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I can certainly hope for FEW2. With how long Age of Calamity has been out without any updates or even word of DLC, I'm beginning to suspect it may not have any.

If they really wanna squeeze more ladies out of Gaiden, they could give us Sonya's sisters or Nuibaba as banner units, but I don't think it'll come to that. They'd probably sooner give us a mixed banner of Gaiden and OCs.

Yeah, probably. Pretty sure if they did another Nintendo collab, Nintendo would wanna show it off in their own presentation.

I may as well throw in my two cents from the general describe-your-FEW2 thread. I tweaked a few existing skills, most notably making it so all Skills that aren't actually useful in battle have a secondary battle use, like Paragon and Payday. Characters would only have a maximum of five Skill slots, and personal skills cannot be unequipped, so you can only use four inherited Skills at a time. Since this is a Skill thread I'll sort them by utility, rather than character. Stat Boost Skills: HP +20% [Sakura] Strength +15% [Lissa] Magic +15% [Leo] Defense +15% [Hinoka] Resistance +15% [Elise] Speed +15% [Caeda] Skill +15% [Takumi] Luck +15% [Celica] Acrobat (+2 Movement) [Saber] KO Reward Skills: Sol (Unchanged) [Cordelia] Dancing Blade (Increased movement speed for 5 seconds after KOing an enemy captain) Strengthtaker (+1% Strength for every 100 KOs, max 25%) [Dorcas] Magictaker (+1% Magic for every 100 KOs, max 25%) [Mae] Defensetaker (+1% Defense for every 100 KOs, max 25%) [Draug] Resistancetaker (+1% Resistance for every 100 KOs, max 25%) [Clair] Skilltaker (+1% Skill for every 100 KOs, max 25%) [Severa] Speedtaker (+1% Speed for every 100 KOs, max 25%) [Jaffar] Lucktaker (+1% Luck for every 100 KOs, max 25%) [Annette] Offensive Skills: Luna (Unchanged) [Chrom] Aether (Combines the effects of Luna and Sol, at half-effectiveness. Can stack with both for 150% efficiency.) [Ike] Resonating Power (Unchanged) [Owain] Dragonskin (Increases Strength and Magic by 15% of Defense and Resistance, respectively) [Validar] Vengeance (Works the same as before, but self-damage is now enabled manually, via the potion/staff context menu) [Tharja] Trample (Unchanged) [Camilla] Heartseeker (Slightly increases damage dealt to enemies equipped with Swords, Lances, Axes, or Gauntlets) [Gharnef] Anti-Sniper (Slightly increases damage dealt to enemies equipped with Bows, Tomes, Daggers, or Stones) [Ursula] Murderous Intent (Increases damage dealt to named targets by +10%) [Death Knight] Conqueror (Increases damage dealt when in an enemy fortress) [Alm] Outdoor Fighter (Increases damage dealt when not in a fortress) [Eliwood] Persecution Complex (Deal +50% damage for 5 seconds after suffering damage yourself) [Bernadetta] Astra (Unchanged) [Ryoma] Defensive Skills: Pavise (Also decreases damage taken from Gauntlets now) [Frederick] Aegis (Also reduces damage taken from Daggers now) [Xander] Pass (Unchanged) [Lyn] Armored Blow (Unchanged) [Tiki] Staunch Shield (Decreases damage taken and increases HP regain rate when in an allied fortress) [Dedue] Wary Fighter (Guarding protects the unit from all sides, not just the front) [Lukas] Counter (Unchanged) [Oboro] Counterattack (When guarding, reflects some ranged damage back at attackers) [Berkut] Quick Riposte (Guarding against an enemy attack increases power by 20% for 5 seconds) [Hector] Iote's Shield (Unchanged) [Minerva] Recovery Skills: Quick Salve (Doubles the number of times Potions can be used per battle) [Boey] Staff Savant (Doubles the number of times Staves can be used per battle) [Flayn] Potent Potion (Unchanged) [Kaze] Live to Serve (Unchanged) [Felicia] Trickery (When using a Potion or Staff, significantly damages surrounding enemies) [Claude] Wrathful Staff (Weaponized Staves such as Freeze and Pain have their potency increased) [Genny] Meter Regain Skills: Quick Wit (Unchanged) [Linde] Special Spiral (Increases Warrior gauge gain for KOing enemy captains) [Gray] Galeforce (Nerfed to only increase Awakening gauge regain; split in half to make Special Spiral) [Olivia] Critical Hit Skills: Seal Strength: (Reduces enemy Strength by 30% after striking them with a Critical Hit) [Rowan] Seal Defense (Reduces enemy Defense by 30% after striking them with a Critical Hit) [Darios] Seal Magic (Reduces enemy Magic by 30% after striking them with a Critical Hit) [Lianna] Seal Resistance (Reduces enemy Resistance by 30% after striking them with a Critical Hit) [Lysithea] Lethality (Unchanged) [Niles] Stun Gauge Skills: Staggering Blow (When the unit forcefully exposes an enemy's Stun Gauge, slightly increases the duration of Stun Gauge exposure) [Edelgard] Fiendish Blow (Breaking an enemy's white stun gauge is treated the same as breaking a yellow stun gauge) [Hubert] Savage Blow (Non-targeted enemies caught in the crossfire of a Critical Hit suffer full damage as if they had been the primary target) [Dimitri] Awakening Skills: Awakening (Unchanged) [Lucina] Clock Up (Increases Movement by 5 during Awakening) [Ninian] Inevitable End (Increases the amount of Awakening meter regained from reaching KO milestones during Awakening) [Iago] Dark Burst (Greatly increases the power of a manual Awakening Finisher) [OC Villain] Pair Up Skills: Dual Strike+ (Increases the rate at which the Dual Strike meter recharges when in Pair Up) [Roy] Dual Guard+ (Increases the rate at which the Dual Guard meter recharges when in Pair Up) [Mathilda] Professor's Guidance (Increases Warrior and Awakening gain rates for the Vanguard when this unit is in the Support position) [Byleth] Solidarity (Unchanged) [Robin] Dracoshield (Unchanged) [Corrin] Amaterasu (Unchanged) [Azura] Advocate (Increases Pair Up stat bonuses when unit is in Pair Up with a male ally) [Hilda] Guardian (Increases Pair Up stat bonuses when unit is in Pair Up with a female ally) [Seteth] Charm (Increases Support point gain, increases stat bonuses gained from Pair Up) [Player Avatar] Veteran's Guidance (Increases experience gain rate and Weak Point Gauge depletion rate for the Vanguard when this unit is in the Support position) [Jagen] Lone Wolf (Unchanged) [Navarre] Bonus: Paragon (In addition to increased experience gain, now provides +3% to all stats, so it's not deadweight at max level) [Marth] Aptitude (KOs count double for unlocking weapon attributes, and also provides +3% to all stats) [Ninian] Payday (In addition to boosting dropped gold, now provides +1% damage increase for every 500 gold collected mid-battle, up to 10% max) [Anna]

If you check my most recent post in the "Describe your FEW2" thread, I did some work with Skills there if you want some input. I didn't get too meticulous with the balancing, but I did make some adjustments to existing skills and come up with some new ones.

Most would be fine, as long as characters with long, narrow dresses aren't trying to ride a mount, or characters in heavy armor don't switch to a lightweight class or vice-versa (Not that it stopped the last game from still counting broken armor Frederick as an armored unit). A simple fix would be making certain costumes restricted on a per-class basis. FEW1 already went out of its way to give each character a second outfit for their promoted look, I wouldn't mind trading that in for a secondary class outfit instead.

I have taken my character list from earlier and expanded it with Prf weapons and innate skills, for a more in-depth look. Darios is now a main-story character instead of a bonus villain, new Warriors OCs has been reduced to just one protagonist and one villain. Some existing Skills have been moved around or modified. I've added Gray and Genny to the roster, and tweaked some classes. In addition to healing staves, target-based staves such as Freeze, Warp, Enfeeble, and Pain are available, with an aiming system similar to Age of Calamity's elemental rods. This is only really relevant for Genny's personal skill. Warriors Originals: Shadow Dragon: Shadows of Valentia: Blazing Sword: Awakening: Fates: Three Houses: Bonus:

I agree with 1, 3, and 4, and half-agree with 5. I agree that each unit should have two separate movesets (as I've often outlined in my own hypotheticals), but I'd sacrifice in-battle hotswapping in favor of just choosing a weapon before battle and sticking with that moveset for the whole fight like in Hyrule Warriors, with the benefit being that characters can have different movement types between their two movesets. With each character having some combination of two movesets, plus more diversified stats and both innate skills and innate weapon attributes, they'd play sufficiently different IMO. Would also help if the weapon strength cap remained at 240 instead of going all the way to 720, so stats matter more. 2 would be neat, but seems superfluous on top of everything else.

Hmmmmmm............

I don't think either is a good idea. War of Heroes doesn't have any notable characters other than the Four Saints, Seiros, and Nemesis. Everybody else would have to be OCs, which isn't really the main draw of a Fire Emblem Warriors title, or the Ten Elites, who aren't remarkable at all. 5-year interquel is a problem if you have Byleth, since their allegiance would have to be canonized as one of the four routes, and even then most of the main characters didn't actually do anything during those five years; most of them just managed their home territories, or were presumed dead like Dimitri. The latter is more workable if you choose to deviate from canon, but at that point why bother even setting it in the intermission? You're better off just adapting the post-timeskip war itself and making it some sort of fifth path that's basically a best-of compilation of the other four routes.

As I've said before in other threads, a Chain Challenge mode where you play five consecutive maps using a set of 4-8 characters, with your characters' health carrying over from one to the next. Enemy Str and Mag stats would be abnormally high so that dying is an actual realistic possibility, forcing you to play carefully like a real FE game. Like in FEH, I think that would be a more creative implementation of FE's permadeath mechanic than how the current game just forces you to buy them back if they die in any mode.

I don't think it's likely. Breath of the Wild has a lot of canon characters in its past that it can draw on, including Link and Zelda themselves. A hypothetical Three Houses prequel game would only really feature Seiros, the Four Saints, and Nemesis. Most everybody else would have to be an OC.

So I previously posted my idealized roster here, but now I'll try and devise some general structure to this hypothetical sequel. Startup: When beginning a new game, you're no longer asked to choose a difficultly setting or choose between Classic/Casual mode; Classic mode no longer exists as it was in FEW1, perma-death isn't a thing except in a mode I'll outline later. From the main menu, you can access Story Mode, History Mode, Chain Challenge, Gallery, and Settings. Gallery and Settings are exactly what you'd expect so I won't be covering those. Characters: I already outlined the roster and movesets in the previous post, but for some more detail: Every character (except the playable villains) has two movesets; the secondary one is unlocked by using a Second Seal on them, which can be acquired as rewards from the various modes just like Master Seals. Maybe some characters could even get a tertiary moveset as part of DLC, but that may be excessive. The OC heroes, new characters, and a small handful of important returning veterans (Chrom, Marth, ect.) would be unlocked during the story. Other returning vets such as Cordelia, Navarre, and Sakura would be unlocked in History Mode or Chain Challenge. The villains, in addition to only having one moveset, would probably also have no support conversations. They can still earn support ranks with other characters for gameplay benefits, however. They're meant more as non-canon bonuses. Weapons/Skills: All characters' Prf weapons for their primary class are available in the base game; some start out with them, some acquire them during the story, and some have to unlock them in History Mode or Chain Challenge. These weapons can also be upgraded to full power with Weapon Scrolls; rather than each Prf weapon having a personalized scroll, you can instead find Sword, Lance, Axe, Tome, Bow, Dagger, Gauntlet, or Stone Scrolls, which can be used on any weapon of the given type. Prf weapons for secondary classes (and enough Scrolls to bring those to full power) are unlocked from DLC content; until then, characters will have to rely on generic Brave/Hero weapons. All Prf weapons, primary or secondary, have a built-in Attribute in their seventh slot. For example, Chrom's Falchion has Dragonslayer like before, while Navarre's Wo Dao now has Critical+ or something. Bows all still have innate Wingslayer independent from the personalized Attributes. All characters have personal Skills like before; they can no longer un-equip their own Skill, but can equip up to four additional Skills learned from other characters, for a total of five. Tharja's may be re-balanced to make it not a nuisance you're stuck with. Costumes: All characters have four basic costumes: Normal appearance (available by default) Promoted appearance (available after using a Master Seal) Secondary class appearance (available after using a Second Seal; there's no promoted secondary appearance, that'd be excessive) Broken Armor appearanace (forced into this costume if subjected to the Armor Break attribute; maybe can now be chosen as an actual starting outfit if you so desire?) Three Houses characters would have both pre-timeskip and post-timeskip appearances, if applicable. Byleth would have both male and female versions. All extra costumes from the first game return (including female Robin and male Corrin), and there'd be a handful of new ones as well. Story Mode: Exactly what you'd expect. Difficulty is chosen on a per-level basis (Easy, Normal, and Hard by default, Lunatic added after finishing the story). You are not prompted to choose a protagonist as was the case with Rowan and Lianna; the three new OC protagonists are simply given to you within the first level or two. After clearing a stage, you can replay it with any characters you want. To accomodate Three Houses content, some stages (here and in other modes) may now allow for four separate factions; the player's blue team and three separate enemy teams in red, yellow, and... purple, since green is already used for NPC allies. History Mode: Functions like it did in the previous game. There are several maps to begin with: Shadows of Valentia map Blazing Sword map Three Houses map Binding Blade map: Roy is unlocked here Path of Radiance map: Ike is unlocked here. Warriors 1 map: A map based on the first Warriors game. Includes Rowan, Lianna, and a handful of other veteran characters. Villain Challenge (Free DLC): A map contrasting to the first game's free Hero Challenge map. This one has you playing as (and unlocking for general use) villain characters such as Darios, Validar, Berkut, ect. Additional paid DLC maps for SoV, Blazing Sword, and Three Houses, and maybe a fourth pack based collectively on Shadow Dragon, Awakening, and Fates. Character restrictions are somewhat more common than in the first game, with some missions requiring you to use a specific character as your leader. As before, though, clearing the map with an S-rank will remove this restriction. As before, Anna's Mementos can be collected here as well as in Story Mode. Rather than unlocking a new difficult mission on the History Mode maps, however, they'd unlock a Chain Challenge. Chain Challenge: This is how I'd implement Fire Emblem's signature perma-death mechanic, instead of having it intrude in Story and History mode. In this mode, you are tasked with choosing eight of your characters. These eight characters must then complete five consecutive maps (you may suspend your challenge between maps and come back to it later), with any damage they take-- and any deaths that occur --carrying over from one map to the next. Healing options are limited and enemies deal more damage than usual, so you cannot afford to take risks with your characters. If all eight characters die, you'll get a game over and have to start the challenge over from the first map. Successfully completing a Chain Challenge would earn you a large trove of rewards; first-time clears would give you new Prf Weapons, Scrolls, costumes, or even characters, while repeat clears could earn you rare materials or weapons. There'd be several Chain Challenges available at varying difficulties (with the Anna ones being super-hard), with the paid DLC adding more.

Nemesis is now the final boss of Silver Snow (and properly foreshadowed there). Verdant Wind is completely changed to actually be about Claude and the Leiscter Alliance/Almyra, instead of fighting against the off-topic Agarthans and Nemesis. No gender-locked classes. Males can become Pegasus Knights, Falcon Knights, Gremories, Valkyries, and Dark Fliers; females can become Brawlers, Grapplers, War Masters, Dark Mages, Dark Bishops, and Heroes. On New Game Plus, after the five-year timeskip, a new option is added to the renown shop allowing you to buy Einherjar versions of certain characters. These replicas do not appear in the story and do not have supports, but can be used in battle just like any other unit: Jeralt (Cleared any route) Rhea (Cleared any route) [includes Seiros costume if Crimson Flower has been cleared] Sothis (Cleared any route) Kronya (Cleared any route) [includes Monica costume] Solon (Cleared any route) [includes Tomas costume] Thales (Cleared Verdant Wind or Silver Snow) [includes Arundel costume if Azure Moon has been cleared] Cornelia (Cleared Crimson Flower or Azure Moon) Lonato (Cleared any route) Miklan (Cleared any route) Kostas (Cleared any route) Pallardo (Cleared any route) Metodey (Cleared any route) Acheron (Cleared any route) Gwendal (Cleared any route) Ladislava (Cleared Crimson Flower) Randolph (Cleared Crimson Flower) Nemesis (Cleared Silver Snow) Rodrigue (Cleared Azure Moon) Judith (Cleared Verdant Wind) Nader (Cleared Verdant Wind) Aelfric (Cleared Cindered Shadows) Edelgard, Hubert, Jeritza, Dimitri, Dedue, Gilbert, Claude, Hilda, Catherine, Cyril, Flayn, and Seteth may be purchased as well, but only on routes where they are not normally available, and only if you've already cleared a route where they were available. Cindered Shadows: I dunno, I thought it was pretty perfect as-is. I guess if I had to impose one change it'd be removing Constance's split personality gimmick, and making her purely her haughty "indoor" version, but that's more of a change to her general characterization than the mode itself.

I just want a sequel in the same style as the first game, with more characters and games represented. Age of Calamity is cool-looking but I don't want that for FEW when it's still got so much more to bring in from past games.