Integrity
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Well, a quick scan reveals you ought to get two Crests before the shop, and another in that map on Ephraim's route. That's provided you can make all the Cavaliers survive Duessel's stage, though, and I dunno how that would go without any healers.
On the other hand, you'd have two GKs and Duessel to sponge XP until that chapter shows, so ...hell, I dunno. What's your progress, anyhow?
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Nah. Just sell all those Orion's Bolts and whatnot you don't need, then recruit/kill Rennac and hit up a Secret Shop.
Unless you think you'll need promotions for all of your units before Chapter 14, then you're right.
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One must pose the question then: is it feasibly possible for Ena to solo Ashnuts? He didn't seem all that bad, but I had a 20/20 Ike to do him in with.
Note feasibly. I don't count it as feasible if you have to crit six times running at ~10% or "can technically chip away 1 health more than renewal can do while spamming heals" etc.
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In theory, you ought to get EM transfers. I'll grab you one when I hit the store tomorrow for my copy.
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What chance you could get to a different chapter and try the same thing, see if it crashes?
Otherwise, sounds like a fault to me.
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Bah. I was going to do this as my next run of PoR, since I did the same for SS.
Why Miracle on Marcia, out of curiosity?
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Oh. Hey. There's a little gender box I forgot.
Anyway, I actually have transfers as of about 15 minutes ago!
Ike ought to be transferring STR, SPD, SKL, and DEF.
Boyd is transferring HP, STR, and SPD.
Neph is getting DEF, SPD, and maybe STR or SKL - I don't remember already.
and I pumped all of my BEXP into Mist to get her 20/18 (because lol why not.) and then spammed the last levels with Ward and Hammerne and she'll be transferring MAG and SPD.
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Maybe he did, and maybe he's only showing off Mist.
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60/60 HP. That HAS to be at least stat booster fueled or cheats. Mist is incapable of getting 60 HP normally even with a +1 every single level.
Also, now I'm curious which it is...
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Why do people think Nephenee is so hot when you can't see a lot of her face?
Anyways, anything without Titania as top of top makes me frown.
Tifa syndrome. We have to make up what's left of it due to low resolution low-cut helmets. That makes her more appealing than anybody else.
Actually, that's just my theory. I like the lower 2/3 we get to see, and her personality is ohsoendearing to me.
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I come to realize that Makalov is on the High tier. Makalov is a useless poof who steals from his sister and gambles the money away. I declare him a worthless drain on society, therefore he gets shunted to the bottom.
Nephenee is the hawtest and therefore goes to the top.
Actually, I will write myself up a tier list based on the usefulness of each character's character.
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In other words, the Mia + Wrath rule, I take it.
He must mean the Nephenee + Vantage rule.
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Oh, sure, I know that. That's why I said all I've got is anecdotal evidence - I've never SEEN an average Canas yet. :D
EDIT: Actually, I know this is probably done now. I'll leave that as my last post on the subject and let the topic get on track.
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Glad you didn't took what I said seriously, I didn't mean any offense, sorry =P
Canas does not do MASSIVE DAMAGE, his damage is overall arouond Lucius and he doubles less, he gets no promo gain for Mag, having high Mt with Mag isn't everything, you know.
Being a good dodger does not change the fact he is a glass canon, what it would be having actual reliable Def that would NIT make him one, and the only reason his Avo is high is because of his support with Ike, but before that, his Avo isn't too reliable.
Oh? I actually did take what you said seriously. I just didn't take any offense from it. >>
In good news, as far as I can tell between you and Raymond and my own research I'm just pulling from a pool with a particularly low glass cannon base. I just don't like Soren. EDIT: Yay we both get to be right! /EDIT
WRT Canas, though, the both times I've raised him to 15+ Druid he's naturally capped MAG, so all I got is anecdotal evidence for him. Sorry, bro.
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Swordmaster: The problem I see is that the GBA Myrmen at least don't do particularly much damage. When they DO get damage, via Swordmaster crits, they stop being so squishy.
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I for one think of a glass cannon as basically anything that hits really hard (not necessarily magic), but dies after one or two hits. I don't think the chance to dodge crap plays a factor in determining what is a glass cannon, it just is part of what makes a glass cannon actually good.
Following these standards, I would consider FE11!Tiki to be glass cannon as well, for example.
But, as I said, dodginess is inherent in glassiness. Otherwise, I can say Gilliam/Gatrie/Oswin is a glass cannon because the dude hits ONCE like a freakin' TANK but get ORKO'd by mages due to low resistance, and Gilliam sure as hell ain't an archetypical glass cannon, ya know?
On the flip side of that, mages from FE7 on seem to have a universal 15% DEF growth (EDIT: meaning there aren't any "squishy" mages or "tough" mages unless you count SPD.), and nothing else in the game hits nearly as hard as them while lacking defense. Archers may lack defense, but they really don't hit all that hard. Myrmidons, same story. So what that boils down to is just mages, but wouldn't the contest be Best Mage?
Maybe I'm thinking too hard into this.
Maybe I'm just trying to further a faulty argument based on tenuous assumptions because I dislike Soren.
EDIT2: Of note, it could very well be that I'm arguing from a very limited standpoint - I've only play FE7, 8, and 9 and intend to play 10. The NES/SNES games and 11 don't interest me and 6 is Japan-only and I don't feel like dicking with an emulator.
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So your fanboyism actually deluted you to believe Ilyana is a glass canon? The true glass canon is Soren, just look at his Mag.
Yes, actually. Why?
In seriousness, I wasn't going for damage in my calculations after all. The problem is, Lute is a damn cannon - but she's not glassy. Soren is a dodgier bitch than Ilyana enough that he can play tank semi-reliably. Canas hits for MASSIVE DAMAGE but he really isn't glassy due to Nosferatu/etc.
So the problem here was thinking of a Mage who actually had poor SPD/DEF growth, as per my post.
EDIT: The only two I could think of from the games I played were Ilyana and Lucius, incidentally.
EDIT2: I may as well go all the way here.
*snip* I'll go with sound (>=50% str/mag) offensive growth coupled with poor(<=35% spd/def?) defensive growth for mine.
Soren's listed stats are 60 MAG / 40 SPD / 15 DEF. I suppose he'd qualify if I ever used him or if I classified SPD as an offensive rather than a defensive stat.
Ilyana is 50/30/15 - within my (arbitrarily selected) parameters.
Having a more in-depth look at the numbers says we can't gauge this on DEF growth or it wouldn't be Best Glass Cannon, but rather simply Best Mage and I don't think that's what was intended. I can't think of what was *actually* intended, since there aren't really glass cannons besides mages, but there ya go.
EDIT3: So I suppose that's where I'm sticking. What's a GLASS CANNON imply, if more than mages? It would be Best Mage if it were supposed to be about mages, so I assumed we went with the squishier mages. It's early.
If this conclusion doesn't satisfy, return to line 1 and then skip the rest of the post.
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I only have one question for now 'cause it's still early:
If something happens here, what happens to that sodding Merlinus debate in the FE7 thread now? If it dies, I'll be happy to work on whatever compromise we can.
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I'm guessing this would be units with high STR/MAG but extremely frail? I'll go with 70%+ on their offense growth.
Seems sound but 70% is a little ridiculous. That exempts EVERYBODY from FE9, for example, except Muarim/Largo/Tibarn/Giffca (NONE of whom are glassy in the slightest) for STR and Elincia for MAG - and nobody from 7 OR 8 except Myrrh has that kind of growth. I'll go with sound (>=50% str/mag) offensive growth coupled with poor(<=35% spd/def?) defensive growth for mine.
And now to roll with the flow.
BEST: FE9 Ilyana. She's actually made of glass unlike most of my mages. Also, I have a fetish for Thunder magic and she starts with it. Yay.
WORST: FE7 Lucius. He hits hard enough and takes enough damage in return to fit in my category, but he never does what I want him to do. Plus, Canas overrides all.
EDIT: Spurred by the above quote, I went and checked the growth rates on some older games and it seems 70+% offensive growth was much more common back then as compared to now, so ridiculous wasn't the right word. Still, it seems 70% for 5 is now ~60%.
EDIT2: Honorable mention goes to the Phantoms Summoners made in FE8. THAT was true glass cannontry.
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Glass cannons? I'm assuming you mean any unit that has low durability and high damage, not just mages or?
Hell, I can't think of an offensive unit I've used that had particularly low durability. I'll have to think of this one...
EDIT: Myrmen and Mages, maybe?
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That...was...an interesting page to read.
Anyway, yes, Boyd using Colossus is cool with bows - especially since I have a special loathing for Shinon and can't be arsed to raise Rolf, so Boyd ends up being my best bow user.
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WIN:
Almost losing to the Fire Dragon twice on my first FE7 playthrough, then watching Canas double, then crit the sonofabitch with Luna for a total of 100 damage. CANASSSSS
Soloing the Demon King with SM!Marisa. Yeah. Alright, Tethys danced for her, but nobody else did any attacking.
In a related playthrough of FE8, killing the Demon King with a TRIANGLE ATTACK!
Kent.
FAIL:
An Eirika that didn't roll Strength A SINGLE TIME until FIFTEEN. Str 4 doesn't go very far in the Desert, just so y'all know.
Everything I ever tried to do with Soren. That guy never does anything for me.
Deciding the first time through FE7 15x that I HAD to kill all the pirates except Dart en route to Fargus. Also, deciding that the second time after I inevitably failed. And the third. And the fourth.
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I prefer Knight to be honest, since you get a better +DEF on promotion and I mainly level her via javelins anyway.
Plus, you already have - four, five cavaliers? Mix it up a little.
EDIT: Upon actually looking at the numbers (yeah, I was from-memory-ing it) you also get +1 CON via the knight promotion, which is precious for Amelia imho.
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Moulder is a goddamn pimp.
Moulder IS a goddamn pimp, that doesn't mean he's interesting to look at in low-res.
I'm sure the 32-bit lay-deez of his world find him something else, though.
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I'ma going with,
Best: Natasha. Natasha does funny things to my insides.
Worst: Renault. Renault is just...blah. Even more blah than Moulder the Boulder, and Moulder is all brown all the time.
Should I use Aran or Nephenee?
in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
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Go with Nadved. He's Devdan's little friend, and he will fuck you up, because he's immortal.