Your party - what allies do I choose? | Hints on making a good start Sword Coast Legends Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

The party is the basic element of Sword Coast Legends. During your adventures, you will be meeting various allies, who you can include in your party. Therefore, it is worth knowing about the most optimal make-up of the party.

Rogue (Izhkin, Larethar) - Rogue is an inseparable element of each party. His role is to deal maximum damage and swift elimination of threat. He should be targeting poorly-armored opponents, such as mages, archers or other rogues. There is no other character that would deal as much damage as rogue. Therefore, try to arm him with the best gear possible. When it comes to skills, focus on maximum damage and stealth combat. A good rogue should be able to enter between opponents without being seen, kill the enemy in one blow and escape, before the rest realize what happened. Rogue is, of course, not only about damage, but also about cunning. While leveling the rogue up, focus on the Search ability, because this is the character to search for all sorts of treasures, traps and secret passages.

Mage (Hommet, Dalanir) - Mage should focus predominantly on curses. Thanks to this, you will be able to disable some of the opponents, by means of putting them to sleep, paralysis or other controlling effects. Since the mage has all sorts of skills, you can also use one as the main tool for dealing damage, alongside the warrior. First of all, the mage should be wearing robes that list reduction of cooldown time on skills, among their features. This will remedy the problem of endless cooldowns.

Cleric (Illydia) - Illydia is an excellent cleric. Due to her race abilities, she can quickly heal the wounded. Her default weapon (the bow) has a special ability that restores health points to wounded allies. You should predominantly focus on developing all healing skills and skills that buff offense and defense. Cleric should be the character to support other allies. When it comes to equipment, pick items that allow you to limit cooldown times and increase health regeneration. A perfect element of arms is the Mask of Relentless Compassion. It is a headwear that provides a huge bonus to the restored health points. Unfortunately, you can obtain it from a side quest, as late as in act three - Speak No Evil.

Warrior/Paladin (Jarhild, Javen) - The warrior should be the toughest character on your party. While leveling up, try to use up points on constitution (CON) and strength (STR). His armoring should provide him with various defensive bonuses and damage-taken reduction. His skills should focus on supporting the party and containing the battlefield. For that, however, you need to sacrifice damage taken, which is a perfect idea in this case. Of course, do not exclude him as a character to deal damage. Warrior can not only be resistant, but also strong and deal as much damage as a mage would. Warrior's role is to focus all attacks on himself. When coupled up with cleric, who is positioned far away from the center of the battle, the warrior can withstand even the toughest of attacks.