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Overview

Resonance is the team-wide bonus mechanic in Silver Palace that rewards parties built around a shared element. When the active team contains multiple characters of the same element type, Resonance activates and provides team-wide damage and effect bonuses tied to that element.

How it works

Resonance is a passive team property rather than an activated skill. The party's element composition is checked at team-build time, and any qualifying same-element clustering enables the corresponding Resonance state for the duration of combat. Resonance complements rather than replaces individual character skills, ultimates, or the Silverdrip Ambush mechanic.

When Resonance is active, the team gains an area-of-effect elemental damage component that can hit groups of nearby enemies, plus team-wide buffs flavoured to the element involved. The exact thresholds (whether two, three, or four matching characters are required to trigger or stack the effect), the precise damage scaling, and any cooldown windows were not fully exposed in beta UI. The base behaviour is consistently described in beta footage as a Silverdrip-adjacent effect: Resonance fires alongside the team's normal rotation rather than competing with it.

Element coverage

Each of the seven confirmed element types has its own Resonance flavour. The seven elements use Latin-derived names that match the academic aesthetic of Silvernia:

Team building tradeoff

Resonance creates a natural tension during team building. A mono-element party gets the strongest Resonance bonus but trades off elemental flexibility, leaving the team less able to handle enemies that resist that one element. A diverse party covers more enemy types but loses the Resonance burst entirely. Balanced compositions sit between the two: a two-of-one-element seed often produces a partial Resonance benefit while preserving some coverage. Team builders also need to factor in class synergies (Hero / Guardian / Witness front-to-back placement) and Catalyst loadouts on top of element choice.

Beta limitations

The Monotype Beta roster of seven characters skewed heavily toward Ignis (three characters), with one character per remaining confirmed element and zero playable characters for Ferrugo or Alba. This made building a full mono-Ignis team practical inside the test window but reduced the ability to test mono-Resonance compositions for the other elements. The released roster is expected to fill out each element more evenly so that mono-Resonance team building is viable for every confirmed element type.

Related systems

Resonance interacts with several other combat systems: character switching (Resonance is active across the whole party regardless of the active character), the Silverdrip system (Ambush attacks chain into Resonance procs cleanly), QTE Combat (parry- and dodge-triggered QTEs can layer onto Resonance windows), and the gacha system (which determines roster composition and therefore which mono-Resonance teams are accessible to a given player).