After you put in the 40-70 hours that is required to beat one route of the campaign in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, you're legally obligated to play the final three paths as well. We don't make the rules here, just enforce them. However, after beating the game once, there are a few upgrades you'll receive in your second playthrough in the form of some new game plus perks. These perks do a few different things to help make your playthrough a bit easier and shave off a couple of hours here and there. Today, we're going to be ranking all six different new game plus elements in Fire Emblem: Three Houses to see which are the best of the best. Without any further ado, leꦕt's jump right on into the list.
6 ✨ Support Levels 🧔
Once you complete the main story of Three Houses, you're able to spend renown on a variety of different perks, with one ꦆof those granting you the ability to immediately unlock higher support levels between Byleth and their studenജts and fellow faculty. While nice, this perk really is just kind of a waste. As you spend such a huge amount of time with all of the characters found at the monastery naturally (and on the battlefield), you're going to hit these levels without issue as the game progresses. If you spend renown to unlock them, you're using up a valuable resource while taking away any reason to interact with these characters during your free days. While you could unlock some support levels very quickly, there's simply no reason to waste your renown on it.
5 ☂ 💧 Class Abilities
If you haven't unlocked all of the combat arts and abilities that come with a class, well lookey here, you can with ease now. If you choose to submit and give your hard-earned renown to your Nintendo overlords, they'll grace you with mastering the class and giving you all of those abilities and combat arts that come along with it. While this isn't the best way that you could be spending your renown, it is better than spending it on support ranks. If you aꦏbsolutely need some sort of ability and combat art right now because you're trying to help a bad character compen𓄧sate for their lack of skill (looking at you Ignatz), go for this one. Otherwise, save your renown for something else.
4 💟 🌳 Unit Appearance
In theory, the ability to change around your characters' appearances would be super fun and a great new game plus perk to mess around with. That is, if there were more than just two different options to ch🍌oose from for every student. The only options that you can pick from for all of your students (save from a fire new hair option for all of the house leaders) is their school uniform or their war outfit. Well, that's certainly disappointing. You couldn't have thrown us at least one extra new outfit for each student, Nintendo? Look, we need a few more costumes. This would be a great way to bolster up the game as one of the features in the forthcoming DLC. Is it necessary? No, not in the slightest. But do we want it? We sure do. We just want to make our students look like absolute legends while they're out fighting for 🌺their lives on the battlefield Nintendo. Look if you're going to deliver your final line in the game you might as well do it while you're all dolled up.
3 𓆉 🐟 Professor Level
Another way th🌱at renown can be spent in new game plus is on increasing your professor level. This usage of ren🉐own can actually be super helpful, as bolstering your professor level early on into the game can give you more activity and instruction points before you should have them, which can speed certain long-term goals up by a large margin. It can allow you to increase skill levels in both Byleth and your students faster. It also allows you to assign adjuncts early on into the game, which can help some of the weaker students still level up at a reasonable rate. Raising your professor level can be costly, but it is one of the best uses of renown that the new game plus mode has to offer, especially if you're looking to shave a bit of time off of that second playthrough.
2 🐽 Crest Itemsꦇ
Crest Items are another new feature that is gifted to the player once they reach the new game plus. These items essentially act as crests that can be found in certain characters in the game, and when given to a character, they will inherit those crest abilities. Ya know, without all of the shockingly horrible emotional, mental, and physical baggage that usually comes with a crest. Yay! Crest Items are a great part of the new game plus that 🔴can really help give a unit that might be struggling a bit of a bigger chance to help out the team. While crest items can be super useful, there is one more feature that the new game plus mode offers that trumps it.
1 ꦏ 🦄 Skill Levels
Once you unlock new game plus mode, you are given the ability to increase a students proficiency in any skill of your choice by a letter grade (such as going from C to C+ or B+ to A) for only 500 renown. Wow, that's actually really good. It doesn't cost much renown at all to do this, and you gain a huge amount of experience through it. This usage of renown becomes even more useful in the late game, as the skill levels take longer and longer to advance through. While the new game plus mode offers many different ways to spend your renown, this is without a doubt the best way to use it. Unlocking skill levels makes your units that much deadlier, while also making their transitions to new classes that much easier. If you are going to spend your renown on something other than the Saint statues, this is absolutely the option that you sho𒊎uld be putting it toward.