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  1. Yes I was talking about pre chapter 11. Sorry I wasn’t clear.

     

    I’ve heard about Chloe as a mage knight but I never tried it. Chaos Style I know is a great ability. I want to give it a shot for next time.

     

    For Lapis and Diamant, it’s one of those cases where I want to use them long term because they can just instant promote and they can get 1-2 range for Hero and Successeur respectively. I like giving Lapis lances since they don’t weight as much as axes do and her build is bad. Build +3 does help a little but. At least she’d be able to wield steel weapons without being weighed down.

     

    Diamant at least gets access to a tomahawk by chapter 11 and a killer axe by chapter 10 so he at least has a case to where you could argue that he’d be an okay investment.

     

  2. I’ve been doing some practice runs for this game on maddening lately. Been putting it off admittedly because other games have been coming out for me to play and it’s been in the back burner for me. But I do want to get back into it soon, one run with DLC and one without.

     

    During some of my practice runs I’ve given master seals to Alear, Chloe and Anna early on. Then Lapis, Diamant, Alcryst and Ivy. 
     

    For those who have done their maddening runs, who did you give your master seals to early on that worked out for you?

  3. 3 hours ago, Imuabicus der Fertige said:

    Right, just thought of this, because duh - DLC - but, Dark Falcon Sakura?

    It loses the staff utility of Falcon Knight but supercharges her magic potential. Her STR/DEF will be a dash worse (like -2 points all around?) which wasn´t good to begin with, but it offers some Weapon Triangle control AND u have access to the good scrolls of Hoshido like Calamity Gate and Horse Spirit.

    According to the wiki.org you´ll get a weapons scroll in chapter 11 and another as treasure in chapter 16, in case of weapon rank worries and ofc you´d keep the Heart Seal.

    Bolt Naginata, Horse Spirit, and Calamity Gate sounds good honestly. I’ll have to think about that.

  4. 38 minutes ago, Shadow Mir said:

    I have watched Zoran's videos, for your information. Mostly the raise everyone challenge. And I have seen nothing - NOTHING - to make me think otherwise. I mean, I respect Zoran, but I wouldn't treat EVERYTHING they do as gospel. 

    Well... in this case, I find it hard to recommend, because what you get out of it is the exact opposite of what Elise is specialized in. That seldom ends well. 

    You respect Zoran so much that you thought his video on explaining the thought process of giving Elise a heart seal was all one big scam to entice players to try something different that you don’t agree with. 
     

    Look man, if you wanted to simply say that you’re not a fan of the idea despite seeing the videos he made and how he got this set up to work then fine. No one wouldn’t give it a second thought. But you decide say “oh poor you” like I’m some kind of lost little lamb. You’re seriously being some entitled prick.

  5. 10 minutes ago, Alastor15243 said:

    The latter. He's notoriously stubbornly opinionated about things he admits he has little to no personal experience about. He has a long history of this on the forum.

    That I can imagine being true. I mean if he had said something like he did with the hayato heart seal idea that he doesn’t recommend or isn’t a fan then that would have been fine.

  6. @Shadow Mir

    Did you even watch his videos or are you just assuming that it’s just bad because you don’t like the sound of it?

     

    Secondly are you serious belittling me for acknowledging that heart sealing Elise looked to be a neat idea even for Conquest lunatic? Who do you think you are?

  7. 1 minute ago, Alastor15243 said:

    That line is definitely worth going into in order to pick up Rally Speed, but it's really not worth it before she can use staves in it on promotion.

    I tend to make Sakura into a rally bot given her innate access to luck, magic and speed rallies. If you have her marry Jakob, you can add in res, as well as inspiration to double her defensive aura and add on +2 attack.

    That is intriguing for sure. Plus if even I don’t want Rally Luck, Demoiselle is another aura stacking ability that she can use to boost the defensive stats for males.

     

    I am thinking though of pairing Azura with Jakob to ensure that Shigure gets Wyvern Rider for the Rally Defense which can stack with the other rallies similar to what you said about Sakura.
     

    But I do like the idea of Sakura x Jakob a lot.

  8. Thanks for the reply, I wasn’t expecting one so soon.
     

    Spear Fighter Hinoka I didn’t consider but it sounds like it can be very viable. Especially if she can keep her already existing lance rank, tank better against archers with Guard Naginata and nab Seal Defense and Swap for some degree of utility. It’s her ticket to Lancefaire when she reaches Spear Master so there is that.

     

    Felicia for me already has Live to Serve so even if she takes a hit and lives she can heal it right off so that also works out too. 

  9. I’ve recently started a new Birthright run and I was watching a Conquest playthrough by Zoran and he was showing off how effective heart sealing Elise can be when she goes into Wyvern Rider.

     

    I was thinking of doing something similar for Sakura since as of now she is level 3 with a D rank in rods and needs 6 exp to level up. Then I watched a video by someone called Bad at Life and while he did showed off Sky Knight Sakura, he said that he doesn’t recommend it due to her bulk not really improving. But at the same time it does help her utilize her personal ability better since flight is really good.

     

    I could also wait until I get Hayato and immediately heart seal him into Oni Savage for better bulk and he already comes with D in scrolls iirc. Plus his club could be worked on until he eventually can get Bolt Axe as well as Hammer and Pike-Ruin Club.

     

    Then there is Mozu so she can get Quick Draw. And Felicia who I guess can nab something like Sol to pass down or maybe Inspiration from Strategist.

     

    So between the four which do you think is the better candidate for an early heart seal? I’m on chapter 8 currently.

  10. On 12/26/2023 at 5:10 AM, Cysx said:

    It's possible, but at the same time, we're also getting more interviews over time than usual, they're even getting into the nitty gritty of development (seeing raw 3D renders, to my knowledge, is almost unheard of for a Nintendo-affiliated company). Plus we're at the end of a console cycle for Nintendo, and even Zelda, which was a massive success, has been promptly moved on from.

    While they tend to have slow starts every year (the "Furukawa touch", it would seem), even by their standards there's remarkably little to look forward to in 2024. Maybe IS were simply told by the motherbase to focus on providing material for the next system. Maybe.

    That’s certainly a possibility. I just don’t know exactly what they want to do with the franchise at this point. I mean people want a FE4 remake for the longest time.

     

    Also if there is an interview regarding their xenologue dlc I’m interested in knowing the thought process was behind this.

  11. I think that Intelligent Systems wants to move on from Engage at this point. Especially with how they should be embarrassed for seemingly rushing the xenologue dlc and implementing it poorly (or maybe not who knows).

     

    That aside, I wasn’t a big fan on how they handled the xenologue. This rant should be in a separate topic I realize that, but honestly they just need to learn their mistakes they’ve made with implementing their dlc if they are ever doing it again for the next installment of the series whether it’d be a brand new one or a remake of Genealogy that people have been wanting for a while since Three Houses. And that game’s story borrowed a bit from Genealogy because god damn Kaga can tell effective stories!

  12. 55 minutes ago, Jotari said:

    They are? Huh, I used Panette extensively and that just never came up.

    That is strange so I don’t blame you for not knowing. I remember seeing that they had a support during my hard mode run because I wanted to see how they interacted. Next thing you know I find out that they are related.

     

    I do wish the game acknowledged this before you started chapter 13. Like Pandreo chiming in that he has a sister or something.

  13. What if there was a paralogue involving Pandreo and Panette? This scenario might not be the best I’ve came up with nor does it have any impact on the main plot but I might as well try.

     

    Since they are brother and sister this would make sense. They both could rumor sightings of their parents returning to a church but that church is being raided by the corrupted. Pandreo would hear this rumor from the citizens of Solm and bring this news to Panette who would talking to Alear.

     

    Panette would at first show disinterest since she hates both of her parents but enough convincing from Alear gets her to go with both Alear and Pandreo to find out what’s really going on. 


    Afterwards rewards for beating the paralogue would include money, a stat booster (probably goddess icon or angelic robe which would make sense) and a second seal.

  14. If we’re going to the etie/alcryst/fogado comparison again (though this is already covered in our analysis throughout the forum) might as well chime in too.

     

    Etie as already mentioned had a good enough strength growth to where her chip is going to remain relevant because of how consistent her damage is. But the rest of her stats are pretty bad and she gets ORKO’d around the mid game on maddening. Not counting DLC she would need help from Lyn (who doesn’t) in fixing her speed. After that she can be pretty good. If she can get Canter by chapter 10 then she makes a good Bow Knight/Sniper that can move in and out. Warrior if you prefer back up utility.

     

    Alcryst while deals less damage overall than Etie because of his lower strength growth, makes up for it later with Luna assuming you promote him as soon as you get him as he wouldn’t require as much babysitting. Same with Fogado as well.

     

    Fogado is the fastest and therefore probably the one most would recommend since he’s on a horse and is likely to stay there unless you make him into a warrior for more strength. Cupido is slept on because his magic growth is actually passable. At least to the point where he can use radiant bow and levin sword very effectively. Radiant Bow in particular wrecks WKs and flying enemies in general since its might is ridiculous even before forging/engraving.

     

    Regardless of who you pick, all of them can wield Killer Bows with a Erika engraving and still be able to get things done.

     

    Of course I haven’t played Engage in a long time, been on a FE GBA high as of late and dipped my toe into Genealogy of the Holy and Thracia too. So I’m not if there is a new current meta for this game’s maddening or not but I am going to presume that the usual suspects are the ones to deploy for pretty much every map.

  15. 11 minutes ago, samthedigital said:

    Camilla is also worth a mention. There are also instances in games like SoV where having a magic weapon on a physical unit can be pretty good. Leif has his Prf weapon in FE5, but I don't know that any of those are good long term.

    I actually played Thracia not too long ago. Leif’s Light Brand was quite useful for me although I didn’t spam it all that much. I’ve gotten better use out of the King Sword but that was because it had Charm as it’s ability. Still, he needed a lot of babying to get off the ground because his base stats are quite low and so are his growths.

  16. 4 hours ago, Shadow Mir said:

    Now you're getting me thinking... how many FE games ARE friendly toward mixed builds? Because it doesn't seem like any are, from my point of view.

    I can only think of FE12 assuming that you’re building your avatar in a way that can go Levin Sword Swordmaster/Paladin/Falcon Knight/Horseman. Of course that would include stat boosters you get throughout the game including the ones from the armory once you unlock lunatic reverse.

     

    Robin and Corrin with a magic boon can also pull it off from their respective games but only if the rng blesses you.

     

    Also from my experience I’ve managed to pull off Wyvern Lord Annette and Mortal Savant Yuri in my Blue Lions maddening run but those were very specific picks to perform well in those classes.

     

    Other than that, I can’t think of much else really.

  17. On 10/13/2023 at 9:37 AM, Jotari said:

    Well unless you're in Tellius where it's Statue Frag for some inexplicably reason. If I were to guess it's because they had those Bands in Path of Radiance, though only the Knight's Ring was referred to as a ring.

    That’s interesting to note for sure.

  18. On 10/12/2023 at 7:46 AM, Cysx said:

    Yeah, it was a nice touch. I kinda wish build growth is here to stay, to be honest. Even I was skeptical before, but I think this game has proven that it works perfectly fine. They can even let loose a little bit and have more characters with 10-20% rates. Just as long as many others don't.

    Also it's been a while, I'm a newbie now I guess? Oh well.

    Or if they had a stat booster that increases a unit’s build by 1. That might have also been nice. I think it was the body ring iirc?

  19. I didn’t comment on Jean for maddening because I really had nothing to add about him. Nor did I really use him on maddening. Anna whom I’m more familiar with I’ll comment on.

     

    She joins you if you do one of the paralogue chapters during your time in Firene. Anna starts off as a axe fighter which is odd considering that she has the highest base magic growth in the game. Once promoted though she does make a decent mixed attacker with Radiant Bow and whatever axe you want to use for her. Her personal is triggered based on her luck stat so you could consider getting her luck + x from Byleth in order to get a higher chance to score money.

     

    I’d give her a 5/10 because she is a growth unit that can be hard to use at first and maybe not recommended for those who want more efficiency. But she is someone that can reward you for your hard work so at least there is some kind of pay off (see what I did there?)

     

  20. 49 minutes ago, Jotari said:

    Build is, essentially, an attempt to nerf units with high speed by limiting what weapons they can most effectively use. This is true when it was first introduced as Constitution and remains true even without it pulling double weight for the other stuff constitution did. How effective it actually nerfs fast units varies by game and individual opinion, but that's the intention. The best way of seeing this is actually the GBA games where they seemed to actually have it in mind with the slim and blade weapons. A mercenary like Gerrick can afford to use the more powerful Blade weapons without it reducing his speed, though his lower speed than a unit like Marisa means he won't double as often. Meanwhile, Marisa is fast she effectively doubles her damage against everything, so a blade weapon on her would be much better than a blade weapon on Gerrick, hence blade weapons become heavy so Marisa is forced to stick to weaker weapons that still allow her to double. That's the theory, at any rate.

    That’s a very plausible explanation I feel. I’ve actually been playing Sacred Stones now that you’ve brought it up. It’s actually pretty fun but even that game’s hard mode isn’t really that hard mostly because the enemies for the first half of the game are incredibly weak. But it’s a great game for newcomers so I can’t fault it for that.

  21. 1 hour ago, Shadow Mir said:

    Availability is the main thing, really. Also,for what it's worth, Build +4 is cheaper on bond fragments than Speed +4.

    EDIT: @FloreteI would consider the lack of a stat boost item for build to be a missed opportunity. The last games with such items made them useless.

    I agree that build + x has it’s niche as a cheap skill to inherit. What can make it better is if their emblem was Lyn since speed and build can go hand in hand.

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