This is maybe the low key most subversive part of this game. All the lords and ruling class systems are bad (despite how much we all love our individual students). Fire Emblem: Anarcho-Syndicalism forever.
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Without going into any details, rest assured that Black Eagles are hungrier for systemic change than anyone.
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The Church are the cops. Whoever fights for the Church are also cops.
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as someone who sided with the church 100% yes correct
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses
āSome Gods. Tons of masters.ā
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But Iām part of the resistance army, how can be the cops, it says so on the label.
I finished up my BE game and have moved on to GD on NG+. I have to think I might like Golden Deer more. Theyāre just such a lovable bunch of weird misfits. Having a better knowledge of the class/skill system from the beginning really opens up character building in a fun way, especially with some of the NG+ stuff. This time everyone is going to have a mount except Lysithea!
I love this game so much. Itās got some issues for sure, but man it is so good.
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In last nightās dream Claude chased me with a magical bow. Folks, it seems like my brain is on fireā¦ Fire Emblem that is.
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After doing Black Eagles siding with Edelgard route, Iām doing New Game+ as Blue Lions. One of my friends told me that they felt unmotivated to start a new game after Golden Deer because itās just that good, so I think Iāll save it for next time and then do the Black Eagles again when the first wave of DLC comes out at the end of October. And then I guess just keep replaying them all each time thereās new DLC, forever, until I die, because this game has me hooked in such an absolutely filthy way.
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It took me a day but I decided to do Golden Deer last and will now do BE Siding with Edelgard because I did the Church the last time. I am really interested in her motivations because Black Lions and Church routes make her out to be some idealistic murderous dictator without a true in-depth explanation. Cough Season 8 Daenerys vibes Cough
Iāve only played the Black Eagles route so far, so itās fascinating to hear the reactions of people who played through the other routes. Because thereās certainly a Season 8 Daenerys in this game and itās not Edelgard.
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Question for folks who have finished or are far along in your play through: how many of you looked at the master classes and built characters with those classes in mind? I am coming up on the final chapters or BE, my primary characters are in the mid-30s and almost none of them are capable of qualifying for these classes. Itās fine in one regard because the advance classes are plenty powerful and, frustratingly, this game is not that hard (I am sure lunatic will steamroll me) but on the other, dang, I was I had thought to plot some of my characters out a little more. Next play through I guess.
Edit: one thing that maybe is different in the other routes, I wished the houses interacted more in the first half of the game. When you encounter characters from the other houses in the second half of the game they still refer to you as professor and speak as if there is a preexisting relationship but there really isnāt. I returned some lost items, talked to some people at the monastery but, once I figured out who I was recruiting, I ignored the rest.
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I started working towards master classes after the time skip and managed to qualify 6-7 characters by the end as Black Eagles (most characters were lv35-40). For the most part the only big difference is getting Canto for former infantry characters. Riding and Flying were definitely the main hurdles.
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I agree. I wish they made the period before choosing a house longer because after picking a house, there no motivation to make connections with those in other houses unless you want to recruit them.
Pretty early on I decided which master classes I wanted Byleth and all my Black Eagle students to aim for and was super focused on training those skills. Right now Iām right after the first mission of Part 2 and I just turned Petra into a Falcon Knight and Ferdinand has a high chance of passing the test for Great Knight, Iām just waiting for him to master Paladin. Most of my main roster is at least level 28 and are pretty close to having one or two skills at A rank, so I donāt think Iām going to have any problems getting them into the master classes I want. Except maybe Linhardt, who I was training in both Reason and Faith until I realized men canāt be Gremory, but heās training swords to aim for Mortal Savant now, and even if he doesnāt get that high enough thereās plenty of dark magic classes to shuffle through.
I have I think nearly 70 hours in the game already and like I said Iām just past the time skip, so this came at the cost of a lot of time spent agonizing over every little decision, which is just how I like to play FE I guess.
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The locking certain classes based on sex is incredibly frustrating/dumb.
I find myself in a position similar to @Milijango, in that a lot of the master classes require skills in riding or flying and both of those have been incredibly low priorities in this first play through. I think Three Houses is the first Fire Emblem game I have played in which having mounting units isnāt a critical necessity. All of the maps have felt pretty small or infantry units have very large move ranges.
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I just hit levels 20-22 last night and Iām at kind of a weird spot where it was pretty tough getting everyone into their first advanced classes (I think Leonie was the only one with a 100% chance?) but also where I donāt think itāll be too tricky getting them into masters. What I think it came down to was I started everyone working on skills like riding and flying that wonāt be useful until then way too early. (I also definitely regret having some folks start working on authority when I couldnāt even recruit high tier battalions yet anyway.) So now the primary skills are only around Bish, but so are the secondary skills.
Sidenote, itās wild seeing so many people talking about starting their second playthroughs when I just finished chapter nine with 47 hours on the clock lol.
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I beat the game at like 47 hours but I guess Iām a FE vet at this point and this was particularly easy. Second half of the game I just kinda rushed through the months since other than Paralogues I had nothing in particular to do.
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Forgive me if you have mentioned it earlier in the thread but what difficulty were you playin at? I too am a vet of the series playing on hard/classic and the game has not been hard in the way I typically consider FE games to scale in difficulty. It has been a little disappointing because my strategy has recently devolved to ālol put Petra in the middle of a bunch of enemies and watch them not hit her.ā
I think it has to do with the difficulty of the game (or lack there of) but I have also found myself forgetting about skills and abilities because they hardly seem necessary to think about or plan for. Awakening and Fates drilled into my head how important it was to get set skills on characters (sol, galeforce, vantage etc) and in this game I was legitimately surprised last night when Bylethās vantage triggered both because I forgot I had set it and because I am at chapter 14 and it was the first time I think I had ever been in a situation where it would come into play.
Iām like 5-10 hours into Golden Deer on NG+ (just passed 8/16) and Iām slowly coming to terms with the fact that I probably canāt sustain play at the rate that I had done on my first playthrough (70 hours in 17 days).
Also, New Game + is really neat! Retreading ground in the first half is a bit of a slog, but the fact that you can use Renown to up your Professor and Skill ranks to whatever levels youāve already achieved is great. It makes me feel like an actual teacher with actual skills to impart. Two last things: Iāve got a better idea of the classes available so I can beeline to whatever Master Classes I want, and itās interesting to see how the same story beats play out for the different houses.
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