Friendship Seal bug or unknown mechanic?

[LimberSiren]

Still running on my first playthrough of Birthright. Because of my style of play in FE, of course I forced myself to plan ahead and pair units to get decent stats and skills. Due to the daunting lack of info on the game, the pairings aren't fully optimized obviously, but whatever. I logged all pairings for myself and what skills to pass down from the use of Partner skills. I'm at chapter 23 and was about to start the S conversations for some pairs and get the kids, then out of the blue I remembered about friendship seals and how they would be much better than fillers from the mother's alternate class (Aegis from Silas for example).

Well it was a revisit to the drawing board. Because of the spotty info online, while jogging down definite A+ pairings, I would test a couple I unlocked for the heck of it. Nothing off, units were getting the friend's primary class. Then I got to Silas>Ryoma. Somehow Silas had a bunch of classes available. I don't remember them all, but there was the Pegasus line, the spear fighter line (or was it the diviner line?). Long story short, Ryoma granted Silas all those classes somehow instead of just the Samurai.

I thought one of two things were going on. Either Ryoma gave more classes (maybe others did too), or there was a bug, maybe a cross in the supports and other seals (Silas also had an A support with Azura and Oboro at the time, Oboro will be his S support) that was making the friendship seal grant more classes. Like an idiot, I didn't keep the save at the side and didn't even remember all the classes Ryoma was passing. I just assumed it would stick for later.

Before moving on, I decided to work on unlocking all A+ supports for testing. I'm halfway through it (challenge map and DLC grinding), so more supports are open including those for Silas and Ryoma. I wanted to see if Takumi and Saizo would get those classes available too. Nope. I went to check Silas again and those classes are not available as well (fuck my life, right). Somewhere along the line, the game must have corrected it.

I can provide no proof or even a log of support levels at the time unfortunately, but this is something to look out for. Anyone out there ran into anything strange with the seals?

[Crimean Archivist]

You can't even take a picture of your screen with your phone after using a class change item? I just finished some research on how classes are shared between characters, but this is outside of my results.

Basically I just want to see what the options are when the item is used. Exact is greatly preferred over what you can remember.

[LimberSiren]

You can't even take a picture of your screen with your phone after using a class change item? I just finished some research on how classes are shared between characters, but this is outside of my results.

Basically I just want to see what the options are when the item is used. Exact is greatly preferred over what you can remember.

I actually read your thread just before posting this one. It may be faintly related, despite this being just a case of passing impossible classes. Not sure what that skills I would have gotten if I had reclassed him when I could.

Like I said, I had no idea what to expect it was. I thought maybe the options would still be available. I ran into it last week by the way. Checking again to find it gone was what prompted me to make a thread. I've held off on progressive through the story to get the supports in, I've been too anxious about it. A record of the classes was the last thing on the mind. Honestly, I'd need not only that, but the supports too, because that seems to be the source of these abnormalities people are seeing.

I've been resetting and trying different support combinations with what I have to see if I can somehow find another one. No luck so far. I have no idea when or what corrected his inherited classes. Maybe got too many supports? Hell, it could have cleared after just one. A pure fluke. Almost tempted to try and replicate it...

Let's see if I can remember the supports. At the time, Silas had his A (S ready) with Azura and Oboro, an A with the avatar, and I believe an A with Kaze. He had others, but I'm not sure they're too relevant (couple As with other girls and scattered Bs and Cs. Trying to remember his status with Jakob...I wanted to say it was a B or C. Ryoma didn't have As with Saizo or Takumi. Don't even remember if they even had supports yet. Just As with Hana (will be his partner), Oboro and the Avatar.

Now I really wish I had the list of classes in my head. I'm certain they were all classes related to the bases/alts of whoever was tied through the supports.

None of the above info on the support levels I had would probably prove or do much, but the whole thing is interesting. Really want to know if it can ever be replicated.

[Crimean Archivist]

Hm, interesting.

The class set you described in the initial post fits what one would expect if somehow, Silas gained a class from Ryoma, Azura, and Oboro all at once. I'll play with similar setups and see if I can recreate the anomaly.