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Epic Seven (Mobile/Mobage) |OT| 1.25% better than Dragalia Lost's Rates!
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Right now I'm running Angelica, Mercedes, Ras, and Helga. Unfortunately I never got a pull with Angelica or Destina that included other 4*+ non-healers, and that's after several days of rerolling the 30 selective summons. I eventually settled on Angelica + two 4* artifacts instead because I was getting tired of it.
I do have Carminerose and I heard she's good, but I think I like Mercedes more so I want to see if I can go through the story with her. Carminerose is in my second team right now.
Thanks, I'll go check those places and start saving for the new heroes. I am feeling starved for another melee character, so maybe the free pulls will get me something in that department.
Is that what the water gun thing is for? One thing that bothers me about this game is how they seem to hide rewards and quests in odd screens everywhere instead of keeping them all in the same place. No "collect all" button either. It makes for a lot of perfectly avoidable extra menuing and clicking.
One thing i would like in the game is a 10x or more summon option. Pressing the summon one at a time is really, really tedious.
I like it. Less depressing. Doing 10 at once and getting nothing is a swift kick in the nuts. Doing it one at a time is just a light poke in the eye ten times.
Yeah, there seems to be a lot of needless clicking for rewards. once you get used to where things are it becomes a minor nuisance.
For the heroes, I think Carmainrose is better than Helga but there isn't any need to switch for now. It'll also make your team very fire heavy. I would try to save bookmarks. Helga's 1st also has defense break, one of the best debuffs.
I just cleared some inactive people off my friends list,
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Dont forget the friendship heroes. Silk is good, Alexa is a decent early game 3* thief. Lorina, when available might be worth setting as goal as she is very strong when spec changed and that process is quite long.
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Glad to see you got started!
Carmainrose is a good unit early on (and mid-game) and worth putting in your team. For single target DPS, you'll get some viable ones for free. Namely the connection quest for Lorina, she is a top tier DPS unit that is still used in F2P guides to this day. I'd focus ASAP on starting to get her connection quest done. Silk is also very viable unit that is used by quite a few mid-range PvP teams. Otherwise you'll slowly pull new and better characters in the dailies. Connection quests are available in the main lobby by clicking on the character sitting at the left table. I believe they become available at different points in the story.
For reference I beat the story with Ras, Azalea, Nemunas and Destina...as far as units go Azalea, Nemunas and Ras are all at the bottom of every tier list. I did 4* them all to help get through the story, that's super easy to come by later on, so may be worth it when you get stuck. I did that keeping in mind to save my bookmarks for future events and it paid off.
Angelica is recommended to selective summon as she's absolutely crucial endgame and you really don't want to be stuck like some players without her. In the main story, especially on normal, she doesn't really show her true colors. She's a mediocre healer but her big thing is her debuff immunity which is super important later on but not many enemies (if any at all?) debuff in normal story. You may end up summoning a dupe of her later, it's how RNG goes (her pull rate is 0.2%), but there are plenty of day one players without her still and she is usually their most wanted unit.
Highly recommend doing Labyrinths when you can, they have excellent gear in the gold chests for new players. I did enhance these to +6 or +9 as the cost is relatively low, but it gets exponentially more expensive to enhance gear beyond +9 and is only worth it for more end game gear.
There is always at least one event going on in the events browser where rewards can be obtained. I usually at a minimum clear these each day. But they are almost always tied to the same daily missions in the reputation menu.
The daily missions are always the same and worth doing (as it'll double with the on-going event):
- 5 Arena Battles
- 5 Story Battles
- 1 Hunt
- 1 Altar
- Raise one penguin
- 1 summon (use your free one)
- 2 dispatch missions
One thing I learned early on too is throw out normal JRPG conventions. Healers are often tanks (Angelica sits on my front line), knights are often support units and thiefs can be some of the biggest damage dealers in the game.
The rest you'll slowly learn as you play the game. Gear synergy, etc, don't really start to come into play until end-game.
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Maybe start building Carmainerose a bit and play around with her. You should by all means use the characters you like, but Mercedes and Ras are both horribly underpowered.
Which artifacts did you pull? If you got Sira-Ren, put it on Mercedes asap.
Feel free to add me, Vildred helps a lot in early story:
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I haven't posted an update in this thread in awhile.
I'd recently 6*'d and partially geared up Tywin, who is sitting pretty at 18k HP and 170 speed, and Iseria, who spooked me on the Cermia banner and I've also 6*'d and geared up with a rage set. Rage set Iseria has proven frighteningly effective at dealing damage (20k damage soulburned S1s!!) and Tywin has already proven himself a mainstay of my party with his remarkably high survivability combined with offensive support utility (attack+crit+combat readiness buff on his S2 and 100% defense break+self defense buff on his S3) and the power of Aurius. That buff really gave him a new lease on life.
And now, just today, I finally rolled KAYRON - the man who will save my second turn team from annoying-arse focused single target DPS teams with his immortality! Finally, a solution to this obnoxious problem. I can just stick him in a team with Angelica/Diene/Tywin and let him run roughshod all over the enemy's faces. Perfection. Too bad I used all the catalysts he needs on Tywin first... gotta farm up those blessings and nightmare masks. Plus I need to level up his gear since it's all fresh stuff... but it'll all be worth it in the end. He's going to be putting in so much work.
Still no ML 5* but at least my roster is filling out nicely regardless. I genuinely can't complain about my luck with characters. Artifacts and gear stats, on the other hand... well, can't be helped. Gotta deal with the hand you're dealt.
I've also got a ton of 6* awakenings thanks to the AP shop addition, which has helped considerably in keeping up with all those crazy players who somehow managed to farm up a full roster of 6* awakenings despite how low the drop rates are (and still are) without the AP shop. At this point my roster is looking like this:
6* promoted characters
I'd recently 6*'d and partially geared up Tywin, who is sitting pretty at 18k HP and 170 speed, and Iseria, who spooked me on the Cermia banner and I've also 6*'d and geared up with a rage set. Rage set Iseria has proven frighteningly effective at dealing damage (20k damage soulburned S1s!!) and Tywin has already proven himself a mainstay of my party with his remarkably high survivability combined with offensive support utility (attack+crit+combat readiness buff on his S2 and 100% defense break+self defense buff on his S3) and the power of Aurius. That buff really gave him a new lease on life.
And now, just today, I finally rolled KAYRON - the man who will save my second turn team from annoying-arse focused single target DPS teams with his immortality! Finally, a solution to this obnoxious problem. I can just stick him in a team with Angelica/Diene/Tywin and let him run roughshod all over the enemy's faces. Perfection. Too bad I used all the catalysts he needs on Tywin first... gotta farm up those blessings and nightmare masks. Plus I need to level up his gear since it's all fresh stuff... but it'll all be worth it in the end. He's going to be putting in so much work.
Still no ML 5* but at least my roster is filling out nicely regardless. I genuinely can't complain about my luck with characters. Artifacts and gear stats, on the other hand... well, can't be helped. Gotta deal with the hand you're dealt.
I've also got a ton of 6* awakenings thanks to the AP shop addition, which has helped considerably in keeping up with all those crazy players who somehow managed to farm up a full roster of 6* awakenings despite how low the drop rates are (and still are) without the AP shop. At this point my roster is looking like this:
6* promoted characters
- Diene
- Bellona
- Lidica
- Tywin
- Charles
- Iseria
- Charlotte
- Challenger Dominiel
- Assassin Cidd
- Surin
- Angelica
- Clarissa
- Rima
- Zeno (because he's free)
- Crimson Armin
- Kayron
I have never seen Rima, she looks cool but I just haven't given her any stage time... Should I?
It's sort of weird that the really high level stuff still drops level 44 fodder e.g. the side story on Hell or goblin chests from World Tier Area 10. Also I would love if they re-visited the UI, especially for heroes, lack of filtering and a more compact view is a pain in the arse when you want to do a lot of stuff with it.
Rima really depends on the rest of your team, she's not really good at dps or healing herself. Her best skill reduces cooldowns of another character. so if your other team likes to spam their other skills as opposed to those that spam S1 (like Lorina) she would be useful. I used her for a while in mid game to make sure Destina could remove debuffs more often.
Thanks everyone. I moved in Alexa and Carminerose into the party and benched Mercedes and Ras. Lots of single target damage now, though no AoE anymore.
Sacrificing multiple units to raise the level cap on someone means I really need to be careful of who I want to build for now, and I suppose making a team that can clear content should be my first priority. I don't even have many units to sacrifice anyway at this point, so building up units I like should come later. And hopefully I can eventually get that Celestial Mercedes later that I see online and is supposedly a more viable alternative to vanilla Mercedes.
Sacrificing multiple units to raise the level cap on someone means I really need to be careful of who I want to build for now, and I suppose making a team that can clear content should be my first priority. I don't even have many units to sacrifice anyway at this point, so building up units I like should come later. And hopefully I can eventually get that Celestial Mercedes later that I see online and is supposedly a more viable alternative to vanilla Mercedes.
You don't use normal units to do this , you use phantasma and the monsters you get on adventure (you can use them to do it but it's not required and only recommended after you triple SSS a memory imprint). So no sacrifice is required , if you are in doubt watch a video about fodders and you will understand the process
Good pointer from Reddit, the artifact from Zerato challenge could be really useful in azimanak hunt as it dispels the beserk buff. Still stuck on 10 so may be helpful for me.
Kind of interested in bringing my Tenebria back to life for that hunt and giving her the artifact.
Kind of interested in bringing my Tenebria back to life for that hunt and giving her the artifact.
Like all pre-specialty-change nat 3*s, she's very niche and you can probably find much better uses for the slot she takes up.
That said, no one can reset cooldowns as frequently as she can. With 100% crit and molagora'd S3 she can take 3 turns off of the cd of a teammate every three turns (as opposed to Iseria doing a full reset every 5 turns), which allows you a significant amount of flexibility in different combat situations (for example, resetting a healer's S3 in an emergency, or resetting, say, Lidica's S3 so she can double slow, etc.). She can also sleep someone every other turn, which increases your survivability considerably in any boss fight with nasty adds. That -1 cd on crit on her S1 is seriously good shit.
She'll be a monster when she gets her specialization change. Her basic kit is already pretty good and anything they add on top will just push her into top-tier territory.
Thanks for the write up. I think I'll slowly bring her to 5*, I really like her design. I'm surprised at the amount of 3*s I would like spec changes for.
Grats. They're solid pulls.
My last 5 MLs have all been dupes. 2 Lorina, 2 Mirsa and 1 Arowell. Going through a bad streak with them for sure.
Between dispatches, arena battles, and reputation rewards I was able to total up about 800 arena crests this weekend. Should be able to do 1200 per week no problem and have a new piece of arena gear each week.
+15'd the amulet and got 22% Crit Dmg and the rest in effect resistance. Considering it's an attack set not to worried it didn't go into speed and health. It'll just have to go on a slow DPS. Sitting in the locker unequipped right now until I see the collab units otherwise it's going on Axe God.
+15'd the amulet and got 22% Crit Dmg and the rest in effect resistance. Considering it's an attack set not to worried it didn't go into speed and health. It'll just have to go on a slow DPS. Sitting in the locker unequipped right now until I see the collab units otherwise it's going on Axe God.
Wondering how long the season is going to run for. Will we have time to clear the shop?
I just assumed a few months at least. Season 1 was what, 5 months?
You probably had -5 speed rng while their Bellona got +5 spd rng... meaning they only had 4 more speed than you.
If you had rematched you probably would've gone first.
Also maybe they had a unit that had speed imprint you didn't know or paid attention to, Helga can go under the radar in that regards.
I've autoing Hell with
Krau
Luna
Lidica
Angelica or Mascot Hazel (prob quicker with Hazel)
Thankfully I can auto this and I couldn't even manual Charles Hell.... or Wyvern 10.
Yeah she's strong but you have to finish her rune tree... and I would like to do her SC and build her but why would I invest so much energy and resources to her when I have Luna, Cermia, Cidd etc.
Fav S3 is Charles and Kayron.
I would honestly stick with Mercedes until you get another AoE unit, as in Vildred, Tenebae, Bellona, Kayron, Clarissa etc.
That could be a long time away.
Mercedes is a good enough farmer and can do really well in the latest hunt with Mascot Hazel and a few choice artifacts (Daydream Joker, Radiant Forever, the current event one).
Helga's due for a rework in the next 1-4 months probably.
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The killer is they'll save the better one for the second round and people with less than 1210 will probably be too tempted to hold off on the first round. I'm ready for the collab, been hoarding my new player bookmarks and skystones. I'm not sure what I'll do with them if I roll them before pity lol, I guess continue hoarding.
I should have specified one pity lol since i know I'm not going for a second pity. So they are having the second character in a second round? Oh well if I am lucky as I have for previous 5star highlights/limited I actually pulled in I'll probably get it within 50 pulls. I pulled Tama and Idol's cheer within 20 pulls and Luna within 50.
Congrats, Violet is fantastic. You generally want him at slower speed (130-140 is good) so he gets lots of chances to counterattack, so it's best to run him with Attack/Crit or Lifesteal/Crit sets. His best artifact is Moonlight Dreamblade which ups his evasion chances.
https://epic7x.com/character/violet/
I'm just assuming they'll do two rounds. It's a month long event and the best way to get people to spend money is have them blow it all on a 5* collab character and then release another appealing one two weeks later.
To my knowledge we're still sort of speculating what the arrangement will be regarding the collab characters. They've specifically stated one 5* through the tournament for sure. The only other thing they mention was "Outside of this, we also have plans for two other limited collaborations..."
Whether this means two 5* limited collab banners, or one 5* pity/one 5* not, or even 4*/3* free or through story/challenger mode we really don't know. But, the current speculation is for two 5* limited collab character banners with their respective artifacts, so that's why everyone's harping on the double pity amount.
He needs lifesteal/crit. He is a bruiser, and evasions still lead to you taking damage in this game (30%.)
His self heal is too low, at 15% to keep him alive.
Only bother if you have the Moonlight Dreamblade, or if you have AssCart. Definitely bother if you have both.
I do not suggest using Molas on his S2. It is an indirect nerf, as it lowers evasion uptime.
You should build him slow, stick him in the leader spot.
Pretty sure we'll get one collab character in the side story/event and we'll get the chance to max imprint that character throughout the month.
Weeks 1-2 should be limited banner 1
Weeks 3-4 should be limited banner 2
I really hope this isn't too grindy of an event, it's going to take place around the same time as CCC for Fate.... F.....
Though I only have one leaf left so it's not like I can spend a lot of energy anyway so whatever.
I am just cursed with low rolls.
Building a Banshee team to just trash most of Abyss' gear.
Wish I rolled Tangerine because I am going to have to level like Jecht for the fight and I am not looking forward to that.
made it to Challenger 1 last week. Uh, I don't think I'll be hitting Champion any time soon.
It was pretty funny to see my first defense win of the week was the same person who scammed two wins off me first by extreme RNG luck, followed by the game itself having a network error right after I beat them.
my T6 lifesteal came out all effectiveness/speed. Works well on Bellona since she still lifesteals a lot on high hp bosses and I like to use her for dog walking.
It was pretty funny to see my first defense win of the week was the same person who scammed two wins off me first by extreme RNG luck, followed by the game itself having a network error right after I beat them.
my T6 lifesteal came out all effectiveness/speed. Works well on Bellona since she still lifesteals a lot on high hp bosses and I like to use her for dog walking.
Wonder who the trap banner will be this week.
Wondering if they are going to be evil enough to drop a strong in demand unit like Tamerine or Diene. Or just a new, broken unit pre collaboration.
Wondering if they are going to be evil enough to drop a strong in demand unit like Tamerine or Diene. Or just a new, broken unit pre collaboration.
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