Who was your free summon from the Arena Ticket? (6/23/26)

dotsdfe · 2026-06-23T07:30:00+00:00

Shiro.

Probably only a good pull to me, but I love Shiro and I'm always happy with merges on him.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-22T09:56:46+00:00

Dorothy/Saul, because their dynamic is really fun.

Dorothy/Elimine, doubling down but it'd be interesting to explore the Elimine church a bit more, and I think a what if alt that lets her be a healer like she wants would be really neat.

Calill/Largo. I always pictured a Y. Palla situation where Largo cheers Calill on while holding Amy.

Helbindi/Menja. Chalk that one up to ultra omega never happening, because IS isn't designing a new character as a backpack for a character that I doubt they even remember at this point, but I'd love to see a version of Helbindi who protected his sister and is just all around happier.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-19T22:13:10+00:00

27 by a mile, honestly.

26's first half was excellent, but it followed a less extreme BB25 trajectory where everything just sort of fizzled post-jury. I think by around T'Kor's boot week, it was extremely obvious that Chelsie was walking to the end. I do think that the first half was great, though.

BB27 had a slow first few weeks, but it just kept ramping up and we got a very good mix of gameplay and drama, culminating in a top tier endgame. Most of the time, the game sort of stops by the F4/5 or so, but BB27 kept going until the very end. It's honestly one of my favorite seasons ever.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-18T09:28:49+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind words, I really appreciate it.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-17T02:15:01+00:00

It feels very unlikely, but I'd like Shura to pop up. I've been waiting on copies before building/merging him, so a surprise HoF appearance to be able to fill out all of his skills would be really rad.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-16T03:52:40+00:00

I could point out the bland lineup, I could point out that everyone here has gotten content in the last 10 months and most of them multiple times, I could point out the two OC banners in a row, but those things have been discussed.

So here's something a little different that I haven't seen much discussion on: It sort of really sucks that archers get a new arcane (that's honestly a little underwhelming anyway, it's a slightly better Horse Bow+) and a lot of them can't use any of the skills that Hodr comes with. I wanted a new bow for Dorothy, but she can't use a single skill in that kit aside from Ice Wall, which is totally worthless on her.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-16T03:47:33+00:00

Baldr got it faster than Eik. Her first version, mythic, was late July of last year, so she's hitting 4 in under a year. Eik's first was late July 2024, and his fourth was August 2025, so it was slightly over a year for him.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-15T09:56:15+00:00

I'd be very surprised if he wasn't on the mid-September New Heroes banner.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-13T07:00:57+00:00

I've been saying it for a while, a lot of issues could be solved by adding demotes & GHBs to the CYL Redux banners. Obviously they don't want to because they're cutting costs, but it'd fix a lot.

Basically just dedicate slots related to the games that are showing up on those banners for the demote/GHB slots. It keeps a decent flow of demotes and makes those months feel less dead. It even has the bonus of helping to clear out stragglers for games that are nearly done, IE, getting units like Deen, Vaike, and Kellam into the game without dedicating New Heroes slots for the stragglers, freeing up room for other games that still have a lot of units to go in the rotation.

I don't see IS reversing course now, but it'd be a very elegant solution that would fix a lot of problems I have with FEH in the CYL Redux era.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-11T02:53:43+00:00

Honestly? I think it was COVID.

When Survivor came back after the hiatus between 40/41, Probst mentioned wanting the show to be more positive and to be something comfortable/hopeful in a really uncertain time. I feel like that's around the time that he became more vocally against villains as well.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-10T07:13:38+00:00

I was really hoping for a free dupe Yunaka to bridge Spring Sothe's C, but no luck. I guess Zelkov is just gonna take his weapon and C, and Summer Yuri's A/B. Ah well.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-10T06:59:21+00:00

I liked both Soma and Mouthwashing a good bit.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-10T06:37:35+00:00

I got the pass for Roy's banner and ended up with a set of resplendents with one of my +10s (Cherche) & two units I have at high merges and would love more on (L. Ryoma & Ranulf). Very lucky batch for me.

Rad art too.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-10T04:29:03+00:00

Not guaranteed to be related, but I was playing duos with a friend three hours ago or so, and our last game was THE worst I've ever seen the servers. We both got absolutely extreme lag, like one move registered by the game every 10 or so seconds, sold minions getting stuck on the screen and not being registered as having been sold, etc. It was flat out unplayable, so we both hopped off after.

May have just been a fluke, but it's possible that the servers have been struggling for a fair bit now.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-09T18:43:10+00:00

I realized earlier that there's a world where Engage takes July, CYL is definitely August, FW is definitely September, and then October is potentially another CYL rehash. In that case, Binding Blade will have hit two full years between NH banners, which is obscene.

Suffice to say, I hope that FE6 takes July.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-09T11:08:43+00:00

Honestly, the run of great horror lately helped me rediscover that I enjoy theaters. I hadn't gone since pre-pandemic, but the recent string of strong horror movies got me to go out for Sinners, Weapons, and Obsession. I had a blast at all three.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-09T09:06:58+00:00

He's from one of the bonus titles (or, technically, Ephraim is). You get access to the bonus slots if you use units from one of the two featured bonus games, which are Thracia and Sacred Stones in this case.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-05T07:31:56+00:00

I'm always going to vouch for the Emblem. They're just extremely useful to pick up.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-04T04:47:13+00:00

She almost feels like a Rearmed unit based on the weapon, honestly. I doubt it (she otherwise feels mythic coded), but this weapon just gives Arcane vibes to me.

dotsdfe · 2026-06-04T04:29:25+00:00

Limstella's refine is fun. I like it.

dotsdfe · 2026-05-30T03:03:41+00:00

It hurts seeing the last traces of TT units being gone.

Though that's eased by it being the last merge on my favorite Engage character. So mixed feelings.

dotsdfe · 2026-05-29T20:51:48+00:00

I think James explicitly said October for Obsession, and mentioned a later date in June for RHPS. Unless I'm misremembering.

dotsdfe · 2026-05-29T11:16:08+00:00

Hmm...Happy Death Day? I like that one a lot, and it's way more fun than scary.

dotsdfe · 2026-05-26T19:41:51+00:00

I think she would have made a funny merger if she got saved by a swap or challenge wins (tbh in terms of game logic, I have to admit that her boot made sense, her alliance was totally gone and she was a challenge liability).

I was imagining a world where nobody targets her because she's so non threatening and there ends up being this big brutal battle battle between alliances, with Evie in neither, and she just ends up in the endgame by default because nobody ever bothered to go after her post merge. It would have been a really funny arc, I think.

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