So with tentative voices for Arcee and Starscream, that does leave Rattrap, the autobot* most like Starscream. Being as he is a Rat, the cop out answer is “whoever sounds the most like a rat”, but failing that, he had a tendency to backtalk Optimus Primal in IDW2 Beast Wars, and he also prefers to look out for himself first and foremost.
*he’s a maximal, it’s not quite the same, but close enough
Played Sieglogue, AKA hell on earth >:((
There are
so, so many reinforcements
The opening took several resets to figure out, took the opportunity to give Rafaela a new toy. Starting with high Lance rank is one of Rafaela’s unique strengths (at least on Lunatic)
Starscream got a spare Master Seal for the dignified role of ferrying her around
Safe to say, I had some real close calls
Lilith is really fun, between being a Replicate staffer and having very potent offensive potential. I tried Strategist in a previous attempt, but decided that Maid was much better for combat (I was right)
Her offenses ended up pretty close to Mechanist Sig’s, trading some DEF for higher SPD
Sig is still MVP for taking out maybe 1/3 of the entire map, notably all the enemy mages on the right side. With Rally STR, he can even take out Generals without Wary Fighter. Funnily enough, one of the Snipers at the beginning dodged two listed 97%s, which is absurdly (un)lucky, considering hit rates above 50% are weighted lmao
By the end I spent a few turns venting my frustrations onto the last reinforcement spawn point, just for the fun of it. If I had someone with Salvage Blow, I could use this to farm Hoshidan weapons indefinitely
One-rounding Generals in Spear Master without pair-up or other buffs is pretty cool
We had very different experiences, LOL. I found Sieglogue extremely easy. Who did you end up pairing Terp with?
Britney, she has really high STR/SPD personal growths (80/70%) which contributed to Lilith’s stats
Were you also playing Lunatic? I think there might be a significant difference in enemy quantity between the difficulties
To be fair I don’t think this is the hardest map CQ throws at you, but between the constant reinforcements of varying enemy types, it becomes pretty overwhelming if you don’t act quick
I was on Lunatic as well, but I did the chapter as early as possible since I burned a bunch of paralogues right after recruiting Terpsichore to farm supports. I paired him with Akane, haven’t really looked into what Brittney!Lilith’s growth total is.
I’m pretty sure this is one of the paralogues that scales horribly later into the game, kinda like Ignatius paralogue
What was your approach to the map? I found myself splitting my army and activating 2-3 dragon veins on the first two turns using a primary juggernaut for each side, but the northeast one that spawns Master Ninjas was very annoying for a good while
Britney personal growths:
30% HP, 80% Str, 20% Mag, 50% Skl, 70% Spd, 10% Lck, 30% Def, 10% Res
Lilith:
60% hp, 35% str, 50% mag, 30% skl, 50% spd, 45% lck, 20% def, 10% res
Britney!Lilith:
45% HP, 52.5% STR, 35% MAG, 40% SKL, 60% SPD, 27.5% LCK, 25% DEF, 10% RES
“Hmph. Me, Starscream, reduced to a mere ferryman! This is- worth a Master Seal I’ll take that yep mhm no complaints here I wasn’t saying anything.”
“Hrm, did someone say something? No? I’ll go back to slicing the enemy apart, then~”
*just sitting there tanking hits not caring about the enemies* “such a beautiful day out.”
@finzbo Watching through the VODs I missed. Baha’al-Din should have Immune Status, he’s missing that skill. Definitely helps him a lot in Lunatic vs. the Inevitable End maids.
Also, he should have Bowbreaker on join. His loadout is:
Also, Daiki in Birthright should also have Camaraderie since he’s a pseudo-promote like Condor.
Can you check and make sure Daiki’s internal level is set to 0? He seems to be levelling slower than Condor. Also, Condor should be Level 1 as a boss, don’t know if that affects his join level.
Lodestar is definitely not right, that might have been his join from Justynn. He should be a Level 1 Hero.
Also, it doesn’t seem like current patch is up-to-date.
@Shadow_the_halberdier What do you think about Mechanist Shadow? He can get it from Frankie through friendship, and I was considering giving it a shot in my next CQ run, seeing how 1-2 range could compliment his high RES and Shurikenbreaker.
I know for my Shadow I ended up keeping him in Great Master, I like the staff utility too much.
I got Corrin access to Monk via Metal friendship in case I want to go into Great Master, haven’t gotten around to it yet because Great Knight has such nice pair-up for Mistika. I also enjoy having several staffers, but I’ve already got plenty so he doesn’t need to fill that role at this point.
Looking back at Shadow’s stats, it’s absolutely insane that he starts with 18 LCK to compensate for the fact that he has LCK as a dump growth. On top of that, he joins at lvl 1 with extremely high personal bases (33 points plus 16 LCK, compared to Corrin’s 11 or Mozu’s 4)… no wonder he ends up carrying Finzbo’s runs.
For future PMUs, it might be more fair to set a cap on personal stat totals as well, I think units like Sig also fall outside of these considerations
Everyone forgets how good luck is till a unit with a high amount appears I’m shocked I was allowed to keep the high amount but even with high luck his other stats are very low he just has enough damage to hurt the faceless in his chapter so on other modes you have to buff him to even get him started
His base str is 7 with a starting weapon that does 2 mt so his damage at start is 9 he only does alot cuz finzbo can’t add dlc scrolls so it becomes 10 base str cuz of heavy blade which becomes 12 on lunatic the faceless have 11 def with some having 17 so his only doing 1 or 0 damage on his chapter.
On normal/hard his a top tier but on lunatic you gotta get him as soon as possible cuz if his paralog scales up he cannot fight in it.
Paralogue 1 doesn’t scale, so there’s no issue with when you choose to play it. The only other units who have a low level by that point is Aurelie or Condor if you didn’t give them many kills, so the EXP isn’t highly contested either.
Are the stats in your original submission still accurate? Looking at those, he’d have the starting stats of a vanilla unit maybe 8 levels higher
These are his personal bases stats.
Spear fighter just has good class bases as it’s a class you usually get mid-game.
Then when you add heavy blade it makes the str go from 7 to 10 and his spd to go from 11 to 10 and once he gains a level gains the Spear fighter lvl 1 skill in seal defense making his 10(11 if it leveled) to 16(17 if str leveled)
Those are very high personal bases for a lvl 1 unit, as I thought
He doesn’t struggle in Paralogue 1 in the same way Mozu does, since he has such a high HP pool and actually deals damage without investment
If you don’t care to maximize exp, you can give him a bronze lance for higher mt and throw on a backpack like Naomi or Condor, it’s not hard at all to train him
What are your thoughts on reclassing him into Mechanist via Frankie friendship?
I mean it gives him duplicate and it’s his ONLY working A+ cuz his other two A+ are female units but ya merchant reclass doesn’t give him much in terms of skills besides duplicate
Also ya Naomi makes it 10x easier as it’s a fighter backpack and Condor doesn’t give str but let’s him double I believe but it only gives him doubling rights.
What about dagger access though? It lets him double enemy dagger and tome units at 1-2 range
