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I found myself bothered, when Sylvain was turning out dodgy, that there was a lack of characters coming in to replace him.
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I'm playing Church route for the first time now, and I recruited Ashe for the Shoes of the Wind. I can confirm that Ashe will leave the party to go be an enemy on this route, too.
Lorenz, less sure.
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6 hours ago, Jotari said:
Maybe SPD could work something like move. Instead of being a regular stat, it's tied to classes. For example, Swordmasters have 5 speed, armours have 1. You need just 1 point if speed to double. Maybe this would make speed more broken, but classes with lower speed could be balanced more consistently around it. Add in a miniscule growth rate like Thracia's move and speed wings as the equivalent of boots and you suddenly have a very valuable stat. Which in practice wouldn't actually be all that different to how speed world now. This would also add more bulkyness to enemy units as even if they're weak, you can't double with two units of the same class (without additional stuff, Darting Stance and Blow would be super useful skills). Not sure how well it'd work but I'd like to see it tried in one game at least. Actually it wouldn't be that hard to implement in hacking. Maybe an experiment to try.
That completely neglects where evasion fits in to this system. So you'd have to rebalance skill, luck and weapon hit, and at that point, you might have just fundamentally changed the game.
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2 hours ago, redlight said:
It worked for me, but I guess there's a lot more depth to it
The Supports you unlocked first could work on gaining points beyond A Rank faster than those that unlocked later. "The A Support you got first" is a good indicator, but nothing more.
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1 hour ago, Mjolnir said:
Oh yes and also I've heard that if you ONLY give a character one A or A+ support (and leave the rest at B or lower) this will force them to wed in post game. It's too late for that in my game, but many report this working seemingly.
When you reach a new Support conversation, the game will cap their Support Points until you view the conversation. By not watching the conversations of pairings you don't want, they don't gain points to compete with the pairing you want. As such, you essentially win the race Big Rigs style.
As for choosing a pairing without this trick... meals, choir, adjudants, anything you can think of to funnel Support points in one specific direction instead of splattering all over the place.
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I just beat Dimitri's paralogue. Post-timeskip, but one line of dialogue in the conversation afterwards jumped out at me:
SpoilerI wanted to thank you for your help with the Arianrhod campaign the other day.
This line is either nonsense or illuminating mechanically. Probably both.
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20 minutes ago, Cysx said:
Lethality to bad. You don't just go for 1 range attacks that won't ORKO by that point in the game,
Lethality works on bows.
As I've discovered, Lethality works when Shamir is shooting down pegasus knights and thus lowers her damage. (Of course, practically, there's no difference between 42 damage predicted and 38 damage dealt to a pegasus knight with 38 HP, but it's still hilarious.)
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So far, I went Dorothea on Golden Deer, Annette on Black Eagles (All-Girls) and Hilda on Blue Lions.
Dorothea and Annette were solid, but Hilda's not been particularly magically inclined (she has to resort to Thoron to kill weakened things) and I haven't gotten her Bolting yet. I only chose Hilda largely for the inherent humour in having my three House runs have a dancer from another house.
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8 hours ago, dragonlordsd said:
But proportionally speaking, compared to everyone but Claude, that's pretty much par for the course. I mean, looking at what Edelgard or Dmitri does, I don't see any super clear distinction.
Rhea is actively leading people into blind faith in her through fear- and just because that's not faith as in 'devout believer' doesn't mean it's not faith as in 'you can keep your world order as it is'. Edelgard is after societal revolution and while I'm still getting through Blue Lions (and don't have Church route), the narrative I have seen so far calls out Edelgard and Dimitri more often than Rhea, who doesn't have a setting of war to explain her actions.
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13 minutes ago, dragonlordsd said:
Well, I'm still a bit confused on what exactly Rhea does that's so evil. I feel a little lost on that point.
That said, it's not like this has stopped people from siding with Edelgard.
QuoteHowever, we must punish any sinner who may inflict harm upon believers, even if those sinners are civilians. I pray the students learned a valuable lesson about the fate that awaits all who are foolish enough to point their blades towards the heavens.
I'm not sure how the game intends to change my mind on her after hearing that. I've heard Golden Deer was supposed to be one of her better showings, and yet that was my first route and I came out of it just as Rhea-negative as I came in.
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Cordelia's VA is Julie Ann Taylor, who appears to be missing from Three Houses.
On topic, I feel that sort of bias, not only anti-Edelgard, but pro-Rhea. You have to go out of your way (and, without care, sacrifice resources) to allow yourself the chance to side with Edelgard. I have failed to see eye-to-eye on the glorification of Rhea since hearing her views on the Lonato rebellion, and while I still need more time to get to the route to hear the full story from the game, I have what I believe to be a general picture from external sources, and said picture dissatisfies me.
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9 hours ago, Silver-Haired Maiden said:
Altina is female. Just wanted to get that out there. Not sure if you're talking about in like a fanfic or something but in the games Altina is a woman.
Altina is a female, but she has none of Lehran's ancestral powers ascribed to the office of Begnion- those belong to Lehran, for obvious reasons.
Altina would be the first Empress, but it's a minor character point that Apostle and Empress are different titles that are typically held by the same person.
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5 minutes ago, Armagon said:
Sigrun and Tanith in general are odd choices because i feel like they're on the lower end of Tellius popularity. Like, when people talk about their favorite Tellius characters, i never see those two whereas Pent and Louise do have a following.
I've been enjoying playing with those two with my Sanaki-focused story inspired by Bridal Sanaki, but I'm not exactly the target audience as both a lapsed player and someone who's literally still thinking about that a year later.
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2 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
The banner's nice and all, but I'm getting a bit worried about something.
Tanith, Sigrun, Pent, and Louise. Four characters who do not have their regular self in the game yet. Four characters who are using weapon types VERY similar to what they canonically wield, if not their actual weapon.
... Are they planning on just dumping in new popular characters all as seasonal heroes, with their original weapon type, with a possibility of not getting their base form in ... like, anytime soon? Or ever?
This is why I can't really look at this and think positively, despite Sigrun and Tanith.
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I have mixed feelings, mostly negative ones. At least it's not last year's?
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1 hour ago, Slumber said:
That's never been an issue before.
Crimea is a real(Pretty geopolitically important) place, yet it's one of the most important countries in Tellius. Bern is also a major city in Switzerland.
Bern (as well as Ostia and Laus) were renamed for the European release. Crimea wasn't, though.
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3 hours ago, HappyHawlucha. said:
Maybe scenes which are unlocked by having units close to eachother on the battlefield in a similar vein to supports but the method of viewing it actually in the overworld rather than in a menu.
This is one of the gameplay limitations of Supports I'm not fond of. The system that has so many other limitations that I'm surprised so many people get on RD and SD's case for lacking them.
In-Castle interactions brings to mind Base Conversations, which have so much more potential for character expansion explored using physical locations and objects as props.
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14 minutes ago, DragonFlames said:
Yeah, I almost never use Silver weapons in RD, either. Weapon ranks increase pretty fast in that game, so there's really no reason to use them for WEXP, I find.
Silvers are A Rank, so they're not even good for that. Especially in Path of Radiance, where they're the end of the line- if you can use a Silver Axe, which Titania would theoretically have given the player access to, you can use any axe you can legitimately obtain, because there's no Urvan. At least Titania does have the Axe rank to use Silver Axes when they come around.
Sothe's has a B Rank in Knives, which is what the Kard is, but he doesn't have a good enough rank to have a Silver knife to distribute if anyone even wanted one.Though it does bear mentioning that, in regards to prepromoted units holding Silver Lances, Tauroneo has one. Once Tauroneo leaves the party, this is good for Aran (starts D), Fiona (starts C), promoted Jill (starts D), and promoted Meg (starts E).
If we're counting Tauroneo as a Jagen/general prepromote for the purposes of this topic (his contribution as one is debatable), I have indeed used Tauroneo- he even came to the Tower one time. He's... a unit. All his stats are solid, he doesn't really shine in anything. There are prepromotes everywhere and I've given most of them a fair share- I think Volug, Oliver, Giffca and Volke are the only ones left, depending on who you count and why you count them. Radiant Dawn's system in general is a pain to apply terminology and series staples to. -
14 minutes ago, DragonFlames said:
Also, the Silver Lance they usually carry around goes to my strongest lance unit once they reach the necessary weapon rank.
To be honest, I've played so much Tellius compared to other FEs that I forgot Jagens do this. Doesn't help Silver weapons compare almost objectively unfavourably to Steel Heavies in RD and I rarely make the jump to using Silvers in PoR- though to be fair, I so rarely use Silvers in all FEs, so the initial one I got from the Jagen is probably still in the convoy with less than five uses scratched off.
With Sothe in FE10, he's got exclusive access to Knives until Part 4, so even if the Kard was a good knife by lategame standards, it's not like anyone else can nick it and start swinging it around. Laguz as 'prepromoted units to get you out of pinches' have the same flaw where their Strikes are non-transferable, and most items they have in their inventories are specifically for laguz barring the occasional Concoction or Elixir.
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10 minutes ago, DragonFlames said:
Yeah, same here. Except for their movement, Cavaliers usually suffer from middling to terrible stats in all my playthroughs. I never once had a single Fire Emblem playthrough where any Cavalier I used was anything above mediocre when compared to my other units, not even Mathilda or Zeke in Echoes. Thus, they usually die faster to things than I'd like, making their high movement a moot point for me. If I really want high movement units, I'll take Wyvern Riders or Pegasus Knights (not the Tellius ones, because I never had a good one in one of those, either) over Cavs any day of the week, to be honest.
Long story short, I never really understood the Cav hype the FE fanbase at large has.I have a natural knack for pegasus knights- though no force in the universe can save Sigrun- and Jill usually works out, so I at least get to have them fly around. But for the most part, the Canto effect is used for getting the horses back to safety than pressing them further into danger. And the RD horses are usually the ones struggling to double things come lategame.
My Sacred Stones runs were so long ago, and the more memorable ones banned Seth, but somehow I feel like my positive pegasus luck is balanced out by terrible cavalier luck, and I could very well believe I am capable of having a terrible Seth.
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10 hours ago, Eryon said:
It's hard to believe she would have had no memories of her family. Especially when you recall she should have had a caretaker or at least a guardian who got her to safety.
QuoteMuarim:
“No thanks are needed. It’s rude of me to ask, but do you know anything about the circumstances of your birth?”Micaiah:
“No. I know nothing of my parents. But just before she died, the old woman who raised me told me what the brand was and what it meant.”(Image of Micaiah’s brand)
Micaiah:
“This is proof that the blood of both beorc and laguz course through me. And so, I am anathema to both. She told me never to let anyone see it, and to be always on my guard.”Muarim:
“Wise advice…”Micaiah:
“I’ve avoided people most of my life to conceal my brand…and my powers. But there’s no way to hide how very slowly I age. I just keep moving through Daein. The same holds true now… I won’t be able to stay in this army long.”...Honestly, I'm not sure the author of this passage was aware of Micaiah's heritage. -
6 hours ago, DragonFlames said:
The only two I ever used seriously are Titania in my first run of FE9 (in which I learned that I REALLY don't like the Cavalier class)
I'm honestly never quite sure whether I don't like using non-Astrid Paladins in FE9 because of their stats or because of their class balance. Probably the former, since the paladins can pretend to be competent (as best they can) in FE10. But it's not like I've had good results with them in my time in other games- though it has been a while.
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8 hours ago, Paper Jam said:
But Micaiah's father was a descendant of Lehran, wasn't he? If Misaha was survived by a daughter, that daughter should have been the next Apostle after Misaha's death. Since that didn't happen, isn't it more likely that Misaha was survived only by a son and a granddaughter?
There is no logical reason a male shouldn't be eligible for the powers of the Apostle. The first one was a male, after all. I just assumed (with evidence I'm sure is probably there somewhere but I wouldn't have the foggiest idea where) that the Apostles tended to turn up female, so listed Mr Altina as the non-Lehran descendant.
I'm writing a story that goes into this topic, I need to pick one.3 hours ago, Eryon said:The twist with Micaiah and Sanaki being sisters is just poorly done. It doesn't really serve any purpose besides introducing a "lost princess" element of Micaiah's character she didn't ever need. Raises questions on how she doesn't show signs that she remembers her family considering how much older she obviously is than Sanaki.
She only needs to be about ten or so years older to still be infantile at the time of the Massacre. It's perfectly reasonable for her to be both.
But yeah, your first point is spot on.
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I tried using Titania in my Hit-Affinity run of FE9. She either got Strength/other stat screwed or just isn't that good, because she quickly dropped off the team and I wasn't even using Kieran to compare her unfavourably to (though his bases compared to her stats at the time weren't doing her favours). It did, however, teach me that base Titania is actually weighed down by Steel Axes- and I frequently faced that fact with having her not double things like priests while she could with Steel Lances by the time the rest of the party was on her level or lower.
At least she can feed kills, but I honestly prefer Oscar for that.
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I'm not sure if there's anywhere better, but here's one of the missing icon matches:
This skill icon belongs to Surging Light.
It's one of Berserk Rhea's abilities once she gets her Real Crest Stone of Seiros a few turns in.
It shames me to admit I don't actually know which Dragonskin icon is Ancient Dragonskin's and what the other one is used for.