Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Nintendo Switch

There will definitely be students from other houses that you want on your team, and luckily you have the option to persuade almost any student to join your house. As long as one specific stat (like attack or speed) and skill (such as sword, authority, or horse riding) of Byleth is high enough, you can bring the student you want into your own house. (You can find the required skills and stats for each student at 1:13 in the video.)

What the game doesn't tell you is that your stats and skills can be lower when you have a support with the student from the other house. From a C-support level, you can convince them with much lower stats and skills, and from a B-support level, they will almost immediately come to your house, even if you don't have the necessary stats or skills!

You might be wondering how to get a support with students you don't even have. Well, you can ask other students to help you with the mission of the month; they will assist you throughout the month and also in battles you do on the weekends. During those battles, make sure the student stays close to Byleth. Ensure that they heal each other often or start battles while standing next to each other. This way, you'll quickly be able to bring any student you want into your house! Is it a bit too confusing for you? Then take a look at the video below!

 

Here are a few more things to keep in mind when trying to recruit students from other houses in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.

- Edelgard, Dimitri, and Claude will never change classes. Hubert from the Black Eagles and Dedue from the Blue Lions will also always remain loyal to their classes. So, you can only use them if you chose their own class from the start!

- If you're playing as female Byleth, Sylvain will automatically join you when you speak to him.

- You can start recruiting from chapter 2, and from chapter 12 (or chapter 11 if you chose Edelgard), it will become impossible to recruit new students.

- When exploring the Monastery, you can talk to other teachers or adults to engage in "faculty training." This will help increase Byleth's skills, making it easier to recruit your desired students. However, this does take up free time! Instead of exploring the Monastery, you can also choose to organise seminars.

Increasing Weapon Ranks and mastering Classes is incredibly important for characters to learn new abilities and combat arts in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Without farming for this, it may happen that a character does not reach S+ Rank in their Weapon type by the end of the game, or that they miss out on some useful bonuses obtained by mastering a particular Class. If the difficulty is set to Maddening, it is especially beneficial to farm as much and as quickly as possible.

A few preparations can make the process easier and/or faster:

- Spending Renown at the Saint Statues in the cathedral ensures that all your characters gain more Weapon or Class EXP per Combat scenario. Particularly the fourth bonus from the Statue of Cethleann is handy, as it doubles the Class EXP a character receives.

- For characters who need to farm a Weapon Rank, make sure you have a broken or Rusted Weapon of the respective Weapon Type. These have the lowest hit-rate (the importance of this will become clear later). This is not possible for characters who use magic; for them, farming is trickier. However, if a character only needs to farm their Class, this can be done with any Weapon type.

- One of your characters can obtain the Dancer Class by winning the White Heron Cup in Chapter 9. Dancers can allow another character to perform a second action in the same turn. This also speeds up the process for the character receiving the second action.

- There is also an Equipment item that gives a character more Weapon/Class EXP, the "Knowledge Gem." This is available twice: during the "Tales of The Red Canyon" Paralogue in a chest, and you also receive one if you protect all Crest Stones in the Chapter 11 mission.

You can farm in the following way:

1. On a free day: choose Battle.

2. Choose an Auxiliary Battle.

3. Before starting the battle, check if there is at least one enemy using white magic (indicated by an icon with a white book above the enemy). If not, retreat from the battle and start again.

4. Once step 3 is successful, check that the characters who need to farm have no adjutants, and for those who need to farm Weapon EXP, remove any abilities that give them more power/hit-rate when using the Weapon Type for which EXP needs to be farmed. Some Classes also provide certain bonuses that can hinder the farming process; switching Classes can therefore sometimes be useful if the character does not need to farm Class EXP.

5. Start the battle, focusing first on defeating all enemies except the one using white magic.

6. Now the goal is to exhaust the offensive white magic of the last enemy, the white magic user. This is easy because the attacks do not deal much damage. If the map has Forest tiles, it is handy to lure the enemy there. You do this by placing a character just within the attack range of the enemy, and then moving that character as deep into the forest as possible while remaining within the enemy's range (make sure all your other characters stay out of the enemy's reach).

7. Now the real farming can begin. The aim is to have your characters attack the enemy with the broken/Rusted Weapons; hopefully, the hit-rate is very low so that the attack misses. This ensures that the character gains Weapon EXP for the used Weapon and Class EXP while the enemy remains alive. This can now be repeated many times to gain a lot of EXP. Battles have a limit of 99 turns, so the battle must be concluded by turn 99.

8. One last note: if other characters are close to the farming character and they have support levels with them, this can also interfere with achieving the lowest possible hit-rate. It is therefore important to keep other characters as far away as possible. Finally, magic users can still farm a bit of Weapon EXP by healing other characters or performing another Assist action like "Warp."

There’s a glitch that allows you to replay a specific month infinitely in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. This comes with two requirements:

- The main mission of the month must not fall on the last day of that month (for example, in chapter 4, the month has 31 days, but the mission takes place on the 26th).

- Ensure that there are at least 2 weeks between the mission and the free moment when you want to execute the glitch.

Once you’re sure that both of these conditions are met, select the day of the mission on the calendar and place the cursor on "skip to date." Before you choose this option, hold down the right button on the D-pad and then select the option. You may need to try this multiple times, but the desired outcome is that the calendar cursor is now on the day after the mission. If this is the case, also check if the "events" list on the left side of the screen has disappeared. If it hasn’t, the glitch may not work. The video below explains all of this again with gameplay, which might clarify things further: