link arena Fire Emblem Link Arena Discussion Topic

[dondon151]

FE6 mechanics are rather simple, so here's a quick FE6 mechanics FAQ (non-exhaustive) that you can feel free to use:

Essential mechanics

• 2 random numbers are averaged to determine hit; 1 random number determines critical.
• Weapon triangle bonus and penalty are 1 MT, 10 hit.
• All versions of the game use 3x effective MT, calculated after weapon triangle effects.
• Units can S rank any number of their class's usable weapon types.
• There are no S rank bonuses for hit or critical.

Specific mechanics

• Weapons that reverse the weapon triangle do not double resultant weapon triangle bonuses or penalties.
• Rapier, Horseslayer, and Halberd do not do effective damage against valkyries and nomad troopers.
• Murgleis does not do effective damage against falcoknights.
• The Delphi Shield does not block effective damage from Murgleis against wyvern lords.
• The Binding Blade and Divinestone do not do effective damage against wyvern lords.
• Light Brand functions like a normal sword from 1-range and does a fixed 10 HP damage attack from 2-range. The 2-range attack is considered light magic and is subject to magic triangle effects.

Edited January 22, 2014 by dondon151

[Espinosa]

Thanks dondon; will paste that when I start filling the sections for each game with suchlike information.

Does anybody else feel that FE7 is the one game that benefits from a stat booster metagame the most? It almost rivals FE6 when it comes to having a large cast of unviable characters. The Uber Spear actually adds more units to the list of usable ones (and does affect their performance quite drastically).

[JSND Alter Dragon Boner]

I agree, but I doubt +6 speed is enough to salvage the Warriors lol

[Espinosa]

The boosters meta may not even balance things out that well, actually... For example, units like Raven will be able to buff up their support buddies so that they can at least function decently together, and units like Dart and fragile mages/snipers can patch up their weaknesses, but think about it - Lyn gets Body Ring access and ascends from 29 AS to 30 AS with the Rienfleche, doubling absolutely everybody who's not SM, Assassin, Sniper, Nomad Trooper, Falcoknight or Berserker (okay, not the shortest list, I'll give you that). Her sniping also hurts more with her being the best candidate for the Lyn Mode Energy Ring.

[General Horace]

Want to try boosters with the Uber Spear then?

[Espinosa]

Want to try boosters with the Uber Spear then?

Sure. A good way to get into the FE7 LA metas, and an entirely new kind of match to show.

Will research stuff for a bit though, so the team might take quite a bit longer than usual to make (which is normally like 10-30 minutes for me).

Edited January 22, 2014 by Espinosa

[dondon151]

maybe you also even want to factor in afa's drops (in a really lazy way)!

[Espinosa]

maybe you also even want to factor in afa's drops (in a really lazy way)!

Nah, that's too much trouble!

[General Horace]

Sure. A good way to get into the FE7 LA metas, and an entirely new kind of match to show.

Will research stuff for a bit though, so the team might take quite a bit longer than usual to make (which is normally like 10-30 minutes for me).

I haven't even started so no worries.

Also, did you assume Hector mode for the statboosters, since you didn't include the eliwood mode Dracoshield and Energy ring.

turns out it looks like HHM, since it appears to include sealen's stealable shield and 19xx items.

Edited January 22, 2014 by General Horace

[dondon151]

what if you added the option of a mario kart double dash item like a booster or emblem seal

[Espinosa]

I haven't even started so no worries.

Also, did you assume Hector mode for the statboosters, since you didn't include the eliwood mode Dracoshield and Energy ring.

Yeah, all the stats are from HHM, so the boosters would have to correspond with that as well. Would Eliwood Mode miss on some other boosters? I think I looked it up, but I forget what conclusion I came to.

what if you added the option of a mario kart double dash item like a booster or emblem seal

I lmao'd at first, but it's authentic and the boosters are pretty valuable. Maybe going to add those some other time (when we decide what to do with Normal Mode variations / Eliwood Mode).

Edited January 22, 2014 by Espinosa

[General Horace]

You get an extra dragonshield and an extra talisman at least (i don't know if you get hard mode stealables in EHM) so the hhm list is probably fine

[Espinosa]

Aaaand it's ready, PMing my team to Randa.

edit: a bit late but yeah, we're doing 3x effectiveness except legendary weapons on wyverns.

Edited January 22, 2014 by Espinosa

[General Horace]

I'm just deciding weapons and stuff now, my team is a bit unusual hopefully it doesn't get WRECKED.

[Refa]

Nonsense, your team will do the WRECKING! It is the WRECKING TEAM! They made an NES game based on it even!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_Crew_(video_game)

[Espinosa]

Mine is also a little divergent from what could be seen as ideal, but not completely so. And I'm glad nobody's making Miley references.

[Quintessence]

Aaaand it's ready, PMing my team to Randa.

edit: a bit late but yeah, we're doing 3x effectiveness except legendary weapons on wyverns.

Remember that Aureola is excluded from that exception, the rest do x2 dmg

[Refa]

Made an FE9 averages, statboosters, custom skills team. It's actually kind of amazing, anyone wanna battle it?

[Espinosa]

Made an FE9 averages, statboosters, custom skills team. It's actually kind of amazing, anyone wanna battle it?

Send it to me; it will face off Dio's similarly competitive team in the same meta.

[AnonymousSpeed]

What stat boosters are available for an FE6 averages team?

[Espinosa]

What stat boosters are available for an FE6 averages team?

No such meta exists yet. I dunno if anyone really wants to play in an environment with 27+ AS Durandals and 30ish crit chances.

[AnonymousSpeed]

I'm going to assume supports are in effect?

[Espinosa]

I'm going to assume supports are in effect?

Once chosen, yes.

[Espinosa]

Quickly compiled the class caps for FE6, so now anyone can try a much broader range of potential teams besides Shin/Rutger/Shin + supports / "counters" (honestly they counter each other and nobody else quite does), based on support and class synergy instead of reusing the same units. The list assumes infinite boosters for all stats, so you can have support triangles like Marcus x Roy x Wolt and whatever stuff would be unthinkable in averages metas. Viable Geese, Wendy and 60/30/30 bulk Roy sound pretty threatening, huh?

"Limited boosters" in FE6 is a lost cause, honestly.

[AnonymousSpeed]

So in other words, we now have max stats vs. max stats for FE6?