Your best team members

[funkmonster7]

Who do you use? Males or females or mixture?

I know some people run solo. But I know having some teammates help a lot, as I just fought this piece of crap in the Heaven Breaker Tower and he autoheals 9% of his max hp, has all the tanking features and I can't damage him enough to drop him dead. Neither could he kill me. So when I reloaded my save and kept all my teammates alive instead, they stacked their damage on that guy and finally chipped his hp down.

My current teammates on Nightmare difficulty is: Man Tuoluo, Jiang Ziyan, Ling Mengdie, Qu Wangyou and Fu Yaoqin. I was using Han Hongyu instead of Fu Yaoqin at first, but she just dies way too quickly before being able to do anything. Meanwhile Fu Yaoqin benefits the most from all my female members so I choose her instead. Still working on finishing her build though.

In Heaven Breaker Tower, some enemy AI just one-shot Jiang Ziyan with 9k defense and 10k hp... I don't know how he does that, but Jiang Ziyan doesn't have Wall of Steel...

Meanwhile, on a separate fight, Man Tuoluo got that same attack from another enemy but she survives it. She only has 9k hp, and 8k defense. But because that enemy is male, she immediately gets -50% final damage taken from that enemy.

This leads me to wonder if I should pick characters who have traits that allow them to tank damage to avoid one-hit-ko attacks.

My MC has 14k hp, 11k defense (9k from stats, 2k from armor) and that same attack I mentioned earlier took out half of his hp. What the ♥♥♥♥, really... No wonder Jiang Ziyan didn't stand a chance. But she is my poison specialist right now, very useful...

[Captain Nerdiepie]

Special attack with companions does 10% bonus true damage to enemies.

I think if your main guy is tanky, they can kill anyone with true damage over time.

I didn't have status effect negation and kill that level 100 stunning boss with mostly with companion special attacks.

Wind mastery is must for hit & run and stay outside of range. Long range weapon helps to prevent some counter attacks (they all die in 1 hit usually)

[DungeonRyu]

Music girls + Music me.
If there are a lot of enemies music is a way to go. Music instruments are amazing in AoE and can clear them quickly.

Also if you are weaker than the enemy, you can use A Dream of Graceful Beauty Score, that make people unconscious. I defeated Lao Motou in the Ice Prison when I was 20 levels lower than him on Nightmare, just ganging up on him an unconscious-locking him with Ya Qin, Gu Qingcheng and Fu Yaoqin.

[funkmonster7]

I'm still trying to work out how music works... Their attack damage is based on the amount of MP compared to the target. Which means sometimes they do next to no damage.

[DungeonRyu]

Originally posted by funkmonster7:

I'm still trying to work out how music works... Their attack damage is based on the amount of MP compared to the target. Which means sometimes they do next to no damage.

Nope, that's a bonus damage, there also Music skill and STR that plays into the equation of overal ATK.
You deal next to no damage if your combined ATK is lower than the opponents DEF.

[DBies]

Im always solo, 1 is enough

[Avenging Angel]

Originally posted by DungeonRyu:

You deal next to no damage if your combined ATK is lower than the opponents DEF.

You still deal a good amount of damage but vastly less. Otherwise, Shifa on 1690 would have been nigh-invincible with his 24150 DEF

[DungeonRyu]

Originally posted by Avenging Angel:

Originally posted by DungeonRyu:

You deal next to no damage if your combined ATK is lower than the opponents DEF.

You still deal a good amount of damage but vastly less. Otherwise, Shifa on 1690 would have been nigh-invincible with his 24150 DEF

Yeah, you are correct. The most tedious battles were against enemies with DMG reduction traits + high DEF, not just high DEF alone.

[Brycrmly]

I recommend Chang chunzi to you. His Formation Center can provide a powerful buff to the team, and you need to learn more internal skills to increase his survival ability.
Another one is Tangwan'er. When she becomes the player's waifus, she can help the player restore health every turn.
These two teammates are more effective in high difficulty situations.