- I was mostly thinking green cus Green > Blue (and that's the only way anyone would consider using him over Reinhardt. lol) I need another blue calvalry mage like I need a hole in the head. Please make him red, I do not have one of those. lol.

I'm sadly betting he's going to end up as the "Narcian of the cavelry tome units".

- nah, that honor already belongs to Leo. Leo needs to drop to 4* pool.

:/ I keep forgetting that, maybe because I was still happy when I finally got Leo even though I already had his summer version.

On a off topic note but speeking of lower tier units, I got Henry and Subaki to max level recently along with Eir and Lewyn (typo)

- I have 0 Leo and 0 Elise, they have eluded me since the beginning. Henry and tsubaki are pretty solid units. One of the F2P youtubers (I don't remember which one) still uses Henry as Brave Lyn and other colourless threat counter. Tsubaki's also pretty good in terms of a tanky flier. (I prefer Lyon and Valter myself, but Henry and Tsubaki have better build potential)

Well Neasala's was easy for me this time, glad to not see " Reinforcements will arrive" on the rules

My Henry, which was the first one I got is a neutral ( i do have a better stated Henry but I'm attached to my neutral one). I thought about giving him something to take advantage of his tanky nature like Close Counter in the past, but I was told it was a bad idea due to his attack stat not being so great.

I still would like to give him something to punish anyone trying to melee him however.

Currently leveling a team of Laevatein, Christmas! Epharim, Christmas! Cecilia and a promoted Merric

My Leo and Elise pitty broke me, figures when I do want them they don't show and yet when I don't want them...

Sadly, I don’t have the funds to buy a hard copy. Hopefully I can play it on emulator, or they release it for switch. I will always regret not buying RD when the GameCube was current.

Well summoning was a disaster lately, my search for a second Hrid has been destroyed by Karel, Flora, Libra and Saber. I did also go Laguz hunting out of curiosity l, and was thwarted by an Elise so perhaps time to put my orbs away for a while until the pool has a bit of a purge again.

Yesterday was kind of really crappy irl so I became part of the problem and just brought my Fjorm. ((Sorry)

Forging bonds is really enjoyable this time around and Naesala is a cool unit. I’ve already 5* him.

hey everyone! belated happy new year!! i'm having a good time merging my adult tiki (she's +9, got one in the wings waiting on feathers), and i think... i'm gonna work on a second +10 fred! i want a fred squad >:3 i'm enjoying the writing a lot more too, the tempest was sweet and the forging bonds has been nice so far. also tibarn was my free roll! so handsome.

meanwhile ANY BANNER WITH HRID ON IT IS TRASH HE EATS ORBS COME HOME YOU MISERABLE CREATURE

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Prince Alfonse

The summon ticket scam got me so I continued rolling from 3.25% after using all of 'em on the Laguz banner and ended up at like... 4,.75%. Mostly going for blues with reds as a back-up - ended up pulling Tibarn which is cool. I didn't ever really use the laguz through the Tellius games because the transformation mechanic is... annoying, to say the least, but Tibarn was always one of my faves for being oh so strong. I wanted Nailah for potential Aether Raids shenanigans with Null C-Disrupt but eh, maybe her Res is too low to make good use of it anyway.

I'm liking Forging Bonds this time too, for a change. There seems to be a lot less summoner pandering which is a pleasure, so much better to see them integrate with the Askr royals and Anna get some screen time! I think I'm gonna promote Naesala too. Just did Normal for now but looks easy enough to clear the other two difficulties. Also lol maybe next weekend I'll assign some blessings and start clearing through my level up backlog. That should probs be top priority, hm.

that feeling when you have 10 orbs but like all the banners T_T oj vey

I got Leanne from the Laguz banner, I'm happy to have another singer, but she has -att +Def, so she's pretty worthless outside singing, won't be helpful at all for arena bonus points :( Still going to try for Tibarn or Nailah I think, I've only used one ticket so far.

Sword Valor banner was a success, got Lene for my free summon. Wasn't going to summon beyond that anyway, so quite pleased with that result.

I am also thinking I will raise Neasala to 5*. He seems like a worthwhile unit, his stats are pretty good for a GHB, and swift sparrow is just such a good skill.

- Steady Breath + Ignis would be a pretty good way to punish people trying to mellee him, but that also requires a 5* locked skill.

- I noticed that Naga's refine also gives close counter... I might just have to actually use Julia sometime...

- Nice! Congrats.

x_x I ended up giving him Savage blow earlyer this morning -wasn't feeling good so I stayed home- even though it doesn't do much to punish melee ( unless someone's behind them).

I forgot I wanted to try keeping base kits intact after mentioning that >_< ( close counter would have removed his A skill) and fill in the empty slots. Henrys C slot was empty and I had 3 4* Camilla and a 3* one. Figured that was the easyest fix

Trying for Rayson when possible with what orbs and tickets I can dredge up, even though he's likely to be demoted. If I get any of the others though I can't complain.

have 4% pity rate, get circle with no reds get off-banner pity break it's myrrh! she's -atk i'm two steps away from giving up and saving for new year hrid's legendary banner reappearance, but that's going to be just as garbage as this is...

ugh, -atk. at least you'll only need one more to negate that once the update drops? either way, congrats on at least getting leanne and lene! fingers crossed tibarn or nailah come home soon, if you keep going for them c:

there was like... two mentions of the summoner and nothing else? it was great! leanne's supports with alfonse and sharena, and alfonse's conversations with tibarn were my favorite, i hope we get more forging bonds like that ;o;

- Meh, if I summon another Leanne who isn't -att, I'm more likely to sac this one for hone beasts than to merge. Her stats are honestly not that great, I am really unlikely to use her other than as a dancer HM slave.

Anyone else a bit confused about the Prayer Wheel thing? I really hope they give us pity orbs for the mix up, cus it seems to me that they just made it really OP, instead of just reverting it to how it should have worked.

i think?? they went with the better/broken buff because people might have bought orbs/rolled for her specifically because of the exploit. and if they fixed her weapon, it'd be bad for consumer confidence, or whatever.

i saw this pretty recently with dragalia lost -- cygames altered a very popular, very strong halloween unit months after release (literally, "this ability was more effective than anticipated, so we made it weaker"), and they just made sure to give everyone who owned the unit some compensation (but just like... 15 orbs worth lol. people were so salty!).

so i don't really see why intsys couldn't just "fix" legendary azura and hand out 20 orbs too, but i get the feeling that they might want to hold onto whatever good will they've got at the moment, so keeping her good buff is better than reverting to the intended buff and angering people who have her/spent a lot to get her. (also it's "just" +5 to each stat and requires the dance skill/seals; tactics are +6? and the hot new hone attack 4 is +7 and those both leave either your c-skill or seal open, so maybe they think it's not even a big deal, game-wise)
(but yeah i want compensation orbs too)

- Yeah, it's true that the tactics/wave etc give more than the seals, but with the seals she can buff +5 to all stats without help from another unit with those skills or sacrificing her own c slot. I want compensation orbs for Julia anyway, cus the definitely nerfed her weapon effect (even if it never actually did what it said it did therefor not actually nerfed in terms of actual effect), and she's been around so long that most people would have her.

i haven't gotten any successes in ages so i traded my aether raids defense team for a joke defense team (uncles frederick and reinhardt protect the kids from mean ol grima) and... got two wins. ok (one was a forfeit after they lost two units, the other was a full-wipe from someone with a 4-man team. yikes, sorry friend)

yeah i imagine i'll have a different opinion about this whole thing once azura's been on another banner and i see more of them. right now i can bait her with frederick (even with his trash res!) so i'm very meh about the whole thing. the julia thing though, i hadn't seen that one. it's a bummer she doesn't actually have that skill :c even if they don't give orbs for julia, they should at least give compensation divine dew for her refine.

- I battled her twice in the arena today, won the battles, but they both broke my deathless streaks :( I'm all set to drop to T18 for the first time in months cus I can't get a deathless run. If I can bait her with Nino, it's fine, but if it's a map where I can't bait, there's no telling what will happen. I got severely map screwed a few times today. I used a bunch of crests trying to get that deathless run and kept failing. I could get behind compensation dew. I didn't upgrade Julia's weapon, but I have been seriously thinking about it, and then today, there was another fix they made. They really should give us something for all their screw ups! lol.

In other news, I summoned Nailah. She's pretty fun. +att -Res, her ideal IVs, too bad it makes her handy null skill kinda useless :( Was kinda hoping for Tibarn just cus it would work out for my arena team better (Nailah stacks colour with Nowi, and I can't drop Nowi cus she's my score driver... although, it probably won't hurt too bad if I'm T18!)

I refined my Julia already, she's been great in the arena. If they do infantry buffs for this round of GC then she'll go on the team, as I seem to get a lot of dragons coming through. The CC is for dragons only I think, but I don't mind, it's just really nice to have a solid dragon counter.

OMG he's beautiful. Also your Fred just deletes Surtr and for that I am forever grateful.

I did actually send feedback to IS about nerving Surtr :X He kept popping up in FB and also in the training tower quests and it wasn't fun. As a unit he is ridiculous, it does make me wonder given how polarising he is if the user base would be that bothered if they removed Sinmara's -20hp effect or something. Guard effect on SS4 should also have never happened but it's probably a bit late to do anything about that.

All but given up on the current banners (until the new units arrive anyway) and just been working on getting existing Heroes to 5000HM, and updating kits etc.

Seems we both got Nailah.

Green orbs currently evade me and there was prediction Rayson could be avalible as a 4* later so might just hold onto my remaining orbs for the 22nd