In this article, I’ll be explaining 3 main attacks you can perform in Dynasty Warriors 7. They are EX Attack, Musou Attack and the Charge Attack. As you have already known, in Dynasty Warriors 7, you can equip any weapon you want on your character, let’s say I’m using Zhao Yun, his preferable weapon is a Spear, so I can change his 1st and 2nd weapon to another category, let’s say Iron Fans and Iron Fans (same one) – it’s possible, but you can only do with the normal combat and charge attacks, but not EX attack because Zhao Yun can only perform the EX attack in “Spear” weapon category only. So let’s go from the EX Attack first.
EX ATTACK
These are attacks that you can perform by equipping a weapon that your character is proficient with (for example, Zhao Yun with Spear, Xiahou Dun with Sword) – They’re denoted by an “EX” mark). The controls will vary depending on your character, in which means, they are all unique. For example, Xiahou Dun is using a sword, Sima Zhao is using a sword, although the attack wise might be similar but Sima Zhao will have his own unique EX attack with the body surfing (only he can use that since it’s unique) – you can do that by pressing S->S->T->T. So every character has their own EX attack but with different controls, some are S->T->T (Sima Shi for example), T->T (Zhong Hui for example) and S->S->S->S->S->T->T (Deng Ai for example).
MUSOU ATTACK
This is a special attack for each character. You can use it when you have your Musou Gauge charged fully (minimum 1 unit full). Everytime you use the Musou Attack, it consumes 1 unit of your Musou Gauge. If you’re playing with your friend (2 players) offline split screen co-op or online co-op. You can also perform the Musou Attack together if both of your Musou gauges are fully charged (at least 1 unit) and you’re next to each other. Each character has their own Musou Attack, let’s say if I’m using Zhao Yun and I have a fan rather than a spear equipped, my Musou Attack will still be Zhao Yun’s Spear Musou Attack. The Secondary Musou Attack, you can excute it by pressing R1 + Circle (O) button in the ground for some characters, for some characters, they have Air Musou as the Secondary Musou Attack, for that, press (X) button to jump and (O) button in mid-air.
CHARGE / STRONG ATTACK
Everything that ends with Triangle button is your Charge Attack or we call it “Strong Attack” – I always use it for crowd clearing. Although EX Attack is so much powerful than the Charge Attack but considering if you’re using the weapon that your character is not proficient with (without an EX attack) so Charge Attack is still useful.
Closing Comments:
I have received a lot questions and didn’t get a chance to answer properly (I answer what I can, normally I don’t answer the things that I can’t say) but I hope this info would help you, at least. I enjoy the game so far, there are some changes but when I got into it, it’s actually pretty sweet and I believe the Warriors fans would enjoy it as much as I do.
so are there are chances you can tell me if there are going to be UNPC’s in DW or you can’t answer that?
All the playable characters are listed on the official site. You can’t play as a peon or other generic officer.
Do characters who share a main weapon have the same exact charge attacks with that weapon? For example, would Zhao Yun and Ma Chao have the same exact charge attacks with their main weapons except for their EX attacks and Musous?
Some are similar but some bits aren’t.
Ok thanks for the info. That’s definitely good news for me
When you say bits do you mean there are actually different charge attacks or just different elements applied?
you know i love my girls with musical weapons-also interested in the paintbrush.
A.) we know how the flute is used, but is the Cai Wenji’s lute for striking or just playing? any really obvious differences from the older Zhen Ji style of fighting?
B.) how does the paintbrush work? is it a striking weapon or more like the Celestial brush from Okami?
C.) it appears in the screenshots that the Qiaos now only have one fan-is this true? and is the male version of this weapons the same or is it more like Mitsunari’s fan in SW?
hope you may answer those.
Whoa, did I just see foomin posting on here? O_o … I haven’t seen him around in a long while. Good to see he’s still poking around the musou universe ;)
Thanks for the analysis Chin. It sounds like a hybrid of the different attack systems from previous games (Strikeforce, Orochi, etc.) but simplified to work with the standard normal-charge attack commands.
Should be interesting to get used to. Keep up the good work and stay sexy <3
No wonder I think his name is familiar is he our mod before? god I have no idea!! glad u enjoyed it papa!!
Chin-no, was never a mod. i met you on KOEI.com, was subsequently banned after several years for stirring up trouble. then you took me in at KOEI Warriors, and i sorta lost interest after a couple of years and slowly wandered off. Xo, fooms.
@Honda-San-you have SW3Z yet-i got mine on Tuesday and hardly slept since-everybody back to form and looking great(well i still wish for Kuno’s hat). happy to see you noticed the notorious foomin. Xo, fooms.
@ foomin: Not yet a PS3 owner, but hopefully will be soon. I thought you’d enjoy SW3Z, especially with you pioneering the cry for a better story for Nouhime ;)
@ Chin: Always <3
sorry two more.
D.) what is Deng Ai’s main weapon? corkscrew drill? giant lance?
E.) the floating daggers for Zhong Hui(i think) are they his main weapon alone or does another character have them too? really like the idea of these.
AH! and Lian Shi is BEAUTIFUL she looks in the face/hair like i always thought Lady Chiyome should, but her boobs are huge!!!
Thanks for the info! Just wondering though, so does that mean if Zhao Yun uses a fan he will still climb on some guys head and swing around? Same with others?
You mean the jump attack? If he’s using a fan, his move will be based on the fan weapon design. But he cannot execute the EX attack, because he only can do that with the spear.
Ah, thanks! I think you should change this line here then, it’s a bit misleading
let’s say if I’m using Zhao Yun and I’m using a fan rather than a spear as the weapon, my Musou Attack will still be Zhao Yun’s Musou Attack (unique) designed for his main weapon, which is the spear
It kind of makes me think that you use Zhao Yun’s unique musou with the fan.
I will, thank you.
Are the 2 player linked musou attacks different from the other 2 musou attacks like in Gundam Warriors games?
I think they might be just stronger versions, so dealing more damage, or maybe adding another element to the musou? I think it may just go stronger o.o
I have only one question,does LU BU have a story mode?
It’s a kingdom story which is only Shu, Wei, Wu and Jin. No Other so no Lu Bu’s story.
Thanks for this Chin. Makes alot more sense now to me. Here’s to hoping I get to see some Guan Yu gameplay soon. (I just hope he isn’t completely identical to Lu Meng and Xu Huang).
One doubt, each character have more than one EX Attack, or just one?
1.
Thanks, Chin.
I have one question, How can I preform EX attacks? You said : “you can do that by pressing S->S->T->T. So every character has their own EX attack but with different controls, some are S->T->T (Sima Shi for example), T->T (Zhong Hui for example) and S->S->S->S->S->T->T (Deng Ai for example).” But I Can’t understand what do you mean by T or even S. You play DW7 on what ? o_O I play it on xBox 360, Can you please tell me how can I preform EX attacks for Liu Bei, on xBox 360? Thanks! :D
Check the Command/Actions in the Options. Press Start you can see.
PLEASE Respond as fast as possible..!
What about pc ? Apparently, I’m playing DW7 (jap version) on pc. What buttons should I press in order to execute the secondary musou attack ? It’s not like keyboards have R1.
Thank you.