Okay, let's go
1. Try to unlock the third party slot as soon as Sanctuary of Saerielle is available for you to do so.
2. Know what your party members are going to do.
Full teams of three usually consist of a Tank (Water, Earth, or Shadow elements, occasionally Light) in the lead slot, and either two Cannons or a Cannon and a Healer (Light element). Some people have Buffer/Debuffer, but...
So with your two currently selected pets, Viral and SCS Soul Stealer, Viral would be probably be a Tank (statted for Agi, Attack, or HP) and Soul Stealer the Healer (Statted for Attack or Dex), but could alternately run SS as the Tank with Viral as a Cannon.
(what stats you ultimately go with will end up depending on pet elements, team setup, and playstyle)
3. In relation to that, know what the different elements do. It gives an overview on the proficiency pages for each one what the element is oriented towards.
Earth, Water, and Shadow: Tank elements
Light: Potential Tank Element
Air, Fire: Not Tank Elements
Water: Defensive Buffs, can heal self or a teammate via Ice Barrier, Offensive Buffs (lv65)
Earth: Heals self, self buff, can use Taunt + Thorncoat to cause opponents to damage themself while attacking, Debuff opponents, can drain opponent HP
Shadow: Attacker, heals self, can drain opponent HP
Light: Healer, can full-team heal
Air: Attacker, Damage output via Bleeding Debuff inflicted via crits. is ludicrous
Fire: Attacker, hits multiple opponents, Debuffs, Buffs, Combustion Is A Terrifying Debuff
4. Equipment.
You want to both go for High Rarity, and keep as close to the relevant level.
(Lv60 Mythical > lv60 legendary > lv50 mythical > lv50 legendary > lv60 epic > lv45 legendary > lv50 epic etc. as an overview of how the two interact in terms of stats vs level)
You want to equip your party with stuff that reflects their battle role.
In Viral's case, being Shadow Tank, you'll want equips that boost Int and, again depending on playstyle, either Dex (for potential Increase in damage given by crits, which would give him more healing) or Agi (to increase his defences and dodge chances)
You'll definitely want to swap out Thunder's Bracelet, because it's Str/Dex not Int, and you'll want to get a higher rarity Evoker or Illusionist Relic when you can (train him up to level 25- if you send some pets on lv25 Very Hard Esior's Haven missions there's a good chance of Mission Satchels giving you lv25 legendary equips)
For Soul Stealer, higher level equips. You'll want to get a much higher level Relic (Evoker, in this case, for the Dex), and swap out the Tattered Assasin Bracelet (again, a Str. boosting equip, not so much use on an Int element pet)
(Now, with the new profs and new levels, our own personal main team is Earth/Light/Air or Earth/Light/Fire. We have a preference for Earth and Shadow over Water as Tank, and our Attacker preference is between Air and Fire depending on what we want- if we want to take down mobs faster, Fire, but for Bosses and fights where we don't want to potentially down opponents other than a single target, Air is better) |
