I consider myself lucky to have pulled Esme, even though I see people are not really excited about her. Personally I think that it’s more that in comparison with the other over-powered event 5*, she is regular
Since I am really into healers and I also think that the fiends meta will only develop further, I am leaning towards making her my new Ice levelling project.
I currently have Cobalt and Master Lepus in 5* and Kiril, Grimm (and costume), Sonya (and costime), Boril (and costume) and Jott in 4* .
Alternative are in the poll, but I would appreciate much more if some of you could also explain your choice (I don’t have spare emblems for any of them atm)
My vote is for Alexandrine because she just has more practical utility over Esme.
Sure, if you’re fighting a team of Elizabeth/Hannah/motega and you start out with a not so good board, Esme can basically counter that very easily. But anything outside of fiends and she becomes vanilla.
Seeker, I pulled Esme and Alexandrine and started on Alexandrine, but now went over to Esme - with the intention to do Alexandrine as soon as Esme is done. My alliance favours Esme slightly for these reasons: Fiends are here to stay and hey, what about your emblems?
To dismiss fiends seems to me very short-sighted considering that the number of heroes that spawn fiends increases and, in war, the number of Elizabeth etc is also on the rise. As mentioned before, emblems matter and I just emblemed Zenobia, and am out of cleric emblems, but have a fair numbrr of sorcerers. So Esme, here we go.
‘Tidyup, outside of fiends, she becomes vanilla’. So you’re assuming that fiends remain rare. Reminds me of all those guys who deemed Grimble useless cause minions weren’t here to stay
And we know how that one ended.
I think it all goes down to what you really need. You said There is TONS of Montega,hannah,Elizabeth,senans etc. Which she really shines in the other hand you have Alexandrine which will help you A LOT with M.Titans and Reg Titans as well. Pretty tough. I am in going through the same and Honestly I am leaning more towards Esme since I have wolfgang.
But Man! That Crit! Hit on TTs from Alexandrine is King!!!
Thanks! I think what we can all agree on is that decisions on what to max need to be adapted to different contexts - player’s roster, player’s priorities (events, titan, wars etc), as well as available mats.
In a few days she will get to 3.70 and then I will continue to take at 3.70 Alexandrine and Costume Magni.
For me war is a priority and while Esme is great for fiends, my alliance (around top 500) usually gets only about 10 fiend heroes in the opponent teams per war. I can imagine that for top 100 they are everywhere though.
I think I will thus be able to wait until December and see then if I manage to pull Krampus or Pengi and take a final decision then.
I’m curious, how do you comprehend any posts? Where have I said anything about fiends being rare? You’re just throwing assumptions everywhere at this point.
I had a chance to pull Vivica/Ariel but she’s better than both. I have the Chipmunk too so they’re both getting levelled. I’d love Diaochan - she’s a beast!
After Esme was buffed to be an overhealer with some fiend defences, there is no comparison with Alexandrine. In the current meta, overhealers rule. I run Esme with Krampus, Glenda and Pengi +1 in a blue stack, it works well. Only flaw is Esme has no cleanse, but Glenda takes on that responsibility in my stack. Not like Alex has cleanse either. For me Alex is purely an alternative to Jott on titans and I prefer Jott. Good luck choosing what is best for your roster!
Gosh, so much time has passed since this poll In the meantime Esme stayed at 3.70 and I maxed Krampus (and costume), Mr. Pengi, Frida and Sobek.
Now it’s high time to max a healer. The competition for Esme is Ariel (without costume) from Fated Summons. But considering Esme far superior stats and that I have plenty of other cleansers, while only one anti-fiends hero (Wang Yuanji), I think Esme is the chosen one once I have all the telescopes.
(I don’t have spare emblems for any of them atm)
Will Never get them 
