There’s not an MMO player in the world who doesn’t love the notion of free items, and early on you’ll get plenty of opportunities to get just that. Engage with all pop-up contentĭaily Dashes and in-game surveys will reward you with free items. The high cost of upgrades as you reach the endgame makes saving coins early on a necessity. With such lean pickings, the best places for buying are in most circumstances the dungeon specific loot auctions and the marketplace. Bear in mind that the cost of purchasing basic items like food from vendors is often a hundred times that and the importance of keeping hold of those coins speaks for itself. No matter how cool the piece of loot you’re looking to sell is, most items in Blade & Soul can only be sold for a single bronze coin. In Blade & Soul, combat is very much a kill or be killed affair. Additionally, there are healing classes, which means that the only way to regain control of a fight is by dealing some serious damage on your foe. It’s a more interactive combat system that allows mastery of the gameplay to out do stats in most situations. However, as a title which effectively bridges the gap between a fighting game and an MMO, Blade & Soul’s combat is deeper and richer than anything currently available on the genre market.īasic actions like successful blows and blocks change your hot bar, opening up entirely different options based on your position in at any stage in the fight. Fighting wuxia styleĪs an action-MMORPG Blade & Soul combines two styles of combat: reactive, situational actions and class- and skill-based actions.
Just look over to the top right side of the box and select the icon layout for an infinitely more approachable view of your character’s skills and progression. By tapping ‘K’ you can bring up your character’s skill tree, which by default is an agonisingly lengthy list that’s guaranteed to scare off any newcomers. View your skill tree in icon modeĪ simple tip but one which will ease you into the complexities of this MMO, is shifting the viewing mode of your skills screen. Of course the skill-based combat does mean that your best class will be the one you’re most adept with, so it’s wise to stick with a playstyle you’re familiar with from other MMOs. Thankfully, Blade & Soul is remarkably well balanced – likely an outcome of the many years it’s been in service in Eastern territories – which means the whole cast of races and classes are all as viable as each other. Knowing which races and skillsets are predestined to dominate in an unbalanced game is essential once you hit endgame, while going with one set of skills over another often locks out fun and interesting options further down the line. One of the biggest quandaries that faces gamers as they take on any new MMO is choosing their character’s race and class.