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Forum Games Archive / I appear to be multi-classing with Tactition also

« on: December 08, 2013, 05:29:07 AM »

So much for that idea. At this point, Waruigi is going to atomize Nazzy C, and I see three good routes for us who still have to go to take:
1. Smash casts fire on Nazzy A or B, Spikeboy follows up with a physical attack on the same one, I play a song to try and prevent enemy actions from being taken.
2. Smash casts fire on Nazzy A or B, I follow up with a physical attack on the same one, Spike heals someone/recharges his mp/something like that
3. All three of us pool our attacks together on the same dude to take him out this turn and conserve MP. I don't think just two of us doing it would take him out this turn, but I may be underestimating our physical attack power.

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Forum Games Archive / Re: Cutstuff Adventure- Rudolph Hitler's Prison

« on: December 07, 2013, 02:05:15 AM »

Doc, Harps are my weapon category.

Anyways, can I get a quick clarification Freeman? Is Disharmony considered physical or magical damage?

Also, sorry If I'm holding us up, working in retail leads to odd hours.

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Forum Games Archive / Re: Cutstuff Adventure- Rudolph Hitler's Prison

« on: December 05, 2013, 04:11:05 PM »

That's two asleep, now to try for the third. Play Lullaby again.

We might be able to finish off the fridges this turn. Smash should be able to finish off A with a thunder spell and hitting B with another attack should finish it off if drain does ~75 damage again.

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Forum Games Archive / Re: Cutstuff Adventure- Rudolph Hitler's Prison

« on: December 03, 2013, 03:27:57 AM »

But sleep can't wear off by magical attacks.
Only physical ones.

Well in that case, Play Lullaby Instead. Guys, focus fire on the fridges and then any awake Nazzies when they're dead. I'll try and keep the Nazzies sleep-locked.

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Forum Games Archive / Re: Cutstuff Adventure- Rudolph Hitler's Prison

« on: December 03, 2013, 02:27:33 AM »

Well if there's 5 enemies lets try and stop some attacks.Play Romeo's Ballad cause Smash is already trying to attack everyone and I don't want to waste a turn if he accidentally wakes up the guards I might put to sleep by playing lullaby.

EDIT: See post further down for new action

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Forum Games Archive / Re: Cutstuff Adventure- Rudolph Hitler's Castle

« on: November 23, 2013, 03:59:55 AM »

Examine the tables and scraps. Hey you never know, they might have left some soup remedy or something.

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: Fire emblem General thread

« on: November 23, 2013, 02:31:41 AM »

Well if you're looking for advice I could offer a few suggestions and ideas.

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-If you have any good weapons in the convoy (brave weps/legacy weps (think Ephraim's spear)/anti-dragon weps/etc.) it might be a good idea to dig those out. As long as you do not break them, there is a method later in the game to repair weapons so don't worry about that. The big thing that comes to me is that you should have the Book of Naga from the wireless menu bonus box item section, which is A rank magic that is anti-dragon. If Calem or Miriel could wield that they could do tremendous damage to the enemy dragons.
-If the map allows for it, hold your ground near your starting point and let the enemies march over. Faster units (like the fliers) may reach your team first so you are not dealing with all 10 enemies at once.
-Exploit the hell out of the ranges the specific enemy can't attack. Pepper the great knight from range and surround the sniper up close for example.

Worst case scenario, let the team sit there as you get even stronger, as street/spotpass teams do not go away without your direct action.

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: Fire emblem General thread

« on: November 21, 2013, 03:17:05 PM »

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Like I said, unless you're going for Apotheosis any pairing is fine and the conversations that come out of them can be hilarious (like Gregor and pretty much anybody). Most children have optimal parents for various reasons but I'll hold on that for now. If you want me to write a thing on that or any other thing like skills or which of the buyable DLC's is the most important, just say the word and I'll try my best.

Attack skill activation is actually dependent on the skill stat if you didn't know. Luna, Sol and Ignis have a Skill% chance of activation while Aether has a (Skill/2)% chance of activation. There are more activation skills but I don't know which ones you have and haven't seen. Also, there is a hierarchy of activation skills since only one can activate per attack. What I mean is that if Morgan had all four of those activation skills equipped, first it would roll for Aether, then if it didn't activate it would roll for Ignis, then Sol, then Luna.

Dragon weakness is actually not that bad. There are only four different types of things that are effective against dragons; The Falchion(s), Manakete's with that ability that makes dragonstones effective against other dragons, Wyrmslayers and The Book of Naga. The only way the first two things will be used against you is if they are in a streetpass team, Wyrmslayers are extremely rare in both the campaign and Risen fights, and the Book is a legendary weapon that only gets used as a weapon against you in a couple of the paid DLC chapters.

On you're last comment, you do realize that Panne/Nowi/Nowi's Kid/Morgan with one of the previous as a parent/etc. can use a second seal right? Panne has Thief and Wyvern Rider as other classes, Nowi has Mage and Wyvern Rider as other classes, and Morgan has access to all classes of her gender due to being the Avatar's kid. Sorry if misunderstood what you were saying, it just looked like you thought that Manaketes and Taguels were locked into their racial classes. This is especially good for Panne since the Taguel class is kind of not that good compared to others when weapon ranks are built up. And in you're specific example, Manakete Morgan could second seal into thief and then master seal into trickster for lucky 7 also.

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: Fire emblem General thread

« on: November 21, 2013, 04:53:55 AM »

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Yeah there is the potential for an ultrakid, I forgot about that. Another fun one is Kellam+Nowi and then Nowi's kid+defense oriented MAvatar for a hilariously high defense score. Personally I prefer having 2 superkids over 1 ultrakid, but they're always fun to goof around with. Also in Smash's case, due to her heritage, I'm not sure if "Marth" would give a child optimized stats like the strength and defense examples.

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: Fire emblem General thread

« on: November 21, 2013, 04:10:08 AM »

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The main thing I was going to get at with generational mechanics was that MAvatar has a child dependent on him, but "Marth" and Anna don't. Therefore pairing him with one of those two will only result in Avatar Jr. However, since Nowi has a child dependent on her, paring the two together will result in both Avatar Jr and Nowi Jr. I guess I could throw a quick generational mechanic primer into another spoiler box below this one, so if you don't want to read it you don't have to.

On the note I was talking about earlier, to be as vague as possible I guess I could say you have recruited all characters that have children dependent on them when paired (i.e. Kjelle from Sully), but there are more non-child characters to recruit in the future that can be paired with the Avatar.

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Okay a quick primer on generational mechanics. Children inherit all classes of their parents barring gender specific ones (barbarian, troubadour, etc) so Kjelle has access to all of Virion's and Sully's classes. Gender specific classes get changed into a different one for the child (IIRC, an example is Fighter -> Peg Knight).
Children inherit the skill in the farthest slot down from both parents that they do not start with (if Sully had Luna in her 4th slot and defense+2 in her 5th, Kjelle would inherit Luna from her since she starts with defense+2). A decent strategy if you are going for maximum effectiveness is to have parents pass down skills the children cannot get due to gender specific classes (think hp+5 from Fighter, but there are better examples to pass down and I'm avoiding spoilers)
Children inherit the stat caps of their parents added together+1 (Kjelle's str stat cap would be the classes base cap+Virion's personal str cap modifier+Sully's personal str cap modfier+1, stat cap modifiers can be negative (think Avatar's flaw)).
Children's starting stats are an average of the parents and ones inherent to the child themselves. The same thing goes for growths

There are some special things to note:
-Since the Avatar has access to all standard classes, so to will his/her children. This is one reason why Chrom/FAvatar or MAvatar/other parent is good; they can pass down full class availibility to two children.
-Panne and Nowi can pass down their racial class to Avatar Jr. if paired with MAvatar. Therefore MAvatar/Nowi results in two children with access to all classes of their gender plus Manakete so you both get an extra Manakete in Avatar Jr. and you can build both chldren pretty much however you want skillwise in the postgame.
-Chrom (and maybe his children also I'm not sure) has special skill inheritance rules as a parent. Male children of Chrom always get Rightful King, and female children get Aether.

Therefore of the three choices you have for Calem, "Marth" would give Avatar Jr. Aether (I think) (Avatar Jr. is the opposite gender of the Avatar) (the Lord class tree is Chrom and "Marth" only, "Marth" cannot pass it down to a child), Nowi would result in two children with full standard class access plus Manakete access, and Anna will add nothing special to Avatar Jr. But honestly, pair whomever you want to pair and have fun. The only time optimization is kind of required is in Apotheosis, the super challenge DLC, and you can beat that without child characters if you plan hard enough. That said the inner min-maxer in me is going argh at some of your parings.

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Forum Games Archive / Re: Cutstuff Adventure- Rudolph Hitler's Castle

« on: November 21, 2013, 02:51:48 AM »

Uhh, if what Thunder does doesn't work and were supposed to use out of game knowledge, Input Galactan, Llamahombre and Smash into the code slots in that order.

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: Fire emblem General thread

« on: November 21, 2013, 02:25:41 AM »

Safety spoiler box-doesn't contain anything important, just being careful. Smash should know about the small amount of info in the box

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Uhh, how much do you know/want spoiled/want not spoiled about the generational mechanics Smash? Also, I have a small comment about your post but it kind of involves character spoilers. I could try to be vague as hell though if you want it. I guess if you wanted to keep future Awakening chat out of the thread altogether I could send you a PM or something. Yay paranoia.

Though if I had to pick one of the three you specified, I'd go with Nowi.

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: SaltyBet

« on: November 20, 2013, 07:39:23 AM »

I wonder, do they ever do 2v2 matches? I know MUGEN has the support for it.

Back when I was watching, 2v2 matches would sometimes show up during the exhibition matches after the Thursday tournaments. The guy who runs the stream would take audience suggestions for matches, and those sometimes end up with 2v2 matches. Normally it's 1v1 though.

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Forum Games Archive / Re: Cutstuff Adventure- Rudolph Hitler's Castle

« on: November 19, 2013, 03:53:51 AM »

I'll take the MP Bonus. It'll be nice to have a good pool if future abilities are going to cost MP.

Also, if I can look around regardless of the fight, Investigate the assorted piles of food

Finally, Dev, I think what GBT and Thunder are trying to say is that it might be a better idea to see if you can stop damage from coming in at all by killing a dude rather than shifting it to yourself. Though honestly, you would have to be the judge of that since your class is kind of slow. You have to make the call whether you can move faster than an enemy and stop it from attacking this turn and doing damage, whether focus firing with an ally can take a guy down and make sure they can't attack next round and do damage, or if you want to stop a single ally from taking single target damage and shift it onto yourself (note there's three other targets that cover won't affect). Getting to low HP for minus strike is an interesting idea, but you probably don't want to lose too much hp, cause you don't want to walk into a fight with a new enemy/boss with say, 40 hp then eat a meteor for 50 damage that you didn't know could happen.
If you want my honest opinion, most people besides maybe me and War can take a hit or two at this stage and be fine. Cover might not be worth it this early on and it might be better to see if you can reduce the number of attacks coming in. But play however you want to play, unless its a boss or something major like that, maximum efficiency is nice but not super important and we can plan around you not attacking every so often to ensure someone doesn't get hurt.

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General Gaming Discussion / Re: SaltyBet

« on: November 17, 2013, 07:27:37 AM »

I used to watch it, but I kind of grew tired of it. Did they ever do something to improve the character selection or is it still entirely random outside of tournaments? I think my problem with it was that when I was watching it, like 85% of the matches I could catch were squash matches, so not only were they usually not entertaining, you couldn't earn anything off of them also. The chat was another thing I didn't like, unless its gotten better also. Most of the time when I could catch it, it was the standard stupid "lol always bet on waifu" style crap, sometimes it got a lot worse (people trying to be edgy but failing miserably I hope), but the reactions from a match like you were talking about were always fun.