Vikingard Sea of Adventure Hersir Lineup and Relic Guide

To clear Sea of Adventure voyages in Vikingard, deploy your highest-stat Hersirs rather than forcing low-tier class synergies, place tanks on the frontline to absorb incoming damage, and select offensive and life-steal relics to counter persistent health loss. Because your squad's health carries over between naval battles, preventing frontline collapse and mitigating attrition are necessary to reach and defeat the final boss.

Hersir Deployment and Formation Strategy

Raw stats decide survival in the Sea of Adventure. Base attributes from Hersir levels, star ranks, weapon upgrades, and companion bonuses scale your total durability across multiple consecutive encounters. An upgraded, high-investment Hersir will consistently outperform an uninvested unit with an ideal skill kit.

Position your team to keep damage dealers alive throughout the voyage:

Place high-defense units such as Alvilda in the frontline slots where enemy fire concentrates. If your primary backline carries take heavy damage early in a sector, their reduced health pools persist into subsequent battles, severely compromising your team's damage output.

Managing Persistent Health Across Nodes

Unlike standard campaign stages where team health resets after every fight, Sea of Adventure tracks health damage across all island sectors. A team relying entirely on burst damage without recovery mechanisms will slowly suffer squad attrition before reaching late-stage bosses.

• Prioritize Life-Steal: Life-steal effects that scale directly with dealt damage allow your top offensive carries to replenish their own health without spending route steps on rest sites.
• Pace Combat Endings: When clearing weaker enemy nodes, do not burn cooldowns to eliminate the last enemy if active regeneration or recovery effects can top off your frontline's health pool first.
• Shield Core Carries: Keep fragile carries out of direct attack lanes so incoming hits land exclusively on your sturdiest frontline units.

Relic Selection Priorities

After winning node battles, pick relics that grant immediate, unconditional combat stat increases. Relics boosting total offensive output reduce fight length, which directly lowers the total number of actions enemies take against your frontline.

Recommended Relic Types

• Percentage Attack Multipliers: Increase overall squad damage output to finish encounters quickly.
• Critical Rate and Critical Damage: Enable backline carries to burst down threatening targets before they trigger powerful skills.
• Combat Life-Steal: Converts carry damage into passive self-healing to maintain team health between encounters.
• Damage Mitigation: Reduces incoming burst from elite enemies and sector bosses to prevent sudden frontline wipes.

Avoid conditional relics that require Hersirs to fall below low-health thresholds to trigger bonuses. Relying on low-health triggers is dangerous because a stray critical hit from an elite enemy can knock out a damaged Hersir before the relic activates.

Route Navigation and Map Choices

Inspect upcoming map paths before selecting your next move to avoid dead ends and high-risk fights:

1. Assess Team Health: Check the current health bars of your frontline and main carry before committing to a route branch.
2. Target Elite Nodes When Healthy: Enter elite fights only when your squad is near full health and already possesses strong offensive relics. Elite nodes yield higher-tier relics and currencies, but an ill-timed battle can ruin a run.
3. Detour for Recovery: If an unexpected hit drops your frontline or carry into low health, alter your path toward restoration springs or mystery event nodes instead of forcing combat encounters.
4. Avoid Blind Auto-Pathing: Do not default to the shortest linear route. Monitor node reward previews and select branches that provide recovery tools when your team sustain begins to slip.