Fire Emblem Heroes (Android/iOS)

[Obsidian]

A merry fuck you for already having a 5* Ephraim. Also I'm mega jelly of that Robin too.

Dunno how good Ephraim will be for Arena but anyone that enters combat with him gets an automatic -12 DEF and anyone else near him gets a -5 (provided he lives through the end of Enemy Phase) which is pretty friggen potent.

[Kirin]

Yeah, the changes have me hoping they will eventually ease the feather restriction on lvl 40 units for promotion.

Makes the future of the game a lot more enjoyable knowing that Nintendo is willing to listen to customer feedback.

Early word is that the Family Bonds banner and the upcoming Adult Tiki banner aren't really worth it, so may be a good time to save orbs and watch how the meta evolves with new characters introduced.

[-Zer0-]

For some reason I thought the contest winners were inbound for this banner. Is it worth pulling?

[Karbuncle]

I'm okay with being cynical here but I can't shake the feeling games launch with these absurd things (1/2 your stamina for 1 dungeon, costs stamina to change skills, etc) just so they can ease/remove them for free goodwill.

Really the costing stamina to change skills is just a giant red flag. No one at Nintendo could have thought that was an acceptable idea, it was added to be removed.

Still looking forward to this games future I'm just at a point where I see these kind of poorly balanced or absurd things removed a week or two into launch to not feel like it's a ruse.

anyway salty sailor reporting for duty.

[Iku]

I'm okay with being cynical here but I can't shake the feeling games launch with these absurd things (1/2 your stamina for 1 dungeon, costs stamina to change skills, etc) just so they can ease/remove them for free goodwill.

Really the costing stamina to change skills is just a giant red flag. No one at Nintendo could have thought that was an acceptable idea, it was added to be removed.

Still looking forward to this games future I'm just at a point where I see these kind of poorly balanced or absurd things removed a week or two into launch to not feel like it's a ruse.

anyway salty sailor reporting for duty.

It is not a bad strategy though.

[Adajer]

pretty salty I lost my boost to 5star from bonus change. I was 3.85% chance for 5 star, now back to 3.00

[Kirin]

It says it gets boosted for that banner only. Its listed pretty clearly in the banner description of how the rolling gacha rates increase.

[Adajer]

still salty :/

[Karbuncle]

It is not a bad strategy though.

Yah it does seem to work.

[Damane]

so i got a 5 star marth with the 2 only rolls i had today lulz

[Karbuncle]

I've been remarkably lucky with 5* consider their drop rate. Just pulled another 5*... a Mage gentleman with Excalibur.

I really like Bartre though even though he's 4* lol, but a 5* Green Mage is hard to pass up. And Excalibur is strong vs fliers which is nice cause I have no good archery

[Yuri-G]

I know how WTA works, he used the wrong signs which is why I was confused.

And the weapon triangle makes a bigger difference in Heroes than it does in most other FE games. This game is a 20% attack bonus/penalty. In most other games it's just +/- 1 or 2 MT and +/- 10-20 Hit. The reason swords suck in most games is because they're locked to 1-range (or use Magic instead of STR when attacking at 2-range like the Wind blade/Levin Sword).

I was being somewhat facetious, but swords > all has been my experience. maybe it's just because Blazing Sword was my favorite game and that game had some badass sword users that stomped everything else. Guy (if RNG was kind to you on strength), Raven, Lyn, Eliwood, Sain/Kent depending on RNG, you could make a whole team of sword-users and never look back. and I'm probably forgetting some too.

[Obsidian]

Individual units don't really make weapons great (or bad) though. Any unit can get RNG blessed, at the end of the day almost all sword users are still locked to 1-range. From the perspective of Low Turn Count runs, being as efficient as possible on Enemy Phase as possible is key, and swords just can't do what Lance and Axe-wielders can with Javelins and Hand Axes. It doesn't help that Lance users are typically bulkier than Sword users while still being fast enough to double most things.

Eliwood is also pretty terrible in FE7. The only thing that really redeems him is his mounted promotion which coincidentally also gives him access to Lances.

[arus2001]

Really the costing stamina to change skills is just a giant red flag. No one at Nintendo could have thought that was an acceptable idea, it was added to be removed.

Let's be real, you'll have some asshole gamers who think such things need to be in place as if it denotes a higher sense of skill, dedication, and whatnot. It's like the people who hate free skill changing in D3 because people had to level, I mean get rushed to 70+, in D2 just to try something else before Blizz added the respec option there.

Or people who think CoP era XI is the best are like an essay of their own. Accessibility is simply anathema to some.

[Karbuncle]

Let's be real, you'll have some asshole gamers who think such things need to be in place as if it denotes a higher sense of skill, dedication, and whatnot. It's like the people who hate free skill changing in D3 because people had to level, I mean get rushed to 70+, in D2 just to try something else before Blizz added the respec option there.

Or people who think CoP era XI is the best are like an essay of their own. Accessibility is simply anathema to some.

Yah but when has anyone catered to those people, let alone Nintendo lol.

Not for years, decades almost

[arus2001]

It's more a point there are more questionable game design practices at play than we may immediately realize across various games. Yes, sometimes devs do intentionally release things overtuned to see how players handle it, for better or worse. "Who thought this was a good idea?" was probably something we've all thought about online games at some point, but sometimes it's done without that intended adjustment in mind.

[Deathbringer]

Decided to blow a few orbs on the banner and got more dups of Fir, Caeda, Olivia and for a new unit.... a 3* M.Robin. Game really wants me to have a full tome PT :/

[arus2001]

AFK in Camila's boobs.

[Yuri-G]

lol so many quests that are like, "finish this map with a [insert type of character I don't have yet here]"


WELL NINTENDO. I SEE WHAT YOU'RE UP TO THERE.

[Obsidian]

Xander is borderline unkillable in 9-5 Lunatic without a mage. No mounted unit should ever be that friggen tanky.