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[GSR]

Got it and I'm already starting to stress out over what's to come. I don't think I'm OCD, but this game brings that out of me. So a few more questions.

1. Is there anybody you absolutely SHOULDN'T use? I vowed to not use any sort of character FAQ for this game, but I can already imagine the team I make being ass.
2. Do unlocking the side missions require you to do obscure things you possibly couldn't have known like beat a chapter in 10 turns or something?

1. There's probably a few characters that'll take longer to get good than others, but nobody's truly horrible in this game, especially since there's infinite EXP/levels thanks to skirmishes/DLC. The only person to 'avoid' would be Frederick early on because he'll eat up all the EXP your other units could be getting.

2. Several of them are unlocked automatically when you finish certain chapters. The others are unlocked by having certain characters married (generally the females). I believe there'll be some late-game ones as free DLC later.

 

[SpaceDrake]

1. Is there anybody you absolutely SHOULDN'T use? I vowed to not use any sort of character FAQ for this game, but I can already imagine the team I make being ass.

Don't lean on Frederick too hard. He's an experienced, promoted character, so he's beast early on, but he'll get way less experience per kill. Once you unlock the ability to pair up (if you're playing on Normal and can't do so right away), then he's actually best used as the support character because he'll grant massive attack and defense bonuses and an amazing +1 movement to whoever he's paired with.

Beyond that, no, everyone in this game has the potential to become a beast. Watch the level ups, though, because the RNG can be a fickle lover, sometimes.

2. Do unlocking the side missions require you to do obscure things you possibly couldn't have known like beat a chapter in 10 turns or something?

No. The Paralogues unlock as you progress through the main plot, nothing more. The ones that recruit the kids obviously require you to, you know, ensure they'll be born

, but that's it.

 

[vall03]

As far as pairings go, I think Donnel's the best fit with Nowi. It doesn't feel as... questionable as some other pairings for her, and the content of the actual support is very sweet. They're also very powerful together when paired up.

Spoiler

It also has the upshot of turning Nah into an absolute, game-crushing monster and is one of only two ways for Nah to get Pegasus Knight and thus Galeforce.

I was thinking too on who to pair with Nowi, and Donnel quite fits with her. I guess I was looking for the 'youngest' person to pair her with. And thankfully, when I learned more about the skills each class have, I can't believe it was one of the best pairings in the game.

 

[Moonlight]

Alright, I might regret asking this, but what are everyone's favorite pairings?

So far I'd say Chrom x Sumia, Ricken x Maribelle and Stahl x Coredelia are natural. Even Virion x Sully fits in a funny way. I'm going to check out Panne x Gregor and Henry x Nowi based on what I've been reading her. No idea who is a good fit for Miriel besides Frederick who I don't use.

Severa and Owain is just about the cutest support conversations I've encountered thus far.

 

[scy]

You know what, Vaike actually isn't taken. Maybe I'll do that then, but Gregor is also interesting. I was planning on pairing Vaike and Cherche, so if I don't do that, anyone else good for Cherche?

Stahl gets Swordmaster and has decent stats (basically subs +1 STR from what Vaike would give for +2 DEF) as well as Bowbreaker from Bow Knight. I honestly don't know as Cherche is sitting here for me right now kind of "stuck" with Virion until I figure something else out ;_;

As far as pairings go, I think Donnel's the best fit with Nowi. It doesn't feel as... questionable as some other pairings for her, and the content of the actual support is very sweet. They're also very powerful together when paired up.

Spoiler

It also has the upshot of turning Nah into an absolute, game-crushing monster and is one of only two ways for Nah to get Pegasus Knight and thus Galeforce.

I've done a lot of Donnel's supports and he seems to have the most where it makes sense that they actually grow close up to the marriage. Compare this to some of the others where it just "suddenly pie MARRIED."

 

[Anteo]

=/

 

[Crash Station]

1. You should be fine using whoever, but note that you shouldn't rely on Frederick, as he starts the game already in an advanced class, so while he seems awesome, he's really just going to "steal" experience from everyone else by being overpowered and not leveling quickly

Don't lean on Frederick too hard. He's an experienced, promoted character, so he's beast early on, but he'll get way less experience per kill. Once you unlock the ability to pair up (if you're playing on Normal and can't do so right away), then he's actually best used as the support character because he'll grant massive attack and defense bonuses and an amazing +1 movement to whoever he's paired with.

Beyond that, no, everyone in this game has the potential to become a beast. Watch the level ups, though, because the RNG can be a fickle lover, sometimes.

Oh no, I understand pre-promoted classes are generally not good in the long run. I just mean beyond that. Didn't even think about the bonuses when pairing up though.

Anyway, thanks for the answers. Seems like this is more lenient than other games in the series in terms of missables and poor units.

 

[scy]

I struggled to think of someone you get that's legitimately useless.

I dislike Ricken, does that count?

 

[The Awesomest]

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Alright where are you getting these? I need to see these.

 

[A Human Becoming]

Don't lean on Frederick too hard. He's an experienced, promoted character, so he's beast early on, but he'll get way less experience per kill. Once you unlock the ability to pair up (if you're playing on Normal and can't do so right away), then he's actually best used as the support character because he'll grant massive attack and defense bonuses and an amazing +1 movement to whoever he's paired with.

Beyond that, no, everyone in this game has the potential to become a beast. Watch the level ups, though, because the RNG can be a fickle lover, sometimes.

Even Libra, who's also prepromoted?

 

[Anteo]

Oh no, I understand pre-promoted classes are generally not good in the long run. I just mean beyond that. Didn't even think about the bonuses when pairing up though.

Anyway, thanks for the answers. Seems like this is more lenient than other games in the series in terms of missables and poor units.

Not in the long run in this game. Frederick made it to my final chapter team, however I didn't use him at all in the first half of the game.

Edit:

Alright where are you getting these? I need to see these.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.447316545340342.104696.149152295156770&type=1

Even Libra, who's also prepromoted?

He also made it to my final chapter team. Great healer with good survavility.

 

[SpaceDrake]

Anyway, thanks for the answers. Seems like this is more lenient than other games in the series in terms of missables and poor units.

Tremendously so. Don't sweat it, you can't fuck yourself over in Awakening.

I struggled to think of someone you get that's legitimately useless.

I dislike Ricken, does that count?

Hell no, Ricken has been beasting his way through my game. Especially once he became a Dark Knight, he became a wrecking ball, doubly so once he and Lissa got really close.

If anyone struggled for me, it was Maribelle, because she refused to get some magic growths early on. It took taking her to Mage and then Sage to make her turn out good (though she turned out to be an A-lister because she was one of my few resistance tanks).

 

[zroid]

Dunno if this is old but Nintendo released some Valentine's cards. Better than the Luigi's Mansion ones.

for some reason I laughed an inordinate amount at this

 

[scy]

I just meant that I dislike Ricken as a character. He does make for a good Dark Knight though since he gets bulkier than your average Mage.

...for some reason.

 

[SpaceDrake]

Even Libra, who's also prepromoted?

The trick with Libra is that he's generally got the stats and growths to back up his pre-promote status - he's much more like a character who naturally promoted at 20 (while Fred has stats like he promoted a bit early). Libra can be great, especially if Lissa and Maribelle just aren't shaking out for you somehow. Just make sure not to feed him too many unpromoted kills (though, conveniently, you start facing promoted enemies very soon after acquiring him!)

 

[Roto13]

Yeah, Libra feels like he would have been an unpromoted character if you met him a few chapters earlier. By the time you meet him, you probably have a few class changed/promoted units of your own.

 

[Knux-Future]

So I just got Nah. Donnell is her dada and the plan was to pass on aptitude.

I forgot that the lowest skill was transferred. So I dropped out of the mission to fix that.

Went back in and my avatar got one shot by the last enemy.

suuuucks

So I do it again and beat it...

only to find out that I was playing on an old save...so aptitude did not get transferred.

Armsthrift isn't too bad but still...


fuuuuuuck

 

[Kincaido]

That Sumia card has some bad Photoshop.

 

[Empty Space]

I'm having a hard time deciding what class to make my MU. Its either the Sorcerer for the versatility of dark tomes or the maneuverability of a Dark Knight.

 

[Giolon]

How badly would I be screwing myself over by not leveling people's base classes to 20 before promoting w/ a Master Seal? I always liked the idea of promoting people sort of when it makes sense story-wise, rather than strictly min-maxing. If I want to promote Chrom to Great Lord and he's level 15, how bad will that make things for me later?

 

[firehawk12]

He also made it to my final chapter team. Great healer with good survavility.

What did you end up making Libra? He doesn't seem to have many options.

 

[Empty Space]

How badly would I be screwing myself over by not leveling people's base classes to 20 before promoting w/ a Master Seal? I always liked the idea of promoting people sort of when it makes sense story-wise, rather than strictly min-maxing. If I want to promote Chrom to Great Lord and he's level 15, how bad will that make things for me later?

The game has an infinite number of Second Seals so it actually doesn't matter at all.

 

[Giolon]

The game has an infinite number of Second Seals so it actually doesn't matter at all.

You just made my day. =D I'm assuming they become something that I can grind for (either via cash or directly) later on?

 

[Empty Space]

You just made my day. =D I'm assuming they become something that I can grind for (either via cash or directly) later on?

Yeah they can be bought from shops later on in the game. I want to say the shop you can get them from at the earliest is located at the same place you recruit Lissa's kid.

 

[robotzombie]

Where can you buy second seals? I'm able to buy masters but no seconds

 

[Snowden's Secret]

I just watched the opening cinematic again for the first time since starting the game. It depicts Chrom and Sumia with a newborn. Does that make Sumia the canonical wife?

 

[B-Dubs]

I just watched the opening cinematic again for the first time since starting the game. It depicts Chrom and Sumia with a newborn. Does that make Sumia the canonical wife?

Yea, she's the cannon wife.

 

[dakkumauji]

I just watched the opening cinematic again for the first time since starting the game. It depicts Chrom and Sumia with a newborn. Does that make Sumia the canonical wife?

Pretty much.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

Even Libra, who's also prepromoted?

I love Libra. They went overboard on making his voice feminine, and his supports have been boring so far aside from Tharja, but his 3D model is excellent and his VA delivers the little battle quotes really well.

Also he can take a ton of punishment, unlike Lissa.

 

[thetrin]

I love Libra. They went overboard on making his voice feminine, and his supports have been boring so far aside from Tharja, but his 3D model is excellent and his VA delivers the little battle quotes really well.

Also he can take a ton of punishment, unlike Lissa.

I love Libra as well. I'm happy that at the point I got him, he fit into my team pretty snugly without having to grind him, and he's got the stats to back up being a War Monk (something I can't say about Lissa)

 

[NeonZ]

Why not just make Lissa a Sage? She has a custom model for that too, going along with her quotes about wanting to be like her sister, and it fits her stats better than war cleric.

 

[Doorman]

Even Libra, who's also prepromoted?

For whatever it's worth, I hadn't planned on Libra becoming a main member of my party thanks to my history of pre-promoted units in the past. However, right after I got Libra, I reclassed him back down to being a mage. He lost some stats during the step down obviously, but the growths that he's been getting from his new level-ups have been strong enough that, as a level 6 or 7 mage now he's basically comparable to what he was as a war monk, and is probably my strongest magic attacker outside of maybe the avatar. Once I promote him back up, he's probably gonna wreck shop.

 

[Tunavi]

So when you skip through an entire battle where the character levels up after, the frame rate for the stat raises is like 60 FPS, where its normally like 30. kinda odd.

 

[dakkumauji]

Even Libra, who's also prepromoted?

Libra came at a good time where I second classed my healers into pegasus knights for skill grinding so I used him alot. Being able to hold his own if he gets smacked was pretty helpful too especially without all the support boosts.

 

[Ken]

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.447316545340342.104696.149152295156770&type=1

Poor Pegasus, photoshopped away.

 

[KO Traveling Hobo]

So when you skip through an entire battle where the character levels up after, the frame rate for the stat raises is like 60 FPS, where its normally like 30. kinda odd.

Oh god thank you. I thought I was going crazy.

 

[Sora_N]

I trained Donny and Sumia on the DLC level, low on money now so I gotta get back to the main story. Man they are beast after a few levels of good stat gains.

 

[EvilMario]

Yeah, Libra feels like he would have been an unpromoted character if you met him a few chapters earlier. By the time you meet him, you probably have a few class changed/promoted units of your own.

Both times through, I only had Lissa promoted by the chapter. Libra feels like a power house on offense in that chapter, but can easily get overrun on defense. Never really gave him a shot on my team the first time through, but maybe this time..

 

[A Human Becoming]

What's the general advice on promoting units? Don't wait until level 20 like the old games?

 

[Knux-Future]

Sully becomes a goddess of death

 

[UncleSporky]

I'm playing casual but I'm still doing my best not to let anyone die. Well here we go, 10 hours in, my first death at the end of a long map that would take a long time to replay. Will my records permanently display a big old "1 death" on it, or can I easily forget this ever happened?

 

[robotzombie]

Where can you buy second seals? I'm able to buy masters but no seconds

anyone know this?

 

[Sora_N]

So I'm playing Chapter 7, and twice I accidentally let an archer kill Cordelia...do Pegasus Knights become less vulnerable somehow against that?

 

[alfredofroylan]

Upgraded Sully to paladin and Miriel to sage, what's your take on these?

 

[UncleSporky]

So I'm playing Chapter 7, and twice I accidentally let an archer kill Cordelia...do Pegasus Knights become less vulnerable somehow against that?

Fliers are simply vulnerable to arrows, unfortunately. Just something to watch for.

 

[robotzombie]

Upgraded Sully to paladin and Miriel to sage, what's your take on these?

there are really no wrong answers it seems. If you really like characters, you are gonna want them to go through all classes to get cool skills and continue to upgrade their stats anyway. But yes, both paladins and sages are good classes on their own

 

[Chrom]

So I'm playing Chapter 7, and twice I accidentally let an archer kill Cordelia...do Pegasus Knights become less vulnerable somehow against that?

Not really, no. It's always their weakness and they have to deal with it.

However, in one of the later DLC episodes, you can get an item that teaches the Iote's Shield skill, which, when equipped, negates that effect for fliers.

 

[alfredofroylan]

there are really no wrong answers it seems. If you really like characters, you are gonna want them to go through all classes to get cool skills and continue to upgrade their stats anyway. But yes, both paladins and sages are good classes on their own

Still wondering if somebody uses Great Knights? I found them quite useless in Sacred Stones.

 

[Kincaido]

The Iote's Shield skill won't even be out for like two months =(

Not really necessary though, but it's nice to have.

 

[Javier]

For those wondering, the extra damage on certain classes (Bows/Wind Magic on Fliers, Hammer/Armorslayer on Armored Units), is calculated as Triple Weapon Might (not Triple Damage or Triple Strength).