The Fire Emblem Discussion

[A Black Falcon]

Ah, supports... I had

Eliwood/Lyn - A
Rebecca/Wil - A
Hector/Florina - A
Erk/Priscilla - A
Matthew/Serra - A
Lucius/Raven - A
Nino/Jaffar - A
Pent/Louise - A (of course)

Lyn/Florina - B
Serra/Hector - B
Priscilla/Lucius - B
Eliwood/Ninian - B
Rebecca/Nino - B

Marcus/Merlinus - C

... that is, I got supports for the characters I use. The most conspicuous exceptions are Canas and Fiora... I'm not sure about Canas as for some reason I've never really paid attention to his supports, but I meant to do Fiora-Sain. I just didn't get around to it... I was dragging Raven around for several missions just for support with Lucius. I couldn't really afford two such things, to also do Fiora-Sain with the barely-touched Sain being unfit for combat, of course... oh well.

P.S.: I changed the thread name, since "Hah!" was dumb

No, it was the perfect thread title for what I made it for... :(

, I also waited to use stat-up items until the unit hit level 20, I never did that before, I classed them up as soon as I was able.

I've always done this if I can... what else do you do? Switch over to other characters? Wasting XP by using maxed units to kill things is stupid...

...oh wait, you mean using stat up items before the character reaches level 20? I have never done that, and wouldn't. It wastes levels...

As for Serra and Priscilla, well, as you can see from looking at my chart there, they were two of my highest-levelled units. Oddly Serra was the one who reached rank two sooner, by a good margin, and was ahead for a long time (and was even my second-highest levelled unit for a while, just behind Florina), but on one mission Priscilla killed a bunch of bosses and went all the way from level 20/12 to max... Serra ended up at a pretty high level too, though. I just heal every possible time I can, level up additions, etc, and they seem to level up on par with the rest of the team.

My Eliwood is a bit lacking, which has me worried about the final mission, but my Hector and Lyn are more than capable.

How I killed the dragon this time

30 damage - Athos uses Luna (1x30)
20 damage - Nino with Excalibur (2x10)
12 damage - Hector with Baskilos (2x6) (Hector with Armads would have done 2x20, but I wanted to kill the dragon with another unit, so I just used Baskilos...)
A few damage each from Florina (2x2?), Rebecca, and Lyn (2x1); maybe Lucius too, I forget
the last bit - Nino with Excalibur again

I could have done it more easily with just Athos and a healer, or with Hector with Armads, or with a good Eliwood, but I did that instead. It seemed easier than the first time, where nothing other than Athos with Luna seemed to do anything (without killing the unit; Eliwood was useless again since his speed with Durandal is too low and he gets double-hit when he attacks the dragon with it.). Canas only had 34HP at the end, so he couldn't attack it without dying since it does 37 damage every time... otherwise he could use Luna on the dragon too, for great effect.

I LIKE Canas and want to use him, but he's so slow...anyway he's up to level 17. If I really push him towards those Class-2 enemies I might be able to coax the Druid out of him before facing Nergal.

I used Canas less the first time, barely making rank two... this time though, he maxed the same time as Nino -- at the end of the map where you face Lloyd (or Linus, if you do things differently from me and instead face Lloyd early in the game; I never have, with the way I play.). Of course, he reached level six and she reached level 19, so it's obvious which one I used more... yes, Canas is slow, and has some issues dodging sometimes. Still though, Dark magic can be great in some situations, so having a competent dark mage is a real plus.

and just let the supports natually unfold.

If I just did that (no effort to get supports), I'd get like two, total... I hate the support system in FE. They have all these great conversations, but the barrier to getting to them is just so ridiculously high... really, the only sane option is reading an FAQ that lists them all. The idea of playing the game through the fifty times or whatever that it would take to get them all is ridiculous.