Summon	Priority	Notes
1 Harp of Renunciation	★★★★★	Only required for Yggdrasil
1 Harp of Repudiation	★★★★★	Only required for Titan
1 Gauntlet of Proudearth	★★★★★
1 Ultima Staff	★★★★★
1 Ultima Claw	★★★★★
1 Ultima Sword	★★★★★
1 Ultima Blade	★★★★★
1 Doombringer Trident	★★★★★

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.

Earth setups require a lot of different classes and character combinations meaning there is need for many different Ultimas to match characters. For Hrunting, both Ultima Sword and Ultima Blade are very strong to pair with different classes and characters. Those Ultimas also pair well with many heavy hitters like Makura, X.Narmaya, Olivia, or Threo. For Sumaibito or setups with H.Dante, Ultima Claw is high value. For NM95 bursting with Nekomancer or general FA with Manadiver, Ultima Staff is important. You might also see Ultima Gun for Nighthound NM250 setups. If you can’t get a large coverage of Ultimas before UnF, consider your plans and pick accordingly.

Doombringer Trident 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.

General

Summon	Priority	Notes
1 Altruism-Soul Staff	★★★★★
1 Covenant-Ruin Fist	★★★★★
1 Gateway-Star Sword	★★★★★
1 Oration-Life Katana	★★★★★
Worldvexing Angelos	★★★★★
Worldscathing Leon	★★★★★
1 Bounty of Gracious Earth	★★★★☆
1 Draconic Bow	★★★★☆
1 Binds of The Hanged Man	★★★☆☆	Extra Slot Grid Piece
1 Worldstorming Aetos	★★★☆☆	Extra Slot Grid Piece
1 Worldbreaking Tauros	★★★☆☆	Extra Slot Grid Piece
1 ATK Norden Labrys	★★★☆☆
1 ATK Iron Fist of Severed Chains	★★★☆☆
1 DEF Royal Deliverance	★★★☆☆
1 DEF Lux in Tenebris	★★★☆☆
1 Collapse of The Tower	★★☆☆☆	Extra Slot Grid Piece
1 Worldforging Moros	★★☆☆☆
1 Baihu Claw 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.

Next up, for World weapons, you’ll want both Worldscathing Leon and Worldvexing Angelos with Hrunting as Hrunting makes plenty of use of Katana and Axe classes. Even without Hrunting, there are plenty of characters that line up with those classes to make it worth it.

Draconic Bow and its upgrade Bounty of Gracious Earthwill both be great defensive investments for FA. Both will be great as a Boogeyman mainhand thanks to its teamwide DA Up (20%) Double attack rate is boosted TA Up (20%) Triple attack rate is boosted and Bonus DMG (15%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks on CA.

With NM250 allowing Extra Slots, weapons that can go in those slots are a lot more valuable. Ultimas are an easy fill. For FA, Bounty of Gracious Earth is easy slot. World weapons, NWF weapons, Bahamut weapons, and Militis weapons are all options. Binds of The Hanged Man will particularly be great for FA for the extra healing.

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 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.

Summon	Priority	Notes
0-1 Hrunting	★★★★★
0-1 Andromeda	★★☆☆☆

Hrunting has been a long time staple to Earth setups of all kinds since its release thanks heavily due to it giving MC perma Double Strike Attacks twice each turn . Also for any multi-turn setup, allies who take turn based damage get Bonus DMG (30%, 1 time) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks . With Fang of the Dragonslayer, thats free teamwide bonus damage at the end of every turn. Additionally, its Glorybringer awaken skill gives MC ATK Sharply Boosted (50%, 1 turn) .

Andromeda is a CA mainhand with strong teamwide buffs and helps with loopability. The main drawback as always for any CA weapon is that CA setups are slow. That said, its strong for CA mashing NM250 if that proves viable.

Summon	Priority	Notes
3-4 Yggdrasil Crystal Blade Arbos	★★★★★	4 required for DRZ keys
4 ATK Fang of the Dragonslayer Mk II	★★★★★
1 SPC Fang of the Dragonslayer Mk II	★★★★★

Before rank 200, the best option will be Yggdrasil Crystal Blade Arbos. It is Earth’s Omega Exalto weapon providing 20% boost to Omega weapon skills per copy. It also comes with Big ATK and Vivifaction which provides 2% EX ATK and 1% damage cap per weapon with a Lifetree weapon skill. It is recommended to get up to 4 for Dark Rapture Zero key uses.

After Rank 200, the best mod slot becomes available. Fang of the Dragonslayer and its upgraded version Fang of the Dragonslayer Mk II are excellent weapons thanks to the mix of Big Omega and Small Normal ATK as well as boosts from the ATK awakening. Grids will often run up to four for all the mod they offer. Getting at least 3 ATKs MKIIs will cover the majority of cases with 4 for unboosted setups or Nekomancer. Having a MKII is highly reccomended for the additional cap up as well. Having a MKI ATK is also nice to have for Caim grids as MKI and MKII are considered different weapons so they can be run together.

Summon	Priority	Notes
1 Ancient Perseus	★★★☆☆
1 Nibelung Klinge	★★★☆☆
1-2 DEF Claw of the Dragonslayer	★★★☆☆
1 ATK Fang of the Dragonslayer	★★★☆☆
1-2 Nibelung Horn	★★★☆☆
2-3 ATK Ished	★★★☆☆
1 SPC Ished	★★★☆☆
1 Solomon’s Axe Militis	★★★☆☆
1-3 Galleon’s Jaw	★★★☆☆
1-2 Yggdrasil Bark Bracer Arbos	★★★☆☆
1 Yggdrasil Dewdrop Harp Arbos	★★★☆☆
1 Tribunal Lyre Militis	★★☆☆☆	Extra slot

Ancient Perseus, Nibelung Klinge, Claw of the Dragonslayer, and Tribunal Lyre Militis are all HP padding options for FA. Having a mix of each is needed for Caim grids. Yggdrasil Dewdrop Harp Arbos is another defensive weapon with Garrison, TA, and healing cap for the harder hitting raids.

Ished provide 30k supp and 20% skill cap. They are solid slots though can be replaced easily by Pillardriver or other weapons in the majority of grids. For Caim setups, they can be used with Pillardriver for more supp. Additionally, them packing both supp and skill cap makes them strong for Orologia OTK. For this, 2 ATK and 1 SPC is reccomeded to make the most of the Orologia nuke.

An alternative 30k stamina supp weapon is Solomon’s Axe Militis. This weapon provides 6% multiattack at FLB making it a solid slot for other OTK setups or as Extra slot filler.

Yggdrasil Bark Bracer Arbos and Galleon’s Jaw are for CA based OTK or CA setups for NM250.

Summon	Priority	Notes
0-1 Ameno Habakiri (Earth)	★★★☆☆
0-1 Sphairai	★★★☆☆

Ameno Habakiri (Earth) and Sphairai are both gold moon weapons with crit and TA. The former offer medium ATK, medium crit, and medium MA while the later offers medium Crit, big MA, and 1.8% EX ATK per fist weapon in grid. The former costs 100 GM while the later is a much cheaper 30 GM.

Threo

Threo is a strong 0B-1B attacker. At FLB, she has 300k supp to the third hit of her normal attacks and also deals skill damage along with ATK Down (Local) (25%, 2 turns) and DEF Down (Local) (25%, 2 turns) on triple attacks. At level 120, when below 25% HP, she gains Guarenteed Triple Attacks Guaranteed triple attack regardless of Triple Attack Lowered debuffs and Bonus DMG (30%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks . This can be easily reached with her skill 3 Ground Zero Sacrifice 99% of caster’s current HP to deal plain damage to all foes (Damage cap: ~820,000).
Damage dealt is based on HP consumed.
Gain Shield (3000).
Level 95:
Also inflict Earth DEF Lowered (25%, Accuracy: ≥100%, 180s).
Damage cap increased to ~1,230,000.
Level 130:
Damage increased and damage cap increased to ~2,040,000.
When HP is below 25%: Also gain Tri-Slash (1T). which consumes 99% of her HP. This all makes her great for OTK or low button burst. The main drawback is she lacks TA up without pressing a button.

At level 130, her skill 3 Ground Zero Sacrifice 99% of caster’s current HP to deal plain damage to all foes (Damage cap: ~820,000).
Damage dealt is based on HP consumed.
Gain Shield (3000).
Level 95:
Also inflict Earth DEF Lowered (25%, Accuracy: ≥100%, 180s).
Damage cap increased to ~1,230,000.
Level 130:
Damage increased and damage cap increased to ~2,040,000.
When HP is below 25%: Also gain Tri-Slash (1T). will also give her Triple Strike Attacks 3 times each turn when used at red HP. With longer burst setups, this is typically done via Qilin to reset the skill. In the past, this triple strike usually makes her apart of some very strong setups. With her rebalance to make her hit harder, its likely some strats will make use of it again.

She’s also strong for FA thanks to her high sustained damage. As an enmity attacker, she won’t survive too long in the later harder hitting fights. She starts the battle with Undying (3-times) Can withstand lethal DMG (Leaves 1 HP) which will keep her alive for longer than most. This can be advantagous though to swap in another character after she deals a lot of damage.

At FLB, she is plenty usable, but the higher the better. 120 is reccomended for FA as that’s when gets GTA below 25% HP. 130 is the min reccomended for burst for Ground Zero’s triple strike. But for both 150 is great as she gets a lot more damage from her EMPs as well as added survivablity.

Caim

Caim is typically called Earth’s 11th weapon slot thanks to his strong backline passive. It provides 20% perp ATK, 50% DEF, and 10% cap up to allies when all weapons are different. While Earth has leaned away from Caim grids in general, especially for Titan, he can still have a strong place. In particular, Yggy FA setups will find the additional DEF useful.

It is also a strong reccomendation to FLB him. As a backline slot, it upgrades his passive further adding 20k supp to it. But the main draw is his gained frontline usage.

His new swap in grants his Suits stacks to all allies which provide a wide variety of buffs including perp ATK, DEF, and Bonus DMG (20%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks . His skill 4 Caim4 is strongly reccomended for this UnF. It has a few options of what it grants but the noteworthy for UnF is a one turn ATK Sharply Boosted . His existing skills of being able to copy any skill and allowing skills to be recast are both very strong and scale well with how strong the skills are.

Lobelia

Lobelia’s usage for UnF will be restricted to a backline unit. In order for him to be useful, you will need to at least max his domains. With maxed domains, whenever an ally uses a skill, they gain ATK Up (Stackable) (3%, 15% max) ATK is boosted (Stackable) , DEF Up (Stackable) (3%, 15% max) , and Skill DMG Cap Boosted (Stackable) (6%, 30% max) Maximum amount of skill DMG that can be dealt per hit is boosted (Stackable) . This is a very solid boost to any setup with button presses. FLB adds Supplemental Skill DMG (Stackable) (10k, 50k max) Skill DMG dealt is supplemented (Stackable) which is goodf if you can afford it but not major.

Eahta

Eahta is a top tier CA focused damage dealer. His passive Charge Bar Gain Boosted (100%) Charge bar gain is boosted along with 200% bar limit means he CAs frequently. Much of his kit and EMPs push both his CA damage and CA loopability further. For example, his skill 4 Eight-Life’s Pilgrimage Gain Charge Boost (100%) and Eight-Life’s Pilgrimage (20%).
(Can’t recast.) gives him Charge Bar (100%) Instantly boosts Charge Bar and a permament Uplifted (10%) Charge bar is boosted on every turn which are doubled thanks to his bar gain along with 3 turns of C.A. Reactivation .

When it comes to UnF, CA setups are slow which hurt his overall viable. However they can be safe and reliable for FA so many can find him useful for that. The best part of him for FA setups is his level 150 passive which gives the team Debuff Resistance Boosted (100%) and Dispel Cancel for 0.5 turns whenever there is a chain burst. This is extremely helpful for dealing with annoying gimmicks in the fight. As a result, its highly reccomended to get him to 150 if you plan to use him for NM250 FA.

High Priority

Olivia

Olivia is is a very strong attacker that is great for burst and FA.

Her primary buff from Close of Dawn / Together as Ever gives her and the following ally indefinite duration ATK Up (20%) ATK is boosted , DA Up (100%) Double attack rate is boosted , TA Up (30%) Triple attack rate is boosted , DMG Cap Boosted (10%) Maximum amount of DMG that can be dealt per hit is boosted , and a one hit skill damage instance after normal attacks. On second cast, it gives ATK Up (40%) ATK is boosted , Guarenteed Double Attacks , TA Up (100%) Triple attack rate is boosted , DMG Cap Boosted (20%) Maximum amount of DMG that can be dealt per hit is boosted , Normal Attack DMG Amplified (20%) Normal DMG dealt is amplified and a two hit skill damage instance after normal attacks. Additionally on that second cast, Olivia gets a 1 turn ATK Sharply Boosted (50%) . It will also reset her skills for a free assassin boosted instant attack from S3 . On top of this, when she has at least 12 buffs she gains Flurry (2-hit) Normal attacks deal 2-hit DMG to random foes and Supp. N.A. DMG (50k) Normal attack DMG is supplemented .

In the past, her skill 1 Darker than Dusk inflicts Terror which was key to stop enemy special attacks for two turns. However, recently NM150 and above are immune to Terror debuffs which means this part of her kit will likely be unused.

Medium Priority

Characters that fill some strong niches.

Sabrina

Sabrina is one of the top 0B attackers in Earth. She gains TA Up (100%) Triple attack rate is boosted and Bonus DMG (20%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks before attacking if she’s at full HP. Also, after normal attacks she deals a large single hit skill nuke that inflicts ATK Down (Local) (25%) and DEF Down (Local) (25%) making for an easier time for anyone after her. The TA and bonus damage only applies after hitting the attack button so she will not gain those for tag only setups which is important to keep in mind.

Arulumaya

Arulumaya is a hard content and FA character that will be excellent for NM200 and up.

She packs some teamwide strong buffs including TA Up (50%) Triple attack rate is boosted , Bonus DMG (30%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks , and DMG Cap Boosted (20%) Maximum amount of DMG that can be dealt per hit is boosted as well as excellent defensive tools like Veil and Cut to Debuff Durations (2 turns) . The most notable defensive buff is Water DMG Llowered (70%) Water DMG is lowered to team when the enemy is at full diamonds.

Satyr

Satyr (Earth) is another excellent support character thanks to packing a lot of everything. Heals, dispels, debuff duration cut, tanking and strong stackable CA cap ups. Generally she works best in CA setups which are slow compared to others but she is still plenty usable without full CA looping.

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.

Pengy

Pengy (SSR) is an older unit packing Guarenteed Triple Attacks Guaranteed triple attack regardless of Triple Attack Lowered debuffs as well as a one hit skill nuke after normal attacks. She’s not as great generally for OTK as Sabrina but is still a solid pick to fill out the roster.

Melleau

Melleau is a passive buffer giving Bonus DMG (10%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks to Spear and Axe ally triple attacks. This stacks with everything but the bonus damage from Dante (Halloween). As a result, if you have Dante, she is worse, but for others its pretty good for OTK setups with allies that are mostly Spear or Axe.

Orchid

Orchid is another passive buffer giving Bonus DMG (10%) Deals bonus DMG for one-foe one-ally attacks . This bonus damage however does not stack with Falsehood opus or Heldenhyme making it overall less useful. Still, for Yggy grids, this bonus damage can free you from being locked into Falsehood. For example, you could run Temptation for the TA up it provides.

Skull and Balurga

Skull and Balurga are on the dated side but packing a one turn ATK Sharply Boosted does make them at least a noteworthy considering if you need to expand your Earth burst options. They will be good for NM95 if you lack the stronger options and they are one of the best CA OTK characters.

Summons

As always, summons are always a great option. The usual suspects of the bonus damage summon Mammoth, the 50k supp summon Commander of Destruction, the 6 Dragon Optimus sub aura summon Galleon or the Optimus main summon Titan are all great to pick up if needed.