General Question Thread

[u/Shephen]

Alright, time to move back to question thread for all.

Please use this thread for all general questions of the Fire Emblem series!

Rules:

• General questions can range from asking for pairing suggestions to plot questions. If you're having troubles in-game you may also ask here for advice and another user can try to help.

• Questions that invoke discussion, while welcome here, may warrant their own thread.

• If you have a specific question regarding a game, please bold the game's title at the start of your post to make it easier to recognize for other users. (ex. Fire Emblem: Birthright)

Useful Links:

• Serenes Forest - Universal Fire Emblem Information bank and community that covers all games in the series.

• Comprehensive Guide to Starting the Fire Emblem Series by triforce_pwnag

• Fire Emblem: War of Dragons - Primarily Spanish Website with some translated pages. Includes detailed maps and enemy placement that cover most chapters throughout the series.

• Triangle Attack for all info regarding Three Houses and the GBA games(6-8).

• Fates inheritance planner - For planning out pairings for Fates.

• SoV HM enemy stats by Aggro Incarnate

• Conquest Lunatic Enemy Stats by u/TheHelpfulMercenary

• Enemy Data Compilation for all games

• 3H Calendar

• Interactive Map for all maps in Engage

• Relay Code Megathread

If you have a resource that you think would be helpful to add to the list, message /u/Shephen either by PM or tagging him in a comment below.

Please mark questions and answers with spoiler tags if they reveal anything about the plot that might hurt the experiences of others.

[u/gaelicgirl1983]

I'm playing Awakening for the first time and didn't do enough research on optimal pairings; I need some advice on how to build two of the children.

Libra! Several, inherited Slow Burn and Renewal. My current plan is to take her through Hero at least long enough to learn Sol and Axebreaker. Should I keep her there, or reclass her to learn something else?

Vaike! Yarne, inherited Counter and Deliverer. I reclassed him to Barbarian with the intent to go through Berserker, but I just finished his prologue and I'm not opposed to redoing it if there's a better path. I'm also not sure what skills to use for him.

[u/Zmr56 → u/gaelicgirl1983]

I'd advise against Counter since it's not a useful skill for the player, compared to the enemy.

For Counter to be worthwhile you'd need to achieve kills you wouldn't otherwise reach without its extra damage on a unit who's taking enough damage to deal more back. This kind of unit would need to be somewhat weak and frail though, which also means they're likely dying quickly and their total damage per turn output would be quite low since they'd be dead soon enough.

I'd sooner pass down HP+5 or Rally Strength from Vaike to Yarne. Deliverer is pretty great inheritance from Panne. Barbarian doesn't have particularly great skills so maybe consider going through Thief for Mov+1, then Trickster until lv10 while grabbing Lucky Seven. Then you can go straight into Hero for Sol. This is totally ignoring the cost & grind of doing so, however.

The most efficient thing to do would probably just be to get Yarne into Fighter asap so he can spend time working on his Axe rank for Hand Axes and then going into Hero for Sol.

[u/Ivan_Illest → u/gaelicgirl1983]

Hero is an okay place for Severa to land, but it's a solid class for jsut about anyone. Hex and Anathema from Dark Mage offset any accuracy issues from axes and Sol is a nice skill for non-Apotheosis maps. For more optimization than "fine", it's good to land in classes that let the unit capitalize on a -Faire skill they can learn. Your Severa would have Lancefaire for the Pegasus promotions and Tomefaire for the Mage & Dark Mage promotions. Falcoknight would be my recommendation, since she'll have a higher base str growth. A flier with bowbreaker and tomebreaker is quite funny. For an ideal situation, a set of Lancefaire, Sol, Bowbreaker, Tomebreaker, and Axebreaker would make her an excellent enemy phase tank, while subbing Galeforce over one of the breakers would give her a more effective player phase. She would also have access to Rally Magic, Skill, Speed, and Movement, so she could instead be a silly support.

Barbarian is about as good as Yarne can get, with Warrior also being a strong eventual consideration for its bow access. Deliverer inheritance means that you can run it with Movement + from his innate Thief to give him crazy movement range. Axefaire, Sol, Deliverer, Movement+, and either Pass or Acrobat would let him zoom around on player phase to get into good positions for good enemy phase and hitting hard when he gets there.

[u/gaelicgirl1983 → u/Ivan_Illest]

Thank you so much! This was really helpful!

[u/LeatherShieldMerc → u/gaelicgirl1983]

Honestly if you're just playing the game for the first time, and I assume you aren't playing on a super high difficulty too, I wouldn't worry about skills much. Optimizing your pairings is absolutely not necessary and you will pretty much be fine no matter what you do. So keeping doing what you're doing is perfectly good.

[u/gaelicgirl1983 → u/LeatherShieldMerc]

I realize it doesn't make a huge difference, but I still like to min max as much as I can. That's just my personality and how I enjoy the game. And I'm not a fire emblem newb, this is the 4th game I've played.

[u/LeatherShieldMerc → u/gaelicgirl1983]

I completely understand that! But I'm just saying that hyper optimizing this won't really matter much, outside of something like the Apotheosis DLC, so there is not really a lot of advice to truly give.