Character tier list

A recovery specialist whose value grows when a party needs healing and a second chance. Independent damage farming is a different job.

Why this placement

B / A overall values her recovery role without pretending that healing is extra personal DPS. The new small-party damage sample is near the matched peers, while raids still show substantial ally healing. She rises when mistakes can be recovered; she gains less in already-safe speed farming. The previous B / S boss range overstated what the evidence could establish.

Practical plan

Solo

Use an offensive blessing when clearing safely, and heal after creating space. Her attack and defense blessings compete with each other; do not budget both bonuses at once.

Bosses

Plan Guard of Light around a predictable attack phase. It refreshes nearby protection while maintained; canceling the channel or leaving its area is not full-duration protection.

Mobs

Group enemies before committing an area attack, then reposition for Light of Healing. A heal cast has real recovery time; reacting only after repeated hits can trap you in a healing loop.

Party

Move close and face a fallen ally or tombstone before Resurrection. Stage revive limits still apply. Use Light Shield for a temporary recovery window; attacks and skill use end that shield.

Common mistake: Treating every protection effect as stackable, permanent attacking immunity. Ordinary shields, renewed guards and revive availability have different conditions.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Party heals, cleansing, resurrection and blessings. Light Shield ends on offensive action or skill use; Guard of Light provides a separate renewed protection window.

Gear and progression

Useful support exists before expensive damage gear. Heal scaling, learned ranks and MP management still matter; surplus healing does not speed up a safe run.

Handling and safety

Watch allies and incoming mechanics while positioning heals. Long channels and the decision to heal instead of attack are real costs.

What remains uncertain

No controlled measurement assigns an exact clear-time gain to each rescue or revive.

A flexible melee choice with personal defenses. Recent small-party and raid comparisons are mixed rather than a clear universal lead, so the range stays provisional.

Why this placement

B / A reflects usable melee pressure plus personal safety, not a proven raid damage lead. His recent solo clear comparisons are broadly typical. He fits encounters where he can stay close and finish attacks; scattered targets and forced disengagement make that harder. Party utility is narrower than Eir's or Tia's.

Practical plan

Solo

Choose Protective Aura for control resistance and regeneration or Magic Defense for the covered magical damage. These buffs compete, so verify which one is active instead of assuming both apply.

Bosses

Destruction Fist has a short protected section inside its attack, not immunity from start to finish. Time the contact and recovery around the boss's opening; Self-Sacrificing Blow provides a different protected commitment.

Mobs

Use launches and sword coverage to keep susceptible enemies together. Chasing a single displaced target can waste more time than finishing the remaining pack.

Party

Use threat control only when the enemies respond and you can handle their attention. Keep the boss or pack accessible to your allies rather than dragging it away from their attacks.

Common mistake: Assuming a ranged or glowing enemy attack is magical, or that interruption resistance prevents damage. Physical and neutral hits remain a different problem.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Provocation and control can help where enemies respond to them. Most of his protection and damage buffs are personal.

Gear and progression

Strength and physical investment matter in the published balance. A strong defensive kit does not make a low-investment build equal to a developed one.

Handling and safety

Stay in reach, time protected hits and leave unsafe recovery windows. Melee commitment is the main trade-off.

What remains uncertain

Recent party and raid comparisons are mixed; a universal lead over other melee characters is not established.

A ranged area specialist with useful control. He needs targets to stay in his attacks and does not have the same recovery role as a healer.

Why this placement

The revised B assessment replaces the earlier overly weak general impression. Recent matched solo clearing is near the cohort baseline, and mob damage is encouraging in both comparison methods. The small-party sample is still thin. Area pressure is a real strength, but long actions and lost target contact limit consistency.

Practical plan

Solo

Create room with Ice Barrier before a longer cast. Avoid placing a barrier where it spoils your own line of attack or makes you spend time walking around the fight.

Bosses

Use True Meteor Summons or Ultm. Crimson Judgement after a predictable commitment from the boss. Do not count every part of a large spell as a hit on a small or moving target.

Mobs

Place Rain of Fire where the pack will remain. Its interruption resistance is not damage immunity, and leaving the action early can change how much of the attack is delivered.

Party

Coordinate control and placement with the group's area attacks. Mana and resistance support help in suitable encounters, but do not replace direct recovery or revival.

Common mistake: Using a stationary full-hit calculation as actual DPS, or calling the class weak simply because one earlier group sample was unfavorable.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Mana and elemental-resistance buffs, blocking terrain and crowd control. These help in the right encounter, without replacing healing or revival.

Gear and progression

Mana support is more noticeable while progressing. At high gear, actual hit coverage and casting opportunities remain important.

Handling and safety

Place fields ahead of movement and distinguish interruption resistance from damage immunity during long casts.

What remains uncertain

The raid comparison is carried by too few independent characters to prove a strong general boss rank.

A mobile specialist whose party value cannot be read from her damage share. Coordination determines how much of her potential is realized.

Why this placement

B / A includes mobility, control and cooldown support while acknowledging lower personal group damage. Recent solo clear comparisons are broadly typical. The old C / S boss span mixed a low damage reading with an unmeasured best-case support claim; the new assessment explains the useful party conditions directly.

Practical plan

Solo

Use Dark Fog for its attack and applicable blindness, with Spanning Throwing Knife as another tool rather than assuming fog is the whole build. Avoid spending the rotation only on a single sampled contributor.

Bosses

Turn Back Time does not damage the boss itself. Use it after allies have spent valuable skills and are able to cast again; it cannot erase their ongoing animation or positioning requirements.

Mobs

Use movement and fog to manage eligible packs. Keep enemies in allies' coverage; launches and control do not work equally on every target.

Party

At the ordinary rank cap, Turn Back Time reaches up to four nearby teammates. It excludes you and other copies of itself. Crowded raids need positioning, and String of Rescue is a situational rescue tool for an airborne ally.

Common mistake: Expecting the reset to pick the highest-damage allies automatically, reset all nine raid partners, or make already-ready skills more useful. Bonus ranks must not be confused with ordinary ranks.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Turn Back Time resets eligible cooldowns for nearby teammates, not Tia herself or another Turn Back Time. It adds little when useful skills are already ready.

Gear and progression

Cooldown reduction changes her own rotation. Teammates who already recast most skills quickly leave fewer valuable cooldowns to reset.

Handling and safety

Know which allies have spent their important skills, get them in range and time the reset. This is a high-coordination role.

What remains uncertain

Extra team damage from resets is credited to the teammates. Its causal size has not been measured in controlled runs.

Strong form-based clearing, with a more demanding rhythm than a simple damage table suggests. Form timing and mobility shape the result.

Why this placement

His strong mob range comes from form coverage and repeated contact, supported by the new group damage observations. Overall remains lower than that specialist ceiling because travel, form timing and target access matter. Recent solo speed does not prove that the largest damage totals always produce the fastest complete run.

Practical plan

Solo

Plan Bumba Lime and Cool Pang Pang Lime around the next useful fight rather than transforming immediately before a long walk. Include the time spent out of your chosen form in your expectations.

Bosses

Choose a form whose attacks can actually maintain contact with this boss. Large attacks do not guarantee that every repeated hit reaches a moving or oddly shaped target.

Mobs

Let susceptible mobs gather before committing the wide form attacks. Face the pack and keep a safe exit instead of wasting the form chasing a scattered enemy.

Party

Place recovery pickups from Rejuvenation Potion and Mana Potion where allies can reach them. They are not automatic remote healing, and recovery locations should not lure allies into a dangerous attack.

Common mistake: Treating a transformation's brief entry protection as immunity throughout the form, or evaluating only an uninterrupted stationary form loop.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

HP and MP pickups and selected buffs add assistance, while roots and freezing help eligible mobs. Pickups require access and are not automatic party-wide recovery.

Gear and progression

Physical investment and unlocked forms change his damage pattern. A theoretical uninterrupted form loop overstates what every encounter permits.

Handling and safety

Plan transformations around waves and travel. Large attacks still need correct facing, range and safe exits.

What remains uncertain

Small-party matching is thin, and observed solo failures include difficult content choices rather than just class weakness.

A strong damage candidate when her dolls can keep working. The A assessment remains provisional because the independent sample is limited.

Why this placement

A overall and A / S bossing recognize a leading sustained-damage candidate without claiming universal superiority. Her new party and raid damage remains strong, but solo clear speed is not a matching universal lead. Summon access and upkeep explain why the boss ceiling does not automatically become S in every category.

Practical plan

Solo

Establish Pandano when it can remain useful, then reposition without abandoning its target access. Summoning and retargeting are part of the time cost, not free background damage.

Bosses

Check that the dolls are making contact before committing Pandano's Dance. Movement phases, lost summons and unreachable targets can remove the apparent advantage even with strong equipment.

Mobs

Use Bundle Bundle Net against eligible packs to help maintain coverage. Do not scatter enemies beyond the dolls' useful attack area and then judge their damage by the stationary ceiling.

Party

Bring persistent damage while allies handle recovery and coordinated buffs. Happy Dance offers a protected action, but its timing and cooldown do not turn the whole rotation into permanent safety.

Common mistake: Assuming every generic summon damage entry identifies one particular doll, or that additional personal critical multiplier bypasses the dolls' own critical limit. The checked critical-damage multiplier cap for her dolls is 2.6×.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Binding, freezing and aggro management supplement the dolls. Her damage while moving is a personal reliability benefit, not a separate party buff.

Gear and progression

Dolls benefit from their owner's combat investment under the published rules, with a limit on their critical multiplier. Gear helps but does not remove summon behavior constraints.

Handling and safety

Manage summons, keep targets reachable and choose safe repositioning. Do not assume every doll attack lands continuously.

What remains uncertain

A small number of well-developed characters supplies much of the matched damage evidence. The exact lead remains uncertain.

A melee support option with meaningful recovery and magical protection. His theoretical transformation ceiling is not consistently reproduced by observed damage.

Why this placement

The revised B general assessment gives proper weight to observed ally healing and the verified protection toolkit. Personal damage remains less convincing than the leading damage specialists, but the new raids record meaningful recovery. Bossing rises when that recovery and magic protection fit the encounter; it is not a hidden damage multiplier.

Practical plan

Solo

Balance form pressure from Vehement Transformation with safe opportunities to recover. Do not spend your remaining health on a support action while an incoming hit will finish you.

Bosses

Time Party Magic Defense for attacks of the covered magical types. It does not answer physical, neutral or immunity-piercing attacks, so first identify what is actually hurting the party.

Mobs

Keep nearby enemies within hammer or form coverage. Movement and setup between packs are why a favorable form ceiling is not a guaranteed fast farming result.

Party

Party HP Recovery and Party MP Recovery cost your own HP as well as MP. Use them when allies need the resource and you can afford the trade; coordinate recovery instead of repeatedly overhealing.

Common mistake: Calling him only a weak damage dealer, or treating party magic protection as universal invulnerability. Both ignore a different part of his actual role.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Party HP and MP recovery, vitality support and magical damage immunity. Recovery skills can cost his own HP as well as MP.

Gear and progression

Transformations and physical investment matter. Support costs and safe melee contact remain relevant at every gear level.

Handling and safety

Balance healing costs against personal safety, and align forms with useful attack windows instead of assuming perfect uptime.

What remains uncertain

Gear-matching choices move his raid result noticeably; a precise placement against nearby classes is not supported.

A strong control-oriented choice with encouraging boss evidence. Her versatility comes from combining pressure with freezing, not from a healer's toolkit.

Why this placement

B / A is a control-and-pressure recommendation, not the earlier suggestion of a consistent general raid lead. Recent boss-target results are useful, but full raid and mob comparisons vary with the matching method and cohort. Her upper band needs susceptible targets and effective placement.

Practical plan

Solo

Use Cold Nucleus to help establish control before committing a longer attack. Keep an escape route for enemies that resist or outlast the control.

Bosses

Breath of Severe Cold protects about 3.4 seconds of its 4.33-second action if allowed to run. The ending is different from the protected part; reserve Ultm. Snowstorm of Queen for a useful opening rather than assuming it can replace all other attacks.

Mobs

Place freezing and slowing effects where the pack will stay, then concentrate your area damage. Control has no added value if the target is immune or would already die immediately.

Party

Help allies keep enemies inside their attack zones. Cold Incandescence resists interruption for much of its channel, but it is not a damage-immune channel.

Common mistake: Equating every ice effect with guaranteed boss freezing, or treating one favorable raid sample as proof of the same advantage everywhere.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Freezing, roots, mana and resistance support. Control must actually affect the target before it counts as a party benefit.

Gear and progression

More damage and cooldown investment improve repetition; target eligibility still matters even with excellent gear.

Handling and safety

Place attacks carefully and time protected actions. Interruption resistance on a channel does not make it safe from damage.

What remains uncertain

Boss-target evidence and whole-raid evidence differ; neither proves superiority in every party composition.

A boss specialist with a large gap between favorable single-target conditions and general clearing. Positioning matters as much as the bow's range.

Why this placement

The boss range is narrowed to B / A: favorable contact remains important, but the new sample is too mixed and the raid comparison too small for a confident S claim. Solo clearing is encouraging in a small cohort. Her weak point is carrying that single-target setup across scattered packs and moving bosses.

Practical plan

Solo

Use Lightning Arrow from a position that gets useful overlap without forcing an unsafe approach. Keep a separate plan for quickly reaching and finishing scattered mobs.

Bosses

Wait for a readable stationary opening before the high-contact attack. More projectiles or a large effect does not mean every part hits one target. Compare the boss's movement and shape, not only your displayed attack.

Mobs

Line up enemies before committing your stronger attacks. Moving the whole fight to a suitable line can help more than repeatedly firing at isolated targets.

Party

Use Single Blow of Light Spirit when the group can exploit the same attack window. Spirit's Anger has a health casting cost; Spirit's Guard provides regeneration support, not universal damage immunity.

Common mistake: Treating an attack-component cap as a cap on all damage, or assuming unlimited extra attack improves every skill equally. Strength, critical effects, cooldowns and contact still differ.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Some mana and regeneration support, but most of her value comes from landing her own attacks. Personal damage buffs are not counted as a second team bonus.

Gear and progression

Cooldown reduction and attack investment change her rotation considerably. Actual hit overlap still determines how much of that investment lands.

Handling and safety

Learn the distance at which important hits overlap and when approaching a boss is unsafe.

What remains uncertain

Matched boss samples are small. A large favorable signal supports specialist potential, not a proven universal first place.

A mobile clearing pick whose small-party and raid results differ sharply. Choose him for the encounter pattern, not one theoretical DPS number.

Why this placement

The small-party/raid split is still the defining evidence. New small parties and solo cohorts support his clearing role, while raid and boss comparisons remain less convincing. That supports better mob/PvE potential than the broad overall reading, without pretending that a faster cast rate solves every boss problem.

Practical plan

Solo

Combine True Impartial Shot with purposeful repositioning. High cooldown reduction should create useful attacks, not more resource spending while the target is outside the hit area.

Bosses

Place Sulfur Rain for a phase when the boss will stay in contact. Right Side Slide Shot has only a short initial protection window; its whole slide is not damage-immune.

Mobs

Use repeated shots and areas on grouped targets before moving to the next pack. The benefit depends on coverage rather than the number of damage events alone.

Party

Leave allies a stable attack area instead of pulling enemies away from their fields. Ultm. Quanta Gun is a long protected commitment, so align it with a useful phase rather than spending it on a nearly finished target.

Common mistake: Explaining all raid weakness with boss armor, or calling every repeated field tick a guaranteed hit. Neither conclusion follows from the observed damage alone.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Movement, short protected slides and selected freezing effects. He does not bring the same direct recovery or cooldown-reset role as dedicated supports.

Gear and progression

High cooldown reduction allows more frequent casts, but does not make each field hit a moving target or erase resource costs.

Handling and safety

Reposition without losing field contact and avoid confusing many damage events with high effective boss damage.

What remains uncertain

The reason for every raid gap has not been isolated in a controlled test. Boss armor is not assumed as a blanket explanation.

A versatile damage-and-support choice. The A assessment depends on useful attacks and support that allies actually benefit from.

Why this placement

A in general PvE reflects the new positive small-party and raid damage signals plus a verified support kit. It is still a provisional recommendation: target-specific results are mixed and solo clear speed is broadly typical. Her versatility comes from choosing the right support action, not adding every buff as free damage.

Practical plan

Solo

Keep an affordable damage loop and use the needed recovery between engagements. A transformation or support channel still costs time that belongs in the whole-run comparison.

Bosses

Use True Rhapsody of Blood and Epic of Hero when allies are ready to attack within range. The renewed guard is useful while maintained; overlapping support casts do not simply add their full durations together.

Mobs

True Song of Hero can help a grouped team while you pressure suitable packs. Avoid scattering targets or spending a long support setup after the pack is already effectively finished.

Party

Use Phantom Fantasia for a recovery opportunity when recipients can benefit. Its protective/regenerative bundle can end when the recipient attacks or uses a skill; coordinate the pause instead of promising uninterrupted protected DPS.

Common mistake: Quoting the strongest bonus-rank buff values as normal learned values, or judging her contribution only by the damage shown next to her own name.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Party stat buffs, MP recovery, HP/MP regeneration and renewed protection through Epic of Hero. Some recovery protection ends when its recipient attacks or uses a skill.

Gear and progression

Flat buffs can be especially meaningful earlier; percentage bonuses and coordinated protection remain relevant later. Learned ranks change their strength.

Handling and safety

Choose when to attack, recover allies or channel protection. Team spacing and timing determine whether the support lands usefully.

What remains uncertain

No single damage-share figure captures these different support roles, and their exact team gain remains unmeasured.

Final tier open. Her mobility and protected attacking deserve consideration, but the available comparable runs cannot establish a reliable overall placement.

Why this placement

The final tier stays open because the new like-for-like small-party and raid samples still contain only four characters each. Solo clearing looks broadly typical in a small cohort. Her real mobility and protection deserve analysis, but neither a low damage share nor the phrase 'cannot die with mana' establishes her overall tier.

Practical plan

Solo

Use Blade Seal's directional follow-up to keep contact and position well. Its sustained benefit is interruption resistance and movement; the opening damage immunity is only a short section.

Bosses

Veil of Swords has immunity through about 4.22 seconds, while its nominal action lasts 6 seconds and the listed dash cancel begins at 4.5. Plan for that gap and recovery instead of treating the full cast as safe.

Mobs

Exploit air combinations on launchable mobs, but keep targets where your follow-up can land. Unlaunchable enemies and scattered packs invalidate the same combo expectations.

Party

Choose Magic Defense or Protective Aura for the actual danger: the two buffs compete. Magical damage protection excludes physical/neutral damage, and these buffs use different cooldown rules from her fast-repeating damage skills.

Common mistake: Assuming zero cooldown on an attack gives zero cooldown on the shield, stacking both defensive buffs on paper, or confusing anti-interruption with all-damage immunity.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Mostly personal protection and movement, plus control on eligible enemies. This can improve her usable output without becoming a party-wide damage buff.

Gear and progression

Cooldown reduction can sustain frequent eligible attacks. Magic Defense and Protective Aura use different cooldown rules; do not infer constant shield coverage from a fast attack rotation.

Handling and safety

Read the protection breakdown below. Direction choice, range and the distinction between damage immunity and interruption resistance matter.

What remains uncertain

The new period still has too few comparable characters in the relevant modes for a defensible final tier. The toolkit and advice remain useful, but a large result from one or two players is not a class verdict.

Asuka: protection is not one single effect

Final tier open. The matched sample is too concentrated to separate the character from the few players representing him.

Why this placement

The final tier remains open. The recent matched raid result looks large, but it comes from only two characters; small-party matching has one. That is a player sample, not proof that Ralph has suddenly become a leading class. His actual attack commitments and positioning can still be described precisely.

Practical plan

Solo

Plan a safe exit before True Hurricane Surge Punch. Its nominal action is 3.5 seconds and its listed dash cancel starts at 2.8; it is not a quick, freely canceled poke.

Bosses

Aim the sequence through the boss's useful contact area. Multiple field placements are not automatically multiple hits on every boss. Ultm. Storm Demon Attack is a long protected action, not a measure of permanent sustained damage.

Mobs

Line up packs for the forward attack and use air combinations only on eligible mobs. Scattering enemies out of the follow-up makes impressive animations produce less useful clearing.

Party

Avoid moving the target away from allies' attacks. Protective Aura offers control resistance and regeneration; it is not a party-wide immunity skill.

Common mistake: Extrapolating a strong run by one geared player, or assuming the interruption protection on True Hurricane Surge Punch covers the whole action and also stops incoming damage.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Mostly personal movement, protective aura and aggro reduction. Air control helps only against eligible targets.

Gear and progression

Judge the kit at realistic physical investment. A perfect stationary rotation is not evidence of the damage delivered throughout a real encounter.

Handling and safety

Facing, close-range positioning and cancel timing demand attention; several important attacks have a substantial commitment.

What remains uncertain

The new period still has too few comparable characters in the relevant modes for a defensible final tier. The toolkit and advice remain useful, but a large result from one or two players is not a class verdict.

A versatile damage-and-recovery choice with stronger recent small-party evidence than raid evidence. The new B / A range reflects that uncertainty rather than a gameplay nerf.

Why this placement

B / A replaces the fixed A recommendation because new small parties remain favorable while raid damage is less stable. Healing, blessings and guards still provide broad usefulness. This is a correction to assessment confidence with unchanged checked combat rules, not evidence that the character was nerfed.

Practical plan

Solo

Keep enough health to fund the kit's costs and use Shadow of Healing after creating a safe opening. Recovery that prevents a death can be worth more than forcing another attack.

Bosses

Use Guard of Darkness for a planned party window. Shield of Darkness is a different shield that ends with offensive action or skill use, so it cannot simply be counted as full-time attacking protection.

Mobs

Keep enemies in the areas that are already active rather than repeatedly setting up on moving targets. Reposition heals around where allies will finish dodging.

Party

Power of Darkness provides offensive support with an ongoing health cost. Check whether the group can sustain that cost and needs recovery. She cannot substitute Eir's resurrection when a revive is required.

Common mistake: Treating her curse-resistance reduction as a universal percentage damage-taken debuff, or treating every shield and guard as the same stackable effect.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Party healing, strength and attack blessings, sleep and protective tools. Shield of Darkness ends on offensive action or skill use; Guard of Darkness is a separate renewed effect. She has no Eir-style resurrection.

Gear and progression

Useful recovery does not require maximum damage investment. Buff ranks and the party's actual need for healing determine the return.

Handling and safety

Manage health costs and long actions while keeping allies within support range. Choose recovery before a party failure, not after it.

What remains uncertain

The all-round recommendation is a role judgment; no controlled test proves a fixed clear-time advantage over every specialist.

A setup-oriented engineer with useful control options. Current evidence supports a cautious range rather than a top general recommendation.

Why this placement

The cautious C / B range reflects below-peer direct comparisons that change substantially after accounting for which teammate classes were compared. That disagreement and the small raid sample prevent a confident high rank. Devices and control have real uses, but setup must pay off before the fight moves elsewhere.

Practical plan

Solo

Use Target Decoy F-4 and Magnetic Field Generator S-2 where the next fight will actually take place. Preplacing devices in an abandoned area turns setup time into lost progress.

Bosses

Commit Artitan Mk. 28 when the target is reachable for a useful portion of the form. A moving or untargetable phase can waste the setup even if the stationary ceiling looks good.

Mobs

Use decoys and grouping against responsive mobs, then keep attacks inside that area. The hammer's named freezing effect is a chance-based immobilization effect, not guaranteed full crowd control.

Party

Choose one appropriate hammer coating; they compete rather than stacking all their bonuses. Freezing Hammer does not guarantee a proc on every hit or control every boss.

Common mistake: Counting every device as permanently hitting, adding all hammer coatings together, or trusting a single comparison method when the alternative gives a different picture.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Local control and distraction rather than broad healing or party stat buffs. Device ownership is included in observed damage where recorded.

Gear and progression

Cooldown investment helps repeat actions, but cannot remove setup time or make a device reach every target.

Handling and safety

Plan the fight around device placement and transformation timing. This is a more deliberate style than immediate mobile clearing.

What remains uncertain

Only a few independent characters remain after matching; device behavior and thin samples make adjacent placements uncertain.

Final tier open. Taunts and personal protection give him a role, but the small matched sample cannot establish its total value.

Why this placement

The final tier remains open: the recent small-party match has one character and the raid match four. Lower observed damage does not quantify the value of holding threat or making enemies easier to hit. The right conclusion is a conditional melee/control role with insufficient comparative evidence, not a fabricated precise rank.

Practical plan

Solo

Use reach and keep a safe recovery plan. Lightning Leap has a brief damage-immunity section inside a longer action; the whole leap is not invulnerable.

Bosses

Check that this boss responds to Provocation before relying on threat control. Self-Sacrificing Blow is a distinct protected commitment; immunity-piercing mechanics still need a movement plan.

Mobs

Bring responsive enemies into spear coverage without spreading them beyond the group's attacks. Wide reach is valuable only when the targets stay in it.

Party

Use Magic Defense for the covered magical damage, not as an answer to every attack. Taking attention helps only if you can survive it and improve your allies' attack opportunities.

Common mistake: Calling every taunt reliable tanking on every boss, or assigning a confident tier from one small-party representative.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Provocation, control and personal magical protection. Drawing attention is useful only when it actually helps the party survive and attack.

Gear and progression

Physical investment, learned ranks and target access matter. A protected ultimate does not remove the demands of ordinary melee combat.

Handling and safety

Manage reach, facing and the danger of taking threat. Do not replace movement with a protection assumption.

What remains uncertain

The new period still has too few comparable characters in the relevant modes for a defensible final tier. The toolkit and advice remain useful, but a large result from one or two players is not a class verdict.

Final tier open. Her support costs and target-dependent attacks need evaluation beyond the very small comparable sample.

Why this placement

The final tier stays open. The new sample now has some small-party comparisons, but only three characters there and two in raids. The important correction is to assess her actual area attack and support trade-offs, rather than keep an old one-skill damage assumption or automatically label her last.

Practical plan

Solo

Place Dance of Flames where targets will remain and keep resources for the next pack. Its brief interruption resistance is not protection for the entire area-attack action.

Bosses

Do not assume a launch or a full repeated area works on this boss. Preserve a safe exit and judge landed attacks, not the nominal number of effects on screen.

Mobs

Use launches and areas together on susceptible groups. Your useful damage changes when the pack cannot be lifted or leaves the placed area.

Party

Unholy Sacrifice, Spiritual Bargain and Deathly Grace compete instead of stacking all three effects. Choose the resource exchange or maximum-HP support the team needs; the exchange has ongoing costs despite a zero HP casting cost in the table. For Deathly Grace, ordinary rank 3 gives 15% maximum HP; 25% belongs to bonus rank 5.

Common mistake: Adding the three party buffs together, promising free healing, or quoting the bonus-rank maximum-HP value as the normal learned value.

Skills to understand

References at the ordinary learned rank cap, not a complete skill-point build. Bonus ranks can change costs and effects. Cooldowns are before applicable reductions. * marks skills with different cooldown-reduction rules. MP/HP below are casting costs; ongoing costs are explained in the tips. Quoted action times assume normal animation speed; speed changes and cancels alter the actual window.

Party contribution

Party maximum-HP support and HP/MP exchange buffs. Exchanging one resource for another is a real cost, not free healing.

Gear and progression

Cooldown reduction, ranks and enough resources influence how comfortable the kit feels. A high theoretical cast rate alone does not establish its effectiveness.

Handling and safety

Watch both health and mana, place attacks and account for team resource costs before applying support.

What remains uncertain

The new period still has too few comparable characters in the relevant modes for a defensible final tier. The toolkit and advice remain useful, but a large result from one or two players is not a class verdict.