Note
In the Overview, I explain my thinking. This is a fairly long article, but contains a lot of useful background information if you want to understand how I arrived at these conclusions. If you just want to be told what to do, you can skip it and dive right in here.
For Free to Play Players:
Unless your alliance consists only of free players, I strongly recommend you consider just joining rallies, and waiting until later to develop a PvM pair. If you do want to hunt monters, you will need to double up on your PvM and PvP pairs, despite the fact that this is suboptimal. Give this pair the following Skill Books:
- Mounted Attack
- March Size
- Mounted Defense
- Mounted HP
- Mounted Monster Attack
- Mounted Mounted Monster HP
If you are just going to join rallies, replace the two Monster books with
- March Speed
- either Mounted March Speed or Siege Range Bonus
For Light Spenders
Again, I recommend skipping the PvM pair until latter. If your alliance, or your own desires, needs you to be hunting monsters before other pairs are developed, then I recommend that you develop a single very strong primary general and one assistant for PvM use and one for PvP use.
Give the primary general
- Mounted Attack
- March Size
- Mounted HP
- Mounted Defense
- March Speed
- either Mounted March Speed or Siege Range Bonus
- Mounted Monster Attack
- Mounted Mounted Monster HP
- Mounted Monster Defense
Spend enough to get Theodora, she is compatible with many, though not all, of the generals that you will have available to you as [primary generals]. Set her up as your PvM assistant, and together they make a great pair for maximizing your returns on the monsters you hunt. You won’t be able to take on the absolute biggest monsters quite as fast, but it is still a respectable pair.
Later, when you are able to replace her with a better PvM assistant, use her to join rallies, giving her
- March Speed
- March Speed against Monsters
- Luck
For Medium Spenders
Set up several copies of Theodora with
- March Speed
- March Speed against Monsters
- Luck
and use the Rally Card to join as many rallies as possible using this general. Optionally pair her with Spartacus to reduce your Stamina usage (Ascend Spartacus, which is free, and only requires fragments).