NeoAmon

It's interesting that all of the crests "long lost to history" are about to have Major holders just pop up out of the blue, haha. It also begs the question of whether their ancestors are going to be "saints" or "elites", or something else completely.

I strongly preferred the original Serenes interpretation of Nightcrawlers. At least that sounds like an actual name for an organized group.

- In trying to recruit students, raising their support via a month’s temporary aid, dining and tea time is basically a waste of time efficiency. It’s way easier to just buy their love with their cheapest preferred gifts from the southern and eastern merchants, and with lost items and flowers, getting them up to C and B is a cake-walk that doesn’t consume activity points. - The RNG for class certification exams resets every week, so with a little save-scumming you can get into even Master Classes with 30-50% pass rate in only just a few tries. Didn’t ever take me more than 2-3 weeks to roll a pass.

Healing has a pre-determined trigger, and it tells you if you X-button over the adjutant when they're equipped. If the lead unit falls below 50% hp, the heal will activate at the beginning of the next turn. Attack and Guard it doesn't specify anything. But tbh, I don't think I ever had anyone in an armored glass, so Guard was never an option for me to equip. And for the most part I've been killing enemies efficiently enough that I don't think there's been many opportunities for the Attack ones to trigger...

Yeah, I also learned during this event that Golden and Platinum Fish can spawn any time as well, not just during the specific Golden Fish event. By waiting for the "golden fish" icon as much as I could, I not only launched my professor level, I raked in a lot of extra cash as well!

Haha, I was going crazy for a minute cause every article or site always mentions gauntlets don’t work on mounted units, but I haven’t seen anywhere report that an infantry magic class can’t equip them. And traditional magic units probably wouldn’t have a use for them, but considering Byleth has an aptitude for brawling and a boon for faith, you’d think utilizing those together throughout his class progression would be doable.

Are gauntlets locked out of all mage classes? I knew mounted units were locked out, but when I swap my Byleth into the Monk class he can no longer equip gauntlets at all.

Ah, I see. If anything, I would have figured one of the leakers / early players would be able to confirm that or not by now. By the way, a little off topic but I've been a lurker at this site for over ten years, and this is the first time I've closely followed a build up to release of a Fire Emblem. Just want to say that your coverage of every detail to come out over the last few months was absolutely beast mode! It definitely made the wait a lot of fun, for me at least. Really appreciate the effort you put in.

Do we know yet if each character has a unique learnset for each Skill, or whether it's just magic spells which are unique per character? Like, I had assumed the Prowess abilities all grew the same for everyone, but I can't recall ever seeing it spelled out whether all the Ability and Combat Art gains are exactly the same or different per character.

This pretty much also explains

Oh yeah, I forgot we already had a look at the statues, haha. But yeah, considering you're going to put a regular weapon on most mages anyway, I'm sure there's plenty of good ways for us to mash up a magic-sword like that.

But a relic sword with a powerful reason spell would jive pretty well with a Mortal Savant, no? Maybe Macuil was even the historical archetype for that class.

I had already theorized the post-timeskip outfits would replace the default school uniforms in the Commoner / Noble classes, and this convinces me even more that that's the case. Or is it possible that each student will get a Unique Tier class after the time skip, and that unlocked classes carry over to NG+?

Did it seem to anyone else like Nemesis wasn't going all out against Seiros? Like that opening move with the whip-sword seemed as if it just whiffed intentionally. What if Nemesis is actually Seiros' father? (and she may or may not know that) Which could mean that Byleth and Rhea are also related, maybe distantly.

Maybe its just me, but I figured all the time skip designs were just re-skins for the Commoner / Noble classes, that also double as what the unit wears in the academy and during cut-scenes. Cause I'm assuming those classes don't just disappear after the time skip, and it wouldn't make any sense for them to be in their student uniforms at that point anymore.

I got to say I'm not sure how I feel about base stats being a requisite for recruiting as opposed to just skill levels. What if your Byleth just doesn't RNG up magic enough to recruit the character you want before the school year ends? It will be a real bummer if random stat gains prevent you from getting your top choices from the other houses...

I feel this has been an under-talked about subject. Considering how many students have siblings (and maybe cousins, step-siblings, etc.) the total cast of this game could end up pretty big. Not only will that have some brutal implications later on, as mentioned, when students change houses, its really left me wondering just how many crest bearers there are going to be.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I assumed that to be the case as soon as I saw the Skill Levels box in Dedue's status screen only had enough room for all the weapons, authority, magic and one movement type. In his screen it shows Armor as active, but there wouldn't be room in the box to show Riding and/or Flying as well.

Good point, but if House Cordelia has the crest too, then it could be either one that passed it on to her. I’m anxious to see just how many characters in this world possess crests. Considering most of the students are “first born” or “youngest child” and only a couple are explicitly stated to be only children, there’s a lot of potential for siblings (and cousins, etc) to show up who can also wield the hero relics! And will those family members be friends or foes later on?

So Catherine has no surname but does have a crest. I wonder if she’s a bastard of House Cordelia? Maybe she’s an illegitimate child who was nonetheless able to rise up the ranks of the church based on her skills, and so was given the holy relic because the church controls who gets to possess them?

There could be an opportunity cost here, too. Like maybe if you recruit a character and someone in your current house doesn't get along with them, you lose that character from your house. I have to imagine it will be balanced in some way to prevent just forming an ultra house.

Just when I thought I was settled on the Eagles, Punished Dmitri had to come along and now I'm in house purgatory again...