Topic: Fire Emblem Path of Radiance

Anyone know at what chapter can we buy weapons? I just got to chapter 11 and am a little concerned about running low on weapons. I couldn’t find any option to buy weapons or items at the base.

@Don
Chapter 8, iirc. You've been able to buy, and forge, weapons for 3-4 chapters now.

@Don At base: Outfit -> Click a character -> Shop. Don't understand why they decided to bury it so deep. It's awkward since it still asks you who you want to buy an item for afterwards.

@Late
Thank you 🙏 I’m glad this option is now available. Will be spending a good chunk of that 20,000 I got from the king.

@JaxonH
Thanks, can’t believe I didn’t know that. With Anna’s tutorials constantly popping up, she didn’t mention this, or maybe I skipped over that.

@Don
Ya it's a bit convoluted.

My advice- forge every chapter. Cause you only get one forge opportunity between each chapter. So make a new weapon every time.

I prefer Iron forged weapons since they're cheaper, and I max out the Mt while minimizing the Wt. I leave Hit alone unless it's a Hand Axe. And definitely don't touch Crit because that can jack up price from 5,000G to 15,000G

Interesting, I almost never forge and just buy new. I guess I’ll try it out. Wasn’t sure if there was a benefit to using it.

@NintendoByNature
Oh, huge. An Iron Forged lance weapon, for example, with Mt maxed out and Wt minimized is stronger than Steel Lance, lighter than Slim Lance, with a Ht rate as high as, well, an Iron Lance.

Try to get same stats from a Steel weapon? Sure, you don't have to increase Mt as much, but it still ends up costing more (because it's steel and has Crit) and weighs more. Iron forged weapons are clutch. Especially Hand Axes with maxed out Mt and increased Hit rate.

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Oh, and I almost forgot... you get way more uses with Iron weapons than Steel (or eventually Silver). If I'm paying thousands of Gold for a forged weapon, best to forge Iron where you're getting 45/45 uses compared to 35/35 or whatever number Silver gives you.

@JaxonH sounds good, I’ll be doing some forging tonight

Finished up chapter 10 Maniac earlier. Tried out going full stealth this time around. Took a few tries to figure out the planning on recruiting all characters, getting the chests, and fighting the boss.
Got a good amount of bonus exp from it, but I got curious about how it compares to defeating all the enemies.
It felt relatively easy this time, but fighting so many extra enemies has helped with level ups. Ike has been pretty lucky with some good levels too and will likely reach 20 on this next chapter. (Given his stats, I might just have him do a round of combat against the Black Knight)

Regarding the stealth vs. no stealth, I got about 300 more exp when routing all enemies. Using some units who haven’t been able to get as much exp and who I intend to use throughout the game so I think it was worth it.
If you don’t plan to use many units through to the end, then it could be worth the bonus exp though to do stealth.

I’ll be jumping into chapter 18 tonight. I know people said it’s relatively easy compared to others on the series. Not really finding it to be the case . I had to restart turns multiple times last chapter.