The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin Damage Guide: How to Increase DPS

To maximize your damage output in The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin, you must build multiplicative damage stats rather than relying solely on character levels. Leveling up characters primarily boosts baseline survival attributes, while offensive scaling depends on your weapon's base attack, your critical stat distribution, targeted skill upgrades, and setting up debuffs before your primary burst windows.

Upgrade Weapons to Establish High Base Attack

Base Attack forms the foundation of all damage calculations because percentage-based Attack buffs scale directly from this flat number. A 20% Attack bonus provides far less value on a low-tier weapon than on a high-tier, fully upgraded weapon.

When managing weapon resources, follow these priorities:

Reach Enhancement Breakpoints: Upgrade your main damage dealer's weapon to milestone levels that unlock sub-stat slots before investing materials into off-hand equipment.
Prioritize Main Carry Refinements: Feed duplicate weapons into refining your primary on-field damage dealer's weapon first. Hold duplicate materials for support units until your primary carry's weapon reaches its refinement targets.
Value Base Attack Over Survival Passives: When choosing between mid-game weapons, pick the option with higher base Attack rather than situational defensive or survival traits.

Balance Critical Rate and Critical Damage Ratios

Raw Attack alone cannot keep pace with endgame boss health pools. Critical strikes offer the highest damage ceiling, but they require a balanced ratio to be effective. High Critical Damage does nothing if your attacks do not land critical hits, while high Critical Rate with base Critical Damage results in low damage returns.

Maintain a 1:2 ratio between your Critical Rate and bonus Critical Damage, accounting for character passives and team buffs:

If your character has 50% Critical Rate, aim for a 100% Critical Damage bonus (achieving 200% total damage on a critical strike).
Aim for a baseline Critical Rate between 50% and 70%.
Once Critical Rate reaches 65% to 70%, invest subsequent stats into Critical Damage, Elemental Damage bonuses, and Attack percentage. Pushing Critical Rate near 100% through gear alone leads to overcapping once food buffs or team skill buffs are triggered.

Stat Focus	Target Baseline	Combat Role	Build Pitfall
Base Attack	Highest available tier	Establishes the base pool for percentage scaling	Equipping low-tier gear solely for sub-stats
Critical Rate	50% – 70%	Ensures consistent critical strike procs	Overcapping past 80% on gear alone
Critical Damage	120% – 150%+ bonus	Multiplies confirmed critical strikes	Stacking crit damage while crit rate sits under 30%
Elemental Damage	As high as possible	Multiplies all attacks of that specific element	Swapping elemental bonuses for flat attack stats

Focus Skill Books on Primary Burst Multipliers

Spreading skill upgrade materials evenly across a character's entire kit weakens overall DPS. Every active skill, ultimate ability, and talent node features specific scaling percentages that grow with investment.

Pinpoint the Main Damage Source: Identify whether your character deals the bulk of their damage through basic attack strings, skill rotations, or ultimate burst windows. Direct your highest-rarity skill materials to that primary source first.
Unlock Damage-Modifying Talents: Prioritize talent nodes that provide flat damage multipliers—such as extra damage against bleeding, burned, or frozen targets—or nodes that add extra hits to combo finishers. Leave defensive and health nodes for later.
Upgrade Support Amplifiers: Support characters do not need offensive stats, but you must level their damage-boosting skill talents so their buffs scale properly when passed to your main attacker.

Select Synergistic Gear Sets and Sub-Stats

Wearing mixed high-rarity gear simply for gear score can lower your damage compared to using complete sets with complementary bonuses. Look for 2-piece and 4-piece set bonuses that provide percentage increases to elemental damage, normal attacks, or critical stats.

When rolling and upgrading gear sub-stats, prioritize them using this hierarchy:

Top Priority: Elemental Damage Bonus, Critical Rate, Critical Damage
Secondary Value: Attack Percentage, Defense Penetration
Situational: Energy/Ultimate Recharge Rate (valuable for carries dependent on quick ultimate uptime)
Avoid on Carries: Flat Defense, Flat HP, and resistance attributes

Execute Debuff Sequences Before Burst Windows

The largest damage spikes occur when multiple damage multipliers overlap. Because damage calculations apply enemy defense and elemental resistance before registering incoming damage, reducing an enemy's mitigation boosts the output of your entire team.

To set up an optimal burst window:

Apply Elemental Resistance Shred: Use your support or sub-DPS to apply an elemental resistance debuff matching your main carry's element.
Inflict Defense Shred: Cast physical or magical defense-reducing abilities to strip the target's base armor.
Trigger Main Carry Burst: Switch to your primary damage dealer, activate weapon skills or self-buffs, and unleash your highest-scaling skill or ultimate while the enemy's debuffs are active.

Executing this coordinated rotation yields significantly more damage than leaving a single character on the field to attack continuously.