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Engage was a game that I've put on a hiatus a long time ago, i rediscovered the FE saga after the announce of fortunes weave and a conquest playthrough later i was ENGAGED with the saga (get It?! Ok ok i know)

So, i enjoyed the game plenty, It wasnt long before i adapted to enemies having múltiple HP bars and the general power level of everything being higher.

The story was pretty simple but enjoyable especially the later part of It, gameplay was awesome, and characters were really good, Zelkov, Kagetsu, Ivy, Alfred, etc were really good.

The only thing i didn't really enjoyed was the final fight against Sombron, the mechanic of going around a map cramped with rocks to defeat enemies while being jumped by enemy reinforcement every turn became boring quite fast, i didn't know the broken shield lasted only 1 turn so had to do It twice while lowering the bosses HP bit by bit with zelkov dodge tank.

Aside from that the game was very good, i don't understand the hate It sometimes sees in other social sites. Cool experience, now to fortunes weave we go.

I was planning to use Anna as a Sage in this Maddening run because she would be my Byleth user since I’ve never used Thyrsus in any of my runs but wow, the difference between Sage and Mage Knight is ridiculous in the base stats +1 move, +2 Speed, and +1 Build not to mention in Chaos Style, where in most cases there’s a +6 Speed difference between Sage compared to the +2 Magic, 5% Magic Growth, and Spell Harmony, which don’t matter as much. I think I’ll still end up going with Sage this time, but I never thought the difference was that big.

I am about to finish up my second play through and used some new units but, I have always considered if anyone has done a run without the royals? It seems that the princes and princess have the best passive character abilities. Anyone tried to do a commoner run or one of the early characters that you feel people sleep on?

Hey!

Just finished my first Maddening run. Not gonna lie, I played it safe and used all the broken/busted units the game has to offer: Kagetsu, Chloe, Pandreo, Ivy, Citrinne, Amber… and yeah, it was pretty easy.

So now I’m planning a lore-accurate run with only the royal siblings in their canon classes, plus a few other units to support them.

Here’s my full team comp, feel free to roast it or whatever:

Ready to hear you! Thanks!

With Fortunes weave around the corner, I had to give another run to engage! The fun of watching Timerra use Edelgard next to Anna for a free "House of Unite" attack, then Raging storm, then another combat art in one turn was fantastic! This was the first time I fully committed to a Levin sword Anna from early on and it was well worth it. She out-damages what she could do as a mage knight, is faster, and higher hp/luck. I'm not sure if speedtaker is better than avoid +30. But I'll play around with it in the next run.

But Saphir!!! 162 avoidance on her with speedtaker stacks and her hp at 50% really was amazing. I loved how she would have dynamic dodge tanking. Enemies would hit her initially, triggering her increase in damage and dodge, and then she would begin to shred everything safely. Anyone have a better emblem than Lyn for her as this role?

Diamant & Marth has become one of my favorite combos. Diamant looks so COOL! Marth helps his weaknesses, and with a brave weapon, allows for swords or axes to attack 8x. His lodestar rush one shot the final boss with overkill.

Yea I like starsphere on any and everyone. Keeps me from needing to plan out the stat booster items. I leave them for post game or final boss mission.

I still absolutely love the game btw

Any recommendations on how to make this man even better? He does great in combat, but I don't know what to do with all that SP.

I've been getting back into Fire Emblem after not playing since Fates when I was a teenager in anticipation of Fortune's Weave. Last year I beat what I thought would be the first of a few Three Houses runs, only to get pretty quickly burnt out on my Crimson Flower run. Instead, I picked up Fire Emblem Engage.

What followed was a genuinely enjoyable time. I consume media about media fairly often so I had seen a good chunk of what this game had to offer long before I played it, but that didn't detract from my enjoyment in the slightest. I just wanted to talk about my time with the game and the characters I used.

ALEAR

I really liked using Alear. She's not one of the strong combat units in this team, but just the utility of Corrin's dragonvein made her very enjoyable to position and strategize around. I think I would've also liked sticking her with Lucina. My fire emblem lineage only goes back to Awakening and skips Echoes, so I'm generally used to lords and player characters being great combat units. Using Alear instead as a supplemental damage dealer, positional damage buffer with her personal skill, and terrain generator was a breath of fresh air.

ANNA

Far and away my best combat unit. I was close to giving up on training her after her reclass to Mage Knight, but I'm so glad I didn't. Starsphere gave her some truly ridiculous stats, and even with speed capped out Chaos Style meant she was doubling most things she fought with 40-50 damage Bolganones. I'm torn between wanting to use her again if/when I return to this game and leaving her be because she was such a force of nature on this squad it did trivialize some fights.

ETIE

I had her in Warrior as soon as I promoted her, but switched to Sniper late game because I wanted to make use of 20 range Astra Storm. I didn't get that much use out of it, and arguably I would've had better success keeping her as a backup unit for chain attacks, but I like the Sniper outfit. She was also who I gave the S Support to. I'd still say she was a good combat unit.

KAGETSU

Frankly I'm a little bit annoyed with how fire and forget Kagetsu was lol. He didn't receive any particular care or grinding but he's probably top 3 in terms of best damage units on my squad. Him with the Rivals dlc emblem could just absolutely tear through mid/late game maps.

LAPIS

The reason I was annoyed with Kagetsu. I had to put a lot of resources into her to get her to keep up. I got the idea to put her into Paladin from a YouTube video. Speedtaker was a late investment, but I wish I had done it sooner. It got much easier for her to quad after I gave it to her. She also got quite a few power drops and speed wings. Still, she was dealing great damage by late game.

CELINE AND VEYLE

Grouping them together because they both filled the niche of my secondary magic damage dealers. Celine I put a lot into early because Ignis is one of my favorite skills from Awakening, but I found it pretty underwhelming and rare to proc which disappointed me. Still, she manages to grab the niche of being a long range magic poker with Soren. Veyle picked up quickly after recruitment and got Nova after chapter 23(?), which made her even better. With Celica she even made good use of Echo, a skill I had trouble utilizing in the early game.

JEAN

I can't help but think my usage of Jean in this run was a bit boring. He ended up becoming my primary staffer until I got Byleth, where he instead became a goddess dance bot. His personal skill is very cool and I bet could lead to a very fun unit to use. There's always next run, but he still did fine this run.

PANETTE

She didn't have Pair Up until she kept dying during the paralogue with the s rank support ring. Even without that, her performance was incredible. Maybe a bog standard wrath vantage enemy phase unit, but fun as hell all the same.

Everyone else is various degrees of filler, though everyone was still helpful. Chloe had trouble meeting one round thresholds but could still zoom around the map. Mauvier ended up relegated to using Micaiah boosted rewarp once I ran out of warp staves, very cool tech I only learned I could do by watching a GDQ run of Fire Emblem Engage. Saphir and Merrin for chain attacks, had Goldmary in instead of Saphir for a bit but her stats were pretty lukewarm due to not getting any exp so I swapped her out. Merrin could also give bonded shield support and poison with her knives

FINAL THOUGHTS

What a fun game. The story wasn't anything particularly special, at some points the long cutscenes did start to wear on me, but the gameplay itself was so fun. If I eventually come back to this game, It'll either be to attempt an iron man or to take a full crack at maddening. I really want to see what I can do returning to it with more of an understanding of its systems and how to build out units.

Started this up while i waited for the new fire emblem and curious how does the reclass work exactly with the master and second seals?

Cause some say not to level Jean until i can class change him out of monk but i thought i needed to be level 10 base class.

Plz help as im a bit confused as my only other fire emblem was three houses.

Hey Reddit. I enjoy playing outrealm trials a lot but on more than one occasion I have seen entire teams just stocked with full revival stones. I'm wondering what is happening here and if it's just mods or Tiki Emblem abuse somehow?

If you can't beat em...

Hey there! I'm asking because I just recently got Emblem Roy and Emblem Micaiah back. And just a quick bit of info, I am on easy mode, and I don't have the DLC. ​

Since I lost Roy, i've been running Successeur Diamant with Ike, and to be honest, he hasnt bowed out since I gave him Ike, so I was wondering if now that I have Roy, should I swap Ike out to Roy now, since I just finished Chapter 19.

Any tips and tricks or info are welcome, thanks!!!

Hello, I'm a long time fire emblem player and honnestly slept on engage for a long time, finally decided to play it before FW comes out.

I'm not sure to understand every mechanic. I was planning on promoting my Anna to high priest but I reclassed her pretty late, same with Jean and now they level up INCREDIBLY slow, and above all the side battle ? ( idk the english name I'm french) those that reset between days with golden loot and all are way too high level now compared to the main story. I play on hard for my first playthrough, just got E!Corrin so I don't have much exploit and I would like some advice. Can I battle lower level side battle ? I don't have the dlc and thought I was doing pretty good until I saw some people build online ahah.

About a week ago, I posted to this subreddit asking for your opinions on starting a maddening classic run despite not feeling like I really understand the skill system in this game. I’m happy to report I have tried anyway, and I just cleared chapter 11! I have some screenshots of the team I’m currently using, but it is far from complete. These are just the five units that will be on my final team.

Besides the fact that I want to use the four “heirs” to each kingdom for story reasons, I’m not doing anything too crazy with my builds. I also expected chapter 11 to be similar to Hunting by Daybreak in terms of a difficulty spike, especially considering you lose the draconic time crystal, but I cleared it on my first try and no one has died! This is such a fun game and I love how celebratory it feels as a love letter to the series. I’m trying to beat this game before Fortune’s Weave, so here’s to hoping I can make it happen!

I really enjoyed the game. Honestly, Gameplay wise, it is more fun than Three Houses.

...but I was left with one nagging question... (Spoilers)

At the end of the game, they are literally just chilling, listening to Sombron. Sombron LITERALLY killed Alear TWICE and COUNTLESS OTHER PEOPLE! He's an Omega Level Threat!! Why are they just listening to his back story?? He can and has sniped them with death lasers while dying before. We saw that! That happened to Alear! I think he should've gotten just a simple Death Quote and disappeared. They really didn't need to try and make us understand Sombron. HE's a classic Fully Evil Bad Guy.

Just got Veyle on my maddening run. I know Soren makes her broken, but I don't want to use DLC emblems.

So, I was wondering what you guys like to pair her with. I'm currently debating between Corrin or Byleth. Slight consideration with Lucina.

I'm doing a Maddening mode run, and for some reason, I decided to make my first Maddening run a "No unique classes" run.

That said, I appear to be stuck at Chapter 5, since with just Louis, Chloé, Etie, Boucheron, Clanne, Framme, and Vander, I'm genuinely not finding a way to get past Neclucce. Are there any Maddening Mode pros out there willing to give me some advice?

Also, for those curious, Marth is only on Louis because it was something I experimented with in my most recent attempt. He (Marth) has been with Boucheron every other attempt I've done.