Beginner Weapon Guide
Note: This guide has not been updated for characters after Nemesis.
Weapon Types
There are 3 different weapon types in ToF: DPS, Defense, and Support.
You can equip 3 weapons at a time, and based on the combination of your weapon types, you will receive a Resonance.
| Resonance | Requirement | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Balanced | | Solo Play5% damage increase, 5% received damage reduction, 20% shatter and healing increaseTeam PlayAdditional 20% damage increase and 20% received damage reduction |
| Brute Force | | Solo Play10% damage increaseTeam PlayAdditional 40% damage increase |
| Fortitude | | Solo Play25% received damage reduction, 60% shatter increase, 800% enemy aggro increaseTeam PlayAdditional 20% received damage reduction |
| Blessing | | Solo Play100% healing increaseTeam PlayAdditional 100% healing increase |
All Weapon Descriptions
Let's take a closer look at each character's weapon.
Character List
 Baiyuekui | Her weapon is a lightning element Tang Dao, her roles would be shield break and dps. This is good to have in your build so u can break shields, and interrupt boss skills, as well as having iframes for safety. I would at minimum use her at 1★ for the dmg boost, preferably at least 3★ for the shield break dmg. |
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 Marc | His weapon is a physical Mech suit with a swap skill to enter his robot. He has defensive shields, offensive buffs, and great energy recharge. This helps to cast more switch skills while drastically increasing survivability and boosting offensive capabilities. At minimum I would use him at 1★ for the survivability, however 3★ optimally for the 35% dmg boost. |
 Zero | His weapon is a fire cube. He provides heals, offensive buffs, and shields, as well as a decent recharge rate. This helps increase survivability while also boosting offensive capabilities. He is also the only non macro option for afk farming |
 KING | His weapon is a fire scythe. His roles are shield break. While he may primarily only do one thing, its quite important. At 1★ when breaking he provides a strong dot(damage over time) effect. This enables you to break shields easily, get the DoT, and swap to a stronger dps weapon. I would at minimum use him at 1★ for the break DoT. |
 Shiro | Her weapons are physical chakrams. She also fills the shield break role. At 3★ she provides a full skill cd reset. This enables crazy combos and has great utility but decent investment as well. I would at minimum use her at 3★ for the free skill cd reset. |
 Coco Ritter | Her weapon is an ice staff. Her role is healing, buff support, and recharge. This helps increase survivability as well as boost offensive capabilities. As a wise man once said, dead dps is no dps. At minimum I would use her at 1★ for the hp and energy regen over time. |
 Meryl | Her weapon is an ice claymore. Her role is shield break, cc immune, shields. This enables her to quickly take down shields, as well as keep you alive without being thd-flexn around. I would at minimum use her at 1★ for the increased shield break power, as well as the self sustain. |
 Crow | His weapon is lightning dual blades. His role is dps, offensive buff, cc immune. This enables him to provide high crit rate as well as boost lightning dmg without being thrown around while also doing significant dmg himself. At minimum I would use him at 3★ for the significant dmg boost it provides(30% when target below 60% hp). |
 Cobalt-B | Her weapon is a fire shotgun. Her role is dps. This enables her to shred down bosses and handle the fight before things get messy. I would at minimum use her at 6★ because without it, her skill cd is far too long to be worth using. |
 Claudia | Her weapon is physical sword(katana). Her role is aerial dps and offensive buffs. This enables her to buff other weapons, and increase skill dmg at 5★ while doing decent dmg herself. I would at minimum use her at 1★ for the 24% dmg buff. |
 Samir | Her weapon is electric dual guns. Her role is aerial dps, decent recharge. She is special in that she attacks in the air but above enemies keeping you relatively safe, while doing massive dmg. At minimum I would use her at 0★, not that her stars aren't good, but she is simply that good at base. |
 Huma | Her weapon is fire shield. Her role is debuff, stun, dmg reduction. This enables her to neutralize enemies effectively, while providing decent recharge. At minimum I would use her at 0★ because her dupes while useful, aren't really game breaking in regards to her role. |
 Nemesis | Her weapon is lightning railguns. Her role is lightning support, dot, heals. This enables her to boost lightning dmg significantly, whole also healing and dealing lightning dmg while using another weapon. I would use her at 1★ minimum for the heals, and extra sustain. 3★ however adds DoT. |
Example DPS Teams
Skill Based: Crow, Tsubasa, Marc
The concept of this build is high energy recharge with Marc and Tsubasa, enabling me to spam Crow's discharge skill. Tsubasa also buffs my damage. Marc boosts survivability via his shields. In summary, this is balanced between offensive buffs, survivability and raw damage. Crow is kind of a special case as his plunge attack is extremely powerful.
DPS Showcase 1 DPS Showcase 2Raw Power: Baiyuekui, Tsubasa, Claudia
While this build may lack shields, it has dmg, dmg, and more dmg. Bai handles the heavy lifting, shield break as well as having iframes during her active skill. Tsubasa and Claudia both are used to charge energy and buff damage. While it may not be as forgiving as builds with some survivability, it makes up for it with dmg output.
A Balanced Trio: Marc, Nemesis, Samir
While Marc needs dupes for his damage buff and more shields, it truly is worth the cost. Nemesis provides DoT, Heals, and energy, while Marc basically ensures u don't die with his shields. Both of them provide powerful buffs. Samir in this case provides energy as well as the big dmg, attacking safely from the air.
Best F2P Team: Samir, Tsubasa, King
King offers shield break, as well as DoT off his shield break. King also happens to be one of two options for DPS-type shield break, the other being Shiro. Tsubasa gives a 40% dmg buff as well as charges energy for switch skills. Samir carries dmg while safely attacking from the air. It also helps that this is a tri-elemental build so there is always the option of using a non-resisted weapon.
Overall Best Team: 6★ Baiyuekui, Marc, Nemesis
Bai breaks shields while having a very strong dodge attack and the highest damage in game as of now. Marc grants a 35% damage buff as well as shields making you nearly invincible. Nemesis provides a strong 50% lightning damage buff, as well as a powerful DoT effect often healing more than pure support healers.
Example Tank Teams
Much of the utility each weapon can provide highly depends on the amount of dupes you can get on the weapon. As such it's important to know what you want to work with. Personally, this ended up with me giving Tsubasa a lot of value because she provides a strong damage buff, as well as energy to charge switch skills more often.
DPS isn't all that matters; ded DPS is no DPS.
Some content hits too hard and you would benefit from having a tank.
The King of Tanks: Marc
Marc enables you to use the Brute Force Resonance while still having insane survivability. In this game, tanks have an aggro buff and receive reduced damage, but if a DPS can maintain aggro through their damage while avoiding getting hit, wouldn't a good DPS just outperform a tank?
Yes. However that doesn't mean tanks are useless. In specific end game content such as Frontier Clash (Hard) the boost tanks get in shatter is what you need to prevent annoying mechanics such as enemies taking flight. We all know how annoying a boss that jumps across the map can be, especially when you have long cooldowns.
Massive Shield Break: Marc, Meryl, Tsubasa
Meryl has the best breaking power, as well as CC immunity. Her switch skill can also trap enemies, thought it'll trap your allies as well… She also does decent damage with her spin attack. Marc provides shield, energy, a damage buff, as well as cc immunity. Tsubasa provides ranged damage, a damage buff, DoT arrow rain, and energy recharge to spam more switch skills.
Tank ShowcaseExample Support Teams
Healer builds will typically want to run shield break to prevent boss ultimate abilities, but they can run full support as well. As there are only 4 support weapons a good build would be 2 from Zero/Nemesis/Coco, and a Shiro/Meryl.
Zero provides shields as well has offensive buffs and heals to the party. He has a party wide 3 sec iframe, and charges switch skills too.
Nemesis has DoT from 3★ and HoT from 1★, while Coco has offensive buffs and cc immune from 3★, and a strong burst heal. At high stars Nemesis even offers noticeable damage which could be a good option for healer mains.
Meryl has the strongest breaking power while Shiro active skill boosts shield break efficiency and damage for party. She also has a skill cd reset when she breaks enemies shields from 3★.
Support Showcase
