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From my understanding, it's used primarily for ltc, since when you can't be a flier to bypass obstacles, having pass is the next best thing. A stride'd dancer Bernie can cover a lot of ground no other dancer can on certain chapters especially, and relies less on having multiple competent warp users. She does have decently easy access to move +1 as well, as you said. I have zero experience with the build myself, though it seems pretty straightforward. Rescue would probably have way too low of a range to be worth using at all(2 for most of the game?), unless you certify for a magic class along the way I suppose. We're sending her on actual battlefields we've already sold our soul anyway

Anybody bring up Dancer Bernie? Y'know, because of Pass?

See, beyond the fact that this doesn't help, I now also wonder if the root of this isn't you misunderstanding what this gambit can really pull off. I'll still assume that isn't the case, but why the obviously biased statement? Anyway, I do seem to have misread your argument to an extent, or rather it initially felt a bit more extreme. Though my reasoning on why it should be used early has little to do with ease and with both canto and strive on one's side, planning isn't required to make it work, our arguments do reach the same general place. Now as to whether it's useful if you don't do that, I'd still say yes. First, having one's entire deployment filled with indispensable units isn't likely, second it doesn't need to be fully optimized to make a big difference, all you really need to do is to have the user nearby your dancer, and your dancer nearby your most competent units, which you're probably doing regardless. If the question, like I think, is whether it can be useful when not used at its best or not, then we do disagree. ... But mostly I think the statement of yours I quoted in my previous message is interesting but flawed and that's why I posted Specific map design is yet another story, but either we're talking about an unoptimal context(which I thought we were doing) and bringing low turn counts doesn't really make sense, or we're talking about situations where usefulness beyond turn 3 or 4 doesn't even matter in the first place, because the map will have ended.

This sounds fairly similar to the "why bring a dancer when you can bring another combat unit?" argument, to be honest, with more variables attached to it. Even playing casually, an excellent turn 1 or 2 can completely change the face of almost any map, and this gambit does make one of those almost trivial to achieve. FE maps are rarely designed to last more than 10 turns... or let's say 15 to be conservative, to begin with. I can agree that it's... overkill friendly, though. The debate of what strong tool is actually genuinely helpful is a very interesting one. Alas, as players who don't really need help in the first place, I don't know that we'd be amazing at determining this in particular.

Probably because they cost no money.

I'd say the player's interactions with said ensemble of spaces can be considered a space in and of themselves. We do not play as AI ideally would, and when faced with a puzzles complex enough, trial and error can generally be expected. This is of benefit to the enemy if we consider that its ultimate goal is to defeat the player(even though it is actually to entertain them); every mistake is a win, and most every attempt carries a risk. DP doesn't remove said risk, but it minimizes it as there is much less to lose, and in a more relevant fashion, it minimizes enemy victories as they get immediately overwritten. This interaction space can be simplified, as you did, but I'd argue it shouldn't be; time and nerves are a factor to the perception of difficulty and the satisfaction in overcoming challenges. You're not wrong though, in an rng-less, sterile scenario, structurally DP doesn't affect the puzzle itself. But if we accept that human perception is relevant here, which I'd say it is, suddenly it does, in a much more direct way than grinding and co do. You've made your point, I can admit that there's a difference. Yet functionally, I'd say it matters little, because games are primarily about the player, in one way or another(largely how do we entertain them vs how do we get them to give us more money), and the player's experience is a key point of game design as a whole. It is worth mentioning that DP is automatically used whenever a game over is triggered, which I'd say definitely pulls away from the "optional" aspect. As for rerolling rng having a recurrent presence throughout the series, while it did exist I'd disagree in spirit, aside from prep screens or the very few first turns of a chapter. Of course there's a difference in tedium much as described above, but most importantly it was never something the player was directly encouraged to do(and many are largely clueless to the concept I'd assume), unlike either forms of DP we've had thus far, which are 100% about such an incentive. It's not reality reminding you in so many ways that failing in a video game isn't an actual dead end, it's a bona fide game mechanic, with potentially growing presence in the plot to boot... though I digress again. I really don't think there's much of a resemblance.

Well now your point of contention feels oddly specific to me, though, since Divine Pulse is relevant during active gameplay and strategization, and the optional argument feels neither here nor there ever if we're discussing things that make the enemy powerless, which it does. With that being said, if its existence doesn't bother you, good. As others have said giving the enemies the strong disruptive tools we have can easily turn the gameplay into a chore on several levels(I'd say unfair but with the player having DP very few things are anymore), which something like Conquest Lunatic(an overall simpler game mechanics wise) gets very close to at times. That's the risk. But I can agree that it sometimes feels like the enemy has their numbers and nothing else(heck, even that is untrue in a logical sense, since our units each command a battalion and most of theirs are alone, but I digress). It's not an easy thing to balance. At least demonic beasts exist, yay?

I think the worst offender is by far Divine Pulse, personally, but sure, we could certainly make do without stuff like Impregnable wall. I'm not necessarily in agreement that the solution is to give our busted options to the enemy, though.

Again I feel this wish to help you even though I probably can't, let's try anyway: It's okay. I mean it, you can chill here, things don't matter to others as much as you seem to think they do. People here are mostly just casually conversing to kill time, and most of those exchanges are forgotten within weeks. Nobody hates you, nobody will hunt you and try to make you leave. People can be snarky but they aren't judging you in that way, there's no need for this pressure you're putting yourself under. It's okay. ... and on topic, I feel pretty confident that support for Three Houses is done and they've moved on to whatever's coming next. Plus, developers very rarely wait over a year between dlc waves, especially with zero announcements or teasers to keep players invested. So I wouldn't get my hopes up.

Yeah, they changed it when Cindered Shadows released iirc...?

Wait, but you've been on this section for almost a year... ... in any case, sure there's plenty to do in 3H without the dlc.

Catherine's is pretty useful for the purpose of sending her in the arena with your eyes closed iirc. Same for Felix. That happens almost immediately honestly. What takes a while is for there to be enough of them for your whole squad more or less. As for losing a battalion mid battle, can't say I see it happen all too often, but eh.

I mean, yeah, at first glance they mathed it wrong(+10% to +15% is a 50% increase while 15,000 to 20,000 is 33%, etc) Though if there's some kind of limitation on the quantity you can buy, or the quantity you get to use on a character in any way, then that's fine

Iirc, Maddening destroys exp gains if the target isn't 7 or 8 levels above your unit's(don't quote me on that, it's been a while). As you saw, this cannot really happen until a few chapters in. This gives the false impression that maddening exp gains are worse, when really they only are when you're trying to pass the current chapter's recommended level, for the most part.

Limiting the tedium of the monastery in general is definitely a very important change. I thought they'd actually give us a qol update at some point, but, nope. Really hope that's not a sign of things to come.

Man, a year and half ago I could have thrown a ton at you, but I'm kinda drawing a blank right now. Hmmm... ... guess I'll go with discouraging save scumming, but rebalancing the greenhouse, certification and fishing so that they don't reward it so much. Fishing doesn't need to be this random, we have several types of lures and several types of fish icons, that's enough to cover every fish in the game. Certifications shouldn't consume the seal if you fail. The greenhouse does not need to be so convoluted, and similarly, we have so many seed types, randomness is completely unnecessary.

I'll point out that Brawler shares the mobility advantages of Grappler. Class doesn't get used much so I assume it's not that well known.

He is, yeah. I believe the setup was a 100% crit vengeance with Cyril, but a mere Luna crit works too.

It's definitely possible, you just have to brute force it. With Ashera there's no real way around it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PELCHxak-C0&lc=UgxIsPhfz2BuHHOoJ014AaABAg.99OeQ68asb_9C39wO2VT48 ... she does auto refill a lifebar once, so she technically has five, but you don't have to deplete the first one completely either.

I feel compelled to defend 3H's hard mode because I think many of you are being hyperbolic here and FE gets much easier than that, but eh, who cares really. All I have to say is, I'm completely fine with the easiest difficulty mode being easy; that's why it's there. I am, however, a bit frustrated when that easiest mode is called "Normal". Partly for dumb reasons admittedly, but mainly because it feels, how should I say... manipulative? Treating the player like an easily satisfied idiot? I think Sakurai said it best(or rather worst) with the introduction of elite smash in Smash Ultimate: "When you reach this level, feel free to pat yourself on the back, you're good, period." The subtext being that that wasn't true at all(at first anyway), and I'm pretty sure he knew that. ... I guess this isn't an isolated, or even recent issue, though, this case just happens to be directly in your face. We're also talking about a series that almost died in part because it was too hard, so... yeah. ... That is very true as well, the easiest modes in FE tend to actually be "Shallow mode" in disguise.

Sure, why not. Saint S Faith Combat White magic x3 uses, White tomefaire, White magic range +2 Mag + 25%, Dex +10%, Lck +20%, +2 Move Mastery: Intervention: If HP > 50%, killing blows will leave you at 1 HP. Saint only. ---- Apparition S Reason, A Flying Received damage/2, Hover(has flier movement), Imbue(physical attacks get 25% of mag as added damage) Str +10%, Mag +20%, Res +20%, +2 Move Mastery: Phase: All the unit's attacks on player phase become brave, regular brave attacks are unaffected. Apparition only. ---- Commander(mounted) S Authority, A Riding Battalion slot +1(can equip two battalions at once basically), Canto, Battalion damage +10. Brave attacks are impossible. HP -10%, Str +5%, Mag +5%, Spd -20%, Cha + 30%, +3 Move Mastery: Supreme: Slot 1 battalion bonuses are shared with allied units within 1 range. Commander only.

I mean, if what this is about is tier lists being accurate vs self-explanatory, I think it's tricky. Both are important as far as I'm concerned; if a tier list is unhelpful, it serves no real long term purpose and is only entertaining to make(which, to be frank, is fine as well, realistically people who need help probably don't primarily seek tier lists). And availability is very much not self-explanatory, its value varies depending on the game itself, its balancing, its difficulty progression. Availability is opportunity. Some games like 3H are opportunity-friendly early on, others have Seth. Importantly, past a certain point there is less place for opportunity left because of competition in deployment slots or a difficulty to contribute on base stats/with limited training. That's for general availability, there's also punctual availability(which honestly Athos falls under), aka being around for specific chapters where it matters. Fortunately that's much more simple and I think most of us agree that that's highly valuable. But that's still something you have to actually explain. The way I see tier lists is as a rating of how much each unit can reasonably contribute to clearing the game with ease, overall. As a result, obviously availability will often matter. But I do recognize that it might not be as helpful as a plain "unit good/unit bad". Now if the debate is if availability matters, I mean... yes, it does. It's a factor among others, it just cannot save an unit on its own if everything else about it is bad, and as I said, it's opportunity, if there's no room for it, then it's less valuable. We just need to not be all binary about it. An interesting example is Lara from FE5. Or it would be if capture baiting wasn't so potent and she was more of a combat unit; point is, she is available for a while before becoming the usual midgame dancer most FEs get, and I'd argue that yes, this is strictly a positive(there is the matter of her needing to survive). The only question is how much of a positive is it, it's not necessarily big. Edit: Last part was removed because I'm just going to derail the discussion with stuff like that. Re-edit: Last part is now actually removed, alcohol is bad even when you don't drink.

I may be out of line here but I'll just say it, people on the internet will rarely love you just for being you. The good part is, as a result I strongly doubt it's anything personal. But yeah, if you want attention, you have to give people a reason to pay attention. That goes for any of us, really.

I always hate that I can't give proper credit to even a fraction of them in those. I'll go with what comes to mind. "When couples spend many cold days together, their families will grow. Food will not last as long, so be careful!" - Random bookshelf in a random house, Shining Force III "Die like your father, you pinheaded son of an icecream maker!" - Geese Howard, Fatal Fury Special "Mm. Now if you'll excuse me, I must go set my own city on fire." - Selvan, Radiant Historia "I never cared about justice, and I don't recall ever calling myself a hero... I have always only fought for the people I believe in. I won't hesitate... if an enemy appears in front of me, I will destroy it!" - Zero, Megaman Zero 4 "But, I have to go... I don't have a choice. And every time I hear the word "impossible", it just makes me want to prove everyone wrong." -Vyse, Skies of Arcadia

Would you believe me if I said I was going to include pretty much this exact first sentence but ultimately went "nah"? I blame Echoes swamps. I mean I blame myself and then Echoes swamps. They're the same color, too. Edit: Well some of them are, anyway.