Leveling up Byleth and the students under their tutelage is incredibly important in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Cultivating their strengths and overcoming their weaknesses is key to conquering some of the more challenging battles in the game.
Because of this, knowing how to quickly level up your army can save you a lot of time and headaches. The advice here is everything from subtle tips to nudge experience gains to downright exploits built into the game to seriously churn out some levels for your fledgling warriors.
10 Focus On A Student’s Strengths
First off, you need to know what each student is good at. While it’s true anyone can become anything, it’s much more efficient and productive to focus on a student’s strengths and cultivate their natural talents, also known as proficiencies.
Each student comes with proficiencies that make them good at anything from swinging a sword to casting magic. If they’re training in what they’re proficient in they’ll level much faster than if they were learning something else. So before anything get to know your students and their proficiencies.
9 Build Towards An Advanced Or Master Class
You should ideally be working towards getting each student into an advanced class that caters to their proficiencies. Hilda, for example, has a proficiency with axes so she could focus on becoming a Warrior, Fortress Knight, or Wyvern Rider to take advantage of that natural talent.
This also helps you avoid wasting time leveling skills that won’t benefit your characters. Hilda isn’t very good at casting spells so leveling up her Faith or Reason would take a little longer and doesn’t cater to her ideal advanced class anyway. These tips also apply to their master classes.
8 Two Skills Always
As a professor at the Monastery, you have the ability to coach students on certain skills. The game gives you the option to focus on helping the student with two skills or to spend your time training up a single skill.
If you focus on a single skill it does increase at 150% the normal rate but is less efficient than training two skills at the normal rate. Unless you really need to raise one skill quickly because you’ve put it off or need it to unlock a higher class, it’s always better to train two skills.
7 Motivated Students Train Faster
Speaking of training, when you work with a student one-on-one or a group in the class it’s best to do so when the students are motivated to learn. Having motivated students allows you to train them more often at a more efficient rate.
This maximizes the time you have on days off and ensures they’re progressing at the fastest rate possible. Tea parties, choir practice, and dialogue-based interaction may or may not be your favorite part of this game, but they needs to be if you want your students to be motivated to learn faster.
6 Keep A Balanced House
As you’re motivating and leveling your students up it’s important to remember that you want to keep everybody’s levels at roughly the same level. It’s tempting to get tunnel vision on your favorite students, but no matter how strong they are they’re going to need fellow classmates to keep them alive in later parts of the game.
Make sure you’re spending equal time and attention with everyone to ensure that you can survive the battles ahead. It’ll have to happen now or later so you might as well do it now and save yourself the grief.
5 Repair Saint Statues
One way you can increase how much experience Byleth and the students gain in battle is to repair the Saint Statues found in the Cathedral on campus. These statues, when repaired, will provide experience boosts that benefit everyone. If done early this can passively speed up your efforts and save you a lot of time.
They do cost a fair amount of Renown to repair which can be a hassle early on. But getting this done as soon as possible will have a noticeable effect on your leveling efforts over the course of the game.
4 Battle On Your Days Off
After a certain point in the main quest you’ll earn the ability to do battles during your days off without having to spend any activity points to do it. These are designed to help you level up your characters for the main event.
You can grind these out over and over again to level up your characters before moving on to harder parts of the game. Every day off should have at least one battle available, and that is a great way to beef up your units or help your weaker students play catch up to the strong ones.
3 Plan For Each Kill
Whenever a character manages to deplete an enemy’s health bar to zero they’ll get a chunk of experience points for taking that life. If you’re looking to maximize your leveling efforts you want to make sure that a weak character or the character you’re working on deals that blow.
It takes a bit of positioning and strategy to do this consistently and effectively. Many players like to have one strong tank whittle an opponent down and take the hits while another character gets into position to finish them off and get the experience.
2 Heal For Experience
If you find your healers are struggling to keep up with your more offensive students then you can do a bit of grinding in battle to help them catch up. Healers will get experience any time they heal a student regardless of how many health points were actually recovered.
Some players like to toss a few tanky units into battle with weak weapons, let them receive some damage, and then have their healer patch them up over and over again until the enemy dies from the weak hits or you get bored. It takes a while, but this is a great way to level up your healers.
1 Boss Grinding
Another exploit you can use to level up your units is in boss battles. Each time one of your units lands an attack of any kind they receive experience for it. Many of the bosses in the game have deep pools of health and can regenerate it fully if left alone.
The idea is to have your units bring the boss to low health, back off to give the boss some space, wait for their health to regenerate, and then go back in to deal more punishment. As an added bonus you can have your healer gain experience by regenerating your units while you’re waiting for the boss to recover.
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