I don't have the game yet, but a staff user with good mobility, but without the weakness to bows? That sounds pretty good to me. Still have to watch for anti-beast weapons, of course.
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Fire Emblem Awakening |OT| Lord of the RNG
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Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I admit, one of the biggest knocks for me for not using Valkyrie is the fact that they use horses.
Seem like a silly reason I know, but I don't like having too many horses in my army. Look kind of silly
Seem like a silly reason I know, but I don't like having too many horses in my army. Look kind of silly
dakkumauji
Member
Yes.
Beast Weapons are pretty uncommon, much less than arrows/wind magic/beast killing weapons (poor fliers).
And Valkyries are easier to have a decent character in (at the beginning) since unlike the other mounted magic class, they aren't forced to hope for decent growth in both strength and magic.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I just can't wrap my head about people in horses gallivanting about inside palaces/mansions/castles whacking people in the head. They must have built very large buildings in Fire Emblem universe.
dakkumauji
Member
Question pegasi and dragons and griffons flying around inside first before horses.
chaosblade
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Sage is better than Valkyrie. -1 speed, -3 res, but otherwise it's caps are better.
Only reason I'd use a Valkyrie is if I specifically wanted a mounted non-flying stave user.
Only reason I'd use a Valkyrie is if I specifically wanted a mounted non-flying stave user.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Hahaha yeah that too of course.
But at the very least they look cool. Horse units in this game look silly, for the most part.
Some of the older games tried to get around that disconnect by implementing dismounting.
Of course then you ended up with situations like FE5 where almost all your riders got fucked by endgame since most of them can't wield their main weapon indoors
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
It's funny to think that people who are masters at wielding spears/swords immediately forgets how to wield them as soon as they dismount their horses, hahaha.
dakkumauji
Member
Actually the ones who could wield swords while mounted weren't as hit hard by dismounting since they could still wield swords. Just everyone else had to suddenly wield a sword when the game moves to an indoor chapter.
Oh and I guess Mage Knights were also spared since they can still use magic when dismounted. Bow Knights were also spared.
BassForever
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I think it's more funny that Manaketes and Tanguel magically can't transform into their beast form when they pick up a weapon
I'm pretty sure like Dashin or that motherfucker Xavier were the only ones capable of wielding lances indoors
Lance users got shit on so bad in 5
Save 'N Quit
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PoR Astrid was also very good.
Then she gained a canon crush on Makalov and was nerfed to oblivion.
Then she gained a canon crush on Makalov and was nerfed to oblivion.
KO Traveling Hobo
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You could say that they...got the shaft.
Yeah, or the short end of the stick.
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The Awesomest
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I've been wanting a hybrid transforming/weapon-using class for a while. Like, have a whole army of Manaketes in regular classes, but a only few Dragonstones between them.
the shaft of a lance
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
*Imagining random things*
People who can change into Dragons like Tiki, Nah, or Nowi..... their magic also applies to their clothes, huh, since their clothes show no signs of tear or contraction or damage even after they are reverting to their normal bodies after transforming into a giant monster of doom.
Like the Hulk and its magically contracting pants equipped with automatic resizing feature (tm)
People who can change into Dragons like Tiki, Nah, or Nowi..... their magic also applies to their clothes, huh, since their clothes show no signs of tear or contraction or damage even after they are reverting to their normal bodies after transforming into a giant monster of doom.
Like the Hulk and its magically contracting pants equipped with automatic resizing feature (tm)
Maybe it's more like the Magical Girl variant.
You know how all these girls transform into their super sexy, super kawaii outfits coupled with wands/staves that can blast super sexy pink beams of death but when they're done, they revert back to their normal attire as if nothing happened?
So if we apply that to Tiki and the others:
normal outfit = their normal clothing
magical girl outfit = dragons
dakkumauji
Member
Magical girl (and one boy) furries.
The dragons would be scalies.
The fact that Panne walks around without pants on at all just occurred to me. I know, I know, fur daisy dukes and all, but still. If this was all actually happening, she would be walking around without pants on, and NOBODY comments on it.
Then again, Chrom seems to be pretty freaking lax and chill about who he lets into his forces and what they do after that.
Who am I kidding? Guy married a woman he had JUST MET. He's probably as crazy as the rest of them. Exalt Emmeryn was clearly the moral backbone of the family, while party prince Chrom was out boozing it up with thieves and the what not.
I can see it now. "No, officer, I swear! This 13 year old girl is really a 1000 year old dragon!"
Then again, Chrom seems to be pretty freaking lax and chill about who he lets into his forces and what they do after that.
Who am I kidding? Guy married a woman he had JUST MET. He's probably as crazy as the rest of them. Exalt Emmeryn was clearly the moral backbone of the family, while party prince Chrom was out boozing it up with thieves and the what not.
I can see it now. "No, officer, I swear! This 13 year old girl is really a 1000 year old dragon!"
I remember that being suggested as the OT subtitle in some other thread.
Edit: Speaking of, I wonder how the new OT will be handled?
He's known Sumia for years.
dakkumauji
Member
Talking about his super sudden marriage to Olivia.
Which was ample time to realize he needed to get the heck out of dodge in that godawful relationship. Sumia is worst girl.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Do you guys forget like, the game flashed out the image "2 YEARS LATER" or something?
Or were they married before the 2 YEARS LATER shenanigans? Hmmmm.
SolarKnight
Member
Well, the marriage was at the latest one year later since we have to take into account the 9 or so months it takes for the baby to be born.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I finally got off my ass and started a new game.
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Phila.
He had a baby in that time period. At the very most they were hitched within a year.
Just reclassed my whole party. Pretty sure I've screwed that up marvelously. Made Donny a Hero, Nowi a Sage, Panne an Assassin and Olivia a Swordmaster. I'm certain it's terrible, but I have like, fifty guys and I'm not gonna micromanage my team's stats like that.
Which reminds me: does it really matter, then, when I recruit the chilluns?
SolarKnight
Member
Well, technically the more you wait to recruit them, the better their stats will be. If, and only if you keep using the parents of said children that is.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Donny a hero and Olivia swordmaster is not bad.
As for the chilluns, well their base stat (not caps*) depend on the stat of their mum and dad, so considering the fact that the more you level up the less xp you get, by waiting until mum and dad are thoroughly trained you raise their chance to arrive at the stat caps very considerably.
*not caps meaning it doesn't matter when you marry a and b, c will always have the same stat caps. However, if you marry a and e, then c may have different stat caps.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Panne is actually one of the best characters in terms of growths and stat caps (especially strength although IIRC Cherche eclipses her on that)....but hmmm, if you don't like her you don't like her I suppose.
Nah and Yarne's recruitment maps are the most battle intense of all children characters. Even if you don't plan on using them, playing those maps can be really fun.
It's not that I don't like Panne, I just have like, 40 characters. She can't be used all the time.
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