Okay, so I started playing this game on Normal difficulty, Classic mode. This is my first Fire Emblem game. I have questions that may or may not be answered in the last 13 pages, so I'll ask here:
- Why is Sumia absolutely worthless? Seriously, that bitch gets killed if she gets poked, and it's been this way since she entered my party. I can't even put her in battle because she's too weak to deliver a finishing blow of more than 4 damage to most enemies. As it stands, Pegasus w/e is currently my least favorite class. No defense with a shit attack adds up to a very poor class. Regardless of what she can become, it will make no difference if I can't get her beyond square one. Before I lost somebody I actually wanted to keep in my last battle, I was about ready just to let her stay dead so that I wouldn't have to worry about her taking up space in my party anymore.
- How am I supposed to level up weaker party members? They either get swarmed because the enemy knows they're weak (suddenly the Avatar's ability to size enemies up at a glance isn't very impressive), or they just don't get much experience because they aren't strong enough to get the finishing blow, but are strong enough to duke it out for a turn or two before they need to either be healed or pull back (which is worth very little experience when compared to actually killing an enemy). Using Reeking Boxes or w/e only gives me enemies on par with essentially my strongest party members, and I refuse to buy maps with actual money just to play the level up game.
- Gold. How do I get lots of it? I accidentally and stupidly bought out one of the not so impressive leaders from one of the groups within the Bonus Box. That spent nearly all of the gold I started with, and I saved on reflex, losing a large portion of my gold. I can do Reeking Box battles to slowly gain gold (it seems Silver Boullions aren't all that uncommon), but that only gives me about a 500g profit on an average run when considering another Box has to be purchased to keep the cycle going. With my weapons slowly getting beat down, I'm going to start running out of options very quickly. Once again, I have a strong aversion to spending actual money. If it will be too hard for me to recover, I can start over. I'm only on Chapter 5 right now anyways.
- How do I weapons? I get weapons have a durability and do break once that runs out. I get that weapons can be upgraded for a price at the forge. What I don't get is how to manage my weapons so that I don't run into issues. With my already large number of party members, it's overwhelming for me as someone new to the series to try to organize so many inventories simultaneously while managing best weapons for people and the like. I get Crom is pretty much set with his Falchion, since if all else fails, that weapon will just keep on working. Everybody else is very dependent on temporary weaponry though, and I just don't really know where to begin.
Basically, I need to learn how to play a Fire Emblem game and have fun with it. Currently, the game is all kinds of work, trying to manage so many party members, organize them so that they'll survive, and figuring out how to level up low level members without them being totally worthless. I want to enjoy it, but I'm rather close to just popping in another game and never opening this one again.
