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For what I know, Arena has always been this OP. I had Jan train with Jade twice randomly (poor soul) and went from None to B. In my opinion, it shouldn't be so easy to farm them. What is the point of supports then? I think they should be easier to gain in battler and harder to grind elsewhere.

Rosado supports in general are all very cute, and I like his dynamics with Fogado, Louis and Mauvier. I'd struggle to choose one for him. Ivy x Diamant is too clichéd but they also look great together. A savvy union. Merrin x Citrinne have an intense and unique butch/femme energy. I just wish this game had S supports for units, damn...

This is all impressive stuff. Really interesting descriptions, you make Fire Emblem sound like precission engineering. Not too fond of Louis getting that gold, but as you said, it was irrelevant as Chloe could have got it anyway. Please keep doing these, they're great!

Didn't think about this! Will definitely promote him and then switch. Whew... I haven't seen Hero!Boucheron yet, so can't actually say if I'll like it better, but Berserker's "wild" appareance doesn't really fit his mild character, and Warrior just exposes his torso in a way that doesn't flatter him (he comes as rather bulky in his base armor, and promoted he seems more vulnerable and thin...). I wish he could keep the white armor plates somehow. In general, generic armors using colour palette is a clever idea but sometimes disappoints in Firene & Brodian characters!

Question about reclassing: I invested a great deal in Boucheron, but finds out I absolutely loathe the appearance of his standard promotions. I though maybe Brave Hero will look good on him (anyone has any pictures?). I'm at chapter 14 and he's lvl 16. Do i really have to reclass him into swordfighter and level him up to lvl 10 again? Will he get EXP any faster this time around? Will he have a cumulative EXP gain of 16+10 at time of promotion? I really have a hard time figuring Awakening-style promotions, really...

Sorry for having such a bland personality but I want to share how AWESOME chapter 10+11 are. Thematically, these are perfect and unlike anything I've seen in Fire Emblem, almost to a meta level, i.e.: Gameplay-wise, they were incredibly challenging for me. I admit I "handicap" myself by choosing units equally across all maps, so I had to bench Chloe for this one and had to spoonfeed characters such as Lapis, but the divided front was too much for me and after many reloads, I had the Goldmary front team join the Rosado front in baiting Hortensia with Yunaka, who had 100% avoid against armors. And that was just the beginning (although Morion and Hyacynth were easier). For Chapter 11 I was in absolute despair. I though I could at least change units, because draging Amber and Lapis around... freeze (i think it's called) was a PAIN, I had no healer, etc. Once I made it to the reinforments I could breathe, but I had to resort to giving stat increasing items to my units for the first time to get there. All in all, fantastic map design.

Agree. Cavalry in Engage is generally made irrelevant by Sigurd's mobility boost. The only thing special about him is being weak to beast-killing weapons, and there is an abundacy of early game lancers, so he's an instabench for me.

I mean, it kind of is relevant what weapon you attack Armor with, since after your turn he will get an apportunity to attack you back, and so do the rets of enemy units. So you probably want to attack Sword Armor with sword if there are axes around, and with lance if there are swords or lances around, but never with axe since he may attack you back unless you kill him.

What do you mean? I think you should be able to inherit, say, Sigurd's canto skill, provided you have Lvl5 with it and 1,000SP on that character. Am I missing something?

Am I the only one annoyed at how training (idk the name, that mystical portal thing for EXP) seems to automatically increase 1 support rank between the participants? Like I had not even used Boucheron and Lapis in the same map, and after 1 single training they got C rank. Doesn't it defeat the purpose of supporting? Does it get harder to get to B rank? Also, can't figure out for God's sake how to get to 1,000p for Sigurd's synchro skill inheritance. I'm at map 8, used Boucheron in all maps, and barely have 800p. Is there any option that doesn't involve spamming Micaiah and getting him overleveled in the process? I am aware there is a soft deadline to get him that skill.

English localisation is the worst, more news at 7. Spanish also, after a good 3H L11N effort. I am not super proficient at Japanese (N2-3 level), but after starting the game and reading Spanish Vander's "caray!" (kind of a "Gosh!") for a line that had 10 seconds of full Japanese voice over, I had to turn into Japanese. Lots of things I don't fully get, but Boucheron for example comes as extremely sweet and pleasant, he's pure husband material. Pity they turned him into an American average hero in the English L11N. Also, Clanne + Framme made me laugh. And so did the absurdness of Etie + Alfred and Alfred + Boucheron.

I feel compelled to update after complaining about Hard/Classic difficulty (around ch.7). Chapter 8 was exactly what I hoped for: diverse objectives, unpredictability, tough enemies... Admittedly handicapped myself bringing lvl 1 Jean, but I didn't expect to reset as many times as I did (the first run I ran out of rewinds just one hit before I could K.O. the boss, and she killed my unprotected Jean, so I had to restard the whole map...) Hope we keep getting more of this chaos!!

I HATED the artstyle at first too, and I still hate Alear's design, but the sheer colorfulness of EVERYTHING in the game is susprisingly cohesive and distinctive. It just works when you consider the whole package and yeah, it sets a different tone, but it somehow works. That being said, waiting some time to play a FE is always worth it. I entered Three Hosues post-Cindered Shadows and benefitted from QOL improvements over patches, DLC characters, etc. So it's really a good idea to wait on it if you have other priorities.

Say it!! I'm just on Hard/Classic, but Boucheron + Sigurd REALLY is the best combo. His ability to Canto after one-shotting an enemy (or leaving them for any other unit in need of EXP) and moving towards another enemy with full HP so he can make use of chain-attack is godsend, and so is being able to use lances to counter swords.

Agree! Hardest so far! (Only beat 7). So many enemies, and most likely you'll want to spread your team in 2, which always makes things more difficult since you don't have your whole repertoire anyway. In my playthrough, it was Clanne+Micaiah who saved the day with that teleport, since he could switch team at will.

Same here. I had a pretty fun time in prior chapters, having to even use my 10 rewinds in Chapter 6 and reset the tutorial with Lumera... but Chapter 7 was just a cakewalk; not a single rewind/reset, no units lost, almost all oneshots... And I haven't grinded or done any paralogues, and instabenched Vander.... Should I worry that I reached the point where my units are invincible, at level 7? Will having more units to spread EXP on balance things out?

I mean, if any of the datamined Japanese language texts are true, then it's not "supposedly", it's quite a fact. I personally don't care, because I'm not playing the game in Eng anyway (either Spanish or JP to learn), but it seems like a rather stupid and gratuitiously controversial move. Both the fact that they censored Alear romancing 17 year olds and also the fact that they had to put their ages anyway. Just the fact ythat you have children in your army lol

Gay theorycrafting alert:

My forecast on gay romance:

Sorry, baby-face generic-robes grandpa can't join my hot people liberation army, Miss Ivy use Nosferatu. Now can Griss or Zephia take that empty place? 🙂

Isn't 15-16 chapter far too long for recruiting a relatively small cast? We had all main cast in Awakening by chapter 13 (assuming the leaked character is kind of Say'ri in that they join at the end of mid-game and are separated from the main cast), and with this game's lack of abundant paralogues I fear Rosado and Goldmary (my two fav designs lol) will get so very little time to shine... We're stuck with Alfred forever lol.

I don't really want to look at every spoiler (although I certainly might have done so already), but I really want to know about complete playable cast. So could anyone make a separate section with every playable character the leaks show and perhaps the chapter in which they join? Really praying for the 4 hounds.

Morion and Hyacinth look fine! Morion is very well executed, although both are quite "plain". And about the leaked characters:

Characters I think I'll like: - Fogado: Handsome, funny and nice mount archer class. His design is one of the best. Would romance if possible. - Goldmary: Pretty armor, cool name, underrated class. I like all Elusians really. - Rosado: Incredibly cute, I don't even care if he's Forrest 2.0, feminine straight men deserve to exist too. I think him being a wyvern rider is super cool too. - Kagetsu: I like my token fake Nippon character. - Timerra: Same as his brother. She has the best design and looks the most likeable of all royals. Celine, Etie, Citrinne, Panette, Seadall and the twins also have appealing designs. All four hounds also look awesome and I wish they become playable. Characters I'm still unsure about : - Ivy: She has potential, but I fear she's just going to be waifu material but without the campiness of Camila. - Alcryst: I like his design, but if he ends up as annoying and coward as Bernadetta it's going to get tired real soon. Diamant, Yunaka, Boucheron, Lapis, Hortensia, Louis, Bunet and Merrin are all OK or neutral. I need to know Kagetsu's personality to know if he's just going to be too edgy or not. Characters I already dislike: - Vander: most disappointing character; I really disliked him since the first leak and I'M a bara fan. He just looks like a child with a beard on. I'd rather have just young characters because Engage style really can't handle mature characters. - Jade: I hate the "le professional hard-working warrior woman" trope. It doesn't help that she has an absurdly ugly ponytail and, like most post-3H, she suffers from same-eye-and-hair-colour syndrome... - Pandreo: super ugly colour palette, strangely uncomfortable face, ugly armor design. In general, healer units are boring. - The alpaca guy: he is going to be such a bench warmer. - Alfred: as most people have said, there is something wrong about this fake Dimitri attempt. Loli Anna (unless she's hilarious) and Jean are also incredibly unappealing characters to me.

More than the stupid gender-lock, it's the weird abscence of a pegasus advance class... Surely pegasus have nothing to do with falcons? I can tolerate it if is optional, such as Wyverns turning Griffons in Awakening or Pegasus turning Kinshis in Fates, but having no other choice...? I don't really look forward seeing Chloe ride a giant ass bird.