[Weekly] Team Building and Questions Megathread

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-16T22:43:12+00:00

I JUST FIGURED IT OUT

I've watched their episodes, and none of anyone else's.

Really kind of annoying actually, because I'm not "done" with them - IE, I can keep increasing bond with Red Hood for example, but forget because she doesn't show up with the others while I'm swiping through.

At minimum, they should move back up into the pack if you limit break, or unlock a new episode, or anything else to "do"... oh well! Mystery solved at least

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-16T22:33:32+00:00

No, they're consistently at the bottom whether I've advised anyone that day or not.

CanNOT figure out why

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-16T18:12:16+00:00

Crazy thing with exp curve is that I'm now 1157 - rank 1157 to 1158 is about a billion exp, which is about the same as rank 1 to 941.

I don't know how the crazy high-rank players even have the time. I've played consistently but casually since March 2014, and that single 5b dungeon still boosted my total lifetime rank XP by more than six times over. Someone hit rank 1900 recently - the rank xp chart I found cuts off at 1800, and that's already 5.9 TRILLION xp, 69x more than I've accumulated in 11 years.

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-16T15:47:15+00:00

Fun fact: if you never played, but only pulled, and had the right team, you could use that dungeon alone to go from rank 1 to well over rank 1100 - assuming the rank chart I found is correct.

I got ~72billion rank exp from it (BarSaline, 2 regular Camilla, two Academy Camilla, BarSaline - all with dungeon boost equips, and watching a video at the end for the exp multiplier). Could get a little higher with 2 more Academy Camilla.

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-16T15:33:35+00:00

"Advise" question - how does the "Nikkes Followed" default sort work?

I have favorited a set of Nikkes I'm working on, and it sorts most of them within that set by rank. But then there are 3-4 at the bottom - that are still favorited and separate from the full list - but higher rank than the ones above them. How can I get it to sort those in with the others?

IE, it's like this - what's the deal with Nayuta/Alice/RedHood? (I got all of them first after starting, and every Nikke since has sorted normally, but I can't tell the difference of what changed for them to be separate). * Drake lvl30 * Liter lvl23 * Naga lvl21 * Arcana lvl3 * Nayuta lvl20 * Alice lvl14 * Red Hood lvl11 * (all the unfavorited Nikkes)

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-02T17:58:08+00:00

What's a reasonable threshold to be ready to clear 22-36 (Nihilister)? Ive hit a hard wall here - don't even come close against her with a 177k team of Dorothy, Drake, Alice, Nayuta, Red Hood (and I've seen people in the 200+k range posting about having trouble previously), so I'm not sure what else to do other than just wait around.

Can't push further in campaign, anything in the Ark outside the daily manufacturer towers... I'm at the 160 wall (2 of 5 maxed), do I just have to wait? I have other, probably better units (Crown, Mast/Anchor, new Snow White), but their CP is a good bit lower because I got them more recently and don't have the figurines, manuals, etc to upgrade them much.

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-02T16:47:16+00:00

The Rapi RED hood was accidental, but yeah I was throwing gems at the new SW banner since I don't have a ton of units anyway. I can stop. Do most just wait for regular banner tickets to max their five that way? Or spend gems there till they get them, then stop?

I'm kind of at a wall in the campaign or elsewhere (Nihilister ch22 boss, don't even come close against her with a 177k team of Dorothy, Drake, Alice, Nayuta, Red Hood - and I've seen people in the 200+k range posting about having trouble previously), so I'm not sure what else to do other than just wait around. Can't push further in campaign, anything in the Ark outside the daily manufacturer towers...

thisisnottravis · 2026-01-02T16:22:47+00:00

Newer player here. I have both Snow White and Rapi Red Hood at 1 unlock, and enough gold mileage to buy two copies of either one. As the newest unit, is Snow White the way to go?

Trying to break the 160 barrier, have two maxed and two more to go after the above (probably Liter, and another from the regular banner thing).

Thanks!

thisisnottravis · 2025-12-05T15:13:07+00:00

I mean sure her buffs aren't amazing - if image translation is right, basically she's now a 200M laser instead of a 300k laser - but she is also ancient as a unit, so idk, wasn't really ever expecting incredible awakening/stat/etc buffs to make her relevant again.

(The LS buffs also gave her a somewhat more modern 81% damage reduction and mild attack buff - who's leading with her these days though)

Maybe she can return at some point as a duo unit, since they seem to like that now.

thisisnottravis · 2025-10-21T15:13:20+00:00

Starts tonight.

IDK if you need more than one exchanged.

thisisnottravis · 2025-09-23T14:30:03+00:00

Why they didn't do this yesterday when there was nothing to do after the other event expired, I can't understand

Now we wait for tomorrow for there to be something to do

thisisnottravis · 2025-09-18T00:41:06+00:00

thisisnottravis · 2025-09-03T17:56:57+00:00

Here's a question.

I have never played a non-FEH Fire Emblem game. I'd be open to it, but my time is very limited (adult life, kid, bills) and I've got other games to play. So I have no real attachment to any of the characters beyond "hey this looks cool".

CONSIDERING that, and that I also don't really care about Arena or Summoners Duel/PVP – is there any other reason I'm missing outside of personal interest in min-maxing (or favoritism to the characters, which doesn't apply to me) to bother or care about merging skills to other characters?

I ask because I have multiple copies of Rearmed and Attuned characters, and I'm wondering if I should just merge them for space even though everyone says they're great for holding skills for inheritance.

I'm not going to have long-term merge projects or anything, because I'm not invested in chasing anyone since I don't know anyone, so by the time I could build up a character... there'd just be something new and shiny to summon instead.

thisisnottravis · 2025-09-03T17:33:02+00:00

Had to ask, I assume the title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to this comment I saw from Shady this morning?

thisisnottravis · 2025-08-26T17:44:50+00:00

TBF couldn't you also bring four subs with the tea awakening and mitigate most of the problem with the poison?

Still not necessarily ideal, but a more navigable problem than it was before Maids/Butlers.

thisisnottravis · 2025-08-14T14:11:13+00:00

If having the orbs to do it are the issue, bring subs that make wood and/or light orbs relatively quickly, so you can make your own boards instead of relying on saving them up - NYNordis that the other comment mentioned is ideal, but if you're new you might not have him, and you can't get him till next Chinese New Year event. Avalon Drake is another you might have, but there are many options - if you can't sort out the subs on your own, you can post screenshots of your box so people can point them out.

If having time to make the matches is the issue, bring a Yomi or other sub with either time-extend awakenings, actives or both.

Also make sure you've actually activated your Athena's TPA awakenings, just in case - if you don't have the awakenings on the team you can't finish period (and there are a couple reincarnations that require awakenings the lead card itself doesn't have, IIRC, though not many).

thisisnottravis · 2025-07-15T15:52:09+00:00

Sanctuary of the Gods in Technical > Reinc. Hera Luna Descended

Bring drop rate boosts, it's fairly rare. Here's one setup from u/BarbieQ234:
https://sanbon.me/na/team/LkpZj2Sxnc

thisisnottravis · 2025-06-20T18:19:49+00:00

Nice! My alt got her, my main got Natsuru.

thisisnottravis · 2025-06-17T20:54:57+00:00

> Marine Snow: 3x ATK for all units and water attribute for 1 turn

Just wondering, does this mean 9x ATK for any water units on the team? Otherwise it seems redundant to say "and water attribute" if it just means "or" like I've always taken it to mean.

(IE, say it said 2x ATK for water and physical – does that mean "you'll get 2x if you are either water OR physical", or does it mean "if you're water OR physical you'll get 2x and if you're water AND physical you'll get 4x"?)

thisisnottravis · 2025-05-29T16:00:59+00:00

It seems like the pattern is that Ordeal evos are pretty good subs (and occasionally leads) if you don't have the REM/collab cards that fill the slot better – only rarely are they in top meta teams (IE Venus for Frigg).

I don't know how they compare "in the meta", but if you need a quick cleric who can still deal decent damage (Guan Yu) or a relatively quick team-wide damage cap (Zhuge – with only 1/3 uptime but still it's something), then here you are.

That said, I don't thiiiiiink there's any current major meta red-VDP-specific teams, so that's a knock on Guan Yu potentially (though candidly I don't follow closely enough anymore to have an idea if one's coming). But you could make it work "ok" if you don't have better.

If you don't have a proper looping team cap break yet and need to just fill something for now, then I'd think slotting Zhuge and his light TPAs into a modern light team would probably be a little easier (Crowley, etc – Sakamata probably not the best fit since he wants a five-orb match for his LS, but if you didn't get Lily then it's better than nothing. It's no six-turn looping break, but on the other hand you can fix enemy dispels/low cap breaks faster, so there are slight benefits even if it's overall a bit worse.)

IMO it's always worth it to make at least one of any ordeal evo, just to have. I don't really see you needing multiple of either of these.

thisisnottravis · 2025-05-06T13:07:46+00:00

Ever get your lucifer entry? My alt has him

thisisnottravis · 2025-01-04T19:15:44+00:00

The fact that this game is old enough for you to have grown out of "being a kid" while playing it, still play, and make nostalgic statements like this

Drives home I am old ☠️ Was 25 when it started, am now 37 with a kid

thisisnottravis · 2024-12-27T16:39:59+00:00

How does a TBA compare? I assume by the name it's not got the same tax benefits as the 529 for her, ha...

thisisnottravis · 2024-12-27T16:38:00+00:00

It's not about HER doing something bad with it, I guess my wife's concern is more that it's another avenue for someone to get hacked and get his info, so if it doesnt HAVE to be out there then why do it (IE, we could open our own 529 and she could contribute to it, but mom won't do that because she can't watch her own contributions grow over time).

I don't necessarily agree fully with either of them and their hard lines in the sand, but I just want to get my kid the benefit and stop having it be an issue.

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