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 Topic: Volke - Gamble or Lethality?
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 XtrordinaryYou want a piece of me.
Resident Neo    total posts: 3104 since: Dec 2004 |
 Jul 16, 09 at 1:36pm |
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Hello everyone  I am in the process of considering which skill to give to my precious Volke, but I can't seem to make my mind up. The two main contenders of mine are Gamble and Lethality. As I see it, with full stats and Stiletto, Volke will only have a 12.5 % chance to actually score with Lethality. Granted, that score will induce death but still. (Also, does this not work on bosses?) Gamble however, with same prerequisites, would have a chance around 50 % of inflicting a critical. However, I am not really good with the accuracy calculations since I am not 100% on the enemies usual stats. However, he does have a very high Skill stat and Stilettos have a natural 95 Weapon Hit stat. Still, it seems that a lot of people give him Lethality (Forum-lurkers uses Peer Pressure on Viks) and I don't really understand why. So I would be really happy to hear anyone's thoughts on this one . Thanks in advance!-------------------  Don't eat my rose, silly sheep. | |
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 Insanity Prevails(neocrs)
(moderator) Site Contributor's Forum User Reviews Critiques and Help     total posts: 14735 neopoints: 6979 GameGrep pts: 410 since: Feb 2003 |
 Jul 16, 09 at 6:30pm |
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The only reason people give Volke Lethality is because it looks cool. It has no practical value because it's so pathetically low chance and often a crit will do it against generic enemies (the enemies that tend to survive a crit + follow-up are the ones you should never be sending Volke against in the first place). Occult skills in general aren't usually that good, but lethality is one of the worst so it's a waste to give it to him.
Also, don't ever expect 12.5% chance. Although low, enemies do possess some luck that will drop Volke's crit. Gamble is the better choice. Not too fond of it myself given it slashes your accuracy in half, but at least it's a better chance than Lethality of critting. The swordmasters are really the only competition for it and they usually have other skill combos they want (Mia wants Adept, Wrath or Resolve - Zihark wants Vantage, Wrath or Resolve - Stefan already has Astra - Lucia fails so nobody cares). I'm not convinced you should be using Volke for combat though. His Str stat is fine but locked to knives really hurts his offence skills (not to mention his only support being with one of the game's worst units). ------------------- | |
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Xtrordinary You want a piece of me.
Resident Neo total posts: 3104 since: Dec 2004 |
Jul 17, 09 at 12:24pm |
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Yes, I know he is by far not the best raw fighter in the game. Still, I think he is cool and a fun character to play as. So I will just give him Gamble and keep my fingers crossed ;D. Thanks for the advice .------------------- Don't eat my rose, silly sheep. | |
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Insanity Prevails (neocrs)
(moderator) Site Contributor's Forum User Reviews Critiques and Help total posts: 14735 neopoints: 6979 GameGrep pts: 410 since: Feb 2003 |
Jul 18, 09 at 5:59pm |
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Sure, use whoever you want. I always put Mia in my team, so why not?
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Simon the Nekonin Neolithic
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Nov 24, 09 at 11:00am |
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Putting Mia in your team is a good thing though!
If I ever play FE9 again I reckon I'll use Sothe so I can get a cool bonus in FE10. ------------------- 
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