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Weapon refinery for weapons like Ragnell

I’d like to hear people’s thoughts about weapon refinery for distant counter weapons like Ragnell. With the slow advent of powercreep (Ayra, Karla), do you think they would give Ragnell a weapon upgrade? Of course, to do so now would be too much but I don’t think it would be unreasonable in a year or two. The meta just currently really favors units with a strong offensive spread and so it’d be nice to see some more balance. In the actual Tellius games, Ragnell gives +5 defense, negates non-wrath criticals, and can attack from 1-2 range. I’d like to see something like where it gives +4 defense and blocks 50% of special bonus damage.

Asked by rlu6 months 2 weeks ago

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I don't think it's completely out of the question for DC weapons to get refinements, but the biggest issue is that if Camus gets a refinement for Gradivus, Hardin would get it too; if Ryoma gets a refinement to Raijinto, L!Ryoma gets it too; if Ike gets a Ragnell refine, so does L!Ike etc.

I think the only legendary DC weapon that is exclusive to one unit is Xander's Siegfried. I think Xander/Camus/Ryoma/Ike could all use small buffs (esp. Ryoma who gets outclassed by DC Ayra/Karla) I don't think it will happen. If anything they'll just increasingly put those weapons on new powercrept characters

There are a ton of Falchions but Chrom, Lumina, Marth, and Alk all have different refinements so it could work like that.

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That's true! But still, each Falchion got a refinement so even if Camus and Hardin had separate refinements, it still means that Hardin would get a refinement (theoretically.) Point being I'm sure there's a way to balance any refinements that weapons like Gradivus could get, it just seems like a lot of effort on IS' part and that seems unlikely at this point.

Those are different falchions from different games, which have different abilities. Chrom and Lucina have the same refinements because they use the same sword.
If e.g. Gravidus got a refinement, Camus and Hardin should both get it because it's the same weapon.

I guess they eventually will, but there’s no guessing when because IS’s priority list is pretty screwed up: just look at the Yato one, it was requested for so long yet they did it so late.
Maybe it’ll be something like a generic 2 space atk/def spur buff for axe and sword, given how his dad is so good at Urvan and Ragnell in which he taught Ike at.

Maybe after half a year where we have teleporting dire thunder Lyns, Ike’s refine would be as broken as allowing him to throw his Armour-Calvary-flying effective Ragnell, and quad everyone without them counterattacking
(That wasn’t for real)