Advancement Beyond Tier 6
Eventually you may reach tier 6 and get a free choice from the most powerful abilities for your focus! But what's next?
There are no focus abilities or genre abilities above tier 6, but you can keep advancing beyond tier 6 by spending XP on the usual advancement options, and after four advancements you reach a new tier.
When you reach a new tier, you automatically get a new focus ability for free (just like for advancing to tier 2, tier 3, and so on). This might be another tier 6 ability unlocked on your focus flowchart, or maybe you'll pick a lower-tier ability so you can explore another branch of the flowchart. Eventually (after many tiers) you'll have gained all of the abilities for your focus. However, even at that point, the other advancement options are still available, so you'll still be able to advance by learning or improving a skill, adding points to your Pools, and so on.
Remember that at every third tier after 6 (tier 9, 12, and so on), you automatically get to choose another genre ability for free.
If you haven't done so already, tiers above 6 are a good time to use skill advancement to become trained or specialized in an attack ability from your focus, type, or genre.
The Cypher GM's Guide has information about other forms of advancement, such as gaining another descriptor or focus.