Bastet Guide

* Very high RES value, which makes it impossible to impose any negative statuses
* Ability to match gemstones one additional time

### Weeknesses

* Low HP ammount
* Does not attack other party members as long, it not kill its first target.

## Team Selection

In the fight against Bastet, the most important thing is to choose a hero who can withstand the dragon's attack. The damage from a high rank dragon is so absurdly high that the dragon can kill any tank unless it is additionally buffed in some way. Moreover, we must be sure that the dragon will target this character. The dragon will attack any purple character, but due to the color advantage, even the empowered purple hero will fall under the damage attack of the high-level Bastet. Even heroes like Tovald and Caleb. There is a trick to bypassing the color advantage when it comes to the dragon's target selection. The dragon will attack any non-purple character first if their EHP is drastically lower. We can achieve this by adding a character at level 3.1 to the team who does not have any equipment that would increase his HP or DEF. If such a character has the invincible status, the dragon will attack him over and over again without doing any harm to the team. Additionaly this hero can't be yellow.

Heroes with invincible status

We can also force attacking a specific character by imposing a taunt status on them. And use Lenora to make sure that the hero with tount, would not die.

The addition of a hero who has the status of invincible, combined with trick with a low EHP, is a good way to hedge against the dragon at the expense of only one place in the team. However, If you got problem to setup Vegum and atract dragon attention to him, there is an alternative method. We can take advantage of the fact that the dragon has a low HP value with a high damage value and return 20% of the latter using reflect status. By using 2 characters for this, we will achieve the same effect as the previous method, while dealing damage to the dragon that is difficult to achieve by attacking the dragon conventionally. To use only 2 hero's slots we need a card that apply both statuses, reflect and tount, and a healer.

Heroes with Reflect status

in effect, we have the following characters that we can use effectivly for this purpose. Emmet, Torvald, Daphne, Najar. However Torvald will not stand on high level dragon. You need to support such a character with a healer who would heal a large number of points of a single unit.

If the two previous methods fail, you can still set up defence using three heroes, to do this, we apply Reflect to all of our characters, and on a character with Taunt, we additionally apply Soul Link status. This way we will double the character's life , still returning 20% of the dragon damage back to the source. The best combination, in my opinion, to defend against the dragon is to combine Nefre with Najar. Both characters will have Reflect status and will be linked by Soul Link status, in effect both will reflect damage back to the dragon. With this arrangement, we do not waste any space on a character that would not contribute to the damage on the dragon. The second choice is Lenora + Ghorak, he will atract dragon attention and will atack with pernament 72% ATK bonus with 40% ignore armor. Then Vegum, we waste one slot but in return we get great simplicity of fighting. Then, in my opinion, there are combinations of Nefre + Daphne and Lenora + Daphne.

Heroes with Soul Link status

After securing yourself against the dragon's attacks, there are a few free slots for heroes who could build a high point value for us. For this, it makes no sense to try to stack damage-increasing statuses, because the dragon has a very high RES attribute value. A better solution is to increase this damage using positive statuses, attackers with the ATK attribute, color advantage, the ability to ignore armor and other passive abilities that increase damage. Below is a list of supports that will increase the team's damage.

Heroes with increase damage buffs

Regardless of whether we add supporting characters, we must equip ourselves with the appropriate attacking characters. First of all, the most useful will be characters that ignore armor, characters with a color advantage. But also those that benefit from a large number of buffs.

Recommended Damage dealers

The best attackers are Ghorak Ife and Gamal thanks to their passive abilities that are extremely useful on this dragon. Of course we can add other attacking characters if we don't have enough among the above. All non-yellow characters that attack a single target, ignore armor or have a high percentage of damage, and do not impose negative statuses, will work.

## Sample Teams

Knowing Bastet's strengths and weaknesses, and knowing which heroes will prove themselves in the fight against the dragon, and what we have at our disposal, we can choose a team. When choosing, it is worth taking into account the colors of the heroes and their interaction with each other. The best combinations on Bastet will be the following hero layouts:

* 4 +1 - Four characters should be purple In this set to maximize damage, a character not purple will have to attract the dragon's attention to protect attackers. Purple heroes will have an advantage of color, dealing increased damage, while they will have a moderate penalty for collecting mana for allies.
* 3 + 2 - In this setting, three heroes should attack, and 2 of a different color act as protectors, the dragon will attack hero with Taunt status, and the second charakter should be a healer. Three heroes will have a small mana-gathering penalty for allies. However, focusing only on two colors will more than compensate for it.
* 2 + 2 + 1 - the most economical setting when it comes to collecting mana from gems, two not purple characters will deal with dargons attacks, one will work as a support and two as damage dealers.

Here are some sample combinations:

## Gameplay

If we decide to go with Vegum, the gameplay is straight forward. We need to take resurection potion, as dragon will kill Vegum on first round, and mana potions to fill his mana pool after resurection and later on if the invincible status would ended before dragon's turn. We can also take Dragon Fire potions to use on vegum, if we don't want to waste too many previous ones. We can also take Potion of Streangth, if we select multiple damage dealers that attack based on ATK attribute, (what is recomended)

The gameplay is a bit more complicated if we decide to go with reflect and taunt status. We will also need a resurection potion or have Nefre or Violentina in a team to resurrect a hero after first Bastet move. Then we need to make sure that tount and reflect is applied on your tank before each dragon's turn. If not we need to use mana potions to correct the issue. Moreover we need to setup enough fast team to limit the number of situations where Bastet moves twice. Bastet on very high level will tear to shreds any character if we allow her to use twice in a row her active, before we could react. With high diversification of SPD value amoung your heroes, you can archive the situation, that at least one character always will have turn in between Bastet's moves. The hero who atracts dragon attention need to have a lot of HP points, but DEF value only to the ammount that Bastet will not kill him in one attack. This will maximaze the amount of points from the reflect status.

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Good luck dragon hunters !

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