don't forget to do the quiz, if you can! you need a mynintendo account, but you'll get seven extra orbs if you do all seven questions. 8) i got b for the first one.

congrats on the rolls! i get to join you in the -atk xander club :') i'm just thankful one of them came home within sixty orbs tbh.

congrats on your first +10!! 🎉 🎉 🎉

congrats on your first +10! I actually built a Fae for the first time this weekend and I use her in my TT team. I had a 5* with bad IVs but I fixed them with a +Def-Hp merge, I just don't know yet if I should fully commit and give her one of my spare B!Ike for Steady Breath or go for the budget option with Fury.

The daily summons have been rather good to me, last week I got an off-focus Ryoma and I got a 5* Hana too (now I finally have a reason to decently build her. I loved her in Birthright!) Yesterday I pulled green and I was so happy to get 2 Barst (woohoo Reposition!) and Libra haha I'm going to miss the daily banners when they're gone!

Thank you! Happy to have finished my first project. I gave her Atk Smoke the other day but not sure if I wanna run that or a Ploy - she has a vicegrip on my DD3 seal so maybe Atk Ploy would be a little more synergistic.

I did get a Libra the other day which was cool, I don't have any ambitions for him but always nice to break up the monotony with a new unit.

I'd totally recommend building Fae! No complaints from me. I went all in with her investment but she's a wonderfully versatile enemy phase unit and a real tank. Her kit is pretty synergistic, though, so I'm not sure how things would work on a budget. Try her out in Rival Domains or whatever and see what you think!

- Congrats on getting Fae to +10! She is definitely a worthwhile investment.

I've actually gotten some really good luck on these daily banners. Ephraim has made up for the lack of Hector by showing up free twice now, he is up to +4 now. And I got both Nephenee and Sonia on the first circle of that banner too.

My TT team is mainly made up of units who need more SP, and now I'm remembering why they don't have enough SP... cus they kinda suck at killing things! lol. I'm still going to stick with them for a while. Alphonse is actually MVP on the team, he doesn't actually need the sP though,but I do need more dew to upgrade his weapon though :(

glad to hear everyone's been getting good stuff out of the daily banners o: my most exciting pull has been a free neutral minerva.

the first +10 is always very exciting! hopefully you run into more effies and eirikas so that fae can have buddies :3 and... personally i'd stick with attack smoke for now because atk ploy is kind of hard to get (vs atk smoke), but the ploy might be nicer since it's not combat-dependent. (that reminds me though, i really need luke to be on a banner for panic ploy... hrm, maybe he'll be a pity breaker someday.)

Yeah there's a couple of options - both Julius and Oliver carry it so I could get it without much remorse, but positioning and activation are a little more complex than letting everything run into you haha. And I'm not a fan of losing limited units but I mean... am I ever gonna use either seriously? No, to be honest. Ah well, she'll keep smoking for the time being.

+4 huh? That's pretty sweet for a 5*! Have you refined his weapon? I've always hesitated due to the strict HP requirement and am pretty low on dews after refining all three Askrs (but I do have about 750 stones on the flipside).

My TT squad is actually working so well. I realised they have the three main breakers - Alfonse has sword, Sharena has lance and Joshua has axe - so maybe that's why they're coming together. The only big weakness is Alfonse's low res and speed, but he survives surprisingly often.

Omg the Corrin and Azura rerun was hell. Took me so long with making small, incremental changes to find a cavalry squad that could clear it - my cav teams definitely favour offense but there isn't really the space, especially with Azura firing units at you, to do a whole bunch. Ended up using Elise, L!Ephraim, Sigurd and B!Roy. Most of the choices felt pretty arbitrary in the end but it took a lot of figuring out.

- He has the reverse Brash Assault refine, which I gave him like a WEEK before he got the Flame Sigurd option. I'm not sure which is better, I did build his set to work with his original refine, aether, steady breathe, renewal. Flame sigurd doesn't have the HP limitation, but also doesn't work as well for an infantry unit is is typically closer to his allies tha cavalry.

lol, My Alphonse has the Deflect Magic seal, which gives him slightly more livability from magic attacks. The rest of the team around him still kinda sucks though. I thought f!Kana would be doing better than she is. I might drop her off the team once she has a bit more SP. Tana's trucking like a boss. Rebecca's not doing so hot. I should give her renewal or something that synergises better with ardent sacrifice for long battles. Desperation is good, but only when I get to control her.

lol, yeah, cavalry was surprisingly difficult for Corin&Azura. Managed to get the other quests in one go with some finagling. I ended up using Groom Marth, Titania, Xander, and Brave Lyn. The trick was using drag back to get Xander onto the trench tile on turn one so he could kill the brave axe flier. Brave Lyn took out Corrin, and then Titania tanked all the blue things.

today's quiz question reminded me of 8) "which hector has the best posture?"

yeah, julius is... just another free red mage i'm probably never going to build, but i just can't bring myself to fodder him off. same with oliver. i still kind of regret foddering off a few f!robins, and i don't use her at all p;

and huh. i remember the corrin and azura battle being much harder the first go around, so i guess all my merges were worth it? frederick / xander / camus / reinhardt cleared the cavalry quest after a couple tries to figure out the best way to bait corrin.

- lol. I was expecting it to be LA Hector since he's technically the oldest, but I guess he's too old and ruined his back too much as a youth to stand up straight! lol. inb4: CYL Hector is beard-hector and uses armads as a cane.

I remember infernal for C&A being absolutely brutal, I had to use a guide for it, and it used a bunch of fliers repositioning people between the two bottom corners. But this time around we only needed to deal with lunatic.

Yeah I remember it being hard before, because dancer AI still confuses me every time despite reading up on it whoops. But I used fliers to swerve the awkward terrain, so had less trouble even on Infernal.

I've foddered a Clive for Def +3 (yes really) because I had no Stahls for some niche solution on Valter's initial run using Gordin and feel a little guilty about that one. :x And a Berkut to give Effie his lance, but no regrets there. I'm... up to 625 units so could probs do with losing one or two haha.

Also sidebar, I finished Sacred Stones earlier (Eirika's route on hard, though Ephraim kinda stole her thunder in the end with a lucky crit whoops) so I'm done with games 6 through to 15, whew. Still need to do stuff like HHM and Ephraim's path but think I'm gonna take a little break so I don't burn out haha. Sacred Stones was a nice game to finish on, though, a really polished experience and pretty easy.

- AI dancers always screw me up too. Especially with WoM.

I can't decide if I want to fodder the TT Joshua for Windsweep, or if I want to merge him. I merged BK. The 4*s are just taking up space.

Lol, yeah Ephraim >>> Eirika. Eirika just dosn't have enough strength to kill stuff and usually ends up underwhelming compared to Ephraim. HHM is a hellish adventure that you can take on if you want, but you don't lose anything by not doing it. Ephraim's route however, is pretty fun and gives you more of the story, and I recommend doing it. SS is a solid game, It's the game I recomend to people to introduce them to FE, it has those classic GBA sprites, and it's a heck of a lot easier than FE7 or FE6. If you didn't do it on the first play through of Hector's story though, I would recomend looking up guides for unlocking all the side quest stories, because it definitely changes how you look at the overarching story of FE7.
Up next on my list is Thracia777. It's also going to be a hellish adventure.

hah, old man hector... i doubt cyl hec will be old man hector (though that'd be really cool!) but after walhart and dorcas i'm low-key praying cyl hector has been assigned to ippei. i think he'd do a neat hector, and it'd be very different from the other three.

i just remember having problems with both lunatic and infernal for corrin and azura's battle -- so either i've gotten better at the game since then or i got carried by camus' and xander's distant counter weapons. maybe a little of both? haha

but oh, that poor clive, ;w;! not even sacrificed for hit and run, poor guy... but hey, whatever works, right? i merged my joshua and m!marth but looking at some of the other ghb units -- i am increasingly tempted to use some of them for fodder. there's just so many mages i don't care to use.

Yeah the problem with mages is their merges don't really... add anything unless you're building a bulky one (though that said, I'd still like to +10 a Soren when I get one with decent IVs, shelter my gay son). Your resources are better funnelled into a unit with decent BST that can take advantage of the added bulk. But whatever, at the end of the day it's a few hundred feathers every week so eh, no use worrying about it.

To be honest the difficulty was pitched nicely for me. I've never done a full Lunatic run so it was close to my sweet spot - probs a little easy but I didn't have to reset much, haha, so it kept its pace. I did feed Eirika a few boosters and she turned out decently for me - between her Rapier, Silver Sword and then Sieglinde, which I used fairly liberally, she could one round most foes I needed her to. I think the enemy density is quite punishing but the enemies themselves tend to be on the weaker side, so I could be somewhat careless and aggressive in my play. It was nice to not feel forced to turtle. There were pretty large gaps in the story so I'll definitely go back around to Ephraim eventually, though I got the gist of what happened. I'd like to go back through Awakening soon, though, and maybe try my first iron man as I feel pretty shackled by resetting and would like to break that mindset.

I ran with Eirika, Ephraim, Seth, Tana, Vanessa, Cormag, Moulder, Joshua, Colm, Lute, Garcia and Tethys; I ended up having to drop Franz and Kyle for Ephraim and Cormag respectively but am happy with how things worked out. Kyle was my only death - he died on the penultimate chapter, where they randomly increased the deployment limits, to long range magic but at that point I was like, eh, he's fodder anyway, I just want to complete the game. Tana and Lute were my MVPs, though Lute snagged a couple of Speedwings to get started she snowballed soon after.

- Ooo Ippei would do some good art for Hector!

- Solid team. Lute and Tana always seem to do really well no matter what you do with them. although I have had that problem with Lute where she just keeps killing everything and ultimately takes too much damage and dies OTL. I always try to use the trainee units (Amelia, Ross, Ewan), but they are hard to use.

I've been having terrible luck on all the banners lately, haha! I didn't get anything worth anything on any of the daily banners, and I haven't gotten a single dancer from the Hoshidan Festival banner. Oh well. I'm sitting on a LOT of orbs in my Feh stash and just using TT orbs for summoning right now so it's been just for fun.

Congrats on your +10 Fae! The only problem with having a +10 is now (at least for me) when I summon more, I just sort of sigh and then send them home sadly. I've summoned so many Mathilas since she reached +10, even though it took me forever to get that final one (of course). No surprise there.

- Same :( Well, I mean, I did get some good 5* summons from the daily banners, but no luck on the dancer banner. I want to get one, just one, then I can save orbs for CYL (hopefully)

i really want to roll for morgans but i also want to save until i see the new units on monday and the new legendary at the end of the month... wah

building favs > building units to finish teams or what have you. fingers crossed you get lots of sorens the next time you have a reason to roll green!

Yeah at least Fae has Renewal which is nice as a budget skill for TT teams. I usually use Mathildas for Hone Atk 3 as I have potential plans for FCorrin and Olivia (who I've never pulled with a decent IV, hm) as a filler for cheap units. But yeah, there's only so many you want along the way.

And yeah, I think I have my... most orbs ever at the moment, around 720 whoops. I think I will roll a lil more on dancers but am being patient and seeing what else is in the wings first. I think new heroes are due in the next couple of days?

I seemed to have that problem with Joshua who ended up with crummy luck and a crit rate that'd trigger at the worst times. Also the hit rates are kinda high so, while the damage is typically low, it chips away at you. I'd position him at a chokepoint with the intention of tanking a single enemy as he'd crit his third enemy in a row and promptly die in his next encounter.

Haha I'm pretty sure I have enough copies to +10 him? But haven't rolled a single one with +Atk or +Spd, naturally. Like I don't mind waiting for merges but need a good foundation to build off of, y'know.

(Also the answer to today's question is B. I actually knew this one because I remember thinking it was really weird (also I hate that bows map it's too hectic))

the new trailer should be out in ~two days? i'm curious to see who all we're getting, since the banner's getting a forging bonds event too.

and in that case, fingers crossed you get a good soren instead of lots of sorens, haha! that's the other annoying thing with working on +10s -- either you go through a drought, or you get a whole bunch but none have the boon you want :U

also re/ the quiz -- nice. i figured it was the bows maps since all the special training maps have 8-bit music, but it's nice to have confirmation! 8)

[edit] i realized i forgot to do the other two extra tap battle stages so i did those real quick. the last one with all the spring units hopping is so cute!! i wish more of the stages were like that.

- I couldn't be bother to figure out this one, so I just picked a random one. Mad that the timers for the quiz don't line up with the server timer. I missed 'yesterday's' quiz cus the timer rolled over much earlier than I expected it to :(

Sank 80 more orbs into the festival banner, summed a bunch of useless 3* healers, and not one but TWO more +spd Reinhardts. What did I do to deserve this! Now I'm up to 4.5% pity rate, and the only decent skill fodder I've summoned has been Roderick and Shanna. have enough feathers to promote someone again, but despite all these blue summons, no nowis :( maybe I should promote some of the GNB units or TT units and merge them. Arvis has been doing pretty well in the arena this week, maybe he deserves a merge or two.