Character Tier List?

[Ade]

The problem with a Tier List is that it will never take into account the different Episodes, solo versus multi, regular gear versus sphered gear, etc.

Generally speaking, if you're playing as HUcast, RAcast, RAmar, RAmarl, or FOnewm, you're going to be viable in the majority of situations. So these 5 classes would represent A and S tier for most solo or multimode situations. Choosing any of them as a starter class is viable, and all of them continue to be viable even at endgame. The other 7 classes may sometimes come close (or even exceed) in some unique situations.

I think that about sums it up.

 

[HankJankerson]

Simple techs are the fonewearls strongest damage option

Nah its Demons special.

Fonewearl's action economy is best spent on demons special, not techs, [EDIT: in a single-target scenario]. She's the ranger of the FO's. Foney players could forego mapping basic techs to keyboard/controller, and be in the same or better spot with dps, AND not have to negotiate another weapon in quick menu. Doubling down on this at lvl180 with Red Ring equipped, because foney doesn't have to switch barriers for max efficacy. Forget the range argument, too. We were walking that way anyway.

I'd rather tech down a single Goran Detonator with fonewm-barehand-razonde than fonewearl-summit-moon-zonde for this reason alone: it stunlocks.

Foney can snipe, but she can't carpet bomb like fonewm. Uber or not, fonewm outperforms foney in Episode 4 where FO's shine the most. Foney is pretty awesome in episode 2 because of her higher ATA. I would postulate her resta range buff is detrimental in Ep2 because of DF grr