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DepreceV2 posted...

Good to know that Gilbert dying doesnt matter. Im concerned about the boss of this map. I know he transforms and I have no idea how powerful he will be and with what abilities. I have a feeling that I need to defeat him in 1 turn or I will probably lose units

You don't need to 1 turn him. Just smash all his shields in one turn, so he is stunned for the enemy phase. Then unleash further hell on him for turn 2.

Turn 1: Gambit his shields away. Spend rest of turn attacking his defenseless form. Hopefully he'll be pretty weakened and he won't be able to attack on enemy phase.
Turn 2: He'll be able to counter again so play it safe. Use anti-monster combat arts to hit hard. Make sure at least on person can gambit him so he can't move on his turn, he only has 1 range so you should be able to keep people relatively safe.

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DepreceV2 posted...

I beat the Fog of War map. It wasnt difficult once I abused the forest. No way I could keep the npcs alive though. They kept rushing to their deaths. I prolonged at as much as possible by I couldnt stop them from dying to the boss. I could have saved them if Catherine actually tried to engage the boss. That would have been too easy though

Also, story wise, this chapter felt like a turning point for Dimitris character for the worse. Based on the other paths, he has no problem killing civilians or anyone who gets in his way. Here though, he is very angry he had to kill civilians and I think this will be an excuse for him to kill civilians in the future. As long as its for his cause.

Catherine ganking the boss would take out all the fun. Send the kids to do it instead.

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DepreceV2 posted...

Why is the Javelin might so damn low? I didn't expect it to be high but I didn't expect it to do less damage than a damn TRAINING BOW. There are so few scenarios where I would use a Javelin over a Training Bow. The flexibility isn't worth it, especially when I get later in the game. That low might with that 8 weight is absurd. 4 less might than an Iron Lance but weighs 2 more. So dumb. I feel like it had to be nerfed for Maddening or something.

Another question. On the Fog of War map with Catherine... How are the enemies programed to move? Do they move regardless or do they move when you get in range? I'm trying to come up with a strategy to win this map. I have a few things in mind but knowing this info might really help here.

The franchise as a whole struggles to balance 1-2 range weapons. In most games, Axes and Lances wildly outclassed Swords and Bows entirely because the former had easy affordable access to good 1-2 range weapons. The response this is seemingly to render the lances and hand-axes useless by making them extremely heavy and/or inaccurate. On it's own that isn't terrible, but between everyone having access to every weapon and the increased Player Phase focus of 3H, bows largely out-place the need for Javelins/Hand Axes. And once you have dedicated Enemy Phase units, you'll also have the Retribution Gambit to make 1-2 range irrelevant.

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Mberer posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhIw2-5QUOE

3-13 Archer is still the king of unnamed allied units.

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Yeah, once you have a maxed out Jeralt's mercenary it can mostly substitute for Felix's ability without needing to overly invest in developing Felix's Authority rank since it is a very solid Battalion for E-rank. Even then, it is probably better on other units for a bit until they can pick from better Battalions, freeing up the competition for Jeralt's Mercenaries.

One thing to note is that BL have access to Kingdom Archers a D Rank Battalion with entirely mediocre stats. However it does have the Retribution Gambit which is otherwise locked on the A Ranked Battalions on other routes. This is a great Gambit at any time but invaluable for Enemy Phase units and basically required for Kill Every Last One of Them Dimitri.

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You should probably be fine. Especially if you have White Magic. Do not put a Battalion on Felix yet though. His ability is a godsend in early game. Eventually the advantages of a Battalion will more than offset his ability, but not yet. So if you bought one for him, I'd probably reload to save that money. Likewise if there are any units you don't necessarily plan on using long term (Ashe, Ingrid) then they can probably live without a Battalion because their authority ranks are meaningless.

Anyone you plan on using who isn't Felix wants a Battalion ASAP, but especially Dimitri and Annette. Dimitri's entire purpose revolves around hitting A in Authority, Annette picks up Rally Speed at C+ and in early-mid game having a unit get +4 to Speed and Strength can be very useful.

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DepreceV2 posted...

What is up with this Shifty Merchant that appears after Chapter 2 in the monastery? He has appeared in every route, stays for several chapters, doesn't sell anything, then disappear. I don't get it. Is he trying to lead me to some DLC like that one Monk I mentioned a while ago?

The one near your dorm room? He is part of the DLC. He gives you access to the Abyss.

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DepreceV2 posted...

Finished that chapter. It took me a few restarts. Any mistake was pretty much a character death. Was fun though. It was taking real tactics. Im assuming the next chapter will be easier. Im not going against the students and I THINK I unlock Divine Pulse? Divine Pulse is incredibly important on Maddening it seems. I would have breezed through that chapter if I had it

Next chapter is really rough. You get to learn the joy of Pass thieves.

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I mean simply bringing back the Weapon Triangle and making weapons tied to class would immediately incentivize diversifying classes again. Or maybe not full weapon locking but almost due a Fates like system where your class determines the maximum available weapon rank you can use. So every class can use all Iron Weapons but higher level and specialty weapons become locked behind different classes.

Same would go for magic classes. Every magic class can heal, but something like Physic gets locked behind Priest -> Bishop -> Holy Knight. Also while Support Magic is its own separate spell pool so a unit can learn multiple White Magic attacks while also being able to heal/support.

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I honestly just wish CF went in on the idea you were playing the badguys. Between it and Fates that is twice now it made it look like we were gonna play the evil empire and twice they undercut it.

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DepreceV2 posted...

Holy shit. I had no idea. I saw the sword but I just assumed it was the equipped icon or something. You can really min/max in this game. Also, its crazy how Hard is so easy since you dont even need a basic understanding or use for a ton of these mechanics in the game to beat it easy. Hard mode probably only requires Gambit uses at times and thats a stretch.

My first run I wasnt using Gambits for stat increases. Hell most of my units didnt have Gambits. I definitely didnt use the really good ones. I didnt use Adjutants at all, let alone maximize it. I didnt even change my skills out until way down the line in my first playthrough because I didnt know they didnt auto equip. Maddening must be a massive bump in difficulty to make all these things matter

Battalions and Combat arts are probably the biggest difference. Like the fact that you can not use Battalions on hard mode and not have it make too much a difference is crazy. Look at something like Goneril Valkyries, a B-rank Battalion. It gives 8 Attack, 6 defense, 20 hit, and 15 crit. 8 Attack for most units is the equivalent of like 16 level ups. That is bananas. The idea that you could have power up to that level and casually disregard it without it significantly impacting gameplay is insane.

Combat Arts generally lack the ability to double, which means 95% of the time, they are out damaged by a unit who would double. When most units double in Hard, then most combat arts are not worth it. In Maddening where doubling is very rare, combat arts become way more important. Something like Temptest Lance becomes a life saver, netting a bunch of kills you would otherwise never get.

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That's her Adjutant type. Depending on the unit's class an Adjutant has one of three different effects.

The vast majority of classes provide a percentage chance (based on support level between the two units) of attacking the opponent. This is symbolized by the Red Sword Icon.

The White Magic focused classes (Monk, Priest, Bishop, Holy Knight) provide Adjutant healing. If the main unit is under 50% health at the start of the turn, the spell heal is basically autocast. The number of times a unit can be healed this way per chapter is depending on support level.

The armor classes and brawler and grappler provide adjutant defense. This causes any enemy follow-up attacks to be reduced by percentage based on support level (40% at A support). More importantly, it makes it impossible for enemy follow-up attacks to kill a unit. You will always survive with 1 HP.

The usefulness of each varies depending on difficulty. In Normal/Hard where enemies very rarely double, the defense adjutant is largely useless and the healing adjutant is probably the best, if only to help keep units topped off. On Maddening the Defense adjutant is king and can seriously save your units. The attack adjutant is just okay. It's nice when it happens but the activation rate is just too low to be relied upon.

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Note: The following post is about optimal gameplay. Three Houses on Normal/Hard mode in no way requires optimal gameplay. So use who you want in whatever class you want them. *Looks at my War Cleric Magic Punch Girl Constance*

Mortal Savant's first issue is that it is a hybrid-offense class. Hybrid-offense classes in general don't fit well with 3H's skill system. Each unit gets 5 skill slots. This typically means you can't fit on Death Blow and Fiendish Blow, and both weapon proficiencies. Which means one of your two attack types is seriously gimped. Now if your thought is, "that's fine I didn't plan on using one of the types anyway", then great but there is a better class available for dedicated Swords or Magic.

For Byleth the three main Sword focused classes are Enlighted One, Assassin, and Sword Master. Enlighted One is the easiest of the bunch as it is free. It has 6 move, a plus 2 strength bonus, and spell access, not that Byleth's spells are anything to write home about). It has a +3 Magic Bonus giving it the strongest Levin Sword in the game (1 stronger than even Mortal Savant). Assassin hits the least hard of the Sword Classes offering no strength modifier, but its 5 speed modifier is unmatched, it is easy to certify into and while I normally don't give a shit about class growths its 20% speed growth can sorta make a difference. Probably most notably, it also has 6 move that isn't impacted by terrain so it can actually keep up with your mounted units. Swordmaster hits as hard as Enlighted One, but trades out magic usage, a free certification, one more move for 3 more speed and Sword Crit 10 (and Astra but you should never be using Astra). Which honestly isn't worth it.

All of the above 3 are better for doing sword damage than Mortal Savant. Particularly Enlighted One which basically completely outclasses it. I mean technically MS is hitting for 1 more Sword damage than Assassin, but Assassin is a lot less work to get, doubles more, and is less likely to fall behind your other units.

Now if you want to have a real fun chat both Warmaster and Wyvern Lord are still probably better classes for units that want to use Swords because those classes are busted. Warmaster does 2 less damage with a sword than Swordmaster even though Swordmaster has Swordfaire. But with better overall stats, more move and Criti +20 instead of Sword Crit +10. Wyvern Lord does 3 less damage than Swordmaster/EO, but can fly and has better stats across the board. I still wouldn't necessarily recommend these builds as that's a lot of skills to focus on instructing, but like don't feel like you are forgoing Byleth using the SotC just because you went into WL/WM, you'll still hit plenty hard with it.

Mortal Savant actually has more upside when viewed as a primarily magic using offensive class, because it actually offers something to mages that they have trouble otherwise finding. An unmounted, 6 move, Tomefaire class. It still isn't optimal. Most mages don't want to bother raising swords, it still wildly loses out as an offensive magic class to Dark Knight, and Gremory provides a lot more utility at the cost of one move and 2 damage. But most mages learn either Hexblade or Soulblade as a combat art which Mortal Savant boost to provide for spell conserving wallop of an attack. It does require less overall skill training than Dark Knight, particularly for DLCless playthroughs. It actually might be Dorothea's best end game class given her bane in riding makes Dark Knight an absolute pain and a faith spell list that doesn't necessarily care about Gremory's double spelling. This only applies to DLCless playthroughs as Dorothea would rather be a Dark Flyer if you have access to that class, because even though Dorothea has a bane in flying, Dark Flyer's comically low certification requirements for an endgame class make it not matter.

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gunplagirl posted...

I haven't used impregnable wall yet but it carries through the enemy phase, right? Like, if I just used it then warped a squishy mage into the middle of like 8 melee fighters and archers, they could in theory solo them all?

It does carry through enemy phase, but your mage won't solo everything because they are also capped at doing 1 damage per attack just like the enemy.

Impregnable Wall is the grand "Oh shit" gambit. It's all but guarantees all the effective units will survive the turn allowing you a chance to reposition to a better situation.

Or you can do it to safely bait an enemy formation into range.

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gunplagirl posted...

From what I gather though, Felix and Lysithea are still shredding basically everything in their way. And Byleth, Dimitri, and Claude excel in their core areas as usual.

Oh. Are there any battalions better than the ones the house leaders get, Dimitri's bulk, attack, and crit one is amazing and Claude's has range and evade.

It's hard to beat those two as far as offensive battalions go. Their gambits are the best combat gambits in the game and their stats are very high, especially given their really low Authority Ranks. They are amazing for folks like Hilda or Felix.

But Gonerial Vikings, Leister Mercenaries, Aegir Astral Knights, Frauldus Knights are all B - Rank champions for giving stat boosts. You can't go wrong with any decent battalion that has Stride/Retribution/Impregnable Wall.

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I have no issue with reinforcements, I don't even mind same turn ones so long as you are given ample warning.

If there was a "Heheheh, soon our backup will be arriving from the South" and then two turns later reinforcements pop-out from the bottom of the map, then it kinda is your fault if Lindhart is still there chilling.

But if they only way you know reinforcements are gonna happen is because they surprise you can cause you to have to restart the map/Divine Pulse/Mila's Turnwheel, then it isn't great.

Honestly, I wouldn't hate a scouting feature of some sort, where if you send a unit out ahead they will note that it looks like there are signs of enemies or something. The Defend Garreg Mach chapter in CF almost does something like that where Hubert warns of suspicious terrain and to be alert, but that is part of the normal chapter script not because of any player actions.

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DepreceV2 posted...

I still think the lack of a true weapon balance/magic triangle, outside of skills, is a massive blow.

I think the lack of the weapon triangle along with the importance of Faire skills and the limited number of skill slots a unit has, heavily incentivizes becoming a 1 weapon type unit.

There just aren't enough skill slots to warrant having two different breakers for two different weapon types and your primary weapon type is going to wildly outperform your second weapon because that will be the weapon you have the Weapon Proficiency, Faire, and Breaker skill for. The only reason you might use a secondary weapon is if it is a bow for the 2-3 range or to avoid an enemies Breaker (basically only on Maddening).

I think that if they brought back a classic weapon triangle, along with making Faire skills rarer and for specific classes, it would heavily increase weapon variety for units.

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I will say that Three Houses might have the best designed weapon weight system of franchise.

CON from the GBA games is too rigid in my opinion. Body rings are the only way you can change things and those are very limited.

The Tellius weapon weight system on the other hand is just completely a non-factor beyond mages.

Three Houses gives you the ability to offset weight through multiple means so it isn't permanently damning, but is still relevant enough that it can't be ignored after the earliest part of the game.

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OmegaShinkai posted...

To be fair, I don't think Seteth is literally a child of Sothis in the same way that Rhea is. Meanwhile if you consider Sitri her daughter then Rhea is literally Byleth's grandmother on his mom's side of the family, related to him by blood on his father's side, and spiritually his daughter through Sothis.

But at the same time, Rhea is literally the daughter of a goddess and a basically immortal dragon that's been alive longer than pretty much everyone else so rules don't really apply to her. Also her support is wholesome as fuck.

Don't forget you can S-support Sothis, which in a way is just really self-involved masturbation.

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Also let's be real, it's Fire Emblem. Thinly-veiled incest is kinda baked into the franchises DNA.

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DepreceV2 posted...

Wait. Flayn and Byleth are related in someway right? Like distant relatives? If they are related then if you decide to marry her... isnt that like marrying your cousin or something? lol

It's kinda vague. Flayn, is the daugher of Seteth. Seteth is a child of the Progenitor God (Sothis). But whether that is literal in that Sothis is their actual mother versus figurative in it just being a name for their race, isn't particularly elaborated on. Byleth is Sothis reborn, sorta, but even that isn't super literal, so much as Byleth is a host of Sothis's power/personality.

So if we want to be really literal, Flayn is Sothis's granddaughter and with Byleth being Sothis reborn, then Flayn is Byleth's grandaughter. But I don't think that is how the game would like you to see it.

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Maddening's difficulty largely draws from enemy quality and to a much lesser degree enemy quantity.

Enemies have notably higher stats, particularly speed, and improved skills. Generally speaking you will not consistently double enemies throughout the entire game without the use of combat arts, and some of the speedier enemies (like Assassins) will double your units throughout the entire game. It makes enemy management way more important. Things like Gambits, which you can basically go through Hard Mode having never used on anything but monsters, way more important. A well placed gambit can lock several enemies in place, buying your team some breathing room, when they would otherwise be massacred. This in turn make charm and authority much more important stats, more charm = better gambit accuracy. More authority = better battalions.

Since very few of your units will be able to ORKO any enemy, team work is a lot more important. Being able to safely chip enemies with bows and magic until they get into safe kill range is very important. Rallies are also very valuable, particularly in the early game in allowing units to get kills they otherwise couldn't or avoid getting killed themselves. Enemy avoid is way higher too, to the point where most physical units want to master the archer class just to get Hit+20. Ignatz, a completely unremarkable unit in the lower difficulties becomes a strong early game champ in Maddening because his Rallying abilities and innate Hit+20.

Finally, combat arts and weapon utilization are much more important. In Hard Mode it is totally possible to beat the game with just Iron+ weapons without ever really using Combat Arts. This won't happen in Maddening, you'll use your Relics a lot. Silver+ will eventually be your go to weapon for most encounters and you'll use the hell out of Combat Arts. The -5 durability you get off of using Temptest Lance is always worth it if it lets you net a kill you otherwise wouldn't get.

"Brave" Combat Arts are particularly valuable and are generally the only way to regularly secure ORKOs. Swift Strikes turns, Sylvain, Ferdinand and Seteth into your player phase offensive powerhouses. Point Blank Volley for Leonie and Cyril basically functions the same way. Hunters Volley and Fierce Iron Fist, which are locked to the Sniper and Grappler classes are so important that units prefer to stay in those classes over promoting to Bow Knight and War Master. Vengeance is another notable combat art that Dedue and Bernie can learn. It isn't a Brave art, but when done appropriately does allow for those two characters to consistently ORKO units through careful HP management.

You'll notice I'm emphasizing early game quite a bit, that's because like most FE difficulties, they are hardest in the beginning of the game before you can really develop your units. Eventually, you'll get the skills you need to get the combat arts you want and the difficulty drops off a lot, particularly after Hunting By Daybreak. But Part 1 is pretty damn hard.

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AldousIsDead posted...

A very lame excuse. Still a quantum of credit to the guy for speaking up before he himself got into trouble, even if he just trying to steer away from a storm.

So while it is less and less likely in our increasingly more connected times, there are absolutely people who grew up in the South where they see the Confederate flag as part of classic Southern iconography, functionally divorced from the war itself and the reasons behind it. I mean obviously they know the origin of the flag, but when they see the flag they just think of "The South" rather than the Confederate flag from the Civil War. Because for decades the flag just popped up on everything in the South.

The best wide-consumed media version of this is the Dukes of Hazzard. The car had the Confederate Flag front and center, it was even called the General Lee, but the show itself and the characters were entirely apolitical. There was no pro-Confederacy statement being made. The Duke's were not waiting for the South to rise again or harping on states rights. The flag's origin was sanitized and completely divorced from any greater meaning besides "The South". The Dukes of Hazzard is just one well-known instance. "Apolitical" Confederate flag imagery has been everywhere in the South for decades. So it is very possible that a person could develop a fondness for the flag without ascribing to any of the things it originally stood for. And without more voices in their lives that don't have the luxury to see the flag as a generic symbol of Southern pride, people won't have their viewpoint expanded to see how the flag does cause pain/emotional distress/feelings of discomfort.

That isn't to say that any of this excuses continued use of the flag. It still is the flag of traitors who were willing to leave a country so they could continue to have the "state's right" to allow the ownership of human beings. But it does provide some context on why someone people are coming to the Confederate Flag = Bad party later than others.


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While, I agree that a mainline-style Pokemon game by someone besides Game Freak would be a really interesting experience, I think a lot of the current Pokemon issues would be solved by Game Freak actually sizing up to be a studio appropriately large enough for the flagship game of the largest media property in the history of human civilization.

They continually fall back on to the "Oh we are just a small indie-developer" excuse for any number of reasons why the games don't develop. Like if you don't have a big enough team to add all the Pokemon, animate Pokemon, made the game not look like a glorified 3DS game, properly code things, etc...Hire more people who can.

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Compsognathus posted...

That they say Metroid Prime 4. They don't need to show anything, give a status update or anything. I just want them to say Metroid Prime 4 so I know they still remember it exist.

My expectations were about as low as they could possibly be and I was still disappointed.

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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Daredevil ain't ending a Predator in seconds.

No but Daredevil does nullify one of a Predator's biggest advantages in stealth.

But yeah, every hero on those covers straight punks a Predator except for Miles (not because he doesn't have the power, but because of a lack of experience) and Miles still ends up winning.

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BalanceLost posted...

What is up with Americans fascination with nationwide fast food chains?

Because fast food is consistency. A Big Mac in California, tastes like a Big Mac in New York. A Chalupa in Chicago is gonna taste like a Chalupa in Dallas.

America is fast-paced country. So there is a demand food that you know what you are getting and getting it quickly without a lot of planning around it.

Also America is a large, culturally diverse country with a lot of travel. So when people have traveled to a new area, there is a value to having food you know. I used to travel to a lot for my old job and while I would always try to eat dinner at some local place, often times for lunch or if I got in at night, I didn't want to figure out some tasty local place to try. I just want some food that I know and can get quickly so I can get back to work or go to bed or whatever.

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The key to fast food is that they can be quickly, individually prepared for a individual and if made in batches, easy to stay for a reasonable amount of time.

This doesn't lend toward a lot of Italian food because it either takes a while to make or doesn't keep well. So the best you get is like Sbarro.

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Oh I'm not sure I could S Rank HHM anymore, I could once, but honestly I don't even enjoy it that much and rather play lower difficulties so I can just do different things without being punished.

Same with Three Houses. I can and have beaten Maddening, I know the strats and meta-builds but now when I want to go back to play I go to NG+ hard so I can screw around. Does having an a level 2 Edelgard with Death Blow, Darting Blow, Axefaire, Axe Proficiency 5, while having a level 5 King of Lions Corp battalion snap the game in half? Absolutely. Is it fun? You bet it is.

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BtVS and Angel are two of my favorite shows. Joss Whedon's talent is absolutely part of the what made them as enjoyable as they were alongside a team of talented, writers, directors, and actors.

But fuck that guy. I hope his reputation is nuked and he doesn't find work in show business again.

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Congratulations. Keep at it.

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DepreceV2 posted...

Yep. I can still see her maxing out Speed regardless too

Yeah, even lightly screwed Florina is going to be still gonna be very fast in a game like FE7 where everyone enemies slow as hell.

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I still hate Blue Clue's for tricking 9-year-old me into thinking Paprika was just a mixture of Salt and Pepper. A belief I carried with me for YEARS.

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TheBlueMonk_ posted...

im considering putting my computer in the garage and just driling a hole in the wall for all the wires and connections cuz the garage is always like 10-15 degrees colder than anywhere else in the house.

Does that apply during the summer too?

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I purposely have 30 Excel files on my work laptop to help keep me warm.

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DepreceV2 posted...

Good to know. I didnt expect Luck to work like that.

On a side note, Lorenz continues to be a walking failure. Missing a 98% hit rate? Really? This guy is just not there. If I cant field every character, he will always be on the bench

Well in that case that is more getting screwed by the RNG than Lorenz specifically, but your overall assessment still holds true. Which path have you decided to take him down.

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Yeah, actually this is the first FE game in a while where Luck doesn't affect physical avoid, only magic.

Magic Hit Formula: Magical accuracy: Hit + [(Dexterity + Luck) / 2] + (Support bonus) + (Ability bonus) + (Equipment bonus) + (Battalion bonus) - (Bow range penalty)

Magic Avoid: Magical avoid: [(Speed + Luck) / 2] + (Ability bonus) + (Equipment bonus) + (Battalion bonus)

Critical Formula: (Weapon Crit) + [(Dexterity + Luck) / 2] + (Ability bonus) + (Equipment bonus) + (Battalion bonus)

Crit Avoid: (Luck) + (Ability bonus)


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DepreceV2 posted...

Its 2021. Have we figured out exactly what the Luck stat does yet? What I know to be facts about the stat and s that it lowers the enemies Critical Hit rat and effects activation rate of skills. I believe Miracle is one of those skills.

Outside of that? Not really sure. I mean I have assumptions but nothing concrete. Im assuming Luck is like a Dynamic Difficulty slider for each character. The game helps you out when you are going to die when the enemy has a 98% hit rate and somehow you dodge it. So stuff like that. Getting a clutch critical to save your life with a 2% critical rate. An activation of skills like Guard might be effected as well but I dont know too much about it to be sure.

Im sure SOMEONE datamined a game to find out what it exactly does by now right?

It isn't consistent from game to game. But yes. In Three Houses it mostly effects Magical Hit, Avoid, Criticals, and Crit Avoid

https://fireemblemwiki.org/wiki/Luck

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Compsognathus posted...

Gardening is a bit more complicated than you would anticipate. I recommend reading the Serenes article on it.

https://serenesforest.net/three-houses/monastery/greenhouse/

Long story short is that Predicted Yield is fixed and relates to quality if items. Cultivation determines quantity of items. So if you are tight on cash, maybe on spring for the Pegasus Blessings on the good yield weeks.

Oh I forgot to add, when it doubt just plant 5 Light Blue Flower seeds. Speed Carrots are never bad.

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The showrunners had a plan, they knew the ending from the beginning, had the foresight to film time-sensitive pieces of that ending during the first season and were committed to making that ending work. It was the story they were going to tell and their creative imperative as the showrunners.

The problem is that television shows, particularly long-running, lightly-structured sitcoms are kind of like a living thing. Actors change, writers and directors change, new storylines are constantly being created, characters naturally evolve in ways nobody could ever have predicted during the creation of the show because it happened slowly over time. Characters that were never meant to be together, end up together, not because it was planned, but because the actors had chemistry nobody had planned for, or maybe because scenes with those two characters were popular with the fans or the writers so they kept making them. And the opposite can happen, characters that were meant to be together end up not being together for the reverse of all those reasons. This is a good thing. It personalizes the story and makes the whole thing feel lived in and real. You end up with characters and relationships that make sense because they built that way over time.

HIMYM had an ending they were clearly in love with, planned out, and prepared for. The ending would have worked if the show was 1 or 2 seasons long, maybe even 3. But it was not an ending that made sense for the show that HIMYM had become when it ended and the showrunner's insistence on sticking to it was effectively a betrayal of the show and characters the fans have come to love. That's why everyone hated it.

If you want a show with a definitive ending and story beats, then don't make it more than two seasons long and have a lot of structured plots along the way. If you are just slice of life-ing it for an unknown amount of time, then don't get attached to whatever ending you planned. It probably won't make sense in the end.

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Honestly the hardest part of Maddening mode is pre-time skip so routes are honestly probably pretty similar difficulty-wise. It probably is Silver Snow overall because you have a weaker roster and because you probably aren't using Edlegard and Hubert much pre-timeskip and the fact that is locks you out of some Maddening champs like Catherine until way later, when they aren't nearly as effective, which is bizarre given that its the Church route.

CF might be the easiest because it doesn't have Hunting By Daybreak, which on Maddening and depending on your team, can actually end up being impossible to beat.

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DepreceV2 posted...

Oh. My bad. I assumed that was a spell. How many of these battalions can I buy/equip at once? Would be amazing to have on multiple characters just to increase the amount of uses I have

So each run you will have access to the Battalions you can buy from the Battalion Guild, which are based on the House you chose. In addition many of the best Battalions are received as Paralogue rewards, provided you have the character recruited. There is no restriction to how many of a specific type of Battalion you are allowed to field. So if you have 4 Seiros Holy Monks battalions you could put it on 4 units and Stride forever. The only restriction for Battalions is that flying units need flying Battalions, which are considerably more limited and often not as good as their ground based counterparts. It's probably the single biggest Con for a flying unit and what generally keeps a team from being nothing but Wyvern Lords/Falcon Knights/Dark Flyers. Since there are only a couple of really good flying Battalions.

Also your Lord post-time skip comes with a typically very strong Battalion that is only C-Rank, which is great for Authority weak characters like Felix or Hilda, you Lord typically has great Authority so they can switch it out for an A rank Battalion instead.

One thing to note is that Battalions do roll over into NG+ so you can accumulate a lot of really good battalions if you go through several playthroughs.

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DepreceV2 posted...

What does it do? Im assuming its a battalion as well?

Stride is the ability that Seiros Holy Monks Battalion has.

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DepreceV2 posted...

This Seiros Holy Monks Battalion is insane. I didnt use it on my first run and the movement increase is just crazy. Can I have multiple of the same Battalion to equip on multiple characters? Also, is there a movement increase spell in the game? If so, who has access to it?

Oh Stride is absolutely busted. You can use it to completely destroy enemy formations that would otherwise be a problem.

AvlButtslam posted...

Im on my 4th play through and I have never paid much attention to the battalions other than making sure they give +Attack/Magic depending on the unit. Maybe I should look closer.

The offensive ones are good for monster busting and locking down units that you otherwise wouldn't be able to kill that turn. Not overly necessary for for Normal/Hard but very important for Maddening.

The non-offense ones are where you can get fun with strategy. Retribution gives several units Distant Counter for 5 turns. Which is fantastic when paired with strong Enemy Phase units like Dimitri. Stride gives you nuts move. Dancing Battalions are basically a free extra player turn when played right.

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When I first started drinking coffee I did so black so I wouldn't know any better. It sucked for a solid two weeks before I acclimated to it. Now I can basically drink any coffee, no matter how terrible it is.

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Pokemon is probably the most isolated of Nintendo's big franchises. Outside of Smash Bros, it does almost no interaction with any other franchise, where the the other franchises have much more nods and references to each other.

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To keep this topic alive, how would you salvage the Mortal Savant and Holy Knight classes. Easily the worst of the Master Classes in the game.

In fact, how would you salvage sword users in general, since they have very little going for them.

For Holy Knight, I would essentially make them into a Paladin upgrade. Cert requirements: A Lances and Riding, C Faith. They would have Lancefaire instead of White Tomefaire. It'd be kinda like the classic Paladin in D&D.

Mortal Savant needs a lot more work. If I want to keep the theme of a sword/magic user as opposed to dumping the magic aspect entirely and just making a super swordmaster, I think the first step is making the reason requirement C. Anyone wanting to go into the class is already gonna be physical focused (magic-first users have so many better options), so having an A Reason requirement just makes it not worth it compared to staying a Swordmaster/Assassin. I would add Sword Crit +10 as well. It would effectively outclass Swordmaster entirely but nobody complains that Wyvern Lord outclasses Wyvern Rider, despite the fact that if Wyvern Lord wasn't a class in this game Wyvern Rider would still be one of the game's best classes. Right now the only character that would ever want to be a Mortal Savant is non-DLC Dorothea. And it's less that MS is good so much as her banes make it harder to get into better magic classes and MS gives her 1 more move and Black Tomefaire over Gremory and the strongest Soulblade in the game. With DLC she just becomes a Dark Flyer because even with a weakness in flying the requirements are comically low (she can reliably cert with D+ in Flying).

Now even a better Mortal Savant is still not going to make it worth it to invest in swords over Axes/Lances, so my fix to that would be a Master Class that is essentially super Swordmaster. It would have 6 move, Sword Crit +20, and it's gonna steal Dancer's Sword Avoid +20. This class would actually be decent, not broken because Swords still have bad 1-2 range, but at least something to make someone consider making Felix a sword user like the game wants him to be instead of a Warmaster/Sniper like everyone makes him. Alternatively, it would be an outrageous Enemy Phase Dimitri class, where it admittedly would be kinda busted.

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S*** I have to stop doing that," Gheb said, as he lay back down and died again. - Forgotten Love
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