Shoo-wee. Sorry for dropping in so abruptly, friends. I've been playing Dragalia Lost a whole lot recently, though I am still playing Heroes. Bless them 10 free orbs, because I got myself an Adrift Male Corrin from them. Come at me now, Hector! You can't double my Hinata now!

Anyways, how's it hanging, guys? Everyone doing well?

The new banner rewarded me with a free Surtr, +spd -att perfect fodder for steady 4. OTL I'll hold onto him for now cus he's probably going to be arena bonus unit, and if his performance in the TT is any indication, shouldn't be too hard to get bonus kills with him. Holding off until we see what's on the Leg. banner before I pull for Ylgr. I super want her, but I just want to see what else is coming.

- lol. I guess you don't do what I do and just throw all your orbs at a single unit to no avail every month or two :P

Congrats on the Surtr! Yeah not perfect IVs but he'll still be an absolute beast with that total; if anything -Att might be handy once he's off rotation, if you need him, as a support unit. And I think he'll be great for the large maps too with his spectrum threaten. And yeah I'm lucky enough to not really be as emotionally invested in the characters themselves so am happy to be sporadic with my collecting and just try to keep the numbers up.

Hey! How are you enjoying the Aether Raids? What's working for you and what isn't? :)

i (finally) got an aether def win after a bunch of "two/three foes defeated!" and the replay made me laugh. the AI snagged victory from the jaws of defeat because the other player didn't check skills and morgan's close counter deleted their legendary ike. (thank you, close defense seal!)

maybe they'll shake it up a bit and use some of the muspell bunch. so, sibling bonds with ylgr, hrid, laevatein, and laegjarn? all nifl siblings would be neat, but gunnthra is dead, so that's... not happening lmao. in any case, this is a weird one p:

also, congrats on the rolls to you and !

Aether Raids are pretty fun. There are some gripes with the mode, especially with the way you obtain Aether, but it's a fun mode so far with plenty of ways to make the match interesting.

I've been gone from here for like... 2 years? And this is the first thread I saw on the forums I'm so happy there's more FE(H) nerds here ;___;

I know not everyone is a fan (k, it's just me) but it's really awesome to see Roy, Lilina and Cecilia leading the GCs and something I hope extends into the future. There's a lot of natural pairings out there; Lyn/Eliwood/Hector, Eirika/Ephraim/Lyon errr and a bunch more.

Hm yeah I guess there are a few combinations they can work through. I've always thought of them as a well to sell current banner units to us but I guess there's nothing to stop them from delving back through the archives and spreading some much-needed character development, particularly with Fjorm and Gunnthrá (RIP) on leg banner rotation.

Yeah the Aether replenishment is a bummer and I'm currently tier 11 but out of stones so can't buy that fifth team slot. ;o; I wish they were a little more readily available, but that would dramatically accelerate our progression I s'pose.

Welcome back! And welcome to our little corner is Subeta. c: Always happy to see a fresh face! How long have you been playing FEH for and what are some of you favourite characters and pet projects? :) We also have a general FE thread here which I'm kinda neglecting after my previous shaky Conquest run whoops.

- I agree, it is refreshing to give the Askr trio a break. Roy/Lilina/Cecilia aren't exactly my favourites of the sets they could have picked, but I like that it's different.

Aether raids continue to plague me. I lost 3 in a row today, Veronika is really the WORST for these battles, I'm pretty sure my record against teams with Veronika is like 1/20. Since they don't attack unless you are in their range, and if Veronika is there, you pretty much HAVE to be in her range, and she just nerfs all the stats and makes it impossible to kill anything. I wish I just had the option to 'hide' Aether Raids from my screen so I wouldn't be tempted to do them every day. Seems to be an unpopular opinion, but I really don't like them, at least I am limited to only 1-2 plays per day, so it doesn't take up much of my time.

Nah I agree that she is totally the worst to face up against, especially when backed with a dancer which means you have to survive two onslaughts. I'm seeing a lot of her, too. Only thing I can recommend is a Raven tome + TA3 if you have one who can slot into your teams; lots of people are praising Cecilia though, personally, I have Fae with DD3 seal who can soak hits as necessary. Bebe Azura might be a good call too; I've had my Inigo set up with Raven + TA3 + Bowbreaker for ages and he is a pretty fantastic counter for any Veronica/Reinhardt/B!Lyn combos.

- I was running S!Camilla last season, but I replaced her this season for Michaelis. Might have to try out Azura or Inigo, I think I've already given Inigo raven, not TA though, but having a dancer might really help as well. B!Lyn and Reinhardt are also a pain, but usually I can set someone in their range who will counter them back, Veronika can't be countered, which is the biggest problem with her.

ehh....how's everyone's luck with the new GHB? I plan to do only normal just to get my unit and be done with it but kinda scared on how this will go >_<, I kinda wish there was some sort of confirmation that future GHB units will be obtainable in the grail shop so I can save sanity if I have a normal GHB be as bad as Garon or corrupted Takumi's in the future.

Edit: and after three attempts of L! Ike, Brave Hektor, V! Hektor and Leon I got normal done

- I haven't attempted Lunatic or Infernal yet. I usually just wait for f2p guides. There are so many good F2P units now that the infernals can usually get solved with them. Kinda want him to give Mirror Stance to Fjorm.

i went from one raids def win last week to four more over night. big thanks to spring map + structures because three teams left themselves open to my mages while destroying structures and one actually ran out of turns. it feels low-key scummy tho lmao

i also thought forging bonds was for selling banners, but then they stuck aversa in the last one instead of having a four-person banner, so i think all things are possible at this point. we'll have to see what they do o:

& i was very happy to see it wasn't the askr trio doing the conquests! i'm honestly surprised it took them this long to change things up, i hope we get more stuff like this in the future~

[edit] guess who spent fifteen minute stubbornly trying to win gharnef's infernal battle with my favorite cavalry team (frederick-reinhardt-xander-lyn) without remembering that gharnef IS A RED TOME UNIT and my reinhardt has RED TOME BREAKER until after i won! (by baiting gharnef with reinhardt!)

instead my idiot self changed his c-skill for his cavalry buff AND LEFT HIM WITH BOWBREAKER

BOWBREAKER. ON A MAP. WITH NO BOWS.

i'm very smart

fist pumps

Finally! It took over a month, but I got another Hana merge. Just 4 more before +10. Hope I'll reach that goal before February.

I'm a little bit hesitant to try Lunatic or Infernal Gharnef. His map is remarkably cramped...

Hmm well I decided that I needed small ice child and now I don't have much for her brother when he is added... I have no self control :C Did get pity broken by Giant Fire Man though, (he's -def +res for the curious).

Saw a theory that forging bonds might be the Nifl siblings which would be nice and a lot better than the odd Surtr/Ylgr/Hrid/Gharnef thing going on.

I've only managed to beat the first level of Gharnef so far. I've poked at Lunatic but IDK if I'm really that bothered about getting another free red mage I won't use.

Was still a bit indecisive about my next project - I have enough feathers to finish +10-ing Cordelia now, but I also have many, many Cherches so I'm tempted to promote one with a better IV than the one I did originally and start merging her. I think she naturally comes with a hammer so she might be a nice armour check, especially for BHector and LTiki.

- Better than +spd -att OTL. Cherche is a good choice, her PRF also allows her to double all the things, she can be pretty beastly, plus can also run the hammer.

- Congrats! It's been almost 4 since I've found another Eirika OTL. The next Leg. Banner should have Ryouma on it again, so depending on who else is on the banner, I might be summoning more reds (although that worked out SOOOO well last time OTL, no Eirikas AND no Eirikas! And none of the other red units either.)

Yeah she’s done pretty well for me so far (the one I promoted originally was -def +res, idk what I was thinking) but the two with the best IVs at the moment are +att -spd or +att -hp. She’s great with her prf right now but I’m sort of debating which one would be best to run Hammer. I’m leaning towards the -hp.

- I have a lot of questionable promotes that I had at the beginning before I new about IVs, like -att Tharja, or - def A.Tiki (who has since been replaced) As for -spd vs -HP, you gotta think: Is her speed salvagable? How many armours can she double if she has neutral speed? 25 speed doesn't double a lot, but a lot of armours run -spd, -spd hector she can double with neutral speed, but not with -spd, but like Hardin even with -spd isn't going to be doubled by her, nor is brave hector, or anyone running wary fighter for that matter. And a lot of non-armour melle aren't going to get doubled by 25 either. On the other hand, 25 vs 22 speed isn't going to much to prevent being doubled. Pretty much any mage worth their spit is going to double her regardless of if she has 25 or 22 speed, and most sword users as well. And as for those other less threatening melle attackers, -spd might get her doubled more often, but that allows her to charge specials faster. I'd probably keep her -spd personally, and keep the bulk. Unless you are planning to run +spd with slaying hammer +spd, I don't think it makes much sense to try and optimize her speed. -spd also works well with her prf, so you could switch it up form time to time as well. Really though, both would probably work out just fine in the end.

Hmm, that is a great analysis, thank you. Sometimes it's hard to see the wood through the trees, y'know? I've decided I'm going to do -spd, because if I do the full refine on her weapon the more HP she has the better.

And, ha, yeah - I promoted a +spd Tharja, while neglecting to realise that she was -atk at the same time, haha. I do have some better IV-ed Tharjas sitting around though, so once I've done worked on Cherche I might have a look at her.

I did also +10 my Cordelia (may as well while I still have HM to earn from her). I just love her Firesweep/Galeforce build, she's so helpful on re-enforcement maps. She's my second +10 unit C:

hrid is official! and he's on a horse!!

oh i'm so happy