A summary highlighting the major points of the 7.0 Special Program.

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Banners & Wishing

Event Wishes

Phase 1: Odette & Arlecchino + Alyosha

Phase 2: Flins & Ineffa

Major Quests

Archon Quests

• Chapter VII: Act I: Everwinter Without Mercy
• Chapter VII: Act II: Wraith's Nocturne
• Complete within the time limit to receive 560 Primogems and Ascension materials for Odette.

New Areas

• The Godforsaken Frostlands
• Complete within the time limit to acquire an additional 400 Primogems.

Shadow Realm + Shooting Gameplay

New Bosses

Immortal Construct

Chimeric Winged Lion

Characters | Weapons | Artifacts

New Characters

Cryo Traveler (and reactions) (5★)

• Cryo Traveler can enable all Stellar Glimmer reactions (Stellar Glimmer is just the name for the collective group of Stellar Reactions.)
• Stellar-Swirl is added to the game.
• When characters trigger Stellar-Swirl, a Stellar Vortex is created.
• Stellar Vortex: Explodes after a short time. If multiple Stellar-Swirls were triggered, it levels up the Stellar Vortex, and increases its explosion DMG.
• It can also increase a character's jumping ability. (Did they just take Xianyun's Job?)

Odette (5★)

• Element: Cryo | Stellar Linchpin
• Nation: Snezhnaya
• Affiliation: Korolevskiy Troupe
• Weapon Type: Sword
• Important Tidbits: Odette converts Super-Conduct and Cryo Swirl into Stellar-Conduct and Stellar Swirl. She also boosts Steller Glimmer DMG
• Elemental Skill: Summons the Solo Dance Double, periodically doing Stellar Glimmer DMG, while boosting the party's Stellar Glimmer DMG
• Solo Dance Double: Odette can team up with the Dance Double to unleash a special follow up attack that deals massive Stellar Glimmer DMG
• Elemental Burst: Deals multiple instances of DMG to opponents.
• Utility Passive: Marks specialties unique to Snezhnaya on the minimap.
• You can tap her Elemental Skill repeatedly while she's doing her Idle Animations to enjoy a continuous performance.

Alyosha (4★)

• Element: Electro | Vision
• Nation: Snezhnaya
• Affiliation: Snezhnaya; Hunter
• Weapon Type: Polearm
• Important Tidbits: Alyosha can be acquired for free when progressing the Snezhnaya Archon Quest.
• Elemental Skill: Applies the "Hunter's Mark" to opponents.
• If Alyosha activates the mark while in a Polestar Field, it will boost the party's Stellar-Conduct DMG.
• Elemental Burst: Places down a trap that taunts opponents, and also lets his hound Tugarin to join the fray.
• Tugarin: Performs Coordinated Attacks that also restore the HP of the active character.
• Utility Passive: Marks specialties unique to Snezhnaya on the minimap.

New Weapons

• Traveler's New Weapon: Exiphanes Blade (5★ Sword)
• This weapon can be acquired by unlocking Statues of the Seven in Snezhnaya. The more Statues you unlock, the more powerful this weapon becomes.
• Odette's Signature: Whiteflake Frostfeather (5★ Sword)
• Craftable Weapons:
• Emberwell (4★ Sword)
• Covenant of Frost and Snow (4★ Bow)
• Blade of Atonement (4★ Claymore)
• Echoes of the Heart (4★ Catalyst)
• Song of the Vigil (4★ Polearm)
• Battlepass Weapons:
• Heretic's Molten Blade (4★ Sword)
• Jade Vista (4★ Bow)
• Forged by the Golden Melody (4★ Claymore)
• Clash of Kings (4★ Catalyst)
• Frostbreath (4★ Polearm)

New Artifacts

• Scarlet Proof
• Boosts Crit Rate and Stellar Swirl DMG
• Heart of the Furnace
• Boosts ATK and party's Stellar Glimmer DMG

Codes (LIMITED TIME)

Everwinter

OntoSnezhnaya

Odette0812

Welfare (Free Stuff)

Free (4★)

• Alyosha
• Progress the Snezhnaya Archon Quest to acquire.
• Traveler Outfit: Night Hunt in Snow
• This outfit can only be used while in the Shadow Realm (the shooty mode).
• Diona
• Free from the main event of this patch. See below.

Events

Flagship (Major): Great Expeditionist Challenge

Smaller Events:

Mutual Aid in Bloom: Into the Frostlands

Trial of the Bastion

Overflow Event: Overflowing Abundance

• Weapon and Talent materials.

Genius Invokation TCG

Card Additions

• Jahoda, Durin, and Hydro Hypostasis
• Snezhnaya Card Back

Endgame Updates

Imaginarium Theater

• New Echoes:
• Tartaglia
• Xiao

Stygian Onslaught

• Stygian Onslaught will add a new set of weapon skins.
• These weapons skins, like the previous, are locked behind the completion of the Dire Challenge
• When acquiring the skins, you can select the appearance of the weapon skin you want.

System Updates

Quality of Life

• A teleport waypoint will appear in Sneznhaya for Travelers that have completed the Mondstadt Archon Quest.
• The most recently unlocked Artifact Domains will be shown at the top of the Adventurer's Handbook
• Maximum amount of map pins has been updated to 350.

Changes

• To Temper Thyself and Journey Far
• New Additions are being added to the currently available characters.
• Lyney
• Wriothesley
• Navia
• Xianyun
• Chiori
• Sigewinne
• Clorinde
• Emilie
• Yumemizuki Mizuki
• IMPORTANT: THERE IS CURRENTLY NO INFO IF THE CHARACTERS WE'VE ALREADY CLAIMED WILL BE RESET IN THE NEWEST UPDATE.

Miliastra Wonderland

• In addition to the events, the Shooting gameplay will also be incorporated into Miliastra Wonderland in the future.

Other

• Odette has a special quest where you can help her make a schedule for her performances.
• Travelers will receive a gadget from Hyperborea called the "Eye of Graeae". This gadget lets Travelers resist the cold so long as it has enough energy, and lets Travelers change to the shooting outfit when entering the Shadow Realm. There's also some additional effects it has while exploring in Snezhnaya.

And that's all, what are you most excited for in the upcoming version? Let me know in the comments!

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