Aww that's quite a dilemma, I can see why you're conflicted. Spending money on FEH is a dangerous rabbit hole though so not something I would encourage. I have TMS on my WiiU, but never got too far into it as the combat system confused me a bit (and the audio is all Japanese) but I think I'll give it another try.

Congrats on your Takumis :3 I just +10 his fallen version (since I didn't have enough orbs to really pull properly on the NY re-run. His kit still needs some work.

Banners wise - I ended up getting pity broken by +spd regular Lethe on the FE4 banner... I'm out on that one and idk what to do with her since it turns out I don't really use beast units a lot (not even Tibarn). I'll just have to hope that Altena demotes. I did also poke a little bit at TMS banner because Rocket Horse... and got a neutral Rocket Horse which I'm pretty pleased about, she's actually very fun to use.

- At least +spd is a good boon forleathe. I've been pity broken by her twice and I just ended up merging her cus her skills aren't super useful either. She was great for the last TT, I did a full beast team for it, and she was a bonus unit, but otherwise I don't really use her.I just took a free summon on the TMS banner, no more summoning for me for the moment. Waiting to see what's on the leg banner.

Who is everyone voting for for CYL? I'm going to be voting for Sharena and Alphonse, cus none of the other units I still want brave forms for have no hope of winning.

:edit: I'm changing my vote to Marth cus I don't want a 3H sweep of the top. I don't like the 'new is hype' trend, 3H characters take up the majority of the top 20 on both sides, and I mean Byleth and the leaders I get, hoping for their post-type skip outfits if they win, but the side characters don't really deserve the hype that they are getting any more than previous games side characters that get 0 love.

My first 3 votes went to Takumi, Oboro and Jamke. After the mid term results I’m probably going to throw the rest at Marth and Eirika.

I like Three Houses but it’s barely released, we’re no doubt going to be getting a ton of content for it soon enough and the lords are pretty much guaranteed at least three versions before any seasonal alt shenanigans kick in.

Also if I can rant: Plumeria is the second highest non3H girl, are you kidding me? Loki getting so high was bad enough. This is such a strange fandom at times.

(I realise the irony of saying that and then voting for Takumi but his sword master design is so cool and his base version so dated, I’d love him to get a good update ;_;)

- I am with you on Plumeria being second highest non3H girl being total BS. Like, she's a good broken unit, but her character and design are both dumb as sh*t. Friggin Loki even had more characterization than her. But New is Hype, people always forget the old stuff when there's new stuff fresh in their memories. I am honestly surprised that Bruno has fallen out of the top 20 on the male side, and units like Linhadt and itsuki are up there. OTL

Yeah, none of the Fates dudes really need another alt, but I do feel they deserve it more so than the as of yet unreleased 3H tropey side characters. (Takumi was in the top 20... Ryouma fails to make it once again)

Well I did it, 2 extra votes for Marth and 2 for Eirika. Would just be nice not to have a bit of game variety on the banner y’know?

I put 40 ish orbs into the Mythic banner and got myself a fisheyed lady and Edge-fonse. That’s great, so I’m back to saving C:

Had me thinking that apart from the FE4 banner January has been very kind to me- went back to the NY banner and lucked out with a NY Alfonse without it getting horrific (haha, you guys tempted me C;).

Makes me think that I dunno, Valentines is going to have an Oboro alt or something that is going to taunt me by not showing up. Or that the anniversary is going to give me a Loki or something.

Oh, and I love Itsuki! I have already given him DC and actually think I’m going to make him a +10 project.

- Yeah, It would be nice to have it not be Brave 3H OTL.

I also put in about 40 orbs and got Edge-fonse and Caneghis, not too bad, and I got a free Keaton on the VG banner, pretty good luck (supporting him in the VG since he was kind enough to come hang out with me in my castle) ... I am almost tempted to go back and try for NY Selkie or Leathe, the are the only beast units I am missing since Keaton came home now! But at the same time... I feel like probably my luck has run out, and that would be a bad way to use my 300 orbs :(

Itskui is a pretty great unit, highest res of the falchion users now I think. He would make a good merge project for sure, tempted to build him myself too, except I already have 3 other sword merges, I should probably finish my Adult Tiki or a mage first. GL with him, tell me how it goes!

Ugh......ended up getting a spare for my guaranteed 5*.......figured I should have waited to pull given how my luck looked this morning --; -granted I was lucky last year so I guess I was due to fail this year-

- I have 0 of the colourless ones, and only one of the green, and what does my summoning circle give me? All red and blue of course. So of course, I end up with a duplicate too. :(

I aimed for colorless as I only have two of the units on there, got 3 colorless orbs....and of COURSE it gives me one of the two :/ ( Bridal Nephanee)

Maybe luck will be better in the valentines units.

Kinda interested in this combat Manuel thing coming up, wondering if I can turn it in for Units I never owned. If so and all units are accounted for, maybe I can slap bow exp on a lower tier bow unit for babysitting leveling bow units since Faye won't show up :/

I didn't get a double, but I did get someone I didn't care about much (bridal Tanith). At least it's someone new.

Appreciated the 333 heroic grails as a log in bonus today! Almost done with my +10 LA Eliwood and can start my next project.

Also I lost my mind at the 2020 LA heroes. I want that Alm and Celica so bad.

- that's who I got too, sadly for me she is a duplicate. At least she has decent fodder. No 4th level skills though. a friend suggested feeding her to sharena for that sweet sweet double swift sparrow, which is tempting, but sadly sharena still has no growth options :( my other lance projects are all enemy phase units though, so I dunno.

I got NY Lethe for my free summon- picked green because that was the colour where I had the least units. She’s a great unit but idk what I’m going to do with her.

Today I got a free 5* Cecelia on the bhb revival banner, haha. In fairness, I do love her and would make her a more of a merge project if I hadn’t already maxed out her HM. So I guess she gets a free merge!

Feh channel was so varied there was some good stuff but urgh idk how to feel about Feh Pass. I will be really upset if the first Alt art Oboro gets is a resplendent re-skin. Or if that’s how we get a King Xander or King Ryouma.

agree, I don’t need another archer or another armour but duo Alm and Celica are so cute. Although totally savage that they put Faye on the banner too XD

- can recommend dc Itsuki. I still need to tweak his kit (might replace the link with QR and give him some good old reposition) but he’s solid and a ton of fun to use.

- Unfortunately have no DC fodder, but he might still be useful to build. I'll be using him in the arena this week probably. Maybe give him some Death Blow to help OHKO things since his speed isn't great (remember when 30 speed was like higher than average???)

Hah, when I was building my Subaki recently, I posted on a board a theory build I was aiming for and was told that 40 spd /might/ be too slow without QR3. I long for the days when 30 spd was okay!

In other news... hero fest rates are a total lie :C

- yeah. I got lif, and I was like... I dont want to put you on my aether defence team with your dumb eats other units sword, but then I realized that in addition to the stat boost it also guarantees f/u and I was like... your 30 speed probably needs that OTL. Meh, going to try running him with barrier blade and qr3 anyway. At the very least I will lose less aether if hes there.

Not very excited about the hero rides top 8 picks. I'll.be joining leif cus hes the one I want to win the least, and it's been over a year since I picked a winning vg unit. So I can either be happy u won, or happy I lost! Lol.

FEH pass is $13 A FKING MONTH??? Yeah, f that. That MAY be the last straw for me with this game.

It's $9.95 USD. I honestly signed up for the first month mostly for the new Cordelia, but I'm going to see how I like it. The nice thing is, I can just cancel whenever I want through Google Play so I can do it on months when I really like the resplendent hero outfits, or just have an extra $10.

It took me about 200 orbs and 2 pity breaks (one on a red because I had SO many rounds with no green orbs), but I got my Alm and Celica, so I'm happy. I also realized I can actually beat all three levels of Bound Hero Battles - I don't think I was able to way back in the day and just gave up trying. But I've completed all of them, and it's been such a good source of orbs. That's been appreciated at least!

- Yeah, that was CAD for me. It's not worth it for me for a few extra goodies and outfits for units. I thought everyone had the same resplendent units, I have Lyn available, not Cordelia. shrug Mostly I'm just so angry about everything and their stupid monthly subscriptions. All my apps seem to be doing it and it's just annoying. And with this one, they just keep throwing it in my face that I haven't bought it, telling me I've complete quests when I haven't actually cus I didn't get the FEH pass. Those notifications just do not go away. They had BETTER change it, or I'm done. I get it, you want my money, but I made up my mind years ago that I would not feed this game my finances anymore, so stop bugging me. ugh.

Congrats on your Alm/Celica. I got a 4* Connie on my first circle. I'm glad they added him to the 4* pool, that was nice of them. I don't know if I'll keep summoning. Got dupe Brave Camilla with my last summoning ticket, she's good skill fodder. storing her away for someday when I decide who wants att/spd push.

Dialogue in the paralogues was... awkward? Poor Faye, like Alm and Celica are there dancing together and she is STILL trying to impress Alm, and everyone else is like encouraging her, and it's just sad.

They release the 2nd hero 2 weeks after the first, so you do get both.

Rather lucky on this banner- I got Alm duo but have a bit of a dilemma. I got a -atk +spd copy but then decided to poke a bit more to see if I could get another one to fix the iv (dangerous mind set, I know). Well the rng blessed me and I did get another and this one is +atk -def. I don’t know if I should merge into +spd or run with just the +atk one. Decisions... the +spd hits 47 and with lunar flash it’s tempting but it’s so hard to merge over a +atk asset.

My free summons have been a little mediocre if I’m honest. I got the 5* Cecelia but that’s been about it for the rest of them. Can’t win them all I guess!

Congrats to everyone else on their pulls too!

I'd go for the +spd one myself. His speed is amazing and his base attack with his weapon is still 51 - nothing to sneeze at!

Mine is +hp/-res, so he's pitiful. I also attempted to summon a second to no avail thus far, haha.

Today was the first day I got any 5 stars off of new free summons for the anniversary, and I managed to get 2. Brave Hector from... the weekly revival, not the Brave Heroes one, and Nah from Brave Heroes. I pity broke on a Nagi while going for a second Alm, but as I had neither Nah nor Nagi, overall I feel okay today.