Current Events > Fire Emblem Three Houses is a bit overwhelming.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Besides, I don't really wanna add new people to the roster at this point. I feel content where I'm at.

So in my first post in this topic, I said imo I think it's better to just recruit a couple of characters because one it makes replays with other houses more different, and two it makes the second half of the game better and more impactful. I'm happy you followed that advice because characters you recruit are replaced by generic random units when fighting other houses. So when fighting Claude you'd fight him plus some slightly stronger randos instead of him, Hilda, and Lyisthea. I think the second half has a better impact when your forced to kill former classmates (and hear their death quotes).

Plus recruiting a ton of people doesn't matter when your going to have your main team anyway.

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Yeah, I thought that was good advice. Also heard it in a lets play of the game I watched a few episodes of.

I do wonder if recruiting units you wont use is a strategy on Maddening (which I'm not sure I'm ever gonna play, gonna need to poke around for details at a later date). Like, if you recruit Lysithea earlier, will the replacement unit be considerably easier to deal with, and such things.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

I do wonder if recruiting units you wont use is a strategy on Maddening

It's a New Game + strategy for sure. Like, if you were to recruit Lysithea without intending to use her, you could set her weekly goals to reach C in Lance, then just go hard at riding. Then when you play through on Golden Deer, you can just buy her lance and riding rank with renown, making Valkyrie and Dark Knight obtainable without wasting time in a class other than Mage and Warlock

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There is also an element of recruiting people for certain paralogues and the items/battalions they give.

Ashe and Lorenz stand out in that regard. Felix as well.

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Jeritza is gaining 1 exp from killing units only one level below him, what the fuck? >_>

Oh I see, reinforcement units give shit exp for some reason.
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Compsognathus posted...

There is also an element of recruiting people for certain paralogues and the items/battalions they give.

Ashe and Lorenz stand out in that regard. Felix as well.

Marianne has the funnest paralogue in the game, you should totally do it on max difficulty.

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I did notice that of the paralogues I've done so far, Sylvain has given far bigger rewards than any other (not counting exp).
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...I was an hour+ into Edelgard's paralogue, but I seemingly closed the game down rather than just letting the console go in sleep mode.

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I think I'm done for today.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Jeritza is gaining 1 exp from killing units only one level below him, what the fuck? >_>

Oh I see, reinforcement units give shit exp for some reason.

On maps where you have infinite reinforcements, they give reduced XP to prevent infinite grinding.

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Fair enough, though also annoying since they tear on my weapon durability all the same, and I wasn't grinding, I was just slowly and methodically edging my way forward.
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Unless you are using weapons that require rate resources it's pretty easy to repair your weapons every month

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I'm not doing very much to get extra gold (intentionally) and what I have I mostly spend on limited resources. Sure I can always scrounge up some coin for repairs and battalions, but I'd prefer not having to without gains.
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Tmaster148 posted...

Honestly her biggest strength is the early game due to faster skill leveling as she'll have access to more powerful spells sooner than the rest of your spellcasters plus mastering classes sooner meaning she'll get fiendish blow way before everyone else.

she def was nowhere near as good as she was in my golden deer playthrough

by the end of that she was doing 60 dmg per hit and usually doubling
DeadBankerDream posted...

Like, of all the people to capitulate and turn traitor after a defeat, I'd never think of her

she and Edelgard have a history

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Yeah she is probably the most believable of the characters to turn traitor.

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So Caspar gained a shit level up, so I used Dragon Pulse to go back and avoid it. Waited until I think 2 turns later to level him up, on a different enemy, and he gained the exact same shit one. At what point is this stuff determined and is there any ability to manipulate the RNG other than restarting a fight from scratch?

Also, for some reason, this second go at this paralogue, the reinforcements don't give Jeritza shit exp. No clue what's going on with that.
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Level up rng is determined when you start the battle so units will always gain the same level ups during that battle.

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That's horseshit that is effectively a slap in the face to my decades of save scumming in this franchise. Boo, Nintendo! I say boo!
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If you fully restart by reloading th free save it will give you new rng. Except for adjutants they seem to keep the same rng no matter what.

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Sometimes when someone gets a bad level up at the end of the map, I use a turn wheel to reverse it so they level up at the beginning of the next one instead

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I'm really missing the Waga na wa Ferdinando fon AAAAAAAAAAAAAEGIIIIR in this grown up world.

Also, holy shit there's a lot of beasts in this paralogue, I don't think I have enough gambits.

Fucking mages killing themselves instead of running to safety.
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It annoys me how master class requirements are set up. Whole game I've run Petra as a sword/bow user, as I feel her stats, strengths and growths have lend themselves to. Now if I wanna make her a master class in either of those categories I also have to randomly jack up her horsesitting powers or her magic.

That's dumb as sheet.
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Most Advance classes will work just as well as Master Classes.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

It annoys me how master class requirements are set up. Whole game I've run Petra as a sword/bow user, as I feel her stats, strengths and growths have lend themselves to. Now if I wanna make her a master class in either of those categories I also have to randomly jack up her horsesitting powers or her magic.

That's dumb as shit.

Should have made her a wyvern lord.

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Some advanced classes are better for their endgame. For instance, sniper has Hunter's Volley, which makes it better than Bow Knight in a lot of situations. And Swordmasters or Assassins are considered by many to be better than Mortal Savant, due to the low speed

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I see. But I'm intentionally not looking up growth rates and stuff like that. Just trying to evolve my characters as I go.

This next story mission was surprisingly easy, but maybe I'm just overleveled on the god damn three paralogues the game threw at me beforehand >_>

God damn why did I have to kill Flayn. And Shamir and Alois. But Mostly Flayn. You go to hell, Seteth.

I'm so sad now :(

Also I know I'm slow to pick up on obvious story hints, but Rhea is totally Seiros, isn't she? That's a rhetorical question. Don't answer >_>
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Started ashen wolves.....holy fuck Leonie's older sister hits erry button man and I would be lying if i said booby Lorence Von Aiger didn't do things either.

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there are ways to spare Flayn and Seteth

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DeadBankerDream posted...

It annoys me how master class requirements are set up. Whole game I've run Petra as a sword/bow user, as I feel her stats, strengths and growths have lend themselves to. Now if I wanna make her a master class in either of those categories I also have to randomly jack up her horsesitting powers or her magic.

That's dumb as shit.

Assassin is the second best infantry class in the game and the best infantry class for women and it has 6 move so it doesn't fall behind like Swordmaster.

But yeah, otherwise Master Classes do swordies dirty, because Mortal Savant is terrible.

DarkChozoGhost posted...

Some advanced classes are better for their endgame. For instance, sniper has Hunter's Volley, which makes it better than Bow Knight in a lot of situations.

This really depends on difficulty. Hunter's Volley is great in Maddening where doubling is harder, especially for the boy archers. But in other difficulties Bow Knight is better in just about every way.


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Leonie is the only one who prefers being a bow knight over sniper on maddening due to her access to point blank shot. Cyril has easy access to wvyern but he could also go bow knight for the same reason.

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Is hit rate and crit rate stuff pre-determined the same as level ups? Obviously not exactly the same, but I mean assume other factors don't change except that you make an attack later on, will the result be the same?

Been trying to use Bernadetta to OHKO Ingrid with Deadeye off a 32% hit rate. When I miss I dragon pulse, move my other units on the other side of the map and wait a turn to try again. I think I spent 6 or 7 dragon pulses attempting it with no luck. Could just be Fire Emblem being Fire Emblem, but I would like to know.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Is hit rate and crit rate stuff pre-determined the same as level ups? Obviously not exactly the same, but I mean assume other factors don't change except that you make an attack later on, will the result be the same?

Been trying to use Bernadetta to OHKO Ingrid with Deadeye off a 32% hit rate. When I miss I dragon pulse, move my other units on the other side of the map and wait a turn to try again. I think I spent 6 or 7 dragon pulses attempting it with no luck. Could just be Fire Emblem being Fire Emblem, but I would like to know.

It's not the same. The game will keep the same RNs preloaded in the event of a divine pulse. If you don't burn some RNs before trying the same action, it'll stay the same. If you do, the game will use different RNs (which may or may not cause things to happen differently).

If you move other units but don't engage in combat with any of them, that should lead to the same result with Bernadetta.

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Honestly Deadeye isn't that good due to how sharp accuracy drops for bows outside 3 range.

But to answer your question you can use divine pulse to burn rng rolls by having another unit engage in combat to use up the rng that failed your other unit. But also you are fighting an uphill battle trying to hit a 32% chance to hit attack.

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I think I had some combat encounters in between, so I guess I was just being unlucky.
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Ferdinand is such a dodge god, I love it. Can basically throw him into the fray to lure out any non-commander enemy and he won't tank the hit, he'll just not get hit at all.
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Ferdinand is such a dodge god, I love it. Can basically throw him into the fray to lure out any non-commander enemy and he won't tank the hit, he'll just not get hit at all.

Next time you use Ferdinand Von Aegir, I highly recommend taking him down the Wyvern Lord route, where his avoid gets even more bonkers.

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My birthday came around (literally on the actual day, today, I came to that point in game) and I got an accessory that doesn't seem to do anything other than I think raise charm a few points (which, uh, okay) and a gift item that seems to be a letter for me, which confuses me what to do with it. Why would I give someone else a letter to me as a gift? Any clues on what to do with this stuff or is it major spoiler thingy
Hopefully I'll get to play later tonight at which point I imagine I will make it through chapter 17.

Also, holy shit @ Jeritza A support. Dude basically (and possibly literally) creamed his pants standing in front of me.
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Faith is not a strong suit of the Black Eagles, especially if you didn't recruit Manuela.

That said, Byleth's Faith spell list is pretty garb so you aren't actually missing out on anything.

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Is certification success rate pre-determined per character per day (per class?) the same way that level up rng is determined per character per battle?
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Gheb posted...

That said, Byleth's Faith spell list is pretty garb so you aren't actually missing out on anything.

Byleth's spell list is bad all around. There's not much reason to use his spells over magic weapons. Although I will say having Byleth with the ability to use Recover is pretty nice because it's a huge heal no matter how little magic you have.

DeadBankerDream posted...

Is certification success rate pre-determined per character per day (per class?) the same way that level up rng is determined per character per battle?

Certification success rates are pre-determined for the month iirc. This means that all the rolls for the month for each character have already been done.

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I see, thanks.

Also, holy hell, Dedue's face has seen some shit.

Adult Dimitri looks like a Game of Thrones cosplayer by trade.
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Oh wow, the game's not pulling any punches anymore, is it?
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Finished chapter 17. Not sure why I keep expecting these things to be over it a short time. I see the small map and the few units and I'm like "oh okay, 40 minutes and we'll be done.

Even though I know that's not how it is.

About 3 hours? Maybe a little less. Jesus Christ this one was hard.

I was pretty sure my next playthrough, whenever, was gonna be Golden Deer, but I think Dimitri's character in this chapter made me so intrigued in learning more about him, I'll probably do Blue Lions instead.
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same order i did it in
crimson flower then lions then deer

if i do the church route it won't be for a while tough to betray her :/ and after that i would 100% do another crimson flower run, this time recruiting absolutely everyone.

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The Church Route and the Golden Deer route effectively share the same maps (the story is different, but map progression is basically the same), so depending on your tolerance for redoing things you might not want them back to back.

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I'm fine with that, but it's nice to know.
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Dis is it!

Dis fucking music. I'm PUUUUUUUUUUUMPED!

I will say though, giving the beasts in this and the last mission magic immunities is fucking bullshit. Magic is not some sort of special attack move, it's the basic attack of several of my units. I'm sorry I didn't level Hubert's bow skills, game! At least make the magic attacks able to break barriers even if they do no damage.
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I don't see much of a reason to bother with Hubert's bow skill. Lances have Frozen Lance and his paralogue gives him the only magic lance in the entire game. He has a lot more going for him with lances than he does with bows.

It also does suck that magic immune barriers get spammed later in the game, but barriers are pretty easy to break with gambits from your other units that I rarely run into it as a problem.

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These automatons are horseshitting me with their shit crit rates.
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Bernadetta's bowknight range is literally the only thing keeping me alive in this mission. I already know who the MVP is gonna be that's for sure. Six enemy units left on the map. Last golem about to go down. Can't wait for the 20 unit reinforcement after it does >_>
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What the hell.

At no point has the game told me I can't have more than 100 turns >_>
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