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Recommended Swap Routes (Post-Loong Haven)

Per QY Maple, after Loong Haven the cleanest reclass paths by source class are:

How To Pick

• Whales: pick Sorcerer. Four elemental combat modes mean rarely getting hard-countered, and ranged keeps you alive deeper into fights so you can anchor team damage in group content.
• F2P and casual players: pick whatever feels fun. All four advanced classes are playable for the average player. Power gaps that matter outside leaderboard pushes are small; combat style and aesthetic are the real differentiators.
• Server balance matters. A roster of all Knights and Sages stalls on late Dungeons for lack of DPS. A roster of all Duelists and Sorcerers collapses without a frontline or healer. Pick what you want to play; the server will be healthier for it.
• Hold the early pick loosely. Skill releases keep shifting class balance. There is no permanent "strongest class" in the design, and Aqualis lets you reclass — though that swap costs RNG on missing target-class skills and re-tuning of class-specific stats, so don't lean on it as a free reset.

Starting Classes

Warrior

Starting class Core stats: Speed, Crit, Attack (Duelist) / Defense (Knight)

Melee striker. Branches into Duelist (DPS) or Knight (Tank) at the second-class advancement (Lv.44, in Cinder Ridge).

Mage

Starting class Core stats: Speed, Crit, Elemental Attack

Ranged caster. Branches into Sorcerer (ranged DPS) or Sage (healer / utility) at the second-class advancement (Lv.44, in Cinder Ridge).

Advanced Classes

Duelist

Warrior advancement Melee DPS

Burst-window melee striker. Short cooldowns on Heavy Slash and Whirlwind Slash drive most damage. Strong skill timing is rewarded. Misjudged windows leak DPS because uptime gaps stack quickly.

Trait stat Critical Rate

Element affinity FireDark

Stat focus Gear subs stack Speed, Crit Rate, and Accuracy — Accuracy is the #2 DPS stat after Crit Rate because blocked crits drop to 50% damage. Then Attack, Crit Damage, and Physical Mastery to scale the ceiling (40 points Mastery = +1% damage).

Best for Players who want the highest-ceiling solo damage class. Best Verdantglade pick if you enjoy active skill rotation.

Core builds

• Bruiser: balanced Attack and survivability. The default starter. Comfortable solo at every Verdantglade checkpoint.
• Burst: leans Speed / Crit / Attack, drops defensive subs. Higher damage ceiling, dies if you misread enemy patterns.

FantomonAttack-type Fantomons. Aegiswing and Nyxarchon top the Mythical pool.

Knight

Warrior advancement Melee Tank

The opposite of the Duelist. Taunt, absorb, redirect damage. The class trait piles Block Rate on for free, so gear rolls go into Defense, Crit Rate, and Speed instead.

Trait stat Block Rate

Element affinity WaterLight

Stat focus Gear subs stack Defense, Crit Rate, and Speed. Block Rate comes from the class trait and Fantomon level-50 unlocks, not gear rolls. HP is the next-best defensive sub.

Best for Players planning guild and co-op content. Solo farming is slower because Knight kills less per cycle.

Core builds

• Tank: pure survivability. Holds aggro in guild raids, sets up DPS to swing in safely.

FantomonDefense-type Fantomons. Healing-type secondary for sustain.

Sorcerer

Mage advancement Ranged DPS

Ranged AoE caster. The fastest dungeon farmer in the game by a wide margin. Stacks Speed, Crit, and Elemental Attack so AoE rotations clear waves before they can swing back.

Trait stat Accuracy

Element affinity LightFire

Stat focus Early T2: Elemental Mastery and ATK% scale more reliably than Crit at this stage; lean on the trait Accuracy instead of chasing low-roll Crit. Long-term Sorcerer: Speed › Crit Rate › Crit Damage › Elemental Mastery › ATK once gear lets you stack Crit comfortably.

Best for Players who want to AFK farm efficiently and clear AoE waves in seconds.

Core builds

• AoE Farmer: Speed / Crit / Elemental Attack stack. Single-target ceiling is lower than Duelist, but throughput in mob rooms is unrivaled.

FantomonAttack-type Fantomons. Defense-type secondary so you do not get one-shot in burst rooms.

Sage

Mage advancement Healer / Support

Healer and buffer. The only class whose trait boosts all base attributes instead of one combat stat. That makes Sage flexible: most Sage players still stack Crit Rate from gear to add damage to their kit.

Trait stat All base attributes

Element affinity Dark

Stat focus Healing power, HP, cooldown reduction. Crit Rate as a secondary if you want to swing a damage spell into the rotation.

Best for Players committed to group content. Slowest solo farming class. Borderline essential for late-game guild bosses.

Core builds

• Support: healing-first kit. Carries party HP through Fantasy Ladder walls and guild boss DoT phases.

FantomonDefense-type Fantomons for sustain. Mandragora and Herbote add charm-based heal procs.

Skill Pool Note

Boltray ships 200-plus skills at launch and adds more with each tier of new classes. Tier lists for individual skills only cover Warrior right now (Heavy Slash and Whirlwind Slash as S, Guard Defense and Charge Assault as A). Knight, Sorcerer, and Sage skill rankings are still unsettled across the global community.

The takeaway: pick the skill that fits your build. The volume of options means most kits are viable as long as the stat focus matches the class trait above.

Combat Stats

The Block / Accuracy interaction. Block reduces incoming damage to 50% and strips off the crit bonus damage entirely, which is what makes Knight scale so hard. The counter is enemy Accuracy: it directly suppresses your Block Rate chance. Knight needs Block plus enough HP / DEF to survive the hits that get through, because high-Accuracy enemies will land their attacks regardless of your Block stat. The reverse applies to DPS: stacking a small amount of Accuracy on every DPS class prevents your damage from getting eaten by enemy Block.

Gacha

Two banners. The Standard banner (blue orb) pulls from every skill in the game with pity. The Premium banner (pink orb) pulls only from your class's skills with a smaller pool and pity. The Premium banner is locked behind clearing Verdantglade and reaching the next map. If you cannot find the pink orb yet, that is expected.

You pull skills, not characters. This is the structural difference from every other gacha on the site. Character acquisition is class advancement; banner pulls give you skills to slot into your class.

Free 10-roll daily. Login bonus. Do not miss a day.

KonoSuba launch collab. Boltray is distributing free pulls across login rewards and event milestones during the launch window. Burn them through the collab banner.

Relic Resonance

Relics are slotted by element. Each element has four resonance slots. Maxing all four of one element does two things at once: it triggers the resonance bonus, and it instantly levels up every non-resonant relic of that same element.

Practical effect: never spread relic upgrades across multiple elements. Pick one element. Finish all four resonance slots. Then move to the next element. Spreading upgrades evenly is the easiest way to waste relic mats and stall your progression curve.

Hero's Guide relic. Unlocks on the Stellaris Path via voucher spends or direct pack purchases. Boosts experience gain. Pairs with the resonance bonus for an additional 20%. The single most leverage-able paid relic in the game because experience compounds across every kingdom.

Destiny Fruits. Stockpile. F2P needs to start saving now because a future event requires 300. Whales generate enough through dungeon runs and do not need to worry about it.

Economy

Shop refresh. The cost to refresh is fixed but item prices and quantities scale with map progression. One refresh per day in Verdantglade. Increase later.

Exchange. The Guild Market is the main F2P Dawnium source and the main whale-side material source. High volume. Has price floors and ceilings, so no extreme listings. The Auction House works differently but only unlocks for gold-quality+ equipment, which is a Cinder Ridge problem.

Guild

Smelting Workshop for the Energy Platform assignment. Default lazy choice in Verdantglade. The other production buildings (farms, sheep pens, chicken coops, library) are downstream of the beast companion economy in the next map. Reassess once Cinder Ridge opens.

Donations. Three per day F2P, five for spenders. More than that is wasted.

Guild bosses. Damage scaling depends on whales in the guild. Skill Shard Vouchers drop from these. Worth running every cycle.