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How would you spend your orbs on banners?

How is everyone's luck on the scattered fang banner? I am currently on the 4.00% pity rate for Karla and has ran out of orbs. But since I don't have ayra or Mia and for the sake of all the orbs I've spent on 4 and 3 stars im not gonna give up Karla until I reached rate 4.50%

How would you spend you orbs on summoning to get the unit you want? I'm actually quite fed up with the poor luck I had right now.

Asked by paskomach6 months 2 weeks ago
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Idk. An hour ago, I got a usable 5* flying nino and a fodder 5* legault with just 20 orbs. On a 8% banner, I got a 5* fodder Takumi after spending over 340 orbs. Its completely random and I don't trust the %s. I've done better spending 60 orbs on the last 3 summoning events than I have on most legendary banners spending 300-400 orbs.

If you can see my question history, there's a thread where I was really frustrated with the legendary banner I got my Takumi in.

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Don't go into banners with a sense of "I need", because things like this can happen. I don't know if you actually need Karla or not to fill in such a role, but my guess is you could've saved up more and more strategically if you really did. If you just want her because she's cool/hot and an amazing unit, than it means you fell for their bait.

I used to spend orbs really poorly, and as soon as I got only a few. I didn't really have a fixed goal as to what I really wanted, and I just went with the flow when a new banner would kick in and has an appealing unit or two. When you have a more clear goal and you're not summoning because it feels good, you may become more inclined to save up. In my case, I managed to save up to 200 orbs (my record) because I was waiting for the Legendary Banner for Tharja and because I wanted an extra Charlotte.

You have to be hard in this game, otherwise you won't make it as an F2P. We can't afford to be all flimsy and whimsical and spreading thin every time a new banner appears. If you want to be more succesful at summoning too, your best bet is to gather at least 20 orbs so you can try to fill up the percentage and potentially even score extra *5s off of it.

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460 orbs is my record. I've gotten more 5* units playing fast and loose than I have ever saving orbs. I don't think the %s are correct or I have been extremely lucky. I was going after legendary banners and maybe getting 4-5 5* units with 300-400 orbs. I've gotten 6 5* units with just 60 orbs this week. 2 of the units are fodder but still.

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It's not "wrong". It's just what it is, and it's luck-dependent. Whether you've been lucky or unlucky, 3.25% is higher than 3%. There are people who can get free summons, and it doesn't really mean much.

Saving orbs will always mean more, with that in mind. You don't pick your luck. And you can still snipe on it, contrary to popular belief. The .25% adds up every five summons, regardless of whether or not you do a full session.

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So in such case I should just save up say 20+ before summoning reds right?
I actually have a neutral soleil and she is +3 and she can ORKO in many situations
Then perhaps I can give up at this rate...?

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Soleil is really good, but the question is if you really wanted Karla as a character and not because you feel you need her as a unit. You won't be a lot worse off without her than you may think.

If you really built up a rate, consider how you feel about the situation regarding her (do I really want her?). If you happen to care about the upcoming Heroes in the next few days and the Legendary Banner, I might consider waiting and saving up.

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I just did the one round, and it wasn't remarkable. Got some decent fodder, but that's it.

When there's a unit I really want, I snipe that color, while also having a color priority system based on the other focus units in place in case the color I want doesn't appear. So, say I want unit A, don't want unit B, but wouldn't mind unit C. If they're different colors, I'd prioritize it as A > C > off focus col > B. If A and B share a color, then bullets will have to be bitten.

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Personally, i dont do full session summon if i want specific heroes, like on bridal banner, i only focus on colorless and get my bridelia only with <40 orbs

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You know, even if you color snipe, that's a rather lucky example. For some people it takes 300+ orbs to get the hero they want, even while color sniping. So don't put it as a generality...

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i ignore legendary banners unless i want a legendary hero. (currently dont have a fire legend) this is because of how bad the odds of pulling 5* actually are since theres so many focus units in one banner.

i tend to focus all my orbs into seasonal banners and new banners and skip any new hero banners.

so you have 3% chance to pull a random 5* and a separate 3% chance to pull a 5* focus unit. when new heroes are released, they are only in the 3% focus unit rate but when they're added to the pool they are added to the other 3% chance so its slightly easier to pull them when you try to get them when they are a focus unit on a banner that isnt introducing them

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Got 2 Barst and 1 Selena
I needed a lot of Reposition skills, so its worth, used on 5* Eliwood, GroomMarth and SpringCatria.

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Simple, dont go on the banner expecting a unit ( any unit ) without spending at least 100-120 orbs. And im saying "a unit" for a reason. Dont summon desperately with a few orbs, always look at your pity breaker chance and plan accordingly, because if a 5 star shows up you better have enough orbs to open up all the summons

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I feel you because I'm a f2p. I just got +Atk -Res Karla with 9 orbs out of my 13 orbs left. And it's always when I least expected. If I'm being confident I'll get one, it never appears. Same thing happened with my +Spd -Res Ayra. Never would I dream pulling an Ayra from Bridal Bloom banner. On the other side, I very rarely have any luck pulling on legendary banner despite 8% rate and I spent all my hard earned 50++ orbs. It's really luck based and no way I'm having the luxury for merges. Just getting one is enough fo me

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Yea true this happens to me all the time. The 5 star units always come unexpectedly and when I have confidencr in one I never have one lol.
My +Atk -Def Hardin from the previous legendary banner was an example. I seriously did not expect him to show up during my free summon lol.

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Thanks guys. Now i actually want to save up orbs as I already have a built nerutral Soleil and she works pretty well.
What bothers me is that i just want some 5 stars to show up to break my hella rate so as to not waste the orbs

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