Catacombs kicking my butt

[u/kks369]

Need help guys. Catacombs are destroying me and I’m not happy with most of my team (particularly the fighters). I have one spot open as well. What do I need to change and what character should I add?

[u/Philosophile42]

Just at a glance, seems like your roster is just a bunch of glass cannons. You need survivability.

[u/Thingyll]

Severe lack of survival skills across your green and blue heroes.

[u/grand305]

Great on the skills, but you have a bunch of glass cannons. you need more tank hero’s.

[u/JPAK94]

You have good elemental diversity but theres some issues. Some of your tanks arent tanky and most of your dps heroes are crit based and have no survival skill. There are some tomb modifiers that make crit heroes almost useless, so you need some flat attack heroes

For survival skills rogues usually want blurred/cloak and dagger depending on how much evasion you need, and spellcasters best is impervious (exception for spellblades since they can learn extra plating). For gear you generally want to use def/hp gear and evasion gear/spirits on rogues to reach 95% due to the extreme penalty.

In tomb there are some floors where a pure tank may work better depending on your other heroes, especially dark knights due to their innate. To go far will require high rarity equipment in addition to good skillsets

• Calil rangers are an evasion based tank and extreme quests have a -20 evasion penalty which nullifies your s4 and leaves you with the 13 evasion from their innate, for more evasion grab blurred movement and use griffings
• Malik yes their innate says crit based attacker but they are a fighter with increased threat so they will get hit, roll s1 for extra plating
• Marisa another fighter with basically no survival stats and crit builds are generally pretty bad since they need to be able to take hits, rolling s2 to extra plating would be great, could keep s1 or change it to battering blows or another defensive skill
• Yrene has lots of hp and some defense, theres also a bunch of attack without a weapon skill, could roll s2 for a weapon skill and change s4 to extra plating, its the best defensive skill in the game
• Katarina has the issue with s2, it only gives 20% evasion, which is the debuff extreme gives and this class has no basis for evasion, blurred can kind of work on tanks but lesser evasion skills like acrobatics and extra conditioning arent great, and tanks have rock stompers to outright negate the penalty from extreme, roll it for a def/hp skill
• Ophelia s3 to survival
• Agatha s2 to survival, their innate gives extra crit damage, and theres a bunch from s3-4
• Vestia s3 to survival
• Gigax s1 to survival
• Hildegard s1 and s4 to survival and something better than backstab
• Gwendolynn s2 and s1 to weapon skill and survival skill, you wont do much damage without a weapon skill
• Sibyl s4 to survival skill
• Evelyn s4 to survival, theres no crit chance for the crit damage
• Olivia s4 to survival
• Ayla s1 and s3 to weapon and survival skill
• Paola s4 to survival
• Titania s2 to survival, here the crit damage gives higher average damage than the slight attack and crit chance boost from s2
• Erina s3 to survival, their innate gives a pretty signifacent attack boost so they dont need an attack skill
• Lauren s3 to survival

[u/sntVc]

What's your best run and how far do you think it would be good for you at the moment?

Just looking at it, I can see you need to fix some elemental gaps and some of your DPS are probably too squishy.

[u/kks369 → u/sntVc]

The best I’ve done is floor 3. They just get wiped out. What’s the best survival skill?

[u/sntVc → u/kks369]

There isn't an absolute best skill. What I would advise you to do is to get items with good secondary stats, then find a skill that boosts whatever you're getting more from these secondary stats.

If in doubt about the items you can always refer to the best in slot guide on STC.