Official Fire Emblem: Awakening thread- European DLC 16/5 out now!

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noname2200 said:

RolStoppable said:

noname2200 said:

Each Astra strike has the chance to critical hit though. It's worked out pretty well for a lot of my characters, whereas Assassinate's activation is spotty at best.

No, Astra is garbage because of the way I play the game. I still have characters who don't even carry a steel weapon with them and I am now on chapter 20 on hard mode. Not that any of my characters has the Astra skill to begin with, but that's probably because it's not of much use with weak weapons.

Anyway, it begins to feel more and more like I could clear chapters with Chrom alone (well, paired up with someone). Honestly, I can't be bothered with proper skill builds or using stronger weapons. I am trending towards pairing up characters and only properly gaining EXP for about six of them. As long as I'll be able to clear the final map in two turns, I'll be happy.

Mmm, makes sense: crappy weapons means crappy attacks. As for Chrom, it's like I told you: the pairing system seems balanced for Lunatic mode alone, especially when it approaches the S-rank.

You could get thru hard mode without pair-up.  On my very first hard/classic playthrough, it wasn't till Indigo's recruitment chapter before I actually was forced to use pair-up.

But too bad over grinding/sorcerers can break the game even on Lunatic+.