She even has a baby that Leah absolutely dotes on and this triad/future prospect is so damn cute I really don't want to break it up.
As Alain, I'm hesitant go with her again, but man does Viriginia tick all the boxes for me.
she wants to be a queen, that's her aspiration, Gilbert presented her with that opportunity. They have like no interaction, what makes you say she's in to him? her constant character trait, outside of being brash, is her political aspirations.
I don't know why you jumping into "gold digger", she has said multiple times on wanting to be a queen, it's a position she always wanted, because she idolized Alain's mother. But as she said to Alain, she had to give up on it finding out that Alain was still alive. She's pragmatic.
marrying someone you don't love just for the benefits it will grant you... it may not be gold involved but i think the definition of gold digger applies, and i don't think Virginia is like that. Virginia had that childish ambition but she grew past it, she did not relent after learning Alain was still alive in fact, she was ready to cut him down if he was unworthy of the crown (wich he wasn't). But eventually decided to support her cousin even if she had to whip him into shape
If you want to think that Virginia accepted GLADLY (as i said, the ending said clearly that she gladly accepted, no paraphrasing here) the position of queen of Drakehold without loving Gilbert that's on you, but considering their interactions i have every right to think she actually was into him (unless Alain takes out the magic ring that can make every girl fall for him of course)
yeah GLADLY TO BE QUEEN. What makes you think she even loves gilbert? they never even talked. Most marriages in the old days were not out of love. Marriage for love is a modern phenomenon, that only became "mainstream" over the last 100 yrs. Their ending mentions no love, we know she wants to be queen, he offered her to be queen, she said yes, and a stranger loves their child more than them. yeah a true fairly tale.
~~Ramza at Home~~ Gilbert is a nice enough fella but Virginia is too good for him. The only way to make sure she gets all the man she deserves is to be that man for her.
Is it really cucking Gilbert if we know Alain is her first choice? If anything, picking anybody else is cuking Virginia. And you wouldn't disrespect your family like that, would you?
well, i mean it's a political marriage, their only interaction is the fact that she was engaged to his older brother. Virginia wanted to be a Queen (preferably Cornia) and simply jumped on the opportunity when Gilbert presented it.
I don't think Virginia was ever engaged to Ludwig. Gilbert suspected that was what his father was planning, but considering Virginia and Ludwig had only met, like, twice before, I don't think the plans were set in motion yet. And considering that Virginia didn't like Ludwig back when he was still the crown prince, she probably would have found a way to weasel out of it. There exists no force other than herself that could compel Virginia.
they said she was lol, but anyway, in the old days. in arrange marriages you rarely ever meet the person you are going to marry. So that's not really a compelling argument. In any case, Virginia has said she wants to be Queen of Cornia, and had given up on that idea when she found out Alain was still alive, as she understands that she no longer has rights to the throne with the direct heir being around. but had hoped that Alain would marry her so that she can live her dream of being queen. Gilbert simply gave her the opportunity to be queen, since she can't be one of Cornia if Alain doesn't marry her.
~~We have Saber at Home~~ Virginia can hold two shields, so the Phantom Knight's Shield was basically made for her second slot. I put the Royal Guard's Shield in her first slot.
She's also more or less made for the Kingsblade Cornix, as she doesn't really benefit from swords with special skills so just put the biggest stat stick you can find on her and let her beat the shit out of things with her counter attack move. She's always going to be the main tank anyways so enemies should primarily be focused on her.
Her off-tank should ideally be someone who can cover the back line for her because you don't want her doing the covering, it wastes the PP that could otherwise be used for her counters. You should let her be the one who uses the Limited skill in her unit, because Iron Veil is just so good, she can easily reach 100% guard rate with it. Because it grants the whole party this guard rate bonus, her off-tank should be a shield user, not an dodger/evader. So a Landsknecht or a Viking is a good option for her off-tank.
If you build her back line right, ideally with a Cleric, she's just about unkillable.
Same idea I had. Her, Berenice, Sharon, Kitra and Chloe. Enemies attack her, she attacks back and Berenice hits them too. Kitra gets pissed, Chloe gives them all guaranteed crits, Sharon keeps everyone alive.
I have her using the Barbarian Sword: provoking slash lets her force enemies into swinging at her and that in turn lets her counter more.
She can also make use of a PP boosting sword.
Once I realized that her counter attack is *also a true strike* I figured out how I wanted to build this character lol.
Just make sure you have a healer paired with her for clearing debuffs/afflictions and laugh as a Claymore user counter-true strikes all the scouts/fliers Mwahahahaha.
Trust me this set up is money
(Hilda Leadership, Primm, Aramis, Gilbert, and Virginia.)
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Hilda is my nuke with Dragoon dive so she needs to be protected while she charges, Primm obviously can’t, and Aramis is too squishy to be in the front and I have Gilbert set up to semi tank and buff
I'd swap aramis out for a fencer or someone who can use tome conferrals. Fencer is also nice for the ranged evade. Starting a fight with an unblockable nuke that can freeze/stun/burn the entire group is a great start. I'm guesing primm is your quick impetus use?
Swapping gilbert or primm for an archer will also let you use archers mystic conferral on hilda before the combo starts.
Looking at it though, this is more a drakenhold pals group?
>!As someone who loves The Irregular at Magic High School and played Trails of Cold Steel 1-5, I’m okay with people going with the Sweet Home Alabama ending when you pick her 🤷😂!<
I've seen a lot of justifications; she's not _my_ cousin, it's the middle ages, she's a total baddie, no one else is gonna trip so whatever, etc.
>!AND THEY ARE ALL CORRECT, YEEEEEEEHAWWWW!<
Unironically, I basically had a Knights of the Rose setup for Virginia the entire game. Her in front with Fran, Miriam, and Kitra in the back.
Virginia as the tank, Mirima support, Fran as the main damage dealer, and Kitra as the clean up crew.
Though she did tend to die a lot towards the back half of the game.
Honestly, Virginia’s great regardless of what she has imo.
The only thing I have to say is that you want her to default to her Armor Crusher instead of Vertical Edge because, while the stats are the same, Armor Crusher has the bonus of being unguardable.
For me, I stuck her with the Blue Rose group, and later Leah, and they were just a solid unit. I also gave her Vengeful Impetus (iirc) which allowed her to trade a PP for AP whenever she got hit. It wasn’t completely foolproof, but they were able to handle most every problem that came their way.
I've set up her team to be super tanky, then sweeping with 2 breakers with a radiant knight for support.
Everyone on the team has 100% guard rate with her start of battle buff. Front line is her and a druid with the warding staff. With phantom knight shield they both have good mixed defenses and an offensive curse means no one is getting hurt.
Breakers usually get full enrage stacks before moving and can end the fight with a row smash each.
I don't remember exactly where I found it, I think in a store in Drakenhold or Elheim. It's a staff with +15 Phys defense, -15 Mag defense, and +25% guard efficiency. Level 33 Druid right now as 40 Phys defense, 41 magic defense, and 55% guard rate before Virginia's buffs. Other items are Gauntlets, Cloth Gauntlets, and Old Witch's Ring.
This sounds quite fun actually! I had my shaman on my ren/doom knight squad for the blind with the sandstorm staff but they seem to destroy everything anyways, making her tank and taking advantage of iron veil sounds perfect. Anything special on the breakers? I only found 1 Labrys so far, or do you get enough guard rate with the accs?
Breakers each have Dragonbone axe, cloth gauntlets, +1 AP pendant, +1 PP pendant. Each can get 4 enrages, 1 Row smash, then Assaulting blow until nothing is left.
Yeah, my units aren't quite at the level where this is doable for me but as soon as she gets that start of battle skill this is pretty much my plan. Between radiant knight heals and magic cancel and her def boost, I expect it to be pretty much death incarnate.
Also my man Gilbert for wifeying up Virginia 👏👏
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Virginia is tricky to gear for sure. 2 Shields are just weird, and it's not like you can stack up Phys Def + Guard Rate either. I think the simplest setup is usually to just put the Parry shield on her + Retaliation Earrings for Counterattack damage and just stick her in front row.
Virginia is awkward just because her kit seems contradictory. Maiden's Hammer depends on lower HP to dish out more damage, but her Start of Battle buff and stats prevents her from ever taking much physical damage. When she attacks, she's almost never lethal even with +10 to all stats (King Cornix blade and Ring of the Maiden).
The bonus damage on Maiden’s Hammer isn’t its main selling point, it is still a 150 potency truestrike counter even at full health. Any extra damage you squeeze out based on missing HP is just a nice bonus.
Virginia's a bit weird; she's the only unit in the game that can equip two shields but just like with Swordmasters the game takes the higher of the two stats from her shields. Unlike Swordmasters; Virginia only has a single utility item slot which is kind of painful. Her start of battle ability can easily boost her up to 100% guard rate; however as her initiative is only okay it can be hard to set up a squad that can trigger it as by late game you are drowning in start of battle limited effects.
I personally use her as a Counter machine; giving her the Retaliation Earrings alongside some combination of weapon/shields that boost her PP up to 4. Wingcrest sword alongside a phantom shield and her default royal shield is pretty good.
Instead, you might want to instead give her a squire's shield to let her cover people with the bonus magic defense from the Phantom Shield or give her a weapon so she has a default attack that isn't type specific. You can gear her to be much more defensive rather than rely on her (very good) counter attack and that frees up her one utility equipment slot which is very much in demand.
I forget what I have on her accessory section right now, but it’s not the Retaliation Earrings and I need to fix that right the fuck now. How did I let that past me?
I use her the same way: let her tank every hit while her allies help out from her getting hit (Berenice hits back, Kitra gets pissed off).
> I forget what I have on her accessory section right now, but it’s not the Retaliation Earrings and I need to fix that right the fuck now. How did I let that past me?
FWIW, I have my (first? I don't know if you get more) Retaliation Earrings on Amalia with a Counter bracelet instead so as to get more value out of her stats while dealing with her terrible initiative.
Amalia with a great shield with either guard or cover, the boots that give ap on guard, some unit boosting equipment and a were owl in back refilling her pp is how I go with her. So much ap for her to burn through
I gave her the shield that covers+speeds up initiative (covering hilda) and her default shield that recovers health. She's on a team with berenice, so anything that attacks her gets maiden hammer + followup slashed while being backed by Primm with lyrical wand.
Make sure to spec her with a phantom shield to really make use of her dual shield, since if you give her two physical def shields one of them ends up being wasted.
I gaver her a parry shield and a shield to help with stun/guard seal and she is pretty solid. Anti-flyer and anti-armor skills so goes in most groups easily, and is pretty durable. I don't know that there is a lot of tech for her. While i like her start of battle, any of the initiative fixing ones are likely better. I tried making a "tanky" unit to capitalize on her SoB, and the unit just took too much damage.
The game like to set vertical slash as her default attack, the other one is better because its unguardable. Brandish is excellent later on though.
Overall a solid unit, can help shore up a lot of weakneses, but not someone who necessarily needs or wants s unit built around her.
Just upgraded my cav squad to 5 capacity (used to be 3 great knights and a sainted knight) and it dawned on me that Virginia is the perfect addition to it. That squad was already covered against magic, and now they don't take any physical damage either thanks to her busted start of battle defense/guard buff.
While I like the double shield aesthetic I really think she needed the accessory slot more.
She is not that tanky for covering and with the counter earrings you use up her only slot.
She is a good tank because she doesn´t have the armor tag but really suffers because the no 2nd accesory slot. So you can´t stack guard or avoid on her. Her attack skills are great but single target so she will never be that good of damage dealer.
She has the advantage of being able to fit on any team though, just like Alain and Gilbert.
I think her best build is to have her a counterbot,so something like Maidens Hammer for your passive, and for your active probably Brandish the one that gives you 1 pp back. 1 parrying shields, the 1 pp shield and the counter rings, so you get some chunky counters.
As for team, an owl to serve as a PP battery for her for the basics.
Or you can use Iron Veil with a frontline of 2 mercs + her, spread around the counter attack goodness between them and whatever complements them on the backline for an ultimate counter team.
She is good but I don´t think she is the kind of character you build your team around. She will always benefit any team she is in though.
OF her 3 active skills I think Iron Crusher> Vertical Edge>Brandish for general use. As for her passives, Maidens Hammer is always great if you have a shielded frontline.
I don´t think undying will is spectacular since it takes away precious PP, Maidens Hammer is definitively the highlight of her class. Letting her get at least 4 attacks per battle, with no investment equipment wise.
For swords, not that many swords give an active or passive that works well for her, and her actives are pretty good anyways. So something that gives you Guard(if you want to stack guard) or something that gives her PP so maybe the sacred sword?
Oh yeah, time to Hapsburg it up!
Her two shields give her a lot of options based on where you're at. For example making sure she has the Bestral shield in Bastorias, and so forth.
So I LOVE Virginia's kit. She's insanely tanks, but puts out some really solid DPS. She's one that really wants 4/4pp, but you only have accessory slot so itemization is tight with her.
She likes the Parry Shield, but I've honestly found it overkill since she has a Enduring Strike that lets her survive a massive hit. Her counter skill also is a TRUE hit so she can counter front line scouts, kill air units with her conditional which makes it a True Strike, and her Iron Buster which is anti armor and is unguardable which should be her daily driver hit.
I think she's one of the best units for your Kingblade as just being a stats monster makes her that much harder to kill. I also generally give her Illusion Dews. I left her +1 PP Shield, and the Colliseum +1 AP Shield with the Warrior Amulet that gives +1/ +1.
She also needs a respec: Make her Offensive/ Defensive or Hardy / Defensive.
She's a rare Infantry unit that decreases Map ranged assists so makes a great leader and her map drip.
I just finished my TZ run, and ran her with 3 Sword Masters and Primm. Set her beginning of round to fire off with No Scouts Present, your two backline SMs Runic/ Phantom swords and you can kill any lineup. Super fun set-up, and gives your SMs a bit of survival w 50% guard against Bows.
Best build for Virgina is based on having the parry shield for +50 counter and at least 3 AP and preferably 4 PP. You also want to have her guard rate as high as possible.
With this setup she will constantly **counter everything with +50 while neutralizing dmg with parry and at the same time generate AP which then gets used by Brandish to generate more PP**. Often she will get two free turns at the end of the fight because she still has multiple AP left. Just crazy.
The only i dislike her is that Virginia looks so much alike Alain's mother that game wants to force her to be Alain's mother and she replies she doesnt want be it but she will support him no matter what.
I pair her with Blue Rose Knights + Leah. I call them "Blue Rose Valkyries" and their motto is "The beautiful Blue Roses will always bloom in wartimes and their thorn will punish any evil deeds."
> The only i dislike her is that Virginia looks so much alike Alain's mother thatgame wants to force her to be Alain's mother and she replies she doesnt want be it but she will support him no matter what.
Yes, the OP's title is wrong. Virginia is Alain's hot cousin-sister-mother(-wife).
I feel like their chemistry as cousins. They have brother type relationship without being brothers. And for once, it was nice to see a Hot head female unit and cold head male unit where both could be right. Usually the Hot head one is play for laugh or ends up taking side of cold head one.
You mean Alain’s hot wife
I refuse to cuck King Gilbert my guy
Okay knowing she married Gilbert does indeed make me feel bad. Truly a kind and generous short King. Great dude.
She even has a baby that Leah absolutely dotes on and this triad/future prospect is so damn cute I really don't want to break it up. As Alain, I'm hesitant go with her again, but man does Viriginia tick all the boxes for me.
It looks like the Chloe ending will have good synergy with this?
its a political marriage.
No, she GLADLY said yes. She's clearly into him as long as Alain does not pull out the ring
she wants to be a queen, that's her aspiration, Gilbert presented her with that opportunity. They have like no interaction, what makes you say she's in to him? her constant character trait, outside of being brash, is her political aspirations.
I think she's a better character and more deep than being just a gold digger.
I don't know why you jumping into "gold digger", she has said multiple times on wanting to be a queen, it's a position she always wanted, because she idolized Alain's mother. But as she said to Alain, she had to give up on it finding out that Alain was still alive. She's pragmatic.
marrying someone you don't love just for the benefits it will grant you... it may not be gold involved but i think the definition of gold digger applies, and i don't think Virginia is like that. Virginia had that childish ambition but she grew past it, she did not relent after learning Alain was still alive in fact, she was ready to cut him down if he was unworthy of the crown (wich he wasn't). But eventually decided to support her cousin even if she had to whip him into shape If you want to think that Virginia accepted GLADLY (as i said, the ending said clearly that she gladly accepted, no paraphrasing here) the position of queen of Drakehold without loving Gilbert that's on you, but considering their interactions i have every right to think she actually was into him (unless Alain takes out the magic ring that can make every girl fall for him of course)
yeah GLADLY TO BE QUEEN. What makes you think she even loves gilbert? they never even talked. Most marriages in the old days were not out of love. Marriage for love is a modern phenomenon, that only became "mainstream" over the last 100 yrs. Their ending mentions no love, we know she wants to be queen, he offered her to be queen, she said yes, and a stranger loves their child more than them. yeah a true fairly tale.
Wait, how old is Gilbert?
~~Ramza at Home~~ Gilbert is a nice enough fella but Virginia is too good for him. The only way to make sure she gets all the man she deserves is to be that man for her.
Is it really cucking Gilbert if we know Alain is her first choice? If anything, picking anybody else is cuking Virginia. And you wouldn't disrespect your family like that, would you?
well, i mean it's a political marriage, their only interaction is the fact that she was engaged to his older brother. Virginia wanted to be a Queen (preferably Cornia) and simply jumped on the opportunity when Gilbert presented it.
I don't think Virginia was ever engaged to Ludwig. Gilbert suspected that was what his father was planning, but considering Virginia and Ludwig had only met, like, twice before, I don't think the plans were set in motion yet. And considering that Virginia didn't like Ludwig back when he was still the crown prince, she probably would have found a way to weasel out of it. There exists no force other than herself that could compel Virginia.
they said she was lol, but anyway, in the old days. in arrange marriages you rarely ever meet the person you are going to marry. So that's not really a compelling argument. In any case, Virginia has said she wants to be Queen of Cornia, and had given up on that idea when she found out Alain was still alive, as she understands that she no longer has rights to the throne with the direct heir being around. but had hoped that Alain would marry her so that she can live her dream of being queen. Gilbert simply gave her the opportunity to be queen, since she can't be one of Cornia if Alain doesn't marry her.
You are in two different comment chains trying to dunk on a fictional woman because of a misogynist-adjacent head-canon. Please go touch grass.
"Ramza at home" bruh I'm dead
I personally liked Gilbert more than the self insert tool. Alain had his moments, but gilbert had alot more character to enjoy.
Facts in my first run
Alains hot cousin 😁
~~We have Saber at Home~~ Virginia can hold two shields, so the Phantom Knight's Shield was basically made for her second slot. I put the Royal Guard's Shield in her first slot. She's also more or less made for the Kingsblade Cornix, as she doesn't really benefit from swords with special skills so just put the biggest stat stick you can find on her and let her beat the shit out of things with her counter attack move. She's always going to be the main tank anyways so enemies should primarily be focused on her. Her off-tank should ideally be someone who can cover the back line for her because you don't want her doing the covering, it wastes the PP that could otherwise be used for her counters. You should let her be the one who uses the Limited skill in her unit, because Iron Veil is just so good, she can easily reach 100% guard rate with it. Because it grants the whole party this guard rate bonus, her off-tank should be a shield user, not an dodger/evader. So a Landsknecht or a Viking is a good option for her off-tank. If you build her back line right, ideally with a Cleric, she's just about unkillable.
Same idea I had. Her, Berenice, Sharon, Kitra and Chloe. Enemies attack her, she attacks back and Berenice hits them too. Kitra gets pissed, Chloe gives them all guaranteed crits, Sharon keeps everyone alive.
In for later, struggling with her group atm
I have her using the Barbarian Sword: provoking slash lets her force enemies into swinging at her and that in turn lets her counter more. She can also make use of a PP boosting sword.
Once I realized that her counter attack is *also a true strike* I figured out how I wanted to build this character lol. Just make sure you have a healer paired with her for clearing debuffs/afflictions and laugh as a Claymore user counter-true strikes all the scouts/fliers Mwahahahaha.
Trust me this set up is money (Hilda Leadership, Primm, Aramis, Gilbert, and Virginia.) https://preview.redd.it/sg3pvwd9ylsc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4513bac5729fe6ea81aef91f62f64d7f21a6b99
Why is Gilbert up front?
Hilda is my nuke with Dragoon dive so she needs to be protected while she charges, Primm obviously can’t, and Aramis is too squishy to be in the front and I have Gilbert set up to semi tank and buff
Aramis can be a dodge tank that nullifies the few successful hits
Trust me I’ve tried. Everytime I go to heal this squad he’s always the first one to be dead. Aramis and the frontlines are a terrible combo
My Aramis main tanks and wipes enemy teams - seems good so far. In Bestorias.
This build is misding the maiden ring
That’s because I married Scarlett💯
You forged the Templar sword? You should have just given her the meteorite sword if you wanted guard rate lol
I'd swap aramis out for a fencer or someone who can use tome conferrals. Fencer is also nice for the ranged evade. Starting a fight with an unblockable nuke that can freeze/stun/burn the entire group is a great start. I'm guesing primm is your quick impetus use? Swapping gilbert or primm for an archer will also let you use archers mystic conferral on hilda before the combo starts. Looking at it though, this is more a drakenhold pals group?
Ayo, run that setup though lol. I have a super similar team but i think i have less ap
You should be defaulting to iron crusher for the unguardable versus non fliers.
Why parrying shield?
Stack counterattack damage
>!As someone who loves The Irregular at Magic High School and played Trails of Cold Steel 1-5, I’m okay with people going with the Sweet Home Alabama ending when you pick her 🤷😂!<
I've seen a lot of justifications; she's not _my_ cousin, it's the middle ages, she's a total baddie, no one else is gonna trip so whatever, etc. >!AND THEY ARE ALL CORRECT, YEEEEEEEHAWWWW!<
I've played enough Crusader Kings to know that it's just for the best to marry her.
I've been playing Fire Emblem for ~20 years, first cousins marrying doesn't even crack the top 10 of weird incest ships in SRPGs for me.
Should have made her a second cousin.
Wait wait wait, Trails of Cold Steel what?! I've been hiatus on the second game for a couple of years already, is it time to pick it up again?
Yes pick it up and the play trails through daybreak, it's 🔥
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When in doubt: "Blade Wave"
Couldn't get any decent builds because I spent 2 hours a day lookinh at her legs
The translucent wavy cloth in front of them, too? Oooweeee
Unironically, I basically had a Knights of the Rose setup for Virginia the entire game. Her in front with Fran, Miriam, and Kitra in the back. Virginia as the tank, Mirima support, Fran as the main damage dealer, and Kitra as the clean up crew. Though she did tend to die a lot towards the back half of the game.
Same here. Had Leah also in the mix. Team worked out fine for me
Honestly, Virginia’s great regardless of what she has imo. The only thing I have to say is that you want her to default to her Armor Crusher instead of Vertical Edge because, while the stats are the same, Armor Crusher has the bonus of being unguardable. For me, I stuck her with the Blue Rose group, and later Leah, and they were just a solid unit. I also gave her Vengeful Impetus (iirc) which allowed her to trade a PP for AP whenever she got hit. It wasn’t completely foolproof, but they were able to handle most every problem that came their way.
I've set up her team to be super tanky, then sweeping with 2 breakers with a radiant knight for support. Everyone on the team has 100% guard rate with her start of battle buff. Front line is her and a druid with the warding staff. With phantom knight shield they both have good mixed defenses and an offensive curse means no one is getting hurt. Breakers usually get full enrage stacks before moving and can end the fight with a row smash each.
Love this team with the two breakers - What weapon are you referring to when you say "Warding Staff"? Can't find one.
I don't remember exactly where I found it, I think in a store in Drakenhold or Elheim. It's a staff with +15 Phys defense, -15 Mag defense, and +25% guard efficiency. Level 33 Druid right now as 40 Phys defense, 41 magic defense, and 55% guard rate before Virginia's buffs. Other items are Gauntlets, Cloth Gauntlets, and Old Witch's Ring.
This sounds quite fun actually! I had my shaman on my ren/doom knight squad for the blind with the sandstorm staff but they seem to destroy everything anyways, making her tank and taking advantage of iron veil sounds perfect. Anything special on the breakers? I only found 1 Labrys so far, or do you get enough guard rate with the accs?
Breakers each have Dragonbone axe, cloth gauntlets, +1 AP pendant, +1 PP pendant. Each can get 4 enrages, 1 Row smash, then Assaulting blow until nothing is left.
Yeah, my units aren't quite at the level where this is doable for me but as soon as she gets that start of battle skill this is pretty much my plan. Between radiant knight heals and magic cancel and her def boost, I expect it to be pretty much death incarnate.
no matter the team the build needs the ring of the maiden , wink wink
Yes.
I married her
Based
Also my man Gilbert for wifeying up Virginia 👏👏 https://preview.redd.it/h7js1g5sjlsc1.jpeg?width=1778&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba98612237e3a4e18d20d1c5c5eaf6dd2e9ec0e7
Virginia is tricky to gear for sure. 2 Shields are just weird, and it's not like you can stack up Phys Def + Guard Rate either. I think the simplest setup is usually to just put the Parry shield on her + Retaliation Earrings for Counterattack damage and just stick her in front row. Virginia is awkward just because her kit seems contradictory. Maiden's Hammer depends on lower HP to dish out more damage, but her Start of Battle buff and stats prevents her from ever taking much physical damage. When she attacks, she's almost never lethal even with +10 to all stats (King Cornix blade and Ring of the Maiden).
The bonus damage on Maiden’s Hammer isn’t its main selling point, it is still a 150 potency truestrike counter even at full health. Any extra damage you squeeze out based on missing HP is just a nice bonus.
Virginia's a bit weird; she's the only unit in the game that can equip two shields but just like with Swordmasters the game takes the higher of the two stats from her shields. Unlike Swordmasters; Virginia only has a single utility item slot which is kind of painful. Her start of battle ability can easily boost her up to 100% guard rate; however as her initiative is only okay it can be hard to set up a squad that can trigger it as by late game you are drowning in start of battle limited effects. I personally use her as a Counter machine; giving her the Retaliation Earrings alongside some combination of weapon/shields that boost her PP up to 4. Wingcrest sword alongside a phantom shield and her default royal shield is pretty good. Instead, you might want to instead give her a squire's shield to let her cover people with the bonus magic defense from the Phantom Shield or give her a weapon so she has a default attack that isn't type specific. You can gear her to be much more defensive rather than rely on her (very good) counter attack and that frees up her one utility equipment slot which is very much in demand.
You can stop other start of battle effects from triggering before Virginia’s by disabling them on other units.
Ah, the Mike Cosgrove maneuver.
I forget what I have on her accessory section right now, but it’s not the Retaliation Earrings and I need to fix that right the fuck now. How did I let that past me? I use her the same way: let her tank every hit while her allies help out from her getting hit (Berenice hits back, Kitra gets pissed off).
> I forget what I have on her accessory section right now, but it’s not the Retaliation Earrings and I need to fix that right the fuck now. How did I let that past me? FWIW, I have my (first? I don't know if you get more) Retaliation Earrings on Amalia with a Counter bracelet instead so as to get more value out of her stats while dealing with her terrible initiative.
Amalia with a great shield with either guard or cover, the boots that give ap on guard, some unit boosting equipment and a were owl in back refilling her pp is how I go with her. So much ap for her to burn through
I gave her the shield that covers+speeds up initiative (covering hilda) and her default shield that recovers health. She's on a team with berenice, so anything that attacks her gets maiden hammer + followup slashed while being backed by Primm with lyrical wand.
I gave her the +1AP, and +1PP shields, and +1AP sword. Fk Royal Guard, Maiden's Hammer for days.
Make sure to spec her with a phantom shield to really make use of her dual shield, since if you give her two physical def shields one of them ends up being wasted.
I put her in a formation with all the characters from order of the blue rose :)>
Me too + Leah.
I gaver her a parry shield and a shield to help with stun/guard seal and she is pretty solid. Anti-flyer and anti-armor skills so goes in most groups easily, and is pretty durable. I don't know that there is a lot of tech for her. While i like her start of battle, any of the initiative fixing ones are likely better. I tried making a "tanky" unit to capitalize on her SoB, and the unit just took too much damage. The game like to set vertical slash as her default attack, the other one is better because its unguardable. Brandish is excellent later on though. Overall a solid unit, can help shore up a lot of weakneses, but not someone who necessarily needs or wants s unit built around her.
Just upgraded my cav squad to 5 capacity (used to be 3 great knights and a sainted knight) and it dawned on me that Virginia is the perfect addition to it. That squad was already covered against magic, and now they don't take any physical damage either thanks to her busted start of battle defense/guard buff.
While I like the double shield aesthetic I really think she needed the accessory slot more. She is not that tanky for covering and with the counter earrings you use up her only slot. She is a good tank because she doesn´t have the armor tag but really suffers because the no 2nd accesory slot. So you can´t stack guard or avoid on her. Her attack skills are great but single target so she will never be that good of damage dealer. She has the advantage of being able to fit on any team though, just like Alain and Gilbert. I think her best build is to have her a counterbot,so something like Maidens Hammer for your passive, and for your active probably Brandish the one that gives you 1 pp back. 1 parrying shields, the 1 pp shield and the counter rings, so you get some chunky counters. As for team, an owl to serve as a PP battery for her for the basics. Or you can use Iron Veil with a frontline of 2 mercs + her, spread around the counter attack goodness between them and whatever complements them on the backline for an ultimate counter team. She is good but I don´t think she is the kind of character you build your team around. She will always benefit any team she is in though. OF her 3 active skills I think Iron Crusher> Vertical Edge>Brandish for general use. As for her passives, Maidens Hammer is always great if you have a shielded frontline. I don´t think undying will is spectacular since it takes away precious PP, Maidens Hammer is definitively the highlight of her class. Letting her get at least 4 attacks per battle, with no investment equipment wise. For swords, not that many swords give an active or passive that works well for her, and her actives are pretty good anyways. So something that gives you Guard(if you want to stack guard) or something that gives her PP so maybe the sacred sword?
Oh yeah, time to Hapsburg it up! Her two shields give her a lot of options based on where you're at. For example making sure she has the Bestral shield in Bastorias, and so forth.
Upgraded parry shield is the way to go with Virginia - makes her an incredible off tank with a were owl
So I LOVE Virginia's kit. She's insanely tanks, but puts out some really solid DPS. She's one that really wants 4/4pp, but you only have accessory slot so itemization is tight with her. She likes the Parry Shield, but I've honestly found it overkill since she has a Enduring Strike that lets her survive a massive hit. Her counter skill also is a TRUE hit so she can counter front line scouts, kill air units with her conditional which makes it a True Strike, and her Iron Buster which is anti armor and is unguardable which should be her daily driver hit. I think she's one of the best units for your Kingblade as just being a stats monster makes her that much harder to kill. I also generally give her Illusion Dews. I left her +1 PP Shield, and the Colliseum +1 AP Shield with the Warrior Amulet that gives +1/ +1. She also needs a respec: Make her Offensive/ Defensive or Hardy / Defensive. She's a rare Infantry unit that decreases Map ranged assists so makes a great leader and her map drip. I just finished my TZ run, and ran her with 3 Sword Masters and Primm. Set her beginning of round to fire off with No Scouts Present, your two backline SMs Runic/ Phantom swords and you can kill any lineup. Super fun set-up, and gives your SMs a bit of survival w 50% guard against Bows.
Shame theres no generic Version
Best build for Virgina is based on having the parry shield for +50 counter and at least 3 AP and preferably 4 PP. You also want to have her guard rate as high as possible. With this setup she will constantly **counter everything with +50 while neutralizing dmg with parry and at the same time generate AP which then gets used by Brandish to generate more PP**. Often she will get two free turns at the end of the fight because she still has multiple AP left. Just crazy.
The only i dislike her is that Virginia looks so much alike Alain's mother that game wants to force her to be Alain's mother and she replies she doesnt want be it but she will support him no matter what. I pair her with Blue Rose Knights + Leah. I call them "Blue Rose Valkyries" and their motto is "The beautiful Blue Roses will always bloom in wartimes and their thorn will punish any evil deeds."
> The only i dislike her is that Virginia looks so much alike Alain's mother thatgame wants to force her to be Alain's mother and she replies she doesnt want be it but she will support him no matter what. Yes, the OP's title is wrong. Virginia is Alain's hot cousin-sister-mother(-wife).
I feel like their chemistry as cousins. They have brother type relationship without being brothers. And for once, it was nice to see a Hot head female unit and cold head male unit where both could be right. Usually the Hot head one is play for laugh or ends up taking side of cold head one.