LogFAQs > #935023018

If anything Thracia goes the other way and makes it so for huge chunks of the game, combat itself is what barely matters <_<

Salem has to be one of the weirdest dudes in Fire Emblem. He seems like he should be an important character in the story or at least have something of interest to say given his background, but he isn't and doesn't. He seems like he should be a good combat unit because he has exclusive access to dark tomes, but he's not because they're kind of shit in the player's hands and his stats are bleh. But he's still really good because he can realistically be your second or third A rank staff user (especially if you go B route and miss Sleuf/Schroff...not that any sane person ever goes B route) and having lots of high staff rank dudes lets you just break everything forever. Who would have guessed that the first playable dark mage would turn out to be staff bot?

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Meow!