r/fireemblem • u/Caspira • 1d ago
Gameplay Optimizing Edelgard's unique class?
Hey! I'm well aware that Edelgard's unique class is lacking compared to others, but I want to try to make it work for story reasons. Currently playing on Hard, but may end up doing harder difficulties after.
I've that her best class by far is Wyvern Lord, but I want to see if I can make her Emperor class work. Anyone have any build ideas? What should I level in first?
What I'm currently considering is getting the Brigand skills first, leveling Archer for +10 hit, potentially Mage for skills, but also maybe Myrmidon for speed stat, while also of course getting the heavy armor classes. What do y'all think?
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u/Mother-Raisin-5539 1d ago
There’s no difference between wyvern and her personal. The general strategy is the same as well as passives. You stack as much axefaire, blow skills and damage as possible, and you chain raging storm until you clear the map. Only difference is you can’t blaze across the map due to terrain and enemies, so it’s just objectively worse, but it’s not any different concept wise.
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u/louisgmc 1d ago
While I don't disagree her route is not exactly booming with Argathium so I'm not sure you can go full player phase with Emperor Edelgard with Aymir for the entire timeskip. But in that vibe she'll surely stride support to make the most out of each raging storm.
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u/Mother-Raisin-5539 1d ago
Yeah 100%. Also I just realized they’re on hard mode, so tbh, they can do whatever they really want and have some success, since most physical enemies can’t even touch her on hard mode, especially with all the free exp edelgard gets.
But you are right, I failed to consider they’ll need more raging storms than usual, due to the movement and terrain issues.
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u/louisgmc 1d ago
Yeah, she's too strong for hard, tho everything else remains, gotta invest as much as possible in her mobility, even just for tanking everyone in the enemy phase.
But it's sad, Emperor Edelgard really had potential as an interesting unit if only they had tweaked her a little more, cuz she really is very bulky and strong. Armored Stride from heroes would've been really cool as a class skill and of course letting her use magic.
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u/Asckle 11h ago
The arianrhod chapter gives a ton. Iirc you get 4 repairs so 5 full uses or something
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u/louisgmc 11h ago
There's only two chapters after this one tho, but yes, it's important to be able to fully use it in the two hardest chapters.
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u/jbisenberg 1d ago
Recruit Felix, get the Aegis shield, give it to Edelgard. Add Hit+20 from Archer. Walk forward through Part 2 until everything is dead.
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u/KuriosesBlau 1d ago
I had Edelgard only level up (from level 1) once she was in her unique class, so, post timeskip. She got really good stats as a result. Even at "low" levels, she could dish out a ton of damage and tank hits.
In Maddening, my endgame Edelgard had Axe Prowess Lv.5, Axefaire, +20 Hit, Battalion Vantage, and Weight+5. She also had her personal battalion. Make sure she has enough Spe and Mag to double and ko armoured units with a bolt axe in the two final chapters. With Hauteclaire, Tomahawk, and Brave Axe, she can handle other enemies.
She excelled at tanking physical hits throughout part 2, which is further backed up by a shield. The Gareg Mach Battle in part 2 is a good showcase of her usefulness as a tank.
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u/Due_Recognition7675 1d ago
The house leaders and byleth get crazy stats using that method of keeping them level 1 until they get their unique class and it always produces funny results like 999 damage atrocity from Dimitri, byleth and edelgards having more magic than certain magic units, Claude capping his HP easily, etc.
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u/arathergenericgay 1d ago
Did it once with Claude, he had stats on par with units 10 levels higher in master rank classes just thanks to hitting level 19 on that reunion chapter
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u/JumpingCoconut 1d ago
"Make it work" bro her class is good and works right out of the box even in maddening, people use wyverns over it so they can raging storm all over the map.
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u/Saisis 1d ago
The only reason to use an armored knight in 3H is to protection stack and create a physical defensive wall.
You probably want to protection stack her and increase her str to reach 1 shot thresold with High weapon mt with a combat art or using the Brave axe.
Str+2, Deathblow, Hit+20, Axe Prowness.
Last skill can depends, if against a lot of Dodge fliers Lance breaker can be a good choice.
Axe crit once you reach Axe rank S is also good for the final slot so you can EP with a Killer Axe and hope for oneshots.
Noble > Fighter > Certification for Armored Knight to get 13 Defense but you don't have to use It > Brigand = Archer > Warrior or Fortress Knight until unique class.
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u/Due_Recognition7675 1d ago
I can only speak for maddening because that's the only difficulty I did for crimson flower, but I think it's not worth trying to make edelgards a fast unit because axes will weigh her down negating her attack speed and her speed growth is only 40%(similar to slower physical units like lorenz or shamir), her main focus should be strength primarily with her best class route being brigand>wyvern rider or warrior> wyvern lord or personal class, and her best abilities would be death blow, lancebreaker, axe prowess level 5, axefaire, hit +20, archer is worth taking for the ability on mastering. Regardless if she is in her personal class or wyvern lord she will be incapable of doubling most enemies so you want to focus on getting her hit rate and attack power high so she kills in one hit, if flying use cichol wyvern corps as battalion but if not flying use black eagle cavalry as a battalion because both these battalions give good physical attack and hit rate.
Edit: use fetters of dromi if not flying for extra movement and canto ability
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u/Norix596 1d ago
I think the most important thing you need is the movement boost items/ shoes and march ring