Board 8 > I am playing Three Houses. Edelgard route. Got to chapter 12.

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SPOILERS BTW duh

I kept a save file, and I plan to watch the other scene just to see how it goes, but I chose to side with Edelgard.

I don't think there was much of a choice, anyway. Hubert was with Edie, and he's pretty much the best character.

Yeah that's the first route I did too

I like Hubert's interactions with Bernadetta.

hombad46 posted...

Yeah that's the first route I did too

Same.

Edelgard is surprisingly nuanced for an FE character.

This was my first route as well.

If you wanted to do them all then just make sure to save Deers for last.

I'm not sure I'll be able to do more than one route. Is it that worth it?

I mean, I am watching the scenes right now if I chose to side against Edie, and it just feels kinda wrong.

I'd say Blue Lions and Golden Deer are worth it if you're willing to go through a mostly identical first half again. I've never done the Church route

I have a save file so I can just do the church route easier.

Doing the whole first half again feels bleh

I would say it's worth it to do one more route - probably Golden Deer, since that's the one that has all the reveals about the plot of the game. Doing both Golden Deer and Blue Lions is overkill considering how similar they are.

Church route is pretty similar to Golden Deer AFAIK (haven't played it) so that might also work for the reveals?

Mac Arrowny posted...

Church route is pretty similar to Golden Deer AFAIK (haven't played it) so that might also work for the reveals?

I think I heard the final boss of that one is Rhea instead of Nemesis so I'd say Golden Deer wins out there

Church Route is just a bad, stripped down version of Golden Deer.

Claude does seem miles more interesting than Dimitri.

Dimitri gets more interesting as his route goes on

Blue Lions is a cool path for character development but I left it feeling like the game answered literally none of the questions the first half posed.

Blue Lions is the much better route compared to Golden Deer, especially if you care about character development/character quality. It's one of the better stories FE has ever pulled off IMO. Golden Deer gives you more lore but personally I did not find the main conflict there very compelling.

It's always fun to see people argue about which is the best route.

Given how much shorter Black Eagles route is compared to the other routes that's the one that feels like half a story to me personally.

Did Blue Lions first and it's my favorite route. Dimitri is awesome though really all the Lords in Three Houses are great and have some really good character development throughout.

Black Eagles is the one house I've yet to do

Blue Lions forever

Black Eagles is literally a fan fiction. The characters act different compared to the other routes.

Church Route has the best final boss song though, its at least worth looking up a youtube video for that
But other than that its pretty replaceable with Golden Deer

Blue Lions route it also worth it

Hmm, reading his posts again, it sounds like he's not going to replay the early parts, so I guess his choices are doing the Church route or nothing.

I read GD is the best way to go for the big picture if you're not intending to replay and I'm at chapter 10 there. It's a slow build up but I kinda think I see where it's going.

If I have one issue so far, it's that most people you recruit from other houses come useless right out of the box, and I feel like it kind of pigeonholes you into routes to actually use those characters properly.

Ingrid turned out to be the one and only exception to this rule, and I picked her up in Chapter 7. C Swords C+ Lances D Flying is "ok" for C7, but the key is it actually had a direction. She had good stat spread that let her both double almost everything and be reasonably bulky. She didn't take much to pull up at all. I also recruited Ashe in C7, and he was an unsalvageable disaster from the start. Three chapters later, Ingrid has one of the highest BSTs in my party, and you can barely even tell I recruited her that late.

I just wish more characters actually came to you with potential. I feel like the game really locks you into your starting characters + the Church characters. Catherines and Shamir are basically gift wrapped quality characters that need little work.

Felix is always awesome

Alanna82 posted...

I like Hubert's interactions with Bernadetta.

S Tier pairing. One of the best in the game.

Edelgard not being in smash is a travesty

Leonhart4 posted...

Felix is always awesome

Felix was similar to Catherine statwise, except he started with C Swords C Brawl, and she was both available sooner and had A Swords to make up for the fact that Sword + Brawl is nothing.

Marianne at A faith is the only character I have with an A rank in anything that didn't start with it like Catherine and Shamir do. It's a huge boon to have.

I already had a superior version of him when I got him. All he had was high speed and not much else.

I side trained her onto D+ axes for damage enhancers, but she never needs to be directly instructed to be good. I hit A+ professor rank in chapter 7, but there's only so many characters the game lets you invest in. I just never found the time for him.

High speed is super beneficial because you can basically make him a countering machine who is unhittable by regular weapons

Yeah it's recommended you wait to recruit Ingrid till later on routes other than Blue Lions because she gets the insane enemy Pegasus knight stats at that point.

LeonhartFour posted...

High speed is super beneficial because you can basically make him a countering machine who is unhittable by regular weapons
LeonhartFour posted... High speed is super beneficial because you can basically make him a countering machine who is unhittable by regular weapons

I already have that. She's named Catherine.

She has 23 speed at level 20 neutral class
Ingrid has 23 at level 21
Hilda has 21 at level 21
Felix has 20 at level 18

Felix needs to hit speed in 3 straight levels just to catch Ingrid, and can't catch Catherine. He may be able to pass them slightly with an advanced class stat boost, but he's also a point of strength behind Catherine.

He has C+ Sword/D Axe/C+ Brawl. She has A+ Sword, D+ Axe (And is currently leveling Brigand), and C+ Brawl.

Like at best he's going to turn out very slightly better than a nearly identical character for a lot more investment.

Hilda is a battering ram and basically everything she touches dies even to a training axe. Sylvain's been consistently RNG screwed though. He's like 20-25 BST below her if I remember right.

MysteriousStan posted...

Yeah it's recommended you wait to recruit Ingrid till later on routes other than Blue Lions because she gets the insane enemy Pegasus knight stats at that point.

This makes a lot of sense. As soon as I saw her stats upon recruitment I was like "Ok this is good I'm plugging her right in".

people look at stats in fe?

have i been doing it wrong all this time?

TheRock1525 posted...

people look at stats in fe?

have i been doing it wrong all this time?

nah I like Felix because he's a great character, compared to Catherine who could not be less interesting

so that would be the tiebreaker for me as to why I'd roll with Felix and not Catherine

Crescent-Moon posted...

I also recruited Ashe in C7, and he was an unsalvageable disaster from the start.

Ashe is an unsalvageable disaster in Blue Lions too, so that's par for the course for Ashe.

more like asshe

LeonhartFour posted...

nah I like Felix because he's a great character, compared to Catherine who could not be less interesting

so that would be the tiebreaker for me as to why I'd roll with Felix and not Catherine

I don't think either are particularly interesting characters.

Mewtwo59 posted...

Ashe is an unsalvageable disaster in Blue Lions too, so that's par for the course for Ashe.

Oh

So he's that guy.

My Lysithea may have been RNG screwed.

I'm on hard mode and she gave me some issues in the first few chapters because of how many enemies could ORKO her, which forced me to start babying her. Almost anything with a sword could ORKO her if Nosferatu wasn't equipped to heal her between the swings. A lot of bow users could ORKO her if she was equipped with anything heavy (See: Her dark magic), and every pegasus could easily ORKO her. Some stronger enemies could knock out over 80% of her hp in a single hit.

Lysithea had... 5defense and resistance at level 20. When she promoted, she gained 2 hp, 7 defense, and 7 resistance, and was finally able to actually take a hit.

She needed HP +5 to avoid the OHKO from the chapter 5 boss, before it's death blow was active. She was easily OHKOed by both bosses in chapter 7 no matter what.

I kinda shudder to think how many things are going to OHKO/ORKO her early on in madness because it was a lot even in hard.

Lysithea is the definition of a glass cannon

LeonhartFour posted...

Lysithea is the definition of a glass cannon

Now she can take a hit and has equipment that can boost her attack range so she's good!

But that early game was just constant babying. Level 15-20 was mostly from healing or being an adjutant. She was getting ORKOed by half the enemies and could barely ORKO any of them back.

Kind of wonder if she's better off getting cross-recruited. Her ability means mastering classes is easy and getting her to start at level 20 would skip that entire phase.

Each house is balanced enough! This is what I'm told.

I did get Sylvain early on (he's auto-recruit for female avatars) and he was better than my Ferdinand so he got in pretty quick. I'm probably using a few more characters than I should, but I'm pretty much running at this point:

Byleth
Edie
Hubie
Dorothea
Sylvain
Bern
Caspar
Lin
Shamir
Leonie (late recruit that I want to incorporate)
Petra

Lysithea has some really fun meme builds.

Like stacking all sources of magic range increases on her so she's got 1-6/7 range on her default spells so she's basically a walking (or flying lmao) siege weapon.

Blue Lions all the way

Edelgard's route is too short and needed more. Comparatively, Claude's route is way too long/boring.

Didn't go church route.

What are the chapter lengths for each route?

18 chapters for Edelgard route, 22 for the others

I did not realize this game was that short

Even if you don't want to use Lysithea in combat, she's still great because she gets Warp at B Faith, as opposed to A Faith like Linhardt, Manuela, and Hapi. Linhardt might be able to beat her to it in Black Eagles, but she's undeniably the best warper in the other routes.