Game Guide:Seven Knights (SENA) New Update & Guild War Ban List

Hey guys, it has been awhile. I had been occupied with couple of games first-impression testing and will be putting up the reviews as soon as I can. Meanwhile, in SENA, we get our weekly update again.

RNGesus has never been so kind to me in Arena. The Free-2-Play Dream!

Firstly, I would like to wish everyone Happy St.Patrick's Day!

For today's update, the following will be the highlights for my post:

1.  Hard Mode Element Dungeon
2. St. Patrick's Day Event.
3. Guild War First Hero Ban List

Hard Mode Element Dungeon

(Thursday Dark Element) will be tougher than others. To the old players, I am sure some of you remember the days whereby when we first started out, dark element dungeon is 1 tier harder than other elements. Not to feel too depressed about not being able to clear the hard mode. We will eventually be able to do it. We can gauge more from tomorrow's Hard Mode Daily.

St. Patrick's Day Event

Well, just like previous event, collect enough clovers from Mimics to unlock MingMing's custom costume. Free Costume is always good to have. Collectors can start hunting for Mimics!

Guild War Ban List

This first ban list actually affected a lot of players.
First, Developers boost the Hero-Time summoning rate for Wukongs, we saw a sudden surge of wukongs in Arena for past weeks. Cashers especially took this opportunity to rush to lv38-lv40 wukongs. You will know a casher when you see lv30s with maxed out Wukongs. Next, Ming Ming, being one of the highest CC rate unit, majority decided to transcend her and spent all of their resources in maxing out MingMing. Velika, most used starter unit for farming and Arena backline carry for sometime prior to Soi's arrival will be targeted as well.
As such, it is not surprising but a rather scum move to ban these 3 heroes in Guild War. Possibly a move to change the Guild War Meta for a week.

Problem:

How to solve this issue if there are your main carries?

Currently, good 6star lv30 units standalone without transcending are

• Bai Long
• Ruri
• Soi
• Daisy
• Feng Yan
• Nia 
• Mao Song
• Ace 
• Seven Knights

Bai Long is good due to his 3turns of berserk passive which prevents debuffers unit from taking him out and AOE active buff removal. Between lv30 Ace and Bai Long, Bai Long definitely wins the better unit choice.

Ruri is still the fastest regular speed unit with easily the highest physical burst among the regular units. Replace Velika with her for backline finisher.

Soi, the best passive immune from 5-Men AOE damage that is not unit-reliant (meaning it is a buff that is turn-based).

In my opinion, GA/Asia Daisy's revamped skills put her to S-tier unit. Piercing, magic damage boost and immune to all damage.

Feng Yan's 3 turn immunity to all attacks and magic-based damage. A good counter to Ruri and Nia.

Nia's utility has always been the CC skill and immunity removal. Definitely a good unit for Guild War when Velika and Wukong are both banned. (those 2 are capable of killling Nia easily)

Lastly, Mao Song's 35% damage reduction + AOE stun chance. Use him for the cc and tankiness against Soi's team.
A note to know: Mao Song's passive is not a team-buff based.

1 of the Lords in the ban list bin, Ace users will be happy to take out the squishy units.

Any of the Seven Knight units will be a good replacement for the banned units. (Although, Kris, Rachel, Javes may not be good choices out of the 7)


That is all for today. Next post will be on new game review. Cheers and Happy Gaming, see you guys next time.

Game Guide: Seven Knights (SENA) New Update 1.0.46

Hey guys, it has been a long time since my last post on Seven Knights.

Welcome again to another tips and thoughts on the latest update in SENA.

What have I been up to? Some of you guys must have been wondering that. Well...things are tough for me in SENA so I took a little time off and go casual passive mode for couple of days.

RNGesus continues to torment me with bad draws and fusions.
Yes, I heard you. To those who have been following my blog, indeed, I do not fancy rubies summoning. However, I do draw once every week to get some fodders for rank up and fusions.

Draw 1

Draw 2

Draw 3

Really 'ouch' moments on these summonings

Shipping these two, hopefully will be fruitful. Unfortunately, they are a bad pair. I guess Joker is really meant for May eh. Lol

My runs in Map 9 has been pretty decent though. Yay!

About my Arena, 20 winning streaks! Achievement unlocked.

Alright, let's get down to business. Today's update brought 4 new heroes to us from World 9 and with that, World 9 heroes fully released.


Let's start with Kung Fu Panda.

Pros: Fluffy and drunk.
Cons: He is dark element. If you are hero collector, get him. Otherwise, he is a fodder unit.


Bandit King!

Pros: This guy has better utility. Unlike Korean version with passive like Javes (50% damage reduction), global/asia gave him an immunity to all damage status + cooldown reduction with autoattack. Wait, there is more! He has AOE stun skill too! CC and immunity, pretty much like MingMing.
Cons: Soi, Spike, Karon/Sieg and Lucy counter this guy.

Ring Ring!

Pros: Her passive seems too awesome to ignore. To make use of her, get her high speed weapons so that you can take out 1 enemy asap. She works well in high burst attack team such as Dellonse, Javes, Ace, Wukong, and other high damage units.

Cons: Very squishy just like Soi. Also, you need to keep her alive to benefit from her passive.


Bruce Lee!

Pros: The better unit among all 4. First unit in our current hero pool to get 'UNDEAD' passive. 3 Turns too! He will not be removed with Nia, Rudy or Ruri.

Cons: If CCed hard along with buff removal, he will not survive. However, he is a pretty strong backliner. Spike users may put him as backliner to maximize his potential.


Lastly, Yuri and Daisy both get revamped.


Daisy

Thoughts: She is a beast now with immunity to all damage and 40% boost to magical damage + single target Piercing. Putting her with Wukong, Ming Ming or Velika will form a deadly team. To those yet to obtain a Wukong, Lv40 Daisy is slightly below Wukong in terms of utility. 

Verdict: ****

Yuri

Thoughts: At least she has revive now. The better version of Ace due to the new revive.

Verdict: ****

That is all for today. Post your questions in the chat box if you are looking for suggestions. Cheers and Happy Gaming! Next post will be out in a couple of days.

Game Guide: Seven Knights (SENA) New Patch Update 1.0.43

Hey guys! Wazzzup!

Welcome to World 9 Patch Update!

Yes! Yes! I know! This is such a big patch and a meta changing patch. Some of you may wonder "how come?". Let me explain my thoughts regarding it and depending on the gravity of the situation, this patch may actually hurt Free-2-Play players in the early stage.

Before we go on, I am not sure if anyone of you guys had the same issue especially Android Users. Once I updated SENA from Google Playstore, I encountered this issue.
I got stucked in the old patch login screen and unable to proceed after the maintenance. There was no loading icon. You cannot click on anything.

My solution to this issue will be to go to your 'Application Manager' under the settings. Look for 'Seven Knights' icon and press 'clear data'. Patch your entire Seven Knights again. This should work.

Now, World 9 is unlocked.

We get new heroes: Phoenix, Dragon, Soi and Feng Yan (originally Pungyeon). Highlight will be on Soi and Feng Wan.

Soi's passive provides immunity to 5-men AOE damage skills, and this is really game-changing especially to Velika, Javes, Nia, MingMing, Ruri users. Having her in the team, all allies immune to 5-men AOE damage. One may wonder, how big of a difference with that passive? Most 5-men AOE damage ignores Defense for Burst team composition. This passive negates the damage and basically waste a turn on your burst potential unit. A must-have unit if you are suffering from getting One-Shot KO by Transcended Velika, Ruri and Javes. Another thing to note, Soi's Team will not be immune from the Crowd Control of the skills.
Basically, MingMing's AOE may paralyze Soi's Team.

Soi's Team Weakness: Backliner unit with 3-4men AOE damage capable of destroying Soi's Team and Soi is pretty squishy as well.
Also, this immunity to 5-Men AOE can be countered by Damage Penetration Skills

Feng Yan's notable strength comes from his immunity to all attacks for 3 turns and a single target skill with 600% magical damage output. He is capable of 1-Shot Unit such as Nia, Ruri, and other immune to physical damage units. Pretty good unit but we shall see how does he fare in the Arena meta in this patch.

Weakness to Feng Yan's Team: I am afraid with the available units, we are lacking on damage penetration skills. Therefore, Feng Yan will be a beast with 3 turn immunity to all attacks. Apply Crowd Control Skills on him and remove the immunity with Nia or Ruri or Rudy. Those who want to use Feng Wan, put Lucy into your team to remove the CC debuffs on him.

That is not all, there is a new repeat auto-play system which allows us to configure and spam unlimited keys. This is an excellent update and for those who are working and have been suffering from lagging behind others, fret not. This allow us to save time, spam through our stocked up 999 keys in just 1 day. Well Done, Netmarble. I expected this system to come in two months time, thankfully I was wrong.

To those busy players, now you can enjoy leveling your units with ease.

Here are some picture guide on how to configure.

Jewels Update!

This is the update that is going to hurt the F2P players. How come?

irst, let's take a look at where we can obtain them.

World 9 Stages and Cash Shop or Cash Packages.

In my opinion, Jewels worth buying using 20 rubies if you have transcended unit. If your unit is at lv30, you cannot equip the jewels! This is an important to note information.

P.S. You cannot equip both jewels with the same base stats such as Block rate 9% on blue Gem and Green Gem, you can only select one of them.

Make sure all 3 Gems are of different stats.

How significant is the difference with jewel on a unit?

I just PVP-ed a transcended Javes on 4-1 Defensive Formation. Guess what, he is unkillable. High Crit Chance Proc Lifesteal of 600 per autoattack and on Speed Weapons which proc Speed attacks and Counter Chance Armor. His team consist of MingMing, Evans, Lina and Velika. MingMing offers 3 turns of 50% block chance regardless of whether she is alive or dead. Immune to 50% magical damage, 50% defense up from Evans, immune to 50% physical damage from May and -25% Attack power from Lina's passive. With Lifesteal chance and burn damage + ignore defense Skills, He is basically: Terminator Seven Knight

High Speed, High Crit, High Counter and Lifesteal is the new meta especially on high auto attack and decent tankiness unit.

Hold our horses and let's wait a week to see the difference in Arena and Guild War.


Lastly, Celestial Tower 'Repeat' Function is back on-line. Developers finally fixed this bug.

Stay Tune for next upcoming post. Cheers & Happy Gaming!

Game Guide: Seven Knights (SENA) Patch Update and Tips

It has been awhile fellow readers. Today marks the latest patch for Sena bringing in several updates. I will be sharing some of my thoughts regarding the update today.

Netmarble brought back 7K equipments into the shop again. They are available for 25rubies. Frankly, with dragon raids, I find that this is not an efficient way of farming equipments unless you are a casher and have tons of rubies stocked up to roll. Moreover, the chances of getting a 6star 7k equipment is rather low unless you are close buddies with RNGesus. I would'nt recommend spending a lot of rubies on trying to get 7K equipments right now.

Netmarble also updated the difficulty level of Celestial Tower and added 10 extra floors for us. Current cap for celestial tower is 110. Time to challenge yourself, SENA gamers!

Did I mention that we will be getting double gold rewards from Gold Chamber for 1 week? This is awesome event especially during Guild War period as many gamers will be spending a lot of gold to upgrade and transcending units. Farm up your gold and boost your team to compete in Guild War

Oh wait, there is more, Netmarble brought Lunar New Year Event early. This event is similar to the Xmas Event whereby players will have to farm by clearing a certain number of runs to unlock free rewards. Fina and Leah are both the most promising rewards for this event. Leah allows player to unlock an extra item slot which is a great feature because we don't have to save up gold and fodders needed to rank up a 6star unit as fodder for unlocking. Lina is a transcender unit which allows us to boost extra 2 lvls past the lv30. There is 1 catch point though, Lina cannot be used to transcend Seven Knights and Lords. (IMO, this is great game balancing as we don't want cashers to run around with lv40 SENAs and slaughtering Free-2-Play players)

Let's do a simple calculation on how much time and farming needed to obtain all rewards.

For the Blue rewards: 20+40+150+300+500 = 1010 Blue Pouch Counts.

Theoretically, 30mins Regeneration/Key from Tower and Arena, we can get 10 counts/2.5hrs + 3 blue counts from Castle Rush.
Therefore, 1 day, we can earn up 101 Blue Pouch Counts.

However, none of us want to ruin our health and suffer sleepless nights by waking up every 2.5hrs just to clear these.
More sensible calculation will be taking 15hours/day to clear Arenas and Celestial Towers, we can earn 63 Blue Pouch Counts/Day

The event will last for 13days+ thus in we can farm up to 819 Blue Pouch Counts without jeopardizing sleep and other life priorities.

With 819 counts, we can definitely unlock both Fina and a 6star Hero Ticket and the extras are merely freebies that come along.

So guys, do not worry too much about unable to get enough Blue Pouch Counts.

Here's a tribute to Nobunaga Shigeshige from Gintama. Goodbye to our Shogun-sama. One of the sweetest and beautiful death to end a great character to move the plot. Top notch adaptation by far for Shogun Assassination Arc.

As usual, feel free to drop me any questions at the chat box beside the blog or under the comment section. Cheers