It was really satisfying watching Shinon take Aether to the face again and again.

PoR: every occult skill does almost nothing exept aether. RD: every occult skill is freaking overkill exept aether wat.

Can confirm, Flare can activate with long range tomes (Bolting, Blizzard, Meteor) Ilyana has activated it many times on my playthroughs

We have a game with unique skills that are generally not worth their cost and a game where all of the mastery skills are free and just overkill in most cases.

I've always liked Volke's drunken brawleresque animation for Lethality

I mean, if I can say one positive: at least they're varied in this game. Unlike RD, where basically every single one of them is "triples strength/damage" with a secondary effect that you probably won't see because you basically just crit the enemy.

The Black Knight activating Luna on my dad during chapter 27 really got him to quit his Path of Radiance playthrough.

While speaking about usefulness of Roar I was just imagining bunch of Tigers ganking up on an unit roaring on it repeatedly while surrounding it... That's more hilarious than it should be, poor guy probably has trauma now xD

This is a bit random, but this type of videos from you are my absolute favorite! You're actually the one who got me into Fire Emblem because when I bought Awakening, I was overwhelmed with everything that was going on. It was through watching your videos that I understood the game much better and actually started enjoying it a lot! I got my hands on a copy of PoR a while back and I'm playing it right now, so your let's play is actually a godsend! :)

Shinon: HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO DIE????

I kinda wanna cosplay Assassin Volke someday, he looks really cool.

I actually LOVE using deadeye in PoR, it's just extremely satisfying to use

Sol is great, unless you're Mangs, and Oscar only triggers it at full HP

My last playthrough I had Occults lying around and so I gave one to Rolf because he was the only one with the capacity, and I was impressed by Deadeye. My Rolf tended to have hitrates in the 80s, and I like using longbows which drive that further down, and the guaranteed hit is actually really, really nice. He also put an enemy to sleep in a useful way once or twice, maybe. That part wasn't as important.

honestly ike titania and volke are probably the only people worth it. and volkes really only because theres no reason not to.

Thaaaaaank you man, I didn't understand what every skill does, but you just explained it pretty good.

Pretty sure Adept can trigger with long range tomes. It happened my last play through, when Soren was using a Blizzard tome.

So I think you have the effect of Colossus wrong. Its activation condition is the unit's Build being greater than the opponent, not Weight. This is relevant for mounted units because their Build doesn't include the weight of their mount. I just tested this and Boyd was able to Colossus Petrine, who weighs quite a bit more than him on her horse but has lower Con. The second is that it doesn't boost damage by 25%, but instead adds 25% of Str to damage (including when he's using the Bolt Axe or Bright Bow). This is done after damage calculation, so if he's dealing 0 damage (probably because you gave him the Bolt Axe or Bright Bow for some reason), he still gets the full colossus boost. Of course, since Boyd and the other guy cap Str at 30, this is just a 7 damage boost. Not exactly groundbreaking. None of this explains why Boyd has a -2 base Build modifier in class whose mastery skill requires high Build, which is why he can't Colossus other Warriors even with the Statue Frag. On another note, it appears Ashnard and BK's armor prevent mastery skills other than Aether from activating on them. I was trying to test if maybe Colossus would let Boyd damage them due to faulty programming, but it never triggered even when the RNG should have been good for it. Edited Aether onto him and it worked just fine (though he still did no damage). So that's neat.

Great vid, but I have to disagree about deadeye. As someone who misses 98% chance moves on a daily bases (not even exaggerating), this skill is godlike for me.

A lot of those skills just fall under the "may as well" syndrome, since for several units, that's all they get. Jill may get two scrolls, or she may get Stun. Rolf may get Deadeye. Mist may get Sol. Ike WILL get Aether. Anyone with a decent pre-obtained skill will likely keep it and maybe one other scroll skill.

Apparently if Ike aether's a door, he gets stuck in a loop and the game soft locks.

You I just started playing this game again and got this item, glad apple was listening to me for once 😂, love the guide!

This guide was very useful thank you

Colossus is based on Con/Build, not Weight.

honestly. all the mastery skills outside of aether and sol i pretty much just treat as extra crit chance. cause that's all they really are. Also, fun story about astra. i've had a really really str screwed mia use AN ENTIRE BRAVE SWORD IN 1 COMBAT. through multiple procs of astra and adept. XD

I like how shinons hair moves when he activates deadeye

I’m glad they gave Shinon Deadeye in Heroes AND made it so much better. Definitely one of the best specials in the game.

If you remember there is that Bishop/Priest Hostage map. You can use roar on the enemies and bishops who come to attack you

Thanks for this! I never knew what Vortex did, and learning the details I never knew for Deadeye, Colossus and Lethality was interesting. Are you planning on doing a follow-up for the mastery skills in Radiant Dawn?

I disagree on Deadeye being a bad skill. It helped me in multiple chapters and it also helped me dick on Naesala. Sure enough, double hitrate sounds unnecessary but it's a goodie on top of the main feature which is putting an enemy to sleep pretty much forever. This helps weaker units who haven't benefited from B.EXP to get kills, too. I think it makes much sense, considering that archers are supposed to support their teammates over trying to get kills alone.

I can only think of a very few occult skills that I think are worth it. Aether (Obviously), Sol really works, Lethality (If you're using Volke mostly), Luna if you really want to use a General, and Cancel if you're committing to one of the Hawks. Thats just my opinion.

Flare works on knives if I remember correctly but still targets resso....

Actually one of my sages Activated Flare with a Meteor (or was it Rhys with purge I don't remember the specifics) but long range Tomes can use Occult skill (flare) I know this cuz I nearly Killed the Bishop holding the Rexaura while trying to weaken him when it triggered (nearly gave me a freaking heart attack)

Considering how underwhelming most of the mastery skills are, I actually consider Deadeye to be good. Because you know what "overkill" accuracy is good against? Swordmasters and beast tribe laguz. Even with high base accuracy, these unit types have pretty high avoid, high enough for a skill-capped Rolf to have trouble reliably hitting depending on the weapon equipped. But with Deadeye, it's really cathartic to see a listed 100 hit against those units. And with that, the sleep chance becomes relevant, particularly against tigers and dragons.

6:59 in my last playthrough during the black knight fight, he engaged and activated luna then Ike retaliated with aether

My favorite combination for Ike is Wrath/Nihil for the Black Knight, then trade Nihil for Resolve when I get it.

Deadeye's animation is indeed very cool.

I guess I'll share my opinions on the occult skills but overall there pretty similar to yours (Aether) Really good. Probably the easiest choice to use for the Black Knight fight. (Sol) If you are using a Paladin, GIVE IT TO THEM!! Pretty much one of the few good occult skills. (Luna) Like you said, mainly recommended for armored knights. (Astra) It's alright but there are better skills that use up less capacity. It's also annoying how much it can unnecessarily use up weapon durability. (Flare) It could've been useful if the enemy's resistance are already low to begin with. (Colossus) The skill only works on enemy units where you don't even need extra damage on. It's practically useless. (Stun) Bad, bad,BAD!!! Why would you ever rely on luck to give an enemy a status ailment. (Deadeye)Shinon's accuracy isn't that great when you get him back from chapter 19 so the accuracy boost isn't that useless for him at least. That's the only use I can think of it's that bad. (Lethality) Not worth using if you're using Volke to be honest. Assassin is tied to Snipers for having the highest skill cap out of every playable beorc class. A 30% chance to activate skills such as Adept or Guard can be useful and Resolve can make the chances even higher as well as alleviate the damage output issue. (Roar) It's... situational but I still think it's underated. In situations where you can't kill an enemy but you don't want them to cause any damage, Roar can have value. It's still not the best option but imo it's the only status inflicting skill done right but that's not saying much. (Cancel) Great skill, just sadly held back by it's users.

Flare definitely can activate with seige tomes. I have done it with Rhys once. (It did 4 extra damage to a Tiger, kek)

Sol can still activate in long range combat. The only exception is magic sword i think

Shinon must have been surprised to have Ike upB slaughter him

I always gave Ike the Occult scroll, but now I found out that you can give others to other characters. I was so excited but now your video stomped on my hopes and aspirations. Oh well, I'll still play favorites. I'll give Luna to Gatrie. But does Largo start out with his skill since he's promoted?

Truth right now: We've been underestimating Deadeye this entire time

So about colossus. I sometimes do colossus with boyd on horsemen. The horsemen are much heavier then boyd but I still do colossus on them. So I don't think It's weight that matters.

Was it path or rd that the only benny to deadeye's sleep was a pseudo cancel?

Even if you can never have it, here’s a fun interaction I found out: So, Deadeye permanently doubles accuracy. Gamble Halves this. Through some hacking, I found out that gamble gives you double Crit while putting you back to normal hit. It might be rather obvious, but I think it’s neat. It made my rerun of POR a lot more fun with Rolf and a Killer Bow.

If you could fit gamble and deadeye together, then it'd be op. Rolf or Astrid with 100% crit/hit sounds insane.

I'm surprised you didn't mention that Ike's Aether animation is used by the Heroes in the GBA FE games.

will you do the same in RD? for the new Maestry skills from that game?

Deadeye plus gamble would be good, if it wasn't impossibleimpossible

If only gamble only cost 5. Deadeye plus double crit = a delete button

stun is better than roar. because stun applies during combat while roar requires you not to go into combat

Soooo the sonic sword sword and runesword at 2 range are the only weapons that can't proc mastery skills.

Yeah... RD made Occult skills much better...

I’m glad these skills got buffed in radiant dawn cause lots of the master skills like stun and colossus and deadeye do 3 times the damage and a critical with it broken in radiant dawn way better

A lot of Mastery Skills sucking in this game is quite ironic when it to Radiant Dawn where since they gave Mastery Skills to any unit that 3rd tier automaticity while also making it so every Mastery counted as a critical when it activated. Making it so that instead of the effect being the main draw of most Mastery Skills it’s the automatic crit that works of your Skill stat alone and is not influenced by the enemies Luck. As most enemies won’t live to see most of the effects. I like the celestial theme naming associated with Sol, Luna, Astra and maybe Flare. Just feels cool. Although it is quite weird to see Sol on Paladins as I associate it more with Hero’s. In fact I may be wrong but wasn’t Sol almost entirely used by Sword users before this with the exception of Gaiden’s Sol weapon. Colossus just seems to suck in general as the enemies you would want to use it on happen to prevent its activations entirely. With Stun the only thing you’re really stopping the enemy from doing is moving to try and pick off inits behind the user. A damage nullifying skill being on a class that isn’t that tanky. Not something you see everyday. Lethality is so much fun when it activates. One thing I observed is that in Awakening despite being a skill/4 chance of activating it actually has a better chance of activating there as considering that Assassin has a 48 skill cap so any character within the Assassin class will have 11-12.5% chance of activating it normally. And unlike here it is not reliant on getting a critical from a class with no crit bonus and no Killer Weapon equivalent. At least FE7 and FE8 had Killer Weapons to increase the chance and Fates at the bare minimum when it comes to capped stats has a 9.5% chance of consistently activating. (Not counting Cap Statues as I am merely pointing out how at bare minimum the chance of Lethality is slightly better in that game and since Lodestar has the highest Skill stat but was DLC I didn’t count it). Aether is useful no matter what game it is from as who doesn’t want a skill that heals you and increase damage at the same time. In Heroes I tend to find it has some problems since 5 on the Special Gauge means it takes a few battles to kick in during which time the enemy would have been dead by Luna or you would have more healing with Sol. hence I feel to be very useful it needs something to accelerate the Special Gauge. Which all three versions of Ike have in someway. And talking about Heroes and be topical I just got some new 5 Star Heroes from the Legendary Banner. Valentine Lyn, a rare armoured tome user who is quite fast for being an armoured unit and comes with Armour Marcy so she is going on my Armour team immediately. Although it is quite funny that somebody wearing a not especially heavy dress counts as Armoured. Female Morgan who I have wanted for a while and she is flying tome user and I didn’t have any of those before. Plus Female Morgan is one of my favourite characters from Awakening and her design being a combination of Tactician and Dark Flier classes is pretty neat. Her skill set is meant to pretty much designed to fight offensive Mages which gives her a good niche. And then we have Legendary Hector. Just seeing what that this guy was the Legendary Hero gave me the idea that he is going to be controversial. As Hector has had 3 variants so far and they all seem to build off the other. Regular Hector can double if attacked at a certain threshold of HP. Valentines Hector has ways to accelerate the Special Trigger and one of his skills prevents doubling from the opponent and himself but with that speed. Legendary Hector combines the doubling if attacked when above a certain threshold and Special Gauge acceleration with Vengeful Fighter and the HP threshold for the skill being deactivated is lower in this case. And his weapon prevents enemy doubling but it merely requires more allies to be closer to him than the enemies. Which can be done quite easily and doesn’t deactivate at certain HP thresholds. Hectors current three variants not only are the exact same unit type but each new version power creeps the others and makes them partially obsolete as their skill sets are very similar. Say what you want as with all of Tharja,s variants being Red Tome users at the very least they all have way different skill sets and one is of a different movement type than the others. I don’t mind it but I can understand why somebody would be annoyed. And then we have the fact that due to the fact that Brave Hector is very likely less than 2 months away we have a case of a hero gaining 2 alts in the span of less than 2 months. Although we don’t know when the developers decided to have Legendary Hector be a thing so him getting 2 alts that close together might be just a massive coincidence as Brave Hector as a concept is only slightly under 5 months old at this point. Legendary Hector might have been planned before then and he just happened to be a winner of Choose Your Legends 2 which caused such closeness in release. Sorry for the massive tangent. When I rewatch some of your older content I might write some comments as I only really got the confidence to actually comment recently.

I think that weapon consumption doesn't apply for Astra in Awakening.

If there was more capacity, deadeye and gamble would be so broken xd

Can only Ike take Aether? I remember in middle school playing this game and giving it to him randomly and seeing years later how he used it in Brawl. I was so shook

I wonder if leanne would have been playable, then she would need an occult scroll. Man, colossus would have been so much better if it triggered when the opponent's weight was greater. Imagine giving boyd a pole axe equipped with that. Wish there were other skills that gave two range attacks to one range units.

So is the only way to have Ike get Aether before the black knight is to steal the occult scroll from the ship? I'm still a little new to Fire Emblem.

Deadeye can actually be decent when using longbows.... Yeah that's about it.

So most of the occultist skill suck/not useful expect luna, sol,cancel, and aether, but even then there are better skills, Okay got it. on the plus side the occultist skill animation are pretty cool animation( dat sniper animation)

I wrote a stupid comment (I deleted it), thinking you made a math fail during your Astra segment when in reality I made a math fail myself. Guess this is a case of Burner math.

Aether can activate at 2 range, I've seen it, it's possible, just moderately rare

Honestly, considering how easy this game gets in the 2nd half, 20 capacity for a really cool animation isn't that bad. Especially Lethality. It's like Volke gets dizzy with all the power, lol Ugh why is Stun Skill/2% !? It should be be 100% activation considering it doesn't even give a damage bonus!

I still want to see Ashnard's stun animation.

This video reminded me how bad the occult skills were lol

Personally I thought that Sol was pretty garbage just based on how much it would activate on latter hits than the first hit. Most of the time Kieran would always get 5-10ish HP back, which is okay since Vulneraries are your main source of healing, but he just couldn't kill anything. Meanwhile, Luna is good on Nephenee since her strength isn't stellar and despite her already having Wrath, which is good enough on its own, Luna can serve as a more safe option since it doesn't require an HP threshold. Flare is honestly terrible. Mostly used as a mage killer but you might as well use a physical unit for that. Colossus is the worst in the game. Has an activation threshold, and its damage potential is awful. Astra is... interesting to say the least. It's solid if you need it, but considering Mia has Vantage, Zihark has Adept, and Lucia is a terrible unit, you probably won't be slapping it on them. Deadeye is solid because unlike Stun it can actually render the target inactive. The accuracy boost is also nice. Lethality is similar to Astra. If you want it, good, it'll make Volke essentially a time bomb. If not, I doubt you'll lose much. Stun is tied for Colossus for being the worst in the game. Freezes the target in place and that's basically it. And it's such a small payoff for that activation rate. Roar/Cancel: Never really had experience with either of these. Roar is like Deadeye, and Cancel is basically FE4s Great Shield. Make of that what you will. It's hard to believe these skills got such a massive buff when transferred to Radiant Dawn. Except for Aether, but Aether was already a beefy skill to begin with.

I’ve got to ask Radiant Dawn Occult Scrolls guide when?

lol so wrong to aether Shinnon 20 times

Here you are talking about how great Aether is, and here I am laughing at watching Shinon get bodied over and over. I've decided to go with the Wrath/Resolve combo on Ike for the final boss, but throughout the game, I've never had my Ike take enough damage to be in Wrath range, so the one part of the combo that's around for longer has literally done nothing for me. I'm thinking I should have gone with Aether after all. I know Wrath/Resolve is extremely useful once it's available, but it's barely available in the first place. Sol is great, but most Paladins are pretty bulky anyway. The amount of times Oscar activated Sol when he literally didn't need it... Stefan... triggered Astra on one of the laguz in the desert in my run. They got wrecked. I forgot that unequipping your characters' stuff was a thing at the time, so RIP BEXP.

Deadeye in radiant dawn is way more useless. Triple the damage is killing the ennemi so why they keep the sleep effect? 🤷‍♂️

Now we know why Ike left to train after this game. They lacked a lot of skill or just isn't a good unit.

What does resolve do?

You forgot to mention that Petrine has the Sol skill as well, and there was one enemy in the final chapter that does have the Astra skill. Petrine with Sol makes it annoying to actually kill her and the Astra guy is just meat food for me.

This iteration of Colossus has to be the stupidest idea for a class skill I’ve ever seen. Automatically fails against things like generals, wyvern riders, and Laguz who you might really like bonus damage on, but hey, at least you’ve got a ~20% chance to turn your 20 damage against a myrmidon into...25. Who could have possibly thought that was a good idea?

I honestly think vortex is awesome and it would had been better if nesala had better magic in here . he would be a killing machine

13:39 "when activated,puts enemys to sleep" WHY? sure hit multiplied the damage by 1,5.this is garbage.they buffed the hiteffect to always take place,but that isnt the important part of an archerskill.this is just disgraceful to the class lol

Aether and Sol are the only good ones

Aether & sol good, else waste.

Most of them suck but they look kool

11:46 THRAKIA??????????????????

Sol>Aether. 😎

video could be shorter considering Sol and Aether are the two only viable skills considering that luna is good but generals are bad just like deadeye is nice but both rolf and shinon are complete garbage unit

9:20 Oi. Don't talk shit on Lucia. She's actually good in Radiant Dawn. Like...really good. She was the MVP of my RD run. Of course,her personality could use some work,but calling her one of the worst characters is an exaggeration,I find. Sorry for being serious,but I'm bitter.