Quick Start Guide

Published June 23 2020

Last Updated December 10 2023

The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross is a turn-based RPG based on the eponymous manga created by Nakaba Suzuki in 2012.  The game was first launched in Japan and Korea, before making its global debut in 2020.  If you’re just starting out in Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, this Quick Start guide will give you a basic overview of the game and where you can find more information.

## Quests for Progression

The content of the game follows very closely with the anime.  As you play, you’ll dive right into the action with Meliodas, Elizabeth, Hawk, and the rest of the cast from the Seven Deadly Sins.  Whether you’re familiar with the anime already or not, the storyline has wonderfully vivid scenes and graphics to draw you in.  In addition to the overall Story mode, there are also characters to visit and Quests to perform in each Village and even within more to do within your own Boar Hat Tavern.

Completing these Quests is one of the main ways to progress in the game, and you’ll need to beat certain Episodes in order to unlock additional content.  Available Quests will be listed at the top right of your screen when you are outside of battles or menus.  There are five main types of quests, which you can learn more about on the Quests Navigation guide.

* **Yellow:** Story Mode Quests
* **Green:** Daily Quests
* **Purple:** Awakening Quests
* **Blue:** Village Easy Quests
* **Red:** Village Hard Quests

In addition to the full completion of the main story on each village, you have the option of completing quests from the village itself to raise your Friendship level with it, to earn extra diamonds and more options such as donating more gold to get discounts in products sold by gold in the village where you perform the donation for a limited time (this stacks with the discount you get from winning a Death Match). It also has an original content storyline named "Ragnarok" which covers the adventures of the Seven Deadly Sins in Midgard and other worlds from Norse mythology, as well as original characters such as the Seven Catastrophes with their own storyline.

Quest rewards are very important to progress in the game since they can even give you new characters for your account.  If you don’t have a lot of time, try to ensure you complete at least your daily Quests and any active events to maximize your rewards.

Every month, a four-week-long event known as Hawk Pass takes place; it involves completing daily and weekly tasks. Most of the daily Hawk's Pass tasks overlap with regular daily Quests, so claiming those rewards each day is beneficial. The rewards include diamonds, different materials, and Hawk Scraps Bowls (points), which can be used as currency to buy different rewards such as SSR tickets, Stamps, or even full outfits by either using these points (or diamonds)

## Battles

Turn-based battles are the primary aspect of this game, and each turn will consist of you or your adversary taking actions based on the skills both of you have in hand. These skills are reflected through cards picked up on each turn and added to your deck.  Duplicate cards can be fused to unleash stronger attacks or even unleash ultimate moves, accompanied by beautiful cutscenes.

Battles always consist of two teams going up against each other. Teams for most forms of combat conformed by four main characters and four supporting ones as links.  Only your first three main characters will be visible when the battle begins (except during special rules in PVP; PVE content such as Demonic Beast Battles and Knighthood Bosses).  If any of your main characters die, your sub-character will take their place. The linked characters are assigned to each main character to enhance their stats based on their Ultimate Move level (the higher, the more stats they give to the character to who they are linked). They can sometimes empower their Ultimate Moves by unleashing Combined Attacks, while others can grant special effects like Unity’s or Graces.

Each hero has attribute benefits, which grant them 30% damage increase against attributes with advantages, or 20% damage decrease against attributes with disadvantages.

* **Red:** Strength Type (disadvantage against Speed; advantage against HP)
* **Green:** HP Type (disadvantage against Strength; advantage against Speed)
* **Blue:** Speed Type (disadvantage against HP; advantage against Strength)

Besides the three primary Attributes, two unique attributes named “Light” and “Darkness” were introduced. Neither of these attributes has a weakness against any of the others (or between each other), although they don’t have an advantage as well. In exchange, they provide an extra effect to all your units on the field.

* Light: Setting a Light attribute hero to the team decreases allies’ damage taken by 10% from characters with attributes that are weak against your allies. Decreases Light allies’ damage taken from enemies of any other attribute by 10%.
* Darkness: Setting a Darkness attribute hero to the team increases allies’ damage dealt by 10% to characters with attributes that are strong against your allies. Increases Darkness allies’ damage dealt to enemies of any other attribute by 10%

Note that neither of these effects is applied more than once (if you have 2 Light or 2 Darkness units in your team, you won’t get a 20% bonus in any case)

## Hero’s Way

The Hero’s Way is easily accomplished by completing the game's early stages. There are 12 steps to complete, and you don’t need to go out of your way to complete these since the missions require you to do things related to your progress. Check-in periodically to collect any rewards you’ve finished, as you’ll likely complete these quests just through your other progression activities.

Characters rewarded for each Hero’s Way stage are as follows:

* Stage 1: Blue Slater
* Stage 2: Blue Ban
* Stage 3: Green King
* Stage 4:Green Deathpierce
* Stage 5: Green Princess Elizabeth
* Stage 6: Red Arthur
* Stage 7: Red Escanor
* Stage 8: Red Demon Meliodas
* Stage 9: Red Derieri
* Stage 10: Green Thonar
* Stage 11: Green Liz
* Stage 12: Green Zaratras

All of them are provided at level 80 fully Awakened, if you happen to already have them but at a lower level (or without being Awakened) the new dupe will upgrade them as well.

## How to Reach Mid-level

Reaching “Mid-level” means consistently beating at least 4 of the first 5 Death Matches and reaching Champion 5 ranking in Ungeared PVP. In this type of PVP, any alteration on your character stats via gear will not be applied, although your outfits will count for this. Champion 5 is reached by obtaining 3,500 festival points in Ungeared PVP, and once this rank has been achieved, you can never fall into a lower tier than that, except by not competing for at least two months in it. This guarantees you will receive at least 50 diamonds from that part of the game each week.

#### Death Matches

There are currently five possible Death Matches that can occur:

* Red Demon
* Gray Demon
* Howlex (Crimson Demon)
* Bellmoth
* Original Demon

Guides for each Death Match can be found linked in the list above.

#### Ungeared PVP

For Ungeared PVP, you need to form a team of four characters to take into battle, preferably with some form of synergy. In this case, synergy means characters working well together and building off each other. For example, a team that works well together would be:

* Dark Traitor Meliodas
* Blue “The One” Escanor
* Green Halloween Gowther
* Red Ragnarok Ban (Sub-slot)

The idea behind this team is that it is offensively oriented. Meliodas and Escanor are the team's DPS, while both Gowther and Ban provide support from their Unique Abilities which buff the Attack-related stats of all allies. Ban also lowers enemy Pierce Rate, Crit Chance, and Crit damage. Meliodas gains buffs based on his allies who use single-target attacks, which Escanor provides with his two skills. With this, after Escanor has finished attacking, Meliodas can be the next step in offensive power for the team. This is merely one example of a team with good synergy, but you can choose from many variations and styles depending on your available characters.

## Reroll

As expected from many other gacha games, re-rolling an account guarantees you the best-starting heroes without spending money.  This is done by progressing through the storyline until you have enough free diamonds for your first 10+1 gacha pull. Just completing the tutorial and the early quests alone will amass enough diamonds to be able to pull on the banner at least a few times. Right now, it is the best time to reroll for a powerful unit with the ongoing 4.5th Anniversary, which has a voting banner; hence, it has some of the best current units in the game selected by the players; therefore the Light Queen Elizabeth’s Festival Banner is one of the best to come to Grand Cross and is worth dumping your diamonds on, equally for newcomers and veteran players. Logging in will net you a bonus of 30 diamonds, giving you another chance to pull on the banner; you’ll get 200 extra diamonds until the event ends and two free multis for the banner. On the other hand, thanks to the ongoing event, you can get strong units at level 90 (one of them a Festival Unit), saving you a lot of materials and helping you prepare for more challenging content in the game's later stages.
Current “must-have” heroes from the banner that are convenient for your account are:

* Dark Purgatory Meliodas
* Light Transcendent Ban
* Light Queen Elizabeth
* Light "The One" Ultimate Escanor
* Light Mael of Sunshine
* Blue Roxy of Madness
* Green Summer Freyja
* Red Princess Elizabeth
* Red Tarmiel
* Red Tyr

As stated before during the Anniversary logging in for the month will net you a total of 200 diamonds + 2 multis which equals points, close enough for the first soft pity. If you don’t get any of the above units after your first few pulls, you can reroll your account, which essentially means you erase your account completely and start over again.  To do this, go to the menu of your account, then Player Info, and then select Reset Data.  This removes all the game data from your account and starts a fresh one.  To do this, make sure that you do not bind your account.  Binding your account makes your account permanent and tied to whatever account you have bound.  Should you consider binding your account to your email only once you have pulled some of the units on this list.

For even more tips and recommendations for progressing in the game, make sure that you join a Knighthood after you beat Episode 72, read through our remaining guides, and also join the 7DSGC Global Discord channel.