what is the best way?

[R25790837]

Yo all. Have a question for the experienced players or vets. What is the best way to build the BR? What to focus on 1st. And. How it is betyer focus on char and mount 1st and than heroes one at the time (or all same growth) . Or heroes 1st and than char. Thank you.

[osobena]

Yo all. Have a question for the experienced players or vets. What is the best way to build the BR? What to focus on 1st. And. How it is betyer focus on char and mount 1st and than heroes one at the time (or all same growth) . Or heroes 1st and than char. Thank you.

Personally I think it's better to focus on main and mount first. Then heroes. And build angel.

[DSMIVTR]

Be careful to not focus on increasing BR, and neglect actual battle performance.

For example, when refining equipment, you can get a PATK increase bonus on equipment for a MATK main or hero. Doesn't help you in battle, but definitely boosts your BR. People who know BR calculations can likely provide better examples.

Another point involves upgrading heroes. If you upgrade a hero and increase your BR by [X], but the hero still dies after the first angel attack in PvP, the BR increase probably didn't increase your battle performance by much. Now, if you upgraded your main or angel and increased your BR by [X], you're more likely to see better performance from your party. Now, after a while, the same amount of resources may increase your main's BR by [X], but one of your heroes' BR by [3X], [5X], or even higher. Doing the cost-benefit analysis for that kind of comparison requires a bit more math than I'm comfortable rattling off extemporaneously.

[DSMIVTR]

Putting all your resources into just your Main and mount (except for element training) does give you some nice BR and performance but at a cost.

Your support is there to do several things
1 - absorb damage that would be directed against your main
2 - deal damage to enemies that your main would have to do by itself
3 - provide other support via healing or buffs

By not having a balanced party, your entire team could disappear 1st or second hit leaving your main to face the enemy 6 to 2 (I included angels in that #). If your support heroes can survive thru 1 enemy angel attack, you are way ahead.

The same goes for guardian angels when you get them. Focusing only on your main angel and inheriting everything to her actually weakens the party. Sure your angel will do more damage, but at the cost of added stats to the rest of your group. Leveled and evolved guardians are essential, Cherub stones by them selves are not enough.

I agree in principle with your points, but am starting to wonder if game mechanics favor an unbalanced party or balanced party. If both people started with the same resources, what build will end up winning the majority of games? Current conventional wisdom has us emphasizing our mains and one or two heroes, while trying to build up the remaining two or three heroes a bit so they can deal as much damage (or heal as much as they can) before they're blown away. Guardian angels are invaluable in this, and having all your heroes survive at least one angel attack is wonderful.

So why try unbalanced? If the main or a single hero is sufficiently built up, they can wreck the opposing team even if it becomes six vs. two or three. If the heroes on the six team can't do much damage to the survivors, all they're doing is boosting rage meters.

I had a chance to look at several of andreicde's posted battles, and his unbalanced build emphasizing Claw most likely wins him far more games than if he had a more balanced build. Granted, it may be an extreme example, and I don't claim to know where the line should be drawn between balanced and unbalanced, but the automatic assumption that balanced is usually better may not always fit reality.

A final example that everyone should be aware of: Team Arena. Now I know, the pairings are level-based, not BR-based, but if you had two teams that had roughly equivalent BR, would you rather be on the team with two strong characters and a weak one, or three roughly equal characters? The 2S1W team usually wins at least 70% of the time, because two angel strikes by the strong characters usually wreck the 3E team. It's not a perfect example, but it should provide some food for thought.

In summary, I'm not claiming that unbalanced is always better, or even better 51% of the time. I just don't think we should assume that balanced is always better.

[R25790837]

Thank you very much for your prompt responses guys. I appreciate it.

[chrysalizzz]

br is actually not a thing to consider in the first place coz performance and strong build is important, but at the end of the day, still high br is needed for you to qualify on events, such as, TT, angel world cup etc... so either way you need to prioritize both...increasing br while making a very strong build is necessary...

[savageness]

I say start with a strong main and pick 1 strong support... either a tank or a damager or maybe both. As you level up, don't inherit your angels as you will have to level those angels up all over again anyways for guardian angels. I started all over with an archer. I am going to need a strong tank i think, a healer and i have astral child for rage. I'm going to start with that. Then just concentrate on that. Get your gears, of course. I'm concentrating on my main's gems first, then adding to the rest as i go. I like my tank to take shots while I kill things and my healer heals the tank so I can sit back and shoot more lasers *pew pew pew* lolz

so about as balanced as you need is your main and 2 heroes .... the other 2 are pretty much throw aways or extra targets. I think concentrating on your main, 1 tank and 1 healer or damager is enough.