In Fire Emblem Engage, players have access to multiple methods of strengthening and developing their characters. This includes training in the Arena and equipping them with better weapons, and also includes the use of the Emblem Rings and Bond Rings, along with Skill Inheritance.
While Emblem Rings are mainly obtained by progressing through the main story of Fire Emblem Engage, Bond Rings must be created using Bond Fragments at the Ring Chamber. Inheriting Skills from Emblem Rings is also done in the Ring Chamber, so being able to make good use of the Ring Chamber during a playthrough is very important. The Chamber becomes accessible after players complete Chapter 4.
Inheriting Skills
Once a character has achieved the required Bond level with an Emblem, they can inherit skills from that emblem to add them to their list of available equipable skills. This allows players to further strengthen and customize their units at the cost of some Bond Fragments, as long as a unit's bond with the Emblem is high enough to inherit the skill.
Create Bond Rings
An excellent way to increase a character's stats is to equip them with a Bond Ring. Bond Rings are each associated with one of the 12 Emblem Rings, representing a character from the same world as the hero of their associated Emblem Ring. Rather than summoning an Emblem to aid their wearer, these rings instead provide stat bonuses and occasionally passive abilities too.
Creating a Bond Ring requires 100 Bond Fragments, and they can also be created in batches of 10 for 1000 Bond Fragments. When creating a Bond Ring, players choose which world's rings they want to create, but the specific rings a player is given are randomized. Each World/Emblem Ring has 40 Bond Rings to obtain. These rings are divided into ten different characters from that world and four different ranks (ranging from C to S). S-ranked Rings have additional passive abilities alongside the stat bonus, and generally speaking, higher-ranked rings will give larger bonuses.
Meld Bond Rings
Melding Bond Rings is a way of obtaining the higher-ranked Bond Rings without relying entirely on luck. By combining two copies of the same ring at the cost of some Bond Fragments, players can create the next rank of that ring. So combining two C rings of a given character will create a single B ring of that same character.
Polish Rings
Players can also have a character Polish an Emblem Ring, providing a small boost to their bond with that Emblem after a short and simple minigame. This can be useful for speeding up the rate at which new bond levels are reached.
Fire Emblem Engage is available for Nintendo Switch.
