Current Events > Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn was such a fun power trip *Spoilers*

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Ike, Nephenee, Gatrie, Stefan, Kurthnaga all ended up incredibly OP on my playthrough
Even more so Haar who I didn't use at all in PoR. As long as you didn't let him get hit by archers you could have him wipe out entire maps with no help.

Once you got Caineghis and Tibarn (don't complain to me about using game breaking units) it was all over. Except Dheginsea he gave me some trouble, a lot more trouble than the Black Knight, Sephiran, or Ashera did who I beat easily without having to restart the chapter (which I always do if units died)

I really hope we get that games as DLC on the Switch sometime

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RD is fun, despite it being a huge mess in design and balance.

Though, just by nature of tier 3 classes, anyone can end up really busted. I've done a RD hard run where my Meg ended up destroying worlds.

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*Cries in Path of Radiance*

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Life's good when you're a fan of the GMs and Royals. Too bad for the other 60ish units.
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It really is a shame that the Dawn Brigade units are severely underpowered, underdeveloped, and underutilized. Thanks to how the game constantly switches perspectives starting with Part 3, you end up with not much time to grow them as the game starts throwing more and more powerful enemies at you.

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GS4Life posted...

Even more so Haar who I didn't use at all in PoR. As long as you didn't let him get hit by archers you could have him wipe out entire maps with no help.

Fun fact - wyvern riders and their promotions aren't even weak to arrows in Radiant Dawn, only to thunder magic which is way less common. So he's actually even better than you realized!

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Panthera posted...

Fun fact - wyvern riders and their promotions aren't even weak to arrows in Radiant Dawn, only to thunder magic which is way less common. So he's actually even better than you realized!

I do feel like pegasus knights and birds got the shit end of the flying stick.

The next step is to make a run with all low tier units: Meg, astrid, etc

Solar_Crimson posted...

It really is a shame that the Dawn Brigade units are severely underpowered, underdeveloped, and underutilized. Thanks to how the game constantly switches perspectives starting with Part 3, you end up with not much time to grow them as the game starts throwing more and more powerful enemies at you.

I really hope that RD gets a remake some day because of this.

Unit EXP scaling needs to be redone entirely, and the part 3 Dawn Brigade maps should be redesigned in order to improve the power scaling.

...I also ironically think the game as a whole needed a few more chapters, despite it being absurdly long already. The Crimean Royal Knights needed some extra chapters to do stuff as well given how bad availability is in that game. Calill is one of my favorites, but she takes so much favoritism to work, namely either hard focusing EXP with her or handing her a Paragon scroll. (Which I always do)

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RD is awesome. My favorite FE.

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Blue_Popo posted...

I do feel like pegasus knights and birds got the shit end of the flying stick.

The next step is to make a run with all low tier units: Meg, astrid, etc

Birds sure, because they non-royal lolzgul. But it is basically impossible for flying mounted units to get the shit end of the stick in a FE game. They might not be good at Wyvern Lords, which are arguably the best overall class in the series, but they are still better than like everyone else.

But yeah, Jill and Haar are absolute monsters in this game.

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Panthera posted...

Fun fact - wyvern riders and their promotions aren't even weak to arrows in Radiant Dawn, only to thunder magic which is way less common. So he's actually even better than you realized!

I don't remember that but it's been 12 or 13 years

I would have done more playthroughs but my data got corrupted

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Blue_Popo posted...

I do feel like pegasus knights and birds got the shit end of the flying stick.

Pegasus Knight as a class line is still really good, it just has sketchy units with bad availability in it. The birds are kind of the other way around, laguz gauge issues suck but man Janaff and Ulki are monsters for a while when they first join (and Tibarn is absurd but that goes without saying). They're not wyvern but in a vacuum I'd rather a given unit be a pegasus than almost any other class

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