Archive for October 2018

Join Team Fire Emblem for Extra Life this November!

October 31, 2018 Community, News No comments

Rallying all Fire Emblem fans! This November, Team Fire Emblem–made up of contributors from r/fireemblem, r/FireEmblemHeroes and Serenes Forest–will be coming together to raise money for Extra Life, which helps support Children Miracle Network Hospitals across the U.S..

Artwork by Tecchen and Yumekaze.

Last year, Team Fire Emblem got together for the first time to organise a 28 hour livestream for Extra Life. There were speedruns of a dozen Fire Emblem games by many notable community members, an interview with Greg Chun (the voice of Ike and Ephraim etc.) and loads of cool prizes. In the end, we raised a total of $3,540!

This year, we’re hoping to massively top that. For starters, we’ll be holding four 12-hour livestreams–one during each Saturday of November. So on the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th. That equates to a whopping 48 hours of content throughout the month!

During that time, there will be speedruns as before, but also Fire Emblem game showcases, a Heroes tourney featuring some of your favourite personalities, at least 5 times as many voice actor interviews and a bucket-load of prizes–including an unmissable grand prize!

If you’re unsure what Extra Life is, you can visit the official website for all the important details. Reddit itself has a blog post with additional information. For specific information about what Team Fire Emblem is planning, you can check out our announcement post and follow up post on Reddit.

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Heroes: Legendary Eirika banner open, Eirika and Lyn LHB, Golden Feh Doll accessory!

October 31, 2018 FE Heroes, News 2 comments

A new day, a new banner to summon from! As revealed yesterday, today’s banner is a Legendary banner, featuring the new Legendary hero Eirika: Graceful Resolve!

Other focus units are as follows: Summer Tana, Flying Olivia, Legendary Ephraim, Bridal Ninian, Sumia, Legendary Lyn, Bidal Sanaki, Male Fell Robin, Female Fell Robin, Genny, and Innes.

As is the case with all Legendary banners, the chance to summon any off-focus Hero is decreased to 0%, so no 5-star summon will be anything but the above listed Heroes. Also, the chance to summon a 5-star has been raised slightly from the regular 6% up to 8%. Legendary banners are the only opportunity you’ll get to summon Legendary Heroes, so if you really want one of them, there really is no better time. Just know that you have equal chances to summon one of the other focus Heroes of the same colour. Hopefully you’ve been saving those Orbs! The banner ends on the 7th of November, 6:59AM UTC.

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Heroes: Eirika: Graceful Resolve Trailer, Water Blessing Quests, & FE6/FE10 Heroes Announcement

October 30, 2018 FE Heroes, News 14 comments

The twin princess of Renais finally becomes a Legendary Hero in Fire Emblem Heroes! Check out the trailer for Eirika: Graceful Resolve here:

Legendary Eirika is somewhat similar to the Legendary version of her brother. Her promotion item, the Lunar Brace, is now a unique B skill. She also gets a special version of her own personal weapon, the Storm Sieglinde. Both this weapon and her A skill, Atk/Spd Solo, give Eirika benefits for charging into enemy territory and fighting alone. You can also see a full text breakdown of her skills below.

Like all legendary heroes, Eirika: Graceful Resolve will be arriving in a special banner with a 8% 5★ rate. The other 11 heroes appearing in this banner are: Flying Olivia, Summer Tana, Legendary Ephraim, Sumia, Bride Ninian, Legendary Lyn, M!Grima, Bride Sanaki, Legendary F!Grima, Innes, and Genny. The banner starts tomorrow!

If you need more Orbs to summon all of these characters, Heroes has you covered. New Water Blessing Quests begin today! You can earn five Orbs along with some Hero Feathers and other items by completing tasks with Water Blessed units. These quests will last for 14 days, ending on 13 November.

Additionally, Heroes has acknowledged the feedback they’ve been receiving about some games. Specifically, many players have noted the lack of new characters from Binding Blade and Radiant Dawn. FE6 in particular hasn’t seen a new summonable character since Klein appeared in the Sibling Bonds focus that started back in February of 2017!

Sadly, summoners are going to have to keep waiting quite some time for these heroes. The game announced that new Radiant Dawn heroes will be coming in January 2019, while Binding Blade heroes will be arriving in March 2019. In the meantime, any RD or BB characters we see will be seasonal alts of existing characters at best.

As pointed out in the announcement, this is because it does take a fairly long amount of time to add new heroes. Characters have to be designed, programmed, drawn, and then voiced in both English and Japanese before they can be released. The heroes coming out in the next few months were likely begun quite some time ago.

However, this is at least a good reminder that Heroes does listen and respond to feedback. If there are things you don’t like about the game or that you would like to be added, reach out to them! You can submit feedback in-game, or e-mail the Heroes support team directly via [email protected].

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Heroes: New Banner – “Heroes with Smoke Skills”

October 29, 2018 FE Heroes, News 2 comments

Another Heroes update, and of course it is another banner! I’d be surprised if anyone has managed to keep hold of their saved Orbs with the constant barrage of banners we’ve been getting lately. Not to mention the monthly Legendary banner coming soon, too.

This is the “Heroes with Smoke Skills” banner, and features three Heroes with, well, Smoke skills.

The focus Heroes are Sigurd, Kaze, and flying-type Nino. If you’ve been saving up your Orbs for copies of one or more of these Heroes, here’s your chance. If not, keep saving those Orbs for that special someone. This banner will end on the 6th of November, 6:59AM UTC.

If you think smoking’s cool, just consider this: Nino disappears off the face of Elibe. Sigurd gets burned during a social gathering. Kaze goes over the edge on to harder stuff. Don’t smoke, kids.

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