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SDarkAxeBruiser

Vaseraga

One HP, undying, unstoppable

Element
Dark
Weapon
Axe
Role
Bruiser
Range
Melee
Release
Base game
Difficulty
3 out of 5
Vaseraga official artwork

Signature mechanic

Immortal Pain trades health for damage

Vaseraga fills the Grynoth gauge with charged unique attacks, gaining Stout Heart plus ATK and DEF buffs as it rises. Immortal Pain drops him to 1 HP and grants Undying, which maximises his charged attack damage while making enemy hits irrelevant for the duration. Endless Ragnarok pushed him toward actually using his skills rather than pure charge-spam.

Vaseraga deals massive damage with the caveat that you need to have low health to maximize his damage. His Immortal Pain skill grants him Undying and puts him at 1 HP, maximizing his Charged Attack DMG and letting you ignore enemy attacks. This makes him one of the best Tanks in the game as long as you have his skill up.— Game8 tier assessment

Support skills (passives)

  • Feel No Pain

    Vaseraga gains Stout Heart, ATK up, and DEF up based on the level of the Grynoth gauge. Landing charged unique attacks fills the gauge.

  • Melas Unleashed

    Pressing unique attack fills up the Grynoth gauge by a certain amount and grants Stout Heart to Vaseraga.

How to unlock

Players may unlock Vaseraga by using a Crewmate Card in Siero's Knickknack Shack in a town. You obtain Crewmate Cards by progressing through the main story.

Strengths

  • 1

    Ignores enemy pressure

    Undying plus Stout Heart means he simply walks through attacks that force everyone else to dodge.

  • 2

    Huge charged damage

    S tier on the back of enormous charged hits once the low-health scaling is active.

  • 3

    Reliable and readable

    No stance juggling — the gauge and the health threshold are the only things to track.

Weaknesses

  • 1

    Deliberately fragile

    Playing at 1 HP means any mistake outside Undying kills you outright.

  • 2

    Very slow

    Ponderous swings and poor mobility make mobile bosses genuinely difficult.

  • 3

    Window-dependent

    Outside Immortal Pain his damage is far less impressive.

Gear

Builds by progression stage

Chaos → Chaos+ → Chaos++, then Defy Infinity

Large and In Charge. Endless Ragnarok wants him weaving skills into the charge loop rather than charging exclusively.

Sigil loadout — Fatebreaker

A major part of the build involves using Basic , Attack , and Defense Stat-type Sigils to maximize Vaseraga's Master Traits that provide DMG Cap , ATK , and DEF . Additionally, new traits in Endless Ragnarok such as Fatebreaker , Celestial Nyx , Celestial Terra , and Celestial Ventus all provide additional DMG Cap.

Cascade , Quick Cooldown , and Uplift are important for both Skill and SBA uptime. Greater Aegis is there to increase your HP, but make sure not to cross the 200,000 limit for Catastrophe Nova.

SigilSlotTraits
Ebony's WarpathCharacter sigil2 slots
  • Ebony's Warpath — Allows Vaseraga to consume HP to fill the Grynoth gauge by pressing charged attack when the gauge is at 1 or higher. Also temporarily grants Enhanced DMG to Vaseraga.
  • Cascade — Shortens skill cooldowns whenever you hit a foe. Effect strength changes based on the attack type.
Ebony's Poise
  • Ebony's Poise — Shortens Vaseraga's skill cooldowns whenever he lands a charged attack. Effect strength is based on the attack.
  • Quick Charge — Charged attacks charge faster. Boosts attack power.
Health V+Basic stat5 slots
  • HP — Boosts base health.
  • DMG Cap — Raises the damage limit of attacks.
Health V+
  • HP — Boosts base health.
  • DMG Cap — Raises the damage limit of attacks.
Stun Power V+
  • Stun Power — Boosts stun power.
  • DMG Cap — Raises the damage limit of attacks.
Stun Power V+
  • Stun Power — Boosts stun power.
  • Uplift — Boosts the charge speed of your SBA gauge.
Stun Power V+
  • Stun Power — Boosts stun power.
  • Guts — Survive a lethal hit with 1 HP. Reactivation time is shortened based on trait level.
Fatebreaker V+Attack / special4 slots
  • Fatebreaker — Boosts attack, defense, and damage cap when participating in Fatebreaker-grade quests.
  • Greater Aegis — Greatly raises maximum health in proportion to your current maximum health.
Celestial Nyx V+
  • Celestial Nyx — Boosts attack power and damage cap when health is below a certain threshold.
  • Potion Hoarder — Increases the stock of recovery items.
Celestial Terra V+
  • Celestial Terra — Reduces maximum base health in exchange for a boost do damage cap.
  • Autorevive — Automatically recover from critical condition. Reactivation time is shortened based on trait level.
Celestial Ventus V+
  • Celestial Ventus — Deal more damage to foes, but healing from allies won't restore your health.
  • Supplementary DMG — Grants a certain chance for normal attacks and damage skills to deal supplementary damage.
Quick Cooldown V+Defense / support1 slot
  • Quick Cooldown — Shortens skill cooldowns.
  • Supplementary DMG — Grants a certain chance for normal attacks and damage skills to deal supplementary damage.

Gearing priorities

  • Transcended Terminus (T.Lvl 7): Catastrophe Nova, DMG Cap, Sigil Booster, Unbound Master
  • While progressing Chaos, a transcended Defender weapon usually beats an un-transcended Terminus
  • The standard template: 5 Basic-Stat + 3 Attack + 2 Defense/Support sigils
  • Fatebreaker V+, Celestial Lumen V+ and Celestial Terra V+ in the attack slots
  • Improved Dodge+ and Steel Nerves V+ for survivability that does not cost damage
  • Summons for their traits: War Elemental, Stout Heart, Berserker Echo, Spartan Echo

Over Mastery bonuses

  • Attack Power Up
  • Critical Hit Rate Up
  • Normal Attack Damage Cap Up
  • Skybound Art Damage Cap Up

For Over Masteries, focus on getting Normal Attack Damage Cap and Attack Power Up to boost Vaseraga's Charged Attacks further. Get more Critical Hit Rate to improve damage consistency, then get Skybound Art Damage Cap for last to squeeze out damage from your SBA.

Best-in-slot — transcended Terminus

Ereshkigal, Impending Doom

I
Catastrophe NovaLv 35Boosts attack power and damage cap when maximum health is below a certain threshold.
II
Nimble DefenseLv 25Extends Invincibility after a perfect dodge. Temporarily boosts defense and restores a small bit of health.
III
DMG CapLv 15Raises the damage limit of attacks.
IV
Sigil BoosterLv 1Raises the trail levels of all equipped sigils.
EX
Unbound MasterLv 55Boosts damage cap based on master level.

Wrightstone

Sequestration Wrightstone

  • Weak Point DMG
  • Supplementary DMG
  • Quick Cooldown

Vaseraga's Transcended Terminus weapon, Ereshkigal , is his best weapon during the endgame of Endless Ragnarok. With the upgraded Catastrophe Nova , you get ATK and DMG Cap as long as you have under 200,000 max HP. The EX trait Unbound Master also provides additional DMG Cap.

While progressing Chaos

Great Scythe Grynoth

I
HPLv 35Boosts base health.
II
Greater AegisLv 25Greatly raises maximum health in proportion to your current maximum health.
III
DMG Cap EcruLv 15Boosts attack power and damage cap based on how high your maximum health is.
IV
GarrisonLv 10Boosts defense based on how low your health is.
EX
Unbound ExertionLv 15Boosts damage cap of Skybound Arts.

Wrightstone

Vitality Wrightstone

  • Critical Hit Rate
  • DMG Cap
  • Supplementary DMG

This weapon also provides more defense through Garrison and increased SBA damage cap through Unbound Exertion .

Summons & equip bonus

Recommended summons

  • Lucilius
  • Beelzebub
  • Lilith
  • Behemoth III

For these traits

  • War Elemental
  • Improved Dodge
  • Berserker Echo
  • Spartan Echo

Equip bonus

  • Normal Attack Damage Cap Up
  • Stun Power Up
  • Critical Hit Rate Up

Level 100+ · Endless Ragnarok

Master Traits

Large and In Charge

Recommended

Rank 1

  • Charged Unique Attacks: Charge Time -5%
  • Charged Unique Attacks: ATK +10%
  • DMG Cap +15%
  • DEF +5%

Rank 2

  • Charged Unique Attacks (Xbox Y / PS Triangle / Switch 2 X / Mouse Right-Click): DMG Cap +35%
  • Essence Rank Perk 2: Ebony Glint shortens charge time of charged attacks by an additional 2% per effect lvl
  • When filling the Grynoth gauge: ATK↑ grants an additional ATK +5%; DEF↑ grants an additional DEF +5%
  • ATK +20%
  • Max HP +15,000
  • While inflicted with Burn: DMG Cap +100%

Rank 3

  • Essence Rank Perk 2: Ebony Glint Duration +10%
  • Charged Unique Attacks (Xbox Y / PS Triangle / Switch 2 X / Mouse Right-Click): DMG Cap +35%
  • Essence Rank Perk 3: Ebony Glint also grants Supplementary DMG (3%) to Unique Attacks (Xbox Y / PS Triangle / Switch 2 X / Mouse Right-Click)
  • DMG Cap +25%
  • ATK +10% per Attack-type sigil equipped (max sigils: 5)
  • Chain Burst DMG Cap +40%

Rank EX

  • Essence Rank Perk 3: Ebony Glint lvl 3 also grants DMG Dealt +3% to Unique Attacks (Xbox Y / PS Triangle / Switch 2 X / Mouse Right-Click)
  • Immortal Pain: Cooldown -5%
  • ATK +20% / DMG Cap +50%. Debuffs on self: DMG Taken +50% / Duration +50% / Movement Restriction +50%
  • ATK +10% per Attack-type sigil equipped (max sigils: 5)
  • DMG Cap +35%
  • Strengthens summons specs in exchange for Summon Cost +1. 3-cost summons can't be called as your first summon. This trait can't be used with a Summon Cost -1 trait
  • DMG Cap +35%

Hooked on Combos

Rank 1

  • Charged Unique Attacks: Charge Time -5%
  • Grynoth Gauge Gain +10%
  • DMG Cap +15%

Rank 2

  • Charged Unique Attacks (Xbox Y / PS Triangle / Switch 2 X / Mouse Right-Click): DMG Cap +35%
  • DMG Cap +20%

Rank 3

  • Unique Attacks (Xbox Y / PS Triangle / Switch 2 X / Mouse Right-Click): DMG Cap +35%
  • Immortal Pain: Cooldown -5%
  • DMG Cap +20% per Basic Stats-type sigil equipped (max sigils: 5)

Rank EX

  • Skill Cooldown -5%
  • Great Scythe Grynoth: Stun Power +10%
  • Upon performing a perfect dodge: Grants Shield (1000)
  • DMG Cap +20% per Basic Stats-type sigil equipped (max sigils: 5)
  • DMG Cap +35%
  • DMG Cap +35%

Punishing Parries

Rank 1

  • Charged Unique Attacks: ATK +20%
  • When filling the Grynoth gauge: ATK↑ grants an additional ATK +5%; DEF↑ grants an additional DEF +5%
  • DMG Cap +15%

Rank 2

  • Crux Rank Perk 1: Vaseraga gains an additional DEF +5% while charging Unique Attacks (Xbox Y / PS Triangle / Switch 2 X / Mouse Right-Click)
  • Grynoth Gauge Gain +10%

Rank 3

  • DMG Cap +25%

Rank EX

  • While in critical condition: Critical Gauge Depletion -10%
  • DEF +6% per Defense- or Support-type sigil equipped (max sigils: 5)
  • Stun Power +4
  • Against foes of the weaker element: DMG Dealt +10%
  • DMG Cap +35%
  • Primal bursts gain DMG Dealt +25%. Effect strength is based on the total number of this effect equipped by the entire party
  • DMG Cap +35%

This distribution considers Master Level 50.

For Vaseraga's Master Traits, we recommend focusing on the Large and In Charge style to shorten the duration of his charged attacks, therefore increasing overall DPS. Though this playstyle requires more precision to avoid losing stacks, it will yield the best overall damage.

For the other styles, get nodes that provide bonuses based on equipped Sigils and additional DMG Cap to maximize damage.

Execution

Combos & rotation

  • Vaseraga Burst Combo6 steps
    1. 1Use Melas Unleashed
    2. 2Use Immortal Pain if needed
    3. 3Use Battalions of Fear and immediately cancel it with dodge
    4. 4Immediately do a charged attack
    5. 5Use Damnation and dodge when the Jammed icon appears
    6. 6Immediately do a charged attack

    Vaseraga's highest DPS combo is his Combo C, which normally involves doing 3 normal attacks first before using 2 consecutive charged attacks. However, we skip directly to the charged attacks by dodge cancelling skills.

    Before starting combos, use Melas Unleashed for Stout Heart and Immortal Pain to ignore enemy attacks. Lastly, make sure to always have your Grynoth gauge full to gain more ATK and DEF.

  • Dodge Cancel Your Normal Attacks

    You can cancel the animations for your Normal Attacks by dodging shortly before the Normal Attack animation ends. This will allow you to skip straight to your charged attacks, where the majority of your damage comes from.

  • Gap Close with Combo 1

    Instead of using a skill like Battalions of Fear for gap closing, you can simply use your Combo 1. This combo consists of one normal attack and one unique attack. This combo does not deal as much damage as the rest of your combos, and is better off used by tapping the attacks instead of charging them.

Kit

Skills

Recommended loadout — Immortal Pain

Immortal Pain is a required skill for Vaseraga, as this allows you to temporarily become immortal and focus solely on performing your charged attacks. You can achieve 100% uptime on this skill as long as you have Cascade and Ebony's Poise.

The other 3 skills are mainly meant for dodge cancelling to go straight to charged attacks. However, their effects can be useful when fully executed.

SkillEffectApplies
Battalions of FearLunge forward at great speed to reap a foe. Chainable into a charged unique attack.
    DamnationRecommendedConsumes 30% of Vaseraga's max HP and grants Jammed. He performs a slash at the end. Can be activated up to 3 times in a row.
      Forgotten TalesGrants Hostility↑ and Drain to Vaseraga.
        Great Scythe GrynothRecommendedWinds up for a scythe slash that deals a high amount of stun. Chainable into a charged unique attack.
          Immortal PainRecommendedGrants Debuff Immunity and Undying to Vaseraga. Reduces his health to 1 HP after Undying ends.
            NetherwrathTakes damage in place of all allies and counters based on the damage endured. Hold while activating to maintain defensve cover.
              Umbral EclipseInflicts slow on nearby foes.
                Violent ShadowsCasts a circle that constantly damages foes, and restores Vaseraga's HP whenever damage is dealt. Follows up with a slash. Hold to prolong casting.

                  Weapon list

                  WeaponMax HPMax ATKTraits
                  Great Scythe Grynoth25322003HP, Garrison
                  Wurtzite Scythe11081013ATK, HP
                  Cosmic Scythe13273320Weak Point DMG, Break Assassin
                  Soul Eater14992299Critical Hit Rate, Critical DMG
                  Alsarav20162660Stun Power, Linked Together
                  Ereshkigal, Impending Doom10896283Catastrophe, Regen, DMG Cap, Sigil Booster

                  Party

                  Recommended team — The Captain, Cagliostro, and Siegfried

                  Since Vaseraga is a brawler that will spend most of his time up close with enemies, it is best to team him up with allies that can further buff his damage and provide support through buffs.

                  The Captain and Cagliostro both have access to several support skills that can apply team buffs, enemy debuffs, and healing. Siegfried can be a secondary DPS that can also apply enemy debuffs and DEF up to the team.

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