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Four healing layers at four different trigger points, from per-second to post-death.
Rebuilt around what the game actually gives you for staying alive. Celesdir restores 0.15% to 0.75% of your Health every second with no condition attached, which at rank 5 is roughly 45% of your bar per minute during the fight. Felbat returns 5% to 9% of the damage you deal as Health while it is the pal beside you. Lyleen is the panic button, an activated heal worth 80% to 90% of the party Health on a 300-second cooldown. Herbil covers the case where all of that failed, restoring 30% to 60% of your maximum Health when you are incapacitated. Solenne takes the last slot so the fight can actually end.
CelesdirContinuous regeneration
FelbatLife steal
LyleenEmergency party heal
HerbilPost-incapacitation rescue
SolenneThe damage slotEvery slot has a job. The cards below show the exact synergy, its rank range, who it affects, and a mapped route to recruiting that pal.
Restores 0.15% to 0.75% Health per second with no condition in the shipped text, so it runs during combat. The description also mentions party pals, though the recorded effect target is you and Celesdir itself.
Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 54 to 68 across 1631 points on the main island.
Returns 5% to 9% of damage dealt as Health, but only while you and Felbat are fighting together. Bench it and this slot does nothing at all.
Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 20 to 66 across 181 points on the main island.
Activated: restores 80% at rank 1 and 90% at rank 5 of the Health of you and your party pals. The cooldown is 300 seconds, so it fires at most twice in a ten-minute tower run.
Catch it in the wild. Only spawns on the World Tree region.
Restores 30% at rank 1 and 60% at rank 5 of your maximum Health when you are incapacitated. It is the only effect in the party that helps after everything else has already failed.
Catch it in the wild. Spawns at levels 1 to 50 across 269 points on the main island.
Pays 30% to 80% attack while no two pals share a species. It also feeds Felbat: life steal is a percentage of damage dealt, so raising attack raises your healing.
Catch it in the wild. Only spawns on the World Tree region.
Celesdir is healing you every second from the party slot, with no input required. Field Felbat so its life steal is live, and keep attacking, because that is what turns damage into health. Hold Lyleen for a moment when both you and your pals are hurt, because its cooldown is five minutes. Herbil is the one that fires after you go down.
Compare every surfaced partner effect at base rank and full condensation. Effects marked Unique can still scale by rank, but a second carrier of the same species adds nothing. Two different species carrying the same effect do add together.
| Pal / role | Partner effect | Affects | Rank 1 | Rank 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 CelesdirContinuous regeneration | Health Regeneration per SecondUnique | You and pal | 0.15% | 0.75% |
 FelbatLife steal | Life Steal (you and Felbat)Unique | You and pal | 5% | 9% |
 SolenneThe damage slot | Attack (all species unique)Unique | You | 30% | 80% |
Two of this party healing effects are percentages of damage dealt or of your maximum Health, which makes attack and health both scale healing. That is unusual, and it decides the passive plan.
10% increase in Player Attack.
Felbat life steal is a percentage of the damage you deal, so player attack is a healing stat in this build as well as a damage one. Put it on all five slots.
50% player attack across five carriers
Bought once from a bounty officer for bounty tokens, then applied to any pal for gold. Bounty tokens come from the purple wanted markers on your map.
Absorbs 100% of damage dealt and restores Health. Pal Auto Health Regeneration Rate +100%. Attack +15%.
Life Steal +5% on top of Felbat 9%, plus 15% attack which then feeds that life steal again. This is the one party in the library where a second life-steal source has something to compound with.
Mutation-pool only. Breed for it across several breeding bases, or pull the implant from the ancient relic recycler.
Pal and Player Auto Health Regeneration Rate +50% Defense +25% Immune to Poison Damage Immune to Burn Damage
Immunity to poison and burn is the gap this party cannot otherwise close. Damage over time is a percentage of your maximum Health and ignores Defense entirely, so no amount of healing throughput fixes it.
Defense and regeneration on every carrier, immunities do not need stacking
Mutation-pool only, same routes as Immortality.
10% increase in Player Defense.
Lower priority than usual. This party answers damage by recovering from it rather than by preventing it, so defense is competing with a healing plan that is already dense.
50% player defense across five carriers
Same bounty officer, same one-time purchase.
Sustained fire matters more here than in any build except the poison ones, because your healing is generated by dealing damage. A weapon that is reloading is a weapon that is not healing you.
Felbat returns a percentage of damage dealt, so damage per second converts almost directly into healing per second.
The highest sustained damage per second in the game, which in this party also makes it the highest sustained healing.
A rifle that releases an electrical discharge from the point of impact, which chains to multiple enemies.
Run this until technology 78. Cheap ammunition suits a party that wants to fire continuously.
An assault rifle made from Soralite Ingots. It has been enhanced to handle powerful ammo while maintaining its versatility.
Drones deal their own damage while you reload, which keeps pressure on. Whether that damage counts as yours for life steal is not recorded in our data, so do not build around it either way.
A launcher that fires drones which perform autonomous attacks. Capable of deploying up to 9 units, enabling sustained suppression.
Worth 20% attack, and therefore also worth more life steal. Attack and defense food replace each other, so take attack.
Now with cheese, this dish has reached the highest level of fine cuisine. Eating it will increase Attack by +20% and stay full longer for a period of time.
Health is a healing stat here, because two of the four recovery effects are percentages of your maximum. That pushes the defensive accessories up the list.
Defense Up Lv. 4 and Health Up Lv. 4. The health half raises what Celesdir per-second tick and Herbil rescue both restore.
An accessory that greatly raises Defense and Health.
Attack Up Lv. 4, worth 20% attack, which is also 20% more life steal throughput.
An accessory that greatly raises your Attack, and that of the Pal fighting alongside you.
Attack Up Lv. 3 for another 15%.
An accessory that raises Attack.
Extends roll and sidestep invincibility by 20%. Damage avoided entirely never has to be healed back.
An accessory that extends the invincibility period of rolls and sidesteps.
Health first and unambiguously, because it is the multiplier on two of the four healing effects rather than just the pool they refill.
Four healing effects that fire at four different moments. The skill is knowing which one you are relying on right now, and not wasting the ones with long cooldowns.
Life steal is worded as you and Felbat fighting together, so it only applies while Felbat is the active pal. This is the single most misread line in any sustain build: leaving Felbat in a party slot gives you nothing.
At rank 5 it restores 0.75% of your Health every second, all fight, with no input from you. That covers the small hits so the cooldown heals stay available for the large ones.
Felbat returns a percentage of damage dealt. Backing off to recover is exactly backwards in this party: retreating switches off your largest healing source at the moment you need it.
The cooldown is 300 seconds, so you get roughly two casts in a ten-minute tower fight. Using it as a top-up when you are at 70% wastes most of a five-minute resource.
It restores 30% to 60% of your maximum Health when you are incapacitated. That is a genuine save, but building around going down is not a strategy. It exists so one mistake does not end the run.
Four of five slots are recovery and only Solenne adds damage. Against a boss with an enrage timer or a tower ten-minute clock, throughput can be the thing that fails rather than survival.
This lineup is three slots different from the community version it started as, and the reason is blunt: three of the original five contributed nothing to a fight.
The case for it
The source comment picked these three as durable bodies to rotate through, valuing raw bulk over a numerical party buff.
Their partner skills do nothing in combat, and reading them makes that plain. Elphidran makes Dark pals drop 40% to 80% more items when defeated, which is a loot effect. Tetroise raises the Mining Work Suitability of other base pals by one level, which only applies at a base. Whalaska improves the fishing minigame capture gauge. A party built to survive long fights was spending three slots on looting, mining and fishing.
The case for it
High-stat bodies still soak damage even when their partner skill is irrelevant, so the slots were not truly wasted.
Partner effects work from the party slot whether or not the pal is fielded, so a slot spent on a pal you are not fielding and whose effect does nothing is genuinely empty. You can still field a bulky pal; you just should not spend a party slot to do it when Celesdir, Felbat and Herbil are available.
The case for it
Both parties are built to survive, so one of them must simply be the better version.
They solve it in opposite directions. Aegis Wall prevents damage: Silvegis cuts 80% of shield damage before it lands. This party recovers from damage after it lands. Prevention scales better against large hits, recovery scales better against sustained chip damage, and against damage over time neither works, which is why Idiosyncratic is a core passive in both.
The case for it
If one 90% party heal is good, two would double the number of emergency saves available.
Cooldowns this long are not the limiting factor twice over. Lyleen 300 seconds already means two casts in a tower run, and a second copy occupies a slot that Celesdir per-second regeneration or Felbat life steal would fill with continuous value instead of another rare button.
Celesdir and Felbat are the two that change the build most, and both are ordinary catches. Lyleen is the only real project.
Keep the build's identity while adapting the lineup to the pals you own or the encounter ahead.
SilvegisCuts shield damage by up to 80% and regeneration delay by up to 60%. Preventing damage beats healing it, so take this over Felbat if you are losing health faster than you can steal it back.
TeafantRestores 20% to 40% of your Health once you fall below 30%, then waits 120 seconds. A cheaper, more frequent version of the Lyleen button, available from the first hours of the game.
Elphidran AquaGrants you and your pals full immunity to Burn. Damage over time ignores every mitigation percentage in the game, so this is a real answer to a real gap.
LovanderCarries the same 5% to 9% life steal curve as Felbat. Interchangeable unless you care which body is standing next to you.Three of the original five slots did nothing in a fight. Elphidran partner skill makes Dark pals drop more items when defeated, Tetroise raises the Mining Work Suitability of base pals, and Whalaska improves the fishing minigame. Those are loot, base-work and fishing effects in a party whose entire purpose is surviving long fights. Celesdir, Felbat and Solenne replace them.
No. Its skill is worded as you and Felbat fighting together, so life steal only applies while Felbat is the active pal. Benching it gives you nothing, which is the most commonly misread line in any sustain build.
No, and that is the trade. Four slots are recovery and only Solenne adds damage. Against a boss with an enrage timer, or a tower with a ten-minute clock, your throughput can be the thing that fails rather than your survival. If you are timing out rather than dying, swap a healing slot for damage.
When both you and your pals are meaningfully hurt, not as a top-up. The cooldown is 300 seconds, so you get roughly two casts in a ten-minute fight. Celesdir per-second regeneration is what handles routine chip damage.
Opposite directions on the same problem. Aegis Wall prevents damage, led by Silvegis cutting up to 80% of shield damage before it lands. This party recovers from damage after it lands, through per-second regeneration, life steal and two cooldown heals. Prevention is better against large single hits, recovery is better against sustained chip damage.
Poison and Burn. Both tick as a percentage of your maximum Health and are unaffected by Defense or mitigation, so they scale with the same stat your healing scales with and cancel it out. Idiosyncratic grants immunity to both, which is why it is a core passive here rather than an optional one.
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