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Digest written by fable from TacticalBreakfast, AK Tier List (ex-GamePress) · 2026-10-23
Tier A+ among Specialists. His S2 is far from a high DPS skill but its DPS is very high value: a 20 SP charge-based skill with very high uptime, a ridiculous range and good healing, making it a very solid day to day general use skill.
- S2M3
- Story A+ · Advanced A. Fairly large damage gain and drops 4 SP off the cost, which on a low-SP charge-based skill is a large difference in uptime. The mastery most people want.
- S1M3
- Story C+ · Advanced B. S1 is valuable but tends to be much more fringe than S2.
- S3M3
- Story Breakpoint - S3M1. S3 is valuable but tends to be much more fringe than S2.
No single stop point: anywhere from S2 M3 alone to a full M9 is a reasonable investment, depending on how far you want to take his usage.
Should you pull
How far to invest
Thorns the Lodestar is a creatively minded unit, and as far as Mastery investment goes, he can either be rather simple and cheap, or rather daunting and expensive, depending on how far you want to take his usage. This is because his main skill, S2, is far and above the others in terms of general usage, while his secondary skills, S1 and S3, are both valuable but tend to be much more fringe. So anywhere from M3 to a full M9 is a reasonable investment to consider! His primary skill, and the one most people will be interested in, is his S2. It is far from a high DPS skill, however its DPS is very high value. Alchemists tend to have high uptime already since they begin recharging SP as soon as the alchemical unit is thrown (as opposed to waiting for the skill duration). Add that onto a charge based skill at a fairly low 20 SP and you have an incredibly high uptime. Then it stacks on a ridiculous range with good healing on that same uptime and you have a very solid day to day general use skill. Mastery is valuable too. It has a fairly large damage gain, but also drops 4 SP off the cost, which on a low-SP cost charge-based skill is quite a large difference in his uptime. That will be w