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mark_asphodel) wrote2013-11-29 08:26 am
mark_asphodel) wrote2013-11-29 08:26 am
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Genealogy of the One-Night Stands, Cont: We are SO done with Thracia
All right.
FE4's Chapter 9 isn't my favorite but it's not terrible the way that 2, 4, and 7 are terrible. The action goes very smoothly in a counter-clockwise direction and if you have staff users to Warp and Return then defending all of your castles is a piece of cake. The main delay comes from harvesting all the money from the villages and that's only slow if you want Patty collecting all the money and dumping it on poor Corple/Sharlow one bag at a time. If you let Fee and Altena grab all the cash and the Barrier Ring, it'd be less troublesome.
Highlights:
Sharlow used the Berserk Staff to make a Dragon Knight attack his comrades. Cute trick but damn that thing is expensive to repair.
Lex!Arthur FINALLY gained a point of magic in a normal level-up... at Level 27. He was the first Gen 2 character to hit Level 30, as a whole squad of Dragon Knights decided to suicide on him rather than deal with Altena. That said, he can't do magic for shit unless he's below half HP and Ambush/Wrath activates. Lex!Tinny is substantially the same as Finn!Tinny, with a respectable 19 MCG but a whopping 61 HP (as opposed to 54). She gets Continue on promotion, which substantially helps with the decision to make Lex their father and give Arthur the Pursuit Ring.
Master Knight!Leif took out Travant with a silver arrow. Revenge was sweet. Finn got in a hit on Travant, too, as he turned out pretty good in this file. He definitely proved useful in dealing with that whole Three-Headed Dragon Attack.
Oifaye and Fee made a very cute and highly useful anti-dragon defense couple.
I think Larcei got about eight level-ups in this chapter. She was the dragon knights' favorite target but thanks to the Prayer Sword and support from Shanan she kicked some real ass.
Ulster and Delmud still haven't promoted. Neither sucks, but they weren't my go-to guys. Ulster also utterly failed to capture Julia's heart before her abduction, so he's SOL. Ulster's magnificent skillset does help him immensely (ditto for Larcei).
Alec!Nanna is basically the same Paladin Tank Girl as Dew!Nanna except with marginally less HP and substantially worse LCK. Crappy 6 MCG either way. She and Leif got hitched this chapter and I wasn't even trying.
Lana's so terrifying now enemies won't even bother. An entire squadron of dragon knights looked at her, said "Nope," then gave up on the whole "capture Kapathogia" thing and flew off elsewhere. That capped MCG is something, man... and she caps out so EARLY thanks to that 5-pt bonus. Last time around Lana was six points shy of the cap at Lvl 30 and I still thought she was pretty damn amazing. Even Ced can't match her offensive power going into Chapter 10 this time around.
Ced's still good, though. He has four more levels to go. He took care of Arion for me, and honestly nobody else could (Lana was too far away to even make the attempt).
Holyn!Faval is really something and Holyn!Patty is Lvl 11.56. The whole Jungby clan is making me happy this time around because Lester really shone in this chapter.
Midayle!Lester @ LVL 21.4
HP 48
STR 16
MCG 7
SKL 18
SPD 17
LCK 17
DEF 14
RES 5
STR 21
MCG 7
SKL 20
SPD 14
LCK 28
DEF 20
RES 5
Like I said, there's one obvious problem here and a Speed Ring can fix that right up. What the stats don't reflect is that this time around I am not constantly resetting the damn game on Lester's account (or Delmud's account). I think Lester died on me exactly once in the last two chapters, and that was because I was testing out who and what could take a hit from Travant and survive (Faval worked nicely). I suspect Lester and Patty are going to get married in this chapter, but since Shanan is already taken I think I can deal with that outcome. :/
FE4's Chapter 9 isn't my favorite but it's not terrible the way that 2, 4, and 7 are terrible. The action goes very smoothly in a counter-clockwise direction and if you have staff users to Warp and Return then defending all of your castles is a piece of cake. The main delay comes from harvesting all the money from the villages and that's only slow if you want Patty collecting all the money and dumping it on poor Corple/Sharlow one bag at a time. If you let Fee and Altena grab all the cash and the Barrier Ring, it'd be less troublesome.
Highlights:
Sharlow used the Berserk Staff to make a Dragon Knight attack his comrades. Cute trick but damn that thing is expensive to repair.
Lex!Arthur FINALLY gained a point of magic in a normal level-up... at Level 27. He was the first Gen 2 character to hit Level 30, as a whole squad of Dragon Knights decided to suicide on him rather than deal with Altena. That said, he can't do magic for shit unless he's below half HP and Ambush/Wrath activates. Lex!Tinny is substantially the same as Finn!Tinny, with a respectable 19 MCG but a whopping 61 HP (as opposed to 54). She gets Continue on promotion, which substantially helps with the decision to make Lex their father and give Arthur the Pursuit Ring.
Master Knight!Leif took out Travant with a silver arrow. Revenge was sweet. Finn got in a hit on Travant, too, as he turned out pretty good in this file. He definitely proved useful in dealing with that whole Three-Headed Dragon Attack.
Oifaye and Fee made a very cute and highly useful anti-dragon defense couple.
I think Larcei got about eight level-ups in this chapter. She was the dragon knights' favorite target but thanks to the Prayer Sword and support from Shanan she kicked some real ass.
Ulster and Delmud still haven't promoted. Neither sucks, but they weren't my go-to guys. Ulster also utterly failed to capture Julia's heart before her abduction, so he's SOL. Ulster's magnificent skillset does help him immensely (ditto for Larcei).
Alec!Nanna is basically the same Paladin Tank Girl as Dew!Nanna except with marginally less HP and substantially worse LCK. Crappy 6 MCG either way. She and Leif got hitched this chapter and I wasn't even trying.
Lana's so terrifying now enemies won't even bother. An entire squadron of dragon knights looked at her, said "Nope," then gave up on the whole "capture Kapathogia" thing and flew off elsewhere. That capped MCG is something, man... and she caps out so EARLY thanks to that 5-pt bonus. Last time around Lana was six points shy of the cap at Lvl 30 and I still thought she was pretty damn amazing. Even Ced can't match her offensive power going into Chapter 10 this time around.
Ced's still good, though. He has four more levels to go. He took care of Arion for me, and honestly nobody else could (Lana was too far away to even make the attempt).
Holyn!Faval is really something and Holyn!Patty is Lvl 11.56. The whole Jungby clan is making me happy this time around because Lester really shone in this chapter.
Midayle!Lester @ LVL 21.4
HP 48
STR 16
MCG 7
SKL 18
SPD 17
LCK 17
DEF 14
RES 5
Finn!Lester @ LVL 21.93
STR 21
MCG 7
SKL 20
SPD 14
LCK 28
DEF 20
RES 5
Like I said, there's one obvious problem here and a Speed Ring can fix that right up. What the stats don't reflect is that this time around I am not constantly resetting the damn game on Lester's account (or Delmud's account). I think Lester died on me exactly once in the last two chapters, and that was because I was testing out who and what could take a hit from Travant and survive (Faval worked nicely). I suspect Lester and Patty are going to get married in this chapter, but since Shanan is already taken I think I can deal with that outcome. :/
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I did some brief digging, and according to the post-reset jealousy data, it's apparently Amid/Arthur and Shanan who have the best overall chances with her. Scatty has none. (For pre-reset, I couldn't tell you -- I coulda sworn that data was out there somewhere, once, but I strangely don't have it saved and can't find it anywhere (if I ever had it in the first place.)
Amid in particular is the strongest competitor by far; Femina alone edges Yuria out in jealousy priority.
And the ironic thing is none of her suitors ever see anything for it in the endings! Julia always stays in Grandbell to support big brother Seliph, no matter what. There's not even a shred of text in-game (IIRC) that acknowledges any of her pair-ups.
(Scatters does have Tinny as his solid #2, though, which probably explains why he always shacked up with her in my gamefiles when I wasn't even trying to actively pair them...)
(And his #1? Is Fee. Which probably explain why that never happened because lol movement ranges.)
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He must pre-reset. Far and away he's her most popular non-Seliph lover in Japanese fanart. I realize J-fandom ships plenty of unpossible pairings (Finn/Altenna comes to mind right off the bat, as it's doubly not possible), but there's got to be something to the Ulster/Julia thing.
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Whoa, does a chart of this exist? Cause all the charts I've seen for Julia's Love Growth is pre-rest that have +0 for everyone and the negative with Celice.
(and I'm really curious where some characters stand on hooking up with her without cheatcodes)
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Been thinking on that and Shanan is an interesting option because of his apparent kiddycrush on Deirdre.
Hmm.