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[StoryTime] Bravart and the brave heroes. Volume XII

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by Senkou 1 year 3 months ago

Use your others units in chain challenge, arena assault, squad assault.
And ephrain is way better than lucina in his role, buff bladetomes.

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Chain Challenge for more feathers, for 0 purposes because the game is now graviting around 4 heroes, that are all 5* exclusive. So the feathers' purpose is now to get more characters for chain challenge or arena assault, for more feathers, for more characters that can't compete.
It's a ridiculous circle.

I mean, you don't get my point. My point is : do we play Fire Emblem Heroes or Fire Emblem BRAVE Heroes ?

4 units mostly, then "the rest" is only good to get more feathers to integrate more rest into "the rest". Pointless.

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I think you might be overreacting just a tad. B!Ike is amazing, but he does not monopolize greens the way Bridelia is/was the face of colorless. This banner introduced 4 great S(+) tier characters, at/near the top of their respective types, but it's not CYLpocalypse. Ike is still roughly even with Hector at his job, +atk Cherche secures more kos than Ike if her were to attempt her Brave build, etc. And characters like Sonya, Nino etc don't even overlap with his role. Roy is an offensive counterpart to Horse Emblem Xander, Lucina is a better offensive unit but still FAR outclassed by Ephraim in terms of buffing Bladetomes (still highly meta), etc. Only Lyn really revolutionized the meta and pretty much invalidated every archer behind her, sans maybe Innes specifically for the anti-Raventome niche, everything else is just making the high tiers accessible for newer players and especially F2P ones, and alternatives for already existing archetypes.

The only thing I really agree on is the power creep further displacing the many "good not great" units. I think the answer to this would be simple, save for a patch that literally tinkers with their base stats (which I'm not in favor of). They should add some sort of "skill shop" or something, where we can use some form of in-game currency to buy skills, especially weapons. Many of those "just good" units are that way simply because all the new units getting OP legendary weapons (to the point where the CYL units now have legendary weapons with TWO lv 3 effects), compared to their shitty Silver Sword+/Killing Edge+ base kits.

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Thank you very much for this opinion of yours.

I don't feel like Ephraim is better than Lucina, even for bladetomes user, because anyone else than Ephraim can run a better Hone attack. His legendary weapon provides him a level 2 C-skill, while Lancina has two level 3 C-skill in hers (Drive Atk, Drive Spd) and +3 Def on top of her better BST and better stat-spread, to perform well outside of her support role.

So maybe I'm overreacting, sadly I've got numerous points and arguments to justify this reaction. I wish I could find some to change my position about this.

It's not all bad, it's just mostly bad in terms of gameplay. It killed most of the complexity of the game by ruining so many possibilities and the diversity in the game.

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Sometimes when we invested so much in things that turned out to be outdated, it simply feels bad. Hector is being replaced by Brave Ike, probably (at least outside of armor emblem). Bridelia is being replaced by Brave Lyn, probably. But this is how the game has always been played. Better and new characters come out, everyone gravitates towards that. Before the introduction of brave units, there's only a handful of characters I see in the arena anyway, and the difference now is that some of them changed to Brave Ike, Brave Lyn, Brave Roy, and Brave Lucina.

Introduction of S-tier units is not the problem. After all, the game relies on this to make a profit. However, I do agree that there shouldn't be so many S-tier heroes introduced at the same time. They simply all came and overwhelmed everyone. If S-tier units were to be introduced much slowlier, the sense of defeat wouldn't have been so great - recall when Bridelia was introduced, no one seemed to have a serious issue.

The bright side is that CYL is a one-time event, and we know that IS is trying to get all our money at the conclusion of the summer break for most students. I think they'll do it now at a slower pace.

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Reading all that makes me feel bad. Like IS giving no sh*t about anything else than money.

Bridelia wasn't so overpowered. She had a regular BST, good stats spread for offensive but she could get OS by most things, many things could bait/counter and rush her.

Now Lyn is just the same with 1 more mobility and bonus BST points for her type (5bonus BST) with an incredible weapon and an unfair B-skill. So basically, Bridelia without her weaknesses. She also have the ability to tank magic damage, so most ranged units in arena... the ones that are the most likely to reach her.

That's the same for all the brave heroes, so much BS.

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