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No. Paralogues generally tend to be like 3 levels higher than the normal story battle from my experience. I personally find them fine going in underleveled however I am also playing on normal so take that as you will. Everyone has a personal skill, you get a class skills at level 5 in advanced classes (which cannot be unequipped nor can be used in other classes) and then you have two slots for inherited skills from emblems.

I'm on chapter 15 rn, normal mode. I'm primarily using the stewards + royals (also Yunaka and Seadall if there is an extra deployment slot) Best: Diamant. He's just crazy good. His promoted class is amazing, he just enemy phases so well with a tomahawk and has crazy damage out put. He's also surprisingly fast, having stolen some kills from units. Ivy. Mage fliers are amazing. Her with alacrity is just overkill. She doubles pretty much all the time and dishes out amazing damage. It was very unexpected. Céline. Was she meant to be a speedy unit cause she's probably one of my fastest units. Is she super squishy? Yes. Does she kill most things before they have the chance to kill her, also yes. Worst: Clanne. His magic sucks. Every magic user post Clanne outclasses him in every way. He's just so... yeah. After having promoted him to mage knight, he is somewhat more serviceable and he does double quite often, however his damage out put is well, shite. Most disappointing: Alfred. He has gotten better, however for a long time he lagged behind and he has horrible speed. Also, some spoilers:

Thus far on normal mode (just finished chapter 13), Lyn's paralogue was by far the hardest. Had to use the time crystal multiple times cause Vander kept dying. It was also by far the level with most enemy density. It probably didn't help that my units may not be the strongest. Am doing Ike's paralogue next which I've heard is quite hard so we shall see if Lyn's paralogue is dethroned. EDIT: Yep, can confirm Ike's is harder lol

Yeah I was the same. I've promoted everyone thus far at 13-15, which is weird since normally I wait till 17/18 at minimum. I do definitely think it's preferable tho. Base classes pretty much provide nothing. Rip Vander tho... I will use him none the less.

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of ambush spawns. As well as that, the early game felt very tedious whereas engage doesn't seem to be as much based on what I've heard and seen.

Anyone know a good way to grind supports?

Am currently playing on normal/classic for a first run but I think for my next run I'll go up to maddening and see how I go. From what I've been hearing, maddening seems quite fun compared to TH.

I would love to see them add it in a future update. While this game ends more akin to Awakening where you just teleport to before the final battle and you have the whole world map to explore and keep you company, I do think a NG+ would be fun where you could play the game from the beginning with all the emblem skills you've gotten and stuff.

Tbh, I feel like promoting at ASAP in this game would be best tbh. Seeing as how second seals can bring you back to level 1 of your current class once you hit level 20, I don't see promoting early would have any downsides, especially considering how base classes don't really offer anything

Can you equip class skills outside of their classes or do you have to be in the class to use its class skill?

I can't say for sure, however I have heard of people who have managed to get it at midnight in their timezones so I assume that would be the case for everyone.

You can use a second seal to reclass into the class you are already in once you reach level 20. However you don't gain any stats by doing so, it does allow you to start from level 1 again retaining any stats you had gained by level up

I believe it's available at midnight in your time zone

Seeing as more people are getting a hold of the game (and that it comes out tomorrow) I thought it would be ideal to create this thread so that people could ask any questions they may have here! Reminder, keep spoilery questions in spoiler tags.

Yes grinding is present

Well damn. He does look good tho. I wonder if we'll get one tomorrow for release day.

Whoops forgot about him. Yeah Sombron would make sense. Hopefully a cute Sommie for release day will happen.

Mika Pikazo countdown, Veyle edition Will probably be the Alears tomorrow for D-1 seeing as everyone else on the SE boxart has been covered. Hopefully we get something nice for release day too cause I am loving her art

So growths will still be random to an extent. As in, two playthroughs wont be the exact same. In Fates/Lunatic how it worked is that upon recruitment, growths were set and that's what you got for the playthrough and normally your unit would have around what would be their expected averages. So you could reset before you finish a unit's recruitment map and get different growths but anything after is still random technically. We'll probably have to wait until we do more datamining to see how it will work exactly but that's kinda the gist of things

NoA trying to market three days before release wow...

So our friend from Nintendo World Report has shared what the Growth Method we've seen is and how it works. As expected, there is random and fixed growths. Random is default on Normal and Hard, with fixed being unlocked after being them. On Maddening however, fixed is the default (much like how in Fates Lunatic, that has fixed growths) and you have to beat Maddening to unlock random mode. So what are your thoughts on this? Personally I'm a fan. It will certainly make Maddening interesting, and hopefully more balanced than it was in Three Houses.

The only data left from DLC in the datamine is the name of the emblems included. After that, we know nothing else. We'll have to wait until the DLC actually comes out. @bookwormbabe29 around ~12 units is what you have available for deployment often. I believe endgame has Alear+13 available. Also yes, skirmishes are available for grinding much like Awakening.

Yeah that makes sense actual. I saw some images of the Emblems 'portraits' in Vincent's dump so I was hoping we'd have some for the pcs but it makes sense that the portraits for the pcs are stored separately

Mika Pikazo countdown post; Clanne and Framme edition. She posted it late (probably because she did two illustrations)