Karrius

Thanks for all the advice! I'll plan out my group ahead of time, and can't wait to get into it.

So I've just finished up my first run through of three houses, doing hard mode BE Edelgard route (after not playing a FE since the GBA!), and found it pretty easy overall. For my next playthrough, I'm thinking of doing a Maddening Golden Deer, no NG+, and was looking for some advice. I've seen a lot of people disagree on the best way to spend time - some have suggested using the sauna and classrooms to train up skills, while others insist on ignoring them and just doing one exploration a week, and then aux battles, to get all that class XP. I was leaning towards the second, but was worried if fights would give enough money to keep weapons in good shape, and if weapon skills would fall behind. How has either plan particularly worked for you? In addition, do you normally have 9 good fighters + a dancer for your route, or do you focus on less, and have the others there for rallying? I didn't use rallying at all, but it seems to be a pretty big deal for maddening runs from what people say. I'd like to use as many of the GD characters as possible, just to see their support conversations and stuff, but also understand if I've gotta swap some out for better characters.