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According to the BExp guide, completion bonuses are not present in hard mode. There are a couple of complications. With the sand hindering her, I may need to kill some c15 laguz to avoid getting surrounded. Mist can't befriend Naesala, so not killing ravens is impossible. She also can't shove, so some priest casualties are unavoidable. I anticipate about half of that BExp being obtainable. With the easy BExp, 20 Ena is possible, but I'm not sure that she can kill Ashnard without energy drops and speedwings. There may be a way to manipulate her growths in my favor though.

The problem is that getting Ike to 20/20 requires 6880 BExp. Ena requires 3109 BExp. I currently have 1770 BExp and am unlikely to get much more, since it takes Mist close to 50 turns to complete each chapter. On that note, I realized that playing in Fixed mode was probably a mistake as the method to maximize real exp per BExp (adding 1 exp at a time) will screw over growths. I stealthed c10 and did not bother opening any chests. I had to change my rules a bit to get through c11 as Ike was getting destroyed. I deployed Marcia to rescue Ike and hang out on the river. Mist has now reached the important milestone of 12 strength, allowing her to wield Steel Swords! The next chapter will be a mess as there will be nowhere to run.

Last time around, I used the old wrath+resolve Ena to do the job. I could do that again or I could use BExp on Ike. It takes a lot less BExp to get Ena to L20, but her growths on fixed are terrible. On the other hand, I won't be able to get an Occult until c27, so even with the BExp, Ike still won't be able to avenge his father's death Here's how the rest of c9 went.

I recently got into the FE franchise. Thanks to Dolphin, I am now able to play FE9, which I never got around to when I still had a GameCube (and a TV). My first playthrough was a female-only "challenge", which turned out to not be much of a challenge. The female cast has quite a number of broken units, including Marcia, Jill, Astrid, Titania, etc. For my second playthrough, I decided to stick to a single character, and after much deliberation settled on... Mist. In this playthrough, I will only use Mist once she becomes available in ch9. From ch10 onwards, I will only deploy (unarmed) Ike and Mist. This will all happen on Hard mode with fixed growths. The obvious challenge is that Mist's strength cap is a meager 20 (16 natural). She is also sadly unable to heal herself. Promoting Mist was more challenging than I expected, as the pirate with the Hand Axe kept killing her. I won't be winning efficiency awards any time soon.