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Fire Emblem: Engage’s intense combat and tactical strategy require funding and resources, to ensure that your army remains functional and capable against any force matched against it. Unfortunately, like many of its predecessors, Engage’s resources require a bit of elbow grease and no small amount of dedicated time.
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Between Bond Fragments for your Bond Rings and Engravings, SP for inheriting skills, and Gold for just about everything else, you’ll have your hands full trying to juggle the necessary components to a successful army. And no, Engage doesn’t make it simple, but at least each of these resources can be earned in multiple ways.
Gold Farming
The most important resource in Engage is also one of the hardest to acquire. By far, it requiresthe most grinding and the most amount of time to accumulate, to balance the number of items you’ll be purchasing throughout your gameplay. Themost important thingsyou’ll be using Gold for include:
Additionally, you can purchase items from the armory. However, this is generally unnecessary withall the free itemsyou’ll be acquiring throughout standard gameplay, and theability to juggle items between charactersas your roster grows.
It is generallynot recommended to invest in Donationspast each country’ssecond level, as their returns are not worth the amount invested.
Altogether, you may end up spending90,000 gold per country. That being said, there areniche instances where investing in Donations might be worth it— especially in lower-difficulty gameplay where skirmishes are frequently available.
There are anumber of ways to farm for gold, but keep in mind that the difficulty in farming increases with the difficulty setting of the game (e.g.,skirmishes are not readily available in Maddening):
Anna Makes A Killing
Anna’s special ability “Make A Killing” is a luck-triggered skill that makes it possible to earn500 goldif Anna fells an opponent in combat she initiated. Using Anna to farm gold in skirmishes is by and large themost lucrative strategy.Although a lackluster unit when it comes to combat (at least in comparison to other available units), her skill makes hera necessary addition to any back-rosterwhen farming experience and gold.
In order to make the most out of Anna, you’ll need to have completed her paralogue andstarted investingin herbefore Chapter Ten. Due to Anna’s stat growths and the possible class growths she’ll also enjoy, Anna performs best as amage unit(particularly, a High Priest). Therefore, increasing Anna’s bond with Celica or Micaiah fortome proficiency, Micaiah or Leif forstaff proficiency, and Leif forbrawling proficiencyis necessary.
It isimpossibleto give Anna the proficiencies she needs in order to change her classfrom Chapter Ten until completing Chapter 19(at the earliest). If you started investing in Anna after Chapter Ten, you’ll need to make do with Anna’s base stat growths,hope the RNG gods are kind, and strategize maps to let other units do tic damage before sending Anna in for a kill.
Grow Anna until you’re able torecruit Bylethby completing Chapter 14, and you’ll be able to pair Anna with him for all of his Luck boons. You’ll be able toinherit his luck skillsas well asequip himto Anna as anEmblem Ringcompanion for additional Luck bonuses and, later,equip Eirikafor her Ring’s passive +10 Luck bonus.
If you also have theEngage DLC, you’ll be able torecruit Tikias well. Her stat bonuses for Luck alsostack with Byleth, allowing you to theoretically reach as high as 71 with Anna’s Luck for the maximum potential gold drop (though, it appears Anna’s max luck with stacked skills is capped at 59).
Stat increasing itemscan also be a massive benefit to Anna, and further increase your odds of triggering her unique skill:
Leif’s Quadruple Cash
If Leif is paired with aCovert unit,your unit’s luck stat may trigger the possibility of gaining anadditional 1,000 goldafter using theEngage attack: Quadruple Hit.
This particular strategy is not nearly as useful as Anna’s skill, nor as dependable, due to the simple fact thatthis strategy can usually only be implemented once or twice in a map. That being said, it can certainly come in useful and should not be disregarded if you’re strapped for cash.Pairing it with Anna’s farming strategyallows for an even greater haul from most maps.
Units that count as Covert include:
With class growths in mind, thebestLuck-based Covert unitsappear to beEtie and Yunaka.
Skirmish Grinding
When it comes to farming, regardless of whether you’re using either or both of the previously aforementioned strategies, you’ll mostly be making use ofskirmishes.Available in the World Map randomly after completing the sixth chapter, you’ll be able to receivegold, materials, and Bond Fragmentsfrom these maps (as well asEXP and SPfrom the enemies you defeat).
These skirmishes arerandomly generated, and some may have unique enemies likeSilver and Gold Corruptedwhichincrease the rewardsyou receive from a map. As such, you shouldprioritize maps with these enemies.
You’ll be able to check if a map has a Silver or Gold Corrupted byfirst checking the bottom left of the World Mapand then byselecting the Skirmish map area and checking the right window.
To increase the chances of Silver and Gold Corrupted spawns, you’ll need toinvest in Donationsto each area.
If you’re farming for gold, you can certainly invest in Donations, but it’s more cost-efficient toinvest in one or two levels in each countryand, if there are no spawns,move your Nintendo Switch’s internal clock ahead one dayand thenreturn to the World Mapafter entering a loading screen. This will refresh the map entirely, giving you yet another chance to find more skirmishes.
Farming For Bond Fragments
Bond Fragments generally have onlythree main uses:
If you’re using theBond Ring exploit, building bonds in the Arena is your main spending point since Engraving is generally very cheap. Overall, itshouldn’t be necessaryto go out of your wayto farm Bond Fragmentsdue to their excess presence in the game.
So long as youcontinue normal gameplay,you shouldn’t struggle too much with collecting them. However, should you find yourself in a position where you’re a few short, there aretwo main umbrella strategiesyou can use to farm them:
Bond Fragments In The Somniel
The easiest method to acquire Bond Fragments is to periodically check the"Donations" boardwhere you canselect Achievementsandclaim Bond Fragmentsfor completing the quests/achievements within the game. Provided you do this at least once every chapter,you’ll earn 1,000-plus Bond Fragmentssimply by interacting with this board.
There are alsomini-game activitiesto complete in the Somniel that, in general, earn50-200 Bond Fragments each:
Additionally, you can also sometimes findBond Fragments as an itemyou canpick upon the ground. They tend to spawn often in theGrotto near Sommie’s altarat 50 a piece.
You can also receive Bond Fragments as a reward fromleveling up the Donationsto a country, but for 1,000 Bond Fragments in exchange for multiple thousands of gold — the much rarer commodity, it isnot recommendedto use Donations as a way to gain Bond Fragments.
Bond Fragments As Battle Rewards
Completing battlesis also an easy way to gain Bond Fragments. You gain them as a static reward when you depart back to the World Map or the Somniel, but you should also make certain tospeak with each characterstanding in the post-battle field. Mostunits you deployed in battletypically net50 Bond Fragmentswith theMVPand possibly one other unit giving100 Bond Fragments.
Units you haven’t deployedafter several maps may ask to rejoin your roster and give youten Bond Fragments. You do not have to accept their request and can take the free ten Bond Fragments anyway. Sorry, Boucheron…
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SP Farming
SP farmingcan jointly be called"EXP farming"as the amount of experience you gain is directly correlated to the amount of EXP you earn, but it comes with the caveat that thetype of Emblem Ring your unit is holdingcan affect the ratio. In order to gain SP, you must have equipped
As such, it is a good rule of thumb toalways have one type of ring equippedon all of your deployed units at all times. Deploying a unit without a ring would mean missing out on an entire map’s worth of SP.
Defeating unitsmay increase the number of SP/EXP you earn, and for time’s sake, it can certainly seem like a good strategy. However, you can also earn EXPeven if you don’t kill or deal damage to an enemy.As such, you can use this to your advantage in modes (e.g., Maddening) where it isn’t possible or feasible to grind skirmishes for SP.
The “Chokehold Exploit”
For Maddening players, it’s recommended toplay as dirty as the system plays you. Every exploit and weakness in the system you can leverage is fair play —and smart play. To grind EXP/SP in a mode where you can’t rely on battles outside of story mode and paralogues, you’ll need the following:
Once you have these four requirements checked, you’ll need to do a bit of baiting anddraw the high Defense or Resistance enemy into the choke position. Yourunit that you are farming withshould be the unitdirectly in front of the enemy, blocking the passage.
YourQi-Adeptunit should be directlybehind or adjacent to your “farming unit"anduse Chain Guard. Your healing unit needs to be adjacent to the Qi Adept to use “Heal” staves (you may use Mend or Physic, but such staves are a bit too costly in Maddening to throw around).
You shouldremove any ranged enemy units like mages, thieves, and archersfrom the equation before trying to use this method. Otherwise, your Chain Guard might be broken, and your “farming unit” will no longer have a defense,leaving them exposedand two units in need of healing.
Continue to hit the enemy unit until you eitherrun out of patienceor youfarm the SP you need.
