Yes, very bad. Always fight with the guys who will get the most experience out of each hit. If you run around using one or two guys as bullies, you're going to get your ass handed to you in the later levels, and it'll be very hard to dig yourself out of the hole you've created.PuertoRicanJuice said:
Even if you're fluent, I hear FE games are a bitch for anyone to read who is not a native-japanese speaker. Apparently it uses some kind of weird dialect that mixes Kanji with Katagana. Dragona's explained it to me before, but I forgot the full extent of it.Hero said:
isamu said:Interesting. Seems there aren't any on the list that you particularly care for eh?
Nah, there's nothing weird about Fire Emblem's Japanese text. They just use a lot of old words and obscure/difficult kanji, but it's nothing incredibly strange or out-of-the-ordinary. I had no problem playing about 10 hours into Fuuin no Tsurugi, and I'm hardly what you'd call fluent, though it definitely helped that I had already played Rekka no Ken in English.GaimeGuy said:
Marcus levels out rather low, but you should still have time salvage your game. Remove his weapons and he become great bait. He'll be targeted be almost everything, but weaker enemies won't be able to even scratch him.PuertoRicanJuice said:
Hero said:I need more Fire Emblem.
I really wish I could read Japanese fluently so I could import the GCN one..maybe I'll start up again.
Need the other two GBA games too. Give them to us NoA!!
Edit:
My first play through the game I used Marcus throughout the game.
He stole away valuable XP from my other characters and I had so much trouble with the last two stages. I relied entirely on my maxed out Eliwood, as even Hector and Lyndis couldn't knick the last bosses.
Of course, I made the game artifically harder for myself, and still managed to lose only 2 guys (got lazy and said fuck 'em since they were useless) on my first play through of my first FE game.
MutFox said:Don't level guys in the arena too much.
because they'll only use their best weapon in the arena.
If you want to have a character with all their weapons at S and A ratings, do normal fights. (You can only MAX out 1 weapon type.)
And yeah, it's possible to finish the game without losing anyone, it's easy.
It's VERY hard on Hard Mode, but it's also possible, my brother did it.
(Hard mode is REALLY hard, enemies that stood still in normal mode, rush now... It's scarey.)
I'm pretty sure he was talking about importing to play it sooner.isamu said:
So you cheated.isamu said:BLOODY AWESOME GAME!!!!!!!
Boy oh boy, am I EVER eating crow right now regarding what I said about Florina and Erk. They are kicking all kinds of ass! In fact, I just beat chapter 24, and the game has steadily gotten easier now thanks to the item duplicate trick! I've used it to duplicate Dragon Shields and Elixirs lol! I used numerous Dragon Shields to boost defense on all the characters up to around Lvl 17, 18 or 19. And believe me, it needed to be done. Or else Florina and Rebecca would've been up the creek early on lol!
Florina is practically and almost LITERALLY untouchable now! Most of time neither her, Hector, Eliwood, Lyn, Guy, Dart or Rebecca ever take a scratch! I've also used the item trick to make duplicate Psychic and Fortify Staves, giving Serra and Prissy 99 of them each :lol :lol
Man....it's so fun now that I can relax a bit and enjoy the game rather than stress out about who might be killed. Someone on the verge of biting the dust? No biggie, Elixir, Psychic or Recover staff to the rescue!
Oh my God and does Pent, Hawk, Guy, Dart and Heath EVER kick ass!!!!! They're in my main crew now and if Louise is as good as I get the feeling she is I may have to kick either Rebecca or Will to the curb. Rebecca's defense is at 20 though, so I dunno....
Anyway I hope there are at least 50 chapters in the game! I don't want to end! It's freakin addicting!
I'm at the final battle and I'm having a hard time figuring out how to survive. I defintiely could have used some members with higher stats But I'll figure out how to get through without losing anyone (haven't lost anyone yet and I don't plan to now).Those two are always a pain for me. >_>Silkworm said:Oh come on. Stressing out on how to win without losing one of your troops is half the fun IMHO.
Main thing I need right now is guys/gals with more offensive firepower that can attack from a distance. Athos is great in this regard as is Pent, but Erk is the next strongest magic user I've got and he doesn't have near the experience to manage some of the higher spells (I think he's only A rank not S rank). Oswin is the only character I've got that's maxed out and he can't do too much from a distance except with the hand axe/ javelin/ spear which isn't nearly as effective as magic spells (nature/light/dark). I've got Rath who's a nomad archer (not sure if that's the right class description?) who can be somewhat effect with the silver bow but the longbow isn't worth jack. Only really good long attack I've got is Bolting which I've only got 2 or 3 casts left. The main problem I'm dealing with is that I can get through most of the morphs up until the last two that come from the upper hidden right chamber. They just lay waste to everthing I've got going up to that point. I can't get enough distance between my characters to do damage to them before they get right up next to somebody who they destroy. Maybe I just need to be more liberal with the Warp and that other transporting staff and use Nils more. But I dread leaving Nils exposed for too long since he goes down in a blink of an eye if one of the morphs can get to him. Bah.... At least this battle isn't too drawn out like with some of the other battles (though I have yet to get past the morphs to the final guy).
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Also I suppose focusing on leveling up the lords should be the biggest priority since they tend to be required to be involved in more battles than any other party members and any death by them results in an instant game over anyways. Thanks. The only characters I did simply wait until they were level 10 and then using the seals involved the pegasus knight, wyvern rider, and of course my healer. I can't imagine being patient enough to allow my healer to make it to lv 20 before using the seal but I suppose it's possible 
