Fire Emblem Heroes As Of January 2023

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It’s January 2023 now. Intelligent Systems just released an update to Fire Emblem Heroes yesterday. Choose Your Legend starts earlier this year than usual. Fire Emblem Engage is going to be release in the next few weeks. And finally, FEH 6th anniversary is going to come really soon.

Updates

There’s not much to talk about in terms of the usual update. There’s new banner, new weapon refines, new remix legendary/mythic heroes, accessories, aether raids/summoner duel. This time around, the weapon refine batch is not as good as the previous batch. Legendary Leif and Altina’s weapon refines are considered MEH. Claude’s weapon refine is better. Nothing else stood out.

AHR Engage reward will be distributed sometime this month.

Anniversary Wish List

I expect the anniversary announcement video (FEH channel) to be available pretty soon with the usual info:

  • Free random 5* hero
  • Quest for rewards: ticket, orbs and other items
  • Hero Fest
  • AHR vote
  • Summoning pool update

Other things that I wish will be changed in FEH:

  • Free 5* hero: don’t make it random. Let us pick 1 from the list.
  • Update SPARK so it’s not gated by FEH pass. Allow everyone to be able to spark once on all new banner (including legendary/mythic, seasonal, double special). For FEH pass users, allow them to spark more than once on all new banner.
  • Rework Arena scoring mechanic
  • 5* hero exchange: add new feature to allow players to exchange the 5* hero back. Not player to player, but kind of like a store. Consider this scenario. Let’s say I already have a +10 5* hero (Legendary Azura). Then I summon and got another Legendary Azura that I don’t really need. I want to be able to exchange it to another 5* hero that I don’t have. Add a store where I can turn in that 5* hero and get another 5* hero. Or turn in a 4* special hero and get another 4* special hero. Don’t know how IS should implement this, perhaps by implementing similar ticket system. Turn 5* hero to ticket and have a store where we can pick and choose the 5* hero we want. Of course, they can implement some limitation such as exchange once per week or exchange is permitted only if you have that hero at +10 already or some other limitation like that. So, basically to lessen player’s remorse from summoning. As I mentioned in my post long time ago, that bad summoning result is 1 of the main reason why people quit this game.
  • Update Arena Tier rewards: currently the tier promotion/demotion doesn’t make sense. Usually every single week, there are only less than 1K players that can stay in the highest tier. Why so stingy? Make it more accessible so that at least 10K players can be in the highest tier. At this time, there are about 13K players in Aether Raid Vault of Heaven. Make arena tier similar to aether raids tier.
  • Update summoner duel: add an option to allow players to play against AI, easier mode. Currently, this mode is too competitive. Make it more casual and make it possible for casual players to reach higher tier.
  • Update dragon flower: current system doesn’t work well. If we like older version heroes, it’s very very expensive to give them dragon flowers. The cost to add dragon flower after +5 should be much less. 600 dragon flowers for every +5 is too expensive. Make it so that after +5, the cost for every additional + is capped at 20. So, +5 => 600 dragon flower, +10 => 1200 700 dragon flower, +15 => 1800 800 dragon flower, etc.
  • Update skill inheritance: remove the limit. Allow players to inherit weapons, assists, specials, A, B and C at once. Current limitation is too strict. We can’t even inherit new skills without wasting too many other skills. For example, if we want to inherit new weapons, then we can only take 2 other skill and waste the expensive tier 4 skills. It’s too expensive for player.
  • Increase the HM cap to 20,000 since that’s the cost to unlock a 4* to 5*.
  • Remove older version 3*-4* heroes from the summoning pool or put them on separate banner. It’s very tiring and upsetting to keep getting the older version heroes in every summoning session. They are no longer useful and super expensive if we want to make that older hero to fight the current meta.
  • Enable F2P to upgrade their heroes to match the stats of resplendent heroes.
  • Remove the seasons or at least increase the number of blessings we can get. For aether raids, we can get 6 blessings per week. For arena, we only get 1 from AB reward.
  • Redo duo hindrance. The max should be at 5 turns. Current implementation is making it too hard for players to take advantage of duo skills in aether raids. Many times, AR defense will use too many duo/harmonize hero and place their duo hindrance too deep that players cannot even utilize the duo skills at all.
  • There are many other things I wish, but for now, that’s the top of my wish list.

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