xypher

Personally for me it usually depends on the game, but I tend to have some general go-tos: For Favourites: Mage/Sage, or any Tome-using lines, including (and maybe especially) healers with Tomes. They've always been good to me, even if they're a bit silly early-game. They always turn in to powerhouse units later on in my runs, so I usually begin a new FE with high expectations for later-game Tome users. Flier classes are also fantastic, thanks to ridiculous range and they usually can dodge well. Though, as noted, this depends on the game. For Least Favourites: Base Archers. They're squishy and die too often in my runs because of terribad RNG. I usually try to reclass my archers in to something that can counter close-range stuff, and keeping their bows stashed until I know they wont become fine red meat piles the next turn or I absolutely need a man dead. Also Base Knights. You clunky bastards. I love your high Def, but you're worthless unless staying put, and let's hope no one has an Armourslayer.

I generally prefer Japanese voices, but I do have exceptions at times depending on how close the voice is to the character. Most of the time I feel the Japanese voices hit it better (due to being cast with the original character designs in mind even if the females tend to have ear-piercing voices) but I've seen a fair share of games who cast more fitting English counterparts. (Not to mention I'm trying to better my listening skills in Japanese.) So I'll probably keep them in Japanese for if/Fates, and then briefly flick over to English for curiosity's sake. If I like the English VA's better, then heck, I'll keep 'em English.

[spoiler=Hoshido potentials] and or (maybe Invisible Kingdom for third one?) [spoiler=Nohrian potentials] or Fantastic work though. Loads a funsies, way too much fun for someone like me. (Hello indecisiveness/millions of stories!)

Oh oops. I didn't notice the edit, since before it just said "FE." Oooh, okay. I'm still new enough to the series to make dork mistakes so I'm glad people are helping to clarify stuff.

Sounds fair! I'll keep that in mind. Though does the marriage bit from FE carry in to 3 since 3 is a remake and a sequel or am I being dumb again?

I'd be mighty impressed if I managed anything but a bad ending on a blind run tbh. I just started it up so here's to a misadventure!

I just wanna know before I dive in if FE3's not going to entirely beat me up for not learning some little dance routine trick or something. If it is possible to do so (even if frustratingly hard) then I might do a play log of it for luls, including times reset/reasons for reset if they're significant enough to note. I've never done a play log before to be quite honest, but they seem very interesting to do. I'm just curious as to if anyone would be interested in watching someone semi-new to FE stumble about an older game.

I'm gonna just sit down and take a good, hard look at my brain because this suddenly made the guide snippet click. ::Throws 3DS across room and leaves:: But seriously though, thanks. I've been strangely unable to comprehend some small, key parts and I just feel really dumb for absolutely no reason. Time to go wreck a chapter. EDIT: Cleared Ch.3 finally, then thoroughly wrecked 4 with my own strat first go. Feels good, man.

I thought about that too but that means baiting the enemy to follow, though the guide noted "[From here, it's very easy to make a death-zone choke point, since you can sprawl your ten remaining units out behind a face-tanking Avatar that only faces one enemy at a time.]" (Taken directly from the guide's Ch.3 route, bolded part is what is slightly confusing me.)

Man I feel dumb. Either my brain isn't functioning, or I'm severely misreading stuff. So I'm following Interceptor's Lunatic+ guide somewhat and on Ch.3 they note that there's a spot where the Avatar can tank with their face on the top-half, but only need to face one enemy. Where the heck is that spot again? Btw, I'm only partially following because A: only playing Lunatic, not +, and B: planning to DLC grind like the cheap bastard I am.

Varied voices, even just a couple new skin tones, accessories, and definitely more hair styles. I found it rather frustrating trying to design new Avatars for each playthrough when a majority of the selectable choices were weird or downright silly. I'm looking at you, Build 2 FeMU with the crazy lion's mane hair and eye patch! What were they even thinking? Selectable personality would be neat too; I don't need 50 million choices, just gimmie a few that stand out against each other and I'll be content. I also dig the suggestion of customizable armour palettes for Kamui. I want my blue magic-caster, dammit!

Yeah, now I'm just trying my hand at Ch.3. Having the pincer attack start is not very fun at all.

I usually have the first wave under control because I hand off the Elixir to Avatar and then pair her with Frederick. The issue is though if I move north and east of the Merc to hit with Thunder, Avatar gets thoroughly wrecked (I'm trying to not rely on Fred too much, which MAY be my issue) but moving north and to the west of the Merc, I get THREE enemies tailing my squishies. Freddy's not good enough to OHKO the Merc either, but I'll see about potential other pairings. Maybe I can sit Avatar with Stahl adjacent to Freddy to give her his Pair-Up boosts on top of Stahl's and reduce potential facings? EDIT: Axe guys aren't TOO bad if you pull The Swordening act. I found often that getting people equipped with a Bronze Sword significantly helps, since the lance guys don't tend to do too much damage. EDIT 2: Finished! Did Frederick/Sully and FeMU/Stahl. Kept them next to each other, gave Frederick FeMU's Bronze Sword to fix Axe WTA, RNG played fair. I even managed some TERRIFYINGLY CLOSE scrapes that usually shouldn't be survived haha. I wound up using all three Elixir uses to keep my tanks alive though, which sucks massively.

Thankfully my Avatar is something akin to a gigantic pile of DEF (thanks to Def Asset) so that's not too bad of an issue. I guess the main issue is the damn Mercs i said mym on accident gg me tend to double whoever they chase, or haxxors their way to the squishiest of my team. Or crit. I am not an RNG-friendly man.

Currently just started a Lunatic/Classic file, on Ch.2. Proceeding to cry because RNG just loves to hate me, but it's been oddly fun and very satisfying to beat what I can. It's especially fun to see how wonky the A.I can be. I'm looking at you, 4-Misses-In-A-Row Avatar! Though trying to get everyone to escape on the first turn is kind of weird and it's rarely consistent, so I always wind up with a Mym or Barb tailing them when they're all far too squishy to really do anything about it. Maybe my issue is keeping them paired up like the dork I am? This is my first time attempting an FE Harddo Modo so Edited because "it's bee oddly" go me.

Ah! Okay. This is why you don't play games in the wee morning hours, kids, you mess up stuff like that. Thanks for the clarification.

Okay, I must be either dumb or misunderstanding, but what exactly did this part mean? Having Fred/Chrom duo lead the Barbs/Mercs around until Elthunder Mage is dead? Sorry, everything else made sense but I never got this part. Edit: Oh christ I didn't realize the last post was almost a month ago. Sorry!

We need to be friends. Like right now. I sense you have a lot of Gaius. Hey thanks! I'm having fun here so I'll probably stay a while. Never was a forum-goer so I'm slowly getting into it.

Grabby hands mode is active Yes where is the Gaius. I've been enjoying it! I'm not much of a forum-goer but it's been pretty cool. Been trying to figure out which sub-forums to dwell in though. Too many choices.

Awakening, Lunatic/Classic file. .... I am thoroughly boned. Rest in pieces me.

Man, I know how this feels. I generally just try to help other people though and that helps me not focus on my own issues as much (if they're avoidable things like unneeded paranoia.) Or cats. Cat videos help me. Unfortunately I can't offer better advice! If I could I'd spill the beans but a lot of advice is touch-and-go depending on the people. Some brains like the advice, some don't. BUT I am totally willing to let you vent to me in PMs if you need a vent board. I wouldn't blame you if you declined though.

It appears I awoke near a strange forest with a case of amnesia. Jokes aside, hello! I am Xypher, master of all things awkward and nonsensical with a half-working brain. I have been lurking off and on (mostly off because I'm lame) this site looking at the main site itself. I recently came across it while looking for FE music and again when looking up a Lunatic+ strat guide for FE13 because I hate myself and wanted to cry :'D and decided on a whim to join. Like the dork I truly am I decided to sit in the chatroom for a while before I posted on the Your Profile thread, but I had a pretty damn fun time. A small bit about me: I am a rainbow of a man, 19, from California, U S of A(butt). I (at the current time of writing this) have an obsession with Gaius and Laurent from FE:A but a lot of the guys are extremely cute? Um?? so we're gonna be good pals right away if you get me on a topic about them. I draw a lot. I'm not good at it, but I do it. I also design a lot of stuff, from lore to mythologies to stories to characters--I love it. Except I'm too shy to share it half the time. I try to hard to be funny most of the time whoops. I'm also ending my intro post now. Gotta conquer them Emblems of Strong Embers.

98. Krabby. The irony hurts so hard.

I wanna say try a different email. I remember seeing that before but I honestly forgot how I fixed it, oops! I think their servers might be goofing up though.