These lists are never perfect though I try to be as thorough as possible. It’s obvious after posting this that I misplaced Crow. He should be higher on this list due to a lot of factors. Thanks everyone for bringing it to my attention and supporting this channel!
It's all good. What it really goes to show to me, is that so many people play this series and this game in so many different ways, that no two tierlists are likely to look anywhere near the same because of all the individual strategies people use. Well...except for Rean being near/at the top of the list. That's probably not changing, lol.
I can’t agree with Crow’s placement, he is easily my best physical damage dealer because I have set him up so that he has 50+ critical chance, as one of his crafts has additional critical hit chance. He is also Really fast. But to each their own. Great list btw
I keep Gungnir as his main, with Woden with a secondary, and he's insane (I gave Rean Woden as his main for bosses/etc). Hell, my Crow already has a base Critical Rate of almost 50% WITHOUT the Woden High HP bonus.
Personally I had Jusis in the whole time as a speedy arts user and coupled with his brave order which increases dmg and grants str ats up, he was wiping enemies with ease. Pandora/Virgo on hard mode. Maybe this is more of a testament to how strong arts are. Speaking of which, would you do a list for master quartz? There’s so many and some can make for very interesting applications with the right quartz/equip
I have 3 teams built with the same basic strategy but goes about it slightly differently from each other. Team A - Classic arte nuking strat with cracked countering Fie - evasion tank, BP generator Machias - physical attack, secondary support Alisa - support, secondary mage Emma - mage Reserve Laura - one time s craft nuke, brave order Team B - breaking and stealing turns once broken enemy with cracked countering Juna - evasion tank (in gunner mode), breaker, BP generator Kurt - physical attack, breaker Altina - support, secondary mage Musse - mage Reserve Jusis - one turn s craft nuke, brave orders Team C - Critical abusers with cracked countering Sara - evasion tank, BP generator Gaius - physical attacker (low hp) Elliot - support, secondary mage Crow - mage Reserve Ash - one turn s craft nuke, brave order Rean - divine song - any team in reserve
Crow should be bro tier. Azure Destiny is basically his own Spirit Unification, except better since it gives him insight as well, and the status immunity Rean gets won't mean anything if he can't be touched, he has pistols for long range counters, and just like Rean, he can be a spell caster as well, though he probably won't be casting 1 delay arts due to lacking Reans broken exclusive accessories. I had to stop using him and Rean in my main party because everyone else was basically irrelevent(Nightmare). The only times any other party member got a turn in battle was against bosses, or if they were lucky enough to win the speed war at the start. Jusis should be higher based on his BO alone. Gaius was already god tier in CS2 as well where he already had an infinite turn build with Thor MQ.
Actually I build Crow as full caster and whit some quarz effect and toval accessorie he was really a magic gatling ( off course the most broken art was at like 3/7 of delay but soul blur and aquabled was ever at delay 1 whit like 60k of dmg per hit )
I'll mostly agree with this list, except for Fie who I would rank much much higher. Some things I would like to say tough : -Laura as much as I love her as a character, I must agree with her placement her biggest drawback is how slow she is compare to most of the cast even tough like you said if you help her as most as possible she can be very destructive, however I think she is good as a reserve members cause of her Brave Order, Insight is already nice but that +60% Damage Bonus is massive (and work with all type of damage), this is the second biggest Damage Increase out of all the Brave Order in the game (the first being Vita so unlike Laura's you have more limited access to it), if use at the right timing that Brave Order can make you melt through boss with ease, you can reach over 100k damage as soon as Act 2 thanks to this Brave Order. -A few word on Jusis while he might fell a bit as you progress through the game, if we look at the entire game not just the late game I think he is one of the best, first off his Platinum Shield is incredibly usefull, and he has a good Craft for Impede ennemies, but he is also an amazing support for Art Caster, first off one of his Craft can Debuff ennemies ADF, then there is his Brave which was actually untouch from Cold Steel 3 and got better when you upgrade it that ATS Buff combine with 30% Damage Increase comes out really nice, also IIRC he is the earliest access to the Link ability Arts Support 2 which when trigger multiply the Art Damage of his partner by 1.5 which makes him the best character to link to your caster for quite a while cause when that kicks in boy does it hurt for the ennemies. Because of that I would place him in the Top Tier.
I absolutely love the thought you put into this ranking. I actually agree with every placement, but in regards to the explanations I will say there is a lack of love sent to the "magic swordsman" classes like Crow, Kurt, Jusis, Altina, and Ash. Basically characters who have crafts that are magical, but can still unbalance. With the right setup favoring ATS they can be monsters on the battlefield, especially with Emma's brave order. They demolished the bosses during the rivalries, as in several cases their magic-based crafts hit almost as hard as arts, but with no charge time.
You applied the "Not Your Turn" strategy to Giaus to place him in the high tiers but continue to ignore the fact that it can be used with Laura as you place her in the mid tier. Laura's speed is irrelevant when you can make her use the S-Craft at any time of your choosing, including on garunteed crit turns.
I love how these lists change as the series progresses. They're all viable characters, but It's just some have progressed more than others have. I mean, It make sense that Sarah, Gaius ans Rean are all God tier because of their stories and progression as characters throughout the series.
I agree with this tier list, about 80-90% in. The only thing I would've changed, would be moving Fie to top tier. I agree she isn't as broken as she can be in CS2, and still isn't Musse level in the top tier, but the evasion tank strategy can still be executed almost flawlessly. Also fun to notice that, with absolute dedication to the strategy, she can be equipped and accessorized to go WELL above and beyond 100%. Dunno, found it hilarious
Beyond Evasion Tank the best aspects of Fie is her speed and the fact she can Crit for day, these may sound intriguing as she doesn't have a good Crit Rate, however the thing the creator of the video forgot to mention is she has a Craft that gives her STR, SPD buffs which is already nice but also gives her Stealth and attacking while being in Stealth guaranteed the Crit, so she has guaranteed Crit for 2 turns with this Craft, and she can also Crit guaranteed through Countering with the Rage Quartz, with both she basically is suprisingly the best Crit user of the game this mean 2 things : 1-She can take advantage of the Gungnir Master Quartz better than any other Character and the bonus it gives to her damage is huge. 2-She can generate BP very fast with no trouble at all as crit are guaranteed to unbalance the target, to make use of more Orders. On top of that she also have Sweep 2 while not very damaging the area it covers is huge and it interrupt ennemies that try to cast Arts and Craft combine that with her insane Speed and she is amazing for that purpose, her Cipher Edge craft with Instant-Death chance on it is also nice for mob fight; also let's not forget her great Brave Order Insight Statut is hands down the best buff in the game and she give that + a 50% Delay Reduction for 10 turns geez. Honnestly I would argue she might even be God Tier, that little girl is a monster.
Also, I’ll point out with right load out of orbments and accessories any party member can be broken in this game, except Millium as she remains unplayable.
I agree with 100%. My ideal lineup was Gaius as en evasion/cp generator, rean ,Emma and Laura ( although maybe Sara was better). Laura link with gaius with rage , evade+crit + Laura assist. Rean to do all around (I put mobius quartz on him for tough battles) and enma to do real damage. Probably musse+Emma is a better option. Oh and gaius mostly for getting to 100cp and scraft delay.
Also because Emma was sort of glossed over, if you give her the Brigid quartz at max lvl and the right cp recovery accessories, she can break the game. Being able to get 15 cp back a turn and casting Chrono burst and using her cp recovery spell on all your party members she can break the endgame because the enemy will never get a turn and you can continuously spam S-Crafts. And if you saved up a bunch of ep recovery items this can get you all the way from about the start of the final act to the final boss, which is a lot. The final act is huge.
Don't even need to give her Brigid for that. She can cast spells so fast consecutively with the right orbment lineup she'll be getting CP back for her S-craft before the enemies turn anyway.
@@lolRNG oh I’m aware that’s not an optimized set up, the point was this is a simple set up that still makes her broken. This is more of a support build for her, and if set up correctly, it will always be Emma’s turn and you just spam S crafts and delete bosses.
this is late but I honestly agree with Juna's placement especially if you build her as a support character. I built her like that to the point where she instantly casts any support art with quick caliber and chrono drive. She became one of my best supports in my NG+ run!
@@locloudanerpg Crow is the only character whose self buff affects his ATS. Add his buff in SPD to that and he basically becomes one the best offensive casters in the game. Probably the best if it wasn't for Rean and his final bonding events accesories
@@locloudanerpg The thing about Crow too is that if you spec him properly, not only (from what I've seen as of Eventide) can he have a ridiculous Crit rate, but he can actually get CP faster than Rean can in some cases, and his 2 weapon types lets him do some extra adjusting too. Though, I will admit for as much as I have him along for story, I tend to have him in "Support" instead of "Active" when the chips are down because well...I've run Rean/Alisa/Fie/Laura as my main team for the entirety of the Cold Steel series now, so...you know, lol.
Oh wow, thanks for putting Machias on top tier. Players sleep on him cause they hate him, haha. He gets better on Hajimari, Dread Breaker having S+ damage and SS Break with 30 cp and low delay, and also his burst drive aoe got larger. Also I think Crow should be two tiers higher. He is a mix attacker. He's acutally the best caster in the game cause of relatively high ats and two time lines in his orbments.
actually stat of everything and everyone is quite similar, the biggest differences between characters is the type-locked quartz slot and craft, i really wish there were much more differences between the stat of chars and weapons. only 1 type of stat have a huge different, and only 1 main character and 2 quest character have it.
@@rawaali8451 evasion, base evasion that is, just unequip everything and you can see that fie and sharon have a huge advantage in comparison to everyone else.
Fie as an evasion tank with sirius and aegis to draw aggro was way OP. Sara could probably do the same though so I get why you placed her down (still deserved top tier if ya ask me) Juna was unkillable with def adf and hp. Rean was great and for arts I used Musse and was not dissapointed. Rean, Fie, Juna, Musse worked great for me and were my main team at the end game
@@blas_de_lezo7375 not saying Fie is better than Sara or the like, just saying she still plays as a top tier character. Was just reacting to the vid what my main team was.
To be honest the amount of characters makes it very difficult to enjoy the game, there's far too many to gear and bugger all solid info on how to gear them in an organic playthrough. All you get are are builds from peoples 100th NG+ with every character loaded with the best quartz. The Sky and Crossbell games are much better imo.
My favorite set up is Rean (hits for major damage & arts are strong too), Emma (Arts destroy everyone), Kurt (I have his evasion to crazy levels, he almost never gets hit), Then either Altina, Sara, Musse, or Laura (Mostly just because I love their characters). I never use Ash (I don't want a complete AH on my team) or Gaius (He sucked in every game and they change it to try and make him hugely important? I just leave him off because it is stupid)
i will rank fie god tier or at least top tier since end game she literally can just evade anything and manage to counter crit with Rage Quartz. not to mention she can counter with ranged attack regardless. i also put delay quartz on her so everytime she attack , Aoe Craft , Link attack or Crit Counter will might proc that Delay on enemy :3
and i first start tocs4 with nightmare difficulty from the get go. not that hard once you already know how the game works on previous game even with buff/nerf here
I have to say this cuz it really ticked me off it's Trails of COLD STEEL 4, not Trails 4, and it ticked me off because it is the NINTH installment of this series.
Dragon quest xi, paper Mario N64 and the thousand year door, ni no kuni wrath of the white witch, kingdom hearts (1,2,3), south park the fractured but whole party members you got a long way to go
eh, I disagree on Fie. She's the only char you can reliably cap evasion without having to cast shining on them every couple of turns. That saving on the cast also comes with extra damage. I had fie at 98% evasion with CP regent equipment and go to spam crafts and let my mages fly every turn instead of having to recast shining on Fie
excuse me, build crow in a crit build, and he can dish out very high damage, comparable to laura even, it's kinda a reason why cros is pretty much similar to rean, even his master quartz last effect is giving bonus cp per kill
This list is a joke Jusis is actually God Tier. I cheesed the game on nightmare using him 80% of the time total cakewalk 1. Has the best Brave order in the game buffs STR,ATS,SPD for only 2 Brave Points (medium) no need to manually cast them. 2. Platinum Shield is totally broken just spam before a boss is about to use their special attack ( only 50 CP ) 3. Has best arts support link him with any caster like Emma or Musse for increased arts damage. 4. He's the Paladin of Class VII has great crafts and is a really good caster as well and btw Ash sucks he's mid to low tier at best .
While I agree that Jusis is greater than this video, no Ash is 100% amazing, set with a Crit Build and he can reach insane damage, his self buff Unbound Rage is amazing making most of his Craft basically free on top of buffing his strength, Void Breaker is one of the best single target damaging Craft period, and his Brave Order is totally busted Crit + 60% for 6 turns with STR and SPD buff for only 3BP if you run a Crit Build with him and Rean this Brave Order might as well be free, an amazing Brave Order for boss fights.
late but tierlist or not im still gonna pair crow and rean together cus finally that dude is back with class 7. gaius can have all the buffs in the world and ill still think of him boring and wind memes and immediately bench him lol.
I don't want to be that guy, but you accidentally spelled Juna as "Yuna" in her entry. Also, people keep SAYING "Break+Delay" is "super nerfed", but...I'm at Eventide and it's still worked pretty well, it's just that it requires a little more thought into it. Plus, Sledgehammer ultimately only got nerfed from a 300% Break boost to a 250% one. And I'm not going to say Chrono Burst abuse isn't easy to get working in a number of cases, OR that there's so many ways to heal CP, you can't just have Gaius infinitely Delay bosses by S-Break spamming until they're Broken, Dead, or both, among with a ton of other things like incorporating Juna's Craft, or Sara's Brave Order into it that things are far from dead even if you DON'T have Juna with you, BUT...lol.
I was about to mention the crow thing, but the thing that gets me is this game has this huge cast and makes it mostly irrelevant by not adding any kind of massive post game dungeon.
It really needed a sort of Reverie Corridor type dungeon that allows the player to use every playable character in the game and just go crazy and have fun.
Just fucking no, this series needs to go back to smaller more focused parties. The Sky and Crossbell arcs were enjoyable to play, with Cold Steel i ended spending more time paralysed than actually playing because there's far too many party members to bring or not to bring and to gear, etc. You can have loads of characters without making them all party members.
Crow is a very good arts user and azure destiny is a great damage buff for him , slap some quartz that boost his AT damage and give him virgo as his sub master quartz and he will become a living nuke
Crow Low tier?? He was my 2nd best physical damage dealer (woden + gunnnir) and good quarts setup you will do 30k-50k damage every turn (I would put him in top top tier) Jusis noble rise brave order is also really good in my opinion I use it to not bother with using reans spirit unification on mods mush Rean is best caster (no cast time without brave order and zerro delay after cast with delay reduction brave order and best physical damage dealer (only one to have 5s power s craft which attacks every enemy) in the game so yeah he is most broken (my max physical damage is 250k with gunnir+minatours and 220to 250 speed) I would put sera in top tier and fie in top tier as only fie and Sharron are having base evasion 25% (I think) I used juna as moebius user with bs health to use as a clutch tag in (chrono burst then accelerate then chrono burst again then use a cp and ep healing item then tag out) My final team was rean (an all out attacker), fie(evasion tank) Altina(support and arts) crow (cross blade craft spam to do massive damage) Rean breaks (other than major bosses rean breaks every enemy in one turn) then then use normal attack and and make sure attacking party is linked with either crow or rean to do massive damage (my best link attack damage with normal attack was 40k-50k
In my opinion the best team would be Rean as an evasion tank, Emma and Crow or musse as arts nukers and machias/Juna as support-modius-accelerators using Tovals brave order.
@@locloudanerpg Got it, thanks for replying man, really, really cool of you. Keep up the awesome videos and I hope you get plenty more subscribers, you clearly deserve them
I second his choice people don't give Machias enough credit because he is admitadly one of the worst character in the entire Cold Steel saga story wise, but gameplay wise he is actually a beast, Long Range impede Craft with good break rate and Defense Debuff, Burst Drive is outright amazing ability to manipulate turn and a great Brave Order 50% Delay reduction for 8 turns with STR and DEF buff is no joke.
Looking at this video and looking at my endgame party: My endgame party and thoughts about it: Rean, Fie, Laura and Alisa with the basic set evasion up to 100% thanks to Alisa's Heavenly Gift Craft and let enemies miss all the time. That's a strat that will bring me victory. See basically three of them in the lower tiers: My thoughts: I really must learn how to use Machias correctly.
These lists are never perfect though I try to be as thorough as possible. It’s obvious after posting this that I misplaced Crow. He should be higher on this list due to a lot of factors. Thanks everyone for bringing it to my attention and supporting this channel!
It's all good. What it really goes to show to me, is that so many people play this series and this game in so many different ways, that no two tierlists are likely to look anywhere near the same because of all the individual strategies people use. Well...except for Rean being near/at the top of the list. That's probably not changing, lol.
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@@brianpguil that’s an interesting one. I’ve never played it. Is it worth a play through?
@@locloudanerpg yes, it is a game inspired by the first 2 paper mario games and it is really fun
crow can deal the most amount of arts damage in the game. his buff craft gives such a high ats boost that he is the best arts user in the game
I can’t agree with Crow’s placement, he is easily my best physical damage dealer because I have set him up so that he has 50+ critical chance, as one of his crafts has additional critical hit chance. He is also Really fast. But to each their own. Great list btw
I totally agree
Crow with a critical setup + Azure Destiny is a God.
I used Rean - Crow - Fie - Alisa and I beat Nightmare without any difficoult.
Crow with the Woden and Gungir secondary quartz is a great set up.
I keep Gungnir as his main, with Woden with a secondary, and he's insane (I gave Rean Woden as his main for bosses/etc). Hell, my Crow already has a base Critical Rate of almost 50% WITHOUT the Woden High HP bonus.
I also have him above 50+ critical and he is really fast. Unstoppable
I personnaly use him as an Eva Tank Gungnir + Sirius + Rage Quartz on Gun mod with Azure Destiny for 5 Turns Insight and STR/SPD up works pretty well.
Personally I had Jusis in the whole time as a speedy arts user and coupled with his brave order which increases dmg and grants str ats up, he was wiping enemies with ease. Pandora/Virgo on hard mode. Maybe this is more of a testament to how strong arts are. Speaking of which, would you do a list for master quartz? There’s so many and some can make for very interesting applications with the right quartz/equip
Gaius being in god tier is all I needed to see
I have 3 teams built with the same basic strategy but goes about it slightly differently from each other.
Team A - Classic arte nuking strat with cracked countering
Fie - evasion tank, BP generator
Machias - physical attack, secondary support
Alisa - support, secondary mage
Emma - mage
Reserve
Laura - one time s craft nuke, brave order
Team B - breaking and stealing turns once broken enemy with cracked countering
Juna - evasion tank (in gunner mode), breaker, BP generator
Kurt - physical attack, breaker
Altina - support, secondary mage
Musse - mage
Reserve
Jusis - one turn s craft nuke, brave orders
Team C - Critical abusers with cracked countering
Sara - evasion tank, BP generator
Gaius - physical attacker (low hp)
Elliot - support, secondary mage
Crow - mage
Reserve
Ash - one turn s craft nuke, brave order
Rean - divine song - any team in reserve
Crow should be bro tier. Azure Destiny is basically his own Spirit Unification, except better since it gives him insight as well, and the status immunity Rean gets won't mean anything if he can't be touched, he has pistols for long range counters, and just like Rean, he can be a spell caster as well, though he probably won't be casting 1 delay arts due to lacking Reans broken exclusive accessories. I had to stop using him and Rean in my main party because everyone else was basically irrelevent(Nightmare). The only times any other party member got a turn in battle was against bosses, or if they were lucky enough to win the speed war at the start. Jusis should be higher based on his BO alone. Gaius was already god tier in CS2 as well where he already had an infinite turn build with Thor MQ.
Actually I build Crow as full caster and whit some quarz effect and toval accessorie he was really a magic gatling ( off course the most broken art was at like 3/7 of delay but soul blur and aquabled was ever at delay 1 whit like 60k of dmg per hit )
I like putting Crow and Altina together. Fun mixed characters who can cast arts and do big damage with crafts if you give them the good equipment.
I'll mostly agree with this list, except for Fie who I would rank much much higher. Some things I would like to say tough :
-Laura as much as I love her as a character, I must agree with her placement her biggest drawback is how slow she is compare to most of the cast even tough like you said if you help her as most as possible she can be very destructive, however I think she is good as a reserve members cause of her Brave Order, Insight is already nice but that +60% Damage Bonus is massive (and work with all type of damage), this is the second biggest Damage Increase out of all the Brave Order in the game (the first being Vita so unlike Laura's you have more limited access to it), if use at the right timing that Brave Order can make you melt through boss with ease, you can reach over 100k damage as soon as Act 2 thanks to this Brave Order.
-A few word on Jusis while he might fell a bit as you progress through the game, if we look at the entire game not just the late game I think he is one of the best, first off his Platinum Shield is incredibly usefull, and he has a good Craft for Impede ennemies, but he is also an amazing support for Art Caster, first off one of his Craft can Debuff ennemies ADF, then there is his Brave which was actually untouch from Cold Steel 3 and got better when you upgrade it that ATS Buff combine with 30% Damage Increase comes out really nice, also IIRC he is the earliest access to the Link ability Arts Support 2 which when trigger multiply the Art Damage of his partner by 1.5 which makes him the best character to link to your caster for quite a while cause when that kicks in boy does it hurt for the ennemies. Because of that I would place him in the Top Tier.
Love this. Thanks for the feedback!
I absolutely love the thought you put into this ranking. I actually agree with every placement, but in regards to the explanations I will say there is a lack of love sent to the "magic swordsman" classes like Crow, Kurt, Jusis, Altina, and Ash. Basically characters who have crafts that are magical, but can still unbalance.
With the right setup favoring ATS they can be monsters on the battlefield, especially with Emma's brave order. They demolished the bosses during the rivalries, as in several cases their magic-based crafts hit almost as hard as arts, but with no charge time.
You applied the "Not Your Turn" strategy to Giaus to place him in the high tiers but continue to ignore the fact that it can be used with Laura as you place her in the mid tier. Laura's speed is irrelevant when you can make her use the S-Craft at any time of your choosing, including on garunteed crit turns.
I love how these lists change as the series progresses. They're all viable characters, but It's just some have progressed more than others have. I mean, It make sense that Sarah, Gaius ans Rean are all God tier because of their stories and progression as characters throughout the series.
I agree with this tier list, about 80-90% in. The only thing I would've changed, would be moving Fie to top tier. I agree she isn't as broken as she can be in CS2, and still isn't Musse level in the top tier, but the evasion tank strategy can still be executed almost flawlessly. Also fun to notice that, with absolute dedication to the strategy, she can be equipped and accessorized to go WELL above and beyond 100%. Dunno, found it hilarious
Beyond Evasion Tank the best aspects of Fie is her speed and the fact she can Crit for day, these may sound intriguing as she doesn't have a good Crit Rate, however the thing the creator of the video forgot to mention is she has a Craft that gives her STR, SPD buffs which is already nice but also gives her Stealth and attacking while being in Stealth guaranteed the Crit, so she has guaranteed Crit for 2 turns with this Craft, and she can also Crit guaranteed through Countering with the Rage Quartz, with both she basically is suprisingly the best Crit user of the game this mean 2 things :
1-She can take advantage of the Gungnir Master Quartz better than any other Character and the bonus it gives to her damage is huge.
2-She can generate BP very fast with no trouble at all as crit are guaranteed to unbalance the target, to make use of more Orders.
On top of that she also have Sweep 2 while not very damaging the area it covers is huge and it interrupt ennemies that try to cast Arts and Craft combine that with her insane Speed and she is amazing for that purpose, her Cipher Edge craft with Instant-Death chance on it is also nice for mob fight; also let's not forget her great Brave Order Insight Statut is hands down the best buff in the game and she give that + a 50% Delay Reduction for 10 turns geez.
Honnestly I would argue she might even be God Tier, that little girl is a monster.
you sure you are not getting "emma perfect waifu" syndrome?
Also, I’ll point out with right load out of orbments and accessories any party member can be broken in this game, except Millium as she remains unplayable.
I agree with 100%. My ideal lineup was Gaius as en evasion/cp generator, rean ,Emma and Laura ( although maybe Sara was better). Laura link with gaius with rage , evade+crit + Laura assist. Rean to do all around (I put mobius quartz on him for tough battles) and enma to do real damage. Probably musse+Emma is a better option. Oh and gaius mostly for getting to 100cp and scraft delay.
Also because Emma was sort of glossed over, if you give her the Brigid quartz at max lvl and the right cp recovery accessories, she can break the game. Being able to get 15 cp back a turn and casting Chrono burst and using her cp recovery spell on all your party members she can break the endgame because the enemy will never get a turn and you can continuously spam S-Crafts. And if you saved up a bunch of ep recovery items this can get you all the way from about the start of the final act to the final boss, which is a lot. The final act is huge.
Don't even need to give her Brigid for that. She can cast spells so fast consecutively with the right orbment lineup she'll be getting CP back for her S-craft before the enemies turn anyway.
@@lolRNG oh I’m aware that’s not an optimized set up, the point was this is a simple set up that still makes her broken. This is more of a support build for her, and if set up correctly, it will always be Emma’s turn and you just spam S crafts and delete bosses.
this is late but I honestly agree with Juna's placement especially if you build her as a support character. I built her like that to the point where she instantly casts any support art with quick caliber and chrono drive. She became one of my best supports in my NG+ run!
I’ll have to disagree about crow being low tier
He's a hard one to place for sure. How did you build into an end game team?
@@locloudanerpg Crow is the only character whose self buff affects his ATS. Add his buff in SPD to that and he basically becomes one the best offensive casters in the game. Probably the best if it wasn't for Rean and his final bonding events accesories
@@locloudanerpg I more or less made him a Hard Physical attacker/Arts caster, seraphic ring helped hard with some other buffs
@@locloudanerpg The thing about Crow too is that if you spec him properly, not only (from what I've seen as of Eventide) can he have a ridiculous Crit rate, but he can actually get CP faster than Rean can in some cases, and his 2 weapon types lets him do some extra adjusting too. Though, I will admit for as much as I have him along for story, I tend to have him in "Support" instead of "Active" when the chips are down because well...I've run Rean/Alisa/Fie/Laura as my main team for the entirety of the Cold Steel series now, so...you know, lol.
He isn't.
Oh wow, thanks for putting Machias on top tier. Players sleep on him cause they hate him, haha. He gets better on Hajimari, Dread Breaker having S+ damage and SS Break with 30 cp and low delay, and also his burst drive aoe got larger.
Also I think Crow should be two tiers higher. He is a mix attacker. He's acutally the best caster in the game cause of relatively high ats and two time lines in his orbments.
i can't use alisa at all cos how her bow works. it bothers me so much how loose her bow string is, those arrows should not be flying anywhere.
At least Emma is good for something other than being an exposition machine and even then it was a role she shared with a friggin cat.
actually stat of everything and everyone is quite similar, the biggest differences between characters is the type-locked quartz slot and craft, i really wish there were much more differences between the stat of chars and weapons. only 1 type of stat have a huge different, and only 1 main character and 2 quest character have it.
Which stat and which characters are you alluding to?
@@rawaali8451 evasion, base evasion that is, just unequip everything and you can see that fie and sharon have a huge advantage in comparison to everyone else.
You serious? Kurt is top tier. In my party he would break nearly all time with rain slash
Fie as an evasion tank with sirius and aegis to draw aggro was way OP. Sara could probably do the same though so I get why you placed her down (still deserved top tier if ya ask me) Juna was unkillable with def adf and hp. Rean was great and for arts I used Musse and was not dissapointed. Rean, Fie, Juna, Musse worked great for me and were my main team at the end game
Sara better because of self insight and for tough bosses gaius is the best evasion tank if only because the absolute delay scraft.
@@blas_de_lezo7375 not saying Fie is better than Sara or the like, just saying she still plays as a top tier character. Was just reacting to the vid what my main team was.
I agree with this list mostlyy. Well, the only thing that matters is that you enjoy the game and try out a lot of party combinations and setups.
To be honest the amount of characters makes it very difficult to enjoy the game, there's far too many to gear and bugger all solid info on how to gear them in an organic playthrough.
All you get are are builds from peoples 100th NG+ with every character loaded with the best quartz.
The Sky and Crossbell games are much better imo.
My favorite set up is Rean (hits for major damage & arts are strong too), Emma (Arts destroy everyone), Kurt (I have his evasion to crazy levels, he almost never gets hit), Then either Altina, Sara, Musse, or Laura (Mostly just because I love their characters). I never use Ash (I don't want a complete AH on my team) or Gaius (He sucked in every game and they change it to try and make him hugely important? I just leave him off because it is stupid)
wish we had a bigger party for IV, i mean 39 playable chars, n we need pick 4..
retarded comment. Do u think the battle system would work if so many characters was in the party at the same time
i will rank fie god tier or at least top tier since end game she literally can just evade anything and manage to counter crit with Rage Quartz. not to mention she can counter with ranged attack regardless. i also put delay quartz on her so everytime she attack , Aoe Craft , Link attack or Crit Counter will might proc that Delay on enemy :3
and i first start tocs4 with nightmare difficulty from the get go. not that hard once you already know how the game works on previous game even with buff/nerf here
I have to say this cuz it really ticked me off
it's Trails of COLD STEEL 4, not Trails 4, and it ticked me off because it is the NINTH installment of this series.
Dragon quest xi, paper Mario N64 and the thousand year door, ni no kuni wrath of the white witch, kingdom hearts (1,2,3), south park the fractured but whole party members you got a long way to go
Meanwhile I constantly use Jusis and Crow in my team
eh, I disagree on Fie. She's the only char you can reliably cap evasion without having to cast shining on them every couple of turns. That saving on the cast also comes with extra damage. I had fie at 98% evasion with CP regent equipment and go to spam crafts and let my mages fly every turn instead of having to recast shining on Fie
excuse me, build crow in a crit build, and he can dish out very high damage, comparable to laura even, it's kinda a reason why cros is pretty much similar to rean, even his master quartz last effect is giving bonus cp per kill
Ash is pretty underrated.
This list is a joke Jusis is actually God Tier. I cheesed the game on nightmare using him 80% of the time total cakewalk
1. Has the best Brave order in the game buffs STR,ATS,SPD for only 2 Brave Points (medium) no need to manually cast them.
2. Platinum Shield is totally broken just spam before a boss is about to use their special attack ( only 50 CP )
3. Has best arts support link him with any caster like Emma or Musse for increased arts damage.
4. He's the Paladin of Class VII has great crafts and is a really good caster as well
and btw Ash sucks he's mid to low tier at best .
While I agree that Jusis is greater than this video, no Ash is 100% amazing, set with a Crit Build and he can reach insane damage, his self buff Unbound Rage is amazing making most of his Craft basically free on top of buffing his strength, Void Breaker is one of the best single target damaging Craft period, and his Brave Order is totally busted Crit + 60% for 6 turns with STR and SPD buff for only 3BP if you run a Crit Build with him and Rean this Brave Order might as well be free, an amazing Brave Order for boss fights.
he was better when he had the noble command craft imo
late but tierlist or not im still gonna pair crow and rean together cus finally that dude is back with class 7. gaius can have all the buffs in the world and ill still think of him boring and wind memes and immediately bench him lol.
I don't want to be that guy, but you accidentally spelled Juna as "Yuna" in her entry. Also, people keep SAYING "Break+Delay" is "super nerfed", but...I'm at Eventide and it's still worked pretty well, it's just that it requires a little more thought into it. Plus, Sledgehammer ultimately only got nerfed from a 300% Break boost to a 250% one. And I'm not going to say Chrono Burst abuse isn't easy to get working in a number of cases, OR that there's so many ways to heal CP, you can't just have Gaius infinitely Delay bosses by S-Break spamming until they're Broken, Dead, or both, among with a ton of other things like incorporating Juna's Craft, or Sara's Brave Order into it that things are far from dead even if you DON'T have Juna with you, BUT...lol.
I personally would split Crow into 2 entries, dual guns Crow and double sabre Crow.
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according to u then perfect team would be rean emma gaius machias, as the best part of sara is her battle order
Just can’t agree with fie as mid but I see your reasoning
I was about to mention the crow thing, but the thing that gets me is this game has this huge cast and makes it mostly irrelevant by not adding any kind of massive post game dungeon.
It really needed a sort of Reverie Corridor type dungeon that allows the player to use every playable character in the game and just go crazy and have fun.
Just fucking no, this series needs to go back to smaller more focused parties.
The Sky and Crossbell arcs were enjoyable to play, with Cold Steel i ended spending more time paralysed than actually playing because there's far too many party members to bring or not to bring and to gear, etc. You can have loads of characters without making them all party members.
Crow is a very good arts user and azure destiny is a great damage buff for him , slap some quartz that boost his AT damage and give him virgo as his sub master quartz and he will become a living nuke
Crow Low tier??
He was my 2nd best physical damage dealer (woden + gunnnir) and good quarts setup you will do 30k-50k damage every turn (I would put him in top top tier)
Jusis noble rise brave order is also really good in my opinion I use it to not bother with using reans spirit unification on mods mush
Rean is best caster (no cast time without brave order and zerro delay after cast with delay reduction brave order and best physical damage dealer (only one to have 5s power s craft which attacks every enemy) in the game so yeah he is most broken (my max physical damage is 250k with gunnir+minatours and 220to 250 speed)
I would put sera in top tier and fie in top tier as only fie and Sharron are having base evasion 25% (I think)
I used juna as moebius user with bs health to use as a clutch tag in
(chrono burst then accelerate then chrono burst again then use a cp and ep healing item then tag out)
My final team was rean (an all out attacker), fie(evasion tank) Altina(support and arts) crow (cross blade craft spam to do massive damage)
Rean breaks (other than major bosses rean breaks every enemy in one turn) then then use normal attack and and make sure attacking party is linked with either crow or rean to do massive damage (my best link attack damage with normal attack was 40k-50k
So the best team would be Rean, Machias (I think he was the best support for you, wasnt he?), Emma/Vita and Sara/Aurelia?
In my opinion the best team would be Rean as an evasion tank, Emma and Crow or musse as arts nukers and machias/Juna as support-modius-accelerators using Tovals brave order.
@@locloudanerpg Got it, thanks for replying man, really, really cool of you. Keep up the awesome videos and I hope you get plenty more subscribers, you clearly deserve them
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Machias in top tier? You f serious...that’s a joke
I second his choice people don't give Machias enough credit because he is admitadly one of the worst character in the entire Cold Steel saga story wise, but gameplay wise he is actually a beast, Long Range impede Craft with good break rate and Defense Debuff, Burst Drive is outright amazing ability to manipulate turn and a great Brave Order 50% Delay reduction for 8 turns with STR and DEF buff is no joke.
@@nesoukkefka1741 he is really good but he is so strangely designed. Being a ranged user and tanky is just a weird combo
Nightmare no brave orders challenge anyone?
my boy Gaius came through after being one of the most boring characters in the other games
Emma is not the best caster....Rean is.
Looking at this video and looking at my endgame party:
My endgame party and thoughts about it:
Rean, Fie, Laura and Alisa with the basic set evasion up to 100% thanks to Alisa's Heavenly Gift Craft and let enemies miss all the time. That's a strat that will bring me victory.
See basically three of them in the lower tiers:
My thoughts: I really must learn how to use Machias correctly.
In four I’d skip Machias and just go for the arts users! Him and Juna are almost interchangeable. But your set ups a classic one!