noname2200 said:
Unless you're grinding to maximize all of your characters, losing Donnel's actually harmful. His growth levels are unparalled: the first six or seven levels are rough, but by level ten he's caught up to most of your army, and ten levels after that he's a complete beast. Even on lunatic, I feel comfortable letting Donnel handle a dozen enemies by himself for the bulk of the game: on Gerome's Paralogue, I let him solo everything on the far left of the map with nothing more than handaxes and an elixir, with the other units combined having a harder time managing against the center and right-side foes. |
Ah, I suppose if I play through on Lunatic (right now I am just doing Hard and Classic) then I'll try to keep him. Sounds like he levels up pretty good once you get past the start. It might be a loss but I should be able to easily find another person to fill in his "spot". I try to level everyone up as much as I can but most FE games I get a basic team down that I know I can count on.