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All of the roles below are important for clearing various content, but they have been broken into priority below based on their relevance and importance (sorted alphabetically). Scroll further down to see details on why they are important and which characters fulfill that role, to varying degrees.

All roles are categorized into Defensive, Support, Boss Disruption, & Quality of Life. Note that they are ordered by their last update. This is NOT A TIER LIST. Keep in mind that characters with more recent updates may (but not always) be more tuned for handling upcoming content vs older characters. Keep your roles updated & balanced!

Defensive Roles

Support Roles

Boss Disruption

Quality of Life / Efficiencies

High Priority Key Roles

Aura Support (ATK)DebufferEnchant & ImperilHealer - Both Burst & RegenParalysis / Silence EffectsTank

Medium Priority Key Roles

100% Gravity & Instant BreakCountersDispellerDebuff EvasionHealer - Burst onlyHealer - Regen onlyHP DMG MitigatorLauncherTurn Delay

Low Priority Key Roles

AoE FarmingEsuna / CleansingLast StandStop Enemy BRVTraps

Defensive Roles

Tank

Priority: HighWhy? Tanks take pressure off your team and can help trivialize boss mechanics.

Lock indicates that they draw attention onto themselves, but note LD/#T if those locks are limited.
Cover indicates they don't rely on a debuff and will jump in front of your allies to protect them

LockReduce

CoverMitigate

LD Lock Evade

Lock AoE Shield

Lock AoE HP Sponge

1T Lock Evade

2T Lock Evade

Lock Mitigate

Cover

1T Lock AoE Evade

Lock Mitigate

ST Lock Mitigate

Has Last Stand to Prevent KO

Priority: LowWhy? Always relevant but rarely required. Last Stand affords you more flexibility in battle as you don't need to worry about them dying as long as Last Stand is active.

1 time

Prevent KO w/ LD buff

1 time

party-wide

HP Damage Mitigator

Priority: MediumWhy? They protect your entire party by significantly reducing or nullifying damage, which is a constant theme of difficult content. They operate in most content but note that their mitigation may not always be active. Note that characters with minor HP reduction (< 50%) are not shown.

LD buff30%

EX debuff 1T 100%

EX HP buff1T 100%

LD debuff1T 100%

buff20%

Shield buff100%

EX blind1T 100%

LD buff once 100%

AoE HP redirect

AA aura3T 40%

buff20%

buff70%

AA aura3T 40%

EX buffevasion

S1 debuff2T BRV Freeze

BRV Mitigator

Priority: MediumWhy? Stopping or reducing stolen BRV or BRV gains is relevant at countering very specific bosses. They can turn a difficult fight into a cake walk, but not all fights can be approached this way. These effects are so powerful that they are often tied to limited use skills or niche cases.

shield & AA 20%

stops gains

shield

absorb NE BRV

30% BRV

80% PHYS or MAG

50% BRV

20% BRV in moon

stops stolen

60% BRV

40% BRV

30% BRV

20% BRV

stops gains

stops all

60% MAG

Party Debuff Evasion

Priority: MediumWhy? This is such a rare quality, & while you can always try to counter debuffs in other ways, these characters can trivialize boss mechanics that revolve around them.

70%

30%

Esuna / Debuff Cleansing

Priority: LowWhy? While just as rare, this role is only truly useful vs bosses with guaranteed debuffs, which is quite rare. If the debuff lands on your party, it is pushing buffs off, which is not ideal.

Support Roles

Party Enchant & Imperil

Priority: HighWhy? These characters enable your entire team hit weakness damage on all of their hits. This not only boosts their damage, but lets you use a smaller range of characters in more content, ignoring boss mechanics. Just make sure their element is not absorbed!

earth

dark

earth

holy

thunder

water

thunder

thunder & water

wind

fire

holyAA only

iceAA only

Both Burst & Regen Healing

Priority: HighWhy? Healing is nearly always relevant in difficult content, and having two ways of healing gives you more flexibility to tackle any boss, regardless of its attack patterns.

2 AA burst heal

Burst Healer

Priority: MediumWhy? Burst healing enables your party to quickly recover from a big boss attack. Note that Burst Healing requires more strategy as it comes from a limited-use skill or an EX ability which is not always charged when you need it.

w/ sylph

Regen Healer

Priority: MediumWhy? Regen healing enables your party to stay topped off on HP throughout difficult content. It's biggest drawback is that you need time/turns to heal after a big attack, so Regen won't always be enough.

2 AA only

Launcher

Priority: MediumWhy? Launching can provide huge damage amplification and is one of the most common ways to "cheese" a fight, by ignoring boss mechanics.How does it work? When a launch occurs, 10% HP DMG will be added to the attack. For every ally that participates in the launch, 5% more HP DMG will be added, for a total of 20% boost. Pairing this with Pandemonium summon is another 25% HP DMG, which stacks to +45% HP DMG!

EX only

8 w/ pande

EX only

6 & EX

EX only

Boss Disruption

100% Gravity & Instant Break

Priority: MediumWhy? Lufenia difficulty will more frequently have huge BRV DMG reductions, sometimes even as high as 999% reduction. More enemies will have auras that require them to be broken to dispel the aura. This makes 100% gravity specifically and instant break characters extremely valuable

50% chance (Odin)

Dispeller

Priority: MediumWhy? Dispelling can be very useful in niche fights, removing boss buffs, which sometimes can be the difference between ease & impossibility. This is less frequent in Lufenia, only being critical in a couple of fights, as bosses tend to have invisible auras that cannot be dispelled with an ability.

steals buffs

Paralysis / Silence Effects

Priority: MediumWhy? Paralysis & Silence is always relevant, giving you time to delay a big enemy attack, and giving you more turns than the enemy overall. Fights upcoming will require these types of effects to complete, generally via the Lufenia orb, or sometimes from the boss mechanic itself.

Trap Effects

Priority: LowWhy? For now, traps are mainly used to counter bosses that have instant turn rate skills, or as a way of boosting damage over time, when turns are at a premium. Neither of these are generally required & there are other roles that are more important that cover this one.

Counter Attacks

Priority: LowWhy? Nearly exactly the same reasoning as Trap Effects above. Both of these can be considered as nice to have, but are in no way required currently.

HP, Battery, Heal

2x HP on evade

BRV on take BRV dmg

HP on evade

BRV on take HP dmg

BRV on evade

(low %)BRV on take BRV

HP on evade

HP on evade PHY from S2+

Turn Delay

Priority: MediumWhy? Always relevant, turn delay is the most used tactic to countering all forms of bosses, and giving them less turns to take. Stacking up on turn delay can trivialize bosses and afford more varied team compositions. Be warned enemies upcoming in Lufenia will sometimes punish you severely for delaying. It is not rampant yet, but do expect this to be downgraded to Low priority by Summer 2021.

EX only

LDonly

PHY Enemies

EX only

with EX debuffonly

Deletes Turns

EX only

S2 only

EX only

S2 & EX

EX only

AA only

EX only

S2 only

EX only

S1 only

Quality of Life / Efficiencies

AoE Farmers

Time below character is the seconds needed to complete WoI Radiant Artifacts 40SP w/ 3 skills (glass break - victory), generally in a solo team composition with full gear & MLB.
Also listed are the requirements for them to complete such as summonMost use Shiva to ensure going first in the first wave

18.45Solo & Brothers

18.95Shiva

19.81any 15cp w/ 55 clvl

19.89

20Diabolos

Auto Farmers

Time below character is the seconds needed to complete WoI Radiant Artifacts 40SP on AUTO (glass break - victory)(remove mBRV = mBRV passives & Brothers Boost Up)Note: Yuna is at 30 seconds autofarm time, across 3 waves

20Deuce & Liliarts

23.13remove mBRV

24.71(22.48 w/ Squall setup)

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