Fire Emblem Three Houses (Spoiler Thread)

Honestly I never really do builds different from what the game intended for the characters. Unless you count turning Annette into a Gremory when she has no Faith bonus.

I tried messing around with builds in Awakening but it lead to stuff like Dark Knight Severa being a Master of None. Ultimately I just stick with the default paths nowadays.

Thiccedes sounds like some random greek hero who died of hubris.

Edited by ShirowShirow on Mar 8th 2024 at 5:41:16 PM

By which you mean, “almost all of them”. Correct?

Trying to do hybrid classes that use both weapon types usually backfires pretty hard for most characters. Characters who aren't Robin('s kids) usually don't have the dual offenses privileges to make it work that way. Most characters want builds that play to them either skewing all physical or all magic. And this isn't just limited to Awakening either—tomes are just miles ahead of any of the potential sidearms Engage's Mage Knight can run that it's almost never optimal to bring a physical weapon (maybe a great weapon for specific Emblems' Engage attacks, but even then...).

Thiccedes is totally built like a Greek hero too. She more or less 1v20ed the right side of the stage while the rest of the team tried to get the other infinite spawn points under control. And then Edelgard was doing a whopping 2x2 after converting to her higher-damage weapon.

I do not appreciate the game locking me into that trip with Edelgard before I had finished making my rounds exploring.

Edited by Mullon on Mar 9th 2024 at 9:24:53 AM

Ah, right, that's a thing. Sacrifice your chance to play CF or sacrifice the rest of your free day. 'course, if you know this, you can just save that conversation for the very end.

well Magic is almost always better than weapon attacks in Fire Emblem since they have range and ignore Defense which enemies tend to have more of than Resistance. Although Combat Arts in 3 Houses kinda leveled the playing field... or it would have were it not for the fact that magic regains all lost durability at the end of the battle so its much cheaper to invest in.

I think Mage Knights are better at using Levin swords than tomes, since their class skill corresponds to their damage type, not their weapon type, and the existence of Sword Power. There is no way to increase magic damage for tomes without Magic+ skills, and they are extremely expensive.

Edited by mariovsonic999 on Mar 9th 2024 at 9:04:16 AM

I said I would kill Edelgard, God I hate binary moral choices in video games.

Welcome to the most boring route in the game!

Don't believe in whatever she's doing? Trust the shifty pope more?

Shifty pope doesn't associate with lady who stabbed my father in the back, or other guy who replaced a person, or kidnap green hair sheltered girl, and possibly doesn't turn people into crest monsters for personal gain.

Yeah she didn't kill your father, she killed your mother.

Ah well. Have fun.

Oh, the company that Edelgard keep will end up looking much worse later on.

I’ve actually been playing Silver Snow again to celebrate the Year of the Dragon. It’s one of several dragon-related games I’m playing to celebrate this year.

My zodiac sign isn’t the dragon, but it’s still one of the coolest zodiac animals, and it has the most badass-sounding “Year of the…” titles.

TIL Dragonfire just loves dragons too much to go against them.

Where's the evil mole people route with Moleman fighting the Fantastic Four?

Yeah, that Edelgard conversation is kinda stupid. It should really have warned you that it was going to eat the rest of your weekend (if it's gonna warn you a about a route change, no sense holding back there).

No way is Levin better than tomes. It starts 3 Mt down from Bolg. To overtake Bolg, it requires at least Sword Power 2, which costs a whopping 2000 SP, and it basically going to require giving up Canter or significant Well/DLC manual abuse (barf). And it only gets more expensive from there. Meanwhile, Bolg can just grab Spd+3 and keep Canter with vanilla SP. It might be a bit most costly to forge (but not that costly: the stupid-high cost goes to, for some reason, Elfire), but it's just generally more cost-efficient overall. I could see an argument for Levin almost being comparable—assuming unbridled use of DLC—but no way is it better. But if we're going the unbridled DLC route, the game is already won before it began.

I know it's likely a joke, but I'm glad we don't have that. A pro-imperial conquest route from a Japanese developer already makes me feel iffy given the country's less-than-pleasant history with imperialism; I wouldn't feel comfortable with a pro-Unit 731 route.

I mentioned earlier I was playing a couple dragon-themed games to celebrate the Year of the Dragon, and I realized I should probably try this out:

Since Dragon's Dogma II is coming out this month, I'm thinking of replaying the first game, this time doing my best to style the Arisen after Female Byleth as best as I can with its rather limited-feeling character creator. I'll see if I can find any Pawns based on the three House leaders.

Knowing me though, I'll probably be spending quite some time in Bitterblack Isle, so I'm expecting to see Fodlan's Lousy Three getting their asses thrown around by the Isle's various horrors. Can't wait to see which idiot decides to piss off the Condemned Gorecyclops in that playthrough. It'll probably be Claude.

Hopes also already had a bonus map them that was both super tedious, and made them look extra bad. I don't think we could possibly get anything interesting out of a route made entirely of stuff like that.

Well is not DLC, and you get a bunch of items from bonuses that came with patches, not DLC, so if you are playing with no DLC in mind, then you can make the bonuses an exception.

Edited by mariovsonic999 on Mar 9th 2024 at 5:48:24 AM

I'm disappointed everyone looks so clean and put together and not crazy after the time skip.

Well no true JRPG character would go to war before visiting their local salon

BlazingKnight did a video about which of the four routes provides the best overall experience (as far content, difficulty, character and story goes) from a mostly objetive angle when playing the game on Hard.

It's a bit meaty length-wise, but the tl;dw version should go like this:

While I don't agree with the ranking given to each character in term of how interesting they are (which doesn't really play that much of a role in the essay anyways), I overall agree with the rankings from an objective perspective.

Edited by Blackress on Mar 10th 2024 at 9:03:23 AM

x4 Well is free DLC, which is still DLC. Same with all that free extra crap. Well is also so insanely unbalanced that I was able to make endgame-ready builds in Chapter 7. LTCers were also able to rig up something like 4-5x as many rare movement staff drops as you're supposed to have at any given point in the game. At that point, who even cares what you're even using? You just win.

x3 Well, there is someone who will look crazy. But he's the exception, not the rule.

Hmmm, I can mostly agree with that story order, since it's pretty iterative on releasing information. Silver Snow right after Verdant Wind (or vice versa) is terrible, though. I did it that way and revisiting the same story, but worse, left me quite bored before Endgame (Seteth is so much worse than Claude there—especially because he openly admits to withholding information with the flimsy reasoning that he thinks Rhea should reveal it).

That's one of the reasons Silver Snow being the "base" route never stops being weird to me.

VW has you search for Rhea because she, as the Archbishop, knows stuff almost nobody else knows, and Claude is willing to ask her personally. Makes sense.

SS feels like you're searching for Rhea because she is (sorta) your kin, and Seteth could've explained to you what's going on because Rhea told him what is up with Byleth. On-screen.

And yes, the point is that there's more to that story and Seteth doesn't know the details, but that usually doesn't stop characters from giving information.