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Just beat Black Eagles Edelgard route. Final map kicked my rear end so bad the first time I got frustrated and thought it was a bit much, but beat it second time and feel it's appropriately desperate for a final level. Gotta say, it was amazing to finally check the special weapon art for Edelgard's axe and realise she basically has a weapon designed to kill Rhea. Had just enough uses left to surround her with other units and whittle her down before Edelgard finished her off. Pretty cool! Also, a small moment in the game that really struck me was Dimitri's death in that route. He has two - one where he an Edelgard yell at each other and the one I got where he and Dedue comfort each other. It was a surprisingly effective moment - I haven't played BL route yet but Dedue assuring Dimitri that "the last nine years have been a joy" was really effective. edelgard is a loving master at deflecting the responsibility for the war, though. She says to Dimitri at one point "if only you and I had lived during a period of peace" as if she didn't start the war in the first place. I did GD first and it was also hella cool to see Rhea go apeshit without the Prof to keep her humanity in check. .
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It's mildly annoying how I lost Marianne's paralogue because the combat forecast said she'd take 31 damage, then she took 39 instead. Nice mathing there game. It's not even a hard boss to kill, it just lies about its activation range too  So much for not going with permadeath but I guess since that's an instant game over, oh well. I guess it's good to know for harder difficulties that the forecasts are lying (or even worse just not taking anything into account) and enemies will do things beyond what the markers say. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 01:33
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inthesto posted:I'm trying to do a teachers/adults-only run, and doing the first few maps with only Byleth is surprisingly difficult. Manuela's solo Blue Lions ending (I actually dont remember if its the same in BE) is actually really sweet she opens her own school and, though she never marries, she cherishes her students like children.
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Sep 3, 2019 01:35
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I’m really enjoying how the Blue Lions have a much closer connection to the part 1 missions Kinda makes me wish each house had their own regional conflicts to hit the same broad points but I get why that would have been difficult to implement
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Sep 3, 2019 01:36
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:Should I keep Byleth as an Enlightened One or should I make him a Mortal Savant? It kinda sucks though because his Reason skill level is low... Enlightened One is better than Mortal Savant in every way that matters unless you specifically want him to use Reason magic (which isn't really worth it, his spell list is nothing special).
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Sep 3, 2019 01:39
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Carlosologist posted:I’m really enjoying how the Blue Lions have a much closer connection to the part 1 missions Yeah, the Insurrection of the Seven seemed like it should of been that for the Black Eagles. Ferdinand, Caspar, Bernadetta, Lindhart and Hubert's parents overthrew Edelgard's father, and only Hubert really seems to care or have noticed
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Sep 3, 2019 01:40
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How do I make Bernadetta good? I feel like every archer who isn't Claude or Shamir has turned out really underwhelming for me in both of my runs so far (and Shamir was just barely good in my GD run), but Bernadetta is cool and good and I'd like to keep using her. Even Leonie turned out kinda ehh on my GD run after spending all of part 1 and the first third of part 2 as an invincible enemy-destroyer. She just stopped gaining Strength entirely and fell off a cliff into uselessness. Harrow fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 01:42
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rannum posted:Manuela's solo Blue Lions ending (I actually dont remember if its the same in BE) is actually really sweet *pulls up golden deer endgame footage* can confirm it's the same on golden deer
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Sep 3, 2019 01:47
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Manuela's paired ending with Dorothea is also pretty good
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Sep 3, 2019 01:48
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Bernadetta has mediocre growths and is only really saved by her unique passive; best bet is to stick her in Brigand for deathblow and get lucky and get strength, although she does have a weakness in axes so it might take awhile to get there. If you had bad results with Leonie who has massively better growths than Bernie you better sacrifice some goats to the rng gods.
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Sep 3, 2019 01:49
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Take your archer, stick them in fighter/brigand, and cross your fingers that it fixes their stats. At least Bernie and Ashe have good innates to make up for it. Ignatz's innate is so loving bad.
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Sep 3, 2019 01:51
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Leonie has over 30 str in my game, she's ridiculous
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Sep 3, 2019 01:52
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My Leonie, who I've been using as a 13th man, is falling behind my leecher ferdie who's been hanging on as an adjucant. Now he's casually a wyvern rider with 30 str and speed with deathblow.
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Sep 3, 2019 01:55
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Death Blow for everyone, it's only the right thing to do. same thing with Fiendish Blow unless they're already too powerful on their own, like Dimitri and Dedue who each have 18 strength at level 11
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Sep 3, 2019 02:08
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In which route can I marry Jeritza
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Sep 3, 2019 02:11
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I just wish it didn't take so long to master classes. I feel like two-thirds of my party is just the Brigand Brigade for like half of part 1. Like I wish it was like "gain 5 levels in the class" or something rather than "fight a ton of battles in the class"
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Sep 3, 2019 02:11
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In my next run I’m going to make everyone Bishops and every battle we’ll pray and sing hymns and praise the goddess. Naturally this’ll be on the “gently caress THE CHURCH” route.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:22
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Just kidding I’m going to S+ rank Fists on everyone and whoever doesn’t reach that by the final battle will be killed off.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:24
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getting to S+ really takes forever and is getting the -faires really worth it?
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Sep 3, 2019 02:37
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Carlosologist posted:getting to S+ really takes forever and is getting the -faires really worth it? they're nice if you can get them but don't count on getting all that many unless you're on NG+ and pouring in massive amounts of favoritism and laser-focus toward particular characters like for my first run, without NG+ it was literally just lysithea with S+ reason Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 02:39
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I actually got more S+ ranks on my first playthrough (on GD) than I did on my NG+ run. Byleth and Felix both got S+ Swords and Lysithea got S+ Reason. I probably could've gotten S+ ranks on my NG+ run but I figured I'd get more mileage out of leveling Authority after getting people their master class requirements. I did get S Reason for Dorothea and Annette for the extra black magic range though.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:40
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That's the main reason I haven't gotten any S+ faires, because I realized soon that leveling a B authority is just plain better than a longer, dedicated grind towards just 5 extra damage.
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Sep 3, 2019 02:43
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yeah, battalion bonuses in the long run are just flat-out better than most class abilities
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Sep 3, 2019 02:45
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inthesto posted:Take your archer, stick them in fighter/brigand, and cross your fingers that it fixes their stats. Zore posted:We don't even get anything interesting. Where's poo poo like Shadowgift (lets you use magic outside a magic class) or loving anything even remotely fun. I also hope they add a punchdragon and/or punchmagician class, just because that would be loving sweet as hell
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Sep 3, 2019 03:20
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I remember when Fates gave archers the ability to tack on +4 damage per attack and that helped even weaker characters like Setsuna. Now just make it +6, and also give it to the best weapon class in the game which leads into the best class in Wyvern line.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:27
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Tae posted:That's the main reason I haven't gotten any S+ faires, because I realized soon that leveling a B authority is just plain better than a longer, dedicated grind towards just 5 extra damage. It doesn't help that most of the classes you want to end up at have Faire skills built into them already.
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Sep 3, 2019 03:28
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Neo_Crimson posted:It doesn't help that most of the classes you want to end up at have Faire skills built into them already. They do stack
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Sep 3, 2019 03:29
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Despite all the work and stat boosters I fed into Ferdinand, Great Knight really does just suck. I’m not sure what he’s supposed to do that I couldn’t get out of a flying class just dodge tanking everything. Wasn’t there an ability in Fire Emblem where you can guard adjacent units? That could make the class pretty cool, since babysitting the casters is a pain. Kiranamos fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Kiranamos posted:I’m not sure what he’s supposed to do that I couldn’t get out of a flying class Threehouses.txt
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Kiranamos posted:Despite all the work and stat boosters I fed into Ferdinand, Great Knight really does just suck. I’m not sure what he’s supposed to do that I couldn’t get out of a flying class just dodge tanking everything. I think that's less of an issue with Great Knight and more that Ferdinand himself kind of blows even my Caspar, who refused to gain more than 2 stas(usually hp and dex) per level for like 20 levels, turned himself around near the end Ferdinand otoh remained deadweight for most of the game Harrow posted:Threehouses.txt getting loving mulched by wyverns because i was expecting them to be FE6 cannon fodder was certainly an experience Yinlock fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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Sep 3, 2019 05:15
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Yinlock posted:I think that's less of an issue with Great Knight and more that Ferdinand himself kind of blows he absolutely should not go to his preferred class of "horse rider," though. put him on a dragon, put him in a dancer skirt, put him in a swordmaster dress, just don't let him ride a horse.
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Blaziken386 posted:imo, FERDINAND VON AEGIR is quite great, actually oh yeah FERDINAND VON AEGIR kicks rear end, he's just not very good at fighting e: just finished the BE:E route, that was abrupt, and I like the triumphant music over the undercurrent of "YOU ARE loving UP ROYALLY" that the entire route has. guess next run it's time to follow the words of Mr. T and Stay In School, which unfortunately means another round of these morons refusing to gain speed ever e: Carlosologist posted:I’m really enjoying how the Blue Lions have a much closer connection to the part 1 missions if you bring relevant BL people along as guests when you're playing another house they'll speak up during the mission it's kind of a hosed-up thing to do given what usually happens in said missions but hey that's the price of Content Yinlock fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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I didn't actually notice that a lot of the early conflicts were related to Blue Lions specifically per se in my first (BL) run; I just kinda took it for granted and now that I'm playing GD, it sticks out how I'm missing dialogues and stuff by not using the BL kids. Maybe to make up for that, Claude is delving more into lore questions about the nature of Crests and Crest weapons in his mission dialogues, which I don't think Dimitri did.
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Yinlock posted:oh yeah FERDINAND VON AEGIR kicks rear end, he's just not very good at fighting The BE:E route is interesting to me, because despite how rushed it is, I personally feel it's almost meant to be the canon/final run of the game, given how Byleth ends up and the fact that Edge of Dawn plays over the credits of every other route but not this one. I really want to hear a dev commentary on how things shook out in production.
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My huge-numbered Ferdinand must be an outlier then.
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Ferdinand has 45% STR Growth, 50% SPD Growth. That's the same as Hilda. He's not bad.
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Also, why did I apparently miss my chance to do the Caspar/Petra A rank after BE-C Ch 17? I went back and their dialogue has nothing to do with it.
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Ferdinand also has one of the best personal abilities in the game and is flat out the best dodge tank. Innate 50% speed growth and a flat 15% chance to dodge added at full health means you can pretty trivially make him untouchable if you combine it with Sword Prowess, any battalion that ups Avoid and potentially even Dancer for Sword Avo +20. Thats a 75% chance to avoid attacks before you even add terrain or his stat modifiers. Ferdinand is insane.
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Kiranamos posted:Also, why did I apparently miss my chance to do the Caspar/Petra A rank after BE-C Ch 17? I went back and their dialogue has nothing to do with it. Are you viewing them in the battle prep menu? Because all supports must be viewed at the monastery menu
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Zore posted:Ferdinand also has one of the best personal abilities in the game and is flat out the best dodge tank. Innate 50% speed growth and a flat 15% chance to dodge added at full health means you can pretty trivially make him untouchable if you combine it with Sword Prowess, any battalion that ups Avoid and potentially even Dancer for Sword Avo +20. Also he gets Swift Strikes at A lances, which turns any lance into a brave lance in the player phase. It's a great insurance if he happens to get screwed on speed growths and lets you double those really fast swordmasters and the like. Andrast fucked around with this message at 06:29 on Sep 3, 2019 |
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