grandjackal
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Totally off topic, Lyn would probably be a hell of a lot better if her affinity was Anima or Thunder rather than Wind.
I mean, her options are fine, her affinity just blows, and Anima already fixes a ton of her problems since now she's dodging somewhat reliably.
*points at Kent with his anima affinity* Did I hear his armor just go ding?
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Defense isn't that useful though when even Captain Gordin can take a blow or two, the Gemini Orb exists, Physics are buyable, dragons have shitty hit, and a bunch of other stuff.
Yeah yeah yeah favoritism blah blah blah but letting an extra 30% str and 20% def growth go to waste is just plain stupid. You gotta let SOMEBODY benefit from that kind of win, or just pass it around.
Like you don't have the star orb for chiki. Or light orb. Whichever one boosts growth.
What's important is she can take quite a few more blows even with doubling considered, varied on stone. We could use physic on our chiki tank (or just plain heal). Enemies don't suddenly become dodging gods. She tanks, does good damage without quickly burning through weapons, which in turn makes killing with everyone else easier and keeps weapons from breaking faster.
Again, it isn't like we're trying to get her into high here. She's not as bad as you make her out to be is all we're saying.
EDIT: Woop, seems it's been taken care of. Nevermind me.
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I win.
And here is your prize. *hands you the internetz*
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Bawwww, an ugly woman in a video game! Ugly women don't exist!
Besides, Vaida's not exactly an eyesore.
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I'm sure you two have been at this for a good while. That and I probably sucked at making a clear point.
But main point I suppose is her use is defense and not offense. Yeah, it's a point you made, but someone here seems not to notice that, along with the stats you gave us on the stones.
Or doesn't understand we aren't trying to get her into high here.
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I've no problem with a female berserker being muscular, just not unrealistically huge. There is strong, but then there is "That can't actually happen without major steroid abuse".
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And that's why I didn't bring up her funds, but her fail offense.
And yet not her tank abilities. Looking at the stats Nathan so graciously gave, she's actually an excellent tank as a fire/demon dragon. Throw in undefendable range, she takes Super Doga to whole new levels. Even being doubled, nearly most units are doing piss damage to her. She weakens them, she makes the rest of your army tear through the enemy even more. She sounds more like FE DS Mini General Zagaro to me. Her weaknesses really are she is indeed dependent on expensive weapons (though you can still sell at least a fire dragon stone, but throw in the gold you already get, selling silver axes and useless stat ups like goddess icons and skill books...) and can't kill by herself without a critical. Her durability is nice till she no longer needs it against the demon dragons of final chapter, where switching to divine helps make killing demon dragons easier (and saves durability on your precious dragonslayers).
With funds proven not a problem, her only weaknesses are her weapons are expensive, comes a bit late and can't kill without a crit. However, her strengths are she acts as a tank with undefendable huge damage without training. I think we were basing her off being a divine dragon this whole time. But her use is defense and not offense. But basically, think General Zagaro H5 with actual weaknesses and comes a quite a bit later. It's why she's in lower mid, we aren't about to put her in high or anything. But with seperate stones, she can meld to the situation. That's a pretty nice advantage.
Considering I don't use Chiki often though, perhaps I'm not explaining it best. Perhaps I'm getting a tad hyped, but I could see her going a bit higher, but perhaps I need to try using her again first to clarify it to myself...
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Vincent, you sir, have the skillz that killz. You have me envious. So Sei-oh (those kanji that say holy woman) basically means maiden? This helps my japanese studies too, especially since I suck at kanji. Apparently I'm bad at katakana too, I thought the sword was called Silk Rain.
Man, I wish I could get back into spriting. Not that I was any good at it, but no one starts perfect. But I thought macs would come with something like Paint....apparently I was wrong -_-;; comes with near nothing fun and can barely install anything fun. Even stuff like starcraft and warcraft. They can be installed, but macs truly won't allow you any sort of editing tools...
Yes, I am VERY envious of you Vincent...*grudge grudge grudge*
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I may not be exact, but at base I believe she has 10 base defense as a fire dragon, 15 as a demon dragon...forget with divine stone, i believe 12?
Dunno about HP for any of them, but doubling does effect her every time she's attacked. Just how much it matters we don't know.
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Some parts make me feel like they're just trying to sell it (overexagerating character development and attachment), but some points are convincing they at least know their own game (taking Jagen's weapon before the you know what part)
Was interesting to hear about how they worked on the original though. Development in the old days seem pretty hectic.
At least they have the same sense of humor we have on characters (llol Wrys) ...Or maybe they are trying to sell us on it again? o0;; If they are...very subtle, yet effective. These guys do their homework...
I'm surprised Sakurai didn't just go to the interview in make-up and in slutty dresses though.
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Actually, I still consider hurting funds a flaw, especially when other characters aren't so ridiculously expensive and outputting just as much (if not more) performance.
One fire stone is enough.
Just sayin' at least she has a way to pay for the demon stone at least....but yeah, maybe i got a bit hyped here ;;>>
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Well that's better explained. Just don't give her anything like steel axes and lances and she'd be fine. Just she comes with baggage.
Thanks Mekkah and others.
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*ahem* Sweet Tooth, we just proved funds is nothing to give a damn about. Chiki has no problem getting the fire dragon stones, keeping her divine, and even selling the firedragon stones to get a demon stone, considering it outclasses fire dragon pretty badly. So it turns out demon stones won't be to expensive thanks to the silver card and what firedragon stones will get you, and divine is free. Hell, I could see her rise more!
Fire dragon until demon stone is retrieved, demon till the final chapter where she will be divine. She has a way to be useful throughout. Hell, she can divine for the chapter she's in after ice palace to easier take care of the ballistae. One shots them.
Face it clown, she doesn't sound bad anymore.
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Not getting Astoria means you lose like 800G and whatever you must do to get to said secret shop on buying another Dragon Slayer to do the same task the Miracle Sword is doing.
Extra EXP likely isn't too big of a loss since in this game everybody caps stats at 20 anyway with the star orb shards ensuring the most are made out of level ups.
If anything, the Dragon Slayer works fine as a substitute for extra level ups since it allows you to kill Dragons far more easily with less reliance on stats (not to mention other characters not using Swords are able to exploit dragon weaknesses), then in the chapters thereafter Astoria joins and you still get the Miracle Sword so combine that with the Star Orb, and you *still* have a great opportunity to get extra level ups, Astoria himself heavily benefiting from this as well.
With that, he's probably just going to rise a couple of slots in Low-Mid. Being in the bottom of Low-Mid is such a forced placement, because it rides way too much on ONE flaw, rather than looking at Astoria as a whole. Astoria's join time and base Str, as well as reliance on Miracle Sword for leveling up, is what keeps him in Low-Mid as well as the minor flaws inflicted from recruiting him is what will keep him in Low-Mid, not the sole Miracle Sword argument.
Uhhh...This all WOULD make sense, but please clarify this...800 gold loss and suddenly not being able to get into the secret shop...What 800 gold, and how does he suddenly make a secret shop dissapear? Unless you mean he stops you from SPENDING money to GET another dragonslayer, but...This also makes no sense.
In analysis, he's...still meh. If you can clarify the point I wish to clarify, I GUESS he can go up a tiiiiiiiny bit...
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Just a heads up. Astoria is going to rise up in his own tier.
Just thought I would let everyone know.
This has to be the most awesome way to hint at something I've ever seen. Defiant, cocky, confident. I like it. Can't wait to hear why.
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You're probably thinking of Demon Dragon because I don't recall (and can't find in the main site) anything about a time dragon.
Pardon me, Demon Dragon stone. Lot of people around call it Time stone...
I can read a bit of japanese, I know what the word for demon is, how did I miss it?
EDIT: Speaking of funds though, shouldn't Julian go up a bit more for finding one of these silver axes?
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Pardon my ignorance, I never really understood what the Time Dragonstone was? :|
You get it in a secret shop. I believe it's...in the chapter around the Battle of the Pass. It's at least before the battle with HIM. Basically the Fire Dragon has lots of HP and power, but meh defense and skill (can actually miss). Time dragon doesn't have to worry too much about skill, do decent damage and have a good amount of defense. Great even. Only problem is you have to buy it instead of just finding it. But with how we proved funds, and fire dragon stones not being too useful...
Neither have Divine's dragon raping properties however.
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Sounds about right. I wouldn't think Funds is too much of an issue later on anyway..
This wouldn't get her higher? She gets pretty awesome defense out of time stone, can use it till the final chapter where divine is better. Even with doubling, 15 defense with pretty good HP is pretty solid, all things considered. Her only weak point is before the time stone, but she can just now use divine until then now thanks to Levin coming in to save the day. Not like she won't have enough uses out of divine, I used her the moment I got her one time and through the rest of the game, never ran out of it. Came close, but still.
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Below Astram, in lower mid. ~_~
Fine fine. Sorry for maybe perhaps going a bit far with this. If only I kinda glanced at the inventory page...
...And yeah, I hyped the skill book and luck stone thing ;;>>
But still, selling the fire stones for time dragon, keeping divine for later. Your thoughts?
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My math might be a bit off due to doing it off the top of my head, but this is around 110k with naturally gained gold and silver axes sold...
Throw in silver card and Nathan's right. Funds really isn't a problem. If I recall, you get the silver card pretty early in this game too...
I can see Chiki going up then, but where? Now that we have an estimate...what does it mean for the expensive units? How much does it benefit them exactly? Chiki's weapon is still expensive, but does this mean she can even sell the fire stones for the much more useful to her Time dragon stone? It's not like Banut is being a savior for the ice segments of dragon valley anyways.
So...Chiki can go up higher, but by how much exactly?
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And now I know more. Thank you FE7 tier list. I shall be off now. You guys have fun continuing what you do here.
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Yeah my convincing skills kinda suck.
I wouldn't see her above Samuto. She's also guaranteed to two round the black dragons and Barbarians in the final chapters which actually says more than most of your current chars except Bantu. She's also guaranteed to 2HKO and she doesn't need EXP to do it... which can't be said of most of your current chars. So really, she isn't so bad that she's restricted to low tier.
Finally, NOBODY has shown me how there's a lack of Funds. "Just play through the game" is not valid, considering it's high possible to sell stat boosters too just to make up for it.
Why sell stat-boosters when you can use them? Yeah yeah, anyone can use them, but that's the point. Anyone can use them. It benefits everyone equally. But why not sell the dragonstones due to the mamkutes being meh at best with them anyways?
Either we use stat-boosters and sell dragon stones to solve the economy problem, or we use the statboosters AND dragonstones and now we don't have a lot of money to spend on stuff like weapons. We DEFINITELY aren't gonna sell the stat boosters just to have a meh unit get in the team.
You gonna give me that "Every unit gets great stats anyways" stuff? Why not make their stats better BEFORE they max out? Kashim and Sirius would love goddess statues to never have to deal with those rare crit occasions ever again, Luke would love a skill book for better javelin use, Gordon would like a power ring and Doga a speed ring. The difference? They come early enough for the effects to be profound. By the time Chiki shows up, even with giving her stat boosters, she isn't doing anything anybody else is doing. Hell, even Samuto and Matthis has a greater opportunity to them than she does.
It has nothing to do with favoring a unit (after all, we can give marth that power ring too). It's about who can put more to use. The earlier you come, the better the chance of you getting a stat booster. Simple as that. Why earlier? Because greater stats can be put to better use at a time when you don't have the killer stats to take enemies down with ease.
"But we can wait to use them!" On who, the guys who don't have much time to be used? Guys who appear at a time when your team most likely will be doing better anyways? To favor Chiki? Pfeh. Dragonstones benefit two characters and neither to stellar points. Stat-boosters help great units become greater faster.
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What do mounted enemies have to do with it?
Beowulf: I charge to attack! *attacks* Retreat with Canto! haha!
Mounted enemy: *reaches him anyways thanks to mount and roads*
Beowulf: Good thing my allies wall me off!
Mounted enemy: *runs around the wall anyways*
Beowulf: S***
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She's at best going above Samuto's current position. At least Doga and and Gordon have relevant use of some form. She's ok at best for one single chapter. All things considered, you haven't seemed to convince anyone enough to get her out of Low and into Low-Mid. She should rise, but not much.
We'll have to wait to see what Chainey has to say about it though.
Get Cath ASAP, or no?
in Fire Emblem: Binding Blade
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Steal her lockpick, vulnerary and then kill her. This way you won't have to deal with thieves appearing at chapter 8 and be annoying.
She's not worth the trouble. Not by a longshot.
EDIT: Oh, you're NOT killing her......uhhhh....soonest she comes she's already not worth it, but do whatever. Might as well steal until last you see her.