UID: 16237116 (SEA) - Trickster
It's been a long while since our Queen of Thunder has made waves, dealing with the troubles in the Elysian Realm. It's due time she regains her spotlight.
🗲Table of Content
- Overview
- Stats and new mechanic
- Best matchups
- Pros and Cons vs Domain of Sanction
- Should you pull?
🗲Overview
- Seven Thunders of Retribution (or 7T) is the new Divine Key made for Herrscher of Thunder. This weapon brings a new way to play HoT as well giving her new buffs, including but not limited to:
+ Time pause during Ult
+ Higher base ATK
+ 10 global ATK
+ Bonus DMG outside of burst mode
- Where to get: 7T can be obtained from the special Divine Key supply as a rate up, along with Mitternachts Waltz and stigma set Wang Zhenyi. You will guarantee at least one 7T within 50 pulls.
🗲 Stats and New Mechanics
Seven Thunders of Retribution: Rumble ( 284 ATK - 22 CRT)
“Made from the core of the 3rd Herrscher - Herrscher of Thunder. Naru, or Rumble, is the name given to its blade form.”
- Active Skill [Thunderbolt Call]: [0sp - 15s CD] Slashes out an X-shaped beam, dealing 300%*2 ATK of Lightning DMG, restores 10sp and inflict 10 Paralyze Trauma on first hit. Wielder is invincible during cast animation.
- HoT equip bonus: can use active in burst/dragon mode to deal 600% ATK of Lightning DMG, trigger Evasion Skill if available and user is invincible during cast animation. Afterwards HoT can immediately cast Ult Finisher but will increase Ult CD by 11s. Both actives inflict a 15s Narukami mark on enemies.
- Passive Skill [Exoneration]: Wielder deals 30% more TDM against enemies of weaker type than self. Casting Ult refreshes active CD every 10s.
- HoT equip bonus: Ult Opener and Ult Finisher animations both pause all stage and skill timers. Every 10s will gain 200 Herrsher charge upon field entry. If HoT performes active skill in burst mode followed by Ult Finisher, dragon Kurikara (summonde entity) will remain on field to bombard enemies.
Dragon has up to 600 of current Herrscher charge, deals DMG equal to 70% of HoT’s DMG and bombard consumes 200% of charge. HoT is in Herrscher Form while Kurikara is on field. Dragon disappears if either: charge runs out, HoT casts ult again or after 10s of dragon being on field.
- Seven Thunders of Retribution: Narukami is the PRI form given to this sword
Seven Thunders of Retribution: Narukami (425 ATK, 11 CRT)
“I can’t bear looking back on my teenage inventions. Of all the 7 forms, only the slingshot and lipstick still hold up today.”
Wait it has a lipstick mode?
(This is surprising the PRI weapon with the highest base ATK stat out of all other weapons)
- As with all PRI weapons, 7T PRI buffs all of its base skills' DMG values and introduces more skills.
- The Active Skill has been slightly modified, giving it another wave of DMG after the X-shaped slash dealing 100%*4 ATK of Lightning DMG.
7T PRI Active
- Being a Divine Key, 7T will also give a bonus 10 ATK to every battlesuit and a increase to its user's all Elemental DMG by 25% in co-op raids.
Divine Keys room
- Passive Skill [Inverse]: User's Lightning DMG Increases by 35% when not in burst mode. and if HoT is the user, dragon will dive on enemies to dealing 100% ATK of Lightning DMG before leaving the field. For every Shinzan Strike made while dragon is on field, the dive will deal a bonus 300% ATK of Lightning DMG (capped at 600%).
Shinzan Strike
- With 7T, players will be encouraged to rely less on burst mode and more on normal mode to deal DMG.
🗲Usage/Best Match-Ups
- Version 5.8 introduces 2 new bosses in the Abyss and Memorial Arena against which 7T will shine best
Abyss
- Remember our old pal RPC the flying ship? Well guess what he’s back! Now with accomp****** weird dancing slime mobs!
This stage favors Lightning DMG, features Paralyze Trauma and hitcount, lots of hitcount
Mihoyo why did you make this.
- Your best lineup for this will be HoT - Eden - Fischl:
+ Eden here can actually use fullset Margrave as Handel will be used on HoT, and the Paralyze Trauma she offers will be plenty useful for clearing the first wave mobs.
+ Fischl can take care of the hitcount targets while providing team Lightning DMG buffs.
For gameplay examples you can always search for Marisa, mimitsu, etc on Youtube
🗲Memorial Arena
A certain goose has come back to challenge our goddess of Thunder once more with an SSS form. And she shall rise to the occasion.
- With an updated moveset, the strongest Shicksal Valkyrie [Bright Knight: Excelsis] will sure give you a hard time
- Again, you'll want to use Eden and Fischl as your supports. Luckily, teambuilding for this boss is more flexible and you can sub Fallen Rosemary in for Eden but keep in mind your points will be lower.
🗲Pros and Cons vs Domain of Sanction
- As great a weapon as it is, some of you might be asking if it will replace Domain of Sanction completely. Short answer is no, long answer is that it depends:
+ For Exalted Tier captains: Against RPC in Abyss and SSS BKE in MA, 7T will definitely outdo Domain of Sanction for its time pausing alone. But against other bosses, you're better off sticking with good ol' DoS since 7T barely does equal DMG to it.
+ For captains at Masters Tier or lower: Seven Thunders will show a much more noticeable increase in DMG and ease to use.
🗲So should you pull for Seven Thunders?
- Seeing as to how Domain of Sanction still has more boss coverage than 7T both in MA and the Abyss, pulling for this Divine Key may not be the best decision, more so if you already owned other decently geared DPSes like Morbius or Aponia. Having said that, you do stand to gain a lot by just owning the weapon: time pause, 10 ATK for everyone, even the Elysian Realm has added extra features for using HoT with Seven Thunders. Additionally, pulling on the banner for this weapon is also a chance for those who do not own or need more Zhenyi and Turg for their accounts. All in all, it's still best to decide based on what you want rather than what you need if you don't play competitively, since you won't regret getting something you don't actually want/enjoy. That's all from me for now and I'll see all of you next time.
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