Fire Emblem: Three Houses |OT2| Greetings, Era! Nothing to Report!

[Ashby]

Is there even a point in doing anything in the Monastery after the time jump on Normal difficulty? Prior to this I was pretty into teaching my students strategically and enjoying taking advantage of the Monastery but now a few story missions into the time skip and a bulk of my squad are so OP it feels like a waste of time to micro manage now as opposed to just trucking right to the next main mission.

 

[Uncle at Nintendo]

Is there even a point in doing anything in the Monastery after the time jump on Normal difficulty? Prior to this I was pretty into teaching my students strategically and enjoying taking advantage of the Monastery but now a few story missions into the time skip and a bulk of my squad are so OP it feels like a waste of time to micro manage now as opposed to just trucking right to the next main mission.

Click to shrink...

There's a difficulty bump in the final main story missions but no not really.

 

[Morlas]

So how does the DLC work with your main game if it's a seperate save file? I wanted to start a GD run tonight but I'm not sure if I should wait until playing the DLC.

Click to shrink...

My guess is the main story file will do a check for progress on your Cindered shadows story file and give you access to stuff from that based on your progress

 

[EarlGreyHot]

So how does the DLC work with your main game if it's a seperate save file? I wanted to start a GD run tonight but I'm not sure if I should wait until playing the DLC.

Click to shrink...

I think it was mentioned somewhere that the DLC campain is it's own thing you select from the main menu. Once you beat it you can recruit the students for the main campaign. The new classes will then become available too.

Not sure about this though

 

[SlickVic]

Man the end of chapter 10 was exciting. I have green hair now! Also going to miss my chats with Sothis. Thought I would just get through Chapter 10 this weekend but started playing through 11 last night on Black Eagles route and saw Edelgard become the new Emperor and really excited to see what happens at the end of the chapter. Games definitely got me hooked at the moment.

 

[hipsterpants]

hype! Really looking forward to Thursday and inevitably playing another 100+ hours has I re-play CF and do AM.

 

[PBalfredo]

I hope we get a good antagonist for Cindered Shadows. I'm a bit worried it might end up like an anime movie, where some nobody shows up as the villain, gets beat down and then is never mentioned again because the movie is nestled between arc X and arc Y of the series.

 

[Flandy]

Reading here about people who prefer the Church Route to Golden Deer is making me second guess my decision to do a NG+ Golden Deer playthrough instead of loading up my save pre church route

 

[PBalfredo]

The Fort Mercius chapter in VW really has no objection to stride+dancing Lysithea right up to the Death Knight in a single turn, huh?

 

[Caz]

I hope we get a good antagonist for Cindered Shadows. I'm a bit worried it might end up like an anime movie, where some nobody shows up as the villain, gets beat down and then is never mentioned again because the movie is nestled between arc X and arc Y of the series.

Click to shrink...

The real antagonist was the friends we made along the way.

Also whoever decided to make certain classes gender exclusive.

 

[Deleted member 48434]

Back before release, everyone loved Claude, and people were obsessed with if you could date him as MByleth. Also upside down memes.
A bit after release, I recall seeing Punished Dimitri everywhere. So much fan art. Really popular with straight girls from what I saw.
Now, most of the discussion revolves around Edelgard. And there is a shitton of Edelgard/FByleth art.
Like, so much of it. God damn everywhere. Edelgard/FByleth shippers have no fucking chill.

I still like Claude the most.

Spoiler

It honestly makes me unhappy that Edelgard has gone on to be the most popular given she's an barely-sane war monger.

 

[Reyes]

Reading here about people who prefer the Church Route to Golden Deer is making me second guess my decision to do a NG+ Golden Deer playthrough instead of loading up my save pre church route

Click to shrink...

You won't see many with that opinion.

 

[Atish]

Hey I just started playing the game on normal/casual (chapter 2). Should I worry about routes?

 

[Homura]

Reading here about people who prefer the Church Route to Golden Deer is making me second guess my decision to do a NG+ Golden Deer playthrough instead of loading up my save pre church route

Click to shrink...

Who do you like more: Claude or Flayn/Seteth?
If the former then do Golden Deer, if the latter then do Silver Snow

 

[Reyes]

Hey I just started playing the game on normal/casual (chapter 2). Should I worry about routes?

Click to shrink...

No not really at this point, just go with whichever cast you like/makes and impression on you.

 

[Deleted member 29682]

Who do you like more: Claude or Flayn/Seteth?
If the former then do Golden Deer, if the latter then do Silver Snow

Click to shrink...

Also any Edelgard cutscenes are far more suited to Silver Snow.

 

[Reyes]

Also any Edelgard cutscenes are far more suited to Silver Snow.

Click to shrink...

Yeah they feel out of place there which doesn't help the feeling that alot of the routes just share to much from each other.

 

[LinkStrikesBack]

Hey I just started playing the game on normal/casual (chapter 2). Should I worry about routes?

Click to shrink...

Not really. My honest answer would be play Claude or Dimitri's routes first, then Edelgard, then the other one you didn't, but you can really do them in any order to get different perspectives on the story.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

The arrows represent if they like the meal in question, which affects how many support points you gain by eating with them. While it is possible to recruit all students except house leaders and their retainers, don't expect to be able to do so on your first play-through. That's only realistic in New Game +. Target a few you know you want and aim for them, either by raising your stats to meet their interests, or getting their support level up to B rank with gifts/tea time/meals/asking them to accompany missions and making them your adjunct. After they hit B, they will eventually ask to join your class once time passes on the calendar.
[/QUOT]
Thanks man. I'm having a blast with this game. Pure nostalgia, i'm having a difficult time putting my switch lite down.

Click to shrink...

 

[DPT120]

The arrows represent if they like the meal in question, which affects how many support points you gain by eating with them. While it is possible to recruit all students except house leaders and their retainers, don't expect to be able to do so on your first play-through. That's only realistic in New Game +. Target a few you know you want and aim for them, either by raising your stats to meet their interests, or getting their support level up to B rank with gifts/tea time/meals/asking them to accompany missions and making them your adjunct. After they hit B, they will eventually ask to join your class once time passes on the calendar.

Click to shrink...

Well, you can recruit all of them in one playthrough. That's what I did. I just gifted them a bunch of stuff.

 

[Morlas]

Well, you can recruit all of them in one playthrough. That's what I did. I just gifted them a bunch of stuff.

Click to shrink...

planting for flowers is an easy way to get a lot of support, also make sure to know what kind of flower/gift from merchants that each student likes, and make sure to return lost items as well

 

[Doskoi Panda]

80 hours in and I've just made it to Part Two on my first playthrough, GD Maddening run. This game is hard as fucc if you play Maddening Classic for your first playthrough but I'm loving it. The last two missions have been absolute insanity and I seriously thought I'd hit a wall I couldn't overcome before eventually managing to cheese one and just barely rout the other.

Click to shrink...

Oh dope

perfect timing

>:(

 

[J-Wood]

I'm still pretty early in the game but I have a question on the events calendar. When I click on a day it might list something like this:

1st: seminar
2nd: share a meal
3rd: rest

then there are also percentages in the overview view saying something like seminar 95% under the global something column.
Do these mean anything?

 

[HBK]

I'm still pretty early in the game but I have a question on the events calendar. When I click on a day it might list something like this:

1st: seminar
2nd: share a meal
3rd: rest

then there are also percentages in the overview view saying something like seminar 95% under the global something column.
Do these mean anything?

Click to shrink...

Online choices. Basically how players "voted" by, well, playing the game.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

I'm at chapter 14. Am I close to the end?

How to I level up Blyeth's reason skill? I went for the assassin tree

 

[Disclaimer]

I'm at chapter 14. Am I close to the end?

How to I level up Blyeth's reason skill? I went for the assassin tree

Click to shrink...

Over halfway. You need to have people skilled in Reason tutor Byleth when exploring and/or simply use it in battle.

 

[Miletius]

After pre purchasing the season pass for the side story tomorrow I have to say that the DLC missions are kinda BS. They give so much more than the other auxiliary missions in terms of loot and experience, they kinda disrupt the balance of the game. Playing through maddening (no NG+) and they basically break the game. Instead of my dudes being several levels behind the enemies (as they should be on maddening) most of them are barely behind or on par with the enemies and due to superior planning they just destroy them. Feels less challenging than hard/classic right now, especially since I know the systems pretty well now. I can't imagine how the abyss is going to exacerbate that gap.

 

[GSR]

From ryokutya2089, details from this week's Famitsu issue:

About the DLC:

• Cindered Shadows is fairly difficult.
• The developers guess it'll take about 8-10 hours to clear on Normal; since it's trickier than the main game, you can't blast through it as easily.
• You'll unlock more and more stuff in the main game as you proceed through CS.

Free updates planned:

• A free update will let you have tea time with Rhea.
• Byleth will be able to wear dancer clothes, but not become a dancer themselves.
• You'll be able to change costumes from the free day menu, as well as change everyone's costumes at once.

Other tidbits:

• Reiterating that no golden route is planned, and they were actively against it since it would become the "right path" in fan's minds. (Well, one of the interviewees liked the idea, but it really was never planned. Too much like Fates!)
• Maddening was really hard for them to balance, so they were happy with the release timing of it - letting people dig in once they'd familiarized themselves with the game.
• They expect Intelligent Systems to put out a full OST at some point.

 

[TurokTTZ]

From ryokutya2089, details from this week's Famitsu issue:

About the DLC:

• Cindered Shadows is fairly difficult.
• The developers guess it'll take about 8-10 hours to clear on Normal; since it's trickier than the main game, you can't blast through it as easily.
• You'll unlock more and more stuff in the main game as you proceed through CS.

Free updates planned:

• A free update will let you have tea time with Rhea.
• Byleth will be able to wear dancer clothes, but not become a dancer themselves.
• You'll be able to change costumes from the free day menu, as well as change everyone's costumes at once.

Other tidbits:

• Reiterating that no golden route is planned, and they were actively against it since it would become the "right path" in fan's minds. (Well, one of the interviewees liked the idea, but it really was never planned. Too much like Fates!)
• Maddening was really hard for them to balance, so they were happy with the release timing of it - letting people dig in once they'd familiarized themselves with the game.
• They expect Intelligent Systems to put out a full OST at some point.

Click to shrink...

Finally, I can have tea time with Rhea. Very pleased to hear this. A shame no mention of Jeralt (especially since Jeralt actually has unused lines for tea time.)

Byleth can wear dancer costume but cannot become the dancer... what?

While I liked Fates, I do agree that the Golden route (paywalled behind dlc no less) hurt Fates. And it can only hurt Three Houses.

Won't stop fan headcanons but w/e.

*Sees bolded underlined text*

I can't imagine how they can make it harder. Three Houses is significantly easier compared to previous FE games or even Vestaria Saga. Can't wait to blast through cindered shadows.

The ideal way would be to give enemies combat arts and gambits for everyone. Specifically Swift strikes, Hunter's volley, point blank volley, bombard combat arts for maximum chuckles.

 

[Cpt.Underpants]

Over halfway. You need to have people skilled in Reason tutor Byleth when exploring and/or simply use it in battle.

Click to shrink...

Switched Blyth to mage and his magic damage sucked ass. I'm using Lysithia increase his reason skill

 

[Xavi]

Hey kuroneko0509 are you still making a separate OT?

 

[Dunbar]

After starting on release day and playing on and off for 6+ months, I finally finished my first run as Golden Deer. I thought I was going to make at least one more run through the game, but after starting it back up and seeing how tedious everything was going to be at the beginning, I think I'm done playing. But I'd like to see what goes on in the other routes, so I'm curious, is there anything like a lore/story explainer-type breakdown I can read or video I can find on Youtube? I'm fine with everything being spoiled at this point and I really just want to know what the differences are if you play as Edelgard or Dmitri.

 

[kuroneko0509]

For Side Story discussions, please use this thread

Fire Emblem Three Houses - Cindered Shadows |OT| Counting Is Hard

www.resetera.com

You still can talk about unlockables here

 

[PBalfredo]

Finishing up the last battle of VW before moving on to the wolves. How many attacks does Fallen Star actually let you avoid on the enemy phase? Because as I just found out, it sure isn't "all" like the move description says.

 

[GSR]

Finishing up the last battle of VW before moving on to the wolves. How many attacks does Fallen Star actually let you avoid on the enemy phase? Because as I just found out, it sure isn't "all" like the move description says.

Click to shrink...

I believe it's all for one round of combat. So if you were going to get doubled, both would miss, but then the next enemy that attacks you hits normally.

 

[Anteo]

So
Jeritza has 2 new supports:
Constance and Bernadetta, both C to A
huh

 

[RochHoch]

Just dropped down from Maddening to Hard on my Crimson Flower.

Chapter 14 is bullshit

Spoiler

Endless reinforcements from four separate places on the map, including Wyverns like every single round. Fuck this shit, I don't even know if I can beat it on Hard.

 

[theprodigy]

Just dropped down from Maddening to Hard on my Crimson Flower.

Chapter 14 is bullshit

Spoiler

Endless reinforcements from four separate places on the map, including Wyverns like every single round. Fuck this shit, I don't even know if I can beat it on Hard.

Click to shrink...

bruh, that map is a free warpskip

 

[Blade24070]

Bought this on sale. I really shouldn't have considering my backlog... but fuck it.

I'm already torn on what house to pick after talking to all of them. Mainly because I fully went in wanting to pick Claude, but Blue Lions seems to have the best student line-up with the best designs and voices. Damn. I think Golden Deer may have the worst overall designs for me, ugh. Well, Black Eagles aren't much better.

 

[belairjeff]

Someone please motivate me to keep trying the last Golden Deer level...

Spoiler: Golden Deer - Last Level

Just wanted to chime in and say that the last boss in the Golden Deer run is absolute bullshit. I've cleared the entire level 4 times easily, and then got to Nemesis only to witness my entire team getting wiped and unable to get the kill. Feels like a really shitty/unnecessary difficulty spike. I feel like I need to keep trying and just hope for a crit and then finish him off with a Luna, but I'm so damn sick and tired of clearing the level over and over

.

PLEASE HELP!

 

[Beren]

Someone please motivate me to keep trying the last Golden Deer level...

Spoiler: Golden Deer - Last Level

Just wanted to chime in and say that the last boss in the Golden Deer run is absolute bullshit. I've cleared the entire level 4 times easily, and then got to Nemesis only to witness my entire team getting wiped and unable to get the kill. Feels like a really shitty/unnecessary difficulty spike. I feel like I need to keep trying and just hope for a crit and then finish him off with a Luna, but I'm so damn sick and tired of clearing the level over and over

.

PLEASE HELP!

Click to shrink...

It's easier to lure him off of his square before going all in on him with gambits and your hard hitters. Just make sure whoever lures him can take the hit.

 

[SlickVic]

Just finished Black Eagles Chapter 11. Not sure if I made the "right" choice at the end of it, but really looking forward to seeing how it all plays out now.

 

[belairjeff]

It's easier to lure him off of his square before going all in on him with gambits and your hard hitters. Just make sure whoever lures him can take the hit.

Click to shrink...

I finally beat him after 5 tries or so. Got lucky with a crit from Byleth and then Lys finished him off. Very annoying last level, but I'm happy to finish my first play through.

 

[Master Milk]

I finally beat him after 5 tries or so. Got lucky with a crit from Byleth and then Lys finished him off. Very annoying last level, but I'm happy to finish my first play through.

Click to shrink...

congrats

 

[TurokTTZ]

Bought this on sale. I really shouldn't have considering my backlog... but fuck it.

I'm already torn on what house to pick after talking to all of them. Mainly because I fully went in wanting to pick Claude, but Blue Lions seems to have the best student line-up with the best designs and voices. Damn. I think Golden Deer may have the worst overall designs for me, ugh. Well, Black Eagles aren't much better.

Click to shrink...

Golden Deer > Blue Lions > Black Eagles in terms of talent/overall balance. I thought blue lions was bland in terms of style but w/e.


I am quickly reminded just how bad Black Eagles are vs the other two houses.
Finally started on a maddening run without NG+ and I am forced to use Byleth as my main tank right from the getgo. The difficulty spike without NG+ is hella real but very fun.

On that note, has anyone seen the rewards for beating Cindered Shadows? It's making my maddening no NG+ run much more manageable with

Spoiler

chalice of beginning granting it's wielder distant counter. Those fucking archers now are easy pickings with a training sword or a steel sword to feed Ferdinand and friends with much needed exp.

Auxiliary battles with nothing but thieves who can solo everyone easily but Byleth definitely got me on edge.

Abyss is hella funny on the main story. Much more lively.

 

[shinespark]

Finally started up a Maddening Black Eagles run so I can check out all the Ashen Wolves and other DLC characters!

And gosh, the Eagles have a wayyyy easier time with the first mock battle, I cleared it in one attempt instead of the five or six tries it took me with the Blue Lions. Bernie's personal skill giving you immediate access to good 3-range sniping damage is extremely handy.

 

[SlickVic]

Heh, 60 hours in and I finally got to Part 2. The chapter 12 battle felt really intense in a good way on the Crimson Flower Route. Edelgard's been one of the heavy hitters in my rotation up to this point, and got thrown for a bit of a loop when Catherine took her down with 2 hits. Thank god for Divine Pulse so I could reposition my units in a way that prevented that from happening a second time. I do wish I got to bring in more than 10 main units into the battle though, as the support characters provided were absolutely useless and literally missed every single attack they attempted.

Initially was thinking I'd take a decent break from the game after hitting part 2 (in a weird way it helps me better appreciate the passage of time when games do time skips like this) but maybe I'll just keep going as I'm very curious to see how everything plays. Plus I thought it was interesting that it seems Byleth was just 'sleeping' this whole time, so from the perspective of the protagonist, it seems it's not really meant to feel like all that time has passed.

 

[TurokTTZ]

The abyss library is definitely giving me food for thought in part 2.

For those who seen that particular book know exactly which one I'm talking about.

A certain scene in part one has a whole new context because of it.

 

[Homura]

Heh, 60 hours in and I finally got to Part 2. The chapter 12 battle felt really intense in a good way on the Crimson Flower Route. Edelgard's been one of the heavy hitters in my rotation up to this point, and got thrown for a bit of a loop when Catherine took her down with 2 hits. Thank god for Divine Pulse so I could reposition my units in a way that prevented that from happening a second time. I do wish I got to bring in more than 10 main units into the battle though, as the support characters provided were absolutely useless and literally missed every single attack they attempted.

Initially was thinking I'd take a decent break from the game after hitting part 2 (in a weird way it helps me better appreciate the passage of time when games do time skips like this) but maybe I'll just keep going as I'm very curious to see how everything plays. Plus I thought it was interesting that it seems Byleth was just 'sleeping' this whole time, so from the perspective of the protagonist, it seems it's not really meant to feel like all that time has passed.

Click to shrink...

I hope you didn't make Flayn your dancer...

 

[Common Knowledge]

Any other characters get new supports in the main game outside of Jertiza? (and whatever characters the Ashen Wolves characters have supports with)