Weapon	Priority	Notes
1 Scythe of Renunciation	★★★★★	Only required for Colossus
1 Scythe of Repudiation	★★★★★	Only required for Agni
1 Sword of Valorblaze	★★★★★
1 Ultima Axe	★★★★★
1 Ultima Staff	★★★★★
1 Doombringer Sword	★★★★★

The most basic thing you should have leveled is your opus as that will be your mainstay for all grids. Level 200 is the baseline due to gaining the incredibly important 3rd skill slot. 230 is the most important transcendance level as it adds boostable damage amp to the opus. 250 is a minor upgrade to the skills but is still a strong upgrade if you can afford it.

When it comes to Ultima weapons, the most useful ones are Ultima Staff and Ultima Axe. The former pairs well with Manadiver. The latter great for Lancer Origin.

Doombringer Sword is an upgrade over Ultima providing a larger 30% Seraphic amp as well as bonus Destruction damage. If you can get it, it replaces Ultima is most situations. The main situations Ultima has the edge on is unboosted setups. This is because the Seraphic amp and cap up on the Destruction weapon requires 280% aura boost.

Weapon	Priority	Notes
1 Demolition-Tiger Axe	★★★★★
1 Altruism-Soul Staff	★★★★★
Worldvexing Angelos	★★★★★
1 ATK Exo Maitrah Karuna	★★★★☆
1 Draconic Harp	★★★★☆
1 Refrain of Blazing Vigor	★★★★☆
1 Heat of The Sun	★★★☆☆
1 ATK Exo Krodha	★★★☆☆
1 Worldstorming Aetos	★★☆☆☆
1 ATK Iron Fist of Severed Chains	★★☆☆☆
1 Norden Labrys	★★☆☆☆
1 DEF Royal Deliverance	★★☆☆☆
1 DEF Lux in Tenebris	★★☆☆☆
1 Ray of Zhuque Malus	★☆☆☆☆	Generally phased out but good if you lack the better cap up sources.

The need for Celestials is the same as for Ultimas. As for the awakening, generally ATK is the safest. However, if you can afford to, it would be best to wait on awakening until closer to UnF for most testing.

Exo Maitrah Karuna is an excellent farmable mainhand for Manadiver setups. It will be the best option for MD that doesn’t require bars.

Draconic Harp and its upgrade Refrain of Blazing Vigor will both be great defensive investments for FA especially if you wish to tackle the higher NM fights or have weaker characters in general.

With NM250 allowing Extra Slots, weapons that can go in those slots are a lot more valuable. Ultimas are an easy fill. For FA, Refrain of Blazing Vigor is easy slot. World weapons, NWF weapons, Bahamut weapons, and Militis weapons are all options.

The Viking CCW Norden Labrys is also a strong investment for OTK. This is thanks to its 3rd skill casting Banahogg 2-hit superior Elemental damage to a foe (Damage cap: ~370,000 per hit).
Inflict DEF Lowered (25%, 180s).
If main or auxiliary weapon is a sabre: Boost to number of hits (2 times).
If main or auxiliary weapon is an axe: Also inflict status DEF Down (25%, 180s). at the end of a turn where 40 or more hits dealt. Banahogg is a very large skill damage nuke making it a lot easier to pull of an OTK.

Iron Fist of Severed Chains is a top tier mainhand for Sumaibito. It adds 3 turns of Bonus DMG (50%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks to In the Face of Adversity Gain Jammed (40%-120%, 3T), DMG Amplified (20%, Multiplier: Seraphic, 3T), and DMG Cap Boosted (20%, 3T).
(Consumes 25% of max HP.) which is great for any multi turn setup. For single turn setups, the ATK Sharply Boosted (1 hit) added to Ultimate Palm Strike 700% Elemental damage to a foe (Damage cap: ~635,000).
Inflict DEF Down 2 (25%, 2T) and DMG Taken Amplified 1 (30%, 6 times, 1T). is incredibly powerful.

Thanks to Boogeyman being excellent for NM250, its CCW Lux in Tenebris is also highly reccomended. While its not the craziest weapon, it provides solid upgrades to all skills especially with reducing Bespoke Tailoring’s Gain Unchallenged 2 (2 times), Veil, and Dispel Cancel (1 times).
(When Dark Reputation is 5: Affects all allies.) cooldown and giving MC additional bonus damage.

Royal Deliverance is another strong CCW investment for 100% uptime on Debuff Resistance Boosted (100%) and Dispel Cancel as well as Dispelling Removes a buff from a foe. on CA. This will make NM250 a ton easier if you lack the important characters that can dispel or prevent debuffs.

Weapon	Priority	Notes
3-5 Colossus Cane Ira	★★★★★	5 needed for Orologia OTK
2 Colossus Bomber Ira	★★★★★
1 Sol Remnant	★★★★★

Like most other elements at this point, the core of Omega grids are its M3 exalto weapon. In this case, that would be Colossus Cane Ira. Three will cover many cases especially for FA. Four covers a lot more and is reccomended to not find yourself short. 5 of them have use for Orologia OTK.

Colossus Bomber Ira is also highly reccomended for its skill cap up and supp. Particularly, it will be great for OTK and FA.

And the last super core piece to have is Sol Remnant. It provides 10% bonus damage on TAs. This does not stack with Falsehood but as a result frees you from needing Falsehood for that additional bonus damage. It will be used in OTK, Burst, and FA so make sure its ULB.

Summon	Priority	Notes
1-3 ATK Extinction Blade Mk II	★★★☆☆
1-2 Nilakantha	★★★☆☆
1-2 DEF Extinction Blade	★★★☆☆
1 Colossus Buster Ira	★★★☆☆
1-2 Sword of Pallas Militis	★★★☆☆
1-3 Benbenet	★★★☆☆	1-2 with 1 Crimson Scale 0 with 2
2-4 Demonspear of Prosperity Verboten	★★★☆☆
2 Deathcannon of Prosperity Verboten	★★☆☆☆
1-2 Blazefist of Prosperity Verboten	★★☆☆☆
1-2 DEF Mortality Bow	★★☆☆☆
1-2 Scimitar of Brahman	★★☆☆☆
1 Summer’s Mirage	★★☆☆☆	For CA OTK and weaker NM250 setups
2 ATK Al-Abad	★★☆☆☆	For CA OTK and weaker NM250 setups
1 SPC Ushumgal	★☆☆☆☆	Good Relic Buster mainhand.

Outside the Exalto, the best mod in Fire is Extinction Blade Mk II. They will likely be good for any unboosted setups or Kag x Kag OTK. Another solid mod option is Nilakantha as it brings stamina. The HP mod on it is good as well for Wamdus setups or for FA.

Sword of Pallas Militis is another OTK weapon thanks to it providing 20% MA at max HP. Two of them is 40% TA which will be very helpful for EX+ setups.

Benbenet and their supp will be decent slots but are replaced easily by stronger weapons. You could use about 3 of them for OTK if you lack Crimson Scales. If you already have two Scales you won’t need it.

Al-Abad and Summer’s Mirage are for CA based OTK or CA setups for NM250.

For Defensive options, Extinction Blade, Colossus Buster Ira, Scimitar of Brahman, and Mortality Bow are all pretty solid slots. The bow provides 10% skill cap and 5% normal cap which makes it great for adding additional cap up.

For the Odious, weapons, while they have potential, they are presently pretty niche. You can make some solid grids with it but as of right now they likely won’t see use or see use in a way that makes them stand out compared to pure Colo grids. The upgrade to the Odious series won’t come to til later so for this UnF you can probably skip them.

Alanaan

Alanaan is Fire’s strongest buffer and packs high value with one button. His skill 4 Days of Redemption provides 1 turn 2 hit flurry as well as 4 turns of 100/20 crit, 100% TA and 30% TA to the party. The two drawbacks for this is that he needs to be swapped into to his skill 4 and it also inflicts shorted to the party. The latter means you’ll need clarity if you want Manadiver’s nukes. The former is a lot more limiting as that means you’ll either need Death (SSR) or kill off a unit turn 1 to bring him in turn 2.

For the majority of burst setups, he won’t see much usage as a result. Still, he’s highly reccomended for manual play for either weaker teams or for longer bursts.

Fraux

Fraux is an FA based healer and skill damage dealer. She has a double dispel via her skill 1 Crimson Nightmare 400%-500% Fire damage to a foe (Damage cap: ~480,000).
Inflict Nightmare Temptation 2 (Accuracy: 200%, 2T).
(When Solid Fortitude is in effect: Also inflict Nightmare Scarlet 2 (10% of damage dealt Damage cap: None, Accuracy: 200%, 2T) and remove 1 buff.) and her skill 3 Indominus 400%-500% Fire damage to a foe (Damage cap: ~480,000).
Gain ATK Boosted (Stackable / Can’t be removed) (10% (60% Max), Multiplier: Unique Stackable) and
DEF Boosted (Stackable / Can’t be removed) (10% (60% Max)).
Restore all allies’ HP based on damage dealt (Healing cap: 2000) and remove 1 debuff. double clears, heals a ton, and inflicts stackables. Like Alan, you will want her FLB with skill 4. Her skill 4 Splendor willl autocast her skill 3 on normal attacks for a ton of healing each turn. She will likely be quite helpful for NM200 and NM250 FA.

Tien

Tien is primarily a bounty bot with some strong output for FA bursting. She can quickly cap bounty and reach high overbounty levels for most FA setups making her great for going for Celestial drops. She deals multiple hit hit count skill nukes that do lots of damage and her GTA, bonus damage, and assassin are all quite nice. She’s not going to outperfom the strongest characters, but she can put out a ton of damage in a turn making her great for NM150.

Medium Priority

Characters that fill some strong niches.

Ragazzo

Ragazzo is an excellent short term burst character packing GTA and auto nukes as well dispels, double strike, and 100k supp on his skills. He is also particurly useful because he deals lots of damage for two turns before dying and swapping in someone else. This is an easy way to bring in an Evoker in FA without needing Yatima to call death or to bringing an off element sacc. Instead you have a character that deals a lot of damage very quickly and leaving once his job is done.

Anthuria

Anthuria is a FA support unit with emphasis on buffs via dodging. She has 3 turns of 50% dodge rate up and 1 time dodge all via her S1 and her CA. When she dodges, she heals, removes a debuff, provides dispel cancel, and extends hype for the team. Her other main feature as a buffer is a focus on hype support. She gives teamwide Hype on CA and on her S3. As long as she has at least 2 hype, she will provide stackable atk, def, and CA supp to the team along with 10% bar. She provides multiple CA batteries to the team and herself making it pretty easy to keep up the team’s hype and her dodging.

Low Priority

Good characters that may be replacements for stronger characters or fill too niche a niche that you could work around for not having them.

Icarus

Icarus is a character that wants to be swapped in order to quickly reach 5 crests. Once he does, he’ll have passive 30% normal ATK, 100% DEF, GDA, 10k supp, and 20% normal amp and can use his skill 3 Primal Sword Deimos Gain Primal Sword Deimos (3T).
(Can only be used when Icarus has 5 Hellfire Crest.) which gives him 3 turns of double strike and 90% bonus damage.

His weapon Dreadful Flamesword is a strong grid piece for Agni grids.

Clarisse

Clarisse’s FLB has turned her into an excellent support for full auto Manadiver setups thanks to her strong skill damage buffs for MC as well as additional skill damage she brings. She also good debuffs, frequent delays, and a dispel that upgrades to double dispel when her stacks are maxed. Her main drawback is 5 dispels need to be cast before she’s becomes a strong slot. Thus she is best used for longer fights and paired with someone like Ragazzo or Fraux who can provide quick dispels.

Sevilbarra

Sevilbarra (SSR) is a CA battery and attacker. One chainburst, he provides the team ATK Up, DEF up, DA up, and TA up with increased strength based on the number of chains. His skill 3 Absolution dispels and provides 20% charge bar to the team. It resets whenever he CAs twice in a turn. Between his 200 bar limit and CA reactivation on his skill 2, this can be pretty frequent.

Elmott

Elmott (SSR) is a good OTK and FA character thanks to him autocasting his skill 1 Searing Scorcher 700% Fire damage to a foe (Damage cap: ~730,000).Inflict Burned (5000, 180s) and remove 1 buff.(When Elmott has 10 or more buffs: Activates twice.) on enemy special. WIth 10 buffs, this becomes a very hard hitting 2 hit nuke that double dispels. This makes him both great for pushing tons of damage in OTK as well as quickly shredding buffs in any buff heavy fight.

Anna

I am legally obligated to mention Anna where ever possible even if she is very very low priority.

Anna (SSR) comes with fire’s only one turn assassin. Despite this, she doesn’t offer much offensively due to the lack of personal attack mods, bonus damage, TA, or other forms of cap break. Still, can be a sub damage dealer if you lack the stronger options.

She also provides 1% skill cap per Singed stack making her a solid backline option for Percy setups.

Summons

As always, summons are always a great option. The usual suspects of the bonus damage summon Red Hare, the 50k supp summon Soul Invoker, the 6 Dragon Optimus sub aura summon Wilnas or the Optimus main summon Agni] are all great to pick up if needed.

Percival (Grand)

The highest priority spark is by far Percival (Grand). He is an incredibly powerful burst enabler thanks to his skill 3 Koenig Dekret 900% Fire damage to all foes (Damage cap: ~1,020,000).
All Fire allies gain Fire ATK Up (100%, 1T) and Bonus Fire DMG (1 time) (30%, 1T).
All Fire allies instantly perform a normal attack without using up a turn.
(Consumes King’s Blaze after activation.) providing instant teamwide normal attacks like tag team paired with 30% bonus damage and 100% fire attack. He will be used at all levels.

Zeta (Grand)

Zeta (Grand) is a powerful sustained damage dealer packing 100% TA, 50% bonus damage, stackables, and dispel on normal attacks via her skill 1 Zeta (Grand) on an at worst 5/8 uptime. The uptime is usually closer to 100% though since she gains a 1 turn skill CD reduction every turn she’s at at least 100% charge. She also deals a skill nuke after every 3 ally TAs.

When it comes to burst setups, she is generally replaced by Wamdus (Holiday), but for sustained damage output and FA she is a lot better. The dispel on normal attacks in particular makes her incredibly useful for FA.

Michael

Michael provides a 20% boost to Omega and Optimus skills that takes effect even from the backline. This is particularly useful for activating Super Faa keys. She won’t be used really from the frontline so she’s a lower priority on that front.

Also her weapon Crimson Scale is fire’s Pact weapon coming with with 50k supp, 7% cap up, and axe voltage. There is no reason to not slot one if you get it.

Fenie

Fenie is an excllent support unit providing some strong buffs to the team via her skill 1, teamwide bonus damage on CA, and heals, 2 turn debuff duration cut, and dispel on her skill 2. Her skill 2 auto activates whenever an ally takes big damage or is in red health. Her main drawback is that she needs to die once before she can reach her full potential making her not good for shorter fights. But for something like NM250 where she has time to die she’ll liklely be very good.

Yuel

Yuel (Grand) is a ramp up FA unit that becomes quite strong once fully ramped. In order to ramp her S2, she needs 6 TAs or team chain bursts or a total of 12 to reach max. Initially, it heals the team and cuts debuff durations. After her first ramp, she will autocast her S1 Foxflame Familiars on normal attacks for a free dispel as well as inflicting foxflame. Foxflame gives the team 10% damage amp, 100/30 DATA, and 30% dodge rate. Her S3 is a free instant attack with flurry to help push more damage, dispels, and healing.