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if it's anything like cooking for temporary stat buff, you should be able to invite more than 1 person by doing multiple exploring sessions.

Considering that the logo for the DLC is a representation of Sirius (wolf eating the moon) from which Sothis name is based on, it's likely that the Abyss civilisation have at least a connection to her. It's possible they're not even Nabatean, considering not even the church seems to be aware of its existance. It also makes me wonder about the leaked 4 DLC characters : they're seems to be plot-relevant enough that I can't imagine the game just pretending that they've always been in the monastery when there's been no mention of their existance beforehand. Maybe they've fallen to the Abyss, and recently got back up?

Does Jeritza gets more involved in story cutscenes? At the very least, there should be a scene at the start of part 2 where he properly introduce himself.

Does Anna at least have monastery exploration dialogues? If so, that could make up for her lack of support dialogues (yes, I'm still hoping she has more relevance beyond being obsessed with money).

I'm surprised nobody has yet to mention that they finally fixed the attack adjudant's trigger rate.

I always thought the whole point of Shambala was to be as unfitting as humanly possible to hammer the fact that TWSITD can never truly belong in the current world : regardless if they somehow manage to exterminate everything remotely related to the church or decide to make peace with it, they will never be able to go back to the glory days of Agartha, and are doomed to live in a potentially eternal lie (as it's implied they can revive themselve with the crest stones implanted in their bodies, but their true self are essentially rotten to the core).

You can also stack legendary foods, which buff a lot of stats at once. Though granted, that would require a lot of grinding and luck to do it consistently...

With +20hit from mastering archer + accuracy ring, the unit will be accurate enough to make deadeye worthwhile (until you make him/her a bow knight).

Jeritza being free DLC is very telling that the death knight wasn't meant to be merely a one-dimensional black knight copycat. I also have hope that Anna somehow have connection to the 10 elites to get more development here, but I'm probably reaching too far. As for Sothis talking about the 2 sides of time, I assumed she was being literal, as she is is known as "the beginning" while byleth is her end, in a sense. The things that do make me think they had to scrap plot elements are the endings of SS and CF. There's absolutely nothing remotely hinting at either occurrences in the whole game.

Anti-monster combat arts tend to perform a bit better, even without the effective damage, than most basic combat arts, such as wrath strike or smash. Their only restriction is that not everyone can learn them. Plus, having a guaranteed option to instantly destroy shield without using up a gambit is always nice. As low tier, however, definitely exhaustive strike : an art that destroy your weapon in exchange for boosted damaged based on remaining durability. I seriously don't know how to make good use of this... even if I sacrifice a recently forged steel axe, the damage doesn't really justify all the trouble to set it up.

I did see someone accidently skipping an event that despawn TWSITD members after killing Myson by focusing on the left side, then, retreat back to the start to take care of the right, while baiting enemies from the center & throne rooms without stepping foot in them. However, the Bolting/meteor reinforcements are triggered after Edelgard does her monologue and switch her weapons (after you enter the throne room). So that seems a lot harder to skip. Maybe I just somehow forgot about it, but that's hard to believe...

You can do that for the central staircase (the game can even hint at it with dialogues), but not for the 2 north corners rooms. Like I've said, I'm not sure how I managed to prevent the latters.

It's possible to prevent those ambush from triggering, but I'm not sure of the exact condition : I basically split my team in half to cover both side, while ignoring the center room for the most part. Upon entering the throne room, the only reinforcements I had to deal with were from the center room (which didn't have any meteor or bolting).

I prefer to have options for both forms of tanking : while not numerous, there's definitely enemies that are specifically designed to counter one form or the other. Having a diverse army is key to not smash your head against an eventual roadblock.

Best way to deal with Petra is to bait her into attacking a tank, so she doesn't get her alert stance buff, then spam combat arts : the accuracy bonus they provide is usually enough to get the job done. If not, then swordbreaker (and in worse case, gambit her) should do the trick.

- In chapter 4, it's revealed they intended to steal the remains of Seiros and didn't expect to find a sword instead : in other words, they didn't know that Seiros was still alive, as well that Rhea = Seiros until she revealed her dragon form. That's why they had no plan to nuke anything until post-timeskip. - Firing off a nuke expose their location, so it's a major risk for them. So it wouldn't be worth it, as long there's a chance that Seiros will avoid the attack (and she would, as she doesn't care that much about the capital to protect them at this point). - Remember that the empire army was winning the wars. So they didn't feel the need to use the nukes (and again risk their location to be exposed) until the tide started to get reversed. And in the AM route, Arundel/Thales didn't expect Cornelia and her robots to be defeated, and then didn't expect the BL army to ambush them while he was trying to take down the Alliance (who were greatly weakened). The surprise effect is what stopped them from using the nukes. - By the end of any route, the entirety of Fodlan is unified. At this point, their nukes wouldn't have made a difference, as no matter how powerfull they are, they're still lacking in ressource.

Wait, what datamine? The only one I'm aware of is that 4chan post about the wave 4 DLC units being students, and it's very shaky at best...

On the japanese version, Cornelia express surprise that Edelgard would go against them, saying something like "so in the end, we were the one being manipulated all along". With that in mind, Thales nuking the city feels more like a desperate attempt at scaring her, but fail at it. Edelgard's army are the one in power in Crimson Flower, not TWSITD. That would also explain why the TWSITD's destruction get off-screened : they never stood a chance once she learned to trust other peoples.

For Anna, I can easily imagine her focusing on bow + gauntlet just because those have currently the least amount of relics. And I'm expecting her to have the Ernest crest. As for Jeritza, I believe he will actually have a weakness in all weapons and strength or hidden talent in faith. Why? Assuming he will only be available in CF's post-timeskip, I expect he will follow the Gotoh archetype : high base stats, and the same skills ranks he have as an enemy Death Knight, but abysmal growth (except in magic and resistance, for the sake of irony).

In general, only intermediate classes are worth going out of your way for, if you only want to increase an unit's base stats. The requirements for advanced classes and beyond is too much to be worth the extra investement, and their bases aren't high enough to compensate. That being said, I think peoples underestimate the temporary class-change stats far too much : +10 def on Forteress Knight is huge, and more than make up for the speed debuff (unlike the mounted classes), even if you have no interest in its growth.

About the very first cutscene, upon starting a new game :

That's rather worrying for Cyril : he's an auto-recruit for the church route and only join at the end of the 1st part of the game. It would be a very annoying oversight from the dev if he's litteraly impossible to use here, outside of normal mode.

So in other word, Cyril, Catherine and Hilda get pretty much screwed over in maddening church route (even without counting the class abilities), or do they get the same perk as Seteth?

Doesn't Dedue have another factor in his final level upon joining back the team post-timeskip? I remember him appearing as level 28, and I'm certain none of my units were higher levels than the enemies pre-timeskip.

Cheating because I saw it on tvtrope but : while gardening, one of the cultivation option is called "pegasus blessing". Convert that to real-life horse and... well... On the same subject, Holst's personal "issue" in hilda's and edelgard's paralogue might count as well (but I haven't played those yet, so I dunno how subtle they are about it).