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May 17 2007, 12:03 AM
Anyway, Rolf's jorb is to fight things. However, there's a limited amount of exp to be gained, and when Rolf's fighting, he's taking some of that exp that I could have used on another character. phail. And speaking of other characters, Rolf sucks, and I could have been using someone better. By using him instead of someone who's actually good, my team is worse off. How much worse is he than the good fighters? Lots. He joins massively weak, and unless I burn even more exp than normal on him, he stays sucky. Using Rolf is a detriment to the team.

1. Prepromoted units in this game are great, and can fight well with little experience.

2. Bonus experience is rather plentiful.

3. All of these low tiers suck and shouldn't be used over any of the good units.

4. He doesn't take enough experience to be a detriment unless you want to 20/20 a large group of unpromoted units or something. He doesn't require much more experience(if more at all) than any of the early joining units, since he gets tons of EXP per kill when he joins.

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Sothe's job is to pick locks and steal things. He doesn't take exp from the other characters on my team. The exact opposite of Rolf. Winner: Sothe. Now, there's also another thief that I could have been using instead of Sothe. How much worse is Sothe than this other thief? Not much. This other thief, Volke, does indeed have better stats, but he still sucks massively at fighting things, so it doesn't even matter. And then Sothe even has a few advantages of his own: he doesn't cost anything to pick locks, whereas Volke does, though this is fairly minor; and he actually has supports, and Volke doesn't (lol, Bastian), which can help other characters on my team. Using Sothe hardly hurts my team, if any at all. He may even be more helpful than Volke is.


Sothe's job isn't needed every chapter. And when it is, why waste a unit slot on a unit that can't do anything BUT steal and pick stuff? Volke at least CAN fight. He has solid combat statistics; he's just forced to use a very weak weapon type, however, a Stiletto makes him pretty combat-ready. Sothe, even with a Stiletto, can't do anything combat-wise. He's also much more fragile, even with Blossum giving him good statistics for a 20/0 unit.

Volke also has a massive level lead over Sothe. Sothe supporting units? Lol no. He's a waste of a slot, since if he goes near combat to support those units, he's getting raped. THAT'S pretty detrimental. Since he can't fight, he can barely even gain experience, and with Blossum factoured in, he'll barely ever gain levels. He's a piece of glass on the battlefield that isn't needed when Volke does his job ten times better.

Sothe joins like this

HP: 20.0
STR: 5.0
MAG: 1.0
SKL: 7.0
SPD: 11.0
LUK: 5.0
DEF: 4.0
RES: 0.0

If this was chapter one, he'd be fine.

But he joins much later than that.

Only 24 Atk is required to OHKO him, and only 20 Atk for a magic user. He only has 7 Atk with a Knife and 9 Atk with a Dagger, so he's not dealing damage to anything unless it's awful. 27 Evd is very unreliable.

So, in conclusion, Sothe is completely incapable of entering combat, and thus he cannot gain experience beyond bonus experience and picking off a random mage here and there.

Using bonus experience on him is obviously a waste, as you get nothing at all out of it except a second thief. Volke's already living and can actually fight sometimes, so Sothe is a waste of a slot.

You brought up supporting other units being good. Okay.

Rolf supports:
Shinon (1|2|4)
Rhys (3|6|9)
Marcia (2|5|8)
Mist (1|3|7)
Tauroneo (1|3|5)

Sothe supports:
Astrid
Tormod
(EFED doesn't have the numbers for amount of chapters and I'm too lazy to go to GameFAQs when it doesnt matter.)

Astrid wants Gatrie and Makalov WAY more.
Tormod wants Reyson, Calill, and Muarim WAY more; he might even want Devdan more...

Rolf's support partners may have other better options, but Rolf has such a massive list that if he's being used he's definitely getting some supports in. There's not enough unit space for all of his partners to be full without him.

After Rolf promotes, he becomes one your better attackers due to his high SKL, high SPD, and his high Crit. His STR may not be amazing, but it allows him to get kills with Steel Bows and such anyways. Not like everyone else is doing much better, anyways, since criticals and effective weapons are almost a requirement to get kills in one-round.
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