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Golden Deers Development guide
Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Golden Deers Development guide

Master Fire Emblem: Three Houses Golden Deers! Get detailed stats, growth rates, skill info, and development strategies for Claude and Hilda to optimize your playthrough.

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Master Fire Emblem: Three Houses Golden Deers! Get detailed stats, growth rates, skill info, and development strategies for Claude and Hilda to optimize your playthrough.

This section details the Golden Deers units in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, including their stats, stat growths, learned abilities, and combat arts. It also provides a development guide with opinions on optimal training paths and class progression.

Key:

  • Base: Base stats at level 1 in a Noble or Commoner class.
  • Max: Maximum possible stats for a unit.
  • Growth rate: The percentage chance for a unit to gain +1 in a stat upon leveling up. This value is added to the class growth rate for the actual stat gain.

The guide also includes spells learned by each unit and unique skills learned by increasing certain skill ranks (e.g., C, B, A). Note that not all units learn specific spells like Physic when improving Faith.

The development and growth guide section is opinion-based. It is highly recommended to train all units in Authority for gambits, except for units intended to use the Stride gambit.

Claude

General Information

  • Gender: Male
  • Height: 175cm
  • Nationality/Loyalty: Leicester Alliance
  • Age: 17-18 (Part 1)
  • Birthday: 7/24
  • Budding talent: Axe
  • Crest: Riegan (Minor Bearer): Sometimes restores HP equal to 30% of damage dealt when using combat arts.
  • Personal Ability: Leicester Lineage (Part 1): Multiplies experience earned by 1.2x. Leicester Lineage+ (Part 2): Allows unit to pass through spaces occupied by foes and multiplies experience earned by 1.2x.
  • Interests: Tactical Scheming, Planning feasts
  • Likes: Feasts, long rides, archery, topics of curiosity
  • Dislikes: Blind reliance on gods, leaving things to chance, being bound by common sense
  • Recruitment Requirements (At C support): N/A

Stats and Growth Data

AttributeBaseMaxGrowth Rate
HP267135%
Str116140%
Mag54025%
Dex88960%
Spd87655%
Lck76345%
Def65030%
Res44225%
Cha87655%

Skills Proficiency

  • Sword: E+
  • Lance: E
  • Axe: E >>>>
  • Bow: D
  • Brawl: E
  • Reason: E
  • Faith: E
  • Authority: D
  • Heavy Armor: E
  • Riding: E+
  • Flying: E+

Abilities, Combat Arts, and Spells

  • Authority Abilities: Battalion Desperation (C), Model Leader (C+), Battalion Wrath (A), Rally Charm (S)
  • Sword Combat Arts: Bane of monsters (C+), Finesse blade (A)
  • Bow Combat Arts: Monster Blast (C+), Encloser (A)
  • White Magic (Faith): Heal (D), Nosferatu (D+), Recover (C), Silence (A)
  • Budding Talent Ability: Diamond Axe
  • Black Magic (Reason): Wind (D), Sagittae (C), Cutting gale (B), Excalbiur (A)

Development and Growth Guide (Claude)

Claude is recommended for Madness difficulty. Like other house leaders, he is a primary heavy hitter, though less so than Edelgard and Dimitri. Claude excels in bows, swords, and flying, with a budding talent in axes. Training his Authority is essential.

Claude should primarily be trained as a bow user. Training him in close-range weapons like Axe or Sword is also viable. His class path is generally straightforward: Fighter → Archer → Sniper. In Part 2, it's best to utilize his unique classes. Mastering Sniper and Archer before Part 2 is advised. Alternatively, if Sniper is mastered early, training in Flying and Axe can lead to a Wyvern Rider build, leveraging its long-range and high movement with bows. However, his unique Part 2 classes, Wyvern Master and Barbarossa, are generally superior.

Hilda

General Information

  • Gender: Female
  • Height: 154cm
  • Nationality/Loyalty: Leicester Alliance
  • Age: 18
  • Birthday: 2/3
  • Budding talent: Heavy Armor
  • Crest: Goneril (Minor Bearer): Sometimes allows combat arts to prevent enemy counterattacks.
  • Personal Ability: Advocate: Adjacent male allies deal 3 extra damage during combat.
  • Interests: Chatting, Making accessories
  • Likes: Fashion, chatting, persuasion, singing, dancing, colorful flowers
  • Dislikes: Effort, exhaustion, responsibility, extreme heat or cold
  • Recruitment Requirements (At C support): Need 30 Charm and C in Axe. (If leading Black Eagles, recruitment is delayed until Chapter 12, after allying with the Church.)

Stats and Growth Data

AttributeBaseMaxGrowth Rate
HP299450%
Str106645%
Mag53625%
Dex55230%
Spd87050%
Lck64935%
Def64935%
Res33920%
Cha77650%

Skills Proficiency

  • Sword: E
  • Lance: E+
  • Axe: D
  • Bow: E
  • Brawl: E
  • Reason: E
  • Faith: E
  • Authority: D
  • Heavy Armor: E >>>>
  • Riding: E
  • Flying: E

Abilities, Combat Arts, and Spells

  • Authority Abilities: Battalion Wrath (C)
  • Axe Combat Arts: Spike (C+), Diamond Axe (A)
  • Lance Combat Arts: Shatter Slash (C+)
  • White Magic (Faith): Heal (D), Nosferatu (D+)
  • Budding Talent Ability: Sea

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