This is a guide for returning players for Fire Emblem Heroes (FEH). To know what a returning player should do, including new features or new units added recently, read on!
List of Contents
- Guide for Returning Players
- Quick Reference Table for Returning Players
- Check the Currently Strong Units
- Check Which Banners Are Up
- Obtain Powerful Free Units
- Forge Sacred Seals and Refine Weapons
- Learn How to Use New Skill Through Tactics Drills
- Summary of New Features for Returning Players
- Free Unit Summon After 40 Pulls
- It's Now Possible to Change IVs
- New Game Mode: Resonant Battles and Harmonized Heroes
- My Summoner
- Obtaining Combat Manuals Through Divine Codes
- Auto-Dispatch Added to Aether Raids
- Feh Pass (Subscription-Based)
- The Message Boards Are Open If You Have Questions!
- New Units Guide for Returning Players
- New Units in 2021
- New Units in 2020
- Related Links
Guide for Returning Players
Quick Reference Table for Returning Players
- Check the currently strong units
- Check which banners are up
- Obtain units from the Heroes' Path
- Forge Sacred Seals and Refine weapons
- Learn about new skills and maps
Fire Emblem Heroes is a game that you can play at your own pace, so there are a lot of things to do if you're a returning player.
Whether you're the type who wants to challenge difficult maps or aim for the higher tiers in Arena and Aether Raids or the type who just wants to check back now and then and see what's changed, you should definitely do the things above.
When you're done with the above, you can catch up with the current story, try clearing Grand Hero Battles, or whatever game mode is being features in the Events tab.
Check the Currently Strong Units
Some units right now are insanely strong like Brave Edelgard and Brave Hector, partly due to the weapon refinery.
By knowing which units are meta right now, you know what to expect when you go into game modes like Arena and Aether Raids or know which ones to add to your own barracks.
Check the Tier List
Check Which Banners Are Up
If you're a returning player, you can get a lot of Orbs by clearing any story quests you haven't done yet.
Knowing which banners are active in conjuction to checking the tier list will allow you to see which to spend your orbs on and which units to aim for!
Check Current Summoning Banners
Obtain Powerful Free Units
Obtain Through the Main Story | |||
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Reginn Book V, Chapter 1 | Fjorm Book II, Chapter 1 | Peony Book IV, Chapter 1 | Eir Book III, Chapter 1 |
Obtain Through Xenologue | |||
Legendary Ike Xenologue 3 | |||
Obtain Through Heroes' Path | |||
Red Tome Eirika Rank 10 | Reinhardt Rank 1 | Ninian Rank 5 | Brave Ike Rank 15 |
Obtain Through Heroic Grails | |||
Aversa | Petrine | Young Minerva | Kronya |
Obtain Brave Echoes Banner (Only 1 Can Be Chosen) | |||
Brave Alm | Brave Eliwood | Brave Micaiah | Brave Camilla |
Obtain Through A New Future Banner (Only 1 Can Be Chosen) | |||
Brave Lysithea | Brave Dimitri | Brave Edelgard | Brave Claude |
These units are available to you when you come back to the game. You can access the Heroes' Path on the upper left of the main menu screen, below the castle upgrade icon.
It could take some time to get to rank 15, but getting Legendary Ike is worth it!
You can take your time in choosing which free unit to get from the banners that are currently active, though the recommended units are Brave Camilla and Brave Edelgard.
Forge Sacred Seals and Refine Weapons
Various Sacred Seals have been given to players that they can forge, though keep in mind that you will need Sacred Coins in order to forge and upgrade them.
Units have also been made stronger through additional effects on their weapons through the Weapon Refine feature.
Using both these features will make your own units stronger and make clearing various maps easier.
New weapon refines come out every month for existing units, so watch out if your favorite unit receives one!
List of Sacred Seals
Learn How to Use New Skill Through Tactics Drills
The Skill Studies section in the Tactics Drills will allow you to control newer units that have been released and learn how to use them and their skills.
Clearing these maps will award you with Hero Feathers or Orbs.
Skill Studies Guide
Summary of New Features for Returning Players
Free Unit Summon After 40 Pulls
Limited to new banners only, you can now obtain a free 5★ unit from the banenr after pulling 40 times.
This counts the free pull you have at the beginning as well as the tickets obtained from Forging Bonds.
It's Now Possible to Change IVs
A new item called a Trait Fruit is now available and will give you the ability to change any unit's IVs.
You will need 100 Trait Fruits to change IVs, so only save them for your favorite units!
You can obtain Trait Fruits through quests and other game modes.
Trait Fruit Guide
New Game Mode: Resonant Battles and Harmonized Heroes
A new game mode is available in the coliseum called Resonant Battles, where you try to chase and defeat thieves before they can leave the map.
New Hero units called Harmonized Heroes have also been added that function similarly to Duo units, except they are two units from different Fire Emblem titles rather than being from the same game.
Harmonized units also come with a special skill that can only be used once per battle.
List of Harmonized and Duo Units
My Summoner
Just like in other Fire Emblem games, you as the player can now participate in battle through the My Summoner feature!
Through this system you can change your appearance, copy skills from your own units to build yourself, and also fight on the battlefield in Mjolnir's Strike!
My Summoner Guide
Obtaining Combat Manuals Through Divine Codes
An item called Divine Codes can be collected and used to trade in for combat manuals of a unit.
These combat manuals can be used for fodder or merging your units.
Keep in mind that these combat manuals cannot be built like any units obtained from Heroic Grails. You can obtain Divine Codes from Mjolnir's Strike, quests, and other game modes.
Divine Codes - Compile Manuals Guide
Auto-Dispatch Added to Aether Raids
A feature in Aether Raids called random dispatch has been added. This allows you to do your Aether Raids battles automatically and can be used up to 3 times per season.
If you don't have a lot of time on your hands, you can utilize auto-dispatch and earn the rewards for playing.
Feh Pass (Subscription-Based)
A subscription-based system called Feh Pass is also available for $9.49 per month.
In addition to getting Resplendent Heroes, you can also make use of additional features like the autobattler, which will loop a map over and over for you.
This makes it easy to farm for SP or Hero Feathers. If you're interested in these features, getting the Feh Pass may be worth looking into!
Feh Pass Guide
The Message Boards Are Open If You Have Questions!
If you have any questions about the game or how to build your units, you can post in our Message Boards!
Other Summoners are there to help you out or add you as their friend so you can go check them out.
Game8 FEH Message Boards
New Units Guide for Returning Players
New Units in 2021
Units from Genealogy of the Holy War
Annand | Azelle | Erinys | Díthorba |
Lex |
Units from Thracia 776
Miranda | Veld | Ronan | Asbel |
Sara |
Units from Three Houses
Plegian Dorothea | Ingrid | Marianne | Seiros |
Dedue | Linhardt | Plegian Raphael |
New Units in 2020
Units from Shadow Dragon/Mystery of the Emblem/New Mystery of the Emblem
Kris (M) | Kris (F) | Darros | Xane |
Julian | Lena | Eremiya |
Units from Echoes
Valentine's Rudolf | Mila |
Units from Generalogy of the Holy War
Shannan | Larcei | Brigid | Travant |
Altena | Ced |
Units from the Binding Blade
Melady | Guinivere | Galle | Geese |
Dieck |
Units from the Blazing Blade
Nils | Fiora | Heath | Rath |
Leila | Bramimond |
Units from Sacred Stones
Knoll | Duessel | Selena | Caellach |
Natasha |
Units from Path of Radiance / Radiant Dawn
Dheginsea | Ena | Ninja Zihark | Ashnard |
Jorge | Gatrie | Petrine | Ilyana |
Haar | Jill | Winter Sephiran | Summer Rhys |
Shinon |
Units from Awakening
Say'ri | Apotheosis Anna | Mustafa | Emmeryn |
Gangrel |
Units from Fates
Midori | Iago | Lilith | Rinkah |
Forrest |
Units from Three Houses
Lysithea | Catherine | Nemesis | Winter Felix |
Ferdinand | Summer Ingrid | Seteth | Annette |
Flame Emperor | Summer Sylvain | Shamir | Bernadetta |
Summer Dorothea | Flayn |
Units from Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE
Kiria | Itsuki | Tsubasa | Mamori |
Eleonora |
Fire Emblem Heroes - Related Guides
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