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Adding onto this: Feena can dance chain with your favourite staff user, and therefore make it so NO ENEMIES in Endgame Pt. 4 will even be able to move, thus one shotting the final boss and recruiting the spoiler-y characters without having to deal with Mediuth's and the Earth Dragon's rage.

Also, there are two chests in Endgame Pt. 2 that require the Thief Staff, and one of the chests contains the Hammerene, and the other is the Ohm, if you really need it. Other places are in Ch. 10, but they just contain trivial staves amusingly enough (Watch and Silence IIRC)

Finally, as Nom said, it's the one way of getting rid of a guy in FE5 who him just being there adds 30% Acc and Avd to enemy units under his command painlessly, otherwise you'd have to wait 60 turns for him to leave. Other than that, it can be used to send a powerhouse to the Bishops with status inflicting staves and taking care of them. Frankly, those are the two uses I found the Warp staff useful for (unless you want to Warp Lara to Pahn and make her a Dancer and not have to deal with enemies), which is why I voted for Again. So in closing, it's not that the Warp staff is any different from other FEs, it's just that it's "needed more" in FE5.

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Yes, there ROMs of FE3 on the internet, two versions actually. Otherwise, I'd be taking pictures of my TV screen doing my LP of it. ;P

And yes, there are ROMs of all the other FEs around the internet.

But I don't want to get banned from Gaia so I'll hold off on giving links to them. D; I can post links to the translation patches though!

While the Again staff sounds AWESOME, I'm going to vote based on my gameplay experience.

Best: Physic. By far the most useful healing staff. You can't warp dead units, and it's a bad idea to get your healer(s) killed trying to heal the unit who's facing the boss.

Worst: This is a hard one to decide because each staff has its uses and every strategy utilizes or ignores them differently. Overall, I think the Barrier staff is the worst. It's basically just free experience for the staff user of choice. The extra resistance is in theory nice, but not absolutely necessary, and it's easy to make do without.

Yeah, scratch that. My vote goes to the Berserk staff. Annoying as all get out in enemy hands and generally useless in allied hands, since the enemy never seems capable of getting hit by it.

You know what? Yeah, Berserk takes worst. I didn't think to consider it since you very rarely have the opportunity to even get one, but you can obtain it in at least FE6. Changing vote for worst to Berserk.

Meanwhile, I am not understanding all the hate for Torch. As if your Thieves can illuminate everything. The fact that the Torch Staff has Range makes it substantially more flexible than using just a Thief or regular torch to illuminate everything. And it IS really nice experience for staff users. That's not an attack on Thieves, either. But using Thieves AND a Torch Staff is better than just using Thieves.

And Warp is substantially different in FE5 than in other entries. It got severely nerfed after FE5 when the distance it could move people became dependent on the magic stat of unit using it. I mean, really, to be able to move a unit to ANY space on the map is broken. You could even move characters to spaces you couldn't see in fog-of-war chapters (a good method for determining where walls and enemies are since it won't allow you to warp them on such spaces). The fact that the term 'warpskip' exists, literally not dealing with a chapter by warping someone to the boss and killing them on the spot, and came about from FE5 speaks to its immense potential in that game specifically. In many instances it turns what is considered the most difficult entry in the series to easy mode. It lets you reach houses that you'd otherwise likely lose a unit to get to (hi, Dean's Dragon Lance), obtain treasure opposing thieves would otherwise obtain, it's by far the most efficient and painless way to recruit Pahn and make Lara a Dancer (and you should make her a Dancer) as Lolwut mentioned, and perhaps most notable of all, you have access to more than one of them. You can get roughly 8 or so (can't remember precisely) in the course of the game. You only get one Hammerne. Warp is basically perhaps the most exploitative staff to ever grace a Fire Emblem game. That and the Again Staff. But I'm inclined to side with the Warp Staff due to the frequency with which you can you and abuse it, since you're not limited to just one in the game (plus, it's Hammernable, although there are better things to use Hammerne on, generally)

Best/worst updated this week is GBA critical animation.
(They can't all be gold right?)

Best: Bow users (I don't care if I have to choose between Snipers, Archers, Nomad, or Nomad Trooper, there's a reason behind it.) because you won't know for sure whether it will be a critical or not until you see their arrows being spun. I like how they give the element of surprise.

Worst: FE8 Wvyern Knight. I keep getting the white flash as if my game is about to be freeze. It's as if there is a pause in the middle of the attack before everything is back to normal.