Passive Damage Reduction, Second/Third Highest Damage Skill

• Combustible Armor - pretty much negates Grudge negative.

• Intense Battle - you must stay near the boss for this tripod to upkeep the stacks, this is the main damage increase for this skill.

• Last Whisper - the damage of this tripod highly depends on how good you are managing Intense Battle.

• Recasting this skill to force Last Whisper will give you Adrenaline and Master stack. Letting it expire will not give you a stack.

• However, recasting Last Whisper will not give Esoteric Meter for Esoteric Origin.

Poison rune will have full uptime, regardless of rarity, since it applies on every tick.

Highest Damage Skill

• Second highest priority to use the Esoteric Origin buff on.

• Weak Point Detection -  General damage increase for the skill.

• Intense Shock - massive Crit Damage increase on the skill that comes with a DoT. Better choice because of the major increase of Crit Rate we got. Does more damage than Light of Justice, yes really.  

• Pure Excellence - this simplifies Sweeping Kick from a Combo Skill to be a Normal one-hit big skill.

Second/Third Highest Damage Skill

• Can be affected by Esoteric Origin buff, lowest priority to use it on.

• Wide Hit - general recommendation for most cases. You can freely swap on the other 2 tripods on this row, depending on what you need (either higher stagger, or more destruction)

• Dragon Style  - general damage increase. Retains Back Attack modifier.

• Red Dragon - general damage increase.

Fourth Highest Damage Skill

• Magick Control - general recommendation for most cases for mana management. You can opt into Concussion if you need more stagger.

• Master Hit - base cooldown increased by 7 seconds, making it sync with your main dps skills. It’s a ramping damage tripod, and you can freely move while casting the skill.

• Final Strike - makes the last hit of FHF very strong. Backloaded in nature. DON’T WHIFF THE LAST HIT.

• Taijutsu’s Ultimate Skill - an alternative if you don’t like the backloaded nature of Final Strike, and want more frontloaded damage instead.

Vision Rune is recommended as a stagger increase, but Galewind is a valid alternative if you prefer the increased casting speed. 

Powerful crit rate buff, synergy skill

• Gives a 20% Crit Rate self-buff on cast for 8 seconds.

• Weakness Exposure - this is our Crit synergy tripod. Decreases 10% Crit Resistance (which equates to 10% Crit Rate for your party members) on enemies affected by it for 16 seconds. DON’T WHIFF THIS.

• Quick Prep - this tripod decreases the base cooldown by 9 seconds on max rank, removing the need for us to invest a Cooldown Gem for this skill.

• Supreme Ruler Afterimage - increases the base duration of the 20% Crit Rate self-buff by an additional 4 seconds, which adds up to 12 seconds.

Focus rune is strongly recommended for mana management, since this skill is used often and has a fairly high mana cost.

Primary Attack Power buff, high mana cost

• Blessing of the Wind - this tripod will give us an additional 12.8% Attack Speed at max level on top of Wind’s Whisper base 8%, which totals to 20.8% Attack Speed for ourselves on cast. Important for builds that use Mass Increase to offset the negative, and Sonic Breakthrough for the overcap AS/MS conversion..

• Quick Prep - decreases the base cooldown by 9 seconds on max rank.

• Ready Attack - gives us 44.4% Attack Power for  seconds at max rank. YOU SHOULD UNLOAD ALL YOUR SKILLS WITHIN THIS WINDOW, WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS.

• Can use Quick Recharge if Purify and Focus are not needed.

Secondary Attack Power buff, Counter

• Our main counter. It has 2 hits and both hits can counter.

• Excellent Mobility - increases the distance of the first hit by 1 meter, which is good QoL by making it a pseudo-mobility skill (can cancel with spacebar after the dash if purely using for movement).

• Weakness Exposure - this is an alternative to upkeep your Crit Synergy uptime, but it is redundant as Roar of Courage covers it fully, with massive leniency to spare.

• Ready Attack - gives us a 32.8% Attack Power for 3 seconds. Used to salvage 1-2 skills to be at least buffed by Ready Attack (mainly Flash Heat Fang and Lightning Kick). This does not stack with Wind’s Whisper Ready Attack. 

• Flexible rune slot, can use Purify/Quick Recharge but Bleed is preferred.

Movement Skill, Minor Damage Skill

• Our main mobility skill, and it does quite a decent damage by itself.

• Ruthless - massively increases the damage on Staggered Foes. Countered enemies are also considered Staggered.

• Quick Prep - this tripod decreases the base cooldown by 3 seconds and increases the damage by 20% at max rank. The cooldown reduction makes you cast more often, giving you more overall Esoteric Meter and higher chance to proc Quick Recharge.

• Flash Lightning is necessary to run this skill for movement.