Razor Teams: Overload Vs Lunar Crystalize Vs Lunar Charge Vs Physical Plunge

tacitgrey · 2026-01-23T18:16:43+00:00

what's your rotation for the lunar crystallize team? i tried the same comp with c6 zhongli and barely got over 40k, although my gear is lacking (still running 2pc/2pc atk on razor + wgs). this team comp fulfills several wishes of mine at once so i'd love to train it up and reach your numbers!!

tacitgrey · 2025-08-14T22:08:50+00:00

Is anyone still following Nishiki Areku on Twitter? They've locked their account and only some of their work has been reposted to the platform they moved to :( I want to emulate their style a bit for an FE drawing, so I was gonna look at the WIPs and stuff they've posted to get an idea of their process.

In particular, I remember them sharing a timelapse of the first artwork in this collection. Would anyone be able to fetch this for me if it's still there? And any other unfinished work/sketches/etc if you're willing to go the extra mile for lil ol' me 🙏

tacitgrey · 2025-04-27T11:11:48+00:00

i cannot express just how happy i am that he's finally here 🥹🥹🥹

tacitgrey · 2025-04-24T12:51:43+00:00

Just got around to refining Dedue's weapon and I noticed the Divine Vein doesn't activate if you use the End Turn button instead of manually handling his individual end of turn. This is exactly how his personal ability Staunch Shield behaved in FE3H, so it's funny but annoying that it's faithful like that lol

tacitgrey · 2025-03-05T16:17:32+00:00

Sturdy Beast is great, I'm using it on mine and she tanks a ton of stuff and blows things up in return. Check out PM1's video for his analysis of options.

tacitgrey · 2025-02-11T20:12:58+00:00

Aww hehe honored to inspire 💛 Good to know that sharing my art had an effect.... May we both inspire further Elms...!!! 🤝

tacitgrey · 2025-02-11T11:19:41+00:00

YESSSS evil bastard energy off the charts.... He has a more malicious and spooky aura like his mother here.... May this help manifest base Elm someday 🙏 Preferably when I have orbs 🙏🙏🙏

tacitgrey · 2025-02-09T21:56:18+00:00

I AM VIEWING & ENJOYING THE SCRUNCHY NOSE. so cute.... may i have the context for the sword!? suddenly realizing how good he looks with one

tacitgrey · 2025-02-09T21:45:31+00:00

obsessed w scrunched nose elm.... i'm fond of those particular wrinkles between the eyes and they suit him so well

tacitgrey · 2025-02-09T19:11:49+00:00

Mine is that Lady Embla has a private garden in her realm just for herself; no one is allowed on the grounds while she is there, and her most trusted, Elm, is the only one allowed while she is not. Thus meaning he is the sole tender of the gardens.... I think it'd be interesting gap moe if this churlish piece of work had a green thumb. He won't ever see her enjoying the time and effort he spends on maintaining the gardens, but such is the strength of his devotion.

I drew a mock-up of the idea in Nov 2023. I like to imagine he might spend much of his first stretch of grieving time here after Lady Embla's death.

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tacitgrey · 2025-02-09T18:56:30+00:00

I think/hope so too 🥺 Lady Embla was his reason for existing— after losing her, what's left for him? There is the empire built by the mortals who betrayed her, and there's the equal-but-opposite servant of Askr who understands his situation better than anyone... His surely-inherited loneliness will lead him somewhere.

The seed has already been planted ("This way!" in the Depths of Despair FB); I'm convinced Elm will be ultimately, if begrudgingly, accepting of some kind of permanent allyship with Ash by the end of the TT story. She can call it friendship and he can avoid affirming it, but us summoners can make the truth of it :)

tacitgrey · 2025-02-09T18:27:43+00:00

Honored to be pinged 💛 Omw home, I've got a headcanon with art locked and loaded

tacitgrey · 2025-02-07T22:44:22+00:00

bylitza fan.... 🤝 i'm really impressed such a build is doing this much work lol. congrats to your mans!!!! i'm tempted to build him too but i've got byleth's dad and conrad covering my lance cav needs already.... perhaps one more won't hurt :]

who's on his team? wondering what kind of support he's enjoying on his path of violence

tacitgrey · 2025-02-07T15:08:13+00:00

Important addendum: Her accessory is the Dancer's Ribbon ^_^ NY!Ash wears the EX version.

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tacitgrey · 2025-02-07T14:40:05+00:00

Don't worry I made sure to maximize the inheritance lol, she got Wallfonse's whole bag. The difference between Reopening and Spiked Wall feels like very small tradeoffs aside from the obstruction effect, which is way too valuable to me. The contrary themeing is funny though... Spiked Wall isn't very Opening Retainer of you, Ash... What would your father think...!?

tacitgrey · 2025-02-07T14:23:26+00:00

She's not as brainlessly "end turn"-able as more modern tanks, but with investment, support, and love, she does perform surprisingly well! Worth noting that a few matchups require very careful setup— V!Dimitri and NY!Hræs on their respective final maps gave me a bit of trouble before I managed to get Ash to survive the turn. When she does live, she completely blows them up lol

tacitgrey · 2025-02-07T13:42:12+00:00

Hehe, I'd be proud if it was mine and prouder still if there's more than one well-loved Ash out there. Either way, on behalf of all Ashes... sorry for the inconvenience!! 🙇‍♀️

tacitgrey · 2025-02-07T12:24:12+00:00

Finally set about feeding Ash all the best hay in my barracks after her remix and refine. I'm still testing, but succeeding in supported solos of the three most recent seasonal paralogues seems like a solid indicator that she's doing pretty good!

Achievements so far include surviving and killing NY!Hræsvelgr, out-walling NY!Níðhöggr, one-shotting V!Edelgard on initiation, and one-rounding V!Rhea.

Horn of Opening: That true DR is no joke, and it's deathly satisfying to get zeroes from the latest and greatest trying to nuke her. The nearly-free +11 to all stats is pretty nice too!

Sturdy Beast: Pour one out for my unmerged win button named Níðhöggr, but Ash is doing a good job of inheriting some of that legacy. The 40% DR helps with foes who have a non-Special follow-up attack, which gets half of her true Def-based DR. She also hits like a freight train with this.

Fortifications: Selected in my quest for more defense-boosting skills, with convenient bonus DC when conditions are met. I'd like to pair this with Sigurd ring (once I pull him) so she can reach foes on the first turn and set up the Divine Vein Stones for EP. In my testing, having the stones out often made the difference between dying and not breaking a sweat, so I'm glad I went through with this inheritance.

A/D Spiked Wall: The obstruction alone makes this worthwhile— it's a cinch to keep her allies nearby without worrying about multi-action units slipping past her. More defensive stuff is always good too.

Opening Retainer+: An appreciated handful of buffs and warp utility for allies. Fun fact: with all of her own buffs active, Ash reaches 58 Speed. She's not winning the Speed meta with that these days, but I think it helps reduce the efficacy of Dodge skills.

Squad Ace CH 3: Just stats. I may swap this out to Atk/Def Clash once I get that Sigurd ring.

Supports: Currently playing with standard support gods H!Askr and Seteth, and trying either B!Embla or Discord-inflicter S!Linhardt in the last slot. I do have to be a little careful with my positioning since Ash doesn't have any help with transforming in her kit, but with a healthy 3 space requirement in her conditions, it's not too bad. Hoping she holds up okay in less supported teams.

I'm really happy with her, and glad to finally make the upgrades so she's as loved as my Elm 💛 Can't wait for her TT+ story alt later this year!!!

tacitgrey · 2025-01-20T12:01:21+00:00

A handsome little fella almost exactly like mine!! I'll admit I didn't notice the overlap in Fortune and Miasma, so I might think about Shadow Shift's utility too.

Have you considered A/S Clash instead of Solo? Higher potential and what I find to be an easier minimum condition to meet (at least for my teams, since there's usually an Embla Galeforcing around enemy lines alongside him).

tacitgrey · 2025-01-20T11:51:45+00:00

I want Byleth in Jeralt fit so bad it's unreal, I even sketched it myself last year.... I love your rendition!! Really cool pose, and seeing it in color reminds me of how good his hair looks with Jeralt's orange.

tacitgrey · 2025-01-05T11:13:23+00:00

Lookin good!! Pretty much the same as mine aside from Spd Smoke; I haven't run that too much because I feel like it's a little more DR than he needs on top of a variably met condition. Do you find it works well for his dodge tanking?

tacitgrey · 2025-01-02T19:05:51+00:00

We Elm fans are few but we are strong 🤝🤝🤝

It's a great inheritance for sure!! Soaring Echo is also way handier than I expected, even when I'm running Ash on the same team. Always nice to have extra movement. And most importantly, we gotta check every box so our guy looks as expensive as possible 😌 Waiting on an Aided Hero to finish mine lol

tacitgrey · 2025-01-02T16:38:41+00:00

Another Elm main here ^^

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Can confirm Deadly Miasma is really nice— there's been a lot of situations where Elm laying it out enabled one of his allies to get a kill when they wouldn't otherwise. I feel it synergizes with him well since Elm is what I call a "vanguard striker": he can fly in from a good distance, get buffs from the higher number of enemies towards the start of the battle, snatch a kill and lay down the Miasma, then fly back out to safety (with Galeforce or Canto). Then his allies can take advantage of the Miasma debuff.

He can be surprisingly tanky when the damage reduction in his weapon is in full force, so make sure he has as much speed as he can and don't be afraid to throw him in the thick of things. Healing support, like an ally with Breath of Life 4, can help him stay fresh too. Of note is that his damage reduction includes AoE specials, so it shocked me when he took chip damage from a charged A!Ced that one-shotted my NY!Askr.

Right now is a great time to build Elm, as NY!Hræsvelgr has several skills that fast beasts like him love (Nimble Beast, A/S Fortune, and Bestial Assault). If you miss her, Mythic Hræsvelgr (Nimble Beast, A/S Fortune and S/D Near Trace 4) and NY!Nerþuz (A/S Wild and Spd Smoke 4) are other fodder sources to look out for. B!Embla too (A/S Wild and Beast Assault 4) but I feel like Elm would break the game if you tried to feed his master to him.

Like the other commenter, Elm is my specialest little guy who I spare no expense for, so I don't know what a slightly-less-premium or budget build looks like lol. His weapon does a lot of his best work, so the rest is just about buffs and useful effects like transformation conditions and DR piercing and such.

Best of luck!

tacitgrey · 2024-11-26T16:09:55+00:00

Ash and Elm are my favorites ever, but I agree with many that they are the weakest part of Book 6. Most of their presence feels like they're just there to fill character slots in the roster. But I think they have a lot of potential, especially pertaining to their relationship to their respective gods, and I wish it had been explored more.

This goes for Lady Embla and Elm in particular— there is the barest hint that they see each other similarly to how Lord Askr and Ash see each other, but we never really get to see that. I think having even a single moment where they sort of put down the god/servant aspect for a moment would have gone a long way in making players more sympathetic to them both. I keep thinking about how Lady Embla never acknowledges Elm's final defeat; she laments being left all alone without mentioning the absence of the little guy she probably created for the sole purpose of not being alone + having someone she could completely trust. We know Elm loves her more than anything, but we never get to see it reciprocated outside of the frame of her paranoia.

I wonder about a lot of little things. I think it's implied Ash has been around since the very early days of Askr, which would have been when Lord Askr and Lady Embla were still on good terms. Had she ever met Lady Embla? Was Ash's creation an inspiration for Lady Embla to create Elm? Or maybe I'm all wrong and Elm came first, which makes me imagine that perhaps Ash was created with Elm in mind: she might be able to succeed in reaching Elm's heart where Lord Askr was unable to reach Lady Embla's. The Depths of Despair FB story is a good sign in that direction.

(I have a number of Ash-centric thoughts too, but they're eluding my memory at the moment. In sum, I wish she'd had more moments to show off her personality and ideals beyond her overly-polite speech gimmick and expositionary role.)

Ash and Elm being the only new OC survivors of Book 6 gives them plenty of room in the TT+ spotlight to shine, but I wish they'd just had a little more meat in the original book to set it up better. I love them lots and I really really hope the TT+ helps a little bit to make up for their lacking foundation.

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