Up to 4.25% and have nothing to show for it (well okay, I picked up a pair of Abels, another 4 star Tailtiu (wrong Thunder Mage game), a second Morrin, two Shannas, an Athena, and some other fodder). At least the colors aren't screwing me over as much as the Legendary banner did, but I'd like to have some more of that luck that I otherwise had for said banner.
Sadly, I'm kinda in it for Lene or Ares over Ishtar because I have never seen a badly done Ishtar art....until two days ago. She looks like she's about to throw a coffee mug at a defense attorney's face rather than Thunder (and what happened to her side pony tail and her thighs? she isn't nick-named the Goddess of Thunder Thighs for nothing).
Of course I'd be better off waiting for the next calendar before dumping any more Orbs, but I kinda really would like somebody from this banner.
Also, Shigure is the winner of the Uncommon demotion. I'll suck trying for granny hair dragon, but he should hopefully show up for me eventually.
Edit: and no sooner do I post this than do I notice the new calendar, and holy crap on a crap cracker, we're getting another Tapper! immediately after the current one, with our third GCN coming in a week from now, with Julius in between, the next +_+ involving Loki, and the next banners include two with nondescript New Power, with the next Seasonal on the 21st, on top of the usual monthly Legendary in the middle of it all, and some other stuffs like Combat Boosts and whatnot. At least its fairly safe to pull (until a pitybreaking Faye with +Res/-HP shows up instead).
Double Edit: So now we get to see the 2.5.0 changes made to Tapping the Rift and RD. Man did RD get boring since its always the same team you're up against now instead of whatever random clusterfuck of characters the game decided to throw at you. It also means that if you're not winning against this particular team, then you aren't winning until you revisit your team comp. Tapping Tower seems like they're simply doing away with the actual Tapping Quests (instead of the daily Tapping Quests) with a couple of daily get done or die maps (they might not have since its not the 15th yet, but they might have).
Triple Deluxe Edit: So the changes to the Arena kinda really fucking suck for me. Whereas before I was at least doing pretty well at treading water at rank 18.5 with a 688 point average, now I've had to Merge Eliwood and Cecilia some for a 690 point average just to keep up and there's still far too much time left to wind up in rank 17. Too many players are now embolden to push harder in the Arena since there's less ground to cover, making it easier for lower performing teams to fish for better overall scores (additionally, the powercreep is real). I can still try to optimize my SI, but at this rate, I'm probably going to have to rebuild my entire Arena team from scratch.
Four Star Edit: And Flier Emblem carried me through the FE4 endgame on both Lunatic and Infernal difficulties. What's fucking dire though was all the resources I had to dump to maintain my 18.5 Arena ranking. I had to finally bench Ursula because of her limited Merge potential for Nowi and then merge her and Lilina up to +2 and Eliwood to +1 for my final score (at least I now have Forblaze on Lilina). Its gonna be worse next week due to not having a good merge project (I guess I could try for that +Atk Klein, but he and Female Robin are it and neither are particularly viable). Also, decided to say 'fuck it' and resumed pulling for a Jugdral Gen 2er, and got a 4 star Male Morgan for my troubles.
The Fifth Edit: Got Ares for my efforts finally, +Res/-HP and all that. So among the changes to GCN is now the fact that everyone's base area has only one node it connects to instead of two (why would you do this devs?), though I am changing my mind about the removal of enemy WoM since I'm actually competing on Lunatic fairly easily enough (sadly there isn't any Kaze like freebies this time). Finally made progress on my Gwendy project by 5 starring her (she fell off so hard, but considering that my Blue Armors number 3 right now, I've figured that why not up the number and make her part of a brigade). And I suspect that one of the new Brides' silhouettes belongs to Faye (unless the devs got Faye's artist to draw Ninian; also people are kicking around the idea that Tharja is the other silhouette).
Gen Sixth Edit: The latest seasonals are in and lol at all the fliers (at least they aren't all Armors this time around; and one's a dancer in case you missed Airzura). The good news is that Marth's finally getting an alt. The bad news is, so to is Sanaki...and its her FE9 version no less... D8