User blog comment:Marilyn Sowders/Which General Should I Use??/@comment-2203344-20100722131940/@comment-69.243.58.212-20101018212158

The best general to use depends on a number of factors. Barbarus is a great general for monsters with a party/ship ship health since his attacks do 3 attack worth of damage but only 1 attack worth of damage to party health. Especially if your attack is low Barbarus is the general to use on 2 bar monsters

If your attack is above 300 than Kaiser and Slayer are great to use with their +3% to crits

Below that elin zarevok and Vanquish are excellent to use to attack due their increase to your effective attack

Never use vanquish to use secondary abilities  fortify/heal/cripple/deflect She drops your defense which is the attribute which matters most

Dante is the best general (outside of chest generals) for secondary abilities Halycyon, Corv, Ambrosia, Serra Silverlight,  Skaar are the best Draconius has the potential to be excellent defensive general but would take way too many chest rolls to get there it takes 10 griffin riders to make him equal to dante at +20 def 25 griffin riders to max hit to + 50 def.

One think to note is that many of the stonger monsters require higher levels of defense to rise above the base level + equipment damage. If your def is above the monster's baseline then the general you use will not make a deference and thus us which ever you want to level.

Ancient serpent                       100 def (80 with Dante) CORC/genesis/Ragnarok          200 def (180 with Dante) War of the Red Plains               250 def (230 with Dante) Bahamut                                 300 def (280 with Dante) Azriel / Alpha Meph                  340 def (320 with Dante)

case study of healing on Azriel base def 326

[5514] Aurora + 0   326

[5437] points! Dexter + 6   332

[6263] points! Anwar + 10   336

[9107] points! Dante + 20   346

[9134] points [9122] points!

Skaar + 20  346

[9803] points! Serra + 25   351

Expect Corv and Ambrosia to perform better Halycyon is the best general for defensive action but do not attack with her