How to Build Characters

When building your characters and units in Fire Emblem Engage, make sure to consider weapon proficiency, stat boosting items, and class change. Learn about all the different character and class growth rates to consider when you build your character.

How to Build Characters

10 Factors to Building a Unit
1	Levels	6	Weapon Proficiency (Emblems)
2	Class Change	7	Weapon Proficiency (Class)
3	Stat Boosting Items	8	Smithy
4	Bond Level	9	Support Levels
5	Skill Inheritance	10	Bond Rings

1. Level

How to Raise	・Fighting and defeating enemies

Increasing your level will increase your unit stats, which will allow you to deal more damage, dodge more enemy attacks, and deal more critical hits, among many other affected stats.

Leveling Up Tips:

• Experience points are gained via damaging and killing the enemy. Finishing blows give more EXP. Have a stronger unit weaken an enemy and have your low-leveled unit deal the killing blow to maximize the EXP earned.
• Higher leveled enemies give more EXP.

▶︎ EXP Farming Guide: How to Level Up Fast

2. Class Change

Requirements	・Level 10 or above ・Weapon Proficiency ・Master Seals

Class Changing promotes your unit into a higher tier version of their current class or shifts them into an entirely different class. This affects the weapons they use, their unit types (except for Alear), and their stat growth rates.

▶︎ How to Class Change and Reclass

3. Stat Boosting Items

How to Raise	・Acquire item and consume

In Fire Emblem, there are items that act as stat boosters that permanently boost your unit's stats when consumed. These items are considered rare and should be used to further maximize your stronger units. However, you cannot boost their stats past the stat cap.

Items such as the Seraph Robe (HP), Energy Drop (Str), Talisman (Res), Dracoshield (Def), and Boots (Mov) give permanent stat boosts to the units that consume them.

▶︎ List of All Items

4. Bond Level

How to Raise	・Bond Conversations ・Emblem Training at the Arena

As you increase your Bond Level with Emblems, the more inheritable skills and Bond Effects you will unlock from them. Inherited skills can be utilized by units even when not equipped the Emblem they inherited the skill from, which makes it particularly helpful in making your unit more individually powerful.

▶︎ How to Raise Bond Level

5. Skill Points for Skill Inheritance

How to Raise	・Defeating enemies while synced with an Emblem ・Defeating enemies while equipped with a Bond Ring ・Standard Training at the Arena

Skill Points (SP) are neede to inherit skills from Emblems. SP can be passively obtained by units who defeat enemies while synced with an Emblem or equipped with a Bond Ring. Units who don't have these rings equipped do not earn SP in battle.

▶︎ Skill Inheritance Guide

▶︎ SP Farming Guide

6. Weapon Proficiency (Emblems)

How to Raise	・Raise Bond Level with Emblem

Weapon Proficiency is required when changing class or promoting your unit to a higher version within their own class, as different classes will make your unit use different weapons and higher ranks will require your unit have a high proficiency with the class' weapon. You can inherit these Weapon Proficiencies from Emblems via raising their Bond Level and Skill Inheritance.

▶︎ How to Increase Weapon Proficiency

7. Weapon Proficiency (Class)

How to Raise	・Use the weapon type in battle

Weapon Proficiency affects the damage you deal and the hit rate you have with a certain type of weapon. Units are ranked with proficiency using certain weapons from E to S. Higher ranking weapons that deal better damage and have better Hit require your unit to be of a high Weapon Proficiency.

▶︎ List of All Weapons

8. Give Weapons Stat Buffs at the Smithy

How to Get	・Spend Bond Fragments at the Smithy

At the Smithy, you can give weapons stat buffs via engraving them with Emblems. Engraving a weapon with an Emblem provides a significant buff to weapon stats, such as physical attack, speed, hit rate, critical rate, avoidance rate, and more.

It costs 100 Bond Fragments to engrave a weapon with an Emblem. You can also only engrave 1 weapon with each of your Emblems, making 12 the maximum number of engraved weapons you can have (excluding DLC).

▶︎ How to Engrave Weapons With Emblems

9. Support Levels

How to Raise	・Talk to allies ・Give gifts ・Return lost items ・Dine at Cafe Terrace

High Support Levels provide a bonus to your unit and their ally when they stand next to each other during battles. The higher your Support Level is with an ally, the higher stat buffs you can acquire from them.

▶︎ How to Increase Support Level

10. Bond Rings

How to Get	・Create using Bond Fragments at the Ring Chamber in the Somniel

Bond Rings offer stat buffs when equipped by a unit. The amount of stats buffed is determined by the rank of the Bond Ring (with C being the lowest and S being the highest). Equipping Bond Rings onto units also allows them to earn SP during battle.

▶︎ How to Get and Equip Bond Rings

Other Features to Build Characters

Donations

How to Donate	・Bulletin Board at the Cafe Terrace

At the Cafe Terrace in the Somniel, there's a Bulletin Board which you can interact with to donate Gold to the different kingdoms of Elyos. Reaching certain Donation goals levels up the kingdom, which results in unlocking more animals to adopt, better items to be found in exploration, and higher leveled enemies (that give more EXP).

▶︎ Donations Effects and Rewards

Achievements

Achievements are various in-game challenges you can complete to earn a good amount of Bond Fragments. These challenges take place in battle, at the Somniel, and amongst allies. Frequently check back at the Bulletin Board in the Cafe Terrace in order to claim your Bond Fragment rewards.

▶︎ Achievements Guide: How to Complete and Rewards

Accessories

How to Get	・The Boutique at the Somniel

You can equip different clothes and accessories that you purchase from the Boutique in the Somniel. These clothes and accessories are only a cosmetic change to your appearance and do not affect any in-game stats. Additionally, you can only change your appearance while at the Somniel.

▶︎ Boutique (Accessory Store) Guide: How to Unlock and Features

Fire Emblem Engage Related Guides

▶︎ Beginner's Guide to Fire Emblem Engage

All Tips and Tricks

Tier Lists and Builds
Best Units	Best Classes for Each Unit
Best Emblem Ring Pairings	Class Tier List
Best Party Composition	Best Units for Maddening Run
How to Build Characters	Emblem Tier List
Unit Guides
How to Recruit Units	Class Change: When to Promote Units
Best Gifts for All Characters	Growth Rates and Stat Caps
Every Stat Explained	How to Increase Weapon Proficiency
How to Get the Pact Ring	All Paired Endings
Romance Options	What Happens on Your Birthday?
How to Get S Rank Support	Should you Gift the Horse Manure?
Valuable Items/Farming Guides
SP Farming	EXP Farming
Gold Farming	Where to Get Master Seals
Where to Get Second Seals	How to Get the Silver Card
How to Farm Iron, Steel, and Silver Ingots	How to Farm Bane Books
Emblem Guides
Skill Inheritance	How to Farm Bond Fragments
All Synchro Skills	How to Reach Level 20 Bond Level
How to Use Emblem Rings	Bond Effects
Engage Mechanic Explained	-
Battle and Combat Guides
How to Reroll Skirmishes	How to Reroll Stats on Level Up
Should You Optimize?	Poison Mechanic Explained
Permadeath Explained	How to Open Treasure Chests and Doors
Dodge vs Avoid Explained	What Does Luck Affect?
Build Stat and Attack Speed	Follow-Up Attack Guide
How to Rewind	Exploration Guide
How to Use Auto-Battle	Break Mechanic Explained
Battle Symbols Explained	Weapon Durability
Spirits of the Fallen	Weapon Triangle Explained
How to Navigate Dark Maps	Terrains Explained
Other Guides/FAQs
Missable Items	Post Game Content
How to Unlock DLC	Lookout Ridge
Difficulty Level Differences	Maddening Difficulty Guide
Lost Items	Are There Dark Seals?
Fell Xenologue Unlock Guide	-