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The reduction of cost of unlocking a unit's potential...

IMO, 20,000 feathers is quite expensive. Why can't the cost be reduced 50% less. I hope the prices get reduced in the next update or something, it's too expensive for me.

To make a 4* unit to 5* will be 10,000 feathers
3* to 4* will cost 1,000 feathers
2* to 3* will cost 100 feathers

Asked by _Absolutely_Disgusting_5 months 3 weeks ago

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This has been requested for months. I've always felt that 20k feathers just to upgrade one unit was quite much.

But I guess the amount of feathers they hand out is supposed to compensate for the heft cost. :l

Wait really... IS really is cheap, even though we rarely get free feathers unless it's an event or an award.

People have been saying that since the beginning of the game. It used to take literally about a month to save up the feathers for a single 5 starring if you were F2P. Now, it's almost one per week. It's actually better than it would be if they downgraded the costs early on but didn't increase the amount of feathers they gave us much. Just try to grind hero merit on grand hero maps and TT's. That will make things way more affordable.

I've played a lot of MMO/RPG's...

The grinding in this game makes me wanna blow my brains out. At least with mmo's and such you're actually doing something, even if it is mindlessly pressing the same keys, or doing the same combo's over and over.

FEH, on the other hand, is literally just tapping the screen. Grinding in this game is more tedious than most, if not any, other grind game I've played. XD

Yeah it's been an issue for a long time and I cba for HM grinding.

20k is a bit much, but it isn't unreasonable to get that many in a week or 2. What I'd like to see is an increase in feathers for sending a unit home and a bigger reduction from merges.

1000 for a 4* would be nice, as that is 5% of the upgrade cost (or 50% or what you paid to make it 4* if it was 3*), seems like a reasonable number to me.

It takes me 3 weeks for me just to get 20k feathers and there's also compensation due to S!Tiki's (Young) description of her weapon.

During the lulls I can see it taking up to 3 weeks, but generally with 3000 per week from Arena reward +result rewards and AA rewards should get you a decent amount somewhat quickly.

They need to boost the amount of feathers we earn from arena and other events. VG was good for Sacred Coins and we need more of those.

During one of the earlier updates they reduced the discount that merged units get for upgrading. I was kind of irritated because I want five star everything. My 40 + 10 four star Olivia suddenly cost 1000 extra feathers to upgrade. What gives.

We get more feathers now and 99% of the time that will need faster upgrades which is great. But we've literally had backwards movement on the cost of upgrading merged units since the game was released. Very disappointing. You also get less feathers for sending home

They also reduced the amount of feathers you get when you send home units?! IS doesn't even tell us anything about this!

I would have to agree that 20,000 feathers are a hell of a lot, especially for an F2P player like myself, however, I don't find it extremely hard to grind Hero Merit for 20,000 feathers a day, and that's excluding feathers from Arena, quests, and other events.

Somehow I believe that the reduction of GHB and BHB stamina costs to 0 was a clever way to allow more frequent upgrading of units. I don't know if they ever intended for people to try and automate their games to cycle through a battle, but even manually clicking "auto battle' is not too hard.

In fact, right now, I have my iPhone on Switch Control going through the Navarre GHB, making me 15 HM every ~30 secs or so (including the time it takes to go through the menu and skip the dialogue, not just the battle). Considering that 1 HM = 1 Feather, and your aim is 20,000 feathers, you can get that amount in about ~11 hours. I'm soloing the map so my main unit (L!ike) is maxed out on HM, but if yours isn't yet, you can cut your time down to ~8hours. Albeit this a hefty length of time, but the effort it takes to perform this is close to zero if you use something like switch control or an emulator. I could see some people averse to using emulators, as it's essentially botting, but using Switch Control does not tamper into your game or your system in any way whatsoever.

Also, you guys are all saying it takes you ~1-3 weeks to make 20,000 feathers -- 11 hours doesn't sound like too a bad deal, does it?

EDIT: Also, you can do this while you're asleep. You could make 20,000 hero feathers while dreaming!

Hahaha, as they say, not all heroes wear capes! Seriously, it takes 11hrs to get a unit to 5000 HM, that seems like a lot of grinding. I'm currently at 12k feathers I fear that it probably will take 4-5 Hrs or something like that just to get to 20k

Actually, according to my approximate calculations, it takes 11 hours to get 4 units up to 5000 HM each, or 20,000 Hero Feathers. Granted, this is assuming that all units are level 40 (rarity doesn't matter), as level affects how much HM is received per unit. Also, I don't even have the most optimal setting for beating Navarre. Some can get it down to ~20 secs instead of ~30. In addition, the set up I'm using on Navarre is 100% F2P. Just the free L!Ike with his base kit and three unequipped Lvl. 40s.

Wow that seems almost relentless, im currently have a team of 4, and I'm trying to get the to max HM. Well, this seems like a lot of fun. I'm also F2P, well I'll get back to grinding, thanks!

Read this. It might come in handy. https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/8bawbg/farm_20_hm_in_20_seconds_navarre_lunatic_no_si_no/

Thanks for that! Ill be sure to use this to help!

This claim was warranted when it lacked arena assault and arena gave 50% less feather's in both offense and defense as well as Tempest Trials and Hero Merit.

With the arrival of the Tactic Drill we will have at least 600 more per week so we can not complain much.

For every month, doing all the quests and events will go at least 120,000. At this moment (12 days) I made 95,000 and look that has 3 weeks still ...

Terror was in the beginning when it was 4,000 a week struggling a lot.

95k feathers...
I spent 40k on merges this month, and I got all those feathers from this month, I feel like I accomplished something. But when you said that you can acquire 120k a month, seems indulging and I eager to make that amount of feathers.

Effort pays off. I’ve seen some old posts on here from people saying that they have gotten over 100,000 feathers in the course of a single Tempest Trials+. The opportunities are there, but you have to be willing to seize them.

That's tempting.. also there is an upcoming TT! Ill start grinding on that.

Sheer determination will take you a long way. I’ve been playing for only 4 months and I have been in Tier 20 the past month and a half while also being top 1K in Arena Assault. Haven’t spent a penny.

I almost slipped into arena 20, but I couldn't make it. Bet you have like 5 units that are +10 merged.

You are correct. Before I started working on the merges, I mapped out a plan to get to the top. And I have stuck to that plan. Along with some good luck, it has been crazy.

I've currently got 3 merge projects, Camilla, Sophia and Gwendolyn. Gwendolyn is 3 merges away from +10. Camilla is +2 merged and I've put Sophia aside. I need to focus on them as I've been spending feathers as if it grows on trees and I need to start planning what I'm going to do in the future.

If you put in the effort, feathers essentially do grow on trees. But like with any fruit bearing tree, it takes time for the fruits of your labor to be recognized.

Right, I appreciate everything you've done so far and thanks for that, I think I've been encouraged enough to start grinding for feathers.

You will reach that amount. Next week we will probably have a tempest trial, outside the 3 weeks of Arena and Arena Assault, only there yields at least 35,000.

We need to see now the other events scheduled for the month, we can have GHB Infernal, Blessed Garden and Grand Conquest, yields 20,000

You know what, I think Ive been living under a rock. Wow, forget magic is everything, its feathers is everything! That's 55k feathers, I'm feeling very envious of people who Grind for feathers..

The promotion costs are high, but events are the best way to get feathers. Grand Conquest can give almost 16,000 if you max out your territory control each round. Voting Gauntlet can give a maximum of 13,000 for top 1K each round and overall while winning each round. Tempest Trials+ can also be a great way to get feathers. With Grand Hero Battles being free, you can autobattle them and every 100 times on lunatic is 500 Hero Merit. Yes, we don’t get a lot of free feathers, but there are ample opportunities to get them. The cost should not be lowered; people just need to learn that hard work pays off, and is the reason I can max merge a unit in under a month.

You're right, hard work does pay off. Man, finishing a merge project in a month, that seems extraordinary! I wish I had the capability of doing that. I hope we get a new event map of this month and august, i reckon it will be released tomorrow.

You can have the capability, but it takes a lot of effort if you are doing it without using any kind of automation. I play Grand Hero Battles the old fashioned way because I do not have any automated programs that let me do it in my sleep. The events are the cash cow. I’ve been working on a Shigure and took him from unmerged to +5 in under 2 weeks.

100k feathers in 2 weeks!? Truly, have been living under a rock. Ive just completed all the CC that offer feathers as a reward and still want more feathers.