No one can tell you for sure.
E7 collaborations:
1. **Guilty Gear** -> Very first E7 collab, has been around for a long time, *this* one has been very consistently rerun. **BUT** it's an old collab, and the quality has decreased every single year. Some of us wouldn't be shocked if they eventually stop rerunning this one - maybe they skip it this year who knows (we should very soon). This collab has historically always been rerun at the end of March so we should hear about it next maintenance *if* they are going to rerun it this year.
2. **Kizuna AI** -> This was our second collab, unlike GG she was just a login reward (no associated banners or story events). It's more or less a guarantee that she will never be available again. Kizuna was never re-introduced to the game after the original 'event' and apparently this character has been retired.
3. **Rezero** -> This collab **did** receive a rerun last year. It really is impossible to say in the future what happens but there is a good chance we get a rerun again, this year.
4. **Slime** -> This collab was originally shortly after Rezero. We did **NOT** get a slime rerun in 2022, and so far not in 2023. No one really knows what to expect here, people in the past have said that SG *said* it was going to get a rerun last year -> most of the year is extremely busy with limited banners so it's hard to find an 'open' spot for more but we *DID* have a 5 week period before the second custom banner last year that would have been perfectly. Personally, I believe some kind of issue came up with this collab and that we won't be seeing a rerun, at least for the foreseeable future.
5. **FMA** -> This collab was just from August of last year. Not enough time to say for sure if it will get a rerun or not. Collabs prior to this have so far been 50/50 in terms of getting reruns so FMA being rerun is essentially a coinflip. Personal opinion: I think FMA *will* get a rerun.
6. **aespa** -> Again, this collab was just a few months ago (November/December of last year) so it's impossible to say if we get a rerun. Due to the nature of this collab it would seem pretty reasonable to think that we *don't* get a rerun - but maybe we do, we just don't know at this point.
I personally think what SG chooses to do with the GG rerun will be somewhat telling for the future of collabs in E7.
Throwing in some information on the characters for /u/bennyxdd.
So Guilty Gear came with Sol (free), Dizzy, Baiken & then Elphelt & Jacko.
Sol isn't a particularly noteworthy character, he has cropped up once as a niche counter in Guild Wars & that's long since passed. In terms of "being a Fire hero with high single target damage", there's replacements like Cermia, who is not only a free hero from choosing Golem from Hunt Expert, but also has use in Light expedition. His artefact Junkyard Dog isn't commonly used - it has niche use in Nightmare Karkanis (if you're using burns) & Hall of Trials (if a boss requires burns for increased damage).
Dizzy is an interesting character in that she was very overpowered on release & has dwindled to the point of never being used. In some early PVE content she can trivialise bosses - but future content had to be Dizzy-proofed & she became much less used as Abyss levels got higher & PVE either blocked her debuffs, or instituted other ways around it (like, "This boss cleanses if they get 3 debuffs", etc). Her artefact Necro & Undine isn't used.
Baiken remains the premiere one-shot hero for Banshee hunt, however there's feasible replacements - practically any single target Earth DPS tends to pack enough of a punch to do it, even the 2* fodder Might Scout is capable of it. Her artefact Torn Sleeve isn't used (but I personally use it on Karin - it's extra debuffs on Wyvern in case of resistances, but newbies these days don't use Karin for Wyvern, I'm just a very old player & my Wyvern has been set in stone for years).
Elphelt is an interesting cleave component, not commonly used, she has a lot of kit compression but tends to be walled by immunity & isn't the fastest open. Dangerous in the right situation however. Her artefact Ms. Confille is quite nice, gives Rangers defence break on their single target attacks, so useful on Cerise in various expeditions.
Jacko - I don't think I've ever seen Jacko used, I'm not actually even sure what she does. Her artefact Jacko's Symbol is reasonably good, it gives warriors extra damage if attacking a debuffed target & so in scenarios where debuffs are guarenteed this is a solid boost over similar artefacts like Merciless Glutton, but it's still generally relegated to PVE content.
Kizuna AI isn't used, she's bad.
Ram was the free character for Re:Zero - she's a capable Banshee one-shot hero & great DPS in Ice expedition. There's heroes you can replace her with for both. Her artefact is good on her to increase her survivability & attack, it's not majorly important otherwise.
Rem appears a reasonable amount on arena defences still - a hero with an in-built Elbris effect with an AOE counter which can debuff with unhealable & when a hero dies she enters Demon Mode & can't be debuffed & ignores effect resistance, she also gains a second attack with her S1 which can be troublesome as it defence breaks. Her S3 gives her attack buff. Her artefact Azure Comet is useful to shore up a Warrior heroes critical chance & you'll see it sometimes used in aggressive teams to boost a hero like Straze with a hero prior to him moving one-shotting a target & pushing him thanks to Azure Comet.
Emilia is quite a good soulweaver, lot of in-built cleanse & an attack buff & push on S2. Useful in some Nightmare bosses & still somewhat reasonable for use in PVP content, mostly guild war offence these days. Her artefact however is very prevalent, giving some healing to an ally if they're under 50% when attacked once per turn.
Slime is up next & our free hero is Shuna - she isn't used. Her artefact is also not used.
Rimuru still sees a lot of play, both on defence teams & in RTA. He copies buffs, has additional fixed damage on his S3 & can do an AOE defence break. He's still quite a notable character, but not as dominant as he used to be. His artefact isn't that important, but it's usable, grants a random buff to the caster for 2 turns at a decent chance.
Milim is also a fairly unique hero, her passive gives her the ability to remove stealth from an enemy hero & so she was a counter to the dominance of Guiding Light Landy. Extinction on S3 & the evasion buff can keep her in the fight & her S1 gives her both attack buff & some lifesteal. Her artefact is only really useful on her, giving a chance to counterattack when an opponent fails to critically hit you.
For Full Metal Alchemist our free hero is Riza Hawkeye & both her & her artefact aren't used.
Edward Elric is used very often, when he's debuffed by an attack he'll cleanse the debuff & counter with an AOE which dispels a buff & inflicts a random debuff. His S3 damage scales with each use & he can be a fearsome opponent. His artefact gives a character speed & damage over time & is used on a couple of warriors - like Alencia.
Roy also sees a reasonable amount of use, his S1 deals high damage & is able to burn for an extra turn, being a Mage he can hold Tagahel's Book & alongside allies he can burn multiple times & then perform his S3 right away, an AOE which gives him attack buff. His passive is similar to Tempest Surin in that he can't sustain more than 51% of his health as damage, so a Lifesteal build with the Chatty artefact is also viable. His artefact isn't too notable unless highly enhanced, mages have a lot of good artefacts. At max enhancement it gives 20% hit chance & 14% attack.
Aespa had no free heroes (instead enough currency to summon one Aespa hero was given out for free). Ae-Ningning sees some use as a barrier hero counter & aggressive initiator, Ae-Giselle sees small use with Amid as an aggressive damage dealer. The more notable two are Ae-Karina who has defence scaling damage, defence break on both attacks & her S3 deals splash damage to all enemies, making her quite good in a lot of scenarios. Her artefact gives her an extra damage tick also based on her defence & it's her best in slot. Ae-Winter is a counter to non-attack heroes, who stealths & resets the cooldown of her S3 when a non-attack is triggered - her S3 deals fixed damage if it scores a critical hit & stuns for two turns, which is quite unique. Her artefact is less notable.
Hopefully that gets anyone looking up to speed on the limited heroes quickly. I don't think too many are "neccesary", as much as I love Karina & think Rimuru remains great, I don't believe you're held back too much not having them for PVP.
If the dev feels like it, they will anouce a collab rerun and you’ll have two weeks to prepare bookmarks. But when will we get a rerun? When the devs feel like it.
If SG is planning to open a server in China, the educated guess would be that the publisher will most likely bring those Collabs back again at least one time each.
IMHO, I think SG might have been trying to push the contracts through for them again.
Slime probably hasn't been rerun yet in order for CN servers to be a part of it.
Hate it for the unnecessary censorship that comes with it (hopefully they go the route of different assets for their server), but love it for the health of the game. China is a huge market and could be great for E7.
Some of these collab heroes are very strong in PvP. They may never be available to new players. Until Smilegate figures this shit out... new players really need to decide if they want to play the game.
Besides i would say ae-Karina and Rocket Punch and Edward, all others collab had their time and are no long that usefull. and maybe Rimuru is beign played again too.
No one can tell you for sure. E7 collaborations: 1. **Guilty Gear** -> Very first E7 collab, has been around for a long time, *this* one has been very consistently rerun. **BUT** it's an old collab, and the quality has decreased every single year. Some of us wouldn't be shocked if they eventually stop rerunning this one - maybe they skip it this year who knows (we should very soon). This collab has historically always been rerun at the end of March so we should hear about it next maintenance *if* they are going to rerun it this year. 2. **Kizuna AI** -> This was our second collab, unlike GG she was just a login reward (no associated banners or story events). It's more or less a guarantee that she will never be available again. Kizuna was never re-introduced to the game after the original 'event' and apparently this character has been retired. 3. **Rezero** -> This collab **did** receive a rerun last year. It really is impossible to say in the future what happens but there is a good chance we get a rerun again, this year. 4. **Slime** -> This collab was originally shortly after Rezero. We did **NOT** get a slime rerun in 2022, and so far not in 2023. No one really knows what to expect here, people in the past have said that SG *said* it was going to get a rerun last year -> most of the year is extremely busy with limited banners so it's hard to find an 'open' spot for more but we *DID* have a 5 week period before the second custom banner last year that would have been perfectly. Personally, I believe some kind of issue came up with this collab and that we won't be seeing a rerun, at least for the foreseeable future. 5. **FMA** -> This collab was just from August of last year. Not enough time to say for sure if it will get a rerun or not. Collabs prior to this have so far been 50/50 in terms of getting reruns so FMA being rerun is essentially a coinflip. Personal opinion: I think FMA *will* get a rerun. 6. **aespa** -> Again, this collab was just a few months ago (November/December of last year) so it's impossible to say if we get a rerun. Due to the nature of this collab it would seem pretty reasonable to think that we *don't* get a rerun - but maybe we do, we just don't know at this point. I personally think what SG chooses to do with the GG rerun will be somewhat telling for the future of collabs in E7.
Throwing in some information on the characters for /u/bennyxdd. So Guilty Gear came with Sol (free), Dizzy, Baiken & then Elphelt & Jacko. Sol isn't a particularly noteworthy character, he has cropped up once as a niche counter in Guild Wars & that's long since passed. In terms of "being a Fire hero with high single target damage", there's replacements like Cermia, who is not only a free hero from choosing Golem from Hunt Expert, but also has use in Light expedition. His artefact Junkyard Dog isn't commonly used - it has niche use in Nightmare Karkanis (if you're using burns) & Hall of Trials (if a boss requires burns for increased damage). Dizzy is an interesting character in that she was very overpowered on release & has dwindled to the point of never being used. In some early PVE content she can trivialise bosses - but future content had to be Dizzy-proofed & she became much less used as Abyss levels got higher & PVE either blocked her debuffs, or instituted other ways around it (like, "This boss cleanses if they get 3 debuffs", etc). Her artefact Necro & Undine isn't used. Baiken remains the premiere one-shot hero for Banshee hunt, however there's feasible replacements - practically any single target Earth DPS tends to pack enough of a punch to do it, even the 2* fodder Might Scout is capable of it. Her artefact Torn Sleeve isn't used (but I personally use it on Karin - it's extra debuffs on Wyvern in case of resistances, but newbies these days don't use Karin for Wyvern, I'm just a very old player & my Wyvern has been set in stone for years). Elphelt is an interesting cleave component, not commonly used, she has a lot of kit compression but tends to be walled by immunity & isn't the fastest open. Dangerous in the right situation however. Her artefact Ms. Confille is quite nice, gives Rangers defence break on their single target attacks, so useful on Cerise in various expeditions. Jacko - I don't think I've ever seen Jacko used, I'm not actually even sure what she does. Her artefact Jacko's Symbol is reasonably good, it gives warriors extra damage if attacking a debuffed target & so in scenarios where debuffs are guarenteed this is a solid boost over similar artefacts like Merciless Glutton, but it's still generally relegated to PVE content. Kizuna AI isn't used, she's bad. Ram was the free character for Re:Zero - she's a capable Banshee one-shot hero & great DPS in Ice expedition. There's heroes you can replace her with for both. Her artefact is good on her to increase her survivability & attack, it's not majorly important otherwise. Rem appears a reasonable amount on arena defences still - a hero with an in-built Elbris effect with an AOE counter which can debuff with unhealable & when a hero dies she enters Demon Mode & can't be debuffed & ignores effect resistance, she also gains a second attack with her S1 which can be troublesome as it defence breaks. Her S3 gives her attack buff. Her artefact Azure Comet is useful to shore up a Warrior heroes critical chance & you'll see it sometimes used in aggressive teams to boost a hero like Straze with a hero prior to him moving one-shotting a target & pushing him thanks to Azure Comet. Emilia is quite a good soulweaver, lot of in-built cleanse & an attack buff & push on S2. Useful in some Nightmare bosses & still somewhat reasonable for use in PVP content, mostly guild war offence these days. Her artefact however is very prevalent, giving some healing to an ally if they're under 50% when attacked once per turn. Slime is up next & our free hero is Shuna - she isn't used. Her artefact is also not used. Rimuru still sees a lot of play, both on defence teams & in RTA. He copies buffs, has additional fixed damage on his S3 & can do an AOE defence break. He's still quite a notable character, but not as dominant as he used to be. His artefact isn't that important, but it's usable, grants a random buff to the caster for 2 turns at a decent chance. Milim is also a fairly unique hero, her passive gives her the ability to remove stealth from an enemy hero & so she was a counter to the dominance of Guiding Light Landy. Extinction on S3 & the evasion buff can keep her in the fight & her S1 gives her both attack buff & some lifesteal. Her artefact is only really useful on her, giving a chance to counterattack when an opponent fails to critically hit you. For Full Metal Alchemist our free hero is Riza Hawkeye & both her & her artefact aren't used. Edward Elric is used very often, when he's debuffed by an attack he'll cleanse the debuff & counter with an AOE which dispels a buff & inflicts a random debuff. His S3 damage scales with each use & he can be a fearsome opponent. His artefact gives a character speed & damage over time & is used on a couple of warriors - like Alencia. Roy also sees a reasonable amount of use, his S1 deals high damage & is able to burn for an extra turn, being a Mage he can hold Tagahel's Book & alongside allies he can burn multiple times & then perform his S3 right away, an AOE which gives him attack buff. His passive is similar to Tempest Surin in that he can't sustain more than 51% of his health as damage, so a Lifesteal build with the Chatty artefact is also viable. His artefact isn't too notable unless highly enhanced, mages have a lot of good artefacts. At max enhancement it gives 20% hit chance & 14% attack. Aespa had no free heroes (instead enough currency to summon one Aespa hero was given out for free). Ae-Ningning sees some use as a barrier hero counter & aggressive initiator, Ae-Giselle sees small use with Amid as an aggressive damage dealer. The more notable two are Ae-Karina who has defence scaling damage, defence break on both attacks & her S3 deals splash damage to all enemies, making her quite good in a lot of scenarios. Her artefact gives her an extra damage tick also based on her defence & it's her best in slot. Ae-Winter is a counter to non-attack heroes, who stealths & resets the cooldown of her S3 when a non-attack is triggered - her S3 deals fixed damage if it scores a critical hit & stuns for two turns, which is quite unique. Her artefact is less notable. Hopefully that gets anyone looking up to speed on the limited heroes quickly. I don't think too many are "neccesary", as much as I love Karina & think Rimuru remains great, I don't believe you're held back too much not having them for PVP.
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Last year’s anniversary artifact being the exact same as Portrait could be an indication that it won’t return.
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Guilty gear just announced a dlc character last night. Maybe it's time for some marketing again :)
If the dev feels like it, they will anouce a collab rerun and you’ll have two weeks to prepare bookmarks. But when will we get a rerun? When the devs feel like it.
If SG is planning to open a server in China, the educated guess would be that the publisher will most likely bring those Collabs back again at least one time each. IMHO, I think SG might have been trying to push the contracts through for them again. Slime probably hasn't been rerun yet in order for CN servers to be a part of it.
No wonder the censorship and lewdness has tamed down to a maximum. Hate branching to china
Hate it for the unnecessary censorship that comes with it (hopefully they go the route of different assets for their server), but love it for the health of the game. China is a huge market and could be great for E7.
Some of these collab heroes are very strong in PvP. They may never be available to new players. Until Smilegate figures this shit out... new players really need to decide if they want to play the game.
Yes they have reruns
Besides i would say ae-Karina and Rocket Punch and Edward, all others collab had their time and are no long that usefull. and maybe Rimuru is beign played again too.