Technique

Overview

The Technique button on the gamebar.

The main Technique management screen.

• Techniques are unique abilities that grant multiple passive and active effect.
  • Players must equip the technique in order to activate its effect.
    • Passive techniques will be effective as long as they are equipped.
    • Active techniques must be equipped to be activated, and the effect lasts until the duration timer ends or the technique was unequipped.
  • Up to 5 Techniques can be equipped at a time.
  • Up to 5 premade sets of Techniques can be prepared.
• Techniques are unlocked during Generation 22: Apocalypse. At first, one Technique is given, but more are gradually rewarded upon completing later quests.
• Techniques need certain requirements to be met in order to be used.
  • Some requirements are one-off, like obtaining a title.
  • Other requirements are constant checks, like needing to wear a specific item or have a base stat be a specific value or higher.

Briogh

Briogh of Achievement.

Briogh of Challenge.

Briogh of Discipline.

“   I was forced to abandon all that I had, all that I was, and grow. (...) I was finally able to surpass what I thought were my limits.   „   —Vayne

• Briogh is the means to surpass one's own limits. It is the lifeblood of what powers Techniques, and consequently the Experience used to level them.
• There are three types of Briogh: Achievement, Challenge, and Discipline.
• Each briogh type is used for the correspondingly colored techniques.
  • Red techniques use Briogh of Achievement, obtained by leveling up (+10).
  • Green techniques use Briogh of Challenge, obtained by completing Dungeons or Shadow Missions (+50).
    • The Crystal Defender minigame in Festia, various non-combat Shadow Missions for mainstream quests, and more count.
  • Blue techniques use Briogh of Discipline, obtained by doing repeatable quests (+50).
    • Daily Quests, turning in Fomor Scrolls, Glenis' cooking quests, Stardust quests and more count.

Ranking

• Techniques are ranked up by putting Briogh, Briogh Crystals, and AP into them.
  • Up to 5000 of each type of Briogh may be held before it needs to be spent.
  • 1500 Briogh of each type may be earned each real-life week, resetting at EST: 3:00am
    UTC: 8:00am
    AEDT: 7:00pm
    12:00am PST100 on Samhain (Saturday).
  • Every day, 10 AP can be converted into any Briogh type at a rate of 1 AP for 10 Briogh.
    • Briogh converted from AP does not contribute to the limit that can be earned every week.
  • Starting at level 4, techniques will require Briogh Crystals to advance to the next rank.
    • Briogh Crystals can be obtained by clearing Tech Duinn missions.
    • Fragmenting Advanced Briogh Crystals can produce normal Briogh Crystals.
  • Starting at level 7, techniques will require Advanced Briogh Crystals to advance even further to the next rank.
    • These Briogh Crystals have different names depending on the type of Briogh they correspond to:
      • Achievement: Virtuous Briogh Crystals of Achievement
      • Challenge: Noble Briogh Crystals of Challenge
      • Discipline: Glorious Briogh Crystals of Discipline
    • Advanced Briogh Crystals can be obtained by clearing Tech Duinn missions on Elite difficulty.

Rank-up Requirements

Level	Briogh Needed (from Previous Level)	Briogh Needed (total)	AP Needed (from Previous Level)	AP Needed (total)	Item(s) Needed
1	N/A (base level)
2	400	400	5	5	None
3	500	900	6	11	None
4	600	1500	7	18	None
5	600	2100	8	26	20 Briogh Crystals
6	700	2800	9	35	30 Briogh Crystals
7	800	3600	10	45	40 Briogh Crystals
8	800	4400	12	57	30 Advanced Briogh Crystals
9	1100	5500	15	72	40 Advanced Briogh Crystals
10	1400	6900	20	92	50 Advanced Briogh Crystals

Techniques List

Added In	Techniques of Achievement (Red)	Techniques of Challenge (Green)	Techniques of Discipline (Blue)
Generation 22: Apocalypse	Iron Will	Dampen Shock	Vital Surge
	Blunting Field	Defiance	Time Shift
	Relentless Assault	Exploit Weakness	Redoubled Offensive
			Elemental Attunement
Generation 23: Tempest	Fateweaver	Tenacious Taunt	Phantasmal Sight
	Zone of Renewal	Unified Might
Generation 24: Ascension	Continuous Awakening	Protective Touch	Shield (Technique)
Generation 25: Eclipse	Seal: Pragarah

Limited Techniques

• These techniques are a part of specific content.
• They cannot be leveled.
• They cannot be used anywhere else than the content they were created for.
• Only one of them can be chosen by the player.
• Each Technique provides various buffs related to other techniques and specific skills.
• See their respective pages for more information.

	Tank	Damage	Support
Subject Theta: Containment	Guardian Impulse	Dynamis Rush	Steadfast Blessing

Trivia

• The characters depicted on some Techniques are actual NPCs and locations:
  • Reno is pictured on the Relentless Assault, Dynamis Rush and Guardian Impulse and possibly Iron Will techniques.
  • Tion is pictured on the Dynamis Rush technique.
  • Vay is pictured on the Steadfast Blessing Technique.
  • Pontiff's Court is depicted on the Phantasmal Sight technique.