Companions and beasts

Companions and beasts are easy to under-invest in because their bonuses are spread across many small passives. But several of those passives sit in multiplier groups of their own, and a companion’s element damage can end up among the biggest numbers on your account. This guide explains how both systems work and how the analyzer counts them. Both live in the analyzer’s Companion tab, under Companion and Beasts.

The four companions

Each companion is tied to an element:

• Ellie: Wind
• Zeke: Earth
• Miho: Fire
• Luna: Water

Each has nine passives in three groups. Passive I is available from the start. Passive II opens at advancement 13, 15 and 17, and Passive III at 20, 22 and 24. The first passive in groups II and III needs all four companions to reach that advancement, not just the one you’re levelling. Advancement runs from 0 to 48.

Passive I

These are the passives most players level first, because most of them feed character stats directly:

Every passive except Understanding maxes at level 100, so Blessing of Forest reaches +300% Extra ATK. Zeke’s Blade Dance is worth a closer look: it’s the only source in its ATK group, so every level multiplies your whole ATK rather than adding to the Extra ATK group, which Blessing of Forest shares with relics, promotion rolls, mastery and more. Fortitude, by contrast, adds to the shared HP group.

Wisdom of War multiplies every skill hit in the fight on its own. Gold Rush adds to a total gold multiplier together with Gold Rush II, the Memory Tree and the Constellation. Song of Elf and Shadow Step are listed with their costs but don’t enter the analyzer’s stats.

Passive II

Gold Rush II joins Gold Rush’s gold multiplier, and Hymn of the Abyss sits in the total EXP multiplier with the Memory Tree and the Constellation. The soul, Mana Crystal and Enhanced Cubes passives don’t affect the analyzer’s stats.

Understanding: the long passive

Each companion’s Understanding adds damage for its element and goes to level 1,500 instead of 100. It doesn’t grow in a straight line. Levels 1 to 10 give +1% each, then every block of ten levels adds 1% more per level than the block before, until the gain reaches +50% per level around level 500 and stays there. Some reference points:

• level 25: +45%
• level 100: +550%
• level 500: +12,750%
• level 1,500: +62,750%

After level 99, each level costs the same as level 99: 8,000 stones and 1,350 emeralds. Because the gain per level keeps rising while the cost stays flat, Understanding gets more cost-effective up to about level 500, and stays at its best rate after that.

Understanding is added to your element damage along with Status (below), relics and other sources, before element amplification. See how stats are calculated for the full formula.

Passive III

Two kinds of Passive III feed the analyzer:

• Soul weapon completion. Spirit’s Touch, Casting and Rune Magic multiply the completion effect of your equipped soul weapon if its soul colour matches (green, red or blue) and its engraving is marked complete. At level 100 the effect doubles.
• Spirit interaction. The four Interaction passives multiply the stats of spirits of their element, up to +100% at level 100.

The mode damage passives (Detect Weakness, Lockdown, Shadow Brand, Block Magic) and Disorder are listed with their costs but don’t change the analyzer’s stats or fights.

Levelling costs

Passives cost stones and emeralds, with the cost rising per level. Taking a passive to 100 is a big commitment: Blessing of Forest needs 198,000 stones and 74,500 emeralds in total, while Blade Dance needs 891,000 stones and 223,500 emeralds. Maxing an Understanding takes 11,796,000 stones and 1,990,575 emeralds. The analyzer shows the next-level cost and the cost to max next to each passive, plus a total per companion and for all four, so you can compare gain per resource directly.

Companion level and Status

A companion’s level comes from its passive levels: the total ÷ 5 up to 300 total levels, then 60 + (total − 300) ÷ 10 after that, rounded down. So 299 total passive levels is companion level 59, and 320 is level 62.

Status turns that level into element damage: the element damage per level set by the companion’s advancement, times its companion level. It runs from 0.5% per level at advancement 0 to 47% at advancement 48. A companion at advancement 4 and level 10 gives +30%. One with every passive maxed (companion level 260) at advancement 48 gives +12,220% damage for its element. That’s why advancement is worth more than it first appears: it multiplies the value of every passive level you already have, including the ones whose effects the analyzer doesn’t count.

Promotion rolls

Companions also have seven promotion slots. Each slot rolls one of eleven stats (Extra ATK, crit damage, Extra HP, HP Recovery, Extra Mana, Mana Recovery, Monster Gold, Accuracy, Dodge, Extra EXP or CC Resist) at a colour tier: White, Green, Orange, Purple, Red or Aqua. Its value is multiplied by the slot’s rank: ×1 for 1st, rising by 0.5 per rank to ×4 for 7th. Advancement opens slots and raises their rank. At advancement 0 a companion has a single 1st-rank slot; at 48 all seven slots are 7th-rank. An Aqua Extra ATK roll of 20% in a 7th-rank slot is worth 80%.

Roll values add into the same groups as the matching stat from other sources, so Extra ATK rolls share the Extra ATK group with Blessing of Forest.

Beasts

There are 21 beasts in five families: Wolf, Boar, Bat, Golem and Draco. Each family has three or four common beasts and one unique beast (Shadow Wolf, General Boar, Golden Bat, Rift Golem and Light Draco).

Beasts awaken from 0 to 6, and their affection cap is (awaken + 1) × 10: 10 at awaken 0 up to 70 at awaken 6. They contribute in three ways.

Owned effect

Every beast you own adds a combat bonus, and the total multiplies ATK, HP and HP Recovery in its own group. A common beast at awaken 0 and affection 1 gives 3%, and a unique beast at awaken 6 and affection 70 gives 29.58%. Dracos use a higher column: 5% and 59.16% for the same points. A Shadow Wolf at awaken 3 and affection 20 gives 14.48%.

Mounted effect

While any beast is mounted, every owned wolf and boar adds its mounted ATK bonus, again in its own group. Owned bats and dracos likewise add movement speed while mounted. Golems and dracos also show a mounted affection bonus, which doesn’t feed the analyzer’s stats. You can keep five beast presets, each with its own beast and a Mounted switch.

Beast skill

The active preset’s beast brings its skill to the Analysis tab’s fights whether or not it’s mounted. It triggers once per battle:

• Wolves: after a set number of strike skills, ATK +Y% for 10 seconds. A Gray Wolf at awaken 2 gives +12%.
• Boars: after a set number of knockbacks, ATK +Y% for 30 seconds. The fight counts one knockback every 20 seconds.
• Bats: after a set number of kills, movement speed +Y% for 30 seconds.
• Dracos: when a stacking skill’s stacks are maxed, boss damage +Y% for 60 seconds. Wind, Earth, Water and Fire Draco each watch one skill (Speed Sword, Earth’s Will, Curved Blade and Burning Sword); Light Draco waits until all buff stacks are maxed.
• Golems: only work in the Rift, so they don’t act in the analyzer’s fights.

Where to invest first

Blade Dance and the two beast bonuses each feed a multiplier group of their own, so they tend to give more per resource than another source added to an already large Extra ATK group. Collecting more beasts raises the owned bonus even before you awaken them. Advancement raises the value of every passive level through Status, and Understanding grows cheaper per point up to about level 500. For the reasoning behind multiplier groups, see how stats are calculated.

Then enter your companions and beasts in the analyzer. When a fight in the Analysis tab falls short, its upgrade plans include companion passives priced in stones and emeralds, and beast awaken and affection levels without a price. See promotion fights for how those plans are built.