Garland Review [Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius]

Rating

Trust Master Rewards – Equip L Sword: Allow use of great swords

3★	4★	5★	6★

General Thoughts

Garland is a strong frontline attacker with high health. Garland does 50% bonus damage against humans and has counter. With power break, you can reduce enemy physical damage by 15% for 3 turns. Mediguard and Defend aren’t the best skills for offense, but can save his life against very strong bosses. Without a doubt, his best ability is the doublehand, which gives him 50% atk stat of the weapons he equips. This will boosts his attack stat by quite a bit!

Garland also has a powerful AoE physical damage skill in Darkness. With Auto-Protect at the start of every round, Garland is beefy and will take less physical damage. If you are able to buff up his spirit stats, he will pretty much be unkillable. In terms of magical attacks, he can learn stonga and firaga, which is good enough as he can dish out some magic damage when the situation calls for it.

His limit burst is AoE physical dark damage. This element is great as you won’t see too many enemies resistant to dark.

On the downside, Garland doesn’t have ability slots and that really cripples his diversity. He also can’t learn green magic, which isn’t too big of a deal. His trust master reward is also not the best, as most front line characters can use great sword.

Verdict: Max him unless you pulled Cloud of Darkness. Garland is much stronger than your starters Rain and Lasswell.

Stats

LB Drops are crystal drops that fills up your limit burst.

Max Stats Increase

Resistance

Garland is neutral to all elements and status effects.

Learned Abilities

Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect	Hits	MP
4★	17		Power Break	Physical damage (1.2x) to one enemy Decrease ATK (15%) for 3 turns to one enemy	1	7
4★	46		Defend	Physical damage mitigation (50%) for 1 turn to caster	–	8
4★	60		Darkside	Dark physical damage (1.5x) with HP sacrifice (30%) to all enemies	1	0
6★	54		Dark Awakening	Add dark element to physical attacks for 5 turns to caster	–	14
6★	74		Firey Madness	Fire physical damage (2x) to all enemies	1	23
6★	74		Watery Madness	Water physical damage (2x) to all enemies	1	23
6★	74		Windy Madness	Wind physical damage (2x) to all enemies	1	23
6★	74		Earthly Madness	Earth physical damage (2x) to all enemies	1	23
6★	90		Chaosbringer	Dark physical damage (1.4x) to all enemies Inflict blind, silence, and confuse (30%) to all enemies	1	35
6★	100		Dark Spiral	Physical damage (1.4x) with ignore DEF (50%) to all enemies Decrease dark resistance (50%) for 3 turns to all enemies	1	45
Trait
Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect
3★	28		Man-Eater	Increase physical damage against humans (50%)
3★	40		Counter	Chance to counter physical attacks (30%) with normal attack
4★	32		Mediguard	Heal (50 HP, 0.1x) when guarding
5★	65		Auto-Protect	Auto-buffs DEF (20%)
5★	80		Doublehand	Increase equipment ATK (50%) when single wielding
6★	1		Knightly Memories	Increase ATK (25%) when equipped with a Great sword Increase ATK (25%) when equipped with a helm
6★	25		ATK +20%	Increase ATK (20%)
6★	38		HP +20%	Increase HP (20%)

Magic Abilities

Min rarity	Level	Icon	Name	Effect	Hits	MP
3★	1		Fira	Fire magic damage (1.4x) to all enemies	1	9
3★	1		Stonra	Earth magic damage (1.4x) to all enemies	1	9
5★	23		Firaga	Fire magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies	1	20
5★	49		Stonga	Earth magic damage (1.8x) to all enemies	1	20

Limit Burst

Garland does strong AoE dark physical damage to all enemies.

Equipment

Garland’s weapon selection is okay and can wear heavy armor!

Weapons	Armors

Awakening

Lore

A terrible creature who was once a knight from another world. He kidnapped the princess of his kingdom, Princess Sarah, and barricaded himself and the princess in the Chaos Shrine, until he was eventually struck down by the Warriors of Light. But instead of meeting death’s final embrace, Garland was pulled back in time to be reborn, two thousand years in the past, as the being known as Chaos. To maintain his immortal existence, he sends the four fiends-one for each of the elements: wind, water, earth and fire-into the future, to appear every two centuries to drain power from the Crystals and bring eternity within his grasp.