[FE8] What Patches do you think are essential or do you often use?

[UltraxBlade]

If you don’t have HP Bars with Warnings and the patch that makes stationary enemies display as stationary, your hack’s unplayable, sorry.

Beyond that, you can find an in-depth list of quality-of-life patches here:

UltraxBlade's #febuilder-help FAQ

What FEBuilder patches are considered quality-of-life? First of all, my honest recommendation is to install the SkillSystem and remove skills, as SkillSys comes with so much quality-of-life built in that I honestly can’t even remember all of it off the top of my head until I notice it’s missing in a non-SkillSys hack. While most of it is available standalone, not all of it is, and tracking down the individual patches can be annoying. But aside from that: General QoL: ModularMinimugBox – All…

Then, of course, there are all of the #ESSENTIAL fixes, most of which are basic fixes basically every hack needs — a good number of them will be automatically prompted by FEBuilder when you do something that needs them, and you can find them all by searching #ESSENTIAL in the patches list. (There are a small number of things tagged as #ESSENTIAL that I disagree with being classified as such, but you should scroll through the list for yourself and make sure you have all the bugfixes and whatnot.)

I will also take this moment to once again call awareness to the Mode Coefficient Fix, without this patch you’re setting yourself up for serious balance problems due to too much EXP gain. See here for a detailed explanation:

UltraxBlade's #febuilder-help FAQ

EXP gain is too high, is there anything I can do about it? Have you applied the Mode Coefficient Fix? (What’s a Mode Coefficient?) The short explanation is “search the patches list for Mode Coefficient Fix and apply it”. The longer explanation is: In the Normal modes of FE7 and the pre-routesplit chapters of FE8, there exists a value in the EXP formula known as the Mode Coefficient. The Mode Coefficient causes overleveled units to gain more EXP, sometimes more than underleveled units and s…

Just about everything else depends on what you want to do with it. I will take a moment to shout out Set Unit Status for being one of the most useful general-purpose eventing patches out there — it lets you arbitrarily get, add to, subtract from, and overwrite any value of a unit’s data, which is extremely useful for doing more complicated stuff in events.