Sieghard/Gameplay

Sieghard is an optional playable character in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. He has two variants: "Veritas of the Earth", based on his appearance during Season One, and the simply-named "Sieghard", where he discards his armor. In both variants, his skillset focuses on protecting the party from physical attacks, both by provoking the enemy or by covering his allies. His weapon of choice is the shield, and is closely related to the Earth element. He is also able to cast some Black Magic.

Veritas of the Earth
Veritas of the Earth is a 4-6★ Rare Summon, available for summoning since the event Time for Revenge (which originally ran in August 2017 in the Global version). His job is listed as Veritas, and his role is Tanking. His Trust Master reward is Sworn Six's Pride - Earth, a passive ability that provides additional ATK and DEF (both +40%) when equipping a heavy shield and armor.

Veritas of the Earth's abilities mitigate damage to himself or the party. He is a reliable Tank who can protect the whole party, or greatly increase his own defenses while making himself the target of attacks. Guard Smite and Steel Body enhance his ability to take on damage, while Defensive Barrier and Guardian provide lesser buffs but allow him to protect the whole party. He can increase resistance to Earth damage and do Stat Breaks. He is somewhat unusual in that he can deal damage and perform Tank duties at the same time, best exemplified by Incinerating Press, which deals damage and increases the chances of being targeted by attacks.

His passives improve his defensive abilities by boosting HP, DEF, SPR and bestowing him with incredible defensive buffs when weakened. He can counter attacks making him a solid LB crystal engine.

His awakening materials are the following:
 * 5★ - Book of Ruin x25, Hard Rock x13, Sacred Crystal x15, Bizarre Box x8, Holy Crystal x8
 * 6★ - Calamity Writ x20, Calamity Gem x10, Rainbow Bloom x10, Prismatic Horn x5, Divine Crystal x5

Stats
Veritas of the Earth's stats at his highest levels are as follows (with no passive abilities taken into account), along with the maximum amount of stat points that can be increased through pot-enhancements:

Abilities
Depending on his rarity, Veritas of the Earth has either three (4★) or four (5-6★) ability slots. He has affinity to Black Magic (Lvl 5-7).

While he has no innate elemental or status resistances, his passive trait "Earthlord" allows him to absorb all types of Earth-elemental damage (though, if he is equipped with Earth-resistant equipment, it will reduce the amount of HP recovered by this skill). "Unrestrained" nullifies Paralyze.

Veritas of the Earth has four traits that can be enhanced: Earthlord, Incinerating Press, and Guardian.
 * Ability Awakening

 is Veritas of the Earth's Limit Burst and support/damage-type ability. It inflicts partially-unmitigated damage to all enemies, ignoring their DEF by 50%, while granting the party with significant damage mitigation, reducing enemy physical/magic damage for one turn. Depending on its rarity, it deals either two (4★), four (5★) or six (6★) hits.
 * Limit Burst

Its damage modifier and the mitigation amount will depend on Veritas of the Earth's LB level:

Equipment
Veritas of the Earth can equip the following weapon types: daggers, swords, hammers and spears.

He can equip the following armor types: light shields, heavy shields, helms, light armor and heavy armor.

He can equip accessories.

Sieghard
Sieghard is a 5-7★ Rare Summon, available for summoning since the event Sieghard, the Magnificent (which originally ran in). His job is listed as Sworn Eight, and his role is Physical Damage. He has no innate element or status ailment resistances. His Trust Master reward is...

As Sieghard, he remains mostly a Tank although he can now damage opponents with abilities scaling off his DEF stat. Sieghard is a massive upgrade from his armored variant, having large pools of HP, DEF and SPR that rival and even exceed many Sieghard 5★ base rarity Tanks. He comes with a peculiar gimmick: most of his abilities can inflict Charm (essentially a gag on his handsome appearance), which can be put to further defensive use by preventing enemies from attacking, although later Trial enemies are immune to it.

During most of his growth Sieghard is focused as a Physical Tank, however, upon reaching his 7★ rarity, Sieghard can also function as a Magic Tank, though this trait is not fully exploitable since it is behind a Countdown ability with low duration that allows him mostly to serve as an emergency Magic Tank.

Sieghard has stat breaks and damage mitigation for himself and the party (through his Limit Burst that also deals large damage with his DEF). All these traits make Sieghard one of the best tanks in the game.

His awakening materials are the following:
 * 6★ - Prismatic Horn x20, Fairies' Writ x10, Rainbow Bloom x10, Calamity Gem x5, Divine Crystal x5
 * 7★ - Sieghard's Prism x1

Stats
Sieghard's stats at his highest levels are as follows (with no passive abilities taken into account), along with the maximum amount of stat points that can be increased through pot-enhancements:

Abilities
Sieghard has four ability slots. He has affinity to Black Magic (Lvl 7-8) and Green Magic (Lvl 6-7).


 * Limit Burst

 is Sieghard's Limit Burst. As one of the so-called 'CG units', Sieghard's Limit Burst is a powerful ability preceded by a FMV-like movie that lasts about 0:09 seconds. He utters the phrase "utsukushiku chire..." (, "Beautifully scattered").

Its damage modifier and its mitigation amount will depend on Sieghard's LB level:

Equipment
Sieghard can equip the following weapon types: daggers, swords, staves, axes and whips.

He can equip the following armor types: light shields, heavy shields, hats, helms, clothes, light armor and heavy armor.

He can equip accessories.