[FE6] The Binding Blade Renewal (FE6 Rebalance) 3.0

[theghostcreator]

The Binding Blade: Renewal is a rebalance that, instead of looking to completely overhaul FE6, seeks to improve upon and hone what is already present. Changes present within this rebalance are done for the sole purpose of making the game more entertaining and playthroughs more diverse. Very few characters received extreme overhauls to how they play and fewer received nerfs.

The changes made within this hack are done to make FE6 feel more explosive and far faster paced, especially into the mid to late game.

One other goal is to implement a few of the scrapped concepts planned for FE6, including but not limited to

• The Sea Sword
• The Demon Stone
• Galle being recruitable

So why not check out FE6:R next playthrough? You might just end up enjoying Sacae!

screenshots

(The Idunn pictured is an optional superboss integrating her unused stone)

Download it here!

full list of changes, bases and growths to be listed later... Much later

updated various bases and growths
(Most) lances and swords +10 hit
all axes +15 hit
all tomes +5 hit
all bows +10 hit and +2 might
longbow is 7 weight and at 25 uses
binding blade is 40 uses
light brand is attack-res
bolting is -2 might
divine stone gets 60 uses
luck/skill boosters are +4 now
eff weapons get +1 might
fog in the desert is dead
numerous small chapter edits to improve experience
all gaidens occur no matter what
Galle is recruitable.
Guinivere is recruitable
you only need the binding blade for the true ending.
Echidna comes with an iron axe and steel sword
Dorothy comes with chest keys
Lilina comes with a vulnerary
Jerrot, Noah, and Trec are all blue
Trec comes with a knight crest
supports gain much faster
thrones don’t turn bosses into gods
there are a few more promo items
knights and generals have infantry movement and thieves get 7 movement
vulneraries heal 15 HP
staves give more WEXP
Bridge key exists
Roy gets his promotion item during chapter 13
Rune weapons have been added, infinite durability weapons that give luck as a replacement for a non-existent iron rune
Tina’s staff gets 1-2 range
Thief fighter is now available as the promoted class of thief
Only thief fighters and Caths unpromoted class can find desert treasure 100% of the time (two class limit for desert treasure oop)
Astolfo starts in thief fighter
Roy gets convoy access however can’t give access to adjacent units unlike Merlinus
Preparations appearing as soon as chapter 3!

update log

3.0
Roy ring moved
Sophia nerfs from 2.0
Sigune recruitment
Optional Melady and Guinivere talks
Sin nerfs
Sue buffs
Minor adjustments to most units
Fir promotes into a hero
Sea Sword added
Dragon spear added
Hero sword added
More maps were updated
Rip Windham
Juno buffs
Niime not spawning in sacae fixed
Kel now charges the player
More promo items
Flame staff added

2.0
Merlinus got 10 move and low con for rescuing
Roy has convoy access
Sophia was toned back by a ton
Juno buffs
Thief fighter
More droppable items overall
Caths a growth unit
Fir got a stat spread overhaul to be differentiated from Rutger
Rune weapons
Alen and Lance have been given more differing growths
Many more map updates
Roy ring
Preps now appear sooner
Shanna was lightly buffed since Thea is now real competition
Wendy’s been buffed (she’s still bad don’t you God damn worry)
Sniper strength cap raised (Dorothy :3)
Later joining units have higher weapon ranks to accommodate for earlier joining units gaining them faster
Kill WEXP is now 3

1.1
Marcus got -1 defense, -2 HP
halberd is C rank
eff weapons are only +1
Sophia and Barthe’s growths were edited
Bors has 30 HP
8x got edited
new minibosses
more promo items

1.2
Barthe
more maps got some fixes.
legendary weapons now have 25 uses (Saint’s staff gets +1 use)
Douglas now spawns in his gaiden even if he’s dead.
Thea and Klein now always charge.
Elen nerfs from 1.1
Saul buffs from 1.1

Credits

Thief fighter battle anims and map sprites - Jey the Count
All custom items icons - 2WB
Guinivere animations - St. Jack
Patches used:

Special thanks - my darling Juniper for renewing my interest in FE6

Please enjoy!

[MercyPlayz]

What a very interesting set of rebalances. I do like the “all gaidens occur no matter what” that is a massive aid to people who don’t like resetting.

[adalvar]

Is there a table to see the changed bases and growths?

[theghostcreator]

There is not. You’ll have to check bases for yourself in-game and growths should not be hard to figure out based on bases as they weren’t edited in any extreme way but instead just adjusted for the most part

[Salty_Ralts]

i’m a simple man
i see +2 to str spd res on roy, i click download

[Omnifox999]

@theghostcreator

supports gain much faster

This right here is based. Supports suck to grind in FE6 lol.

[PsychoLogical]

chapter 8 map layout changes?

Absolutely based.

[theghostcreator]

Chapter 8 is the most boring chapter I’ve ever played in a Fire Emblem game and I’ve beaten Revelation multiple times. I considered breaking my ‘don’t change chapters too much’ rule just for it. I didn’t make it great or anything but I believe I made it a bit more tolerable.

[PsychoLogical]

ay I mean, Chapter 8 is one of those chapters where I say the map needs to be entirely redesigned. Essentially being forced to go into a circle and needing to get to the throne room to get to the other four chests is just bad game design and an ass move.

Just saying “just rescue drop” is not an argument either, just a lame excuse.

[theghostcreator]

hey 1.1 is live for a full list of changes see the original post

[PsychoLogical]

Oh right, I actually forgot to ask: Did you ever attempt to “tamper” with the WEXP for staves? Staff WEXP is unfortunately always 1 in FE6 which makes Staff rank growth outrageously slow which is often demotivating or annoying (at least in my eyes). Was curious if it’s possible for that to be modified to be 2 WEXP per usage at the minimum, unless you don’t wish or plan to make changes like that.

[theghostcreator]

Yeah staff WEXP has been buffed forgot to add that to the op

[theghostcreator]

1.2 is live be sure to check the op for details!

Barthe time

[MissVanity]

Question
Does this have qol stuff like health bars and viewable growths?
Am fine without them if you think it doesn’t fit the light rebalance. Only want to know.

[theghostcreator]

No it does not. I wanted to keep the original aesthetic of FE6 so I did not add any QoL features.

[MissVanity]

I can respect that.

[Knives]

I also respect the effort of the PE team and the FE6 in FE8 remake guy, but I find projects like those tend to butcher the feel of the original and feel unbalanced in their own ways. It’s nice to find a minimally invasive rebalance hack like this one.

Stuff I don’t agree with from your changelog:

• I would just +1 Mt to bows unless you mathed it out that +2 is absolutely necessary. I mean +1 Mt is already +3 damage on flying, +6 if doubling.
• Wouldn’t buff Longbow personally. Would just buff things that are bad/have no niche.
• If you’re gonna do Lk/Skl gives +4 like in the more modern games, then Angelic Robe should only give +5 HP to be consistent.
• As much as fog is annoying, I feel like removing it takes away the feel of the original. Anyone playing this hack is not new to FE6 anyway, so they’ll have an idea of what/where the reinforcements are.
• Jerrot, Noah, Trec being blue same as FoW. It’s annoying they start as NPC, but it made it more rewarding to be able to recruit/save them all.
• Knights/Generals get +1 is fine. Don’t think Thieves need their Mov buffed though.
• Don’t agree with vulnerary change. Just leave it the way it was.
• I see “Elen nerfs”, “Saul buffs”. But I thought Saul was better in vanilla?

The rest looks good.

[theghostcreator]

Firstly I sincerely thank you for giving this hack a shot, a few things though

@Knives

I would just +1 Mt to bows unless you mathed it out that +2 is absolutely necessary. I mean +1 Mt is already +3 damage on flying, +6 if doubling.

Bows were fine when against fliers in vanilla anyway, the added might was more so to make their inflated prices more worth it and to give bows a proper niche beyond flier effectiveness. Wolt for example can one round soldiers in the early game and while other units like Dieck can also do that normally, Wolt avoids the nasty counterattack from those soldiers.

I felt longbow was a bit too heavy personally, making it a better limited tool I feel works to help archers more

@Knives

If you’re gonna do Lk/Skl gives +4 like in the more modern games, then Angelic Robe should only give +5 HP to be consistent.

There’s no need to be consistent with vanilla games.

@Knives

As much as fog is annoying, I feel like removing it takes away the feel of the original. Anyone playing this hack is not new to FE6 anyway, so they’ll have an idea of what/where the reinforcements are.

This is very much a personal taste thing, I detest fog most of the time and I feel that FE6 fog is the worst, especially Arcadia. I also generally don’t like relying on player memory in order to create a fair game.

@Knives

Jerrot, Noah, Trec being blue same as FoW. It’s annoying they start as NPC, but it made it more rewarding to be able to recruit/save them all.

Again, a personal taste thing. In vanilla you could potentially get Zealot and Trec killed if you didn’t do the turn one rescue strats on hard which I felt was a bit cheap. Allowing them to start blue lets the map feel more dynamic imo since you can immediately start using them instead of having to try and get Roy to them.

@Knives

Thieves need their Mov buffed though.

Thieves already don’t promote. The added utility of having more movement both allows Astolfo specifically go retain his combat utility even with player units not being mostly pretty bad and allows thieves in general to get their side objectives done faster so the maps don’t stall due to them still having stuff to do. It also adds a bit more pressure to chest maps in exchange for the generally less roundabout edits made to the maps.

@Knives

Don’t agree with vulnerary change

A matter of taste but I prefer vulneraries to be useful past the early game

@Knives

I see “Elen nerfs”, “Saul buffs”. But I thought Saul was better in vanilla?

I was just referring to Elen and Saul in a previous version. Elen was much much better than Saul in that version and it didn’t quite sit well with me to have them be so distant in terms of viability

[Knives]

Bows were fine when against fliers in vanilla anyway, the added might was more so to make their inflated prices more worth it and to give bows a proper niche beyond flier effectiveness. Wolt for example can one round soldiers in the early game and while other units like Dieck can also do that normally, Wolt avoids the nasty counterattack from those soldiers.

Seems good then. Been like 3-4 years since i played vanilla FE6 so I’m not familiar with the benchmarks.

There’s no need to be consistent with vanilla games.

Fair enough.

Thieves already don’t promote. The added utility of having more movement both allows Astolfo specifically go retain his combat utility even with player units not being mostly pretty bad and allows thieves in general to get their side objectives done faster so the maps don’t stall due to them still having stuff to do. It also adds a bit more pressure to chest maps in exchange for the generally less roundabout edits made to the maps.

Oh I thought they do promote in FE6. Maybe it’s just FE7 where they can. But even in FE7, Assassins only have 6 Mov.

Rescue chaining exists to help thieves get around faster, but I guess buffing their Mov makes them more independent.

Personal taste stuff

Agree, just personal taste. Not much to say.

I was just referring to Elen and Saul in a previous version. Elen was much much better than Saul in that version and it didn’t quite sit well with me to have them be so distant in terms of viability

Oh I see. Sorry I misunderstood.

[Spring]

Hello! I’ve playing your rebalance for about a week now, and it’s a blast! One thing is, I’m at chapter 14, and just got sophia
She is… Way over tuned, please consider nerfing her or making her prepromoted with similar stats

This is how she was at the end of ch 14, with three levels gained
At base, she has about 18-19 in spd, skl, luck and mag, with a 14-15 in def.
Comparing that to my lugh, which might’ve been screwed, cause I honestly don’t know
He had 11 mag and skl, 19 spd, 10 def and I think 15 res, at level 20.
Additionally, there’s raigh

He feels a bit overtuned too, but he won’t cap 4 stats on his join chapter, at least, or at level 20 for that matter
It’s just too wide of a gap
I would’ve compared her to lilina too, but my lilina died
Thank you for making this! I know this topic is a little dead, and I’m sorry, but this is just too big of a change for me not to comment on
Also, I’ll continue playing and tell you if there’s anything similar I experience