Weapon	Priority	Notes
1 Sword of Renunciation	★★★★★	Only required for Luminiera
1 Sword of Repudiation	★★★★★	Only required for Zeus
1 Harp of Everlore	★★★★★
1 Ultima Gun	★★★★★
1 Ultima Staff	★★★★★
1 Ultima Claw	★★★★★
1 Doombringer Bow	★★★★★

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 Gun. The former pairs well with Wizard Origin and Manadiver. The latter great for Soldier setups. If you have Golden Fists of Ura, Ultima Claw is great to have.

Doombringer Bow 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 Altruism-Soul Staff	★★★★★
1 Twinpain-Wolf Gun	★★★★★
1 Covenant-Ruin Fist	★★★★★
Worldvexing Angelos	★★★★★
Worldscathing Leon	★★★★★
1 Draconic Blade	★★★★☆
1 Radiance of Insightful Rebirth	★★★★☆
1 ATK Exo Heliocentrum	★★★☆☆
1 ATK Exo Aristarchus	★★★☆☆
1 Shooting of The Star	★★☆☆☆
1 Worldstorming Aetos	★★☆☆☆
1 ATK Iron Fist of Severed Chains	★★☆☆☆
1 Norden Labrys	★★☆☆☆
1 DEF Royal Deliverance	★★☆☆☆
1 DEF Lux in Tenebris	★★☆☆☆

The need for Celestials is the same as for Ultimas. As for the awakening, generally ATK is the safest.

Exo Heliocentrum is an solid farmable mainhand for Manadiver or Wizard Origin setups. Exo Aristarchus similarly is solid for Sumaibito teams.

Draconic Blade and its upgrade Radiance of Insightful Rebirth 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 or Destruction weapons are an easy fill. For FA, Radiance of Insightful Rebirth is easy slot without a destruction wepaon. Celestial weapons, 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 solid 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
4 Luminiera Bolt Credo	★★★★★
2 Luminiera Saber Credo	★★★★★
2-3 Pillar of Flame	★★★★☆
2-3 Luminiera Sword Omega	★★★★☆

Like most other elements at this point, the core of Omega grids is its M3 exalto weapon. In this case, that would be Luminiera Bolt Credo. Four of these will cover all your needs from OTK to burst to FA. 4 is also needed for Super Lucilius Keys for burst setups.

Luminiera Saber Credo is also great as it provides big TA and small MA. This makes it great for either cutting a button from burst setups or making everyone TA in an OTK.

Pillar of Flame are effective raw mod slots thanks to providing both big crit and medium stam. 2 are used for double Lumi setups where 3 is for single Lumi ones.

Luminiera Sword Omega are still good mod slots and provide HP for FA setups. 3 is probably overkill now a days but M1 weapons are easy enough to get anyways.

Summon	Priority	Notes
2 Luminiera Lance Credo	★★★☆☆	1-2 with 1 Harmonia 0 with 2
2 DEF Harakhte	★★★☆☆	Can do 1 ATK 1 DEF too
1 Heliogabalus Militis	★★★☆☆
1 SPC Symmetria	★★★☆☆
2-4 Blightrifle of Knowledge Verboten	★★★☆☆
1-2 Spirelance of Knowledge Verboten	★★★☆☆
2 Machinahand of Knowledge Verboten	★★☆☆☆
2 ATK Harakhte	★☆☆☆☆	Only if CA based OTK

Luminiera Lance Credo is a hard content defensive weapon providing medium HP, medium heal cap, and medium garrison. It is an excellent for FA for the higher levels. 1 should handle most things but getting a 2nd to be safe is reccomended.

Harsiesis 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 Harmonia . If you already have two Harmonia you won’t need it.

Harakhte and Heliogabalus Militis are for CA based OTK and for CA setups for NM250. DEF harakhtes are prefered for NM250 while ATK are preferred for OTK. If you won’t use them for OTK, you can skip the the ATK ones

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 Lumi grids. The upgrade to the Odious series likely won’t hit light til after UnF (that said I do hope they can come before).

A SPC Symmetria is great for adding a bit of additional skill supp and skill cap to primarily OTK setups.

Fif

Fif is a CA buffer and healer that is good for HL content and hard difficulty FAs like for NM250. Starting at FLB, she provides up to five of random set of stackables including CA damage cap up, damage cap up, and 10% CB gain. Also at FLB, she will dispel on CA. Her main drawback is that while all her skills are powerful, they are all green which makes them not fire off in FA normally. This is until level 150 where they can auto activate. Her skill 2 which clears all debuffs, cuts debuff durations, provides 100% debuff resistance, and dispel cancel will activate at randomly end of turn with a higher chance with more debuffs. Her skill 1 which is a very strong heal skill auto activates whenever someone is below 25% HP.

She is also a strong OTK character because she starts the battle with her Madic Torrent buff that gives her 50% ATK up, 50% TA, and 20% bonus damage.

Tweyen

Tweyen is a strong attacker with both good normal damage and tons of skill spam. Her skill 1 at FLB gives her 20% bonus damage and 3 hit flurry on a 2/5 turn uptime. She also has her Ultrasight stacks that raise every 20 hits she deals against the enemy. As they raise, she will deal skill nukes on normal attacks for up to 5 hits. Her skill 3 and 4 are both large nukes. Her skill 3 in particular resets on CA making it pretty spammable. At 150, she becomes a lot more useful for the higher levels thanks to her dispelling on dodge. This ties well into her skill 1 giving dodge all and her gaining up to 30% dodge rate up based on the number of enemy debuffs.

Geisenborger

Geisenborger at MLB is a near unkillable tank being unable to die as long as his skill 3 buff I’ll Bet My Soul Gain Impregnable Fortress (40%-120%, 5T).
(Will be knocked out when effect ends.)
(Effect duration extends upon being targeted by a Light ally’s healing skill or buff skill.) is up. Combine this with his high hostility he can be used to cheese bosses as long as they aren’t AoE. This won’t be that useful for most players as the tankiness comes at the cost damage and general usefulness. His backline passive caps incoming dark damage at 10k. In theory its good but in practice UnF bosses tend to deal many damage instances per attack all below 10k as a counter to these kinds of mechanics.

At FLB, he gains a lot more use. In the prior years, multi turn FA setups for NM150 used him for his skill 4 Pray upon the Star which provides him four turns of 30% bonus damage, double strike, and quad attack. Additionally, he gains 1 hit assassin when he ends a turn at 1 HP. With his sub all that’s pretty easy to do. He is also strong as a backline option as allies who take damage gain 2% stackable damage cap (10% max).

Low Priority

Dorothy and Claudia

Dorothy and Claudia see use in Relic Buster or Soldier setups for any element that uses them thanks to her skill 2 Maximum Service Grant the Main Character ATK Up (50%, Multiplier: Normal, 3T), DA Up (60%, 3T), and Bonus Light DMG (50%, 3T).
Level 75:
Effect enhanced. granting MC 50% light bonus damage as well as 50% ATK up. This bonus damage is MC Side A which there is very few instances of and as a result it is very unlikely it won’t stack with anything else. So for those heavy MC damage setups it is a good boost.

You

You is a strong OTK light character due to her starting with 100% charge bar. With her passive CA damage mods, she can easily hit high CA damage output along with having a 6 hit skill nuke. EX+ HP increase, her value has dropped a bunch, but she is still a good choice for OTK..

Lunalu

Lunalu (Light) has the ability to copy skills (as long as they are copyable). Her effectiveness heavily depends on what skills are worth copying. One such skill is Tweyen’s skill 1 Merculight Gain Other Self 1 (1 times) and ATK Up (3T).
Level 55:
Buff increased to ATK Up (50%, Multiplier: Perpetuity, 3T).
Level 85:
Also gain Skill DMG Cap Boosted (30%, 3T). which comes with flurry.

Novei

Novei is a team charge bar battery with her skill 1 Harmonisches Geigenspiel preventing her from doing normal attacks and providing 20% the party stackable light ATK and 20% bar while also dealing a 3 hit skill nuke when its up.

She will also do a nuke whenever an ally doesn’t attack in a turn. The nuke will activate once per ally that doesn’t attack and also reduces her skill 3 cooldown. Her skill 3 Traumhafter Hoehepunkt on that topic is a big 14 hit nuke that heals and dispels. Its not a reliable dispel due to the high cooldown but helping even a bit goes a long way.

Robertina

Robertina is a hostility tank who’s skill 1 Il Canto Azzurro greatly increases her hostility and lowers her damage taken while also boosing skill damage giving 10% stackable skill cap (50%) max every turn. With her skill 1 up, her skill 3 Rivelazione a Fiato provides 100% debuff resistance and 3k damage mitigation to team to help against the rough debuffs NM200 and NM250 will likely inflict. And one other good thing she has is dispel cancel on CA.

Robertina is also another character who’s main buff prevents her from normal attacking. This makes her a great pair with Novei. There is manual and FA setups for Martial Mastery Trial that make use of the duo to showcase their effectiveness.

Kou

Kou (Light) likely won’t see much use this UnF. He however is here because he’s excellent for Versusia thanks to his ability to let himself and other gain CA activation for two turns. If you want to get your light clear and don’t have him, he is quite a strong pick.

Summons

As always, summons are always a great option. The usual suspects of the echo summon Artemis, the 6 Dragon Optimus sub aura summon Lu Woh or the Optimus main summon Zeus are all great to pick up if needed.

Before UnF, there will be many galas including two with 100 free pulls on them. Barring new character releases, the following are the main characters you want to aim for. This will primarily be about the characters themselves unless a weapon is way too important to not mention.

Nehan

Nehan is light’s best buffer and is an required character for burst setups. If you don’t have him you should really get him before Unite and Fight. There really is no good work around for not having him. His strong teamwide buffs are also excellent for weaker OTK setups.

Additionally, he can be strong for CA setups for NM250 as well. His skill 2 Six-Wolf Tonic All other Light allies gain Wolf Tonic (3T). provides 100% bar gain to allies other than himself making CA looping super easy. His CA removes a debuff, heals, and most importantly cuts his skill cooldowns meaning his CB gain buff can be maintained. There are three main contenders for his slot on these CA teams and while he may not be the strongest, he is the most widely available and the easiest to work with.

Cosmos

Cosmos is light’s main CA attacker. After getting her skill 3 Halo Attunement Gain Halo Attunement, Instant Charge, and Unchallenged (1T).
Set HP to 50% of max HP.
(From 2nd cast onwards:
End cooldown for caster’s other skills.
Can use each damage skill up to one extra time this turn.) online, she gain perma CA reactivation while also dealing 6 hit skill damage with a dispel per CA. If that wasn’t enough, her passive provides DEF, ATK, CA specs, and Skill specs to team based on how close her HP is 50%. Between her damage, buffs, and dispels, she will be highly important for NM250 whether manual or FA.

Jeanne (Grand)

Jeanne d'Arc (Grand) is a very strong OTK character providing 10% bonus damage on ally TAs. It is particurly valuable because it stacks with all other bonus damage sources light has. Her main drawback is a lack of self TA so you need to compensate for that.

Caesar

Caesar is a tank that primarily tanks via his passive that subs damage for the ally with the lowest HP. In addition. his skill 3 is a sub all that is on a 1/6 uptime. The cooldown lowers by 1 on CA increasing that uptime. He is great against buff heavy bosses like NM200 thanks to his skill 1 being a triple dispel. His CA inflicts a debuff that causes the skill 1 to autocast on enemy special attack as well. This is great for quickly dealing with those annoying boss buffs. Additionally on enemy special attacks, he’ll cast his skill 2 for stackable skill supp, 2k healing, and a debuff clear.

Lucio

Lucio is a great FA attacker who gets stronger as a battle goes on. His skill 2 Out of the Ashes 800% Light damage to a foe (Damage cap: ~1,000,000).
Raise Wings of Justice lvl by 1.
Level 75:
Damage increased to 900%. is a massive nuke that inflicts 30% DMG taken amplified that resets on CA and double activates one time after that CA. Lucio has a passive set of stacks that rises on TAs and increases his MA. At level 6, he can use his skill 4 Light Up the Night which gives him a turn of double strike and causes his skill 2 to activate after normal attacks for a ton of skill damage each turn. He also packs a one time teamwide full debuff removal, full heal, and instant charge.

While Lucio will likely be a very strong NM200 character, chances are he will fall off for NM250 as the CA team Light has is too strong. So for most players who have the CA team and choose to tackle it instead, they likely won’t find much use for him. But if NM250 will be outside your ability, he’s quite good.

Basara

Basara is a strong FA attacker namely thanks his Watchdog’s Flame buff. His skill 1 gives him 3 of them and then they are consumed on normal attacks to get 30% normal amp and 30% bonus damage as well as dispelling a buff. After 5 turns, he can use his skill 3 to reset his first two skills and and gain a 5 turn buff that packs 2 hit flurry and double strike.

After his skill 3 buff ends, he tends to fall off making him best fit for medium length FA like NM200.