Wu Earth March and Skill Synergy

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Introduction

In this article, we’ll explore an experimental approach to building a stronger Earth march by adding Wu Zetian as a magical damage dealer. The goal? To boost Earth’s damage output and give it a new edge in PvE events like Amplify Time Rift Spider, Infernal Assault, and more. I was inspired to try this because my Fire march was, outperforming my Earth march in damage rankings. I wanted to find a way to balance my top two teams, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to experiment.

The idea was to create a versatile Earth march that could rival Fire's explosive damage by incorporating Wu Zetian, whose ultimate skill brings powerful AoE magic damage to the table. This experiment wasn't just for personal curiosity—it's also meant to offer new and early-game players alternative strategies for creating viable PvE teams. Could Wu help early-game players who lack access to premium immortals like Himiko or Chaos, or is this combination better suited for seasoned players refining their secondary and tertiary marches?  

We'll cover the following topics: 

Why Use Wu in an Earth March?: Explore the logic and synergy behind adding Wu to Earth, how her skills interact with Charles, Alex, and Zenobia, and whether this march can compete with others in PvE.  

Skill Synergy and Placement: A deep dive into skill setups for Wu, Charles, Alex, and Zenobia, and why these specific combinations can enhance performance in Time Rift and Infernal Assault.  

Enhancing with Exclusive Artifacts (EA): Learn how to prioritize attributes for Wu's EA and how it boosts her ultimate skill for maximum damage.  

Alternative Skills and Adaptations: Discover alternative skill options, including F2P-friendly combinations and how Triss' skills can elevate this march's performance.  

Key points to explore: To, evaluate the strengths and limitations of this experimental march. While providing practical tips for players aiming to optimize their teams for PvE events.

Whether you're an early-game player seeking to maximize points in Time Rift or a veteran experimenting with secondary marches, this article will give you strategies to try, skills to prioritize, and ideas to refine your PvE setups. Let's dive in!  

Why Use Wu in an Earth March?  

Can Wu Zetian's magical firepower breathe new life into Earth's traditional physical-damage dominance?  

Adding Wu to an Earth march introduces a unique dynamic. With Charles and Alex providing physical damage and Zenobia offering healing and support, Wu brings balance by delivering consistent magic AoE damage. This is particularly useful in PvE events like Time Rift Spider, where clearing waves of enemies quickly is crucial. Wu's ultimate skill, Imperial Fire, deals sustained damage over time to all enemies, making her a valuable addition to counter Earth's often single-target-focused lineup.  

Skill Synergy and Placement

What's the magic formula for skill synergy that turns a good march into a devastating one?  

Wu Zetian: Skills like Fire Nova and Energy Burst amplify her AoE capabilities and ensure her ultimate charges faster.  

Charles the Great: Defensive skills like Absolute Defense and team-protection abilities like Oaken Guard complement Wu by giving her the time and safety to unleash her magic.  

Alexander the Great: Skills like Anger and Life Link make Alex a tanky yet damaging frontline, pairing well with Wu's sustained damage.  

Zenobia: With healing skills and energy boosts, Zenobia keeps the march alive and ensures Wu can cast her ultimate repeatedly.  

The synergy lies in balancing damage and survivability, allowing Wu to thrive while her teammates hold the frontline.   

When preparing for Amplify Time Rift Spider, skill selection is critical to ensuring synergy, survivability, and maximum damage output. This march setup—featuring Wu Zetian, Zenobia, Alexander, and Charles—offers a balance of magic damage, physical damage, and robust defence, making it highly effective for PvE content. Here's why I believe these skills will work well and how I thought about placing them:  

Skill Setup for Each Immortal  

1. Wu Zetian (Magic Damage Dealer)  

Fire Nova: Adds extra AoE damage to supplement her Rain of Fire, amplifying her ability to clear multiple targets quickly.  

Energy Burst: Increases her casting speed, allowing her ultimate to activate earlier in battle for immediate impact.  

Malice: Reduces enemy energy recovery, delaying their ultimates and giving your march an edge in sustained battles.  

Why It Works: Wu's high magic damage output is the backbone of this march. Fire Nova complements her ultimate, while Malice keeps enemies from countering your march too early.  

2. Zenobia (Support & Healing)  

Wine & Dine: It has a 50% chance of increasing the damage output of the target you heal. 

Defence Blessing: Boosts your entire march's defences, ensuring better survivability.  

Adrenaline Rush: Speeds up her energy recovery, enabling frequent use of her ultimate for consistent healing and support.  

Why It Works: Zenobia's role is to keep the team alive with healing and defence. Defence Blessing ensures your march stays operational, while Adrenaline Rush keeps her ultimate readily available.  

3. Alexander the Great (Frontline Damage Dealer)  

Anger: Boosts his physical damage, making him a more potent threat.  

Life Link: Allows Alex to share his damage mitigation across the team, reducing the risk of any immortal from being singled out.  

Fighting Will Provides additional physical damage and a chance to root, and control enemy units and protect your march.  

Why It Works: Alex's offensive capabilities combined with Life Link create a balance of durability and damage output. Shield Bash helps mitigate enemy threats during critical moments.  

4. Charles the Great (Tank & Secondary Support)  

Absolute Defense: Provides him with an extra defensive layer, ensuring he remains standing to shield the team.  

Oaken Guard: Reduces physical damage taken by your team, complementing Zenobia's defensive boosts.  

Shelter: Heals Charles when his health drops below the specified threshold, along with the rest of his unit. This ability helps sustain Charles, allowing him to function as a tank for a longer duration during battles against these challenging Spiders.

Why It Works: Charles ensures that your march has a sturdy frontline. His defensive and self-healing skills give the team time to unleash their damage and manage the Spider's mechanics.  

Why This Combination Works

Synergy

Wu's AoE magic damage complements Alex and Charles' physical damage, making the march versatile against mixed enemy types.  

Zenobia’s healing and debuff removal stabilize the team, allowing Wu ideally to consistently deal damage and Alex/Charles to maintain their frontline roles. 

Balance of Offense and Defense  

Wu and Alex focus on damage, while Charles and Zenobia handle survival and support. This balance ensures your march can endure the Spider's mechanics and clear its minions effectively.  

Skill Placement Thought Process  

I chose skills that maximize each immortal's strengths while covering potential weaknesses. For instance, Zenobia's healing and Charles' defence compensate for Wu's lack of durability. Similarly, Alex and Charles' stuns and defense-sharing provide crowd control and damage mitigation, giving Wu time to charge her ultimate.  

Enhancing with Exclusive Artifacts (EA)  

How does Wu's EA take her performance from good to better?  

Wu’s Enhanced Attack increases her critical hit rate and magic attack, both of which directly enhance the power of her ultimate skill. Prioritizing crit damage and magic attacks on her EA ensures she can deal massive damage in PvE scenarios. This is especially useful in extended battles like Infernal Assault, where her sustained damage can whittle down enemies over time.  

Immortal Tree considerations

The Immortal Talent Tree for Wu Zetian focuses on talents that enhance her magic damage and control abilities. Prioritize talents that increase her skill damage, energy recovery, and magic penetration to maximize her effectiveness in dealing damage and controlling the battlefield. Only briefly touched on this topic for it maybe something to discuss for another day.

Alternative Skills and Adaptations  

What if you don't have premium skills—can this march still perform?  

F2P Alternatives: Skills like Adrenaline Rush for Zenobia and Malice for Wu offer viable options for players without access to premium Triss skills.  

Triss Skills: While not necessary, Triss skills like Spring of Life or Purification could elevate this march build. Or Infinite Firepower would look to increase Wu Magical Dmg while increasing her regen speeding. This would mean her Ultimate skill would work quicker and pack a fireball to 3 enemies.

Potential to work on Wu to increase Dmg output, but will need to synergise with rest of the march. Also, this is an expensive Skill to get just for 1 event. If deciding this Skill is worth your investment then it needs to pay it’s way in PvP and work within your main march.

Players can obtain these skills through Wisdom Well, purchasing Goddess gifts or the Recharge packs. Another way will be to collect KvK skill shards and trade them in for cinders so you can buy your desired skill in the Wish shop.

Adaptability is key—experiment with skill combinations to find what works best for your specific march and playstyle.  

Ideas to consider

What lessons can you take from this experiment to improve your own PvE performance?  

Pros

Wu adds much-needed AoE magic damage to Earth, balancing its physical-damage focus. This makes the march more versatile and effective in PvE events.  

Cons

Wu is reliant on her EA and skills to shine, which might require additional investment. Without proper synergy, the march may struggle in PvP or against certain event mechanics.  

Pink arrows show the Overall Dmg dealt of Fire and Earth march. The Yellow arrows represent, Wu-Earth and Fire with under developed Cyrus. Again, the Variables are not similar, but this iindicates higher Dmg than that of Wu-Earth in article 1 of this topic. Again, we must bare in mind that skills, immortal boosts, EAs and Dragon Talents are not maxed, this will be a factor.

Example of a report, highlighting how changing of some vairables can increase Dmg. Here the Earth Dragon Talent is more developed, the aim, for dragons Stun effect to work better. To provide more sustainability to the march to allow Wu to fire off her Ult. skill quicker. She has a high regen number so it would be a shame to over look this. I have also changed the skills on this march, in part because I didn’t have all that i have suggested in the article. But, I find it will be interesting to see if any of you try the skill formation and post your successes or failures. All helps to inform our knowledge and experimentation, the skills I used were:

Wu - Annihilation, Energy Burst, and Concentration

Zenobia - Death Breath, Assist, Berserk

Alex - Anger, Combo & Cleave

Charles - Adrenaline Rush, Physical Shield and Absolute Defence

I am looking to increase my battle time, improve Healing especially the frontline immortals ( protect the back so Wu fires her cannons) speed up energy regen ( Ult. Skills to work quicker) and iimprove Dmg dealt.

Next Task: Improve on Wu Dmg output, it is half that of Alex,with her Ult.skill firing of 6 hits and 1 only being critical. I need to up my crit rate, 1 hit = 1.3 mil dmg, but only had accuracy rate of 17%. Back to the drawingboard with this March. Though I do need to remember that this Wu is not maxed. So, if I work on her Agility, troop numbers and her EA, I might improve my overall Dmg in this march build!

Alternative Strategies

 Players who lack Triss skills or premium options can still build a competitive Wu-centered march using F2P skills and strategic experimentation.  

1. Experiment and Adapt: This skill setup is a strong starting point, but PvE battles like the Amplify Time Rift Spider require flexibility. Observe how your march performs and adjust skills to fit specific challenges.  

1. Prioritize Synergy: Always ensure that skills complement each other. For example, Wu's damage output is maximized when her allies can protect her and keep the team stab  
2. Use F2P Skills Wisely: Even without premium skills, this setup can deliver excellent results with thoughtful planning and understanding of each skill's mechanics.  
3. By focusing on synergy, survivability, and strategic skill placement, this march build offers an efficient and competitive way to tackle Amplify Time Rift Spider and similar PvE challenges. Let me know how this setup works for you, and happy experimenting!

1. Optimize Wu's EA for maximum AoE magic damage impact.  
2. Leverage the Earth Dragon's skills to balance offence and defence.  
3. Test alternative builds and adapt to the needs of specific events.  
4. Invest in ToK skills that align with your team's strengths.  

Could this be an alternative skill for Wu?

With continued investment and experimentation, this march can become a cornerstone of your PvE strategy, offering consistent performance across a range of events while opening the door to creative variations for future challenges.

Conclusion

Incorporating Wu Zetian into an Earth march is an exciting experiment that can yield impressive results in PvE events like Amplify Time Rift Spider and Infernal Assault. While this setup offers potential, it's vital to adapt it based on your resources, available skills, and team synergy.  

Wu Zetia’s unique ability to silence and reduce enemy energy recovery is pivotal in controlling their damage output. With the introduction of Immortal Specialization, Wu can be customized to enhance her magic damage and control abilities, making her a versatile asset in various scenarios.

Zenobia’s healing and cleansing abilities ensure your march remains healthy and free from debuffs. The synergy with Alexander’s Fighting Will allows for continuous healing and damage output.

Charles the Great’s crowd control and defensive skills protect your backline, allowing Wu and Zenobia to perform their roles effectively.

Alexander the Great’s damage and sustain abilities make him a formidable frontliner. The synergy with Zenobia’s healing and Charles’ protection ensures he can stay in the fight longer.

Wu Zetian is worth experimenting with due to her ability to be customized to fit various roles and strategies. Her silence and energy recovery make her a valuable asset in controlling enemy damage dealers. Experimenting with different builds and talents can reveal new synergies and strategies, making her a versatile and powerful addition to your march.

This march strikes a harmonious balance between magical and physical damage, offering players a fresh approach to optimizing Earth beyond its conventional builds. Whether you're an early-game player seeking viable options or a seasoned veteran refining secondary teams, Wu's versatility and power make her an invaluable asset to consider. 

By carefully selecting and synergizing these skills, your march will be well-equipped to handle the challenges of the Time Rift, especially when facing the Amplify spider. Experiment, adapt, and Good luck, may your battles be victorious! 

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