Fire Emblem

Oh okay. I'll NG+ my 2nd route on Hard and do 3rd route on Lunatic then

What's actually carried over in NG+?

Dammit I'm in the middle of my GD route right now. I don't want to restart.

Nope, I got mai waifu ending. Probably will never touch it again.

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Great game, but the DLC doesn't seem worth it. $25 could buy a lot of 10/10 games. I want that maddening mode tbqh though.
Case in point

Maddening just lunatic?

>I want that maddening mode tbqh though.
To get Maddening all you need to do is update the software. It's not tied to the DLC.

difficulty patch is free

Maddening is free user.

Thank god you can buy the DLC individually. I'm only gonna get the true route DLC.

FUCK YEAH you guys just made my day

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Renown statues and Renown used to up stats. Those weird crest hold items

Maybe they'll have a Lunatic+ mode just called Lunatic

>don't want to restart Golden Queers just to up the difficulty
>don't want to keep playing on "Hard"
help

>40h in
>Just got to time skip
How much longer do I have?

Ima wait for the true route to come out to play lunatic.

I'm halfway through BE-E NG+ right now what the fuck do I dooooooo

>They release Lunatic just in time for the grinding DLCs to come out
I wonder what they meant by this

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Like another 20 hours or so, depends on route.

Nobody with a brain did.

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Thanks.

Is Maddening just a stat bump or are there actual changes to the maps this time around? Or is it too early to know?

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will there be a 5th route? I thought the extra maps were only paralogues

Do you know how stupid you look to think that lunatic is part of dlc

"Normal" is easy and "Hard" is pretty normal, so I'm thinking "Maddening" is the real Hard and "Lunatic" is actually just Lunatic
Wish they would've just called them Easy/Normal/Hard/Lunatic and included at least the first 3 from the start but oh well

And will it be as cancer as Awakening's Lunatic mode

I think bosses move around

Most likely just stat bump and enemies getting breaker skills

I will fucking beat you up kid

Is there a write-up or something about Maddening mode? I just bought this game last night, and haven't started it yet because I was finishing Astral Chain today. I'm in the post-game of AC now, and want to start FE. This mode could be interesting.

IIRC,

>Bosses now move on the map instead of standing still like a retard
>Thieves have Pass
>Archers have poison arrows
>All units in general have buffed stats

What's carried over in NG+?
>tfw so much content and I still haven't finished first route

No this game is boring as fuck

A dataminer also posted this a while back:

>”Despite all my hacking and prodding, I had not actually played the game, so I thought it’d be fun to do my first playthrough in Lunatic/Maddening.

I’ve been asking other players who have played on Hard to know the differences, and (so far) the only map that really sticks out is the 3rd map, with the first “real” battle vs Kostas in the canyon.

For some reason this map has enemies with 11 AS everywhere, and Kostas himself can actually also move, and poses a very big threat (for example, he could ORKO all of my units from full HP with the exception of Petra and Byleth).

The biggest common example seems to be that, all archer enemies have Poison Strike, while all Thief enemies have pass”

Hey, they locked hard mode in BotW behind a DLC. Anything is possible.

Wave 4 of DLC is gonna take a year to make so I imagine. I just hope they don't take down the fate route and maybe bittersweet it with you dying this time in the end but everyone else lives.

The final DLC wave is ''a new story with new playable characters''. It might just be something like the Xenologues in Awakening and we'll get to recruit past characters and some NPCs, but the way they seem tobe hyping it makes me expect a true route

Same turn reinforcements...

this shit better be free

It is free.

*go the fate route

guess i'll wait and see what the special title screen actually is before i decide

What the fuck will Infernal have? Every enemy with Aegis+Pavise?

I bet it'll change enemy distributions

Suck my dick fag

I did and regret it!

It’s fe, they never placed a mode behind a paywall besides, if they did do it a lot of fans would be pissed

Did you know if you beat it with maddening on and without using a NG+ save file the title screen changes to something unique?

Battalions
Class levels
Immediate shops
Professor level
Renown
Support levels
Skill levels

IT'S TIME

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I hope they make a certain character more relevant that just disappears from the game halfway through.

yeah right fag you are the one who is the fag, fag

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH NO WAY THIS IS REAL
>CAN MAKE ANYYYYYYYY COSTUME FOR DLCCCCCCCCCCC
>MAKES IT THIS
AHAHHAHAHAHA OH HOYL SHIYT HAHAHAHHAHAASAIS

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>being this triggered over sucking dick
Guessing daddy’s little “whoopings” were a bit hard

What happens when you beat Maddening without NG+?
you unlock nude mode

They do have a year to make it so let's just hope.

look at this fucking dork

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>with labo VR support.

knowing isis, it'll just be a bunch of reinforcements and more beasts to fight

Why don't console games have changelogs / patch notes when you update the game? So gay.

i guess I'll do another route now.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
>PEOPLE PLAYED FOR THIS
PAYED*
HAHAHAHAHAHA

They turned him gay for sure

>random beasts in every level regardless of story consistency

for what?
isn't most of the shit coming out STARTING next month?

>still on my second run
Damnit. But I guess it’s better than the new difficulty not being here before my third run

Is it worth doing every route? Just seems so daunting to play this massive game 4 times.

>t. Liberace

Post girl Byleth

>instead of standing around, DK comes straight for your ass immediately in Maddening
Gott im Himmel

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Yes, you will get the full story that way and experience all the characters

Try them on different difficulties

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Paid*

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I'm almost finished my second run, Crimson Flower. I think I only have two maps to go.

Going to start fresh on Maddening and go Golden Deer. Male Byleth. Not sure what class. Maybe Hero or War Master.

HOPE YOU LEVELED UP LYSITHEA, NERD

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>mfw costumes
I hope the story DLC is good, because I am not buying this shit dlc if this is the quality you get.

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Look at these nerds

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>Going to start fresh on Maddening and go Golden Deer.

Same, I heard the final boss was a real bastard even on normal though.

hes immune to the cavalry weakness now lys isnt going to do shir

Skip the church route. It's just a copy and paste of GD.

This game is so damn easy I welcome it.

>maddening before lunatic
WHAT
Glad i have an excuse to finally do church route but why though?

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Proofs

oh shi-

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Maddening is Lunatic in Japanese

You're kidding right?

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Who are the best units/classes to give Poison Strike to? Dark Mages/Bishops seem like a pretty shit class really, unless you are Hubert. My first run was BL and I made Felix a Dark Mage and got Poison Strike and then went Swordmaster then Savant, thought that was pretty good.

Can you use byleth's commoner outfit as other classes yet?

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>hes immune to the cavalry weakness now

OH NO NO NO

Did he equip his Rafail Gem this time?

Maddening is Real Hard. Lunatic will be Infernal.

ATTENTION
DARK KNIGHT HAS HORSE IMMUNITY
LYSITHEA CONFIRMED FOR BEING GARBAGE

I wish they spent the time updating the shit ugly ground textures rather than making gym shorts with low res patterns.

I thought Maddening was going to be the harder than Lunatic mode.

>he doesn't like his dyed potato sacks
entitled fucking gamers baka

>Luna

>Have to do maddening on a fresh save
FUCK
I guess I should speed through my current BE run and do it on Church since that's the last one I have left.

I used gambits + sword of creator anyway.

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No more Black Eagle Strike Force, now we are the Black Eagle Track Team.

Why would they take that away?

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Poison Strike isn't really worth it to be tbhonest desu.

>glasses

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>sword of the creator
>chapter 4
pick one

The first chapter with the DK is the one where you get the Sword of the Creator. I can only imagine gambits and maybe strong magic users like Hubert and Lysithea being the way to take him out.

Because making whats supposed to be the scariest enemy in the game get one shot by dark spikes is laughable

to nerf Cute Nuke slightly

oh yeah. Guess I just used a normal sword with Byleth then.

THE BULLYING ENDS NOW

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Wait, so Lunatic is still coming later or is Maddening as hard as it gets?

If based on the tutorial missions the game is not much harder, the enemies just do more damage again. The AI is still dumb as rocks, and still utilize the safe/danger zone BS.

Infernal is coming later

Does Maddening affect how many battles you can do on weekend?

Do the archers have poison strike like the datamines showed?

No...

I chuckled

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Is there a source other than the datamine? Church is the only route I haven't done yet so I'd love to do it on the actual hardest difficulty.

Are those shitty gym outfits part really part of the dlc lmao

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Should I be giving my movement boosters to dimitri or felix

why buy the season pass before we know the dlc characters

IS themselves said there would be two new difficulty options introduced in free patches. Most people assumed we'd get both at the same time but apparently they want to drag this out.

IDK I just 1 hit then first.

twitter.com/EricTheLegend_/status/1171603360350265344?s=19
Byleth VA change. It's dreadful

Nothing that different in it? No new lore or characters or story at all?

>misses
Nothing personal kid

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>caring about the dub

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>lost in the first level because of these god awful hit rates
>mfw a game over screen actually exists
Why does every early game level do this shit

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>dub
LMAO

Okay I think I'm doing

Golden Deer 1st route on Hard
Black Eagles 2nd on Maddening
Blue Lions 3rd on Infernal
Church on non-NG+ Infernal for the title screen

Is any of those four the "golden route"? Or is that gonna be DLC 5th route eventually? Which has the best happiest ending?

I cant fucking beat the mock battle

there's no "golden route" and a DLC route is just speculation at this point.

>Actively change the VA to be worse and pay someone else to do a worse job just because he broke NDA after his work was already done

>buy

Okay who gets the glasses and who don't?

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No golden route in the base game
Wave 4 DLC is confirmed by devs in an interview that “it wont touch the pre-existing routes ending”, so who know
Oh and at this rate we might get 3rd wave by November, and 4th in Feb-March

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No. You still get the truth about your creation from GD and a new Rhea death which is basically just her reused as a final boss but you kill her with heart.

Is there a way to switch to Maddening in my existing hard file or am I just fucked until I start a new one?

Happiest end is probably BL for having the lowest body count, though GD wraps things up better

>The Activation Rates are out
>Major Fraldarius is 40%
>Major Cichol is 50%(minor is 30%)
>Minor Gautier is 40%
Sylvain, Seteth, Ferdinand and Felix where given so much love.
Swift Strikes having a chance to activate on either blow gives Seteth a ridiculously high chance of just canceling any response out even if he fails to kill.

>playing a game in a language you don't even understand

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NERRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDD

And Fodlan avoided a massive war when everybody decided to play soccer instead.
Ingrid was red carded several times for making monkey noises whenever Deudue was on the field.

Looks like Eagles can ignore recruiting Ashe without much of a penalty now.

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>Minor Indech is 10%

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please... someone upload the .nsp file...
i can't take it any loner...

Check your option in-game
You might be able to bump up the difficulty (very 1st option)
Or just start from a fresh save and get a new main menu to bragging right

I hope they do a trade off if there is another route where everyone lives but you die.

Okay BL after GD and BE sounds fine then. People have told me to keep GD and Church far away from each other and doing BE and BL back-to-back is good

Do meme lines still exist in Maddening?

Quality taste my friend.

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serenesforest.net/three-houses/characters/crests/
>minor Seiros is 40%. major is 70%
Playable Rhea when
>Burnie’s minor Indech is 10%
>it just never procs

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Which character would take Byleth's death the hardest?

>every time you explore
>get +7 hp +3 str/speed +2 movement item
lol the fuck is the point of maddening?

*inb4 you don't need to use this

No if they programmed this into the game it means its fair play.

Like user's said before GD and Church are basically the same shit

Flayn

It's fine dork.

Jeralt

I literally can't tell which is which, that's how generic MByleth's voice is

How should I be distributing these stat items per house

>Lysithea's major Glouster is 20%
>Almost always procs

probably the lords that use you as a security blanket
and rhea

>tutorial mission on maddening
>Jeralt just sits and watches now
What a prick.

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You have been visited by the Boar Prince of Faerghus. Revenge for the dead and decapitated Edelgard heads will come to you, but only if you post KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM in this thread.

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that's what you get for using Edeltard

I'll comply.

Obviously all three lords.

Is it really every explore? Can we have a 30 mov Edelgard with galeforce? Or a bowknight that runs from each end of the map every turn?

DLC items have always been cheating. It was already bad enough with amiibo giving you free statboosters and party-wide Pure Water in NG+

Just dont take them lol
But seriously, its a challenge mode. Do it the challenge way. They even add a special main menu if you clear maddening on a fresh file
IS just provided crutches for shitters in case shit hits the fan

God why do we get all of these fucking useless dress up items instead of more story and enemies?

Should sylvain use axes or laces as a wyvern lord. It feels like it should be axes but swift strike and lance of ruin is really good

Are the new battles the exp grinding maps?

Why are there activation rates for unused Crests?

Read Nino, read The cool stuffs always come later

Both, he needs Axe A but like you said his unique is a lance and Swift Strike is Hunter's Volley

Imagine if before dying you get a early S support and end up with the only child unit in the game or get hinted toward one in the end of the game after the credits or something.

I'd say that's what subtitles for, but given the localization accuracy you can never tell when it's retcon bullshit so what's the difference?

>mock battle
>have to fight off 2 giant wolves also
fucking isis

Yeah, i did Golden Deer first and shit was just too nice of an ending. Now im going to jump straight to Black Eagles and just fuck my shit up. If i was smart i would have saved Golden Deer for last. Even though there is no "real" route it still would have felt the most satisfying i think if you did it as the last one.

What do you think the new title screen is? I bet it's just Byleth or Sothis on the throne.

>child unit
Get the fuck out fateswakeningshitter.

>Beat the game on Maddening and you get Sothis
>Beat the game on Lunatic and you get Byleth

Don't the NG+ bonuses give you crest-granting items?

日本語を分かるけど…

Might as well be lances for swift strikes/lance of ruin.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I FUCKING NEED BERNIE TO BE MY DAUGHTERWIFE

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Yeah, but they have separate activation rates from the minor and major crests.
serenesforest.net/three-houses/characters/crests/

Datamined
Most mean we will get those in one way or another later on
Not so sure. Thus far i have only seen triple bullion and triple ore map. You cant really grind exp anyway (except the usual Dudu + adjunctant with a broken sword) with the limited battle times

Is the timeskip 50% through the story?

The three lords of course. Probably Bernie, and Marinanne as well since you literally change their lives.

Roughly. It's after Chapter 12.

>maddening without NG+

Is it possible to make Ashe work or should I just bench him for Shamir?

Blyeth sitting on the throne and Sothis sitting in his/her lap

More or less, Black Eagles is significantly shorter though

Yes, they are divided right at the middle, 11 pre 11 post for a total of 22 (except BE has 18 chapter)

Just do the classic "le wyvern" build for him.

Rarely = 7%
Sometimes = 12%
Frequently = 20%

Roughly. Moreso for BL and GD, because Beagles route is shorter.

It's always after on chapter 12, so around the middle of most routes

It's worth keeping him around for Deadeye, and you can put Death Blow on him without having to class down unlike Shamir.

Which house has the best dub VA cast? I'm thinking of turning on English voices for my next run.

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who?

I will stay on female Byleth. She seems the more fit in 3H story.

GD

lions

Wait your turn.

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closer to around 2/3rds of the way through since the last 3 or so chapters in every house are kinda short

I couldn't tolerate sothis dub voice and had to turn off the dub at the opening scene

Doesn't matter they are both canon and fit

I would say BL for the Dimitri kino, but then
>Mercedes

I'd just treat the instructor units as people you can sub in if one of your students gets stat screwed.

Yup. Dont fuck with NDA's. Hopefully the next lad won't do that mistake

Daaaamn Bernie's got more up top then I thought she had

I actually did the exact same thing when I first got the game about a month ago.

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All of them have their good ones. The best dub voices are Dimitri, Claude, Felix, and Jeralt are the best dub voices.

Why does it look so fucking awful? It reminds me of that PS2 Harry Potter game.

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Most of Blue Lions is pretty great, Ingrid's a little flat and Mercedes is bad but everyone else picks up their slack and Dimitri is phenomenal

So is the difficulty actually good now instead of braindead garbage "hard" or did they jump straight to Lunatic+ Awakening tier with Maddening and make it unfun bullshit instead?

Personally the Blue have the worst ones, specially Ingrid and Ashe, they sound fine in supports and story scenes but in their usual quotes when you give items or teach them they sound really forced

>mock battle
>other houses just completely shit on you state-wise and theres nothing you can do about it

shame there's only like two base models for the outfit

this is why we need official BWH measurements

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>any FE
>good difficulty

It'd be cool if they Xenoblade 2 it and do a Jeralt prequel story.

It was developed by Koei Tecmo

lol

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It doesn't look as bad when you're playing it
the actual performance issues in the hub are much more distracting than the bad textures

did you not bother doing any auxiliary battles because i never had any trouble steamrolling everyone as BE

well Koei-Omega force doesnt exactly make good-looking game. And this game had a lot of scheduling issues. IS doesnt either. Echoes was great in presentation, but still suck ass graphic-wise
Im surprised with how good it turned out

What did she mean by this?

Axe to whatever you need to gamble wyvern lord. Lance is priority.

Same way, i put Bernie on a Pegasus but trained her for bows

I'm talking about the first fight on maddening retard

They put all their skill points into writing and story

It's the second fight of the game. I'm pretty sure the forced auxillary battle is in the next month.

git gud then nigger

WAIT UP! Koei was the one who developed the whole thing? I thought they only assisted in some parts and not the entire game

Edelgard would be fuckin RUINED

You're gonna meme response me but Conquest Hard/Lunatic were both excellent in balance of difficulty. Especially Hard, since you could argue Lunatic bullshit you some near the end with debuff stacking and shit.

3H's "difficulty" managed to be even more boring and braindead than Echoes.

Nobles showing those level 1s who's boss

the only thing i don't understand in this game is why the framerate chugs on foggy maps

fog is demanding

Well I wouldn't really care if it was playable or not just the thought of having it be implied kinda like how Thracia 776 did it would be nice.

Well if you are a fan of the musou games you will immediately see that battalion’s animations are lifted wholesale from DW, including their cheering, running away, lance poking, etc animations
Or just, zoom into 3rd person view in battle and it becomes literally DW
In the end its a good thing too, since the story got input from them, the people who have been writing (and reharshing) war games for 3 whole decades

>can only move down in difficulty
fuck me

Except the story is pretty much standard IS stuff. It's quite clear Koei handled the gameplay while IS handled the usual lore.

What was so important with Ashe? I dismissed him completely.

To be fair to Koei, Dynasty Warriors looks way better than this game.

>tfw when I recognize Catherine's footwork in her cutscene from Dynasty Warriors.

Oh fuck how much of a nightmare will the final map of the Church route be in Maddening?

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If you recruit him, his paralogue give stats item that boost movement by 1+.

Yeah but they cant optimize for shit
>WO4 frame-chugging flashblack
How did they make such smooth and flashy Strikeforce games on a psp of all thing, then just gave up on optimization on subsequent games is a mystery

You can't tell the fire attack wasn't Koei's idea. Taunting a guy so he wonders into a trap? That's Three Kingdoms.

Does every route paint your faction as the heroes?
T. Followed Edelgard and suddenly the church was led by dragon satan

Yes
Edelgard is pretty awful outside of her route

this is 100% koei's doing, iv'e done enough three kingdoms to know that.

yes, with that said its alot easier to swallow on the other routes.

KT are just lazy asses. They start strong but always fall back to bad habits.

Does this mean we will get Lu Bu as a dlc character

Sorta, yes. The whole point is that, by themselves, each route is equally flawed. Only by literally finding god (you) do they reign their shit in and fix things.

Their ports are pretty bad, but at least their textures and jaggies aren't God awful like this game.

>3 kingdoms
>1 is muh conquest, 1 is muh honor, 1 is wishy washy fence sitter
>all those fire attacks
Its DW alright. I would say there’s a bit of SW with the Oichi-tier suffering too

I NEED VISUAL CONFIRMATION OF THIS YOU FAGGOTS

Byleth has his own uniform set for the church route.
neat

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Which is part of the gameplay since they wanted a fire attack to damage enemies/allies. It's quite clear where KT is allowed to have their input and where they aren't.

IS handled design, Koei handled building the actual game (and may have had input on story?)

IS got alot of milage getting Koei to do the legwork, with tons of VA. Who plays RPGs for visuals anyways? Its serviceable at best.

You do know FE SNES introduced the system first you stupid fucking idiot.

>maddening gives unique title screen if beaten fresh
Would edeltard route be best to do this? It has five less chapters so it should take less time to clear right?

This game brought to you by Under Armour(TM)

>black
But why, the route is literally White

Which house lets me use empty fort strategy

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Good fucking luck on Dimitri's final battle then.

Well it also means you'll be at a lower level at the endgame which means garbage level ups are that much more troublesome.

Apprently the exp gain in maddening is lower and BE is pretty hard route to beat with later maps. Should go for GD or BL.

I got up to the time skip, maybe a chapter into it and haven't played since.

Fuck me, three houses is boring.

What happens if they pop the ball? Do they have to quit playing soccer forever?

No, exp optimization is hell in BE
And you dont get good beef tank for ch4 DK (+ unga tier knightkneeler)

so clearly i should do more battles on maddening to make up for the exp?

>Sylvain, Dimitri, and the beasts attack you all at once
Please no

youtube.com/watch?v=dAXCH1bz3Ys
Post your favorite song.

Should I just play on hard if i've never played a fire emblem game before?

The new outfit is amazingly dumb, I love it

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AEIOU

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>を
>けど

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edelgard in particular is funny to me.

She looks silly as hell wearing it with the horns and buns, but really cute with the sidetail

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Pretty much. My strat for fresh run optimization so far
>1 explore 2 battle
>save every bait for 2 dates: ch4 (5?) and ch9 for the multi-fishes event. Grind that for prof level
>focus on getting that 2nd battle point asap, so no faculty, only eating
>most important: reset in chap 4 til you get angelica seed. Its the earliest 5* seed to get the most prof point early game, with maybe +1 str veggies as a bonus

Yeah, it's not really that hard and if you take advantage of what Normal lets you do (unlimited grinding) you can easily get ahead of the game's level curve and you'll just steamroll everything.

Doing church route now with maddening out, decided to not pouch beside Marianne since her killing herself is too sad and trying to think of builds in advance. Would an offensive dancer Petra seem retarded? I know wasting dancer on an offensive character may sound like a waste but Petra with Sword Avo +20 and Sword Dance sounds like it could be really strong as an offensive unit.

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>it stays post time skip
>>edelgard still takes the time to put on her stupid horns
I love it

Goodbye King of Delusion (Rain), I say that being a BLfag. It's just too perfect for that crazy faggot.

youtube.com/watch?v=8qaEgVKCwZo

daily reminder that none of the other routes post timeskip reintroduction to the lord is as good as the Blue Lions, Claude's is a fucking joke and Edelgard's just fucking Edelgards

dem dorothea tiddies

>try to cheese the kill the commander goal murking Sylvain, Dedue and Dimitri on turn one
>Rhea and her cunt friends appear out of nowhere the moment Dimitri dies
Fucking bitch

Any word if the new maddening is different from the hacked maddening? Downloading the patch is a pain...

OH FUCK

Good taste

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Look at his Chad, goddamn

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That name was fan made. The song's official name is "Indomitable Will". It plays when you fight the lords on opposing lords in each route, that name would be unfitting for a song applied to all three lords.

Slithers still around, they still have their base.
Heroes know NOTHING about them.
"Happiest End"

so does this image not apply to maddening?

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Dancers are a playstyle imo, so it's not a bad idea if you never use them. That said, Petra is already very strong and dancer will restrict her Mov.

Put her on a Wyvern tb h. She has natural efficiency in axe with good spd growth
Dancer is precious in church precisely because of 1 thing: making Flayn usable

Black Eagles literally made me say "That's it?" Thankfully all the other routes weren't like that.

It doesn't.

M8 I have the soundtrack downloaded, those are two different songs.

Oh that’s cute

Can't you equip at least sword avo +20 without being a dancer?

"Hey let me build a sword dodgetank" always seems like a good idea until you realize that your dancer should pretty much always be dancing. Especially since you can have someone canto back to you and then dance them again.

Hes immune to literally everything now

>Slithers still around
Play the route : You murdered all their leadership on accident because they were playing face snatcher and prevented them from ever recovering Sothis' corpse to revive Nemesis since you destroy it along with Edelgard's Hegemone form.

>Heroes know nothing about them
Because you've literally killed Thales, who is the only one with the nuclear launch codes, meaning Hubert and Edelgard had no reason to tell you to pursue them further

What would his unique skill be?

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Thanks, guess I'll just make Flayn my dancer again. I was planning to bench her this run but I guess dancer is too good to pass up and with Flayn it allows no one else to have to suffer for it. Fuck is Flayn shit.

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It actually kind of worked for my Ferdie since the asshole never got any strength anyway, and I could safely send him on to the front lines to dance people and heal them with his ludicrous dodge

Yeah but they're still around to pop up a few hundred years later and make everything shit again, also they still have Grug.

Army of One: plus 10 to all stats when not next to an ally.

First run through going golden deer should I just class people based on their preferred stats etc. or are there specific classes for people that are better I should build towards?

Minmax on other routes, just have a good experience on 1st route

Bernie's personal skill is carrying the entire team through the mock battle since literally everyone else gets doubled and deals shit damage
How are you guys holding up

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Yes, but if you're going for a few hundred years in the future Edelgard's meritocracy will fall into decay and decline as it's a flawed system of government the nobles will abuse just as much as the Crests and Claude's open boarder will likely lead to radicalized groups trying to maintain their identities

Bernie was blessed with one of the best personal skills in the game, it;s one of the few that isn't garbage past the first three or so chapters.

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>tfw DK is a Lu Bu archetype all along

Golden route is Black Eagles

this makes alot of sense.

Petra is for Ashe, you fiend.

How do you beat him then? Just spam gambits until someone might be able to kill him?

Can't wait for all the "TURNWHEEL IS BROKEN" faggots to complain we don't get enough of them now that we have a actual hard mode.

Shoot you're right

K I L L E V E R Y L A S T O N E O F T H E M

My Felix and Dimitri combo just unga-ed through that map
Is major Fraldarius actually 40%? it proc like 80% of times for me

The names are wrong in that soundtrack. They switched Rain with Thunder as well, and in the actual game, the song is called Indomitable Will. It also plays when you fight Claude by the way

Try a couple years, or a dozen at best. Just because the head guy was killed doesn't mean the tons of other Slitherers aren't going to do anything, considering they're completely covert and unchecked.

>first Timeskip map on maddening
>Sothis and Marianne paralogue
knowing IS its going to be bullshit

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>KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM

WASTED EFFORT

Who says it flawed? Her default endings confirming that doesn't happen. Fuck off to /pol/.

Raphael's just soloing maps at this point

is this game actually like, good? it seems like an expansion on the concept that fate introduced.
any word on whether the localization is half-decent or just fully made-up?

Question, do the extra items are for everyone or do i have to pay for them in the dlc pack? i know the new dif is free but what about the boost items?

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No, sorry to say user but for the last month and a half all of those hourly threads that have reached bump limit were just a ploy to get a response out of (You). Can;t believe you fell for it.

It's arguably the best game in the series, at the least top three. Play it, it's really damn good.

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The writing is better then what was expected but some routes are just kinda lazy with them either being a copy and paste or not fully realized. Hopefully DLC fix that.

Only the new difficulty and Byleth's new VA are free, everything else is season pass.

Which house lets me play as dong zhuo

I'd be okay with them doing that. But make it when you die you end up getting a student dead too,your favorite student

can anyone post the new song corridor of the tempest lads

sadly, none of them.

Why was a new song added?

It’s a top tier FE game overall, localization is fairly true to source, just depends on which language you want to hear really

new song for the new auxillary battles

>"I will take that head from your shoulders AND HANG IT FROM THE GATES OF ENBARR!"
>Seeing Dimitri all alone and be convinced that you're a hallucination
>Chasing Daybreak
>Everyone except Dedue coming in to help you kill the thieves.
It was great.

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well, there were a shit ton of threads for fates, too, so i can't put so much stock in "Yea Forums is talking about it!" after all. might have to pick it up.

that's kind of the main thing i was worried about. the story being based around splitting into three separate routes means it's hard to maintain quality across all of them.

I was expecting swimsuits.

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What a dork

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Which Maddening route should I choose if I don't want to suffer from non stop ass rape

Huh, guess I never triggered it then, it's not in my music library in game. So it only happens when a lord goes up against a lord? Weird. In my defense I've still yet to get to BE to confirm where it was Dimitri only or not. Either way, best track.

There are flaws in each route but it blows any other FE story out of the water at least. On Genealogy of the Holy War approaches it.

Blue Lions? Dedue is invincible if you're playing slow due to how few mages there are.

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GD

It plays in a few instances. It plays in GD and Church against Edelgard and in BE against Claude and Dimitri. Don't believe it is used at all in BL.

I'm half way for BE for first playthrough. I heard BE splits into another route? What make sense story wise to choose at first? Do I have replay BE for the other story branch? Or complete the other houses first?

I struggled on BE because of most BE units being meh and later maps are too hard.
You should choose either BL or GD.

I see the empire takes soccer very seriously.

>niggerball uniforms
why

Optimal route choice would be to side with Edelgard, then do Deer, Lions and finally Church by siding against Edelgard

This is honestly so fucking stupid.

just save right before you get to the branch point then pick whatever and come back to it later

In japanese it's Lunatic.

Honestly can't deny this. The contrast between pre- and post-timeskip Dimitri really sells the fact that a timeskip actually happened, compared to the other routes where everyone is practically the same.

I'll do Golden Dawn because its the only route I haven't done yet and I want to hold off on doing Blue Lions again until all the DLC is out.

I agree with

>I should've known
>that one day, you would be haunting me as well

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So the fuck is Goodbye King of Delusions supposed to be, is it just entirely made up? I wonder why that happened. Most titles in that sittingonclouds download seem to be accurate.

Maybe a S ranked student suicides with you or something?

Thanks. Might go that order.

>Dancer is precious in church precisely because of 1 thing: making Flayn usable
Flayn is already usable because Rescue and Fortify exist.
Dancer cutting those spells in half and preventing her from multispelling in a turn is arguably a negative to big to stand for.
Dancer is best off on someone with an actual lack of any positives.

It's still fun to play that's all I can say user.

let me get this straight, you have to pay 25 buckos to get 4 broken ass items everytime you explore to cheese all the new modes?

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And I love that.

who are the best dancer choices?
I know Flayn is a usual choice who else is good

IM FUCKING TRASH AT THIS GAME HELP ME

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>25 turn mock battle
I-im good guys

I picked Dorothea

Church is a waste since its a copy and paste so you should do that last.

Should i make Dedeu into a draco (If possible) in maddening or should i stick with Armor knight?

This mode is going to drive LTCfags insane. I just did the mock battle and almost took thirty turns, and this was on my fourth attempt. Fuck, this mode doesn't fuck around.

>only lost Linhardt during mock battle

This will be a smooth run.

Annette.

Obviously not Flayn in BE route. Dorothea, Marianne and Mercedes are your obvious picks for each house, but you can give it to sword users that could benefit from sword avo +20.

If you care about the story at all, do BL first.
I fucked up and did GD first and every single reveal and twist had absolutely no impact. When I went and finally did BL, I realized the game was written around experiencing that route first since every single reveal and twist hits you the hardest there.

So it's just some stat boosters and horrible cosmetic items right now? Fug, I know. That movement booster though.

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watch this mode also screw with the popular build of brigand into wyvern rider.

Not interested unless they let me change Bernadetta's shit timeskip hairstyle. Is this the case?

The ai never fucking moves so the battles can take forever

How so?

i dunno.

BE route house units only time

I don't care I used Petra

Bernie is best!

That will always be the popular build unless there are too many archers for Wyvern spam to not be viable.

Is it actually every time or are people just saying that?

You too, huh.
Time for Wyvern Lord army.

bump for this, cuz if its true IS is just one huge piece of shit

Of course, or else players will simply funnel enemies and win easily. It's already easy as it is.

>Petra will never give you a lap dance
It hurts.

Bro, make Sylvain your Dancer and make him a swordmaster. Trust me, that sword avoid with his unique will be bomb.

>"Do you remember the b-ball I gave you many years ago, Edelgard?"
>"In Faerghus custom, the b-ball symbolizes 'slamming your own path'"

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>going to have to replay Beagles with her dressed like his now
Guess it'll be my victory lap.

Hold the fuck up.
The DLC said the wave 2 would be out by Oct 31st
This shit is ahead of schedule by month and a half.

Will that mean that wave 3 and 4 might come out earlier like this?

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>mock battle
>get to gigastacey
>"Okay, I'll just wear her down with my mages and bow users and finish her off with a physical unit"
>she has hand axes

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Other then Male Byleths voice changed, whats new in this patch? Is it stuff from the Season Pass implemented?

I want to start golden deer but I want to wait until some stuff is out first, I have Iceborne and Little Dragon Cafe to hold me over

I'm expecting family members. We hear about everyone's parents and siblings and none of them ever show up.

Better keep your finger on that ZL button.

I'm expecting prequel.

divine pulse ain't available until you take on the bandits in Zanado

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Maybe
Tb h this update’s scope is pretty small comparing to wave 3 and 4. Hell they even had time to add those weird soccer costume and hairstyle even when they didnt include it in the pass desc

>snipers everywhere with brave bows and pelt you from afar

The fact I have to reset the game every battle is going to drive me crazy in this early game. I'm fucking terrified of the first monster battle, even on hard it gave me some trouble.

Actually, do you have to win the mock battle?

Can't learn without making mistakes, what'd I do wrong?

>Rhea spent the last 1000 years trying to bring Charles Barkley back
>The Heroes are actually ancient star basketball players
>Those Who Dribble In The Dark have access to Chaos Dunk B-Balls
Yes, I will now live with the headcanon that 3H is the Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden sequel we never got

Byleth with axes is a monster. Fuck swords

How many students should I recruit from other houses? Feels like I'll diminish the impact of killing them (?) later on in the story

If only the game let you dismount with minimal penalty.

>all with close combat

I chuckled a bit.

are space jam remixes still a thing

I recruit all of them every route

Yes, you do have a losing condition and a game over screen even tho story-wise you dont have to win
Its the same for the battle of eagle and lion

You do, if you're gonna play all routes I'd recommend not recruiting anyone other than those that unlock paralogues for your units. Like if you're playing BE you have to recruit Mercedes because she shares a paralogue with Caspar. Likewise for BL you have to recruit Caspar.

Doesnt dismount cost a turn to remount if you want that mobility immediately?

>Like if you're playing BE you have to recruit Mercedes
I'm pretty sure the paralogue doesn't happen in Black Eagles.

>Those Who Dribble In The Dark
Brilliant
I love it

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>if you're playing BE you have to recruit Mercedes because she shares a paralogue with Caspar
You actually can't get Caspar's paralogue in BE, because Death Knight is Edelgard's ally.

Ah, OK. It happens in church, though, right?

>struggling like a bitch in hard
>they drop maddening
pffft

edelgard has broken legs in her unique class and needs help walking, ashe paralogue gives boots

>having trouble with Hard Classic in Blue Lions, had to reset on the Canyon paralogue unless if I wanted to never see Felix again
>Maddening comes out
Is... Is Golden Deer easier than Blue Lions?

>Backboard-shattering Dunk
They better be

I just gave her the mach ring from DK 2nd encounter
Good enough

When I do BE I'm planning on doing a genocide run and recriut no one
Otherwise Ive been recruiting everyone

pretty sure she had hand axe on hard so thats not surprising

Best poverty ball team coming through.

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personally i would also go for a few that make sense story wise such as Ferdinand

Hard mode feels like baby mode compared to maddening. I'm playing maddening now and the mock battle is giving me more trouble then the last map of GD on hard.

>tfw edelgard chaos dunks your kingdom

>"May we meet again in the court, Dimitri"

Those female uniforms look like potato sacks stitched together

Hence, poverty ball

>green and yellow

Yeah, no kidding, I got my ass kicked in the mock battle and I had already completed all the campaigns on hard with no trouble, this shit's gonna be fun.

So Soccer/Basketball exists in Fódlan? Those costumes are just so ridiculous, i love it
Wonder what will be the Wave 3 costumes

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Gonna be limiting myself to 2 WL (Ferdinand and Petra),. Hope neither of us get shitty Caspars/Bernies

fug
I guess I'll just have to mentally train myself for the rest of this playthrough.

weapon skins mod when
I need this to be a basketball or a dodgeball

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Nemesis was just some guy who played by street rules

Marianne is perfect. Give her a Levin sword and watch her wreck shit.

It better be maid costumes, we need to go full Persona Weaboo style.

>"Even though our b-balls cross as they do now...there's no denying our chosen paths never will.

Looks like her shot...
Got blocked.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

FEAR AND AWE
IN YOUR EYES

Costume for post-skip profs and knights when? The concept arts are there

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Damn these mock battle students are JACKED.

Does blue lions get easier? had to restart the mauseloum fight and barely got it im on hard classic

damn, seteth really is best boy

In every route except the Empire

Literally dunked

Best, and I actually CANNOT stress this enough, GIRL

I haven't gone five turns without losing a unit yet, this shit is brutal. I feel like this map will be among the harder one just because resources are so limited and the students and teachers all make much tougher enemies then regular grunts do. I keep getting fucked up at the start since it seems impossible to attract Lorenz without both archers coming to snipe my units.

yes, roughly a third of the defaults are unkillable, and Catherine is a goddamn monster if you get her up in level

>Those Who Dribble In The Dark

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The 1st time you see the Death Knight? Well hes an optional boss, so you can evade him
Or just cheese him to death with gambit and knightkneeler and Dimitri

remember to jack the other two lord's stuff into your convoy on the first mission

he one shotted all my units in the combat forecast, no way to get him

Wait, did the game get smoother for anyone else? The game doesnt spass out in big maps and the Monastery that much in handheld
And fuck Death Knight, literally impossible

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All I've found maddening to be so far is "no one is allowed to be in two or more enemy's range or you better have a divine pulse".

I felt so smart doing this.

Claude attacks you at Gronder Field 2 because he's tired of talkin' about practice.

>The concept arts are there
Link?

How are you supposed to beat this fucker without the damage bonuses? Eventually, sure, but the first three appearances?

Even Dedue? Gambit doesnt allow counter, and deal some debuff
Just surround him with melee Gambit, Use Dedue or aByleth to do as much dmg as possible with a hit (and tank), then move Dmitri inand pray that his crest activate

Gambit spam and pray somebody can survive at least one counterattack.

Does anyone have pictures of Marianne in the new outfit? I wanna see what she looks like!

No one has scanned the whole things yet, just scattered pic here and there
I got this tho
m.imgur.com/gallery/SXleqw1

...

I gave up on that after every attempt at surviving the counterattack always lead to that fucker critting.

>bosses move around on Maddening
>The last two Black Eagles maps
that uh
that doesn't sound very fun.

Unselect and reselect.
You just can't mount and unmount in the same turn.

I just sour grape and went “eh dark bishop is meh”
No one can tank even a hit in BE aside from Byleth

nigga i didn't finish the church route because I got so bored of this game after my 3rd playthrough because of how repetitive it is

Why's that?

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>same as convoy trick
Wonder if this is intended

Ferdie's the hardest to recruit though since his B support is post-timeskip. You've got to invest a lot into building Byleth's heavy armor skill in order to get him.

It's a shame because him leaving the empire makes more sense. Like, Edelgard fucking seized all of your family's shit, and you're just going to stand there and take it?

>dealing with Sylvain, Dedue, Dimitri, and Rhea all at once

according to his recruit requirements, yes.

Dmitri OHKO'd him on my run, honestly not sure how it happened.

How the fuck are you even meant to deal with him at that level without Lys to blow him up? That seems retarded.

Having the monsters with a bajillion range converging on you alongside Catherine sounds like pure hell.

Wait, does Knightkeeler still apply?

Stay out of his attack range.

i managed to get him on my first run since i had been aiming to get him since the beginning

>Basketball team outfits
>Glasses
Pretty nice.

But he's on a horse, can't he just outrun you?

If it's still the same as the hacked maddening that I've been playing, he doesn't aggro immediately, but he does have his normal movement range so if you want to avoid him you have to be real careful. The enemies will also try and use Onslaught to push your guys into his aggro range which was pretty funny the first time it happened.

Make sure no one is on his range and he shouldn't move. If I get to this chapter and find out he moves regardless of what you do I'm going to ragequit.

Don't forget the monsters get stronger with each roar.

No, he is immune to every modifier, incluidng horse eff
Which mean you have to pray for a crit

who knows how dangerous unga bunga will be

Rhea better be playable in the dlc.

Just pickpocket the seal

>moving unga bunga with all those stats from the start of battle, beelining towards your general location

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+9 to speed and offenses. The battle plan is still the same: hit him with the onager a couple of times then nuke with luna.

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how did you get this photo

Is it me or does Crest of Flames suck?

>+10k renown for every clear into ng+
Time to crest everyone for some meme run
>Caspar Indech or Faldarius

dark bishop a shit

fiendish blow is the best. All your casters should go make. Even the healers, it'll make their offensive white magic they get later better.

SEE YOU IN THE ETERNAL FLAMES

I downloaded the update then took an old save and bumped it up to maddening with a save editor.

*mage

It sucks at the start, but by late game its decent
>Byleth’s case: Nosferatu tanking, or just heal-tanking in general
>Edelgard case: it add even more might onto this gorilla’s atk. And it heal

Why do people lie to themselves pretending hard isn't hard? Hard is legitimately hard. Most enemies take at least 2 turns/2 attacks to die and their stats are ridiculously buffed in some cases. Someone post that link of fortress knight edelgard being hit for literally 35% of her health per shot 4 times by a random archer.

Hard is hard, especially in classic mode

>spams Curved Shot
How the fuck do you beat the mock battle on maddening without them doing this? Not even the lords can take two hits, only Byleth.

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I have only done BL so far and it didn't explain a fucking thing. If I didn't love those guys so much i'd probably be pretty pissed at that ending.

Yeah, but not making Hubert a dark bishop feels kinda off thematically for me
I’ll just mage into dark knight instead then. Time to actually use Fronzen Lance

That's why you should go play GD right now

It can be, though it really depends. I genuinely do feel the second half is pretty tough on hard.

The thing I think a lot of people don't consider is just how hard it would be without divine pulse. If you had zero divine pulses hard mode would be pretty tough. I really think giving the player more then one or two was a huge mistake.

just walk up to them bro haha

Haven't played it yet but I'd guess you just turtle to get the non archers and then just send some cannon fodder while you rush them with physicals?

Gambit and Miasma (on Hubert)
But yeah, shits hard

I've been playing hard without Divine Pulse but on casual and it's brutal. I would have already lost like 70% of my army if I were playing on classic.

Even with like 12 divine pulse charges, you eat through them on hard in no time.

should I do ng+ or fresh?

You just got to play cautiously and not rush into things. Outside of some bullshit crits that could ruin you day, its not too bad.

Rushing with physicals is not the way to go since everyone will counterattack you.
Yeah, those would be nice to have, excpet the mock battle gives you fucking nothing. This whit is brutal, I seriously can;t think of what to do without curved shot spam.

With this strength, I can protect them all!

Depend
If you want A+ prof right off the bat, easier time to recruit, and faster skill lvl up, then NG+. Elsego fresh save
Or do the new, shiny maddening with fresh save if you hate yourself, but hey you can get a new title screen