Best one for Aureola

[Capt. Fargus]

For those who train their squad, is there a halfway decent one besides Father Yoder to give the Aureola spell to?

I know in the Project Ember version Elen trains up nicely, but I suspect that aint the case in the original 

Kinda sucks havin a legendary weapons nobody halfway decent can use to help knock down manaketes

[Jotari]

Only three characters can actually use Aureola in Binding Blade, since Bishops are the only light magic users in the game. Saul, Elen and Yoder. And, honestly, you say Yoder is half way decent but he's probably the hardest to make use of Aureola since he comes with A rank magic and the weapon experience gain is really slow. You only have a bare handful of chapters left to spam magic with him before the game is over. Elen and Saul you have a lot more time to train their weapon rank, but the inherent disadvantage of light magic in Binding Blade is that you can only begin training after you promote them. So promote them early and use light magic as much as you can. In terms of raw stats Saul is better than Ellen. Ellen will theoretically have a higher magic stat than him at 20/20, but, you're probably training them to 10/20 instead and her lead in magic is a very slow one, while Saul leads in speed, and the more he doubles the quicker his light magic rank will grow. Both of them are also weighed down by Auerola, Saul loses three points of speed wile Ellen loses a pretty significant 5. You probably don't want either of them to ever take a hit anyway, but Saul also beats Ellen in HP and Defense.

But, honestly, it'd be a pain to train either of them to be an Aureola user. You'd have to ignore there potential use as staff bots after promotion and focus solely on using magic. There is a fourth Aureola user relegated soley to trial maps and that's Guinevere with her hacked light magic rank on sage. And, she comes with S rank by default. So if you just want to style with Aureola in the game, use trial map Guinevere and hand it to her with no effort at all (though maybe save a Seraph Robe for her because her HP is scary low). Alternatively, actually hack the game and make Guinevere playable in the main campaign like she probably should have been.

[Zapp Branniglenn]

I consider Yoder the best because raising Elen/Saul's light rank so high is going to make soooo many maps extremely slow and difficult as you train them up, even presuming an early promotion. That's a Wendy-tier investment project, and all you get is another unit that can blast dragons at 2 range in the finale.

The way I see it is you have 10 deployment slots for the dragon gate. Nine legendary weapons at your disposal (counting the Staff of the Saint as the Ninth). Roy and Fae are mandatory. And if you want a dancer, than that means you've only got seven slots left. One of those weapons is gonna be sitting on the bench unless your Yoder is dual wielding The Staff and Aureola. But without Aureola you'd still be packing enough firepower to steam roll those dragons.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 04:22 AM by Zapp Branniglenn

[Eltosian Kadath]

8 hours ago, Jotari said:

Elen and Saul you have a lot more time to train their weapon rank, but the inherent disadvantage of light magic in Binding Blade is that you can only begin training after you promote them.

I will add that it is even worse than that, as the first light magic tomes available are from the chapter 11 shop, so even if you early promote them as soon as you can with the chapter 8 Guiding Ring, you are still waiting a few chapters before you can even start that slow grind.

[Capt. Fargus]

8 hours ago, Jotari said:

Only three characters can actually use Aureola in Binding Blade, since Bishops are the only light magic users in the game. Saul, Elen and Yoder. And, honestly, you say Yoder is half way decent but he's probably the hardest to make use of Aureola since he comes with A rank magic and the weapon experience gain is really slow.

Well, I only put it that way because I was thinking back to my first playthrough where I figured a healer on a horse beats one on foot any day so I benched Elen and Saul and stuck with Clarine and Cecilia until the last chapter. But its kinda hard to not be curious how Elen or Saul would turn out if they was given the opportunity to build up

[Shanty Pete's 1st Mate]

The real answer, of course, is to hack Lucius into the game. Finally, a Light magic user whom you can train from the earlygame onward!

I kid, I kid. Obviously, you can't have Lucius in FE6. No, the real approach is to hack the Arms Scroll into the game. Then boom, Yoder can use Aureola with no training arc!

6 hours ago, Capt. Fargus said:

But its kinda hard to not be curious how Elen or Saul would turn out if they was given the opportunity to build up

Saul is pretty good as a "Staffbot McGee". Same with Ellen, albeit less so. Them getting combat on promotion is nice, but relatively incidental to their main contributions.

[RPGuy96]

I believe I have trained Saul up to S Light (on Normal) with intense favoritism.  It's kind of handy having another 2 range option for the dragons, but definitely not worth the trouble.

19 hours ago, Zapp Branniglenn said:

raising Elen/Saul's light rank so high is going to make soooo many maps extremely slow and difficult as you train them up, even presuming an early promotion. That's a Wendy-tier investment project, and all you get is another unit that can blast dragons at 2 range in the finale.

Yeah, basically this.

[Jotari]

9 hours ago, Shanty Pete's 1st Mate said:

The real answer, of course, is to hack Lucius into the game. Finally, a Light magic user whom you can train from the earlygame onward!

I kid, I kid. Obviously, you can't have Lucius in FE6. No, the real approach is to hack the Arms Scroll into the game. Then boom, Yoder can use Aureola with no training arc!

Saul is pretty good as a "Staffbot McGee". Same with Ellen, albeit less so. Them getting combat on promotion is nice, but relatively incidental to their main contributions.

You can also hack the game to give priests and clerics light magic access from tier 1. That'd be pretty cool. Who hasn't wanted to blast Legance with Elen (completely off topic side point, but I've always found Legance to be more troublesome to deal with than Henning despite the latter's reputation, though maybe that's just a feeling born from the exhaustion of that map when you finally reach him).

Edited Wednesday at 12:54 AM by Jotari

[Shadow Mir]

I don't really have much to say that wasn't said already. TL;DR: Aureola isn't worth it. The one who comes closest to using it still needs 50 attacks, nevermind the other two, who need to promote first, then start all the way from E rank. In a game where weapon experience gain is glacial...

[Capt. Fargus]

19 hours ago, Jotari said:

You can also hack the game to give priests and clerics light magic access from tier 1. That'd be pretty cool. Who hasn't wanted to blast Legance with Elen (completely off topic side point, but I've always found Legance to be more troublesome to deal with than Henning despite the latter's reputation, though maybe that's just a feeling born from the exhaustion of that map when you finally reach him).

One time with Wagner I sent Shanna after him with her slim lance. That time it took long enough for the sonuvabitch to run outta spell charges because of all the misses