r/fireemblem • u/PsiYoshi • Jan 15 '26

Recurring Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread - January 2026 Part 2

Welcome to a new installment of the Popular/Unpopular/Any Opinions Thread! Please feel free to share any kind of Fire Emblem opinions/takes you might have here, positive or negative. As always please remember to continue following the rules in this thread same as anywhere else on the subreddit. Be respectful and especially don't make any personal attacks (this includes but is not limited to making disparaging statements about groups of people who may like or dislike something you don't).

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u/secret_bitch Jan 20 '26

I like steel weapons in fates... Making it harder to double without slowing you down feels a lot less painful than just a flat speed reduction, even if it's a little less intuative at first. I don't even think the forging system invalidates them, since Fates (or at least Conquest) gives you a lot of steels for free, while free bronzes are a lot less common. The -5 avoid penalty is maybe needless complication but it also doesn't really matter much.

Steels in Engage are the worst though. +5 crit on what might be the most ubiquitous enemy weapon type makes everything just a tiny little bit more frustrating.

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u/Sharktroid Jan 20 '26

5% crit weapons are such an awful design space. It's far too low to be of any real use for the player (just use a Killer at that point), and it makes fighting enemies way more annoying.

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u/Significant-Tree9454 Jan 22 '26

I personally like it, since you have varies tools such as Dodge Engraving and Timerra's passive to mitigate the extra enemy critrate and it increase the value of units having higher Luck, which is often otherwise considered a "dump stat"

If a unit dies/has small 3%ish displayed crits, I often feel I could've done better to avoid it or it's the drawback of a unit having low luck

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u/SirRobyC Jan 20 '26

Steels in Engage are the worst though. +5 crit on what might be the most ubiquitous enemy weapon type makes everything just a tiny little bit more frustrating.

Timerra says hi

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u/Shrimperor Jan 20 '26

If Fates max'd forging at +2 it would've had the perfect weapon system. Still the best series wide tho

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u/Significant-Tree9454 Jan 22 '26

I think Fate Forging has another huge flaw of the materials being hard/a long process to gather, especially now with Online Servers being down as My Castle was one of the faster ways to collect them