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by Gráinne » March 22nd, 2017, 9:37 pm
A cornerstone of any battling roster!
I agree with Lio on everything, including the relative value of breeds; if you don't have a P/P yet, a P/B will probably tide you over until you do.
While the EPW can be used in a few configurations, the most common is:
Slot 1: Choose attack depending on which family you expect to fight.
Slot 2: Emerald Presence
Slot 3: Emerald Dream
Now, your rules for combat are:
1. If Emerald Presence is not up, or if you are slower and it will expire this round, use Emerald Presence. That is, keep Emerald Presence up at all times. Emerald Presence is nearly always a complete defence against Stampede type attacks, and is good mitigation in all cases.
2. When your EPW is at half-health, or almost down to half-health, use Emerald Dream. You will sleep three rounds, and likely be back to full health.
3. Otherwise, use your attack.
This leads to a slow fight, in which your EPW spends most of its time shielding and sleeping, but is very very hard to kill. Since Emerald Dream is such a big heal, an EPW can go pretty much forever without needing an external heal when farming wild pets.
As Remte says, the Idol is another tanky pet, that, together with the EPW, can stand up to anything. My standard Taming Team consists of two of: EPW, Idol, P/P Emperor Crab, together with one pet that has an ability guaranteed not to kill, like [pet]Terrible Turnip[/pet] or [pet]Grumpy[/pet] or [pet]Molten Corgi[/pet].
I especially associate the EPW with the Tanaan Terrors, where its ability to take damage, heal, and come back to outlast the backline pets makes it invaluable.