War Cleric

War Cleric
First Seen	Fire Emblem: Awakening
Promotes From	Cleric, Troubadour
Promotes To	N/A
Usable Weapon Types	Axe, Staff
Class Skills	Rally Luck, Renewal
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The War Cleric (バトルシスター, Battle Sister in the Japanese version) is a promoted class of the Cleric and Troubadour introduced in Fire Emblem: Awakening. It is the third female non-mounted class able to wield Axes (the first being the female Hero class and the second was female Generals in the GBA games) in the series. Troubadours promoting into War Clerics is the first instance of a mounted class promoting into a non-mounted one.

Overview

War Clerics are a much more balanced healing unit compared to most common promoted healers in past Fire Emblem games. This class focuses mainly on durability rather than healing potency, given them higher defensive caps rather than higher speed and skill to avoid damage completely. The War Clerics' good defensive stats favor the resistance stat cap slightly by 5 points compared to the 9 cap difference for the other Cleric promotion in Awakening, the Sage class. Other than Skill and Defense, all stat caps of the War Cleric class are a minimum of 40. In comparison to the Sage, they lack the high magic cap and do not have skill and speed caps as high as them, the former stat being the reason why they lack some of the healing potency. Sages' higher skill and speed are meant to help them avoid taking damage, but if faced against an enemy with high skill and speed themselves, they will take more damage due to their lower defenses. Though the War Cleric will get attacked more often, they will take significantly less than the Sage. The War Cleric class also provides one of the few HP regenerative skills in Awakening, Renewal. At the start of the Player's turn, all units equipped with this skill will recover 30% of their maximum HP. This skill serves great for the War Cleric's durability and prevents or reduces the needing another cleric unit to heal them if they are injured. War Clerics are also treated as Mage units, allowing them to travel across sandy terrain without any cost to their mobility.

The another interesting feature of this class is that their weapon of choice are Axes, which favor high attack in exchange for accuracy. However, the War Cleric is not exactly suited for an offensive role due to a rather mediocre attack stat and semi-low speed and skill. Nevertheless, given their good defenses, they can operate as good anti-magic units as they can take a hit from them and exploit their generally lower defense stats. More or less, the War Cleric is one of the more gimmick-ier classes in Awakening but is worth investigating for usage in the game.

Notable War Clerics

• Lepus
• L'Arachel (SpotPass)
• Possible Promotion for: Lissa and Maribelle

Maximum Stats

Fire Emblem: Awakening

• HP: 80
• Str: 40
• Mag: 40
• Skl: 38
• Spd: 41
• Lck: 45
• Def: 38
• Res: 43
• Axe: A
• Staff: A

Gallery

Concept artwork of the War Cleric class.

Cherche as a War Cleric.

Emmeryn as a War Cleric.

Lissa as a War Cleric.

Maribelle as a War Cleric.

Miriel as a War Cleric.

Female Morgan as a War Cleric.

Lucina as a War Cleric.

Nah as a War Cleric.

Sumia as a War Cleric.

Lissa performing a critical attack as a War Cleric.

Trivia

• In Awakening, War Clerics (alongside their female counterparts) boast an equal attack and magic, a trait shared by Tacticians, Grandmasters, Villagers/Merchants, and Dancers.

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