Today made me smile Lianna popped out of TC20, after a few months of not getting any new 5s! It’s a bit nicer when it’s completely unexpected… my last new 5 was costumed Marjana, two months ago. Before that, Santa Claus in December.
Oh, and I ascended and maxed a 2nd Joon too. My logic here: I am trying to build two good mono War teams per color. If I have 12 of a given color’s ascension mat, I will happily ascend a dupe or the most useful 3/70 5* available. I did that recently with dupes of Sartana and Marjana (have their costumes), plus Domitia (have her costume!) and Azlar… and a 2nd Joon is definitely worthy of being in that company.
As for Lianna, I will bring her to 3/70 and see where my roster stands then. Reason I’m doubting is, I have only 8 tonics so far; and Lianna would replace Gregorion as a faster sniper (my best Green mana troop is only level 14 with +9% mana, while Greg is +9 with a +2% mana node, so would need +1% more to get to the +12% breakpoint - if I’m right, the mana troop needs to be level 17). At the rate it takes to level troops, I think I would be able to max Lianna before getting 3 more levels on my troop… but let’s see!
I also gained another dupe Elena… and my roster space was becoming claustrophobic. I realized that even with Hero Academy 10, I would: a) likely get a lot of dupes back from retraining anyway; b) I would probably get more dupes before even reaching HA10 (HA currently level 6, advanced iron storages maxed but advanced food storages only levels 10, 6 and 4, and a 4th normal at level 20 - so still some time to go before getting HA 10 ready…)
So I ruthlessly fed away the ff. dupes: 2x Elena, 1x Kadilen, 1x Magni (the first isn’t even ascended yet, and I already have Lepius as sniper 1, so only need 1 more sniper…), 1x Isarnia… and my 4th Joon. I still have 2 dupe Richards, 1 dupe Joon, and 1 dupe Domitia that can be HA10 food (dupe Domitia I am iffy on, I do have her costume, but I also already have 2x Purple mono teams for War - the only color where I have two teams of almost identical strength!)**
For reference: each has one healer/cleanser, mana block, defense debuff, two snipers, one dispel
Team 1: Proteus +19, Tiburtus costume bonus +19, Rigard-costume +19, Seshat +14, Sartana-costume +7
Team 2: Proteus +19, Tiburtus costume bonus +6, Rigard-costume +14, Sartana-costume +7, Domitia costume bonus +4
Anyway!
New tally:
22 ascended 5 s + 14 un-maxed = 36 total 5 s, 28 of them unique not counting costumes. (17 vanilla, 1 Atlantis, 4 Seasonal, 6 HOTM, still zero Valhalla / Challenge Event / Ninja / Myztero).
- Ascended: Inari, Margaret, Lepus, Seshat, Marjana w/ costume, Joon w/ costume, Aeron, Aegir, Gregorion, Rana, Elena, Isarnia, Sartana w/ costume, Malosi, Azlar, Francine, 2nd Sartana w/ costume, Richard w/ costume, Santa Claus, Domitia w/ costume, 2nd Marjana w/ costume, 2nd Joon w/ costume
- Parked at 3/70 or lower: Leonidas, Kadilen, Elkanen, Justice, Horghall, Obakan, Magni, Khagan, Lianna, dupes of Santa Claus + Domitia, triplet of Joon, and dupe + triple of Richard
- Sartana, Joon, Richard, Marjana and Domitia have costumes
Only 3 missing vanillas left - Vivica, Thorne and Quintus.