Graceful and deadly elves, blessed with the gift of long centuries of life and an alliance with some of the oldest inhabitants of the world of Odra, the children of the evergreen forests of Krong. Too noble to seem dangerous, elves are capable of punishing anyone who underestimates their power.

Elves can be considered one of the most difficult factions to master. As they say: “Easy to learn, hard to master”. The whole point is that elves are characterized by the weakest survivability of all the formations, but they compensate for it with high damage and incredible mobility. But the main difficulty lies not in realizing the advantage of elves before they lose health, but in activating their passive effects.
Every unit in the Forest Alliance has a passive feature called “Children of Krong”. It gives the units of the formation 10% to all defense parameters if they stand on a sector with the Forest Cover effect. These sectors do not slow them down, which is not the case for all other formations. This effect is due to the special mechanics of the faction, which we will talk about later. But we already note that elves are more dependent on synergies between units of their faction.

Elven mages differ from all others in their stable and effective area damage. Their aoe damage can also be used as battlefield control, as area damage is periodic, over several rounds. If you use Poison Cloud on an enemy's power spot or hold sector, you're almost guaranteed to chase them away or deal a lot of damage. With mages of the second rank the situation is more interesting. You can either use an Archon with enhanced poison damage and the ability to aoe downgrade enemy armor, or you can choose to use an Oracle Summoner, who can summon nature elementals and create vegetation, which is the most important passive of the Forest Alliance.

Forest Union healers have two healing options: normal and enhanced. The latter only works on sectors with vegetation. At rank 2, you can either maximize both heals into a single target, or get a massive hit, negative effect removal, or even healing with a bonus to attack power in your arsenal. Choose what suits your play style best.

Elven arrows are the easiest to learn and use. Difficulties abound in using the other classes. Elven shooters have truly eagle vision, so they are able to hit targets at a longer range using the “Aiming Shot” ability. There are also multi-attacks in their arsenal. Second rank units allow you to get either increased damage and bleeding effects at long range with Marauders, or less damage but better control of the battlefield with the Krong Sentry's Repulsion Shot.

Krong Sentry are the only archers who share the passive feature “Krong Guardians” with all Forest Union warriors. Elves are a proud and independent people, so the passive is activated only when units are in the thicket and only if there is no other ally in the neighboring sector. Thus, the units can get a very solid bonus to attack, which can turn them into real killing machines. Elven warriors have excellent mobility thanks to their jerks and the ability to deal splash damage. At rank two you may prefer the more armored koppers, the Krong Guards, which can push back opponents and hit two opponents through and bleed them both!

That left the agile players and leaders to take on the burden of the most difficult synergy in the formation, or even the entire game. The first and second ranked leaders, Ents and Huorns, are able to plant seeds that create the very vegetation mentioned at the beginning of this article, Forest Cover. As the seed grows, the cover turns into a Krongha Forest, greatly enhancing all the bonuses of the units standing on the cells. Huorn also has the same feature as warriors. As a guardian of the Krong, he gets an even greater bonus when standing in vegetation with no units nearby! Nymphs and Dryads, first and second ranked agility players, can use vegetation sectors for invisibility. The latter also have the Symbiosis ability, which multiplies their survivability in the forest sector. The Forest Union also has its own boost for the whole team - just use “Call of the Ents” with your Huorn.

We haven't forgotten about Undines and Dark Gworns either. Grim inhabitants of the swamps, brutally killing anyone who accidentally wanders into the swamps. And the features of these creepy units are corresponding. Dark Gworn plants a tainted seed that grows into a gloomy tree, spreading swamp cells around that he and Undine can use. Not only do swamp sectors significantly lower the attack and defense of all units standing on them (except Gworn and Undine, of course), but they also give swamp dwellers the ability to poison enemies when attacking. Undine is able not only to use invisibility in the swamp, but also to teleport from one desecrated sector to another. However, there is a price to pay for such power: swamp sectors weaken allies as well, and the characteristics of these two are lower than those of their “kinder brethren”.

And this is not all the features of the faction. By no means neglect the elves. In skillful hands it is a real weapon.

There are a lot of defensive characteristics in the game, which, at first glance, you won't be able to figure out quickly. But we're here to show you that it's much simpler than that. Let's get to the bottom of it.
There are only three main defense stats. They primarily affect the damage of certain attacks on the character. Here they are:

• Defense against melee attacks;
  
• Defense against ranged attacks;
  
• Defense against magic attacks.

Let's take a brief look at how these defense stats are distributed among units of different formations. Let's start with the Free Empire. Leaders have roughly the same defense against all attacks, Warriors are vulnerable to magic, and Gunners are slightly better protected against ranged attacks. Dodgers are most vulnerable to melee attacks and generally have some of the lowest defenses. Mages are vulnerable to melee and ranged attacks, but are well protected against magic. Healers' defense is balanced, but they are slightly better protected against magic. At the second rank, the difference in defense indicators is not significant and is consistent with the above principle, so we will not focus on it.

The Mountain Clans are traditionally the most survivable faction due to their high amount of health, but the distribution of defense stats is almost identical to the Free Empire, but they are distinguished by their more survivable Arrows and Dodgers. The former are equally good at close and ranged attacks, while the latter are slightly better at defending against ranged attacks.

Forest Union Warriors have excellent defense against ranged attacks and are better at holding their own against mages when compared to other Warriors. The leaders of this faction are well protected against all three types of attacks, just like the other factions. Riflemen have almost the same stats as Free Empire Riflemen, but have increased defense against magic. Dodgers are good against magic and ranged attacks, but are vulnerable in close quarters. Mages have extremely low physical defense, but good defense against magic. Healers are the same, but have slightly better defense against physical attacks than mages.

Resists, in turn, are distributed in a more diverse way. Under resistances in Odra Online we mean protection from various kinds of elemental effects.

Available resistances:

• Light;
  
• Darkness;
  
• Fire;
  
• Water;
  
• Air;
  
• Earth;
  
• Nature;
  
• Alchemy.

Warriors, Riflemen, and Faction Leaders do not have resistances. Exceptions are mercenaries and Forest Union Leaders. Ents and Huorns are well protected against Nature, while Swamp Gworns are well protected against Nature and Darkness.

Forest Alliance healers are well protected from Nature. The exception is the Ovates. They partially sacrifice this resist, in exchange gaining resist from the element of earth. The Free Empire's healers are similarly well protected from light, with the Shepherd being the exception - his resistances are equally divided between light and darkness. Dwarven healers have increased resistance to alchemy. Potions Master is slightly less protected from it, but has resistance to natural effects.

Forest Alliance mages have roughly the same resistances as Healers, but one of the second ranked units sacrifices nature resistances for protection against alchemy instead of protection against earth elements. Mages of the Mountain Clans, on the other hand, have split resistances from the start. Hermits are protected from water and earth, while Storm Lords are protected from water and air. Runists, as an exception, have excellent defense against earth with no other resistances. Wizards of the Free Empire are similarly protected against fire and air. Warlocks are only protected from fire, but their resistances are impressive. Elementalists, the only mages at all, have protection from all elemental effects.

Let's not forget the Dodgers, the only non-magical class with resistances. Nymphs, Dryads, and Undines have excellent protection from nature, but Undine has a negative resistance to fire and an impressive defense against water. This means she oh-so-dislikes fire spells. Take note. The Mountain Clans' Saboteurs and Bombers are logically protected from fire, and the Engineer, sacrificing half of his fire defense, has air resistance. The mysterious Dodgers of the Free Empire have a rare defense against darkness in their arsenal. The Assassin has less resist than Shadow, but has protection against alchemy.

That's it! It's a bit long, but informative. Nevertheless, we advise you to get acquainted with the defensive indicators of units directly in the game, and develop profitable strategies there. We have only shared the patterns with you.