Tactician Class Guide: Best Arts and Skills

23413Tactician is a type of Healer class in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and is the default class of Taion. Read on to learn more about the class, including its best arts, skills, characters, accessories, and gems, as well as find out how to unlock the class.

Tactician Class Overview

Tactician Basic Information

Class		Role	Default Character
Tactician		Healer	Taion
Attack	Defense	Health	Support
C	D	A	A
Description
Tacticians are more diversionary in their support; granting buffs to allies and debuffs to enemies using their paper talismans.

Character Class Rating

Noah	Mio	Eunie
C	B	A
Taion	Lanz	Sena
S	D	B

Class Rating is the speed at which each character ranks up an individual class, so the lower their Class Rating, the slower it takes for them to rank up the class.

How to Unlock Tactician

Unlock Class Changing in Chapter 2

Tactician is the starting class of Taion, one of the main characters in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, so their class will be available for other party members to equip once you are able to change classes.

Changing classes is unlocked after completing The Hillside Hulk Standard Quest during Chapter 2 of the game.

Taion Character Profile

Complete Side Story: Taion to Unlock Rank 20

After you unlock this class, it will have a rank cap of 10, so you are unable to upgrade its Arts and skills further than that rank. To break the rank cap and extend the limit up to Rank 20, you must first complete the quest Side Story: Taion.

Side Story: Taion Walkthrough

Best Tactician Characters

Recommended Characters
Eunie	Taion

The best Tactician characters are those that make excellent support teammates, but also have decently high Healing Stats. Eunie and Taion are both excellent options for Tacticians.

Best Tactician Arts

Recommended Combat Arts

Art	Attack Type	AoE	Base Effect
Overfall	Ether Attack	One Target	None
Stormy Skies	Healing	AOE around User	None
Avenging Eagle	Ether Attack	Frontward AOE	None

Tacticians do not make the most effective Healers in a squad due to their lackluster Healing stat, so should focus more on inflicting debuffs on their opponents.

Overfall and Avenging Eagle are both powerful, debuff-inflicting Arts that are great to use for Tacticians, while Stormy Skies is kept in the palette as your one Healing Combat Art.

Recommended Master Arts

Rank 1 and 10 Master Arts

Art	Base Effect	Class Rank
Ether Cannon	Accuracy Down	Medic Gunner Rank 10
Multi Blast	Area heal on hit	War Medic Rank 1
Energy Grenade	Continuous dmg field	Yumsmith Rank 1

For Tacticians, Ether Cannon and Energy Granade are the best Master Arts since they are Ether Attacks with helpful debuff effects. Multi Blast is also a good option to add more Healing Arts to your palette.

Rank 20 Master Arts

Art	Base Effect	Class Rank
Soulfire	Heal all on hit / Atk down	Strategos Rank 20

Although Tidal Wave is an excellent Talent Art, Soulfire offers mostly the same effects, including the same amount of damage and recharge. What pulls Soulfire above Tidal Wave is its additional Attack Down debuff.

Once you are able to use Rank 15 Master Arts from Strategos, it is highly recommended to swap them out.

Best Master Skills for Tactician Builds

Skill	Effect	Class Rank
Ninja Healer	Reduces aggro generated from healing Arts by 30%.	Medic Gunner Rank 5
Sappy-Sappy Drain!	Increase success rate of debuff effects by 15 percentage points.	Yumsmith Rank 5
Cursed Edge	Boosts damage dealt by 50% when attacking a debuffed enemy.	Machine Assassin Rank 5

Sappy-Sappy Drain! and Cursed Edge are the two best Master Skills for Tacticians as it increases the effectiveness of their debuffs. Ninja Healer is also recommended to decrease the aggro generated by Tacticians.

Best Accessories for Tactician Builds

Reduced Aggro from Healing Arts	Boosted Amount of HP Healed	Increased Healing
Affection Ring	Immaculate Necklace	Circlet of Intellect

Because Tacticians have relatively lackluster Healing stats, this can mostly be remedied by equipping the right accessories onto your character. Circlet of Intellect and Immaculate Necklace are best to increase Healing, while Affection Ring is also good useful for decreased aggro.

List of Accessories

Best Gems for Tactician Builds

Boosted Debuff Power	Boosted Debuff Duration	Reduced Aggro from Arts
Swelling Scourge	Refined Incantation	Disperse Bloodlust

Since Taciticians mostly use debuffs to support their allies in combat, boosting the power and duration of these debuffs with Gems is ideal. Additional aggro reduction is also recommended.

All Gems and Their Effects

List of Tactician Arts

Talent Arts

Base Art Information
Tidal Wave	Area of Effect	AOE around User	Power Multiplier	500%
	Buff/ Debuff	-	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Role Action Recharge	Recharge Gauge	4
	Effect	Heals all allies when Art hits, to a maximum of 150% of Healing Power.

Combat Arts

Base Art Information
Overfall	Area of Effect	One Target	Power Multiplier	220%
	Buff/ Debuff	Ether Defense Down	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Auto-Attack Recharge	Recharge Gauge	5
	Effect	None
Stormy Skies	Area of Effect	AOE around User	Power Multiplier	200%
	Buff/ Debuff	-	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Auto-Attack Recharge	Recharge Gauge	5
	Effect	None
Hazy Figure	Area of Effect	AOE around User	Power Multiplier	0%
	Buff/ Debuff	Evasion Up	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Auto-Attack Recharge	Recharge Gauge	4
	Effect	Field range of effect - small
Avenging Eagle	Area of Effect	Frontward AOE	Power Multiplier	180%
	Buff/ Debuff	Evasion Down	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Auto-Attack Recharge	Recharge Gauge	5
	Effect	None
Dark Banner	Area of Effect	Frontward AOE	Power Multiplier	110%
	Buff/ Debuff	Sleep	Reaction	None
	Recharge Type	Auto-Attack Recharge	Recharge Gauge	8
	Effect	None

Master Arts

Art	Rank Mastered
Dark Banner	1
Overfall	10
Tidal Wave	20

Arts Guide: List of All Arts and Effects

List of Tactician Skills

Class Skills

Skill	Base Effect
Ethereal Ability	Boosts damage dealt by ether Arts by 30%.
Shieldrender	Adds 60% chance for attack to be unblockable.
Eternal Curse	Extends duration timers of debuffs applied to enemies by 30%.
Inevitable Evitability	6% chance to evade enemy attack.

Master Skills

Skill	Rank Mastered
Ethereal Ability	5
Inevitable Evitability	15

List of All Skills

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Related Guides

All Classes and Roles

All Attacker Classes

List of Attacker Classes
Swordfighter	Ogre	Flash Fencer
Yumsmith	Full Metal Jaguar	Stalker
Incursor	Soulhacker	Martial Artist
Seraph	Machine Assassin	Royal Summoner

All Defender Classes

List of Defender Classes
Zephyr	Heavy Guard	Guardian Commander
Lone Exile	Lost Vanguard	Noponic Champion

All Healer Classes

List of Healer Classes
Medic Gunner	Tactician	War Medic
Thaumaturge	Strategos	Signifer
Troubadour	Lifesage	-