The DioField Chronicle: Tops Tips and Tricks for New Players

Given that any strategy game like Fire Emblem can be difficult enough to get into with a comprehensive tutorial or walk-through – DioField Chronicle’s brief battle tutorial and complete lack of in-game resources for the outside of battle elements can leave new players perplexed.

We’ve composed a brief guide on the many aspects new players might be confused about and compressed them into a top tips and tricks for new players guide.

Understanding the game’s mechanics fully will not only help you enjoy the experience more, but will also help you to develop a stronger party and team with your characters.

Top Tips and Tricks for The DioField Chronicle

• You can trace back to checkpoints within battle. This includes things such as sieging a base, or prior to a boss fight.

You can always revert back to these checkpoints at no cost or penalty, so don’t be scared to experiment with battle tactics or skill implementation early on to figure out what works best for your play style. You never have to exit the map to reformulate, as you revisit checkpoints an unlimited number of times.

• Ensure you always check the corresponding weapon skills before you purchase or unlock new weapons. Not all skills will correspond to all weapons. If you’d like to make Waltaquin a primary healing unit, you need to ensure any new staff you purchase has Heal, and supports your build.

• You can reserve AP and use it later. You don’t need to spend AP (Ability Points) immediately on your party members. Some abilities require much more AP investment, and it’s better to have a course or path formulated beforehand with what abilities you want to allocate AP to before doing so blindly.

• Disrupting enemy skills is a vital part of battles. If you utilize skills or abilities that prevent enemy movement, you don’t need to worry about fleeing in the path of an enemy’s skill with a larger range. Always ensure you have enough EP reserved to utilize things like Frostbind (Freeze).

• Hold out on using Bahamut until you reach bosses. While it might be tempting to summon the dragon the moment you’ve reached full TP, it is always more wise to save it for bosses or end-runs on timed missions.

• Aim for Ambush attacks. Attacking enemies from behind will yield far greater damage. This means finding ways to try and sneak up on enemy units or orchestrate attacks from behind. You can also set Waypoints to more easily get behind enemies.

• Have a unit from each of the four classes as a Leader. This will help to optimally balance out the party. Adjutants only share their skills with the Leader; that is the only way they help contribute to the overall party. This means you need to avoid pairing Leaders with lower EP with Adjustants that have high EP cost skills. That kind of pairing just wouldn’t be feasible.

• Run through Practice Battles as much as you can stand to do. This will help ensure you attain more AP and SP without having to progress through the main missions. To unlock Practice Battles, all you have to do is complete the Coswell Volcano Expedition mission. This can help you to grind through leveling up your characters by replaying previous missions at any point in the campaign. 

• Waltaquin – keep an eye out on investing too much into her character. Without spoiling too much, don’t place too much emphasis or focus on buffing her character within the progression of the story.