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Zero Chaos	May 27 2009, 09:11 PM
Posts: 7 Group: FEFFer Member #2,264 Joined: May 27, 2009	Zihark is basically the only Swordmaster I ever use. Edward just starts out as crap, and when you're playing on Hard Mode, you don't have enough experience points to level him up so much. I play on Hard Mode basically every time, so I don't have the patience or experience points to give to Edward. For me, I just use him as a decoy and he usually dies in the first part. Lucia is decent, but she fights very few battles and has almost no time for leveling up. I see no point in bothering to level her up, since there are very few battles that she fights in. She gets kidnapped and then you have to wait until the last part to use her, and then she's still a mid-level Swordmaster. If anybody is to be any use by that time, they need to be on their last class. Stefan... unless you take him to the final battle, he's absolutely useless. I think that this is pretty straight forward and doesn't need much explaining. And finally the battle between Zihark and Mia. Mia is good, yes, but the problem is the allies surrounding her. She has Soren (who I always bring with me 'till the end), Rhys (who I also use quite often), Ike (who is just a pain in my opinion), Titania (beast), Oscar (level him just a little and he's like Titania), and I think you guys know where this is going. I like leveling those guys, especially Soren. I don't have the experience points on Hard Mode to share between Mia and the others in the Greil Mercenaries. I have mny more units to worry about leveling. When you get Zihark, your good allies are Sothe (since he starts out at a high level), Tauroneo (who you don't use very much in the first part anyway), Black Knight (who only shares one battle with Zihark, but I never use the Black Knight in the Endgame of part one anyway), and maybe a tiny bit of Micaiah. Face it, Zihark's team is crap. You have to worry about saving (if you try to get though the game without letting anyone die) Meg, Nolan, Laura, Ilyana, Edward, Leonardo, Jill, Aran, and I may be missing more. The point is, Zihark is one of the only good units in Micaiah's army. Now add Volug for Support with that. Once they get into an "A" support, they get a +45 avoid. Since I like Volug, as long as I keep them together, they never get hit. They both have pretty good Speed as it is, and with that bonus, I can't say no. Mia can't get that kind of support bonus. To me, Mia is useful for maybe the first two chapters of Part 3, then I never even touch her. Zihark, on the other hand, has quite a few battles that he needs to fight. He starts out good as well, so that gives it a nice boost. Another thing I love about Zihark is that he has a free Adept, while Mia has a free Vantge. For these two units, it will usually take two hits or more to kill an enemy, so unless Mia is a Trueblade and has Astra and gets that lucky combo with Vantage and Astra together (or possibly a critical hit) when an enemy attacks, it's almost a useless skill for her. With Zihark, though, it often will take three hits to kill and enemy, or if it does take two, you can have Adept to kill an enemy without having the enemy deal damage to you if you get Adept at the first strike for an enemy. I think I made a pretty good point on why I feel that Zihark is clearly the better Trueblade, but I know that I can't change the love for Mia in some people, so it's hardly worth the effort. This battle between the Trueblades gets hectic with some people... don't know if I want to be in it.


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