Seven slots, with Arts built along each line
The updated Tactical Orbment expands from six Quartz slots to seven. Installing Quartz improves character abilities and unlocks Arts.
Quartz unlock Arts when their required elemental values are met. Each colored line adds its values separately, so build a spell’s requirements within a line.
Upgrade and read the character’s layout
- Spend Sepith to enhance slots. These upgrades increase maximum EP and ATS and let you equip superior Quartz for stronger Arts.
- In the seven-slot system, Estelle has two lines that share the central slot.
- Quartz choices also depend on the character’s unique Tactical Orbment. Characters other than Estelle have slots restricted to a specific element; line shapes vary by character. Check the elemental-value display at the lower right to see the available lines.
Useful Quartz and their unlock conditions
- Phantom Dance: perform 150 perfect dodges in Quick Battles. It maximizes evasion while casting Arts and provides useful elemental value.
- Bastion: complete 45 quests. It triples Shield received from all sources, including Kloe’s and Kevin’s S-Crafts. Enemy All Cancel can remove those shields.
- Lone Blade: cook 36 peculiar, or mistake, dishes. Physical damage rises as HP falls, up to +200%. Agate’s ability to trade HP for CP makes him a natural fit for this effect.
- Fury: cook 45 peculiar dishes for the Arts counterpart to Lone Blade. It suits Arts damage and ATS-based S-Crafts such as Scherazard’s and Kloe’s; protect the caster while preparing a spell. Shields do not change the maximum HP used by these low-HP effects.
Wind Arts and defensive choices
Scherazard’s two Wind slots can help her reach Aero Storm, Sylphen Wing and eventually Sylpharion.
Sylphen Wing improves Arts damage and defense and grants Foresight for increased evasion. Sylpharion provides several turns of debuff immunity plus one Arts-reflect shield.
Earth Guard adds a shield, but stronger shield options overtake it. Earth Wall provides immunity to one physical hit, making it a different kind of defensive buffer.
Checking an Arts requirement
- Should I add elemental values across the entire Orbment?
- Calculate each colored line separately when matching an Arts requirement. Quartz unlock Arts through the elemental values available on that line.