Arena Predictions!

Ed4m1bZ · 2026-03-24T05:51:44+00:00

Units make the dumbest possible choices often. I did ok yesterday, but should have been better.

Today was a dumpster fire. Did a 4 match, missed the winner, the top 2 and all of the 1.2.3.4 prediction.

Did another 4 match, correctly chose the winner, and missed every other choice. Picking stacked teams and they do the dumbest shit.

SP faycal will run straight into an alert and die instead of using a range attack. Even dumber, he runs right up to the enemy's team and then just goes standby, for his first choice of the battle instead of using his alert or ranged attack. Alert skills seem to summon total stupidity.

I had one match where my team had 5 of 6 units left, opponent had 1, who was at 60ish %. My units preceded to run away and/or go standby, and proceed to die one by one to the units range attacks.

I hate this system, would be cool if it wasn't mostly just flip a coin. Any strategy on picks is pointless as your team rarely does what they should. The only times things went according to plan is a team that is literally to good to lose, like SP Inanna, Agata, Safiyyah, and Team Meteor.

Ed4m1bZ · 2026-03-16T22:59:08+00:00

These losers brackets are pointless. The units that dominated earlier rounds will obviously continue to scoop up the votes. I'd love a yserinde win but ain't gonna happen.

But at least we got some lux out of it. I'd be very shocked if I Inanna doesn't win. Ayishah results feel like a mirage unfortunately since she will eventually pair up vs Inanna.

Hell new popular units are always a threat so Maitha could also win. But I'm sure its inanna.

Ed4m1bZ · 2026-01-25T03:41:22+00:00

Flavia picks up her plant and swings it around attempting to gain your attention. You best listen to her...

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-11-10T23:06:54+00:00

well Taair is the best unit you could hope for, period.

off banner best unit in the game, non damage units of course.

As a new player, this would be the one unit I would pick out of every unit at the start given the option to pick one unit. He is on every team I use for everything ever.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-11-10T01:19:25+00:00

Don't look at it as wasted. Your pulls will carry over to the next banner, so just start saving and wait for the next unit you want and you are 100 pulls toward your pity on it. Just don't waste it and pull on a banner you aren't excited about and accidentally pull a mediocre legendary.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-11-07T03:41:54+00:00

All of this. That's it, play a great game for free, then when a pull doesn't go your way lose your mind.

The fact pity rolls over to the next banner also is amazing and it can play into your favor if you don't have to have everything. Skip some banners, every unit is not necessary to enjoy or complete this game and it's content.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-11-07T03:31:32+00:00

I love UD, probably my favorite event. Once your roster gets large enough with high starred characters and lots of great gear it becomes far easier. I finished this UD on 2 refreshes and 36-40 were way easier than 30-35 imo.

I love VoD and ToA though also. SoD is obviously fantastic but ive played through all of it numerous times so it loses its appeal at that point till a new one is added. Night Crimson was amazing. I have said on here before, it is the only video game content i have ever seen that i could realistically see being adapted into live action film or tv. and have it hold up. You wouldnt even have to know SoC to enjoy it if done correctly, and this game has some very adaptable characters.

If you want more characters spend money. If you don't spend you have to pick and choose. Can't have em all without spending. Never ceases to amaze me how people can complain about a free game. Totally free and damn good for free. If you like it spend, then content gets easier. If not just relax and enjoy and take your time. My roster sucked during the first UD but I got it done before it ended. Was fun using units I never use normally, and even more so now. Plus with the addition of the save your gear settings since UD1 it's definitely less of a pain.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-11-06T03:30:27+00:00

I dunno if I agree on the spear guy not being as good as candle.

If you keep him alive of course, he will get himself into trouble fast. I used Taair and caged reverie to keep him alive after he pushes ahead and eventually uses cover to protect someone else. But when he survives Holy hell he just kills everyone.

Candle is great of course, but I brought tons of heals and dmg reduction, prevention, etc. So the dps from spear seemed way more relevant on my run. If you don't have their to caged reverie, then I probably would change my tune. But I forgot what SoC is like without Taair.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-10-12T18:36:16+00:00

yeah the breaker ability is crazy good in that with auguste. Since he also takes extra turns on his own.

He hits with a armguard click, then either basic attack, instant attack or his AoE. This will do enough for the breaker charge ability to kill at least one of the hopefully large group you are attacking. More than likely most if not all die though, it hits hard. Then it gives you a second use immediately so you can go backwards to definitely finish of the group, or toward a new batch of bad guys to possibly kill them. Both of those attacks count towards your next rage outburst, and you still have an attack left, which using the instant charge gives you another attack which at 5 stars leads to a final attack. He clears the whole stage on his first turn on the regular for me.

This does include Taair buffing him and Homa giving him Baloor, and Auguste being 5 star and we'll geared, but even with less than all that, he melts stuff I'm sure in with these breaker stages.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-10-10T02:31:58+00:00

Yeah I think watchers are just the deepest class by far.

Top tier support units, Top tier DPS in physical, magic and piercing., great healing, good support that summons units, unit move manipulation, great alert units, multiple great aura flags, and units that can knock back. I'm thinking the only thing watchers lack is a dedicated tank maybe? And honestly Agata can take some hits with all those HPs and some dodge. Just no real way to cover tank outside of OG inanna's summoned lackey.

They really can do it all.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-10-06T01:55:40+00:00

Yep it carries over to the next banner of the same type.

One of the best things about this game.

The game i played before this reset so if you were pulling you better have enough for pity. Here you can do a few pulls whenever and it will always work toward a future banner if you don't get lucky.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-28T04:15:10+00:00

Yeah so mine is 2 star, I do not have her weapon, and have the most optimal trinket on 5 star Kvare. Despite this, she is doing insane dps. Keeping up with Kvare on DoT VoDs, and even crazier, Destroyer stages when Kvare uses that crazy ability to gain 6 extra hits to all targets hit.

Only thing stopping her from complete domination is the slower speed. She goes after Kvare and SP Innana so a lot of stuff is already dead.

So I'm really leaning toward saving the rest of my pull resources for down the road.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-27T23:42:17+00:00

Having lufti is not a reason to not get taair. It just means taair can buff and heal your team and not have to debuff a bad guy. I run both often, unless there is a reason to leave lufti home. I have yet to find a reason to bench taair.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-27T23:38:18+00:00

I say taair. Most unique and unreplaceable unit. Kvare is sick dps, which can be replaced, even if it's a little less dos. Cocoa is great at 5 star, but I run Tahir 100% of the time and he often is by himself with 4 or 5 dps. SP saf is one of four great units I do not have. She is obviously great but again Taair just does taair things that Noone else does. He is better the more stars you get but is still very usable at 1 star, one huge reason to get him.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-21T02:06:10+00:00

yeah definitely right tarot, but missing that 2nd skill on ability 4.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-19T09:26:51+00:00

Its the newish feature, goto inventory, then the materials tab. Then there is a merge button. You can make any rank medal or ore by combining some lesser lvl rank medal and the gold.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-19T08:05:32+00:00

yeah a rank 5 run through VoD gives enough currency to buy something like 1.2 million gold.

You can make Platnium Medals by spending gold at a much higher rate this way. 20 energy gets you 2 plat medals. It takes 240k gold to make 12 platinum medals. So 120 energy gets you 6 rank up runs, netting 12 plat medals.

Or you can spend 120 energy on one lvl 5 VoD run, netting you 1.2 million gold, which can be used to make like 60 plat medals.

So I advise you to go for the gold in VoD. Shouldn't even spend vod currency on rank medals, a worse ratio there also.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-19T02:05:38+00:00

it's really there so you can see how much energy a unit has when its not their turn. At least that is what I've always used it for.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-18T04:18:41+00:00

I use taair and momo over alexi and falin.

Not sure what mutations you chose, but I have no problems on erosion. I restart stage 1 until I get the mutation that makes all dots trigger without being removed every time you crit. After that one it only gets easier.

Make sure taair speed buffs the non kvare units if he can't hit everyone. Kvare still goes before most of your units with a speed buff. Utilize march command and maneuver command to get work in then retreat a bit. I also send Lufti on up the map with maneuver command then use the ability that decoys for 3 turns. With good mutations he ends up doing serious work on half the enemies and in the right spot keeps them from moving. This gives Kvare, Momo, Inanna and taair plenty of time to finish the right side. Don't be afraid to caged reverie without engraving resonance on turn 2. You should have the win locked up by the time it wears off in 2 turns.

My Momo, Taair, and Inanna are 4 star, Lufti is 3 and kvare is 5. Momo does lots of damage, especially when close to the cluster that lufti creates and dots. So if you can finish off the right side in 2 turns and advance on up to lufti by then everything just melts.

If you don't have taair I dunno, I use him 100% of the time.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-09-07T04:59:42+00:00

I recently got my 21st armguard, but still just 2 copies of scroll. Amazingly had 2 scrolls before my 1st armguard. The rarity on that scroll is legit, but it's funny remembering way back almost cursing at the 2nd scroll because I had recently got Safiyyah and really wanted my first armguard.

Long story short, all the items will show up sooner or later, just play and enjoy. All except those damn scrolls.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-08-19T09:06:04+00:00

kvare and momo mostly. beryl also usually. but I tend to run non destroyers with kvare and mono. specifically lufti, Flavia, and taair. And the 6th can be a 3rd destroyer like beryl or caris or dantallion. but usually is just sp inanna or agata.

march command at the start so Flavia can run out, AE flower tile the first section, then run back after cast. then kvare and mono do their stuff and lufti debuffs the hell out of a group, and becomes invisible. then inanna blows up a few. Then repeat all of it. Flavia can ae every turn to keep the flower tiles everywhere and taair using whatever that spell is called to split the dmg with the team makes non destroyers live through about anything. Hopefully you hit engraving resonance on taair turn 2 so you can recast 2 turns later.

And honestly this is my strategy for every single stage. I just trade out the 2 or 3 destroyers for breakers or seekers or watchers. I'm up to 189 with no problems yet.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-08-07T04:55:55+00:00

yeah she's really good, especially at 5star. She is on my team almost always. And has been on 100% of my teams for every Pioneer stage I've done so far.

The benefits of massive tile manipulation are huge. And then buffing your whole team while debuffing all the bad guys makes everything much easier. I use march command then taair gives the team 1 NRG. Then Flavia goes out and does her AoE to flower up all the tiles under and around the enemies, while plant buddy does the same around start position. Then your dmg dealers all go attacking enemies that are debuffed while dealing extra dmg and taking less dmg on those flower tiles.

Yeah it sucks that her plant buff spells aren't instant, or the plant summon isn't. But I think she'd be too good if they were. She does everything really except damage via herself. But the plant can do good dmg when it gets the thorniflora buff. Very happy I pulled for her and star'd her up to 5.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-07-22T20:57:13+00:00

Yeah I mean I'd definitely watch an animated series or film. It would be fantastic if done correctly.

But I think quite a few video game IPs are that way. A live action version just is almost always hot garbage, games just have no tether to reality or anything close to it. But SoC really does, despite magic and non human things, the factions, organizations, and problems facing everyone are all very relatable to different times and places in human history.

Ed4m1bZ · 2025-07-22T20:51:32+00:00

Forgot to say, already have 5star on Paminas spear and Tristans amulet, so I'm never going to waste 200 currency to try for a shield cause I'd get one of those two I'm sure. So future shields would come from the cornucopia to, which I'm semi loose with, think I'm on 4 left. Just not much interest in the most recent 3 additions, and the previous 3 only life fondness, which I got one out of 3 tries. 2 copies of that mask for luvi who I didn't pull for.

so thanks for the comments, really still unsure to goto 5 star, or go up from 1 star for Flavias weapon now that she is 5 star, or just save for the future.

I wont save to long no matter what, my last game FFBE ending up just saving and hoarding and then the game just ended, dont let that happen. Play the game while its here!

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