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Fire Emblem: Engage’s final wave of DLC introduces a whole new alternate reality in a six-chapter adventure called the Fell Xenologue. Introducing five new characters you may recruit as a reward for finishing and two new classes — the Mage Cannoneer and Enchanter — it’s an interesting challenge for the dedicated Engage player.
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Unlike its predecessor, Cindered Shadows in Three Houses, this challenge will be locked to each independent save. Getting the boons of this challenging endeavor will require you to challenge it anew with each playthrough, meaning you’ll have plenty of opportunities to get familiar with its unique attributes and these walkthroughs.
How To Unlock The Fell Xenologue
To unlock the Fell Xenologue, provided you have purchased the DLC expansion pass, you’ll need to haveopened the Ancient Wellandcompleted Chapter Six.
From here, there aresix chapters to challenge, and you maycomplete them all at any time.
If you complete all six chapters and unlock the new characters at the end, they willjoin your team at their max-level Advanced classversion. This will mean two things:
1. You will suddenly havefive overpowered unitsat a low-level chapter.
- All your Divine Paralogues, which are scaled to the level of your units, willsuddenly become near-impossible.
The recommended time to finish the sixth chapter of the Fell Xenologue isaround Chapter 15-17.
The Fell Xenologue has thenormal three difficulty levels, (Normal, Hard, and Maddening) but these can bechanged independentof your main save’s difficulty.
It has been noted by many players that Normal is too easy, Hard is too hard, and Maddening is almost impossible. Keep this in mind when determining the difficulty you would like to play at.
Rules Of The Xenologue
The rules of the fourth wave of DLC are a challenging departure from what has been established in the main game.
The most important change to take away from all of it is: yourarmy in your main save file will be almost entirely separatefrom the Fell Xenologue.
Items And Rings
If you challenge the Fell Xenologue after losing the rings in Chapter 10 and 11, they will not appear in your inventory. You must retake them for them to be usable again in the Fell Xenologue.
Guest Deployments
Although your units cannot die in the main story campaign, this protectiondoes not apply to the Skirmishesin the Fell Xenologue. Losing a unit on Classic Mode within the Fell Xenologue will result in permadeath.
Choose Your Fighter(s) - Preparing For Battle
For the first map, you’ll be forced to take Alear, Nel, and Nil. Any of these characters being defeated will end in ‘Game Over,’ soprotecting them(especially Nil) will benecessary for success.
Unfortunately, Nel is a barely passable unit, and Nil is practically worthless. Keeping both alive will account for most of your difficulty in this map.
Nil begins with a Restore staff, and he’ll prompt you to use it. However, for some reason, he is actuallyincapable of using the staffhe is equipped with. The only way to use the Restore staff on his person is totrade itduring a battle turn to another unit orpair Nil with Micaiah.
If you are pairing Nil with Micaiah, make certain touse another unit to trade over a Mend staff onto Nil.
If you are not pairing Nil with Micaiah,Tiki is also a good option. The third and most lackluster option is topair Nil with Celica.
Nel should be given a Spear, but you’ll need to put it in the empty inventory slot of another character to eventually trade it over. She makes good pairings with:
Your remaining units should includeone tanking unit(either Jade or Louis)paired with Sigurdand onemage/staff unit paired with Veronica(one with at least a Bond Level of 10 to reach Fortify+).
Veyle is the best pairing with Veronica, but if you have yet to recruit Veyle, any solid mage unit — like Citrinne or Hortensia — will do.
It is highly recommended toInherit the Pair Up skill(Corrin) to your tank unit. The Corrupted Wolves are able to Chain Attack, and there are several of them. Getting ganged up on in this map will be lethal due to the wolves' ability.
Last but not least, make sure totrade a Levin Sword from Celine onto Alear.
Levels are setaround Base Class 15
5 - Two “guests,” Alear, Nil, and Nel
Defeat:Alear, Nel, or Nil is defeated
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Top Recommended Units
Any solid staff unit with Veronica, Louis or Jade.
The main gimmick of this map is the ability of the Corrupted Wolves tolower the max HPof anyone they come into contact with by five HP.Even if they deal zero damage,the effect will still take hold, and it stacks to -20.
to get rid of this effect, there are three options:
Themost useful of these options is certainly Veronica’s Fortify+ staff, allowing you to both clear the status effect and heal. This can be performed up to three times while Engaged and four if your unit has a Bond Level of 11 with Veronica.
Veronica is additionally valuable here forproviding another unit for your team. If the opportunity presents itself,summoning while Engaged will offer a huge bonusfor your efforts.
With this knowledge in hand, the winning strategy of this map will be totread slowly and carefully southwarddown the center of the map. Your tanking unit can wander a little west, but keeping your units circled in the center will allow for better set up in the late half of the map.
Your goal is tomake it to the central area surrounded by rocks.You’ll use this area to set up your tank as a shield wall to shoot magic and projectiles over.
Take out the wolves directly in front of you, trading items over to optimize the turn. Use Canter to move your tank unit slightly to the right to draw out the wolf on the far northeast side of the map.
After all the wolves at the start are dealt with,begin heading to the central area, taking out any wolves that may stand in your way. Keep Nel and Nil towards the back of your formation.
Place your tank unit on the eastern sideof the central area, blocking the entrance inward. There is a sniper unit, but you can place Nel with a spear or your mage unit on the side to deal with them.
Youdo not need to waste Restores and Fortify+ on the tankunit so long as they have Pair Up.
You canignore dealing with the stacking bonus until the ??? and Tiki or a mage unit appearsto threaten them.
Once most or all the wolves and the sniper on the eastern side have been defeated, wolves will likely begin moving on thesouthwest side.Move your tank unit in the openingto block them once more.
You canplace another ranged unit on the northern side of this blockadeto catch the wolves as they funnel through.
Around this time, the Wolf Knight paired with Tiki will use Divine Blessing on a Corrupted Wolf, and another Corrupted Wolf and Mage will spawn in the southwest corner of the map within the same or the following round.
Continue through the line of wolves, using your supporting ranged unit to help your tankmove at least one square down to bait ??? and Tiki forward.
You may encounterwolves that circle aroundthe blockade to the west side of the central area.Block them with Alear.
If you haven’t already, use your supporting unit tounstack the debuffs on your tank unitbefore ??? and Tiki reach you.
Once ??? and Tiki come knocking on your doorstep, you cango all out with Engage attacks. The map will end once these two are defeated, so you canignore all the other wolvesso long as you’re certain you’re able to end the battle in the same turn as your offensive.
??? and Tiki are thankfully very straightforward. They have no glaring concerns other than their high stats (especially their speed) and high avoid.
With both defeated, the map will end, and you’ll be able to move on to the next chapter.
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