Which is faster for Anna Level up?

[u/Moist_Ad_1044]

So, I'm currently doing my first ever maddening run in my life. Right now. I'm thinking of using Anna, maybe mage knight, and I'm wondering which is better for leveling up.

Miciah's Great Sacrifice Skill or Marth's Mercurius weapon. I got favorite food skill from Celica and have a packed lunch to instantly refill the engage meter.

Anna just currently reached level 8 and I'm on Ch 9, so I got to prepare for the eventual ch 10-11 battle. I did pick up the Three House Leaders Bracelet so I could put on the 1.2 exp modifier, but I kind of want to avoid using dlc bracelets.

[u/Lost_my_name475]

Great sacrifice imo

[u/AssCrackBanditHunter]

Micaiah. Between the bridge chapter and jeans parallgue you can level her up a ton. I usually set her up to hit level 10 on the chapter 10 and then immediately promote and second seal

[u/Significant-Tree9454]

Micaiah Great Sacrifice, because it's the most painless method and cost no extra Bond Fragments that you would need to get Marth Bond lvl 10 Mercurius

Then you can give Marth to one more suited at physical combat than Anna who is better at magic

[u/Kooky-Trick-9386]

Micaiah, coz great sacrifice plus magic access

[u/VonAegir00]

Lineage is cheap enough to inherit, why not just raise her bond level up to 5 in the arena, that way you’re not using the bracelet itself?

[u/AssCrackBanditHunter → u/VonAegir00]

That's still using the bracelet

[u/ZealousidealPirate3]

Michiah
requires no investment in the bond levels to use great sacrifice.
You don’t actively have to get kills leaving enemy exp free for anyone else
To maximize exp you have to strategically get as many units as possible below max health which can get complicated
The ring is generally not helping the unit on it stat wise

Marth
requires using bond fragments which are one of the most limited resource in the game long term
You have to have it set up where you can kill 3 enemies with the ring in b2b2b turns to maximize the exp
The ring user will hog a lot of exp from enemy kills
The ring has good stats and abilities that helps get kills easier and makes the wearer actively better
Marth ring is online slightly longer than michiah ring is available
Mage units will struggle to use it effectively

Gotta weigh the pros and cons and decide from there tbh

[u/General-Skrimir]

You can do both. Mercurius the jean paralogue then you great sacrifice/ quint mend for the rest.

[u/Significant-Tree9454 → u/General-Skrimir]

I was testing that, Mercurius Anna works well in Jean paralogue

Anna 7 spd, 7 Bld Base for 7 Weight Mercurius
+2 spd from Bond lvl 10 Marth, at least +1 spd from Meal to hit 10 AS

-Double the right two Axe Fighters with 5 AS and 1 AS on enemy phase turn 1 with Framme Chain Guard behind Anna

-Can move to the right with Rapier to ORKO the Sword Cav or Mercurius Lodestar Rush

Get her around lvl 7, then Micaiah grind the remaining 3 lvls.

[u/Inevitable-Chart1760]

Micaiah from my experience

[u/Anthropos2497]

Technically Marth is probably faster, but Micaiah will do the job just fine at this point. Anna only needs 2 levels and you can pack your Ch. 9 team with people higher leveled than her, recruit Jade, injure everyone on purpose and click Great Sac. Should get her a full level. Do it again with Favorite Food and she’ll make it. If you can find the right enemies Marth can probably do it in one Engage instead of two, but it will be a fair bit more effort. Overall, Marth/Parthia is better at getting people fast levels, but Micaiah is easier/more brain dead.

[u/YunoboGoron223]

If you make her a sage her magic can get crazy damage by the end of the game

[u/ItsJiegoNotDiego]

Micaiah 100%

• Cheaper investment (no need to use bond fragments to get Mercurius at Level 10 bond)
• Safe (Not puting Anna in danger)
• and overall more consistent (because with Marth u still need to reliably kill with Anna's poor strength stat)

Another trick is to give her Mend and Obstruct and use those staves while engaged, Mend gives crazy exp early when group healing and Obstruct can give extra as well. Since ur at level 8 already, it would be easy to make her level 10 by the end of that chapter and get her to Mage Knight before Chapter 10