#hall of forms

That’s a good feeling 😌✨

I still need to get her a special and maybe a trace if I can but I’m happy with her. Can’t wait to finally add her to my barracks

I see. Brunnya is introducing me to an alternative and much more damning fate. Having all the good options at once and never seeing them again.

Valentine’s Ike, Valentine’s Greil, Valentine’s Soren, and Valentine’s Mist.

This is......incredibly disappointing, to put it mildly. While IS hates to let us figure out any kind of true “pattern” with what they do, I think it’s safe to say that they are moving away from allowing ANY Heroic Grail units to make an appearance in this mode, which is just so stupid in so many different ways. Let us count them: 

1) Heroic Grail units are almost always outclassed, even when these units are some of the series’ most popular (Black Knight, Haar, Valter, Ursula, etc) and getting them with a Forma Soul helps eschew the extra 500 grails it would cost to merge them. Since Forma units are neutral IVs along with Grail units, there’s no opportunity cost lost there with IVs. Instead, IS continues to be greedy with this resource and say “hey, I know you want to help out these units that you like with some really fun skills, which you PAID FOR but........no <3.” It’s incredibly greedy. I think we can safely say that grail units are out for consideration in future Hall of Forms. 

2) The Forma Soul inheritance rules continue to confound me. They are about to drop two characters who innately come with premium fodder (Distant Counter and Fury 4). People have to pay to receive Forma Souls...which means that, if the inheritance options were more lenient, there are people WHO WOULD PAY to buy these units and punt them onto someone else. Again, IS wants people to pay for Forma Souls and they are actively shooting themselves in the foot with their cockamamie rules. 

3) I would predict that we are going to start getting more seasonal units as Hall of Forms participants. This, in a vacuum, is not a bad thing. People like these units and are usually willing to summon for them. However, this is bad in terms of IS wanting to entice people to buy these units. Very, very few people are going to buy a Forma Soul for one character. The only thing that makes Forma Souls “worth” the cost is the orbs that it comes with as well as the chance to put premium fodder on units. At the cost of IVs. There are very few times where this calculation works in favor of Summoners and continually saddling us with outclassed seasonals is not the way to entice people to spend money. I swear the people making decisions for this game are just plain stupid. 

4) Valentine’s Ike and Valentine’s Greil have the stats to keep up at the higher levels of Hall of Forms. Soren and Mist DO NOT. Again, we are being shouldered with weak units with bad movement types and told to just...figure it out against the weight of the hugely inflated stats and the gacha algorithm used for forming options. It’s like they want us to hate this mode. It used to be fun! It is no longer fun!

5) Bow Hinoka continues to be the bane of existence for any Forma run. God I hate her so much.