I learned so much from this guide it was very useful on my Normal mode run with ALL the DLC!

Alear's Resumé: - Divine Dragon - Army General - Puppy Mill Manager

The cheap +1 refines that added +2 damage were incredible in early game

I think losing the ability to engrave with the lost emblem rings post 10 was a really cool design decision, I thought alot about what to invest in pre-ch10 on my second playthrough of the game. It reminded me of preparing the gen1 units for the gen2 units in fe4 in a way.

Into the mid-game, I've found Silver Daggers to be the strongest. At just +1 they have 12 might. That's the same as a Silver Sword at base but with 4 less weight, and the ability to hit 2 range. And keep in mind, before +5, all daggers increase by 2 might every upgrade. A +5 Silver Dagger has the same might as a +5 Steel Axe.

I invested into getting a Tomahawk early on and with a hit engrave, that baby was slaying even on Maddening.

Celica engrave is amazing i put it on my 0 luck ivy and finally shes never getting critted again!

I caught a mistake at 4:05. You said "Magic is king" when you actually should've said "Magic is everything" to reference all of the hilarious Reinhardt (Fire Emblem: Thracia 776) memes that came from his appearance in Fire Emblem: Heroes where he says "Magic is everything". I think that the people who know about that reference would've really enjoyed that reference and would've felt cooler than the people who didn't recognize that reference. Well anyway, I guess the video's alright. I think you should try having more comedy in it rather than helpful information. I like to laugh, not learn. And I really like references. Here's hoping you do better next time.

I swear, my Citrinne with the Olwen Ring and a +5 Thunder tome was better than most actual 'Engage' ring units. She absolutely shredded and the number of times she would just delete a boss' health bars with a refresh or two was giddying.

I would also recommend Sigurd's Engraving for Libération as well, as the +20 Avo you get for it does go a long way especially if u get yourself Avo +10/+15. The +5 Dodge doesn't do much, and the 90 hit the weapon comes with is more than good enough and doesn't need upgrading.

Notes for DLC players! As you can get the Bracelet Emblems before Chapter 10 its worth noting what the engraves do for those with the expansion pass. The biggest one of note is Rivals, Edelgards Engraving. At the cost of 1 Weight you get a minor boost to mt, hit, crit, avo and dodge. Making the weapon slightly heavier for a lot of positive bonuses is worth the trade off. Rivals synergizes with Daggers well due to thier low weight not causing the engrave to slow the user down alongside its boost to mt and crit (especially on the steel dagger) Unfortunately I cant say much for Dragons, Strength, Acumen and Revelation. Dragons, Strength and Acumen give the same general bonus of increasing mt at the cost of decreasing avo and dodge. Avo being decreased is not an issue on tanks or an Ike user, but the decrease in dodge (up too -30%!) Will add a lot of variance in your survivability. Pair it with Eirika or a unit with High Luck. Revelations, Camilla, also has the same general set up as the above, but with an extra 30 crit. Its a gamble that gives both you and the enemy crit, but still may be too high variance to feel safe. Granted, all of the above Engraving also Synergize with Thunder too. Magic is Everything!

Will definitely come back to this whenever I do my next playthrough

One more thing about the levin sword: If you get silenced, you can still use it. Celine and Mage Knight Anna appreciate this.

Love these helpful Engage vids, there's so many options in the game i get analysis paralysis. If you could give tips on Emblem Ring pairings that would be amazing!

Amazing guide! Thanks Choops.

Nice guide choops, hope this pops off!

I'm proud that my careful thinking over what to refine happened to pick the same weapons this guide mentions! Overall this is an excellent little guide, I enjoyed the editing and the art, and I'd say it's invaluable help to make the game more approachable!

Literally made a steel dagger+4 early game and have never taken it off Yunaka. Its goated.

I was thinking about this this morning and lo and behold, my man's got a video about it!

Thank you once again for the killer content choops, it may be a little late for it to benefit my first run as I am nearing the finale and had to figure out a good chunk of this the hard way, but it will certainly help on subsequent runs, and it will help my siblings who are starting the game (they are at Ch 6 right now. Thank you as well for the bond ring guide, I saw it a little bit after playing through Ch 10-11 sadly, for which it would've been most useful, but I got a lot of value from that knowledge and boy have these Olwen and Claude rings been paying off.

Glad that you are back, I love your videos!

I love your narration style; thank you for the great tips and laughs!

Started my first blind playthrough on Hard, definitely found that the iron dagger and levinsword were definitely must haves

Choops never fails to give me the full analysis of new game mechanics just when I need it.

I love your content and style, been watching since 3H, glad to see you back

I love this - not generic tips like so many other videos and no clickbait

Oh my god, your videos are so helpful. I already finished the game once on hard mode, so i didn't REALLY need to follow your advices until now, but since i'm starting my maddening run without DLC soon, i want to learn a bit more about the game

I'm in my maddening run blind on ch24 and getting the Olwen ring was a run changing moment. Great video choops it felt cool to see some of my early blind refine choices here! I did however missed the mark on many lol, I have like two refined Scrolls in my Convoy getting dust since forever lmao

I really had zero clue which weapons to engrave with what, so I just haven't used engravings at all. Thanks for these great ideas, Choops!

Awesome Video! As always!

Thanks for the info. Love these videos. Very useful.

Love me an extreme stream to make sense of this game. Cheers Choopi

Thank you for this video, definitely the best guide on youtube!

Great upload brotha

A bit closer to midgame but some weapons are really really worth upgrading types/tiers on for example Iron Greatlance which you can buy in Chapter 8 can be fairly cheaply upgraded to a Silver Greatlance with 30+ MT absolutely crushing things for the next 10-15 chapters. You can use the same technique to get Crit weapons very early on and begin upgrading them too which is also worthwhile since they last the entire game and are top investments for refining too.

I'm glad that everyone can now know just how busted iron dagger refines + micaiah engrave can be. I saw how good that avoid bonus from her engrave was and Yunaka made for one of the best frontline units. Barely anything without an emblem attack can even come close to killing her

This is the video right here! And that's why you're the best choops

I know this is post chapter 10, but I've found the fates engraving on a refined Peshkatz insane (at least on hard). Consistent +60% crit rate, and easy 100% avoid

Choops dropping koality content as usual

4:04 I was so ready for Magic is Everything...

got dilk

I know for me one of my favorite tools in my run was when I did Sigurd Engrave on a Killer Bow. Got that to +5 and the crit rate with it was monstrous. 12 Might in the end isn't the worst thing ever, especially when you should have around or over 50% chance to crit using it.

God Damn it Choops how are you so good at editing!?

Max Liberation with Marth's Engraving turned the thing into a RIGHTEOUS weapon that left more slots for Alear to equip other weapons! Basically it gives the sword the MT of a Silver Sword, with the weight of an Iron Sword (meaning if you been getting some good blessings from SPD, Alear will be doubling! Take note Liberation WT is Alear's STARTING Build/Bld! Meaning you'll never suffer a Spd DROP THAT AN actual Silver Sword would do to Alear if that Bld doesn't grow! I honestly give Alear a Wyrmslayer to deal with the occasional Wyvern Knight! Also don't forget killing foes with Liberation means the Engage meter will be filled an extra bit! Seeing that Alear is the only one (well their personal classes anyway) with the Dragon Battle Style, this makes sense as their meant to be engaging almost a large amout of times in the battle (since they bring out the best of the emblems special traits and abilities! Hell even the Magic focus Celica, Soren and Micaiah are useful if Alear's Mag stat is good enough, nothing one or two Spirit Dust Cocaine can't make useful!) Happy with this guide video though! Some like the Liberation example I found out on my own and happy to see validated! and the Dogs! The moment I learned the first three dogs gave me Steel and Silver Ingots, I just "kidnappe....I mean ADOPTED" every dog I could find to have them all over the Stable. But others I didn't know like the donations (I barely touched it in fear of money till I learned how to gather it smartly around CHAPTER 21!) and the Bane Weapons (I knew I should have at least got some of them to +2, I had a weird dream before this video on upgrading Bane weapons, but I shruged it off, seems my subconcious and you my friend are smarter then my dumb ass!) Seeing how Recreation is a new activity from the updates to get Support points more quickly! I hope they add some other functions to make it abit more easier on you with the Gold gathering (Nothing to BREAK the balance, dear god I hate to see that, so far they've kept the balance even with the new stuff and free items and money and still keep it Balanced, yeah you'll break Normal in half, but Hard and ESPECIALLY Maddening are still unforgiving if your stupid or just plan unlucky!)

This'll be extremely helpful once I start my second playthrough. I found myself broke in both gold and SP, so late game was really hard due to no refined/upgraded weapons, and a limited selection of skills.

Came from your Trails in the Sky guide. I don't even even play Fire Emblem but liked and commented to boost algorithm.

Gonna throw another one out there: Tomahawks. Refined and engraved for a bit of accuracy and your axe users will just shred anything on enemy phase. My Anna 1 rounds pretty much anything with her high speed allowing her to double almost anyone

0:34 Oh, you had to go there! Because I’m not EMOTIONALLY ready for Chapter 10!

Hey now, the Celica engrave has its purpose. Leif's Adaptable for some reason has a real hard-on for Dodge so the Celica engrave will rig a weapon much higher in Leif's priorities than it would otherwise be. I mean the Byleth engrave does that too but maybe you want the Byleth engrave on a good unit instead of whoever's left over and got stuck with Leif

I really like micaiah's engrave on a short knife, that one has a higher base dodge and avoid than the rest of the knives. When you get corrin you can give it to yunaka or replace it with the corrin engraving, but both make her a stupid dodge tank that won't be hit by anything.

Gracias señor Choops. This will make future maddening easy.

it's so funny how they just said lets make magic the best thing you could possibly do in this game. i have used levin swords and radiant bows on the last chapters on 10 magic units and they still do more damage than using physical weapons with way higher strength. but gatcha is king so the heroes weapons are kinda to good for being free starting equipment. i have done multiple run and every time use them till the last chapter thats just how good they are especially nóatún as a light weight silver axe

Iron Dagger+3 with Micaiah’s engraving was something I did EARLY. It carried my homemade Maddening+ ruleset run HARD for Yunaka as an untouchable dodge tank.

Some might have questions on what late game weapons are worthwhile, specifically the S rank weapons. The only worthwhile S ranks to invest in are: Brionac, Cinquedea, and Nova. S ranked weapon for sw/ln/ax/bw at max investment are 2mt higher and 10 crit higher than their silver counterpart max forged but cost way more silver ore and gold; however unlike with the sowrd, axe and bow, the Brionac is 1-2 range, the Cinquedea will actually be 3Mt higher and 20 crit higher than the silver dagger, and Nova is a brave tome.

Need more guides like this! Im preparing on attempting maddening.

This a friking excellent guide, thanks bro! Playing the game in hard/clasic and I'm only in chapter 10.

"sweet sweet dog milk" got me laughing for 5 minutes 😂 thanks

maybe it was just my FEH bias, but the FEH weapons for linking your account are pretty darn good for early game and its really easy to do. I never regretted getting a couple refines on them

On the dagger note, I did a wolf knight only run a few weeks ago. I had forged 3 silver daggers for my first 3 wolf knight candidates, the rest got steel due to a resource shortage. The steel dagger units performed consistently better long term than the silver dagger units

Solid song choice, thanks for the guide too

During my first playthrough I thought engraving just meant naming your forged ridersbane Glue Factory like in previous games...oops!

I really love my Levin Sword Yunaka.

Lady Anna would love you all to give her a Levin Sword.

What I do is Ellfire tome, use Micaiah Engrave and give it to my Anna, she will kill everything and dodge everything and some times give me money. It works.

Ty for the guide i hope more guide for the other emblems

Poison is x3 stackable. First stack adds 1 unblockable damage, second & third add 2 unblockable damage each. Total bonus damage of 5 per hit at 3 poison stacks to all hits. This bonus damage ignores defense & resistance, and will proc even if your Might is lower than their respective defense or resistance.

There aren’t many defensive weapons but the one I think best fits celiac’s engraving is shielding art. It helps to make my Jean less likely to be killed whenever I have him acting as a support.

What carried my early game was louis, especially on chapter 11 I had him promoted as a general with a silver great lance, the enemy froze his movement and that was part of my master plan. He stayed behind and killed everyone except the hounds and corrupted drake who was chasing my team.

I subcribed for celica engrave

Apparently Dogs are also Divine Dragon's best friends

choops the goat fr

Sniper Etie + Killer bow5 + Eirika engraving + Emblem Lyn = Profit

Hi, I know this video is about Forging but I got the Olwen Ring later in my first playthrough and it was completly nuts. Cannot wait for my first Maddening run with K N O W L E D G E. Also, do we know what each animals gives us? Maybe in the end it was Camel Emblem all along.

In too deep on my current run for these tips but I'll use them in my next one.

Actually a life saver.

i entirely agree for the dagger especially since you will get another steel dagger during chapter 10 meaning that if you need a dagger with higher might to be able to do damage you will have the ability to do so.

just in time! im on chapter 9 and wasn't aware about this thing about losing the ability to engrave!

I feel very satisfied about my mage, wolf rider and warrior build after seeing this.

Nice guide. I like to make a lot of stupid choices in Fire Emblem games, just for fun, and this should help me compensate for that.

Killing Edge with Micaiah’s engrave does wonders for avoidance rate. Lately, only backups and special emblem moves can touch Lapis. She like a speed tank with a lot of aggro.

Hard classic, with dlc. It's my first FE game. I think I'm in love.

This, this guide *French kiss*

Thank you 👍

Idk man, Dodge is the most important stat to have. Celica's engrave is OBJECTIVELY the best

nice video bro

Great video! Can you make one about the best units for maddening runs?

Fates engrave on any Killer weapon guarantees a greater than 50% crit rate even before any refinement. Super helpful in the late game

Fave weapons in this game: liberation, levin sword, killer sword/lance/axe/bow, radiant bow, ukonsomething, wille something

To be fair, I could make use of the Celica's engrave in the Fensalir weapon from the FE Heroes DLC. I lightened it just enough for Chloe to double, without sacrificing too much power. Basically a SIlver Lance with the weight of a Slim. Another thing that I did was having Micaiah's engrave on the Folkvangr to not stack too much avoid in the dagger (I gave it the Sigurd's engrave). Since Folkvangr gets +3 damage when below 50% HP, it evens out with Micaiah's -3 might penalty. It made any sword unit, especially fast ones like Alear and Lapis, as reliable dodge tanks.

I’ve been able to cheese maddening with yunaka and corrin thanks to that dagger because there have been so many times when she has single digit hit rates and pair up stops chain attacks amazing I made sure to add hold out and unyielding before ch 10 and she turned out better than zelkov

So: Long bow Iron dagger (to steel dagger) Thunder tome Levin sword Alear’s prf Effective weaponry

nice thumbnail 🥰

I deadass forgot about Blacksmith when I played Engage 💀 I forged a Liberation +2 near the beginning, then proceeded to never use it again 💀💀💀

I only found a use for Celicas engrave on stuff like Steel Lances/Axe

Sigurd forge my beloved

I've been refineing weapons, and actually got bottlenecked with *Iron* I've also been mostly refineing Steel weapons. Silver is a lot more expensive and resource-heavy, and I'm doing perfectly fine with Steel weapons instead. There are a few things I've bumped up to Tier 3 now I have some silver; like Citrinne's Elthunder -> Thoron. Thoron + 2 just... vaporizes things. But Yunaka is perfectly happy with a refined Steel Dagger. Alfred is content with his refined Steel Lance, and so on. Silver is heavier; more expensive to upgrade and only a bit better than Steel. The percentage difference between a +5 Silver and a +5 Steel isn't much. This lets me save my gold and silver to upgrade things like the Levin Sword.

Honestly refining all steel weapons are pretty solid. The weight reduction is huge.

Time to start a new save

Personally, I don’t like putting Micaiah’s engrave on any active use weapon BUUUUUT I like putting it on a Shielding Arts early game. Then having that sit in my inventory until I get Seadall and give it to him, that way if he is put in danger, he is far more likely to survive. As for dodge tanking in maddening, that’s where having a backup steel dagger with a -Avo engrave come in handy. If my Yunaka is TOO evasive with her silver dagger, I can do a controlled nerf to get her just in the range to be targeted and still never be hit. Her main problem keeping her from soloing is still Mystical units tho

I guess dog milk is a somniel staple in cooking now