UO tier list simplified: Unique classes were designed to be OP, you will have the best outcomes designing squads with them in it. Other classes have specific roles they execute on a team. Utility is king - no matter the game, support units enable your stars to shine. Think of your concept and build your squad to execute on that concept. UO doesn’t have weak classes, you haven’t thought of a way to break it yet.

Doom Knight's at least A tier, I'd put it in S tier. You're absolutely right about the low HP mechanics being wonky, which is why you ignore them completely. Dark Flame is what you want to build around. Give it a set that gives it 4 AP and 4 PP and you can use Dark Flame three times in a fight, draining HP with each attack then using Demonic Pact to regain AP. This way the Doom Knight effectively gets 6 AP and will constantly be sitting on 75% HP (since it'll heal from full with ever Dark Flame and go back down to 75% from Demonic Pact). Pair one with Berengaria so everyone starts the fight debuffed so those Dark Flames will hit like a TRUCK. I'm talking 150-200 damage row-wide.

31:10 "You get a blue unit on a map that's high up in the corner and it's one of those useless pre-made AI units" is so true lmao.

Awesome Vid! I encourage you to experiment with the Doom Knight! I think it pairs pretty well with Berengaria as Doom Knights dark flame wants to target a debuffed opponent to set them on fire, which Berengaria throws down at the battles start and Berengarias abilities like to target afflicted. I'd throw it mid-to-high A tier myself

Hello, I have come out mine Unicorn Overlord cave to tell you I have been enjoying your guide videos. They have motivated me to start a new game and grind the Sigil's Trial to B rank Renown ( so I can promote at the beginning of the game) before I even start the journey and now I would reload that save data and try different tactics. Thank You and now I shall return to mine cave.

LOL, Disagree with lots of it but understandable, This is a good list. This game make Item very powerful and can make every class into different playstyle. It beautiful and makes everyone play differently. For example - I found Featherstaff very useful for Dodge frontline because they got 2AP skill that make a row survive with 1 HP, Dodge class tend to die in 1-hit anyway so got a way to negate that is very useful. combine with a 1PP "parting resurrection" staff your dodge Frontline can never die. - Legionary got very bad offensive AP skill but with good TowerShield/Spear that use AP can be very good. And you got 3 of 1PP Magic negate accessory whole game, earliest on 15 Divine shard exchange. - Sniper is very powerful when they get "pursuit" use 2-3 in same squad and when an ally row attack they will pursuit every target, Decimate everything except Legionary. - Landsknecht is C tier for me, on late game enemy rarely got hit on anyone(Except Legionary but i pair them with Cav) make counter useless. - I drop Sergeant because i can't find space for it but seeing you got it work really great.

The Etrian Odyssey community just started calling Landskencht “Landys” since it’s such a pain to pronounce.

I appreciate all the vids since launch.

Nice video. Would love to see how your lists change after some more playthroughs.

Woo! Taking a screenshot this time. 😂 Thanks for all your hard work.

Quick question for you as I am just getting into the game and I don't usually enjoy strategy games but the demo sold me. Does this list take into account the item that lets you rework the stats for the characters? Like when you say Berserker is a generalist because you find their initiative to low. Does that take into account that item that would let you rework the stats to give them more initiative? I saw a video about that item and how there are only so many you can get in some places but you can buy them for 30 renown or whatever at a certain place in the game.

I think you could bump up the Werefox up just a bit. It should closer be a high B (Around or a little higher than Rogue), probably could skirt an A if its lucky and I'm also missing something about the class's tool kit. A lot of it's tool kit is very close to the Rogue even with the avoid tanking just with more offensive passive choices and night focused traits instead of ranged attacks and a battle starter. The thing that makes them shine imo is the valor skills Jump and Jump II. Jump is a teleport to an ally unit while Jump II is a teleport to an enemy unit. now the range isn't huge like the mages but being able to bounce around and assist allies, jump over obstacles like walls or rivers, or pop over to a tower to get an assist unit before so it's can't help the other unit is very nice and helps speeds things up.

Loved it. There just feels like an insane amount of depth in the game- I still get tripped up by the damn mechanics triggering sometimes or messing up with initiatives. Even the really “meh” classes are able to shine when works done. I do feel some of the unique characters (the elves, mainly, screw them) are over worked and tuned but otherwise everything feels pretty fun. Can we get some meme teams though, like full angel teams? Full elves? (Not just spamming). I feel we take out high lords and dark marquess and try some tribal themed teams it could be interesting

I liked using the lifeshare shield on the doom knight to manipulate its HP, I could use it at specific health thresholds because it’s 50% of your current HP not max. It’s an excellent pairing with a gk with cover shield. The GK covers the DK at dangerous health levels and can cav call his damage. The DK can heal using lifeshare and activate his low HP bonuses.

Do you have a list of guides for builds and team comps? Wanna use as a reference to optimise my team

May I have the name of the lance you mentioned in the Great Knight section that row stuns, please? I want to track it down for my cav squad.

I use wereowl as a support unit that does impetus or something, the fast flying as a leader is really good to have in later maps. I just place a very high value on mobility because slow units are so horrible to play. Something that felt pretty bad in this game is that it dumps all of this incredible stuff on you in Drakenhold and Elheim, then you get the last good unit at the start of Bastorias and everything in the last two sections of the games is at best serviceable so it becomes a bit negative dopamine.

Gryphon Master in B tier? No way. Cutting down a whole row of Cavalry is amazing.

I’d argue Gryphon Master deserves A tier because of the speed boost. Yeah you can use an item, but on True Zenorian items are limited to 5 per battle. Even on lower difficulties with no item restriction, it still offers flight, speed and pretty good combat.

I would have been very funny if you somehow managed to miss Housecarl in the last tier list and then Viking in this one 😂 good thing you noticed it at the end… I actually think I agree with almost everything in this list. Bestrals/Feathers could probably move around a bit but they come so late that you don’t have as much time to get a feel for them - and maybe Legionnaire could go up one tier in the very late game - otherwise it’s probably just same-tier movements. Late game Feathersword becomes a potent single-target nuke that can mop up anything left over from a board nuke with Discharge and their 2AP attack, and is probably the best evasion tank in the game (they usually survive OHKOs from enemy truestrikes since they can get pretty high guard rates from shields) Legionnaire can become a potent PP battery for itself, using its AP > 2PP skill which means you can basically force it to exclusively guard and cover squishies (including the whole row). Sainted Knight/the item that provides Magic Conversion (negates magic damage and grants user +2 PP) and their main issue then is just Breakers. Werefox is another great evasion tank, and probably deserves to be around/above Thief imo. Especially since they also use lances, so you can give them row stun etc. Jump is also a pretty good valour skill - essentially another teleport but without full map range. Werebear also has pretty solid damage (row attack and ground based all enemy attack) and can get 100% guard rate too. This is good because they scale based on how high their current HP is. Low initiative hurts them though, but I’d probably say they’re up near Paladin/definitely above Berserker. Warlock, idk if it’s because I’ve done TZ only using named units (so only 1 Witch), still feels like A to me. They lack the teleport and truesight conferral, but they do still have tome conferrals and a row stun that can target the back row, which is pretty solid. For me, in actual play/not coliseum, I tend to favour Bishops over Priestess. In-built Passive Resurrection is great to pair with an evasion class, as them having 1 HP vs full HP barely matters as long as they can then avoid an assist. Lastly Sniper I think is pretty great. A physical row attack that targets the back row (where there’s usually more Mag Def) and doesn’t need charged is solid, and they have high enough initiative to usually be one of the first strikers. Paired with a conferral they can usually OHKO the entire back line with in-built truestrike, meaning you can use an accessory slot for something else. An Elven Archer is a good pair for them, since it makes Ranged Assist stronger too

I love your videos, but putting wereowl in C is CRIMINAL! its easly S tier and i run one in every of my teams. First it has THREE Leader skills at night and there is a endgame item that changes the time of battle on the battlefield. It makes your unit flying and fast and heal assist. Then it gives truestrike to a row of allies and mag defence and heal over time to a row. Also it can dispel buffs instantly to break enemys quick impetus for example AND gives back pp to units. Paired with a feather shild you get an infinite pp loop. Finally a lot of people, you included, overlook the fact that beasts get a boost in all of their stats at night and its not small. At night my owl with 40 int is faster than my dragoon with 46 so its at least 6 points increase! But keep up the good videos. In the end, everybody has different experiences with the classes they use and its difficult to see everything a specific class brings to the table.

Doom knight is A tier for me they are definitely my go to squad pair them with berengaria and a cleric they tear down enemy easy. They also can clear Tanks like legionnaire very easy too

banger vid as always

Werebear's measly Mobility stat of 50 makes most maps pretty unbearable unless you're constantly using Hastened Call or pairing him with all your Cavs and Gryphs. Even when Bear is not the Leader, he generally seems to slow a unit down to a glacial pace. Very niChe-tier imo. I'll admit, though, that after using more generic Mercs that I chose Stat Growth options for,, the Stat Choices can make a huge difference for a character's usability. It was only when I was nearly done with Albion that I finally realized that you can use an Idealist's Handmirror on your Story Characters to not only customize their color palette, but you can actually "re-spec" them to whatever Stat Growth rates you prefer. So, I'm thinking my weapons are probably good enough and that my Honors might be better-spent on Handmirrors to help my Story Chars have closer-to-optimal stat distros.

Wereowls give +1pp with restore which lets you do really good charge attack combos with recast and impetus since youll give those people another opportunity to use a passive so another buff to stack lol, I use it for my glacial range combo which honestly completely broke the game as soon as I got yunify to 30. My 4 person team kills lvl 45s no problem Swordmasters and werefoxes are a bit better than youd think, they both excel at taking out targets before anyone else can move, so you can completely negate a teams weakness right off the bat. Also a team full of werefoxes is hilarious, and doom kinghts, do this Team for doom knights: 2 doom knights dark marquess to debuff, and the stun, buffs dark flame row attack Druid for cursed swamp + defensive and offensive curse, offensive help safely proc vengeance on doom knights, defensive screws over armored Last slot is very flexible but you want it to be able to heal, cleric, wereowl, Elvin archer etc all work Clears very well against a variety, weak against flying depending on flex character, but debuffs can get you through those too

I really want to see you do more Online PVP content for this game. It really is a different mindset when evaluating classes and skills that I think is another rabbit hole from this game for you to fall into.

really said that sword master falls off, is there anyway to make it better?

how can gryphon master B class when its the counter to most of your S class, as a leader it can bypass obstacles paired with its valor you can reach strategicly placed enemy. plus it one shot a whole backline as it can bypass frontline tanks.

I’m not super great so idk how to rank stuff, but Werefox has the two versions of Leap which are basically Sorceress teleport, but with lower range but are more usable in low valor situations due to the more limited leap being 1 less valor.

I love using Elven Fencers, they do need a little support but they can be so good late game.

As a german i love your pronunciation of "Landsknecht". It roughly translates to "country-servant". And is pronounced more like " LAhnds-knächt" however those are mostly sounds that dont exist in english so you are officially forgiven. Tier list is good. Id say sniper is way better than you described, its just too good at picking out the squishy backrow, A Tier for me. Bishop also A Tier they can essentially make anything that doesnt get oneshot a pretty good tank and helps staying fresh between different combats. Breaker to me is honestly pretty underwhelming, pretty good damage but needs alot of speed and accuracy fixing, however cute little girl going bonk will never not be funny.

the real probleme is there so much possibility that class alone doesn't describe all the potentiel from a class like wyvern and gryphon get access to an accessorie that make them never miss except when you'r blind ( it's a belt that increase damage too when full health ) put dragonwar spear and someone the cat hat to make her act directly and with only 2 unit you have a team that can never be stop 9 time on 10 without loosing a single hp and even without there's equipements that stun a whole line for 2PA, gears change a lot the capacity of one unit.

I swear I watched a early class tier list from you that wasn't the part one of this video. In that tier list you skimmed werewolf and werefox with like 1 line and just put them in C tier, then moved onto werebear. Did you remove it or am I going crazy?

Is being able to dragoon dive over terrain really that special? Any flier can be made party leader for 1 valor to get a unit over terrain. Then again, damage valor skills go hard so it is fair to rate them higher for it.

Wereowl Niche, huh, considering thats a unit I find the most annoying. Do you remember the coliseum fights at all?

warlock is good if you have sorcerous blow to hit and stun or trinity rod with an insta charge help to pew pew quickly. Initiative boost accessories are needed in both cases. In general, low initiative = garbage if you can't remedy it somehow.

there’s some busted skills buffing bestrals on some gear, i’m thinking it might make them competitive in a full squad

For shits and giggles I set up a crew of all snipers mostly to just assist and arrow rain and it's surprisingly helpful as a support squad

Vanguard has an ability called "Provoke" which makes all enemy units attack solely the Vanguard on your team. If you have a defensively-balanced Vanguard, pairing them with a Cleric or another healer to tank, and letting the rest of your squad go all in on the enemy squad is pretty good. Might be niche, because you have to pair one character with another, but it's a pretty good strategy.

I loved featherbow because I can finally build a full archer squad just for assists as she can actually catch up to my other squads (even though my archer squad can actually fight funnily enough). Flying units are still slower than cavalry, but I find myself deploying a lot of flying units in the late game due to the map hazards. Before featherbow I was never actually able to use range assists just because how slow a infantry squad is. Just a shame that it comes so late in the game.

Doom Knight is really good. I haven’t felt the need to be at low HP because Vengeful Axe is really not needed. Pairs insanely well with Berengaria because every attack has affliction. One of the only tanks with actual damage.

Bishop is mandatory for spot healing and debuff removal since even with full access to gearing options, can never completely debuff immune a team. I use it in my WR #1 team on coliseum and my kill squad for the entirety of the game. That said, I don't necessarily disagree they are B-tier but in the right comp they are mandatory IMO.

I really hope they make a DLC story expansion kind of thing for this game with new classes. Maybe include a few balance updates too? I just really like it.

Hmmm, dark skinned female spear wielder gets all the love... its starting to sound familiar

I agree with most of these, i would just make some change: Gryphon Master and Doom Knight go up from B to A tier Elven Archer go down from S to A tier. Dreadnought also go down from S to A tier.

doesn`t warlock have a row stun? don`t think its that much worse then a sorceress.

Pure evasion tank Legionnaire or Legionnaire with evade With their Greatshield skill they have infinite PP when paired with Vengeful Impetus or Guarding Impetus

So the only s tier units are board nukes and cofferral units that support them?? 🤔 You gotta use more team without them and test more.

You're already on it with the tier lists. Should have expected that. Just have a small request- Can you group them by unit type?

doom knight, shieldshooter A - DK just slat spellsteel gear + pendants for AP/PP and he spams rownukes that are not tankable. shieldshooter is a damage dealing tank (that can kill back row at that) that can heal and has an excellent valor skill gryffon S - high swing slaps annoying cavalry, give it initiative and she gives +15 initiative to 2 others. saving you 2 royal plumes for 1 PP. excellent conferral carrier because it can do ranged row attack for 1 AP. not to mention it can also frontline. not to mention the absolutely broken 1 cost valor skill.

Werefox is atleast A, imo. Dodge tank with good dmg passives

Yunifi does not need druid debuff at all if u build her correctly. I was oneshoting things in angel lands while being 5-7 levels behind without using a druid

Wonder what you’d change now that’s it’s been a little while.

Ok.. I think what you need to make is a "sniper's amber lens" tier list.

I assume this is before clearing the game, in which case the only Paladin you would have is Josef. There’s absolutely no reason to use him in the mid-to-late game as he gets vastly outclassed in terms of stats. If you compare him to a generic Paladin recruited postgame at the same level he’s waaaay behind. They did Josef real dirty.

Agreed that swordmaster is a niche and deserve their placement but have you tried equipping them with [Master Gauntlet] and [Lapis Pendant]? Make them act only when their {PP is 1 or below} and watch them hit 100 damage consistently, if you add [Cornix Sword] and invest on dew you can 1 shot gladiator well into late game and deal respectable damage to any frontliner except the Legionnare and the Bear. ^still not survivable as Rogue with their blind as this build rely purely in raw evasion but hey better than doing peanuts to 2/3 of the class

100+ hours in. 100% complete. All classes to 50. All classes max stats via consumables. All shop items purchases. 10x 5-man squads all kitted differently. And 2-3 hours of Arena testing each day. Currently sitting at 5th place on one of the arena servers (yes there are multiple). All of this to say that I am not blowing smoke when I state that DOOM KNIGHT is one of the only generic classes that can use the HOLY UNICORN SHIELD for complete DEBUFF IMMUNITY. This means ALL Afflictions and Stat Reductions are ignored. This Arena cycle we have seen Holy Unicorn Ring and Sacral Brooch as banned items. This is going to leave a minimum of 2 party members without the ability to be immune to DEBUFFS, but using Sacral weapons you can have all 5 with either debuff or affliction immunity. Finding a character who synergizes well with your squad to swap in when an item ban makes them not usable is not an easy task, but if that swap is mounted (2x to infantry) has magic + phy attack combo that hits a row and applies burn, a ridiculous phys attack stat (mine is unbuffed 94 phys attack!) and is topped off by having the spiffiest helmet in the game. DO NOT SLEEP ON DOOM KNIGHT

The furries like that you underestimate them

i just slap gryphon knight on a team with a board nuke that was gonna kill anyways and abuse haste lmao, top tier the way I wanna play the game just for that

I love feeling like I know what’s good in this game, going to a video like this, then realizing that there’s more broken crap that I should really focus on. This game is fun, in that sense. Feels like I’m still learning.

So things I got from this list is that any class that doesn’t support some nuke strategy goes down. And that the Maker is a bloody Knife ears lover! This one goes to the Book of Grudges!

Shieldshooters are A tier class that fit lot of places

breaker is S tier when paired with anything that gives it truestrike, regularly hitting for 100 against a row even against armor is insane

Sword master isn’t just an average evade tank. Parry makes it almost impossible to kill since it can counter true hit, pretty sure it’s the only evade tank that can do that.

Thankx man just in time. Looking at these furry character and have no idea if ther shit or not 😂 the bear looks the coolest so far. Was thinking of using the owl in backrow with two sellsswords for accuracy patch. With legionare and saint horse in front. Good comp or no?

I would argue that gryphon knight is A tier solely because of AOE hasted call. U can cheese the shit out of maps with that, give that to a cav and it will zoom. On maps where u start with 4 valor, u can deploy 2 main groups and a gryphon just to buff them and then retreat, suddenly the map is over in a blink of an eye. Not mentioning using it on a flyer to go straight to the end to one hound the boss while ignoring everything lol

Rogue is anti meta in pvp. So many comps i see people run quick imp into a board nuke. You just passive seal the quick imp and 90% of the teams fall apart. You just have to inspect that they don't have defensive measures in place like debuff/passive seal imunities or pure field.. If thats the case you usually don't run the rogue and just try and outspeed people with a board nuke of your own or a full shutdown/rushdown comp that kills a combo before they can act.. Its a shame his active steal is bugged too.. No matter what his starting Ap is at he will only refresh/steal 1 point instead of stealing/draining all of the Ap like the text says (i tested multiple scenarios and it would always just drain/restore 1 sadly)

With elf’s being so OP how did they get conquered like it makes no sense 😂

Someone please tell me what “board nuke” means?

Snow Ranger Triple Counter is insane lowkey

You're definitely sleeping on Curing Call and Refresh to put Bishop and HP in B

I highly disagree with witch being s tier bc teleport costs 2 valor while eltolinde's rescue cost for half of that and to me, that's better than having to spend double for practically the same thing. There are also a lot of defenses and counters (reflect magick, ahem) to sorceress's magic attacks and if you wanna bypass those counters, you'd have to take a slot for mage's gloves, which has a skill that warlock already has. Sorceress does have great support, but not really good in terms of offense and defense when there are strong counters to offensive magic.

Why'd you make this list and then NOT publish it NOR provide a link to it in the video's description 🐢?

i do agree with most of these what i would change is elven archers and elven fencers, they are not THAT op, they are just A and high priestess is TO LOW! so il put it on S tier just because it saved me a lot and makes alain indestructible Warlock and rogue on A, they still have some potential you kind of downplay the swordmaster a bit to much so il put it on B overall we can agree to disagree, the tier list is not that bad

hmm, swordmaster is godd at least A for me, SSS for melisandre 😎, just pair her/him with magic conferral, and she/he will do everything, switch between magic conferal and gambler coin depend on enemies

IMO there's no way that Berengaria should be that high. Same thing with Elven Augur. IMO the best classes that are above all the others are: High Lord, Great Knight, Sainted Knight, Sorceress, and Dreadnought. The main reason why these are particularly effective is that their abilities allow them to be always extremely effective, no matter what party they're up against. Give them good gear and items and you've got your ultimate team.

Seriously, you know nothing about werefoxes. Get dream blossoms and make battle always at night. Put two werefoxes in the front line. Make sure that they never use their last passive point on anything other than nocturnal evasion using tactic rules. And you’ll have yourself the perfect evasion tank for anything but true strike attacks. For the very occasional truestrike hit, a bishop with resurrection capabilities (like Tatiana) or an unit with Holy Cradle will help keep it all going. Also, their poison trust when they get higher level will demolish many enemies as well. Wereowls can be used to keep them countering with extra passive points. Also try making one leader at night and then have a gryphon give them a speed boost and they’ll move like a freaking race car throughout the stage.

Kind of a bummer a lot of these late game units are a little meh, i wanna love the bestal and angel classes but most of them have a lot of situational use. You can def use all of them, just not badass

Imo Rouge and Shieldshooter A tier, for the rest, very aggred

What a great list. After 100hrs+ i just finished 90% of the map, couldn't agree more .

Something is higher than Alain 🤯

Gryphon Master could have no combat at all and be an S tier. If you think Cavalry units are broken because of their high move, then you should be thinking that Gryphon Masters are broken for being able to double all of your units moves (significantly better than Warp in this game BTW, only costing 1 and boosting more than 1 unit's move and helping you get ahead in the first place). You don't even have to train one, you could have one in a throwaway squad and just use it to boost people at the start or after key points. They're broken for the same reason Dancers are broken in Fire Emblem, or that the Stride gambit was broken in Fire Emblem Three Houses.

Sir you are wrong and mistaken about Warlock. Auch has the meanest right hook in the whole game 🤣

Sword master niche? Oh hell nahhhh lol. Miserande with high crit with the meteor slash hits like 100+ dmg multiple times. Especially with a ap support unit. She decimates. I agree with legionaire though they kinda suck tbh

Where is the Lex. True F teir.

Swordmasters are awesome

Dreadnought : OP tier because it has amazing Phys ATK and has a sword, because you only talk about Wide Pursuit. Swordmaster : Doesn't even mention Wide Pursuit despite the class having access to double swords which should be higher synergy with a Wide Pursuit build and make Swordmasters not that far from Dreadnought on the dmg side.

Druid is Druid tier, above even S.

>Werefox in B Tell me you haven’t used Werefox without telling me you haven’t used Werefox.

i think snow ranger should be higher for... 2 big reasons...

Ochlys carried for me.

Gryphon Knight will be the new Etie.

Doom Knight is fun but strictly worse than every other horse. You basically throw out survivability so you can swap your column attack for a row attack. The best thing they do is combo with our fave Dark Marquess, but there are other ways to trigger afflicted if you want to, and her attack that combos with afflicted isn't even that good.

all calvary are a liability due gryphon knights. i refuse to promote elaine for 2 reasons . 1 ) gryphon knights can 1 shot him and 2) he looks odd jumping around to block back row on a horse. so gilbert and story gryphon knights with maxed initiative (idealist mirror + drops) kills a S tier unit in pvp. renault is good and monica seems to not die in the group i got her in

Sword fighter better than a Gryphon Knight. NO. Your tier list is BS.

High priestess is the worst class because the jiggle physics debuffs you with coomer brain