claude: hey teach! byleth: hey claude use these battalion. claude: Whoa. Battalion already even in a mock battle?! i like you already teach.

NG+ makes Maddening so much fun. I know it’s not the most “pure” way to so Maddening, but I like how NG+ opens a lot of interesting ways to play the game.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that is bothered by the fact you can run through the poles

I've already done several NG+ plays and I still learned some things. I never knew about being able to sell the battalions at the beginning that carried over from the previous game. Thank you!

Very good tips by someone who clearly knows what they're talking about. I saw another video similar to this a while ago, by Unpunk or something like that, and it sounded like the guy just beat the game once in like Normal mode and somehow felt entitled to give out "advanced tips" or "maddening tips."

NG+ with DLC: Get those rapiers as soon as possible. They're amazing swords and require no effort.

That battalion tip and automatic recruitment tip encouraged me to give Maddening a shot again after this playthrough I'm on. It was just too irritating and too slow paced for me, even on my first NG+ file, but being able to recruit so early and get that cash is encouraging, even if I end up just sticking to Hard. Slightly off topic, but I was pleasantly surprised how much options NG+ offered. Exploring the monastery and talking to people is a cool experience but definitely gets old even on your second playthrough and I respect they give a lot to work with in NG+. It feels like it respects everybody's time since the game encourages you to play through it at least 4 times, more if you're like me and want to try to pair Byleth with bunch of characters. If I had to go through all that leveling again just to see some supports and different story routes, I would probably just look it up at some point.

Thank you for giving me the confidence to try maddening! Wish me luck!

For me, NG+ is best used for professor level (I get B level at chapter 1), as well as class mastery skills. I also usually give some authority to units, especially those with a bane in authority like Felix and Hilda, who normally struggle to reach high authority ranks. It's fun to recruit everyone immediately but there isn't much need to do so, and I pretty much just recruit students as I need them via Byleth weapon ranks or building support.

Helpful video, thanks for the tips. I didn't know that students would automatically join at A support. This just made me more excited to start my NG+ playthrough.

Thank you so much for this. Just finished my first playthrough and now starting ng+ and wasn't really sure where to begin!

Thank for the tip. Looking forward for this NG+. Still on my first playthought, but I'm almost done.

Great video, I learnt so much. Thank you

Thank you for uploading all these guides. As a latecomer to the game, they helped me really understand how to play the game and build solid teams.

Great video I just finished the game for the first time and starting my new game+

Fantastic info I'm loving New Game Plus thank you!

I would say b rank battalions are better because of the stats they give; the fraldarius and goneril battalions give some of the best bonuses and are generally easier to get more of.

Excellent guide!

That authority tip is great and helped a lot in my last NG+ run, but something that I've done that's helped a lot is getting most students to A+ riding. Movement +1 is so stupidly broken early game and still amazing later on, especially on magic users like lysithea who hits like a truck but struggles a bit with actually getting close enough to hit enemies without using something like thyrsus

Hey FEH just want to say nice work on the camera and stuff it look great in this video no idea what you did lighting or what editing or what ever but you look good in it (I wanted to point that out because I don't know possitive stuff? why not?) Keep up the great work Tho may be you could try to cut the Mic or something whit the editing I guess... also why your headset look invisible? never mind 1 min later it look fine for the headset... Any way the lighting is great that for sure. 👍 Could be nice to do a guide for NEW game + for useing it just to bypass all the monastery grind but keep the old progression. Like what chapter you should be at what prof lvl etc. (probably would be too much of work but that how I would like to used it geting B to prf lvl form the get go was a bit much) SORRY FOR THE BAD ENGLISH and keep up the great work also thx for the guide.

I'm on my second NG+. Doing my first Maddening, church route. I like the challenge, but the reduced exp is killer. So glad my statues are all maxed out. I definitely want to replay Golden Deer and Blue Lions with the knowledge I have now (like not wasting so much time on Dedue and Lorenz in BL run). Also, maybe next time I'll choose female Byleth just to get Darting Blow after that.

Great video man thank you !

thank you so much for this

In recruiting, I did not have high support for Ferdinand for example in previous run, so could not buy support. But, was able to buy higher skill level in heavy armor that helped me recruit Ferdinand.

Another thing you can do is at the end of a game you can buy a ton of battalions and sell them in NG+ since your money doesn’t carry over

So I am about to finish my first play through of normal classic. I have never played a Fire Emblem before. I am at the battle for the bridge currently and I wish I had selected at least hard. It is super easy right now. To a point where I kind of feel like I am prepping this play through for my next one. That being said. Is it better to spend my renown now on all the statues or save it and have it carry over to my next play through? Anyway, I know this vid is old but I found it super useful

How does S rank work in New game plus? I have been able to unlock S ranks for characters I have never S ranked in my last two playthroughs. Does the other character need an "A+" rank in the previous game then in the new game you can buy their S rank? I have only S ranked Edelgard, Sothis, and Hilda; but I have been able to buy Lysethia, Mercedes, Felix, Sylvain, and Ignatz's S rank supports from the journal in the two following playtroughs.

Question, do you get more Renown if you continuously use New Game+ on old save files that also used New Game+? Or is it preset and I’m seeing things. I swear I started with 10,000 the first New Game+, then 20,000 the second time, and the third time (now) I have 40,000. I could have sworn that’s how it’s gone. I think it’s doubled. Consistently. Edit: You answered in the video. Thank you man, that’s so broken the more times you do it.

How about all the item llike swords fish tealeafs? Do i keep them? If so do i need the expansion pass plus for it or not?

Im actually on my 3rd NG+ playthrough, i played through Golden deer first, accidentally deleted my golden deer save soo i have done Black Eagle B route, Blue Lions, Golden deer, and rn im working on the normal route for black eagles

Thank you for this video!! But I don’t know if I fully understand character skills. Lets say I got Claude to an A rank in bow, started ng+ and decided to make him a mage instead, does the next ng+ after that one not have the ability to have A rank bow now or does it all stack?

My plan is to finish the game with all factions (Golden Deer, Black Eagles, Blue Lions and the Church of Seiros) and thanks to everything I accumulated through all my time in "Three Houses", I will have all the necessary things I need to play and enjoy the story at the same time (it's a pain to train my characters and get the support conversations I want without DLCs like missions you can repeat without limits, like the ones for the Fire Emblem 3DS games).

Wow Byleth literally is the most broken character since they can get any classes mastered ability

How do you get that much renown

Does character leveling up slow down on NG+ if the skill levels are maxed out? Wonder if there’s a trade off there? Like, if I overpower a character with skill levels out of the gate, will they be slower to level up their stats?

It probably depends on the difficulty how to approach NG. I'm stuck on normal for the time being because I have a hard time parting with my freedom. As long as I'm chaining playthroughs I try to be stingy with renown as I can. Usually the earlier ranks are a lot easier to raise naturally with students, so for example proficient skills ranks can go naturally for a while. I usually use renown to get byleth what he needs to get into certain intermidate classes/recuiting. Leaves you pretty much all activity points for motivation. From here on out it starts depending more if you want to chain the file further, or you are happy with your current logbook/starting renown, and you can just spend it all. A huge problem with NG+ is that renown will run out if you just start raising stuff recklessly. I assume once you've done all routes and speedrun normal a few times, it won't be as big of a deal, but if you're still in the 100K range caution is needed. On a maddening playthrough I'm just going to go for spending everthing though. Early A authority heavily shines with the early difficulty spike. If you come from a normal file you can have odd things unlocked, and abuse them. Quick Riposte is broken on the majority of males. Another things that's possible is to easily let a unit use classes with problematic banes. Wyvern/war master Dimitri sounds like a huge asset on maddening, large erasing his class disadvantage over the other two lords that exists on a normal new game. This is all theory, because the game can drag very much if you grind to much on normal, but I'm pretty confident I can mess around with maddening soon. It's sad you can't grind renown aside from repeat playthroughs, because if cost weren't a factor at all, class progression just becomes whatever you fancy, and the grind for motivation could just be ignored. Unfortunately the devs had some good sense with this XD

when you do new game place can you change byleth's gender?

ive always wanted to know what "clutch" means! i tried looking it up but theres like 100 different meanings and i always hear you say it :3

What chapter should you spend all your extra money buying battalions to prepare for new game+

I'm on my 2nd playthrough. I don't have as much renown as people who have played 3+ times, so I'm opting to level my skills naturally til they're like C or B, and then level them the rest of the way with renown. You level them so quickly already that spending 500 renown to go from E+ to D feels like a huge waste. But going from B to A still only costs 500, so you end up getting WAY more XP for the same price.

i have beaten New game maddening and NG+ Maddening wont be doing a "pure" run again since the first one i did was boring AF since it gets to a point that you may as well only use the OP units to get the levels done quickly. I only played on classic and i despise losing anyone so my Mage and flying corp did everything but to me that s a boring way to play.

Can you finish the game in hard and doing a ng+ in maddening difficulty ? i really wanna know

Huh, doesn't seem like something I'll want to use unless I attempt Maddening. The normal game on hard classic is just such a sweet spot for me difficulty-wise so I don't think I want to mess around with New Game+

Can you stack new game pluses?

Question sir, So did you purchased all that useless "battalions" from your previous playthrough and resold them back to the new game plus? Or did you already have all those "battalions" from free quest or etc.? All I know is that, you can't carry the money you have from your previous playthrough. Sorry for the trouble.

Three houses I click.

What about Healing Focus from "B" rank in Fist Weapons? It's such a life saver!

yep yep byleth THE ONLY ONE with darting blow on M! Byleth ! ^) And quick riposte on F! Byleth!

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Спасибо вам за все эти гайды. Прощайте.

a very important tip i would give to players, would be to spend 1 normal playthru mastering every class in the game with every unit by spamming battles. tedious? absolutely. but i promise you will thank me later when you have access to insane ability combos that synergize so well that single units can solo maddening. alot of the abilities that synergize really effectively are unfortunately tied to classes that directly contradict each others requirements. the one ive been using is felix as a regular old swordmaster (sword-faire/crit +10) and i give him Vantage, Wrath, Lethality, Defiant Crit, and the last skill changes depending on the map. sometimes i put Renewal or miracle, sometimes Close Counter and a killer bow, sometimes dex+4 (to help lethality trigger) sometimes if i expect to keep my health above half i trade defiant crit for death blow with desperation and use a few wo dao+. other times i expect to keep my health low so i use the ashiya sword+ to damage myself but keep Renewal equipped and then Vantage Wrath Defiant Str and Lethality do the work for me. and the ashiya sword has such high crit its already at 100 with wrath so defiant crit is redundant and i can trade it for defiant str. the swordmaster class is important since the astra combat art fixes the extremely low trigger rate of lethality since each of the 5 hits has a chance to trigger it. i hadnt thought of it til just now, but if i used Petra instead, she could get defiant avoid instead of str or crit, and be untouchable. this all goes double for byleth since he can have every skill. at this point i kinda hope they make a DLC super insane difficulty or something because maddening is basically no different than normal with NG+. EDIT: in the regular build felix has a full inventory of iron sword+s so he can spam astra with impunity. the ashiya sword build has to be a little more careful and is more about boss killing. no gambit either haha

I just need to clarified here, New Game + means deleting the data the file has?

I honestly used to love newgame+ and still use it for some hard mode playthroughs but maddening just feels so much more rewarding without it. It’s still a cool feature and allows you to break the game with builds that would be almost impossible in regular ng such as Wyvern Lord Lysithea or Quick Riposte Female Byleth with Falcon Knight.

When you're playing the game for the first time, three years later, because you played Engage and loved it but wanted a better story and just more Fire Emblem 😂

Does your stats carry over in ng+

Honestly, I just max out the statues. Everything else makes things too easy.

Didn't know that Male and Female Byleth share Class Abilities. Very good to know! NG+ is amazing in this game. I did 2 Golden Deer playthroughs the first time and now im doing my first Blue Lions run. Have yet to try Maddening, but with the meticulous way that I play and NG+ goodies, im looking forward to it. Also, I like that you picked Ingrid, Felix, and Petra first to recruit. I do the same thing lol.

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Very helpful, thank you. I do find hilarious that NG+ makes this game easier than your first play through…. Correct me if I’m wrong, but Dark Souls pioneered NG+ as a way to make the game even more challenging (all the journalists wanted an easy mode, little did they know Dark Souls first playthrough is easy mode lol). Even if FromSoftware didn’t pioneer NG+ they had to be one of the first ones to implement it so well. So it’s kinda confusing that they would have all these features that make the game easier. I’m not saying it’s bad, in fact I quite like it as I will be able to recruit the whole roster and do some things will classes and skill levels that I didn’t get around to the first time through. It just kinda seems backwards to me. You would think the game would be easier your first time through than your second. But hey, variety is the spice of life.

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I freaking hate new game plus I wish they just gave you post game stuff because I beat the game before I was done doing everything I wanted and now if I try to go in that file it just tries to get me to make a new profile now I can’t enjoy the supports or any thing else

i played this game around 10 times, but just once using NG plus... cant stand having all these resources right out of the bat without any effort

Pardon me for not first finishing this video before running my lips, but what is the point of New Game+ in the first place? (No I've never done "new game plus" for any game, FE or otherwise) From what you've explained so far (i'm half way through this video) you are starting over with all the effort no longer needed. You're effectively keeping your same characters just reset back to level 1. But that doesn't matter if you can just click a button and give them back their previous high tier mastery status ETC. And if you can keep doing new game plus cumulatively, you'll ultimately end up with every character at perfect maxed out proficiencies and skills. That is great and all, but for what purpose does this even matter? I just finished my first play through of the game ever last night. I rushed a bit more than I'd like to admit as my completion time was only 60 hours. But the game was pretty easy either way. And I was playing on Hard. What could possibly be presented to me to make new game plus matter at all? But my real question is this; Do I create 3 separate save files, one for each house and then new game plus each of them respectively? Or do I keep one save file and new game plus the same file and simply go through each route all on the same file? I don't know if I want to start the new game plus right now, or go to the separate file and start the new route.