Fire Emblem Heroes [Free] is a lot of fun, but there are definitely a couple of things about it that can be a bummer. One of the biggest things is how maddeningly hard it is to rank up a star ranking on a hero. Moving a hero up from the four-star "almost useful" rank to the five-star "I'll keep them" rank requires grinding of two different items, and neither is particularly easy to come by. From now until the end of the month, however, Nintendo is making it a little bit easier to stock up on one of them.
Hero Feathers have quickly become the bane of many players. You need 20,000 of them to rank a four-star hero up to five-stars, and the only way to earn a decent amount of them is through participating in the Arena Duels mode. You'll score points based on your successful attacks and defenses, and at the end of each season, you'll earn some Hero Feathers based on your best scores. Seasons last one week, and if you're the very best in the world, you can earn just over 7,000 feathers. It's highly likely that you're not the best in the world, though, so you'll probably get between 1,000 and 2,000 feathers per week if you play your allotted three battles every day. That means you'll be able to rank a character up once every few months at best. Boo!
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Enter the new Arena Promotion event. First of all, log in today and you should receive 10,000 feathers from a Twitter event Nintendo was running. You'll also get 1...