Unless you grind, Dual Guard is just need too many experience for Freddy to reach that level. At that point, if Frederick really indeed reach it, other units might not have the experience to perform decently in later chapter.
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Fire Emblem Awakening |OT2| PAL reinforcements
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Unless you grind, Dual Guard is just need too many experience for Freddy to reach that level. At that point, if Frederick really indeed reach it, other units might not have the experience to perform decently in later chapter.
theprodigy
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Femmeworth
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Does DLC ever go on sale on the eShop?
I got two rewards (plus the village one) for keeping just one alive, gave up after 4 tries. I think the only thing you're missing out on is a joke item, but I could be wrong.
Question regarding S-rank relationships, I'd appreciate if you could keep it as spoiler-free as possible (spoilers up to just before chapter 12):
There just was a two-year time skip and Chrom had a baby. Is it too late now for everyone else to have kids? I reached S-rank with my main character and another unit in the chapter 11 battle. Should I reload and grind out the S-rank first? Aside from one other couple I think the others require too much effort for me to grind that much, unless Donnel and Kellam wanna get it on... Haven't really used any master seals yet either.
You're only missing one joke item reward between 1 and 3 villagers saved. I gave up on trying to save more than one after 4 tries, not worth it.
Just make sure you get that 1 villager and visit the village.Anyone mind helping me with this post from last page?
theprodigy
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nah the others can marry whenever, it's only Chrom
Doesn't matter. In this game, it never matters.
theprodigy
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Fire Emblem Awakening |OT3| I Challenge My Fate!
the first option is Emmeryn in chapter 9 right?
choose to ditch her, even if she dies regardless
So... master seals. I'm playing on Normal - should I still wait until level 20 to use master seals? And why?
Chrom / Avatar reached level 20 and I promoted them, but most other classes are a long way off and it'd be nice to have some new skills for them.
And oh, does every class have 2 skills so I know it's "safe" to promote without looking classes up on wikis?
Chrom / Avatar reached level 20 and I promoted them, but most other classes are a long way off and it'd be nice to have some new skills for them.
And oh, does every class have 2 skills so I know it's "safe" to promote without looking classes up on wikis?
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
It's best to wait til 20 to promote the first time around due to the way the internal Exp calculator goes off of. The internal calculator doesn't care if you were 15 or 20, it'll treat your exp gain as a level 1 promoted class the same.
An unpromoted class will earn those last few levels way easier, so unless your stats are already green, you might as well wait.
Once you can reclass with second seals, go ahead and do it at Promote level 10 (if you're on normal, like you said). The internal 'cap' stops at level 30 (20 regular and 10 promoted) for normal, iirc, and that's the rate at which you get xp for the rest of the game.
*I think, It's been a while since I looked at Serenes.
Yep, two skills per.
Hm. Most of my characters are falling behind in levels, is there any way to grind or do I just keep going? I'm afraid of them falling behind even further and it biting me in the ass as I progress. My MC is level 18, Chrom is 14 and Lissa is 10, but everyone else is under 10.
Also, what's the best way to use support? I used Sumia as support for my main character, and it advanced her support level to A pretty quickly, but I probably misused that and now she's only level 5 lol.
Also for reference, in case it matter, I'm barely going to chapter 9.
Also, what's the best way to use support? I used Sumia as support for my main character, and it advanced her support level to A pretty quickly, but I probably misused that and now she's only level 5 lol.
Also for reference, in case it matter, I'm barely going to chapter 9.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Grinding is either done through time-interval-risen spawns, or through DLC, be it paid, or spotpass 'bonus teams' from other Fire Emblem games.
Support is used like what you're doing, but FYI, getting an S-rank will lock you with that character for marriage, in case you weren't aware. Without spoiling anything, this will have (small) repurcussions on what happens later on.
If you spread out the supports through all your characters, then arrange them in a plus formation or the like, the support bonuses will 'stack' the bonuses received all the way up to a potential 12. (Each Rank C,B,A,S from an adjacent character counts as one rank)
Christopher
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Thinking about this ...hmmmm
theprodigy
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internal cap is 20 on normal, 30 on hard, 50 on lunatic(+)
there is no difference with unpromoted/promoted levels on the cap
Didn't know levels were a thing with promotions. I'm kinda confused now. If I'm on Hard, I shouldn't promote until I'm level 30? And then re-class at promoted level 30 again? Because that seems kinda far, my highest is 16 right now and I already have a couple of Master Seals.
Oh man I'm also clueless with all the support/marriage stuff. I never even pair them up in battle. Overwhelmed!
Oh man I'm also clueless with all the support/marriage stuff. I never even pair them up in battle. Overwhelmed!
theprodigy
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what
you can't even reach level 30 on most classes, and the ones that can don't have promotions :lol
the internal level cap is basically used for calculating exp gains for your units, this portion only increases when you use a second seal
there's a writeup on Serenes Forest somewhere
theprodigy
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http://www.serenesforest.net/fe13/calculation.html
there's all the battle calculations and other stuff too
Alright I more or less get it, thanks. The only benefit of promoted classes is additional weapons and skills? And if you re-class afterwards, you can't wield those weapons anymore?
edit: and stat changes, I guess, but if they decrease due to re-calculation I'm not sure how much of a benefit that is
edit: and stat changes, I guess, but if they decrease due to re-calculation I'm not sure how much of a benefit that is
theprodigy
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much higher stat caps too for promoted classes (and you don't actually get more weapons, but you do get better skills)
and what weapons you can wield is determined by class, so if you were to reclass from Grandmaster to Dark Knight or something you would keep both swords and tomes
The Fred have cool armor though, and that the sole reason I keep him in my main army whole the time.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Where you even paying attention. Chrom doesn't have the mark of the Exalt on his eye he has it on his arm Lucina has it on her eye. Both Chrom and Owain have it on their arms.
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theprodigy
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did you actually level him up
He's level 17 which is higher than any of my other promoted classes (those that started promoted are around 14 and those that I promoted are around 10). He's been killing enemies as much as everyone else up until a couple of chapters ago when he suddenly started exploding just by thinking about getting attacked.
Just had to post in here and say that this game is really great. First ever Fire Emblem game and I love it.
Friend of mine warned me that he would take a dive, though, so I was prepared for it. Tried to not lean on him too much early on.
Happened to me also. I mean not quite first enemy turn death bad, but he's a farcry from the killing machine he was.
Friend of mine warned me that he would take a dive, though, so I was prepared for it. Tried to not lean on him too much early on.
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What difficulty you playing him on? Are there any hammers, armour or beast slaying weapons on enemies etc ? Do you keep him on one single weapon?
The thing with with great knights is that they have a lot of counters, and if you don't use the weapon triangle which is their primary advantage over their enemies (they can use all 3), even that can become a weakness (as with most units).
None of this really matters on normal or even hard except maybe the very end but it most definitely matters on lunatic and lunatic plus, because even a slight advantage will get your unit killed. Then there's some of the more nasty abilities and the fact your just positioning him on bad places. (Check the attack ranges of all surrounding enemies how strong they are and if they counter any units). As you know they always attack the weaknest so if a weak unit is in the attack range of many it's generally dead if the enemy is around your top or mid end level.
On hard his effectiveness will drop off but he's most certainly useable. Also if you wanted to use him you really should have reclassed him to allow his stats to the reach the point of your other units. There's plenty of points to level him on hard (lunatic not so much). He's not a permantly useless unit and he has good stat gains, but if you want to continue to use him reclass him at most at 15 (you gain nothing leving him further).
I'm on Hard and I only use lances on him. Doesn't really matter though, because for some reason all the enemies gang up on him, ignoring even MC. This always happened, but where in the past he could take the beating for the whole chapter, now 2~3 attacks are enough to kill him, and he can only really kill mages in one hit. If he can't take the heat in the front line then I dunno what to do with him, I guess I could reclass but I kinda got used to sacrificing him for some peace in the first turn.
Speed has become the key stat ever since chapter 10 or so. Gaius, Lon'qu, Anna etc are all monsters. Even Kellam who was still a tank up until the mid 10's chapters is getting crippled too fast to be useful, the only ones that are still bulky are the dragons.
I haven't looked into what ya'll are doing in lunatic, so I might be completely wrong, but the kind of strategy I'm seeing is the most viable is just to maximize the amount of luck based variables. Encounter-winning effects have such a high chance of happening that as long as I aim to have as much as possible in play, it's almost guaranteed. That means tanks are everything but useless.
Though I've been ignoring the weapon advantage triangle for the whole game, I guess that would make a difference, haha. Hard/Newcomer is still easy enough that I don't have to think about it.
My core strategy right now is
- Pair Chrom & Lucina, MC & Anna
- Find a tight spot to set up formation in
- Put Kellam and Frederick at checkpoints (usually the previous step can take another turn)
- Move in formation while killing everything during enemy turns in counters
Speed has become the key stat ever since chapter 10 or so. Gaius, Lon'qu, Anna etc are all monsters. Even Kellam who was still a tank up until the mid 10's chapters is getting crippled too fast to be useful, the only ones that are still bulky are the dragons.
I haven't looked into what ya'll are doing in lunatic, so I might be completely wrong, but the kind of strategy I'm seeing is the most viable is just to maximize the amount of luck based variables. Encounter-winning effects have such a high chance of happening that as long as I aim to have as much as possible in play, it's almost guaranteed. That means tanks are everything but useless.
Though I've been ignoring the weapon advantage triangle for the whole game, I guess that would make a difference, haha. Hard/Newcomer is still easy enough that I don't have to think about it.
My core strategy right now is
- Pair Chrom & Lucina, MC & Anna
- Find a tight spot to set up formation in
- Put Kellam and Frederick at checkpoints (usually the previous step can take another turn)
- Move in formation while killing everything during enemy turns in counters
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I'm not certain but I think Dual strike+ remains at a 10 per cent increase even if both have it so I'm not sure Chrom and Lucina are the best pair (Dual strike becomes very important in the harder modes because it ignores most skill effects specifically attack reducing one which proc far more consistently in lunatic).
Unless your on lunatic plus+ (which introduces more a random element), tanking is a very good early game strategy, End game is all about offense so you use the x button to show enemy attack ranges and before you put or leave any or leave any units in an enemy attack range check their hit chances and numbers and rough total damage they can inflict on that unit.
Offense tends to become a much useful in later stages because of health absorbing skills and weapons and many units having access to vantage.
Luck actually isn't all that good on hard, outside of specific skills. Speed contribute more to your avoid chances (twice as much) and on hard you hit chances are almost always 100% or near to it (skill also contributes to hit as well so it's not needed for that anyway). That and weapon triangle contribute more to hit and dodge chances anyway.
On lunatic it becomes more useful as, early game each enemy attack is very painful and your attack aren't certain to hit, it also has one of greatest stat increases when chosen as your asset (still leaves you vulnerable to double attacks so speed is still all around better).
Still as rough overall advice I'd give for the game very carefully and in detail know your enemy (check they weapons, skills, health and positioning, never leave your weakest unit in enemy range unless your purposefully sacrifice them, and a good offence end game is better than defence
Good lord Grima on lunatic you need to kill him in 2 turns and the guy has insane defence and defensive skills that almost always proc, so you must sacrifice everything for offense and speed
theprodigy
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Oh man, I was in thread on gamefaq's and the guy was asking about if his stats were good enough to complete chapter 2 on L+ since he was worried his asset/flaws and stat growths were too poor. And one the responses was "pick a god and pray".
I don't know why but I was like damn.... and started laughing. I don't even know why I laughed (probably played the game too much) but it was genius.
I don't know why but I was like damn.... and started laughing. I don't even know why I laughed (probably played the game too much) but it was genius.
I'm still early on, but Frederick seems like a beast compared to everyone else. Is he overleveled or something, he gained a level from 1 to 2 like everyone else but he's clearly stronger.
I can now choose who to take into battle, should I leave him out and level up everyone else or keep taking him to make it easy on myself? I'm playing normal with perma death
I can now choose who to take into battle, should I leave him out and level up everyone else or keep taking him to make it easy on myself? I'm playing normal with perma death
He starts the game as a promoted unit so he has a leg up on all your other characters. He's unstoppable in the beginning, but his effectiveness drops off quite a bit later in the game. At least in my experience.
I kept him in my party as a sort of insurance in case I was ever in a really bad situation, but I made sure not to lean on him too much so that I could develop my other troops (some of whom are now way, way better than Frederick despite them being of a similar level).
I left him out and beat the level, having some real close calls tho, even on normal. I need like 1 more healer I think. Seems like side quests / stories opened up now, and also stores.
Oh and I liked the dude that you needed to talk mid battle to to actually use, I didn't understand what was going on at first lol
Mauricio_Magus
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I've finally started to play this game, I'm about 20 hours in and I've dedicated the last hours to make Olivia a beast.
I don't even know what else I can do to make her a better dancer. Most of my other characters aren't even promoted and Olivia already has 80hp and max stats haha.
I don't even know what else I can do to make her a better dancer. Most of my other characters aren't even promoted and Olivia already has 80hp and max stats haha.
Damn, nice.
How did you do that exactly? I'm at a point in the game where I can't use weak or under leveled characters much because they'll get owned. Is there a way to grind outside of story missions and paralogues?
Might be a dumb question, but this is my first FE game =[