Viability of S-rank Legendary Weapons in Fire Emblem Fates 

I actually found the waterwheel to be somewhat useful. It raises 5 def/res like the guard naginata, and it’s might is high enough that you can 2 shot even with your strength halved. Makes for pretty good tanking

I really disliked the penalties on most of the b rank weapons. I understand it was a way to stop end turn strats, but when you are getting weakened by enemies as well, it just feels excessive.

Chakram and Excalibur are the only ones I really use. Chakram goes on Master ninjas, which have high avoid, so the defence drop isn’t that bad. Excalibur goes on Sorcerers, which already have bad defence, so losing a bit more isn’t too bad

Bifrost is really just a meme. Like mentioned, the player doesn't get it until nearly the end of the game. But not only that, it isn't like Valkyrie or Aum where you can revive any dead unit: it's only the most recent unit that died in the current map, meaning you can't revive Camilla, Xander, Silas, etc if they died a few chapters ago. And if you have someone die that you don't want to revive after the person you do want to revive, you're SOL. Technically, this can be useful for a suicide mission in Ch. 27 or Endgame, but neither battle on Conquest or Revelation typically use or need suicide tactics, as any suicidal tactic usually leads to the battle ending within a couple turns. I only think it could be useful for aggro'ing or distracting certain groups or enemies, but again none of the battles where you have Bifrost will really need this tactic. TL,DR: Bifrost bad

I get that the main reason why they're bad is because they can't be good since weapons don't break, but, ironically, they just made raijinto and siegfried so good that there's no reason to ever stop using them aside specific situations. idk if this was a consequence of having no time for development or simply they don't put enough thought in having no weapon durability

4:14 - Excelblem explaining why nameless commoners are inherently superior to aristocrats and humble mega-chads like Octu and Jitaro are simply better equipped to the continue the legends. Was this the real purpose of Blood Emperor Marth's genocide? To prove the worth of those the history books overlook?

The utilities of the Raider Weapons alone were good enough to carry me through most of the mid-game because of that effective +3 in Speed which helped me to either double enemies or set them up for feeding underleveled units.

captured units only have max weapon rank on lunatic, which means lower difficulty playthroughs will have an even harder time getting units who can use them without grinding for weapon rank, not that you would ever need to or want to

They were pretty good on wifi. Obviously wifi battles are dead, but the ability to ohko certain beefier units online was extremely valuable. This isn't mentioning the ability to forge them using hacks, which was completely busted.

Being able to +6 an Iron Sword to be a strictly better Silver Sword took the purpose away from the power = risk

For me, it makes sense that these specialized classes get to S rank, as they are experts in that wep type. But I also get why it is annoying

I find the Waterwheel to be the only “good” S rank weapon because it is basically just the Guard Naginata (giving +5 defense and res) but instead of lowering avoid by 20, it raises it by 20 (only good if used for units without a prf like Oboro, and only if you face some enemies that hit really hard)

The only good S rank weapon is the Waterwheel IMO because it's the ultimate tank weapon, with high crit avoid and +5 defense and res. Problem is, The only unit that can use it without reclassing (Oboro) Already has good defense and luck, so the Crit avoid does not matter and while extra defense/res is nice, is it really worth being a Sitting duck just to tank better? The Excalibur is the only other S rank weapon that is worth considering, since It is really strong and allows almost any sorcerer to double at the cost of Getting 1 shot. but you are right, you get these weapons so late into the game, and the next best thing (A brave/ Special Weapon) Probably has better uses and you could always just forge 4 Iron weapons for a much more versatile weapon.

It's such a shame the str halving weapons are so shit. The ones that reduce Def and res are fine, but you still need like 2 arms scrolls, even on units like takumi

With the strength-halving effect, it seems as though some of them were meant to be boss-killers, but as you said, there's so few chapters left, it's likely your team is already fully-built and you're beyond the point that you'll NEED a dedicated boss-killer. It's just too severe a downside for such a redundant upside.

I love how the Nohrian Royalty, the most powerful characters in Conquest, cannot use any legendary weapons provided in Conquest without changing base classes. Yet Nyx and Odin, the two greatest glass cannons, are allowed to use one. Also, the Excalibur's bonus damage to flying units is comical, to say the least. Seen as though I'm fairly certain there is not a single flying unit in the endgame.

To further add to the melee debuff mitigation: The Replicate skill allows you to completely negate the debuff, as the debuff-removal from the clone's follow-up triggers after the real unit gets the debuff. So you'll never even see the debuff, unless the main attack kills before the clone can follow-up

They do seem to be designed with grinded out units in mind. But overall most higher tier weapons are too focused on weird downsides. It's probably for the best that they dropped it(or Echoes doesn't bother to make high end stuff bad). Even with how annoying the gems are to grind, forging is a bit dominant as well. Especially since the game is shaky enough with balance anyway that it's strange the S tier classes don't get a chance to truly dominate with these elusive weapons. Especially the might halving feels really forced.

Well while some of them are bad, I will argue in defense of some of them. Sunrise Katana is already used by swordmasters to dodgetank, due to their good evasion. Even with halved strength every other round of combat, the Hagakure still out damages Sunrise Katana. For example, my raised Hana in Rev Lunatic uses this to dodgetank anything that doesn't require a reaver. It's a better version of something that is already good. Waterwheel is a Guard Naginata that buffs CrtAvo and doesn't penalize Avo. While only Oboro is initially specced to use it, she's already a good all around unit who isn't shafted in Rev, where you get this really early and also have like 2 arms scrolls available. It outdamages Guard Naginata even with halved strength, and effectively allows Oboro to become a super-tank in guard stance that isn't a 5 mov General. It's legitimately useful since enemies Oboro tanks also get speed and defense sealed for the rest of the party to pick off. It mainly helps a good unit become more good. The Aurgelmir isn't worth it. Halved strength on Berserker is crippling. Using forged Killer Axe or Great Club to compensate through damage or forged Silver (can be farmed infinitely without dlc) or Brave outdamages without crit. Chakram is relatively useful. -6 debuffs on a shuriken is already good, only matched by the 1 might pebble and beaten by the 1-range only purchased Caltrop. Honestly it's the epitome of Ninja debuffing, and it's good might makes it also useful just to give Master Ninjas the damage they usually lack. The only downside is -5 res hurting their ability to bait mages, but you could just equip something else to do that anyways, since it's not like you need to debuff mages to clean them up. Pursuer is good but only if you go out of your way to use it. It's good on paper, since it gives snipers insane damage with no meaningful drawback since snipers aren't meant to take hits. The only problem with this is that Takumi exists and in every case you have the Fujin Yumi. When Takumi is taken out of the picture, however, then it does become useful as an offense option. Bows are already good and the Pursuer is just a really good bow that doesn't suffer from the usual Silver or Crescent drawbacks. Overshadowed by Takumi, good if Takumi isn't used. Excalibur is actually plenty useful. Sorcs don't know what durability even is, so -5 Def/Res is nothing. While it isn't much stronger than a silver, silver inflicts penalties, so just treat it as a silver that doesn't have stacking debuffs on use and has extra crit. It's effectively just a spammable, repeatedly usable strong weapon with no harsh drawbacks. Ginnungagap has more might, but comes with half Mag penalty in case you need to nuke. Bifrost is just bifrost. You get it right before the finale. You use it in the finale of you need to. Anything you use in the finale just comes back anyways. Stats don't matter. You can capt. Maids for this in conquest. In Rev just have Felicia/Jakob spam staves im Ch11 (Kotaro) for EXP.

While the baked-in stat penalties are bad, I think S rank itself being class specific on top of Fates glacial weapon proficiency growth are far more detrimental. I can see a lot of classes actually using the legendary weapons, but they are completely locked out of using them. Steel Axe +2 is the best legendary weapon and is Camilia's prf in Conquest.

tl;dw: Low availability, difficult to equip and the drawbacks that were meant to balance the gameplay and prevent the player for cheesing the endgame ended up making the legendary weapons too ineffectual to be any fun to use.

one thing not mentioned is that hagakure blade is the only sword beside sunrise katana that give +20 avoid. Couple this with the fact that sword masters are supposed to have high evasion already and the weapon + a pair up make a unit almost untouchable. In rev as soon as I got the blade I used an arms scroll on kana, paired her up with corrin, and watched her dodge tank everything also using the hoshidan unity + sol AND the hex skill that lowers stats by 4 for any enemies that lived due to the halved strength. Untouchable really

I really love the idea of Fates' no durability system where each of the different levels of weapons have their own strengths and functions so which weapons you carry in reserve actually matters instead of just strongest and a range one, unfortunately in practice, Bronze, Silver, and Legendary weapons are significantly outclassed by all the others.

I remember being so disappointed in the S rank weapons that I did some comparisons between some of them and forged Iron weapons. The main one that I remember is that a +7 Iron sword was about on par with the S-rank Sword, a few points lower in might but you also get plus 3 defense and no down side.

thanks again excel for saving me another trip to the serenesforest fates page

The Pursuer can allow takumi to one round in the final maps in the which is quite useful in lunatic. Saizo is also on the bubble of doubling in revelation so the chakram is somewhat useful for him.

The only useful ones in my experience is the Waterwheel, the Charkram, the Excalibur, and the Pursuer. Waterwheel's offensive might is not to be underestimated, it's +20% Crit avoid and +5 to Defense and Res make any Spear Master who uses it unable to really take anything meaningful in terms of damage. Sure, it doesn't do a ton of damage on the second attack but you can plan around it. In Rev it automatically makes Oboro prime-time Berserker bait because they just cannot crit her with her absurd Crit Avoid in lategame Rev. Chakram and Pursuer are the same: Give yourself and your enemy +5 AS when initiating combat, alongside defensive decreases. This makes things a little Spicer against enemies but if you can guaranteed double without halving stats, this makes Master Ninjas and Snipers extremely dangerous. Excalibur is the same as Chakram and Pursuer but instead you add 25% crit chance and effectiveness against Fliers. It utterly destroys everything and in the right hands can make one of the most insane glass cannon builds in the entire game. It's absurd.

I remember my first Rev run years back I went Waterwheel Mozu and it was amazing! But nowadays when I play the other versions of Fates its really boring :/ I might try and actually get the generics next Conquest playthrough though, I had no idea weapon ranks automatically max out with them!

I got the pinwheel in birthright and didn’t even use it. Why? Cause I had forged a plus 5 silver bow already. Forge op.

This is generally why I prefer the old system of having weapon durability scale lower the more powerful a weapon is (rather than have more penalties with the benefit of endless durability). The problem of hording is something that is partially caused by that and conditioned over time in response, but I think just having a Fire Emblem that is generous with the ways you can gain resources like in the Telius ones goes a long way to resolving that issue. You get so much gold in Fe9 it almost becomes a meta-game to use as much of it as possible as you get it to forge weapons since you can only make one per chapter clear. And then couple it with the bonus exp for clearing the maps expediently and it's easier to bridge the gap between units that are already strong (Titania, Ike, Shinon etc.) with units that with some investment can hit benchmarks to become strong (Boyd, Oscar, Keiran etc.). It would just help if you could actually get those legendary weapons sooner though in that game, or even have the cut ones that never made it, but I think it was as close to perfect as you could be with making all the weapons seem usable with few exceptions.

Tbf excalibur and pursuer are really good

I missed Bifrost on both my conquest and rev run. also I only got the weapons that were dropped by bosses, except aughlamir.

I used an aurgelmr crit to be able to defeat Garon in conquest endgame in 1 turn(useful to 1 turn that map especially so that I don't have to waste too many time if I mess up endgame), so that's another good use of S rank weapons. You don't have to worry about the downside's on defeat boss type objectives.

Bifrost being very late game does make sense though as it is a revival item and you’ll actually get use for it if a unit dies in the chapters it’s available in like the Aum staff in FE1 and 3

I'm rewatching this video after modding my copy of Fates, where the nerfs of weapons like silver weapons and s rank weapons are removed. This change felt like a blessing

Excalibur is pretty good when using vantage life and death sorcerers, but you’ve gotta equip it after dropping below half health cause of the def penalty

There are a few other classes that can use S rank weapons which are DLC. Those being the free Lodestar and Witch. There is also the JP only Cipher Pegasus Knight class for Minerva.

Hello! Would you happen to have some guide/links to emulate awakening/fates with DLC?

At least their not the Silver Blade from FE7. That shit has a weight of 13 compared to the Silver Sword's 8, it has 60 hit compared to the S.S.' 80, less durability, the same weapon rank requirement of an *A* in swords, and it only does *ONE* more damage

all i remember about the legendary weapons in fates is that i was super excited to get excalibur for ophelia and then super disappointed that it wasn't really better than missiletain

From what I experienced, I always found the legendary weapons interesting, while they have big downsides, their immense power can really make a difference (well if you don't forge of course) They also offers avoid or bulk or even speed, which is nice in fact, Ryoma while having an broken lightning sword may like the Hagakure blade, mostly for the avoid boost, but also the fact it will also beneficiate from the +4 str of Raijinto, you lose on range, but it can do stuff ! Waterwheel is more to tank, even if a guard Naginata can do the job fine, you lose avoid and you don't get +20 crit avoid as well (plus, because it's str halved until next attack, i'm pretty sure a tank will attack more than once, well retaliate more than once at least) Overall I just think they had to nerf the in a way, and they maybe went to harsh on them(mostly because weight/uses are gone, making it really hard to balance it)

Only one that's really useful is Bifrost. You have a maid/butler at the start of the game with Felicia/Jakob so they can already start staff training (if you decide to keep them in their base class), and being able to revive a unit is helpful for YOLO strats.

Oh man that ending sounded kinda sad 😔

Slightly off topic but while brining up forging, how does one forge the weapons they want now that you can't get ores from other people? I find getting it from the arena very limiting

I remember using the Waterwheel on Oboro in Rev and it being decent, that's about it

Honestly I found the chakram to be pretty useful in my birthright playthroughs. I usually end up using a high investment Kaze. Sometimes I grind him up as a mechanist for more strength and also replicate, then reclass him to master ninja for the chakram. Having 2 very strong and dodgy units that can debuff a ton is pretty good. His res is so high that the lowered stats isn't too impactful and his defense is shaky anyways so I'd say it's worth it. I'm pretty sure saizo is better in general but I usually don't get as lucky with him and there's less merit in grinding him as a mechanist since he needs the extra speed more meaning no replicate (though I could reclass him for one level and switch back I guess). Weirdly enough I usually don't end up using kagero long term. I started playing birthright randomized semi recently but I don't have any good ninjas yet aside from a mechanist Felicia who joined as a capped strength apothecary in place of kagero but she can't use the chakram like that

its been a while since i played this, all i remember is that brave weapons were the absolute best xD also like he explained in the video the weapons that ryoma and the other dude come with are from memory the best weapons in the game anyway, the are super strong and have 1-2 range and let you double, because of this i think my favorite strat was to pair my unit or whatever worked best with them and cleared every level exclusively with those, since they kill everything on enemy turn and your weapon wont break

Please do more analysis videos it sustains my soul The S rank weapons are almost mainly for style points also why do they appear in whack i could if they were relics of nohr or hoshido but not the hoshido s rank weapons are in nohr ? The nohr S rank are wield by actual characters with a portrait which makes sense they might be nohrs sacred weapons But why do they appear in valla of the sudden aside from dead samurai ghost wielding two katanas Excalibur is the only one I use since its the only wind tome and ophelia makes great use of it odin is too busy criting nothing with a forged named killer tome with a 50 crit rate and most of the time he dosent crit 5000 for a S rank weapon I feel like they should be worth more for being quote on quote S rank The actual S rank it self is useful for weapon triangle advantage mainly hit rate and more damage dealt

I hate the no durability system in Fates because it makes so many weapons that are good in other games simply a hassle to use. The biggest offender to me are the Silver Weapons. No downside in other games, but not being able to break is obviously OP in Fates so they MUST lower your strength after each use.

I'm playing Birthright currently. I'm at the very end. Much like in Conquest, I noticed I finally got S rank weaponry at the end. And yet, I do not have many if any units that can wield an S rank weapon. Maybe I'll get more use out of them in my first ever Revelations run soon. Who knows.

I never used excalibur nor bifrost in my recent conquest replay, aurgulmir was good for 1 shooting. In my birthright I used none, because I made takumi a ballistician and rajinto existed

The only legendary weapon I ever used was the Pursuer on Takumi. It just dealt way more damage than the Fujin Yumi and made doubles more consistent. Also I almost always use Takumi with Life and Death so having less resistances didn't change much to me.

When I trained up the Sorcerer Main Character, I find her being able to easily body Possessed Takumi with Rexcalibur really helpful.

My favorite would be Pursuer. It doesn't really feel like it has any downsides in practice.

This may be outside the score of the video, what is the take on S rank weapons being end game for FE7? The only time you get to use them is at Endgame which is useful since everything there is bulky. Though the weapons are good

Jeez, and here I thought FE6 and 3H weapons only having 20 uses was annoying.

When Fates was my starting game to Fire Emblem (probably a bad choice), I found the strength/ magic halving debuffs and the Silver weapons, Rabbit Spirit and Ragnarok debuffs annoying as my logic was, “Upgraded weapon rank, comes with the reward of access to stronger weapons with no catches to them”. Then I noticed more weapons with catches that annoyed me. Wakizashi, Spear and Tomahawk are 2 ranged only and even Spy’s Shuriken for being 3 ranged only. I’ll let Spy’s Yumi slide as the Point Blank skill combats the 3 range only, but that then means purchasing DLC. Logically, these weapons have silly range limits that I found very tedious. But eventually, I grew to accept these weapons - just not like them - for how they can be strategically used and even when an enemy has them. A unit with Spy’s Shuriken/ Yumi with the Lunge skill is pretty cool… if you’re willing to sacrifice that unit which the enemy is not afraid to, I digress. Then there’s melee weapons with magic based damage, bronze weapons (including Fire, Rat Spirit) and 1 - 2 range weapons such as Kodachi, Javelin and Hand Axe and Nosferatu. All these weapons lack triggering critical hits, nor offensive skills which can be an annoyance that as well I have learned to accept. It’s a shame that Sorcerers or units with Shadowgift can’t use the Vengeance Nosferatu combo that Awakening could. But then I found them even more annoying that Three Houses allowed Training weapons, Fire, Nosferatu, Javelins, Hand Axes and Levin Swords etc could trigger a critical just like any other weapon in the game and High rank weapons like Silver Weapons wouldn’t give me a Str/ Mag -2 and Dex -2 pot combat penalty. To the main issue, i’ve found the A rank weapons a weird bunch. You have Brave Swords, Lances and Axes with no penalty debuff after combat, but then the S rank weapons such as Hagakure Blade, Waterwheel and Aurgelmir do in the case of halving strength. Then the A rank Crescent Bow, Soldier’s Knife, Ginnungagap, Snake Spirit and Dragon Spirit DO suffer a debuff penalty after combat and the S rank Pursuer, Chakram and Excalibur do not. I am not factoring buffs like Waterhweel’s +5 Def and Res into account. I’m mainly stating their post combat debuffs. These are all just weird weapons to me. Although, I have found them interesting as their halving debuff wares off after combat happens again - and thankfully - regardless of whose phase it is. Like I said, Fates was my first game. I never realised weapons had some catches like weight in other Fire Emblem titles or knowing forging iron weapons can do just as well. But hey, that concludes my TED Talk. If you have anything to point out, please feel free to reply. Appreciate you reading this

I used the Hagakure Blade with Ryoma cuz dual wield animation and since it was Ryoma he killed everything anyway.

And that's why, to this day, I still lean towards iron weapons. There is no downside to them aside from a generally lower damage output but that is quickly overshadowed by their reliability.

Just to defend some of these: -The waterwheel is the best out of the S ranks that halve strenght after combat due to being a better guard naginata for spearmasters. -Chakram has very good debuffs and might and master ninjas are kinda squishy anyways. -Excalibur is decent, like ninjas, sorcerers are also squishy but dont mind the loss of tankiness, it also allows them to fight pegasus if the are in range. -Pursuer is good but since Takumi exists it feels outclassed by the Fujin yumi in comparison, same deal with Ryoma and his Raijinto when comparing it with the S rank katana. -The aurglemir is straight up garbage.

As you said. I'd rather upgrade iron weapons with no downside.

Kinda late but Excalibur in especific is very usefull for Vantage Sorcerer since Vantage esencially remove it's only downside with High Might, accuracy and a fuck flyers effect. The only enemy you don't want to use this is Takumi himself.

Don’t disrespect the pursuer bro that shit goes hard

Dates got done so dirty. I would love to see a remake where they patch it up because it was my first fire emblem game and I do love the characters but with all the flaws it's hard to overlook

For how much the weapons de buff you, they should have at least 1-2 range, all of them

So basically, sell them faster than Excelblem's death count

Excalibur is pretty good honestly. On glass cannon sorcerers with Vantage + Life & Death, taking 5 extra damage isn't going to matter much since you're gonna be going first and one-shotting things below half health. Aurgelmir's debuff is pretty harsh but at least it's a toggle, unlike the silver and brave weapon which keep stacking them. I like giving it to Gazak because I usually have no one else that can use it.

It would be so much better if there were two classes (one for each route and weapon type) that could use the s rank. Example: both sorcerers and onmyojis could use Excalibur and an S rank scroll, Oni Chieftains and Berserkers could use S rank clubs/axes, etc

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I actually use the legendary weapons quite a lot, the Pursuer being my fave, but honestly it's just for the flex bc they are not really useful

I remember getting waterwheel and then not using it at all because no one could use it 😭

Excalibur on Witch Ophelia was pretty good for me.

I used the bifrost once for a suicide play in conquest endgame. That was about it

Dear Excelblem, we PvP players are infuriated by you ignoring the most important part of the game.

I've never seen or heard anyone who has used Bitfrost in a serious strategy or a means to remedy to a mistake.

Honesty, I just think that the cost of them being in infantry infantry units along with the investment of getting to S rank in a weapon rank is downside enough. The S rank weapons should have unique benefits, not detriments, to make those specific units fill unique niches. If Ryoma gets Raijinto and solos the game with 1-2 range, then a Swordmaster with Hagakure Blade should get something like an increase to proc chance on all skills, increased avoid, AND something like making it so enemies can’t have weapon triangle advantage against it.

I used the Waterwheel precisely once and it was to kill the final boss on the first turn. Oboro was my MVP.

Capturing a Maid just for Bifrost allows you to do a suicide strat in Con and Rev

I truly just believe they made them ass because of the PVP mode. If you could get these op weapons with no drawbacks along with the amazing units used in PVP you could literally be unstoppable.

On my last conquest run (hard mode) camilla was a berserker and could use the legendary axe but i decided to just sell it anyway because her forged iron axe and the brave axe were much more easier to use and reliable and 5000 gold was too good to pass on to maintain such a mediocre weapon

Skee skee, legendary weapons free money baby

It's nice that IS decided to make sure S rank weapons were garbage in FE Engage too.

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Honestly I think they put too much emphasis on weapons having penalties' like I had a hard time on one specific conquest map because I over leveled not knowing the folly of how conquest worked even though the weapons don't break it feel mostly like the system was overly complicated trying to coarse correct for how easy awakening was

I found the class-specific S rank thing annoying in Engage too. Its just annoying.

God, I remember just making a bunch of iron and steel weapons to +4 - +7 because S-ranked weapons and silver weapons were so bad in Fates with all the negative penalties.

Fates weapon ranks could be an entire video topic in and of itself. The amount of units that join with poor ranks combined with the generally slow rank growth makes high-rank weapons almost useless in a non-grinding playthrough. I don't think I've ever reached endgame with any units having S rank, and most units aren't even at A rank by then.

worst part is? the 1° and 2° problem could have been good reasons to make them super overpowered. only certain classes can use them, and they apear super late, so it doesnt really matter they are better than everything else.

The chakram is useful for its debuffing capabilities, The Hagakure blade is useful for Ryoma on SOME instances where you need +3 more dmg and +15% hit, the waterwheel is useful in Rev for spearmaster!Hinoka especially since she joins with B rank

Oh yes, I use them... to buy better weapons

I think the S rank weapons would be most useful in the online arena that no one uses anymore

I completely forgot that S Rank weapons were even in these games. I thought it capped out at A Rank lol

i want a weapon that can break......

I actually forgot S-rank legendary weapons were a thing in Fates

And I thought the FE7 S ranks kinda sucked

s ranks stones would be neat

Iron weapon ascension is the only life for me

I heard someone say that only the Bronze/min-Rank weapons are worth using, since they have no downsides.

This is another reason why Dark Deity is so flawed despite being clearly designed as a reaction to what it sees as flaws in Fire Emblem's game design. They wanted to provide infinite-use weapons but didn't just want you to go all-in on one of them like what happens in most sRPGs that have upgrades. So they gated upgrades by story and giving them diminishing returns for money spent. Fair enough, but they fucked up the math so badly that going all-in on one weapon is still the optimal strategy. Not surprising for a game that uses the Fire Emblem engine but also makes one-manning with stats well into the double-digits the optimal strategy. Fates chose not to grapple with that solution Dark Deity later got wrong, instead, it went with something much stupider. Hence this video.

people who claim fates had good weapon balance be like "yo this video doesn't exist"