- Thanks for the luck! I got her this morning (and not -att, hurray!)! Now, what to do with my last 50 orbs, try for Hinoka? Try for someone on the corrupt soul banner (like, any of them cus they're all pretty OP it seems)? Save up for Brave Banner?

- Congratulations on your Blue Hector! lol.

- I wouldn't know half what I know about this game if it weren't for one of my best friends being super obsessed. She recently explained to me what super boon/super banes are. I dunno how active she is on subeta anymore, let's ping her and find out. :P

Haha yeah I don't even have Hector, I haven't been so lucky. Only Valentine Hector

- Me Neither. MANY an orb have been spend on that venture, and many an orb hath brought me Arthur,

I have one orb left but I finally got me a Evil Celica. As cool as Grima is... I don't really like armour teams, so time to start from scratch with the orb saving, and hope that the Legendary Banner isn't someone I really want.

- Congrats! Seems like I'm the only one who doesn't have someone from that banner now! GL saving! I think I might do the same. As much as I want Hone Fliers, I don't actually like Hinoka that much. :(

congrats on myrrh!! i have a soft-spot for healers since i rolled a genny around the time of her tempest trial, and she carried my team through most of it 8) now that you can refine for wrathful/dazzle effects, i like them even more! elise is one of my favorite alternate cavalry units :3

congrats on your pulls!! we don't get new heroes for another two weeks or so? so i'm gonna do my best to ignore the banners until then ;w;

- I've seen some crazy Arena shenanigans with Elise Gravity + and drag back. No one can move! Healers are kinda gimmicky in heroes, but fun to play around with now. I like to use Lucius with Pain + and Savage Blow to whittle down enemies when I'm training up new heroes.

they're the best! i do the same thing with my healers and my daggers; makes raising heroes so much nicer. though, the special training maps have benched the leveling crew for now p:
(points at takumi's map) to play the enemy turn music on this map is exceptionally rude. cursed ghb

(grima and fjorm can hold the left side of the lunatic map; i keep getting tripped up by the right side 'cause i want to use genny to keep grima alive but i keep losing track of her. lost her to a takumi one try, and on the next, i learned that the mage she was "trapping" had pass... oops. infernal is going to be. excruciating)

I'm probably not going to bother with Infernal until a quest requests me to do so, haha!

I managed to do Lunatic thanks to Bowbreaker Robin, PA!Azura, Fjorm with Pivot + QR seal and Swordbreaker Shigure to deal with the sword fighter! Basically Robin dealt with the right side of the map with Axura help to kill the blue mage. Shigure kills the red sword that is spawning on the left, then Fjorm repositions him so she ends up being in range of the blue cavalry that she kills on the next enemy turn. Robin had to block the green mage during a few turns (and could deal with the red mage cavalry just fine during that time), and when the left Takumi started to move up it was only a matter of positioning Fjorm or Axura correctly so that she could hit him one time and I think Shigure got to kill him. Took me a good 2-3 stamina potions to figure this out though XD

-almost wanted to throw the phone into the wall- >_< I can't even get past normal....I'll try more later but if frusteration keeps up I may have to give up on Takumi even though I want him real bad. stress and possible device damage isn't worth it.

I've not really SIed my team either and have hesitated on putting seals on everyone yet and I hate to have my hand forced and make a bad choice in either due to a difficult map.

I'm not sure you know that seals are not definitive and can be changed anytime? They're super useful when you sometimes need that extra speed or attack to achieve a strategy. Unless you're talking about spending sacred coins to upgrade them since it's a limited supply.

Don't give up yet though, if anything, I saw today that apparently Legendary Ike is really useful for this map, and we're getting one for free on Wednesday! I'm pretty sure people will quickly figure out f2p strategies with no SI using him!

I did just manage to beat him, took Gunnthra, Brave Roy, Brave Lyn, Azura....and LOTS of trial and error.

And yeh though some of the seals are TT rewards so I want to use them on units that need them the most -though I hope holding off hasn't resulted in spares I didn't know about becoming feathered >_<

I need to start doing research I guess.

- I had trouble with normal too. I ran out of stamina and haven't been able to try hard or infernal yet.

- Yeah, I don't have a healer on my arena team, but I do have Rogue Dagger + shenanigans.

@ KiaArra Thanks C: I was training her up today and I love her art and voice lines so much.

I managed to beat Hard and Lunatic Takumi using Horse Emblem (Cecelia, BowLyn, Reinhardt, Sigurd) - I think Lunatic was just more dumb luck than anything. I tried Infernal and died in two turns. (I've already 5* my wrathful pineapple - his base kit is pretty good but I am missing close counter on this version). His lines in the castle and on his profile make me feel sad all over again.

I forgot to comment on the new chapter, I love new big sis and her interaction with Lavaetain! I like the idea that Lavaetein is a bit naive and still learning about battle. Surtr is definitely going to do something to one of them that is going to break my heart.

- You can move the seals around, they aren't like the blessings, they aren't restricted to one unit, you can change them and remove them whenever you want. I have both my Close def and distant def Sacred Seals upgraded to level 3, and they bounce around my units all the time depending on who needs them for what quests. I would highly recommend upgrading those two with sacred coins if you have them. For Takumi's map especially, the distant def seal would probably come in handy.

The only duplicate seals that have come out so far have been quest ones, not TT rewards. I also believe that if you have an upgraded seal, and then get the bottom level as a quest reward it would still be considered the same seal and you would get feathers instead, so you're probably good.

- I really need to remember to play with sound and animations on when I get new units to hear what they say.

Alright, x_x I guess I thought if you gave a sacred seal to a unit it would be consumed so I never messed with them. Managed to get evil takumi now to go with normal >_< I have 15k feathers so trying to decide if I should get Takumi to 4* now or hold off and get another 4* to 5*

- Beat Lunatic and get 4* for free! Save up your feathers for a 5* I'm sure in a few days there will be youtube strats on how to beat him on lunatic and infernal.

:p after the heck I went threw in reg, I think i'll save my sanity and just promote the 3* after I promote a 5*. Used the last 20k on my attack boon/ res bane Klein so I'd had another archer option, plus he was going to be a bonus unit in TT as is.

_< -reminded- ironicly I had a surprise 5* normal Lilia (typo, Hector's daughter) from my freebe pull on the evil Heros banner, need to see if he has better IVs then the 4* one I planed to promote ( who was my first Lilina actually)

It was about time Eirika's weapon got a refine! Pretty excited about the upcoming update and the new game modes, especially Rival Domains. Getting to use friends units through the VG is already fun, I wonder how this one will work!

Should I try for Celica or save my orbs! Ahh the struggle.