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Total Members Voted: 8

[SeriousConcentrate]

3 can be counteracted by taking Fortune although you won't have Gamble... unless you S-Rank with someone and take that as your S-Rank skill. It'll only be useful that late in the game anyway, while Fortune is good ALL the time. Of course that comes with the restriction you can only Gamble while within three spaces of your S-Rank, but eh. It's more situational anyway.

[Solymr]

Well then you better get S-rank with another melee fighter *winkwink*

[USEC_OFFICER]

It can be workable, especially with high HP; the major thing to watch out for is a few things:
1. Unless you have Gamble (halve hit, double crit), hit rate becomes unnecessary over 100%.  That said, being able to hit enemies easy-peasy will pay off in the end-game when enemies have significant evasion themselves (in FEF1, we're only guaranteeing hits through various spell buffs), and if you do have Gamble, being able to convert a 25% chance to crit into a 50% chance to crit with absolutely no effective cost can be quite entertaining.
2. Counterattacks are going to really, really smart, and unless you can out-move and one-shot all of your enemies, you're very likely to be taking at least some hits.
3. Crits are really going to hurt.  That said, LUCK is kinda the designated dump stat.

1. No comment on Gamble. I probably won't be taking it though, since, well, LCK is one of my dump stats.
2. Axe user + high STR. Hopefully I'll be able to one-shot most of my enemies, and if not I will probably die horribly.
3. Hence why I'm talking Fortune.

Well then you better get S-rank with another melee fighter *winkwink*

*nudge nudge, wink wink* Say no more!

*Ahem* Sorry about that. It's definitely in the cards though. Lycan has no supports, after all.

3 can be counteracted by taking Fortune although you won't have Gamble... unless you S-Rank with someone and take that as your S-Rank skill. It'll only be useful that late in the game anyway, while Fortune is good ALL the time. Of course that comes with the restriction you can only Gamble while within three spaces of your S-Rank, but eh. It's more situational anyway.

Sounds like a bit of a plan. But again, no LCK so very low critical chance anyways. I might also want to go for a regen or something like that. I dunno.

[Sirus]

I'm not entirely sure Gordon should have been knocked down there. Gimme some time to go back through the combat logs. before I respond to anything IC.

[Solymr]

Lycan has no supports, after all.

Whatchoo talking bout, Nanoha wants that ass.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Crits are based on Skill, not Luck. Luck is only for dodging crits and slightly boosting hit chance AFAIK.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Crits are based on Skill, not Luck. Luck is only for dodging crits and slightly boosting hit chance AFAIK.

...

Oh. Okay then. No wonder LCK is the designated dump stat. It's pretty damn useless.

[SeriousConcentrate]

It really is, yeah.

[Solymr]

It also boosts evasion.

[Praefectus Screptum]

I'm not entirely sure Gordon should have been knocked down there. Gimme some time to go back through the combat logs. before I respond to anything IC.

He was supposed to be down. Even with the 6 HP he restored on the turn I forgot to put, he received a total of 16 damage from those two attacks.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Yeah, but Speed does too and is WAY more valuable to sink points into. The problem with Luck is it does a few things that are nice to have (slightly boosted Evasion and Hit, lessens enemy Crit chance), but basically just bolsters Speed and Skill and both are far more useful because of their other benefits (Crits and Attack Speed).

[USEC_OFFICER]

Spoiler: New Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Kaarina Nurmi
Class: Fighter Trainee -> Bandit -> Berserker
Character Specific Skill: Fortune
Affinity: ?
Personal Fault: Thanks for the Shade: -15 Hit against Archers and their Promotions
Personal Skill: Burning Blood: +2 base damage when within three squares of three or more enemies.
Personal Skill: The You Who Believes in Me: +15 Evasion when within three squares of another player.

Preferred stats: STR, HP

Weapon profs: Hack (E), Axes (E)

Level: 1 (0/100)
Total Level: 1

Progression spent: 330%

HP: 20 (70%)
STR: 6 (65%)
MAG: 0 (0%)
SKL: 4 (65%)
CON: 6
AID: 5
LCK: 1 (10%)
DEF: 3 (45%)
RES: 0 (10%)
SPD: 4 (65%)
MOV: 4

+2 SKL, +2 SPD

Code: [Select]

Inventory:
Name Type () RNG MT WT CR Hit QL
Iron Axe Hack (E) 1  8  10  0  75  45
Vulnerary (3/3)
Bio: Kaarina has always wanted to be a famous and proud knight since she was young. As a girl she would run around with the other boys and play fight with sticks. But her parents wanted Kaarina to settle down with a nice man and tend the family farm. Unfortunately Kaarina didn't agree with her parents, and one night, when she was around 16, snuck off in the middle of the night to head towards the nearest town. Obviously no-one in the town wanted to train a young girl how to fight. Kaarina eventually found herself working for a merchant caravan, washing clothes and watching the guards train whenever she could.

Then one day the caravan was attacked by bandits, and all of the guards were slaughtered. Kaarina's life was spared, though she didn't appreciate it at the time. Kaarina was kept by the bandits as a washerwoman and cook, but some of the older bandits took a liking to her, and taught her how to use an axe. Eventually she earned the trust of the bandit leader and started to participate in their raids. While not exactly a proud knight, Kaarina has become a fierce fighter.

If I went with a Pirate she probably could have appeared in the next mission, but meh. Bandit fits much better.

Anyways, did I miss anything or something along those lines?

[Sirus]

I'm not entirely sure Gordon should have been knocked down there. Gimme some time to go back through the combat logs. before I respond to anything IC.

He was supposed to be down. Even with the 6 HP he restored on the turn I forgot to put, he received a total of 16 damage from those two attacks.

Okay, I finally see why I was confused. That shaman's attack a turn or two ago was in a spoiler and I missed it on my first (and second) glance.

So never mind, we're good ^^;

[Caellath]

LCK pobably works for glass cannon or evasion-focused builds that ditch Fortune and pretend DEF doesn't exist. I do know having good Luck can make quite a difference in the end game due to it raising a little bit of two important combat stats. In Lycan's case, I just took Fortune and dumped LCK.

I predict Kaarina will be the party's meat cleaver.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I predict Kaarina will be the party's meat cleaver.

I'm going to assume that that's a compliment. Alternatively: *something something* sex joke *something something*.