All Visions: How to Unlock Every Vision, Mastery Rank Costs and Awakening

Final Fantasy Resonance has 26 Visions to collect. Tronn and Leah join during Chapter 1. Seven more are request rewards, the 16 classic Final Fantasy heroes wait in their own Sanctums of Light, and Sephiroth joins after you beat him at Whirlpool Hollow. Find the Vision you want in the first table, then check its section further down for what each Mastery Rank costs and which abilities it teaches.

Where to Get Every Vision

Role uses the game’s own role names. Where gives the chapter for story Visions, the town where the request starts, or the region that holds the Sanctum.

Chapter 1: Tronn and Leah

Tronn and Leah join as part of the Chapter 1 story, Tailing the Truth. You don’t need to do anything extra to get them.

Request Visions

Seven Visions come from requests. Each request becomes available at the story point listed below, and two of them open only after you finish an earlier request: take on Token Legacy before you look for Amelia’s request, and finish Camille’s The Call from Beyond before Wilhelm’s. All seven also reward magicite, so they’re worth doing even for a Vision you don’t plan to use.

Sanctums of Light

Each of the 16 classic heroes has a Sanctum of Light named after them. Clear the Sanctum to recruit its hero. The region tells you which part of the world map to search.

Sephiroth

Sephiroth is the only Vision you have to beat first. He waits at Whirlpool Hollow in the Kingdom of Grandshelt. He’s level 45 with 250,000 HP, and you can’t run from the fight, so bring a party that can last. Winning recruits him and earns 180 MRP, and he can also drop a Magicite Cryst.

Mastery Rank and MRP

Fight with a Vision equipped to earn Mastery Points (MRP) for it. Every time its total reaches the next threshold, the Vision’s Mastery Rank (MR) goes up, from MR 0 to MR 9. Each rank grants a reward: an ability, a passive, or a stat bonus, and MR 9 grants three at once.

Each character ranks each Vision separately, and a Vision’s Mastery Bonuses only apply to the character who earned them: if Rain takes Leah to MR 9, Lasswell gets none of it when he equips her. Plan which character will use a Vision long term before you rank it.

Every Vision you have equipped earns the battle’s full MRP, so equip one on each party member to rank them together. Defeat the last enemy while it’s staggered to earn a Stagger Finish Bonus. Only the final enemy counts, so staggering the others first doesn’t matter. The bonus adds 30% of the battle’s MRP, rounded up: a fight worth 4 MRP pays 6, and one worth 12 pays 16. Playing on Expert multiplies the MRP every battle gives by 1.5. The MRP farming guide lists the best places to earn MRP in each chapter, the one-time Magic Pot fights and the items that boost MRP.

Every character starts with 100 AP, and levelling up doesn’t add more. Stat and AP bonuses from Mastery Ranks are permanent: they go to the character who has the Vision equipped when it ranks up, and they stay after you swap Visions. Two of the nine ranks raise AP by 8, so taking a Vision to MR 9 gives that character 16 more AP, and ranking a second Vision on the same character brings it to 132.

MR 9 also unlocks the Vision’s Spirit ability, which then appears at the top of its Mastery Bonuses list. Equipping a Spirit activates every ability the Vision teaches through Mastery Rank while using a single ability slot, and it always costs less AP than equipping those abilities one by one. Spirit of Leah costs 105 AP against 130 for her five Mastery abilities, and across all Visions the saving runs from 20 to 50 AP. The most expensive is Spirit of Sephiroth at 130 AP, so give it to a character who has ranked two Visions to MR 9.

MRP Needed for Each Mastery Rank

The numbers are running totals: a Vision at MR 4 has earned 195 MRP in all, and needs 395 to reach MR 5. Most Visions share one curve up to MR 8 and differ only in what MR 9 costs. Noctis and Sephiroth get more expensive from MR 3 on, and Bartz needs the most MRP overall.

Awakening

Awakening unlocks the rest of a Vision’s abilities in three steps. Awakening Level 0 is what the Vision knows when it joins. Raising it to Level 1 takes Magicite Shards, Level 2 takes Magicite, and Level 3 takes Magicite Crysts, so the last step for every Vision waits on the rarest material.

To awaken a Vision, bring magicite to the Moogle of Light. You meet the Moogle during Chapter 1, and it hands you a Magicite Shard so you can try an awakening on the spot.

Where to Find Magicite

The Colosseum is the steadiest source. Two battles in each of the first three leagues give magicite the first time you win them, and clearing a league earns a Proof of Victory that adds magicite to the Colosseum shop: the Fledgling’s Proof adds Magicite Shards, the Brawler’s Proof adds Magicite, and the Gladiator’s Proof adds Magicite Crysts.

To get the rare steals, equip Discerning Eye or Treasure Hunter from Zidane’s awakening abilities to improve your odds. Treasure Hunter guarantees the rare item whenever a steal succeeds; the odds are under Zidane’s entry below.

Vision Abilities by Mastery Rank and Awakening

Each section starts with the Vision’s Resonance attack, then lists the reward for every Mastery Rank with the running MRP total, then the abilities unlocked at each awakening level. AP is the cost to equip the ability; stat bonuses don’t use AP.

Tronn

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Joins in the story, Chapter 1 (Tailing the Truth)

Resonance: Hibernal Fury. Deal Ice magic damage to random enemies 5 times.

Leah

Role: Medic · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Joins in the story, Chapter 1 (Tailing the Truth)

Resonance: Healing Wind. Heal all allies and cast Regen on them. Heal effect can exceed max HP.

Amelia

Role: Saboteur · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Request: Errand’s End, Zoldaad, the Imperial Capital

Resonance: Errand’s End. Deal Fire magic damage to an enemy.

Camille

Role: Commando · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Request: The Call from Beyond, Imperial Residences

Resonance: Alluvial Undertow. Deal Water physical damage to an enemy.

Wilhelm

Role: Sentinel · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Request: O General! My General!, Zoldaad Castle Plaza

Resonance: Towering Rampart. Activate a barrier on all allies that reduces damage taken by 70% once.

Aileen

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Request: Forger of Wills, Dilmagia, the Machinopolis

Resonance: Fatal Impact. Deal Earth physical damage to an enemy.

Charlotte

Role: Sentinel · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Request: The Shield of the Weak, Grandport Harbor

Resonance: Resolute Bastion. Restore HP and increase physical and magic defense for all allies.

Victoria

Role: Commando · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Request: Victoria Revivified, Mysidia, the Magiapolis

Resonance: Agony. Deal Dark magic damage to all enemies and inflict Poison and Blind.

Ayaka

Role: Medic · Get it: Request: The Admirable Apprentice, Town of Sian

Resonance: Angelic Embrace. Restore HP, remove debuffs, and cure all status ailments other than KO for all allies.

Warrior of Light

Role: Sentinel · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of WoL, Kingdom of Grandshelt

Resonance: Crystal Braver. Deal physical damage to all enemies, cast Regen on self, and increase own defense and spirit for 3 turns.

Firion

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Firion, Olderion Federation

Resonance: Weaponsmaster. Deal Light physical damage to an enemy and fill LB gauge by 20%.

Onion Knight

Role: Commando · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Sanctum of Onion Knight, Dirnado, the Continent of Wind

Resonance: Job Change Attack. Deal non-elemental magic damage to all enemies. Increase power of Blade Torrent by 20% until battle ends.

Cecil

Role: Sentinel · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Cecil, Zoldaad Empire Territory

Resonance: Knight of Duality. Deal Light physical damage to all enemies. Activate a barrier on all allies that reduces damage taken by 50% once.

Bartz

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Bartz, Mysidia, the Uncharted Land

Resonance: Spellblade-Dual Wield-Rapid Fire. Deal physical damage to an enemy.

Terra

Role: Commando · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Sanctum of Terra, Kingdom of Grandshelt

Resonance: Riot Blade - Lotus. Deal non-elemental magic damage to all enemies.

Cloud

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Cloud, Kingdom of Grandshelt

Resonance: Ascension. Deal Lightning physical damage to an enemy. Has a high critical hit rate.

Squall

Role: Commando · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Squall, Olderion Federation

Resonance: Blasting Zone. Deal Fire physical damage to all enemies.

Zidane

Role: Saboteur · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Zidane, Dirnado, the Continent of Wind

Resonance: Climax Edge. Deal Wind magic damage to an enemy.

Stealing: Steal and Mug use the same odds, and Mug deals damage on the same turn, so use Mug. Each try has a 1 in 5 chance against almost every enemy. Your level, your stats and the difficulty setting don’t change it, and staggering the enemy first doesn’t help. A miss doesn’t raise your next chance either. Only Brigand’s Gloves and Vaan’s Resonance improve the odds, and each enemy can be robbed once. The stealing guide explains the battle messages and lists the steals you can miss, the gear no shop or chest gives you and what every enemy carries.

Tidus

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Tidus, Olderion Federation

Resonance: Blitz Ace. Deal Water physical damage to an enemy. The last hit targets all enemies.

Shantotto

Role: Commando · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Sanctum of Shantotto, Zoldaad Empire Territory

Resonance: Colossal Shantotto II. Deal Dark magic damage to an enemy and fill LB gauge by 20%.

Vaan

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Vaan, Mysidia, the Uncharted Land

Resonance: True Pyroclasm. Deal Fire physical damage to all enemies. Guaranteed to steal from affected targets.

Lightning

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Lightning, Mysidia, the Uncharted Land

Resonance: Zantetsuken. Deal Lightning physical damage to all enemies with a 40% chance of Instant Death.

Y’shtola

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Magic · Get it: Sanctum of Y’shtola, Zoldaad Empire Territory

Resonance: Aetherial Wind. Deal Wind magic damage to all enemies and remove their buffs.

Noctis

Role: Commando · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Noctis, Dirnado, the Continent of Wind

Resonance: Armiger Unleashed. Deal physical damage to all enemies.

Clive

Role: Breaker · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Sanctum of Clive, Kingdom of Grandshelt

Resonance: True Ifrit-Primed. [Eikon Skill] Deal Fire physical damage to an enemy.

Sephiroth

Role: Commando · Attacks: Physical · Get it: Defeat him in battle, Whirlpool Hollow, Kingdom of Grandshelt

Resonance: True Octaslash. Deal non-elemental physical damage to all enemies.