The Fire Emblem Discussion

[A Black Falcon]

You know what it was? I just remembered. I almost never used Lyn, not even much in the first 10 chapters. I don't think I even got her past level 10, because I never thought she could fight well and was always afraid of her dying and kept her out of harms way (bear in mind, this was my very first FE game and much of her potential was lost to me in my ignorant state ). When the final battle rolled around, Lyn is forced into the battle, and there is a Sage with a Bolting in an inaccessible room, and one hit from him took her out, thus a game over. Bolting's an inaccurate spell, but he used it with chilling accuracy. That's why I never beat the game. I probably could pull it through now, now that understand the game mechanics so much better, but at the time it seemed impossible, and Game Over after Game Over finally frustrated me to the point of think it impossible.

Lyn would definitely be at least as high a level as Florina is if I could rank her up as soon as she reached level 20, and Hector wouldn't be too far behind... Lyn won't help against the Dragon, but yeah, it is definitely best to not be taking a massively underlevelled character into the final mission (though my Eliwood wasn't too useful, he was at least level 20/5 or 20/10 or something... erm, unless he didn't quite reach level 20 before being ranked up. I have no idea, but he couldn't have been too far off.)

Yeah though, I can see what you mean about Lyn... you really have to rely on that dodge, and when she fails to dodge (against enemies with high hit chances and stuff) she can get hurt badly... but still, she'll do a better job of dodging than pretty much anyone else, so I used her heavily. In the final mission you need to be careful, but you need to be really careful with everyone there... the enemy groups are so strong...

Bolting usually isn't a problem... but you can kill the dragon pretty quickly. Athos uses Luna to attack it, healer heals Athos from range, Dragon attacks Athos and gets hit by Luna again, you heal Athos, you attack with Athos, you use your other healer to heal him, and then repeat (or use Durandal, if its health is low enough to be taken out in one hit or your Eliwood's speed is good enough to not get hit twice by it. If somehow Eliwood is able to attack twice... well, then I'd think it'd be over quite fast...). Those Bolting guys shouldn't get many shots in.

I didn't like the dragon much at all, though. It was really annoying to have a boss that almost no attacks could actually damage... but on the other hand, TSS's final boss seemed easy because it was vulnerable to more types of weapons, not requiring as much frusteration with "what the heck can I do to actually HURT this guy???" like I had in FE...

Sorry, but I'm still not warming up to Florina or peg knights in general. I gave her a shot, I really did, but at the end of the day, I'd much rather use Kent and Sain to run the enemy down as much as fly toward them. Not to say her usefulness is lost on me. She was a great asset to me during the Pirate Ship mission. Safely attacking over the water with a Javelin helped immensely.

I disagree, but unit preferences are opinion. Well, other than "avoiding using the trap unit in the early missions is a bad idea".