Guide Zelda Social: But also the FE Heroes Internet Cafe

[Antonykun]

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IS doesnt' care anymore lol. It's like Smash and Xenoblade

Also, i have a suggestion for your profile pic. It's mostly the same but

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Use this one instead

Done

 

[Armagon]

RUH-ROH, ANTI-HORSE TILES ARE COMING TO THE ARENA!

...And so fell Horse Emblem.

 

[Buddhahobo]

My friendship ended with Wrys.

Have you ever seen a man so beuutaful you started crying?

It's amazing how much of a bait banner this will be, like two weeks before the one year anniversary.

Glad that I don’t care about any of the datamined units

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for real, what the **** is Sothe’s gender

Oh, that's easy, it's

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none of your business

RUH-ROH, ANTI-HORSE TILES ARE COMING TO THE ARENA!

You mean...trees?

 

[Antonykun]

Spoiler: I'm no good a Photoshop but...

 

[Burgundy]

Me seeing the datamine: Hm, it’s looks alright. I’d love to get Micaiah and Zelgius, and the new skills and game mechanics seem fun...
Me seeing the confirmation of a NY themed TT Mini:

Me and my 80,000 feathers are ready for NYCorn

 

[Ffamran]

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for real, what the **** is Sothe’s gender

He's a dude who wears a shirt showing his midriff. Kind of reminds me of Tidus's jacket only going down to his pecs now that I think about it.

And of course they have increased BST...

Spoiler: FEH New Units Datamine

Even Oliver which is a bit surprising since aside from Joshua and Fjorm where part of me feels like Joshua might have been a response to backlash and Fjorm's just a story unit to hype people up, Oliver having increased BST is a bit funny and annoying when you consider the other GHB and TT units. Y'know, like Arvis, Camus, Michalis, Valter, Xander, and Zephiel who portrayed as serious and dangerous enemies while Oliver is basically a meme at this point? Whatever...

Micaiah's 35 HP, 35 Atk, 28 Spd, 18 Def, and 35 Res gives her 151 BST. Stat-wise, she's Mae, but with a legendary tome that's pretty damn good when it's effective against armor and cavalry and lowers the damage she takes from them by 30%. They also gave her Sacrifice instead of Ardent Sacrifice or Reciprocal Aid and it seems like a fusion between them and Harsh Command.

Oliver's 42 HP, 32 Atk, 20 Spd, 23 Def, and 34 Res gives him 151 BST. Stat-wise, he's a blue Sophia, but if she dumped defense for resistance. If he were summonable, +Atk or +Def, -Spd Oliver would be pretty badass. The interesting thing is the datamine listed a new set of blue tomes: Light, Ellight, Shine, and Shine+. Those are light magic tomes and seeing them annoys me since Lucius and even Serra could have been blue mages with those tomes. I'm not sure what Shine does, though, since the thread listed multiple things where I'm sure what Micaiah's Thani and Sacrifice, Sothe's Peshkatz, Zelgius's Warp Powder, and Spur Atk/Spd. Whatever, we'll see.

Sothe's 39 HP, 36 Atk, 33 Spd, 22 Def, and 21 Res gives him 151 BST. Dude's essentially another NY Takumi meaning he's also another Kagero, but with extra stats to make him bulkier. Compared to Kagero, he has more HP for less resistance unlike Takumi who has similar defenses to Kagero, but has higher HP. Peshkatz, assuming that's what it does since I doubt Thani would do anything different from its home game and Shine+ would do that either, seems like a legendary Rogue and Smoke Dagger hybrid.

Zelgius's 46 HP, 36 Atk, 33 Spd, 38 Def, and 21 Def gives him 174 BST. Zelgius is, unsurprisingly, the Black Knight. It's kind of funny when you look at his artwork. Taking off his helmet gives him +3 defense and resistance and +2 attack at the cost of -2 HP and -1 speed. He's also Draug if he had 4 less HP and 1 less defense for 6 more attack and 3 more speed and resistance. Draug's always been in a crappy situation ever since Zephiel, then the Black Knight, then Arden, and now Zelgius were introduced. Warp Powder seems all right, but it's interesting that it's weaker than Halloween Nowi's Grimoire and Takumi's unique forged Fujin Yumi since its health range is >= 80% to their >= 50% HP.

Anyway, Micaiah is finally here leaving Leif as the remaining lord/lady to not be in Heroes aside from Rowan and Lianna from FEW and the Tokyo Mirage main characters. Moving on, with one of the units being a GHB, the 3 summonable units might mean there's going to be a TT for them and that makes me wonder who the reward for that one will be. It's probably going to be the Black Knight himself which would suck since a new unit would be cooler like Greil or someone else. On the subject of the Black Knight, he's the first unit who seems to have an updated or promoted version of himself through Zelgius. I figured it would have been Ike first since RD Ike is different from PoR Ike, but nope, it's Zelgius.

Also, the thread said that there's going to be a mini TT and it's New Year's themed, so that's probably how we're going to get NY M!Corrin. For me, that's cool since I'd like NY M!Corrin, but it's also pretty bad since I have to get rid of at least 5 units soon by the time he and Oliver drop since the TT would give 2 M!Corrins and Oliver's GHB would mean 3 of him. I could just expand my barracks, but 535/540 units at this point is ridiculous, so I'd rather just use the units who aren't doing anything for skills or whatever. Man, I have so many orbs right now that I don't know what to do...

Edit: Okay, so that rules out one of the what does Shine and Shine+ do. Sanaki's Cymbeline can be refined now: https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/7pk5mh/cymbeline_has_been_added_to_the_refinery/.

Its unique effect is so adorable when you consider who takes care of Sanaki. I think they care for her. They at least guard her as far as I know. Now, if only Sigrun and Tanith were actually in the game.

And Parthia can be forged as well and it's the one that reduces the first hit of mages by 30% and gives +6 Atk against archers, healers, mages, and thieves for its unique refinement.

Edit 2: Edit Harder: Okay, I think Shine and Shine+ do absolutely nothing.

 

[Lil Puddin]

I'm sending all my husbandos home so I can have Oliver as my one and only husbando. It is the only logical thing to do.

Also deez stats aren't too bad. Gotta love how Tharja powercreeps herself and then BK powercreeps AND spoils himself. IS is just doing it for the memes. ok thnx I guess.

btw sothe omg u prettie man i nid u in mi lief

oops I mean pretty woman. Oliver will be the only man in my army - the only husbando.

 

[Burgundy]

He's a dude who wears a shirt showing his midriff. Kind of reminds me of Tidus's jacket only going down to his pecs now that I think about it.

And of course they have increased BST...

Spoiler: FEH New Units Datamine

Even Oliver which is a bit surprising since aside from Joshua and Fjorm where part of me feels like Joshua might have been a response to backlash and Fjorm's just a story unit to hype people up, Oliver having increased BST is a bit funny and annoying when you consider the other GHB and TT units. Y'know, like Arvis, Camus, Michalis, Valter, Xander, and Zephiel who portrayed as serious and dangerous enemies while Oliver is basically a meme at this point? Whatever...

Micaiah's 35 HP, 35 Atk, 28 Spd, 18 Def, and 35 Res gives her 151 BST. Stat-wise, she's Mae, but with a legendary tome that's pretty damn good when it's effective against armor and cavalry and lowers the damage she takes from them by 30%. They also gave her Sacrifice instead of Ardent Sacrifice or Reciprocal Aid and it seems like a fusion between them and Harsh Command.

Oliver's 42 HP, 32 Atk, 20 Spd, 23 Def, and 34 Res gives him 151 BST. Stat-wise, he's a blue Sophia, but if she dumped defense for resistance. If he were summonable, +Atk or +Def, -Spd Oliver would be pretty badass. The interesting thing is the datamine listed a new set of blue tomes: Light, Ellight, Shine, and Shine+. Those are light magic tomes and seeing them annoys me since Lucius and even Serra could have been blue mages with those tomes. I'm not sure what Shine does, though, since the thread listed multiple things where I'm sure what Micaiah's Thani and Sacrifice, Sothe's Peshkatz, Zelgius's Warp Powder, and Spur Atk/Spd. Whatever, we'll see.

Sothe's 39 HP, 36 Atk, 33 Spd, 22 Def, and 21 Res gives him 151 BST. Dude's essentially another NY Takumi meaning he's also another Kagero, but with extra stats to make him bulkier. Compared to Kagero, he has more HP for less resistance unlike Takumi who has similar defenses to Kagero, but has higher HP. Peshkatz, assuming that's what it does since I doubt Thani would do anything different from its home game and Shine+ would do that either, seems like a legendary Rogue and Smoke Dagger hybrid.

Zelgius's 46 HP, 36 Atk, 33 Spd, 38 Def, and 21 Def gives him 174 BST. Zelgius is, unsurprisingly, the Black Knight. It's kind of funny when you look at his artwork. Taking off his helmet gives him +3 defense and resistance and +2 attack at the cost of -2 HP and -1 speed. He's also Draug if he had 4 less HP and 1 less defense for 6 more attack and 3 more speed and resistance. Draug's always been in a crappy situation ever since Zephiel, then the Black Knight, then Arden, and now Zelgius were introduced. Warp Powder seems all right, but it's interesting that it's weaker than Halloween Nowi's Grimoire and Takumi's unique forged Fujin Yumi since its health range is >= 80% to their >= 50% HP.

Anyway, Micaiah is finally here leaving Leif as the remaining lord/lady to not be in Heroes aside from Rowan and Lianna from FEW and the Tokyo Mirage main characters. Moving on, with one of the units being a GHB, the 3 summonable units might mean there's going to be a TT for them and that makes me wonder who the reward for that one will be. It's probably going to be the Black Knight himself which would suck since a new unit would be cooler like Greil or someone else. On the subject of the Black Knight, he's the first unit who seems to have an updated or promoted version of himself through Zelgius. I figured it would have been Ike first since RD Ike is different from PoR Ike, but nope, it's Zelgius.

Also, the thread said that there's going to be a mini TT and it's New Year's themed, so that's probably how we're going to get NY M!Corrin. For me, that's cool since I'd like NY M!Corrin, but it's also pretty bad since I have to get rid of at least 5 units soon by the time he and Oliver drop since the TT would give 2 M!Corrins and Oliver's GHB would mean 3 of him. I could just expand my barracks, but 535/540 units at this point is ridiculous, so I'd rather just use the units who aren't doing anything for skills or whatever. Man, I have so many orbs right now that I don't know what to do...

Edit: Okay, so that rules out one of the what does Shine and Shine+ do. Sanaki's Cymbeline can be refined now: https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/7pk5mh/cymbeline_has_been_added_to_the_refinery/.

Its unique effect is so adorable when you consider who takes care of Sanaki. I think they care for her. They at least guard her as far as I know. Now, if only Sigrun and Tanith were actually in the game.

And Parthia can be forged as well and it's the one that reduces the first hit of mages by 30% and gives +6 Atk against archers, healers, mages, and thieves for its unique refinement.

Edit 2: Edit Harder: Okay, I think Shine and Shine+ do absolutely nothing.

Shine and Shine+ are just the Light time versions of all the other “Silver” tomes. Bolganone, Rexcalibur, etc. Since we probably won’t even get Shine+ for a while (like how we still can’t have Thoron+), it’s probably just there to avoid glitches. At least Micaiah can have Shine

 

[Lorde]

Oliver GHB is going to take place on January 14th btw

 

[EODM07]

Hello my fellow remaining people on this website. Everyone alright?

So what's the rational behind constructing a farm deck? Is it meant to auto-duel, is it meant to take a long time per duel?

I've just been using this as an opportunity to level Crowler up some. Ancient Gear is fun, and means I don't have to deal with most of Cyber Dragon's bs magic/trap cards.

Farming deck is so you can get a lot of assessment points (Up to around 7000 - 8000); so that way, you can get more rewards for your worth.

They usually require the following points:
- Play Glossy/Prismatic Card
- Over 9999 Damage!
- Cards on the Brink
- Effect Damage Only

Which is where Gravekeeper's Vassal, Union Attacks, Secret Pass and any Glossy/Prismatics you got will come in handy. Farming decks are often used to get card rewards or Skills; which is why they're often very useful.

I do recommend you make a farming deck just in case; so that way, you can easily farm Lv. 40s of almost everyone.

Previously, I had to run Pirahna Army with Master of Oz; but now I can more easily run the more consistent Gravekeeper Vassal farm; I am running the Blue Eyes White Dragon farm for Dark Zane; and it does work well.

Multiple Enemy Controllers, Super Rush and Champion's Vigilance so I don't get cheesed out by any of his Boss Monsters.

I however ONLY RECOMMEND this against Legendary Duelists, not NPCs or PVP; it will not work.

Anyway, I'm going to be getting the floor to my toilet redone since we had to take the floorboards away due to damage; so hopefully this new floorboard will look great and be better then the last.

Spoiler: Yuri pic of the day~

 

[Buddhahobo]

Waaaaaaat, Nintendo just dropped a direct without telling anyone.

Spoiler

Only Switch games:

1) Dark Souls Remastered (May 25th)
2) Mario Tennis Aces (Spring release window) (Looks a lot better than the Wii U Tennis game)
3) Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (May 4th)
4) Kirby Star Allies (March 16th)
5) The World Ends With You: Final Remix (2018)
6) Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition (All the DLC from both games, fairies and multiple characters on a map like in the 3DS version, plus some BOTW costumes) (Spring release window)
7) SNK Heroines ~Tag Team Frenzy~ (Summer release window) New female-only 2v2 fighting game)
8) Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (Summer release window)
9) PAYDAY 2 (Feb 27th)
10) Fe (Feb 16th)
11) Celeste (Jan 25)

Pokken Tournament getting new characters in a Battle Pack DLC. Wave 1 (Jan 31st) will be Aegislash, and Support Mega Requaza and Mimikyu, Wave 2 (March 23rd) will be Blastoise, and Support Mew and Celebi, plus new costumes.
Mario Odyssey is getting a free DLC update with something called balloon world with Luigi, and new costumes.
Mario+Rabbids is getting Donkey Kong DLC

Seems to be a pretty big focus on couch co-op with the joycons, too. Pokken, Tropical Freeze, Hyrule Warriors and problem Tennis can all do that.

 

[Nammy12]

All these ports but still no sign of smash.

 

[Buddhahobo]

All these ports but still no sign of smash.

I'm assuming Winter 2019. The Switch has already surpassed the lifetime sales of the Wii U apparently, and that was all without a Smash game to drive sales for the first almost-year.

That's a pretty nice Spring Lineup they've got there, and then there's at the very least Yoshi and most likely a Winter Fire Emblem spearheading the second half of 2018. It's not quite the same pull as Mario Odyssey and Xenoblade 2, but very little would be and is still competent along with other likely 3rd party games and ports on the way.

Then 2019 might have...a lot of the stuff we know is on the way. A mainline Pokemon, Metroid 4, Bayo 3, possibly that Pikmin 4 that's apparently been 95% complete for years now, and lastly, Smash.

 

[Armagon]

Mini Nintendo Direct thoughts

Tropical Freeze on Switch is great! I finally get to play it.

Totally Not Tales Ys 8 seems interesting. I've never played a Ys game before. Would that be a good starting point? Actually, it's probably the only Ys game on a Nintendo console so i don't really have a choice there.

Hahahah, Hyrule Warriors for the third time. What is this, Skyrim?

The Dark Souls of Nintendo games

 

[Locke 06]

I'm gonna buy Hyrule warriors this time. All dlc is a cool thing (but sucks for people who have all versions), but what really sold me was the BotW Zelda costume.

 

[Cress!]

Wait wtf why did they just drop a Direct at 6 AM with no announcement not like I would've woken up at 6 AM if they did announce it anyways
TWEWY was probably the best part of it for me, I've been wanting to play that so yay. More Kirby is cool too.
Before Koei re-rereleases HW can they actually fix FEW first k thx. (No I'm not getting HW again)
The rest idc

Edit: Now that I'm thinking more about the HW port...

• I will buy it if they let you transfer your save from the previous versions but I know they won't. And if they do then it'll only be for Legends and not the Wii U version.
• It will most likely be balanced the same as Legends in terms of maps and the characters will follow their Wii U versions. Or maybe it'll be 100% Legends.
• Either way it doesn't matter since My Fairy is back. It was added to Legends since the 3DS couldn't render enough enemies to easily get A ranks, but since this is going to be running as well as the Wii U version then... ono.
• DLC will happen and I doubt that they'll port it to Legends and the original.

 

[Ffamran]

Freaking Donkey Kong is in Mario + Rabbids. I wonder if you can get him early enough in the story to fight Rabbid Kong assuming he's not post-game DLC which would suck if he was. Now I wait for Wario and Waluigi to make it into Mario + Rabbids. Actually, maybe they should be in a sequel. Tropical Freeze getting a Switch port is cool which makes me wonder if they can get Star Fox Zero on the Switch.

Speaking of ports, y'know what would be a great Switch port? Xenoblade Chronicles. Also, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower. I was lucky enough to get The Last Story, but never managed to get Xenoblade Chronicles or Pandora's Tower for the Wii. I could have for Pandora's Tower, but I was a bit hesitant since I wasn't sure if I wanted to play it and looking back, grabbing it for 20 bucks new would have been better than trying to get it used for $35 now. I don't think I ever had a chance with Xenoblade Chronicles since not only was it in very limited print, but it also got scalped hard. Hell if I'm going to get a New 3DS just for the stupid game. I think that would amount to thrice what I would have to pay for the Wii version.

Dark Souls getting a remaster seemed like it was going to happen eventually. It was either Dark Souls or Demon's Souls and since Demon's Souls is a PS3 exclusive game, I'm not sure if they could have gotten it on the other platforms. Well, the bright side is the remastered PC port will be better than the original one considering Dark Souls 2 and 3's PC ports and Blighttown hopefully won't have as much performance issues.

Anyway, the best part of the mini Direct news for me has to be SNK Heroines Tag Team Frenzy. It's so dumb; it's basically KoF XIV for the PS4 and Switch, but with the ability to play dress-up and without any of the male characters. Leona's unamused, deadpan look just sells it for me. I hope it ends up being a very good fighting game just for the sheer stupidity of it. Watch it rake in thousands of viewers at EVO and being a main event where most people are talking about the matchups, strategies, and gameplay of it in spite of its blatant fanservice.

 

[Armagon]

Speaking of ports, y'know what would be a great Switch port? Xenoblade Chronicles. Also, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower.

Oh yes. I would love to play the other two Operation Rainfall games. Last Story and Pandoria's Tower are Nintendo properties, right?

Oh, and while they're at it, Xenoblade Chronicles X for Switch please.

 

[Ffamran]

Oh yes. I would love to play the other two Operation Rainfall games. Last Story and Pandoria's Tower are Nintendo properties, right?

Oh, and while they're at it, Xenoblade Chronicles X for Switch please.

I don't know and I don't think so. The Last Story was developed by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive where AQ Interactive according to Wikipedia, went defunct and was merged with Marvelous Entertainment and Livewire, companies I've never heard of. The game itself was published by Nintendo in every region but North America until Xseed was able to publish it. Pandora's Tower on was developed by Ganbarion and was published by Nintendo for Japan and PAL regions and Xseed for North America. Apparently a Wii U eShop version was published by Nintendo for North America and maybe other regions.

So, I don't know if Nintendo owns the rights to those two games, but they might with Xenoblade Chronicles considering Nintendo owns Monolith Soft now.

 

[Armagon]

I don't know and I don't think so. The Last Story was developed by Mistwalker and AQ Interactive where AQ Interactive according to Wikipedia, went defunct and was merged with Marvelous Entertainment and Livewire, companies I've never heard of. The game itself was published by Nintendo in every region but North America until Xseed was able to publish it. Pandora's Tower on was developed by Ganbarion and was published by Nintendo for Japan and PAL regions and Xseed for North America. Apparently a Wii U eShop version was published by Nintendo for North America and maybe other regions.

So, I don't know if Nintendo owns the rights to those two games, but they might with Xenoblade Chronicles considering Nintendo owns Monolith Soft now.

Well, there are Last Story trophies in Smash 4. And yes, Smash 4 does have third party trophies but usually for those involving third parties featured in Smash, like Sonic. So Nintendo might own Last Story.

And yes, Xenoblade is owned by Nintendo.

 

[Troykv]

Shine and Shine+ are just the Light time versions of all the other “Silver” tomes. Bolganone, Rexcalibur, etc. Since we probably won’t even get Shine+ for a while (like how we still can’t have Thoron+), it’s probably just there to avoid glitches. At least Micaiah can have Shine

Actually, Shine+ will arrive sooner than you would expect. It's Oliver's weapon (yeah, very vanilla).

 

[Cress!]

...wow EVO Japan just ruined ARMS. They're just using the Ranked mode ruleset which is basically if you used the FG ruleset in Sm4sh but its even worse.

• Games are Bo1??????? idk what Grandfinals are like yet but it sounds like Winner's and Loser's finals are Bo1 too.
• No stage striking, stages are chosen at random by the game.
• The stage list is every stage in the game except for Skate Park. They haven't said anything about [NAME REDACTED] yet but it'll probably be legal too. Which means that Ninja College (whoever spawns at the top of the stairs round 1 basically wins the set), Scrapyard (an uneven/unsymmetrical mess of a stage that also gives 1 person a slight advantage because of where they spawn), and possibly [NAME REDACTED] (conveyor belts and moving pillars and ramps all shoved into a tiny stage and oh god what is even happening) will be legal. Why.

I haven't heard anything about if custom ARMs will be legal or not but they'll probably just stick to defaults. Default +1 is the perfect ruleset that every tournament should use don't @ me

 

[Troykv]

...wow EVO Japan just ruined ARMS. They're just using the Ranked mode ruleset which is basically if you used the FG ruleset in Sm4sh but its even worse.

• Games are Bo1??????? idk what Grandfinals are like yet but it sounds like Winner's and Loser's finals are Bo1 too.
• No stage striking, stages are chosen at random by the game.
• The stage list is every stage in the game except for Skate Park. They haven't said anything about [NAME REDACTED] yet but it'll probably be legal too. Which means that Ninja College (whoever spawns at the top of the stairs round 1 basically wins the set), Scrapyard (an uneven/unsymmetrical mess of a stage that also gives 1 person a slight advantage because of where they spawn), and possibly [NAME REDACTED] (conveyor belts and moving pillars and ramps all shoved into a tiny stage and oh god what is even happening) will be legal. Why.

I haven't heard anything about if custom ARMs will be legal or not but they'll probably just stick to defaults. Default +1 is the perfect ruleset that every tournament should use don't @ me

I have my doubts about ARMS having competitive future... But maybe I'm just amazed about how different this game is to other games.

 

[LordTakeo]

Ah well... I am slowly starting to dislike Feh again. Maybe hanging it on the nail, if it continues this way.

The new red armored dude, just reinforces what I hate about the game.
Exclusive skills, inflated BST, DC and Armored.
Now I have to roll for Micaiah to deal with it in Arena, shoving my poor favourite units out of the way, just to even get a run done. Deathless or not is since long times not even important to me anymore.


Winter banner already made me question if I like this game anymore, but this... this is overkill...
I just wanted to save up for my S!Robin on Legendary banner...

 

[Lorde]

michaiah isn't necessary to kill zelgius wtf

 

[LordTakeo]

michaiah isn't necessary to kill zelgius wtf

Zelgius has the same res as Zeph, who can, inside of armor emblem, even tank Reins. (Which by itself is already quite a feat.)
He hasn't gotten the insane HP stat, but within the update, we have maps who are designed to hinder cavalry.

I mean, all the power to cavalry hate because they miss-designed two units for it, and made the buffer units easily avaiable, instantly viable for arena.
It's nice for beginners, but infuriating for arena, thats for sure. Thats why horses have lower BST. And now hindering maps, alongside just tree's.

But Armors. We have an 80% "shred through your defenses" unique special, with an -warp- unique B-slot, on a Unit, that powercrept himself, which already was one of the stronger units in his respective field.

I already too, have troubles to deal with Arena lately, being forced to disband my former arena core which I spend endless hours and resources to build, because it just doesn't work anymore. Only to see this even more and more.
I'm just tired of trying. When a single unit has enough firepower and strength, with rather insane defenses... it just feels unfair. Couple it with the ungodly bad RNG of getting this one oasis map, with defense tiles, where the AI isn't even counter/bait-able, unless you sacc a unit before, and even then, everything dies in retaliation...

tl;dr: When Celica with an Aether procc fails to kill a red armored unit, it's gonna get frustrating.


And that is -before- Zelgius is even in the game. I just honestly am bummed out, and I guess I just wanted to vent... sorry if I am just spreading bad mood, since I'm sure many are happy that micaiah is in the game, finally.

 

[Ffamran]

Actually, Shine+ will arrive sooner than you would expect. It's Oliver's weapon (yeah, very vanilla).

Quite fitting for one who's so grossly incandescent.

Spoiler: Such perfection!

Ah well... I am slowly starting to dislike Feh again. Maybe hanging it on the nail, if it continues this way.

Enjoy what you can is all I can say. I'm at a point where I enjoy seeing new stuff like characters, weapons, skills, and modes for the sake of it like holy crap Oliver is hilarious, but the stats of the new characters pisses me off to no end.

The new red armored dude, just reinforces what I hate about the game.

The irony is that he's not wearing red armor. Seriously though, Zelgius's red armor is pretty awesome, but nope, let's slap Zelgius's head onto his Black Knight armor that's damaged and has a black cape with a red inside instead of an entirely red cape which I find looks cooler when he's damaged since it makes him look like he's wreathed in blood red fire or something.

They could have given Zelgius his own made-up sword like Zelgius's Sword and it still having Distant Counter along Zelgius having Black Luna. As for Warp Powder, might as well have the Black Knight's Alondite's unique refinement be that or add Warp Powder to his skill set like what they did with the healers gaining plus versions of their staves and healing spells. Zelgius could have Bold Fighter or something. I don't know... Red armored Zelgius would have looked cooler than a dopey Black Knight without his helmet on.

 

[Armagon]

Right, so i just started Xenogears (surprised as to how smooth a ePSXe runs on my PC but it's not like Xenogears is that technically demanding) and....how do i play? Other than the fact that it's turn-based, i don't really understand this battle system.

Any tips are helpful.

 

[Buddhahobo]

Zelgius has the same res as Zeph, who can, inside of armor emblem, even tank Reins. (Which by itself is already quite a feat.)
He hasn't gotten the insane HP stat, but within the update, we have maps who are designed to hinder cavalry.

I mean, all the power to cavalry hate because they miss-designed two units for it, and made the buffer units easily avaiable, instantly viable for arena.
It's nice for beginners, but infuriating for arena, thats for sure. Thats why horses have lower BST. And now hindering maps, alongside just tree's.

But Armors. We have an 80% "shred through your defenses" unique special, with an -warp- unique B-slot, on a Unit, that powercrept himself, which already was one of the stronger units in his respective field.

I already too, have troubles to deal with Arena lately, being forced to disband my former arena core which I spend endless hours and resources to build, because it just doesn't work anymore. Only to see this even more and more.
I'm just tired of trying. When a single unit has enough firepower and strength, with rather insane defenses... it just feels unfair. Couple it with the ungodly bad RNG of getting this one oasis map, with defense tiles, where the AI isn't even counter/bait-able, unless you sacc a unit before, and even then, everything dies in retaliation...

tl;dr: When Celica with an Aether procc fails to kill a red armored unit, it's gonna get frustrating.


And that is -before- Zelgius is even in the game. I just honestly am bummed out, and I guess I just wanted to vent... sorry if I am just spreading bad mood, since I'm sure many are happy that micaiah is in the game, finally.

I mean...I've basically been running the same team since the beginning of April, and I run fliers at that in a game where the meta has near always been defined by whatever OP archer is at the helm that month (and the occasional petty Warlord a la Hector and Reinhardt), and I've been fine.

But I do know what you're going through, kind of; on paper, out of all units in the game (well, Sigurd exists now too, but excluding him), Black Knight has the potential to absolutely destroy my team, for the most part. And unlike Zelgius, everyone has Black Knight. The thing is though that just because everyone has a Black Knight doesn't mean anyone is actually using him. People actually have to pull Zelg, build Zelg, and actually run Zelg for him to be a problem for anyone, and people have to do it in a sufficient number before it ends up as a problem to someone like you or I. Since BK was released, I've encountered maybe...two?...in Arena since he came out.

What was your former arena core? I mean, some changes are just going to happen with changing meta, but it's not like we haven't gotten things to even the playing field between Summoner and Ally Support, SI, and now the weapon's forge. Course, they can't help you with the luck-of-the-draw map choice without changing your team to something that just invalidates most map configurations (Fliers, ftw), but the tools are there to pick a small rag tag team of misfits and win seven matches in a row a week.

If nothing else, the 1st year anniversary is soon. Hopefully there's some cool stuff on the horizon.

 

[LordTakeo]

But I do know what you're going through, kind of; on paper, out of all units in the game (well, Sigurd exists now too, but excluding him), Black Knight has the potential to absolutely destroy my team, for the most part. And unlike Zelgius, everyone has Black Knight. The thing is though that just because everyone has a Black Knight doesn't mean anyone is actually using him. People actually have to pull Zelg, build Zelg, and actually run Zelg for him to be a problem for anyone, and people have to do it in a sufficient number before it ends up as a problem to someone like you or I. Since BK was released, I've encountered maybe...two?...in Arena since he came out.

I've encountered a biiiiiiit more BK's, sadly. Armor emblem was the entire reason, why I had to change and adapt.

What was your former arena core? I mean, some changes are just going to happen with changing meta, but it's not like we haven't gotten things to even the playing field between Summoner and Ally Support, SI, and now the weapon's forge. Course, they can't help you with the luck-of-the-draw map choice without changing your team to something that just invalidates most map configurations (Fliers, ftw), but the tools are there to pick a small rag tag team of misfits and win seven matches in a row a week.

I got with my usual team, about 4,990-5k points, if it's a deathless run. Since I had to change my team up, I'm more around 4,8-4,9k.
But getting a full run is rather hard nowadays. And hey, I am currently building out of my old team, a new Flier-Emblem.
Elincia (+Atk iv, I was super lucky. Also, Flier formation + Guidance seal for ultimate mobility)
Valter (As soon as his rerun comes, he's gonna be +4. Heavy-Blade Seal, Panic-ploy, ect.)
S!Camilla (Gronnraven+TA+Iote's-Seal.)

I am way past my bummed out state, it seems I just really needed to vent a little. Dragon-Emblem still is strong too, and hey... no matter what, I can still someday make my S!Robin viable.

Spoiler

Some day...

But yeah! I'm thankful that you even replied, I wasn't exactly seeing clearly when I wrote this in a fit.

 

[Lorde]

i just run flier emblem and it's great because it trivializes all of the "meta-breaking" units like reinhardt, brave lyn, christmas tharja, etc.

also maps can never **** you over when you can just ignore like 99% of all terrain

i personally don't have any problems with things like armor or horse emblem because spring camilla and summer corrin are broken, but i assume that that's outside the norm for most people

 

[Troykv]

i just run flier emblem and it's great because it trivializes all of the "meta-breaking" units like reinhardt, brave lyn, christmas tharja, etc.

also maps can never **** you over when you can just ignore like 99% of all terrain

i personally don't have any problems with things like armor or horse emblem because spring camilla and summer corrin are broken, but i assume that that's outside the norm for most people

My Spring Camilla is +Res -Def and my Summer Corrin is +HP -Spd... This is weird to me xDU

 

[Nammy12]

tfw you picked up a third party gamecube controller at a second hand store and prefer how it feels in your hand compared to the regular gamecube controller.
If only they made gamecube controllers a tad bit bigger.

I also managed to get azura from a random pull so I finally have hone fliers.

Spoiler

 

[Lorde]

My Spring Camilla is +Res -Def and my Summer Corrin is +HP -Spd... This is weird to me xDU

my original spring camilla was +res -def and she was still usable. obviously she won't tank archers as well, but with flier buffs and the iote's shield seal, she should still function well enough. 32/28 def/res with fortify is okay

i got another spring camilla from the fjorm banner right before it ended, and the second one has neutral ivs, which is nice. camilla is the real star of my flier emblem team. she singlehandedly handles reinhardt and brave lyn, who would otherwise be really annoying to deal with. imo she's a necessary element of flier emblem because no other unit can fill her niche

my summer corrin is +spd -atk, which is kind of a blessing in disguise. i was insanely lucky and managed to get 5 summer corrins with only 75 orbs, so mine is merged to +4. all of them had bad natures except for a neutral one and the +spd -atk one, but i ended up choosing the +spd one because blade tomes are broken and the +spd is really helpful with her. the fact that her defenses are still intact has actually helped me out many times where she would have died if she had a hp/def/res bane

honestly, -spd isn't the worst thing ever on summer corrin because emblem buffs and blade tomes are broken. with a hone, she reaches 37 spd, a goad brings her up to 41, and then swift sparrow/L&D/whatever else bring her spd up even higher. ivs don't matter too much on blade tome users tbh

 

[TimG57867]

As you all can probably guess, Kirby Star Allies was the highlight of the mini-direct for me. I can't remember the last time I've been this hyped for Kirby. The real cool thing though is that it's arriving so soon in the system's life. Usually we Kirby fans got to wait 3-4 years get an puffy goodness so this is an appreciated change of pace. Mario Tennis Aces and its Story Mode is also looking sweet.

I'll tell you what really surprised me though. Hyrule Warriors getting ported to Switch! I was certain they wouldn't port it again after the 3DS already got it but I guess the want to capitalize on the Zelda hype from Breath of the Wild. In any case it's great for me. I own both Wii U and 3DS but never got Hyrule Warriors so this is without question the time to get it. I am probably gonna roll with Toon Link and Tetra for it.

Speaking of which, I am all down for a Toon Zelda that turns into Tetra in the next Smash if they bring back the transformation mechanic that is. Would love to see how the 2 Zelda's would compare. I imagine like Toon Link, she'd be more nimble but not hit as hard.

 

[Nammy12]

Is this Reserved's alt?

 

[Troykv]

I GOT MICAIAH!

My girl has come home! Thanks goodness!!!

 

[Cress!]

Didn't get Micaiah but I did get a random Delthea lmao. +Def -Atk sadly.
The Delthea I already had was +Res -Spd so idk which one I should merge into the other. Dropping from 34 speed to 31 isn't THAT huge of a deal imo since it's already in an awkward area and the extra Res is nice for tanking hits and Iceberg spam but perhaps the Spd is important enough to take the drop in Atk. +Def is worthless no matter what though.
Actually wait lemme see what her stats will be like after taking the merge into account...

Spoiler: I'm getting too much into this

+Res -Spd Delthea at +1 would have 51 Atk, 31 Spd, and 35 Res with Dark Aura equipped and leaving every other skill blank. (Who cares about HP and Def for her)
+Def -Atk Delthea at +1 would have 47 Atk, 35 Spd, and 31 Res.
35 Spd is starting to look decent, but idk if dropping her other 2 important stats by 4 each is worth it.
I'm 100% keeping Dark Aura on her though if that makes a difference. It's what makes her unique and plenty of other units can use Bladetomes better anyways.

halp

I have my doubts about ARMS having competitive future... But maybe I'm just amazed about how different this game is to other games.

It probably won't but the community is great and you can tell that they're trying to keep the game alive as long as possible. But what EVO Japan is doing to the game is just disgraceful.

 

[Ffamran]

Well, that's it for this banner. No Micaiah, Sothe, Zelgius, or even a new unit for me.

Spoiler: The 116th and 117th Summons

Spoiler: The 116th's stats

3* Bartre: neutral. Seriously? And after he was a quest unit.

3* Jagen: +Res, -Def.

3* Selena: +Def, -Spd.

4* Tharja: +Res, -Def.

4* Titania: +Res, -Spd.

Spoiler: The 117th's stats

4* Abel: +HP, -Def.

4* Lissa: +Res, -Def.

4* Sakura: +HP, -Atk. Now's a time when healers having -Atk is pretty bad outside of Azama since upgraded heals factor in attack.

4* Subaki: +Spd, -HP.

4* Sully: +HP, -Res.

On another note, I finished watching Flying Witch yesterday and finally finished Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito today. Flying Witch was great, but the last episode didn't feel like an ending. Most anime's last episodes close a chapter or part of the manga or whatever it was adapted from and I think Flying Witch did that, but the thing is that a festival was mentioned and it seemed like it was going to be set up as what the episode would end on. It did and through a series of still shots at the end. They could have at least animated or something. So, it made me want more of Flying Witch, but for two separate reasons where the first one is that the last episode didn't feel like an ending and the second one is that I just want more of Flying Witch.

YamiBou, I don't know how to feel about it after finishing it, except for one thing and it's that Eve is an ass. It's a weird anime that's apparently loosely adapted from its source, a visual novel. Also, a lot of fanservice. Watching it felt kind of nostalgic since it was aired in 2003 and there's this sort of charm that older anime have, especially with their opening and ending songs let alone the art style. As for why I watched YamiBou, long story short, this and Kannazuki no Miko somehow ended up being on my radar a long time ago and I think it was because of their music since I remember just looking for and listening to anime opening and ending themes. I was able to watch Kannazuki no Miko a while back when I first learned about it while YamiBou just sat there as something I wanted to see just to know what it was, but never got around to until 2016 and ended sitting half finished until now. Well, I finished it and I don't know, it's just a weird anime whose opening and ending songs pulled me into it.

Edit: Oh, so that's where I heard her voice! Inari Fushimi from Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha is voiced by Naomi Oozora, the same person who voiced Satania in Gabriel Dropout and someone in Konohana Kitan -- not going to say who since her character appears very late in the show.

 

[EODM07]

Hello everyone. Doing alright?

So the new Box is out, with each pack having 12 Cards in it, 7 N, 4R and 1 SR/UR; but they're the price of 4 standard packs at 200 Gems, still not bad.

However, there's a limit to how many a F2P can get with their Gems. You can only purchase a maximum of 15 packs; I'm sort of okay with this. I mean, sure we get 1,500 Gems so we can get about 48 Cards from the new Box; but that will be a nightmare to unbox with more Gems, since we gotta go grind for those Gems either by Leveling Up or by ranking up. :V

Or there's the easy way out by using a Steam Giftcard.

I see people have talked about the Mini Direct; I'll be honest and say that I thought it was decent, they provided tons of games and information on what's coming and I am all down for this.

Aegislash looks fine in Pokken DX, curious on how Blastoise will play; curious whether it'll play either a Power or Technical character.

DK looks great, though I am curious if Rabbid Kong from the 1st Chapter will be unlockable or not; though he's most likely too damn big to be playable. :V

Luigi's Balloon World looks pretty fun to pass the time, I have a feeling people will use glitches to make their balloons hard as nails to find.

I'll get to the rest shortly, but first I want to give my initial thoughts about SNK Heroines:

Spoiler

I am genuinely curious about SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy to be perfectly honest. Since we got ourselves a sort of spiritual sequel to SNK Gals Fighters on the Neo Geo Pocket Colour.

I am curious on a lot of things about SNK Heroines; such as what is with the health bar, when I saw it I thought it was too small to fit within the entire bar; but looking at it, the health is probably like that as the rest with the girly rainbow effect is most likely the character's meter (Kind of an odd way of putting them together, I would've personally have a standard meter at the bottom of the screen or right underneath the health bar).

Next is the items, I am curious if we can turn it off or if it'll be a staple for this game, since honestly; the game seems more casual in mind then competitive, but I am wondering if the items can be disabled or not.

The controls on the otherhand were very vague when they were promoting SNK Heroines; "Actviate a variety of moves in battle with just 1 button." This has me concerned, will it have simplified controls or will there be a normal control scheme as well?

Finally, the characters; I do wonder who we'll get since we know the obvious five of Athena, Kula, Leona, Mai and Yuri.

I can see other female characters like Nakoruru, Whip, Alice, Love, Luong and Ior- I mean, Miss X making it in. But we'll have to wait and see.

PAYDAY 2 I'm not that interested in.

Mario Tennis ACES I hope is good; since Mario Tennis Ultra Smash was just a disappointment.

Dark Souls Remastered, I may end up getting this; since I have watched Jerma play some Dark Souls on his 2nd YouTube Channel which archives his streams and highlights.

TWEWY I have never played before; so I might end up giving it a shot.

Kirby is Kirby, we all love Kirby.

Even though Fe looks unique; I can tell that from the big two letters EA, I'm going to hold my breath on that.

Celeste looks cute and all, but I most likely won't get it.

Ys VIII; I have only ever played Ys VI and that was it; it was fun though but man was I making it too damn hard for myself.

Hyrule Warriors... No thanks, I already got Fire Emblem Warriors.

Overall, I'm fine with a lot of these games; though I am mostly interested in Dark Souls, SNK Heroines and TWEWY.

Spoiler: Yuri pic of the day~