[10/29] Coin Shop, New Halloween Sidestory, and Top Model Luluca!

Overview

Hello, Epic 7 players! Today, we have a really big patch update, featuring the long-awaited Coin Shop, a guaranteed way to get limited Artifacts, Top Model Luluca, and so much more! Week 1 of a new Halloween sidestory, Blood and Roses, will be placed in the game, along with the new SC, Magic Scholar Doris! Overall, it’s a very exciting time!

Patch Notes

1. Coin Shop Update

The Coin Shop that we had talked about in the Developer Notes is here! When you get a duplicate 5★ hero, you will also receive Covenant Coins or Galaxy Coins that you can use to purchase items in the Coin Shop.

■ 5★ Duplicate Hero Definition

– Duplicate heroes obtained from various summons and collected via the mailbox

ㄴ Summon Types: Covenant, Moonlight, Drop Rate Up, Mystic Summon, Element Summon, Selective Summon

– This does not apply to the following

① Heroes obtained through Recall

② Heroes not obtained through summons but obtained through content such as Events, the Shop, Exchange                      (such as Sol, Zeno, etc)

■ Coin Information

Icon	Item	Description	Amount
	Covenant Coins	A commemorative coin created by the powers of destiny when you encounter Heroes you have already formed connections with. – Receive when you get 7 duplicates of 5★ starting grade Fire, Ice, Earth elemental heroes- It can be used in the Covenant Coin section of the Shop.	8
	Galaxy Coins	A rare coin created by the powers of destiny when you encounter special Heroes from other worlds multiple times. – Receive when you get 2 duplicates of 5★ starting grade Light, Dark elemental heroes – It can be used in the Galaxy Coin section of the Shop.	10

■ How to Obtain Coins

– After summoning a hero on the results screen if it is a duplicate hero and is eligible to receive coins, a message stating so will be displayed on the screen.

– Players can check the coins they obtained by going to [Inventory > Other > Currency].

■ How to Use the Coin Shop

[Location]

– Covenant Coin Shop: Shop > Covenant Coin

– Galaxy Coin Shop: Shop > Galaxy Coin

[Basic Information]

– The Coin Shop will only be displayed when you have the appropriate currency.

– All items in the Coin Shop have a monthly purchase limit, which will reset on the first of every month at 03:00 UTC.

※ The purchase limit will not reset on 11/1 (Sun).

– There will be a rotation for the 5★ heroes that can be purchased on the first of every month at 03:00 UTC.

① Covenant Shop: Two 5★ Covenant Heroes (Fire/Ice/Earth)

② Galaxy Shop: One 5★ Moonlight Hero (Light/Dark)

※ The next 5★ hero rotation for the Coin Shop will be on 12/1 (Tue) 03:00 UTC.

– Stats and sets of Random Lv.85 Equipment/Accessory can be viewed before exchange.

[Covenant Coin Shop]

[Galaxy Coin Shop]

※ Lv.85 Epic Equipment/Accessory (Random) List

– Before exchanging, players can see the set effect and stats of the Lv. 85 Epic Equipment / Lv. 85 Epic Accessory by tapping the ‘View’ button

– Three random types of Epic Equipment/Accessories that can be obtained from Hunts or Crafting will be displayed

– The number of refreshes will reset on the first of every month at 03:00 UTC. (Can be refreshed up to 30 times in one month)

■ Number of Summons for a 5★ Hero 

– Players can check the number of times a hero has been summoned by going to [Journal > Select Hero > Hero Information].

– Only heroes obtained from summons and mailbox will be counted.

■ Applied Retroactively

– All players who received duplicate 5-star heroes will receive covenant and moonlight coins according to the conditions set.

– Condition (Acquired by summoning or from summon tickets)

① Receive 8 coins for every duplicate hero when you get 7 duplicates of 5★ starting grade Fire, Ice, Earth elemental heroes

② Receive 10 coins when you get 2 duplicates of 5★ starting grade Light, Dark elemental heroes

– The coins will be sent to the mailbox. (Unlimited storage period)

2. Powder of Knowledge Shop Update

Improvements will be made to include the artifact in the drop rate up event in the Powder of Knowledge shop during the event period.

■ Drop Rate Up Artifact Sale Information

– Location: Shop > Powder of Knowledge

– Purchase Limit: Once during the Drop Rate Up event period

– Cost: 240 Powder of Knowledge

■ Details

– The Artifact in the drop rate up event will be sold in the Powder of Knowledge shop only during the event period.

– A summon icon will be displayed on the drop rate up Artifact in the powder of knowledge shop.

– Once the drop rate up event is over, this Artifact will no longer be sold in the Powder of Knowledge shop and the purchased limit will reset.

– However, the purchase limit of 1 will not apply if the drop rate up Artifact was already on the Powder of Knowledge shop Artifact rotation list.

※ The drop rate up screen will also state that the artifact is being sold in the powder of knowledge shop.

3. Special Side Story – Blood and Roses

After meeting Melissa and learning about his true identity, Haste begins to recover memories of his childhood and grows confused. As the night that will blur the boundaries of life and death draws near, a dark shadow begins to loom over his fate…

Week 1 of the special side story, Blood and Roses begins now.

■ Schedule

10/29 (Thu) after the maintenance ~ 11/19 (Thu) 02:59 UTC

■ Title Screen Change

■ How to Enter

After reaching Account Rank 9, go to the Lobby and tap [Battle] > [Side Story].

■ Side Story Details

[Chapter Opening Schedule]

[Chapter 1 Event Currency]

Icon	Description
	[Old Taranor Coin] They say these coins were once used in Taranor’s underground world to purchase special goods.

※ The currency that can be obtained from each stage is different.

※ Players will not be able to obtain currency from story stages.

[Enhanced Heroes]

[Week 1 – Enhanced Artifact]

■ Stage Progress

– Stages in the special side story, Blood and Roses stages are not linear.

– Stages that are not yet unlocked will not appear on the map.

– Hidden stages will open once the stage before it is cleared.

[Story Stage]

– Story Stages do not require Energy to enter and do not have any battles.

– Story Stages do not provide Event currency.

[Stage Difficulty] 

– In the first week of this side story, players can play through two difficulty levels.

– All stages have an exclusive Boss or an event stage Boss.

– Players may select a higher difficulty after successfully clearing the one before it.

[Locked Stages]

– Certain stages in week 1 can be unlocked using event currency.

– The amount of event currency required to unlock a stage will vary from stage to stage.

– A lock will be displayed on the world map if a stage is locked.

– Players can freely play through a stage once it has been unlocked.

■ Supplementary Story

– Players can play through a supplementary story in stages S1 and S2.

– Players will be able to play through the supplementary story after clearing all stages in the main story and completing unlock reputations.

■ Exchange

– Players will be able to exchange event currency, Old Taranor Coin, obtained from battle stages for various items.

– Players will be able to exchange event currency for items up to one week after the Side Story ends.

[Event Pet – Intern Beth]

■ Three Event Artifacts Added

– Players will be able to obtain three 4★ event artifacts as a reward from the special side story, Blood and Roses.

[Common – 4★ XVI. The Tower]

– Players can receive the 4★ Artifact, ‘XVI. The Tower’ as a reward from Taranor’s Underground Main Street, the first-week chapter of the special side story, Blood and Roses.

[Common – 4★ XIII. Death]

– Players can receive the 4★ Artifact, ‘XIII. Death’ as a reward from Borderland Village, the second-week chapter of the special side story, Blood and Roses.

[Common – 4★ XVIII. The Moon]

– Players can receive the 4★ Artifact, ‘XVIII. The Moon’ as a reward from The Cursed Mansion, the third-week chapter of the special side story, Blood and Roses.

4. New 5★ Hero – Top Model Luluca

Top Model Luluca, a carefree model fighting for her friends and the universe has arrived!

Players can obtain her from Mystic, Covenant and Moonlight summons.

■ Top Model Luluca

[Hero Introduction]

5. Specialty Change – Magic Scholar Doris

Players will be able to Specialty Change the 3★ Hero Doris into Magic Scholar Doris!

After completing the Specialty Change, Doris will be granted a new sprite, new skills, and new animations!
Additional stat changes and skill enhancements can be made via the Skill Tree.

■ Magic Scholar Doris

Magic Scholar Doris’ right hand will be partially modified in the following update.

[Specialty Change – New Skill Information]

■ Specialty Change Conditions

The following conditions have to be met before beginning the Specialty Change quests.

– Have Doris Lv. 50

■ How to Complete a Specialty Change  

– From the Lobby, go to the Hero menu > Specialty Change.

– Once all 3 Specialty Change Quests have been cleared and the Trial Battle has been successfully completed, the Specialty Change will be complete.

– After completing a Specialty Change, the Hero’s appearance and skills will change, and the Hero cannot be reverted to their previous state.

■ Skill Tree

After a Specialty Change, the Skill Tree can be accessed via the Awakening menu.
Use Elemental Runes to enhance the Runes in the Skill Tree and make your Hero stronger!

[Rune Enhancement Results]

The rune enhancement effects are according to the maximum enhancement standard.

* Faith Rune – Increases Speed by 5.

* Guard Rune – Increases Mana Bullet’s decrease Hit Chance effect chance by 5%.

* Health Rune – Increases Health by 10%.

* Solitude Rune – Recovers Health of all allies by 2% after being attacked by a Dark elemental enemy.

* Relic Rune – Increases Effect Resistance by 25%.

* Order Rune – Has a 10% chance to increase Defense of all allies for 1 turn after being attacked by a Dark elemental enemy.

* Sacrifice Rune – Has a 100% chance to increase Combat Readiness of the caster by 5% after using Mana Bullet.

* Prosperity Rune – Increases Effect Resistance of all allies by 5%.

* Harvest Rune – Has a 100% chance to decrease damage suffered from a critical hit by 30% when attacked by a Dark elemental enemy. When more than one damage reduction effect is granted, only the strongest effect is applied.

* Mercy Rune – When using Primal Light, has a 100% chance to dispel one additional debuff from the target.

6. Luna & Draco Plate Limited Drop Rate Up

In this Drop Rate Up event, meet the Ice elemental hero Luna who through her advantageous elements attacks the enemy and contains them using her skills which inflict high damage. Players can also obtain the Warrior exclusive Artifact, Draco Plate that can simultaneously attack and defend.

■ Schedule

10/29 (Thu) after the maintenance ~ 11/12 (Thu) 02:59 UTC

7. Haste and Rhianna & Luciella Drop Rate Up

In this Drop Rate Up event meet the Fire elemental Thief, Haste who can simultaneously inflict debuffs and heal allies. Players can also obtain the Thief exclusive Artifact, Rhianna & Luciella that has a set chance to be granted an extra turn at the end of the turn.

■ Schedule

10/29 (Thu) after the maintenance ~ 11/5 (Thu) 02:59 UTC

8. New Exclusive Equipment

– New Exclusive Equipment for the 5★ Hero, Luna, and the 5★ Hero, Celine will be added to the Hall of Trials Exchange.
– Players can obtain Exclusive Equipment from the Hall of Trials Exchange using Wisdom’s Gaze.

– Exclusive Equipment stats and skill effects will be applied randomly after the equipment has been purchased.

■ Exclusive Equipment Information

[5★ Luna]

[5★ Celine]

■ Cost

■ The 5★ hero Cecilia and the 4★ hero Rin’s Exclusive Equipment will be added to the Alchemist’s Steeple.

9. Limited Halloween Pet Added 

A limited Halloween pet will be added.

Players can obtain this pet during the period below by going to [Pet House > Adopt].

■ Schedule

10/29 (Thu) after the maintenance ~ 11/12 (Thu) 02:59 UTC

■ New Pet Information

10. New Expedition Boss and Reward Improvements

The Expedition Boss will be updated on November 1 and some rewards will be adjusted.

■ Expedition Boss Rotation

– The Boss monster that appears in Frustration Swamp will be changed from the Earth elemental Blooming Snag Lich to the Dark elemental Destructive Gigantes.

■ Reward Adjustment

– Players will be able to obtain Origin Shell, Azimanak Reforging Material from Destructive Gigantes.

– The cumulative point base values and rewards for some sections of the expedition depot will be changed.

1. Players now will be able to receive 11 rewards from the Expedition Depot per boss.

2. The Cumulative Point range will be increased to 2100.

3. The reward, Dark Fragment for Blooming Snag Lich (Earth) will be changed to Origin Shell for Destructive Gigantes (Dark).

■ Other

– Rewards not collected from the previous Boss expedition will expire and be automatically acquired.

11. Artifact & Equipment Usage Statistics Update 

A function where players can check which Equipment or Artifacts are mostly used by a Hero will be added.

■ Schedule

10/29 (Thu) after the maintenance

■ Data Update

Every Friday at 03:00 UTC

※ Please note that the schedule for the data update may be adjusted in the future.

■ Location

– Journal > Hero Journal > Select Hero > Hero Rating > Usage Statistics

– Hero > Select Hero > Details > Hero Rating

– Hero > Select Hero > Manage Equipment

– Inventory > Artifact > Artifact Pop-up

■ Artifact Usage Statistics 

[Hero]

– Players will now be able to view which Artifact was equipped on a certain Hero during a specific period.

[Artifact]

– The data showing which Heroes used a certain Artifact will be displayed.

■ Equipment Usage Statistics 

[Hero]

– The equipment set that was equipped on a certain Hero for a certain period of time will be displayed.

[Equipment]

– The data showing which heroes equipped a certain Equipment set will be displayed.

■ Artifact ↔ Equipment Usage Statistics Screen 

– When you scroll down on the Hero Artifact or Equipment usage statistics screen, a button will be displayed at the bottom.

– You can switch between the Equipment and Artifact usage statistics screen by tapping this button.

12. Other Improvements and Adjustments

■ Account Rank Increased

– The max rank for an account will be increased.

– Following the max. account rank increase, the maximum amount of energy that can be stored will increase.

– The Reputation grade for Conclave will be increased from 12 to 14.

■ Shop

[Pack > Stigma Pack]

– The price of the Stigma Pack will be reduced and the components will be renewed.

– Adjustments will be made so that the pack is only displayed under certain conditions.

– Purchase Period: 10/29 (Thu) after the maintenance

– Purchase Condition: Promoting a starting grade 3★ hero to 5★

– Component adjustments

※ Due to the renewal of the Stigma pack, the condition of promoting a starting grade 3★ hero to 5★ for the Nurture Booster Pack will be removed.

[Pack > Gold Pack 1, 2]

– The price of the previous Gold Pack 1 and 2 will be reduced and the contents renewed.

– Schedule

– Adjustments

[Other]

– Adjustments will be made to change the category label from Equipment to Artifact in the following shops.

① Powder of Knowledge

② Guild Shop

③ Side Story Exchange

④ Hall of Trials Exchange

■ Hero and Artifact

– There was an issue where when you enhance the 3★ hero Doris’ skill, Light Curtain the amount by which her Combat Readiness increases will be higher than what was stated in the skill description.

– The actual increase in Combat Readiness will be reflected and further increased. An issue where the amount by which Combat Readiness increases was affected by skill enhancement will be fixed.

– Improvements will be made so that the enhance values in the skill description when you enhance ‘The Chief Is on the Scene’, the 5★ hero Landy’s skill is correct to a decimal place.

– Typos in the skill description for the 5★ hero Yuna’s skill, Homing Laser will be fixed.

– An issue where part of the 5★ hero Roana’s arm was incorrectly displayed will be fixed.

– Adjustments will be made so that the skill effect ‘receives additional damage equivalent to 2% of max Health’ for the 5★ hero Chloe’s skill, Magic Nail is applied for every attack.

– An issue where the enhance information was displayed in an incorrect position when you check the Rune information for the first time after entering the skill tree for a specialty change hero will be fixed.

– Adjustments will be made so that the skill description for Phantasma Seeds of Giga, Mega, and Tera Phantasma matches the actual function. No functional changes will be made.

– An issue where the enhance values are not updated or the skill target adjusted when you try to enhance a skill under certain conditions will be fixed.

– An issue where the level of Phantasma was not correctly displayed after being promoted will be fixed.

■ Monster

– An issue where the icon for King’s Rage, the passive skill for Magnar of the Flame who appears in the Fire Spirit Altar stages 4 ~ 10, was displayed as an active skill will be fixed.

– An issue where the icon for Will of Protection, the passive skill for Zerom Colossus who appears in Golem Hunt stages 11 ~ 13, was displayed as an active skill will be fixed.

– An issue where an effect that is not triggered was displayed in Heir to the Throne’s skill description for Ervalen who appears in Episode 3 chapter 1 will be fixed.

– An issue where the battle could no longer proceed when an enemy Cold Eye Lich who appears in Nixied’s Sanctum Zone 4 uses the skill Envoy’s Rage when in battle will be fixed.

– An intermittent issue where the reduce skill cooldown effect was not applied for Wanderer Silk and Orichalcum Minister who appear in the Farche Labyrinth will be fixed.

– Adjustments will be made so that the skill description for the Buff Restraint Aura and Regeneration Aura effect of the Boss Celine’s skill, PSC Special Service who appears in Abyss Floor 102 is the same as in the sub description. No functional changes will be made.

– An issue where Abyss Floor 105’s Luminescent Watcher/Obscure Watcher’s skill not activating correctly will be fixed.

– Typos in the skill description for Temple Guardian’s skill, Good Luck will be fixed. Temple Guardian appears in Abyss floor 107.

■ Story and Adventure

– An issue where the animation that appears when you first clear Episode 1 Chapter 2-10 is not fully played will be fixed.

– An issue where a discrepancy occurring between the image and description from Auto-Battle tutorial that appears after clearing Episode 1 1-6 will be fixed.

– Some storylines that were missing from 1-1, Unrecorded History will be added.

– Two animations will be added to the episode 2 story.

① The episode 2 PV will be added in the later part of the prologue of episode 2 chapter 1.

② The Promise video will be added in the latter part of the episode 2 chapter 8 story.

※ If you have already cleared the story mentioned above, you can still view the video through the story journal.

– An issue where the pattern and location name for the Episode 3 Exchange shop being incorrectly displayed when you do a certain action will be fixed.

– Typos from Episode 3 1-6 will be fixed.

– An issue where nations name not being displayed when you enter the Exchange Shop after clearing Episode 3 3-10 will be fixed.

■ Battle

– An improvement will be made to save the Auto-Battle settings even after reaching Max level with a Hero.

■ Expedition

– An intermittent issue where completed Expeditions were not displayed on the list will be fixed.

– The expedition boss Blooming Snag Lich’s Klineode monster will now be immune to fixed damage.

– An intermittent issue where a blank screen was displayed when collecting rewards after clearing the Expedition.

– An issue where an error occurred when players attempted to collect the previous season rewards from [Expedition > Expedition Depot].

■ Other

– Changes will be made to the chest icons to match their concept.

ex> Epic Catalyst Chest and Random Epic Equipment

※ Most chests apart from those shown above will have changes made to their icons.  Players can view the changes in-game after the update has been applied.

– Improvements will be made so that the quest tracker appears on the Imprint Release button from the 9th quest of “Beautiful Pursuer”

– An issue of Bulk Promotion’s “Do not promote locked Heroes” function not working as intended will be fixed

– An issue where the screen remained dark when you move to the lobby after watching an in-game video will be fixed.

– An issue where the background pack was not applied when moved to the Hero tab via the “Hero Transmission” page will be fixed.

– Adjustments will be made to the text for the ”Increase Friendship Points Reward” effect acquired as Reputation points reward.

– An issue where the Guild Mission to acquire AP points of regions that were not explored yet appeared on the list will be fixed.

– Screenshots from [Inventory > Help > Equipment] will be renewed.

– An issue where the game crashed when you exit the game with the back button from the lobby will be fixed.

– Minimum requirements for Epic Seven will be updated. (Refer to the following notice: Minimum Operating System (OS) Requirements Change Information)