Element attack up or plain attack up passive skill ?

[kampfer91]

If your Jormuntide have choice between something like Lord of the Sea ( +20% water damage ) and ferocious ,which will you take ?

This Jormuntide was bred from other Pals to get the Legend ,lucky and Muscle-head passive skill . Right now i am in a dillema for the last skill.

[Szorrin]

Elemental passive skills are simply "+x% attack of that element", which stacks additively with regular +% attack passives. Basically, Ferocious is +20% universal attack, Lord of the Sea is +20% attack, but only for water attacks. So Ferocious is better unless you're only using water attacks, in which case they're the same.

Edit: I would change Lucky. You already have -50% work speed from Musclehead so the 15% work speed from Lucky is kinda pointless, which leaves you with just 15% attack. You'd be better off with something like Swift if you're planning to ride it, or Burly Body if you're not. Unless you don't care about anything except attack, in which case it's fine.

[SoloQ]

If you're going strictly for as much damage as possible, then the specific type is better. But you lose the flexibility of being able to use any ability with the pal. And the increase isn't much. Even if it were additive, it would take a lot of different sources of attack increase for it to be more than a 10-20% increase over ferocious.

If I were making a "perfect combat pal" I'd go for burly body, ferocious, legend, and swift. It keeps the pal well rounded. No matter how much you micro manage pal placement by recalling them, they're going to have to run and position themselves for their attacks. And the faster they do that, the better.