I wanted to make sure of Merrin in a magic class however you literally cannot do it because you have no way of getting staff or tome proficiency for quite a while. Thus you have what 5 or 6 chapters where she only gets 25% magic growth instead of 50%.
From what I can tell only Celica and Micaiah give those proficiencies.
Posted Jan 28, 2023, 1:48 AM UTC · edited
I got Lindon before I could "fix" my Anna into a mage class and now I don't even want to use her because his stats are just better right now and leveling is a massive pain unless you get a training skirmish.
Yeah this was making me crazy with Fogado.
It feels like an oversight that you go soooooooo long without access to certain proficiencies.
This is really just a problem with how they wrote the story. I’m not sure what the intent was but this is a strategy game. People plan and expect that most of the time those plans will remain mostly intact and they will have general control over their builds. But more than that, the entire game is based around emblems so taking them away makes absolutely no sense. The game gets legitimately less fun at that apex. Not to mention that potentially excruciating running away scene depending on difficulty.
I had a lot of bad things to say about this as a 3H fan but the emblems is actually really refreshing and enjoyable. The game actually changed my mind for the first half. So why would they do this?
I thought taking away my emblems and the time crystal were a fun touch for a couple of battles because it really shook how i was playing and forced me to adapt. You get the time crystal fast but the missing emblems quickly became super annoying. A few of my core units were actually super weak and i didn't realize it until they couldn't rely on their assigned emblems to shine. So my first thought was to bench them and let someone else take their place but the levelling system is so fucking confusing i have 0 idea if i should just double-down on an underperforming unit and hope they eventually get decent or actually start fielding someone else
You don't care about the growth. She will have it back when you reclass.
When you reclass, the game calculate your stats as if you were on that class since lvl1.
No it doesn’t…
100% agree. It’s not the worst thing to ever happen, but it’s definitely annoying. There’s a big stretch where you just don’t have those emblems, limiting team building. I decided to make Amber a Wolf Knight, but unfortunately I decided on that after chapter 11 lol. So I’ve had no way to give him knife proficiency yet.
I love the emblem stealing in concept, but in practice it feels limiting and too annoying for me to justify it being a worthwhile addition. At least not for as long as it goes
Taking away the only emblems so far with tome, staff, and knife proficiencies that we won’t get access to again until much later is baffling
Why couldn’t they have made some stuff up? Byleth has a boon in white magic, give him tome and staff proficiency. Lyn is fast, give her knife proficiency. Roy is there, give him axe proficiency (idk, the point is they should’ve spread out the proficiency. Not everyone needed sword proficiency, even though that’s the obvious choice because every lord uses a sword)
Yep being stuck with the engravings that you had before. IE my Iron Dagger +3 micihah that really needs to be on a silver dagger is annoying as well.
The engravings omg, yeah it’s bad… I still enjoy the game a lot, but i don’t think the emblem snatching was enough of a gag to have it go on for that long
There’s just weird quality of life things missing in this game. Idk, disappointing. Maybe new game plus and a patch will fix some of the issues I have
New game plus in particular, I’ll wait for that to start my next playthrough
My suspicion is they added problems to fix with paid dlc later on