Fire Emblem - Page 112

On May 18 2017 10:21 TheYango wrote:
http://feuniverse.us/t/fe5-menu-translation-wip-5-17/2494

So a new Thracia menu patch now exists.

On May 19 2017 11:29 TheYango wrote:
Putting my Thracia playthrough on hold so I can give SoV a fair shot. Playing them side-by-side is just going to result in me not giving SoV a fair chance.

Which probably means that I'm going to forget about this Thracia playthrough and start all over again the next time I think of it. Oh well, I got 3/4 of the way through the game and the warpskips start picking up super fast after where I got to anyway.

On May 19 2017 17:06 TheYango wrote:
Double merc is kind of awkward cuz there's only one Bolt Sword. I made Kliff a Cav, same as you for the other 3.

Tobin got super speed blessed and just rekt chapter 1. Doubling threshold being 1 and not 5 means small speed advantages snowball super hard.

On May 20 2017 00:30 TheYango wrote:
Fair enough. Cav Kliff does get redundant too I guess once you get Mathilda.

On May 20 2017 01:25 TheYango wrote:

Soldier/Mage Kliff beg to differ.

Though Mage Kliff isn't that bad, it was just horrendously overrated in OG Gaiden. As it turns out, learning 6 spells isn't all that useful when 3 of them aren't that useful and you learn the best spell late.

I was actually going to do Archer on this playthrough but Kliff's 2 pre-promotion levels were both HP-only, and I didn't want to deal with 2 base Spd for that much longer. I probably could have made him a Merc, but if Gray is getting the Bolt Sword anyway, the only real difference between them for early game is Merc's hilariously overkill speed, and Kliff's 60% Spd growth made me feel like starting with 10 Spd base would be pointless. Cav Kliff only needs 3 Spd to double all of chapter 1 and he can get 1 from the first Lion Well if you want to make that a priority.

On May 21 2017 09:31 TheYango wrote:
It's not worth waiting to promote. Gaiden promotion mechanics work differently from other Fire Emblem games. Rather than giving you fixed promotion bonuses, any stat that's lower than the class's bases are simply raised to the class's base value in that stat. Holding off on promotion simply delays you getting to more or less the same place. Gaiden's XP formula is also a weird combination of your level and class, so being high level in an unpromoted class reduces your XP gain by a lot--a character that's level 8 in a tier 1 class actually gains XP slower than than a character that's level 1 in a promoted class.

Basically the combination of the promotion mechanics and XP mechanics means that you pretty much always want to promote at or near minimum possible level.

On May 22 2017 00:46 TheYango wrote:
Frudgey, everyone on this game has single-digit Res growth, lol (the Villagers have straight 0s for Res growth). All the grinding in the world isn't going to stop an army of Armor Knights from becoming warp bait once witches show up.