Choosing your Element

Do you need water?

Many people recommend water to free players.

The reason is that guilds need to achieve 7500 titanite a day for their players' progression (225 per player on average), and the water totem is the only way for new players to stay alive long enough.

On the other hand, paid players often purchase the valkyrie's favor, and therefore get 150 free titanite a day, leaving only 75 more to obtain.

But here is the catch: this reasoning may be outdated. First the prestige system appeared in the game and offers 75 free titanite a day. Second of all we now have Tidus, who is such a great healer and alleviate the need for a water totem.

Last but not least, you may be lucky enough to be in a guild with enough active players who farm hundreds, sometimes thousands, of titanite a day.

Then what?

Earth or Fire are the two best choices imo.

Earth

Earth is the best for defense, because it creates randomness.

This means that your opponents cannot just prepare themselves with a combat training and ensure a guaranteed win. Over a whole cow, this means some people will fail.

Sure, all of this only apply if you have maxed teams or are near from that, but you wil get there eventually and this game is all about slowly building long-term objectives.

The best offense for most of people, and a fun one with that. It is good on auto, and great in manual: wait a bit to charge your totem, then unleash it and one-shot everyone.

Since Tidus, water is good again. Not great, but defintely good as it can deal with many strong teams.

Light is a great team, but not a primary one. It is typically used in conjunction with one of three elemental totems.

The element I recommend the least for now. It is not bad at all, it just brings less on the table than the other elements in my opinion. And it is most often used as a companion of a primary element.

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Should you focus on one totem, or several?

One totem, definitely.

The only reason for wanting many small totem rather than one big is for fast progression for the dungeon: at the deeper levels you definitely need the three elemental totems (water, fire, earth).

But screw the dungeon! Sure, it eventually becomes a great source of gold, but there are better ways nowadays (hero resource chests and titan resource chests), so the sacrifice is too big to be worth it.

So go for one totem.

Getting your first two totem fragments

Warning: pay attention

Summoning your first two totems through emeralds, not through titan artifact spheres, will force its element to match your strongest team! That is, the element whose titans have the highest total power.

This only applies to the first two ones! The game guides you to use emeralds to summon the first one at the Altar of the Elements, and the second one typically needs 45k emeralds (bad luck protection).

This may seem daunting, but opportunities will present to you from time to time, and this is one of the best way to use your emeralds.