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Wyvern Lord is hands down the best class in the game and worth considering for any physical character that doesn't have a bane in flying or axes. It's nutty bases can even fix units that are falling behind.

Falcon Knight is pretty darn close and worth considering for any female who doesn't have a bane in flying and doesn't want to be a Wyvern Lord.

Bow Knight is ridiculous in Normal and Hard modes (less great in Maddening). Worth considering for any unit who is good at bows.

Assassin is the best sword infantry class, but not really better than the above. Still probably Byleth's best class if you want to keep him Sword focused and not just make him a Wyvern Lord.

Mages are less easy, but most want to end up as a Gremory for well-roundedness or Dark Knight for movement/offense. Holy Knight is a trap class and should be avoided.

This is assuming you don't have the DLC in which case Dark Flier is a perfectly good endgame magic class, Trickster gives Assassin a run for its money as a Sword infantry class and Mage Knight is a really great intermediate class for mages working their way Dark Knight.

Try to certify into classes ASAP, even if you haven't mastered the class you are currently in. Each class has base stats and when you certify in them, your stats will automatically be bumped up to those bases even if you don't switch into it. You can get kind of creative here. Like having your squishy mage get enough armor skill to give him/her a >30% chance to certify as an armor knight and drastically increase his/her base defense.

Mastering a class gives you skills which you can keep even after changing classes. Weirdly enough, the intermediate classes give probably the best skills with Death Blow (brigand), Fiendish Blow (mage), Darting Blow (Peg Knight), and Hit +20 (archer).

A non-issue if you are running Assassin Byleth (or Petra), but because of reclassing and the ability to buy infinite keys for paltry sums of money means you don't really need a dedicated thief. Enemies don't really carry much worth stealing regularly so if you see on the Map Screen that there is something worth taking, just reclass someone just for that chapter.

Most importantly none of this advice really matter because Normal and Hard modes really aren't very difficult so you can get away with doing whatever you want. So just have fun.


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