General

This first section will cover weapons that are equally useful for Omega and Optimus.

General

Gold Moon

Celeste

To start, let us cover the weapons needed for Celeste grids.

Core

Good to Have

Summon	Priority	Notes
1-2 Pain and Sufferings	★★★★★
0-1 Eternal Signatures	★★★☆☆
0-1 Parazonium	★★★☆☆

For premium upgrade options, Pain and Suffering is your highest priority thanks to the unconditional 50k supp and 7% cap up.

Eternal Signatureprovides 7% special cap up when slotting four of the same weapon type. Being yet another cap up source makes them great to have around. They are also perfectly fine to leave at 0*.

Parazonium is a great normal mod and cap up source and an excellent mainhand for Manadiver. The CA provides 30/30 DATA and 15% bonus damage to team. I don’t consider it a priority bar it now but if you have an FLB you’ll mainhand it for any manadiver FA setup

Hades

Hades will likely recieve one new Grand release before UnF causing shifts in grids. The majority of the grid will likely remain the same so still aim for the grid pieces listed.

Core

Summon	Priority	Notes
2-3 Causality Drivers	★★★★★
2 Pain and Sufferings	★★★★★
2 MA Fallen Sword	★★★★☆

Causality Driver is Dark’s exalto weapon and it provides boostable bonus damage. This goes up to 50% and frees you from the Falsehood key. It also has small TA which is very helpful for many characters.

Pain and Suffering offers 50k supp and 7% cap per copy. They are very strong and universally useful for all that additional cap break.

Fallen Sword is a strong mix of primal mods that also offers MA awakening on top. The MA is excellent as between this and Casuality Drivers, reaching 100% on Cidala (Valentine) becomes easy.

Good to Have

Summon	Priority	Notes
1-2 Skeletal Eclipse	★★★☆☆
1-2 Eternal Signatures	★★★☆☆	1 ATK Parazonium
1 ATK Parazonium	★★☆☆☆
1-2 Majestas	★★☆☆☆
1 Daodao Fu	★★☆☆☆
1-2 Agonize	★☆☆☆☆

Hades has two main skill weapons. Skeletal Eclipse is a boostable skill cap and supp source and Agonize are a flat 100k supp. They are at their strongest for FA setups or setups that don’t use Eresh. A single copy of Skeletal Eclipse does get used to edge out a bit of extra damage on some Eresh setups. If Dark recieves a Sennen Goji clone it would replace the need for Eclipses.

Parazonium is a great normal mod, TA, and cap up source and an excellent mainhand for Manadiver. The CA provides 30/30 DATA and 15% bonus damage to team.

Eternal Signature provides 7% special cap, 40% EX ATK, and 25% DEF per copy when at least 4 weapons of the same group are equipped. They are generally not used much anymore, the extra defense or cap up could be helpful in certain situations. Particularly the additional HP and defense will likely be good for NM250 FA.

Majestas and Daodao Fu are two other great defensive weapons typically taking the place as the most used slots now in HL. Majestas is a farmable medium garrison and HP source. Daodao Fu is a seasonal weapon that provides small HP and healing cap as well as 100k skill supp making it very efficient as a slot.

Who to Level?

Below are bunch of characters that see use in various contents. If you have any of them, try to level them beforehand and don’t forget to invest in EMPs, earrings, rings, and artifacts for the characters you’ll use.

Burst

Full Auto

OTK

Who to Farm?

Next up, we’ll go over the Eternals and Evokers for the element that you should consider farming for.

Seox

Seox is Dark’s Eternal and the strongest Eternal overall. At FLB he is a great attacker especiallyyou lack stronger options. This is both thanks to his skill 1 Gate of Sin Gain Adversity (20%, Multiplier: Seraphic, 3t).
Level 95:
Buff increased to Adversity (30%, Multiplier: Seraphic, 3t).
Also gain Bonus Dark DMG (60%, 3t). providing 60% damage amp and 60% bonus damage as well as the passive Heavenly Howl stacks he builds every turn as long as he can avoid getting hit. He starts with 3 Heavenly Howl stacks which gives him 105% perpetuity ATK up, 45% TA up, and 9% cap up. He also backs a valuable dispel on skill 3.

At Level 130 where he can start with 6 of Heavenly Howl stacks. This means he starts the battle with 210% perpetuity ATK up, 90% TA up, and 18% cap up. The 150 upgrade gives him a strong nuke on dodging, gives him skill supp, and makes his skill 4 come up faster for 4 turns of teamwide double strike.

At 95 he gains a passive Counter Claw. This will deal a 6 hit nuke whenever the enemy special attacks. This makes him an excellent OTK character. With the 130 upgrade as well as the additional potential nuke on dodge from his 150 passive he’s one of the bettter OTK characters in the game.

His Radiance is also highly reccomended as it starts him with a 1 time 30% bonus damage which is a big help for OTK and burst setups.

Nier

Nier is Dark’s evoker. She is a prime sack candidate for Death (SSR) due to her dying capping DEF down as well as 100% DATA down on the enemy upon dying. She has long been pretty important for dark burst even if many setups now a days no longer use her. She also has a field World of Death and Love Transform the field into a world of death and love.
(World of Death and Love (20% ATK Up / 30% Bonus Dark DMG, Multiplier: Unique, 3t) to the Field Effect|field.) that provides 20% unique ATK and 30% echoes.

For FLB, her main noteworthy upgrade is her skill 4 Eternal Vow Gain Eternal Vow (Multiplier: Perpetuity).
(Love’s Redemption 13 lowers by 4. Can’t be recast.
Can only be used after The Lovers Upright activates.) where she deals a 6 hit skill nuke after normal attacks. After she dies, this ability transfers to MC. Like with all evoker skill 4’s, the main limiting factor on this is needing to swap her in. Her damage output might not be on par with some of the other strong attackers in dark, but along with her field she’s great for extended fights and NM200.

What to Suptix?

In this section, we will go over the Special Suprise Draw Set that will occur before UnF to discuss any characters or summons that may be useful.

High Priority

Characters that are a strong recommendation to get.

Bowman

Bowman is an great burst character packing GTA, skill damage after normals, and skill damage after enemy special. He one of the best zero button attackers in Dark making him fit in well with both OTK and Dark burst strategies. He is best geared towards shorter bursts compared to some of his peers, but is very good for them.

Medium Priority

Characters that fill some strong niches

Tyra

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Tyra is a solid burst option and FA character. She does require pressing her skill 3 The Evolution , but with that she gains GTA and 2 hit flurry. Additionally, on enemy special she autocasts her skill 1 Tyranno Roar which will dispel one buff. She also has some other strong buffs she could get, though it is RNG and can be a bit, but not overly, inconsistent.

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.

Kou

Kou is a great tank and teamwide healer. He is a hostility tank that reduces all damage he takes by 80%. If the boss does single target attacks, he will be a top tier way to mitigate damage. The unfortunate flipside to it is if the boss does AoE attacks his value is greatly diminished.

What to Spark?

For this section, we’ll go over characters found in either Flash Gala or Legend Festival. This won’t go over any 3% banners because I do not trust them. Additionally, this won’t list characters who solely exist for their weapons.

Before UnF, there will be two more legfests and two more flashes. Barring new character releases, the following are the main characters you want to aim for.

Fediel

Olivia

Olivia (Grand) has remained a core burst character for UnF the last few years. This is primarily thanks to her skill 1 Sterling Sea 500% Dark damage to all foes (Damage cap: ~830,000).
Inflict DA Down (100%, Accuracy: 100%, 180S), TA Down (100%, Accuracy: 100%, 180S) and Twilight Terror 2 (Accuracy: 90%, 2T).
Level 55:
Effect enhanced. inflicting 100% DATA down and more importantly Twilight Terror preventing their charge bar from filling and from using special attacks. As dark needs to take turns for its burst setups, this is invaulable for survivibility. Her damage output also too isn’t bad too. She gets 30% normal amp when affected by dark up. But overall that is not why she’s used.

Orologia

Orologia will be a top tier FA candidate for NM200 and beyond. He has a dispel which will activate on MC attacks while skill 1 is up. He reduces skill cooldowns with his skill 1 and then every 5 turns when his stacks are maxed. He also comes with a full heal, debuff cleanse, and permament 50% DEF up that activates when an ally is below 25% HP.

Indala

Halluel and Malluel

Lich

Lich is primarily listed first for her weapon Pain and Suffering. It comes with 50k supp, 7% cap up, and axe voltage and will always be slotted.

Thankfully the character that comes with Lich is also good. Lich is a skill damage dealer with a large nuke at the end of each turn depending on how many debuffs they have that she also provides. When it comes to UnF, she is pretty mid tier as a burst character but is still solid as an FA character thanks to providing a strong array of debuffs, delays, and synergy with Fediel.

Vikala

Vikala is another FA oriented character also with a focus on dispels. Vicky is a CA support providing very strong teamwide CA buffs including 10% CA cap and 50% charge bar gain. Her main issue is that her field and Fediel’s can’t be used at the same time which limits a lot of her kit if you use both. But if you use her alone you can gain access to the heals, DMG mitigation, teamwide dodge all, and teamwide double strike on her skills.

Orchid

Orchid (Grand) is both a solid FA character and a common sac target for Dark. A big part of this is she provides 10% bonus damage and 20/20 DATA via a unqiue buff to team. For FA, she has solid damage output as well as being able to provide veil to team. She does fall apart quickly at harder bosses as when she loses her personal shield her damage falls apart and the harder bosses will remove it quick. That said she will still be a good option for up to NM150.