As I was approaching to beating my second playthrough of Fire EmblemL Awakening on Classic Normal, I suddenly have a thought. I did not have any other 3DS game other than Virtue's Last Reward (and I already completed that one), which means I'll have a high chance of replaying Fire Emblem for the third time. The question is: To make a Streetpass Team, or to play on Classic Hard?
I was thinking about that for quite a while ever since I completed the game the second time (using a female avatar this time) on Friday. I was still pondering about it on last Saturday. But in the end, I have decided to make a Streetpass team last Sunday.
The reason behind this was quite simple. Something happened on Sunday which made me decide that I'll be forming what I would consider a formidable Streetpass Team for Fire Emblem should I tag someone on Streetpass whom also coincidentally play Awakening.
Last Sunday, I went to Mid Valley (A huge shopping mall, in the top 20 list of largest shopping malls in the world if I remember correctly). I activated my Streetpass hoping to get tagged, and I did. But I did not just got tagged for Streetpass, I also got tagged for Fire Emblem. I was so happy so see a notification saying that a Streetpass team has now appeared in my Fire Emblem game.
So I went home, and I thought I could try to fight this person.
I was destroyed by this guy.
His team's stats are way better than mine, and some of his units have certain parts of their stats maxed out. So, till today I didn't recruit him. But because of that, it made me decide that I should make a Streetpass team.
However, the key thing in a powerful Streetpass team is the Children characters, and these characters can inherit certain skill from their parents. Like for example, if the last skill the parent before getting married learned is a skill that increases his max HP by 5 then his child will have this skill automatically.
In Awakening, there are some gender specific classes, meaning some skills are gender specific. There is a particular skill called Counter and Galeforce which are really good skills to pass on, and they are from gender specific classes. But while Counter is learnt by the male-only Warrior class, marry him with this as the last skill he learns and even his daughter will have it.
And that is somewhat of the main problem, which is passing down these skills. I need my parent characters to learn those skills before I marry them then the children will have them. But since I didn't plan this far ahead in my earlier two playthroughs this means I have to start from scratch. I decided that I'll play Casual Hard because I wanna get the feel of Hard mode without taking it too seriously since the main objective on this new playthrough is to make a powerful Streetpass Team.
There is another problem to this making of the powerful team. Due to the fact that Fire Emblem is a relatively new game, there isn't many FAQs or guides for the game. Finding a well written FAQ for Streetpass team building is practically non-existent at this moment. So, I had to use more than one resource and research the characters and who is their ideal candidate for marriage, and what skill to pass on to their kids.
While there are a few parent characters, I'm not going to pair all of them up for the sake of team building since there is a limit on how many characters will be in your Streetpass team. I just decide which characters I think will be better in this powerful team I'm about to make.
After an hour or two of researching, I have finally planned out how I want to make my team. So now, I have to set my plan in motion.
In earlier playthoughs of the game I always have the tendency to pair characters that I wanted to marry of together really quickly. This time, I try to avoid that and make support within the entire crew pretty balanced out. Plus, I have this thing where if I see that I can support a character with another one I have a huge tendency to click for support, and I wanna make sure it doesn't happen.
So far, I have only one of the children characters in my team. Fortunately for me, she has the right skills inherited from her parents as planned.
So now, I'm gonna get the remaining children characters, and I'll be very sure that they have the skills that I want them to have.
Unless you have the dlc map "The Golden Gaffe" I suggest getting units with high luck (45+) and possibly the ability "Armsthrift" and then grind Archer bases teams from the Bonus Teams. Build up renown and get some Bullions (s) so that way you can forge weapons; that way you can add that extra 10+ attack/magic to your hits. I'm fond of double hitting weapons such as Celica's Gale, Erika's Blade, as well as the Brave Weapons.
ReplyDeleteFYI, I'm not certain about this but I hear that having units other than in-game units (no spot or street pass units allowed in your team) will cause a random team to be generated to those you connect with. Oh and don't put legendary items like Tyrfing, Astra, Vengance, etc in any inventory slots.
Good Luck!
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Yup, bought the Golden Pack for money, exp, and legendary weapons.
ReplyDeleteAs of this comment, my Streetpass team is almost complete, with 3 characters having maxed out stats and others still needing some grinding for the max stat.
And yeah, dual hitting weapons are good for Streetpassing. But make sure when it is forged, it needs to have maximum hit as powerful Streetpass teams are hard to hit.