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The Tower of Trials inFire Emblem Engagefeatures several game modes to choose from, they are called Tempest, Relay, and Outrealm Trials, and these will test your battle skills to varying degrees. If you’ve played the mobile game Fire Emblem Heroes, you’ll immediately recognise Tempest Trials.
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The similarities don’t stop there, either, as this mode in Engage also features multi-map battles. The latter two are online-only modes and require a Nintendo Online subscription to play.
Tempest Trials Overview And Rewards
The Tempest Trials game mode lets youchoose one ofsix map terrains and then fight through three consecutive battleson your specified map.
Each stage of each map will be visually different, with more enemies and obstacles.The Tempest Trials will be your main way to farm and gather exclusive itemsyou’ll need for Augmenting your Emblem Weapons.
All the items and staves you used in Tempest Trials will be refunded when you return to the Somniel.
That means you don’t have to worry about burning through your healing and offensive staves or any of your Elixirs or Vulneraries.
You will unlock the Tower of Trials as early as Chapter Six in the main story, letting you challenge the first three map types. All told,there are six maps to choose from, and each has three stages to it.
The final map becomes available when you complete the game. The maps are as follows:
There are several Crystalsyou can get as a reward from each map.The difficulty you choose will dictate how many Crystals you’ll get from clearing the three stages.
You will also get a set number of experience points per stage you complete, but this depends on the difficulty. However, the amount of experience gained is negligible for how much time and effort each map takes.
Even if you’re playing on Classic mode with perma-death enabled, thiswill not matterin any Tower of Trials modes.
If your units die, they will be alive when you finish the map and return to Somniel, so feel free to use some as sacrificial bait.
Tempest Trials have an adjustable difficultythat you’re able to set to whatever you like. The maximum difficulty you can increase it to is 40. When you complete the game,you will unlock levels 41 to 50 difficulty.
Tempest Trial Rewards
Every three battles you clear on a map will reward you with Augment Crystals. If you lose all your units during a map and have no more Time Crystal charges left,the map will end, and you will get nothing.
The harder you set it, the more Crystals you’ll get as a reward, but the difficulty curve is steep.
For reference, when we cleared the Verdant Plain Tempest Trial on difficulty ten,we were rewarded with one Avo, Mt, Res, and Spd Crystal each.
If you want to spend any time in the game investing in powering up your Emblem weapons, then you’llneed these stat-boosting Crystals.There are nine in total, and you have a random chance to get any of them from any map:
The Augment Crystals will add differing stat-increasing points depending on the weapon.
Putting an Mt Crystal in Marth’s Rapier will add four attack points, while the same Crystals in Marth’s Falchion will increase its damage by two.
Post-Game Tempest Trials
After clearing the final boss of the game,you can challenge the higher-difficulty Tempest Trialsand they will now offer new rewards.
Whereas you could only get stat Crystals for Augmenting your Emblem weapons, you cannow earn Bane Books, which add effectiveness to Emblem weaponsagainst certain unit types.
When you complete the game, you will get ten of every Crystal, three Armour Bane Books, and three of each tier of SP-granting books.
When you complete a Tempest Trial at level 41 or above, you will have a chance to get a Bane Book. This drop chance is tiny, and the rate doesn’t increase substantially with the difficulty. There are five Bane Books in total:
The Vicious Volcano map will have a chance to drop every oneof these Bane Books if you clear it at level 41 or more, but, as mentioned, the drop rate is incredibly low.
Relay Trial Overview And Rewards
The next mode available in Fire Emblem Engage’s Tower of Trials is the Relay Trial. This isostensibly a co-op mode for Fire Emblem,but it doesn’t work the way you’d want it to.
As the name suggests,the relay aspect means you pass your batonon to another person or one of your friends after a certain number of turns.
There is a limit on how many turns you have in Relay Trials, and once you’ve used them up, the map will end for you.
Afterwards, it will be sent out into the internet for someone else to pick up and carry on. You can keep an eye on the progress of any Relay Trial you start in the Tower of Trials menu.
When someone picks it up and gets to the end,you will all receive a reward for your efforts.
Like with Tempest Trials, you will be rewarded with Crystals for your Emblem weapons. You get a much better spread,with each map offering four different Crystals,and you can obtain several of them for completing one Relay Trial.
This is the only other way to earn Crystals, but it’snot advisable because of the online-only nature of this mode.It could also take anywhere between one day to several weeks for one of your Relay Trials to be picked up and completed.
How To Get Relay Tickets
To take part or begin a Relay Trial, you will need tospend one Relay Ticket.This is also true for joining a Relay Trial that is already in progress.
These special tickets can only be obtained two ways, either by scanning Amiibo figures or being gifted one every day. Relay Tickets can only be earned in-game, and they effectively are considered a daily reward for booting up the game.
Every 24 hours, you’re able to get one Relay Ticketwhen you load your save.
The ticket will be delivered to your inventory when you visit the Somniel and you may only get this ticket one time per day. Alternatively, re-scanning any Fire Emblem Amiibo will have a chance to give another Relay Ticket.
Outrealm Trial Overview And Reward
The Outrealm Trial lets youcreate custom maps to upload for others to challenge online. You can also battle on other maps people have made to test your skills.
If you fight on someone else’s custom map, you will not directly be playing against another player, as their characters will be AI-controlled.
This mode is meant as an entertaining and creative offshoot, letting you craft an arena and see what other people in the community have come up with.
You don’t get any significant rewardsfor completing an Outrealm map, with the only rewards being various Gifts or produce.
Creating Custom Maps
Go into the Outrealm Trial menu and choose the create map option.When making your map, you can place several tiles,structures, objects, and more to come up with a creative battleground to have people challenge.
There is a limit on how many things you can place, but you have a large flat area to play around with.
When you create your map, bear in mind thatthe units deployed will be the ones in charge of defendingwhen someone else challenges your map.
This means when you attack someone else’s map,your defenders won’t be availablein the Unit Selection.
You can only upload one map per Nintendo Account.
That means if you create a new one, you will have to replace the previous one you made with it, losing the old one forever.
When you’ve made your map, which can be as simple or as complex as you like, you may save it and upload it.
With that done, you can now see if anyone has taken on your map, watching a replay of how they did, as well as claiming rewards when someone challenges your map.
Battling other players online will mesh the map you made with your opponents', with either side having their fortifications or obstacles in front of you.
When you fight online, you will have a current Rating that will either increase or decrease based on your wins and losses.Winning, for example, will raise your Rating.The Rating you have decides the level of the person you will go up against.
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