Do you stock up on weapons and items or do you use whatever the game gives at the moment?

[IceBrand]

In Fire Emblem games shop owners gives different weapons throughout the chapters. Each usually selling different goods. When you buy do you stock up and buy a certain amount of weapons(like iron and killer weapons) to use for later? Or do you just use whatever the games gives you and press on?

[Randa]

Just stockpile a bunch of killer and silver weapons.

[NTNP]

Hand axes and javelins. I end up buying a dozen of them usually when they become available and that lasts me for the entire game usually.

[General Horace]

i usually only shop when i'm low on handaxes and javelins, yeah

[NinjaMonkey]

In Awakening I have a metric crapton of Silver and Killer weapons in the convoy, as well as various statboosters.

[Fire Emblem Fan]

I stock up usually. I never want to suddenly run out of weapons somehow.

[Disinnocence]

I usually just buy like 5-10 of whatever's at that shop.
So, I just buy stuff when I have to.
Because buying stuff is too much of a bother.

[Hawk King]

I usually end up with a fuck ton of extra supplies in my convoys.

[Shadow Mir]

Depends on the game. In Awakening and Sacred Stones, since you can buy from the world map (note that in the latter, a shop's inventory on the map may differ from its in-battle inventory), it doesn't really matter to me, particularly in the latter when iron is sold in the preparation screen. In other games, I may or may not stock up in advance.

[cyron]

I tend to stock up a lot and have a ton of extra weapons

[Konnor97]

I stock up a lot in most things, and just use Iron stuff most of the time, or until I can have Killer weapons. Exceptions: Awakening because free shopping, but I pretty much only use what I can buy right back without a Spotpass team, (even though I can free shop in SS, I manage weapons like in FE7) and in FE9&10 I prefer Steel stuff. Those poor Elixers/effective weaponry/Silvers.

[Scarlet]

Depends on the game, really.

In FE5, I generally buy nothing except a crapton of wind tomes, because pretty much anything else the shops sell is either way too expensive, ridiculously bad, or both.

In FE6, FE7, FE8, FE10 and FE11, I generally buy a stock of iron weapons (E rank magic included) when I get the chance, but not enough to last me the entire game - only enough to last me until I get the silver card. Then I buy whatever I want (which usually ends up being more iron weapons anyway). I usually don't buy anything besides iron weapons, javelins and hand axes, though - I do use stronger weapons when appropriate, but I tend to make do with what the game gives me by default.

In FE9, I stock up on anything I like using - steel weapons, D rank magic (both because of WExp) and steel blades, mostly.

Not light magic, though. FE9 light magic can go to hell.

In FE12, I don't really buy anything except stat boosters. The game gives you more than enough weapons to last you throughout the entire game, even good ones like silvers.

In FE13, I buy pretty much whatever the hell I want, except really expensive stuff like silvers or killers. I buy anything that is discounted unless it's silvers, as fighting the skirmishes floods me with silvers.

[Saethori]

I'm somewhat of a hoarder... I buy lots of weak, cheap weapons and end up having everyone just use those. Things like Killer, Brave, Silver weapons, I keep on people in case they need the extra damage boost, but more often than not I don't do much shopping.

...I always end up with a whole lot of gold I can't bear to spend this way. I also end up hoarding stat-booster items. My miserly tendencies make the game inadvertantly harder on me. x.x

[LunaSaint]

I will stock up like mad on Reaver weapons and Javelins/Hand Axes.

For Iron/Steel weapons, I'll buy a couple of each if I pass a shop. Silvers I only really dabble with for something like a Pegasus Knight. My peggies can go through a LOT of silvers if I can spare the gold.

[Dandragon]

I usually buy weapons of each type for each character i use. I don't really plan ahead, which is why I might end up lacking in equipment.

[Loki Laufeyson]

I buy lots of Killers and Silvers and El-tomes. In Tellius and Awakening, lots of Arc-tomes. I usually hoard the more awesome stuff like legendary weapons. But i use Braves like a madwoman.

[Vashiane]

I run a LOT of skirmishes, so I pick up a ton of weapons that way. I'm extremely stingy on my legendaries, and if I'm running low on a particular type of weapon, I'll stockpile them in the shop.

There are some things I burn through like crazy. Steel weapons are my favorite type to use, so those are gone in a heartbeat and a half. Some character perma-get Killing weapons: Virion is never without his Killer Bow nor Lon'qu without his Killing Edge, so I have to keep quite a bit of those on my person.

[Paper Jam]

In games that have a Silver Card, I generally buy just enough iron weapons and E-rank tomes and staves to get me to the next shop, and then go nuts once I have the Silver Card (again, buying mostly iron weapons and E-rank tomes and staves).

I don't like buying (or using) really expensive weapons and magic, except maybe Physic staves because of the Experience they provide, and Luna in FE7 because it's a veritable game-breaker.

I think the "Funds" ranking in FE7 has made me overly conscious of my assets.

[JSND Alter Dragon Boner]

I kinda do

Which makes playing FE12 such a difficult experience

[mewyeon]

I do! Hoard up on those steel weapons, as soon as my regular units can use them, I ditch all their iron stuff and give those to my prepromotes. For a lot of Sacred Stones, I just made sure I had all my units outfitted well and 3 or so extra steel swords/steel lances in the convoy at all times. That always carried me through to the next armory/vendor on the world map. Whenever the monsters pop up you can't go back that way unless you fight a skirmish, which I never really spent time doing, so