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Zephiel is out! I'm not ready! My Tharja is still only level 28! His banner has Reinhardt and Nowi! I was pulling for Reinhardt, but I got a +hp -res Azura!

@Sheep's got it: I was just talking about DB Dire Thunder, not an AoE special. To be fair, though, I do love those specials, and I sorely want an excuse to use them. That's why I'm levelling Navarre rn, someday I'm gonna get a Karel and sac Wo Dao+ to him so he can be a good desperation cleaner ala Anna. My list, out of units that I own: 1. Ephraim: You knew this was coming, right? he was my first 5*, and since then he's been a wonderful tank, especially with the red meta in the early weeks. He's also been a crucial part of my infantry blade-mage team. My only inherits so far are QR 2 and Swap from a hapless subaki. 2. Tharja: remember that bit about the "infantry blade-mage team"? this was the blade mage. I have Reposition and threaten speed 2 on her, so she doubles everything, I just need desperation so I can get those sweet sweet 50x2s. I like to think of her as the anti-nino, since she has better def than res, is sexy and kinda evil vs. nino's wholesomeness, and where nino does her best, Tharja does her worst! (also her IVs are really wonky -atk -hp +def +spd) 3. Anna: this top 4 is pretty much Team Tharja. She was my green and my only res-wall at the time. Fury 3 and Desperation, notably nuetralizes Linde and other magical Blues. 4. Olivia: She's sooo weak but sooooo useful! dance+reposition was critical to beating Michalis. Love her. 5. Ursula: Blade mage part 2: On a horse! the first GHB unit I really liked. 6. M-Robin: saved my butt so many times early on, takes 1x2 from tacomeat if hes got TA, also tanks red swords. 7. Minerva: she isn't level 40 yet, but she kills literally everything with LaD 3. 8. Navarre: I just like how he looks, +his killing edge with a blast special. 9. F!Corrin for trying and failing to be better than Ephraim, has spd +3 and need swordbreaker 10. I'll get back to you

ok but really if a unit is gonna use QR on defense they might as well be somebody with a respectable attack stat like effie or my avatar. Rein is borderline broken due to his 5 range brave thunder deathblow murderblast. at least he's paper in enemy phase. I'd do a list of my favorites, but I need to go to bed. Let's just say that it involves Ephraim, Tharja, and Anna, K?

Imo Lukas is literally just Effie 4, with Ephraim as 2 and Donnel as 3. Infantry spears are literally all the same unit.

Not alolan, but I've always wanted a regional variant water/steel Wailord with Higher Defense, Attack instead of Special Attack, and absolutely awful speed. It'd be based on a fusion of a sperm whale and an icebreaker ship and it would be sooooo coooool. Figure Heavy Slam as its evolution move, Rock Head/Filter/Reckless as abilities, notable moves are Aqua Tail, Heavy Slam, Crunch, Thrash....

So some dataminers have found new skills and posted them on the subreddit. One's probably an A skill, name of "fortress defense". +up to 5 defense, -3 attack. Second is probably a B skill, called "hit and run" it seems to be a movement-based B skill like Lunge, that moves you forward 1 space. we're kinda unsure on that though, idk how it works for melee. The new weapon and the other B skill are the kickers, though. Flamesweep Bow and the Windsweep skill remove the possibility for follow-up attacks, but in return, if your outspeed the target and they aren't a mage, it prevents counterattacks. 'scuse me while I go hug my QR Ephraim and future vantage Xander and go cry in a corner.

tfw you already have a level 40 Niles and level 34 Stahl/Cecilia because Niles was your first archer and Horse Emblem is your passion on a related note, that Subaki Seal quest is gonna be such a pain...... I got literally 100% trash from the orbs today. barst, bartre, if its crap and green, I got it.

TA gronnraven takes .9x damage from archers, on top of her pretty good defense. don't count on it.

keep him, IMO. flyer emblem is on the rise, and he's the best counter to TA gronnraven Bunny Camilla.

yeah, they should have something tomorrow, after the maintenance tonight

Ah. Quadsuna can be a thing, but she needs a crapton of investment. You would need a 5* Klein or Gordin, a 4* Hana, a 4* Shanna, a 4* Selena, a 3* Donnel........oh boy. hmmm......my choice of a mage was a bit easier due to all of my 5*s being physical melees (Ephraim, Marth, Chrom, Selena, Minerva, Bunny Chrom, Sheena). I don't really see a specific theme. A colorless or an axe would probably be the right choice, but pretty much every ninja bar Jaffar/Kagero is bad, you already have a healer, and you only have the one archer.... also, your collection has kind of a low defense overall, with Roy and Robin being iirc the toughest in that respect.

IIRC, Klein, Jeorge, and Takumi are more or less identical statwise, give or take like 1 or 2 points in the offensive stats. What five-stars do you have right now?

I upgraded a hero to 5* for the first time. Hero was Tharja, the backbone of my infantry team. IVs were -hp -atk +speed +def, which I don't mind. Thankfully, Tharja isn't that SI-intensive, so I think I'll use the levelling sp to inherit Desperation as well as her 5* weapon. With +speed, darting blow, and threaten speed 2, I should be able to outspeed my opponents pretty much all the time. only problem is--how do I get her that low? I'm not sure whether to use fury or maybe a teammate with reciprocal aid. I'm not totally sure about my source of Desperation either, since Nav is a GHB unit and he only gives desper 2 at four stars. Hopefully, we'll get more orbs after the maintenance today.

@5hiftdon't feel so bad, you could be me: I merged like every free daily unit. RIP my spare gunter/cecilia also I did a small summon with like 19 orbs from dailies, quests, and the quiz thing. got exactly frederick and gunter, 4 stars, and like, some other terrible axe at 3.

I just can't get into paladins' aesthetic. Nothing against them, I just don't like it. You can still buy chars with gold, but you can also get them from chests. or you could get skins, or mounts, or sprays, or banners, or shudders emotes.

they're making it like overwatch, except that you can also get heroes from the loot chests as well. buuuuuut you can't buy skins with gems any more, only "shards" from duplicates. I'm playing the beta so I get like 850 gems/week, but none of my account progress will transfer over to the main game. I might quit then......it'd take ages to rebuild even my tiny collection. Also heroes have rarity (roughly similar to their gold cost) which means that you could get a legendary skin from a chest or you could get kael'thas, same likelihood.

@Maelstrom not exactly. I don't really have a defense team set up rn, but if i did I'd probably put Niles as the lead and then have a bunch of units about ten levels down.

yeah, I've got exactly 60 since I spent a few on the gauntlet arena quests today. You can actually lose your rank over time in these. I was nearly out of the running for the 2.1k feather reward, but I got myself back up.