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So are gambits that inaccurate? Because I was watching a guy on YouTube consistently missing with his with 50-70% accuracy. Granted, he's on Lonato's map, but still.
 
NerdShamer said:
So are gambits that inaccurate? Because I was watching a guy on YouTube consistently missing with his with 50-70% accuracy. Granted, he's on Lonato's map, but still.
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It's based on cha which most character seem to have shitty growth in, at least in my game. And it's based on authority skill with some boost from nearby allies. There's not much incentive to set authority as a goal (I think 0 classes have authority requirements) or instruct it and so you pretty much only gain skill passively in combat and unless the character is good at gaining authority it's very slow. Also they aren't super good for damage unless you're a high cha character with the authority boost ability and they are mostly for utility because they have low uses.

tl;dr they are fairly useful but not something you build around and as a result you see a lot of misses when you actually go to use them
 
Oddjob OTP said:
Yeah, you must have been. At some point there is a ball and the person who wins the ball gets access to dancer as a class, an ability that gives +20 avoid when wielding a sword and a combat technique that does more damage based on cha. In my game the cleric teacher said you needed 13 or more cha to win, I think Marianne was somewhere in the twenties. It's also worth doing because after you pick someone to represent your class you get a training event that takes no time and just straight up gives the unit +5 to cha.

Only problem I have with Golden Deer is lack of useful strength sword users. Claude can, but he's such a great archer so it's a waste. Ignatz can, but he's a support mostly useful for break shot, speed boost and seal strength and not really made for melee. Marianne and Lysithia both have low strength and have better things to do. Everyone else has normal or low sword growth. I guess you could use Catherine but I feel that using characters that show up at such high skill/power level is disgraceful. Your only hope is to poach a sword guy from another house or just make Claude a sword guy in spite of his unique class being bow tactician guy.
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Prepromotes are fun, but Catherine has pretty sketchy bulk and she is a worse Felix on average I believe outside of her relic sword. Honestly your best option is to just recruit Felix because he is so easy to get for most standard Byleth builds. Just keep gifting him swords from one of the gift shops and you'll get him easily because he likes sword skill and speed. His poached bases are usually nuts because they average out his growths over the course of all his levels, if you get his relic shield from his paralogue by saving all the ally units his bulk is also pretty reasonable.


Oddjob OTP said:
It's based on cha which most character seem to have shitty growth in, at least in my game. And it's based on authority skill with some boost from nearby allies. There's not much incentive to set authority as a goal (I think 0 classes have authority requirements) or instruct it and so you pretty much only gain skill passively in combat and unless the character is good at gaining authority it's very slow. Also they aren't super good for damage unless you're a high cha character with the authority boost ability and they are mostly for utility because they have low uses.

tl;dr they are fairly useful but not something you build around and as a result you see a lot of misses when you actually go to use them
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I disagree with this, battalions have pretty large range in quality with their passive boosts from about one or two ranks from each other so E to C and C to A, even C to B can be a notable jump in quality depending. Jeralt's battalion is the only good one at E rank, the rest are awful so getting out of E rank is advised. Also fliers can only use flying battalions which are somewhat high rank. They can give you 7 atk, 13 crit, a bunch of defensive stats at around to C or B ranks. So raising authority is pretty useful especially when you don't need any other skill to be boosted right away for promotions or some other specific skill

NerdShamer said:
So are gambits that inaccurate? Because I was watching a guy on YouTube consistently missing with his with 50-70% accuracy. Granted, he's on Lonato's map, but still.
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You need to gambit boost them, especially early on or they'll miss a lot. I believe the charm stat raises their hit rate which you just get more of over time from leveling or tea time if you actually do that mini game. My last Byleth had I think 30 something charm and they had 85% hit rate on blaze which is a big aoe that can really throw off the ai trying to run straight at you. They also can break a lot of big monster barriers which also can be useful depending on how fast you can kill them or just to get items for break them all.
 
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1911JD said:
Honestly I preferred Niosi's voice, I think he did a better job as Byleth.

Scuttling away from that, I got FE3H and it was REALLY fun. I chose the Black Eagles house.
I really should have seen that twist with Edelgard coming, what with how many times she and Hubert had "secret conversations" about their "plans", but I was still pretty surprised to see that she was actually the "villain".

I put that in quotes because it's kiiiiiiinda debatable if she's actually a villain, since she's trying to rid the world of the crests, which she believes to be a major force for inequality in Fodlan (and she's not wrong when you think of it), but I still refused to be on her side just because the only way she could fathom to make her goals a reality was to hire brigands to murder her classmates and openly side with some evil organization with literal nukes at their disposal and have them wipe out entire towns with some kind of frenzy spell. What did she think was going to happen?

Although the way Byleth slices her down mid-sentence was really funny.
Black Eagles is probably the best house to side with for a first playthrough. Also, Ferdinand is Seth.

The music was really great, the strange combination of JRPG-style music and light techno actually intrigued me.

I'm running through my second playthrough and I chose the Blue Lions. I don't know if I'll do a third with the Golden Deer, because I don't really like Claude all that much, which is apparently an unpopular opinion.
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I'm assuming you did the Church route, then? If you did, do Edelgard's route where you join her. If you didn't do the Church route, then yes, do the Church route and/or Golden Deer.
 
jellycar said:
Is Flayn as a dancer reccomended?
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There's a couple considerations. You can just give it to someone and go pure support. Flayn's an OK choice for that.
Alternatively give it to someone who's strong at swords because the ability and combat art you get as soon as you unlock is good for sword mains. And just be a sword guy with the possibility of supporting. Or just not even use it and do it for the ability/sword art. Flayn is not sword guy material.
IIRC it's a 6mv caster class which is the best you're going to get for casters pre-Dark Knight/Holy Knight. Flayn is a solid caster, albeit fragile.
Also, I'm 99% sure it's the only non-unique class that gets +skill growth for Authority so if you're building a character to use Gambits other then Byleth/your house leader it's the best choice for that.
 
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Who is this?
 
I'm liking Three Houses so far, it's my first FE experience and it's scratching that XCOM niche I have that hasn't itched in a while. Do you guys think it's worth getting a 2ds for Awakening/Fates?
 
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d12 said:
I'm liking Three Houses so far, it's my first FE experience and it's scratching that XCOM niche I have that hasn't itched in a while. Do you guys think it's worth getting a 2ds for Awakening/Fates?
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They're both good games, though after playing Three Houses I don't think the story will hold up especially for Fates. It's not that they're awful though. Neither have weapon durability or weapon arts though.

Fates is split: If you want slightly better characters, go Birthright, if you want better maps or missions or whatever (and even people who don't like the game like them most of the time) go Conquest.

Awakening's great, though there's lots of unit matching to get optimal children/abilities if you want- though it's not necessary to optimize TBH.

Both have a pair up system, which is basically like the Adjutants except everyone can use them. They're much more powerful though, and some people think it's bad enough to be broken for Awakening (though it depends on your difficulty setting)

I'd say as the 3ds FE's are similar enough, grab Awakening and see how you feel from there.
 
Don’t have a switch but I watched a friend play a bit of the game a couple days ago. It looks pretty dope though the animation in the cutscenes looked a bit... off. Kinda gave me flashbacks to CLANGserk (though nowhere near as terrible).
 
HeyYou said:
If you screencapped that from the opening and haven't started the game yet just play the game, it explains it reasonably quickly.

It's Seiros.
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LMAOOOOO I didn't realize she was Rhea. The lighting made her look blonde.

Any tips on what to do on my first day exploring? I did the seed quests and I have to go eat and do one other thing. Can't remember off top of my head tho.
 
jellycar said:
LMAOOOOO I didn't realize she was Rhea. The lighting made her look blonde.

Any tips on what to do on my first day exploring? I did the seed quests and I have to go eat and do one other thing. Can't remember off top of my head tho.
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Just pick up as many quests as possible and otherwise talk to everyone. You're really not pressed for time unless you want to recruit people from other houses. If you just stick to people in your house and maybe 1-2 people from other houses, you'll have plenty of time to do all the paralogues/get decent support levels/level up your units.

I don't know what difficulty you're on, but Normal removes grinding as a time waster entirely, as one map doesn't require you to use points. You can just play that map over and over if you're scared of being underleveled. Hard makes it so you're limited in your grinding. All in all the game's pretty easy, though, so don't worry too much at building the perfect units or whatever.
 
d12 said:
I'm liking Three Houses so far, it's my first FE experience and it's scratching that XCOM niche I have that hasn't itched in a while. Do you guys think it's worth getting a 2ds for Awakening/Fates?
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Don't bother. Emulate the GBA games and then emulate the SNES games.
 
I have a quick question for those of you who already beat Three Houses.


Is there any consequence for siding with the fire king when he offers you to join his side after one of the story missions? (Can't remember which one but it was before Jeralt got omae wa'd)
 
d12 said:
I have a quick question for those of you who already beat Three Houses.


Is there any consequence for siding with the fire king when he offers you to join his side after one of the story missions? (Can't remember which one but it was before Jeralt got omae wa'd)
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To answer your question simply, no, the flame emperor basically says that you're lying and the same end result happens.

Most choices don't mean much outside of minor dialogue changes and minor support changes if someone likes your response, the only really big choice is during chapter 11 if you picked black eagles and if you talk to Edelgard before you do the mission for chapter 11 with at least a C+ support with her. If you do all that you get a route split choice that actually does matter.
 
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