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Exchange Manuals

In the picture of the menu that they provided for us, there is an option for exchanging manuals. Looks like we'll be able to trade SI / merge fodder now? Still won't be able to trade IVs, but I'm fine without it. (Probably more than a few around here who aren't though)

Asked by Seeker4 months ago

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It's not a trading mode, it's just a storage for SI and merges to have more spaces in the barracks

Please pay attention. Those of you who just threw a quick thumbs-up, too, please pay attention.

This image comes directly from the update notification. The first button is clearly the one used to convert units into manuals. The second button is the one I'm talking about.

Did you not miss my point entirely?

Create makes it sound like you are sending home for the manual and exchange is using said manual to give whatever skill to another unit, doesn't sound like trading to me.

That's the only thing i could think about that button, otherwise where do i have to click to inherit the skill in the manual?

It says manuals are used like normal heroes in the inherit and merge menus.
I doubt it's trading but I really have no clue what "exchange manuals" could mean.

Could also be exchanging enough 4 star manuals for a 5 star one for example 3 4* Subaki manuals = a 5 star one for qr3 or something along those lines

I saw that button, too. Do you really think you can trade manuals? That would be insane.

I can't believe that it will work like that yet. I mean, it is in conflict with IS' business model.

I'm really confused as to what these do. What do mean trade skill/merge fodder?

Looks like a tidy way to solve the ever-expanding barracks problem.

What I'd really like to see is the ability to use a Sacred Seal on any number of heroes at the same time. It's so annoying to have to switch those out constantly because we're only allowed one copy.

But part of the sacred seal system is that you only get to use each seal on one unit at a time. What they need to do is fix the horrifying glitch that vanishes inherited skills so that we can use this "switch skillsets" feature that they implemented less than a month ago. That was supposed to reduce the annoyance from having to flip seals around so much.

I'm suggesting that they change the sacred seal system. If you can already equip any one seal to any hero, wouldn't it be easier to be able to equip that seal to all the heroes you want to use it on rather than switching between every time?

Skill Sets does address this a little bit, but IMO it asks too much of the user to go into each unit and create a skill set plus check which skill set is active before every battle. If I only ever use one skill set this is way more time-consuming than a set-it-and-forget-it solution like the one I'm suggesting.

That would be nice, but then what happens if you're in an assault mode and multiple units try to access the same seal? Do you just screw yourself over because one of them will be forced into battle without a seal?

They could put in a limitation that only one seal can be used per team of 4 and a warning to tell you if you have the same seal equipped to more than one hero in that team.

I don't think that it'll be for trading manuals to other players. But maybe a skill shop of sorts? For example, you exchange a Catria manual for points or it has a default value in regards to what is offered in the shop, possibly Manuals for the Askr trio, TT and GHB, possibly even the Hero Battle units like Wrys or Cecilia. Things like Hero Feathers, Sacred Coins and Refining Stones could be available too.

Being able to exchange some units for coins! That would be very sweet!

Y'all are dreamin'. They will never add trading to this game. The manuals are a way to free up barracks space. When you send units home, you free up space and store them as feathers. Now we will be able to effectively send them home to free up space, but instead store them as skills to be foddered off later. We'll see what exactly the "exchange" does.

This is a welcome change and now I'll have somewhere to go with the 22 x 3* Hinatas taking up my barracks space.

It's possible that manuals such as Hinata at 3* won't be able to be upgraded to 4* (to get Fury 3). I hope that we can store the 3* and upgrade it to 4* if needed, but that's probably too much to ask for. Still, the feature will be handy for 4* units with prime fodder (e.g. Tailtiu) that are in excess of 11 units for possible merges in the future.

I think you WILL be able to upgrade your fodders. At least that is what this snippet means to me.

Perhaps "exchange" here refers to the ability to move an manual back into a hero in the barracks. That would be nice.

They already stated that once you turn a unit into a Manual, you can't turn them back.

The Manual system might open up the opportunity for some kind of skill shop, but that's not what Exchange Manuals means. The menu option's Japanese title translates to Sell Combat Manuals, presumably for Feathers, like the Send Home feature.

I picked up a tiny few words of Japanese back in my days with a different game. Is this to say that we're talking urimasu rather than koukan?

My Japanese is a bit rusty, too. The information I gave was based on a report on the SF Forums by a user who's taken it upon themselves to research pretty much everything about Heroes. The image is the original, untranslated menu.

Ok that definitely suggests to me we won't be able to exchange with other players.