So I’ve been playing with the new account I created 3 days ago. Whenever I had 9 or 13 orbs, I would go summon from the short haired girl banner and drew only green stones. If there were none green stones, I either drew blue or red, to keep a balanced pool myself. I also tried to raise heroes of all colors instead of only green.
I upgraded my castle to the third level with 8 orbs in total. So now it’s green carpeted, and it boosts EXP earned by 60%. I will upgrade to the highest level eventually. But now I need to use those precious orbs to draw as many Amelia as I can. Frankly, I thought if I could get 4 this time, that’s be good enough. I can get the rest of the 11 in future Amelia up banners. Maybe three times in total.
But guess what? Now it’s 12 hours from the banner is closed. And I have managed to draw 10 Amelia! Yes that’s a +9 Amelia. Only 1 from the highest you can get. I consider myself super lucky.
Here is the number of draws at which I got a 5*. Same line means they were drawn in the same batch.
3: Brave Ike, 4: Boey (1), 8: Amelia (1), 9: Brave Lyn (Free draw at 100% rate) 15: Amelia (2), 16: Amelia (3), 21: Boey (2) 31: Amelia (4), 45: Amelia (5), 51: Amelia (6), 52: Shanna 58: Amelia (7), 66: Amelia (8), 69: Amelia (9), 79: Amelia (10).
In this total 87 heroes, I got 8 in game / for free. The rest of the 79 were got from this banner or the free draw of other banners. I have in total 15 5 stars now.
How did I get the orbs to do the 79 draws? Just by playing the game normally. I’ve been clearing story mode and got some Voting Gauntlet orbs. So far I haven’t got any problem wining the battles. I raised 3 Amelia for now because I need more to finish the armored quests. I have also got 10 from linking this to a Nintendo account. That’s all. In most of my summons, I saw 1 green stones. Sometimes I saw 2 or none. Only rarely I saw 3 at the same time but I only opened 2 since I didn’t wait for enough orbs. A rough estimate is that I used 380 orbs in total to get 10 Amelia. The best IV I got so far is Spd – HP.
So if you are F2P, you may still dream about getting the highest score tier team in Arena. You need to know this: you only need to raise 3 heroes in Arena, as the 4th one is for a bonus hero. In Arena assault, you only need 4 to set yourself at a high score level. The rest of your 7 teams are not used to do matching. With this in mind, a F2P player should focus on getting all real 5* you need. That include the 11 one character in your team, for me it’s Amelia. You should totally choose this based on the banners when you do re-rolling. But you should always prefer Armored (+1) over Cavalry (-0.3), close fighting heroes over ranged (-1). Other good choices are Hector, Brave Ike, Ike, Ryoma, Ayra etc. Besides the 5* char in your team, you also need those providing high score skills. So far Hector is the only one that’s not replaceable because he has the distant counter skill that is inheritable.
It’s funny that whenever I wished: give me a Hector, give me a Hector, I got an Amelia instead in my lucky draws.
There are still some hours before the banner ends tonight. I may still draw but due to stamina limitations, I won’t get many more orbs. I guess maximum 2-3 draws. I’m so tempted to pay and get the last Amelia. But I will keep it as a F2P experiment. I want to see what I can do without paying. Honestly, +9 Amelia will get you enough points in matching already, since Amelia has the highest base values. It’s still better than +10 Effie.