"If you find a lost item for someone who already has max motivation, consider waiting to return it until after their motivation drops." For some reason this really made me laugh. Just imagine doing that in real life. "Hey bro, so I found your wallet a few weeks ago but I thought I'd wait until you were looking a bit down before I decided to give it back."
@@JacobMinger Kind of annoys me that this comment got so upvoted when I've been so ruthlessly using this tip in game. I'm all: "Oh hey Claude, you want this item back? Well you got MVP last fight so your motivation is full. Fuck you, wait until next week."
Haha. So like, just got the game two days ago, and now I got to part 2. And I was to stupid to recruit other students, so now I have all these lost items and it’s just like, huh... at least I have something for your grave ya know
Important time: you can soft reset by pressing L, R, + and - to immediately take you back to the main menu. This can be useful if you say something wrong during tea time or if you forgot to repair a weapon
@@keeysOST Its pretty fun but I'm just trying to speedrun through the game cuz Astral Chain comes out at the end of next month and then Iceborne September 6th but I'll be back to play much more 3H though.
You can force a student to join your class by stalking them, constantly forcing them to eat/sing with you, and shove stuffed animals and others things they like down their throat until they join you to make you stop. This is useful if you want a student that has riding or flying because those are kind of hard to grind unless you main that class.
@@jasondp3546 If you want story and strategy, go for Fire emblem. If you want action and adventure in a huge open world go with Breath of the wild. Both games are amazing and you should play both of them, when you get the opportunity tho.
You forgot to mention that all characters can change to any class they've been at any time. In this sense the game is hugely more fluid in classes than it's predecessors.
Fire emblem shadow dragon for the DS let characters switch between classes similar to three houses, but they only had the master seal so classes were locked after you ranked up.
I think the characters in this game are the most... character-y they've been in at least the most recent titles (can't speak for the titles before Awakening). It feels very natural and things like their likes, dislikes, and goals really sets them up with a lot of depth. Loving this game so far.
Some easy exp trick. Use the retreat option during Any battle. U will keep the experience and levels , and your weapon durabilitity doenst go down. (Only Works in normal mode, hard mode doenst have this option)
That's what I did on my first playthrough as well. It was... a mess, lol. I made it to the end, but looking back on it now, many embarrassing mistakes were made. Still, it was a fun experience and I learned a lot from it. Much more than I could have from any guide.
@@Lilransdawg As far as people have tested there is no hard limit. However house leaders and there retainers (servant?) can not be recruited. The hard part is meeting the stat requirements to recruit some of them.
The game doesn't tell you that the place where a certain person was last is who the gift probably belongs to (sorry for the bad phrasing). But besides that I agree.
Another tip: pressing the + button in battle doesn't just zoom in. It makes battalions show up on the field, moving a unit will make them visually run around the field instead of a cursor, and it makes things overall more cinematic.
You CANNOT recruit house leaders (Claude, Dimitri, Eldeguard) or their bodyguards (Hilda, Dedue, Hubert) Edit: you can't recruit Hilda if u r in Black eagles, so if u r in blue lions u can do it.
Randomthings19 Just saw a screenshot on Reddit confirming she’s recruitable to Eagles, too. She’s just different from every other recruit in that you have to build her support with monastery activities like cooking and choir practice.
I restarted after reaching the end of the 1st year because I'd botched most of these things so badly. Second go around I'm targeting 6 students only to recruit and being much better with training. Actually having a goal. I didn't before I just trained "whatever" SO i had characters that were C+ in 3 or 4 weapons and A in none. Best thing? I'm enjoying it just as much second time around
When you choose to explore on your day off, there will be side quests. You must complete all the side quests before there will be any new ones the next time you chose explore.
elcí yes I can, if they don’t understand previous lore, confused by the game mechanics etc. then they know it isn’t a good introductory game. I haven’t played any of the series myself and I feel asking a new person to the series would give a better insight into whether it is a good introductory game to the series, whereas I couldn’t get that same answer from a seasoned FE player, as they already understand the references, lore and mechanics. Not to mention that you comment wasn’t necessary whatsoever.
Will Knight I like it. Yes I do not know the lore. I am learning through this game. It has a lot of mechanics in the game and this video helped out a lot. I am 10 hours in and I am really enjoying it. Learning all these different mechanics is hard in the beginning and I’m still learning. Learning these abilities are tough. I have 3 people outshine all of them and I am developing a sniper. It’s cool
Will Knight it probably isn’t representative of the rest of the series, just it’s probably fine for a first game. It also helps that the game is really easy, and you can do whatever you want and probably be fine. I’ve already figured out a lot of the mechanics to learn how to optimize, but especially in this game you really don’t need to. I wish the map design felt more cohesive like in past games tho.
This caught me off guard: When you instruct the students, if you leave instructing without spending all their motivation you lose the same amount of activity points so make sure your students are full motivation for min-maxing your activity points.
dont ever repair weapons.. forge your broken weapons it cost pretty much the same and it makes it more powerful than previously, also always buy all the bait!
I wish I had known that you can miss Support conversations! For example I choose Blue Lions an recruited Bernadetta but couldn't watch her C Support after the timeskip (same with Cyril).
If you are short on money and/or resources, consider using up a weapon's durability first and then upgrading it - it gets repaired automatically when you upgrade it, no matter how low on durability it was before
do gardening no time cosumed and you can get stat increasing items and flowers as gifts but need to take a week to grow do the statues, advise and choir thing in the cathedral. the advise opens up dialogues that gives you idea for the skills your student wants to focus on. i think choir gives a lot of prof points i think. statues uses renown to add additional stats when incresing skills. walking is better. you can find a lot of scattered items around useful at start. do paralogue battles. recruit cyril early so you can build him to be the best. donnie of three houses. there are more.
Can somebody please answer some questions for me with out spoiling the game? 1. Can you still teach the students after the five year time skip? 2. How, exactly, do you recruit other students from different houses? Personally I would like to recruit Bernadetta, Hilda, and Petra. 3. When is the last chapter before the time skip?
An interesting tip that wasn't covered was "class mastery" there's a little exp bar down at the bottom of your class that as you do stuff as a class, you can earn skills similarly to how you did in awakening, but the only seem to unlock at "mastery" level. My advice would be to try not to promote too far before unlocking your mastery; I'm sure some of them, even the lower levels are useful.
I agree with you. At the beginning I used to change class everytime I had the good level but quickly I realized I was missing good stuff. I prefer now to master a class then to switch freely :)
Mad Mags started playing golden deer after my blue lions play through. Miss my other students. Was more enjoyable. But, gotta push through for multiple endings. Not looking forward to the emo black eagles.
I'm not gonna lie, this game is pretty stressful for me. The tactics RPG part, I'm not sweating over because I've played FE7 and 8 plenty of times, and I know all the basics. No, it's the sims elements that's overwhelming to me. Simply put, I'm a perfectionist. Obsessively so. I want to be as efficient as possible with my time so that I can get the most of any given week. I've been thinking of prioritizing exploring the monastery, since it's how you can build up your Professor level and your students' motivation the most. But, even without getting majorly spoiled, I heard that bad things happen regarding the students you don't recruit. And, well, I get way too attached to imaginary video game characters for my own good, so now it's become a race against time to make Byleth the most versatile teacher the school has ever seen in order to save all the children that can be saved. I already have a semblance of a road map in mind. At the start of the game, I focus on getting Byleth's Professor level up to around C or C+. Since I'm going to focus primarily on my eight default students so as to not spread Exp too thinly, I want to build a good supply of Activity Points early on so that I can motivate and get the most out of my eight students each month, while still having enough Activity Points leftover to work on improving Byleth's other skills in order to recruit all the other characters. My big question is really about seminars. Should I even bother with them? I feel like I can get more out of faculty training with a good pool of Activity Points, while still being able to interact and motivate my students and build up my professor levels even further, since you can only attend one seminar a week and it only increases about two skills while doing nothing to your Prof. level. Is that how I should proceed in order to accomplish this insane goal of mine?
Dude I'm in the same boat. I'm already at chapter 7 and haven't recruited anyone and I'm stressing the heck out. But just try to not worry about it. I for one always just have fun on first play throughs then use a guide on the others if I want.
@@Nathadegold I already know there's a New Game Plus+. I'm assuming Skill and Class Exp carry over, though your levels, equipment and stats obviously reset, lest Byleth start the game Saitama-ing everything.
Some note on the skills and recruiting. You can only recruit characters by passing a skill check with them, and the level requirement of said skill is reduced by their support level with byleth. A character with no support level will need you to have either B in a skill or 20 in a Stat. C level is c in skill and 15 in Stat and b level is d in skill 10 in stat. At b support, characters will randomly approach you at the monastery once a month to ask to join your house.
Well yeah I'm in my first play through of golden deer right now and oh boy I did struggle at first Due to not knowing how everything works exactly, many of my students can't reclass at the proper time aaand Claude ended up with the dancer class ment for Ignatz... Gods I think the only thing I really managed to do is recruit enough students It's always the same for me when playing through new games, even though I have played several FE titles already That's why it's nice to see videos like these ... even though they sadly didn't save me from making mistakes Ah well, first tries in normal difficulty are there to learn what not to do in hard mode I guess?
TREVORVADER nah persona 5 was lowkey kinda weak compared to the other games in the persona franchise. definitely enjoying this story mode FAR more, way more feels and the combat is a little more to my liking.
it’s really worth using gambit attacks for demons and creatures to breaking their armour. it can give u umbral steel and myrthil (spelling ?) which otherwise is really hard to come by
Been playing rigorously since release. These are solid things people should know, hopefully they read the in game tips too because there’s lots of mechanic description there too
How to play it well: 1) Choose Edelgard first and see her story 2) Lol 3) Choose Claude in your second try and get satisfaction with the end 4) Choose Dimitri to understand why he became crazy as fuck 5) Don't waste your time with Church's route
Mounted Units are so damn powerful. As soon as Dimitri (yeah yeah I have blue lions, I thought I could bang Mercie, ok?) had his first mount it was really hard to even forcefully damage him. the professor and him are so overleveled by now, I hang back with them and let the others do the work. But when I dont see another solution to a tough battle, I just charge into the middle of all enemies with one of them (even boss battles with many ads are no problem) and let them take out everyone with the counterattack in the enemies turn. I probably cant lose even if I wanted. Oh I am 3 or 4 Month into the 2nd chapter. My tip for new players: Turn off permadeath. Sure it sounds like a challenge, but especially when you are new to the series it is a real turndown. Turn it on on a 2nd playthrough
"Recruit all your favourite students otherwise there is no telling where they will end up later on." .....all my favourite students are in my class....Black Eagles for life.
I think priority should be getting your professor level up as soon as possible so you can do 2 battles in one day. In the online statistics most people spend two free days doing battle to finish the quests/paralogues when they could have explored in one of those days.
The Share a Meal thing was neat, but the rest was basically obvious stuff everyone should know. I figured that this video would give me something new that I'd have to look out for since I'm going in blind. It didn't.
Most of that is just common knowledge from all the Fire Emblem series (not just this) And things easy to learn about This video feels like it for peoples that never played a game like Fire emblem and can’t learn easy mechanics on their own
There’s so much hype around this game that it’s piqued my interest!!! I have only played Odyssey & BOTW on my daughter’s Switch, but am looking for a new challenge!!! I know nothing of this series except that I’d be a teacher??? Is this like Rival Schools the fighting game from Capcom from back in the day??? What’s the best school to choose with the best students???
The recruiting part isn’t exactly true. It’s better to train a small group of students than the entire monastery as there’s more focus on each student, if I have 10 units and there’s 500 xp for simplicities sake let’s say each unit gets equal, that means 50 xp for each unit. However if I have 5 units then they get 100 exp each. It just makes for faster level ups. Also, your quantity of units doesn’t matter either since you’ll never go under the maximum amount of units unless some of them died.
I feel like, for support, the fact that you can miss chances to level them up should have been involved. Some of the character's speech is tied into the storyline; I found I lost a load of chances to level up characters because I had progressed too far
Okay can someone direct me to the non-spoilery advice? Edit:Haven't watched the vid yet, but I saw the warning but I am also interested in getting this as my first FE experience.
There isn’t really anything plot-related. It’s pretty much all mechanics stuff. It should go without saying that you don’t want to read any dialogue boxes they show (if you’re really paranoid you don’t need the visuals at all- you can just listen to the video), but apart from that I think I’d call it spoiler-free. They probably just put that disclaimer at the beginning for people who really don’t want to know ANYTHING. I’m not quite sure what people like that would be _expecting_ from a tips video though.
Kyprianos Chrysostomou Not necessarily, but you won’t be staying at the monestary forever. Try to prioritize your favorites or students you want to recruit with overlapping skill requirements. For example, both Mercedes and Bernadetta like the Bow skill and I want to get both of them so I started using Bows and training my Bow skill.
@@Nearigami You can also bypass this requirement aparently from what I was told. If your support level with them is high enough with them. Though if that is true it has to be A or higher cause I still can't recruit a person who I'm now at B level with.
Dragoon-BB The requirements are effectively random I’ve found. Some have a higher threshold than others. I’ve found that the requirement is around C mastery of the skill and 15 of the stat they want. It varies of course but support increases the chance to override things.
@@Nearigami Ah good thought that was the case. I was hoping I didn't need to have insanely high stats to recruit everyone cause I'd be at the end of the game at that point.
If you want some easy exp on low lvl characters a good way is to get enemys low on hp and take the final hit with the lowest lvl characters as the most exp is gain via kills. With weapon durability in this game you cant just trap non combat enemy's in corners for slow but easy exp any more lol
I didnt even know the ability tap was a thing in my first playthrough, weirdly enough when I revisited an old save file I looked at the equipped abilities and didnt change much
In game cheat code for removal of durability on item. Launch the game and immediately press up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, Y, B, A. Now immediately power off the switch and turn it back on 4 times. Now launch the game, start a new game. You will notice you will no longer use durability.
Kinda impossible. Dimitri is from Faerghus and is honor-bound to defend the church. In order for this to work...a certain event would need to happen before coming in contact with Dimitri on the BE-CF route.
Christian B. You can return them any day. If the student has max motivation already it’s better to wait until they don’t before you gift it to maximize the potential. Hope that helps.
Instruct is where you look at a students skills and then pick the one you want to give experience. The more motivated they are, the more sessions you can do and thus the more experience they gain. If you decide you want to make someone a Cavalry unit, you would probably instruct them on Horse Riding.
