Good point.

I'd like to be able to pick what to what items i'm upgrading for every slot.

+1. I'm all for this suggestion. At this point, it's just extra clicks that slow me down.

This unit upgrade option is long overdue.  We the people say YAAAAY!

Anyways, to streamline the suggestion above, treat each upgrade as a 'check box', instead of an 'execute' box, and then add an 'apply selected upgrades' box to the bottom.  You could have an 'upgrade all' box next to the 'apply selected upgrades' box as well.

Also, a 'drop down menu' to the left of the check box, showing all available upgrades might be nice, so if for some reason you wanted to upgrade to a lesser weapon or armor to conserve gildar, resources, or whatever, you could do a lesser upgrade.  Or choose those initiative boots instead of the armored boots as mentioned above.

This would get tricky with special items (rings, amulets, etc.).  I'm thinking, to keep things simple, you only be allowed a single item upgrade at a time (choose one from the dropdown menu).  Yes, if you wanted multiple items this would take longer/multiple rounds with the upgrade window, but the alternative is to give each item it's own line, which might clutter up the upgrade window a bit much in the later stages of the game.

So, the buttons at the bottom might be:

[Exit Window] [Apply Selected Upgrades] [Apply All Upgrades]

You are not losing the monk robe when you get the armlet. It's added to your current set

The icons are misleading at times. For any armor upgrade they show on left side the LAST item you upgraded (like monk robe in your case) and the icon of the new item that will be added to the set.

Is easier to understand for weapons and group upgrades since there is only 1 item that is upgrading

ah, so you are saying that the armor upgrade isn't always a replacement (like it is for weapons) but sometimes is adding a piece of armor?  Thats worth checking out.... thx

Yes, FE/EH has lots of click fests.  Diplomacy... oye.  And why are all the screens placed so far apart, all the time.  Wish I could drag the parts closer together when I am doing lots of diplomacy, and when done, drag them back to sides of main map.

I really hope this is fixed in the next patch (hopefully soon!). I'd also through the troop management screen into there as well. Every time I try to use it- CRASH!

It would be nice to do incremental upgrades and choose to go to each level instead of only to the highest version. There are times when I might not want or be able to go to the highest level but should be able to do a partial upgrade. So the upgrade window could look like:

club -> war hammer -> lightning hammer

and you could choose which one you wanted with the price reflecting each upgrade.

That's more of a feature request, but at least in the interim if we could get the Upgrade screen fixed so it doesn't close each time you use it, that would be a great improvement!

yeah they probably won't be as effective as new units, but in some games i had some legacy units that survived the whole game and got rather high levels. the starting spearman upgraded to a company of pikemen with 200 HP is still useful as a meatshield. plus it would be really heartless to disband your most loyal followers

hehe yeah, i guess champion armor is the killer here. i don't think i ever built a unit with armor upgrade in mind since they changed the rules. early units usually get the +1 init boots and finesse (rather cheap and pretty good at that stage - bumps spear damage from 5 to 8  vs. most enemies, or daggers from 6 to 9 - for just 6 labor cost), so designing them with an armor trait would just mean that they have one unused trait now, and another (mostly) unused trait later (the init penalty of the armor pretty much kills the finesse condition unless you counter it with a warg and or/ +init jewelry - which isn't available for design when i build the units initially). the mid tier defense units just get chain proficiency instead of iron skin or finesse, damage dealers keep their leather stuff (no point wasting metal on slowing them down - their job is to flank the enemy units and slaughter them before they can fight back). by the time i get to plate, i either already won the game or i stop playing (don't really like the very late/endgame)

That actually makes sense. So instead of building a group of 3 paladins for example, then upgrading it to 6 for just 90g, you should also pay for resource costs to add additional units, in crystals and metal. Supporting this.