Quartz

Quartz is a 4-star character in Arknights. Quartz's weapon type is Greatsword and class is Guard. Faction: Columbia.

On our Arknights tier list Quartz is D tier, 274th of the 293 characters ranked, from where 7 current tier lists put Quartz.

Quartz has the highest HP and ATK of any Guard in the game, and her attacks already hit every enemy she's blocking at once. All-Out Clash pushes that further with a stun chance and more damage, but it also amplifies the damage she takes while it's active, which matters a lot given she has essentially no defense to begin with.

She attacks slower than any other Guard and only blocks two enemies, so she trades survivability and consistency for raw numbers.

CRU-X: "So, what's the plan? "

"Simple: we go into the bar, find our target, and make him tell us where the Originium powder stash is.

"And the precise timing? " The young girl, having just finished cooking, leans against a pillar in the cellar, carefully wiping down her oversized greatsword.

"Just a powder dealer. Untrained. Don't worry.

It'll be a cakewalk. "

"I told you, give me an exact time. That's how every mission should be handled.

Or do you plan to come back hungry with no dinner ready?

"Alright, fine. He'll be there at 7:00 p.

m. , to meet someone else. "

Quartz finishes cleaning her greatsword and opens a toolkit she'd bought from the town's clockmaker, then starts repairing the pocket watch she'd left on the dining table.

"Thirteen seconds slow," she says with a sigh.

That evening.

Carrying her greatsword, Quartz pushes open the bar's doors.

In the only place in town worthy of being called entertainment, people were lost in wild revelry.

Through the haze of alcohol vapors and clouds of smoke, she spots the target—crouched in the corner, clutching his glass tightly.

She steps over the drunk patrons sprawled on the floor and sits across from him.

"Miss, can I get you a drink? "

"No, thank you. I'm here waiting for someone—7:00, right?

The target stares intently at her, this strange woman who had unexpectedly started talking to him.

Swallowing hard, he suddenly pulls a remote from his bag and shouts:

"You vermin couldn't make it in a nomadic city!

And now you're out here in the wasteland, to make my life as miserable as yours!

The moment the clock hits 7:00, the Originium powder bomb under this table will blow you sky-high!

This is what mercs like you deserve! "

Seven. . .

The music cuts off abruptly. The revelers freeze in their tracks, turning to look beneath the table where a blurred red countdown clock was flashing.

Six. . .

The bar's doors fly open, followed by the windows, as those who are still sober drag their unconscious companions out of the building.

"One! " The target shouts, jumping onto the bar and raising his arms as if welcoming a grand finale.

"Sir, your watch is ten seconds fast. "

Quartz lets out a long sigh, raises her greatsword, and brings it down on him.

People watch as a young woman carrying a greatsword hauls a man out of the now-empty bar.

Five seconds later, the bar explodes, sending wood and glass shards soaring, and bursting into a dazzling firework against the night sky.

"Where are you going? "

"To find some cold water to wake him up.

Then, to thank my watch repair toolkit. "

A Columbian Lupo mercenary, Quartz came from a family of Pioneers who joined a team of mercs sometime after her mother passes away from an unknown illness, her father having already left them under unknown circumstances, keeping a stopped pocket watch she once used as a reminder for important times.

Quartz only worked with the merc team until they disbanded at some point, and she went on a solo work for a while until she is recruited by Rhodes Island.

Quartz wield a greatsword that is powerful but difficult to control – she even almost hit Dobermann with it during her combat assessment session.

Available in the Purchase Certificate Store since Il Siracusano (6 copies; later purchases give Quartz's Token)