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I was asked about a build for GW and FP, so here's what I came up with. (Suprisingly, it isn't a Meditate build)

The build names in this are Glaive which is the glass cannon, and the Gauntlet which is the tank.

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Post Index:

What Stats and Why

Which Element to Pick

Enemies You'll Face

What to do on Your Turn

What to do Against Each Group

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I would like to thank:
Sylvandyr - Their stat tools (found HERE)

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When organizing your team, make sure you put your Gauntlet in a slot before your Glaive so that your Gauntlet can Rally your Glaive. [columns] [b]Stats:[/b] STR AGI DEF QCK [nextcol] 103 8 5 92 [nextcol] | | | | [nextcol] INT VIT MND [nextcol] 5 12 5 [nextcol] | | | | [nextcol] [b]Stones:[/b] Scratch Eliminate Berserker Ambush [nextcol] Sap Berserker Ambush [nextcol] Berserker [nextcol] [/columns] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/502RbDwH/Cannon-Stats.png[/img] The reasoning for the stats is as follows: Str 103 allows the Glaive to Rally (from your Gauntlet) + Scratch + Elim everything in the venue (other than bosses). Qck 92 allows the Glaive to alternate between 1 and 2 turns between all melee enemy turns. Vit 12 is where the rest of the points go and allows the Glaive to take a couple hits if Guard fails (I'm salty that Guard can fail). ----- [columns] [b]Stats:[/b] STR AGI DEF QCK [nextcol] 5 8 81 87 [nextcol] | | | | [nextcol] INT VIT MND [nextcol] 60 5 5 [nextcol] | | | | [nextcol] [b]Stones:[/b] Anticipate Aid Scholar Ambush [nextcol] Reflect Scholar Ambush [nextcol] Rally Scholar [nextcol] Guard [/columns] [img]https://i.postimg.cc/C1r61JNc/Tank-Stats.png[/img] The reasoning for the stats is as follows: Int 60 combined with Def 81 is the most efficient damage mitigation and healing Def 81 allows the Gauntlet to take 12 or so physical hits which should be enough to survive until you can heal. Qck 87 allows the Gauntlet to keep up with and take its turns with your Glaive. Vit is less efficient than Def when healing, and we don't have any left over points put into it.

I'll now go through the various dragon elements and say which I think are best, and which are worst. This is based on which elements are super effective against your dragon's element. (I'm only counting the elements for spell-casting enemies since the melee enemies don't usually use their element attack before you kill them). My scale will be Great, Good, Doable, Bad, and Terrible. [b][u]NOTE:[/u][/b] The rankings in this venue do matter a bit. Your Gauntlet should be tanky enough that element isn't too important, and your Glaive will be Guarded. However, I do still recommend using a 'Good' or better element for your Glaive since if it doesn't have the HP to tank in case Guard fails. Your trainer's element only matters when you're hit by elemental attacks, and this build can beat melee enemies before they get a chance to use their elemental attacks. After the first battle, you have enough breath the cast eliminate and bet mages before they can cast elemental attacks as well, so element matters even less after the first battle. [b]Resistant to[/b] is how many enemies deal less damage to your dragon (higher # = good) [b]Weak to[/b] is how many enemies deal more damage to your dragon (higher # = bad) [columns] [b]Element[/b] Arcane Earth Fire Ice Light Lightning Nature Plague Shadow Water Wind [nextcol] | | | | | | | | | | | | [nextcol] [b]Rank[/b] Doable Doable Great Bad Terrible Bad Doable Terrible Bad Good Doable [nextcol] | | | | | | | | | | | | [nextcol] [b]Resistant to[/b] 5 4 5 3 3 5 5 1 3 3 3 [nextcol] | | | | | | | | | | | | [nextcol] [b]Weak to[/b] 5 5 3 6 7 6 5 8 6 4 5 [/columns] ----- If you don't want to read the chart, here's the ranking from best to worst [b]1st Great:[/b] Fire [b]2nd Good:[/b] Water [b]3rd Doable:[/b] Arcane Earth Nature Wind [b]4th Bad:[/b] Ice Lightning Shadow [b]5th Terrible:[/b] Light Plague ----- Here's a chart to show what elements are strong/weak to what [img]http://i.imgur.com/lLliwWS.png[/img]

Ice, Earth, and Lightning mages are the main problem due to having abilities that cause you to miss turns. This is a problem when Guard runs out or if you're low on HP.

Mages: Mage Name Chromefeather Lookout Gearspring Pocketmouse Jelly Drone Mistral Minion Swift Lumen Swift Volt Tribeam Hunter Tribeam Lurker Wind-Up Pocketmouse Workshop Monitor All-Seeing Eye Blushing Tangle Everburn Tangle Fear Frog Foolish Prince Frogspawn Flyer Mindless Flight Portal Watcher Spectre Wyvern Starspawn Flyer Terror Toad Void Wyvern

Mage Element Lightning Nature Light Wind Light Lightning Ice Earth Fire Water Light Arcane Fire Fire Arcane Nature Ice Neutral Neutral Arcane Wind Shadow

Melee: Melee Name Black Iron Creeper Clattercog Engineer Construction Mith Coppercoil Creeper Copperplate Longmech Frost Delver Geartoggle Smith Longmech Mechanical Destroyer Monkey Wrench Robotic Tender Scrapmetal Tracker Sentinel Mith Sentry Squawker Spellbound Golem Steelhound Stone Borer War Smith Aberrant Chacma Barhide Menace Bearded Pupowl Calico Ferberus Deeprealm Leon Ferberus Giggling Planesrunner Lap Pupowl Medusa Leon Sanguine Multimist Sparksylph Springfoot Bilworper Tattertail Bilworper Teleporting Planesrunner

Melee Element Fire Water Nature Lightning Wind Ice Lightning Plague Neutral Neutral Arcane Shadow Plague Neutral Arcane Neutral Earth Shadow Water Wind Plague Earth Water Shadow Earth Light Neutral Plague Lightning Neutral Arcane Arcane

Before going over turn order, it should be noted that this is against melee enemies. Mages have higher Qck and will go causing the turn order to be slightly different, and mixed packs may have very annoying turn orders due to this. I recommend focusing mages first since they will deal more damage and may not hit your Gauntlet which can drag out the battle.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx First Battle: Gauntlet - Rally (Targeting Glaive) Gauntlet - Guard (Targeting Glaive) Glaive - Scratch Glaive - Scratch Gauntlet - Anticipate Glaive - Scratch ....Enemy ....Enemy ....Enemy Gauntlet - Rally (Targeting Glaive) Glaive - Scratch Gauntlet - Anticipate Glaive - Scratch ....Enemy ....Enemy Gauntlet - Anticipate Glaive - Scratch ....Enemy ....Enemy Gauntlet - Guard (Targeting Glaive) Glaive - Elim Gauntlet - Anticipate Glaive - Scratch ....Enemy Gauntlet - Rally (Targeting Glaive) Glaive - Elim

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Second Battle (3 Enemies): Gauntlet - Rally (Targeting Glaive) Gauntlet - Guard (Targeting Glaive) Glaive - Scratch Glaive - Elim Gauntlet - Anticipate Glaive - Scratch ....Enemy ....Enemy Gauntlet - Aid (Targeting whichever needs it) Glaive - Elim Gauntlet - Anticipate Glaive - Scratch ....Enemy Gauntlet - Anticipate Glaive - Scratch ....Enemy Gauntlet - Aid or Rally Glaive - Elim

You can 4x Rally + Scratch all enemies. Once the first enemy is down, you will have enough breath for Elim, just remember to Rally + Scratch everything first.

When facing mages, use Guard and Reflect so the enemies don't hit your tank. Remember that Reflect will reflect Aid.

You can leave the last two (melee) enemies alive if you want to farm breath and use Aid, just Scratch them equally so you can take them out at the same time (so that you generate breath faster on your Gauntlet).

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Enemy Focus Order:
Hit the mage enemies first, and the melee enemies last. The mage has a chance at charging instead of attacking so you won't generate breath, and magical attacks deal more damage. Use Reflect if you have the breath

Enemies that can apply status effect that skip turns (eg. freeze or petrify) should also be focused quickly.

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Sap Usage:
I don't use Sap often, but if you have extra breath on your Glaive, then using Sap instead of Scratch can be useful, especially if you need to use Aid on your Gauntlet or don't have enough breath for Aid.

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Refresh:
You can put the fodder's stats into Vit if you want, but I personally don't see a reason to most of the time. The Gauntlet is tanky and fast enough in my opinion.

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Dodge:
Dodges shouldn't really affect a run too much, just keep Scratching until enverything's dead. I recommend leaving two enemies, and taking them out together.

If you're low health when you miss an Elim, you might want to reset, but otherwise you should be able to keep going.

*NOTE:* All of these numbers are assuming you don't miss an attack, and were done by hand rather than through testing, so some might be a bit off. You should be fine if you miss an Elim unless your team is low on health. How much breath you have shouldn't matter too much.

Enemy Groups 3 Mages 2 Mages + 1 Melee 1 Mage + 2 Melee 2 Mages + 2 Melee 3 Melee

Max Hits Turn 1 5 4 4 9 8

Max Hits Later 1 3 3 6 4

Refresh Turn 1 Probably Maybe No Yes No

3 Mages
First battle: These are the worst to start with.
Later Battles: These are very easy later on.

2 Mages + 1 Melee
First Battle: These aren't the best to start with and I suggest refreshing, but you can.
Later Battles: These are very easy later on.

1 Mages + 2 Melee
First Battle: These aren't the best to start with, but you can.
Later Battle: These are very easy later on.

3 Melee
First Battle: These are the best to start with.
Later battles: These are very easy later on.

4 groups
First Battle: Just refresh. It will take too long and will likely out damage your ability to heal.
Later battles: These are ok later on, just focus the problem enemies.

Bosses:
First Battle: These are very easy to start with, but slow at gaining breath.
Later battles: These are very easy to later on.

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I fixed a few minor errors in the guide. There's was an issue in the element area (the note was incorrect), and an issue in the turn section (I forgot how ambush worked)