Time to make another updated tierlist for this update
Updated Ratings:
Eclair: paragon/10
Eclair was already pretty solid being a really fast mage that kill alot of things. Now with paragon, one of the best abilities in most srpgs, she can grow like a weed and kill opponents even more reliably.
Xernia: 10/10: not much changed about her except she can now heal herself while healing others, still insanely strong
Reese: 9/10
Pros: Horse, bulky
cons: cans struggle to double
Reese is a very good unit because she has a horse in base so she can be very flexible because of the movement, her vantage+diet wrath skills can allow her to be really solid. Unfortunately that's a very risky strategy because she has to be under 25% health and she's also slow. Even without abusing her skills she's really tanky and overall a very solid unit.
Katrielle: 9/10
Pros: ignores terrain penalties, diet charisma, strong personal weapon
cons: bow user, slow?
Katrielle is a very solid unit she can kill a lot of annoying air units in this chapter and also just kill normal enemies with her insane bow. Unfortunately as a bow user she can struggle to counter attack. Also I don't know if mine got speed screwed but she can struggle to double opponent for me X(. Even if your Katrielle gets stat screwed she can always just be a support unit and chip enemies and give allies extra crit.
Note: her promotion gives her +4 speed so that can also just patch up her speed issue
TLDR: everyone in chapter 1 got very good buffs.
New units:
Jurissa 5/10
Pros:can create potions for free, flying promotion
cons: slow and frail
Jurissa is the 4th magic unit you get and she's pales in comparison to the competition. Saphy is a reliable support who can become a strong magical fighter, Eclair is a growing weed that is just an offensive menace, and Xernia is good without any investment. While all these traits seem very abysmal she has one very unique trait to her that the rest of the cast doesn't have. If she promotes she can fly. While flying is a very powerful thing to have, her stats are just not good to take advantage of it. Especially when other units also want to promote.
Fiebre 7/10
Pros: Fast, strong, berserk
cons: frail, contagius berserk to your own units
Fiebre is a solid unit but berserk can be annoying if one of your units get hit. One big issue is that if fiebre doesn't kill the enemy the enemy can just attack you and one of your units gets stuck with berserk. She might have more value if there was something like a restore stave but there isn't so far.
Paolla:8/10
Pros: exclusive brave weapon, strong, tanky
cons: slow
Paolla is a solid unit as she gains more defense during enemy phase and she also has a 1-2 range weapon. Even though there isn't alot for me to write about but she's just a reliable unit
Daphne:9/10
Pros: Strong, Fast, Horse promotion
cons: bow user, frail
Daphne is your 2nd bow user and at first you might think she's outclassed by katrielle because of her personal bow, but Daphne is actually equally as good in my opinion. Her base stats are just good and from my experience she has more strength and speed compared to katrielle. With a promotion this difference is more obvious and she also gains a horse, letting her to be at more places, causing her to be surprisingly flexible. Even though she's a bow unit shes very good.
Edit: Forgot to mention she can attack at one range, making her only weakness pretty much gone
Cervas:New/10
Pros: Tanky, Good personal weapon
Cons: slow?
Cervas seems really strong because her personal weapon is very unique because she can just debuff an enemy. And it's not a just an average debuff, the enemy basically becomes crippled. Even though you can only use her for one bonus chapter she a strong first impression.
That's my thoughts so far, good luck with the updates fez!