Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes - Find Mercenary Pipe

In this guide to Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes you will learn:

  • How to unlock the Mercenary Whistle
  • What gameplay benefits it has
  • The best characters to give it to and what skills your hero or heroine can gain from it

Getting and using the mercenary pipe

To gain access to the Mercenary Pipe, you must complete the Tenth of the 16 chapters in at least one of the three story campaigns. The leader of the respective house will then engage you in a conversation and you will receive the object of desire in the form of a gift.

Edelgard's flame attacks are a blast. With the help of the mercenary pipe, you can transfer this ability to your character.

You can then give the pipe to any other allied character. In return, your hero or heroine will receive a special accessory. Once you equip it, your action signature skill (ZR key) will be overwritten with the recipient's action signature skill.

Used correctly, you'll be able to adapt your character's maneuvers to your play style even better. For example, if you give the mercenary pipe to Byleth, you can take over her freeze ability and use it to your advantage in battle. But beware: the mercenary arrows are only available once per campaign run and cannot be transferred to a New Game Plus.

The gifting of the mercenary arrow will only work if the support rank between your protagonist and the person you want to give the arrow to has reached level A. Characters with a lower support rank will not be able to receive the Mercenary Pipe and thus will not be able to give you access to their action signature skill.

How can I improve the support rank?

You can find detailed tips on this in our guide Fire Emblem Three Hopes: 8 Tips for Getting Started. In a nutshell, the following rule of thumb applies: it's best to focus on regularly dining with the appropriate team member at the camp, offering her or him appropriate gifts, and performing other joint activities.

Whether it's caring for horses, managing inventory, or organizing documents, you'll find numerous activities to increase your support rank with the work master in the warehouse.

These include camp chores, but also invitations to join an expedition. If you answer the various multiple-choice questions correctly during an expedition, the support rank between you and this character will increase noticeably. Furthermore, it helps to designate the desired person as a partner during a battle and to repeatedly perform partner special attacks together.

Who should I give the mercenary pipe to?

Who you give the mercenary whistle to depends largely on your play style and how you want to customize it. Below we will tell you the action signature skills of different characters. This way you can better assess whether giving the mercenary arrows to this character is worth it and what action signature skill you will get in return.

Blue Lions:

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd: Dimitri's action signature skill temporarily boosts your attacks with lightning.

Dedue Molinaro: With Dedue's action signature skill, holding down the ZR button on strong attacks intensifies their impact, dealing additional damage.

Felix Fraldarius: If you dodge attacks in time after activating Felix's action signature skill, your speed will increase for a certain period of time. The more times you successfully dodge, the faster you become. After seven dodges, your maximum speed is reached.

Mercedesvon Martritz: Successful attacks with Mercedes' action signature skill cause a small amount of lost health to be replenished and the bar for the signature skill to fill up. Once completely full, one press of the ZR button is enough and allies are healed while enemies take damage.

Ingrid Brandl Galatea: Enemies hurled into the air explode, dealing ice damage that affects a predetermined area.

Golden Stags:

Claude von Riegan: Claude's action signature skill boosts your attacks with wind that knocks enemies back.

Hilda Valentine Goneril: Holding down the ZR button during strong attacks increases attack damage and is also boosted by Lightning Energy. In addition, pull enemies in the immediate vicinity towards you.

IgnatzVictor: Ignatz's action signature skill blasts enemies into the air and then to the ground. The latter is soaked with paint in the process. If a unit now runs into the colored ground area, it suffers damage that matches the respective element color.

Leonie Pinelli: With her unique skill, you string together regular attacks. The speed of your attacks temporarily increases based on the number of consecutive hits. In addition, the signature skill boosts the final attack of the attack.

Marianne of Edmund: After 300 or more hits, ice spheres drop onto the battlefield at intervals, dealing ice damage.

Raphael Kirsten: Once activated, Raphael's action signature skill charges attacks for a set amount of time, boosting them. Especially useful if your hero uses a weapon that does a lot of damage.

Black Eagle

Caspar von Bergliez: Holding down the ZR button while performing a strong attack increases range and damage dealt by a whole level.

Edelgard of Hresvelg: Edelgard 's action signature skill imbues your attacks with fire.

Ferdinand of Aegir: After 300 hits or more, there is a speed boost relative to the current hit count.

Linhardt of Hevring: When you complete a regular attack after activating it, it creates two wind orbs that attack enemies in the immediate area.

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