General Stats

Will of the Alliance

Will of the Alliance is a passive skill that permanently increases Magic ATT and All Stats by 5.

Player needs to be Lv.75 and must have completed the following [Alliance] quests:

Inherited Will

Inherited Will is a passive skill that permanently increases Magic ATT and All Stats by 10.

Player needs to be Lv.140 and must have completed the following [Silent Crusade] quests:

If the Arkarium boss has not yet been unlocked on the account, then the rest of the questline should be completed. Otherwise, Evans may stop here after acquiring the skill.

Inner Ability

1st Line: +1 Attack Speed* or 20% Chance to Skip Cooldown**

*for versions that can reach Attack Speed (0)

**20% CD Skip for more Dragon Fusions and AB Link Skill activations.

2nd/3rd Lines:

+ 13-15% Mesos Obtained (recommended for mesos farming)
+ 13-15% Item Drop (recommended for Erda Fragment farming)
+ 9-10% Boss Damage
+ 7-8% Damage to enemies inflicted by Abnormal Status (eg. Evan's Flash Return!)
+ 10% Chance to Skip Cooldowns

Example of 3-Page Presets:

Critical Rate Chance

Sources of Critical Rate:

(5) Base Critical Rate

(15) Spell Mastery (2nd Job passive)

(30) Critical Magic passive (3rd Job passive)

(10) Decent Sharp Eyes

(20) Legion Artifact

(4) Night Lord Legion Card Lv.200

(4) Marksman Legion Card Lv.200

(1) Ocean Badge (Esfera familiar card set)

(1) Rebel Badge (Edelstein familiar card set)

TOTAL: 90% CRITICAL RATE

Supplement the remainder with: Hyper Stat | Legion Grid | Lynn Link Skill

Attack Speed

Sources of Attack Speed:

(+4) Base

(+2) Magic Booster passive

(+1) Decent Speed Infusion

(+1) Monster Park Green Potion [breaks cap]

(+1) Return! - Dive

(+1) Inner Ability 1st Line

Hyper Passive Skills

Always take:

Speedy Dragon Flash

Speedy Dragon Dive

Speedy Dragon Breath

For Training:

Howling Wind (Wind Flash)

Lungs of Stone (Earth Breath)

For Bossing:

Earth-Shattering Dive (Earth Dive)

Rolling Thunder (Thunder Flash)

See Dragon Fusion section to understand why each Hyper Passive Skill is taken.

If you have a 5-second (or more) cooldown reduction hat AND SSS-rank Mercedes legion card:

For Bossing:

Speedy Dragon Breath

Howling Wind (Wind Flash)

Cyclone Breath (Wind Breath)

Earth-Shattering Dive (Earth Dive)

Rolling Thunder (Thunder Flash)

Legion Artifact

Each Legion Artifact can go up to Level 5 and have three attributes assigned to it.

Attributes can be re-assigned any time using Artifact points.

Each attribute can go to Level 10 using any distribution of Artifact levels.

Below are the attributes sorted in order of "priority" for different purposes:

General

Critical Rate (up to 20%)

(Legion Artifact affects your whole account, so this is an all-around good investment)

Bossing

Damage (up to 15%)
Boss Damage (up to 15%)
Ignore Enemy Defense (up to 20%)
Critical Damage (up to 4%)
All Stats (up to 150)
Magic Attack (up to 30)
CD Skip (up to 7.5%)
Damage of Final Attack type skills (up to 30%)

(Affects Advanced Dragon Spark)

Buff Duration (up to 20%)
Summoned Minion Duration (up to 20%)

Training

Mesos Obtained (up to 12%)
Item Drop Rate (up to 12%)
EXP Acquired (up to 12%)

(Starting at Level 1, additionally increases number of targets hit by multi-target skills by 1)

Summon Duration and Buff Duration

Summon Duration only affects the Onyx Dragon and Soul Weapon summons. It does NOT affect floor fire.

Buff Duration only meaningfully affects Terms and Conditions (Angelic Buster Link Skill).

Link Skills (Bossing)

Select one of the following for 12th slot:
- Option A: Noble Fire (Adele) in a party of 3 or more players.
- Option B: Tree of Stars (Sia Astelle) if Option A conditions not met.
- Option C: Focus Spirit (Lynn) for extra Critical Rate.
- Survival is needed:
  - Option D: Spirit of Freedom (Resistance) for invincibility on respawn.
  - Option E: Innate Gift (Khali) for damage and healing.
If your level is lower than the boss's level, replace Unfair Advantage (Cadena) with a skill from Options A through E.

Link Skills (Training)

Replace Combo Kill Blessing (Aran), IF:
- Option A: Phantom Instinct (Phantom) for Critical Rate.
- Damage is needed, AND:
  - Option B: Higher level? Unfair Advantage (Cadena)
  - Option C: Same or lower level? Keen Edge (Hayato)
  - Option D: Moving a lot? Tides of Battle (Illium)