Let's talk about Anna! Theory Crafting~

[HTakara82]

Since Anna is so amazing, let's discuss on how we can make her even more amazing! To start off with, she has the highest growth total in the whole game. Has solid base stats and strong growths as a magic user. These are her growths for each class she is in:

Class: Outlaw (Thief)
Weapon: Bow
Growths:
HP: 35
STR: 40
MAG: 60
SKL: 40
SPD: 60
LCK: 70
DEF: 20
RES: 65

Herb Merchant:
Weapon: Bow
HP: 55
STR: 50
MAG: 55
SKL: 40
SPD: 50
LCK: 75
DEF: 30
RES: 50

Rod Knight:
Weapons: Staff
HP: 35
STR: 30
MAG: 65
SKL: 50
SPD: 50
LCK: 85
DEF: 20
RES: 60

Promoted Classes:
Adventurer:
Weapons: Bow and Staff
HP: 35
STR: 35
MAG: 70
SKL: 35
SPD: 60
LCK: 70
RES: 65

Bow Knight:
Weapons: Sword and Bow
HP: 45
STR: 40
MAG: 55
SKL: 45
SPD: 55
LCK: 70
DEF: 20
RES: 55

Great Merchant:
Weapon: Bow
HP: 55
STR: 50
MAG: 55
SKL: 40
SPD: 45
LCK: 85
DEF: 30
RES: 50

Puppeter:
Weapons: Bow and Hidden Weapons
HP: 45
STR: 40
MAG: 55
SKL: 45
SPD: 50
LCK: 75
DEF: 25
RES: 60

Strategist:
Weapons: Staff and Tome
HP: 35
STR: 30
MAG: 70
SKL: 35
SPD: 40
LCK: 90 <---- WTF?!
DEF: 20
RES: 60

MAID!:
Weapons: Hidden and Staff
HP: 35
STR: 40
MAG: 65
SKL: 45
SPD: 55
LCK: 80
DEF: 25
RES: 55

And these are her current skill access:

Personal Skill: Get Rich Quick: Lck% chance of enemies dropping money.

Move+1: Increase movement by 1
Locktouch: Can open locks
Resistance +2: Increase Resistance + 2
Demoiselle: All men within 2 tile radius recieves 2 less damage.
Rally Resistance: Rally to increase resistance +4 for 1 turn
Battle Command: Allies within 2 tiles raidus deal 2 extra damage, receives 2 less damage
Servant's Joy: Heals self for same amount when healing allies
Tome Breaker: Increase hit and avoid +50 when going against tomes.
Effective Medicine: Boosts HP recovery Items by 50%
Household Cure: Able to do another action after using a recovery item
Easy Life: L% chance of obtaining gold coins after moving for the first 7 turns
Extravagance: Use 10 gold to increase damage by 10 and reduce damage taken by 10 (unclear if it's the actual gold as in your money or if it's a separate item, presumed to be picked up by the skill easy life)
Puppet Break: Increase attack against puppets and golems
Copy Cat Puppet: Produces a puppet clone, with the exact same skills and stats, for the duration of the map.
Rally Skill: Rally all allies within 2 tile radius to increase skill +4
Kunai Breaker: Increase hit and avoid +50 against hidden weapons
Lucky 7: Increase Hit rate and Avoid +20 for first 7 turns
Pass: Can pass through enemy units.

She can make for a very good utility character, or a really solid offense character, especially if equipped with a Shining Bow for 1-2 range magic damage.

Now what class would be good for her to give if married to Kamui? the Dark Mage tree is actually a good way to go, as it'll bring up her magic growth to 80%! But I was kinda messing around and seeing how she'd do in other classes, and surprisingly she'd make for an excellent berserker! especially if you marriage seal her early on to a fighter.

Anna as a Zerker:

HP: 65

STR: 55
MAG: 55
SKL: 45
SPD: 55
LCK: 70
DEF: 20
RES: 45

Her stupid high luck, she'd actually cancel out the Zerkers naturally low affinity with luck and crit more often than any other zerker in the game. And be more dodgy as well.

Discuss!

And uh... Let this sink in a little...

Edited July 14, 2015 by HTakara82

[Sroy]

You've definitely done your research, well done!

Anna's pretty cool, and with the implementation of Marriage seals there's so much that can be done with her.

I'm actually pretty surprised she makes a good beserker, but that's pretty cool if you consider skills she can get along the way such as despoil (not sure if it's still in IF)

along with her personal skill.

It could be quite helpful to make money in Nohr, now that I think about it.

Edited July 9, 2015 by Sroy

[HTakara82]

You've definitely done your research, well done!

Anna's pretty cool, and with the implementation of Marriage seals there's so much that can be done with her.

I'm actually pretty surprised she makes a good beserker, but that's pretty cool if you consider skills she can get along the way such as despoil (not sure if it's still in IF)

along with her personal skill.

It could be quite helpful to make money in Nohr, now that I think about it.

That is quite true, her personal skill that guarantee a flow of cash, making it quite handy in Nohr where you can't grind for money. Also, in terms of zerker, she'll be the only zerker with high res on top of the high luck as well. And would be the only zerker that can make excellent use of the Bolt Axe. Her potential as a zerker is actually quite outstanding.

Oh yeah forgot to mention Despoil is no longer in game. Therefore Anna is the only character in the game that can give you extra cash.

Edited July 9, 2015 by HTakara82

[goodperson707]

^ isn't easy life a thing though? Sure it isn't as good as despoil as it only works till the 7th turn and luck caps are lower and golden coins only sells for 300 gold but still if you give it to everyone who can get the skill you can still get a decent amount of gold if it works during my castle battles in Nohr. Plus the skill is not dependant on having an enemy to kill, just an enemy alive. Also there is smithy skill which works like despoil but with a random weapon instead of a flat 1000 gold, but if you can get steel weapons from it those sell for 1000 gold, if you can get slivers those go for 2000. This is of course assuming that selling weapons works the same as other games.

[Jedi]

I thought people were still figuring out how to recruit her or what route she was in ^^;

Care to inform me?

[L1ghtning]

I thought people were still figuring out how to recruit her or what route she was in ^^;

Care to inform me?

We still have no information how to recruit her but it's probably Spotpass.

@Htakara82 sup i think we know us lol.

Edited July 9, 2015 by L1ghtning

[goodperson707]

^ isn't easy life a thing though? Sure it isn't as good as despoil as it only works till the 7th turn and luck caps are lower and golden coins only sells for 300 gold but still if you give it to everyone who can get the skill you can still get a decent amount of gold if it works during my castle battles in Nohr. Plus the skill is not dependant on having an enemy to kill, just an enemy alive. Also there is smithy skill which works like despoil but with a random weapon instead of a flat 1000 gold, but if you can get steel weapons from it those sell for 1000 gold, if you can get slivers those go for 2000. This is of course assuming that selling weapons works the same as other games. Then again Anna does get access to easy life and the skill is harder to come across in Nohr so presumably she is still damn useful for gold farming

[Carter]

Anna is adorable in this game! I might actually start to use her!

I'm not too fond of the bow-only as an outlaw, though, so I might reclass her to a Great Merchant. I hope soon people figure out how to recruit Anna!

^ isn't easy life a thing though? Sure it isn't as good as despoil as it only works till the 7th turn and luck caps are lower and golden coins only sells for 300 gold but still if you give it to everyone who can get the skill you can still get a decent amount of gold if it works during my castle battles in Nohr. Plus the skill is not dependant on having an enemy to kill, just an enemy alive. Also there is smithy skill which works like despoil but with a random weapon instead of a flat 1000 gold, but if you can get steel weapons from it those sell for 1000 gold, if you can get slivers those go for 2000. This is of course assuming that selling weapons works the same as other games.

Yes, and doesn't Anna also have a personal skill that's about having gold? After checking, "Get Rich Quick" sounds like a pretty nice skill! Luck% of obtaining gold after defeating an enemy. That'll definitely be helpful.

Edited July 9, 2015 by Carter

[HTakara82]

^ isn't easy life a thing though? Sure it isn't as good as despoil as it only works till the 7th turn and luck caps are lower and golden coins only sells for 300 gold but still if you give it to everyone who can get the skill you can still get a decent amount of gold if it works during my castle battles in Nohr. Plus the skill is not dependant on having an enemy to kill, just an enemy alive. Also there is smithy skill which works like despoil but with a random weapon instead of a flat 1000 gold, but if you can get steel weapons from it those sell for 1000 gold, if you can get slivers those go for 2000. This is of course assuming that selling weapons works the same as other games.

weapons sell for much less this time around, steel weapons sell for 750g, and silvers sell for 1k gold. But yeah there are some alternatives, but Anna, like you said at the end, Anna is still the best money maker.

We still have no information how to recruit her but it's probably Spotpass.

@Htakara82 sup i think we know us lol.

Hey wassup! lol, yeah Anna is still unknown as to how she's recruited, lol

Anna is adorable in this game! I might actually start to use her!

I'm not too fond of the bow-only as an outlaw, though, so I might reclass her to a Great Merchant. I hope soon people figure out how to recruit Anna!

Yes, and doesn't Anna also have a personal skill that's about having gold? After checking, "Get Rich Quick" sounds like a pretty nice skill! Luck% of obtaining gold after defeating an enemy. That'll definitely be helpful.

Bows are pretty top tier this time around, especially if you give Anna the Shining Bow, it's a 1-2 range, magic bow, that has 13 MT.

[Felipefabricio]

I wanna marry her again ;-;

I hope if Anna is a Spotpass character, she don't appear too late in the game =/

[Tamanoir]

She actually could makes a good Wicce Witch when the class is available :

Growths :

HP 40

STR 30

MAG 80

SKL 35

SPD 60

LUK 75

DEF 20

RES 5.

And she can also become a Maid. With Felicia's Ice Tray, she could be decent.

[HTakara82]

I wanna marry her again ;-;

I hope if Anna is a Spotpass character, she don't appear too late in the game =/

You and the rest of the Anna fandom my friend XD, I always married her in all my playthroughs in awakening lol.

But I'm sure she joins early, her starting level is level 10 outlaw, so I don't think you have to worry about that.

She actually could makes a good Wicce Witch when the class is available :

Growths :

HP 40

STR 30

MAG 80

SKL 35

SPD 60

LUK 75

DEF 20

RES 5.

And she can also become a Maid. With Felicia's Ice Tray, she could be decent.

Yeah Witches have the same growths as Sorceresses, She'll definitely make an excellent witch, I can't wait to see what it looks like.

Yeah, I posted what her growths are like as a maid.... I'll definitely make her a maid at some point, cause... Anna as a Maid = heaven! But Maids have terrible growth mods, so it's best to raise her as something else before switching to Maid.

[HTakara82]

Just for the giggles, she can make a pretty neat True Blade also

HP: 45

STR: 40

MAG: 60

SKL: 45

SPD: 60

LCK: 85

DEF: 20

RES: 55

She'll have enough strength to be competent in physical attacks, and solid magic growths to be beastly with the Levin sword. And that 85 lck would make her a crit beast.

[Carter]

Bows are pretty top tier this time around, especially if you give Anna the Shining Bow, it's a 1-2 range, magic bow, that has 13 MT.

That's awesome! It'll also be helpful once the means of obtaining the skill "proximity shot" is found.

Also, I think you forgot to include the defense growth rate for defense for Adventurer.

[Featherwick]

Anna's growths are just hilarious. Why are they so good?!

However her modifiers are only okay. -1/1/0/-1/2/-2/2

That -1 speed is a bit annoying. IS did that with Rinkah too, she has a great skill growth, but a negative modifier. You'd think with Anna's worst growth being skill she'd have a negative modifier in that.

I'd like her as a strategist probably, but I'm bias to horses, especially magic horses.

[goodperson707]

She is naturally in a class with good spd maxes though. And rinkah is both in a class that promote to class with a pretty good skl max and one with a really really bad skl max as in the same as a ninja, bad skl max. So it does kinda makes sense as if its natually high it doesn't really have to be higher, and if it is low well lower won't matter so it kinda does make sense. also the growths don't need to match the max stats.

[Emperor Hardin]

Shouldn't Great Merchant have lances as well?

[HTakara82]

Anna's growths are just hilarious. Why are they so good?!

However her modifiers are only okay. -1/1/0/-1/2/-2/2

That -1 speed is a bit annoying. IS did that with Rinkah too, she has a great skill growth, but a negative modifier. You'd think with Anna's worst growth being skill she'd have a negative modifier in that.

I'd like her as a strategist probably, but I'm bias to horses, especially magic horses.

They probably did that to her to keep her from being too broken, her growths are indeed too good, they had to balance it out somehow. -1 isn't so bad though, considering that she'll outspeed most things before hitting cap anyway. Considering that the highest speed cap are Elite Ninja's with 35 speed, having 34 speed isn't the end of the world xD

She is naturally in a class with good spd maxes though. And rinkah is both in a class that promote to class with a pretty good skl max and one with a really really bad skl max as in the same as a ninja, bad skl max. So it does kinda makes sense as if its natually high it doesn't really have to be higher, and if it is low well lower won't matter so it kinda does make sense. also the growths don't need to match the max stats.

Yeah, gotta keep that balance

Shouldn't Great Merchant have lances as well?

Yeah GMs have B in Lances and A in Bows. I still haven't seen what a GM look like though, dunno if I wanna block Anna's cuteness with a giant backpack though, lol

Edited July 10, 2015 by HTakara82

[Dandy Druid]

I hope she just comes back as money-hungry as last time, if not hungrier. I need her crafty hands to get a hold of some money.

[The Geek]

What is that 35% Luck growth?

[HTakara82]

I hope she just comes back as money-hungry as last time, if not hungrier. I need her crafty hands to get a hold of some money.

Rejoice then, she's the only character in the game that has a skill that gives money from defeating enemies, lol.

Also, I was thinking, raise her as a Berserker, for those strength gains and axefaire, then switch out to Dreadfighter for shinanagens. And her growths are pretty smexy too as a dread fighter

HP: 50

STR: 45

MAG: 60

SKL: 35

SPD: 55

LCK: 70

DEF: 25

RES: 65

Give her a bolt Axe and Levin sword / killer sword and a good shuriken and watch her go to town, lol

[HTakara82]

What is that 35% Luck growth?

Huh? her base luck growth is 70, where'd you get 35 from?

[The Geek]

Huh? her base luck growth is 70, where'd you get 35 from?

Shit. I meant HP.

[HTakara82]

Shit. I meant HP.

Oh lol, yeah it's only 35 base, but that's not surprising, HP growths as a whole is a lot lower, across the board, but HP caps area also a lot lower too. Like the average HP growth rate is between 30 and 40... Only a few people have higher than that. And only a few classes gives mods to HP growths too.

Anyway was doing some minor calculations. If you just keep her as an Adventurer, with capped magic (32 with stat mod, which she'll get with her growths), and equipped with a shining bow, and add extravagance into the mix ( +10 damage consuming one gold coin ) she'll do 55 raw magic damage! before accounting for opponent res that is! But with even res in the equation, she can 1RKO difficult enemies that normally have low res such as Generals and Berserkers! By either doubling or Copy Kat.

I did some calculation how she'd go against popular characters such as Effie and Charlotte, and Effie, only has 13 res at level 20/20 (average), Anna would just double and kill her. Charlotte has enough speed to prevent doubling but Anna can Copy Kat for double Anna gangbang her to death doing a staggering 52 damage a hit! due to Charlottes piss poor Res growth of 5% and base of 2. The results are pretty much the same across the board against most physical units. I think Anna can easily take top tier in PvP.

[paladin21]

weapons sell for much less this time around, steel weapons sell for 750g, and silvers sell for 1k gold. But yeah there are some alternatives, but Anna, like you said at the end, Anna is still the best money maker.

But you can use Midoriko as a money-maker since her personal skill boosts the Easy Life and Smithy skills, and she can get both easily, and with puppeteer she could also make a double of herself to grind more gold. Even though Anna can get both Easy Life and Copycat, a 20% activation bonus is something to value heavily, since we don't know how much money Anna would get upon beating an enemy, and nabbing Smithy for her would be costly since likely only the Avatar could pass it to her.