Thread: Which Legendary Spirit is the best?

Originally Posted by VortexMagus

Generally speaking though I don't suggest ANY damage soul to start with. You only need three things for the most difficult fights in the game - healing, afflictions, and buffs. Andro brings healing, Mordred brings afflictions, and IMO Arthur is the best for buffs/defense.

The damage from Sieg is uniquely bad because it only works on bosses that rage and then stun, so he's actually trash for running missions. That's also why Solomon is considered terrible - he offers nothing but mediocre damage and usually thats what you need the least to win fights.

Few problems here:

1. Arthur is purely offensive. She has no defensive skills.
2. Offense wins fights, and that's why many fights have a minimum recommended attack power. Consider a common scenario: several waves of 3x trash mobs followed by a boss. Against trash, priority #1 is whittling down their numbers so you have 1-2 mobs hitting you instead of 3. Good offense = straight damage mitigation. Priority #2 is killing the last two before they get a painful overdrive skill off. Again, good offense mitigates damage. Against a formidable boss, your goal is to not let the boss get off an overdrive skill during rage, because those moves often do massive damage + buffs/debuffs. Ideally, that means being able to get the boss from 100% rage to stun in 1 round. Again, that requires strong offense.
3. Defense without offense is risky. RNG is always your enemy because you can't anticipate it. 3 mobs alive means 3 chances for a triple attack, potentially on the same target. A triple attack from a powerful boss is almost always dangerous. Debuffs miss. The longer the fight drags on the greater the chance something will go wrong. Mordred is a good choice for sure, and Andromeda has Resurrection to recover from mishaps. But that just lowers the offensive bar a bit. Without sufficient offense you'll still lose, especially since healing is capped and damage is not.