Ranadiel

All the Wolves appear to join in every route. If you are looking for which route to the they join the earliest, based on join levels that is probably the Eagles. Hapi starts with the Lions 1 level lower, but Constance starts with the Lions 30 levels higher than the Eagles.

Minor comment on the full game datamine Google spreadsheet, Constance and Balthus appear to be swapped in position in the files used to generate Char. Stats II. Which is not to say that Balthus could not make the Gremory feather boa work, but I don't think he gets one in this game. 😛

Should be noted that her join level is 33, so it might be a while before she joins if you are still early in the game.

So for some other stuff from the datamine:

Looking at the UI it looks like there is enough space both in the Convoy summary screen and the Set Abilities screen for hypothetically ten equipped abilities. Not sure what the unlock rate would be if that is the max though (7 for Advanced and 10 for Master?).

Apex (weapon type) - Increases critical hit damage when equipped with a (weapon type). (Weapon type) Buster - Grants one tier greater advantage against enemies equipped with (weapon types)s. Increases damage to them by [0:NUMBER]%. (Number determined by rank) (Weapon type)breaker - Effective against enemies equipped with (weapon type)s. Buster skills have multiple ranks with normal classes going from 1-4 (80%-100%?), unique classes appearing to get 5 (105%?), and ranks 6-10 seeming to exist in the code but unused. Breaker's description isn't really helpful, but I would guess that it means that it increases your advantage level by one level.

The person putting together the datamine has finished working on it till release. I've finished doing the analyses that I was looking to do, so nothing new from me. Here is a summary I wrote on Gamefaqs about all that we know from the datamine: I guess I might as well also post some mock-ups of the full class charts based on a combination of Japanese screenshots and the info from the datamine. Used the sprite images from the Three Houses class page here, so don't take a character's inclusion to mean they are playable.

Those are different fights. The fight from the first trailer is inside a volcano. The zippy fight from trailer three is in a foresty area with ruined forts in the background. I guess you can't completely rule out Divine Pulse to fix the sword, but it being destroyed is probably meant to set up Byleth getting the Sword of the Creator.

I mean we already know the sword's fate from the announcement trailer.

O.o What new sword? That is the sword Byleth has been using in all their duels with Shez in the trailers (minus the pre-time skip beat down). You can see it getting broken by Shez in the announcement trailer. As for Sword of the Creator, my thought is that Enlightened One (and Silverheart?) will have two movesets. The first is for using normal swords (reuse of the Swordmaster style?) and the second is exclusive to the Sword of the Creator which goes full in on the Swordwhip thing.

Eh, there is some significance to some non-student characters having ages in the Academy phase despite not being recruitable in it (note that it isn't because they have ??? as an age as Seteth and Flayn have a 0 for the Academy phase despite having ??? as their ages). If it isn't that they are Renown shop recruits, the only other thing that comes to mind would be that "Dark Dawning" involves a random slection of characters going back in time to stop a fully awakened Arvis from killing Byleth during the original Shez/Byleth fight to stop Byleth from ruining Arval's plans in the future (with an alternate version where you play as Arval for the "bad" end?). ... I can't actually say that is impossible, but I think Renown Shop units is the just a simpler explanation. 😛

Based on what we can see in the datamine, effort has been put into making her playable. However we won't actually have confirmation on her status until the game is out as some relevant data for her has been scrubbed. My current gut feeling is that she is going to be a non-story bonus character that you can recruit from the renown shop in NG+. However that is only a guess.

*shrug* The dance ability is apparently the Dancer's class action, but we don't have descriptions for class abilities so I have no idea what it does. We have the description for special dane though, "Increases the potency of a dancer unit's class actions."

With the info we currently have, the odd shape of the Swordmaster branch is probably to make space for Dancer. It can't be Hero because Petra wouldn't qualify for it and we can see from the Edgard class tree in review 1 that there isn't reserved space for classes you don't qualify for (e.g., the entire grappler line).

I feel it only really has two big issues (you can probably nitpick a lot of the individual placements). One is that there needed to be more Master tier mage classes and two they should have made more Dark Knights to increase the variety of preferred lance classes.

So it was pointed out to me on another site that there were apparently a couple of Japanese reviews last week that showed some interesting screenshots. Review 1 Partial Screenshot Translation of Review 1 Review 2 Partial Screenshot Translation of Review 2 Some highlights from these reviews include showing the full Myrmidon, Soldier, and Warrior trees, including showing how unique classes fit in, showing what appears to be a paralogue (Dorothea and Manuela), and a tactical option to persuade Mercedes to join. Ha, that was me. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1da5Ds2ppXrnPVTreR2t2820KLTdma1FyxPJBcrizPno/edit#gid=796613427

The info posted on the document does not provide any indication of what classes have spells enabled as far as I can tell. I would assume they do since they all the other classes have been fairly faithful and we know that non-mages having spells is a confirmed thing because Fluegel gets them. I doubt it since I'm pretty sure I saw someone mention that the Japanese trailer was labelled as "Final Trailer."

A shocking reveal! Looks like Hero has no learned skills. So it might just be left over data from Three Houses.

Datamine info:

Well your Buster skill tier is determined based on your class's tier. So Advanced tier classes will objectively provide a worse weapon triangle bonus than Master tier classes. Could some advanced tier classes still be worth using? Maybe, but I suspect you'll usually want that extra damage.

I've seen it posted that it increases the damage dealt to break gauges.

So datamine has progressed to such a point that I think we probably know who else is playable and who is not. Specifically, the datamine has been updated with unit data, and some units clearly have three personal skills, and others do not. I dunno. Based on the naming in Three Hopes, I would assume those were the 'A' outfits, but I don't have access to the files. I doubt they made it hard on themselves to potentially re-add them in. They just aren't there now.

I won't say that is impossible, but it does feel weird since Mercenary's Wisdom and Mercenary's Ploy both work on Mercenary, Swordmaster, and Mortal Savant but not Hero implying that those three are a full line and Hero is the one that is unrelated other than pre-reqs.