Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
Tri-element is kind of a low ceiling thing. Let's say you have Takemikazuchi/Behemoth and you select another of the same eidolon as support. Great, an instant 60-100% boost to attack to a three-element team! But then the question is, how do you grow further in power from there?
Go over every avenue of power growth in this game and consider how applicable it is to a particular idea. Sooner or later you think about Assault skills. Then you realize that there's a finite X number of Assault skills equipped at once that eventually have to be divided up three ways for a tri-element strategy. You'd only have to divide your weapon grid in half in a dual-element strategy, or not divide at all in a single element strategy.

The value in multi-element buffs is when the gacha hates you and you don't even have the pieces to run single element in the first place. Or if you can't even fully run dual-element yet. When your concern is more about the floor than the ceiling.
I originally planned to run the squad I mentioned previously as strictly Wind element, but the main issue I ran into was that Zephyrus is not a good healer compared to Nike (and I didn't have Zephyrus yet anyway). So I had the one Water interloper slotted in, then magically the gacha gave me Shiva on the second jewel gacha pull and it seemed crazy to bench her just to keep the theme going. However, with Behemoth both Wind and Water are covered (and Light if I happened to run across a Sol by some miracle) so I don't have to up-end my entire friend list.

In 6 months maybe we'll all have all of the Eidolons and SSR himes and we construct our team like a salad bar, but for right now losing 10% from my main element to give 30% to the Water members of my team is more than worth it.

The Assault Problem is indeed super real though, eventually I'll probably replace Shiva on the Wind squad and hopefully have enough Water to branch her off. If it was still just one non-Wind Element user slotted in as a Healer though (Lightning and Dark likely have this issue too), I don't feel I'm losing too much letting her just focus on healing and letting her damage fall by the wayside.