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Quest clears:

Infantry - The Dragon Wagon has steamrolled its last Elite Quest, for now. Nowi counter-KO'd the bottom Thief, while Faye took out both the G Tome Cav and Ursula to start off the battle. Nowi Bonfire'd the Sword Cav to death, and Tiki sat in front of the top Thief and Axe Armor to seal the deal.

Armor - "Normal Girl" Tharja teamed up with Henry, Hector, and Gwendolyn. Tharja blade-bombed the bottom Thief, while Hector Vantage/Bonfire'd his way through the G Tome Cav and Ursula. Cleanup from there.

Fliers - I got bored of Wing Sword/DC-ing everything to death, so I gave Caeda her trusty Brave Sword back for this one. I also needed to use Holiday Traveler Camilla for those sweet +6/6 Defense auras, so that was interesting. I'll just leave it here...

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Cavalry - This one was really annoying, and took a few tries. I ended up using Leo, Elise, L'Arachel, and Gunnthrá. L'Arachel got things going by breaking the leftmost wall (leaving her in range of the Thief). On T2, Leo OHKO'd the G Tome Cav, L'Arachel dropped the Sword Cav, and Gunnthrá took down Ursula. Elise hit the Axe Fighter to get Gravity+ on the Thief, and tanked a hit from him (at this point, Chilling Seal was on him, and Elise had a Hone Cavalry buff). T3 was clean up.

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Cavalry was dumb.

Until I realized my +6 Titania [+Spd, -Res] could tank and kill both the green knight and Ursula with the Distant Def 3 seal, Fortify Cavalry, and 1 stack of Ward Cavalry with 1 HP remaining. With only the sword knight, axe armor, and top thief remaining, it was just clean-up afterwards.

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2 hours ago, silveraura25 said:

I gave up on trying to compete Ursula's quests. In the end I got 40 orbs, all the blessings and every free copy of a GHB unit except Ursula.

You do have one year to solve them. Do you have problems with all four of them? 

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2 hours ago, mampfoid said:

You do have one year to solve them. Do you have problems with all four of them? 

Just fliers and armor. I'll deal with it later when I 5* my Michaelis and get a plus atk Caeda

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Infantry: Ryoma doesn't understand this concept of "effective damage" towards him. Nino killed the mages in one enemy phase, Ryoma cleared out the rest. 

 

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Cavs: Cecilia (+spd -res) with Fury, DD3, and Fortify + Ward buffs survives Gronnwolf with exactly 1 HP and then does 90 dmg to Ursula with vantage glimmer. Everything else was pretty trivial.

 

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Armor: Omnibreaker Hector kills green cav and then bonfire Ursula's ass. BK takes it from there. Arden kills green armor.

 

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Fliers: Definitely the hardest one of the bunch and I had to do a lot of build adjustments.
...actually I didn't try if I could do the turn 1 double mage bait with Corrin. Might see if that's doable next time it comes around.

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I completed the infantry and Cavalry late. Infantry wasn't very hard. However, the Cavalry quest was a pain to complete. I used up about 5 stamina potions to complete it with a team of Xander, Frederick, BLyn, and the mvp triangle adept raven Cecilia. 

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I forgot to do the quests last week, so I did them this week.

Infantry: Adult Tiki, Deirdre, PA Azura, & Ogma. This was pretty easy. On the first turn, I had Tiki tank the dagger and Deirdre tank the equine mages. Tiki took out the ninja, but the cav mages lived. For the second turn, I had Tiki finish off Ursula, since her Bonfire was charged from the ninja, and I had the others retreat. Tiki tanked all the remaining garbage they could throw at her, with simple cleanup to follow. I gave Ogma a kill, just so he could do something.

Flier: S. Camilla, S. Corrin, NY Azura, & Cherche. I honestly don't remember how this one went. Both Corrin and Camilla were running blade tomes, and Cherche was mostly just sitting back and providing Fortify Flier buffs.

Armor: LA Hector, Hector, Amelia, & W. Chrom. LA Hector had Wary Fighter. This one was pretty tough, and I feel like I mostly got through on luck, just running through various permutations until I happened to get one that worked.

Cavalry: Cecilia, Reinhardt, Xander, & Priscilla. This time around, cavalry was the hardest, due to those dang wolf tomes. In the end, I had to give Cecilia Vantage and Glimmer so that she could take out both of them on the first turn. Reinhardt had Fortify Cav, Xander & Cecilia had Hone Cav, and Priscilla had Ward Cav. On the first turn, I had Xander tank and kill the dagger via QR. Cecilia tanked and killed the green cav mage, which prepped Vantage and Glimmer, allowing her to preemptively kill Ursula. On the second turn, I think I had Reinhardt attack the knight, and Cecilia retreated behind Xander. The sword cav attacked Xander, and the ninja attacked Reinhardt. Then it was just cleanup.

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Infanterie with Adult Tiki, B!Lucina, Axura and Felicia.

Cavalry with Xander, Ursula, Gunnthra and Elise thanks to Elise with Gravity+.
First turn was baiting with Xander, second turn was attacking the green cavalmage with Elise, Ursula was next to the green cavalmage and locked to 1 move, with that she could not attack Xander on enemy phase.
After that I pulled Elise back with Xander, and weakened the General above with Gunnthra. The other knife user attacked Xander and was blocked. Xander also countered the green Cavalmage. In my next turn I attacked the general with Gunnthra again and blocked the path with her. Ursula attacked Gunnthra and was done. In the last Turn my Ursula attacked the red Cavalry who was behind the other Ursula and could not reach me.

Only flier emblem is missing =o. I can deal with it later. At least the 2 most difficult cases are done.

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Forgot to actually try last week. so for a finish to the first set of these, Ursula.

Infantry Emblem: Took the Brotel strat.

Armour Emblem: 5* Hunktor (Drag Back, Armoured Boots Seal), Hector, (Vantage 3, Swap, SAA1 1 Seal), Arden (Earth Boost 3, Ward Armour, Pivot, Ignis, Panic Ploy Seal), 4* Draug (HP +5, Reciprocal Aid)

First try. Both Hectors take the lead, with Draug acting as Reciprocal aid bot. The Hectors stand in range, take what's coming (including regular Hector finishing Ursula) and only leave the armour for Arden to finish.

Horse Emblem: Phoenixmaster's strat only with Clarine instead.

Flier Emblem: 5* Witch!Nowi (Escape Route 3, Draconic Aura, Iote's Shield Seal), Newmilla (Haigota +Def, Desperation 3, Reposition, ), Newzura (Haigota +Def), Hinoka (Hinoka's Spear +Eff, Death Blow 2, Lancebreaker 3, Swap)

Witch!Nowi OP, no plox nerf. First try with this lot.

So I start by having witch!Nowi tank the thief, then I essentially have to panic as Ursula will attack Newmilla next turn. Thankfully, Newzura can hit her out and the map is mostly tanking the ranged units and hitting them up close. Hinoka finished the map with the sword cavalry, 

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I used さるGames's strategy to complete the fliers quest, but with 5* New Year's Camilla in place of 5* Narcian. So, a team of 5* NY!Camilla (+Def, -HP) with a resistance refined Kadomatsu+ which, the refinement, shouldn't really matter, Reposition, and a Hone Spd 1 seal, 5* Michalis with Reposition, Quick Riposte 3 that went unused, Goad Fliers, and a Quickened Pulse seal, 4* Palla (neutral) with an Atk Ploy 1 seal, and 5* Valter with Vantage 3, Goad Fliers, and a Speed +1 seal.

さるGames's video in spoiler. The team used is 5* Michalis with Reposition and a Quickened Pulse seal, 5* Narcian with Reposition, Fortify Fliers, and a Hone Spd 1 seal, 4* Palla (+Res, -Spd) with an Atk Ploy 1 seal, and 5* Valter with a Speed +3 seal.

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NY!Camilla essentially takes the place of Narcian as the Reposition and Fortify Fliers bot that has high defense and Michalis's Goad Fliers and a Speed +1 seal allows Valter to double Ursula since he needs 44 speed which I didn't actually check beforehand, so slapping on a Speed +1 seal made the difference since Valter would have had 43 speed without it. I didn't remove Spd Def Bond on NY!Camilla which might have explained why instead of the Death Blow and Fury thieves attacking her, the Death Blow thief attacked Valter who might have died without Vantage 3 from the sword cavalier and I think the Fury thief attacked Michalis since he could be doubled unlike Michalis and Michalis had Blazing Thunder charged again earlier than in the video. Valter would have taken 9 damage from the sword cavalier and the Death Blow thief would have done 8x2 to him since the thief doubles anyone with <= 38 speed, the speed Valter has by being in range of Michalis's Goad Fliers. NY!Camilla on the other hand, would have 48 speed and 39 defense by being next to Palla and near Michalis's Goad Fliers and Michalis being in range of NY!Camilla's Kadomatsu and Ward Fliers would have 41 defense. Both would have higher defense than Valter's unbuffed 34 defense. Anyway, the rest was just taking out the remaining enemies, but differently to how it happened in the video. NY!Camilla wasn't attacked by the Fury thief, but Michalis was, so his special was used to finish off the Fury thief, Palla warped in to chip the Death Blow thief for Valter to finish off who could have just doubled the thief if I just moved Palla to the spot, and NY!Camilla was used to take out the axe armor instead of Palla and Michalis.

Welp, that concludes the daily GHB quests for this year. I don't want to know what kind of hell the next daily GHB rotation will hold.

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@Zeo @mampfoid @Cute Chao @Ginko @DefaultBeep @Vaximillian

 

Here's my cavalry clear of Ursula Infernal. Xander and his sister Elise challenge Ursula, bringing along some lance cavaliers to escort them.

This was pretty tricky because of the double wolf tomes, and Camus himself has weapon disadvantage against the green mage cav. The winning move turned out to be giving Xander the Distant Def seal AND more importantly, have a Fire Blessing as L!Ephraim hangs around in the back. Obviously this meant that this clear is only possible during Fire season, but I find without the Blessing, Xander doesn't have the HP to survive the chokepoint (I found that he needs Fury 2 to survive, but he needs an extra HP boost to survive as even the Axe Knight deals exact damage to defeat Xander. The extra Def from L!Ephraim's boost is cherry on top, but he doesn't need it against the daggers and it was mostly for the teleporting axe knight). So yeah, Xander is the MVP in the first half of this map, staying strong with 1 HP (also thanks to Fury). You can see the magic in 1:51.

Another key thing is Xander doesn't want Quick Riposte in his B slot for this map, as defeating the southern thief causes the units to move very differently. The sword cav needs to be occupied using Draw Back on the southern thief. Xander also wants Fortify Cav to add to the Distant Def SS to survive the Gronnwolf mage.

Xander's sister, Elise was also a key player, thanks to Dazzling Gravity keeping the mage cavs in check. L!Ephraim's only active contribution, besides the Blessing boost was using Reposition to move Elise out of the way at 1:41.

Camus then does his bit in the final stage of the map BUT he needs Close Def (or Def+1) as the SS, as without the Def boost, the sword cavalier deals exactly 6 damage to Camus and would defeat Camus in the end.

So yeah this was really tricky, and everyone had a key role in the end, so that was nice.

Natures were neutral Xander, neutral Camus, +Spd/-Res Elise (doesn't really matter because her role is Fortify cav buffbot, Dazzling Gravity and she'd double the axe knight anyway) and +Atk/-Spd L!Ephraim (although it didn't matter because he was mostly a Blessing/Reposition/Cav buffs bot).

Music is "Each Promise" from the King of Fighters XIII soundtrack @Zeo. Also maybe you'd appreciate that as well @DefaultBeep

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@mcsilas Well done, nice Gravity shenanigans. This GHB will probably stay without One Turn clear by me, but I'll give it a try. 

Ephraim didn't do much here (except being legendary), but I missed Chrom and Freddy! True, this map cries for DC units and everyone would have an advantage over them here. 

Which app do you use to record? AZ screen recorder works fine for me, but the sound effects suffer from a strange bug. Therefore my videos are muted. 

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1 minute ago, mampfoid said:

@mcsilas Well done, nice Gravity shenanigans. This GHB will probably stay without One Turn clear by me, but I'll give it a try. 

Ephraim didn't do much here (except being legendary), but I missed Chrom and Freddy! True, this map cries for DC units and everyone would have an advantage over them here. 

Which app do you use to record? AZ screen recorder works fine for me, but the sound effects suffer from a strange bug. Therefore my videos are muted. 

Sadly this is my main account so I don't have Horse Chrom here :(

I did try Frederick as the Reposition bot before I thought of Ephraim. Fun fact, Ursula's GHB was the first time I laid witness to Frederick's awesomeness back when it first came out (although this was before Infernal was a thing). That said, Frederick couldn't really do much with the addition of the green horse mage and Xander kept getting defeated by the teleporting axe knight- he just needed at least 1 more HP and that's when I remembered Blessings were a thing.

Also I guess Triangle Adept could be an option for Xander instead but I don't have TA fodder in my barracks (not even spare Selenas...) so I really had to make do with what I had. Every stat and skill was needed in that chokepoint. Xander needed cav boosts AND the Fury boosts AND Distant Def AND somehow an HP/Def boost. So yeah, glad it worked out in the end since I hate the tight spaces in the map. This is where Swap really helps.

As for recording, I actually use Quicktime to record it. I plug my iPhone/iPad to my computer and record it through the program. That said I am looking into using an in-phone recording option and my brother showed me I can do that if I upgrade to the latest iOs so I'll have to do that.

Rendering this was a problem though since my software isn't the latest version and I kept getting strange rendering errors. Probably a computer thing as well. Or maybe because I was multitasking in my computer so when I stopped, the video finally turned out fine.

 

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6 minutes ago, mcsilas said:

Sadly this is my main account so I don't have Horse Chrom here :(

Ah, the split army problem. I couldn't tell which account it was.

6 minutes ago, mcsilas said:

Also I guess Triangle Adept could be an option for Xander instead but I don't have TA fodder in my barracks (not even spare Selenas...) so I really had to make do with what I had. Every stat and skill was needed in that chokepoint. Xander needed cav boosts AND the Fury boosts AND Distant Def AND somehow an HP/Def boost. So yeah, glad it worked out in the end since I hate the tight spaces in the map. This is where Swap really helps.

I saw many vids with TA Xander, it works well, but I've never gave it to him myself.

Very satisfying if something works out like that. So many prerequisites, but you made him work perfectly. 

6 minutes ago, mcsilas said:

As for recording, I actually use Quicktime to record it. I plug my iPhone/iPad to my computer and record it through the program. That said I am looking into using an in-phone recording option and my brother showed me I can do that if I upgrade to the latest iOs so I'll have to do that.

Rendering this was a problem though since my software isn't the latest version and I kept getting strange rendering errors. Probably a computer thing as well. Or maybe because I was multitasking in my computer so when I stopped, the video finally turned out fine.

I keep forgetting many people use Apple/iPhone, that's a completely different world for these things (like recording). I wish Android had an native function for that, but I'll find a way. 

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@Zeo @mampfoid @Rafiel's Aria @Cute Chao @Vaximillianmaybe @Poimagic since I associate you with fliers haha

Here's my Flier only clear of the Ursula Infernal GHB.

Team is +Atk/-Res Summer Corrin, +Spd/-Res Airzura (again, a half-theme), Gerome and a facetanking +Atk/-Spd Elincia +1. I originally cleared this in my main account, which had a +Def/-Res Corrin and a neutral Azura so none of the natures mattered. Unmerged Elincia needs at least HP+3 in A slot though.

Music is Queen from the King of Fighters XI soundtrack.

A few things:

-Corrin needs as much speed and damage as possible. In fact, Life and Death 2 is sufficient (as I first found out in my main account), but I decided to give Corrin LaD 3 and Ward Flier (unused) from a spare Minerva since I had the resources. Even then, as you can see at around 2:30, she even needs Gerome's Rally to defeat Ursula (also thanks to Glimmer and Desperation).

- 1:49 shows the enemy range, so I had to get Summer Corrin out of the green mage's range while Elincia has to run away from Ursula. The positions for Elincia and Gerome at the end of Turn 1 were very important so I can dance Corrin out of the way.

-Elincia MVP in the chokepoint from 3:14 onwards. She had to survive the chokepoint, and since I foolishly inherited Palla away, I had to use up all the resources I can to make sure she survives the onslaught. She's fully buffed with Fortify Fliers from Corrin, has the Close Def 3 SS and has support from Skyzura- who has Drive Def 1 SS and the in-built Drive Def effect from Hagoita. Plus, she currently has an Ally Support with Skyzura, which helped make sure Elincia lived with 1 HP in the end. Oh and I guess this Elincia has a +1 merge as well which helped her survive.

(Originally, where I did this in my main account, Elincia had no merges and had no Ally support with Airzura so I had to inherit HP+3 in her A slot. The Ally Support in this video was coincidental but it worked out)

-As mentioned before, Gerome was useful (and used instead of Cherche) mostly for the Rally skill. He tanks the northern thief very well though. You expected his Poleaxe to do something to the mage cavs didn't you? Well I originally thought I would use the Poleaxe but it turns out Gerome was mostly used to distract the thief and Rally buff.

This was actually my ver first recorded video and I was very proud of somehow making Elincia survive the chokepoint. This was really hard without a ranged flier, and even then Corrin was the worst pick because she was week the to the green mage cavalier and her colour didn't really have an advantage against the Wolftome users. (Here is where I really wish I had Spring Camilla).

Nevertheless I felt so proud I somehow made this work. Skyzura suprised me with tanking the wolf tomes as well, especially because she's -Res. She is +Spd though so that's a plus. And TA3 really helped against Ursula. Again, this is one of those clears where everyone had a part so I really liked the teamwork, and especially how Elincia toughed it out in the second half of the video. So proud of them despite the -Res and -Spd banes which would normally be bad in a map like this.

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Also @mampfoid I just realised, if Xander was merged so he had 1 more point of HP he would probably survive without the blessing. Also an extra HP from a Camus merge would also help him survive the final onslaught. But yeah TA is rare for me, I really need to pull more reds (and if the games doesn't give me a billion Raighs)

Android doesn't have a function like that? I guess there's apps somewhere that might help right? Haven't used Andorid though so I can't really offer much help.

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*clap* *clap* You took my video format! I love it!

This was pretty sweet. I remember having a really hard time doing this quest myself. You're starting to see the benefits of bulk stacking. Elincia surviving that gauntlet with 1 HP was beautiful. I also had to stack buffs on S!Corrin to get through most of the GHB Elite quests. Mostly because she was -ATK though... F!Grima would have really trivialized these quests looking back on it.

Good stuff. Very smart. Makes me wish I had an Airzura just a bit more.

For the Cavalry quest, Gravity+ is at work yet again, but also it really just reminded me of how good of a unit Xander is even if he's fallen just a bit from grace. I made an observation though.. from 2:47 onward, instead of making Camus tank, couldn't Xander have just used Swap on L!Ephraim and had him nuke Ursula and then finish the sword cav on the following turn? Or did he lack the offensive power to oneshot her?

Also points for KOF music.

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@mcsilas Lol your Corrin has 11 ATK more than mine (-ATK, Fury, Blarblade without "+"). Congratulations, well played, you made Elincia a tank (impossible with mine at -DEF) and had some close calls (single digit HP). I bet Gerome shed some tears below his mask, because he wanted to show how well his Axe works against all those Cavs. 

@Zeo What do you mean by video format? For me it's a little awkward this way, because I can't watch it on portrait mode on mobile. 

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@mampfoid Style is probably a better word. The unique preparation music while going through the units, the fade in and and fade out timing. The silence during "turn 1" before the stage actually starts just like in the actual game. It all was very familiar. 

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@Zeo yeah, that's really nice. Since I'm doing everything on mobile, I didn't bother with these beautiful details in my vids. 

@mcsilas About Xander and Camus missing few HP without the blessing: would you merge them? It seems big investment only to make a clear work. 

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@mcsilas Nice vid. I am little jealous of your +atk Corrin, but my +res Corrin has come in use, so I guess their is that. I’m a little suprised that Elincia became a tank. That is one word I never thought I would associate with her

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@Zeo Thanks! And huh.... I didn't think about using L!Ephraim to finish it off. Mostly because he was a last minute addition and I was more concerned on how to use Camus's Grani's Shield to survive Ursula.

Also yea I liked you preparations music style, it makes me want to show off two different music tracks in one video :P Also get rid of the enemy phase music.

Hmm yeah this was before Grima was released, I guess she would make this map easy. Although mine is -Atk so not sure if she can oneshot things as easy (although maybe Spd boon helps). Myrrh would also be a big help as well if I had her. But yeah this map really needs ranged units or DC units.

And yes Xander is still a great unit if you want to go enemy phase. I myself am an enemy phase player which is also why I didn't think of using Ephraim earlier and was focused on baiting Ursula with Camus haha.

@mampfoid Well LaD did add 5 more Atk haha so that's almost half of the Atk difference. She deserves the + version of Blarblade though, she is one of the best users of the tome because of her flier mobility and buffs. 

And yes Elincia somehow tanked. I'm glad she pitybroke me while searching for Gray, because my original Elincia was was +Res/-HP, and the HP bane would make tanking a lot harder. It's funny, if my Elincia had the 'optimal' bane of -Def she wouldn't do so well in this GHB. I'm glad I made her work because I had no good Pallas left.

As for the video resolution format, I was originally going to be fancier and have a bg, and have the skills and stats on the side, but my current software has technical difficultiers and won't cooperate with my videos for some reason, so I couldn't do visual edits and just scrapped that idea. It was already taking so long just to get this out with the right settings. Although I guess the space on the sides are empty, so maybe I'll try a mobile-friendly resolution instead.

Also Xander doesn't really have any good skills to pass at 4 star (all of his skills are 5 star locked for some reason and they're not even that great). I think if I had a spare excess of feathers, merging him is probably the most efficient use of extra Xanders (unless you use Spur Def 2 and then inherit a Ward Emblem skill to someone for some reason, like inheriting both Minerva's LaD3 and Ward Fliers together). Xander is still a great enemy phase red cavalry anyway.

@Poimagic Thanks! I was incredibly lucky with her, she was the one I wanted the most in the last legendary banner and I got her in my 4th session of blue sniping. Incredibly lucky considering I was really low on orbs then. And yeah it was great how Elincia benefitted from Corrin and Skyzura's buffs to just scrape by. So proud of her.

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8 hours ago, mcsilas said:

Well LaD did add 5 more Atk haha so that's almost half of the Atk difference. She deserves the + version of Blarblade though, she is one of the best users of the tome because of her flier mobility and buffs. 

Nope, my Corrin has Fury equipped. The biggest gap comes from +ATK to -ATK nature.  

8 hours ago, mcsilas said:

As for the video resolution format,

Don't worry about that, I could see everything just fine. Save those big edits for a personal highlight of yours. I guess it would be much work. 

8 hours ago, mcsilas said:

Xander is still a great enemy phase red cavalry anyway.

He is, but usually I don't promote to merge if it's not for arena scoring. 20k feathers for raising two stats by 1 is still very expensive. 

 

 

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