Fire Emblem

If you care about passing down skills, then Galeforce is always priority. Veteran is the only thing that could take priority, but it shouldn't in most cases.

Veteran shouldn't take priority over anything. It's the first tier tactician skill, so it shouldn't be TOO much of a hastle to get, even if it wasn't passed down. A botch of a grind, yeah, but it beats the dark flaer grind.

Nah's a level away from lancebreaker, and being the most adorable melee dodgetank there is. Oh wait. Dark knight for lifetaker. Now she will have A ranks on the weapon triangle, completely rendered redundant because her permanent class will be manakete. Funfunfun~

edited 13th Oct '13 7:22:15 PM by EternalNoob

What a shame I can't play Awakening. I want me some eugenics.

There's Gebealogy; inheritence and shit plays a big part; even bigger than in Awakening.

I just love the contrast between Geitz and Wallace; Wallace is fun all the time, but Geitz's supports can get really dark.

edited 13th Oct '13 8:11:30 PM by EternalNoob

do you not have a 3ds?

Part of me wants to Galeforce everything, but another part of me wants to actually enjoy the game without grinding all my current-gen units into overpowered machines for the sake of making my next-gen units into even more overpowered machines.

I think I'm going to enjoy the game and pass down cooler skills.

Well, all of that grinding is only needed if you plan on taking on Apotheosis and the other really hard Xenologues. If you don't have them then there's really no reason to (unless you want to troll people via StreetPass).

@Booky: I do not

Well, I burned through my supply of javelins, but I have a half decent Amelia to show for it.

Someone give this girl a fucking star.

So...I won't ask knight or Cavalier, because well, lots of folks hear really like Knight Amelia...Hell, even Awakening's developers have a thing for her. But does she make a decent paladin? Aaat all? Or are the general's promotion gains just too good, compared to paladin's.

A lighting fast general sounds good on paper, but that mobility...Yeah, boots, but come on, Tethys could make good use out of 'em...

Main game or post game? Cavalier/Paladin is obviously much better for the main game. General is nice for post game. Great Knight is an option, though there's not much reason to take it.

Hmm...I guess post-game potential would be good. But is Amelia still serviceable as a paladin for the monster holocaust?

God damn, my current Franz is...Pretty good. Four points near the strength cap, six points before the speed cap, decent defense, and 7-9 more levels to go. I won't go as far to say he's exempt from a bad luck streak like, say, my current Ross, Tana and Eirika, but he can come out of a bad level, or two, relatively unharmed.

edited 14th Oct '13 8:52:04 AM by eternalNoob

I had my General Amelia forget she was supposed to be a tank and instead dodging, doubling and criticalling everything.

Hey, what do the B-W-L stats at the epilogues mean?

Battles, Wins and Loses.

Is there an easy way to grind healers in Awakening? I'm up to Chapter 13 and both Lissa and Maribelle are only at level 12 or so. I have all the DLC chapters but Exponential Growth doesn't lend itself to grinding healers as its over in like 4 rounds.

edited 14th Oct '13 12:09:38 PM by Rationalinsanity

Rescue staves, basically.

Heh, figured ut out as soon as I hit send. So nobody can have L greater than 1?

The games keep track even if you restart a chapter.

Your Lissa and Maribelle are ready for second/master sealing, so you don't need staff grinding now.

I never have trouble with Lissa grinding. In fact, I once unexpectedly hit the level 20 cap on my second file, not realizing how far she had come, and I'm pretty sure I was at chapter 11 or 12. Granted, I was aiming to get everyone to level 20 or so before reclassing/promoting, but Lissa hit that mark very quickly.

And I didn't really use Rescue staves, either. The trick early in the game is to heal everything, even scratch damage. Most chapters have an immobile boss, so you can usually kill off the enemies and leave the boss, giving you a chance to run up, heal everyone up, and finish them off with whoever.

Maribelle is a bit harder to grind since her magic isn't as great, and she shows up a few chapters into the game, so you probably want to reclass/promote her early on. There comes a point where you simply need to be attacking to grind effectively.

Yeah, I have no problem with leveling healers because I'm used to healing everything from the GBA titles since they're even harder to level up there.

Same.

Also, healer grinding is like half of why I arena abuse in the games where that's possible. I could probably easily get those levels for my combat units, but the arena lets me rapidly level healers and keeps doing so from being a giant money sink.

edited 14th Oct '13 5:23:02 PM by Balmung

Healers in Awakening have the privilidge of twenty XP a pop. That is double the xp rate of the GBA healers.

Besides the skills, what does the grandmaster class have over dark knight, or dark flier? I've played through the game twice, yet I have never considered toiching grandmaster.

edited 14th Oct '13 5:26:15 PM by eternalNoob

Not quite double (double would be 22), but close enough.

Ah, well...97%

Why does Intsys hate thieves? In BS, they promoted around the same time the fucking lords should, in some games, they don't even promote, and in Awakening, they at least made the assassin a decent swordmaster alternative, but notnetheless made it accessible to the myrmidons as well, all topped with the alternate thief promotion, which is shit on a stick...

edited 14th Oct '13 6:27:19 PM by eternalNoob

'Cuz it's a badguy class, what with all the shady stealin' and shit.

And speaking of, give me back stealing, Asheradammit. Seriously, without it, thieves suck even more than before.

edited 14th Oct '13 6:46:20 PM by Balmung