[July 24th Patch] Summer Karin & Chaos Inquisitor Specialty Change

Overview

This week’s patch is huge as we got a lot of updates with new characters, content and also quality of life changes.

• Patch Note Part 1: https://page.onstove.com/epicseven/global/main/view/3586058
• Patch Note Part 2: https://page.onstove.com/epicseven/global/main/view/3586361

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIGdorT4rvI

Summary

• 3 week Side Story – Song of the Sea
• Swimsuit Karin Skin available via skystones
• Seaside Bellona (water most likely) new character available to summon August 1st 2019
• 4 Star Artifact Rainbow Scale from side story
• New Challenge for 4 Star Artifact Shepherds of Chaos
• Sigret Banner Rate Up
• Specialty Change Chaos Inquisitor from Butcher Corps
• Abyss Guide added
• We can now manage our equipment and see stat preview changes!
• Arena Season 2 ends 7/28 and Season 3 starts 8/11
• Sez can now be recalled for 2 weeks
• Automaton Tower nerfed with lower stats, floor 91-100 can now be weakened with stigma

Patch Notes

1. Special Side Story – Song of the Sea

Karin was busy maintaining order in Reingar amidst an influx of summer visitors when she suddenly collapsed due to exhaustion. The Phantom CIC sent Sez, Rin, and Bellona to help Karin.

The next day, Karin and Sez while on Coast Patrol happened to rescue a fisherman who was overpowered by the waves. This brings together Karin and the Phantom CIC for an unforgettable summer…

■ Title Screen Change

■ Availability

7/25 (Thu) after the update ~ 8/14 (Wed) 18:00 UTC

■ How to Enter

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

■ How to Enter

Song of the Sea is a special 3 week event. Clear various stages to receive a variety of rewards from quest completions and reputations. “Summer Reingar” will be open in the first week and “Underwater Ruins” will be open in weeks 2~3.

– Treasure chests and Goblin Gates that appear in this side story will not contain event currency.

– The Achievements and the Summer Pass provide the same rewards that the Exchange would have provided.

– From Normal difficulty and higher, players have the chance to receive the catalyst, “Fused Nerve” after defeating a boss.

[Locked Stage] 

– In order to proceed to stage [4-S1. Protected Research Area], players will need to clear the Preceding Quest as well as the Locked Quest that follows it by defeating 100 monsters.

– In order to open other locked stages, players need to complete the necessary requirements.

– [4. Pale Footprint Beach] is a defense stage that consists of Easy, Normal, Hard and Hell difficulties. Players may only choose a higher difficulty level after completing the preceding difficulty level. Depending on the difficulty level selected, the number of battles as well as the monster compositions will vary.

[Exploration Stage] 

– In order to enter stage [5-S5. Waterweed Forest], players must collect 50 stage currency from the stages listed below.

✓ 5-S1. Land of Silver Borders

✓ 5-S2. Platinum Moor

✓ 5-S3. Waiting Hill

✓ 5-S4. Aquamarine Shore

– Exploration Stages contain Easy, Normal and Hard Difficulty levels. Players may select a higher difficulty after clearing the stage that precedes it. The higher the difficulty, the greater the Energy required to enter. However, higher difficulty levels provide players with greater event currency.

– From Normal Difficulty and higher, the boss monsters will have different effect resistances.

[Event Currency]

This item is required to complete certain achievements in “Song of the Sea” and will be removed at the end of the event period.

[Underwater Stage]

– The stage [7. Foam Bubble Island] takes place underwater. In the underwater stage, players will be given an “Air Bubble” at the start of the stage. Take note that this air bubble will not be applied again upon resurrection.

[Epic Hell Stage]

– [7-S. Protected Research Area] can be entered after clearing the final stage as well as after clearing the necessary Hidden Achievements.

– The difficulty of this stage is very high and may only be cleared once during the event period.

■ Enhanced Heroes

The following Heroes will receive benefits when used in Song of the Sea.

※ Seaside Bellona will be available to players via summons beginning on 8/1.

■ Reputation

Complete Reputations to obtain various rewards.

[Hidden Achievement]

Hidden Achievements will be cleared upon meeting certain conditions.
Follow the hints to complete the Achievement!

[Reputation Rewards]

– Players do not need to complete Hell difficulty in order to receive the “All-Clear” reward.

[Artifact, 4★ Rainbow Scale]

– Rainbow Scale is an event artifact that will not return any Powder of Knowledge if sold.

■ Summer Pass

Players may use the Summer Pass during the Song of the Sea side story.

After completing an achievement in Song of the Sea, players will receive 1 achievement point for the summer pass and are able to receive a reward.
It is possible to receive all the basic rewards during the event period, but players also have the option of purchasing achievement points with Skystones. 1 point is equivalent to 100 Skystones.

Once a reward is available, players can select it to receive it immediately.
If a player did not yet receive their reward, then the Summer Pass icon will display a red dot.

[Buy Summer Pass]
Using Skystones, players can improve their Summer Pass.

*Premium Summer Pass

By improving the Summer Pass to the Premium Summer Pass, players will unlock additional rewards along with the basic rewards. Players can upgrade to the Premium Summer Pass for an additional 900 Skystones.

*Special Summer Pass

Upon purchasing the Special Summer Pass, players will receive all of the rewards of the previous Summer Pass and unlock Karin [Shore Patrol].

[How to Apply]

Heroes with skins other than the default skin will have a “Skin Icon” activated in the Hero Details window.

Players should then select equip to activate the skin they wish to use. The standing motion, illustration and cut skills are changed to match the skin. Players can view these changes by tapping “Preview Skills”.

[End of Event Period]

Players may receive their Summer Pass Rewards for 7 days following the end of the special side story, “Song of the Sea”. Players cannot receive Achievement points by playing during this period, however, they can receive them by tapping the “Buy Achievement Points” button and receive rewards. The Summer Pass is not available during this period as well.
Once the reward compensation period has ended, players will be unable to receive unclaimed rewards.

2. Sigret Drop Rate Up

Sigret is an Ice-element warrior that can cause high damage in a short time.
Meet the Head of the Homunculus Unit in her Drop Rate Up Event!

■ Drop Rate Up Information

7/25 (Thu) after the update ~ 7/31 (Wed) 14:59 UTC

3. Challenge! Haughty Tailor

New Unknown have appeared, causing Orbis to fall into unrest once again. Eliminate the Unknown and investigate the cause of the Chaos Gate!

■ Event Availability

7/25 (Thu) after the maintenance ~ 8/14 (Wed) 18:00 UTC

■ How to Enter

After clearing stage 6-1. Northern Wind Corner, go to the Lobby and tap [Battle] > [Challenge].

Lobby > Battle > Challenge > Haughty Tailor

■ How to Play

The ‘Haughty Tailor’ Challenge is available in Normal, Hard, and Hell difficulties. Higher difficulties will become available upon clearing the preceding difficulty. Players have a chance of receiving the 4★ Artifact Shepherds of Chaos each time they beat the Challenge.

■ Rewards

EXP, Stigma, and Gold will be rewarded upon beating the Challenge, and Charms, Equipment, and the 4★ Artifact, Shepherds of Chaos also has a chance to drop.

[4★ Shepherds of Chaos Drop Rate]

■  Event Artifact 4★ Shepherds of Chaos Description (Thief Exclusive)
– Shepherds of Chaos is an event exclusive Artifact that will yield no Powder of Knowledge if sold.

■ Reputation

4. Specialty Change – Chaos Inquisitor

The 3★ Hero, Butcher Corps Inquisitor can now undergo a Specialty Change.
After completing the Specialty Change, Butcher Corps Inquisitor will be granted a new sprite, new skills, and new animations!

Additional stat changes and skill enhancements can be made via the Skill Tree.

■ Chaos Inquisitor 

[Specialty Change – New Skill Information]

■ Specialty Change Quest Requirements 

Enhance Butcher Corps Inquisitor to level 50.

■ How to 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.

■ Skill Tree

After a Specialty Change, the Skill Tree can be accessed via the Awakening menu.

Spend Elemental Runes to enhance the Runes in the Skill Tree and make your Hero stronger!

[Rune Enhance Results]

– Increases Effectiveness by 10%

– Increases Effectiveness by 15%

– Increase Skill Effect chance by 10%

– Increase Combat Readiness by 20%

– Increases damage by 5%

– Increases damage dealt by Preach by 12%

– Increases the amount recovered by Preach by 10%

– Increase Health by 10%

– Increases Preach’s chance of activating Heavy Strike by 20%

– Increases Preach’s chance of activating Heavy Strike by 30%

5. Abyss Guide Added

A guide has been added to Abyss mode! Now you can see which heroes and team compositions are used the most in Abyss!
Use this guide if you’re stuck and need some extra help to complete the Abyss!

■ Open Schedule

7/25 (Thu) 3:00 UTC

■ How to Use
Select the Abyss level that you wish to have information about and tap the “Statistics” button.

In this window, players will be able to see the rankings for Heroes that have been used to clear the level selected.
If a player taps on a specific hero, they will be able to see which teams featured the selected hero the most.

6. Manage Equipment Function

The Equipment Management function allows players to preview changes that would be made if equipping new equipment!

■ Location

In the Hero Details window, plays should tap the “Manage Equipment” button.

– Inventory > Tap the icon.

■ How to Use

The right side of the screen displays equipment that you own. The left side displays the equipment that the current hero has equipped. When a player selects a piece of equipment on the right side, the screen will display the difference in stats between these two pieces of equipment. The temporarily selected equipment will only be equipped after tapping the “Change” button.

The cost of equipping will occur after the “Change” button is tapped.

■ Filter

Players can filter the equipment based on a variety of settings.

7. Arena Season 2 Closing Information

■ Arena 

Arena Season 2 will be coming to an end soon.

■ Arena Season 2 Frame Distribution Schedule 

1) Distribution Date: 8/11 (Sun) 18:00 UTC

2) Reward: The item will be delivered to your mailbox once Arena Season 3 begins.

– When Arena Season 3 begins, unused Glory Crest obtained from season 2 will automatically be converted to Conquest Points. The exchange rate is 5:1 (Glory Crest: Conquest Points)

– When Arena season 3 begins, players will not be able to purchase exclusive Arena season 2 items using Glory Crest.

– When Arena season 3 begins, players will only be able to purchase exclusive Arena season 2 items using Conquest Points.

– The price for exclusive Arena season 2 items will be adjusted when Arena season 3 begins.

– Players will not be able to purchase Exclusive Arena Season 2 items again if they already purchased them during season 2.

– Players will be able to purchase the exclusive Arena season 2 Passionate Frame until the beginning of season 3.

8. Hero Recall Sez

Players will be able to recall Sez if they fulfill the conditions below.

■ Recall Availability

7/24 (Wed) after the maintenance ~ 8/7 (Wed) 14:59 UTC

■ Recall Eligible Hero

Lv. 50 or higher Sez

■ How to Recall

1) Go to the Hero Details of the Hero you would like to recall and tap the Recall button.

2) When you tap Recall, a list of all materials that will be returned will display. Here, if you decide you want to proceed, tap Recall.

3) One more confirmation screen will appear. Select Confirm if you are certain you would like to recall the Hero.

■ Recall Reimbursement

1) Level 

– The current level’s worth of EXP will be returned to the player via 3~5 star Penguins.

※ Notice – Shadow Hero Penguin/White Knight Penguin

– Using these Penguins for Hero Transmission will not provide any Transmit Stones and only 1 Gold will be given.

– When using these Penguins to Enhance, Good Success and Great Success will not occur.

– These Penguins cannot be used together with other materials to Enhance.

– Shadow Hero Penguins and White Knight Penguins can be used at the same time.

2) Grade 

– Phantasma and Gold will be issued according to the Hero’s current star grade at the time of Recall.

– The Phantasma that are provided via recall will be one grade higher than their natural Grade. (Tera Phantasma: 5★)

3) Awakening and Rune Enhancement 

– Runes and Catalysts will be reissued according to the amounts used for Awakening.

4) Skill Enhance  

– All MolaGora, Catalysts, and Gold will be reissued according to the amounts used for Skill Enhancement as listed in-game.

– Due to the change in MolaGora cost, players will be compensated any additional MolaGora that were consumed prior to this update.

5) Memory Imprint 

– Duplicate Heroes used for Memory Imprint will be reimbursed as Sez.

– Amounts issued according to the Devotion Skill level are listed below.

9. Other Improvements and Adjustments

■ Heroes

– An issue that caused all the fighting spirit to be removed when Sol’s fighting spirit is at 100% at the end of a battle has been fixed.
– An issue that caused Wanderer Silk’s additional Automatic Fire that is triggered to be displayed as Basic Shoot instead of Automatic Fire has been fixed.

– An issue that caused the provoke effect to remain active when Champion Zerato moved when provoked by Earthen Rage has been fixed.

– An issue that caused Counterattack and additional skills not to be normally triggered if a hero dies of damage at the start of a turn and is immediately revived has been fixed.

– Adjustments have been made to the names of certain relationships.

✓ Trust → Friendly

✓ Grudge → Hostile

■ Artifact

– Adjustments have been made to the description of the 4★ artifact, Aurius. However, no functional changes have been made.

■ Adventure

– An issue that caused Scorpetra who appears in A Crack in the World not to be able to use Coercion has been fixed.
– An animation has been added to the illustration of Tish and Rish who appear in Savara and Ki Ruburan.
– Improvements have been made to the battle clear screen to show both the current Adventure Points and those just obtained.

■ Automaton Tower 

– Improvements have been made so that players are able to use stigma on all floors to weaken enemies.

– The major rewards button has been temporarily removed due to the fact that it is not effectively showing the major rewards. Improvements will be made to this later on.

– The stats for monsters on floors 91~100 has been decreased.

– Among the Reclaim effects for Phantom Fighter Maya who appears on floor 95, the attack/defense increase effect has been reduced by half compared to what it was previously.

※The floors are based on July’s Automaton Tower.

■ Labyrinth 

– Adjustments have been made so that Sol’s Volcanic Viper skill does not trigger when Secretary Vera who appears in Royal Capital Azmakalis transforms into a cocoon.

– An issue that caused the Plague effect to be sustained for a set number of turns even after Juleeve Council who appears in Royal Capital Azmakalis, after it divides has been fixed.

■ Sanctuary 

– A feature has been added which will allow players to immediately lock or sell items that they have crafted in the Steel Workshop.

– When missions are assigned at the High Command, MAX instead of locked will be displayed for Heroes with the highest level on the list of heroes.

– An issue that cause an error pop-up to be displayed when attempting to craft charms in the Alchemist’s Steeple has been fixed.

■ Guild

– A confirmation window has been added when giving Rare Catalyst as aid in the Guild.

– Improvements have been made to add a window showing that guild war rewards have not been collected.

– The guild war icon for a draw has been adjusted.

– Victory or defeat in guild wars will be marked in the following order: Victory, Draw, and Defeat. The same will be applied for the following.

✓ Guild War results window

✓ Guild War member status

✓ Guild War building status

■ Summon

– Improvements have been made so that the awakened skill information is displayed on the details button after summoning a hero.

– Adjustments have been made so that the skill preview is not displayed on the detail view of heroes on the Selective Summon results page.

– If a player does not have enough materials for a Mystic Summon, a pop-up window that will direct them to the guild has been added.

■ Shop

– MolaGora displayed as currency has been removed from the Vagrant Merchant Huche and Goblicus shop.

– An issue that caused items in the secret shop to seem to have been reset when you logout and then login after purchasing items from the secret shop has been fixed.

■ Inventory

– A ‘select equipment’ option has been added to the auto-select menu in the inventory. This option can be seen when players select the ‘All’ tab in equipment.

– A frame has been added for grade filtering.

■ Journal

– Fanatical Gaze Nikelia has been added to the monster journal.

– An issue that caused players not to be able to search for Sira-Ren in the artifact journal has been fixed.
– The amount of fighting spirit for Apocalypse Ravi’s Deliverance: Soul Exchange that can be checked from Mystic Summon has been adjusted to 30.

■ Package

– Effects have been added when equipment packages are purchased so that detailed information for each equipment acquired can be displayed.

■ Sound

– Improvements have been made to the skill sound and volume of the following heroes.

✓ Ras

✓Aither

✓Maya

✓Crozet

✓Corvus

✓Zerato

✓Charlotte

✓ Baal & Sezan

✓ Sez

✓ Cartuja

✓Romann

✓Shadow Rose

✓Silver Blade Aramintha

✓Blaze Dingo

✓Judge Kise

✓Sol

✓Baiken

✓Dizzy

■ UI and Other

– Improvements have been made so that when you finish promoting a hero you are taken to the hero menu and not the hero level up menu.

– Improvements have been made so that the results window is not displayed after promoting Phantasma.

– The animation effects when Phantasma is leveled up have been simplified.

– A text, which shows the Phantasma’s use can now be seen when you select Phantasma from the hero menu.

– Improvements have been made to the Details UI for fodder heroes.

– Improvements have been made to the craft equipment guide in the inventory to show the updated steel workshop UI.

– An issue that caused certain effects not to be added or certain words not to be highlighted in the skill description for certain heroes/monsters has been fixed.

– An issue that caused an overlap in the ‘gates’ image when PVP starts / ends has been fixed.

– An issue that caused the [Combine Runes] button not to be displayed correctly when a player is unable to combine runes, has been fixed.

– An intermittent issue that caused the same summon notification to be broadcast twice in the chat has been fixed.

– An issue that caused overlap for iPhone X, XS and XR has been fixed.

■ Language

– Adjustments have been made for all languages to certain text that was overlapping or misspelled.