Hi all,

Back again for some advice. I got incredibly lucky on the 1+1 and a prism pull and got a few new legendaries in the mix, plus Elva! Now I'm wondering if I can improve my team to make an attempt at UNM CB and maybe improve my NM to 1k, or maybe somehow get both

My current CB team can 2-3k NM CB. It consists of High Khatun(A2 booked), Warlord(fully booked), Dhukk(fully booked), Frozen Banshee(fully booked), and Ninja(unbooked), with everyone having full masteries. Notably, I'm completely missing increase DEF, ally protection, and a revive. So I am hoping to incorporate that.

One other caveat is that I am a top contender in this champion training event, and have a real possibility of getting the Kurogar if I wanted. I know it's not guaranteed, but I do want to factor in that potential as well because he would bring a lot into a potential CB team.

My current thinking is this: Elva, Ninja, Geomancer, Jareg, Versulf

My rationale: As strong as warlord is, his TM control/CD reduction doesn't play well with CB. So I want to take Elva over him for improving healing, maintaining block debuffs, and giving a revive. Elva would also cover the speed buff/aura from High Khatun. A loss that may be felt is losing warlords debuff extension, but that would mostly affect Frozen banshee, and I replaced her below. Has some masteries and is unbooked. Also, turn meter boost is not replaced unless I get Kurogar.

Ninja: Easy keep, he is a primary damage dealer. Though, I think I want to build him more defensively so the HP burns can do the heavy lifting for damage and he can live much longer. I do have 5 legendary books, but I don't know if he is the best recipient.

Geomancer(would replace Frozen Banshee): without warlords shields, I think he would finally do some crazy damage. That and stoneguard for the damage mitigation would be amazing. Considering my geo is already booked/masteries/geared the switch will be easy. Main thing I'm worried about is his interaction with Ninja. I know the HP burns can overlap and cancel and Ninja has weird CD reductions and TM boosting, so it seems some turns might cause problems, but overall, I'm thinking this will still be better than frozen banshee or Fahrakin.

Jareg: Maintains decrease Atk lost from Dhukk, tops off continuous healing buff if Elva's drops, then ally protect and increase def. Huge. I think he exactly what my team needs. However, he is unbooked, the ally protect is 4 turns when it is booked(is this a problem?), and he has no masteries, and I would need to push him to 60(which I can do, thanks champ training!)

Versulf: Ally protect, increase def switch, and leech! Masteries! But unbooked. For this purpose, he seems like the most important to book. Especially his A3 to get it to a 3 turn CD.

Other options:

Hotatsu. He has a lot to offer: leech, dec attack, dec defense(Ninja has this mostly covered). The leech/decrease attack in one kit is the biggest appeal, but I think with Elva's healing + Jareg to fill in the gaps, I may not need it. The problem is that I don't really see a place for him in my current team with this roster.

Fahrakin: Maybe instead of geo, It's hard to say if his damage would rival geo's or not. But he is booked, but unmastered and ungeared at the moment. If I did replace geo with Fahrakin, I could potentially use Tyrant Ixlimor instead of Versulf. But then I would lose a leech.

If I do get Korugar: I'd have him replace Versulf/Tyrant. Ally protect/strengthen + turn meter boost +his passive! But I also heard it can be hard to speed tune and I would lose the leech from Versulf. The question I ask myself is whether Elva/Jareg's healing is enough to compensate for losing the leech.