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== General Adventurer Tier List ==
This list is a tiering of characters for '''general content''', where most all adventurers can perform in. For a list of characters viable in '''specific content (e.g. High Dragon Trials)''', please see the section for the [[#Specific Content Adventurer Lists|Specific Content Adventurer Lists]].

===Rating Definitions and Criteria===
'''Rating definitions'''
*'''S/S+:''' Characters that perform their roles exceptionally well.
*'''A+:''' Characters that can perform their role well, only having minor issues.
*'''A:''' Characters that can perform their role well, but are not exceptional.
*'''B:''' Characters that can perform their role, but are held back by stats or other weaknesses, or are simply outclassed.
*'''C:''' Characters that cannot perform their role well, fill a niche that is not required, or outclassed by units in the B tier.
*'''D:''' Characters with serious problems.
*'''Unranked:''' Recently released characters that haven't been ranked.

'''Criteria:'''
* Adventurers are assumed to be promoted to {{5*}} and to have all unlocked mana circles besides co-ability improvements and items (45 circles).
* Adventurers are assumed to have an optimal dragon equipped.
* Adventurers are assumed to have access to a  {{5*}} weapon.
* Adventurers are compared within their own element first before being compared to Adventurers in other elements.
* Adventurers are assumed to be controlled by the player, AI is not taken into consideration.
* The content considered are [[Event_Quests#Dragon_Trials|Master Dragon Trials]], [[Event_Quests#Imperial_Onslaught|Master Imperial Onslaughts]], [[Event_Quests#Void_Battles|Void Battles]], Raid Events, Facility Events, and [[High Midgardsormr's Trial]].

===Tier List===
''v2.0, Last updated: March 5th, 2019''
====Change Log====
[[Tier List/Changelog|View full changelog]]
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|Version v2.0 has rebuilt the list from the ground up with new content in mind, as well as to reflect new balance changes. Only general changes to the list are detailed below, detailed updates for specific character changes have been omitted this version due to the huge number of changes and fresh landscape, but will resume with all further updates to Version 2.X.

*Adjusted content consideration to include void battles.

*Adjusted content consideration to include High Midgardsormr's Trial, due to it's increased level of accessibility. High Brunhilda's Trial will remain out of scope, due to the high level of entry and restrictive meta that would cause a large amount of skew when factored into a general content tier list.

*Adjusted placements to account for the balance patch that tweaked stun and sleep, which mostly buffed ailment duration. Also included in this patch were specific individual buffs to {{Icon|Adventurer|Hawk|text=1|size=42 px}}, {{Icon|Adventurer|Nefaria|text=1|size=42 px}}, and {{Icon|Adventurer|Naveed|text=1|size=42 px}}. Details can be found in the [[Version Changelog]].

*Added characters missing from v1.4: {{Icon|Adventurer|Albert|text=1|size=42 px}}, {{Icon|Adventurer|Odetta|text=1|size=42 px}}, {{Icon|Adventurer|Felicia|text=1|size=42 px}}, and {{Icon|Adventurer|Jakob|text=1|size=42 px}}.

*Rewrote and edited descriptions for most of the adventurers.

*Removed 'Wyrmprints are not taken into consideration' from the list of criteria.
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<br />Tier list created and maintained by Shark3143 (@Shark3143#3825)
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!  !! [[File:Icon Element Flame.png|30px|link=]] !! [[File:Icon Element Water.png|30px|link=]] !! [[File:Icon Element Wind.png|30px|link=]] !! [[File:Icon Element Light.png|30px|link=]] !! [[File:Icon Element Shadow.png|30px|link=]]!![[File:Icon Type Healing.png|30px|link=]]
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|{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Mikoto|Role=Attacker|Preference=High Midgardsormr|Notes=Mikoto’s damage output is through the roof thanks to his high critical rate and self buffs. The blade moveset gives him good AoE coverage and mobility, and the 5* flame blade has a great attack skill as well. Mikoto's damage output makes him valuable in all flame-advantaged content as long as he's able to avoid sleep. He is particularly sought after for High Midgardsormr because he’s fully stun resistant, brings high damage and a strength co-ability, and the range and spacing of the blade moveset lets him attack continuously from far away enough to avoid interfering with the baiter. }}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Gala Sarisse|Role=Attacker|Preference=All|Notes=Sarisse is capable of outputting high damage safely from range by stacking buffs to boost her S1. Each individual stack of her Sylvan’s Strength passive counts for 2 individual buffs, allowing Sarisse to reach a x6 or x7 boost on her S1 unaided if she’s allowed to attack continuously. She’s also the first character to feature dual ailment immunities, and thus excels in all types of content, including High Midgardsormr if she can pass the required HP breakpoint.}}
| {{TL|Xander}} {{TL|Dragonyule Cleo}} {{TL|Lily}}
| {{TL|Lin You}}
| {{TL|Halloween Elisanne}} {{TL|Annelie}}
| {{TL|Ieyasu}}
| {{TL|Hildegarde}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Valentine's Hildegarde|Role=Healer|Preference=All|Notes=Hildegarde has a strong healing and support kit thanks to her potent regen heal, shields, and energy stacks. She starts strong out of the gate thanks to her 100% Skill Prep, and can immediately start the fight with 3 energy stacks by using both abilities, so it’s reasonable for Hildegarde to energize the entire team even during shorter quests with no energy teammates. The total healing of her first skill is very high, but its charge time is below average at 7700 SP rather than the usual 5900SP for an S1 heal. Despite the slower charge time, it would take a very lengthy quest for other good healers to challenge Hildegarde’s healing output, because she starts with 100% Skill Prep and can eventually energize her own heals. The strength of shield skills are determined by the user’s HP rather than the recipient’s, so the value of shield skills is higher on healers like Hildegarde since they generally equip HP dragons to scale recovery potency. Her shields can also block ailments, but not the Dull and Delay Dragon debuffs from Zephyr’s attacks. Her shields lack the potency to block most incoming damage from High Midgardsormr, so she’s not better than Verica when it comes to defense, but her team energizes help with damage output.}}

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| {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Vanessa|Role=Attacker|Preference=High Midgardsormr|Notes=Her two powerful attack skills make her a very solid pick for flame DPS, but her ceiling potential is currently held back by the 5* flame axe’s critical damage boost, which she lacks the synergy to utilize. As a result, the void axe that grants High Midgardsormr Bane is a viable choice for HMS, since she isn’t losing out on a valuable weapon skill, and the Bane has enough damage to compensate for the loss of natural strength. She’s a very good choice to take the baiter role versus High Midgardsormr, since she has good damage, stun immunity, and a defense co-ability to help others meet the required HP check. Vanessa unfortunately lacks a Dull Res weapon, so she shouldn’t be chosen for Void Zephyr since she has to fight at close range. }}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Karl|Role=Attacker, Support|Preference=Imperial Onslaught, Void Battles|Notes=Karl’s kit has high damage and is well suited for existing flame content except Dragon Trials. He has access to multiple good attack skills thanks to his selection of weaponry, and his team wide strength buff greatly boosts the room’s damage output, so his damage contribution is high even when his situational passive skills aren’t active. Karl crushes Wind IO thanks to his sleep immunity, Slayer’s Strength, and the sweeping AoE on his S1 which clears small fry efficiently. He’s also a great pick versus Void Zephyr since he has access to a Dull Res weapon, good damage contribution, sleep immunity, and swords in general are valued in that fight for their aptitude at spamming force strikes to break Zephyr quickly and prevent Howling Vortex. Karl generally isn’t recommended for High Midgardsormr since the short range of the sword moveset shoehorns him into the dangerous baiter role, and his lack of a stun immunity means that a single slip-up could result in his death.}}
| {{TL|Karina}} {{TL|Elisanne}} {{TL|Dragonyule Xander}}
| {{TL|Addis}} {{TL|Melody}} {{TL|Maribelle}}
| {{TL|Lucretia}} {{TL|Odetta}} {{TL|Albert}}
| {{TL|Botan}} {{TL|Sazanka}}
| {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Verica|Role=Healer|Preference=All|Notes=Verica boasts very high healing output thanks to the potent regen heal on her S1, which has a fast charge rate compared to most regens. She also has an additional single target healing ability and access to a 3rd heal from the 4* flame wand on top of her recovery potency passives, leaving her only wanting for Skill Prep. Verica is usually picked for the healer role in High Midgardsormr thanks to her stun immunity and strong healing kit.}}

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| {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Naveed|Role=Attacker|Preference=Imperial Onslaught, Void Battles|Notes=Naveed’s kit is very well optimized for Wind IO thanks to Slayer’s Strength and his sleep immunity, and he’s also a solid pick for Void Zephyr. However his S1 doesn’t have good frame data and isn’t powerful enough to justify monopolizing both of his skill slots, so his damage contribution without Slayer’s Strength won’t excel. He will eventually achieve good damage output if the quest drags on long enough, but his ceiling isn’t impressive enough to justify the gimmick, and he underperforms while waiting to build stacks from his S2. Despite this weakness he’s still great versus Zephyr since the long animation of his S1 is perfect for iframing Zephyr’s tornados, the fight lasts long enough for him to max out his S2 stacks, he has access to a Dull Res weapon, and swords in general are valuable in the fight since they’re good at spamming force strikes to break early and skip Howling Vortex.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Sinoa|Role=Support|Preference=All|Notes=She has a dedicated support kit with very good uptime due to her extra buff time and fast charge rate for a buff skill. While random, her buffs are unusually potent, but she doesn’t consistently buff damage output as well as other dedicated supports such as Elisanne and Melody. Regardless, she’s a solid choice for a multitude of content, and she even gets used for High Midgardsormr despite her lack of Stun Res, since she can stay safely at range and support the whole room. She has strong synergy with specific flame adventurers such as Sarisse, who gets more powerful by stacking total number of buffs, and Valentine’s Hildegarde, who, with Maximum HP buffs, can apply shields so large they can even block unavoidable AoEs in the High Midgardsormr fight.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Euden|Role=Attacker |Preference=High Midgardsormr, Raid|Notes=Euden’s multiple attack skills, defense down debuff, and good choice of weaponry give him solid damage contribution. However, his passives don’t help him much in combat, and Dragon’s Claws is a low impact passive except during raids, where it excels due to the Dragon Prep meta and getting multiple transformations. He’s perfectly capable of taking the baiter role in High Midgardsormr, since he has decent damage, stun immunity, and tends to hug the enemy when attacking. Euden is also a solid choice for Void Zephyr if he doesn’t get put to sleep, since the long iframe on his S2 makes it trivial to ignore tornados, he has access to a Dull Res weapon, and the sword moveset is great at spamming force strikes which helps break early enough to skip Howling Vortex.}} {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Aoi|Role=Attacker|Preference=Imperial Onslaught, Void Battles|Notes=Aoi has solid damage output thanks to her multiple attack skills and good choice of weaponry, and blades in general offer good AoE and mobility. She isn’t immune to sleep, but her 75% Sleep Res can help her in Wind IO if she makes a mistake, and Void Zephyr’s attacks tend to have a 50% chance to inflict sleep, which Aoi can fully resist.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Xania|Role=Attacker|Preference=All|Notes=Xania is optimized for a 3* character, with access to multiple fast attack skills as well as a skill damage passive. While her damage is solid already, she unfortunately lacks access to a good 5* weapon to take her further, since the flame wand’s self heal is mediocre and doesn’t help her at all with damage output. Her lack of a full ailment resistance isn’t as punishing as it is for melee characters, since she can stay at a safe distance from most attacks that inflict Sleep and Stun in the fights versus Void Zephyr and High Midgardsormr.}}
| {{TL|Celliera}} {{TL|Rex}} {{TL|Waike}}
| {{TL|Musashi}} {{TL|Johanna}} {{TL|Hawk}}
| {{TL|Amane}} {{TL|Julietta}} {{TL|Xiao Lei}}
| {{TL|Rodrigo}} {{TL|Kleimann}}
| {{TL|Lowen}} {{TL|Vixel}}
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| {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Ezelith|Role=Attacker |Preference=Imperial Onslaught, Void Battles|Notes=Ezelith is held back by the low natural damage of daggers as well as her poor S1, which has an animation that’s so lengthy that it often has less DPS than her regular attacks. Her S2 inflicts defense down debuffs, and while they lack duration and potency she can stack multiple debuffs at once to help the entire room’s damage output, which helps make up for her own lacking damage. Her sleep immunity and Broken Punisher make her well suited for Wind IO, to help ensure that the quest goes smoothly and ends as soon as the boss breaks. Her sleep immunity, long iframes, and access to a Dull Res weapon set her up well for Void Zephyr, but her damage output isn’t high and she’s unlikely to get much Broken Punisher value in that fight if she gets hit by anything, since it’s difficult for her to obtain a dragon transformation. The lengthy iframe on her S1 would be particularly suited towards the baiting role versus High Midgardsormr, but her low damage and total lack of stun resistance make her a poor choice for the fight overall.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Valentine's Ezelith|Role=Attacker|Preference=All|Notes=Ezelith has a decent kit with multiple attack skills and okay passive abilities, but her damage output is middling. Thankfully, she isn’t restricted by ailment gimmicks like other archers since burn is a very low percentage of her damage output and the defense down debuff from her S2 works consistently since it isn’t resisted by bosses. However, her damage contribution remains less than impressive, so it’s mostly her full stun resistance and Broken Punisher that set her apart from those rated below her. She’s possibly usable versus High Midgardsormr, but she isn’t generally a welcome choice since her damage output isn’t high and she might struggle to make the required HP check without Prometheus.}}
| {{TL|Xainfried}} {{TL|Orsem}} {{TL|Jakob}} {{TL|Zardin}}
| {{TL|Ranzal}} {{TL|Louise}} 
| {{TL|Malka}} {{TL|Raemond}} {{TL|Fritz}}
| {{TL|Nefaria}} {{TL|Berserker}} {{TL|Zace}} {{TL|Erik}} {{TL|Althemia}}
| {{TL|Felicia}} {{TL|Halloween Althemia}} {{TL|Cleo}} {{TL|Ricardt}} {{TL|Estelle}} 
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| {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Valentine's Orion|Role=Attacker|Preference=None|Notes=Orion’s damage is decent despite his single damage skill since he has access to elemental weapons with attack skills, and his defense buff does actually help his damage slightly by triggering his own 8% Strength Doublebuff. However, his 75% Curse Res does him no favors in flame-advantaged content, and his damage isn’t so great as to be worth a higher ranking.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Marty|Role=Attacker|Preference=Midgardsormr|Notes=Marty’s 20% shields from his S2 aren’t very useful since they lack potency, and he has a nearly useless Skill Haste passive that’s unlikely to actually cause a difference in the number of skill procs over the course of a fight. Thankfully, he has a decent S1 with a large sweeping AoE, and access to attack skills from weapons that give him decent damage output overall. His shields aren’t useful for Void Zephyr, since shields don’t block Dull Res or Dragon Delay even if they’re large enough to block the damage, and Marty’s shields are likely to be too small to be useful elsewhere unless he shoots himself in the foot and equips an HP up dragon, since shield size is based off the user’s HP.}}
| {{TL|Luther}} {{TL|Pietro}} {{TL|Jurota}}
| {{TL|Eleonora}} {{TL|Francesca}} {{TL|Aeleen}} {{TL|Nicolas}} {{TL|Ku Hai}} {{TL|Su Fang}}
| {{TL|Linus}} {{TL|Halloween Edward}} {{TL|Rawn}}
| {{TL|Vice}} {{TL|Taro}} {{TL|Orion}}
| {{TL|Thaniel}} {{TL|Edward}}
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| {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Alain|Role=Attacker|Preference=Midgardsormr|Notes=While having two attack skills is always nice, his damage output remains low and his Last Defense passive is nearly worthless. Overall, he doesn’t have a real niche.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Joe|Role=Attacker|Preference=Midgardsormr|Notes=Joe has good frame data on his two attack skills, which gives him okay damage output, but his Full HP = Burn passive is nearly useless since the burn output from his S2 is a very tiny fraction of his damage output.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Renelle|Role=Attacker|Preference=None|Notes=Renelle’s damage is poor and her ailment resistance is off-element, but, like Melsa, at least she has Flurry Devastation and a circular AoE to mop up small fry. While she has access to multiple attack skills, they have low base damage, and daggers in general are underpowered. She struggles to find a niche and lacks usable ailment resistance for flame-advantaged content.}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Melsa|Role=Attacker|Preference=Imperial Onslaught, Void Battles|Notes=Her kit doesn’t offer much outside of Flurry Devastation. She’s usable in Wind IO because her circular AoE S2 hits multiple targets easily and her 50% Sleep Res might save her from a mistake, but her damage output is quite poor and her bane skill currently lacks any use in flame-advantaged content. Thankfully her 50% Sleep Res is at least sufficient to avoid being put to sleep by Void Zephyr's attacks. }}
| {{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Dragonyule Nefaria|Role=Attacker, Support|Preference=Void Battles |Notes=Access to 25% Skill Damage gives Nefaria an extra punch, but she lacks multiple damage skills to make better use of it, and the 5* water bow does not have a damage skill like the 4* bow does. Her S2 takes forever to charge and the 15% shield and single energy stage it grants are not only seriously underwhelming but also a pain to apply to allies. Flurry Freezer sounds like a strong utility passive due to the value of freeze, but it’s not useful because its chance to freeze is too low to function on bosses. }}
| {{TL|Philia}} {{TL|Pia}}
| {{TL|Luca}}  {{TL|Ryozen}} {{TL|Malora}}  {{TL|Irfan}}
| {{TL|Vida}}
| {{TL|Hope}} {{TL|Sophie}}
{{TLTooltipIcon|Name=Aurien|Role=Healer, Attacker|Preference=None|Notes=Aurien tries to be a hybrid healer/damage unit without doing either well. He has bad charge time, damage, and range on his S2, as well as a total lack of support for healing built into his kit.}}
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