Team building advice?

[Cathulhu]

I'm rather new to this game and Behemoth games in general. Love it though.
Could use some advice as well.

Currently i use
Horatio - Heavy Shield, Helmet, Freeze and Awe Light Sword.
Pipistrella - Medium Shield, Crab leg Club (forgot its name)
Yusef - Shark Attack Light Bow, KWYDT helmet
Sofia - Exploding medium sword, Net
Gluten - Healer and awesome cupcake
Spidaur - for Yusef to ride into battle firing arrows like mad.

Any recommendations for a PvE party?

[DragonHunter54]

Gluten/cupcake is usable in PvE but you probably want to sub him out pretty quick, the healing just doesn't help in PvE, especially when you factor in the slight heal you get for winning a fight, the full heals from levelling up and the ability to buy/find capfires.

Similarly Sofia is actually kind of bad. Her base set up may seem good when you first pick her up but it quickly becomes apparent that she dies, a lot. That being said for PvE you really want a net so you can capture the cool skins and creatures you encounter. With the coming update we will hopefully be able to use spidaurs for that job, until that time comes the best alternative (IMO) is to take a cyclops with heavy club and net.

Pip and Horatio's builds are generally pretty solid. Heavy shield+freeze and awe is a staple frontline tank set up, while human with hammer is a nice way to deal with heavy helmet wearers (of which there are a lot in PVE).

Yosef's set up I'm not so fond of here. If you are running him on a spidaur I'd go heavy bow, but bows in general seem a weak option for PvE. Go mortar or throwing axes, heavy bow on a spidaur does work though.

So with minimum edits swap gluten and sofia for a cyclops. Maybe change yosefs gear.

With a little more editing the following units are pretty solid in PvE.
-Vampiress
-Wraith
-Hair troll.
-Electrobot.

They are good all rounders that can balance out any PvE team.

[Cathulhu]

Those four i already have, i could try that with a second party loadout. Thanks for the advice. Gonna test your first modifications as well as i haven't finished Gluten's questline yet.

[DragonHunter54]

The four units I suggested aren't so much a complete team as units that you could slot in to your current team. Like the human, spidaur and cyclops they have a decent amount of survivability so can pick up the level ups for full heals and aren't in danger of being burst down over a single round. They have enough utility/damage output that they can really help the team win fights.

The big problem with cupcakes, mascots, pixies and rainbow horses is they can all die very quickly and suddenly, not something you want happening when you are out doing PvE fights.

Kobolds, zombies and gnomes all suffer from the fact that they pretty much have half the health of a normal unit as they come in pairs. Troll mom just takes up too much of a team to be good in PvE (plus troll mom fights can be really slow) and gorgon... gorgon just feels a little meh at the moment. It isn't a bad unit, it just feels like the other options are better.

After all is said though cupcake does have a place in PvE asit can be used to heal NPC's in quests that involve keeping a specific person alive.

[hairy peak]

There is another thread from today just a couple of centimeters away from this one and a very similar title which can be useful for you, too

http://steamcommunity.com/app/291860/discussions/0/133259855834267118/

[Mr.Evolution]

Horatio: Good setup, very good as your main tank

Pip: always good, stops heavy helm tanks from stopping you

Yusef: im not fan of bows, if your looking for damage i would use mortars, like the NGR mortar, or if you want utility (stuns), i would use the ice mortar

Sofia: the net is entirely useless if your planning on capturing units to use with it. It may be a good stun but it would be better to use a shield instead and give her a heavyer helm

Gluten: no point in running a healer in PVE. you can get random heals just from fighting, and you can just bring campfires to use, you can even find them easily

Spider: really good for constant shots off using your ranged weapon, you can also capture units with her, she can even be a backup tank, forcing units to attack her by stunning them and not making them able to go around her.

also

Originally posted by DragonHunter54:

With the coming update we will hopefully be able to use spidaurs for that job, until that time comes the best alternative

you can do that already, it came update 2 (the update we are on now)

[Alwinovich]

A tank like the hair troll or the cyclops is always useful imo.

[birb brain]

A can easily PVE with my team. Granted it's an all 99 team but I have cyclops with mallet (specifically alpaca lips) and just a head and throwable, human with elec medium sword, heavy shield, and just a head, human with just a head, elec club, small shield, cupcake, and vamp. I can go three rounds of the pit about 90% of the time on insanity