While theFire Emblemfranchise is often characterized by its large and memorable cast of characters, these characters are often made notable due to the equipment they wield. InFire Emblem, inaccessibility to useful equipment can break unit, while the ability to wield integral weaponry can make a character worthwhile.
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Wether it be a highly effective offensive tool or a source of excellent utility, there are many highly impactful pieces of equipment withinFire Emblem. So today, we’re going to examine the strongest and most notable equipment fromFire Emblem’s history that no player would want to pass up.
10Javelins
Though javelins may appear to be a run of the mill weapon type that appear within the majority of games in the series, they are perhaps the most integral weapon type that players can easily obtain. A lance with a low weapon rank requirement to wield, while javelins tend to have slightly below average hit rates (though they range from game to game), javelins can be thrown from afar. This allows units such as cavaliers to fight from a distance, reducing their risk of receiving damage in higher difficulties of variousFire Emblemgames.
9The Delphi Shield
Though the Delphi Shield is not an offensive piece of equipment, it provides an excellent benefit that can improve classes that are already superb.
Across the series, flying classes such asPegasus Knights and Wyvern Ridersare often viewed as some of the strongest classes in the game due to their unparalleled mobility. However, this stellar mobility has always come at the expense of a glaring weakness to bows.
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The Delphi Shield is a passive piece of equipment that as long as it’s in a flier’s inventory, negates their weakness to bows, making a given flier all the more useful.
8Amiti
“Brave weapons” inFire Emblemare weapons that a guaranteed to allow their wielder to attack multiple times. If a brave weapon’s wielder would attack a single time, they attack twice, and if they would already attack twice, they attack a staggering four times.
Elincia’s personal weapon inPath of RadianceandRadiant Dawn, Amiti is a sword with the same multi-hit properties of a traditional brave weapon. However, Amiti comes with notable benefits, possessing an infinite amount of uses that prevent it from breaking, and a passive buff that provides its wielder with +3 defense and +3 resistance.
7Physic
While the Mend staff is often player’s go to for a recovery option inFire Emblem, few staves are as reliable and flexible as Physic.
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While Physic doesn’t restore as much health as the aforementioned Mend Staff, it has the added benefit of long range, being able to heal allies from afar. While the range of the Physic staff has varied from game to game, going as far as to heal any ally on a map in games such asShadow Dragon, the staff allows units in the front line to be healed without putting one’s healer in harms way.
6Wing Spear
Appearing inFire Emblem: Shadow DragonandFire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem, the Wing Spear is the personal weapon of the Pegasus Knight, Caeda.
While highly mobile Pegasus Knights are often hindered by low strength stats, the Wing Spear is effective against both calvary and armored foes, allowing Caeda to easily fell many foes. While many personal weapons in the series tend to have limited usefulness due to their finite amount of uses, players are capable of obtaining numerous Wing Spears, allowing them to continuously dominate opponents over the course ofShadow Dragon.
5Sublime Sword of The Creator
One of the primary weaknesses of units that primarily use swords inFire Emblemis their inability to reliably attack foes from two-range with weapons like the previously mentioned javelin.
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Luckily, the player’s avatar character inFire Emblem: Three Houses, Byleth has access to a personal weapon that patches up this weakness. A potent sword with high damage output, the Sublime Sword of the Creator can attack foes from afar. Additionally, this sword also gives Byleth access to the Ruptured Heaven combat art, that allows Byleth to spend additional uses of the weapon in order to dish out additional damage when in a pinch. This can be especially helpful when trying to play safely in the game’s “Maddening Mode.”
4The Chalice of Beginnings
A piece of equipment that was added toFire Emblem: Three Housesin it’sCindered ShadowsDLC, the Chalice of Beginnings is an incredibly helpful defensive piece of equipment.
First and foremost, a unit equipped with the Chalice negates all effective damage in a manner reminiscent of the previously mentioned Delphi Shield, yet significantly more flexible. Additionally, The Chalice of Beginnings provides the equipped unit with the Counterattack ability, allowing them to retaliate against any attack regardless of the attack’s range.
3Ragnell
The personal weapon of Ike inPath of RadianceandRadiant Dawn, Ragnell is perhaps the most powerful personal weapon in the entirety ofFire Emblem.A sword with infinite uses and excellent stats, Ragnell is capable of attacking foes from two spaces away. As if this weren’t enough, Ragnell also bestows its wielder with an additional +5 to their defense.
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As soon as a player obtains Ragnell, it completely invalidates the use of any non-forged weapon, and is the most optimal offensive equipment a sword wielder could ask for.
2Thyrsus
The relic weapon associated with Lorenz’s Crest of Gloucester inFire Emblem: Three Houses, Thyrsus is by and large the most flexible and consistently useful relic weapon in its respective game.
While not a traditional offensive weapon, as long as Thyrsus is equipped to a unit, that unit receives +2 to the range of all offensive magic. This buff allows mages to out-ranges even archers, as they cast their spells safely from four spaces away. While this ability is phenomenal in its own right, Thyrsus comes with the additional benefit of occasionally halving incoming damage to its wielder.
1The Warp Staff
The Warp Staff is easily the most effective piece of equipment in theFire Emblemseries, ranging from excellent to flat out broken depending on which game it appears in.
A staff that usually requires a high ranking in Staves to wield, the Warp Staff can teleport another unit to a different space on the map. While in more recent entries in the series, the range in which Warp can move a unit is dictated by the stave’s wielder’s magic stat, in the first five games in the series, the Warp Staff can move an ally to virtually any space on the map, allowing for numerous forms of degenerate and game-braking strategies.
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