Celestial Mercedes Review: The Divine Bolt

Updated in May 2019.

Celestial Mercedes is a key character story in Epic Seven, and one of our favourite unit to play with.

We were ready to published our test for a while, but following the nice 20% damage increase on her s3 recently in a patch update, we took time to review her again in each content.

Lots of players are advising not build her and give her a very poor rating, just because they are not willing to invest enough.

Like most 4 stars DPS with squishy and slow stats (Karin, Clarissa,etc) , she requires heavy stats investment (the hardest being her 100% crit point) and most importantly a specific set up to shine in PvP arena / AOE cleave.

She is much better than what you could hear around, including having an amazing cooldown rotations and skill set for PvE.

The PROS:

- Ability to follow up her s3 with her s2 for perfect AOE cleave set up.

- As a mage with 2 consecutive AOEs, great use of Sira-Ren.

- Her s3 self-cast attack buff for 2 turns, has been buffed with 20% additional damage.

- Her s3 AOE makes her gain 20% CR per critical / per enemy. Which can give her an immediate turn if 4 enemies are crit'ed.

- Her s3 has a soul burn providing 2 turn cool down.

- Her s2 is an AOE scaling on enemies max HP. Perfect to cleave arena tanks, minions and bosses in PvE.

- Her s1 has a 30%-50% chance to land heal block, which is key in the most annoying Abyss bosses/PvE - also nice addition in PvP.

- Homoculus Devotion items from story can be used to max her imprint.

- We love her design, skills and animation - after all, she is the Nemesis of E7 ;)

The CONS:

- Has a very low speed and HP base stats.

- Requires 100% crit to ensure full cool down reduction and maximum skill's rotation.

- Needs 2 CR boosters in arena for a perfect cleave / or a well speed scale Aux Lots / Bellona /C.Domi, to allow you focusing more on the damage stats for optimal burst.

- Unfortunately not optimal in Guild Battles/3vs as she can't rotate s2 to s3 in a row, unless you bring 2 CR boosters but the damage won't be enough. Or you invest more in her speed than her attack to scale up, then the best GB team we tried was Rose / Bellona / C.Mercedes (.+165speed).

The SET:

Speed/Att/Rage/Destruction and Crit set.

The stats will depends highly from the team you can pair her with.

Ideally, you want Att% on Boots and Ring with CDM% on Necklace.

Note: We don't recommend Triple Crit unless you can reach the stats below.

Easier to build with Speed/Crit, with Attack% boots and Ring and Critical Damage% on Necklace.

The early STATS (based on average 70 level+ gears, maxed at 15):

- Speed: 140+, including for PvP arena with 2 CR boosters.

- Attack: 2,5K+

- Def: 700+

- HP: 7K+

- Critical Chance: 100%

- Critical Damage: 195%+

- Effectiveness / Resistance: a bonus

The ARTEFACTS:

- Tagehel's Ancient Book: As any Mage, this 20 soulburns can provide a lot of utility for your team in PvP right at the start of the battle. Also, perfect for manual PvE bosses.

- Sira-Ren: Having 2 AOEs and low cool downs on long runs / fights, SR works wonder with her in both PvP and PVE.

- Time Matter: Special thanks to u/MojitoSuave who taught it to us in the Reddit comments section.

Give 1 turn cooldown if you kill any unit on your attack turn, plus up to 36% more damage on next attack. So potentially if you managed to get one kill immediately on s3, trigger s2 just behind with another kill = 2 turn cool down. Delightful!

- Abyssal Crown: Thx to u/yesbita on Reddit - we didn't put it at first as our experience (maxed) with its 12-24% chance to stun always been very underwhelming. Can be used overall if maxed, very good when it lands in PvP.

- Exorcist's Tonfa: A great budget artefact for overall use.

- Joker: For PvE.

Her GOOD FRIENDS:

- Challenger Dominiel comes first because they synergises very well both together in PvP and PvE. C.Domi helps you to focus more on Att / Critical Damage stats as she provides 50% critical chance.

- Rose or Auxiliary Lots will be key to set up a safe AOE cleave for PvP.

- Any AOE def breaker for PvP and PvE.

Some ARENA SET UP:

- Your fastest CR or AOE dispeller / AOE breaker / Auxiliary Lots and CM.

- Your fastest CR / Rose / AOE breaker and CM

- Your fastest CR / Rose / AOE stun (G.Puurgis, Zero,Leo) and CM

- Schuri / fast G. Puurgis / C.Domi (for her critica) and CM (with a Critical Damage% necklace).

Some GB SET UP:

- Rose / AOE breaker / CM on speed boots.

- Schuri / C. Domi (+15) / CM (only 50% crit to focus on Speed stats and CMD% neck)

How to counter a Rose in PvP:

1. A very fast Diene ( boosted by a CR), her crit reduction shield will annihilate CM damage and skill 2 rotation.

2. As usual, any fast opener with CD reduction --> Stun--> Silence in that order to avoid her s3. FKluri too.

3. The Perfect Bait: she is AOE so we like General Puurgis to ensure the CR boost counter / potentially cut in between her s3 and s2.

Especially about her Wyvern 11 on auto-performance:

To compare to other strong water Single DPS unit, she didn't cut it because her cooldown on auto are too long and her s3 CR becomes irrelevant on a single Boss target.

On a last note, she performs very well in any Raids, Abyss and all the early Hunts 10. Her improved s3, s2 AOE scaling on max HP and s1 debuff bring huge damage and utility debuff (more if you use Sira Ren).

She is worth to six stars for your PvE completion following the stats recommendation and team comp above.

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Have Fun ;)

GameNani Team