- 1.1 Three Houses
- 1.2 Three Hopes
Overview [ ]
Three Houses [ ]
As Byleth provides Tutoring for their students and take them into combat, they gain proficiency in eleven different stats. By reaching a certain proficiency with these stats and reach certain levels, they can take a Certification Exam, allowing them to Class Change into a higher tier class or unlock additional classes.
There are five types of exams without DLC and six with, each requiring a different seal and level requirement to take it:
In addition, in order for a character to take the exam, they must achieve a certain passing percentage based on the desired weapons/unit type of the class and the ideal Rank for each requirement. Characters do not need to have the exact required rank, but the likeliness of passing the exam increases the higher the desired ranks are. A character must have at least a 30 percent pass rate to take the exam and may pass it even with a percentage as low as that.
Characters are allowed to take one exam per week, regardless if they pass or fail. Characters may retake a failed exam on another week, but failure expends a seal. Once a character has passed an exam, they are given free access to that class and may switch into the class from the Inventory menu during the preparation phase of a battle, or at the beginning of each week.
Three Hopes [ ]
In Three Hopes, the Certification Exam has had some of its fat trimmed. As Shez and their comrades fight and win battles or Train in the Training Grounds, they will gain class EXP, eventually mastering their currently equipped class.
Once they master their equipped class, they will be able to obtain upgraded version(s) later down the class tree, which is done at the Training Grounds. However, only the Intermediate Class Certification Exam is available by default; the ability to undergo the Advanced and Master Class Certification Exams, and to obtain the classes available within them, are unlocked by spending the necessary Materials within the Training Grounds section of the Facility Manager for both individual Exams, even if you have managed to obtain any Advanced/Master Seals beforehand.
There are currently 3 types of exams, each requiring a different seal and upgrade requirement to take it:
