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Where are the other Serpent Tomes?

We got the BlárSerpent tome, what, two or three months ago? Where are the other two? I'm sure Ràuo and Gron Serpent would be much appreciated for certain Red and Green units.
When do you think they're going to come out? They can't just do one color and end it there. They didn't do it for any other color spread tome.

Asked by ShieldOfWind4 months ago
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Are they really? Who do you really want a red or green serpent tome for?

Mage tanks are the only ones that seem to want these, evidenced by Oliver being the only standout candidate for Blárserpent. Julius and male Morgan are already near invincible against ranged. Green doesn't have a strong mage tank aside from H!Henry, who can do better with an owl tome because he has to sit by allies all day anyway.

Maybe it will make Boey or Merric better? Or Leo?

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The unit introduced wielding it may be a fantastic mage tank. Given blue came in with Awakening, Fates'll have one too. I'm thinking Orochi would be good to have Rauðrserpent, she should come with high Res and the animal motif matches the Hoshidan scrolls in Fates.

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Yes indeed, I'm waiting for Red Serpent Tome for my Sophia.

A +10 Sophia with a Def boon and Summoner Support can reach 46 Def and 41 Res in the enemy phase with Serpent Tome. I might give her Def Wave and that will reach 52 Def. 3 units adjacent to Sophia with OwlTome, that will reach 58 Def and 47 Res.

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Sophia I'll agree. I don't know that even Rauðrserpent will make Henry attractive to use, though.

The vast majority of mages just don't have the tanking potential to make serpent tomes shine, and those that do have very little utility besides. DC melee units more often have suitable statlines for that sort of thing, and people don't complain too much about having to lose their seal slot to DD3 get the same effect.

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Henry appreciates Rauðrowl+ more for better damage on Bonfire/Ignis. He can make use of a Serpent tome for more resistance against magic attacks, but at that point it's not totally necessary. He has quite a bit of HP, so he can Panic Ploy units, not to mention that, if buffed enough, he can survive some blue units and Ignis-bomb them straight to Hell. Not to mention that Henry, unless built for it, shouldn't even be going up against magic to begin with.

Feels nice to watch my Henry take little-to-no damage from Hardin/L!Ephraim, and then bomb them to death, lol.

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Personally I'd be tempted to put Gronnserpent on my F!Robin to make her into a proper distance tank, since the TA Raven build means she's only good against two out of four colors.

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