Basic Grids

As a beginner, the quickest way to increase your power is to improve your weapon and summon grid. Fortunately, every element has farmable/free-to-play options which perform respectably (even compared to more exclusive builds) and can ultimately tackle any content in the game.

Listed below are the basic grids for each element as well as general notes on early-game progression.

Many communities call these Omega grids (or Magna in Japanese) due to their focus on Omega Weapon Skills
See the Damage Formula and related sources for a better understanding of why these types of grids are effective

Notes[edit]

Grids[edit]

The grids below contain only farmable and accessible (non-Premium Draw, non-Event, non-High-Level) options, and are not meant to be competitive with fully optimized late-game grids (with exception to Xeno Weapons).

Each grid lists only nine weapons. The tenth (your mainhand) will depend on the classes you wish to play and the weapons you've acquired.

You can purchase two Omega SSR weapons each month with Renown Pendants, which are primarily farmed from Normal and Hard Raids. As you need to do these raids anyway, it is recommended to do them all every day and take advantage of the SR and R bonus pendants where possible.

It is strongly recommended to prioritize pendants on Light and Dark weapons due to the low drop rate of its best weapons. Since they also contain the most difficult bosses, it is often smoother to build one of the four main elements (Wind, Earth, Water, and Fire) before expanding to Light and Dark.

Revenant Weapons are powerful and flexible because you can pick your own weapon type and change its element. Between them most notable weapon is an element-changed Four-Sky Blade which is fantastic as a mainhand due to its charge attack effects.

Bahamut Weapons are very powerful, but require Rank 50 to acquire at all and Rank 80 to acquire reliably. The weapon you will want to choose depends on the race(s) of your characters. What Makes the Sky Blue provides you a free Bahamut Nova Weapon of your choice, which can drastically save your time to farm it.

Seraphic Weapons are very powerful when fighting under elemental advantage and their base forms are easy to acquire.

Rise of the Beasts weapons such as Qinglong Spear make incredible fillers and often mainhands, but are not all listed below due to the relatively long gap between appearances of the event.

Side Stories provide weapons which can be used either as temporary mainhands or filler. More recent Side Stories also provide EX weapons that are fortunately easy to acquire (note maximum trade amount), and can be used as long-term filler.

Xeno Weapons are the best EX weapons despite difficulty to obtain them and long gap between Xeno Clashes. Obtaining at least one copy is very benefical because not only it has the highest EX boost, but also used in all High Level grids.

Sephira Weapons benefit from Omega summons and have great base stats and charge attack, but are limited in availability due to the daily expedition constraints and in long-term usefulness due to having a maximum level of 100. Keeping at least one fully-uncapped copy is recommended for use as a mainhand. They can drop from any Arcarum stages and there is no trade limit for them although arcapoints are better spent on something else.

Filler Weapons[edit]

Filler weapons provide a stop-gap of power to more easily or efficiently farm your ideal grid. Because they are temporary, however, it's important to budget how much fodder you invest in upgrading their weapon-skills, keeping in mind that they may eventually be used as fodder themselves. Ultimately only you can weigh the opportunity cost of the fodder versus immediate power, but some recommendations are listed below:

Always upgrade your weapons to their max EXP/Level as the base stats help and Angel Weapons are plentiful.
Always upgrade 02 weapon-skills to at least SL2 (SL3 is recommended, above SL4 is not recommended).
Always upgrade 03 weapon-skills to at least SL3 (SL4 is recommended, above SL7 is not recommended).
Because it is often better to Reduce Premium Draw weapons than use them as fodder (but not always; research individual weapons before reducing), note that any fodder invested in their weapon-skills will likely be lost. Still, such weapons tend to make powerful fillers and are usually worth upgrading at least once or twice.

Filler Summons[edit]

Consider using elemental boosting summons over Omega summons if your weapons' skill level isn't high enough, due to lower damage output. You can estimate your raw damage by setting a support to your party via the button above your weak point damage estimation. However, estimated damage doesn't reflect your damage accounting for a foe's defense. See Damage Formula for details.

Side Stories provide filler summons, but not all of them are notable. Summons with elemental boost should be prioritized due to how the game calculates the damage, but be aware of some summons' auras which penalize you before they are fully-uncapped.

Arcarum Summons provides unique yet powerful main aura and call effects. However, obtaining the base SR Arcarum summons is time-consuming as you're limited by a single daily expedition. Also, they cannot be uncapped normally. While their base stats are low as SRs, their main auras, sub auras and call effects can compensate for that loss in some manners.

Wind[edit]

Basic Grid[edit]

7× Tiamat Bolt Omega
1× Bahamut Weapon
1×
EX Weapon or 1× Cosmic Rifle
1× Ring of Raphael (when against Earth; replaces one Bolt)

Fillers[edit]

Qinglong Spear (exceptional RotB weapon)
Tiamat Gauntlet Omega (Recommended SSR)
Sephira Emerald Sword (Arcarum)
Sephira Emerald Bow (Arcarum)
Nephthys Fork (Normal Modifier)
Tiamat SR Weapons
Tiamat SR Weapons:

Main Summons[edit]

Tiamat Omega 3★ (Main or Support)
Anat 3★ (Main, Support, or Both)

Support Summons[edit]

Grimnir (Best)
Anat, for Love and War
Raphael (Summon)
Garula, Shining Hawk (Note summon requirements)
Setekh 4★

Progression[edit]

Farm Casino chips to purchase 4× Anat to create one 3★
Farm Tiamat (Raid) Normal and Hard for filler weapons and Tiamat Omega Anima
Farm Arcarum for Sephira Emerald Sword and Sephira Emerald Bow
Farm Tiamat Omega Showdown for the SSR Weapons and Summons