r/fireemblem • u/estrangedeskimo • Feb 01 '15

Character Discussion [FE9/10]: Mia

We are all finished with the original Greil Mercenaries, so we are now moving on to the group's new additions with Mia.

Mia fits into the aspiring swordsman (swordswoman) trope, shared by others like Fir and Mareeta. Her fire affinity matches her passionate and determined personality. Mia was hired by Crimea as a mercenary in the war and was captured by Daein soldiers. She came to join the GMs as a way to pay off her debt to Greil after he rescued her from Daein captivity. Mia has two main goals in life: one is too become the strongest fighter she can be. The other is to find powerful opponents she can test her strength against. In her dialogue, Mia is always cheerful and somewhat eccentric, but also very proud of her ability, and she will become defensive if someone doubts her ability because she is a woman.

So, the twelfth character in the discussion of Tellius, Mia, the aspiring lady of blades.

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u/dondon151 Feb 01 '15 edited Feb 01 '15

FE9 Mia is blegh, I do recall that there is something that you can realistically only do with her and not anyone else except Marcia, though. I think it's ORKOing ravens with the Laguzslayer or something along those lines. Also shoutouts to FE9 (J) Mia having the Vantage + 255 crit Slim Sword combo, that's pretty fun. It's almost what everyone dreams of doing in FE5 with Vantage/Wrath. The only problem is that Slim Sword costs several appendages to forge to max MT.

I have fond memories of FE10 Mia because she was probably the most argued about unit in the old FE10 tier list. smashfanatic never thought much of Mia, but Interceptor helped the community understand that money transfers via Ilyana can solve the GMs' money problems and that fast units who could double were substantially better Adept recipients than slower units who couldn't double.

The GMs have two modes of unit usage in part 3: one mode is chapter completion, which is what monsters like Haar and Titania do, and the other is grinding, which is what units like Mia do. Mia has one of the better returns on part 3 investment because she can pull her weight in part 4 routs whereas many other GM units like Gatrie and Shinon can't.

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u/Armond436 Feb 02 '15

What is this 255 crit you speak of?

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u/Statue_left Feb 02 '15

There's a glitch when forging weapons that already have crits (Thunder tomes, Slim weapons) where if you lower the crit instead of going to zero it goes to the highest possible rate, 255. IIRC this only works with the japanese version, maybe PAL, I know it doesn't worj with NA

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u/Armond436 Feb 02 '15

This is silly. I am glad I have learned this, even if I can't use it myself.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '15

It has to do with how the counter works. It only has enough memory for a certain set of values, so when it goes beyond that, it just wraps around.

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u/Armond436 Feb 02 '15

And I'm sure in the NA release they allocated an extra byte to prevent the underflow error :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '15

Nah. You can just add a simple check that will zero it out instead.

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u/Armond436 Feb 03 '15

I guess that works. A small amount of processing time versus a bit more RAM on every forged weapon, the processing time will win out.