It feels that way because 3H has a lot more defensive options available. Also the general power level as been scaled down significantly.

I agree being able to dance a character three time in a row is way more busted.

@@Yangblaze11 i read online another comment how you culd use the 3 houses bracelet to get a total of 7 attacks

@@theonesithtorulethemall How?

@@Yangblaze11 aparently you wuld use the Art to attack twice Then dance and attack And then use beyleth to reset your Attacker and dancer And then tiki + marth to fill up you engage meeter Then fallen star to attack twice And dance to attack I forgot where the 7 attack came from Also do Note i am not shure if this actually works out

I am playing on maddening without dlc or any stuff like that and putting corrin on merrin has basically turned every boss fight and enemy charges into a joke.

Yeah that was one of the hardest maps I’ve ever played. I only had two rings at the story time I did the side chapter. It was worth the reward and I couldn’t get the silver card

the mission itself break maddening. all my units got like 3 level ups giving players an edge especially early.

And it’s $30 and we’re getting like 5 more (if the Ring Chamber is anything to go off of).

@@paperluigi6132 The emblems that are going to be added have already been leaked. I actually can't wait to see what they do, as one of them is a character I had hoped would get one, but didn't think there was any real chance of him getting one.

Enough with the "runs" already. Get a life

U good?

@@kennykij1 Isaiah 3:11: Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

I personally don’t mind being able to trivialize one of my least favorite maps in the series, but I do think that complaints about lowered difficulty and/or gameplay/story segregation could’ve been addressed by simply locking you out of the DLC Emblems until after that specific chapter.

@@AzureGreatheart You see the thing is that's one of my favorite maps in the series, but yeah I don't know why they didn't just do what you suggested.

ye I also felt like it would be cheap to use the 3H emblem in chapter 11 so i took it out - if i got my rings stolen then it mustve been all of them :D

@@AzureGreatheart They shouldn't lock you out of anything imo. If the player feels it cheapens the narrative of Chapter 11 and/or makes the map too easy, they can just not use them for that map. There's no need to punish the players that do want to use them.

I mean that doesn't change the fact that you can use them. If a game has to ask you to not use all of its features in order to maintain its atmosphere then the game has inherently failed. The dlc chips away at the point of that chapter, and it should be up to the game to maintain the story that it's trying to tell: not the player.

I agree let people have fun in their one player game.

@@Yangblaze11 right? People act like this is a mmo pvp

Agreed. Fun is all that matters and whether or not they break the game is simply not a concern as long as the game isn't designed around people owning DLC.

The only time the revive expires is if you do the divine blessing on another unit, one is only allowed to have one auto revive active at a time. Learned this the hard way

Wouldn't surprise me in the fing slightest

I put Tiki on my Anna. As a Thief class she solos entire maps on Hard difficulty. Tiki’s bracelet gives more level up bonuses and Anna starts pretty low. And that’s not even the most broken part. If she does get surrounded and takes a bunch of chain attacks, all I need to do is Wait on her turn. This heals her for a massive amount. So all I do is park her in a bush (or equivalent) and wait. She kills everything with counter attacks and completely heals every single turn.

That's a really nice strategy. I like it. I play with made-up rules too. The game is as difficult as you choose to

I hadn't gotten Tiki at that point and hadn't deployed Louis and Edelgard the map before, so I had to make do without (yes, I could've put Edelgard on another unit, but believe it or not, I so often forget to take a look at the ring menu, even after doing a paralogue I always forget that I have to re-equip the ring) Did give me a nice incentive to finaly get Tiki tho

Play maddening stats are set

Put that on Jean for the majority of the game because of losing Micaiah and now he's disgusting, combining that skill with his personal. His magic is higher than Ivy's and Clanne's and it's almost a shame that he is reduced to being a healer, but I have no other trained healers so I have to keep him in a supportive role, even if I find that during some of the tougher bosses with their insanely high defense I have one mage too few lmao

Oh boy you aren't ready for the last part of the game on maddening. I found 3H maddening easy imo. (That's maybe because I played Lunatic) but I can def say this title is harder than 3H around the last 3rd of the game

There are bond rings that people choose to use even when they have 14 emblem rings. Like the double thunder bond ring. Though if you want any realistic chance to get it you either need to grind or exploit since they're insanely expensive and rare.

I have my on Yunaka and it really is Yunaka Emblem

I have tiki to Jean so that he gets double the % boost at each level up

Yeah getting tiki is hard as it is lol

Agreed. Fun is all that matters and whether or not they break the game is simply not a concern as long as the game isn't designed around people owning DLC.

Huh? Houses Unite is basically a guaranteed one shot on most strong enemies (including a boss health bar) and Raging Storm basically allows you to potentially kill two high value targets. Dimitri's shield also makes you tankier because you're guaranteed to not take damage from one ranged attack. Claude's poison is just ok but it's a free additional poison on a non dagger user with literally no drawbacks or conditions. And Lineage (bonus 20% exp) is an extremely cheap skill you always have access to, you can get it on literally everyone and benefit from it if you wanted. At higher bond levels you also get three different weapon proficiencies for class changing. Like it's funny how much lower damage Lucina's engage attack does in the vast majority of situations compared to 3H engage attack. And it basically guarantees you have weapon triangle advantage against most melee so you can break most enemies due to combat arts. And even beyond it's own merits, having DLC rings available when you don't have a full roster of them means your army is much stronger than it would be normally. Like the difference between the 3H ring and Tiki ring is that the Tiki ring is extremely busted and the 3H ring is actually strong but balanced.

Nah this is fair, I was on hard and went back to normal because it seemed like the units that have a "canon" ring were made with the intention of keeping that on them. My Alfred was completely useless until I got Sigurd back and Diamant only became capable of withstanding incoming attacks until I got to re-equip him with Roy.

Yes, fire emblem games are generally not designed for you to use everybody in one run. There simply isn't enough exp or deployment slots for it to be worth it unless you heavily in grind to outside of the main story (like in Awakening famously with DLC). Having too many characters is how the game 1) allows people who get a lot of of people killed to finish the game and 2) encourages replaying the game

@@Dragonboy55564 I managed it in 3H (which was kinda my first FE game) since I only recruited like 6 extra people so the group managed to stay small. But in this game they keep giving you unit after unit every chapter, lol. And even grinding seems difficult as the skirmished seem to keep scaling so they will always be a few levels ahead of my team.

yeah unfortunately engage (and most fire emblem games) are just built that way so it isn't really your fault. you're kind of pushed to set a team up out of a select few and stick with them, benching your other units. its even worse since skirmishes are scaled to your highest units and not the map in question which is like what past games such as Awakening did. the rosters just too huge and the game progresses too rapidly to allow everyone to be levelled equally unfortunately so i would recommend taking some of your best units and focusing on training them up.

Wild. I feel like forged silvers and effevctives are the only way to get good damage. And thats just on my juggernaut unit.

@@zate5355 Well I mean mostly that I got a whole set way for free way before they're available in game. I'm sure silver weapons are way better. Maybe that difficulty spike at chapter 10 will put me in my place 😅

I straight un equipped them lol. Hilariously tho I put the 3H one on yunaka, so I saw absolutely little to no difference from her production Solo Queen Yunaka 🤣🤣

@@yukotrey9422 I put Tiki on Alear since I want her to actually be a manakete. But when they gave me Lucina, they just took Tiki off Alear, so I couldn't use her for the rest of the map. I originally put Marth on Yunaka, but once I inherited some avoid skills from him, I just haven't bothered to put another ring on her since she's so good even without one.

I find that I’m hoarding my engage uses, I didn’t engage with Tiki or Edelgard whatsoever in chapter 11 , not sure I’d need to unless on Maddening

Silver card only works for the Item Shop and Armory. Unfortunately the Forge and Boutique don't get the discount.

There is no pay to win in a single player game. I'd argue that for most people the DLC is only making the game slightly less hard and only people who care about internet browny points are mad about it making the game easier. I'd just wish they give us the content for free and only the DLC campaign as a payed product.

See, I can accept that for Edelgard. She's only really broken when Engaged, but so is every other ring to some degree. Tiki though, is entirely busted. Starsphere makes units better, lightsphere increases survivability from crits, and some of the breath attacks are stupid. I made a unit a general and just sat him in front of an army of enemies, engaged and clicked Ice Breath. Hits 4 enemies on player phase, freezing all of them, provided they survive the half Def blast. And can still counter attack, so half of them just died attacking into him on Enemy phase. Then rinse Repeat. The only enemy it didn't work on was Zephia, and that was only because she couldn't be frozen. Even ignoring that, Lifesphere is busted. In a game where money is a premium, you'll never need to waste a healing item on whoever is using Tiki's ring. Why bother? Just click wait and you can get 40 hp and heal status without even being engaged. Geosphere gives you up to +5 Def and Res to Tiki and adjacent allies, again, not limited by engage. For reference +5 is what Ike gives you (Resolve), but only to the equipped unit and only when below 75% hp. Tiki does it for up to 5 units, no cost, no restriction Just start next to someone and boom, take less damage. That's up to a potential +50 in stats to your army at no cost. Absolutely disgusting. And if you somehow still can't believe she's busted, let's just give an unit a revive stone that doesn't expire (unless you give someone else a stone before it procs), and throw in reduced damage from special weapons like breath attacks, and Hp/Luck +10 for good measure. I don't even think it's necessarily a bad move to make DLC broken, but you can't deny Tiki is outright stupidly busted. The only thing she doesn't do is give every proficiency.

@@PhantomNull13 most of what you described your tank doing was already achievable without tiki and in fact I’ve done it without her. Ike ring alone let’s a general face tank entire hallways. Geosphere is also nice but requires you to be clumped for several turns to continue to get value often leading to the only beneficiary being the wearer and one other unit. And her inheritable skills are all stupidly expensive. Starsphere is 1500. You aren’t getting that without grinding or a late game pre promote that starts with that or more. The revival stone is nice but calling it busted is overblown when it’s an engage ability. Like the full on super move of the engage. Literally all of them have some crazy effect. It also won’t save you from getting one turned in enemy phase either so while strong it’s just another tool. And back to the prices. +10 hp luck is so wildly expensive you literally can’t ever get it unless in hard or lower and grinding. So why is it a factor? Like I said before the rings are strong but claiming their “disgusting” is hyperbolic. If these weren’t paid dlc no one would be discussing it. They would just be some more cool rings that do a thing.

@@SH1NK1R01 you don't necessarily need to inherit them onto every unit though. Geosphere isn't even that expensive (500 for regular, 1000 for +), and given to a few central units will massively increase your army's survivability. LifeSphere is more expensive, but also completely eliminates the need for any kind of healing support. Even at base level, it's not only more health back than a vulenary, for free, but also heals any statuses such as Silence on Mages or accumulated poison on Generals. And at higher levels, it's an infinite elixir, and you don't even need to engage for it. Maybe you don't need lifesphere++ on every unit, but given how low the HP on some of the mages can be, Lifesphere providing half health back for free is easily worth 1000 sp. You also get the bonus of the breath attacks, such as freezing stronger enemies in place to safely advance your army or setting up fog to allow Yunaka to run wild in the middle of a room. Finally, for divine blessing, I actually find it easier to use than a lot of engage attacks. With Lyn, for example, I have to decide whether to Astra Storm or use every possible turn to get insane chain attacks with doubles. For Ike, sometimes it's not ideal to just stand and let them attack you. For Corrin, sometimes your allies are in the line of fire, or Lucina is all on her own. But for Tiki? Use it at the start, give it to somebody and forget about it until later. You don't even really need to think about it. Just find someone who tends to die alot (seadoll, for example) and give it to him turn one. If he dies, you're safe. If he doesn't, well, you weren't going to attack turn 1 anyway, so you effectively lose nothing. He doesn't lose it until it's used, and given tanks tend to take alot of hits, it's not like you'll only be able to engage at the start of combat, so if you need it later, do it later too. And yes, I do feel like disgusting is a fair description. Every emblem is powerful in its own right, that's true. But Tiki makes it entirely possible to solo levels on Maddening. I literally put it on Jean, as a General, on Chapter 11, and he held back the entire top of the map long enough to escape. No other emblem in the game could've done that, under any circumstance. The only thing balanced about Tiki is that it'd be expensive to put them all on another character, but even one good unit with Tiki is worth 3 other Emblem Rings in my eyes.

@@PhantomNull13 I did that with Yunaka with no emblem. So again. It’s not a big deal. I agree it’s strong that’s not up for dispute but listing all the good things about the ring doesn’t prove it’s disgusting, it just proves it was worth it. Think of the alternative. Either no rings are ever added at all or they all suck. It’s not worth fussing over at all.

@@SH1NK1R01 oh, I'm not complaining. I like the fact that they're powerful, and I don't have any problem with them being a bit stronger than average. Tiki is, in my opinion, the strongest emblem in the game, largely due to how strong and, frankly generic, her abilities are. They have no downside, and every unit can fully utilize her abilities. That's why she's broken. And given how well she's designed, I'd say Yunaka is just as broken as Tiki. Any forged knife is all she'll ever need. It is Yunaka Emblem Engage, after all.

What about stuff like Hidden Truths and Heirs of Fate that only give you an item, class and one or two skills with preset units?

It is difficult if anything the time Crystal makes it to easy lol

@@TheHipHopTrucka getting crit multiple times by 3 percent chances after missing my 90+ hitrate hits i really doubt the time crystal makes anything easier. It just makes the frustrating moments less frustrating, especially because this game is a bitch with Conquest Rn system.

@@darkgrundi9543 what do you mean lol you get 10 times to redo a fuck up or bad rng, that objectively makes it easier it’s not an argument, but yes maddening is definitely a bitch it’s fun that way you have to come up with real strategies to win

Tikis map is ridiculous if you attempt it at the earliest possible time.

Why retry a map when you have literally 10 uses of the time rewind mechanic? Like if you're regularly using all 10 you probably should look again before you act because that should be enough to even brute force most mistakes. The extra health bar can catch veterans off guard but it just means you need a lot more people (like probably 5+) prepared to fight the boss on the same turn turn, not just 1-2 like most FE games. Also Tiki is a monster - she basically lets you tank and kill anything on any unit, like it's funny how busted she is when engaged. Putting it on your dancer feels like a waste.

So are the house leaders

And I’m assuming Chrom will also eventually have both when he’s added.

I completely agree.

You can disable them throw out the stat enhancers and don't equip tiki or the 3 lords

@@Byakurenfan That's not an answer. For 40 dollars, you think it's not reasonable to have a Yes/No option at the start of the game to enable/disable dlc content, especially when it affects the balance of the game? Even if you don't equip the Tiki ring, the paralogue still gives you experience you should not have had. I shouldn't have to work harder to ignore the dlc. People are paying 40 dollars for it. Ubisoft has trained you well. It reminds me of Assassin's Creed Odyssey where my character was level 70 and I was nowhere near upgrading the boat despite having beat the game and everything. Someone told me that if I bought the $15 material and booster pack, I would have had the resources. These companies have trained you guys well, I swear.

@@Katie-hb8iq just don't do the paralog.

@@Katie-hb8iq Just don't do the paralogue, just ignore the loot boxes, microtransactions are optional and offer more 'player choice', or they're 'just cosmetics'. Now where have we heard this song and dance before? If even the most milk-toast critiques elicit corporate endorsed and reinforced justifications for such practices, then we're in trouble.

The game has infinite grinding in the form of skirmishes; even if they scale with your level, that doesn't matter. It has infinite level-gaining in the form of Second Seals, which become fully renewable in Chapter 16 or so. Difficulty is entirely within your control. As for "40 Canadian Dollars for all this is scummy": - it's a game expansion, with the nostalgia stuff thrown in first to sell it better. Let's see what else is added in the coming months, okay? 3H didn't get a significant fourth wave, but it's been a week for Engage. - The Tiki Paralogue is actually difficult to even clear, let-alone get everything from, and Mangs said it was very well-made. Those whining about how it's an extra level that grants extra EXP have missed the point that it's optional. Extra content is extra content. - Story-wise, the bracelets are extraneous and irrelevant to the bad guys, not being the rings that grant god powers if you have all twelve together. It's not like they can be stolen as easily as rings, anyway; someone would have certainly noticed Veyle trying to pull them off of their wrists. - IS decided to give everyone 5,000-10,000G worth of gear for free a couple of hours after launch, they don't seem very set on keeping things difficult. This isn't like Ubisoft selling EXP boosters to reach level-gated content in their Assassin's Creed games without grinding; you can still attempt the challenge here without spending money, or just turn down the difficulty.