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A year or two ago, I played [Fire Memeblem 0, by SD9k. It's a meme edit of FE7 where every player unit has 0 in all of their bases, barring HP, which was set to 1. It's obviously and intentionally unfair, as FE7 was never designed to be played with such incompetent player units. But recently I thought to myself, what if it was? This hack is designed around the restrictions of extremely weak player units. Each of the 8 playable units in this hack has 1 base HP and 0 base everything else. To compensate for this, additional restrictions are in place. Everything is locked at 100% hit, and growths are fixed. Weapons have had to be slightly altered to fit in with this style. New stuff! - Ring System FE4's ring system is present in this hack, but the rings present all have explicit downsides, giving them more strategic use. All or Nothing could be exactly what you need to secure a kill, but it also renders the few existing methods of taking hits unviable. Ring bonuses also stack. - Refined Dancer Rings (note: no longer rings to avoid confusion) Thanks to the hack's short nature, you can use weaker versions of Filia's Might and Nini's Grace wherever they may help you, without fear of needing them later. These two mechanics work together to create statstacking in a form very similar to Fates. - Maps This hack consists of 5 relatively short maps, each with a unique look and song. Enjoy the game's gradual shift from puzzle to traditional FE as your options expand. Download here (apply the patch to a clean FE8U rom): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lz6jef1cr6pfqjp/AAAYTdfD6u0P3f-6hi1qonqCa?dl=0

The notion that Jeralt ought to be playable in White Clouds is something I've heard come up more than a few times. The first few chapters can present a serious challenge, particularly on Maddening Mode, so having a stronger unit on your side, fulfilling a sort of "Jagen" role, could be a major boon. Due to the narrative, the game would take him away from you at some point - but this is something that Three Houses isn't exactly shy about doing, as anyone who started with the Black Eagles can attest. So, how can we construct a Jeralt that works for the player, helping make the earlygame much easier, but without remaining a "crutch" unit before he's taken away? Here's what I'm thinking. In my vision, Jeralt would join as a playable unit, starting in chapter 2 (namely, starting with the auxilliary battle that the game makes you do in the second weekend). He can be recruited simply by talking to him during the Explore session (there will be a "Recruit" option). He can then be used in all subsequent maps, with a couple exceptions - he cannot be brought to the Battle of Gronder Field (chapter 7), and he can't be used before the month-ending scenario in chapter 9. After said scenario, he becomes unplayable for the remainder of the game. Jeralt retains his appearance as a "green unit" in the Prologue. If he is defeated in battle, he will retreat - so, when chapters 8 and 9 roll around, he will function as a "green unit", like he does in the base game. The same will apply if he is never recruited. Here's what I'm thinking, as a "unit breakdown": As supports go, he would obviously support his own child (C/B levels). I'm thinking of making a couple existing conversations, maybe with adjustments, into the supports. The C Support would be when Jeralt asks them how they're getting used to the Monastery. The B Support would be Jeralt given them the ring that Sitri had worn. Completing this conversation will give the player "Sitri's Ring", which is kept with the "Lost Items" through the rest of the game (so you know it's there, but it can't be discarded). Jeralt would also have a C support with Leonie, wherein he encourages her to write back to her parents. I'd give him a C support with Ashe, too, as it makes sense that Ashe would idolize a knight with Jeralt's reputation. I also think a support with Edelgard, dancing around her suspicions of Rhea, could work. Other supports I could see working are with Catherine (maybe on the merits of a Hero's Relic and Crests, versus individual strength) and Alois (although, their playability wouldn't overlap, so this could be tricky). Like all playable units, I'd give him a Paralogue as well: In any case, let me know what you think! Do you like my proposed vision for a playable Jeralt? Or would you build him in a different manner? Or, do you prefer he simply remain in the background, without falling into the player's control? I'd love to read your comments on this topic!

So...I heard someone talk about "Predestined Pairs" in FE4, so I decided to list them. I only included the girl characters' "predestined" partners and the criteria was highest love growth, characters with convos, and, if a character had less than 3, I included the person who makes the most "sense". I'm not including Deirdre, Ethlyn, Julia, and Altena since they either have a set partner or don't have any. Edain: Jamke, Midir, Azelle, Claud, Finn Ayra: Lex, Holyn, Arden, Finn Lachesis: Beowolf, Naoise, Dew, Finn Silvia: Claud, Lewyn, Alec Erinys: Lewyn, Arden, Naoise Tailtiu: Azelle, Claud, Lex, Lewyn Brigid: Midir, Jamke, Alec, Dew Lana: Seliph, Ulster, Febail Larcei: Seliph, Johan, Johalvier, Shannan (yuck) Fee: Arthur, Seliph, Oifey Patty: Seliph, Shannan, Lester, Coirpre Nanna: Seliph, Leif, Ares (yuck) Lene: Ares, Seliph, Ced Tine: Seliph, Ced, Leif And that's it! Note: I chose Ced for Lene since he's Lewyn's son (In Thracia 776, anyway) and it'd be sort of like Silvia and Lewyn's relationship. She only has convos with Seliph and a high love growth with Ares, so I didn't have a lot to choose from : / Note 2: Added Finn to Ayra and Edain since he has convos with Lana and Larcei in Gen 2. Note 3: Added Lewyn to Tailtiu since Lewyn and Tine have a convo in Chapter 10. Note 4: Might remove Dew from Brigid's. Also, might consider doing it by the jealousy system too, but probably not. Any thoughts?

What character (Recruitment include) i should focus and what character i can leave ? Maybe i leave caspar on my team and focus other Black Eagles, for recruitment Felix, Mercedes, Lysithea and Leonie can focus.

Black Eagles : Ferdinand Dorothea Petra Blues Lions : Dedue Felix Mercedes Annette Golden deers : Raphael Hilda Leonie

As we all know, certain classes are gender-locked in Three Houses. Pegasus Knight (I), Falcoknight (M), and Gremory (M) are all exclusive to female units, while men get Brawler (I), Dark Mage (I), Hero (A), Grappler (A), Dark Bishop (I), and War Master (M). But what if this weren't the case, such that men could ride pegasi and women could don the dark robes? Which characters would get a lot out of specific cross-gender classes? I intend this to be less of a competition ("who wants it most?") and more a brainstorming session ("how would character X do as class 3?"), so with that in mind, let's start with a couple! Linhardt as a Gremory. Regarded as masters of pure magic, this class seems a natural fit for Linhardt, who has boons in Reason and Faith alike. Gremory would give Linhardt the highest magic stat possible (+5 mod, notably higher than +2 of Dark Knight and Bishop), with slightly better speed (+1 versus -1 and 0, respectively) than the other two. 5 move would be a step up from Bishop's 4, but stil behind the 7 (6 dismounted) of Dark and Holy Knights. His damage output would be slightly worse than as a Dark Knight (no Black Tomefaire), but getting Black Magic x2 somewhat makes up for it (extra Excalibur is certainly welcome). Moreover, he keeps White Magic x 2 from Bishop, but loses out on Healing + 10, making his Physic weaker even after accounting for higher Magic (of course, his Warp is even stronger). Overall, I could see Gremory as a strong compromise pick for Linhardt - slightly less offensive than Dark Knight, and slightly less supportive than Bishop (unless you're just using Linhardt as a Warpbot, in which case, this is his best class), but better than either one at doing both. And, let's be honest, we all know he would slay in that dress. Catherine as a Grappler or War Master. Catherine is the only playable woman (sans F-Byleth) with a propensity for punching, so it seems like she's the one missing out most on access to Gauntlet-specialist classes. She could go back to Brawler, but that offers poor class skills and mastery (the same one, coincidently), so she'd probably prefer to train her fists either by staying Swordmaster (good stats, no seals required) or going Brigand (Death Blow, while great on any physical unit, synergizes phenomenally with brave weapons like Gauntlets and Thunderbrand; but it does require building her Axe rank from the floor up). Compared to Swordmaster, Grappler offers Fistfaire while losing Swordfaire, and Unarmed Combat while losing Sword Crit +10). She'll also lose Strength (+2 to +1) and Speed (+4 to +3), but make up for it in HP (+1 to +2), Dex (+1 to +3), and a movement range only rivaled among infantry units by Assassins. Mastery will grant her Tomebreaker and the Fierce Iron Fist combat art, which I would say far outshine this game's incarnation of Astra. It will take some work, and won't be as strong a Thunderbrand-wielder as Swordmaster, but I think Grappler could be a great pick for Catherine, likely on-par with Assassin (which, admittedly, she'll have an easier time reaching). War Master is even more of a stretch, but if you somehow get her Axe rank to B or above, she'll enjoy an unparalleled +5 Strength mod (and respectable +2 Speed), Faires in both Gauntlets and Axes, and an absurd Crit + 20 to all weapon types (take that, Sword Crit + 10). Achieving mastery is likely a pipe dream, but War Master's Strike is an effective Axe art, while Quick Riposte is one of the best skills in the game. And it's worth noting, all combat arts may see their damage boosted, thanks to Catherine's major crest of Charon. War Master may just be Catherine's strongest infantry option (I know, you can train her in lances and flying so she goes Falcon, but punching people is too fun, dammit!), if you're willing to put in the work to get there. Anyway, what do y'all think of these analyses (I recognize that I could have considered a lot more factors - personal skills, class growths, personal bases and growths - but chose to ignore those, for the sake of brevity)? And what units would you like to consider, in classes previously forbidden to them? Let me know!

Black eagles : - Bernadetta (Multiple attack and strong if not full HP) - Dorothea (Strong dancer) Blue Lions : - Felix (High base damage) - Mercedes (Strong heal) - Ingrid (Strong flying unit) Golden Deers : - Lysithea (Great range and might defense if she equip Thyrsus) - Hilda (High charm and speed) - Leonie (Incredible physical attack and defense)

again, as the title says would like some help for now my pairing are sigurd- deirdre lex-ayre midayle-aideen erin-claude titlu-lewyn bridget-dew requessis- beowulf currently on chapter 4

- Difficulty : All - No NG+ - No paid DLC

Hi everyone; Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a game that offers a remarkable amount of options for how each unit can be built, in terms of accessible weapon types, abilities, and combat arts, among other things. Most characters can access any class... well, with caveats. There's a male pool of classes, and a female pool - though they largely overlap, some (ex. Brawler vs. Pegasus Knight) are exclusive to one or the other. There are, however, a handful of classes that are limited to just one character in the game. In keeping with previous Fire Emblem games, each of the main characters (Byleth, Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude) get access to at least one exclusive class, generally designed with their strengths in mind, and accessible from a certain point in the story. Byleth's Enlightened One reflects their proficiency with Swords, including the Sword of the Creator, and their evolving relationship with Sothis. Whereas, Claude's Wyvern Master and Barbarossa classes relate to his proficiencies in Bows and Flying, and to his true background. The question I seek to pose today is this: What if not just the Lords, but every character in the game, were able to access a personal class? What would these classes look like, and how would they operate? For the record, I'm not advocating this as something for the game to feature - rather, I just think of it as a fun thought exercise. I refer to them as "Master" classes, because I intend for them to match the power and utility of most Master classes, but they need not be gated to the usual requirements (having certain skill ranks, being level 30 or above, and spending a Master Seal) - instead, they can be based on story progression, or whatever standard you so like. Let me start of with a few examples I've thought of! Vizier (Hubert) Quetzalist (Petra) Thunderstrike (Catherine) So, what do you think of these "Personal Classes"? Do they seem appropriate and well-balanced, or would you make any changes to them? Moreover, what personal classes would you assign to other characters in the game? I'd love to hear your ideas!

Hello again, Tonight I want to highlight a really annoying part of my gaming and especially Fire Emblem experience: gender deifferences in gameplay. 1) Constitution: this can't be remedied, only males with negative modifiers are gonna have female level constitution, that's totally realistic. 2) Rescue/Aid: this is the most stupid thing where gender differences are completely unrealistic: I don't see how the same horse that carries a 12 con Kyle and has room for 13 more con couldn't carry the 9 con Amelia and 16 con Garcia/Gilliam, it's exactly the same total weight and the horse shows no difference in the animation sprite. That's why the only females who can rescue a 16 con unit are like FE6 first pegasus with garbage offence due to having this trash con, meaning she looses mountains of speed by equipping anything other than a thin lance. Female rescue is complete game design atrocity in my book. Meanwhile any normal weight cavalier can rescue these generals and heavy axers. 3) Str/def/spd: I agree that most women have lower caps in real life to their possible physical performance: less muscle means less raw strength, less heart power to inject oxygene in their limbs, meanwhile bigger bones and harder muscles mean men have more tolerance to physical hits. Then why are female units generally faster than male units? Either you say screw it it's a video game, reality doesn't matter (in this case every point in my post is invalidated and I can delete it, but then make every female and have male have the same base caps in every game), or you go all the way into realistic gameplay, meaning you take 10% away from EVERY PHYSICAL STAT from male units to make your base for female units. At this point, you might as well make female only games since it's the same as the Olympics, girls are disadvantaged in any power/speed/punching ball performance contest against men. But FE has like 90% of the generic units that are male, which means you throw your weak ass female units into the roller coaster of very high damage ennemies with higher def than what these female units' strength/def/hp can chew. All this while being hindered more often by the stronger weapons they NEED to use just to make up for the difference in base strength and growth with male units, thus having less speed from higher base than these males with more strength, which only means that females of the same gender-free classes get completely benched in terms of usability comapred with men since men have more +1/+3/+4 in con than females even when they already have a +2 base compared with females, allowing some males to take 0 penalty from a weapon that would give -3 to the generic units of the same class/gender (typically Hero Gerik with tomahawk/steel axe compared with the 11 con generic heroes who take -4 speed) and -5 to the females (not even talking of armored females with straight -3 base con compared with male armors, 10 vs 13, 12 vs 15, Amelia's neutral con vs Gilliam's +1 meaning Gilliam can wield weapons with 16 weight without loosing speed, while Amelia who shouldn't even be able to become a knight with a 20+ kg armor with a pre-teen girl body would loose 4 speed by doing so, might as well use FE4's weapon rank locks at this point, since females should be strictly unable to wield steel lances of 5-7 real life kg seeing the difference of 70-80% weight with the normal iron lance of 8 that would weigh around 3-4 kg with a high weight pike at its end) What do you think of this? What is justified, to what extent and is there a point in using females when they're hindered by every weapon closing the gap between them and equivalent male units (not even talking of the fact that most females already have -4 str/def between class and personal bases/growths compared with males)? Did Awakening and Fates solve this problem?

Basically say your Ideas for unique classes that would be basically tied to the protagonist of an FE game. Tactician The Tactician is a near non-fighter class, they can attack with swords but the character with this class has poor stats for combat. The Tactician's gimmick is being more of a supportive class, they give a small support bonus to any nearby units (increased with actual supports.) nearby. The skills/abilites for the Tactician would be roughly the following (Names are kinda W.I.P): Second-hand learner: Anytime a nearby ally gets EXP, they get a bit of EXP equal to I guess roughly half of what that ally got. (or maybe a third? It'd require a good bit of balancing.), this is to compensate for how, ideally, the Character with this class would have very poor chances in battle, this is the only passive skill. (all the others are selected like the Arts from SOV.) Give out orders: Buffs all the units around them a little more in a support radius however they lose 20-30 percent dodge due to being distracted giving out orders. Battle Advice: Has 1 range but the Unit being buffed gets a decent increase to both Critical hit and dodging attacks but the actual Tactician takes a signifficantly heavy penalty to dodging enemy attacks themselves. Push to the Limit: Lets them basically act like a dancer though the unit being given an extra move this way is a bit tired out (so slightly lower chance to hit and such.) so it's still somewhat inferior to the actual dancer class. To keep the Tactician as a bit of a non-combatant, while I'm not sure of the exact stats, the Tactician Character would be more likely to gain speed and HP when leveling up but with a poor chance for skill and Strength, so they can't really deal that much damage. As for Promotions, while I don't know what the names would be, depending on if the game has multiple promotions or not, the promoted form of the Tactician would either become Mounted (to move across the battlefield faster.) and/or gain the ability to use Staves to further aid their troops via healing and other stave abilites.

Assuming the next FE game did have some sort of base-system, would you be interested if you actually had to care for your mounts? as well as having to buy more of them. You could name them and they'd have their own stats, this also means that if someone promotes to a mounted unit, you actually have to get them a mount rather than them suddenly having one. So maybe a particular Pegasus, Wyvern, or Horse would be "Fast", so they can move a few extra spaces between turns, maybe another is "Vicious" so it does more damage but has a chance of beserking and forcing it's rider to charge the enemy when attacked. Additionally, possibly animal racing would be a non-violent alternative to Arenas using your mounts to race other Pegasus, Wyverns, Horses or War-elephants for gold. Additionally, it'd be possible for the mount or the rider to die without the other dying too. (So you could lose a rider then you'd have a beserked pegasus attacking the enemy that you can't control or you'd lose a mount and have an injured rider.) because Perma-death wants your tears when your favourite animal dies infront of you.

Hi, I've felt like Fates dumps everything on skills instead of stats and for me that's part of what makes its' gameplay so annoying. Either you have an awesome class with good skills or you have a class with bad skills and all you can do is get out ASAP otherwise you're making the game harder on yourself (like oni skills are quite niche, have very little utility, and even though I used it often in RD, I feel like the movement-related skills like shove are not really useful in this one, maybe because all I can put on the frontlines is the bulkiest units since everyone dies in 2 hits except them, which means I don't really need to move people around and shelter is there if needed). So I've thought of trying to play the game with absolutely no skills (sadly it's impossible to get rid of personal skills, so 0 skills outside personals since we can't do anything about them...). If anyone is interested in this, don't hesitate to post here your thoughts about it (is it funny? challenging? does it change several units' viability? I already think of archers who are simply mediocre without quick draw and Setsuna would greatly suffer from that for sure). Also, do you find it funnier with- or without skills? I'm gonna try it in BR, I don't think it would be funny at all in CQ where it's already annoying with skills. *RANT AHEAD DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW MY THOUGHTS ABOUT DEBUFFS, THE GENERAL DIRECTION OF THE FE FRANCHISE SINCE 3DS AND MY BROKEN 3DS: Ennemies spamming poison strike, seal def/spd and steel shurikens is really unfun (for me at least), I'd rather give ninjas and myrmidons a little more damage and delete seals and stat debuffs if I were allowed to. On paper it was a good idea...in game it's awful when your Effie who's supposed to be a tank shows single digit def because of a gimmick they added like "hahaha that's so funny to have no defense left in a game where ennemies hit like trucks, have 3-10x more units deloyed than you each chapter and don't even hit your unit if they can't damage it, making the only real tanks in the game nearly useless just because we could do it! hahaha have fun with this troll game!"... Please kill Intelligent systems and replace them with actual humans. And then we have ennemies with freeze, entrap and hex rods... Yeah, fire Intelligent systems, please... they're complete trolls... I don't even want to play 3H with the directions taken in the 3DS games and the whole Hogwarts bullshit. If I want that I go play Harry Potter and that's it. On top of that it means I don't have to buy the Switch, since my 3DS broke in half and the screen can separate from the main part at any moment if I don't hold it tight (FML), which means I'll have to buy a New 3ds to also be able to play Xenoblade...cash cow, here you are! END OF RANT* So, I really want to play like the old days before everyone had 2-6 skills and before you had to check every ennemy skill and your own to calculate how much damage you'd take, and forget to count attack stance ennemies, their skills and you don't even know who they will attack with...yeah, this game went too far for me, tooooooooooooo faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar, so faaaaaaaaaar that I usually take a strong champion from another castle and spam gold DLC to buy the skill build I want to use as much as I can. I'm probably bad at this game, but I don't want to play in normal mode, it is so much easier that some chapters feel like a Pet Shop game.

Good Day, everyone. This will be the comeback of the Best Classes Series. The poll shall be up for one week or when displaced from the first page twice, whichever comes first. Today we will vote for the best Units for each new DLC Classes. You're free to campaign or debate. You're free to change your votes. You just need to abide by the rules set by our mods. Best Class for Ashen Wolves Final results: Yuri - Trickster (53.85%) Balthus - War Master (58.97%) Constance - Dark Flier (53.85%) Hapi - Valkyrie (38.46%), Gremory (23.08%) Anna - Trickster (64.10%)

Byleth is in a weird position of being another avatar figure, but of all the avatars they are the ones with the least amount of customization options relative to other units in their game. For example, you can pretty directly change Kris, Robin and Corrin's growth rates and bases at the beginning of the game but no such system exists for Byleth. Would you have wanted this to be different? To my mind, there are three major vectors for customization in Three Houses: Stats - Essentially the boon/bane system from the 3DS era. Skill Levels - Picking proficiencies and deficiencies. Probably would have to pick at least one deficiency and maybe pick a budding talent. Spells and Combat Arts - I group them together because they're both unique attacks that each character has their own list of. Spell lists max out at 10 (5 for Reason and 5 for Faith) and probably a similar limit on combat arts. Imo I think Three Houses already has a lot of customization available for every unit, so Byleth as-is is ok by me. However, I think that having at least the boon/bane system and maybe some flexibility with spells would go a long way to making Byleth feel more of a "My" Unit.

As you probably know, Fire Emblem: Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, introduced Combat Arts: techniques that units could use with certain weapons or equippable items, to varied offensive and defensive effects. This system was expanded on in Fire Emblem: Three Houses: more choices for Combat Arts, now generally costing weapon durability rather than user HP. Most combat arts can be used with any weapon of a certain category (ex. Smash can be used with any axe), but some especially powerful ones can only be used on a certain weapon, by particular characters (ex. Apocalyptic Flame on Freikugel, limited to those with the Crest of Goneril - namely Hilda, assuming no NG+). These are generally limited to Hero's Relics, the principal class of Legendary Weapons in Three Houses. The question I'd like to pose is this: if Legendary Weapons from previous games had exclusive combat arts, what would they be, who could use them, and what would their effect be? For instance, here are ones that I've come up with for the Sacred Twins in Sacred Stones: Sieglinde Siegmund Vidofnir Nidhogg Audhulma Excalibur Garm Gleipnir Ivaldi I have elected not to do one for Latona: it has so few uses to begin with, and I'm not sure what form a "combat art" with a staff would take. In any case, let me know what you think! Do these proposed combat arts sound overpowered, unimpressive, or just right? And what combat arts would you create for classic weapons, Legendary or otherwise? I look forward to reading your replies!

Topic title. How do the crest stones you get in New Game Plus work exactly? Do they actually give a character the crest or do they only give the effects of the crest? If they actually gave a character the crest, they'd hypothetically be able to use the full effects of their respective relics. Like, if I equip the stone with the Gloucester crest on, say, Dorothea, she should be able to use the Pavise/Aegis effect of the Thyrsus in addition to the increased range, for example.

If you didn't know about the route split but are savvy enough to know that something is fishy when it comes up, you MIGHT realize that you may lose Edelgard and Hubert for good when you don't side with her. Meaning any player who has invested resources (seals, EXP, teaching points, free day activity points for Tea Time or Meals) into them will of course want to side with her so all that stuff wasn't wasted. There may also be a chance a player made one of the two their Dancer. Would be pretty bad if you lost that one, wouldn't it?

I've noticed that some animations are set apart from the others. Here's the list (hidden for length): Please verify and correct me if I'm wrong and if I miss anything

Hi, I'm starting this thread for us to discuss the best way to build your Army. (making the hardest possible difficulty easier). Here are the guidelines: Pick a Route to build on Pick up to 15 units (including adjutants) and indicate their class lines. Pick 5 abilities for each units Defend/Justify your build and if your justification involve spoilers please include them in a spoiler tag. A word of warning: "I'm right; you're wrong" arguments will be called out.

I thought they were interesting the first time you fight one but ever since then, whenever the game wants you to fight Demonic Beasts, you're always pitted against multiple of them. So you got these giant monsters with a lot of range and a lot of power with multiple HP bars. The worst part? Damage doesn't carry over. So if a Demonic Beast has 57 HP and you do an attack that does 58, that extra point of damage doesn't carry over to the next HP bar. Get rid of that one aspect of these fights and they become 1000% better in my opinion. But that doesn't happen, so these battles just become tedious and annoying. There's even one instance where Demonic Beasts are reinforcements and i just wanna have a nice little chat with whoever at IntSys thought that was a good idea.

I made this thread to help figure out the "default" class of each student. A default class is easier to figure out post-timeskip. Their default class models will be the same as their Noble/Commoner model. You can post screencaps as Evidence.

So something I immediately noticed during the gameplay we've gotten featuring Byleth and the Sword of the Creator features the sword with 20 durability. Yes, 20. But, I felt that was way too low for a legendary sword, and the amount they used this weapon in gameplay. So here's what I think: The weapon will have 20 durability. The weapon durability decreases the same as any weapon. The weapon still breaks, but here's the catch. I think the weapon will return to its original 20 durability (even if the weapon did not break) after the battle/chapter. If this is true, It'll be interesting how it will play out. And if I'm wrong then, this weapon is pretty much a weapon you'll just be carrying around in your inventory for most of the game and rarely taking it out. However if I'm right, it'll be pretty broken with it's Might and range. But you can't just solo with the weapon basically. TL;DR: I think Byleth's weapon will regen it's durability after the battle.

An idea that had crossed my mind for a while was revamping how the follow-up mechanic worked. The major change would be that player units could only double on player phase, and enemies could only double on enemy phase. The idea behind this would be to shift focus towards the player phase, but I'm wondering how this would effect slower units. Also, how would this change effect the importance of other stats?