Valiant Force Forum

My team comp has always been lacking of Mystics so I was genuinely excited when I drew Keira from a Valiant Ticket.

And then I saw the faith... Ares.

1.) From what I've heard around, Ares MW Keira is popular but I already have a Hercules MW Zedd... is she locked into being a MW or is Rune Magus a viable pathing for an Ares Keira? (Besides not having one yet that look is drawing me in) OR should I just reroll her, but I heard Elementalist isn't as strong as it used to be? Anyone clarify?

If it's important here's my team comp:

PvE(Main):
Hercules Victoria 4* Crusader -> Paladin
Zeus Cybella 4* Hunter -> Royal Guard

PvP(Main):
Athena Lucille 5* Witch Doctor

Both(I mix 'em up in PvP and PvE):
Hercules Luthor 5* Archbishop
Ares Cybella 5* Sharpshooter
Hercules Vincent 5* Dragoon
Hercules Zedd 5* Mind Warder
Ares Kai 5* Samurai

Benched atm:
Kratos Darrion 4* Zealot -> ???
Kratos Victoria 3* Knight -> ???
Hera Kai 4* Rogue -> Assassin(?)

2.) I need both a Chaos Knight and Blood Knight for PvP, I have both Victoria and Darrion with Kratos faith. Which should I put in which advancement? or is having both too excessive? Should I make Victoria something else?

I have 2 Kieras from my first 3 valiant draws, herc and ares. Made the herc one into elementalist and the ares into mind warder (just like what you said, it was popular). Stacked attack runes and might/trinity suffix on the MW and it was useful for a short period of time just because I had no better units to work with. As I get more units, I honestly regret making her a mind warder. Firstly, her aura alone does not justify an ares faith, I would still prefer athena/hercules to ares. In addition, Ronan is probably a better mind warder in situations where skill delay is really useful (capitol, legendary act 4 etc) and MW Zedd could do the job just as well since they have similar active skill and MW kiera aura isnt really that useful. (just in my opinion, maybe theres someone out there who could utilize her aura well). My ares MW ended up becoming just another damager which can easily be replaced by any ranger/shadow/champion.

On the other hand, I am pretty glad I made the herc kiera an elementalist. Good for gold mine and carried me through arena when I was in the lower tiers. (oneshotting isnt uncommon in the lower tiers if you stacked mag). I am still using her in arena (currently finishing at 4.3k or 4.6k rating every week). Even though it deals little damage to guardian/mystics/healers now, my elementalist kiera could still deal a huge chunk of damage to the rest of the classes, sometimes killing rangers with the initial burst+burn damage. And that is with a herc faith and her equipment is not even close to maxed out so you might see better results with better eq/faith. 

Valiant has better stats and elementalist benefits from it more than the other classes which are slightly more utility based. I would leave RM/MW/WL to your future/current ronan or zedd. 
Thus,

1) I would suggest elementalist despite the nerf. Either reroll her faith or use her to limit break your future elementalist. 

2) Darrion BK, Victoria CK.

I have Ares Keira and plan to make her Warlock. i feel that if i cannot use her magic power to the fullest extent, i should go for utility instead. Thats the reason but still have many ongoing projects to do so havent had a chance to make Keira Warlock yet so cant confirm if going for utility is the right decision

Thank you guys so much for the advice. I guess my choice is down to Elementalist and Warlock. I'm leaning towards Elementalist since I already have Witch Doctor and I think that's too much poison for the enemy team lol(If only they'd stack, probably would be OP tho) I'll probably just wait till I can change Faiths somehow.

Thank you guys so much for the advice. I guess my choice is down to Elementalist and Warlock. I'm leaning towards Elementalist since I already have Witch Doctor and I think that's too much poison for the enemy team lol(If only they'd stack, probably would be OP tho) I'll probably just wait till I can change Faiths somehow.

Why not Mindwarder to make full use of her aura that allows her to retaliate her others in her aura are attacked? Her skill is utility-based and isn't her as much by ares aura compared to elementalist, which loses a lot of magic damage.

I'd go for RM with full might equip and runes, coz of her trigger aura and has knockback too. Swap in 2 tanks and more knockback for better results

Hi Tracke,

For kiera, if you want her to One-Hit-KO the whole enemy squad, your only choice is elementalist. Her skills take 7 turns for all jobs except rune magus, which is a huge drawback in my opinion for pvp or pve, so you need to compensate that with devastating OHKO magic attack. However you must reroll her faith, no bargain there, to either hercules or athena.

Thank you guys so much for the advice. I guess my choice is down to Elementalist and Warlock. I'm leaning towards Elementalist since I already have Witch Doctor and I think that's too much poison for the enemy team lol(If only they'd stack, probably would be OP tho) I'll probably just wait till I can change Faiths somehow.

Why not Mindwarder to make full use of her aura that allows her to retaliate her others in her aura are attacked? Her skill is utility-based and isn't her as much by ares aura compared to elementalist, which loses a lot of magic damage.

I considered her since from what I've heard Ares Keiras tend to go MW and as you said, her passive works well as she always gets to attack but I already have Zedd as MW and I don't know, having more than one for a team is a little redundant to me(though how effective having two at a time on a team is, I have no idea.)