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[2024] TBC Characters Full Guide & Tierlist [Spreadsheet]
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A giant spreadsheet compiling the nearly 100 unique heroes in Time Break Chronicles (Acts 1 to 5), with summaries of their stats, large descriptions on how to build them, their abilities, and their roles/positions in a party, alongside a tier-list of how well they perform in said roles, both initially and with artefact customisation.
   
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Access this guide on Google Sheets
This guide is wholly at Google Docs, as it really suits a spreadsheet format which is not possible on a Steam Guide.
Access HERE![docs.google.com]
Example of what it looks like:

Sometimes, Steam is a bit notorious for stating google docs or sheets is a suspicious site when you leave, there's not much I can do about that. If, for whatever reason, it has removed the above link please use the fragmented one below:
htt ps:// docs.google. com/spreadsheets/d/1zTBEn-tpaLAeMsx9b_S5F-hN1A2iHnOQ/

There are spaces around the http, the docs, and .com, so delete those when you copy and paste it into your browser.


For clarity: My Tierlist works on the following assumptions:
  • S-Tier: Without any massive customisation, this hero has a diverse but self-contained kit that works incredibly well. Everything in it synergises, and they excel at their role. Their missions aren't too hard to do, they level well, and they're always desirable on a team. Relics only make them better.
  • A-Tier: The hero is a stand-out in their role, just maybe a smidgen off the absolute greatest of their kind, but still incredibly desirable and useful. Maybe they just need one extra relic to function at their best.
  • B-Tier: The hero's solid at doing their thing. Perhaps they have some excess fat in their kit which doesn't really contribute much, or they suck until max level, or they absolutely need specific supports and relics to function. Still great when you meet the conditions, but more effort needed.
  • C-Tier: Fine. Their main thing is serviceable, but even with relic support it feels as though they're never quite going to be on the same par as the higher tiers. Perhaps they're a bit too squishy, low DPS for the effort involved, or they have parts of their kit which are weird or conflict with one another.
  • F-Tier: Anti-Synergistic. Perhaps they only work by your hard focusing one or two of their abilities, and the rest of their kit is just kinda there. Or perhaps they try to do too much, and flop on their face in the process. Or perhaps they just have a very vague role that's incredibly hard to pin down. You can force really good relics on to them and they'll still work in a niche, but it feels like they're not the sum of their parts.

It's important to note my tiers for heroes primarily take into account the broad experience of using them, NOT just what they could be like if absolutely min-maxxed within an inch of their life on Endless mode.

Importantly: Can they hit the ground running in their own act? Does EVERYTHING in their eight abilities contribute to their theme and identity? How hard is it to raise them and do their missions? The less grinding the better. The more symphonic the kit, the better. The less relics you need to make them work, the better.


Finally, if you like this, upvote it. I don't really care about my popularity, but steam guide visibility is purely tied to those blasted upvotes. (and that guide by [blank] was cool when it was made but is vastly out of date now, though the new relics guide this one inspired is cool, check it out too!)
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eharper256  [작성자] 2025년 1월 12일 오전 7시 37분 
Now that the Act V wanderers are out today and officially balanced I will get around to updating the sheet when I get the time, but this may not be immediately.
eharper256  [작성자] 2024년 12월 12일 오전 12시 24분 
Originally written as a fun thing for me to use, so it's me talking to myself. I'm not writing a dry thesis here or a spreadsheet I would do for work, so I'm chatting to the user. Lots of my steam guides are like this I'm afraid, lol. :-D
Mark10293 2024년 12월 11일 오후 2시 40분 
The content is solid, but I'm not sure why you felt the need to repeatedly incorporate the 'lol' thing so often in your commentary, as it was very unhelpful and distracting compared to the actually useful parts.
eharper256  [작성자] 2024년 12월 3일 오후 1시 09분 
Added a key to the tierlist for clarity.
C-Vale 2024년 12월 2일 오후 2시 03분 
Fair! Yeah, certainly true that some characters require wayy more support than others before their kits begin working. Also, thanks for responding! I appreciate it. Tbh, even I'm a little guilty about not fully understanding him, because it was only until I was looking over this post to respond when I realized his dodge part of his kit. And, perfectly valid way to rate these!
eharper256  [작성자] 2024년 12월 2일 오후 12시 16분 
Not to worry @C-Vale. It has been mentioned on the Discord that Sandeep is secretly a dodgetank in disguise and that's fine; but it's sort of super weird that his kit doesn't immediately suggest that at first, or even second glance.

My ratings try to summarise how useful they are at what their initial kit suggests, and how hard it is to do their missions. So since you need quite a lot of relic support for him to really shine as a dodgetank, I try and take that into account. He also has to compete with Alexandre being the yardstick in that role, and since he has no taunt without an expensive boss relic, its more he's a tough support.

But I'll try this build a bit more; and add an addendum as needed, I'm always happy to change ratings.
C-Vale 2024년 12월 1일 오후 2시 33분 
Is he top tier? Prrobably not, but he's a good if funky all-rounder who can perform a lot of functions alright, and those Nirvana stacks can be a godsend for blocking attacks that would shred some of the frailer characters in the game without needing to use Kevlar vests on everyone. A-and, I'm really sorry if this sounds aggressive, I swear I don't mean this as any kind of attack, just wanting to let you and anyone else reading the guide to understand how to achieve this guy's true potential, because he was admittedly a puzzle to solve when I was trying to figure out what exactly his purpose was, buut it turns out he's just a general all-purpose defensive character that specializes in anything that's not taunting or revival. (2/2 because steam character limit)
C-Vale 2024년 12월 1일 오후 2시 33분 
Ohh, rad!
Only comment I have is that I think you're misunderstanding the position of Sandeep. He's frontline. His spirit shield and already high discipline means he can be quite a tanky menace with Energy Bracer and Shaolin Robe, and he can scale that even higher if you keep Incense on, due to his Samadahi making it scale off of Wisdom. Manta's level 2 and 3 healing and resist help him tank more, and the payoff for all that is how he applies Doom Prophecy every time he's hit, and 2 stacks every time he dodges, so you can even put Acrobatics on him for even more durability and debuffing! I personally use him with a Judge that has nigh-every debuff relic and a banker, which despite the fact it was originally a meme team to put everyone I could call 'just some guy' in a party, it genuinely does bring out the strongest sides of both him and the Judge, seeing as all those debuffs going around make Gavel and Judgement kinda hit like a truck.