Making unit specific promotion items

Questions
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Just exploring what’s possible to do in FEbuilder. Like I though it cool in 3H that you can choose who to promote into your dancer.

I also liked those limited items (Sighting Lens or Witch’s Mark) where you can promote certain characters to things like dark pegasus or bride or witch or dreadfighter. I was wondering if this is possible to make a promotion item work on specific characters to change them to a unique class.

Examples.

  • If I have a male calvalier, he could promote to paladin or great knight by normal means with knight crest, or if I use a limited special promotion item, he can become a dread fighter.
  • Or maybe there’s a special item that lets you turn one of 4 characters into your Dancer, but it doesn’t work on anyone else. Like if the item only works on Lute, Natasha, Knoll, and Gilliam and makes them a class they would not normally access.

Basically, I’m curious if there’s a way to make promotions depend on the character or gender using the item instead of locked to the class. Is this possible in FE8 with FEBuilder or any patches that already exist? And if so, what’s the simplest way to set it up?

  • Hacking method: FEBuilder
  • Base Game: Sacred Stones
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… an Armored class with Anima, Staves, Dark, and Spear.
Not quite on topic, but that’s a loadout and a half.

I think there’s a patch that’ll let you assign promo to class by item, but I could be wrong on that.

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I did some experimenting and it seems like you could set an item to call the force promote event. Within the item event patch you can also set events per character/class/level. It looks kind of buggy when the event gets called so I’d recommend making sure to remove the background after the promotion event.

(I know that’s not super helpful without screenshots but I was kinda just poking around at my Second Seal even that I made about a year ago)

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Thanks for the idea. Not sure how to go about it. I am not very experienced with what I can do with items in FEBuilder. To me items all seem to have very limited characteristics. So I’m not sure how one would even go about it with calling the force promo event.

Like it would be cool if the Orion’s Bolt could trigger a promotion on specific characters. Like call some table that’s like if Lute then Druid, or if Knoll then Paladin, and if Forde then unsuable item because he’s not special. I guess it is similar to a Second Seal concept.

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You can use this to have promotions vary by item:

While this hack is for promotions to vary by character (not compatible with each other):

Pretty sure one or both of these already exists as a patch in Builder, so you can mess around to your desired extent.

I will note that in particular gender is already segregated for most classes in GBA FE, so there’s already separate promotions for those.

In general I think it makes more sense to use the first hack for item-based promotions, and just use duplicate classes for unique promotions by “character”.

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Cool. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I might be able to figure this out. ASMs are super new for me, so we’ll see if it just goes way over my head.

To confirm:

  • if I only want the Orion’s Bolt to promote specific classes into something else, would I just need to edit this list?
  • Can I do something like “PromoListEntry(0x2D,0x46)” to mean promote from Shaman (M) to Bard?
  • If I don’t want items like Elysian Whip or Knight’s Crest to be impacted, should I just remove the text?
  • Wanted to confirm that Master Seal would function the same?