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avoraciopoctules posted:I've been taking my time with Fire Emblem: Engage, but I'm enjoying it so far. On Hard/Casual, I started having a really good time with the tactical gameplay around chapter 5. Just finished the first paralogue and started my first skirmish, only to discover that I was probably going to have to actually think a bit about my unit placement, since I REALLY should have put a sword unit and a mage on the second placement group.
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FrickenMoron posted:
Yeah I absolutely love her. Fantastic design, incredible unit, fun character.
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Blaziken386 posted:the plot really isnt subtle about foreshadowing, i will be surprised if they dont have a twist where you're the fell dragon's kid and lumera spent 1000 years filling you with divine juice to make you into her own kid for whatever reason Late game speculation: I just guessed Lumera and the Fell Dragon had a fling, hence the Switch hair.
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Is it even possible to rescue that second house that gets immediately torched in chapter 14?
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I'm trying to decide if there's a real merit to mage knight on maddening or if all sages all the way is the approach. The passive is pretty useful, getting levin swords and flame spears is easy and gives your mages powerful break access, and +1 mov is always nice, but losing a couple of points of base mag, the mystical archetype, and staff access is a loving killer.
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Jan 23, 2023 23:14
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Is there any particular reason to go Swordmaster over Hero? Brave Assist and access to a second weapon type seems really valuable, though I'm not sure if it's worth the second seal to reclass Kagetsu for those benefits. (I'd lose the sick crit animation too.)
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Harrow posted:Is there any particular reason to go Swordmaster over Hero? Brave Assist and access to a second weapon type seems really valuable, though I'm not sure if it's worth the second seal to reclass Kagetsu for those benefits. (I'd lose the sick crit animation too.) Swordmaster has S rank Swords natively and some better caps, particularly in Speed. Kind of a preference tradeoff especially as you get more Emblems and have the ability to slap them on people to cover extra weapon types for breaks.
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Jan 23, 2023 23:27
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Harrow posted:Is there any particular reason to go Swordmaster over Hero? Brave Assist and access to a second weapon type seems really valuable, though I'm not sure if it's worth the second seal to reclass Kagetsu for those benefits. (I'd lose the sick crit animation too.) Hero looks awful, whack rear end cape
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Kanos posted:I'm trying to decide if there's a real merit to mage knight on maddening or if all sages all the way is the approach. The passive is pretty useful, getting levin swords and flame spears is easy and gives your mages powerful break access, and +1 mov is always nice, but losing a couple of points of base mag, the mystical archetype, and staff access is a loving killer. Mystical is the most situational of the unit types imo so it mostly comes down to more move or staves. Staves are probably too good to pass up, though.
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Kanos posted:I'm trying to decide if there's a real merit to mage knight on maddening or if all sages all the way is the approach. The passive is pretty useful, getting levin swords and flame spears is easy and gives your mages powerful break access, and +1 mov is always nice, but losing a couple of points of base mag, the mystical archetype, and staff access is a loving killer. Mage knight should theoretically work on like Anna, where her Magic growth is absolutely monstrous but her base is terrible and she's coming to you with axe proficiency anyway.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:You don't have to do it all at once; the DLC has multiple chapters, and each chapter unlocks stuff in the main campaign. I think you only have to beat the first chapter to access the new side area in the monastary, which you wanna do early. The classes probably require the whole side story to be cleared, but the big money is the intermediate unlocks; recruitable characters. You wanna get them in your class before chapter 11 at the very latest. Ah, thanks for mentioning this. I'm in...I think the 4th or 5th month. So I probably want to do stuff sooner rather than later. I plan on doing at least one more playthrough, though, so there's still that.
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Harrow posted:Is there any particular reason to go Swordmaster over Hero? Brave Assist and access to a second weapon type seems really valuable, though I'm not sure if it's worth the second seal to reclass Kagetsu for those benefits. (I'd lose the sick crit animation too.) this game seems to have enemy stats where "overkill" speed isn't actually overkill
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Natural 20 posted:Mage knight should theoretically work on like Anna, where her Magic growth is absolutely monstrous but her base is terrible and she's coming to you with axe proficiency anyway. I would like to state I strongly recommend against specifically axe mage knight Anna. I went into it because it made sense, but the magic axe is utterly awful on Anna because it's a Smash-type weapon and Anna is made of paper. She'd be MUCH better off as a sword or lance mage knight, if you go that route.
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The royal sisters have access to unique flying classes and both have good passives. Ivy is probably going to be your strongest offensive mage out of the gate with S rank tomes. Hortensia gets +1 range on all heals, B tomes and S rank staff access - Nodus: fills all party engage meters. Celine falls off because her Vidame class has hybrid growth so you would want to move her toward Sage instead. Staff usage is important on Maddening for chokepoints or stopping bosses from using their emblem skills.
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FrickenMoron posted:
Slap Ike on her and you can get to some absurd levels of crit. Panette is awesome and I love her so much. Mine got Build 3 levels in a row, which is enough to guarantee a place on my team.
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Infinity Gaia posted:I would like to state I strongly recommend against specifically axe mage knight Anna. I went into it because it made sense, but the magic axe is utterly awful on Anna because it's a Smash-type weapon and Anna is made of paper. She'd be MUCH better off as a sword or lance mage knight, if you go that route. Oof I'd not got it yet so I was hoping it was at least somewhat viable.
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Gyoru posted:The royal sisters have access to unique flying classes and both have good passives. Ivy is probably going to be your strongest offensive mage out of the gate with S rank tomes. Hortensia gets +1 range on all heals, B tomes and S rank staff access - Nodus: fills all party engage meters. Celine falls off because her Vidame class has hybrid growth so you would want to move her toward Sage instead. Celine is a good Levin Sword user on Hard but I doubt she can remain viable on Maddening. I feel like her comically unnecessarily massive Luck growth is useful for something, but I dunno what.
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Infinity Gaia posted:I would like to state I strongly recommend against specifically axe mage knight Anna. I went into it because it made sense, but the magic axe is utterly awful on Anna because it's a Smash-type weapon and Anna is made of paper. She'd be MUCH better off as a sword or lance mage knight, if you go that route. Yeah the magic axe loving sucks on maddening, none of the characters who would want to use it can actually make use of it because they can't survive using it. Levin sword and flame lance are actually good and usable for nerds.
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if you want anna to use a magic weapon the magic bow is really good
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Of the three melee magic weapons, Levin Sword is by far the best. It's statistically better in every category than Flame Lance, available earlier, and breaking axes is going to be generally more useful on a 1-2 range mage for avoiding counter attacks than breaking swords. Hurricane Axe can murder fliers real good, I guess, but a forged Elwind tome does that well enough already.
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I don't think mystical is that special or amazing because casters have access to the tome that literally can't miss.
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Infinity Gaia posted:Celine is a good Levin Sword user on Hard but I doubt she can remain viable on Maddening. I feel like her comically unnecessarily massive Luck growth is useful for something, but I dunno what. I mean I'm only on chapter 8 Maddening. But that poo poo loving rules. 2 Range axe breaking for gigantic amounts of damage.
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I wanted to use Ivy. I wanted to like Ivy. However, she literally got only 2-3 stat level ups every single time I gave her a level and I could not in good faith award that nonsense.
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When it comes to bld and weapon tiers, is there a list of like what level of bld you'd wanna tier up to the next weapon rank with?
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Use heavier weapons when they do more damage than lighter ones, either because you're doubling in both or not doubling in either Its not really just bld tiers
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It varies by weapon, but it's not difficult to figure out, if a bit unnecessarily obscured within the UI. For each point of Wt a weapon has above your characters Bld, you lose one point of effective speed while using that weapon.
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Tae posted:I don't think mystical is that special or amazing because casters have access to the tome that literally can't miss. The Surge line is 1 range though. The other thing to consider is that Engages give different bonuses to different unit types. Byleth, for example, only gives Thyrsus to Mystical types.
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WrightOfWay posted:Of the three melee magic weapons, Levin Sword is by far the best. It's statistically better in every category than Flame Lance, available earlier, and breaking axes is going to be generally more useful on a 1-2 range mage for avoiding counter attacks than breaking swords. Hurricane Axe can murder fliers real good, I guess, but a forged Elwind tome does that well enough already. Levin Sword and Flame Lance are available at exactly the same point, the chapter you unlock Forging. Should even take the same amount of resources.
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Am I correct in feeling like some of the non-student characters in Three Houses are worse due to the whole "having very few supports" thing? Or does the buff from being near a high support character not matter much? I have Anna from some DLC (who I've been using just because I haven't been able to recruit anyone yet), and it seems like she'll always be a bit weaker due to having no supports.
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anna is a really bad unit but the supports are the least of her problems.
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Ytlaya posted:Am I correct in feeling like some of the non-student characters in Three Houses are worse due to the whole "having very few supports" thing? Or does the buff from being near a high support character not matter much? I haven't crunched the numbers on support bonuses, but purely in my subjective experience, Catherine and Shamir are useful and strong units in their niches, Seteth is good due to having a wyvern and the 'hit twice' lance art, and the others are strictly worse at their niches than your students.
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Manuela learns warp and you can never have too much warp
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OddObserver posted:Late game speculation:
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Blaziken386 posted:my speculation is that either Lumera and Sombron are bitter exes and Lumera took Alear in the divorce, which means the toothpaste hair comes naturally, OR, Alear was purely Fell Dragon in the past and the two-toned hair is the result of Lumera slowly converting her to Divine Dragon. She just woke up before it was finished, whoops. I'm leaning towards the latter for two reasons: we've seen Pure Red Alear twice - both in the intro and in the dream sequence - but no Pure Blue Alear. The second reason is that it also explains why Marth's reaction to Alear asking about their past is "Uh... you were... kind. Yeah. Very nice and kind and non-evil. Like you are now!" - which would make sense if pre-sleepytime Alear was a force of destruction and chaos - he doesn't have much else to go off of so he's just ad libbing. I think its definitely going to be whatever Veyle's deal is where they had two personalities unaware of the other, one good and one evil.
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Extremely cowardly that Alear can only wear the emblem costumes of characters of the same sex. It's particularly dumb that male Alear can't wear Lucina's clothes since, like, her whole thing in Awakening for a while there was pretending to be a guy while wearing that outfit.  Chapter 15 spoilers: I was pleasantly surprised that Alear is just not having it with Veyle's multiple personality thing and is in full on "gently caress you and die" mode after everything she's done to them. I hope the game continues this thread of Alear - while still a good person trying to do the right thing - becoming more cynical and ruthless after all the poo poo that went down at the cathedral.
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Ytlaya posted:Am I correct in feeling like some of the non-student characters in Three Houses are worse due to the whole "having very few supports" thing? Or does the buff from being near a high support character not matter much? That’s an Anna problem— the adults from the base game all have plenty of supports. They’ll probably have fewer available than your students, but they still have some.
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do you think they made Sigurd absolutely busted on purpose to hype him up for when they do a FE4 remake?
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Honestly Sigurd is like the least exciting emblem. Like, sure, he's good because more movement is always good, but he's not an interesting kind of good.
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I just recruited Anna and her starting statline is kinda... oof? Like all she has is HP and a strength stat that could be a lot better given how often she's gonna get doubled. Boucheron is not running so hot either, Not feeling confident about my axing division. Victor's okay but I think he's coming to his sell by date.
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okay i am now genuinely mad I scanned in two fire emblem amiibo the other day, and each one gave me an outfit and music ticket. "this is neat" i thought, "it's annoying that they would lock this mechanic behind amiibo in the first place, but that just makes it a daily thing. I'll just unlock Micaiah and Celica's outfits for now, and unlock the other ones when they become available." HAHA. FUNNY JOKE. because I scanned in those same amiibo tags today, and I got: 1x relay ticket, 1x potato you get one outfit ticket per amiibo. want to unlock all the outfits? gently caress you, you need all twelve.
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