Second Tier

2nd-Tier Classes (or Promoted Classes) are a rank of Classes between the 1st-Tier Classes and the 3rd-Tier. They tend to be the highest Class rank available to playable characters, except in Fire Emblem: Gaiden and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn.

Characters can either attain a 2nd-Tier class by promoting to it or, in some cases, by starting off as one. A common misconception about characters who start off as a 2nd-Tier class is that they used to be a 1st-Tier class; this is mainly due to all the rest of a person's characters of that class having had to promote to it. Often this misconception is used to denigrate bad characters with 2nd-Tier saying that they're only bad because they promoted too early, when in fact they didn't promote at all; they're bad because they're bad, not because of imagined past events.