Fire Emblem Three Houses - CRAZY Fast Weapon Proficiency Guide

[@michaeljara8552]

I'm not sure if he mentioned this or not, but be careful with the number of turns when you do this. After 99 turns, you automatically lose any battle so you can only do this for a max of 99 turns per battle

[@KingsleyG]

You can open the menu to retreat and restart again to your heart's content

[@jeancarlodelaluz6415]

Wait what I didn't know that happens now in this new FE.

[@jeancarlodelaluz6415]

@@KingsleyG so you can restart missions now? Will all progress be lost?

[@PsychSoldier756]

@@jeancarlodelaluz6415yep you can restart any missions from the beginning

[@kelvinnoodles]

I discovered the 99 turn limit on the final battle of my first maddening run and I was devastated 😢

[@fitnessavarice8065]

An extra two things that really help make this work are healing focus from b level in brawling and renewal from mastering bishop. Any damage that can get through high defense/ high avoidance can be negated by those two all at no cost.

[@olive6419]

that’s so cursed 😳

[@matthijscalje4143]

1:30 Ah yes, an adjacent

[@silvaitor9054]

I actually figured out this strategy on my own and I'm glad that others are making good use of it

[@vicentericci1417]

Same

[@backgroundnpc9631]

I've done this a lot, and here's a few more ideas from my experience: -It's easiest to pull off in encounters where the majority of enemies are brawlers. Their attack power tends to be lower than other enemies (making it easier to stack enough protection to take no damage), and they also chew through the durability of their weapons faster, since they can usually hit someone holding a broken/rusty weapon four times. -If you get three tanky fellows and three adjutants, you can work on six people's ranks at the same time. I've even deliberately used an unarmed Fortress Knight to break all the enemy weapons, then peeled off enemies with the squishier folks who need the training but couldn't initially take the beating. If the enemy can't damage either unit, they will usually prefer the one who can't hit them back, then the one more likely to miss, so you may have to have the Fortress Knight pull out a working weapon when he's ready to lose the attention. -To get appropriate weapons more reliably than looking for random drops from online, simply use an iron weapon until it breaks and don't repair it. Broken weapons work just as well as rusted ones. Granted, this will take a little longer than the first couple of maps, but you can also generate a whole set of broken weapons just by never repairing your early weapons. -Prioritize any mages who need training for the adjutant role. Normally magic would be used up quickly, but adjutants never expend any uses of their equipped spell and they still earn experience as long as the primary character makes an attack. Be aware that most casting classes can make follow-up attacks, however, and their accuracy and strength are not reduced, so a Reason-training adjutant will probably fry an enemy every now and then (Faith can equip non-attacking spells like Heal). If you've got plenty enemies, it won't matter, but you can also just choose not to attack on Player Phase (adjutants won't follow-up on Enemy Phase but both units still earn xp on counterattacks). This was how I got Manuela through the long, painful road to Reason Rank A for Bolting. -Equip the Knowledge Rings to your trainees, especially any adjutants who aren't able to train like this (mages, glass cannons). -This is also a great way to master classes and gather Support points along the way. By posting three characters (all with adjutants) side-by-side, you can build support with up to five characters at the same time! (The unit in the middle will progress any available support with their own adjutant, both of his/her neighbors, and both of their adjutants as well.) This isn't nearly as efficient as other support methods, so I wouldn't go this route for that reason, but if two units who need support both need weapon training, might as well put them together.

[@AtomicArtumas]

Additionally, this is GREAT for recruiting units early, as you can both increase Byleth's skills to the required values, AND increase supports by using the unit you want to recruit as your bonus unit for the month and then grinding with them as an adjutant for support levels as well. This is particularly useful for getting Lysithea prior to DK1 if you're not playing GD. This also works absurdly well in BL because Byleth/Dmitri/Dedue should basically just take zero damage from anything almost right off the bat. I'd also highly recommend being in a class with either a mount or armor equipped, in order to level up those skills as well. You might think Peg Knight is a terrible class to tank in, but if F!Byleth has high enough def, it really doesn't matter. And getting hit just lets you level up a healer as well. In fact... It's actually probably optimal to do this with a minimum of 5 characters in a + shape, healer in the middle, just so you CAN level up an additional healer, even if you don't have enough adjutants for the other 4 characters. (especially if you're leveling Byleth as a healer, lul - raise support with 7 characters/turn ftw?)

[@joseanrosado3892]

@@AtomicArtumas You think that hard difficulty is so insane? I'm doing NG and my units are always getting killed.

[@Nixahma]

TWO VERY HELPFUL TIPS ACTION SKIP - ON THIS WILL SKIP ALL ENEMY ACTIONS SO YOU CAN JUST BRIANLESSLY MASH A HEALING FOCUS THIS BRAWL COMBAT ART HEALS YOUR UNIT FOR ~30 HP WITH NO DURABILLITY COST AND IT WORKS WITH ANY WEAPON

[@noobatgames3321]

I thought it did it for 50% of max hp

[@Nixahma]

@@noobatgames3321 it does, but that averages to about 30hp

[@CRABxBOILER]

Just one error in this video. Adjutants. Ahd-Jew-Taunts. Not Adjacents.

[@gianpaulodeleon4599]

When i hear him say adjacent i cringe. But i understand what he means tho. Lol thanks for pointing that out because i was about to do it.

[@ArmisHart]

2 actually. A lot of these guides assume people are on new game+ already with a maxed out professor level.

[@marcsmith2039]

the cringe level was real. i felt like bashing my head against a wall.

[@iloveminicactialot6895]

@@ArmisHart I mean, you can pull this off in New Game when you reach professor level C.

[@Vulgarth1]

JEW?!??!

[@supa8082]

Thank you man! This would be useful on my next run!

[@BurnerRebornPokemon]

No problem! Glad I could help

[@TheVinceVoice]

Found a really cheesy way to raise weapon proficiency without raising experience and levels... if you have a map with flying monsters and equip broken or rusty weapons (not bow)... you get 0 hit... if your character also has an adjutant that is just a healer(Guessing the shield guys probably also work, I'm afraid any fighter character would also try to attack randomly so not the best) they can also raise proficiency in whatever you equip them with (Heal spell for faith, or a thunder spell for reason, or just a regular weapon)... the adjutant never attacks but you can cheese their other weapons and spells to S+ as well. Also if you're mounted you continually get riding or flying experience up to S+... was playing around with a mounted Byleth (Cavalier?) and just seeing if I can grind all weapons to A (Axe is a pain because Cavalier doesn't give bonuses so only get +2 weapon experience each time you attack or counterattack)... guessing if you're like an armored knight you would also get the heavy armor experience... so I'm thinking of cheesing Byleth to A rank in as much as possible just because I feel the teacher should actually know what he's teaching... always found it weird that he can teach about heavy armor or riding when he's not even E rank on anything.

[@xtRag3dYx]

A bit late but for those who ask about how to train magic units or any unit to be honest, you can simply use the RETREAT method. Actually battle it out and when there is only one opponent left, just click on an empty tile so your menu will pop up and select retreat! You will retain all the exp you’ve earned and weapon proficiency and start the battle over. Do this for as long as your heart desires and you can do this on any battle you’d like! ONLY WORKS ON NORMAL MODE, not of hard or maddening.

[@giygas9305]

I dont think anyone needs to really do this on Normal mode, unless all you are trying to do is unlock experience for New Game+

[@kst8er]

Im going to try this when I get home. Hope this works because Im a FE newby and I SUCK at this game

[@BurnerRebornPokemon]

It works really well! Just let me know if you have any questions and ill try to help you out.

[@kst8er]

@@BurnerRebornPokemon well you got a sub from me. looking forward to more FE videos!!!

[@BurnerRebornPokemon]

@@kst8er Appreciate it! I have one in the works right now. :)

[@NotThatBob]

Hi Jon; How goes the game? 9 months later, are you a pro? I was the same and now that I have game time under my belt I've come to love the game and I've found some fun battle tricks of my own (Mostly has to do with 1 power caster and a bishop) . With those two I master the battle field. Anyhow liked your post for the honesty. Have fun.

[@BONBON28100]

Thanks. Been looking for this.

[@InfinityZeroEX]

You can also do this with Alert or Alert + if your flying skill is high enough and all you do is wait every turn. When you wait with either Alert or Alert + it increases your avoid. This way you can use whatever class you want.

[@johnfsenpai]

I have two questions : 1) Does this trick still work if you don't use online features ? 2) Is there any way to increase proficiency in magic (black or white magic) using a similar method ?

[@DrVollKornBrot]

Just use a broken weapon instead of a rusted one. I don't use online at all. Kite any enemy (preferrably with high def/res) onto one of those tiles with +heal and +dodge. Also works on bosses that don't move. Surround him and attack with your whole squad with broken weapons or magic (if its high resistance). Heal damaged allies to level white magic until the enemies weapon breaks. Now you can fill the 99 turns of the battle with missing attacks/getting missed. I used this strat only on maddening (no NG+). I'm not even at timeskip and have some S+ ranks.

[@The_Pikaboi]

Best way for spells is to make a mage an adjutant.

[@seunghoonyu6863]

You probably don't need the tip anymore but equipping black/white magic on adjutants also give them the respective skill exp.

[@Pandajerk86]

This game is really fun it gets kinda old farming like this though lol

[@chadmcdownbad]

I had Ashe as an Assassin after acquiring Sword Avo+20 and let's just say it was a good time

[@richardramos1946]

Also if you're struggling with your magic profiency put the character whose reason or faith rank you want to increase as an adjutant as shown in the vid

[@nauticade5270]

Conclusion: authority s+ in chapter 4

[@RaidenKaiser]

My biggest fear soloing a map with byleth using a sword is those mages man...damn can they sap your health fast if ya get pinned even on normal/easy

[@GuardsOfNohr]

The priests on maddening that have renewal are amazing to train your proficiencies and character classes on.

[@demoind9148]

Mercedes is the easiest class to lvl up in a new game

[@SilentVinyl]

This with the abyss renown glitch is nice

[@Nixahma]

+ Some of the battles don't consume time points, thus giving you a literally infinite supply.

[@silverman1205]

That is only on Normal

[@anonimzwx]

The issue with that strat is that you level up as a noble or commoner that have bad growth

[@whocares397]

do you have to use a rested wep or can u use a normal one also will it work offline

[@Zahuranecs]

Any easy way to cheese this on Maddening yet?

[@BurnerRebornPokemon]

Honestly, I'm not sure. I havn't tried it on maddening.

[@dennism05678]

On new game plus sure u can, without new game plus u can but at chapter 9 or so.

[@dennism05678]

But honestly by the time you're at that chapter almost all the students are either B, B+ or A

[@hempatron4653]

Know this is INCREDIBLY late, but on some aux maps, there is a unit that spawns with an ability that heals them every turn, and only knows nosferatu. You can expend all their uses of it, then go at them. They won't die due to the ability, and won't hit even your most frail units.

[@dacdacbruce2997]

Dedue is a good candidate for this if you wait each turn

[@huntersnyder4358]

Alternaively, if you don’t have NSO, you can use a broken weapon instead.

[@matiastorres2553]

if u are playing a ng+ u can just buy the weapons ranks

[@SpyroTheGerudo]

So my Marianne unlocked Axefaire by Chapter 5

[@XGame80]

How do I get to that battle when I’ve already completed it? Do you have to do it right when you get it?

[@silverman1205]

I believe so. The practice battle only appears at the very beginning to act as a tutorial for those types of battles.

[@AtomicArtumas]

I know this is super late, but to answer this EVERY month, if not every explore/battle day, has several randomized optional battles. The pool significantly increases if you own the DLC, as it has an ADDITIONAL pool of randomized battles to choose from on those same days. This exact stage, but with randomized units, is part of that pool. However.... This guide is also very incomplete, and unoptimized - You can actually do this on essentially any level without a failure condition, so long as your units can survive. You also have a 99 turn limit cap per mission, before you automatically fail. It's actually optimal to choose a level with a healing square and a tanky boss (armor knights, etc. - mages/sages/bishops/etc. for leveling magic) and force the enemy onto the healing square (just equip push/etc. on your units that have those utility skills whenever you're planning to grind this out) This allows you to grind 4+ characters at a time (technically 4 melee + max adjutants (you get more than one later) + 8 2 range characters + any 3+ range characters you have, provided they can't significantly damage the enemy. This is GREAT for leveling bow on literally your entire roster for free. Additionally, if not on maddening, (and slightly on maddening) you can also grind a bit of exp from this by actually damaging a unit and having them heal the damage - This is a tactic that dates back forever in the series, and was particularly useful in FE7's lyndis' story's final level, and FE10's first level that Elincia joins, in order to grind a ton of free exp (you don't carry items over from lyn's story, and elincia has an infinite durability weapon that literally is unable to kill enemies, and can be used to turn her into an absurdly good mage killer and secondary healer.) TL;DR, This stage is part of a random pool that pops up constantly, and you actually just need any defensive terrain, with healing tiles actually being more optimal than forests.

[@olive6419]

@@AtomicArtumas I get how this works on player phase, but my question is can you push an enemy unit on to a square? I mean i know those combat arts work on your units but i don’t think you can push the enemy. i also think this seems a little bit more situational but if you get it a couple times than yeah you’re entire roster is basically completely OP

[@silverman1205]

I assume you can't do this with magic since those are limited per battle

[@kittycatty8336]

i guess for reason magic but I think you can equip heal so it should work for faith magic

[@backgroundnpc9631]

Make your mage the adjutant. As long as the character on the map makes an attack, their adjutant will get skill xp with whatever they have equipped (even reason or faith magic) without expending any uses or durability. The only catch is when the adjutant is in a class that can follow-up attack; your mage adjutant still won't expend any uses of their equipped spell, but once the enemy breaks all their weapons on you that follow-up attack is almost certain to hit and hit hard. Not a big deal if you've still got plenty of enemies left, moreso if you only left a few alive to grind with. Even then, you can simply choose not to attack on Player Phase, since adjutants won't make follow-ups on enemy phase and you still get skill xp on counterattacks. Trust me on this one; it was a long, grueling road, but this is almost entirely how I got Manuela all the way up to A rank Reason for Bolting.

[@silverman1205]

@@backgroundnpc9631 Thanks for the tip!

[@backgroundnpc9631]

@@silverman1205 Glad to help! Hope it's still useful so long after the initial post. ^.^'

[@mstrkllr]

It doesnt look like you gain xp unless you do damage on maddening

[@AsianRailgun]

You don't gain level experience on any difficulty unless you do damage or use some kind of assist or debuff. You get class experience in combat regardless of the damage dealt on any difficulty.

[@mstrkllr]

Oh yeah I see that now. Sorry this video was playing the combat too fast XD I saw him gaining levels, didnt notice it was when he got a hit

[@mixedbaggamer]

Do you have to have a rusted weapon or can you just equipped a very very weak weapon or better yet if you're trying to work with the professor can I just unarm my professor

[@kilambrown4302]

Its been a month since you asked. So you probably don't need an answer by now, but for those scrolling by and want to know the answer, you can use any weapon you want, to increase the relevant skill. And unarmed won't raise any school, (might raise Gauntlets) but the point of this guide is that you use weapons early on that won't inflict damage on the enemy, and the ones that consistently don't, at least early on, is rusted, and broken.

[@jerm-gv9rv]

Just to add on unarmed doesn’t even raise brawl it might if you have unarmed combat but other than that it doesn’t the same applies to an enemy that attacks outside your range and you don’t have the counterattack effect, you have to attempt to counterattack to get any skill points at all

[@ShovelFighter12]

Does this also build support?

[@zebrvhh]

Yes

[@AtomicArtumas]

Yes, but only up to certain levels. Three houses' support levels are really wonky. At most you can get +1 rank per battle, but quite a few are also time locked, so you can't get various characters to say S support level on chapter 4. (this is actually true of most FEs as well.)

[@minty380]

What u mean by tanky class

[@timotheatae]

Adjutants. Not adjacents.

[@loka7783]

Just noting that picking up the Healing Focus combat art from the Brawler class will REALLY save on vulneraries.

[@shuttechgaming5900]

I thought of this a month ago.

[@flaviogomes]

Are there any repeatable free battles? I finished FE: Awakening where you could buy Reeking Boxes, win a battle, acquire 500g to buy a new one and keep repeating the process

[@AtomicArtumas]

On Normal, yes. On Hard/Maddening, no, as you have a hard limit to the amount of optional battles you can do in a week. However, three houses has a NG+ system that allows you to re-buy any skill or support level you've obtained in a previous playthrough. The only thing to note is that there's a really dumb bonus unlockable (title screen changes color) for beating the game on a fresh non-NG+ maddening playthrough. However, you can totally do maddening -> NG+ normal full grind -> NG+ maddening, only having to play through the game once on a fresh playthrough. There's a few other things, like increased exp/stat/skill growths that you unlock and can keep via NG+ as well.

[@alvarosanjuan8709]

Now there is a glitch to repeat months, search it up if you are still interested

[@flaviogomes]

@@alvarosanjuan8709 I'll try it! Thank you ^^

[@fellixallenfant2132]

This method is good for those who play difficulty that can grind unlimited. But it's not usefull for me who play maddening casual difficulty. Doing it will make my other unit gain less experience.

[@ex.lunaris]

Adjutant* adjacent??

[@gordonxyooj]

How soon can you do this?

[@Ashe_Forester]

The first auxiliary a battle in Chapter 2

[@flaviogomes]

@@Ashe_Forester are auxiliary battles repeatable?

[@Ashe_Forester]

@@flaviogomes yes but they eat the day

[@flaviogomes]

@@Ashe_Forester I just figured out that, in normal, you can find auxiliary battles that cost zero activity points, so you can repeat as many times as you want. First one I found is in chapter 3

[@flaviogomes]

@@Ashe_Forester Now I played it and understood what you mean. I skipped fishing, cooking and etc because I choose to battle

[@ohyeahmrkrabs-yo2vv]

Can this only be done with actual weapons or is there a way to do it with magic spells? I want to raise my units reason to S quicker

[@ThePaulineu]

It works but you might end up killing people too fast! The point is just to have long battles to increase your rank

[@jerm-gv9rv]

I know you don’t need this anymore but if you make that unit an adjutant and equip the type of spell you want (support spells like heal require any weapons or offensive magic to be unequipped) you can grind magic ranks all the same

[@MRJonFOXY]

What are adjacents ? Is it the battalion's?

[@BurnerRebornPokemon]

its the units you equip to other units.

[@dinglebutt300]

@@BurnerRebornPokemon add joo taunt. Not add jay cent. Adjutant

[@Ashe_Forester]

How do you equip them

[@Gangsterboy2854]

@@Ashe_Forester this may be late but tap Y on a active unit in the unit screen

[@Ashe_Forester]

@@Gangsterboy2854 thanks

[@Pmu_Sh0wd0wn]

Sad that this is now useless because of the month loop glitch (no just kidding it's way faster)

[@jbpascua5852]

It’s “Adjutant” not “Adjacent”. Cool video tho 😅

[@Katie-hb8iq]

Seems like a waste of time. The game is too easy on Normal/Hard. Just play through it. There are very few maps in this game that are truly challenging, and they usually have to deal with requiring 1-2 flying units and getting to places on the map ASAP (saving the duke in Constances mission, saving Manuela during her paralogue, killing Judith before she escapes in Edelgard's route, etc.). This is rare though - most battles can simply be auto-battled if your heart desires it, moving fragile units to safe spaces on the first turn to avoid deaths :/

[@lpfan4491]

Meanwhile me on hard with almost every unit being fragile.

[@eiplays2768]

Adjutants its not that hard