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Blade & Soul |OT| Kiss From A Rose
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3 AM UTC would be like 7-10 PM in the continental US time zones. I'd assume that's a pretty solid time for playing.
Ideally they'd take down the EU and US servers at different times, though.
Edit: Also, from what I've seen, the time around noon in the US isn't bad for queues, so I'd assume 11 UTC would be a similar situation in Europe.
Pyros_Eien
Member
Not anytime soon that's for sure. Might be more than a few months, depends on how fast they catch up, but it's at least a few months. It happens after lvl 50 cap. Unless you mean legendaries and what not, then that's... still in a while, probably a couple of months.
On the Soul shields discussion, I got a moonwater duelling set yesterday which has ridiculous hp, but almost no other stats. Planning to infuse crit on it so it doesn't suck as much for damage, but one stat that seems to be sorely missing is accuracy. I'm getting a tons of evades fighting random stuff, which kinda sucks when it happens on your focus recovery skills. That said I was only messing around with pvp daillies with it before the server went down, so maybe it's mostly the pvp mobs that have higher than usual evasion, I'll see in poh later today.
Oh and for Poh24, it's not really a 24man raid or anything. It's basically a normal zone with poh mobs in there, with bosses spawning on timers kinda like world bosses in other zones. It's called 24 cause that's the maximum amount of people in the channel, but half the time you don't even have 24people in there it seems. You mostly run around zerging down poh bosses, it's nice for training for some of the mechanics but the bosses don't have all of them. It's good money and you can get the siren accessories and stuff though, so definitely worth doing.
What do you mean? Beyound Siren? Yes, Bloodharbour enables you to level your weapon to Pirate.
Yeah, what I meant. Different times.
panama chief
Member
Level 39. Absolutely no problems so far. Sold a few souls tone and made some loot. I've had no dry moments. I hook my boys up with spare essences when I have them. It's been fun.
Can someone give me advice on soul shields? I'm level 20 and still rocking the full set I got from that first wheel of fortune thing.. how often should I upgrade this thing? Are there sets I should be seeking out at certain levels? And how worth it is it to be upgrading them via other soul shield parts+that powder?
Advice is appreciated = 3=...
Advice is appreciated = 3=...
Pyros_Eien
Member
At 20, you can buy a set with your viridian stones, assuming you've been doing daillies, you need 8 stones to buy the full set, vendor is in Jadestone and the set is a lot better. Then you can buy the Cinderlands set at 32, or just farm Pinchy wheel for the set there at 36ish(or you can buy the better Cinderlands set at 36 but it costs 2stones per piece and you also want to buy the breakthrough weapon for your upgrades, so depends on how many stones you end up with). Then after that you generally keep that until Jianshi wheel in Moonwater, or Kaari if you can't wait. Then it's endgame soulshields.
That's the general good approach for leveling I'd say, at least it's the free one, using seals on low level soul shields is kind of a waste imo.
Stalker wheel > Viridian Coast stones > Cinderlands stones/Pinchy wheel > Kaari/Jianshi wheel.
How has everyone progressed so far? Will you all be ready for the endgame in two weeks?
Levelling has been delayed by flip flopping between my Assassin and Blade Dancer, both are ~24.
My take: don't fuse at all until you get to Moonwater, because you are going to change your SS quickly and the benefits are rather small for that price, plus the content is easy enough you don't need any edge.
Jiangshi
Viridian Hero
Golden Deva
Cinderlands Hero
Kaari
(Profane)
Moonwater Hero
(Dokuma)
Supply Chain and Moonwater Arena
Then farm purple suppl chain until all your SS parts have perfect parts and infuse with critical.
CrazedProfessional
Member
So shields are just PVE and otherwise fucking useless? That sounds kinda boring imho.
It's not boring, it's balanced. In the arena there is only skills and experience.
Pyros_Eien
Member
World PvP uses them too, it's actually annoying as shit to kill people with moonwater 40k health if they have % based heals. But in arena it's all normalized, they try for a more fighting game-like approach, so you can't customize stats, it's a lot easier to fine tune balance and stuff like this.
What does this mean? They will stop giving new players the Hongmoon weapon until endgame? How does that make any sense?
thanks guys, that's actually really helpful. I'll go pick up the ones in Jadestone then. c:
ShinMaruku
Member
This and Dfo have this for obvious reasons. They have their e-sports and they have skill rebalancing.
I may have incorrectly remembered the discussion from a couple of days ago, but i was under the impression that in the current KR version of the game, you don't get to develop your hongmoon wep until 50, and you get regular weapon drops along the way instead???
ShinMaruku
Member
To get those epics you will need maxed out hongmoon weapons due to scaling.
So basically i'm stuck with the whole breakthrough thing then "-____-
Well in any case, my plan was to buy my way through the leveling process, so i'll just have to bare with it until Lv.15
Wouldn't that piss people off who bought weapon skins and/or applied their Master Pack weapon skin to their Hongmoon?
They'd need to make a new system to remove and replace weapon skins if weapons will be replaced down the line, right?
NeOak
Member
You can't buy the purple boxes. But you can pay for the cash shop keys to open those.
Can't you sell unlocked weapons on the marketplace???
NeOak
Member
Not the purple ones that you need for the breakthrough.
So you'll have to run the dungeons at least once.
helloresolven
Member
Only non-purples.
Well that's cool. I'm looking to completely avoid leveling my hongmoon weapon all the way through to level cap. I honestly can't be bothered to pray to RNGeezus to make weapon progress while leveling. Fuck... That...
If it means having to constantly use subpar weapons, and making fights harder for myself then it's fine really, i can deal...
I bet it's not going to change much
IT WILL SLOW THEM >:O
NeOak
Member
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Going to cap my Assassin today and about to start leveling other classes. It's pretty annoying at how cosmetics and conveniences are character based and not account based.
- Clan membership (they could at least make alts not count toward the member cap)
- Paid cash shop costumes and accessories (really guys?)
- Paid weapon skins, summoner pet costumes, and pet accessories
- Limited reward costumes that can only be obtained once (e.g. Corvus)
- Inventory and bank space
Not to mention that removing a weapon glamour or deleting a character with items causes you to lose the items forever.
I have read that Mushin's Tower is balanced around such abilities. I don't know if this means Mushin is different for each class (which would certainly be feasible since it's a solo instance) or if it means that enemies are aggressive enough that they are aware of stealth and will AOE or attempt to break it.
Most MMOs do not have this level of meaningful customization or controlled PVP balance.
The shields system is the best.
- You can wear whatever you want
- You can customize and enhance/upgrade them
- You can multiple shields with different purpose (HP/Tanking/DPS/PVE/PVP)
- PVP is completely equalized and balanced (Arena)
If you want gear advantage in PVP, there is always faction dailies and organized open world although I don't think many are interested in that with how good Arena combat is.
- Clan membership (they could at least make alts not count toward the member cap)
- Paid cash shop costumes and accessories (really guys?)
- Paid weapon skins, summoner pet costumes, and pet accessories
- Limited reward costumes that can only be obtained once (e.g. Corvus)
- Inventory and bank space
Not to mention that removing a weapon glamour or deleting a character with items causes you to lose the items forever.
I have read that Mushin's Tower is balanced around such abilities. I don't know if this means Mushin is different for each class (which would certainly be feasible since it's a solo instance) or if it means that enemies are aggressive enough that they are aware of stealth and will AOE or attempt to break it.
Most MMOs do not have this level of meaningful customization or controlled PVP balance.
The shields system is the best.
- You can wear whatever you want
- You can customize and enhance/upgrade them
- You can multiple shields with different purpose (HP/Tanking/DPS/PVE/PVP)
- PVP is completely equalized and balanced (Arena)
If you want gear advantage in PVP, there is always faction dailies and organized open world although I don't think many are interested in that with how good Arena combat is.
RellyRell28
Banned
So the server must be down. I can't log in to the game
Maintenance. Should end in half an hour.
My daily routine:
- Poh 24 Dailies
- Poh 6
- Big Four (Blue Moonwater Dungeons)
- Dailies in Orchard of Souls, Misty Woods and Necropolis
- PVP Dailies at the Beach and Misty Woods
- PVP Duels and Tag Team
Goals:
- Upgrade Weapon
- Upgrade Accessories
- Find Secret Receipts for Guilds
- Get perfect purple Supply Chain SS and Duel Arena SS
- Collect money, soulstones and other shit for future upgrades.
- Level up guilds
- Poh 4
- Get nice costumes
- Help friends and guild members
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Adding a level restriction to the chat system is futile. Why not just add user-defined filters that can be updated on the fly? Players can react faster to adapting RMT than developers or suupport teams will ever be able to. It also makes it harder for RMT to predict since they don't know what or how they are being filtered.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
Blade & Soul to Release Rising Waters Update on February 10
Bloodshade/Nightshade Harbor
Mushin's Tower – Floors 1–7
Hongmoon Level 5
PvP Preseason
http://bns.mmosite.com/news/0126201...lease_rising_waters_update_on_february_.shtml
also over 1 million players
NCSoft's Blade and Soul player count surpasses 1m
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ncsoft-s-blade-and-soul-player-count-surpasses-1m/0161661
eu and america servers are now up too
Bloodshade/Nightshade Harbor
Mushin's Tower – Floors 1–7
Hongmoon Level 5
PvP Preseason
http://bns.mmosite.com/news/0126201...lease_rising_waters_update_on_february_.shtml
also over 1 million players
NCSoft's Blade and Soul player count surpasses 1m
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ncsoft-s-blade-and-soul-player-count-surpasses-1m/0161661
eu and america servers are now up too
lol they mustve leveled up!
Thanks for this. This is pretty helpful.
I need money, keys, charms and upgrades. So this helps. lol
Kudo
Member
Managed to complete E. Fleet dailies before the maintenance started, now 44 80% so almost 45!
Had some serious fun with friends playing PVP last night, tag team is intense.
Reinstalled the game during maintenance on my SSD, I guess there should be some benefit from having it there rather than the HDD. Hopefully the UI settings etc. weren't deleted in the process though.
Had some serious fun with friends playing PVP last night, tag team is intense.
Reinstalled the game during maintenance on my SSD, I guess there should be some benefit from having it there rather than the HDD. Hopefully the UI settings etc. weren't deleted in the process though.