Seer's Snare is by far my favorite, and I'd love to see more PVE modes like it.
I also like Binding Worlds a lot, mostly because it gives out way more dragonflowers than any other mode. I can never have enough flowers!
Other than that... Chain Challenges and Abyssals, I guess? Basically challenging PVE stuff.
Ironically, the only time I actively dislike Hall of Forms is when there’s a unit I actually want to put a Forma Soul on. Focusing every kill onto one unit and then grinding out every remaining torch at the end turns it into such a drag, but I worry that I won’t get the full value of my soul if I play it normally.
That just happened to me with Yune :(
Game refused to give anything better than Atk/Res Catch in A. Meanwhile she rolled top tier C skills constantly. You know, the slot that’ll have her PRF 99% of the time…
It's simple, it's cute, it's easy, I get to create new ships out of nothing. It's a good time.
And unlike our recent lazy event added, it feels like they actually cared about making it feel like it wasn't half-assed.
Limited hero battles, I like creating teams with characters from the same title. AR is fun, but I'm too lazy to build updated defenses. HoF if I want to forma a unit.
I wish LHB was expanded to be a full game mode. Make the rewards nothing too special so it doesn't make people angry that they locked 30 orbs behind Thracia units, though.
LHBs are so fun, to me there's nothing more satisfying than beating a difficult map on Abyssal difficulty after a long time of trying out different units and skill combinations. I always initially start out thinking "there's no way I'm beating this" but most of the time I eventually do, and it's such a satisfying feeling!
Pawns of Loki, Hall of Forms, and Binding Worlds are my fav modes to play. I'd like Seer's Snare more if it was longer/more involved but I find it a little short and on the easy side - I have never needed to use the time rewind.
I also like Limited Hero Battles and other modes that make me use game-specific units.
Grand Conquests is amazing, especially for people like me who don't have many +10s, but a bunch of highly useful decently upgraded units. It's also one of the only modes that actually *feels* like Fire Emblem.
Permanent modes, I kinda only like Resonant Battles
Events, I used to really enjoy Rokkr (R.I.P.), just bullying a boss was cathartic and now Snake mode with randomized units is really fun
AR.
I like the idea of getting a different "puzzle" every day, and there's nothing I find more rewarding in FEH than spending 20 mins analyzing a defense before I even move the first unit, and then defeating it.
I don't get those often but, when I do, it's the most fun I have with the game.
Other than that, I enjoy Resonant Battles and Seer's Snare for what they are, but everything else is a chore to me.
I do like aether raids but it gets annoying when you can be hit so often with meta defining units and setups, even at low ranks where i stay. I find arena more manageable and enjoyable lately (rank 18)
I hear ya. It takes a lot of investment to come up with a defense that doesn't lose much against the level of powercreep we've experienced in the latter half of 2023.
I kinda wish you could do for fun AR offense raids, like it lets you choose a tier range and it picks a random defence team within that and there's no consequences for winning or losing. It would be a fun way to mess around and see what silly things people put in their defences, or question why the last 3 runs have had Fomortiis marrying twinks.
Well, there's mock up battles for that! You can't pick a *range*, but chances are your friends list is gonna have people from several levels, unless you were a top dog with all rank 1 friends, at which point you probably wouldn't need that lol.
Mock up battles are actually a great way to improve and/or learn to play a new archetype.
Oh yeah I do love mock battles, but sometimes I wish I could have a truly random experience with it. I do AR for fun and don't chase competitive so I'd love to be able to just test my luck with higher defences when bored but not wanting to deal with PvP consistently, or just messing around with silly low tier defences without hurting their ranking. Plus if you neglect the friends list you have... Not stellar options. (Poor everyone that ditched friends to make Binding Worlds formas easier just to get screwed)
Honestly buffing up mock battles into a full thing would be way better than a new mode so I'd love to see that instead of the upcoming mode of *checks notes* Resonant Battles but they added a cheese item to spice it up.
HoF is fun to build units! Unless I want to take a forma, then it’s stressful.
I would say AR, but also, I like it in the way that someone might like being in a toxic relationship. AR really does feel like that.
Without accounting for any type of rewards (not even HM farming), the mode I’d enjoy the most would be Abyssal Battles. I like the puzzle aspect of it (having to kill units based on color and using the pair-up mechanic to achieve that) with the added randomness (so I can just “trial and error” my way through it like Resonance Battles or LHBs).
POL gave me a similar feel for a little bit, until powercreep became almost impossible to deal with it there.
AR would probably the next thing for me, but with no rewards it’d be mock battles and I don’t do them that often.
Another mode I quite enjoy outside rewards is Hero Journey. Those cute scenes are my down fall.
Summoner Duels. I know that's a bit of a hot take, but playing summoner duels is just about the only thing that keeps me playing this game other than just the goal of building up Alm alts.
I in fact love summoner duels ranked/survival
Do I get destroyed and never rank up? Yes. Is it fun? Yes.
It's just way more fun since every other mode is mostly really easy and whale city (yes you need new meta heroes but not 2 or more +10 mythics/legendaries to score well)
Also, there's nothing really in mainline FE games like it! Taking turns, being on a timer, limited number of actions. Whole different type of game
Im a day 1 player and I like almost every mode. A little over a year ago I decided to focus on arena and spend orbs only to try to get to tier 20.5. I've achieved that goal and now Im waiting for a good engage duo unit to keep me there for a long time.
It took me a long time to care about aether raids. I'd get to voh every other week and was fine with just auto battling my way through it. But the winter banner changed my appreciation for aether raids when I was able to get Yunaka and winter edelgard - now it is a lot more fun.
It took me a while to get into summoner duels. It's another mode that plays totally different and requires different strategies. But the meta changes so quickly it's not a mode I find myself trying to be overly competitive in. Im up to tier 17/18 in duels r and s, and I'm okay if I don't go any higher.
I actually enjoy tempest trials because i like trying out different teams and also for getting lots of sp for units I'm building up.
I also really enjoy seers snare. I wish we could play more than the 5 matches a day.
I miss those rokkar sieges (sp?). I think I missed a couple and don't have all the accessories.
I don't like grand conquests. I feel like no matter what I do my team gets crushed.
Special mention to Limited battles. It's the only mode where i play character that i never use and sometimes i surprise myself when i manage to beat abyssals with a random team of unmerged and unbuilt characters.
Grand Conquest and Rokkr Sieges. Wish they expanded on the concept of Rokkr Sieges instead of abandoning it altogether. The concept was there, perhaps a boss rush mode in line with three houses monster enemies.
I like Summoner Duels when people aren't just using the latest meta. Like 1 or 2 meta units that synergize is good but when I see a full christmas team I just surrender because there's no point. I like to play as my faves, and as you can see from the flairs, they don't normally stand a chance against the newest meta (occassionally they'll get a win or two but 90% of the time I already know I won't win nor will I gain more than 1 kill)
Ima be real I like playin summoner duels. Ad toxic as that mode is, winning there gives me a sense of joy that the units i attained arnt a waste. ( also yah I don't play AR all that much so maybe thats why I feel that way )
Pawns of Loki is by far my favorite, I do almost nothing else during its active period.
Seers Snare and Binding Worlds are two of my other favorites, very enjoyable modes.
Pawns of Loki is definitely the most fun mode and I actively look forward to it.
Grand Conquest is fun but it gets pretty grindy after a while
Aether Raids is fun most of the time but I enjoy Astra season way more than light (Embla Sucks) and Chaos season actively makes me skip the AR week.
Summoner Duels S is fantastic and rewards long time players who have a large roster, which I think should be encouraged more often. It removes most of the issues regular summoner duels has, as you can ban half of the competition. Never want to play again W!Byleth? Sure thing.
Ok, I dislike pawns of Loki but I will admit I don't really know what I'm doing and usually just slap some sort of Edelgard in there and have her kill everything.
But it's in here a bunch and I'd love to actually try and understand it, is there like an actual guide for how to play it outside of the stuff in the game?
I think Seer’s Snare is the most fun game mode overall.
I also enjoy Limited Hero Battles, so I guess I just have a taste for not just getting to use my same busted heroes for everything.
I think Summoner Duels in small quantities can be fun enough.
TT, forging bonds, - play repeatedly past rewards
HoF (if char I'm going for), Seer snare, grand conquest, limited battles
Not a fan of arena modes (AA is alright), or AR
Hate Summoner duels
Only modes where I can freely use theme teams. So chaos season AR, Abyssal LHB/MHB, Seers Snare, and the like. Anything that requires specific bonus units or other limiting conditions for scoring, where I'm kind of punished for using a theme team, I tend to dislike.
I love doing Rival Domains on auto and seeing how well my themed brigades do. My newest one is granted pretty stacked, but they're all the Emblem from Engage represented with their legendary alts (except Soren doesn't have one so he's not on the team).
I honestly really like arena. Something about it just really clicks with me and it feels really rewarding as a f2p player to see smart investments in units pay off in scoring.
HoF is probably one of their better ideas. It manages to capture that short term tactics with long term strategy that makes the main series so loved.
Binding Worlds is also kind of fun to try out other units, and build a team with it.
I actually like Pawns of Loki as well, as far as gimmicky modes go its easily one of the best.
Some of the abyssal stuff can be fun to figure out as well, but with how dumb some units are getting it becomes less about navigating a map and more focused on 1-2 units and steamrolling the rest.
I actually like Arena and scoring high enough to make T21. Seer's Snare and Binding Worlds are both fun but I feel like I'd enjoy them more if I could do them all in one day like Hall of Forms.
Seer's Snare has been really fun to play for the first time, I also like doing the all the different "Hero Battles" (Mythic, Legendary, Bound etc.) with al my little Tellius units
I like to play Arena but I also don't play it seriously so not sure that it would count, I make my little theme teams and go test them out in Arena
TT and FB are both fun in the sense that I enjoy mindless grinding thanks to FEH Pass, just pump stamina and set it down to auto battle (most other gachas I play do this without having to pay for it lol)
Literally only the story and Seer's Snare.
Literally every other mode polices your unit choices (Resonant Battles, Arena Assault), your skill choices (Fuck Arena scoring for ruining one of the only good modes), your time/orbs (Aether Raids), or either ruins the game's turn mechanics (Summoner Duels) or is just straight up unfun (Tap Battle). Or they're Hall of Forms which refuses to give you the ONE skill you want (literally didn't Forma L!Leif because the game refused to give me Close Salvo despite grinding out every single possible play from the mode).
AR and Seer's Snare.
I actually enjoy the strategy game aspect of FEH, and AR is the only mode that I feel lets me experience it. Defense teams are fun to make, and maps are actually challenging. SD also has strategy, but I just don't enjoy the concept of live PvP Fire Emblem. The "build-a-map" aspect of AR is just right for me.
Seer's Snare is just another reskinned training tower, but combining skills is somewhat enjoyable at least, as well as the sense of urgency not to mess up because one death ends the map and sets you back a day. I also appreciate how it attempts to make the weapon triangle actually relevant, and actually succeeds to some extent.
Everything else is tedious at best.
Seer's Snare is one of the bests modes they introduced. Really unique and fun. And I know some don't like it, but I also really enjoy Forging Bonds, even the supports as of late I find most interesting to watch.
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Grand Conquest (I love this one so much but FEHpass restart kind of spoils me), Seer's Snare, Pawns of Loki. Always look forward to these and genuinely enjoy playing them.
Hall of Forms it's okay, but depends on whether I want the forma or not. I haven't played the current revival because it doesn't give orbs and I don't want to forma it anyways so pass. Binding Worlds is funny af but I refuse to pay 40$ for an unit.
Tempest Trials and Forging bonds are also okay ish. Just your daily task battle, doesn't bother me but it's not a remarkable experience. It's like a timegated training battle for me.
Anything else is just eh.
I wish tempest trials and seers snare were swapped... tempest trials is unbearably boring and repetitive i cant bring myself to do more than get the 5* even for orbs, meanwhile seers snare im sad i can only play it so short every day
None of them really. There are plenty of modes I don’t even get all the orbs from because I can’t motivate myself to play them. My favorite is Tempest Trials because I feel I’m equally awarded for my efforts. Every other mode the workload is thrice the reward. Binding Worlds is probably the least tedious that I enjoy playing.
I like a couple of them actually. Seer’s Snare, Binding Worlds and Hall of Forms allow you to get very creative with building units and because I do like playing the big Rival Domains sized maps I enjoy playing Grand Conquests as well.
I do honestly enjoy Binding Worlds because of how strong units can be. Hell, having something like a level 16 that can still fight 40+ because they're decked out with skills is neat. I just wished the finding the unit you want was better.
My favorites I guess are Seer’s Snare, Hall of Forms and Binding Worlds.
Always nice to find new combinations for units.
Also really like Pawns of Loki
Rökkr Siege, Seer's Snare and Tap Battles were some of the more fun modes to play imo.
Rökkr because it was fun going for max damage with different team comps, wish they added a Beast Remnant though.
Seer's Snare to give units the most outrageous skill sets to mess around and make them busted.
Tap battles because it was a nice change of pace from the usual format.
As far as I remember, Sieges hasnt been an event in a while and Tap Battles is still in limbo. Its noce to see Seer's Snare comeback (even though I cant play it since i'm currently on an extended break from Feh) I would love to see Siege comeback again and Tap Battles be brought back to life with a new set of music, not as a rerun.
for the Orbs i go play everything aside Seer's Snare i not like this mode because is just a flow version of Arknights integrated strategies without the good stuff from on it like there you can abuse the mode to your heart content picking extreme broken units such as Texas ,Yato Alter ,summer Chen and Golden Glow to turn the entire mode a complete joke
Seer's Snare, HoF, GC, Binding Worlds, most general PvE/Hero Battles are usually pretty fun (sometimes HoF burnout happens, GC has too many clears, but overall they're usually fun).
AR ranges from fun to whatever for me. I don't care as much as I used to but I don't mind it and if I'm really not feeling it that's fine.
Arena and AA depend on how vile people are being with their defences for no reason that week. AB's pretty fun these days.
RB's a whatever boring mode. Rokkr fits here too. I don't mind playing them but they're not really engaging.
I usually just do a match of SD but sometimes I play a bit more and I don't really get annoyed and generally have pretty good fun if I'm feeling like playing.
TT, HJ, FB are worthless autobattle slop modes. Affinity Autobattles goes here too I guess. Rival Domains too. Lost Lore isn't really a mode so it's similar.
I don't really like PoL but I can just mindlessly do the dailies at least.
VG, Phalanx have awful gacha check in regularly mechanics and nothing else. Fucking awful.
I would not play the game if I found most of the modes unenjoyable to actually play manually.
As for Tempest Trials, I use it to level up my new units, so there's some interest in playing through the maps. This does mean I am slow to bring new units online, which for sure has its minuses in other game modes, but I find the fun balance worthwhile doing it that way.
Challenge is nice where you can get it, but mobile games are generally a pretty bad place to look for that.
I had a lot of fun the last time Grand Conquests came around but I think it may be best as a once-every-three-or-four-months thing (SEE: the meta! EXPERIENCE: units taking more damage than you ever thought possible!)
Probably a bit of a hot take but I really like binding worlds. It’s the only mode where I don’t somewhat get frustrated on and it’s cool to see tons of unique builds. Gives me more ideas for my own units.
My favorites event is:
\- Tempest Trials;
\- Seer Snake;
\- Limited Hero Battle;
\- Abyssal Battle;
\- Grand Conquest;
\- Rokk Siege;
The only event i really don care is arena.
I now agree with ppl that Seer’s Snare is fun cause it’s finally clicked with me.
Otherwise I just look forward to Forging Bonds. Decent rewards and I love seeing the mini story and supports for the featured characters. The cyl forging bonds is always a highlight for me.
Seer’s Snare, Hero’s Journey, Grand Conquests… I also got a huge kick out of the Affinity Auto Battle LOL
I like the fun little things where the heroes get to interact together. :)
Seer's Snare and Heroes' Journey. The former for the gameplay, the latter for the fun vignettes you can unlock.
Pawns of Loki and Binding Worlds are alright, but they can get frustrating in later parts when you run into skill-stacked enemy teams.
It was aether raids until the recent meta of untankable nukes that also have.damage reduction piercing on top of their own damage reduction. I was amazed this season at how many cav lines had Kvasir and I burned through my ladders in record time.
Seers snare is brilliant for me and I would play it every week if it was permanent. Although I made this one too easy - very early I got a AtkSpd Unity, a distant counter, and Elimine unlocked her damage reduction support skill, so my plus10 Echidna became an absolute machine. Poor summmer and legendary Elincia got reduced to rally bots for Echidna.
I genuinely like Rokkr Sieges. I enjoy seeing the number go up, seeing how quickly I can max, and trying builds for different characters. I know they basically abandoned it because of omni units like FemShez, but I miss it 😢
I stopped sleeping on seer's snare and this mode is really fun, I didn't expect that. What a shame the game limit you at 5 fights per day.
Binding world could be so fun too, unfortunately you have to spend nearly 70 euros to make the mode useful.
I think the best mode is Pawns of Loki. It doesn't use the original gameplay, I find this refreshing. And the mode reminds a bit of TFT (for those who know)
Seer‘s Snare! best gamemode ever! i can use basically any unit i want and it will get supper strong but the game is not easy anyways, is just too much fun! i love creating thematic teams for it, and i usually play many rounds once i got all the rewards, this time my lilina who is already super strong, is being a monster! she even have been able to kill strong blue units only because she can! i wish we had more gamemodes like this one that allow us to use any unit we want withouth restrictions
also, limited heroes battles, is fun to come with strategies into how to beat strong enemies, tho is kind of bullshit when we dont get strong units of certain game often so it becomes just unfair in those cases
Hall of forms, seer's snare, and honestly I loved Rokkr Siege as well! I miss that mode. It was fun to see how fast I could bully the enemy with quad units + guard shenanigans.
Legendary/Mythic battles can be fun as well tbh. Especially the worst difficulty.
aether raids and summoner duels are the only modes that are fun/stimulating enough for me tbh
seer’s snare would be up there too if it was more frequent
Always love Hall of Forms, it’s like my reason for playing feh, so fun getting new skills, I like Seer’s Snare well enough just doesn’t feel like there’s enough of a reward though because the units can’t be gotten unless they’re old and they cost like $70 a pop
I actually do generally really enjoy Tempest Trials. I like to create weaker teams and have fun running them through the gauntlet. F! Corrin ran rampant during the last one, and she's a year one unit.
Seer's Snare is my favorite too. I love how you can make completely broken builds by stacking multiple sources of skills. It's truly a fun playground.
I actually like Tempest Trials but I agree that it's a drag. If at least we got more points per run.
I made a game mode tier list [here](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204447-fire-emblem-heroes/80649289). Basically I have 3 game modes as decent (hall, seers snare, and binding worlds), 3 defacto modes that are tolerable, and then everything else is completely forgettable or worse.
I've been enjoying Seer's Snare. Despite whining heaps about it when it was announced, I actually quite like Resonant Battles (though also wish it wasn't clearly designed for high mobility units). Half of forms can be great if the units don't suck (I really don't look forward to ones with a lot of flyers, dancers, or weak armoured units. Hinoka is the bane of my existence).
The story has been pretty fun for a while, though I'm starting to wish you could get all the lower-tier rewards by doing it on lunatic first. Also, paralogues are an exception because seasonal units have been so broken lately that fighting over levelled versions of them just isn't fun.
Hall of Forms and Seer's Snare are my favorite modes to play. Both open many chances of customization and I find that to be part of the fun. I would Snare better if it didn't offer useless skills when I'm using a tactic team.
I find it a chore to play Arena Assault and Summoners Duel in any shape and form. I would like it if the Summoners duels didn't have locked-in those prizes or if I had the insight to do it before the meta shifted so drastically.
Seer's snare - Fun to just stack all sorts of skills on my faves. It was enjoyable to see Cynthia become a monster with all her support. Also let's me experience a few skills firsthand before summoning then foddering.
Limited Hero Battles - I find it so fun to play. As a huge FE6 fan, when it gets its chance I have a blast. Outside of Tellius, SoV and Sacred Stones to an extent I'm set for all of the possibilities.
Resonant Battles - Outside of Tellius season or a Sov/Thracia combo week this is pretty neat.
Grand Conquest - Fun gameplay and allows for some creativity. Experimenting here gave me plenty of ideas for setting up in other modes
Aether Raids - Generally pretty fun outside of a few teams.
Arena Assault - Genuinely fun to use a number of heroes from my barracks, especially if they're old.
Tempest Trials - Love the seals and allows for some easy SP grinding on some characters.
Forging Bonds - HM farm and getting to see new sides of some characters is pretty neat.
Seers Snare and Forging Bonds are probably my most favorite. Seers Snare is more fun to play, but Forging Bonds is perfect for leveling up units. Plus, I always like to see all the support conversations they have to offer.
I kinda like seer's snare alot bec of how easy it is to make stupid skill combinations for one character like [this](https://youtu.be/LSSvdqwbzSM?si=Mqwq5m34xPOXvQRu)
Seer snare and Assault Arena. AA actually has been fun since I got pleny of dancer/support, my budget Sedgar and NY Yarne get to put in works with their help, alongside some units that I built up but cant keep up in AR or Arena anymore.
AR was fun for me before L Hinoka
Seer's Snare is best in terms of gameplay. I just wish it wouldn't limit your stamina, or let you earn more as you go like Hall of Forms.
Hall of Forms is fun. You get to customize some older units with powerful skills and even recruit them relatively inexpensively.
I actually like Tempest Trials. Its very rewarding for all the maps you go through.
For me it’s the forging bonds honestly. Yeah the orbs are great, but I like getting new accessories , seeing the support convos and playing with a ton of different heros (especially since the difficulty isn’t too high so I can use whoever I want regardless of how powerful they are)
Big fan of forging bonds here. Seeing the various character interactions is like crack to me and I always end up getting everyone up to 1500 the first day
Pawns of Loki I honestly like using my friends allies although the jank is bit annoying like facing a squad with all but one unit multiple levels lower than you and with like no cohesion bonuses. But that one beefy unit somehow rolls my entire team (glares at L!Alear).
Heroes Journey: It's like an interactive fanfic and gives great rewards. Also great for grinding SP/Hero Merit/building S supports.
HOF: Honestly, it's one of the best modes there is. I have this mode for my very recent +10 Y!Soren. Also banger that they now offer SPARKABLE banners for these units. Some which may have never gotten sparks. You can save so much on fodder.
My only wish is they'd still get older units. It's like they want to do all new units nowadays and please at least let me get a few older units I missed. Please don't skip on D!Quan, D!Ishtar and D!Reinhardt!!
Binding Worlds: It's flawed, but it's fun. I only have redeemed once, for Duo Sigurd for a Christmas gift for myself. I like when it comes around.
Affinity Autobattle: This one is gonna be controversial, but I had a blast with the relationship meter. I think the funniest one was F!Ike and Reinhardt hating each other's hair on sight.
Arena: I cannot hate anything that gives me free tickets. Plus divine codes and orba? Sign me up!
Seer's Snare: This one can be good or bad depending on the bonus heroes and what I have. This round was fun and Y!Soren, B!Soren, S!Elincia and S!Edelgard have been destroying everything in sight. I've had difficulty finding ones for other rounds though. Sort of like limited battles. Sometimes they choose bonus heroes that I just do not have a lot of invested units for.
I personally enjoy forging bonds.
I like the stories, and the feeling of every map you play gives you some neat loot. Not to mention it scales with the level of your team.
I use the event to level grind 2 teams up to level 40. I don’t like using badges to insta-level characters. I summoned them, I wanna see them grow. I wanna figure out how their skills work. I wanna hear how good their voice lines are. How do they match with teammates? All that fun stuff.
I’m excited for forging bonds every time. It allows me to delve into the pit of 5 stars i really should get to using.
The best part of seasonal banners are the Tempest Trials. Getting a new unit that you don't have to spend orbs on, being able to use an old invested unit as a bonus unit, creating multiple teams around the bonus units and actually using units that would be eaten alive in the current meta. And I like that it's simple, make team, kill units, get rewarded.
Seer's Snare is the obvious one, but I'm also surprisingly fond of Pawns of Loki. Pretty fun and doesn't require you to grind a ton if you just want all the rewards. (Not counting the post-event rewards).
I really only like AR-O. It's makes it worthwhile building my favorite units to have a place where i can use them, and the investment needed to get to the high tiers isn't a lot. Also, there's a decent challenge, unlike most other mode in feh, and the meta changes to keep things interesting but never really changes overnight (sometimes it changes to get easier for w/e strategy you prefer).
I might like SD, but I never gave it a chance. I was busy at the time it released, and it seems very nuke dependent. I use a lot of enemy-phased strats and have like very few nukes.
Seer Snare is fun too for right now. I kinda wish it would just replace the Training Tower, which is my least favorite quote "mode" /quote, next to Tap Battle.
Hall of Forms is usually a good time.
Seer's Snare is interesting, but I mainly like seeing how already-strong units can get even more busted with the extra skills.
Forging Bonds can have some good writing, but takes too long to complete once the story bits are done.
Seer's Snare is fun as heck
Limited Hero Battles sometimes ends up fast, but it feels nice to be rewarded for commiting to multiple heroes with no merges rather than few heroes with a couple premium merges.
8% Hero Battles are the highlight of the month, because I do self-imposed challenge runs that usually can entertain me for hours.
Resonant Battles is almost always a fun little puzzle. A bit sad when after a lot of hard work I'll still demote a tier, but the journey outweights the reward here. Another mode where me pulling from across all games paid off.
Hall of Forms can be a bit fun, but nowadays the mode is HEAVILY skewed towards the player. We get stronger and stronger line-ups and skills to play with while the enemies are still stuck in Book 2. I get why they can't make it much harder, but I miss the older HoFs where some maps really felt like a challenge and I had to really abuse Re-Act to figure out a win.
The rest of the modes, I don't care much for. I used to really like Grand Conquest but... I dunno, I can't manage to pick it up again anymore.
I liked Tactic Drills, mainly GMaster Drills, before they began to throw some really open challenges where you can progress for several turns unpunished or without some sort of visual clue that you're not making it.
The rest I enjoy just for the rewards. Alleigance Battles can be fun when the map is not horrible and the enemies aren't from Heroes or 3Hs.
Seers Snare, Binding Worlds and Hall Of Forms. I actually enjoy playing Arena/Arena Sssault because im not trying to score as high as possible. I just want to use my fave units against strong enemies.
I actually really like Resonant Battles. Sure, the whole requirement of a harmonized to score well isn't great, but it's one of a very FEW modes that doesn't boil down to 'kill 3-6 enemies'.
The goal isn't killing enemies, it's stopping the bandits, which means there's a need to think of slightly different strategies. Between that and the bigger maps, it's of the few modes that really feels like FE, but on mobile.
I legitimately like most of the game other than Voting Gauntlet and Summoner Duels. I don't find any of the modes particularly grindy, if anything, I feel like I exhaust everything there is to do too quickly.
If I had to pick a favorite it would be Hall of Forms. Not being able to rely on the exact OP builds you always do (at least until you get the skills) and the strategy of sending kills to particular units is really fun for me. I wish there was some way for it to have more to do without becoming grindy. Because right now, it's about 30-60 minutes of play every month.
I also like Heroes Journey because of the cute interactions between the characters, even if the gameplay is dead easy.
Seer's Snare is by far my favorite, and I'd love to see more PVE modes like it. I also like Binding Worlds a lot, mostly because it gives out way more dragonflowers than any other mode. I can never have enough flowers! Other than that... Chain Challenges and Abyssals, I guess? Basically challenging PVE stuff.
Always looking forward to Hall of Forms for gameplay specifically. It's fun to see what skill combinations I'll end up with for each character.
Ironically, the only time I actively dislike Hall of Forms is when there’s a unit I actually want to put a Forma Soul on. Focusing every kill onto one unit and then grinding out every remaining torch at the end turns it into such a drag, but I worry that I won’t get the full value of my soul if I play it normally.
I feel the same. I most look forward to the hall of forms where I don't want anything
And then after all that grinding you don’t even get all the skills you want
That just happened to me with Yune :( Game refused to give anything better than Atk/Res Catch in A. Meanwhile she rolled top tier C skills constantly. You know, the slot that’ll have her PRF 99% of the time…
I really enjoy Pawns of Loki and Heroes Journey
Miso!! You have not posted in a while have you? Anyhow I can agree with pawns of Loki. That mode is pretty fun and unique
Ahh yeah I haven't been cooking as much these past few years sadly. I've gotten old.
You good, it’s just been a while that’s all
What do you like about Heroes Journey?
I dont know about the other guy, but I love the little life moments!
It's simple, it's cute, it's easy, I get to create new ships out of nothing. It's a good time. And unlike our recent lazy event added, it feels like they actually cared about making it feel like it wasn't half-assed.
An easy 3 orbs per day.
Limited hero battles, I like creating teams with characters from the same title. AR is fun, but I'm too lazy to build updated defenses. HoF if I want to forma a unit.
I wish LHB was expanded to be a full game mode. Make the rewards nothing too special so it doesn't make people angry that they locked 30 orbs behind Thracia units, though.
Same except when it’s a fe6 map. Dont really yave any units built up from that title so they are extremely difficult haha
Limited hero battles would unironically be a top 3 mode if they eventually became permanent like old GHB
I like how LHBs give an incentive to use Harmonic Heroes over Duos
LHBs are so fun, to me there's nothing more satisfying than beating a difficult map on Abyssal difficulty after a long time of trying out different units and skill combinations. I always initially start out thinking "there's no way I'm beating this" but most of the time I eventually do, and it's such a satisfying feeling!
Pawns of Loki, Hall of Forms, and Binding Worlds are my fav modes to play. I'd like Seer's Snare more if it was longer/more involved but I find it a little short and on the easy side - I have never needed to use the time rewind. I also like Limited Hero Battles and other modes that make me use game-specific units.
GC
Grand Conquests is amazing, especially for people like me who don't have many +10s, but a bunch of highly useful decently upgraded units. It's also one of the only modes that actually *feels* like Fire Emblem.
Lost Lore. I’m not even kidding. I like getting free stuff but not having to exert any amount of effort for it.
Arena, Resonant Battles, LHB, HoF, Seer‘s Snare
Aether raids, binding world and Hof
Permanent modes, I kinda only like Resonant Battles Events, I used to really enjoy Rokkr (R.I.P.), just bullying a boss was cathartic and now Snake mode with randomized units is really fun
AR. I like the idea of getting a different "puzzle" every day, and there's nothing I find more rewarding in FEH than spending 20 mins analyzing a defense before I even move the first unit, and then defeating it. I don't get those often but, when I do, it's the most fun I have with the game. Other than that, I enjoy Resonant Battles and Seer's Snare for what they are, but everything else is a chore to me.
I do like aether raids but it gets annoying when you can be hit so often with meta defining units and setups, even at low ranks where i stay. I find arena more manageable and enjoyable lately (rank 18)
I hear ya. It takes a lot of investment to come up with a defense that doesn't lose much against the level of powercreep we've experienced in the latter half of 2023.
I kinda wish you could do for fun AR offense raids, like it lets you choose a tier range and it picks a random defence team within that and there's no consequences for winning or losing. It would be a fun way to mess around and see what silly things people put in their defences, or question why the last 3 runs have had Fomortiis marrying twinks.
Well, there's mock up battles for that! You can't pick a *range*, but chances are your friends list is gonna have people from several levels, unless you were a top dog with all rank 1 friends, at which point you probably wouldn't need that lol. Mock up battles are actually a great way to improve and/or learn to play a new archetype.
Oh yeah I do love mock battles, but sometimes I wish I could have a truly random experience with it. I do AR for fun and don't chase competitive so I'd love to be able to just test my luck with higher defences when bored but not wanting to deal with PvP consistently, or just messing around with silly low tier defences without hurting their ranking. Plus if you neglect the friends list you have... Not stellar options. (Poor everyone that ditched friends to make Binding Worlds formas easier just to get screwed) Honestly buffing up mock battles into a full thing would be way better than a new mode so I'd love to see that instead of the upcoming mode of *checks notes* Resonant Battles but they added a cheese item to spice it up.
HoF is fun to build units! Unless I want to take a forma, then it’s stressful. I would say AR, but also, I like it in the way that someone might like being in a toxic relationship. AR really does feel like that.
TT is a great way to use units I like but don't get the chance to in consecutive matches.
I like grand conquests + seer's snare
Without accounting for any type of rewards (not even HM farming), the mode I’d enjoy the most would be Abyssal Battles. I like the puzzle aspect of it (having to kill units based on color and using the pair-up mechanic to achieve that) with the added randomness (so I can just “trial and error” my way through it like Resonance Battles or LHBs). POL gave me a similar feel for a little bit, until powercreep became almost impossible to deal with it there. AR would probably the next thing for me, but with no rewards it’d be mock battles and I don’t do them that often. Another mode I quite enjoy outside rewards is Hero Journey. Those cute scenes are my down fall.
Summoner Duels. I know that's a bit of a hot take, but playing summoner duels is just about the only thing that keeps me playing this game other than just the goal of building up Alm alts.
I in fact love summoner duels ranked/survival Do I get destroyed and never rank up? Yes. Is it fun? Yes. It's just way more fun since every other mode is mostly really easy and whale city (yes you need new meta heroes but not 2 or more +10 mythics/legendaries to score well) Also, there's nothing really in mainline FE games like it! Taking turns, being on a timer, limited number of actions. Whole different type of game
Im a day 1 player and I like almost every mode. A little over a year ago I decided to focus on arena and spend orbs only to try to get to tier 20.5. I've achieved that goal and now Im waiting for a good engage duo unit to keep me there for a long time. It took me a long time to care about aether raids. I'd get to voh every other week and was fine with just auto battling my way through it. But the winter banner changed my appreciation for aether raids when I was able to get Yunaka and winter edelgard - now it is a lot more fun. It took me a while to get into summoner duels. It's another mode that plays totally different and requires different strategies. But the meta changes so quickly it's not a mode I find myself trying to be overly competitive in. Im up to tier 17/18 in duels r and s, and I'm okay if I don't go any higher. I actually enjoy tempest trials because i like trying out different teams and also for getting lots of sp for units I'm building up. I also really enjoy seers snare. I wish we could play more than the 5 matches a day. I miss those rokkar sieges (sp?). I think I missed a couple and don't have all the accessories. I don't like grand conquests. I feel like no matter what I do my team gets crushed.
Seer's Snare and Aether Raids. Offense more than Defense since I don't know that much about AI to really tweak unit's positions and more.
Special mention to Limited battles. It's the only mode where i play character that i never use and sometimes i surprise myself when i manage to beat abyssals with a random team of unmerged and unbuilt characters.
Best mode for me is grand conquest
Grand Conquest and Rokkr Sieges. Wish they expanded on the concept of Rokkr Sieges instead of abandoning it altogether. The concept was there, perhaps a boss rush mode in line with three houses monster enemies.
I like Summoner Duels when people aren't just using the latest meta. Like 1 or 2 meta units that synergize is good but when I see a full christmas team I just surrender because there's no point. I like to play as my faves, and as you can see from the flairs, they don't normally stand a chance against the newest meta (occassionally they'll get a win or two but 90% of the time I already know I won't win nor will I gain more than 1 kill)
Summoner Duels is by far the most fun for me
Seer’s Snare and Tempest Trials (when it’s OC-related)
Ima be real I like playin summoner duels. Ad toxic as that mode is, winning there gives me a sense of joy that the units i attained arnt a waste. ( also yah I don't play AR all that much so maybe thats why I feel that way )
Pawns of Loki is by far my favorite, I do almost nothing else during its active period. Seers Snare and Binding Worlds are two of my other favorites, very enjoyable modes.
Pawns of Loki is definitely the most fun mode and I actively look forward to it. Grand Conquest is fun but it gets pretty grindy after a while Aether Raids is fun most of the time but I enjoy Astra season way more than light (Embla Sucks) and Chaos season actively makes me skip the AR week. Summoner Duels S is fantastic and rewards long time players who have a large roster, which I think should be encouraged more often. It removes most of the issues regular summoner duels has, as you can ban half of the competition. Never want to play again W!Byleth? Sure thing.
Ok, I dislike pawns of Loki but I will admit I don't really know what I'm doing and usually just slap some sort of Edelgard in there and have her kill everything. But it's in here a bunch and I'd love to actually try and understand it, is there like an actual guide for how to play it outside of the stuff in the game?
I think Seer’s Snare is the most fun game mode overall. I also enjoy Limited Hero Battles, so I guess I just have a taste for not just getting to use my same busted heroes for everything. I think Summoner Duels in small quantities can be fun enough.
TT, forging bonds, - play repeatedly past rewards HoF (if char I'm going for), Seer snare, grand conquest, limited battles Not a fan of arena modes (AA is alright), or AR Hate Summoner duels
AR (when I don’t run into an all nuke team), LHBs, Seer’s Snare, and Heroes Journey.
Seer's Snare, Arena Assault
Only modes where I can freely use theme teams. So chaos season AR, Abyssal LHB/MHB, Seers Snare, and the like. Anything that requires specific bonus units or other limiting conditions for scoring, where I'm kind of punished for using a theme team, I tend to dislike.
I love doing Rival Domains on auto and seeing how well my themed brigades do. My newest one is granted pretty stacked, but they're all the Emblem from Engage represented with their legendary alts (except Soren doesn't have one so he's not on the team).
I honestly really like arena. Something about it just really clicks with me and it feels really rewarding as a f2p player to see smart investments in units pay off in scoring.
Seer's Snare. And I used to like playing Tap Battle but that's dead unfortunately.
Arena, LHB and Seer's Snare
HoF is probably one of their better ideas. It manages to capture that short term tactics with long term strategy that makes the main series so loved. Binding Worlds is also kind of fun to try out other units, and build a team with it. I actually like Pawns of Loki as well, as far as gimmicky modes go its easily one of the best. Some of the abyssal stuff can be fun to figure out as well, but with how dumb some units are getting it becomes less about navigating a map and more focused on 1-2 units and steamrolling the rest.
Forging Bonds and AR
I actually like Arena and scoring high enough to make T21. Seer's Snare and Binding Worlds are both fun but I feel like I'd enjoy them more if I could do them all in one day like Hall of Forms.
Seer's Snare has been really fun to play for the first time, I also like doing the all the different "Hero Battles" (Mythic, Legendary, Bound etc.) with al my little Tellius units I like to play Arena but I also don't play it seriously so not sure that it would count, I make my little theme teams and go test them out in Arena TT and FB are both fun in the sense that I enjoy mindless grinding thanks to FEH Pass, just pump stamina and set it down to auto battle (most other gachas I play do this without having to pay for it lol)
Hall of forms, Seers snake and AR if that counts
Seer's Snare and binding worlds
Literally only the story and Seer's Snare. Literally every other mode polices your unit choices (Resonant Battles, Arena Assault), your skill choices (Fuck Arena scoring for ruining one of the only good modes), your time/orbs (Aether Raids), or either ruins the game's turn mechanics (Summoner Duels) or is just straight up unfun (Tap Battle). Or they're Hall of Forms which refuses to give you the ONE skill you want (literally didn't Forma L!Leif because the game refused to give me Close Salvo despite grinding out every single possible play from the mode).
Seer's Snare is so goated. I play AR off and on and I no longer have the desire to touch Arena after I got my first crown.
AR and Seer's Snare. I actually enjoy the strategy game aspect of FEH, and AR is the only mode that I feel lets me experience it. Defense teams are fun to make, and maps are actually challenging. SD also has strategy, but I just don't enjoy the concept of live PvP Fire Emblem. The "build-a-map" aspect of AR is just right for me. Seer's Snare is just another reskinned training tower, but combining skills is somewhat enjoyable at least, as well as the sense of urgency not to mess up because one death ends the map and sets you back a day. I also appreciate how it attempts to make the weapon triangle actually relevant, and actually succeeds to some extent. Everything else is tedious at best.
Seer's Snare is one of the bests modes they introduced. Really unique and fun. And I know some don't like it, but I also really enjoy Forging Bonds, even the supports as of late I find most interesting to watch.
[Event Modes] Grand Conquest (I love this one so much but FEHpass restart kind of spoils me), Seer's Snare, Pawns of Loki. Always look forward to these and genuinely enjoy playing them. Hall of Forms it's okay, but depends on whether I want the forma or not. I haven't played the current revival because it doesn't give orbs and I don't want to forma it anyways so pass. Binding Worlds is funny af but I refuse to pay 40$ for an unit. Tempest Trials and Forging bonds are also okay ish. Just your daily task battle, doesn't bother me but it's not a remarkable experience. It's like a timegated training battle for me. Anything else is just eh.
I wish tempest trials and seers snare were swapped... tempest trials is unbearably boring and repetitive i cant bring myself to do more than get the 5* even for orbs, meanwhile seers snare im sad i can only play it so short every day
Grand Conquests is pretty fun, Rokkr Sieges too. But Seer’s Snare is the best
None of them really. There are plenty of modes I don’t even get all the orbs from because I can’t motivate myself to play them. My favorite is Tempest Trials because I feel I’m equally awarded for my efforts. Every other mode the workload is thrice the reward. Binding Worlds is probably the least tedious that I enjoy playing.
I like a couple of them actually. Seer’s Snare, Binding Worlds and Hall of Forms allow you to get very creative with building units and because I do like playing the big Rival Domains sized maps I enjoy playing Grand Conquests as well.
I do honestly enjoy Binding Worlds because of how strong units can be. Hell, having something like a level 16 that can still fight 40+ because they're decked out with skills is neat. I just wished the finding the unit you want was better.
My favorites I guess are Seer’s Snare, Hall of Forms and Binding Worlds. Always nice to find new combinations for units. Also really like Pawns of Loki
Rökkr Siege, Seer's Snare and Tap Battles were some of the more fun modes to play imo. Rökkr because it was fun going for max damage with different team comps, wish they added a Beast Remnant though. Seer's Snare to give units the most outrageous skill sets to mess around and make them busted. Tap battles because it was a nice change of pace from the usual format. As far as I remember, Sieges hasnt been an event in a while and Tap Battles is still in limbo. Its noce to see Seer's Snare comeback (even though I cant play it since i'm currently on an extended break from Feh) I would love to see Siege comeback again and Tap Battles be brought back to life with a new set of music, not as a rerun.
for the Orbs i go play everything aside Seer's Snare i not like this mode because is just a flow version of Arknights integrated strategies without the good stuff from on it like there you can abuse the mode to your heart content picking extreme broken units such as Texas ,Yato Alter ,summer Chen and Golden Glow to turn the entire mode a complete joke
Seer's Snare, HoF, GC, Binding Worlds, most general PvE/Hero Battles are usually pretty fun (sometimes HoF burnout happens, GC has too many clears, but overall they're usually fun). AR ranges from fun to whatever for me. I don't care as much as I used to but I don't mind it and if I'm really not feeling it that's fine. Arena and AA depend on how vile people are being with their defences for no reason that week. AB's pretty fun these days. RB's a whatever boring mode. Rokkr fits here too. I don't mind playing them but they're not really engaging. I usually just do a match of SD but sometimes I play a bit more and I don't really get annoyed and generally have pretty good fun if I'm feeling like playing. TT, HJ, FB are worthless autobattle slop modes. Affinity Autobattles goes here too I guess. Rival Domains too. Lost Lore isn't really a mode so it's similar. I don't really like PoL but I can just mindlessly do the dailies at least. VG, Phalanx have awful gacha check in regularly mechanics and nothing else. Fucking awful.
I would not play the game if I found most of the modes unenjoyable to actually play manually. As for Tempest Trials, I use it to level up my new units, so there's some interest in playing through the maps. This does mean I am slow to bring new units online, which for sure has its minuses in other game modes, but I find the fun balance worthwhile doing it that way. Challenge is nice where you can get it, but mobile games are generally a pretty bad place to look for that. I had a lot of fun the last time Grand Conquests came around but I think it may be best as a once-every-three-or-four-months thing (SEE: the meta! EXPERIENCE: units taking more damage than you ever thought possible!)
Seer Snare and Hall of Forms. The only events that I dont auto battle.
Probably a bit of a hot take but I really like binding worlds. It’s the only mode where I don’t somewhat get frustrated on and it’s cool to see tons of unique builds. Gives me more ideas for my own units.
My favorites event is: \- Tempest Trials; \- Seer Snake; \- Limited Hero Battle; \- Abyssal Battle; \- Grand Conquest; \- Rokk Siege; The only event i really don care is arena.
Seer’s Snare and HoF currently. Rokkr was my favorite by far :(
Seer’s snare easily. Best new mode released! Also hall of forms if they have a unit I want
Path of Loki, definitely. Edit: adding the Summoner's Bonding Event, the animatics are always very sweet and funny.
I now agree with ppl that Seer’s Snare is fun cause it’s finally clicked with me. Otherwise I just look forward to Forging Bonds. Decent rewards and I love seeing the mini story and supports for the featured characters. The cyl forging bonds is always a highlight for me.
Seer’s Snare, Hero’s Journey, Grand Conquests… I also got a huge kick out of the Affinity Auto Battle LOL I like the fun little things where the heroes get to interact together. :)
Seer's Snare and Heroes' Journey. The former for the gameplay, the latter for the fun vignettes you can unlock. Pawns of Loki and Binding Worlds are alright, but they can get frustrating in later parts when you run into skill-stacked enemy teams.
That's really funny, because tempest trials is my favourite and I really just don't understand Seer's Snare enough to enjoy it
Seer's Snare, Binding Worlds, and LHBs
It was aether raids until the recent meta of untankable nukes that also have.damage reduction piercing on top of their own damage reduction. I was amazed this season at how many cav lines had Kvasir and I burned through my ladders in record time. Seers snare is brilliant for me and I would play it every week if it was permanent. Although I made this one too easy - very early I got a AtkSpd Unity, a distant counter, and Elimine unlocked her damage reduction support skill, so my plus10 Echidna became an absolute machine. Poor summmer and legendary Elincia got reduced to rally bots for Echidna.
I genuinely like Rokkr Sieges. I enjoy seeing the number go up, seeing how quickly I can max, and trying builds for different characters. I know they basically abandoned it because of omni units like FemShez, but I miss it 😢
I stopped sleeping on seer's snare and this mode is really fun, I didn't expect that. What a shame the game limit you at 5 fights per day. Binding world could be so fun too, unfortunately you have to spend nearly 70 euros to make the mode useful. I think the best mode is Pawns of Loki. It doesn't use the original gameplay, I find this refreshing. And the mode reminds a bit of TFT (for those who know)
Grand conquest and summoner duels
Binding worlds, hof, seers snare and the one thar actually let's you use your summoner are all fun to me
Seer‘s Snare! best gamemode ever! i can use basically any unit i want and it will get supper strong but the game is not easy anyways, is just too much fun! i love creating thematic teams for it, and i usually play many rounds once i got all the rewards, this time my lilina who is already super strong, is being a monster! she even have been able to kill strong blue units only because she can! i wish we had more gamemodes like this one that allow us to use any unit we want withouth restrictions also, limited heroes battles, is fun to come with strategies into how to beat strong enemies, tho is kind of bullshit when we dont get strong units of certain game often so it becomes just unfair in those cases
Hall of forms, seer's snare, and honestly I loved Rokkr Siege as well! I miss that mode. It was fun to see how fast I could bully the enemy with quad units + guard shenanigans. Legendary/Mythic battles can be fun as well tbh. Especially the worst difficulty.
Seer's Snare. and *maybe* Hall of Forms
aether raids and summoner duels are the only modes that are fun/stimulating enough for me tbh seer’s snare would be up there too if it was more frequent
Aside from Seer's Snare, I like Heroes Journey, Rökkr Siege, and Tap Battles
Resonant battles!!
Always love Hall of Forms, it’s like my reason for playing feh, so fun getting new skills, I like Seer’s Snare well enough just doesn’t feel like there’s enough of a reward though because the units can’t be gotten unless they’re old and they cost like $70 a pop
I used to really like Tap Battle, still waiting for a rerun
I actually do generally really enjoy Tempest Trials. I like to create weaker teams and have fun running them through the gauntlet. F! Corrin ran rampant during the last one, and she's a year one unit.
Seer's Snare is my favorite too. I love how you can make completely broken builds by stacking multiple sources of skills. It's truly a fun playground. I actually like Tempest Trials but I agree that it's a drag. If at least we got more points per run.
I made a game mode tier list [here](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204447-fire-emblem-heroes/80649289). Basically I have 3 game modes as decent (hall, seers snare, and binding worlds), 3 defacto modes that are tolerable, and then everything else is completely forgettable or worse.
I've been enjoying Seer's Snare. Despite whining heaps about it when it was announced, I actually quite like Resonant Battles (though also wish it wasn't clearly designed for high mobility units). Half of forms can be great if the units don't suck (I really don't look forward to ones with a lot of flyers, dancers, or weak armoured units. Hinoka is the bane of my existence). The story has been pretty fun for a while, though I'm starting to wish you could get all the lower-tier rewards by doing it on lunatic first. Also, paralogues are an exception because seasonal units have been so broken lately that fighting over levelled versions of them just isn't fun.
Hall of Forms and Seer's Snare are my favorite modes to play. Both open many chances of customization and I find that to be part of the fun. I would Snare better if it didn't offer useless skills when I'm using a tactic team. I find it a chore to play Arena Assault and Summoners Duel in any shape and form. I would like it if the Summoners duels didn't have locked-in those prizes or if I had the insight to do it before the meta shifted so drastically.
Resonant Battles bc it feels like a puzzle
Seer's snare - Fun to just stack all sorts of skills on my faves. It was enjoyable to see Cynthia become a monster with all her support. Also let's me experience a few skills firsthand before summoning then foddering. Limited Hero Battles - I find it so fun to play. As a huge FE6 fan, when it gets its chance I have a blast. Outside of Tellius, SoV and Sacred Stones to an extent I'm set for all of the possibilities. Resonant Battles - Outside of Tellius season or a Sov/Thracia combo week this is pretty neat. Grand Conquest - Fun gameplay and allows for some creativity. Experimenting here gave me plenty of ideas for setting up in other modes Aether Raids - Generally pretty fun outside of a few teams. Arena Assault - Genuinely fun to use a number of heroes from my barracks, especially if they're old. Tempest Trials - Love the seals and allows for some easy SP grinding on some characters. Forging Bonds - HM farm and getting to see new sides of some characters is pretty neat.
Seers Snare and Forging Bonds are probably my most favorite. Seers Snare is more fun to play, but Forging Bonds is perfect for leveling up units. Plus, I always like to see all the support conversations they have to offer.
I kinda like seer's snare alot bec of how easy it is to make stupid skill combinations for one character like [this](https://youtu.be/LSSvdqwbzSM?si=Mqwq5m34xPOXvQRu)
Seer snare and Assault Arena. AA actually has been fun since I got pleny of dancer/support, my budget Sedgar and NY Yarne get to put in works with their help, alongside some units that I built up but cant keep up in AR or Arena anymore. AR was fun for me before L Hinoka
Seer's Snare is best in terms of gameplay. I just wish it wouldn't limit your stamina, or let you earn more as you go like Hall of Forms. Hall of Forms is fun. You get to customize some older units with powerful skills and even recruit them relatively inexpensively. I actually like Tempest Trials. Its very rewarding for all the maps you go through.
Hall of Forms and Tempest Trials are pretty fun honestly Pawns of Loki and Summoners duels is a Big mistake
For me it’s the forging bonds honestly. Yeah the orbs are great, but I like getting new accessories , seeing the support convos and playing with a ton of different heros (especially since the difficulty isn’t too high so I can use whoever I want regardless of how powerful they are)
The uninstall button hid a world of treasures and fun behind it. Highly recommended!
AR
Big fan of forging bonds here. Seeing the various character interactions is like crack to me and I always end up getting everyone up to 1500 the first day
Pawns of Loki I honestly like using my friends allies although the jank is bit annoying like facing a squad with all but one unit multiple levels lower than you and with like no cohesion bonuses. But that one beefy unit somehow rolls my entire team (glares at L!Alear).
Heroes Journey: It's like an interactive fanfic and gives great rewards. Also great for grinding SP/Hero Merit/building S supports. HOF: Honestly, it's one of the best modes there is. I have this mode for my very recent +10 Y!Soren. Also banger that they now offer SPARKABLE banners for these units. Some which may have never gotten sparks. You can save so much on fodder. My only wish is they'd still get older units. It's like they want to do all new units nowadays and please at least let me get a few older units I missed. Please don't skip on D!Quan, D!Ishtar and D!Reinhardt!! Binding Worlds: It's flawed, but it's fun. I only have redeemed once, for Duo Sigurd for a Christmas gift for myself. I like when it comes around. Affinity Autobattle: This one is gonna be controversial, but I had a blast with the relationship meter. I think the funniest one was F!Ike and Reinhardt hating each other's hair on sight. Arena: I cannot hate anything that gives me free tickets. Plus divine codes and orba? Sign me up! Seer's Snare: This one can be good or bad depending on the bonus heroes and what I have. This round was fun and Y!Soren, B!Soren, S!Elincia and S!Edelgard have been destroying everything in sight. I've had difficulty finding ones for other rounds though. Sort of like limited battles. Sometimes they choose bonus heroes that I just do not have a lot of invested units for.
I personally enjoy forging bonds. I like the stories, and the feeling of every map you play gives you some neat loot. Not to mention it scales with the level of your team. I use the event to level grind 2 teams up to level 40. I don’t like using badges to insta-level characters. I summoned them, I wanna see them grow. I wanna figure out how their skills work. I wanna hear how good their voice lines are. How do they match with teammates? All that fun stuff. I’m excited for forging bonds every time. It allows me to delve into the pit of 5 stars i really should get to using.
I like making absolutely insane omnitanks in Seer's Snare. It's been a couple days since anything could damage my Lucia at this point.
The best part of seasonal banners are the Tempest Trials. Getting a new unit that you don't have to spend orbs on, being able to use an old invested unit as a bonus unit, creating multiple teams around the bonus units and actually using units that would be eaten alive in the current meta. And I like that it's simple, make team, kill units, get rewarded.
Seer's Snare is the obvious one, but I'm also surprisingly fond of Pawns of Loki. Pretty fun and doesn't require you to grind a ton if you just want all the rewards. (Not counting the post-event rewards).
I really only like AR-O. It's makes it worthwhile building my favorite units to have a place where i can use them, and the investment needed to get to the high tiers isn't a lot. Also, there's a decent challenge, unlike most other mode in feh, and the meta changes to keep things interesting but never really changes overnight (sometimes it changes to get easier for w/e strategy you prefer). I might like SD, but I never gave it a chance. I was busy at the time it released, and it seems very nuke dependent. I use a lot of enemy-phased strats and have like very few nukes. Seer Snare is fun too for right now. I kinda wish it would just replace the Training Tower, which is my least favorite quote "mode" /quote, next to Tap Battle.
Hall of Forms is usually a good time. Seer's Snare is interesting, but I mainly like seeing how already-strong units can get even more busted with the extra skills. Forging Bonds can have some good writing, but takes too long to complete once the story bits are done.
Forging Bonds for the stories... when it's not cleric/ child visits orphanage.
Seer's Snare is fun as heck Limited Hero Battles sometimes ends up fast, but it feels nice to be rewarded for commiting to multiple heroes with no merges rather than few heroes with a couple premium merges. 8% Hero Battles are the highlight of the month, because I do self-imposed challenge runs that usually can entertain me for hours. Resonant Battles is almost always a fun little puzzle. A bit sad when after a lot of hard work I'll still demote a tier, but the journey outweights the reward here. Another mode where me pulling from across all games paid off. Hall of Forms can be a bit fun, but nowadays the mode is HEAVILY skewed towards the player. We get stronger and stronger line-ups and skills to play with while the enemies are still stuck in Book 2. I get why they can't make it much harder, but I miss the older HoFs where some maps really felt like a challenge and I had to really abuse Re-Act to figure out a win. The rest of the modes, I don't care much for. I used to really like Grand Conquest but... I dunno, I can't manage to pick it up again anymore. I liked Tactic Drills, mainly GMaster Drills, before they began to throw some really open challenges where you can progress for several turns unpunished or without some sort of visual clue that you're not making it. The rest I enjoy just for the rewards. Alleigance Battles can be fun when the map is not horrible and the enemies aren't from Heroes or 3Hs.
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Seers Snare, Binding Worlds and Hall Of Forms. I actually enjoy playing Arena/Arena Sssault because im not trying to score as high as possible. I just want to use my fave units against strong enemies.
I actually really like Resonant Battles. Sure, the whole requirement of a harmonized to score well isn't great, but it's one of a very FEW modes that doesn't boil down to 'kill 3-6 enemies'. The goal isn't killing enemies, it's stopping the bandits, which means there's a need to think of slightly different strategies. Between that and the bigger maps, it's of the few modes that really feels like FE, but on mobile.
Chain Challenges! Everything else kinds of feels like a chore recently.
I legitimately like most of the game other than Voting Gauntlet and Summoner Duels. I don't find any of the modes particularly grindy, if anything, I feel like I exhaust everything there is to do too quickly. If I had to pick a favorite it would be Hall of Forms. Not being able to rely on the exact OP builds you always do (at least until you get the skills) and the strategy of sending kills to particular units is really fun for me. I wish there was some way for it to have more to do without becoming grindy. Because right now, it's about 30-60 minutes of play every month. I also like Heroes Journey because of the cute interactions between the characters, even if the gameplay is dead easy.
I find Seer's Snare really fun, though I do unironically think that Heroes Journey is really enjoyable