Fire Emblem Engage has plenty to offer players in terms of character customization and progression. Depending on which mode and difficulty you are playing, 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.
To achieve victory on the hardest difficulties, you must use Somniel’s numerous services in the hub world in the most manual of ways. 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. Your resource management is likely to be difficult to maintain in the long run if you promote units too early or refine weapons that drop off in damage late-game.
Namely, refining allows the player to upgrade any weapon up to five times – as indicated by the plus next to the weapon’s name. In order to obtain the highest grade of any weapon, all resources should be put into refining it to the highest standard. However, this can be quite a challenge due to how rare the materials are that are needed to refine them repeatedly.
Consequently, the sheer number of possible weapons in the game makes any unmentioned weapon that doesn’t appear on our list not even worth considering refining during your playthrough. These activities will waste your resources and prove to be unhelpful later on down the line. For this reason, we have restricted ourselves to only mentioning what we regard as the very most suitable 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).
Follow up refining with the engraving service in the same area of the Smithy to further perfect your weapons and their capabilities. Remember other must-dos during your playthrough such as the following:
After winning a battle, explore the entire battle terrain after a chapter victory to secure more resources.
Only pump your hard earned funds into donating to 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.
You should always adopt any available animals after battle, and when you do so, choose those that would be most useful to place in the Outside Shelter. They are typically all dogs for the amount of ingots they drop.