Haha I'm giving Matthew and Rebecca a chance because I know you're a fan (and I love bow users). Matthew is chugging along nicely but yeah, I read he doesn't promote til chapter 26 and he's already level 10 haha. Ah well, Eliwood's route isn't supposed to be that hard so I'll bring him along for the ride. I had a long bus journey yesterday and got up to chapter 15. I am really seeing its charm, tbh, the story and characters are definitely coming to life.

And yeah, Canas is an option on the proviso he can kill stuff. His art is super cute, at least!

!!!! i forgot that we get the new tobi unit tomorrow! ... also i just realized that tobi has drawn a bunch of ranged units (with the exception of clive) and none of them are green. huh. i hope tobi gets to draw an axe unit someday.

the change to keeping sp/exp gains after death has been a blessing ;w;

also re/fe16 i re-watched the trailer today and i think the back up units are new mechanic? when i saw the trailer the day it came out i thought the platoons/squads/whatever might've been an aesthetic thing since it seems to be using the same assets (?) as warriors, but the first time edelgard's moved there's a "formation" command, and then on the bridge they move into a wedge formation. we'll have to wait and see what that's about, i guess! hopefully it's more interesting than gimmicky o:

Yeah I read a summary on Serene's to catch anything I'd missed and they mentioned the changing formations, too, and it's there as an option in the menu so looks like it'll do something! Uncreative me is like... maybe it'll give a slight stat boost in one direction but who knows, could be a whole lot more exciting than that haha.

I ended up going with a team of Jaffar, Lloyd ( just for the flavor), Legault, and a newly promoted good IVed Nino ( figured TT+ would give me enough feathers to promote someone else...that or sending spare units home when the specalty banner arrives on the 26th >_<)

Granted the last two are lv1 so farming TT abit until I have to go on Vacation.....hopefuly I can get the 5* Canus while I'm away and still keep up with Fate Grand Order with what it's doing. At lest I got 4* Canas to promote if I fail in that :/

I officially fed my Karla into my Mia for Wrath, which means my Mia is outstanding. So I went ahead and leveled my awful Legault for TT purposes... And man is he awful. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that I summon a second, better one but I'm not very hopeful. Luckily I can make it through just fine but he's mostly sitting in the corner just giving me a score bonus.

i put the nephenee i got looking for shiro in my autobattle team since i can't put up with the AI mistreating nino AND jaffar... and you know what, shiro can stay home, i love nephenee, she's a menace even with her base kit omg

you're already ahead of me, when i saw the trailer a second time, the only thing that registered about the generic units was that the wedge formation plowing into the enemy looked a lot like bowling with people, lmao. but seriously, some kind of buff associated with the formations could be neat... like unit classes had their own buffs? like, oh, i'm gonna have edelguard lead armored units so she gets +def, or something. but i don't think it'll be that deep since all of the units were leading formations wielding the same weapons ; (edelguard had an axe and her people had axes, blue guy had a lance and his guys had lances, lady mage was leading mages, etc)

- Rebecca as sniper is amazing, especially if you give her support with either Dart or Raven, they boost her crit rate. Canas is great cus he can use Luna which ignores resistance so it's pretty much the most OP tome in the game and he's the only unit you'll get who can use it.

- You know, you don't have to make your team with ALL bonus units right? lol. I guess they would all get stat buffs making the team in general stronger. I should train up Linus. I'm halfway to getting 5* Canas as well. Free 5* mage should be good for F2P.

- My friend has a DC Wrath Mia, she kicks butt.

- The same friend as ^ has Steady Breath Nephenee. I've played with her a few times as well, she also kicks butt. I tried to summon her and ended up with Ephraim instead.

I'm aware but it adds a personal challange to include as many as possible, I do the same with Arena even before bonus units got the damage buff there.

Besides that Nino was to be promoted eventually, now is her time :p

If nothing else, I'm sure you'll be able to ignore them if you don't care as I doubt they'll be make or break.

And I just recruited Canas this morning, good timing! My three mages are all hovering around level 7 so I kinda need to pick one and commit. The game seems to be throwing a lot of decent units at me - useable, at least - so it's a struggle to single out who I want to take further.

I'm not gonna say Rebecca is strength screwed but she's gained 2 strength over 10 levels vs her 40% growth hmmm. She's capable though so I'm gonna persevere and hope RNG balances back in her favour.

That's the build I have on mine! She's pretty freaking badass now. She's +atk and not +spd but she's still utterly amazing.

Also I got my better Legault! He's +atk/-def so not perfect but much better than my garbage one I was running. Much easier time with the TT now, and maybe he'll even pull me through the Arena next week -- I'm definitely dropping back to 19, haha. I just couldn't put the time, effort, and energy into what it would take to stay 20!

- I have a bunch of the areana ones this week, thought about making a team with them, but Alphonse is kind of a score dropper. They really need to so something about the Askr Trio. :(

- Train all of them, go for the elusive 25B map! lol. Most of the early mages in that game are meh. I used Erk once, his stats were worse than Pent's when I got him at about the same level. The only thing Lucius and Canas have going for them really is that they are class exclusives, neither of them are great, Lucius hits fast but not hard, Canas is the opposite, but also misses a lot because dark tomes have low hit rate, but Canas has the added bonus of being able to use Luna. They all just get replaced with Nino in the end anyway. lol.

Rebecca does have low strength, but she makes up for it with speed and crits (esp. with support) Wil gets more strength, but less spd and skill. And she's millions times better than Louise. Best Archers are probably Rath and Lyn (if you want to train her in bows) but they don't get to be snipers, which means no long bows.

- If she doesn't have flashing blade, she doesn't really need the speed anyway.

earth team vs arvis? a bad time. fire team vs arvis? a horrible time. garden of earth bridge map? absolutely disgusting.* flier emblem vs xander? elincia punched xander square in the face. it was beautiful. 10/10 would replay. *(if i'd used an actual lyn counter i'm sure it'd've been fine, but instead i used an entire stamina pot trying to do it without using more than one new blessing... oops) meanwhile, we should be getting our preview for the summer banner soon. and that means the old ylissean summer banner is coming back soon... someone talk me out of hunting summer fred merges, i gotta save for (the chance at) a hector!

steady breath neph... that is the dream! looking for expensive fodder makes me wary, but if b!ike comes back on a banner soon, i'm definitely going to try. she is such a champ, i hope she comes home for you soon ;o; (meanwhile, ephraim and shiro are my never-coming-home boys. at this rate i'm gonna give up on those two and go all in on +10 lukas >:C )

as for the new stuff -- i really don't think it'll be that deep. i'm sure there's going to be some gimmicky nonsense (like a second weapons triangle like you think) but i think the extras are there just so they can be like, "look! we got to use the warriors assets too, aren't they nice :)" but who knows! it's way too early to do much than make fun conspiracy theories, haha

- Maaaaaybe time to get some other units blessed? For the infernal maps I've found that it really helps to have a legendary on the team to buff the stats. My Lyn counter was Nino. Unfortunately Lyn's bow is blade tome killer, but between Ike's attack boost and Grima's speed boost, she was able to tank and kill. My Earth team is probably my strongest. Fire was the weakest until I decided to expand the options. I also blessed all my dancers so that every team has a dancer option. Azura is water, Inigo is fire, Ninian is earth, and Bride Ninian is wind. Olivia doesn't have one, but I may give her one if an occasion arises when I need her.

I'm trying to train Linus using TT, and I keep rolling nothing but reds on the maps. It's really annoying!

the team i used on the bridge map was f!grima / l!ike / michalis / leo, and it did work eventually (leo bopped brave ike and michalis ignis’d lyn), i was just boneheaded about positioning and lost my ike to lyn repeatedly p;

and yeah, i really need to use my earth and fire blessings. once the next legendary banner is up, i’m going to try for either the new one or ryoma, so that i can do a legend + dancer + ranged + melee team for each round of arena assault; i’ve just been procrastinating since the blessings are permanent and i hate committing to things.

edit / speaking of the new legendary! please god, let it be hrid. Show Me The Last Sibling

- Yeah, I have my fingers crossed for Hrid as next legend too, either that or Ylgr! I don't think Ryouma's going to be on the next banner, they'll probably skip one for him and put him on the one after that. I don't have enough dancers for every AA, I only have 5 dancers. I do have 7 legends though, if I include spare Fjorm (I don't think she counts though). My AA teams are mostly made up of units whom I want to get higher support between or who need more SP.

either/or would be good! in an ideal world we'd get both... though i just wanna know what hrid looks like, tbh o: but yeah, i don't actually remember who's supposed to be on the upcoming legendary banner and at this point i'm just gonna wait and be surprised since it's next week. (time moves so fast...) i realized after ryouma's banner ended that i could've had seven legends and seven dancers (because i have 0 self control when it comes to dancers, i guess? or just Eternal Regret after missing out on performing olivia twice, sigh) and i want to try arena assault more, so i figure building some fun teams for it might keep me more engaged.

- I should probably try harder with my as teams, I keep running out of refining stones.

Yes, show us hrid, even just a glance.

New summer heroes silhouettes, thoughts? I'm thinking Innes and Tana.

tbh i don't see anyone in particular for the left side silhouette -- it looks kind of like they're wearing a hood or something, so it's throwing me off p: the right side -- i've seen both innes and sigurd suggested and i'm leaning towards sigurd 'cause of the hair but i think innes is more likely. (my actual guess is stahl, but i really doubt it's him.)

either way i generally liked the boys from the beach banners better than the ladies, so i'm hoping that crab belongs to the guy, haha

[edit] reddit leak says innes / tana / cordelia / noire?? innes and tana are so cute i'm dyinggg

"Win the Grand Hero Battle against Oliver: Admirer of Beauty on Lunatic or harder using an all-cavalry team." i did this... when he first came out... but i don't remember how............... heck

- Yeah, the one on the left looks like more bridal banner, but long hair can have the same effect in a silhouette, that's why I thought Tana. Does look a bit like Cordelia too. Oooo, Noire was one of the kids I actually used in awakening. Dark Flier with bow breaker = win. She probably won't be a dark flier though, it's not one of her default classes... although they don't really seem to care about that at all. I'd still like to see her as an archer.

Oliver with horse emblem needed a lot of repo shenanigans on my part. Sigurd's job was basically to stand on the trench tile and fling his fellow cavalry friends across it.

i think what threw me off is i saw the right side damaged art and thought the left side was also damaged art, but it wasn't? i definitely see tana now, but i think that's just 'cause now i know what her art looks like/ what people are talking about when they say it shows her high ponytail + ribbon.

i did a reposition/swap shuffle :B kept everyone next to the far right trench tile and had fred + xander tank. it was much easier with the distant defense seal and merges on xander, but that just makes me wonder how i did oliver's infernal map!