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Fire Emblem Awakening |OT| Lord of the RNG
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Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Ok the money dlc is worth it. just played it to read all the characrer reactions and i'm already at 300k.
It's 75k one time. Pretty much essential for a forging maniac like me.
This and EXPonential are my go-to-maps, the latter especially not only for exp but also for quick support collection purposes.
Welp, the Activity Log states that I have reached 204 hours playing this. This game consumes wayyyyy too much of my time, life, and soul.
BassForever
Member
Team? Levels? Skills? How you handle the final chapter really depends on how you've built your team up to that point.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Actually... rushing the boss is the right thing to do--well, after eliminating some enemies here and there--since it is the only map in the whole game where enemy reinforcements are endless.
If you have a sage/falcon knight or two with high magic and galeforce, you could kill an enemy, move some more and rescuse another sage/falcon knight so they can rescuse a paired up chrom/lucina to ko the boss since their double Falchions will probably do him in on one turn lol.
If that isn't an option, I hope you got some good supports.
If that isn't an option, I hope you got some good supports.
NeonZ
Member
If your final chapter team is anything like my first team, which was in a similar situation when I tried rushing in, then attempt to initially take out the nearby troops and the reinforcements, and only advance when there aren't as many around (only one or two groups of reinforcements and the main guys next to Grima). Basically take out more troops than the number that spawns each turn. At that point, advance towards Grima, wait for reinforcements to pop up right next to Grimma and then finally advance the next turn, taking out those reinforcements and nearby troops while staying out of Grima's range The troops standing right next to Grima, inside his range, apparently don't move from there. The next few reinforcements shouldn't appear close enough to attack your party in one turn. After taking people out of Grimma's range, take out one of the enemies in his range and then rush towards him with your strongest units. Concentrate on Grimma and try to take him out quickly in that one turn.
Take out the enemies around the starting area, after doing that, split in 3 groups and send your main units against the boss and the other to groups to the sides to deal with the healers. You should finish the boss really fast with Chrom + Lucina
Pair up, rush the boss, Get those A level staffs out just in case
dakkumauji
Member
I think this is the first time in a really long time i'm going to make good use of them!
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Why would you start using him now if you almost never used him in the first place?
Kind of disappointed that Limit Break doesn't immediately add +10 to all stat like the allstat+2 skill. But this means more grinding!
Also, Bride's skills seem kind of... useless, aren't they...? Do the Rally Love skill stacks with other Rally skills?
And while I am at it, how to build Morgan as Rally Bot? Effective setup for end-game DLCs?
dakkumauji
Member
Pretty much. He has good growths that are comparable with the rest of your team just terrible base stats. He just needs some level ups to make up for that.
He was already an L2 class, so I chose to ignore him until my party hit that same level of classes. Besides, I use everybody. Maybe not in story missions all the time, but yeah. Also he got married, so don't I need to build him up or something so his kid has worthwhile whatevermacallits?
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Hmm, who did you married him to?
To clarify, whether you levels him or not does not impact stat caps of the kid, IIRC, but it does impact starting stat of the kid, which will make him/her reach stat caps easier/harder.
dakkumauji
Member
The parent's current stats passing down is only just to save you some time in grinding as the kid would probably earn them soon enough anyway. Same for the skills unless it's a gender locked skill.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Luna at level 5 is a good skill to pass down so his kid doesn't have to go through Great Knight. Depends on who he married though.
Yes, rally skills all stack as long as they are different skills, so strength + strength won't stack, but strength+spectrum+heart will mean you get a +10 strength boost.
I wed him to Sumia, because I think Fred's a cool guy and I needed Sumia out of the way for Chrom to wed Olivia.
So, just for the sake of clarification, the only benefit of grinding parents is saving time grinding kids?
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Unless there is a gender or special class exclusive skill you want to pass down, yes.
BassForever
Member
Rally bot morgan is best as a female Morgan with at least
Rally spectrum
Rally love
From here you can either throw on 2-3 more rallies of your choice or a few survival skills like the bride class healing skill or something like aegis.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
I made Chrom a Dread Fighter this morning too, he's been through Lord, Great Lord, Paladin, and Great Knight. Don't care about the archer classes, so what the heck.
The tome aspect is kind of wasted on him though since his magic is abysmal. 10% magic growth in every other class, I wonder what his Dread Fighter growth for it is, since he's gotten three levels in magic since reclassing.
The tome aspect is kind of wasted on him though since his magic is abysmal. 10% magic growth in every other class, I wonder what his Dread Fighter growth for it is, since he's gotten three levels in magic since reclassing.
He's a bad ass with that red aura <3
Trojita
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When do you guys decide to do the missions involving the children? The only child mission I have right now is ChromxSumia, but I'm resisting doing it because I heard their stats are determined by the parents stats, and they can inherit a skill from their parents. I'd almost feel like not getting the children until like the end of the game lol.
Edit: Oh you guys were just talking about it. Can all characters reach the caps of a stat, like is there a max?
Edit: Oh you guys were just talking about it. Can all characters reach the caps of a stat, like is there a max?
Trojita
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To be honest this DLC fucking sucks. It is lazy as shit. I got the pack that has Lief in it. The battles are uninspired, the "unique" character you get from the battle doesn't even look different, and he doesn't even fucking say anything even when he levels up except ".....!".
It's horse armor.
It's horse armor.
KennyLinder
Member
I agree, it's very lazy and almost an empty shell. Nothing is done to glorify the important characters and mixing characters from different games is stupid.
But, BUT the nostalgia got me and only seeing these maps and hearing that music made me happy :'(
Trojita
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It's like I'm paying for the guest artist.
Everyone can reach every cap, yeah.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
The only things you get by waiting are better base stats. And possibly a better skill passed down from each parent, but that's up to you.
Max stats and growth rates are determined as soon as two characters S-rank.
All the inheritance details can be found here.
That one is, unless you really want Leif. I don't think I've seen anyone recommend that map.
The good ones are the ones that actually add something to the game like new skills or classes. That and the more challenging post-game DLC.
djplaeskool
Member
Just finished a Normal/Classic playthrough.
Great game.
RIP Ricken
Great game.
RIP Ricken
Well to be fair the dlc still sucks, it's just the rewards are worth it. And yeah, Seisen prologue and map 1 songs make me very happy.
djplaeskool
Member
hehe. The fight on The Searoad went so amazingly well otherwise, I decided to soldier forth.
Also, Lon'qu + Panne might be the most hilariously adorable pairing ever.
"If we were to spend more time together, I would make you a cup every morning..."
"Are you implying what I think you are, human?"
:lol
That happens with the DLC skills too, yeah. They turn into something called Outrealm Skill.
Save 'N Quit
Banned
Tried the ending with
for the first time yesterday.
That ending conversation with my family was way more heartwarming than anything that happened in the other one.
Chrom attacking Grima
That ending conversation with my family was way more heartwarming than anything that happened in the other one.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Yeah, agreed on the character front, though as has been said, some do include some pretty useful skills.
If they do DLC characters in a similar style next game, they should really figure out a better way to portray them. Fill the battle quotes with some text from their game, at least. Them being totally mute in the main game is really, really depressing.
Nostalgia factor can only hold up for so long, as eventually, it comes down to "why use Lyn when she has no impact at all on the story, and has no further way for you to empathize with her character", especially when the really only unique 'defining feature' of the game is limited to the head, of which DLC characters just use avatar amalgamations.
I think that a distinct visual color scheme could have definitely helped here.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah, the spotpass characters not being unique is understandable. But the DLC characters should have had custom models for some classes.
But I guess that was never going to be reasonable considering the actual Awakening characters don't even get unique models for most classes.
But I guess that was never going to be reasonable considering the actual Awakening characters don't even get unique models for most classes.
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