You can earn SP books from the Tempest Trials and Relay Trials, I'm actually swimming in them now in the postgame. They can add 100, 500, or 1000 SP to a character.
Bosses can be like that, but I have found plenty of them to be very threatening as-is. Not too hard to kill them, but to do so without losing any units. Especially if they have ranged attacks and can retaliate against anyone, like Ike's 1-2 range sword for example.
Oh really? Trials are like the one thing I haven't messed with yet, they just seemed like they'd be extremely long for not a lot of payoff and I'd rather just do story content for now, but that's good to know.
That's great to know! But also kind of annoying, since unless I missed it the game doesn't tell you this at all. I probably should have just tried saving beforehand and then buying one to see what happened, but oh well. Still doesn't solve the whole problem by any means, but that's at least nice.
I think the SP difficulty has actually lead to the situation you described; the meta strat for SP is just to put Canter on everyone, apparently
That would be nice, wouldn't it? I'm on Chapter 14 I believe and I still haven't done a skirmish. They're popping up actually a bit higher than my current levels for the characters I've been using the most, meaning that the ones on my bench would be super underleveled. The skirmishes need some adjusting I think.
Yup, that’s exactly what I did. Having quite a bit of fun with it too.
Same. As soon as I unlocked Byleth I gave him to Alear and never liked back. Goddess Dance is hella broken and has let me cheese some bosses.
Which difficulty are you on?
Good Christ. Maddening lives up to its name!Maddening, which may have made them keep spawning until it hit some maximum enemy number it allowed on the map. I eventually lucked out and he decided to move because all the other melee units on his side finally died before the reinforcements from the top and left could join them, and he graciously took the space from an archer.
it looked utterly ridiculous once I actually managed to get him to move somewhere I could hit him, see the screenshots
(I had killed dozens of enemies just to get him to move to his current position)
Some maps will also do this on Hard, I learned the hard way that this game isn't afraid to punish defensive playstyles like this.Maddening, which may have made them keep spawning until it hit some maximum enemy number it allowed on the map. I eventually lucked out and he decided to move because all the other melee units on his side finally died before the reinforcements from the top and left could join them, and he graciously took the space from an archer.
it looked utterly ridiculous once I actually managed to get him to move somewhere I could hit him, see the screenshots
(I had killed dozens of enemies just to get him to move to his current position)
Holy shit, did your Switch survive this? I'd be worried about it bursting into flamesMaddening, which may have made them keep spawning until it hit some maximum enemy number it allowed on the map. I eventually lucked out and he decided to move because all the other melee units on his side finally died before the reinforcements from the top and left could join them, and he graciously took the space from an archer.
it looked utterly ridiculous once I actually managed to get him to move somewhere I could hit him, see the screenshots
(I had killed dozens of enemies just to get him to move to his current position)
Yeah it's really challenging my "every map is a kill all map" philosophy
The irony of this playing out on a Path of Radiance defense map is pretty funny, not gonna lie.
It probably says a lot about my brain that my first thought here wasn't "oh my goodness that's horrific," but instead "oh I bet it would feel very nice to use Sigurd's engage attack across the bottom row of archers"
Now I'm happy I'm playing this in normalMaddening, which may have made them keep spawning until it hit some maximum enemy number it allowed on the map. I eventually lucked out and he decided to move because all the other melee units on his side finally died before the reinforcements from the top and left could join them, and he graciously took the space from an archer.
it looked utterly ridiculous once I actually managed to get him to move somewhere I could hit him, see the screenshots
(I had killed dozens of enemies just to get him to move to his current position)
I reached this conclusion too but only after it was too late lol
Expendable items uses to give characters SP. But they're seemingly only awarded on the trial maps.
Wait, so is it better to buy them in ascending order? I’ve been saving up to get the most expensive stat boost skills first since they’ll have more impact. I guess it doesn’t matter since I’ll never stack them.
I’m only on chapter 15/16 but I’m still using Clanne and Chloe and sometimes Celine, plus several Brodians. It depends on their level up luck, Emblem/Bond rings, etc.
Celine is… weird. Her advanced class is nice since it can use swords, tomes, and staffs, and her stats for me are very high overall, but unfortunately part of the reason for that is that she has 17 in both STR and MAG. Her class skill helps utilize that but it relies on DEX to trigger, so overall she feels like a character that’s trying to do too many things and ends up being stretched thin. Of course she can always heal and use utility staffs and still does decent magic damage, so she’s useful enough.
Deaths during Trials don't count.
Yeah. I find the UI to actually be worst then Three Houses from a “causal” standpoint.
Yeah I agree. All of the information is pretty much there but it's a bit much and sloppy tbh.
...It's exactly as you described. Is there an option to turn it off I don't know about that you accidentally triggered somehow? Do you have emblem rings equipped?
It is a bit hard to see with how small it is
Yup. I have them equiped. And I feel I maybe turned it off. So I checked after reading this post and realized that the HP gauge is also the ring gauge lol.
After seeing this, I decided to just bullrush Ike as fast as possible up the left side. There's no way I'm playing PoR with these mechanics. I got it done in 6 turns and 9 time reverses. Thank you for your sacrificeMaddening, which may have made them keep spawning until it hit some maximum enemy number it allowed on the map. I eventually lucked out and he decided to move because all the other melee units on his side finally died before the reinforcements from the top and left could join them, and he graciously took the space from an archer.
it looked utterly ridiculous once I actually managed to get him to move somewhere I could hit him, see the screenshots
(I had killed dozens of enemies just to get him to move to his current position)
Nah, I think I agree with you. Smash+ could be something, and maybe the S rank axe is good (haven't seen it), but the generally better spread of Warriors and Merciless seems... much more reliable
Historically the trade off was that Berserkers got a buff to their crit chance and could walk on mountains without penalties. Don't need the speed to double when you have a 60%-70% chance to crit.
I don't think Berserkers (or Swordmasters) have the inherently increased crit rate in this is the thing
No, it seems the real advantage is if you like using smash attacks, Berserkers get that extra smash movement space. There's probably some cool strats you can do with it, but the warriors bonus damage to broke units is likely more useful more often.
