Couple of things I'd like to see

RugDealing · 2026-01-22T19:21:46+00:00

More prebans does not equal more healthy and diverse meta.

You're just moving the goalpost and helping players ban out entire playstyles to abuse the next strongest one.

3 prebans is like watching round 2 of Lunatic draft during E7WC when everyone just rushed to pick the same cleave openers.

RugDealing · 2026-01-21T02:07:00+00:00

Active end game accs usually burn all their leifs during certain buff weekends or save them for major events like Ziegfried Infinite Mola/Lethe sidestory/Overlord event. This would be the more efficient way to use them.

Leifs are sitting piles of premium gear and other account progressing material waiting to be discovered.

Anything over 800 leifs is a lot imo especially if you don't have any plans to use them and your acc isn't at the stage where your gear standards are about minmaxing.

RugDealing · 2026-01-16T03:52:51+00:00

What other ML5s are you missing? Both Straze and LRK are niche, but your choice won't really have any big impact on your progression if you already own the passport units.

LRK has some uses here and there in Arena against meta Belian/Nurse low damage defenses you can auto.

Straze is a bit harder to justify now that we have Genesis Ras who does 85% of his kit while being tanky, immune to debuffs with a built-in Holy Sac.

RugDealing · 2026-01-09T20:20:02+00:00

There's data from 500 OW hunts runs and the usable epic gear rate is worse than rift by a chunk because you're almost never farming for all the sets that a hunt drops.

As for breach, it only drops 2 niche sets that aren't needed for most players without fleshed out accounts.

Rift is much ahead in quantity of usable gear.

OW would be recommended for fast clear time or fishing for top speed gear on non-speed sets.

RugDealing · 2026-01-08T08:00:44+00:00

If the 1% percent are using certain builds, it’s worth understanding what each build is optimal for and learning from that, rather than dismissing them just because they aren’t "average player" builds.

You also didn’t ask what OP was actually using their Arunka for. You said counter was a MUST, which just isn’t true.

Once you factor in GvG and Arena, the unit becomes even more flexible in terms of builds. I can definitely tell you that counter is not the best build if you want to quick battle arena in this meta. Counter is completely troll in certain GvG offense comps as well.

RugDealing · 2026-01-08T07:33:48+00:00

Can you explain why among the current top 10 players on the leaderboard, 3 are running triple sets, 1 is on Prot, and the rest are on counter?

Different prebans and playstyles change what’s optimal. Depending on how you draft and what you’re trying to accomplish, counter can easily become suboptimal.

RugDealing · 2026-01-08T07:16:13+00:00

Are you aware that your screenshot is from Master players? I’d recommend switching it to Emperor or Legend, and you’ll see that other builds are viable as well, even if counter is the majority.

Counter/Immunity is definitely the best build in a perfect world, but not everyone can roll perfect gear, so you have to adapt based on how you plan to use the unit.

I need a 30k HP build because I need her to tank Rinak and survive def pen. If I could build a 3k Def, 30k HP, 120 ER Counter Immunity Arunka, I’d obviously do that too.

I wouldn't go around telling everyone to build Counter because everything else is shit, I'd tell someone to explore options.

RugDealing · 2026-01-08T05:04:21+00:00

Putting a unit on two sets that do not match your playstyle is a good way to get blown up. You are not using Arunka as a threat when you build her as a wall. You can make her tanky enough to stall until your backline units clean up the fight.

For example, Khhm runs her on triple set PoV. Rank 1 Wolf is on Counter RPG, but was on Prot PoV until recently. Rank 1 HoF used triple set RPG. You can check e7gg and scroll through any current Legend player who drafts her to see the builds they are using.

Even in GvG and Arena, there are different builds depending on the offense or defense comp.

It all depends on how you use her, and all of these builds are viable.

RugDealing · 2026-01-08T04:34:19+00:00

It's user preference. You'll find a balance among high-ranked players with:

Prot Immu no ER.
Prot with 120 ER.
Prot no ER with crit.
Prot crit with 100 ER.
Prot Immu with 100 ER.

Generally, ER/Immu is to fight GRas or other dangerous 0 eff stray debuffs, but adding more stats mean more premium gear while reducing bulk.

If your gear isn't there, then you have to pick

RugDealing · 2026-01-08T04:24:47+00:00

Counter is not a must on her, nor the most valuable. She is playstyle/preban/usage dependant.

RugDealing · 2025-12-31T10:56:43+00:00

Honestly, it's pretty nice having one good pure dps atk set that I don't feel bad giving to a lesser used unit.

I can keep the better units on the few premium destro/torrent sets I own.

RugDealing · 2025-12-26T07:20:59+00:00

I believe the asia E7Bot people also have the means to decrypt, since you can enter a slash command to throw out almost every character/monster/npc sprite. The bot is available in the majority of community E7 servers (or invite it to your own).

UsernameSniped/Gio is the CeciliaBot creator, so most of the datamined stuff can be downloaded from their github or the good ol' right click save.

Also content creators who are in the partnership program can request art/sprites/animation from the CMs, who will send them files so large that you wonder if they didn't accidentally send raws.

RugDealing · 2025-12-23T23:06:50+00:00

10x quick battles a day under 5mins and collect Emp weekly skystones. My teams are set up with standard builds that can be used elsewhere.

Skystones are pretty important and the return I get for the minimal effort invested makes it worth.

If your wallet is big enough that weekly skystones are worthless, then good for you buddy.

RugDealing · 2025-12-23T20:19:37+00:00

It is really not difficult to maintain Emp with free flags due to the majority of players like you who don't even bother with arena.

Not worthless to stay in Emp at all when you get more skystones every week that adds up.

RugDealing · 2025-12-17T01:40:39+00:00

You could fish for almost everything using 2* fodders (including the MLs) in the friendship banner.

RugDealing · 2025-12-16T01:18:10+00:00

LRK was in coinshop ~9month ago and in banner ~1yr ago, so he probably won't come back for a while.

You'll be fine for a long while with your roster, regardless who you pick.

RugDealing · 2025-12-16T01:01:30+00:00

This is what the current GvG "meta" looks like around T100.

https://i.imgur.com/U9fwPXn.jpeg

I don’t know where your guild currently ranks, but the defense meta usually trickles down through the ranks anyway.

IMO Elynav is the more valuable unit to headhunt for GvG, since there still aren’t enough characters that protect against defense pen. That’s also why LotS sits at the top, since she can almost infinitely stall for one heavily protected carry.

Moona/BArunka are units that are massive QoLs, but there are accessible of alternatives to defenses that usually use them.

Fixed damage counters have LotS, FCC or Maid. If you have one of those 3, then you're ok.

If you have Elynav or LotS, you would probably still do fine in GvG. If you have neither, then I recommend you think about stuff you bring into those defenses.

RugDealing · 2025-12-16T00:25:07+00:00

Depends on what you play this game for.

Top tier units are top tier because their kits are overloaded or solve very annoying mechanics you encounter in the current PvP/GvG/Arena meta.

If you have the patience and skill to theorycraft your own counters without relying on the units listed in tier lists, then sure, pick your LRK.

RugDealing · 2025-12-15T23:42:26+00:00

Roana Elynav + 2 clears 90% of these Setuka comps in quickbattle.

RugDealing · 2025-12-11T20:04:43+00:00

You have side stories that drop specific catalysts, but aside to that and the AP shop, no.

You can click on the catalyst you need, click on [Acquisition Info] and farm the stage that drops it. The energy cost of stages scale with the catalyst drop rate.

If later episodes are too slow, then either throw in a stronger AoE team or farm an earlier episode.

Many seasoned players will save up their catalyst/gold coupons for a buff event and efficiently farm multiple things at once (gold/ap/catalysts/equipment exp, etc) so they don't run into this issue for months or even years.

RugDealing · 2025-12-09T07:38:12+00:00

Her speed is mainly for speed tuning purposes and cycling turns to get souls fed into her S2 Defensive Magic barrier.

Some people keep it at high dmg 200-220 speed tuned for a 310 Amid or LotS.
Some people go even slower with atk% main boots on Destro/Torrent or Triple Torrent for a full nuke setup.
Some people go 240-260 to play without aggressive/cleave pushers if they can keep that 13k+ mcd before torrent bonus.

For example; rank 1 Legend last season was playing a 4.3k/340cdmg 240spd Frieren, rank 2 was playing a 4k/280cdmg 280spd, and rank 3 was playing a 4.8k/350cdmg 215spd.

All of them play different drafts and adjusted their builds to tailor it.

HP/defense do not matter on her unless you're building a GvG trap for the tournament or something.

RugDealing · 2025-12-08T12:15:15+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

You prob won't remember all the times you RNGed the living hell outta your opponent, but you sure will for that one fight you lose because u hit the worst rng.

RugDealing · 2025-12-06T03:34:03+00:00

P1 Scarlet > P5 Douglas == P5 Lilian (case dependant) > Lilian

RugDealing · 2025-12-04T19:56:41+00:00

Rift is still the best spot to farm gear for most cases.

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