Epic Seven Automaton Tower

Automaton Tower is the rotating challenge mode in Epic Seven. Each floor changes every reset, with new boss mechanics and team-wide buffs that shift how you approach the fight. The reward is Molagora fragments, covenant bookmarks, and a small amount of Skystones for clearing each floor. Tower runs weekly — if you miss a week, the floors and buffs reset together, so there is no carry-over pressure.

The Tower is not a Hunt farm. It is a skill check that rotates your roster through different boss gimmicks. The same hero that one-shots Wyvern may be useless against a Tower boss that bans single-target damage. Build a roster of 8–12 viable heroes, not just one carry.

If you have not finished getting started and cleared Hunt, the Tower is too hard. Come back after Wyvern is automatic.

How Automaton Tower works

Each floor is one boss with a unique gimmick. The gimmick might ban a class (no Rangers, no Soul Weavers), apply a debuff to your team on entry, change elemental matchups, or cap your team’s max HP. The weekly reset means you cannot memorize the floors in advance — you have to read the in-client description and adapt.

The standard reward structure is:

• Floor 1–20: gear charms, gold, small Covenant bookmarks.
• Floor 21–40: Greater Charms, Molagora fragments, more bookmarks.
• Floor 41–60: same rewards, harder gimmicks.
• Floor 61–80: top-tier rewards. Most veterans plateau here.
• Floor 81–100: bragging-rights rewards. Requires deep roster + correct weekly buff reading.

A free-to-play account that clears Hunt can usually reach floor 40–60 on a good week. Floors above 60 require Moonlight 5-stars or a deep RGB roster.

Epic Seven Automaton Tower strategy guide

Buffs and debuffs

Each weekly reset comes with a set of team-wide buffs that apply to your entire squad. Common buffs:

• Increased critical hit damage — favors crit DPS like Luna or Sigret.
• Healing received increased — favors soul weaver teams (Tamarinne, Angelica).
• Speed increased by 10% — universal buff. Helps every team.
• Skill cooldown reduction — favors multi-turn openers (Iseria, Violet).

Common debuffs:

• Class ban — no Rangers, no Warriors, no Mages, no Soul Weavers, no Knights, or no Thieves. Build a roster that covers all six classes.
• Element ban — no Fire, no Ice, or no Earth units. Three elements × six classes = 18 possible unit types. You need at least 12 to handle most bans.
• HP cap — all units have HP capped at 5,000. Favors Speed and effect-resistance builds.

The Tower rewards reading the in-client description carefully. Skim and you waste an entry.

Free hero teams for Automaton Tower

A standard F2P Tower team uses:

• One soul weaver — Tamarinne or Angelica. If the class is banned, you fail the floor. Always have a backup like Destina, Achates, or Montmorancy specialty.
• One CR pusher / utility — Iseria (Earth), Fluri (Connections specialty change), or Auxiliary Lots.
• Two DPS — varies by the boss gimmick. Sigret for Ice single-target, Specter Tenebria for generalists, Luna for boss execute, Vildred for AoE.

A roster of 8–12 heroes covers most bans:

• Soul Weavers: Tamarinne, Angelica, Destina, Achates, Montmorancy (specialty).
• Knights: Fallen Cecilia, Falconer Kluri, Adventurer Ras, Tanky Ice unit (Diene).
• Warriors: Sigret, Chloe (specialty), Zerato, Commander Lorina (specialty).
• Rangers: Iseria, Alexa, Shooting Star Achates (specialty), Karin.
• Mages: Specter Tenebria, Lilias, Mercedes, Luna (specialty).
• Thieves: Vildred, Arbiter Vildred, Judge Kise, Baiken (specialty).

If your roster is under 8 heroes, focus on getting started and Connections before Tower grinding. The Tower rewards roster depth, not single-hero investment.

Boss gimmicks

Common boss gimmicks and their counters:

• Single-target ban — bring AoE (Vildred, Arbiter Vildred).
• AoE ban — bring single-target DPS (Sigret, Luna).
• Heal ban — bring shield tanks and immunity bots instead of soul weaver heals.
• Revive mechanic — bring extinction (Hecate, Briar Witch Iseria, Sinful Angelica).
• Buff-stacking boss — bring strip (Basar, auxiliary lots, Iseria).
• Counter-attack boss — bring non-attack skills. Carmainrose (specialty) is the F2P pick.

The Tower gimmick list changes weekly. The community publishes the active boss list on the STOVE community every Friday. Check the list before queuing.

Cross-link checklist

The Tower is the third weekly PvE loop after Hunt and Expeditions. If you can clear Expedition 5 and Hunt is automatic, the Tower adds 30 minutes per week to your schedule and pays a steady stream of Molagora fragments.

For the systems that feed Tower progress, read:

• Reforge — pushing gear score above 90 lets your roster survive floor 60+ gimmicks.
• Gear score — what the number on a piece means for Tower readiness.
• Speed tuning — Tower bosses often have CR pushes that mess up untuned teams.

Tower is the mode veterans use to test new heroes. If a hero clears Tower floor 80, it is ready for Hunt or PvP. If it cannot clear floor 40, the hero is bench material.

Common mistakes

• One hero for every floor. The Tower bans classes and elements. A 12-hero roster beats a 6-star single carry.
• Reading the buff list and ignoring the debuff list. The debuff is what kills your team. Read it twice.
• Skipping the weekly boss list. The community posts the gimmick summary. Skim it before you queue.
• Spending Skystones on Tower refreshes. Same rule as World Boss. Use the entries you have.

Tower is the cleanest skill check the game has. Set a Saturday alarm, read the buff and debuff lists, queue with the right four heroes, and let the bookmarks land in the mail.