Complete Guide to Ardelia's Weapons, Gear, and Teams in Arknights: Endfield

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The characters in Arknights: Endfield serve various roles, primarily divided into DPS and supportive Arts. While some characters focus on dealing damage, others are crucial for increasing the effectiveness of that damage. The latter type tends to be more vital in most situations.

Ardelia is a support character in the game who is quite valuable because she’s available for free through daily login. If you’re active in the game now, you probably already have her, and it’s important to upgrade her to maximize your team’s potential.

Best Weapons and Essences for Ardelia

There are many weapons you can equip on Ardelia, but only the Arts Unit weapon can be used for her. The best choice is Dreams of the Starry Beach. If that’s unavailable, other options include:

Dreams of the Starry Beach (6-star): Boosts her Will, which is important for her healing functions. When she consumes an enemy’s corrosion, that enemy takes 10% extra Arts damage for 25 seconds.

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Freedom to Proselytize (5-star): Similar to her signature weapon, it boosts Will and improves her healing when her skill activates. The healing also gets stronger based on her Will.
Monaihe (5-star): Provides Will and enhances her ultimate gain efficiency. It’s a weaker option but useful if you need the Will boost.
Fluorescent Roc (4-star): A fallback option, giving Will along with Attack and Suppression effects. Use this if other better options aren’t available.

For essence farming, focus on Energy Alluvium with the same stat boosts as her weapon for maximum benefit.

Best Gear Sets for Ardelia

Since she’s a support, her gear set can buff her team beyond her skills. The top gear set for her is Eternal Xiranite, which enhances her HP and increases team damage when she applies Susceptibility with her skill. Early-game alternatives include:

LYNX: Toggles Treatment bonuses and efficiency; it also reduces damage to healed targets, but offers less overall benefit compared to Eternal Xiranite.
Mordvolt Resistant: Focuses on stacking Will to boost her healing in the early game.

Using three pieces of a set grants the best benefits. Combining LYNX’s Aegis Injector with Eternal Xiranite can significantly improve her healing capacity while keeping your gear optimized.

Team Compositions for Ardelia

Her flexible nature allows her to fit into many team setups. She’s self-sufficient and doesn’t interfere with enemy reactions or inflictions by simply applying and consuming corrosion. She’s often used as the fourth member of a team, with the best team involving Laevatain, Akekuri, and Wulfgard—thanks to Laevatain being one of the top DPS characters.

For F2P players, she can also be paired with Endministrator, Chen Qianyu, and Lifeng. Keep in mind, if Lifeng isn’t available, there are decent substitutes for him. She can be slotted in with any damage dealer, such as Yvonne, Avywenna, or Da Pan.

Ability Overview and Upgrade Priority

Ardelia’s abilities are straightforward:

Her combo skill applies corrosion after your operator makes the final hit.
She can trigger her battle skill to remove corrosion and apply physical and arts susceptibility, which is central to her role.
Her ultimate attacks in an area, dealing significant damage.
When she uses her skills, she spawns dolls that your healers can go to for restoring HP; if the squad member is at full HP, the doll heals the one with the lowest health.
If there’s corrosion on an enemy when she removes it, she can repeat the process.

Her gameplay is very accessible for F2P players. Her healing is derived from her bonus ability, activated during her ultimate, which makes her battle skill the highest upgrade priority. Upgrading her ultimate next enhances her healing output and team support. Other upgrades can be considered for damage or additional effects if resources permit.