I have a question mostly for our jpcc veterans about putting together a mono-mage team. I mainly want to know if I should do some more Hati pulls. I currently have about 3150p stashed away, and I'm about 70% done with the hunt missions. I don't know how replaceable Hati will be later on, or whether I should YOLO for her now. This is currently what I have put together (current party members in bold):
Runefencer/Tank:
LB1 Hati
LB0 Febrya
Overall Best Unit: ???
Crowd Control:
(eventually) MLB Liam
LB1 Cleora
Overall Best Unit: Cheery
Nuke:
MLB Hatifas
MLB Rasphia
LB1 Velnar
LB1 Aelle Gloon
Overall Best Unit: Aludra?
Healer:
LB2 Elemia
Overall Best Unit: Elemia?
Sub Party:
LB0 Vienta (I can get her up to LB2, but will this actually make a difference, or should I sell the extra copies for rings?
LB1 Phoena
I guess I'd put in MLB Frau for Phoena for missions that require only mages.
Overall Best Units: ?
Other random utility units:
LB0 Roxanna
IMO, it goes like this:
Runefencer/Tank:
Overall Best Unit: Alphim. Demon and club user. Can also heal while in your side of the field. Easy to MLB if you factor out Gumi's features.
-Carmille and Hati are runners-up.
Crowd Control:
Overall Best Unit: Cheery (Cleora really, but nobody wants that kind of CC)
Nuke:
Overall Best Unit: Cheery if you mind mana (~13k special at LB2), until Rin comes out (5th tavern)
Healer:
Overall Best Unit: Clara? - lighthouse girl, her skill damages enemies and heals allies for the amount damaged or something like that. Still a ways off.
Right now: Yona. Elemia probably overheals. Unless you can't kizuna blind inmunity, which would make Elemia better - unless you have a Hati
Situational: Shauna (heals 100 hp every few seconds (2-3?) to all spear/club users).
SP: There are better mage-class buffers than Vienta, but I don't think they are out yet, nor do I know when will the launch.
You don't need the extra Vientas, although it's pretty nice to have a decent unit come out after the first death (meaning, it's useful to LB sp-buffers but if you need the rings are better off selling them).
Mage-only quests aren't too hard (with a couple of exceptions, thanks to event missions, if I recall correctly), so you don't need to min-max teams for them. If you want a mage team for time-gate stages, that's something else then.
Probably the best team would be something like:
Hati
Alphim
2xShauna
Rin/Cheery/Clara
Switching 1 Shauna for Clara instead of switching out Cheery would be fine as well, but since she buffs mages I'm not too sure about it.
Could I use the 1* and 2* for enhancement fodder?
My current teams are:
Yoyo (Leader) Level 11
Elemia Level 8
Latty Level 12
Rhuna Level 10
Knuckle Level 4
Palna Level 5
Io (Leader) level 2
Iris Level 4
Pulna Level 1
Michidia Level 10
Roberta Level 3
Whargman Level 1
I've never touched Kain, though he's still in my deck somewhere.
I take your best units are Elemia and Io?
Elemia is a nice healer if you are using mages, and will probably help you more than Latty even if you don't use mages. However, since her skill is 2-mana, you need to use her with as many different classes as possible (so that the mana slot will have a higher chance of producing purple mana).
Try to build a Mage-Soldier-Cleric team with (for example)
Elemia+Io+Hero+Latty and 1 archer and 1 knight for the subparty (fighting with a team with 5 different classes -also called rainbow team- will eventually net you some premium tickets for the tavern/event gachas).
Yes, feel free to use them as fodder, unless you are low on gold, since they aren't very cost efficient. Try to match classes (enhancing a knight with a another knight character or knight enhancer gives 100% exp, while using a different class will net you about ~80% exp) and level 1 and 2* fodder up to level 2, as an example, if you wanted to enhance Elemia with 1-2* fodder:
Enhance Mage A (2* fodder) with Mage B (1* fodder) so that Mage A is level 2 and gives a bit more of experience. Then, enhance Elemia with Mage A.
Also, 1* and 2*
characters (enhancers are fine) give very little to no exp. If you are tight on gold, sell them instead.
Also, a couple of miscellaneous tips: Don't pull with Arcana Coins in the normal gacha, use the Challenge gacha instead (2k coins per pull) since it nets you a rare and you might pull the ring exchange featured character (Scherezard right now).
Sell 3* (rare) enhancers and forgers (weapon enhancers). Give 3*^weapons to 3, 4 and 5* characters you
use. Sell the rest. Rings are very important.
