In Chapter 5, you have access to all eight Chosen heroes, allowing for diverse party compositions. While personal preference plays a role, certain combinations are generally more effective for different situations.
Balanced All-Around Party:
- Hero: Essential for damage, healing, and Zenithian Equipment.
- Ragnar: High HP/Defense, consistent physical damage, tank.
- Kiryl: Primary healer, crucial for survival.
- Maya: High offensive magic damage, good for clearing groups and boss damage.
This party offers a good mix of physical and magical offense, strong healing, and durability. Ragnar and the Hero can take hits, while Kiryl keeps everyone healthy and Maya blasts enemies with spells.
Aggressive Physical Party:
- Hero: Damage and emergency healing.
- Ragnar: Main tank and heavy hitter.
- Alena: Fast, high critical hit damage.
- Meena: Secondary healer, debuffs (Sap), and status effects.
This party focuses on overwhelming enemies with physical attacks. Meena provides support and healing, allowing the physical attackers to shine. Be mindful of MP for Meena's healing.
Magic-Focused Party:
- Hero: Damage, healing, and support.
- Borya: Primary offensive mage, area-of-effect spells.
- Maya: Secondary offensive mage, single-target and group damage.
- Kiryl: Dedicated healer.
This party excels at clearing groups of enemies quickly with powerful spells. It can be MP-intensive, so bring plenty of Magic Water. Physical damage might be lower against magic-resistant foes.
Experiment with different combinations based on the dungeon or boss you're facing. Remember that characters in the wagon still gain experience, so you can rotate them to keep everyone leveled.