[Dev Note] Information Regarding Upcoming World Arena Update [102]
Hello Heirs.
This is Epic Seven.
The day that our Heirs have been waiting for is almost here! From December 26, 2019, you will be able to participate in the World Arena!
The World Arena is a new Arena content where Epic Seven Heirs can have real-time PVP battles. Heirs on the Korea, Asia, Global, and Europe servers will now be able to show their skill to all the Heirs around the world. We hope that with the addition of this new content, our Heirs will form new strategies and utilize more Heroes.
The World Arena will have Pre-season 1 and Pre-season 2 before the regular season begins. Pre-season 1 will begin on December 26. We will listen to the opinions of our Heirs during both pre-seasons and use them to make improvements before the start of the regular season.
Now, we will give you more details regarding the World Arena.
[Pre-Season 1] World Arena Participation Method
The Pre-Season 1 World Arena will be open 24 hours every day, excluding maintenance periods, allowing our Heirs to participate as much as possible. Additionally, no currency will be required to enter. Heirs on the Korea, Asia, Global and Europe servers who are Account Rank 60 and above can participate in the World Arena. As no currency will be required to enter Pre-Season 1, no rewards will be awarded for World Arena.
Please note that after the end of Pre-Season 1, the World Arena participation method and rewards may be adjusted and applied to Pre-Season 2.
How to Play
Tapping the Arena icon on the lobby, players may enter either the Arena or the World Arena.
(*This video clip was taken from our test server, and may be different upon release)
(*Heirs will be able to select different languages upon release)
Tapping on the World Arena tab will direct you to the following lobby window.
(*This video clip was taken from our test server, and may be different upon release)
(*Heirs will be able to select different languages upon release)
In the World Arena lobby, players can view the team that they used in the previous battle, their World Arena ranking, World Arena grade, and their Victory/Defeat stats. When you tap on the ‘Ready for battle’ button, you will be matched with an Heir with whom you have similar victory points and stats. You will not be matched continuously with the same opponent.
(*This video clip was taken from our test server, and may be different upon release)
(*Heirs will be able to select different languages upon release)
In the World Arena, Heirs will find a battle opponent regardless of the server. Therefore, as most Heroes and Artifacts have not yet been released on the Japan server, the World Arena for the Japan server will be released at a later date. For the same reason, Heroes and Artifacts that were not released on the Europe server, such as the Guilty Gear Heroes and Artifacts, cannot be used in the World Arena.
Once the matching process is completed, Heirs will be able to see the ID and World Arena ranking of their opponent. Thereafter, players can select and also ban the Heroes to participate in the battle.
(*This video clip was taken from our test server, and may be different upon release)
(*Heirs will be able to select different languages upon release)
See below for more information regarding the Hero selection and ban process.
1. Matched Heirs will take turns to select five Heroes to use in the match
2. Players will then be able to select an opponent’s Hero to ban from the match
3. Players will place the Heroes in the team
Players will have 30 seconds to complete each step. Please see below for more detailed information.
The Heir that will be able to select the first Hero will be chosen at random. This Heir will be able to select one Hero first and then the opponent will be able to select two Heroes and so on. The Heir to select the final Hero will only be able to select one Hero.
Here is a summary of the whole process.
Heir to select Hero first | Order | Heir to select Hero second |
Select 1 Hero | 1 | - |
- | 2 | Select 2 Heroes |
Select 2 Heroes | 3 | - |
- | 4 | Select 2 Heroes |
Select 2 Heroes | 5 | - |
- | 6 | Select 1 Hero |
Heirs cannot select the same Hero. For example, one player will be able to select Silver Blade Aramintha while the other player selects Aramintha because these are two different Heroes. However, players will not be able to select Lorina and Commander Lorina as they are the same Hero.
(*This video clip was taken from our test server, and may be different upon release)
(*Heirs will be able to select different languages upon release)
Once both Heirs have selected 5 Heroes, they can then ban a Hero from the opponent’s list. This process will be conducted simultaneously for both Heirs, and the banned Hero designated by each Heir will be revealed once both Heirs have completed their selection. If you do not ban a Hero within the time limit, one of your opponent's Heroes will be randomly banned.
How to Play World Arena 
(*This video clip was taken from our test server, and may be different upon release)
(*Heirs will be able to select different languages upon release)
In World Arena, each Hero’s turn will have a time limit. If the time limit is exceeded, then the AI will automatically use a skill. While Protector’s Punishment will not be active like in standard Arena mode, the World Arena will, after a certain number of turns, increase the amount of damage received by all Heroes as well as decrease the amount of health that can be recovered.
A total of 9 levels will be applied for this rule. As the level increases, the amount of damage inflicted will increase and the amount of health that can be recovered will be decreased.
These additional rules are being carefully considered to prevent very long battles in World Arena that may fatigue our Heirs. After Pre-season 1 and Pre-season 2, we will make adjustments to the additional rules to ensure that the World Arena battles end after an appropriate amount of time. The goal of this content is to ensure that our Heirs experience a variety of strategies, as well as to have fun watching the battles.
Just as in the standard Arena, once you have enough souls, you can use Soulburn during your Hero’s turn. Heirs can check the number of Souls that the opponent possesses by checking the section under the health bar. When the opponent uses a Soulburn effect, it will be displayed with a separate effect so that it will be easily distinguishable from a standard attack. Knowing the combat readiness and amount of souls an opponent has will give you a strategic advantage. We hope that our Heirs will enjoy deploying various strategies using features like Soulburn.
World Arena Operation Plan
As stated earlier, the World Arena will begin with Pre-Season 1 on December 26, 2019. The regular season will begin once pre-season 2 is completed.
During Pre-Season 1, which is planned to last for about two to four weeks, Heirs will be free to participate in the World Arena, with no restrictions other than the Account Rank requirement. During this time, we hope to receive valuable feedback from our Heirs so that we can enhance the quality of the World Arena content. We hope that you understand that World Arena access could be temporarily suspended if any major issues are discovered during the pre-season.
Pre-Season 2, which will take place after the end of Pre-Season 1, will last for about three months. We will begin the regular season after both Pre-Seasons have been completed.
In the regular Season, we will add a function where Heirs will be able to watch the battles of other Heirs, and a replay function which will allow Heirs to watch their own battles. With the start of the regular Season, players will be able to acquire new currency based on the outcome of the battle, and this new currency can be used to purchase honor rewards from an exclusive shop that will make you stand out amongst other Heirs.
Furthermore, we will continuously update World Arena with different game modes such as friendly matches where Heirs can play against their friends and event matches where specific rules are applied to the match.
With the introduction of World Arena, we are preparing to host various events offline. We ask all of our Heirs their support and encouragement. We also hope that you will enjoy creating new strategies with the addition of this new PvP content.
Thank you.
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I will wait until season 3 then enter WA, no way they match me with the challenger
Wonderful ! Good job Smile Gate ! Well thought and great addition to the game ! And yes new reward currency is a need !
Why are the e7 players so damn whiny and r3tarded?
Great! A Summoners War 2.0 just what the game needs!! 👏
OK...waiting for update hunt system..pfft useless **** lvl 70 gear drop and rip Craft gears . one day used 1000/1200 energy for hunt gg.don't say me why complaint and blame E7...played first released day and this time how many useless gears craft ..for 1 good set how many played hunt?.
Nice, wie viel wollt Ihr eigentlich noch von Summoners War kopieren xD
fix pets already pls
Stop your incessant whining
RTA already? where is HELL lab Queen?
Arbiter Vildred getting banned every time until he's actually balanced. Anyone know how he's working out in the JP server?
if we get units like verde loren fran aegir or even nat 5s like oke, woosa, leo, or more meta relevant like gany hathor, and, yknow what, why not, arta/ragdoll, yeonhong, nephtys, oh i also forgot, antares to be sponsored by google play as well, then i may try rta onceThink
Boring and Uninteresting.
To be honest, based on pick/bans alone, we will know who is a broken character which is fantastic. Something I would absolutely hate to have is making limited skins. I think something like a skin shop would be awesome, that would cost similar to the skins from the passes.
i can only see a small amount of strategy in the world arena, since it will be watered down by equipment difference. Yes some heroes offer variety and you can argue that equipment and sets are interchangeable. However its buckles down to the gear score with overpowered sub stats. Now if you guys wanted players to have fun. Maybe you could had made it where its competition in hero pool where there's no equipment and only base stats of heroes. so less pay to win, i mean some monthly packs give lv 85 equipment. Other than that i love the game and excited for live matches.
This looks like it'll be a lot of fun, the ban mechanics look interesting to make sure teams may stay balanced and require multiple types of teams or more unorthodox combinations compared to simple ones like Tamarinne/Iseria or Tywin/Basar and such. I'm not sure how I feel about the requirements to be account level 60 or the balance, but I am definitely looking forward to it! Thanks for letting us try it out for a while without using currency in the pre-season. Thank you!
Hi devs and anyone who created this game. I just spend 1week of farming gold and hunts.. Just to get gear a speed ring that has effect resist and sub health and speed. Im happy if you gave me a rare item with that. But no!.... Rng at its best! Main stat offence with defence subs or vice versa. On all of then.. Or good main with flat sub or good subs with flat main. 1 peace of equipment! For 1 week! And nothing!! How should you justify playing this game if it rewards nothing! And gear is the focus of this game.. Yah.. I quit this game come back but, oh well.. Guess no more epic seven.
Wow this is nice! I guess this is one of the reason we aint gettin epic pass (Hero skins) lately. Guess they will put skins as a reward. Im surprise RTA will be release early, i remember in SW it took awhile. This great news! Thank you!
This is very goood. I've always wanted to prove to my friend my team is better than his.
It seems a little absurd to have it take 5 months to get to the Season 1. You could program a whole new game in that time. It shouldn't take that long make the necessary tweaks. It feels like you're releasing unfinished content. You haven't figured out the rewards yet, and I'm not encouraged by the sounds of what pre-season 2 will be. My guess is you will give lackluster rewards and you will get a whole slew of complaints. Please consider for a minute what this will feel like for real players, rather than just going through the motions like it seems you are doing more and more.
Not bad idea but will be great if you guys fix the problem 1st conversions,pet,autoplay before add new contents
is this how e7 rolls from now on?
Imagine having team of low-geared 50 and 60 being matched with team of end-geared 60 meta ML hero.
"Account Rank 60 and above can participate in the World Arena"
Yeah cause we lazy to balance matchmaking for AR below 60
Screw new player, they will quit after few months anyway
Imagine u introduce another new content that's been developed for awhile and hope that people will give better rating. Then some dudes hack it in the first day or server crashes. Might wanna give us full refill and energy refund first..just in case..you know.