Ha, yeah that first TT was quite hard going. I went until I got 4* Masked Lucina and then gave up. More fool me!

Umm I'm not sure, at the moment I am running a 5* Cecelia who is currently L35. 34 HP, 36Atk, 22Spd, 18Def, Res28. (I pulled a 5* version while trying to get Titania from the Triangle Adept banner). I think she might be +Res?

I have about 4 Cecelias in my barracks at the moment but she is the only 5* and I don't really want to have to start from scratch with her again if I can help it. I still don't have a Titania, so my only other options for a mounted green unit at the moment are Frederick and Gunter.

I actually have a lot of Gunters after pulling for Summer Xander so she'll get getting hone cavalry at some point (seriously he was like the only guy that bothered to show up!). I only have 1 Fir at the moment but lots of Niles so I guess he'll be the one getting fed to her for the special.

Finally caved in and spent more than 110 orbs trying to pull blue orbs for Summer Corrin, but no luck so far! There are still 10 days left though so I hope I can get her (and not get sniped by a Peri or something x_x). I can grab 15 more orbs from TT, I'll get arena rewards on Tuesday, and if it's not enough I might have to dive more seriously into Chain Challenge (I only did a few paralogues so far). It's the first time I try to summon like this (not pulling all the orbs) so it better get me what I want! xD

The first TT was super hard indeed, but I'm still glad I forced myself to grind up to the seal reward - I was so happy when I finished it though! Thankfully they made the mode easier and less grindy. I still think it is a bit too long though. I played seriously the first days but now I just do the 2 first runs of the Day on Lunatic 7 for the multiplier, then I use the auto mode on Hard 5 for the rest of my stamina. xD However I have almost 70k points right now so I should hit 100k by the end of this TT without much hassle.

if you have a good boon/bane frederick, i'd recommend raising one if you ever run out of priority builds and you still have no titania p: mine is +hp/-res and he's a great tank. (though fred is also my favorite awakening character, so i'm very biased haha)

and hm, i was running on the assumption that your cecilia was closer to lvl40... i guess we'll have to wait and see what the final numbers are o: if she is -spd, glacies might not be worth it even if you pull extra fir, since the charge is so long. mine has 23 speed and she hardly ever doubles; i'm only going to use a fir because i have so many lying around and i need space ;>> if yours' is +res, though, that's fantastic for iceberg - an extra 16 damage should help out a lot :)

Re: Eldigan. I have one too! I'm not sure what to do with mine at the moment, though, because I feel like Xander effectively outpaces him in almost all areas and have kinda left poor Elidgan in the dust. I gave Xander Quick Riposte 2 + Swap from Subaki. QR3 would be nice and it does bother me a little but it largely works out the same, not really worth the 20k feathers unless you're literally drowning in them.

Re: Cecilia. Her main build is probs Gronnblade+ to take advantage of cavalry buffs. With both Hone and Fortify, +6 on each stat, you end up with +30 damage from buffs alone (attack adds twice). You can use TA3 + Gronnraven and I'd probs build your current like that as you have the tools in place, but she's going to end up more a hard counter to blues and colourless than offensive powerhouse a blade tome allows her. Ursula can be built the same way, though, if you want to try with her, but I kinda think green tomes are the best at the moment. My cavalry team is Xander, Camus, Reinhardt and Cecilia to be - she's one of my next projects, now I've pulled a +Spd one.

And yaaaaaaaay I've finished this round of TTs haha. :D I also managed to beat Legion on Infernal last night (yes, I may have adapted a Youtube guide) which I was pretty pleased about; I just couldn't make it work on his first iteration.

Got a 5* Nowi instead of the S!Corrin I was hoping for, ah well, lesson learnt I guess! (I was like, wrong dragon! I'll probably use her as fodder since she is +Spd/-Def, and I've already got a 4* +Spd/-Hp I could promote which is probably slightly better for a tank!) I feel poor having just 12 orbs left, haha! I need to build up my stash again and hope they release another magic flier one day. xD

I was going for Innes to team up with my Ephraim, and who broke my streak? A 5*, Neutral IV, Sakura. I'm crying.

Awwww no they call it colourless hell for a reason, unfortunately. :P I avoid at all costs haha. So many healers and subpar ninjas in the pool!

I already have Priscilla as my main healer, I would have even welcomed Elise or Klein but noooo. Oh well. :C It's the luck of the draw.

Excited that Choose Your Legends is starting at the beginning of next month. :) Hmmmm I'm going to hold out for the trailer and decide if I want to pull from it or give the Sacred Stones banner a go. I really want an Amelia. But she'll be in another banner, eventually, so I don't want to miss out if these are going to be limited units.

I've taken advantage of the double SP weekend to boost my new Nowi from 1 - 40, promote her to 5*, then 1 - 40 again and rake in all the SP. She's so tanky, especially with Ninian parked next to her. She hits 39 defence! I also took the opportunity to promote my Cecilia - I had a 4* +Spd -Def that I pulled... a long time ago, and also promoted a spare Nino to 5* to inherit Gronnblade+ and Draw Back across. She's insane with cavalry buffs and I think it was a good decision to invest, I'm excited to use her once she reaches level 40 and I flesh out her build. I think she's gonna need some more SP grinding but hopefully it'll be a breeze with her newfound offensive prowess. c:

I have Eldigan on my 'B' Horse team :) Him coming naturally with Fury works quite well and I've got a Priscilla so I put them on the same team and he does quite a lot of damage. Still need to give him a quick riposte. I still couldn't beat Insane Legion so I am super jealous.

My Cecelia is up to L39 now and is at Atk39, Spd24, Def21, Res31. I think she is definitely +Res! Her special is currently Chilling Wind but she'll get Iceberg since I get enough SP. She's working quite well now I put some buffs on other members of the team - she pretty much got me through the limited turn map 5.

I feel your pain, I was going for Tana on the Sacred Stones banner (mostly because she's pretty) and ended up pulling... 5* Cordelia. Could be worse (like another Peri) but I literally just spent 20,000 feathers upgrading my 4* Cordelia so I was kind of annoyed.

Who did everyone pick from the CYL banner? I went with Lyn, because I didn't really want to pull colourless, but I am going to try and go for Ike too, because I could always do with another good physical green tank.

(I'm also gunning for Team Lyn on the new gauntlet after she beat Tharja but I'm actually kind of worried Camilla's going to pull an upset)

@ Fluttershy i'm glad cecelia's working out! horse emblem is admittedly pretty op but fun to work with, i think.

i went with lyn for my freebie too, mostly bc bow horse but also bc trying to get summer frederick was a hell i didn't feel like repeating. i'm pretty ambivalent about trying for the rest... i want ike bc he's cute but the banner gave me 5* fae for my free roll and is now refusing to give me more green orbs lmao

[edit] just ran into the mythical "all versions of one character" arena team. 5* regular lucina, marth, spring lucina, and brave lucina. spring was lvl40+1. i wish i had enough luck with event banners for doubles ><

Lovely Azura cosplay! ♥

I went with Lyn since she's the only bow cavalry in the game so far and I really needed a good archer (still no Klein...). I've been making profit of the double SP weekend to level her up since she has so much skills to learn! I'd like to get Lucina or Ike too, and I'd even be happy with a Roy tbh, but I've had no luck so far (got a 5* regular Roy and 5* Chrom so far)

As for the gauntlet, I went with Hector (trying to get good rankings for the feathers), but since we will probably loose to Ike I'm going with Lyn for the finals!

I went for Roy because I generally liked him the most but ofc he lost to Ike. Now I'm team Hector for the feathers. :D I also used my free summon for Lyn and then got lucky and got a +Atk -Res Brave Roy with my free summon, so I'm very happy.

Never did get Innes though. ;________;

I went for Lyn for my free pull and got the other three in my next, say, 170 orbs. Also pulled a 5* Seth lol, of all the new characters I get the only one who was demoted. Just finished training all of them to 40 - making the most of double SP - so I'm excited to start building them up!

I'm team Hector but might migrate over to Ike once we lose haha. Haven't had a lot of free time to focus on it over the past couple of days but been earning flags and spending on bonuses where I can.

this mini tempest came just in time... i was all out of orbs and i really want to try for an ephraim ;o; and i missed out on all the stuff from the first tempest anyway, so a second chance at those seals and masked lucina is a+

also unit support with horse buffs is ridiculous... i paired fred + bowlyn and xander + reinhardt and made fred my fav and i'm like 90% fred tanked a mage hit that should've killed him when i ran the infernal level of ephraim & eirika's battle. i love it

I've read that there's 42 orbs available, which is pretty sweet! I just hit 30k myself. I did think it'd be... like, shorter when they said 'mini' haha. Like 4 - 5 days. Though I just realised I can probably stop using all my stamina on it now and coast to 50k on the daily quest points at ~4.7k a day, and top up on the final day.

The unit support system is overwhelming haha, I picked out Nino has my unit though as she's just... so reliable. I recently merged my +Atk into a +Spd I drew and she doubles absolutely everything with Darting Blow/Desperation.

Wanted to an update on my roster of 5*s, so here we go:

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The units which are (relatively) fully built are... Nino, Azura, Lucina, Ryoma, Xander, Sharena, Effie, Camus, Nino, Linde, Delthea, Reinhardt, Julia, Cecilia and Bow Lyn. Some of the others, like Alfonse, Hector and Ninian, are just missing skills in one slot (dunno what to give Alfonse for his B, my Hector has eh IVs so I've resisted inheriting Vatnage and I don't have Triangle Adept free for Ninian though might promote and sacrifice a Cordelia if I get enough feathers? I did it for Reinhardt with Hawkeye last week) while others pretty much have their base kit.

I got kinda... lucky/unlucky with those level 1s lining the last row haha. Pulled Seth on CYL while looking for Roy. Pulled Lyn while looking for a second Hector on his recent banners because no greens. She's +Atk though which seems kind vital, so might try to do something with her. Pulled Abel, Mathilda AND Olwen while looking for Ephraim on the latest banner omg. I didn't even spend many orbs but the 5*s keep coming. I actually spent 150 orbs pulling for an Olwen before but... I'm not convinced I really want her anymore? Haha. I dunno how she'd slot in with my core cavalry units - now I have Xander, Roy, Camus, Reinhardt, Cecilia and Lyn lining the ranks, she feels a little redundant, even if I inherit Blarblade+ on her. No idea what to do with the others either tbh. And no Ephraim! So yeah, that's where we are at the moment. Phew!

@ thomas yeah, i dumped the early tempest orbs into the cyl banner in hopes of lucina but no dice... i figure now's probably the best chance i'll get for ephraim so i'm flinging orbs at the sibling banner instead, but i have terrible luck with gatcha so rng just laughs at me and gives me bad nature oboro and subaki ;w; (ephraim, come home and visit your sister.)

& that's quite the haul! i have so-so luck (broke my focus rate with 5* -hp/+res abel, lmao ugh), but i pulled a bunch of neat 4* now that they've flipped the ratios -- i pulled two mae while looking for ephraim! she looks fun to use, so hopefully one's got a decent boon. i keep telling myself i'll look through and promote some units/inherit some skills before the banners end so i can free up space but i just have so many dupes that trying to figure out who has The Best Boon/Bane gets to be too much and i just expand my barracks instead lmao yikes

Hahaha yeah I hear you. I have... fodder for all occasions. I recently pushed my barracks to 300 after initially refusing to expand. The feathers for sending home aren't worth it, imo, so I'd rather not toss units if I don't have to. Like yes, I do need six Jagens for Fortify Cavalry. What if all my cavalry needs fortifying?! My biggest vice is seven Laslows, apparently, in case I'm in desperate need of Axebreaker 3... which I haven't given any of my units. Haha, oh well. There will be a time!

i honestly don't know how anyone would justify sending units home for feathers now; 20k still feels like a high price for promotion but feathers are also a pretty plentiful resource with all the events and the arena and everything x:

i pushed mine to 325 while searching for brave ike. as much as i like hoarding resources i refuse to make my barracks any larger, haha

lol went up to 310 today and pulled for Ephraim. The intimidating HOURS LEFT text got to me. :c BUT I GOT HIM. +Spd -HP which I think is k, as his speed is naturally low and being doubled is never fun, and a boon boosts him to 29 which is pretty decent. I'm happy I have a buffer who synergises with Nino and can dual blues... not that she ever really need the additional firepower, y'know, but nice to have.

But yeah feathers are very very generously rewarded these days, and we'll have even more soon with Arena Assault defence rewards rolling in. I like that I don't feel boxed in to not promote units to pass on weapons n stuff, if that makes sense. Because the costs are so fair I happily promote to 5* nowadays to pass the tools to create optimal builds. I like that I feel I can build my units up without worrying about finite resources, because that's something which normally plagues me in games. I'm a 10/10 hoarder.