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Viewing Single Post From: Zihark
Blackbird	Mar 1 2008, 03:55 PM
Posts: 181 Group: FEFFer Member #1,584 Joined: December 10, 2007	What I read at the top of your post was "comparisons before part 4 don't even matter, because everyone rapes equally". Nothing was mentioned about authority, but since we are going there... The comparisons do matter, because Mia's offense is still better regardless of what the authority bonus is. It's better in Part 3, and it's better in Part 4. You claimed several posts ago that Mia's offense was poor. However, I think I've proven pretty conclusively that Mia's offense is better than Zihark's for the duration of the game, so where does that leave him? You've got two options. 1) Mia's offense is actually good, in which case, Zihark is free to have good offense as well (although not quite as good as Mia's). 2) Mia's offense is poor. In which case, Zihark's, by comparison, is terrible. Mia's concrete durability is better, as well, because she has a larger HP safety net and more defense. This is also unrelated to authority, and thus is valid for comparison before part 4. Another secondary bonus is that Mia's 2nd tier bases are so high that she is likely to cap several stats early, meaning she will get more bonus exp levels to pump up average stats (str, def, res) than Zihark, further widening their durability and offense gap. At the part 4 argument: Yeah, people make that argument about FE8. Some go so far as to say the entire game is a joke, since it has unlimited exp. However, even there, you can still compare units, and say Unit A will be better to field in place of Unit B. It's true that Mid tier units will still do well on part 4, but they only do that well because they can fall back on higher tier units like Tibarn, Ike, Mia, etc. to back them up if the enemy reinforcements become too much. It's a whole team effort. Mia is still pulling more weight than Zihark in 4. Usefulness: "[Zihark] is much more useful in the first three parts than Mia is." Zihark is useful in 50% of Part 1 and 5% or so of Part 3. During the half of Part 1 that Zihark exists, he is useful, but not vital, because you have other very strong units helping the team out as well. As I've previously mentioned, it may actually be detrimental to use him, because he is overleveled, and has less to gain from kills than Micaiah, Aran, Edward, Nolan, Jill, or Illyana. Meanwhile, Mia exists for 95% of Part 3. 95% of a very large Part > 55% of two smaller Parts. Mia is available more of the time, and in a continuous segment, so she is helping your team for more of the game. Furthermore, Mia is never a potential detriment to your team. In fact, she has some of the better offense on the Greil Mercs early on, because she will double the earliest.


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