The Awaken Replace goes to be the most important set of occasions and updates coming to Epic Seven within the yr 2022. Sure, the Awaken Replace is not only a single replace however a mixture of updates which might be lined up in Q2, Q3, and This autumn of 2022. Awaken Replace may also be thought-about as a roadmap of the longer term content material and modifications deliberate for Epic Seven by Smilegate as they solely mentioned and revealed via the showcase video on their official Youtube channel.
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As we talked about earlier than, the Awaken replace just isn’t a single replace however a mess of foresighted updates for the yr 2022. We are going to take a quick take a look at a few of the modifications launched with the Awaken replace.
- Epic Seven has determined to proceed with its enterprise into changing into an esports title with the announcement of E7WC 2022 (Epic Seven World Cup).
- New Episode-based content material like including a brand new labyrinth in addition to introducing a brand new space referred to as Jap Buying and selling Ship.
- A complete rework of the Sanctuary so gamers can purchase extra MolaGoras, Penguins, and Phantasms sooner.
- New abyss problem mode, new equipment-related advantages like a pity gauge whereas crafting and rising the supplies acquired when disassembling tools.
- Difficulties of present levels in Episodes 3 and 4 whereas nerfing the missions required to get Adin.
That is just the start of the modifications being launched. Learn on for extra in-depth particulars on the upcoming modifications within the Awaken Replace.
For ease of individuals, we’ll lay down the main modifications in 6 completely different main headings. We are going to cowl the updates in these 6 completely different areas of the sport: –
- World Enviornment and Stability
- Episode Primarily based Content material Added
- Journey Revamp
- Hero Acquisition Revamp
- Gear Revamp
- Content material Revamp and Growth
World Enviornment and Stability
Epic Seven has been out globally because the begin of 2018 and has virtually accomplished 4 years. For a sport this outdated which has acquired steady assist and updates with new heroes and artifacts being added with every of them, there’s certain to be an issue when there’s an extra variety of heroes and artifacts to steadiness whereas new one’s are additionally being added to additional dilute the pool of champions. This makes the sport extra enjoyable from a hero collector’s perspective but it surely makes balancing the identical much more tough and makes the gamers annoyed with the imbalance between completely different champions.
That is the state of affairs with World Enviornment, also called RTA (Actual Time Enviornment) in Epic Seven the place gamers really feel the sport is changing into imbalanced with the discharge of recent heroes with extra loaded ability units that are placing the outdated heroes’ ability units to disgrace and comparatively leading to an influence creep. To steadiness this case, the builders have selected the next modifications coming particularly to the World Enviornment and to handle the Balancing points surrounding the sport:
- The variety of heroes who will likely be pre-banned at first of the match will likely be elevated from 1 to 2 in World Enviornment. This quantity will solely be elevated in matches for gamers who’re within the Champion league and above.
- The Battle Frenzy impact which we presently see within the World Enviornment will get a bonus impact to cease the rampage of sure heroes. This impact is added along with the present impact. Gamers can count on to begin seeing it from March seventeenth in Preseason and from March thirty first when the subsequent season begins after the testing part is over.
- E7WC Mode will likely be coming to the World Enviornment for gamers who’ve a minimum of achieved Champion rank as soon as within the World Enviornment. This characteristic will carry the superior pre-ban system, choose/ban system, spectator mode, and all the new issues that accompany E7WC 2022. The highest gamers who compete on this E7WC Mode will get an opportunity to be invited to E7WC 2022 championship. Gamers can count on this mode to come back in Could 2022.
- A brand new sport mode that hopes to carry new methods in-game can also be coming to Epic Seven. This new mode options 3 heroes preventing 3 enemies and is known as 3 Workforce vs 3 Workforce. In case you are aware of how Guild Wars play out, nicely, this mode is just like that besides it’s a must to battle 3 instances in opposition to 3 groups composed of three heroes. The participant who wins 2 instances out of the three will likely be declared the victor. This new mode is anticipated to be launched within the third quarter of 2022.
Episode Primarily based Content material Added
New content material that’s associated to the Episodes in Epic Seven can also be in improvement. The builders state that they can not share a lot however can share the knowledge which goes to be out there in 2022:
- Cidonia Labyrinth – Cidonia Labyrinth would be the official new labyrinth of Episode 2 and won’t be within the traditional format of a raid the place gamers can discover it a number of instances. It’s acknowledged to be a 1-time clear type of content material like now we have within the Abyss. The brand new labyrinth could be accessed after unlocking Episode 2 and in Smilgate’s personal phrases, the story of the labyrinth is as follows “The story follows the Cidonian Alliance’s destroy explorations after the autumn of Straze, and is slated to be launched to everybody within the latter half of the yr.”
- Jap Buying and selling Ship – Jap Buying and selling Ship can also be a brand new content material being added to Epic Seven. This is sort of a tried and examined Dispatch mode the place gamers can ship their heroes and pets to a specified location the place they may accumulate supplies and sources for you and return again after a specified period of time. Gamers can improve the success fee the extra they use the specified heroes of desired parts of the pertaining dispatch request within the Jap Buying and selling Ship.
Journey Revamp
Journey Revamp constitutes all of the modifications coming to Epic Seven associated to the Journey Mode. The Journey mode is the place to begin for any new participant who needs to begin his journey in Orbis. With the discharge of Episode 3, the problem ranges of the levels had been seen as too tough to 3-star with out leveling up sure heroes. This was not what gamers needed because it was a primary mode to unlock new content material in-game.
To counter this, Smilegate is lastly lowering the general issue of Episode 3 and a few of the boss battles in Episode 3. Episode 4 will see no change in issue degree in levels however will see nerfs within the particular missions for Adin that are required to be accomplished to improve Adin, the mascot of Episode 4. Other than this, different varied modifications talked about are:
- Pressing Missions are being nerfed when it comes to issue ranges and rightfully so as a result of the pressing missions normally have a better issue degree than journey levels and Episode 3 pressing missions had been too robust to even full. Added to that, Pressing missions will now have their separate space and will likely be thought-about a separate location so gamers received’t have to depart their present map to entry it.
- The Journey Factors in Unrecorded Historical past Aspect Story will now be amalgamated right into a single forex. This may be additional used to purchase Catalysts from any AP store in any Stage of Unrecorded Historical past.
- New Story-based Episodes are in improvement and Episode 5 will see the tales of outdated heroes as a substitute of specializing in new heroes. Extra focus will likely be delivered to Moonlight heroes and their tales sooner or later Episodes of the primary story.
Hero Acquisition Revamp
Subsequent up are the modifications to make Hero Acquisition a lot simpler than what it presently is, particularly the moonlight and mystic summon heroes. As we all know, Epic Seven follows a banner system that ensures the required hero on the banner in 120 summons. This can be a nice system to acquire the models on the banners however what in regards to the heroes which can’t be obtained via the banners – The Moonlight Heroes.
The one strategy to get hold of them is thru Mystic Summons or via Galaxy Bookmarks, each of that are comparatively laborious to acquire. Additional, Mystic Summon has a really excessive pity at 200 summons whereas the Galaxy Bookmarks don’t also have a pity system related to it. Properly, mix this with the present imbalance within the World Enviornment state of affairs the place Moonlight heroes are creating havoc and this ends in a chaotic scene. Smilegate has proposed the next modifications:
- Galaxy Bookmark summons now has a pity related to them and gamers are assured to summon a 4-5 Star moonlight hero after doing 30 summons. For present gamers, they are going to be compensated based on the summons they made previous to this new replace and can obtain 4-5 Star moonlight hero tickets of their mailbox. That is scheduled to go reside on 14th April 2022.
- Mystic Summons are getting a revamp which goes to make acquiring the specified 5-Star moonlight hero a lot simpler. They’re going to be doing this uniquely. Firstly, the prevailing moonlight heroes being supplied come on the tempo of 1 5-Star moonlight hero and 1 4-Star moonlight hero. Every could have its separate pity at 200 summons and 80 summons respectively. Properly, now the variety of 5-Star heroes coming will likely be 3 and every will share the identical pity. Therefore, gamers can select the heroes they need to summon without having separate pities for every of them. The schedules of those rotations will likely be shared prematurely with the gamers via patch notes. Additionally, the discharge of recent Moonlight heroes will take a break and the 5-Star moonlight heroes which haven’t been launched in over a yr will take precedence to look within the following Mystic Summons.
- Customized Group Summons are additionally being launched to scale back the problem of acquiring restricted heroes. Now we have already seen this characteristic in some earlier summons when Diene, Landy, and Luna had been supplied collectively in a group summon banner. The hero standards for selecting the heroes on this customized summon banners are these heroes which haven’t seen a banner however have seen a rerun in 6 months and 1 yr respectively. Therefore, the restricted heroes’ standards is fulfilled for these heroes – Luna, Diene, Landy, Seaside Bellona, Vacation Yufine.
- Customized Mystic Summons are coming to Epic Seven from April twenty eighth, 2022 until twenty first July 2022. These customized mystic summons let gamers select the 4-5 star moonlight heroes that they need to summon for and the pity for them stays the identical at 200 summons. The heroes they’ll select are going to be those that haven’t had a re-run in over 6 months. Gamers will use Mystic Medals to summon on this banner and gamers will get a Moon’s Mirage Coin for every to summon they do. They’ll use these Moon’s Mirage Cash to get their desired hero and this can act as pity. They may seem 2 instances through the length we talked about.
Gear Revamp
Gear Revamp is coming after Smilegate acknowledges that with the addition of recent heroes, the required tools for them is simply not out there. Gamers need to give their favourite heroes the specified tools however must accept dangerous or sub-par tools as a result of low probability of crafting good tools within the forge whereas additionally getting low supplies within the hunts to craft them. The tools additionally performs a serious position within the aggressive side of Epic Seven which many high-level gamers complain about. To handle this, Smilegate has proposed the next modifications coming to Equipments and buying them:
- Gear mileage is being added within the Forge and the mileage lets gamers craft an Epic high quality piece of substances of their alternative and their desired set. The mileage varies relying on the extent of the crafted tools.
- Some main High quality of Life modifications are additionally coming to Gear upgrading as gamers will now be capable to auto-add the charms required to improve the chosen tools to a specific degree the place the degrees are a a number of of three at – 3,6,9,12, and 15. Gamers also can see the upgraded substats and values are going to be a lot clearer. The quantity of upgrading supplies can also be being elevated to twenty.
- The quantity of Cores being obtained from the extraction of apparatus will likely be virtually doubled after the replace.
- A brand new Auto-Equip operate will likely be added the place gamers can choose their desired units, principal stats, and sub-stats. That is going to be very useful for brand new gamers who need their desired tools to be shortly added to heroes.
Content material Revamp and Growth
The final a part of the stream for Awaken replace lined the modifications coming to present Content material in addition to enlargement of it. Everyone knows that Forest of Souls is the place the place gamers do nearly all of the issues like Crafting, Reforging, Getting Skystones and Gold, Cultivating Phantasms, Penguins, and MolaGora’s, Dispatch request missions, and so on. Properly, it’s excessive time that Forest of Souls will get upgraded as the sport is popping 4 years outdated and the content material has been unchanged for the entire length. Listed below are a few of the proposed modifications:
- In the beginning, the graphical replace for Forest of Souls will happen which is able to give it a extra trendy look in addition to add new ability results to match the theme of Epic Seven.
- MolaGora seeds will now not exist and gamers will straight get a MolaGora from the locations they normally bought the MolaGora seeds from.
- MolaGora Farm will likely be added to the Sanctuary at Forest of Souls. Gamers can get 1 MolaGora extra each week from this MolaGora Farm.
- Sprit Properly and Penguin Nest at the moment are having 3 slots every for Penguins and Phantasms which ought to enormously improve their cultivation time and improve the acquisition fee of those sources for all gamers.
- A brand new place referred to as Grace of Unity is being added the place gamers can immediately improve a base hero to its most potential. Gamers can solely choose 1 hero at a time and it must be positioned within the Grace of Unity. Gamers can get the positioned hero to its most potential as it should routinely be max leveled, max woke up, and max expert freed from price. Nevertheless, as quickly as they take away or swap the positioned hero, he/she is going to lose the results and will likely be transferred to the present hero positioned in Grace of Unity.
- Pets can now be additional upgraded to their 5th Technology. This can make them purchase extra distinctive expertise or additional evolve their acquired expertise to a greater high quality. The variety of repeat battles may even be elevated from 20 to 30 utilizing fifth era pets. This replace is slated to come back within the 2nd quarter.
- Corridor of Trials will likely be getting a revamp to make it extra attention-grabbing for outdated gamers whereas making it extra accessible and simpler to finish for brand new gamers. The forex referred to as Knowledge’s Gaze is simply out there from the Corridor of Trials which is used for exchanging within the store for Unique Gear in addition to Artifacts and 5-Star hero Zeno. Smilegate will add a rating system the place high rankers will get further rewards. A brand new Incomplete Fastus boss may even be added to the Corridor of Trials on 4th April 2022. Together with that, Knowledge’s Gaze will likely be out there extra steadily from occasions for the benefit of recent gamers.
- Abyss Problem Mode is being launched within the Abyss which will likely be out there to all gamers who’ve cleared the eightieth ground in Abyss. As a substitute of including new flooring, this new Problem mode will present higher rewards and has the identical situations as Abyss the place it’s a 1-time clear content material. The price of getting into certainly one of these flooring consumes 3 Abyss Tickets. Gamers can count on to see this content material within the 2nd quarter of 2022.
So, that covers virtually every part coming to Epic Seven with this Main Awaken replace. We’re excited and comfortable to see the sport rising at such a tempo and getting up to date recurrently introducing extra content material and High quality of Life options for the benefit of gamers. Be certain that to learn the official replace notes.
