Path of Radiance - Chapter 15 [Pacifist + All BEXP & Recruit Stefan in 4 Turns] Walkthrough

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Published on July 31, 2021 8:27:15 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IwTdA_-SK0

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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (2005)

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This video should hopefully help anyone struggling with this map to recruit Stefan and gain ALL of the bonus EXP for this map (and most, but not all of the items*). I spent several hours trying and failing (losing units, the timing was off, etc.) so I wanted to put out a guide (of sorts) in case someone else was looking for ideas.

You may want to swap Soren for Ilyana if she's a higher level than him.

Difficulty I'm playing on is easy, but this solution should still work for normal/hard if your units are strong enough to endure attacks.

Things to consider:
- Make sure all of your units have vulneraries/elixirs to heal.
- ALL weapons need to be unequipped aside from Marcia/Jill, who should have weak weapons (slim lances). This makes your "tank" units priority for enemy units to attack if they are in range, and prevents them from counterattacking and killing any enemies.
- Depending on how much you've used Jill/Marcia you may need to spend some bonus Exp on them. This chapter awards quite a bit (60/40 per unit left alive, 450/300 for clearing in under 7 turns, and 450/300 for not killing a single enemy) , so don't worry about using it up.
- Jill MUST be promoted to Wyvern Lord for this to work (I used a Master Seal on a level 10 Jill), as she needs 9 Mov to clear the map in two turns.
- Soren also must be promoted to Sage as he needs 6 Mov to be able to follow the path safely with Marcia.
- I leveled up Marcia until she had 29 HP/15 Str/12 Def, she takes a lot of hits and she needs to be able to kill the boss if Soren doesn't; you may want to forge a lance to have an extra point of Mt and increased Hit, as she only had a 56% chance of landing the attack for me.
- An Elfire tome (effective against beast laguz) should work if Soren has 5 Str or enough Spd to double (after subtracting the Wt of the weapon from it) Muarim has 17 Spd.
- Aside from Jill, Marcia and Lethe/Mordecai (they are the only units who can recruit Stefan) and Soren/Ilyana (sages have increased movement on sand and beast laguz are weak to fire tomes) you can use whichever units have enough health to take hits in this chapter (though it's suggested you don't use mounted horseback units due to their low movement in the sand).
- I brought Rhys, Rolf and Mia along only because they ended up being relatively tanky in this playthrough, but if they are a liability, replace them with other units like Nephenee.

The general idea of this strategy is to guard Soren with Marcia until he can reach the boss, while also picking up the hidden items in the sand (thieves have a 100% chance to pick them up, as well as increased Mov, so if you have Volke and Sothe, I recommend using them both; if your Sothe can't take hits as well as mine, switch the two's starting positions). I suggest not following my movements too closely with regards to my "tanks", as I will likely have different Mov/HP/Def stats for my units. The part where I had them shoving each other around (5 mins in) was going to be so that Sothe could safely pick up an item, but Mia ended up getting it instead, so I had him move to pick up the boots instead, so don't worry about copying that, for example. I've also seen many people suggest using Marcia with a forged lance to kill Muarim, but in order to get Stefan, you need to bring Lethe/Mordecai over to the specific spot on the map and wait, so this method offers enough time to do so while stalling safely. Unfortunately this map still requires a lot of trial and error to beat, and your units will likely differ from mine, so just be patient and make changes where they're needed (switching around units/placement of your "tanks" so that they draw the laguz away from your main party of Marcia/Soren/Jill).

* Items gained in this run:
- Guard (skill)
- Silver Blade
- Physic
- Coin
- Shine (mine was picked up by Mia by luck, but you should be able to get it with Sothe/Volke and then boots on the next turn)
- Boots
- Vague Katti (with Stefan)

Items not picked up:
- Coin
- Statue Fragment
- White Gem (can possibly be picked up by Jill on chance, but don't bet on it)

You can definitely stall longer to get these items if you choose, but I decided not to bother as I had plenty of money and haven't needed to add extra weight to any characters (statue fragment) on this playthrough.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Showing all units' stats
00:30 - Showing all units' positions
00:42 - Battle

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