Fire Emblem Engage has plenty to offer players in terms of character customization and progression. Depending on which mode and difficulty you are playing on, this differs in its importance. For the most part, keeping your characters levelled up and equipped with at least the option of simply manually tapping on optimization for their inventory spaces will be good enough.
On its hardest difficulties, taking the most manual of approaches with utilizing the numerous services in the hub world of Somniel will be necessary to pave your only way to victory. Once the Smithy opens up, you will want to spend much of your free time in it to forge and refine better weaponry.
Fire Emblem Engage – Best Weapons to Refine, Tier List
Knowing when to upgrade in any way in Fire Emblem Engage will be the key to success. Be it promoting units too early or committing to refine certain weapons that drop off in the damage department late-game will make your resource managing hellish to maintain in the long run.
Namely, refining allows the player to upgrade any weapon up to five times – as indicated by the plus next to the weapon’s name. It goes without saying that the highest quality grade of any weapon will be the best to put all resources into refining them to the max. However, this can be quite the chore due to simply how rare its required materials will be that are needed to refine them each and every time.
Therefore, with the sheer amount of possible weapons available in the game, regard any unmentioned weapon that does not appear on our list to to not be worth even considering to possibly refine across your playthrough. These will quite simply waste your resources and prove to be unhelpful later on down the line. For this reason, we have constricted only mentioning what we regard as the very best weapons to refine (grade S) to the bare minimum worth refining if you do not have any better ones available at the time (grade B).
Weapon | Our Given Grade/ Worth |
Divine Fist Art, Thoron, Liberation, Radiant Bow | S |
Longbow, Levin Sword, Tomahawk, Cinquedea, Excalibur, Any “Brave” weapon | A |
Any “Silver” or “Killer” weapon (extremely dependent on the majority of your army’s Classes), Elfire, Killer Lance, Armorslayer, Wo Dao | B |
Follow up refining with the engraving service in the same place of the Smithy to further perfect your weapons and their capabilities. Remember other must-dos in your playthrough such as the following:
- When finishing a battle, explore the entire battle terrain after a chapter victory to secure more resources.
- Only pump your hard earned funds into donating to the countries via Café Terrace if the reward provides more resources. Most of the time these are not worth doing because the rewards tend to decline in their usefulness the more you level them up.
- Always adopt any available animals after battles and know which ones provide the most useful of resources to select them to place outside of the Shelter. These are typically any and all dogs for the amount of Ingots they drop.
Good luck! For any further help with the game, check out other articles under it that we have covered such as Can you be Evil or a Villain in Fire Emblem Engage? – Answered and Why are Skirmishes So Hard in Fire Emblem Engage? Here’s What to Do. Please also check out Gamer Journalist on Facebook to join the discussion and keep up to date with our content.
Published: Feb 12, 2023 12:17 pm