More informed run 2 thoughts, ending on wave 31:
- My goal here was to beat my past record of 14 and maybe hit the next milestone of 20.
- This game does run better in Chrome than Firefox as per the performance link.
- I did notice the treasure chests more this run, though at some point they did disappear again but the down arrow on their spot can be noticed.
- I took Hector/Erk/Priscilla/Ninian this run. I was pretty pleased with Hector and Erk for the most part, Erk scaled the highest again and took most of the statboosters, but Hector had pretty much first dibs for the other EXP shards. Erk seems to have pretty solid growths all round and his red->green colour matchup into Nergal and Limstella is particularly appreciated, and if he can take a hit then he can usually win 1v1 duels thanks to Finishing Blow's +50% Atk scaling.
- Ninian's +Mov/Spd dance makes Hector more maneuverable in particular and its buff seems to last 2 turns. There is EXP dropoff but it's pretty free to use EXP on her, not that she gains much Attack but she can work as a Res tank.
- Priscilla ended up dying first to a stray cavalry effective tome horse. On wave 17 I replaced her with a Heath (lv.12, I assume the same as Ninian as my lowest level) who did not scale or accomplish much but I wanted to have a 3 move wyvern. He managed to do some clutch chip at times.
- My run was looking pretty precarious on the wave 25-30 stretch as people started dying, but I got the pirate ship map that let me kite around a bridge with solo Erk for a while longer. On wave 28 I was up against a troubadour and a sword general and handily tanked the former and had no risk against the latter.
- Heath ended up dying in an attempt to bodyblock for Erk. Or he would have been blocking if he was closer, but the knight ended up killing Heath anyway instead of Erk given the opportunity.
- A Leila OHKOed Hector (43 HP% chance) with Lethality (doing 999 damage). I was trying to go for boxing her in and thought Hector could take the hits. 1-2 range does throw me off when it comes up as it's otherwise pretty true to early FEH.
- Ninian was sacrificed on wave 27 to take a 1-2 range thief hit while Erk killed a flier up top with the Dancer's Veil I had just bought. I ended up using an +Atk blessing to OHKO an archer and then all my last blessings to double and kill the last flier.
- Wave 30 was just Nergal and a green wyvern. Erk tanked Nergal easily but I had to facetank the wyvern and heal a few times.
- Wave 31 took me to the snow map against several mounts. I got a couple kills from sitting in the corner as they approached, but then the fliers got Erk through the walls.
A few clarifications I want to note:
- Despite Lloyd's Light Brand description claiming it's a magic sword that hits Res, it hits on Def at 1-range and Res at 2-range, as Ninian can attest to by facetanking him. She did at least avoid getting doubled.
- Blessings say in their descriptions that they don't stack, which I assumed was across all blessings, but multiple different blessings do seem to stack stats so I guess it's just for duplicate blessings. This saved my run when I thought it was over and used all my blessings and found out that I managed to get enough speed to double the last flier on the map on wave 27.