Best formations for Avernus ?

[Captain_Narol]

Hello fellow Idlers, what are your best formations for the new Avernus campaign so far ?

[Mobile Doll Cordelia]

I can't screencap it as I'm in a Patron variant right now, but it looks like this. Top is the front column, bottom is the back column.

Walnut, Gromma, Wulfgar
Regis, Paultin
Drizzt, Bruenor
Qillek, Shandie
Catti-Brie

Two base adventures is not much to go on to refine a formation, but it's worked so far.

[Whitey]

Originally posted by Milkman Dan:

I can't screencap it as I'm in a Patron variant right now, but it looks like this. Top is the front column, bottom is the back column.

Walnut, Gromma, Wulfgar
Regis, Paultin
Drizzt, Bruenor
Qillek, Shandie
Catti-Brie

Two base adventures is not much to go on to refine a formation, but it's worked so far.

This is near exactly what I'm going to be doing when I start the campaign. Except I'll probably use Calliope instead of Qillek.

[Zrazzt]

My Formation (Top to bottom) is:

Alia,Walnut, Gromma
Qillek Paulin
Zorbu, K'thriss
Korth, Shandie
Cattie-Brie

[Amadeus]

I'm using:

Aila, Gromma, Turiel
Celest, Zorbu
Calliope, Shandie
Warden, Stoki
Tyril

This takes advantage of Stoki's Ki Explosion by ~"double dipping" on the debuffs of Aila, Gromma, and Warden. It lets me get further than any other damage formation I've used, even without swapping champions. If you are in to swapping champions for more damage, it's easy to swap Gromma for Nayeli and Warden for Strix (or Minsc if you don't mind actually dragging champions around). You can also swap Aila for Makos but you have to watch Makos' health for that.

[BlueCougar]

I use a Champions of the hall formation to earn some gold:

Wulfgar, Evelyn, Nayeli
Bruneor, Drizzt
Calliope, Regis
Jarlaxe, Catti-brie
Vlahnya

[Captain_Narol]

It's interesting to see so many different formations used, I wonder which ones will emerge as the optimal ones on the long run !

So far, I've been using a gold-focused formation :

Walnut, Gromma, Wulfgar
Akasha, K'thriss
Regis, Xander
Jarlaxle, Makos (Dark Luck)
Shandie

I'm now hitting my wall, so I'm gonna try something else to see if I can push forward

[Zrazzt]

Originally posted by Captain_Narol:

So far, I've been using a gold-focused formation :

I've never gotten the hang of using a "gold formation", I really don't know when to switch, at which point to set it up, etc. I always just push my wall and see how I do.

Using a gold formation, how much favour have you accumulated? I've done about 10-12 "farming" runs for favor and have about 2e21 favor (and an additional 1e18 spent).

I'm just curious how this compares with gold farm runs.

[Intuition]

Top -> down

Evelyn - Aila - Turiel
Korth - Paultin
Tyril - Qillek
Spurt - Zorbu
Vlahnya

[Captain_Narol]

When using a gold formation, you switch when you hit a wall and then take a more efficient formation to push more but then you can't level up your guys as fast for the rest of the run.

It's not about farming favor, it's more about going as far you can in a run, especially with low favor basis. Once you have enough favor to unlock anyway your characters max level during a run, you don't really need to use a gold formation anymore...

[Amadeus]

If you have Azaka, after going to your wall with your best dps formation, switch to a gold formation and use Azaka's ultimate to get a big boost in favor.

If you want an even bigger boost to your favor, go to your highest boss level, work on killing the boss and then use Jim Darkmagic to turn a minion into a Mimic. Then use your Azaka gold formation with Azaka's ultimate to get an even bigger boost to favor since Mimic's give 10x more gold. The hard part with this is killing the boss off without killing all the minions AND getting a Mimic without Jim turning all the minions into chickens that die instantly. So, it could take several tries to do this.

Bottom line, if you have Azaka, then a gold formation is still very useful to use at the end of your run regardless of whether or not you have maxed your champions.

[ptor]

The one that brought m highest is

Tyril (bear), Gromma (mountain), Aila
Avren, Donaar (chill),
Zorbu, Ktrhriss,
Quillek, Shandie (alchemist)
Stoki(explosion)/ [Paultin(Additional) on later boss levels]

combind with patience and the Makos-Azaka gold formation switch-ult has brought me to 516 and e24

[Gnome d'War]

Originally posted by Milkman Dan:

I can't screencap it as I'm in a Patron variant right now, but it looks like this. Top is the front column, bottom is the back column.

Walnut, Gromma, Wulfgar
Regis, Paultin
Drizzt, Bruenor
Qillek, Shandie
Catti-Brie

Two base adventures is not much to go on to refine a formation, but it's worked so far.

I have 3 of these guys! Guess which ones.

[Metal]

You can have a look at my latest screenshot.

[Metal]

Originally posted by ptor:

The one that brought m highest is

Tyril (bear), Gromma (mountain), Aila
Avren, Donaar (chill),
Zorbu, Ktrhriss,
Quillek, Shandie (alchemist)
Stoki(explosion)/ [Paultin(Additional) on later boss levels]

combind with patience and the Makos-Azaka gold formation switch-ult has brought me to 516 and e24

Turiel,Evelyn,Aila,
Arven, Stoki
Zorbu, Gromma
Korth, Catti-brie
Tyril

I reached area 614 with this formation, but stoki's golden palm ability does not appear to be working with makos dark luck.

Turiel,Evelyn,Walnut,
Arven, Jarlaxle
Azaka, Gromma
Korth, Catti-brie
Makos

I have earned 1.45e28 Tiamat's favor using this formation.

[Zrazzt]

Originally posted by 317657750:

Turiel,Evelyn,Walnut,
Arven, Jarlaxle
Azaka, Gromma
Korth, Catti-brie
Makos

I have earned 1.45e28 Tiamat's favor using this formation.

Wow, what specializations for this formation?