Weapon builds

[Mille]

What are the best gems to equip on weapons (and what the ones to skip)? Have any particular build to suggest?

And bonus question: is there any way to make mounted combat fun? Sometimes i try to fight on horse but is not so satisfying...

[bruticus0]

Try Katsuiie Shibata's mounted charge. And any great spear character's C2 is pretty op.

Fire Emblem Warriors on Switch has some good mounted combat.

Gems are separated by color. With yellows being most powerful. Attk, Attk Speed, Range, Mastery, Death for A and B level weapons.

When you get to S, you can build without Mastery and use another element. Momentum, Verity, Fury, and Courage are the others I use most commonly.

[bzcharkl]

The recommendation I saw for melee weapons was:

• Attack
  
• Range
  
• Attack Speed
  
• Fire
  
• Earth
  
• Fury
  
• Courage
  
• Death

Ranged weapons ideally want to swap out one of those for Projectile Attack, probably Earth.

It's not going to be 100% optimal in every situation, but if you have no better ideas it's a good place to start.

[Mille]

Ok thanks. Basically i've used the first three + courage and fury mostly. I never really tried the elemental ones.
Why is death so good?

[bzcharkl]

Despite what the game says, Death does actually proc on officers, it just takes a percentage of their health instead of killing them outright. I don't know the exact chance or numbers, but the difference between having it and not having it is very noticable.

It's also nice to have for the special troops that resist hyper attacks, although this is more of a bonus than the main reason to take it.

[Mille]

Oh that's make sense then. I was just thinking that was kinda useless if worked only on normal enemies. thanks for the explanation.

[SSJ6Andrew]

I would say

Attack
Attack Speed
Fire
Fury
Musou+
Underdog
Courage
Death

I believe this was my setup if I remember correctly for most weapons of course with ranged weapons you’ll want projectile attacks, Spears you want horse riding related skills and for twin blades you’ll want Range and Lightning instead though this is just my opinion