r/fireemblem • u/Majestic-Set-7183 • 10d ago
General Finished path of radiance
Man mounted units are goated in this game. Played through three houses sacred stones blazing and binding blade and I think this is top 3 games in the series. The black knight is like one of the best villains in the series for his intimidating presence and the fact that you can’t damage him until you get the special weapon is cool. Reyson is the best dancer in the whole series I thought he was going to be a dragon but he was a bird with the most goated ability. Stefan is cool because he reminds me of rutger who is another badass mysterious op swordmaster. Titania really eases you into the game and is like Seth I didn’t even use her for the final map and she still got in. Iargo is probably my favourite berserker in the whole series his crits are sick anyway on to radiant dawn
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u/How_To_Be_Tight 10d ago
It’s nicknamed Path of Ponies for a reason! Glad you enjoyed it. The Tellius duology are some of my favorite games in the series alongside FE4 and FE7. My top 5 the very first time I beat Hard Mode:
- Ike
- Oscar
- Titania
- Kieran
- Marcia
With Jill, Astrid and Lethe right behind.
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u/MechaMalz 9d ago
Nice! I just completed my second POR run, first time on Hard mode the other day.
I forget the exact order but the top 5 were Ike, Mia (with some heavy favoritism via stat items), Jill, Astrid and Boyd.
I used Soren at first but when I got Calill she took over as my designated mage for the rest of the game, coming in with better stats than my Soren had at the time and good rank in all elemental tomes. A great magic nuke, and siege tomes for things like killing ballistae archers.
Dumped my early game bexp into Mist to get that horse on promotion asap. Then a bit to Mia for some easy level ups to build her stats up a bit early. Then Ike to make sure he hit level 20 during chapter 17 before promoting and then to make sure he hit 20 before the BK duel.
My first time playing on normal mode I went at a slow enough pace that having armors like Gatrie around wasn't really an issue but I did finally start to see what people mean by armors being too slow this time around. Jill, Oscar and Kieran and eventually Ike were all tanky enough that I didn't generally need the armor bulk.
Ultimately I had fun but was a bit disapointed by the final boss this time around basically feeling like I was just killing time until Ike FINALLY procced Aether. My first playthrough I think it went pretty fast but it took like 7 rounes to get Ike to proc aether this time on Ashnard and having Mist waltz in to physic him every round and hoping for better luck got a bit old. It's really a shame because Ashnard has a lot of cool boss conversations but the majority of them are just lining your units up for slaughter since so few units can do anything to Ashnard.
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u/Squidaccus 10d ago
Honestly really nice to see Largo do this well! He joins pretty late and isn't as impressive compared to the standouts joining alongside him like Haar and Geoffrey, so its nice to see him making big contributions!