Blue Protocol: Star Resonance Class Tier List

Categories

Each Tier List is divided into three categories based on each of the three roles: Sustain, DPS, and Tank.

• Sustain - Specs within the sustain category's primary role is keeping the tank and party alive, either through shielding or more frequently healing.
• DPS - Specs within the DPS category’s primary role is to deal as much AoE and Single-Target damage as possible.
• Tank - Specs within the Tank categories' primary role is to ensure all enemy attention is on them while surviving effectively.

Criteria

• Character Level 60.
• All Talent points unlocked.
• All gear Embedded with correct stats.
• All gear Legendary Ilvl 80.
• Includes 4 pieces of set gear.
• All Gear 100% Perfection.
• One Advancement 5 Epic Imagine.
• One Advancement 0 Legendary Imagine.
• All Gear Refinement Lv8+
• 50% of gear has optimal Purple Stats.
• Character rotations are executed well, but within an average expected skill level.

Specs are compared within their own role, with each category possessing different traits that contribute to them being or not being high tier.

DPS

• Chaotic Realm: Rating influenced by ability to deal strong AoE and Single-Target damage, as well as group utility such as party buffs, gathering, and controlling abilities.
• Dragon Raids: Rating influenced by specs' maximum single target potential and Raid/Party-wide offensive utility and buffs.

Tank

• Chaotic Realm: Rating influenced by ability to survive, gather, and control large amounts of enemies at once while still possessing competence in boss encounters.
• Dragon Raids: Rating influenced by specs' ability to survive large hits, mitigate damage, and provide Group/Raid-wide defensive utility.

Sustain

• Chaotic Realm: Rating influenced by ability to single-handedly keep multiple players alive at once while outputting damage themselves or providing team-wide offensive/defensive utility.
• Dragon Raids: Rating influenced by specs' ability to keep large groups of players alive, increase maximum survivability via shielding or mitigation, and tools to increase raid-wide damage output.

Universal criteria affecting ratings

• Difficulty vs Performance: Some specs perform far better at a lower average skill level, increasing their average performance across most players, raising their tier list placement as a result.
• APM: Blue Protocol: Star Resonance has no global cooldown, and all abilities must be manually input. This means, when not considering auto-play, Ping becomes a major player for performance. Some specs suffer more than others from this, reducing their performance for players with higher-than-average ping.

31.11.2025

With the addition of level 80 gear comes our first major changes to the tier list! Some classes gain access to more stats, allowing them to shine more in the end-game dungeons and raids.

Chaotic Realm:

• Frostbeam T1 > T0 - The crowd control provided, while still being able to deal massive amounts of AoE damage and flex an invulnerability skill, takes this class to the next tier. Additionally, as we climb higher into master modes, groups would be remiss to not have one of the Frost Mages.
• Vanguard T1 > T0 - Despite both Wind Knights being neck and neck when it comes to DPS, we ended up placing Vanguard higher than Skyward in this scenario. The main reason for this is that Skyward is a little more complicated to play and position, along with having a non-preferred thumbs-up stat. In our eyes, this meant that players making the decision about which WK to play would have a better time choosing Vanguard despite the higher APM.
• Moonstrike T1 > T0 - The additional stats provided with level 80 gear allow this class to properly hit all of its thresholds and still diversify into other damage-increasing substats. Although this is true of Iado as well, we feel that Moonstrike is capable of taking better advantage of this at a lower investment level.
• Wildpack T0 > T1 - While this class has been on top for quite some time, it is not the king anymore. Due to stat oversaturation from all of the buffs that it has in its base kit, the value of the additional stats from 80 gear is diminished enough that other classes will outshine it at similar levels of investment.
• Block T1 > T0 - The pitfalls that arose from a lack of luck are no longer prevalent, leading this class to become one of the best and most flexible tanking options for dungeons.
• Shield T1 > T0 - We underrated this in our initial examination of the classes; it performs better than Recovery in every scenario.
• Recovery T1 > T2 - We overrated this class a bit; it doesn’t provide anything additional to the party, nor does it deal significant damage. It is still capable of clearing everything, but it is not the preferred option in any specific scenario.
• Concerto T1 > T0 - This class is an excellent healer at this stage in the game and provides massive damage increases to the party’s DPS players. The main concern prior to level 80 gear was being able to upkeep Healing Melody for extended periods of time, but with enough crit, that is no longer an issue.

Raids:

• Vanguard T1 > T0 - In all of our testing and experience, Vanguard is performing higher than we first thought and is pushing extremely similar, if not slightly better numbers than Skyward in most cases. With it having the same party utility as it takes more often than Skyward, it sits above its counterpart easily.
• Frostbeam T2 > T1 - This class performs better than we initially thought, and will be only slightly worse than Icicle at this gear range.
• Recovery T1 > T2 - We overrated this class a bit; it doesn’t provide anything additional to the party, nor does it deal significant damage. It is still capable of clearing everything, but it is not the preferred option in any specific scenario.
• Block T3 > T2 - The main issue with this class in the early game was a lack of consistent mitigation and a fear of being one-shot by tank mechanics. Since this is largely not a concern anymore, we are moving the class up a tier. It is still capable of clearing everything, but is not the preference in any specific scenario due to providing less damage than other tanks and no party utility.
• Lifebind T3 > T2 - This class is excellent at keeping people alive and doesn’t provide much else to the alliance. But, since Nightmare modes do not contain a revive, and this class doesn’t need any particular Imagines, it is the easiest healer to use Airona on. This, in combination with it fulfilling its function well, moves it up on the tier list.

27.10.2025

• Raids are being released upon reset this week, so we are launching our first update of the tier list with the Raid Tier list!