Epic Seven has issued the latest balance patch notice on their official Stove community that keeps the community updated on what Smilegate is planning to do for the future of the anime-stylized turn-based RPG. Epic Seven has been the fan-favorite turn-based gacha game on both the Google Play Store and iOS App Store, raking over $6 million USD and more every month consistently. Apart from being a huge front for the Korean game giant, the popularity of the game in terms of app downloads also seems to be skyrocketing. Hence, balance patches play a very important role in keeping the community happy by regulating the power creeps and keeping heroes up-to-date according to the meta.

This balance patch for the month of December 2022 will be implemented on 22nd December 2022 after the server reset. As per usual, the list of heroes and artifacts that are going to be undergoing buffs and bug fixes is massive. Here is a summary of the heroes that are included in this balance patch:

• Dark Corvus (5-Star Moonlight Hero)
• Briar Witch Iseria (5-Star Moonlight Hero)
• Astromancer Elena (5-Star Moonlight Hero)
• Sez (5-Star Covenant Hero)
• Yufine (5-Star Covenant Hero)
• Celine (5-Star Covenant Hero)
• Camilla (3-Star Moonlight Hero)
• Samsara Prayer Beads (5-Star Artifact)
• Celestine (5-Star Artifact)
• Andre’s Crossbow (4-Star Artifact)

Dark Corvus

Dark Corvus will see the following Balance changes in his skills:

Shield Bash (1st skill) – Attacks the enemy with a shield, with a 100% chance to provoke for 1 turn, before recovering the caster’s Health. Damage dealt and amount recovered increase proportional to the caster’s max Health.

Ruin’s Advent (2nd skill) – Immune to stun. At the moment the caster is attacked, the caster has a 100% chance of their skill cooldown being decreased by 1 turn, or 2 turns in the case of a critical hit.

Devil’s Descent (Before Awakened) – Attacks the enemy with a lethal hit. When the enemy is defeated, inflicts extinction. Damage dealt increases proportional to the caster’s max Health and penetrates the target’s Defense. This attack cannot trigger a critical hit.

Begins the battle with a full skill cooldown count.

Devil’s Descent (Awakened) – Attacks the enemy with a lethal hit, and absorbs some of the damage as Health. When the enemy is defeated, inflicts extinction. Damage dealt increases proportional to the caster’s max Health and penetrates the target’s Defense. This attack cannot trigger a critical hit.

Begins the battle with a full skill cooldown count.

Dark Corvus is one of the earlies Moonlight 5-Star heroes that is available in the game from the beginning. Being the dark elemental version of the hero Corvus, this corrupted monstrosity was used extensively in Guild Wars for his sturdiness and his ability to nuke single targets after taking hits. However, with the addition of new heroes that can reduce combat readiness, apply stuns on all skills, and burst HP-based tanky heroes, the usage of Dark Corvus has seen a dramatic decline. This makes using him disadvantageous in many situations. With his new changes, Smilegate aims to improve his durability while providing him innate immunity against Stuns to better counter crowd controlling skills of heroes.

Briar Witch Iseria

Briar Witch Iseria will see the following Balance changes in her skills:

Fallen Flower (Before Awakened) – Throws swords at the enemy, with a 75% chance to decrease Defense for 1 turn. A successful attack deals additional damage proportional to the caster’s Attack.

Witch’s Curse (Awakened) – Increases Hit Chance by 50%. Allies and enemies cannot revive. Upon receiving lethal damage, grants immortality for 1 turn. Immortality effect can only be activated once every 5 turns.

+1: +2% Hit Chance

+2: +3% Hit Chance

+3: +3% Hit Chance

+4: +3% Hit Chance

+5: +4% Hit Chance

Cursed Thorn (Before Awakened) – Attacks all enemies with a cursed thornbush, dispelling all buffs, with a 100% chance to make them unable to be buffed for 2 turns. A successful attack deals additional damage proportional to the caster’s Attack.

Soul Burn – Ignores Effect resistance (-20 Souls)

Cursed Thorn (Awakened) – Attacks all enemies with a cursed thornbush, dispelling all buffs, with a 75% chance to decrease Defense for 2 turns and a 100% chance to make them unable to be buffed for 2 turns. A successful attack deals additional damage proportional to the caster’s Attack.

Soul Burn – Ignores Effect resistance (-20 Souls)

Briar Witch Iseria was often overlooked as even a hero to pick in any battle except against heroes that can revive due to her extinction debuff which renders enemies unable to revive. Taking her play style to another level, Smilegate is going to give her a new mechanic where nor allies or enemies can revive when she is present on the battlefield. She has also got a huge buff to her innate hit chance in all her abilities. Briar Witch Iseria will also apply Defense down as a new debuff with her 3rd ability which makes her a great option as an opener as well in the Arena or World Arena.

Astromancer Elena

Astromancer Elena will see the following Balance changes in her skills:

Disciples of the Stars (2nd skill) – At the start of battle, grants Star’s Blessing for 1 turn. When the caster is granted Star’s Blessing, enemy Heroes cannot counterattack. After an ally except for the caster attacks all enemies, activates Worship Me!. Worship Me! can only be activated once every 3 turns.

Worship Me! (Acquire 10 Soul): Increases Combat Readiness of the caster by 20%.

Star’s Blessing: Increases Attack and Critical Hit Damage by 15%. Star’s Blessing cannot be dispelled.

Enraged Star’s Retribution (Before Awakened) – Attacks all enemies with the energy of the enraged star, decreasing buff durations by 1 turn before restricting for 2 turns. Grants Star’s Blessing to the caster for 2 turns. The cooldown of this skill has been increased to 5 turns.

Enraged Star’s Retribution (Awakened) – Attacks all enemies with the energy of the enraged star, decreasing buff durations by 1 turn before making them unhealable and restricting for 2 turns. Grants Star’s Blessing to the caster for 2 turns. The cooldown of this skill has been increased to 5 turns.

Sez

Sez will see the following Balance changes in his skills:

Dark Shadow (Before Awakened) – Attacks the enemy with dark energy, with a 50% chance to make them unhealable for 1 turn. After attacking, when the enemy’s Health is 50% or less, activates Encroach as an extra attack. Encroach can only be activated once per turn, during the caster’s turn.

Encroach: Releases dark power to attack all enemies, with a 50% chance to make them unhealable for 1 turn. Damage dealt increases proportional to the target’s lost Health. The overall damage dealt by Enroach has been increased.

Dark Shadow (Awakened) Attacks the enemy with dark energy and makes them unhealable for 1 turn. After attacking, when the enemy’s Health is 50% or less, activates Encroach as an extra attack. Encroach can only be activated once per turn, during the caster’s turn.

Encroach: Releases dark power to attack all enemies, with a 50% chance to make them unhealable for 1 turn. Damage dealt increases proportional to the target’s lost Health. The overall damage dealt by Enroach has been increased.

Die Hard (After Awakened) – Damage suffered in one attack does not exceed 51% of max Health.

After being attacked, grants stealth for 1 turn. Stealth can only be activated once per turn.

+1: -3% damage received limit

+2: -3% damage received limit

+3: -4% damage received limit

+4: -4% damage received limit

+5: -5% damage received limit

Conviction (3rd skill) – Inflicts lethal damage to the enemy. When the enemy is defeated, inflicts extinction, and deals additional damage proportional to the caster’s Attack to all enemies except for the target. Damage dealt increases proportional to the target’s lost Health. The overall damage dealt by this skill has been increased.

Yufine

Yufine will see the following Balance changes in his skills:

Dragon’s Roar (2nd skill) – Attacks with a dragon howl, dispelling one buff from all enemies, with an 85% chance to silence for 1 turn, before granting increased Attack and Defense to the caster for 2 turns.

Soul Burn – Extends buff durations granted by Dragon’s Roar to the caster by 1 turn, and grants an extra turn. (-20 Souls)

Dragon Charge (Before Awakened) (3rd skill) – Attacks the enemy with a massive blade, and when the enemy is defeated, resets cooldown for this skill.

When this skill is available according to cooldown count, after an ally except for the caster attacks, if the target is silenced, increases Combat Readiness of the caster by 20%.

Dragon Charge (Awakened) (3rd skill) – Attacks the enemy with a massive blade, and when the enemy is defeated, resets cooldown for this skill. When the target is silenced, penetrates the target’s Defense by 70%.

When this skill is available according to cooldown count, after an ally except for the caster attacks, if the target is silenced, increases Combat Readiness of the caster by 20%.

Celine

Celine will see the following Balance changes in her skills:

Intuition (2nd passive skill)– After an enemy uses a non-attack skill, dispels all debuffs from the caster and attacks a random enemy with Blink. Can be activated once every 2 turns.

Blink: Cuts the enemy in the blink of an eye and increases Combat Readiness of the caster by 20%. Unaffected by elemental disadvantage.

Thunderclap (Before Awakened) – Attacks the enemy repeatedly, and grants increased Evasion and a barrier to the caster for 2 turns. When the enemy is not an Elite or Boss monster, damage sharing effects are ignored. Barrier strength increases proportional to the caster’s Attack.

Soul Burn – Damage dealt increased (-20 Souls)

Thunderclap (Awakened) – Attacks the enemy repeatedly, and absorbs some of the damage dealt as Health. Grants increased Evasion and a barrier to the caster for 2 turns. When the enemy is not an Elite or Boss monster, damage sharing effects are ignored. Barrier strength increases proportional to the caster’s Attack.

Soul Burn – Damage dealt increased (-20 Souls)

Camilla

Camilla will see the following Balance changes in her skills:

Coerce (Awakened) (3rd Skill) – Grants the caster skill nullifier once and increased Attack for 2 turns before increasing Attack of the ally except for the caster with the highest Attack for 2 turns. Grants an extra turn to the caster.

Samsara Prayer Beads

Samsara Prayer Beads, the 5-Star artifact is getting changed in the following way:

Description: When attacking with a Single Attack, increases damage dealt by 10%.

When attacked by a Single Attack, decreases damage suffered by 8-16%. When more than one damage reduction effect is granted, only the strongest effect is applied.

Celestine

Celestine, the 5-Star artifact is getting changed in the following way:

Description: After attacking with a Single Attack, heals the ally with the lowest Health by 8-16%.

Andre’s Crossbow

Andre’s Crossbow, the 4-Star artifact is getting changed in the following way:

Description: Increases Hit Chance and Effectiveness by 10-20%.

Players can take a look at the official balance patch notes to get an in-depth look at all the balance adjustments being made. We highly recommend playing Epic Seven on a PC with BlueStacks using a keyboard and mouse.