Fire Emblem

I usually give 'em to Olivia.

Oh yeah; forgot that, for all its utility, Dancer in FEA has shit caps, and the Mov. of an unpromoted foot unit.

Seeing as how no one else has a mobility problem, Olivia is probably my only candidate now.

My Hero Chrom!Morgan is now untouchable; with RK, Galeforce, Sword and Axefaire, and Luna, complete with wonderful strength/skill/speed caps, he's going to be shelved for the next few story chapters, to not render them complete jokes.

edited 11th Oct '13 4:24:45 AM by eternalnoob

I always give it to MU. Giving your best unit more movement is never a waste, and dancing really isn't all that good in Awakening.

"Best unit in the game = My Unit"

You misspelled "Morgan" :P.

Well, my time in the grinding DL Cs shows; I routed Tiki's chapter in 3 turns. That was something.

Tiki's now on my team. She's not as good as Nowi, and is a league or seven below Nah, but I guess I could make use of he-HOLY SHIT DRAGONSTONE+! SLAPPING THAT SHIT ON NAH, STAT!! Wait, does Tiki's spot pass shop sell them? I gotta check that out...

You got to love how flexible Inigo is; With Olivia's stat modifiers being blah, and her class set being "ah!", Inigo can be anything. And unlike Lucina, which is pretty much the same deal, Inigo has a lot more options. 

edited 11th Oct '13 5:46:58 AM by eternalNoob

Dancers have to be flexible. What with all that dancing.

MU is the best character in the main game. When you gets the first pair of Boots, you're still in the main game. Thus, MU is the best candidate for the Boots. MU is still great post-game, so they're still good then. Morgan is the best choice for the second Boots though. Olivia is probably third, but you only get two, and dancing is really not incredibly useful in the game.

Eh? No I'd still say Morgan is the best unit in the main game too. At least mine was by the time I got to Grima.

edited 11th Oct '13 8:37:21 AM by Vertigo_High

Ah, got you.

Nah, Morgan is still second-best, because Avatar is around for forever.

edited 11th Oct '13 8:38:29 AM by Folt

Was Grima one of the trillion dragons defeated by Marth in the Akaneia games, or is the "first exalt" a completely different person? Or is Grima just Medeus, but everyone forgot his name, so they decided to give him a cool name that everyone seemed to like?

Haven't even started, and Hector murders something in the first part of his story. Oh, this will be fun...

edited 11th Oct '13 9:54:38 AM by eternalNoob

No one knows what Grima is or where he came from, only that he is somehow descended from the Earth Dragons.

The first Exalt is about 1000 or so years too late to be Marth, if I recall. (I don't recall the exact years...) He is Marth's descendent, at least.

edited 11th Oct '13 10:11:00 AM by Otherarrow

I think I get it now...I think.

Huh, Bonus Boxes are much better than EXPONENTIAL Growth, when it comes to skill-grinding. EX Ponential growth is better for turning jokers into warriors, but when you're building up skillsets, and you have your mage in general armor, the strong Bonus Box Enemies are better. Mostly because they chaerg at you.

The running theory is that Grima is a combination of every Earth Dragon after their were sealed away (I'm guessing that happened in Mystery of the Emblem since I'm not that far in my playthrough of New Mystery).

I just realized, one of the campaign bosses in awakening is a berserker with a bolt axe.

Is there something I'm not seeing here? Am I not maximizing the potential of my berserkers? Or is it just the way you actually get the bolt axe, and I shouldn't be looking too much into it?

(Also, don't like how aggressive he is. Quite possible for him to leap on your units and get himself killed on easier difficulties, before you get a chance to kill the sorcerer that drops a Mire tome, leaving the only other method to get it in the bonus box.)

Berserker with a bolt axe...Wow, that's a shit combination, if I ever saw one.

Speaking of which...Which do you guys prefer? Berserker or Warrior? More weapon variety, and somewhat better defenses/Skill, or pure, concentrated strength and speed?

I prefer warriors, though it's largely an aesthetic thing - charging into battle with not even a shirt is generally a bad idea.

Though, in Awakening, I'm pretty sure the Berserkers are slightly better armored than the equally-shirtless Warriors.

Wait, that's a Berserker with a Bolt Axe? I thought it was a War Cleric, since that's the only class that can really make use of the thing...

Hmm? If I recall, there are no War Cleric bosses.

You might be thinking of Libra, who has a Bolt Axe in his artwork for reasons.

If we're talking about the boss from that Plegian hallway map, then yes, that was a Berserker.

Not to mention Henry among others makes wonderful use of that axe once he manages to get it, so it's not unheard of.

edited 12th Oct '13 7:22:15 AM by Demonfly

Charging into battle shirtless is manly as hell, that said I prefer warriors because of bows usage.

Speaking of Henry, the Henry page guy is at it again. Geez.

Yeah, Bolt Axe on a Berserker really doesn't make sense. That guy's a joke, even on Lunatic+.

the more i see of lunatic mode, the more full of shit it seems.

couldnt they have, oh i dunno had a fucking difficulty curve!?

there is no chance to beef up anyones stats to a workable amount for at least the first 4 chapters, where enemies can one-shot most of your units and usually have access to a double attack anyway, while every single one of your units who isnt frederick can only do maybe 8 damage if you're lucky, exactly once. and then die.

incidentally, chapter 2 and frederick has already nearly run out of silver lance uses, and no one has any back up weapons. and i can only trade in battle.

i like how the developers idea of challenge in this game is "we'll limit everything you can do, give you shitty stats, double enemy stats, and make you pray to the RNG that she isnt a fucking cunt for just one day so you can survive more than 2 rounds into map 4. thats fair. thats challenging. thats fun. we're awesome. lets take a break from this and start placing move-on-spawn reinforcements everywhere because nothing's inherintly full of shit about that"

edited 12th Oct '13 2:04:11 PM by Tarsen

Honestly, that's why I haven't played Hard Mode yet. Having reinforcements move on spawn is just too BS for me to even feel like dealing with.