Slanax

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He/him | 20s | Thoughts on whatever media I may or may not be consuming at the time (at random intervals) and art (very occasionally)

If I had a nickel for every time Dimension 20 did a combat encounter on top of a flying pirate ship, I'd have two nickels, which makes sense because if you have the homebrew lying around why wouldn't you do that again given the opportunity (there may or may not be a third in Cloudward Ho we'll see)

gdi Nuzlocke Invitational tournament starts in an hour but it's gonna go through the whole night and I gotta be up early for work tomorrow will have to watch it tomorrow after work ig

Fire Emblem Engage should've broken up its "engaged units take victory lines from their Emblem" pattern for exactly one pairing and it's that Fogado's or Pandreo's victory line when engaged with Tiki should've been "dragon deez nuts"

if Three Houses Quick Riposte automatically gives you 4 more AS than your opponent to make you double, and One-Two Punch lets you double Quick Riposte enemies by giving you 4 more AS than them, does that mean that One-Two punch gives you 8 more AS than yourself

Mein Hass darauf früh aufzustehen VS Mein Verlangen bei der Arbeit mit möglichst wenigen fremden Menschen zu tun zu haben und deswegen die Büros geputzt zu haben bevor Leute ankommen FIGHT

Did the FFV Four Job Fiesta for the first time, and immediately got hit with some of the most knowledge-check-y classes in the game lol Had some damage problems early- and midgame (s/o Equip Whips) but endgame was all busted supports juicing up my Beastmaster so that was fun. Details in captions

Beastmaster Faris (on !Time to help with setup and boost Mag for the Fire Lash), Chemist Bartz (on !White for support, wielding the Chicken Knife), Time Mage Lenna (on !Mix) and White Mage Krile (also on !Mix)Omega strat: Rig preemptive to not immediately die, Hastega, Faris and Krile spam Beastmaster's Calm which is bugged to work on Omega in GBA so it's stunlocked, while Chicken Knife Bartz (with Equip Whips for Str) juices up and rushes down its HP. Once Bartz is set up, Lenna starts rolling the dice on Meteor to help with DPS.Shinryu strat: Coral Rings tank opening Tidal Wave, a Captured Galajelly inflicts Blind, White Mages inflict Berserk and then keep up Blink on the party. Faris spams the Thief's Knife to get the rare steal Dragon Whisker for Neo Exdeath, Lenna resets the fight if it's the common steal. Once I get the Dragon Whisker, Faris swaps to it and the DPS Juices let her make short work of ShinryuExdeath strat: Incredibly basic "buff up on first phase, unload on Neo" stuff, with the novelty of Beastmaster Faris swapping between three different whips for three different Neo Exdeath parts, focusing down the Almagest part with the Beast Killer, the Grand Cross part with the Dragon's Whisker, and the front part with the Fire Lash (and then we just Odin the back one)

Im örtlichen Wald ist Baumgefahr, was heißt dass die Bäume beschädigt sind und Äste abbrechen oder Bäume umfallen können und so, aber out of context hat "Im Wald ist Baumgefahr" schon starke "Road work ahead? Uh, yeah, I sure hope it does" Energy

weird thing about Golden Wildfire is how Part II (and the unlock for the personal Master classes), Master classes, and when you're actually getting Master classes is in three separate chapters when it's usually all the same but now everyone actually got there

Asura M!Shez, Holy Knight Marianne, Great Knight Ignatz, Barbarossa Claude, War Master Lorenz and Gremory Hilda (with Lorenz' whistled personal) with support Assassins Lysithea and Raphael

honestly if Shez didn't have the best class in the game that made them the best unit in the game they'd be kinda mid no Armsthrift, no Offensive Tactics, no Wild Abandon, Dark spells are kinda eh, good Mag helps their Frozen Lances and their personal could help Archer or Fighter but nothing special

Welp, it finally happened Essence of Lightning Thoron has crashed something (in this case, freezing my OBS that I'm playing on desktop through lol)

Hilda mid-firing double Thorons

okay so Drill Arrow might be the best combat art in all of Maddening bc Claude just used it once and then his Partner Special oneshot Gronder Byleth. On Hard I don't even think Paladin specials can oneshot Byleth, and those get a 90% damage boost over Claude. Claude might just be him.

Golden Wildfire is definitely the hardest Maddening campaign due to several maps with issues that are often but not exclusively Holst-related. Can this guy stop costing me deployment slots please.

Units that make Maddening Jeralt look like it's Hard mode (the de facto Maddening-locked strategy would've meant extra time before Ferdinand escapes, which would've been nice to farm extra kills and S rank the map, but it's a very short and easy map when Jeralt and Ferdinand are just formalities)

Fighter Ignatz with an axe battalion wielding the Wolf Fangs

Ich mag dass der örtliche ÖPNV das Deutschlandticket anbietet und dann auch mehrere Monatsabos die teurer sind als das Deutschlandticket. Nur falls jemand Lust hat, ihnen mehr Geld für weniger Leistung zu geben.

Entweder ich bin gottlos talentiert in meinem neuen Beruf (unwahrscheinlich) oder ich begehe einfach noch nicht den Industriestandard an Arbeitszeitbetrug

Golden Wildfire hat ne Female Units Only Mission In dieser Mission sind Mages, die schwach gegen Gauntlets sind. Gauntlet-Klassen sind male locked. Richtig funny. Haha. (<- das bin ich wie ich darüber lache wie lustig das ist) fucking. Marianne macht alles alleine I guess. Go go Eisspam.

beat Deirdru by being very slow about it and leaving objectives alive on purpose to clear out the rest of the map first, capping the reinforcement spawning forts asap definitely helped iirc next map is like a timed objective with more cavs so fiiiine I guess I'll get good at axes

subtweet @ my AI-controlled player units: can you lock the fuck in this is not a "ooo player does everything by himself we can just twiddle our dicks and do nothing" kinda map especially you Shez. Your gameplan is to press the A button a lot and then the enemy axe user dies. why do you need to Vuln

Golden Wildfire's Deirdru mission might be a contender for hardest Maddening map bc it's very important that you take out a ton of Cavaliers and oh my god despite triangle advantage, axe movesets are so utterly dogshit at handling Cavaliers I hate fighting Cavaliers so much

going from FEW3H Ch10 to Ch6 and man I miss doing damage Seteth is killing tome users in one crit rush. why is Lorenz' Iron Gauntlet ass taking five to kill one Monk

"Teamshot" from the FEW3H Blue Lions Maddening NG run that I picked back up now that Punching The Church is done Just got into Part II, next up is catching up the Golden Deers and then finishing up all three runs from there. Merc Whistle went to Sylvain bc Shez with Gordian Stroke fucks

Asura F!Shez, Dark Knight Dimitri, Great Knight Felix, Bow Knight Sylvain, War Master Seteth, Gremory Ingrid, and adjutant Assassins Annette and Ashe

getting back to the Three Hopes Maddening runs, now on Switch 2, and I'm noticing two things - I think the enemy crowds are a little denser? good news for kill count rank - need some time readjusting my muscle memory bc the joycons' R button is a little harder to hit and I need that for combat arts

we have reached endgame of Gauntlets Only Crimson Flower I'd post skillsets but just assume everyone's on the same kinda Death Blow gauntletslop. The Fliers have Alert Stance, the War Masters QR, the Clerics Fiendish, Jerry has VantageWrath bc he's the only unit that can counter at range

Grappler Byleth, Wyvern Lord Edelgard and Felix, War Master Caspar and Balthus, and War Cleric DorotheaWar Master Jeritza and Alois, War Cleric Annette and Constance, Grappler Yuri, and Dancer Raphael