Forging Basics (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

[@Tom-vx7qh]

Some important ore locations Mythril - Birds and Golems Wootz Steel - Wolves Umbral Steel - Demonic Beasts Agarthium - Worms Venomstone - Demonic Beasts with the poison attack

[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

Tom The Golems, at least the ones in Rhea’s post timeskip paralogue also drop a lot of mythril.

[@Tom-vx7qh]

@@SailorSatan-ko5ti true, I chose birds since those can be found in auxiliary battles, but I'll include it

[@lsrrr3857]

Wootz sounds a lot like wolves, that's how i remember

[@lsrrr3857]

It's also important to remember what weapon uses what tones exactly Smithing Stone- Training, Iron, Steel, Silver, Javelin, Hand Axe Black Sand Steel- Killer Wootz Steel- Brave, Short Spear, Spear, Short Axe, Tomahawk, Weapons of Zoltan Mythril- Sacred Relics, Mercurius and co. Arcane Crystal- Magic weapons Umbral Steel- Heroic relics Agarthium- Crescent Sickle Venomstone- Venin weapons I cant remember the rest

[@mattinsula7143]

You also get agarthium from the robots TWSITD make

[@oliverrenteria4200]

For new players: it is better to repair your Sword of the Creator than to waste a free day resting which only repairs it by 5 uses while the blacksmith fully restores its durability.

[@fredv7349]

Well it does full repair twice in key story parts, all relics actually.

[@SirCanuckelhead]

I got that hoarder personality so I just never use it :( I thought I might have to in maddening but I am into timeskip and still have not needed it, aka you don’t even need it so as the one guy says use the free repairs in the game

[@r.c.8268]

resting is a complete waste especially when you have a high teacher rank

[@brandonjuno]

@Wil E No. Resting is always a waste of time.

[@brainwasher9876]

Resting always sucks. Explore gives more motivation at higher professor levels, battles give money and exp, seminars give more exp.

[@gregorybainathsah7284]

I'm loving these daily updates

[@holypoppyhead4809]

Speaking of the merchants, I found it very useful to purchase a bunch of meat and feed the animals! I would usually get several rare forging materials such as Mythril and Wootz!

[@BHNOW100]

Critical hit's are probably the only reason I could ever beat maddening, Ignatz Critnatz is the way to win.Absolute crit god in maddening with hunters volley and killer bow +.

[@richpichu1272]

Extremely true Ignatz carried my golden deer maddening with having a 75 crit and always having a 100% hit

[@edelgarddidnothingwrong7994]

I did the same thing, except I used the legend, Ashe (it was a BL run). I loved that man.

[@amogusfan-mp9iw]

I end up maxing out my smithing stones and black sand steel every month because money is so easy to get. I normally forge the training weapons, killer, and iron weapons and towards midgame when I get combat arts like Hunter's Volley, Swift Strikes etc. I forge silver for the high might for the maximum damage out put. I also try to get 10 mythril? ( don't remember how many) for Gradivus, because of the 1-2 range and high hit/might.

[@NoNameTheFirst]

Training Weapon Forges are also quite useful for spamming Combat Arts. Very cheap and plenty of durability.

[@ihatehandles69420]

Nah training weapons are good for low weight and high hit rate. steel and silver are better for combat arts for pure damage. Though if a training weapon + combat art kills then its better than using steel.

[@DoctorGenzo]

there's merchants that unlock that will sell you the basic materials (smithing stones, black-sand steel) which you can use your huge amount of gold on. it makes basic forges and repairs much easier.

[@Starwars-Fanboy]

Thanks for these videos, 3H has alot of intricacies so these are helpful. Training weapons are pretty essential to forge in maddening. No way around that. Steel Bow + worked great for me early on and the mini bow + is really nice for hunters volley for the high hit and decent crit. Almost like a poor man's killer bow.

[@johnnymind4151]

Yep, it's what I was already doing in my playthroughs, except for the training weapons +, I just used the iron ones, I'll keep it in mind if I need even lighter weapons!

[@xander0901]

I'm always going for Training+ and Killer+ weapons. Never really branched out to other weapon types since the materials are annoying to get. I haven't experimented much with steel weapons since I think they are kind of a trap tier. Maybe keep one around to finish off a unit with a combat art if you aren't able to get silver weapons yet but it feels really bad when you get ambushed and your guy is carrying a steel lance or something like that.

[@IntrusiveThot420]

The only good Steel weapons are maybe the Steel Sword+ and Steel Bow+ from early tournaments, because they're so strong for when you get them. If you early recruit Cyril and level his Bow for early Point-Blank Volley, giving him the Steel Bow+ can be amazingly strong. Hard hitting Sword users can also make good use of the Steel Sword+ to deal killing damage early on with Wrath Strike.

[@andersonlarios7257]

If you're going to walk around with a heavy weapon just upgrade it to silver. I'm pretty sure it's lighter and stronger

[@Ash_Wen-li]

Steel Weapons are good for Combat Arts

[@manuelsilva9993]

@@Ash_Wen-li this. Spamming tempest lance with a steel lance+ isnt bad cuz it would otherwise drain a silver lance also if you have a unit with hunters volley/PBV i would really suggest getting a steel bow

[@joeyshine80]

yiiiss!! Just got the game and was seen a bunch of older videos, was afraid I missed the hype train but glad to see new content. Subscribed!

[@Kattywagon29]

It's worth noting that one of the abilities you can acquire is weight -5 for Fortress Knight. This will help when you wanna use one of the more powerful but heavier weapons.

[@PandaBwoPrime]

Well at that point, you’ll always be mega slow. It’s probably best to go with iron+ and killer+/steel+ for accuracy and damage.

[@wesnohathas1993]

It's important to note that + weapons are the only direct upgrades when forging. Other weapon variations come with different stat distributions that come with distinct advantages and disadvantages. Training weapons are light, accurate and durable, but have low might; steel weapons are strong and durable, but they're heavy; silver weapons are very strong, but break easily, etc. It's worth giving units separate lightweight and hard-hitting heavy weapons to choose from. Weight won't matter in a situation where you have no hope of outspeeding the enemy. You also won't always want the lightest weapons possible because units will be able to use heavier weapons without any AS penalty as their strength stat grows or you obtain the weight-3/5 abilities.

[@KumaKing]

Besides weapons like a Wu Dao+. Would you say its okay to keep repairing things like a Iron Sword + , is that what you meant by repairing only forged weapons? Or are the iron + weapons not worth repairing at that point?

[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

KumaKing From my own experience, it’s just always better to forge a weapon rather than repairing it. However, when a weapon can’t be forged further, (+ weapons), you should be repairing those when they break. What he’s saying is it’s just better to upgrade normal weapons than to repair them, because you’ll need to upgrade them eventually. Upgrading also restores durability so there’s no point in just fixing an iron bow if you can upgrade it, considering the extra 2 smithing stone is only 200 gold.

[@IntrusiveThot420]

I would aay the Iron Bow+ is worth repairing because of its best-in-class accuracy. Sometimes you just need a little chip, and with Curved Shot's 30 extra Hit, the Iron Bow+ can be super useful

[@KumaKing]

@@SailorSatan-ko5ti Yeah that makes a lot of sense. So basically the path should be to buy a weapon. Forge that weapon instead of repair. And then repair later. There's basically no reason to repair a regular weapon first instead of forging it. Thanks a bunch I appreciate the explanation!

[@Starwars-Fanboy]

I found that steel bows were really nice to forge early on. Alot of uses and high damage so you can spam combat arts and make curved shot pack a bigger punch. The accuracy was pretty negligible due to curved shot and things like hit + 20.

[@lsrrr3857]

forging iron sword lance axe into their + counterparts give the exact same bonus in stats, same with steel silver killer and brave. Bow gives extra weight -1 (except killer bow) when forging compared to the other weapons. Gauntlet forging gives completely different set of bonuses. Personally I think wo dao+ gives the best total bonuses: durability +10, Mt +1 and crit +10.

[@unovasfinest2623]

Can i find more than like 15 mythril in a game? I kinda wanna have Gradivus, Mercurius and all of those weapons at the same time

[@swhawk]

Online travelers can sell you Mythril. Mythril, Umbral Steel, Agarthium, and Wootz Steel are quite common among Online Travelers.

[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

Unova's Finest Like they said above, sothis paralogue, online travelers give mythril. You can also get it from specific auxiliary battles postgame. They will say like “Monsters at ___” or something. These missions are just routing 4 monsters, and when they happen to be birds, you can get up to 4-7 mythril from it alone. The Rhea paralogue post-game (you need to have at least c support with rhea before timeskip) has altered golems, which give I think 3-5 mythril by breaking their armor. In short, it’s very easy to get a ton of mythril.

[@manuelsilva9993]

Grind sothis paralogue and rheas golem paralogue. Those with the random times birds are thrown into other missions/other paralogues (there're 2 birds in hildas) ive managed to get over 35 mythril in a run.

[@jasonduhela9597]

Keep up the great work man; love the videos.

[@joshmcgoo]

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[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

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[@MesserTAMU]

We're playing with the algorithm? I'm in.

[@ormod9558]

I wish you could cycle through the auxiliary battles just to farm monsters. I like playing casually and wish there was a reason to use the Hero/Sacred weapons. I wanna have fun using them but they break too fast.

[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

Ormod Curtis easy solution, just beat up a lot of demonic/king beasts and rack up umbral steel. Repairs all hero weapons for a measly 3k. For sacred, mythril is also reasonably easy to grab.

[@ormod9558]

@@SailorSatan-ko5ti That's what I do but it's still boring having to fight through normal battles and hope for a monster fight to pop up. I just wish I could beat on monsters whenever I wanted. 😂

[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

Great video!

[@steveh1474]

training weapons are a noob trap. low weight doesnt mean much by endgame when you have much higher str or spd. being weighed down a bit by a steel weapon isnt going to cost you the double-attack every time, many times it wont cost you the double at all. but the tiny amount of might on a training weapon might make it so even doubling wont kill the victim, which just makes you the victim in the end. if you connect online, youll notice that most items you get from the glowing points where other players died, youre getting training weapons. the weapons they used when they died, because they refuse to upgrade. upgrade yor weapons. use iron. use steel. use silver. especially silver. its lightweight and significantly stronger. durability is not an issue.

[@lsrrr3857]

Don’t use steel, steel is the biggest trap of them all. Training is useful early game, steel is useful never.

[@Kcirrot]

Just commenting to state Wo Dao+ is one of the best swords in the game. Easy to get to 75%+ Crit.

[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

Kcirrot cursed ashiya+ too

[@richpichu1272]

SailorSatan2020 cursed ashiya has 80+ crit

[@lsrrr3857]

since you are talking about forging, why not make a tier list for all the different weapons, like a steel weapon is C tier and killer weapon is S tier or something like that?

[@TheMustangMan1718]

I would very much like to see this as well! Three Houses is my first Fire Emblem game, so I feel that even with my ~400 hours I have, I still have a bunch of stuff I am learning from all of these videos. I usually run Iron+ and Silver+ weapons on most people as it is a good mix of accuracy and max damage output. They also have good durability for when I have things like Ingrid being a dodge tank and her extra speed means she is attacking twice for each unit that attempts to attack her. Crit weapons would be nice, but most other weapons would be broken, possibly before the end of the battle.

[@IWish2500]

Recording while in golden deer class? Classy

[@brainwasher9876]

Are Venin weapons ever worth it? Say you have no way to kill a divine beast in one turn and you poison it?

[@SailorSatan-ko5ti]

Andrew Wang If you like the gimmick, or perhaps in maddening maybe. But from my experience, it’s just adding weight for an after effect that can’t kill an enemy.

[@PandaBwoPrime]

Not really. Its almost always better to stack weapon might or debuffs.

[@lsrrr3857]

It is for show generally. A venin+ weapon is rarer to come by than a Gradivus or Zoltan+ weapon, so it feels good to have one around. For gameplay purpose really no need.

[@nickn3728]

I need a video like this for Fates, why is forging so complicated in that game? I guess I'll make a +5 iron weapon? Idk lol

[@MegaScytheman]

Forging is kind of broken in fates, especially if you are visiting other castles you can get really really strong weapons early with low weapon ranks, no debuffs and good accuracy.

[@ihatehandles69420]

Yeah there's stats like bon that I don't even know what they do.

[@Trostspender]

Minibow is better than Training Bow in almost all cases

[@l.n.3372]

Not really. It has like 2 drawbacks that training bows lack.

[@Trostspender]

@@l.n.3372 In the early game you do not face flyers and the combat stats are vastly superior. Curved Shot still gives effectiveness against flyers even with minibow. You also get +10% crit.

[@jacksonallen101]

Wait a second, are you not using Raphael in the run? But he is Pope Tier!!!

[@BudgetNugs]

Forge killer + and iron+/training+ Repair iron + and killer + I toss training since online drops training weapons early on.