Fire Emblem Discussion

[Jordan]

The teams will get larger but many people will have thrown away a bunch of their battle flags, so it evens out in the end I think. I guess I'll find out tomorrow. By the time Ephraim vs. Chrom rolls around I should have 1,000 flags to go.

[Kong Wen]

Looks like they've increased the voting gauntlet stretch goals, since we've smashed 5B votes already. Now it looks like we can earn 15 orbs for breaking 8B, or 20 orbs for breaking 10B—which should be easily reachable.

[Jordan]

Skill Inheritance is coming on the 16th. Oh boy...prepare for a shitstorm.

I'm gonna be holding off on feathering anybody until I know exactly how skill inheritance works. Ideally I would like to get a 5* Azama with poison strike 3 and whatever other nonsense I can throw on him.

[Kong Wen]

Skill Inheritance is coming on the 16th. Oh boy...prepare for a shitstorm.

I'm gonna be holding off on feathering anybody until I know exactly how skill inheritance works. Ideally I would like to get a 5* Azama with poison strike 3 and whatever other nonsense I can throw on him.

LOL, yeah.

No specific information yet, but roughly translated Tweets suggest you can transfer up to 3 skills, and obviously the "source" character gets send home / put into the meat grinder. So again, this feature is really only a benefit to whales who might have multiple Hectors lying around. I'm certainly not ditching a good character to pass a skill. I guess there are some good skills on the trash characters they've been giving us in the rotating special battles. Some.

[Jordan]

I'm somewhere between a "I use characters I want" guy and a "I'm an optimal minmaxing guy." It's a fine line to walk.

With that having been said, I have a lot of units with less than ideal IVs. I am more than happy to part with these imperfect units in exchange for whatever skills they can offer me. Case in point: I have a level 40 5* Abel with swordbreaker and HP+5. The catch is that he's +Spd, -Atk. -Atk IVs are never good for characters that aren't healers. On the other hand, those abilities are nothing to scoff at. I'm more than inclined to throw "The Panther" to the wolves in exchange for his useful skills.

[Kong Wen]

Oh man, Ephraim is narrowly beating Chrom right now. Looks like that's going to be a tight race. Predictably, Lucina is doubling up on Eirika. She's already hit 1B points again this round.

[Kong Wen]

This is an interesting Grand Hero Battle, in that there's a Hard mode version at 35, and a Lunatic version at 40 with 5-Star units and an armoured axe knight who starts with his special charged! LOL! The Lunatic version nets you Ursula at 4-Star rarity.

I was able to do the Hard mode version with relative ease using Robin(F) to bait Ursula, Cordelia, Frederick to tank and Hammer, and Olivia to give extra mobility to the front lines and also to let Robin double-cast on the axe.

I haven't tried Lunatic seriously yet, but I don't think my 3-Star Robin will be able to survive. Not having a blue cavalry unit is hurting me, too. Too many gaps, I fear! I'll still give it a few tries.

ALSO, today's the day I begin actually using some orbs, so pray for mojo! Pulling only greens and blues.

EDIT: I managed to do the lunatic version with a really sketchy under-levelled team.

[Kong Wen]

I spent 100 orbs this afternoon pretty much only pulling blue and green, looking for Nino, Hector, Effie, Robin, Linde, Azura, maybe Abel, and Ephraim. 20 characters, and only one of them is in that list...

I'm still not good with natures/IVs or what's good on what characters, so I'll go over what I got here:

3* Arthur +Def/-Atk
3* Azama +HP/-Spd (do we care about Speed on healers?)
3* Beruka with +Def/-Atk
3* Beruka with +HP/-Spd (I feel like these are both trash rolls)
4* Camilla +Atk/-Res (pretty happy about this one)
4* Catria +Spd/-Res (could be good)
4* Donnel +Spd/-Res (kind of crap with the Brave Lance)
3* Donnel +Spd/-HP (trash)
3* Donnel +Atk/-Def (probably my best Donnel)
3* Est +Atk/-Def
4* Gunter +Res/-HP
4* Gwendolyn +Atk/-Def (I don't know if this is good)
3* Gwendolyn +Spd/-Def
3* Gwendolyn +Res/-HP
4* Merric +Def/-Res
5* Nino +HP/-Res (the IVs are a bit of a wash, but at least I got one!!!)
3* Oboro +Spd/-Atk
3* Odin +HP/-Atk
4* Raven +Spd/-Atk (again, I feel like this is bad IV with a Brave Axe)
4* Subaki +Spd/-Def (I think this is a pretty good roll?)

[Jordan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1pKHrn_SeA

Spoiler

Ephraim barely won

That Nino is good but not great. -Res is good on her. +HP is not ideal, but not bad either. Now all you need is a team of buffers and you can enjoy dominance in the arena. Just so long as Nino isn't -spd or -atk, she should do wonders for you.

My opinions on your rolls, but first a caveat. You may want to keep all of the units, even if they're not that great. Skill inheritance may make the bad ones worthwhile.

3* Arthur +Def/-Atk

Abysmal.

3* Azama +HP/-Spd (do we care about Speed on healers?)

Yes, it actually matters. However, Azama's speed is not particularly stellar anyways. -Spd isn't great, but it's definitely usable. -Atk is ideal for most healers, including (especially) Azama since he does mostly flat damage with "Pain."

3* Beruka with +Def/-Atk

Terrible. +Def is good but she needs attack desperately because her attack score is actually a bit low.

3* Beruka with +HP/-Spd (I feel like these are both trash rolls)

This isn't ideal, but it's not terrible. It's usable/average. Her speed isn't fantastic anyways.

4* Camilla +Atk/-Res (pretty happy about this one)

Stellar/ideal.

4* Catria +Spd/-Res (could be good)

Literally the best possible outcome for Catria.

4* Donnel +Spd/-Res (kind of crap with the Brave Lance)

+Spd puts him at 27 speed. While that's pretty lousy, it prevents him from getting doubled by foes with 30-31 speed. So this isn't actually that bad.

3* Donnel +Spd/-HP (trash)

Yeah trash him.

3* Donnel +Atk/-Def (probably my best Donnel)

Yes this is definitely your best one. Whether you want to use this one or the 4* one (or neither) just depends on what kind of feather investments you want to make I guess. It also depends on whether you have better blues. Donnel is not the greatest blue lance anyways.

3* Est +Atk/-Def

Solid.

[/quote]4* Gunter +Res/-HP[/quote]

Mediocre but workable.

4* Gwendolyn +Atk/-Def (I don't know if this is good)

It's ok, but not ideal. -Spd is the best on her.

3* Gwendolyn +Spd/-Def

Bad.

3* Gwendolyn +Res/-HP

Decent but I'd go with the 4* +atk one as that's 2,000 feathers less investment for still decent results.

4* Merric +Def/-Res

Merric is an underrated character mainly because most people prefer Nino and Julia. Merric's max stats are higher though which means that if you do as well with him as with the others, you will get a higher arena score off of him. +Def, -Res is actually really good on him. His physical defense is the higher of his defensive stats anyways. +Def will allow him to do better against the likes of Takumi.

3* Oboro +Spd/-Atk
3* Odin +HP/-Atk
4* Raven +Spd/-Atk (again, I feel like this is bad IV with a Brave Axe)

All bad.

4* Subaki +Spd/-Def (I think this is a pretty good roll?)

Not ideal, but not too bad. Subaki actually has high defense and mediocre res, so -Def isn't really optimal on him. However, +Spd is pretty good on him as his speed is in a decent tier anyways. +Spd will let him double a lot of foes which he normally would not.

[Kong Wen]

That Nino is good but not great. -Res is good on her. +HP is not ideal, but not bad either. Now all you need is a team of buffers and you can enjoy dominance in the arena. Just so long as Nino isn't -spd or -atk, she should do wonders for you.

Yeah, she's been ripping it up while I'm bringing her up through the levels even without buffers. Can't wait to see her in action with my main team. Beggars can't be choosers—I'm just glad I didn't get a trash -Atk or -Spd roll on her.

You may want to keep all of the units, even if they're not that great. Skill inheritance may make the bad ones worthwhile.

Oh, definitely! No reason to send anyone home for a handful of feathers (yet) when I still have like 150 empty spaces in my roster.

3* Donnel +Atk/-Def (probably my best Donnel)

Yes this is definitely your best one. Whether you want to use this one or the 4* one (or neither) just depends on what kind of feather investments you want to make I guess. It also depends on whether you have better blues. Donnel is not the greatest blue lance anyways.

My other usable blues are Catria, Subaki, and Sharena (who I'll probably be 5-starring after skill infusion comes out), so I'm happy not to waste feathers on this guy. I'll level him, though.

A friend of mine who I've gotten into the game tried his hand at summoning through some of his stockpile last night, and he ended up with two 5-star Ryomas!