Seven Deadly Sins: Origin Version 1.5 Livestream Recap — Merlin First Look

The three weapons (as shown in-game)

• Grimoire — Cold/Ice — Q increases Crit Chance and, held, channels damage and Freezes the target; long-range ultimate. The key loop is accumulating attack points fast and capitalising on Tag-Skill damage. Her Frost Mark mechanic produces a big payoff when the mark is consumed.
• Wand — Lightning — An AoE Lightning DPS (rare in the current roster). Q is an AoE that Stuns; the ultimate costs only 2 and stacks toward E, with combo synergy shown alongside Escanor. Stack up to four times for a bigger fourth burst.
• Staff — Fire — Burst-focused: meteor-style hits that track the target, and an ultimate that is free (0 cost, doesn't drain the magic gauge) once you have burst — letting her chain ultimates. The hosts read this as the highest single-hit burst of the three.

• Special weapon — Gluttonous Soul Grimoire — Boosts Cold attack when using a normal skill and increases Tag Skill — leaning hard into her Frost Mark + Tag-switch identity. Crafted via the new chain: new-region Malachite → Malachite Alloy → the weapon (alongside Pact Magic Core for the Ferocious Watcher set).
• Exclusive engraved gear — Increases Crit Damage while her Cold-attack boost is active (Grimoire version). A Wand version supports her combo. These are her dedicated engraves, crafted from the new Ferocious Watcher set. (Its in-game name lands with the launch data.)
• Exclusive skin — Morning Star Aldan — Her sacred treasure — the orbiting magic orb she carries in the original series — available via the exclusive skin draw. The skin bundle also includes an SSR Magic Shard, a Radiant Potion of Charm and a Legendary Spell Bead, among others.

What's confirmed

• Co-op, up to 5 — Built for a party. A solo attempt was shown struggling against the boss's HP — bring friends.
• Abyss only — There is a single difficulty: Abyss. You'll need strong gear, a full team and a good setup to get in.
• Weekly, 2 clears — Not a daily. You can claim rewards up to twice per week — around 500 Star Fragments per clear, so roughly 1,000 Star Fragments a week.
• Separate key — The raid uses its own dedicated key; cube keys do not apply here.
• Tag/Burst accessory payoff — The 5-piece burst accessory set shown enables a ~1,000 Tag-gauge spam loop — a natural fit for Merlin's Tag-switch hits, which reached ~1.5M in the demo.

Dungeon & Boss Challenge changes

• Three dungeons temporarily close — Deep Spider Nest, Ferzen Mines and The Capital of the Dead close for renewal. The Capital of the Dead is reworked into elite-monster farming content with adjusted difficulty/rewards in the meantime.
• They return as raids — The closed dungeons aren't gone — they'll come back reworked into the raid format, like Taranis's Sanctuary.
• Rewards fold into Boss Challenge — Old dungeon rewards (accessories, engraved materials like the Star Guardian series, boss armor sets) are added on top of existing Boss Challenge drops — one clear now pays out both, so total rewards go up.
• Materials exchange 1:1 — Hold your old dungeon materials — after maintenance you can exchange them for the new Boss Challenge materials, and recipes that used dungeon drops are updated to boss materials.

Quality of life (the crowd-pleasers)

• Elites cost 0 cube keys — Field elite monsters no longer require cube keys — combined with fast respawns, you can farm them effectively without limit.
• Double-reward cube keys — Opening a cube now yields two different random gear rewards (not a duplicate). Cube keys apply to field bosses, dungeons and the boss — everything except the raid.
• SR → SSR Magic Crystal Shard — A new blueprint converts SR shards up to SSR, making SSR weapon limit breaks far easier (still capped once per week per weapon).
• New hidden pet — a Snow Moth — A new hidden pet teased; its location wasn't given (a snow moth in a desert region puzzled even the hosts) — a community hunt.

• Act 14 — The Snare of Time — Tristan and friends meet a scholar at a tavern and hear of strange happenings in the Dalmaly desert — a place where the sun never rises. Merlin, a Chaos crystal and a shadowy figure (possibly tied to Taranis) feature; Bug becomes more relevant. It's clearable around World Level 4, and you can lower your world level if it's too hard.
• New region — Sealed Sanctuary — The area behind the sandstorm near Wally village (by the Scorpibeast boss). Compact and dense — good for farming and EXP. New gatherables include lizard egg, egg mushroom, dates, fox bone, plus Malachite (a green copper) and amber. Contains the Temple of Undying.
• New adventure skill — Elemental Harmony — Fires a manually-controlled five-element projectile (only 1 damage) — a puzzle/gimmick tool, likely for hitting element-gated objects inside the region's layered temple, not a combat skill.

• Timespace Junction Sectors 5 & 6 — Fraudrin and Diane arrive as the new sector bosses; Floor 6 recommends Lightning + Cold. From Floor 5 on, recommended heroes are assigned per-floor (not per-season) to guide three-star clears.
• Greedy Ruler set — New armor set at quality 120–130 via the new Vow system; set tiers shown lean Crit Chance / Crit Damage / Defense Shatter, with a 5-piece bonus adding a Tag-Skill-triggered Crit Chance + Defense Shatter effect.
• Ferocious Watcher set — The engraving material for the new engraved gear (including Merlin's), crafted from 50 Pact Magic Core.
• Six heroes get a third engraved set — Mannie, Escanor, Clotho, Jericho, Dreyfus and Hendrickson — Jericho and Mannie's are Ice-flavoured.
• Corrupted Guardian Golem — Hell/Abyss — A new Hell/Abyss difficulty is added, with first-clear fragment rewards.

• Daisy rerun — A Timeless Heart — A standard-rate Daisy Pick Up with 120-Loyalty guaranteed and the SSR-pickup pity system, including her skin. Tied to the earlier potential-description fix — a fair second shot at Daisy.
• Merlin Trial event — Try Merlin's kit and combos free, and collect growth materials including Star Fragments.
• Update Celebration Check-in — Log-in rewards: a Hero Pick Up draw ticket, cube keys, Radiant Potion of Charm, Brilliant Engraving Seal and more — all 100% claimable.
• Conqueror's Path (Raid Missions) — Mission track tied to the raid, paying Hero Pick Up draw tickets, regular Hero draw tickets, engraving seals and key bundles.
• 14-day login reward — 100 Star Fragments per day for 14 days = 1,400 total, from update day (mail expires — claim daily).
• Time Attack Pre-Season 2 — Rankings on the Corrupted Guardian Golem and Timespace Junction Sectors 5 & 6; title rewards (e.g. 'Sleeping Giant') up to rank 200.
• Community events — An X/social repost event (chance at 500 Star Fragments) and a Discord raffle (1,000 Star Fragments).