It’s near the end of May already. So, what’s new with Fire Emblem Heroes? And what’s next? In March, Intelligent System introduced the compile manual. Now, we know how they exactly work. I’d say they are mediocre. It’s not really worth the effort trying to get them. Regular divine codes come at a very very low rate. It takes many months to complete a normal path. The path is not repeatable; it’s one and done. The limited compile manual is also not really appealing. IS decided to not give enough resource to get all of them. There are 2 heroes that cost 300 codes each and 5 heroes that cost 100 codes each. It requires 1,100 divine codes to get all of the limited compile manual. In March, IS only gave out 750 codes. So, we have to choose which heroes to get. By April, those heroes are gone and replaced with different heroes. In April, IS gave even less codes, only 650 codes. So, in April, I only get 2 heroes that cost 300 codes each. Now in May, so far IS only gave out 290 codes. Who knows if we’re going to have enough to get both of heroes that cost 300 codes. We’ll have to wait and see.
There a couple new features added to the Fire Emblem Heroes game since March. Probably the best addition to the game was the spark system. Now, players can get 1 free 5 star focus hero (player selectable, not random) after 40 summons. Although it’s limited to new banners only and a 1 time only per new banner, it’s still a very welcome addition to the game. Most players appreciate this new additions. They also introduced a new 4* focus heroes with new banners. However, not all new banners will have it. Players were so excited when IS releases the seasonal young Marth at 4 stars. Lots of people spent their orbs getting young Marth. Many were pulling for 11 copies of him to make him 5 star + 10. Total orbs required is much less at approx. 400 orbs. So, people are happy with that addition.
I haven’t taken advantage of the new addition though. I don’t really see the point of getting new heroes now. I’ve completed pretty much everything I want to do in the game (top tiers/rewards of the competitive aspect of the game):
- Tier 21 in Mjolnir Strike
- Tier 27 in Aether raids
- Tier 21 in Arena
- Top 1K in Allegiance Battle
- Top 1K in Arena Assault
- Top 3 in Grand Conquest
- Top 3 in Rokkr Sieges
- Top 1K in Tempest Trial
Collecting heroes is the only aspect in this game that no F2P-ers can complete. It’s near impossible to be able to collect all heroes without spending any money. Here’re some of the reasons:
- New heroes are being added to the game every month, about 9 summonable new heroes per month: 4 new heroes, 4 seasonal heroes, 1 legendary/mythic hero.
- IS gave out about 250-300 free orbs per month
- On average, we need 150 orbs to get a specific 5* hero from new banner
So, unless you’re extremely-super-super lucky in this game, you wont be able to collect all heroes. Then again, we don’t need all of the heroes. Many of them are not good at all and already outdated. Even the new heroes become outdated really quick (in just a few months), due to the rampant powercreep.
What’s next for Fire Emblem Heroes after this? In the past 3 years, IS schedule is pretty consistent. Brides heroes around this time of the year. Swimsuit heroes during summer. Then Choose Your Legend heroes in August. Halloween heroes. Christmas heroes. Then, IS introduce new game mode and new story (book) in December.
There are so many things in Fire Emblem Heroes that I wish IS would address, but I know they are not obligated to do so.
- Arena. It’s really not fun to have to fish for high score, waste of resource and waste of time. Score to maintain tier 21 kept on increasing to the point that is not fun anymore.
- Arena Assault. It’s not fun to have to fight the same heroes 7 times in a row while we can’t use the same heroes more than once.
- Aether Raids. It’s not fun to fight those heroes that can’t be counter. There are too many of them yet there’s only 1 hero that have the skill that nullify the no counter skill, Nailah. And she’s a 5 star exclusive.
- Too many heroes are in the 5 star exclusive pool. Too few heroes in the 3-4 star pool. I’ve gotten too many same 3-4 star heroes – 50+ Hana, 40+ Bartre, 40+ Beruka, 40+ Subaki, etc.
- Some resources are really scarce, such as the stone/dew. 4 new refine weapons per month. The cost to refine is 200 per weapon. There are 5 variations for each weapon: special, +atk, +spd, +def, +res. So, we need 4,000 stone/dew if we want to refine all of them. I think we get about 250 stone per month.
- Too few sacred coin. Many seals cannot be upgraded.
- Too few divine codes.
- Too few limited codes.
- Many other quality of life improvement.
Hopefully IS has something good for us in the future.