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FOnewm is a newman Force who boasts the strongest Gi- and Ra-series techniques amongst all the Forces, due to his high MST and extra damage boosts. He is widely considered to be the strongest and most versatile Force, as alongside his unparalleled offensive Technique power (colloquially known as "nuking"), he has enough ATP and ATA to equip various important weapons for physical damage in situations where techniques are not viable.

With his versatility, he can tackle all manners of content effectively and does not have any major drawbacks. While he will not hit as hard with weapons as the human Forces, his ATP is respectable and access to Excalibur allows him to do high damage where necessary, and his 180 ATA allows him to use Demon's ES Mechgun for very high HP/DFP targets.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Strongest techniques - Due to FOnewm's high MST and +30% boost to the Gi- and Ra-series techniques, FOnewm is the strongest Force for casting area-of-effect techniques
• Extremely powerful solo - As FOnewm is a Force, he is very powerful when alone in Episodes 1 and 4
• High Force ATA - With 180 ATA, FOnewm can hit more reliably than the human forces, and has access to ES Mechgun for Demon's usage
• Decent melee - While not as strong as FOmar/FOmarl, and despite his lack of access to Galatine, FOnewm does have access to Excalibur and Hell ES J-Cutter/ES Slicer, and he is capable of dealing decent damage with physical weapons where necessary

Cons

• Low support range - FOnewm does not have any extra range with support techniques as FOmar/FOmarl do, making support hard in parties where a supportive party member may be necessary. This is mostly mitigated with the use of Striker of Chao

Section ID choice

Note that the section ID choices below are merely suggestions, and are not required choices for playing FOnewm. All IDs have tangible benefits, leaving ID selection up to player preference. Below are a few recommended IDs for FOnewm depending on what type of item coverage is preferred.

Finding items that FOnewm hunts well

Bluefull

This section id will be a strong choice for players while they spend time leveling in Very Hard. While leveling, you'll want to run quests that allow you to hunt for the rare enemy, Del Rappy, for a chance to drop Ignition Cloak. You can hunt for Heavenly/Arms and Photon Crystal in Very Hard, which can be traded to other players to help acquire items for FOnewm.

Once you reach Ultimate on Bluefull, you can hunt for Limiter and then unseal it yourself to Adept, and also chase high value items like: Pyscho Wand, Heaven Punisher, and Nei's Claw. Though Bluefull boasts one of the best Pyscho Wand hunts in the game by rate, new players may find it easier to hunt for it themselves through Purplenum in caves.

Redria

This is the most popular ID to host Episode 4 desert quests while hunting for Heaven Striker and Diska of Braveman.

Redria also has good Ruins drops, finding both Red Ring and Diska of Braveman.

Purplenum

You can hunt for Pyscho Wand in Caves, and host popular hunts for other items in all episodes of the game for items like M&A60 Vise, which can be traded to other players for photon drops to help trade for FOnewm items.

Yellowboze

While leveling in Very Hard, you'll want to run quests that allow you to hunt for the rare enemy, Del Rappy, for a chance to drop Ignition Cloak. When you reach Ultimate, you'll have access to some of the best hunts in the game including: Galatine, Excalibur, V101, Daylight Scar (rare boss), Frozen Shooter, and many other items that have modest value trading with other players.

Greenill

Forces are masters of Episode 4, and Greenill has a very powerful Episode 4 with items such as V101, Heaven Striker, and Cannon Rouge. Greenill has decent Ruins drops as well, finding both Red Ring and Monkey King Bar.

Finding items for FOnewm

Pinkal

If you are looking to hunt items with value for trading, this is rarely the best section id for this character. If you do not intend to trade with other players on Ephinea, Pinkal will be a good choice because it finds many core Force items such as: Fire Scepter: Agni, Ice Staff: Dagon, and Storm Wand: Indra. It also has boosted rates to all amplifier hunts. Once reaching Ultimate, Pinkal offers useful Force items such as Slicer of Fanatic, V801, Limiter, Guardianna, Lame d'Argent, and Diska of Braveman.

General good ID

Whitill

Whitill is a powerful ID that gets many coveted and valued items in almost every area in the game. Whitill is the most unrestrictive ID, giving players the freedom to play any content and still have the chance of scoring something big, in contrast to more restrictive IDs such as Bluefull, which focus players into certain areas. Whitill finds many good items such as V502, Heaven Striker, Diska of Braveman, Frozen Shooter, Slicer of Fanatic, and more!

Material and Mag plans

Beginners

Standard leveling for new players

If you are a new player and want a simple material plan, this is what you want.

Plan	Mag	Units	Shield	Materials
				Power	Def	Mind	Evade	Luck	Unused
Important Stats Only	Any high MIND mag Examples Nidra or Sato 5/0/45/150 (Guide) Nidra 5/0/50/145 (Guide) Mark III 5/0/0/195 Rappy 15/0/0/185	V801 Additional examples Technique unit MST units HP units for survivability	Rafoie Merge, Gifoie Merge Other examples Other Technique Merges for offense - most notably Rabarta Merge Three Seals for Razonde boost as well as high resistances Rupika for boost to Shifta range and somewhat high defensive stats Resta Merge for boost to Resta range Various other Barriers with high DFP and/or resistances Common barrier with high single resistance: Freeze Barrier (high EIC for Dark Falz' Rabarta attack) Low difficulty and level requirement: Attribute Wall, Secret Gear Sacred Guard (high ELT for Dark Falz' Grants attack) Highest elemental resistances but 0 EDK and 0 ELT: Gods Shield "Kouryu" Highest DFP and high ELT: De Rol Le Shield Highest EDK: Anti-Dark Ring	-	-	150	-	-	-

Melee leveling

This plan is less relevant for new players but becomes more useful many hours into Ultimate difficulty multiplayer gameplay if the player wishes to contribute more to the party than Shifta, Deband, Jellen, and Zalure in areas filled with Monsters of high elemental resistances - notably all areas of Episode 2 as well as all boss fights (excluding Saint Million/Shambertin/Kondrieu).

However, timely use of support techniques already provides an incredible benefit to a multiplayer party and is sufficient contribution from a new Force player to an Ultimate party.

Plan	Mag	Units	Shield	Materials
				Power	Def	Mind	Evade	Luck	Unused
Melee	Any typical POW/DEX mag Examples Nidra or Sato 5/150/45/0 (Guide) Nidra 5/145/50/0 (Guide) Any Hunter or Ranger mag stat spread as recommended on their respective Class guide page.	Heavenly/Battle, Smartlink, Heavenly/Arms, Heavenly/Arms Other examples Adept if Heavenly/Arms overcaps ATA while ATP is lacking Heavenly/Power if one Heavenly/Arms caps ATA while ATP is lacking V502 to boost Hell special attacks V801 for faster support technique casting	Any Examples Red Ring at level 180+ for additional ATA, minor additional ATP, and overall high defensive stats Any Barrier suggested in the Beginners table Combat Gear for a minor niche ATP increase but no defensive stats	-	-	150	-	-	-

See also: Stat prioritization.

Level 200

At level 200 (or when approaching 200), it is often recommended to reset your materials with the /matreset chat command and use the plans below, as you will get more value out of them compared to the leveling plans that are designed to make leveling easier.

For FOnewm at level 200, the heavy Mind Material investment from leveling guides is still relevant - typically making /matreset optional.

Plan	Mag	Units	Shield	Materials
				Power	Def	Mind	Evade	Luck	Unused
General use	5/88/61/46	V101, V801 (or V502), Adept, Smartlink	Any	-	-	140	-	-	10
Optional: Episode 2	5/93/101/1	V101, V801, V502, Smartlink
Optional: Nuking only (max DFP)	55/x/x/59	V801 Additional examples Any Technique unit for maximizing offense unless the character has all of the extremely rare level 30 Attack techniques Heavenly/HP's for niche breakpoints to prevent knockdown	Any	-	-	150	-	-	-
Optional: Nuking only (max ATA)	40/0/104/56	V101, V801, Smartlink Additional examples Any Technique unit for maximizing offense unless the character has all of the extremely rare level 30 Attack techniques Heavenly/HP for niche breakpoints to prevent knockdown

Other

Optimized leveling

NOT FOR BEGINNERS.

The information in this section is only relevant to players looking to prepare a few specialized mags to share across several FOnewm characters to reach their peak Technique potential as early as possible.

The below plans are for more advanced players who have multiple mags as well as equipment or resources from other characters. These have better stat growth as the player levels, but require changing out mags and units a lot, and are not suitable for beginners.

These FOnewm plans specifically maximize technique output. For melee and ranged gameplay while leveling, use the Melee leveling plan listed above.

Plan	Mag	Units	Shield	Materials
				Power	Def	Mind	Evade	Luck	Unused
Level 146-170	5/0/45/150	V101, V801, Adept, Heavenly/Mind	Technique Merges (especially Gi and Ra)	-	-	150	-	-	-
Level 171-181	5/11/73/111	V101, V801, Adept, Smartlink
Level 182+	5/0/109/86	V101, V801, Smartlink

Max stats

If wishing to get all yellow numbers, use the plan below. However, these plans are generally not recommended, as they require extra units which block the usage of more utility units.

Plan	Mag	Units	Shield	Materials
				Power	Def	Mind	Evade	Luck	Unused
Max Stats	5/6/20/169	V101, Adept, Adept, Centurion/Ability	Red Ring	62	-	-	42	13	33

Note that the Max Stats plan is highly not recommended here; it requires FOnewm to use all four of his unit slots for stats, resulting in him being unable to use various utility units such as Smartlink, V501/V502, V801, a Technique units, Heavenly/HP (or multiple), or any of the Cure units such as Cure/Freeze and Cure/Paralysis. It also depends on Red Ring to provide MST, but a Technique-boosting barrier paired with max MST would be preferred in this slot to maximize offensive technique damage.

Stat prioritization

MST

Players leveling FOnewm should aim to maximize his MST stat with Mind Materials and Units as early as possible, and should pick a mag with a high Mind stat. This lightly scales offensive technique damage and allows learning higher level Technique disks.

ATA

As the player progresses through Ultimate difficulty, they can consider creating a new mag and/or equipping different units to boost their ATA stat as well as incorporating V101/Heavenly/Battle and Smartlink to effectively use weapons.

ATA is FOnewm's second most important stat as it allows him to make better use of weapons with Demon's or Hell specials. ATA also helps FOnewm meet the requirement to use weapons such as Raygun (primarily Demon's or Hell special), Bringer's Rifle, and ES Mechgun. As many enemies in Ultimate difficulty Multiplayer scaling have high elemental resistances, FOnewm can first provide support followed by contributing with the aforementioned weapons in these cases.

ATP

Although lower priority than MST and ATA, ATP can also be an important stat, as FOnewm depends on this stat to equip Slicer of Fanatic, Girasole, Excalibur, and ES J-Cutter or ES Slicer.

Slicer of Fanatic and Girasole's ATP requirements are low enough to be accessible with a Simple POW Mag very early on in Ultimate difficulty and will serve as FOnewm's primary ATP-based weaponry for the majority of leveling. Slicer of Fanatic's Demon's special attack paired with the Accuracy glitch is particularly effective.

Excalibur's high weapon ATP, sacrificial damage special attack, and fast animation provides FOnewm with his highest damage weapon option but is only accessible at a very high character level if no Power Materials are used. This high character level requirement is even more true in the case of ES J-Cutter and ES Slicer, which also depend on a unit slot being dedicated to V502 or V501 to boost the effectiveness of Hell or Arrest special attacks, while FOnewm is already using his remaining unit slots to provide battle speed, Smartlink, and additional stats.

A player looking to spend the majority of their leveling playtime in areas where melee is superior to offensive tech damage could theoretically choose to invest much more into Power Materials instead of Mind Materials in order to access Excalibur and ES Hell J-Cutter/Slicer at much lower levels. However, this is highly niche, comes at the cost of reduced offensive technique output, and requires either a /matreset or entirely different custom material and mag plan for level 200, and is generally not recommended.

ATP investment to meet Lame d'Argent's ATP requirement at a low level in order to unseal it into Excalibur can be achieved shortly after unlocking Ultimate difficulty with a typical POW mag and four Heavenly/Powers without sacrificing much effectiveness or necessitating a custom plan or /matreset.

HP

HP Materials and HP units to increase HP are generally the most effective solution to increase a low level Force's survivability.

DFP

For new players and while leveling in general, DFP as a base stat can safely be ignored.

However, even though DFP is generally an insignificant stat, in certain cases maximizing this stat can help prevent the player from being knocked down. At level 200, there are different Nuking stat plans for different scenarios that prioritize maximizing MST, followed by DFP, and finally other stats to offer different levels of flexibility for unit and weapon selection.

High DFP Barriers may also sometimes be chosen over offense-oriented barriers if the player wishes to prevent some physical enemy attacks from knocking them down or one-shotting them from full HP, but increasing DFP is is far less effective than casting a moderately high level Jellen on the offending enemy. Also fixed-damage attacks tend to be the attacks most likely to one-shot a player.

Elemental resistance

While additional HP also helps, Elemental resistances can situationally also be relevant - sometimes more relevant - for Forces when leveling. Forces have low HP while some elemental attacks have comparatively very high fixed damage prior to reduction by the player's EFR, EIC, ETH, and ELT stats. Dark Falz phase 1 and 2 Rabarta, Dark Falz phase 3 Grants in Hard difficulty, and Epsilon Rafoie in Ultimate difficulty are particularly difficult breakpoints for a new Force, so sometimes a specific high resistance stat is advisable to survive these encounters. Some high resistance Barriers are recommended in the Beginners table above or listed in Recommended endgame equipment below, and Glide Divine can provide an additional 15 points to every resistance while equipped.

Level 1 Disk-learning Setup

FOnewm can reach 1,010 MST at level 1 with the following equipment and materials, which allows him to learn all level 30 technique disks except Grants (1,030 MST.) If you're aiming to learn the standard FO technique set (level 29 attack techniques, level 25-26 Grants and Megid,) only 974 MST is necessary (due to level 29 Rabarta.)

• 300 MST - Mind Material x150
• 80 MST - Mercurius Rod
• 390 MST - 5/0/0/195 Max MND "Console" mag (Mark III, etc)
  • 185 MND mag is acceptable for level 29 tech set, as long as you have all other build components
• 180 MST - Heavenly/Mind x4
• 60 MST - FOnewm base stat

Recommended endgame equipment

Nuking

• Psycho Wand, Prophets of Motav

• Magical Piece, Fire Scepter: Agni, Storm Wand: Indra, Ice Staff: Dagon

• Summit Moon, Club of Laconium, Club of Zumiuran, Mace of Adaman

• Mercurius Rod

Support

• Striker of Chao

• Glide Divine

Melee

• 3 Targets: Excalibur

Ranged

• 4 Targets: Diska of Braveman

• 1 Target Multi-Hit: Vulcan (Charge, Berserk, Spirit), M&A60 Vise

Specials

• 4 Targets: ES J-Cutter / ES Slicer (Arrest, Hell, Demon's)

• 3 Targets: Slicer of Fanatic

• 1 Target: Bringer's Rifle, Raygun (Arrest, Hell, Demon's), ES Cards (Hell, Demon's), Holy Ray

• 1 Target Multi-Hit: ES Mechgun (Demon's)

Special Purpose

• Gal Wind, Girasole

• Demonic Fork

Armors

• Thirteen, Ignition Cloak, Mother Garb+, Dress Plate

Shields

• Red Ring, Rafoie Merge, Gifoie Merge, Gizonde Merge, Rabarta Merge, Anti-Dark Ring, Resta Merge, God's Shield "Kouryu", Three Seals, Combat Gear

Units

• V101, V502, Smartlink, V801, Adept