faith is dwindling
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Yeah that's certainly a fair point; it does feel like the mode needs an Infernal setting for sure.
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When does the 15 banner rotation start I want free draws
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August 2nd
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You're killin me, man

Well at least I might want to draw on the hero banner. That's probably in 2 or 3 days. I remember when I used to effortlessly hoard orbs now I'm close to 100 and it's like "must draw"
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Over the past month I've learned something about myself(Well, more like confirmed).

I have a serious spending problem.

Not actual money thankfully, but after burning those orbs on Summer Tana/Elise(Still worth it), I found myself no longer in my hoarding mentality. I ended up burning all my orbs on the Sketchy Summer banner... despite the fact that I didn't seriously want any of those units(Tiki's cute but I don't really use dragons).

It's hard for me to save up, both real money and fictional currency. I just feel the need to spend spend spend once I have something.
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It's going to be hard to resist getting Grima, who is most likely on the "Fighter" banner. I was about to go for new Olivia, and then realized she doesn't have Hone Fliers and I already have PA Azura, so I can live without her (for now)
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I took a bit of a hit chasing Camilla and Hinoka, but I'm just about back to my orb high count. I found it a lot harder to save early on, but it's pretty easy now.

Grima is nice for fodder, but armors don't interest me much and I'm not a fan of the artwork. I wouldn't be surprised to see him show up on the next hero fest banner
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Who knows if we're even going to get another Hero Fest
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I whittled my way down to 4 Orbs getting Tana on the third-to-last day of that banner, and I'm back over 90 already.
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barreldragon88 posted...

Who knows if we're even going to get another Hero Fest

We might still get one next year. But they are definitely don't show up as often as they used to. They've now skipped both the Golden Week and 1.5 year Hero Fest banners.
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Good news: Free pull Micaiah
Bad news: She's -Atk just like my other one
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Finally 2x chance in FB. Going to drop a whole bunch of potions until I get bored of grinding
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Strangely the best new feature of the next patch by far was not on Feh Channel

Equippable skill sets. Honestly that should make equipping seals a lot less clunky on its own

Also 5 more team slots
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Yeah, the new options for unit management look pretty good. They also announced how the new Tier 21 will work. A side effect of the new Tier 21 is it looks like the number of people who will be able to stay in Tier 20 week after week will be a lot higher than before.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Yeah, the new options for unit management look pretty good. They also announced how the new Tier 21 will work. A side effect of the new Tier 21 is it looks like the number of people who will be able to stay in Tier 20 week after week will be a lot higher than before.

I was hoping that would be the case, so I'm glad to see that. Still will probably be a while before I can consistently stay in tier 20 since I need to work on more merges. Whale tier is bleh

It's been so long since we got a boost to the number of teams we can create that I thought we weren't going to get one, so this will finally allow me to basically not have to replace teams back-and-forth. No HM cap boost is a bummer
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Lopen posted...

Strangely the best new feature of the next patch by far was not on Feh Channel

Equippable skill sets. Honestly that should make equipping seals a lot less clunky on its own

Also 5 more team slots

100% agreed. This might actually solve an issue the game's had since day 1!
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barreldragon88 posted...

No HM cap boost is a bummer

Honestly I am not interested in a HM tier boost until it starts leading to stuff that isn't just feather bonuses. Some specialized bonuses specific to the character for really high numbers would be cool.
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Kenri posted...

Lopen posted...

Strangely the best new feature of the next patch by far was not on Feh Channel

Equippable skill sets. Honestly that should make equipping seals a lot less clunky on its own

Also 5 more team slots

100% agreed. This might actually solve an issue the game's had since day 1!

Also favorite part of the update
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Yeah, the new options for unit management look pretty good. They also announced how the new Tier 21 will work. A side effect of the new Tier 21 is it looks like the number of people who will be able to stay in Tier 20 week after week will be a lot higher than before.

which would be nice if they didn't completely fuck up arena in general with that bonus-unit nonsense.

i mean i guess i'm actually better off than most people for that, since i'm already merging Marth and could switch to Dark Breath on Corrin. i could make a +9 Serra for my third with the pain/savage/dazzling combo, or maybe Olivia for the dancing utility instead of one of the other 3.
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Lopen posted...

barreldragon88 posted...

No HM cap boost is a bummer

Honestly I am not interested in a HM tier boost until it starts leading to stuff that isn't just feather bonuses. Some specialized bonuses specific to the character for really high numbers would be cool.

This is an interesting idea, and this could be another avenue for them to boost units that sorely need it, but with how slowly HM racks up, it would feel like a real grind just to make characters more useful
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Well the idea would be just the units you actually use a lot would get a boost without major work. Increasing the HM limit right now it's like... a few thousand more feathers. Like you're never going to harvest all the HM feathers out there as it is so increasing the limit has very marginal value at this point.
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Fun fact

I currently have 2000 Olivia, 1700 Sumia, 800 Maribelle, 600 Libra. Keeping in mind I got about 1200 of Olivia's with an increased Sumia drop chance, I think I'm going to thoroughly hate this mode when all is said and done.
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The reason I know this by the way is because I started this session at around 800 Olivia Sumia 500 Maribelle 300 Libra 300 and said I'd run it until Sumia who was around 500 at the time passed her or everyone reached 800

Now we stand, several stamina potions later at Olivia 2470 Sumia 2247 Maribelle 1446 and Libra at 771 and I've tapped out. I'm going to exclusively run Libra boosts from now on in hopes of this not making me completely hate myself when Olivia and Sumia are capped.
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You stop getting a colour after it caps. So if you cap everyone else, you'll exclusively get Libra points. If you plan to go for 3500 on everyone, the colour of the drops doesn't matter. You just need 14000 points total.
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Oh. Well that's better. Also kinda makes the gimmick pointless but whatever.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

You stop getting a colour after it caps. So if you cap everyone else, you'll exclusively get Libra points. If you plan to go for 3500 on everyone, the colour of the drops doesn't matter. You just need 14000 points total.

Good to know

Lopen posted...

Oh. Well that's better. Also kinda makes the gimmick pointless but whatever.

Very true >_>
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Man Walhart looks badass. I didn't even really like the guy in Awakening and I kinda wanna 5* him.
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Lopen posted...

Oh. Well that's better. Also kinda makes the gimmick pointless but whatever.

It makes you waste stamina if you only care about one character. *shrug*

Walhart's pretty cool but it's a shame he shares Grani Shield with Camus instead of getting a unique skill like in Awakening.
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Yeah, on first look I thought Walhart was pretty good, but in reality he isn't even as good as someone's Frederick project. Wolf Beil just isn't strong enough. I guess he at least has Chill Def though.
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Not saying Walhart is good or even worth building, just that he looks really cool.
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God, can we get a good axe cavalry already
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I think Titania is actually pretty interesting as a unit that is capable of triple Tactics buffs. She can make Infantry Blade tomes shine and help buff bonus units to feed kills to. She's a unit that I feel like I might want to try someday but will probably never actually get around to.
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barreldragon88 posted...

God, can we get a good axe cavalry already

Spring Alfonse is good though.
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We finally have a new Lucina alt after almost a year.
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That like/dislike bar aint looking so hot.

More Grima for Lopen!
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Lucina's assist skill is really powerful. I wonder how the AI will make use of it.

Here's the full breakdown. I'd be pulling colorless if I hadn't just gotten Hinoka.

Red:
Legendary Ryoma
Horse Chrom
NY Camilla

Blue:
Legendary Lucina
Ishtar
Azura

Green:
Legendary Lyn
Christmas Lissa
Valentine Lilina

Colorless:
F!Grima
Brave Lyn
Hinoka
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The AI will probably use it the exact same way the use Swap and then treat Lucina as if she was just danced for.
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Red: NY! Camilla, Horse Chrom, Legendary Ryoma
Blue: Legendary Lucina, Azura, Ishtar
Green: Winter Lissa, Valentine Lilina, Legendary Lyn
Colorless: Brave Lyn, F!Grima, Bownoka

Green is tempting for Lissa and Lyn alts, but knowing my luck I'll get the one unit I don't really care about.

Colorless looks pretty nice, although it's still colorless.

I'm not personally interested in red, but all three units look strong.

Blue.... I think Azura is supposed to be the dud in the three oddly enough.

Also I really ****ing hope the community doesn't bitch more about this than the arena changes.

Edit: Yankees is a dagger user.
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this game is literally alt emblem, if people are mad about lucina (a certified Good Character) getting a random bow unit then where was the outcry when the alt madness started with equally baffling (but also Good Character) eirika

i mean really
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