Leveling Up and Stat Growth

Learn how leveling up works in Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright, including experience gain, stat growth rates, and level caps. Maximize your units' potential!

Alright, let's talk about getting your units stronger in Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright! Just like in most RPGs, gaining experience and leveling up is the main way your characters get better. To go from one level to the next, you'll always need 100 experience points. Keep in mind how you earn that XP: fighting enemies who are a lot stronger than you can net you over 50 experience, but if you're way over their level, you might only get 1 experience point. So, picking your battles wisely can really speed things up!

There are a few skills that can help you gain experience faster. The Avatar and Kana have a skill called Nobility, which gives you a nice 20% boost to experience gain. If you're using a Diviner, the Future Sight skill offers a chance to double your experience. There's also a skill called Paragon that's not out yet but will guarantee a doubled experience gain. Honestly though, you don't need to rely on these; the game is totally beatable without them!

Now, when you level up, it's not a guarantee that every single one of your stats will increase. Each character and class has stat growth rates, which are basically the chances they have to improve in a specific stat when they level up. These can range from 0% all the way up to over 60%. For example, Takumi has a 0% growth rate in Magic, meaning he'll likely never get a Magic stat boost. Azura has a 25% growth rate in Health, so don't expect her to be super tanky. You can find the exact growth rates for every character and class in the Character Lists and Class Lists section of this guide.

Remember, a character's personal growth rate is added to their class's growth rate to get their final net growth rate. The level cap is usually 20 for most classes. However, some special classes like Maid, Butler, and Songstress can go up to level 40. If you decide to reclass a character from one of these higher-level classes, their level gets divided by two. So, a level 40 Maid would reclass to level 20. If you reclass into special DLC classes like Dread Fighter or Dark Falcon, you get an extra 20 levels added, but this is purely cosmetic and doesn't affect gameplay stats or how you use items like the Eternal Seal.