This guide walks through each combat stat as it behaves in PvE (open world, dungeons, boss content), using the names and descriptions exactly as the game ships them and the engine caps stored in the balance table.

New to RPG stats or 7DSO? Start with the Stats 101 — plain English section below. It explains what every stat actually does in everyday language before the data tables get into specifics.

You don't have to read the whole page to play well. Here's the short version, with every number pulled straight from the game's balance file.

Each hit = your ATK × your skill, reduced by the enemy's DEF, then modified by your bonuses (Crit, Pierce, Defense Shatter, Element). You can't compute the exact number — the formula lives inside the compiled engine — but you can know which stats multiply which.

• 0 – 500 units: 100% damage — stick to the enemy.
• 500 – 1000: 50% damage — already cut in half.
• > 1000: 10% damage — almost nothing.

Ranged characters that kite too far are doing 10% of their sheet damage.

Each element does something different when its Burst activates:

• Fire: attacks deal additional damage
• Wind: generates a current that damages and lifts enemies
• Lightning: damage spreads to nearby enemies
• Earth: you gain a barrier + a stacking damage-up buff (max 5×)
• Cold: applies Chill — 10 stacks freezes the target
• Darkness: reduces target's Darkness Defense (only triggers after another Burst)
• Holy / Physical: no gauge of their own, they charge the other elements'

Mono-element teams snowball harder because activating any Burst resets every other element's gauge — mixed teams keep cancelling each other.

• Healing Power > Cooldown Reduction.
• Lifesteal is for DPS — never on a healer.
• Shatter-stripping supports (Griamore, Daisy) outperform direct-buff supports because Defense Shatter caps at 90% summed across the whole team — there's a lot of headroom to fill.

• DPS: ATK → Crit Chance → Crit Damage → Skill Damage. Stay within 500 units. Stack one element.
• Tank: HP → Damage Resistance (up to the 95% ceiling) → Perseverance.
• Support: Shatter-stripping > direct buffs — there's 90% of summed cap to fill.

Same numbers as the headline strip at the top of the page, but with the underlying ga_* / battle_* constant names so you can cross-check against the game's balance file. If a number you've seen quoted on a wiki or Reddit doesn't appear here, it's either invented, reverse-engineered from gameplay observation, or hardcoded inside the compiled engine binary — not shipped as data.

Two caps that often get conflated: the gameplay-side Crit Chance cap is 90% (what actually applies at runtime), while the engine-side ceiling in the battle table is 100% — the absolute maximum the engine even understands. Same idea for Damage Resistance: the engine accepts up to 100%, but the 5% floor on damage taken means total damage reduction can never actually exceed 95%.

Before we get into the data tables, here's the whole combat system explained without jargon. If you've never played a stat-heavy RPG, this section is for you.

Every hit is the result of three things happening in order:

1. The engine takes your ATK and the enemy's DEF and runs them through a damage formula. The bigger your ATK and the smaller their DEF, the bigger the base hit.
2. Modifiers stack on top — Crit can multiply that hit, Damage Increase adds a flat %, Pierce and Defense Shatter let you bypass part of the enemy's mitigation.
3. What's left hits the enemy's HP bar. If you have Lifesteal, you also recover a % of damage dealt as healing.

Defense works the same way in reverse: enemies hit you, your DEF and Perseverance reduce what gets through, and the rest comes off your HP.

These are extra layers that some characters specialise in:

• DoT (Damage over Time) — Bleed, Burn, Frostbite, Shock, Poison etc. apply ticks of damage over a few seconds. Two stats interact: DoT Efficiency (how hard each tick hits) and DoT Interval (how often a tick fires).
• Plunging (Aerial) attacks — attacking from the air is a completely separate combat path with its own damage stats. You need to be at least 150 units off the ground for it to register.
• Status effects — Confusion makes the target wander, Provoke pulls them toward the caster, and a handful of skills apply these as part of their kit. You don't build for these directly; you pick characters whose skills apply them.

Building a character without going down a stat-sheet rabbit hole? Here's the short version:

• DPS character → ATK first, then Crit Chance until you're consistently critting, then Crit Damage. After that, Skill Damage Increase or Pierce depending on what your kit favours.
• Tank / survivability → HP first, then Damage Resistance (just remember the 95% ceiling), then Perseverance Rate. The defensive stats multiply each other — stacking three small layers beats maxing one.
• Support stripping defenses → Defense Shatter is the strongest lever. Griamore/Daisy-style "decrease enemy Shatter Resistance" buffs let your team's DPS hit harder. Team-wide it stacks up to a 90% summed cap.
• Healer → Healing Power first, then Cooldown Reduction so your big heals come back faster. Lifesteal is for DPS, not for healers.

Everything in this primer is grounded in the same data shown further down on this page — no theorycraft, no "I think it works like this". Where a stat has a hard cap from the engine (Damage Resistance 95%, Defense Shatter summed 90%, etc.), that number comes straight from the game's balance table.

Every character has three base stats: Attack (Increases Attack by {0}), Defense (Increases Defense by {0}) and HP (Increases HP by {0}). The game also tracks three percentage modifiers (Attack Increase, Defense Increase, HP Increase) and three "equipment-only" copies (Equipment Attack, Equipment Defense, Equipment HP) so the UI can show you how much of each comes from gear vs. character.

Normal attacks and skills don't use the same maths under the hood. The game accordingly exposes two separate user-facing stats: Normal Attack Damage Increase and Skill Attack Damage Increase. If you build around skills, Skill Damage Increase is the one that matters; if you mostly auto-attack, Normal Damage Increase is.

The full damage formula runs inside the game's compiled engine and isn't shipped as text. These are the coefficients the engine reads — what changes when the developers rebalance.

Four crit stats exist in the game. Two offensive (raise your crit performance), two defensive (reduce the crits inflicted on you).

Damage is scaled by how far the attacker is from the target. The engine reads three correction bands from the balance table — full damage at point-blank, half at mid-range, a flat 10% beyond.

Practical takeaway: ranged characters that telegraph from 1000+ units away are doing only 10% of their nominal damage. The drop from 100% to 50% at the 500-unit line is the single biggest positioning lever in PvE.

Pierce goes through Perseverance the same way Crit goes through Crit Defense. Perseverance itself is split into three named stats: Perseverance, Block Rate and Perseverance Defense.

The game starts every character at 100% Pierce and 10% Perseverance Rate.

Two stats govern dodging in 7DSO. Dodge is a flat additive value; Evasion Rate is the actual percentage chance to evade.

Every character starts at 5% Evasion Rate before any gear or buff.

Defense Shatter (Defense Shatter) and Shatter Resistance (Shatter Resistance) form an offensive/defensive pair. Defense Shatter chips through the target's mitigation pipeline; Shatter Resistance protects against it. The game ships clear, brief in-game descriptions for both:

Defense Shatter is one of the strongest offensive damage levers in the game because the engine lets multiple sources stack additively up to a very high ceiling:

• Summed cap: 90% — no matter how many sources of Defense Shatter you stack, the total applied to a single target maxes out here.
• Summed floor: 0% — you can't go below zero combined shatter on a target.
• Individual floor: 0% — each source contributes at least zero (so Shatter Resistance can cancel out a source but not turn it negative).

The game ships two distinct mechanics that reduce enemy defenses — and they stack with each other rather than overlapping:

A handful of characters interact explicitly with Shatter Resistance, as quoted from their in-game skill tooltips:

• Griamore (Shield, Ultimate): "Inflicts damage equal to {0} of Attack. Decreases the enemy's Shatter Resistance by {2} for {1} sec."
• Daisy (Wand, Potential 10): "The Special Attack's final strike power is amplified by {0}, and it decreases the enemy's Shatter Resistance by {2} for {1} sec."
• Diane (Gauntlets, Ultimate — Heavy Metal): "Increases the hero's Shatter Resistance by {4} for {3} sec when hit. (Max: {5} times)" — the only example so far of a character self-buffing Shatter Resistance defensively.

The pattern in the data is consistent: Defense Shatter is offensive support — characters like Griamore and Daisy strip Shatter Resistance off the enemy so the team's main DPS deals more damage. Diane is the only example in the current roster of a character using Shatter Resistance for her own survival.

Damage Reflection Rate sends a fraction of the damage you take back to the attacker. The engine actually splits reflection into two underlying mechanics — a "normal" reflect and a counter-reflect — each with its own floor/cap and minimum damage value.

Two underlying reflect mechanics exist in the engine: a counter reflect (rate floor 0%, cap 100%) and a normal reflect (rate floor 0%, cap 100%). Reflected damage can be zero, but not negative — each has a minimum value of 0 / 0 respectively.

Barriers (Shields) absorb damage before it touches HP. Three named stats interact with them:

The game splits "deal more damage" into three named stats: Normal Attack Damage Increase (autos only), Skill Attack Damage Increase (skills only), All Damage Increase (everything). Each has a matching defensive counterpart.

Damage reduction has a floor at 5% — meaning total damage taken can never go below 5% of the original hit, no matter how much DEF or resistance is stacked. The minimum final damage actually dealt is 1.

Five elements exist in the game: Lightning, Wind, Fire, Cold and Darkness. Each one gets its own complete set of offensive and defensive stats — so any single element has eight independent stats you can build for or against.

There are also "All Elemental" versions of Burst Efficiency and Burst Resistance that affect every element at once — useful on supports who want broad coverage rather than mono-element tuning.

The element rate has a floor of 5%, so elemental damage is never fully zeroed out. The Weakness damage floor sits at 0.

A common question: if your character has 17 000 Attack and your gear gives you 5 000 Fire Attack, what does the engine actually do with those two numbers?

The game does not add them into a single ATK total. Base Attack and Fire Attack feed two separate pipelines. The proof is in the data itself — for every element the game ships four distinct offensive stats, each with its own in-game description:

The same four-stat structure exists for Lightning, Wind, Cold and Darkness — same labels, same in-game descriptions, just swap the element word. None of them merge into the base Attack stat (Attack), which has its own description: Increases Attack by {0}.

The exact formula combining these inputs runs in the compiled engine and isn't shipped as text — but the existence of five parallel attack stats (base + four per element) is the engine's way of telling you that elemental attack has its own scaling lane.

Element Attack isn't only about raw damage. Three separate tutorial tooltips shipped with the game describe the second pipeline elemental hits feed into — the Burst Gauge:

• "Attacking an enemy builds a Burst Gauge of the attacking hero's element."
• "When a Burst Gauge reaches its maximum, the enemy enters the Burst state. Burst states allow you to deal additional damage with attacks of the same element."
• "When a Burst of one element is activated, the gauges of all other elements are reset. Holy and Physical attacks slightly charge all elemental gauges."

So your 5 000 Fire Attack does two things at the same time: it goes into the Fire damage pipeline, and every hit it produces fills the target's Fire Burst Gauge. Once that gauge fills, you enter the Burst state and your Fire-element attacks deal additional damage. That's why mono-element teams scale harder than mixed-element teams — they keep filling the same gauge instead of resetting it every time a different element bursts.

The Burst Gauge is a separate meter the game tracks alongside HP. Two stats interact with it: Burst Gauge (added when you land hits) and Burst Gauge (added on specific actions). Element-specific variants exist for each of the 5 elements (see Element section).

Once the gauge of one element fills, the target enters Burst state and takes bonus damage from attacks of that same element. Activating a Burst of one element resets the gauges of every other element, so consistency matters more than spread.

Building a team around this? The Roster Reference companion lists every released hero by element and role, plus which kits explicitly scale off each elemental Burst state.

The "Burst state grants bonus damage" line is true for every element, but each one ships a different secondary effect spelled out in the in-game tutorial logs. Quoted verbatim from the game's localisation file:

The exact "additional damage" multiplier for each Burst is computed inside the compiled engine and is not shipped as a numeric constant in the data files. What the data does ship is the per-element behaviour: Earth stacks a damage-up buff up to 5×, Cold ladders into a Freeze at 10 Chill stacks, Darkness reduces the target's Darkness Defense, and so on. Those mechanics — not a flat "+15% to all elements" — are what actually decides how much extra damage your team gets out of a Burst.

Damage-over-time effects (poison, burn, bleed, etc.) are governed by two named stats: DoT Efficiency (how hard each tick hits) and DoT Interval (how often a tick fires).

The game ships eight pre-named DoT flavours, one per damage source. These names come straight from the locale file — when you see a "Burn" or "Frostbite" debuff icon, the game internally tags it with one of these:

Note that Earth and Holy appear as DoT flavours even though they are not playable elements in the regular 5-element pool. The engine recognises them so monsters and special encounters can apply them.

When you attack from the air the engine treats it as a separate combat path, with its own damage stats and a whole physics layer for the fall itself. Two named stats interact with aerial damage:

The engine enforces several physics rules to make aerial play feel consistent:

• Minimum aerial height: you have to be at least 150 units off the ground to register a plunging attack.
• Aerial gravity scale: 5000 — the multiplier applied to fall acceleration during plunging.
• Fall-damage window: between 1000 ms and 3000 ms of fall time before damage is computed.
• Safe fall time: a 1500 ms window during which you take no fall damage at all.
• Fall rebound default: 3% (rebound chance/strength when you land hard).
• Action constraints: the engine flags climb and parkour as off when combat starts — meaning you cannot climb or parkour during an active fight.

Everything outside of pure damage scaling — the resource gauges, the regen rates and the movement stat. Each subsection below covers the actual stats the game stores in this group.

Stamina powers sprinting and other movement actions. It regenerates passively after a short idle window.

• Default stamina pool: 10000 (basis-point scale, i.e. 100%).
• Stamina recovered per tick: 500.
• Recovery tick interval: 500 ms between regen ticks.
• Idle wait before regen starts: 1000 ms.

The Magic Gauge is the resource certain skills consume (shown as "Magic Consumption" in skill tooltips). Two named stats interact with how fast it fills and how its value transfers in combat:

The Tag Gauge controls when you can swap to another team member mid-fight. The game tracks two parallel stats — one filled by using skills (Tag Gauge, "use" path) and one filled by landing hits (Tag Gauge, "hit" path). Neither has an in-game tooltip describing the exact maths, but both stats live in the same balance group as the Burst Gauge.

Several status effects exist as discrete engine concepts, each with their own balance values. These aren't stats you build for — they're the raw numbers behind effects like Confusion or Provoke when a skill applies them.

• Confusion — move distance: 150–350 units (random per check).
• Confusion — re-target check time: 500–2000 ms.
• Provoke — pull range: 1000 units max.
• Detection range buff: the floor on the "Detection Range" stat is 0 — the stat controls how far your character "sees" interactables and enemies.

A short list of the engine-level limits that affect every PvE fight, regardless of build:

• Damage reduction cap: the engine floor on damage taken is 5% of the original hit — so total damage reduction can never exceed 95%.
• Damage Increase floor: the floor on Damage Increase contribution is 5% — sources can lower your Damage Increase but never below this floor.
• Minimum final damage: 1 — even fully mitigated hits deal at least this much.
• Crit Chance cap (gameplay): 90% — applied at runtime, even though the engine ceiling is 100%.
• Crit Damage range: default 120%, capped at 200%.
• Distance falloff bands: 100% within 500 units, 50% between 500 and 1000, then 10% beyond.
• Pierce normal hits — apply window: Pierce on auto-attacks is clamped between 0% and 100%.
• Pierce skill hits — apply window: Pierce on skills is clamped between 0% and 100%.
• Cooldown Reduction cap: 90%.
• Defense Shatter cap (summed): 90%.
• Reflection caps: counter-reflect rate ranges 0%–100%; normal reflect rate ranges 0%–100%.
• Default reflect rates: full-reflect 80%, standard reflect 10%.
• Default Evasion Rate: 5% — every character starts here before any gear/buff.
• Element rate floor: 5% — elemental damage is never fully zeroed.
• Default stamina: 10000 (basis-point scale).
• HP tick interval: 5000 ms (natural healing ticks).
• Aerial minimum height: 150 units — below this, plunging attacks don't register.
• Aerial gravity scale: 5000 — fall acceleration multiplier when you're in plunging stance.

Everything on this page is extracted directly from the game's data files:

• The DefineTable — 214 combat constants, covering both the engine-side balance table (battle_* caps, defaults, scaling coefficients) and the gameplay-side runtime values (ga_* defaults, distance falloff, applied caps).
• The English localisation file — 48 stat names, 99 in-game stat descriptions, plus the official tutorial-log entries quoted verbatim in the Burst section.
• The stat-label table — 64 element, burst and weakness labels.

No external guides, no theorycraft, no community estimates — only what the game itself ships. Where a number is computed inside the compiled engine and not exposed in the data files (the exact damage formula, the precise "additional damage" multiplier each Burst grants), this guide says so out loud rather than inventing one.

These values change every time the developers rebalance the game — the page is regenerated from the same files the client uses, so a patch that bumps a cap will show up here as soon as the data is re-extracted.