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Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

Blaziken386 posted:

IMO Dancer seems best on Dorothea (it's also Dorothea's "canon" class, along with Warlock) both because she's not strong enough to do more than play support, and also because, ya know. Opera background.
Boost her faith enough to give psychic for healing so she can help out more after everyone's been sent forward with Dance, and she'll help out a lot. Much better than maybe killing an armored knight with double-thoron.
(Plus, if you level her Reason enough to get meteor, she tends not to kill people with it, but she can really soften up a particularly nasty enemy across the map.)

I made Marianne a Pegasus Knight, and she was kinda terrible to start with, even with her special lance combat art? But now in Part 2, she just hit Falcon Knight-tier, gained a boost to strength to allow for better counters, and whoops now she's great

My Dorothea had the highest mag of any of my mages on the Black Eagles route :v:. She also was the only one with appreciable speed which made her my go to magic murder unit.

Hubert and Lindhart are way more suited for playing support with their lovely speed and (in Lindhart's case) lack of range and power on his reason magic.

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Jerry Manderbilt
May 31, 2012

No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.
Okay now that I get Annette off the bat how do I plan her out

Like I want her to be a Gremory but it’ll take more effort given she doesn’t have a strength in faith, and also I really don’t want to pass up having her quadruple rally other units

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

dorothea’s canon class is mortal savant

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Blaziken386 posted:

IMO Dancer seems best on Dorothea (it's also Dorothea's "canon" class, along with Warlock) both because she's not strong enough to do more than play support, and also because, ya know. Opera background.

Dorothea has Meteor. That alone elevates her offensive power, even if her growths are a bit below the other mages.

Carlosologist
Oct 13, 2013

Revelry in the Dark

I made Dorothea the dancer last run, but she got speed screwed and it didn't work out. this time around she's really good!

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Super No Vacancy posted:

dorothea’s canon class is mortal savant

All the girls have Mortal Servant as their canon class.

Blaziken386
Jun 27, 2013

I'm what the kids call: a big nerd

Zore posted:

My Dorothea had the highest mag of any of my mages on the Black Eagles route :v:. She also was the only one with appreciable speed which made her my go to magic murder unit.

Hubert and Lindhart are way more suited for playing support with their lovely speed and (in Lindhart's case) lack of range and power on his reason magic.
Either you got screwed out of Hubert's power by the RNG, or mine was just really lucky, because when I used Hubert he could one shot practically anything, and was fast enough to do a follow-up on anything that survived. His only major failing was the slow movement.

boredsatellite
Dec 7, 2013

Yeah Hubert nukes everyone in one go for me as well

Chocolate Bunny
Jan 13, 2019
I might make Felix my dancer this run for the +sword avo... also because it'd be funny.

Zore
Sep 21, 2010
willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d’etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things
My Hubert had consistent issues until he finally got Dark Knight and got Dark Tomefaire.

Not letting Warlocks have that is some bullshit game.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Dorothea was better than Hubert in my game too, although he was still decent.

hopeandjoy
Nov 28, 2014



Jerry Manderbilt posted:

Okay now that I get Annette off the bat how do I plan her out

Like I want her to be a Gremory but it’ll take more effort given she doesn’t have a strength in faith, and also I really don’t want to pass up having her quadruple rally other units

My Annette is a Gremory and she entered Master classes at the same time as everyone else. Just keep teaching faith from the start.

Scrap Dragon
Oct 6, 2013

SECRET TECHNIQUE:
DARK SHADOW
BLACK FALLEN ANGEL!


Have you seen Gremory’s class animations?? That class was made for Dorothea

Chocolate Bunny
Jan 13, 2019
Any class that gives me more Meteor is a good class for Dorothea.

astr0man
Feb 21, 2007

hollyeo deuroga
Finished my first run (Black Eagles) last night, been having a lot of fun so far and I'm looking forward to seeing the other routes.

I think my game bugged out on the final map though, because Cyril didn't aggro at all, even while I spent multiple turns attacking the boss right next to him :v:

ROFL Octopus
Jun 20, 2014

LET ME EXPLAIN

Help I made Dedue a warrior and there’s nothing he can’t one-shot

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Dorothea was better than Lysithea in my playthough

Harrow
Jun 30, 2012

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

30 strength and speed and 20 defense and resistance in endgame was definitely mediocre

Like I poo poo you not I probably had Ingrid and Ignatz kill more enemies than he did in endgame

Yikes. Mine ended up a total monster with 40 strength, close to 40 speed, like 30 defense and cost to that much resistance. He was nuts.

Chocolate Bunny
Jan 13, 2019
The teachers end up worse than any of the students for me, just mediocre or terrible stat gains all around, except for Catherine who is a goddess of war. At least Manuela has some utility.

Arkeus
Jul 21, 2013

Chocolate Bunny posted:

The teachers end up worse than any of the students for me, just mediocre or terrible stat gains all around, except for Catherine who is a goddess of war. At least Manuela has some utility.

Shamir is interesting because if you get her super fast she'll begin at like level 10 as a Sniper already promoted, and so she has 'advanced class base stats' already. She can probably be really insane.

Tired Moritz
Mar 25, 2012

wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

(n o i c e)
DID FLAYN TAKE MY EQUIPMENT, GODDAMN IT

Chocolate Bunny
Jan 13, 2019
Shamir could be insane if she'd actually get some strength or speed for me.

Heart Attacks
Jun 17, 2012

That's how it works for magical girls.
I'm making a program to manage my party and not have to constantly flip back to Serene's Forest. RN it tracks favorite items, reason/faith skill gains, as well as character stats and growths as well as some milestone expectations

It looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/bjb8vcg

Would other people use this tool

Your Computer
Oct 3, 2008




Grimey Drawer

Tired Moritz posted:

DID FLAYN TAKE MY EQUIPMENT, GODDAMN IT
the real villain

Andrast posted:

Dorothea was better than Lysithea in my playthough
I made both of them mortal savants (along with Felix) and they all ran around oneshotting everything with their ninja powers :japan:

also I made Mercedes my dancer and she was completely untouchable. Despite having bad sword skills she did pretty well because she would evade absolutely everything, and she could heal an entire map at once when not dancing
and she was cute as hell while doing it

Blaziken386
Jun 27, 2013

I'm what the kids call: a big nerd

Chocolate Bunny posted:

The teachers end up worse than any of the students for me, just mediocre or terrible stat gains all around, except for Catherine who is a goddess of war. At least Manuela has some utility.

Arkeus posted:

Shamir is interesting because if you get her super fast she'll begin at like level 10 as a Sniper already promoted, and so she has 'advanced class base stats' already. She can probably be really insane.
I used Shamir a lot my first go around because yeah having Sniper early is kind of incredibly good

I almost got Catherine but then whoops I decided to become a heretic

this time around I grabbed all of the faculty, not because I'm gonna use any of them, but so I can make Maneula/Hanneman and Shamir/Catherine eat lunch together every day until they love each other

Tired Moritz posted:

DID FLAYN TAKE MY EQUIPMENT, GODDAMN IT
:cawg:

Heart Attacks posted:

I'm making a program to manage my party and not have to constantly flip back to Serene's Forest. RN it tracks favorite items, reason/faith skill gains, as well as character stats and growths as well as some milestone expectations

It looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/bjb8vcg

Would other people use this tool
Serene's forest is useful, but having it open in 2-3 different tabs at a time is less so, so, probably, yeah

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Chocolate Bunny posted:

The teachers end up worse than any of the students for me, just mediocre or terrible stat gains all around, except for Catherine who is a goddess of war. At least Manuela has some utility.

Alois & Shamir have turned out pretty well for me, they're on par (better in some ways) with several of the students

Maneulla & Hanneman did not, sadly. Really fell off, a shame.

Chocolate Bunny
Jan 13, 2019
I guess Seteth also counts as a teacher/staff member? But he's very solid. Can't go wrong with wyverns.

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

The teachers/knights seem to be the closest Jagen/late game pre promote analogues in the game.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Tired Moritz posted:

DID FLAYN TAKE MY EQUIPMENT, GODDAMN IT

serves you right for your heresy

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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btw if anyone is still deciding which route they want to play I can confirm that in addition to the most lore, Golden Deer also has the best final map music

Neo_Crimson
Aug 15, 2011

"Is that your final dandy?"
Is there a quick way to grind class experience? Because throwing an unarmed character into a mob of weak enemies is getting tedious.

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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Neo_Crimson posted:

Is there a quick way to grind class experience? Because throwing an unarmed character into a mob of weak enemies is getting tedious.

byleths school of hard knocks is probably the best way yes

Coucho Marx
Mar 2, 2009

kick back and relax

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Leonie is great if you grab her late into a playthrough because she comes essentially ready to promote to a Master class

I've mentioned it before, but I got her riiiiiiight before the timeskip (BE Edelgard route) and she came with B Lances, B Bows, D+ Riding. I've pushed up her Bows a bit to get her into Sniper, but given the shorter route, she'll likely only be able to get into Bow Knight right near the end, which sucks a bit.

Heart Attacks posted:

I'm making a program to manage my party and not have to constantly flip back to Serene's Forest. RN it tracks favorite items, reason/faith skill gains, as well as character stats and growths as well as some milestone expectations

It looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/bjb8vcg

Would other people use this tool

This looks really good!

rannum posted:

Alois & Shamir have turned out pretty well for me, they're on par (better in some ways) with several of the students

Maneulla & Hanneman did not, sadly. Really fell off, a shame.

It probably doesn't help that each route already gives you good casters. Manuela is set up to be either a fast sword user or a healer (no Physic btw), but you can't do both unless you're in Dancer (which only students can become) (or Holy Knight which would probably be a slog to get into) and her growths besides Spd and HP are very average. They're not even that bad, really, but I get the impression that a few bad levels can really hurt her lack of focus. Hanneman has nice spells (he's the only Meteor user besides Dorothea, and also learns Thoron), but he has almost identical growths to Hubert with way worse Spd.

Coucho Marx fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Aug 12, 2019

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

There needs to be a wider range of Master classes, sword people are basically screwed unless they want to go to Magic Community College.

Super No Vacancy
Jul 26, 2012

need the Bride class dlc already

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


So I was counting on getting students up to B and having them ask to join my house and this has worked spectacularly thus far with the exception of Marienne and Mercedes. I have them to where they will be A rank immediately post timeskip but they refuse to join up. As it's month 11 I don't know if I should just change my faculty days from sword/faith to what they want, since I don't want to leave them behind.

Metis of the Chat Thread
Aug 1, 2014


Eimi posted:

So I was counting on getting students up to B and having them ask to join my house and this has worked spectacularly thus far with the exception of Marienne and Mercedes. I have them to where they will be A rank immediately post timeskip but they refuse to join up. As it's month 11 I don't know if I should just change my faculty days from sword/faith to what they want, since I don't want to leave them behind.

you only need like d rank if they're at B support, so it shouldn't take too much work to get the right skills up

CeallaSo
May 3, 2013

Wisdom from a Fool
At a B support you only need like a D in their requested skill and like 10 in the stat, so maybe just go ask them to join manually? I recruited every student by like, month 5, and I haven't really been spreading my faculty training around too much. Worst I did was put a few in Heavy Armor for Ferdy.

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Funky Valentine posted:

There needs to be a wider range of Master classes, sword people are basically screwed unless they want to go to Magic Community College.

Swordmaster is a really good class and better at swording than mortal savant

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RazzleDazzleHour
Mar 31, 2016

Me when Ingrid and Mercedes show up post-timeskip:



e: lmao what the gently caress Hilda and Annette's B-rank support rules. Hilda just goes "you work too hard, you should treat yourself. Wanna take a nap and cuddle?" and Annette says "hell yeah let's go"

RazzleDazzleHour fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Aug 12, 2019

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