I have 3x 4-star Nino. One at level 18 and the other two at level 1. I tried to feed the level 1s to the level 18 in the Merge Allies screen, but it does not let me. I wasn’t even sure if that was a good idea, but it won’t let me anyway. What should I be doing with these dupes?
Looks like they (temporarily?) disabled the ability to merge allies with the same star level. I was able to do that a while back when I pulled a second 4* Cherche, and all it got me was essentially a 1 level upgrade (although it shows up as a ‘+’, not an actual level upgrade). Since then, when I’ve pulled dupes, I’ve just leveled them up separately or ignored 1 in favor of the other.
Completely unrelated–as I was typing this response, the following popped up:
"This topic is clearly important to you – you’ve posted more than 29% of the replies here.
Are you sure you’re providing adequate time for other people to share their points of view, too?"
Umm … thanks, Discourse … ?
Had that as well…but with a disturbingly higher percentage. Thanks Discourse for hinting to shut up once in a while…
@kennfusion maybe wait on scrapping or fusing heroes a bit. They announced Skill inheritance coming soon. As it seems you can pass of skills from one hero to another by sacrificing them…so as long as you have spots left in the barracks you may want to wait a bit…
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@Private_Prinny My immediate thought after seeing that notification was wondering what message you got … 
A couple of unrelated questions:
When you unlock potential, does the hero go back to level 1 AND lose all gained abilities? If so, I’m not going to waste SP on the heroes I plan to promote …
Also, is it just me, or is the current summoning focus terrible?
@ Current Focus
I dunno, I will throw some orbs at it for the non-existent chance to get the blue dragon “Ninian” (which can sing which gives a turn like Olivia’s dance)
and will surely get a crapton boring 3 Star Blues.
@ Unlocking Potential.:
No what you have already unlocked is yours . You also keep the unspent SP.
However one thing of note. You won’t get the better weapon automatically unlocked.
Example:
1 * Private Prinny dual wields Iron Swords
2* Captain Prinny dual wields Steel Swords
Unlocking Potential will unlock the Steel Sword as an option to LEARN but not as " already learned" like if you did get the Captain Prinny via Draw directly.
So I am not really playing this game seriously, just log in each day, get some orbs, maybe play a couple games, but 15 minutes at the most. But saw this quote from you and thought, hmmm, I have like 40 orbs, let’s go roll. Had I not seen you mention Ninian, I would not have rolled just now.
Thanks!
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Congrats!
I’ll try my luck later. I only pushed for Lyn at the start and luckily got her. Now lets see how things work out here.
Thanks for the info on promoting. As for the summoning focus … you’re clearly an optimist–you see one troop you want and think it’s worth trying for (which was obviously true for kenn). I’m a pessimist–I see two staff users out of the six focus heroes and think I’d absolutely end up with one of them if I got any 5* heroes at all.
EDIT (not a new post–want to make sure everyone’s voices are heard 
): I couldn’t help myself with a bunch of orbs burning a hole in my pocket, so to speak, so I tried my luck at summoning. The good news? No lousy healers. The bad news? Five 3* heroes. At least I got a 3* Olivia, thus making it unnecessary to promote my 2* version.
The Inherit Skills Update is life…and I am a tiny bit torn about this…
I am about always up for more customization…
But this took the grind up to another level if you want to go inherit skill crazy.
Good thing if you have multiple crap 3* and 4* lying around…
bad news…GIMME SP MOAR MOAAAR! twitch you have to level them first…
And the possibilities are almost limitless…just what enlisted Penguin from hell needs…more fodder for his indecisiveness-complex…
I actually built up a pretty decent team of 5stars after a series of incredibly lucky draws. I think this skill inheritance thing is where I draw the line, though. Too many options and it makes your team composition less meaningful.
I like the idea of skill inheritance because it might make those crap 3*/4* troops lying around useful … although part of what makes heroes crappy is their lack of good skills. I have yet to give it a try, though.
@TannerHendrickson Could you elaborate on what you mean by “makes your team composition less meaningful” and why that’s a bad thing? Given that team composition is heavily luck-driven–you can only play the heroes you drew–I like the idea of being able to develop those heroes a little more. To me, it’s akin to being able to craft cards in Hearthstone.
Yeah, I realized that it might not be such a bad thing after all. I do stand by my dislike of it, if only because my brain just kind of shuts down when presented with that many options and the interface just does not present those options in a way that is easy to visualize. What I was talking about with team composition was that I could see a future where teams are all the same characters modified to be good at pretty much any situation, but I also don’t really know (or care, honestly) enough about what’s available to know if that’s even possible. And it’s another character growth system in a game that’s already chock-full of obtuse character growth systems. I don’t really play Arena all that much anyway!
Can’t argue with any of your points, especially the confusing nature of the interface. Part of the reason I haven’t promoted any troops or inherited any skills is I’m suffering from the same type of mental overload you describe. But, in theory, I like the idea of being able to make those changes …
I play a decent amount in the Arena (especially after the addition of the daily quests) and I’ll be interested to see if skill inheritance makes that mode harder. I know the devs announced Arena matchmaking changes will be coming in April that should take skills into account, not just the characters’ stats.
I didn’t know until recently that stats were even taken into account, but that’s a good thing, as Arena matches can be easier if you don’t take your best team into battle. I’ve had a much higher success rate with a group of level 20-ish heroes than with my two level 40s and two level 37s.
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Errr…uuh…huh? Oh my percentage of posts in this thread went down? Can’t have that!
Did you know that when you log into FE:H now on Android you get a free 4* Female Corrin?
Don’t be alarmed however if you usually play on iOS and all your Orbs are gone. This is by design, not a bug.
It is because orbs bought trough iOS go trough Apple, while on Android trough Google and are exclusive.
So logging back on iOS gives you your Orbs back and FCorrin is also there (I checked so trust me).
Now I want a Apple Promotion giving me a uh… 4* Star Ninian or Azura…no? Darn…ok then a 4* Male Corrin or Robin 
Got my Ninian finally \o/
This time I went for “drawing Blues only” instead of going for 5 each time to get the most out of 20 Orbs.
Granted I was fuming when I didn’t get a blue orb at all in my session (that happened trice) but then today I get a 3 Blue Orb Lot and the first one was Ninian.
Only 117 Orbs it took to get her…how lucky I am…and I was so happy I immediately started leveling her, without checking IV but I don’t do that anyway.
I sure hope that there will be an update coming fort to upgrade shards into crystals… Levelling 1-20 is fun so I do it myself. But above 20 I feel the urge to spend Crystals here and there…only I have a ton of shards but no crystals…
You can say what you want, but Intelligent Systems is not giving in anytime soon with the polish and QoL Updates.
Comming soon-ish ™
Reposition Heroes on starting spots
Helpful as the starting positions were always bound to order in Team, which sometimes was a PITA to reshuffle in the first turn
More EXP Gain for 1 ~ 4 Heroes**
The lower the star rating the more EXP they get, nice for someone like me who has too many damn lowbies I want to level
and finally:
Stamina max will be increased from 50 to 99
Stamina potions will be modified accordingly. Thats nice! Especially when you can only play in the morning/evening while commuting the change is nice. Especially when attempting the nefarious 7th to 10th Training Tower Stratum.
Source:
siliconera
Sometimes such nice improvements sound too good to be true…sometimes I think this was planned well before release and will only be implemented post-launch to make me happy…then again I am a pessimcough realist…
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That stamina upgrade would be really, really nice, for exactly the reason you state. I just got the 7th Training Tower Stratum quest done and hope I’ll have time to finish the 8th, but I seriously doubt the 10th ones are happening this month.
I’m looking forward to the next change in summoning focus … sitting on a giant pile of orbs with no focus heroes I’m really interested in at the moment …
Also, was anyone able to get past the 4* Michalis battle, and if so, how?
Yes, one common strategy is Olivia+Able
Going east position Able on bottom east danger square. Use Olivia to Dance him to the Northern Cavalery and kill him.
Depending on where Michaelis moves or the other mid units different strategies go from there.
In the sneek preview event Michaelis went north while the two fliers went south. In the event now Michaelis went north, the Drawback Flier east and the last one south.
I was experimenting but I did it different then most.
Therefore I went with Raven (Axe) Abel (Bravelance+ also called dakkadakkainhaleDAKKADAKKA!-lance) Olivia and Red Lobster King ~ Ryoma (Sword)
But there are ton of different techniques out there, most go with Archers, but I don’t have any good ones…
Helpful Reddit page with a gazillion different team combos, screenshots and videos
I never was a big fan of reddit…but since FE:H…it seems helpful
Edit:
Less gibberish-ish…
Holy cow, I finally won one of these 4* grand hero battles. Thanks to @Private_Prinny for the help–I started off exactly how you suggested, using Abel + Olivia to take out the cavalry on the top right. Gordin (Brave Bow) took out the two non-Michaelis flyers, then Julia (Green Tome) took out the remaining two enemies, with a little help from Olivia’s Dance to get in the two necessary attacks each time.
I’m a big, big fan of the “brave” weapons–I don’t have many heroes who can one-shot enemies, but that’s not necessary when you can get two attacks off when you initiate combat!
Next Grand Hero Batle seems to be Navarre (Sword-Infantry) if I interpret it correctly.
Only curious how they skill him. in “real” Fire Emblem games there were “western” sword characters which were usually Lords (Ike, Chrom, Marth, Roy) with western fantasy inspired setting, coat, armor, tough and strong and “eastern” Swordmasters which were physically weak but nimble, very fast and accurate…so far I liked them more even when they were not in the main focus and usually only sidekicks.
In FE:H I only like Lyn in that category. The other “swordmaster” type red sword units right now are kind of meh in my books (Fir, Hana, Lonqu, Karel and Hinata). Curious how Navarre will be implemented.
Also a easter themed banner…with already released heroes (Xander aside) represented as some kind of Bunny-monstrosity…I would cry pass but Boobzilla is a mage in this one…a flying mage(!)…which would be nice if not for Camilla being Camilla and the ugly costumes…
But a possiible (pretty sure) Voting Gauntlet was revealed via their banners.
A flying Wyvern (Boobz…Camilla(AGAIN? Do away with her already!), Cherche, Minerva and Beruka) VS: a flying Pegasi (Cordelia (yayy), Hinoka, Palla and Subaki(yuk)) Gauntlet.
I am excited but would have been even way more excited if flyers werent so under-utilized in this game.
Usually in the REAL Fire Emblem games I would maxx out my flying force the best I could. My teams were never strong (always borderline weak) because of the squishy fliers but the most mobile possible force. Only problems were Archers and Armored Characters…
In this game riders have 3 mobility and Flyers 2…in real FE the flyers would always be the most mobile units…if Flyers were 3 mobility units as well in this game I would again sink my Orbs into this banners - maybe even spending 35€ again on the game. To date I only dropped Money on it once…as I think any Fire Emblem Game is worth at least 35€ in my book, but fought the urges to whale on it.
Oh and source: via Fire Emblem Heroes Reddit