Fire Emblem Heroes update available now (version 6.2.0), patch notes

Intelligent Systems has released a new update for Fire Emblem Heroes, preparing the game for a new type of event. Here are the full patch notes:

■ A new event, Summoner Duels S, is coming!

An even more challenging Summoner Duels event is on its way! Summoner Duels S is set to begin!

 

Summoner Duels S is an event in which you can battle to earn Glory until you lose three times, like Summoner Duels R. The main rules are the same as Summoner Duels R, but the key to victory in Summoner Duels S lies in its special veto rule! This new rule adds an extra element of brains to the brawn!

○ Editing Teams

To start playing Summoner Duels S, first you need to form a regiment made up of four teams each consisting of five Heroes. That’s a total of 20 Heroes! Keep in mind that you can only battle using one of the teams in your regiment, so be sure to form several strong teams.

 

Rules for Summoner Duels S Teams
・ You cannot add more than one Hero with the same name and epithet to your regiment, even if you are using two different copies of the same Hero. You must form a regiment of 20 different Heroes.
・ You can equip different Captain Skills for each team within your regiment.
・ You can save multiple regiments.
・ You cannot dispatch your teams unless all 20 slots in your regiment are filled.
・ You can only add one Hero with a Sing or Dance skill to a team.
・ You can only add one Hero with a Savior skill to a team.

○ Vetoing Teams

There is a special rule in Summoner Duels S that allows you to veto your opponent’s teams. After being matched up with an opponent, you choose which team to use in the match by following these steps.

1. Select Teams to Veto
Choose two of your opponent’s four teams to veto. The two teams you veto cannot be used in the match. You cannot view the opponent teams’ stats or Captain Skills during this step.

2. Choose Your Team
After both players have vetoed, you and your opponent choose one of the two remaining teams left in your regiments to dispatch.

The time limit for both steps 1 and 2 is 30 seconds. If the time limit is exceeded, teams will be automatically selected and combat will begin.

Note that in order to participate in Summoner Duels S, you must first earn the Fighter Badge, which can be obtained from Favor Battles. You can earn the Fighter Badge at Favor Level 225.

Other than the veto rule and the Fighter Badge necessary to participate, the rules for Summoner Duels S are the same as Summoner Duels R.

・ Bonus Legendary and Mythic Heroes

Three Bonus Legendary or Mythic Heroes are set each season for Summoner Duels S as well. Bonus Heroes reduce the amount of Glory lost upon a loss and nullify one defeat per season.

Note: If you have a Bonus Hero somewhere in your regiment, the above effects are active even if you dispatch a team without the Bonus Hero in it.

・ Glory

The Glory earned in Summoner Duels R and the Glory earned in Summoner Duels S are independent from one another.

・ Tier

Your Tier increases as your Glory increases in Summoner Duels S as well. Your Tiers for Summoner Duels R and Summoner Duels S are displayed separately on your Profile Card.

The first Summoner Duels S event is scheduled for 17/2/2022 7:00(UTC)

For the first Summoner Duels S event and only the first event, all players who participate will receive the highest rewards, regardless of their Tier and Rank! If you participate in a battle, you are guaranteed to receive the same rewards you would earn if you were within Tier 24 and Rank 1,000. This is an opportunity to get lots of Dragonflowers, Divine Codes, and more, so don’t let it pass you by!

Note: From the second Summoner Duels S on, the rewards wil be based on your Tier and Rank.

We will inform you of the details on Bonus Legendary and Mythic Heroes, etc., in a Coming Soon notification before the event is held.

■ Updates to summoning events

As introduced in Feh Channel (Feb. 1, 2022), we are updating multiple summoning event types.

○ Some Special Heroes Revival events will be getting a new summoning category

A 4★ SH Special Rate summoning category with an initial appearance rate of 3% will be added to some future Special Heroes Revival summoning events. The first event in which the 4★ SH Special Rate will be applied is the Special Heroes Revival: Love Abounds summoning event scheduled to start 21/2/2022 7:00(UTC)

 

For details, see the notification titled Feh Channel Supplement, Part 1: 4★ SH Special Rate.

○ We will improve Weekly Revival summoning events

A total of 25 additional 5★ Heroes will be added to the pool of Heroes who appear in Weekly Revival summoning events, and they will also appear in the 4★ Special Rate summoning category in other summoning events. Also, with the week starting 13/2/2022 7:00(UTC), there will be 2 Weekly Revival summoning events held each week.

For details, see the notification titled Feh Channel Supplement, Part 2: Improvements to Weekly Revival Summoning Focuses and Their Schedule.

○ We will add Legendary and Mythic Heroes to Legendary & Mythic Hero Remix summoning events

Starting with Ver. 6.2.0, Mythic Heroes will also have new skills added to them and they will appear alongside Legendary Heroes in Legendary & Mythic Hero Remix summoning events! The six Legendary and Mythic Heroes being added will not appear in normal Legendary or Mythic Hero summoning events from now on.

The Legendary & Mythic Hero Remix for Ver. 6.2.0 will be available starting 12/2/2022 7:00(UTC)

Also, we will be adjusting the schedule for Legendary and Mythic Hero summoning events held at the end of each month.

For details, see the notification titled Feh Channel Supplement, Part 3: Legendary & Mythic Hero Remix.

■ New skills are being added for some Legendary and Mythic Heroes

Of the Heroes that appear in Legendary & Mythic Hero Remixes, Hríd: Icy Blade and Eir: Merciful Death are gaining new skills.

○ New skills

 

・ B Skill
Freezing Seal II
At start of turn, inflicts Atk/Def-7 and【Guard】
on foes on the enemy team with the lowest Res
and any foe within 2 spaces of those foes
through their next actions.

【Guard】
Inflicts Special cooldown charge -1 on target
per attack during combat through its next action.
(Only highest value applied. Does not stack.)

This skill can only be equipped by its original unit.

・ C Skill
Atk/Def Menace
At start of turn, if unit is within 4 spaces of a
foe, inflicts Atk/Def-6 on nearest foes through
their next actions and grants Atk/Def+6 to unit
for 1 turn.

 

・ A Skill
Atk/Res Unity
If unit is within 2 spaces of an ally, grants
Atk/Res+5 and bonus to Atk/Res during
combat = current penalty on each of those
stats × 2. (Example: if unit has -7 penalty to
Atk, grants Atk+19, for a net bonus of Atk+12.)
Calculates each stat bonus independently.

・ C Skill
Sparkling Boost+
At start of turn, restores 20 HP to ally that has
been dealt the most damage. (Excludes unit.)
At start of any ally’s combat, if ally’s HP ≥ 50%,
grants Res+5 to ally during combat. (Excludes
unit.)
This skill can only be equipped by its original unit.

Hríd: Icy Blade and Eir: Merciful Death will be getting new weapon skills to refine at the same time, so be sure to check the section of this notification labeled “New weapon skills and weapons to refine are being added” in conjunction with this section.

■ New Memento Events are being added to Heroes Journey

New Memento Events are being added!

 

■ The lineup of Limited-Time Combat Manuals is being updated

With the release of Ver. 6.2.0, players will be able to obtain Divine Codes (Ephemera 2) from events and exchange them from an updated lineup of Limited-Time Combat Manuals using the Compile Combat Manual feature.

Divine Codes (Ephemera 2) will be able to be exchanged for the following Combat Manuals:

 

Notes:
・ The Combat Manuals added in this update can be compiled until 28/3/2022 6:59(UTC)
・ Divine Codes (Ephemera 2) may be obtained from events that begin after the release of Ver. 6.2.0, while Divine Codes (Ephemera 1) may continue to be obtained from events that began before the release of Ver. 6.2.0.

■ New weapon skills and weapons to refine are being added

 

The following Heroes will be able to learn these new character-specific weapon skills at 5★:

Tome of Reason
Hero who can learn this skill: Lugh: Anima Child

Bow of Verdane
Hero who can learn this skill: Jamke: Prince of Verdane

Hurricane Dagger
Hero who can learn this skill: Legault: The Hurricane

・ The weapons above can be upgraded in the Weapon Refinery after they have been obtained.
・ To learn weapon skills, tap Allies, then Ally Growth, and then Learn Skills.

The following weapons will be able to be upgraded or gain additional special effects by using Arena Medals and Divine Dew:

Gjöll
Hero who can learn this skill: Hríd: Icy Blade

Book of Dreams
Hero who can learn this skill: Camilla: Flower of Fantasy

Festive Siegmund
Hero who can learn this skill: Ephraim: Sparkling Gallantly

Lyfjaberg
Hero who can learn this skill: Eir: Merciful Death

Note: To access the Weapon Refinery, you must clear Book I, Chapter 13 in the main story and then clear the second Intermission map, The Rite of Blades.

■ Aether Raids is being updated

○ Some structures will have their level cap increased.

・ Bright Shrine (O/D): up to level 9

○ Aether Resort is being updated.

・ Two new songs are being added to the Concert Hall: “Before Battle” from the Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem game and “Melancholy Wyvern Generals Theme” from the Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade game.

○ Maps are being added.

New maps will be added with the season starting on 8/2/2022 7:00(UTC)

■ Mjölnir’s Strike is being updated

○ A mechanism will have its level cap increased.

・ Summoner Aflame: up to level 5

■ Additional Heroes via Heroic Grails

The following Heroes will be available to summon using Heroic Grails:

・ Yen’fay: Blade Legend
・ Ignatz: Snowscape Artist
・ Kyza: Tiger of Fortune

■ The Coliseum is being updated

○ It will be possible to increase your Favor Level in Favor Battles in Summoner Duels to 1,600.

○ We will add new maps to the Arena.

Note: The above two changes will be applied for the season beginning 8/2/2022 7:00(UTC)

■ Other Changes

○ The limit on Hero Merit will increase from 7,000 to 8,000.

○ We will add Summoner Duels S teams to the teams menus in Edit Special Teams and Equip Skill Sets.

○ We will adjust Neimi: Tearful Archer’s weapon skill, Rapid-Crier Bow, so that its effect functions as the skill description describes. For details, please see the notification titled Regarding an Issue with the Rapid-Crier Bow Skill.

○ We will address an issue in which the actual result of combat with Elm: Retainer to Embla differed in some circumstances from the combat forecast that displays in the top of the screen.

○ We will make it so when the device is set to use the dark theme, the notifications screen will display in the dark theme as well.

■ To players using an Android device

After the Ver. 6.2.0 update, Fire Emblem Heroes will require Android OS 6.0 or higher to play.

For details, please see the recent notification titled Important Notice Regarding Supported Android Devices

• Starting with this update, users on Android need Android 6.0 or more recent to launch the game.
• Fixes an issue in the calculation for the combat forecast when engaging in combat with Elm: Retainer to Embla in Story Maps.
• Fixes an issue with the Rapid-Crier Bow skill for Neimi (Tearful Archer).
• Fixes an issue with Profile Cards with the Favored Heroes not appearing on it after playing Summoner Duels R.
• Starting with this update, some Mythic Heroes will also be able to learn additional skills: Eir (Merciful Death), Duma (God of Strength), Roy (Blazing Lion), Yune (Chaos Goddess), Alm (Saint-King), and Naga (Dragon Divinity)

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