Marisa: Difference between revisions

Marisa is not very useful. She joins around the midgame as a myrmidon with low bases, weapon ranks, base level, but high  growths. Because of the low enemy quality in ''The Sacred Stones'' the predominant physical weapon types are axes and lances due to their easy access to 1-2 range. Swords as such are quite burdening to its users as many enemies carry 1-2 range weapons and due to the high enemy quantity in the game it can be quite tedious to be able to kill only one 1 enemy on player phase when units with access to 1-2 range are able to defeat a much bigger number of said enemies during the enemy phase. However, this is not Marisa's only flaw, as her low bases prevent her from contributing much at base without training in the Tower of Valni. Marisa also only joins with a D rank in swords, while she does have the very useful Shamshir with her, said sword can me traded to a better unit and without it Marisa is stuck with a steel sword for damage which noticeably slow her down due to her low constitution of 5. Marisa has the choice between promoting to a Swordmaster or Assassin. Due to her low strength, it might seem natural to promote Marisa to Assassin in order to give her access to Silencer, however Silence is overly unreliable to be used consistently and the Swordmasters +2 strength promotion bonus and +15 critical hit boost are much better. Marisa is also in competition for hero crests against Gerik and Joshua who are much better than Marisa by the time she joins the army. Overall, Marisa is not very good and even if given investment her lack of 1-2 range and a mount prevent her from contributing much at all.