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And with that, I draft Bastian. This means Spoon gets left with Ena/Nasir and that we can start playing. My team: Ike Titania Marcia Mist Lethe Haar Gatrie Stefan Ranulf Bastian

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Ranulf

He would've been useful to me and Spoon since only we can recruit him without the risk of taking penalties. But considering you(zhao) can't lowturn his joining map(no earlygame fliers or mages) he might've been a decent pick for you.

I'm going to take a risk and say Stefan

Spoon intends to have his characters eat vulneraries their entire life? Well, it's his choice. I claim Haar

I'll be yoinking Gatrie, then.

Lethe, I choose you!

Miles Davis, Chick Corea and John Coltrane are good strating points for most people. Frankly, I don't really care about those aforementioned people. I'm more into the stuff Dave Brubeck made, Xploding Plastix and Hiromi's Sonicbloom. Gonna triple post for examples of these people. First off a song by Xploding Plastix. Xploding Plastix has a bit of a noir style. Secondly, an oldie but goodie from Dave Brubeck's quartet And finally Hiromi Uehara. Japanese and jazz is a combination you don't often see, but this Japanese woman plays the jazz piano like it's nobody's business.

I'll take Mist.(Damn I wanted Tanith)

Just gonna post some hiphop, too :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iklcqJ_xc0

It's a random battle!

Jill for the Spoon, then! I will be original and claim Marcia!

Integrity has already pointed out in another thread that randomizing drafting order is done by the draft moderator and I agree with him.

Definitely most underplayed...

Considering most draft tourneys start drafting in like 2 hours after the OP was posted, I'm sort of disappointed at how slow this is going. Meh. I want to draft and start playing allready...

Kay, gonna answer some of your questions for you. 1. Growths in this game are bad in comparison to - say - EVERY OTHER FE GAME 2. As you've already noticed you can move around on the world map and stuff, just like in any JRPG. So do that 3. Cliff starts out the worst but has the most potential out of the three villagers 4. Promoting as early as possible is a good idea because promotion only raises your unit's stats to the bases of the class he's getting promoted to(if the stats were below that) 5. Villager class has the option to promote to several classes - revisit a shrine if you don't like the promotion you can have now 5. Alm is one of the two lords in this game

I'll just post the rules for sake of: 1. 5 people get Ike, Titania, a Laguz Royal of their choice and 8 drafted characters to play the game. Drafting will be done in the usual fashion 2. The goal is to be the one with the lowest turncount to completion 3. The game is played on Hard Mode with fixed growths (fixed mode, need to have completed PoR once to unlock) 4. BEXP abuse is NOT allowed.(BEXPing in small increments to get good levelups) 5. Undrafted characters may NOT: engage in any form of combat (this includes meatshielding), shove or smite drafted characters or NPCs, build supports with anyone, heal others, steal, visit houses/villages, open chests, open doors, rescue drafted characters, make use of skills like blessing or red tide and so on. 6. Punishment for having an undrafted character do something they aren't allowed to do is a 4 turn penalty to your total turncount. Multiple actions by the same unit do not incur multiple penalties 7. Undrafted characters MAY: trade with units, rescue other undrafted characters, shove/smite other undrafted units and find stuff in the desert 8. Other and Partner units may do as they please without penalty 9. Reyson and the Hawks may be used to get Naesala to retreat and get the Knight Ring in Ch19. Make sure they stay out of combat if you don't draft them

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Dear Life, do you like the following song also? (please listen to it till the end) With regards, Excellen

Err... Never played mafia before, but count me in.

A multimedia PC does in no way at all fall between average consumer and entry level gaming. A normal consumer-level PC has somewhat decent processoing power, and either an IGP or a low end GPU and otherwise also low end material. A multimedia PC is something that has good overall performance. It has a good CPU and a mid range GPU to accompany it and usually has extras like USB3 or a sound card. An entry level gaming rig focuses entirely on the GPU, getting a CPU that's only fast enough to not bottleneck that GPU, ditto for everything else. AMD motherboards are confusing in that you can choose from a helluva lot of them. There's the 480X CrossFire, 740G, 760G, 770, 784G, 790X, 790FX, 790GX, 870, 880G, 890FX and 890GX types of motherboards to choose from in the AM3 range alone. Going on, there should be a mention of formfactors for motherboards, PSU's and cases. And considering laptops are much more popular than desktops these days there should be a laptop section.

I voted for Kyon, too. Kyon is awesome and his love interest is god. Sigurd is a fail who loses his wife to some prick and is too dumb to see he's gonna get pwned by Alvis.

Being a veteran guide writer, I really really really want to discourage people from posting a largely incomplete guide. Moving on, I think you're misrepresenting AMD & Intel. To kick off, AMD processors are bad by no means and Intel processors are not necessarily better or faster in any price category that isn't top end aka $250+. Now that I'm on to top end, intel top end processors need the special 1366 socket. This translates into being forced to buy what is often a $200+ motherboard and three sticks of RAM if you want to make of the triple channel memory lanes. All adding onto the costs. To continue on, this extra processor power is not very likely to be used. The only commonly used application where this kind of processing power is useful, that I can now think of, would be in encoding HD video. In terms of gaming performance and stuff, a $1000 intel CPU will simply deliver the same performance a $200 AMD will give you. Regarding giving names for AMD, you got it wrong. The first number indeed represents the generation aka general architecture. The second one represents which chip within that architecture is being used, and the third doesn't stand for the clock it got, but which version of the chip. Per example in one series the 5870 has X amount of calculating units and certain clocks to come with them, and the 5850 has less calculating units and lower clocks, but they're both based on the Cypress chip. Regarding nomenclature for NIVIDIA, it's largely the same but more confusing. You have the old XXXX series and the newer XXX series. GS, GT and GTX don't by ANY means represent clocks. GS means that it's suited for general, mainstream use. GT means that it's mid end, aka not bad for gaming but not great either, and finally GTX is reserved for high to top end performance cards. Again, it has NOTHING to do with clock speeds or whatever. Choosing a certain type of processor also means having to choose a certain type of motherboard, which series of CPU's goes into what socket type? Not to mention, AMD motherboards are confusing as hell. How important is RAM in regards to general performance of your system? Is having a soundcard a good idea? Why not add a multimedia PC build? What price range does each build fall into?

Well if the game is long enough and the unit you get from arena'ing is rape-face enough(and easy to arena) you might just earn most of your turns back. Also, maybe I should do a FE8 PT.