Maelstrom

Anybody else disappointed that they cycled the special battle back around to Sophia? It was still checked off from the first time I beat it too.

No. She's trash. I have her as a 4 star and she's just not helpful. Her def and atk are low, so she gets eaten up by armored units even with her armorslayer. Eliwood performs subpar for me as well. I wouldn't recommend him or Cherche. Don't listen to 5hift, Bartre is really good. He hits and tanks like a beast. He'll be best friends with your healer, though. He's your dude if you really want to grind a healer up. Speaking of healers, I don't like Serra. She's not as good at supporting as most of the other healers. I'm still raising my Draug but he's got potential, especially with his brave sword. If your Olivia doesn't have Dance yet, it's worth the grind for it. Dance is really useful for getting those knights across the map too. Don't know much about Ogma so idk. I'm working on my own Henry to see if his abilities work out for him.

You and Chase made her out to be some amazing unit. Now you're like, meh, bitch ain't shit. Wha??

Yeah, I'm psyched to see Ephraim as well. We wanted him in Smash too. =P

Well, it does get a bit repetitive, and it doesn't really seem all that balanced. And faction numbers are lopsided as hell

I think the term you're looking for that encompasses card games and board games and the like is table-top gaming. But yeah, my list. Scrabble, Codenames, CaH, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin Oh, and Orleans.

Guess I vote for blonde you...

Have you been keeping up with Trump's ... shenanigans, to put it mildly?

My Effie has really low Def for a tank. She's only lvl 12 but only has 14 Def and 28 attack.

@SheepYeah, Celica is on the slow side. Even at lvl 31, her speed is stuck at 17, but even if she doesn't double, her attack hits in one shot what other green mages seem to hit with two. Looking at atk stats: Frederick- 34 Cecilia- 35 Kagero- 35 Tiki- 37 Bartre- 37 (and he's only at lvl 24), I really wanna get this guy to 5* For those of you who beat the campaign with Veronic, does it only happen if you start clearing the missions on hard and lunatic? I've been raising other heroes because the training maps are only half price for stamina for a bit longer, but the story missions are gonna be there forever.

@Chase So I was looking at Kotaku and this is a thing. http://feheroes.wiki/Tier_List I got Camilla kinda late but she's proving to be beastly already. Those brave axe double hits really help make sure that her activated ability comes out during matches. I hear that if she outspeeds enough with DB, she can hit 4 times, further helping that out. I also upgraded Shareena to 3* and now she's in the same level grind team as Camilla. I got Azama much later than Clarine, so I still don't have Pain for him yet. As of yet, I prefer to blunt counter attacks with Clarine's -5 atk fear. Atm I'm trying to grind my side units because that variety and utility is what's gonna get me through the late game. And hopefully I've ground my main guys enough to get the top tier goodies from the grand hero thing that starts friday. The units that are shaping up to be my high level staples: 4* Kagero: Her super high resistance and speed coupled with high attack is great on its own. Add poison dagger to the mix and she really is an infantry and mage crusher. Oh, and her dagger breaker means she doubles her poison dagger attack against other ninjas. 4* Bartre: His stat growths have been great and his fury/brash assault combo of skills isn't too bad. Smite also does a good job of expediting units into the fray, especially knight type units. 4* Cecilia: mounted green mage with an advantage over gray, neutral enemies 5* Tiki: Her attack, def, and resistance are really high naturally. Then add on armored blow +6 Def when attacking and you have a wrecker, who heals adjacent allies by up to 7 hp after attacking. Plus her Growing Flame ability hits in a big area before she attacks, pretty much ensuring whatever is the target dies. Growing flame leaves the non-direct target units at 1 hp though. But hey, easy pickings and exp for whoever else you choose to mop up after. she really out-tanks and decimates knights with her magic based breath attack. 4* Frederick: my first summon, he's got great defense and comes with high attack and a hammer. He just has absolute ass for resistance. As long as it isn't magic, he'll take a hit and smash 'em right back. Can warp next to any ally in trouble, and boosts ally def at the start of a turn, he helps make other units quite a bit less fragile. 3* Shareena: nice and tanky for those times I'm not using a healer, her rally attack has been a godsend in helping other units dispatch foes that would have otherwise come back with a hard hitting counter. 3* Clarine: aside from what I said above, she can give all allies a speed boost after healing, which can tip the scales for my kagero against other speedy characters for a double attack. Hopefuls: 3* Shanna- Killer Lance with Chilling wind/iceberg and Desperation (a much better version skill version of a brave weapon) looks like it's gonna go great together. Plus, she slows nearby enemies at the start of a turn, so that's really gonna help set up dual attacks on people. 3* Eliwood- Has axebreaker, which is nice but gets extra protection from ranged attacks with holy vestments/ sacred cowl. His stats are middling atm, but if he gets his final weapon, he's gonna pack a punch while boosting his own resistance. 3* Azama Let-downs. 4* Caeda- she started off good but her stat growths are looking terrible right now. She doesn't really have the power or def to make any good use out of her armorslayer. A nice option to countering magic wielders and fliers with axes, but that's about it. 4* Roy- he reduces def like a ninja after battle, but is better suited to taking down mages with his resistance than initiating tank take-downs. He gets weapons triangle adept, which is a double edged sword. Color wheel has a huge impact in this game and he just absolutely can't hurt anyone with a blue weapon. 5* Serra- While she can heal the most right off the bat with 10 hp, and 10 more with imbue, her absorb attack is pitifully weak and is her only way to heal herself and keep herself going, unlike the other healers I have.

Rngesus hates us, but thos 25+ level characters the game uses definitely have no problem having higher stats than your version of the same unit while being at lower levels. Fun times. =|

Happy Birthday Ice^3.

It happens to me in training maps and in story maps. just that rng saying no. Pretty sure it happens less the higher star the character is.

I thing the last two upgrades were 10 and 8 orbs, and the first two were 1 and 3. I don't remember how much the middle upgrade was. Okay, looked it up. 1, 2, 5, 8, 10.

What level and stars are your characters? Mine stopped getting good stat growths and sweeping around lvl 20. My first main team is stuck at 5/6th strata with like maybe one win at 7th. I've been using my secondary team to run through hard mode for levels and orbs. I really want another good axe wielder like hector but it's not giving me green orbs for summoning. But I did pull a 4 star Camilla and a 3 star Shanna. That special map today that drops multiple orbs for clearing really helped.

@Sheep I don't really like the triangle adept ability. you either have to hit something your same color/neutral or something you've got advantage against or else that unit is useless. That thing is a double edged sword and I don't like it one bit. You don't get to use enough units in a map to make that feasible unless you have a bunch of side units to swap in (and that's a lot of extra time and grinding to have them on par with your main team). I can't count the story or training matches I've done where most of my units were at a triangle disadvantage but got through by paying attention to Def and Res on my opponents. And since you don't get to place units, it seems especially risky to me. When I have the spare SP I teach it to my units but I don't equip it.

You should experiment with having her brave weapon unequipped. She does get like, -5 or -6 for having it on. Pretty that's a pretty good way to assure that you don't get 2 attacks unless you attack first. I could be wrong, but it could be the difference. Try it out while training is half stamina and you don't have to pay 5 stamina to equip or unequip a skill (yes, I unequipped Kagero's poison daggers before the whole thing about that stuff not costing stamina and that's how much it set me back by) Also, no one is going to be ranked yet until all the scores come in and it actually places you. ATM, no one is placed or ranked yet. Just gotta wait another 14 hours as of this post to find out where your score puts you.