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With this post, we will be showing our players the Balance Adjustments that are scheduled to be applied with the update occurring on February 20^th. Eleven Heroes and four Artifacts will be improved as well as a Charlotte remake that is scheduled for March. 

1) 2/20 Balance Adjustments Preview

Through this balance adjustment, there will be improvements for Heroes and Artifacts that are difficult to utilize. Additionally, in this adjustment, no nerfs will be carried out. We hope our Heirs have fun building new strategies and tactics from the changes offered in this balance adjustment.

Please see below for the list of Heroes and Artifacts to be buffed via the February 20^th Balance Adjustment. 

■ Heroes

■ Artifacts

※ The probability and number of turns are based on fully enhanced characters.

※ The values mentioned in this preview may differ from the actual update. 

※ The skill descriptions mentioned in this preview may differ from the actual update. 

1-1) Covenant / 5-Star

■ Melissa

Melissa was originally designed as a Hero who can deal significant damage to two enemies at the same time through her Curse ability. However, this uniqueness turned out to be somewhat underwhelming when compared to other Heroes.

Through this balance adjustment, Melissa will have more opportunities to inflict her Curse debuff on enemies, and will consequently be able to compensate for her lack of survivability by being a more effective damage dealer.

After this Balance Adjustment, Melissa will dispel the enemy of all buff effects prior to dealing damage. In other words, she will be able to deal damage and inflict her Curse debuff on enemies that had the buffs Immortality and Skill Nullifier prior to her attack. She will be exceptionally effective against Heroes who do not have high effect resistance.

Furthermore, if Melissa defeats an enemy using Manifestation, the cooldown for Manifestation will be reset. Since Manifestation grants Immortality to herself as well as attacks the enemy, she can consistently remain immortal in the case she continuously defeats an enemy Hero every turn. This possibility to use Manifestation every turn if the conditions are met, despite the base four-turn cooldown, will increase Melissa’s utility.

Additionally, Melissa’s Blood Bloom will be more effective against enemies with buff effects during the early game. We hope our Heirs will utilize her damage-dealing capacity along with her unique ability to remain immortal!

■ Cecilia

Cecilia is a Hero with many buff and debuff effects, however, she was relatively difficult to utilize. With this balance adjustment, she will be improved so that our Heirs can find more content where they can use Cecilia. This will be enacted by adding an additional buff effect that can influence the battle.

Cecilia will gain the ability to grant Immunity to all allies for two turns when she uses Ruinous Retribution. Given Cecilia’s relatively high base Speed among Knight Class Heroes, our Heirs can better counter enemy Heroes who rely on inflicting debuffs.

Furthermore, when she uses Steel Cloudburst, the probability of inflicting decreased Attack will dramatically increase regardless of Cecilia’s remaining Health. Upon completion of her Skill Enhancement, the chance to inflict decreased Attack will go up to 100%, stabilizing her ability to inflict debuff to enemies.

We hope our Heirs can better use Cecilia, a unique Hero armed with many debuff and buff effects such as decreased Attack, decreased Defense, Provoke and Immunity, to better protect her allies and contain her enemies.

■ Tenebria

Tenebria will be improved so that she can better utilize debuffs, and more actively utilize her increased Combat Readiness after she uses Dark Explosion.

First, the Sleep debuff will be added to her skill, Nightmare. She will have an 85% chance of inflicting this debuff, equivalent to the increased probability she will have for inflicting the decrease Defense debuff.

 With the addition of the Sleep debuff, along with the high chance for it to be successfully inflicted, we hope Tenebria can become a more strategically effective choice for our Heirs.

Additionally, the probability for Tenebria to inflict sleep via Dark Explosion will also be increased to a maximum of 70%. The additional effect acquired through awakening, a 50% increase in Combat Readiness, will allow her to be more useful after this balance adjustment.

We hope our Heirs find Tenebria to be an effective choice to contain the enemy by restraining their actions and defensive abilities after this balance adjustment.

1-2) Moonlight / 5-Star

■ Specter Tenebria

Specter Tenebria gained a unique passive ability after her rework. However, it was still very difficult to use her, despite the great amount of interest our Heirs have shown in her.

With this balance adjustment, we improved the effectiveness of her Poison Blast so that she can become a more attractive choice for our Heirs. 

After this Balance Adjustment, if Endless Nightmare is on cooldown, Specter Tenebria will attack two enemies with Poison Blast, and this skill cannot trigger a counterattack from her enemies. Furthermore, when the condition is met she will target two enemies at the same time, dealing the same amount of damage to two enemies as she did to a single enemy before. With this change, we expect her to become a more threatening choice. Last but not least, since she cannot be counterattacked after using Poison Blast, our Heirs will be able to effectively use her against enemy Heroes with counterattack capabilities.

Specter Tenebria, previously, was easily overpowered by Heroes with counterattack capabilities despite her passive skill, Nightmare Illusion. After this balance update, our Heirs will be able to more readily utilize her in cases where (1) the enemy does not have a hero with an AoE attack, (2) or there are sufficient mechanisms to prepare against those AoE attack skills in a team formation.

When the dynamics for enemy Hero combinations dynamics are comprehended, and Specter Tenebria is placed to successfully counter the dynamics, she will exhibit her greatest potential.

1-3) Covenant / 4-Star

■ Rose

Rose was originally designed to be a Hero who increases the Combat Readiness and defensive capabilities of allies. However, since there were many situations where her defensive abilities were not very effective, adjustments will be applied.

After this Balance Adjustment, Rose will be able to grant increased Defense buff to herself for two turns. We expect Rose to survive better until she uses Shield of Light.

Additionally, the barrier strength granted by Shield of Light will be increased to double the previous strength. Since this barrier strength increases in proportion to her Defense, as long as the increased Defense buff is still active when she uses Shield of Light, this additional Defense will increase the barrier strength. Our Heirs will feel the increased barrier strength once this adjustment is applied.

■ Clarissa

Clarissa is another Hero that our Heirs have shown a great amount of interest in. Adjustments will be applied so that she can counteract her weakness and more effectively inflict debuffs.

Bleeding, which was originally inflicted only if she fulfilled the condition of being enraged, will be changed so that this condition is no longer necessary. Hysteric will now inflict two bleeding debuffs and will now have a 50% chance to inflict the debuff, decreased Defense, which will better help her contain her enemies.
 

Furthermore, her core status, Rage, can no longer be dispelled which will allow her to be more effective. We hope our Heirs can find Clarissa capable of dealing stable damage by continuously being enraged. 

■ Khawazu

Khawazu’s Emberstorm will be improved so that he can be a suitable choice for contents such as Hunt.

When Khawazu uses Emberstorm, it will now inflict decrease Defense along with unhealable, similar to before. This change will make Khawazu more capable of strengthening allies’ offensive abilities. There will also be a 13% increase in the base damage dealt by this skill.

We hope our Heirs actively utilize Emberstorm, which has strong debuff with a short 3-turn cooldown. He will definitely perform well in content such as Golem Hunt.

1-4) Moonlight / 4-Star

■ Fighter Maya

Fighter Maya is a Hero who has great survivability and damage output once a certain condition is met. She will be improved so that her presence in battle can be maximized.

To this end, she will be given an additional turn when she successfully defeats an enemy Hero. In addition, the damage output for her skill, Finishing Attack, will be increased so that it matches the damage dealt when Soulburned, prior to this balance adjustment. In other words, the damage she can deal with Finishing Attack, after this balance adjustment, will be equal to the damage she deals now when Soulburned.

As the Soulburn effect for Finishing Attack will now become the base attack damage, a new Soulburn effect will be given to Strike of Provocation. If Fighter Maya Soulburns Strike of Provocation, she will have a 100% chance to inflict Provoke on the enemy, improving her ability to contain her enemies. Furthermore, the default probability of Provoking the enemy will also be increased by 25%.

We hope Fighter Maya will have a more significant presence in many battles. 

■ Celestial Mercedes

Celestial Mercedes will be improved so that her Soulburn effect will be applied to Dimensional Rupture rather than Finale.

Celestial Mercedes oftentimes uses Finale first in order to dramatically increase her Combat Readiness and then uses Dimensional Rupture on her following turn. However, in this case, there was an issue where the Soulburn effect used only decreases the cooldown for Finale, but not for Dimensional Rupture, making it difficult for her to smoothly execute skill combinations. In other words, she oftentimes faced situations where she could not use Dimensional Rupture when she uses Finale for the second time in a battle.

Once this balance adjustment is applied, Celestial Mercedes will be able to effectively use her FinaleàDimensional Rupture combo more than once. 

1-5) Moonlight / 3-Star

■ Doris

Doris’s improvement will be focused on reducing the conditions required for Healing, as well as her ability to heal allies.

Having a continuous healing buff active was the condition for increasing the amount of health recovered when Doris uses Light Curtain. This condition will be deleted, and Doris will instead only heal the increased amount. Consequently, she will be able to heal 50% of an ally’s max health without any conditions. Since 50% of max Health is a notable amount to be healed among Soul Weavers, we Hope our Heirs can use Doris effectively in several situations.

■ Requiemroar

Requiemroar will be improved so that she can be a more notable presence especially with her ability to heal when enemies are defeated.

Requiemroar’s passive skill, Blood Feast, will be improved so that it heals 20% of all allies’ health upon defeating an enemy, as well as increasing the Combat Readiness of Requiemroar. Following this balance adjustment, she will be able to act more often than before.

1-6) Artifact Balance Adjustment: Knight 5-Star

■ Holy Sacrifice

Because Holy Sacrifice is an Artifact whose skill can only be activated once, its utility was not high, and therefore it was not an appealing choice for our Heirs. Therefore, we will make an improvement in order to increase the caster’s survivability until the caster’s turn.

Upon this adjustment, Knight Class heroes who are revived with Holy Sacrifice will be granted a strong barrier, proportional to the caster’s max Health. Since Knight Class Heroes often have high health, they are expected to be able to have a turn after this improvement.

Furthermore, an issue where the revival effect from Holy Sacrifice coincided with the buff revive will be fixed following the update when this balance adjustment is applied. It will be fixed so that the revive buff will apply first and then, the revival effect from the Artifact Holy Sacrifice will take place. We hope our Heirs can use Knight Class Heroes as a vanguard to victory with improved Holy Sacrifice.

1-7) Artifact Balance Adjustment: Soul Weaver 5-Star

■ Shimadra Staff

Shimadra Staff will be improved so that the Artifact also increases the Effect Resistance of all allies in addition to the increased healing effect it currently has.

Upon equipping Shimadra Staff, all allies will gain an additional 20% Effect Resistance. Once this improvement is applied, we expect our Heirs to more effectively counter Hero combinations which rely on debuffs. Such utility can be maximized when the Artifact is used along with Heroes that increase Effect Resistance. We hope our Heirs can build stronger defense teams by taking advantage of this increase in Effect Resistance along with the healing effect granted.

1-8) Artifact Balance Adjustment: Warrior 5-Star

■ Uberius’s Tooth

Although additional damage granted by Uberius’s Tooth targets a single enemy, there are some issues such as
 (1) it has a difficult condition to be met, and (2) the additional damage was not very effective. Thus, we will reduce the requirements for activation and increase damage by 50%.

After this Balance Adjustment, Uberius’s Tooth will deal additional damage regardless of whether a Critical Hit was applied. Furthermore, given the increase in additional damage, we expect our Heirs to find Uberius Tooth to be a more effective damage dealing Artifact.

1-9) Artifact Balance Adjustment: Mage 5-Star

■ Dignus Orb

Dignus Orb will be improved so that the Artifact can supplement both offensive abilities as well as defensive abilities.

After this balance adjustment, the caster will also gain a 15% damage increase on the next attack. If this effect is used when a Hero is attacking with a high damage attack, the result can be devastating. 

2) Charlotte Remake Preview

Charlotte was previously designed to be a bruiser Hero, one that should be effective in long-term battles that require many turns. Therefore, we designed the Focus mechanism so that Charlotte can deal a significant amount of damage through the use of her skill Vortex.

In practical situations where Charlotte is used, there were issues such as (1) Ground Slam, a skill where Charlotte can gain Combat Readiness and Focus, had too many variables to be taken into consideration and (2) constraints for stacking Focus being too difficult to be satisfied. These issues made her only viable in long term battles.

We found out that Charlotte has structural issues which cannot be solved via buffs. Therefore we plan to rework all three skills that Charlotte possesses. The details of her remake can be seen below.

※ The skill descriptions mentioned in this preview may differ from the actual update. 

■ Focus à Fighting Spirit

The first change to be applied will make it so that Charlotte gains Fighting Spirit instead of Focus. The remade Charlotte will be able to receive attacks from the enemy and then turn the tide of battle by utilizing powerful skills. In this regard, we feel that the Fighting Spirit mechanism is a better fit for the new design rather than the Focus mechanism, hence the change.
 

■ Dual Swords

We will first inform our Heirs of the remake to be enacted in regards to the skill Dual Swords. Previously, Dual Swords was a basic skill that could grant the caster increased Attack or decrease the enemy’s Defense. Since the mechanics of this skill were too complicated to use in ordinary situations, the utility of this skill was quite ambiguous. In order to address this issue, we will remake this skill so that Dual Swords can be more effective while maintaining conditionality.

The remade Charlotte overall will be very sensitive to enemy attacks, so the debuff inflicted by Dual Swords will be changed from decrease Defense to decrease Attack. Furthermore, this skill will be changed to a conditional AoE attack so that her impact per turn will become more significant. As her basic attack becomes an AoE attack if a condition is met, the damage output for this skill will be decreased by 10% when compared to the previous version.

In addition to this, the increase Attack buff that was also conditionally granted to Charlotte will be improved so that it can be inflicted quicker via her passive skill Will of Swamp.

■ Will of Swamp (Passive)

Charlotte’s Skill 2, Ground Slam will be changed to a passive skill called, Will of Swamp. Although it is essential for Charlotte to use Ground Slam in order to maximize the damage output for Vortex, her relatively low base Speed which is an important stat, made it very difficult for our Heirs to use Charlotte in practical situations. Through this remake, we will change the conditions for acquiring resources to “being attacked,” and as well as allow Charlotte to temporarily grant herself increased Attack and increased Defense.

By utilizing the newly added increase Defense buff, she will be able to better deal with sequential attacks from the enemy. This, in turn, will accelerate the pace at which she will be able to use her skill Vortex, allowing her to deal a large amount of damage to the enemy. Furthermore, if she is attacked during her own turn, she will acquire more Fighting Spirit, which will allow her to
 more effectively counteract enemy combinations which rely on counterattacks.

■ Vortex

The final part to be discussed is Charlotte’s core skill Vortex. Previously, Vortex had a high damage output if certain conditions were met; however, the condition itself was too difficult to be satisfied. Moreover, since this skill focused solely on dealing large amounts of damage and there were no additional effects given to this skill, our Heirs could not find an effective usage.

Upon the remake planned for March, the feature “A successful attack always result in a critical hit” will be applied to the skill Vortex, and the damage will be reduced by 34.4%. Through this remake, Charlotte’s reliance on the Critical Hit Chance stat will significantly decrease so that our Heirs will have more freedom to invest in stats other than Critical Hit Chance. Additionally, with the unhealable debuff given, she will become a more effective choice against enemies who rely on healing or lifesteal.

The Soulburn effect will also be changed so that Charlotte can gain 100 Fighting Spirit, maintaining her ability to use Vortex without any waiting period.

These are the contents that we have prepared for our Balance Adjustment Preview and Charlotte Remake. We hope we can get a lot of feedback from our Heirs. The feedback that our Heirs have sent to us via our communities continues to be the main source of motivation for us, the Epic Seven Team for every step we take towards improvement. 

We will always try our best in order to entertain our Heirs by providing our players with chances to create new strategies with a diverse group of Heroes.

Thank you