Something great about fortify is that it gives a TON of exp and allows Mercie to power level like crazy and potentially has her 5-10 levels above everyone else and lets her hit like a truck
It’s worth mentioning she also has a might support with Jeritza, so she is a pretty good Crimson Flower recruit that can temporarily be used as an additional healer around Ch6 while setting goals to Lances and Flying to get her in Pegasus for if Jeritza goes Wyvern. Notably I’d say this makes Mercie a great support unit, as Jeritza is arguably top 3 units in CF Part 2 and it’s far harder to get Hubert/Yuri into Wyvern to fly with Byleth or Edelgard than it is to get Mercie into Pegasus (or Flayn into Peg but CF lol)
War Cleric is my favorite option here. Because of her reasonably high resistance stat, it makes her a fairly consistent mage killer, and eventual access to Aura Knuckles, while gimmicky, is fun. The class also has an innate strength stat of 17 and grants Pneuma Gale, a 1-2r magic attack with gauntlets (that can be used with physical weaponry for the higher MT bonus). Also it just looks funny in the chandelier outfit but thats neither here nor there
Great analysis! I appreciate not outright dismissing Fortify. I get liking low HP builds but sometimes she's judged very harshly for simply having it. It's one of the rarer part of her kit but it doesn't have to impede you if you don't want to.
Mercedes is great as a magic bow sniper. You can bench her for a lot of part 1. Focus on bow rank and keep her as an adjutant to get hit+20 & Fiendish blow. Then late in part 1 HV+Magic bow melts anything even monsters in maddening endgame Reminds me of Malig knight Elise where she gets a huge power spike halfway through and does more as a combat unit than being pure support
I always thought that the lack of crit made it worse than killerbow+, but the lack of needing any crit-boosts to deal functional lethal damage might be very relevant; especially for inputting for side-hustle units like Snipers/Grapplers into your team.
Tbf compared to Linhardt's personal skill, hers is godsent. I usually make her a bishop and then gremory, her heals make it where you never have to think about health again, and her range has always covered the entire map in each of my playthroughs so she never had any real faults, there's better mages and archers, but she's old reliable imo.
I think Fortify power-leveling is something greatly overlooked on Mercedes because she gets so much experience. If you focus Faith development you can get her to Bishop and Fortify very quickly. Then if you use your entire stock of fortifies every fight you can easily hit Gremory pre-timeskip and be 15-20 levels ahead of everyone else by endgame. This level advantage takes her average spells and stats to an insane level. A niche build is to master fortress Knight with her (rough through two banes, but not too bad and you can use her as a guard adjutant to get to mastery). This will get you Pavise, which with Mercedes’ Heroes Relic the Rafail Gem you can actually get double proc chances on Pavise which makes means you can sometimes cut physical damage by 75% and with her high Resilience she becomes very durable and immune to crits.
Mercedes has a good magic growth at 50% which makes her pretty good with some Valkyrie and thyrsus snipes. With her high magic she can becomr quite a decent one shotting mage but not nearly as good as Lysithea. Still considering she has no 1-3 range spells it really helps. With a magic list barely better then dedue that's probably the best she can do aside from going magic sniper. If only she got thoron.... Then she'd be pretty set
Dark knight would be a much better class for this. It has 1 more mov, meaning they both have the same effective range, and you deal 3 more damage per hit, which Mercedes will need
magic bow mercie has to be my fave set on her, mages before level 20 are mostly the same, so she spends the early game mastering magic+2/fiendish, and with all the paras can grab hit+20/HV as an adjun, and by ch12 is ready to become a low investment nuke button
When are you doing the video on battalion desperation? You said you were going to make a video on it during the abilities tier list and I'm interested in your opinion on it considering you seem to like the ability but most other people think it is very bad.
Restore also heals stat reductions from seal skills, which I appreciate aren’t as impactful but restore has decent exp gain But yeah, healer Mercedes feels like someone that’s phenomenal for a new player that’s learning the ropes
I'd love to understand the developers reason behind Mercy's faith rank? Like it's clearly not balance as she doesn't get anything in exchange for the lower rank. I'm assuming it's just oversight.
Ive done two playthroughs on Blue Lions with permer death and both times Mercedes was the first to die first time i sacrificed her to get a boss close to Byleth and finished them off and second time she got crit killed by an archer
The last run I did was only the in-house units are allowed to kill units on maddening. Out of house units are only allowed as supports and Mercedes worked fine as a magic bow sniper it just gets expensive.
Fortify gives double the white magic exp of Physic up to 4 times per map, which if used just for exp can be really stupid. I like to equip her with a prot battalion(plausibly gloucester knights?) and chip retaliate at 1-2/1-3 range with Fire; healing another ally on player phase. I just haven't tested if white magic can benefit from the exp gem and byleth's exp aura (I equipped and always byleth exp abuse, and didn't even pay attention at all for multiple hours). If it does, any particular battle can output ~98-102% of a level up just from those 4 Fortify casts alone, especially since she'll be in a similar bulk category, if not higher, than Byleth, and can press buttons practically on any tile.
No one mentions it because she doesn’t really have a good reason to go into it. Her reason spell list is pretty mediocre, and she doesn’t need flying to cast physic on her allies. To be a good dark flier, you need to either have really good magic offense or some useful support abilities that benefit from flying (rallies/rescue/warp)
@@maximeminassian6002 Fair enough. I just say it, because every other option in this video was covered BUT Dark Flier. It's true she's not the epitome of potential, but for a game where 90% percent of the characters are turned into Wyvern Lords for the sake of how OP flight is, it just seems like a no brainer that you'd want your Physic user to have access to the whole map. Y'know?
Something great about fortify is that it gives a TON of exp and allows Mercie to power level like crazy and potentially has her 5-10 levels above everyone else and lets her hit like a truck
Fun fact, Mercy's reason spell list is identical to byleths.
Byleth has Thunder?
@@LunarBoo Yep, they have it at D+ as well
How did I not know this?
Despite using DF Byleth mostly?
@@LunarBoo you may well have just not actually looked at the spell lists side by side, it's understandable
@@LunarBoo tbf the only reason I knew was because I had my byleth equipped with chalice of beginnings, instakilled every archer with thunder lmao.
Actually, it is Mercedes fans who will be breaking down crying.
Hey I thought I was nice
As a Mercedes fan I can confirm we broke down crying
It’s worth mentioning she also has a might support with Jeritza, so she is a pretty good Crimson Flower recruit that can temporarily be used as an additional healer around Ch6 while setting goals to Lances and Flying to get her in Pegasus for if Jeritza goes Wyvern. Notably I’d say this makes Mercie a great support unit, as Jeritza is arguably top 3 units in CF Part 2 and it’s far harder to get Hubert/Yuri into Wyvern to fly with Byleth or Edelgard than it is to get Mercie into Pegasus (or Flayn into Peg but CF lol)
I just wish there was a magic bow combat art, that would be great for Mercie (and Hannemann too)
I still like Magic Bow Sniper Mercie tho
War Cleric is my favorite option here. Because of her reasonably high resistance stat, it makes her a fairly consistent mage killer, and eventual access to Aura Knuckles, while gimmicky, is fun. The class also has an innate strength stat of 17 and grants Pneuma Gale, a 1-2r magic attack with gauntlets (that can be used with physical weaponry for the higher MT bonus).
Also it just looks funny in the chandelier outfit but thats neither here nor there
Youre just trying to martial master in three houses, I see you :eyes:
@@JonoabboFE how DARE you accuse me of something so incredibly ACCURATE and CORRECT
Great analysis! I appreciate not outright dismissing Fortify. I get liking low HP builds but sometimes she's judged very harshly for simply having it. It's one of the rarer part of her kit but it doesn't have to impede you if you don't want to.
Mercedes is great as a magic bow sniper. You can bench her for a lot of part 1. Focus on bow rank and keep her as an adjutant to get hit+20 & Fiendish blow. Then late in part 1 HV+Magic bow melts anything even monsters in maddening endgame
Reminds me of Malig knight Elise where she gets a huge power spike halfway through and does more as a combat unit than being pure support
I always thought that the lack of crit made it worse than killerbow+, but the lack of needing any crit-boosts to deal functional lethal damage might be very relevant; especially for inputting for side-hustle units like Snipers/Grapplers into your team.
Ahhhh the diplomatic tone
No idea what you mean she is a great unit :)
> School of Sorcery attendee
> E+ reason / D faith base WLV
??? intsys
Thats.... a really good point
It'd be funny if she secretly flunked out instead of leaving on her own to join the Officers' Academy
Tbf compared to Linhardt's personal skill, hers is godsent. I usually make her a bishop and then gremory, her heals make it where you never have to think about health again, and her range has always covered the entire map in each of my playthroughs so she never had any real faults, there's better mages and archers, but she's old reliable imo.
I think Fortify power-leveling is something greatly overlooked on Mercedes because she gets so much experience. If you focus Faith development you can get her to Bishop and Fortify very quickly. Then if you use your entire stock of fortifies every fight you can easily hit Gremory pre-timeskip and be 15-20 levels ahead of everyone else by endgame. This level advantage takes her average spells and stats to an insane level.
A niche build is to master fortress Knight with her (rough through two banes, but not too bad and you can use her as a guard adjutant to get to mastery). This will get you Pavise, which with Mercedes’ Heroes Relic the Rafail Gem you can actually get double proc chances on Pavise which makes means you can sometimes cut physical damage by 75% and with her high Resilience she becomes very durable and immune to crits.
Mercedes has a good magic growth at 50% which makes her pretty good with some Valkyrie and thyrsus snipes. With her high magic she can becomr quite a decent one shotting mage but not nearly as good as Lysithea. Still considering she has no 1-3 range spells it really helps. With a magic list barely better then dedue that's probably the best she can do aside from going magic sniper. If only she got thoron.... Then she'd be pretty set
Also Valkyrie gives a boost in charm for some shaky hits with battalions
Dark knight would be a much better class for this. It has 1 more mov, meaning they both have the same effective range, and you deal 3 more damage per hit, which Mercedes will need
magic bow mercie has to be my fave set on her, mages before level 20 are mostly the same, so she spends the early game mastering magic+2/fiendish, and with all the paras can grab hit+20/HV as an adjun, and by ch12 is ready to become a low investment nuke button
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When are you doing the video on battalion desperation? You said you were going to make a video on it during the abilities tier list and I'm interested in your opinion on it considering you seem to like the ability but most other people think it is very bad.
Restore also heals stat reductions from seal skills, which I appreciate aren’t as impactful but restore has decent exp gain
But yeah, healer Mercedes feels like someone that’s phenomenal for a new player that’s learning the ropes
FINALLY MERCEDES
Glad you are excited!
Mercedes is my favorite character in three houses
I hope this helps you to get the best out of her!
I'd love to understand the developers reason behind Mercy's faith rank? Like it's clearly not balance as she doesn't get anything in exchange for the lower rank. I'm assuming it's just oversight.
i hope you do gilbert! i just got through HBD on maddening(i’m using ng+ and it STILL was so hard…), and i am thinking of using him because i love him
Ive done two playthroughs on Blue Lions with permer death and both times Mercedes was the first to die first time i sacrificed her to get a boss close to Byleth and finished them off and second time she got crit killed by an archer
Mercie
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The last run I did was only the in-house units are allowed to kill units on maddening. Out of house units are only allowed as supports and Mercedes worked fine as a magic bow sniper it just gets expensive.
Well, obviously her best build is bow-knight, to get optimal Rafail and Tathlum usage.
My "favorite" unit
Magic Bow Sniper is good nuff.
Why not Dark Flier, please? ^^'
Claude is still waiting in line.
Fortify gives double the white magic exp of Physic up to 4 times per map, which if used just for exp can be really stupid. I like to equip her with a prot battalion(plausibly gloucester knights?) and chip retaliate at 1-2/1-3 range with Fire; healing another ally on player phase. I just haven't tested if white magic can benefit from the exp gem and byleth's exp aura (I equipped and always byleth exp abuse, and didn't even pay attention at all for multiple hours). If it does, any particular battle can output ~98-102% of a level up just from those 4 Fortify casts alone, especially since she'll be in a similar bulk category, if not higher, than Byleth, and can press buttons practically on any tile.
I was wondering when shed come along 😅
Great Knight, easy
A spell I really feel is missing is a high level nosferatu that's more powerful.
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I thought War Monk Mercedes would be an option too, given she's neutral in brawling.
Is nobody gonna mention Dark Flier? Like...it's right there🫣
No one mentions it because she doesn’t really have a good reason to go into it.
Her reason spell list is pretty mediocre, and she doesn’t need flying to cast physic on her allies. To be a good dark flier, you need to either have really good magic offense or some useful support abilities that benefit from flying (rallies/rescue/warp)
@@maximeminassian6002 Fair enough. I just say it, because every other option in this video was covered BUT Dark Flier. It's true she's not the epitome of potential, but for a game where 90% percent of the characters are turned into Wyvern Lords for the sake of how OP flight is, it just seems like a no brainer that you'd want your Physic user to have access to the whole map. Y'know?
@@almendra1446she’d do a solid job in the class for hard mode, but even then I prefer Sniper for HV.
I absolutly love mercie milfy energy, but she is quite boring gameplay wise...