Finished the (edgiest route) of Three Houses. Thank fuck I got that one out of the way first lol.



Each route in the game feels like it has its pros and cons.



Imo things did feel somewhat messy in the second half though, and I was also expecting the route I took to last longer. But I feel Intelligent Systems still did the best they could giving us meaningful choices. My hat's to them.

Mind you I play on hard. How I usually handle a month is that the first sunday is exploration of the monastery, get everything done there and then depending on how I am doing on levels spend either 1-2 weeks on battle and 1 on seminars. Once it's possible to do two renown battles a day I usually dont need more than a single sunday on battles to stay a handful of levels above with key students and a lvl or two with the others. Like especially during the Golden Deer route most of my units were 4-5 levels above what the game recommended for the main mission. Following this formula has so far lead to me always being able to do all the supports I want, be some levels above the mission recommendation and have students with exactly the skills I need and waaaaaay more action points to use than I got any reasonable need for. Once again, obessing over professor levels to me make no sense.

Wouldn't call seminars useless or close to it. They are useful and found them to be not only good at getting Byleth new skills but quickly get students up to speed in other skills than the ones I've focused on before.

But like I said before, play however you want. Anyone trying to tell that things are best done way are just being silly. Been pretty clear by now that Dusty and I play this game in completely different ways and both of us seem to get it to work pretty great. I mean if you go on the subreddit a few days ago you'd see massive support with well reasoned arguments for why seminars are very useful ^^ 

Haha, I just started my second playthrough yesterday as the Golden Deer, looks like we did the routes in reverse order XD

Query. When choosing Battle I am confronted with two battles that appear to be the same. One is an Auxiliary called "Battle at Magdred Way" (Lvl 11) while the other is a Quest and it's called "Clearing the Way" (Lvl 7), but the description for this one says, "Head to Magdred Way and take down the bandits." They consume 1 AP each (I can only spend 1 AP on battles every Sunday). I'm confused.

Yeah quest battles remain for quite a while. Still best to get them done when no Paralogues require attention as the quest battles don't scale so leaving one really means you get bugger all exp from it later

The secret to friendship: spamming this formation and rotating characters.




You can only play a maximum of 100 turns apparently. Pity.

Yup, I did that too. Plus, my Byleth had a bow so he couldn't counter-attack, thus reaching 100 turns.

I'm currently finishing Chapter 7. I've already recruited Bernie, Petra, Dorothea, Marianne, Cyril, Shamir, Catherine, and Flayn, to the cause. It's a bit exhausting having to teach the teachers as well.

Just received my Nintendo newsletter. Apparently, I've put 53 hours into 3H already and I haven't even finished Chapter 8!

Sort of, so far as I know. You can park them next to each other or glue the units together using a pair up system they added in Awakening. Supporting with a character in this one won't limit them from supporting with another, except for s ranks, which each character can only obtain one of (the bang rank)