Brutal Age PARTNERS Guide

I found this nice guide by Hnoo1 on Reddit and decided to share here for everyone. I'll try to add more pictures and info where I can to further enhance this guide.

Partners Guide : Part 1 - Basics

Introduction:

Hi, my name is mohanad AKA Hnoo in server 323 , Partners or you might call them heroes is the most thing interest me in Brutal Age so i started to look everywhere to know more about them but i couldn't find anything so i decided to make this guide, I hope you enjoy it ^_^

So, what are partners? What they can do for me?

Well , partners will act like leaders for your troops giving them Moral if they survive the battle which will increase troops ATK, DEF and HP based on their legion skill, once your Stronghold reach level 6, partners will be unlocked and you will start with Red Berserker and Blue Blonde Beauty.

OK, you got your partners now but what all those numbers mean ? "stats"

Partner Attribute: there is 3 attribute for partners which is Brave (red), Wise (Blue) and Wild (Green)

Color rules: Red > Green > Blue > Red 

Stars: determine your partner starting stats and stats growth, 6 stars is the max rank your partners can reach 

Battle Skills: each partner has his own unique set of skills which i will try to explain it in part 4 of this guide

First battle skill doesn't have cooldown while 2nd and 3rd skills have it. The cooldown regulates how frequently you can use a skill.


Leader skill is a unique skill which will increase your partners team certain stat by %

Legion skill: provide moral boost to your troops based on natural stars of your partners if they survive the battle

LV: shows your partner current level and max level

• Level 1 partner max Level 15
• Level 2 max Level 20
• Level 3 max Level 25
• Level 4 max Level 30
• Level 5 max Level 35
• Level 6 max Level 40

Partner Type: there is 3 types of partners ( ATTACK , DEFENSE , SUPPORT)

• ATK partners act as your main damage dealers in your team
• DEF partners act as Tanks to absorb damage
• SUPPORT partners offers support to your team ( Healing and buffing mainly )

HP: the amount of health your partner have ( enemy tend to attack the lowest HP partner in your team first )

ATK: How much damage your partner can deal to enemy

DEF: reduce damage taken by enemy

SPD: Determine who will take action first and how fast action bar refill * SPD is the most important stat because partners with high SPD can take their turn faster and might attack twice before the enemy take their turn.

CR: critical rate determine the chance of landing a critical hit, always start at 15%

CRD: critical rate damage which is ( ATK * CRD/100 + ATK) , always start at 50%

RES: resistance chance to enemy skills

HIT: determine the chance your skills will effect the enemy *SPD, CR , CRD , RES and HIT stats can only be increased by patterns or leader skills ( and awaken for few partners)

How to get partners ?

Mainly there is 3 ways to get them :

1. Adventure.
2. Turtles.
3. Partners shards from lonely warrior or crafted at Old Bald Smithy .

Partners Guide : Part 2 - Enhance, Evolve and Awakening.

So, after few adventures and spinning turtles you have few partners now but they are weak so whats next ? First of all you need to choose 4 partners as your main focus for evolving and leveling

Good 3 stars choices:

• Red Blonde Beauty
• Blue Berserker
• and Blue Boar 
• Upgrade the level of a Partner AKA Enhance 
• Upgrade the star of a Partner AKA Evolve

Enhance:

Enhance is the way to use all those 1 star and 2 stars useless partners to increase partner EXP (using 3 stars or higher partners as Enhance material is NOT recommended). Using the same partner as enhance material will increase partner skill by 1 level. (not recommended unless your partner is 6 stars max level already ).

* the more stars and level your enhance material has the more exp your partner get
* max level material is not enough to make your partner max level even if they have the same rank

Evolve:

Evolving a partner increase his base stats ( HP, DEF and ATK) to be able to survive longer and deal more damage. To evolve a partner it needs to be at max level and require partners of the same rank (level doesn't matter for evolve materials)

• 5 stars partners need 5 partners rank 5
• 4 stars partners need 4 partners rank 4
• 3 stars partners need 3 partners rank 3 
• 2 stars partners need 2 partners rank 2

So what does that mean?

If you are planing to evolve 5 stars partners to 6 stars you need:

• 5 x 5 stars or 25 x 4 stars or 100 x 3 stars partners

which means if you want to evolve 5 stars partner starting from 3 stars partners you need to max level 25 rank 3 partners to evolve them to rank 4 then max level 5 rank 4 partners to evolve them to rank 5, so you better save all those 3 stars partners!

Awakening

The more you awaken your partner the more benefits it gets like increasing base stat by %. Unlocking skills or replacing a skill with a new powerful one with the same level or you can change their appearance after the 3rd awakening.

Awakening materials can be acquired from defeating lonely warriors. Note: certain awakening stars require another partners as material (Green god of earth require Blue Marksman as material for example).

Tips

• 5 and 4 Star partners are hard to get, so keep them until you are sure you don't need them anymore
• To level up your partner skill you should evolve it by using the same partner (color doesn't matter)
• Leveling a skill by enhancing is not recommended
• Don't level up 5 star partners skills, use catfish instead of wasting a rare partner for 1 skill level! (catfish can be farmed from lonely warrior).
• Save all the material you get from lonely warrior until more partners awakening unlocked don't waste them now on weak partners!
• Try to increase your main partner by adventuring only and enhance 3 Star partners you are planning on using them as Evolve materials.

Partners Guide : Part 3 - Patterns

We talked about how to evolve, enhance and awaken partners, now it's time for Patterns, the most important thing witch can make your partner powerful or useless , i hope you are ready for this ^_^ 

What are Patterns?

Patterns, stones, armor or tattoos (depends on how the game translates it for you) are pieces you can equip it to your partners to give them more stats, which can be found in adventure or pattern boxes.

Patterns Sets:

There are 10 types of patterns, each type can Buff your partner certain stat ONLY if you completed a set.

• 2 Hippo: increase HP by 15\%- can be farmed at Riverside
• 4 Smilodon: increase ATK by 35\%- can be farmed at Mount
• 2 Wolf: increase CR by 12\%- can be farmed at Plain
• 2 Bull: increase DEF by 15\%- can be farmed at Ice Lake
• 4 Badger: increase CRD by 40\%- can be farmed at Forest
• 4 Cat: increase SPD by 35\%- can be farmed at Anc. Battlefield
• 2 Corsac: increase HIT by 20\%- can be farmed at Seaside
• 2 Rabbit: increase RES by 20\%- can be farmed at Cave

Important note: Sets effect can stack for example [ 2 corsac = 20\% HIT , 4 corsac = 40\% HIT , 6 corsac = 60\% ]

Patterns stars :

There is 5 ranks of patterns you can have which are:

• 1 Star, 2 Star, 3 Star and 4 Star patterns can be farmed at normal and difficult adventure level difficulties (don't level it up just sell it for souls; maybe only consider using 4 Star ones)
• 5 Star patterns can only be farmed at adventure purgatory difficulty levels
• 5 Star patterns offer the highest basic stat and stat growth per level (try to fully equip your partners using 5 stars only in the long term (in the short term just wear anything decent just to help you win the first purgatory level)

Patterns Colors (rarities):

Patterns have 5 colors based on how many Sub-Stats it has

• White Pattern (common) : 0 Sub-Stat (level 0-2)
• Green Pattern (magic) : 1 Sub-Stat (level 3-5)
• Blue Pattern (rare) : 2 Sub-Stats (level 6-8)
• Orange Pattern (ancient) : 3 Sub-Stats (level 9-11)
• Purple Pattern (legendary) : 4 Sub-Stats (level 12-14 ) and 5 Sub-Stats on max level

Sometimes you get green or blue level 0 patterns - that doesn't mean it's better than the white ones. Sub-Stats are random unless they are predetermined by level 0 colored patterns.

Patterns base Stats and Sub-Stats :

There is 6 slots for patterns (Head, Left Arm , Right Arm , Body , Left Leg and Right Leg). Each pattern can be equipped to it's corresponded slot. Some base stats are fixed and some are random based on it's slot:

• Head Base Stats: [ATK, ATK%, DEF, DEF%, HP , HP%, CR%, CRD%]
• Left Arm Base Stats: [ATK, ATK%, DEF, DEF%, HP , HP%, SPD]
• Right Arm Base Stats: [ATK, ATK%, DEF, DEF%, HP , HP%, RES% , HIT%]
• Body Base Stats: ATK
• Left Leg Base Stats: DEF
• Right Leg Base Stats: HP

Sub-Stats are completely random. Highlighted base stats are unique stats can only be found in there corresponded slots or as sub-stats.

OK, now we are done with basic pattern knowledge , let's talk about how you can use this to your advantage!

Method 1 - Skill Builds:

Build your partner based on their skills. For example, some partners deal more damage based on their HP, so in this case you want to give them HP as high as you can!

Let's take Blue Nomad King as an example his passive deal more damage based on his HP so you want to give him 6 Hippos with HP % for head, left arm and right arm.

Method 2 - Partner Type:

There are 3 types of partners [ ATK , SUP , DEF ]. You can build partner based on its type:

ATK partners:

• Crit build: 4 Badger + 2 Wolf. Focus on ATK%, CR% and HP% 
• Or Attack build: 4 Smilodon + 2 Hippo. focus on SPD, ATK% , HP%.

SUP partners:

• Buffer build: 4 Cat + 2 Hippo. Focus on SPD, DEF%,RES%
• Or Debuffer build: 4 Cat + 2 Corsac. Focus on SPD, HP%, HIT%

DEF partners:

• Pure Tank build: 6 bull. Focus on DEF%
• or Hyper Tank : 4 bull + 2 corsac. Focus on SPD , DEF% , HIT% 
• Never Ever give your Tank HP! It must be the lowest HP partner in your team (to entice the enemy to attack it).

Some partners have wrong types for some reason! Take Green marksman for example she is a good damage dealer but for some reason she has DEF type?

Method 3 - Team rule:

In some cases you want certain partner to act as a support and tank or damage dealer and debuffer to fill a gap in your team.

For example: Green dragon man buffs your team's SPD, while you can use him as a tank as well (4 cat + 2 bull focus on SPD, DEF %.

Try to play around your partner leader skill.

For example: Blue Mr. Dagger increases CR % by 24 % + 12 % CR from Wolf Set gives your damage dealer (Crit build) 86 % CR - that means you have a free pattern slot you can equip it with whatever you want!

TIPS:

• Level up your patterns 3 level each time to get the sub-stats first before you level up another pattern.
• Farm adventure at purgatory level to increase your chances of getting 5 stars patterns.
• Removing a pattern will cost you souls so plan it carefully.
• Level up stat % patterns first , it give your partner the highest stats he can get.
• Don't level up 5 stars pattern beyond +9 unless you are sure it have the sub-stats you want!
• "focus on" means try to get the base stat and sub-stats for each build, i know it's hard but keep trying :(
• Watch your partners fights carefully and decide what you need to improve! (your damage-dealer get attacked first instead of your tank? Give him more HP! Your partner always debuffed or CC'ed? give him more RES! Your tank dies fast? give him more DEF!)
• The previous tip doesn't mean you need to change your build, sometimes what you need is to level up corresponded pattern!