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Syliara wrote on 2016-02-17 05:25

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Have they announced anything about Warlock yet? Game just came out so prob not but that'd be cool. None of the current classes interested me really. Blade Master turned out to be pretty lack luster.

They only showed a teaser with all their upcoming content probably going to be released this year. No time given and no general time on when any of this will be released. Also blade master gets entertaining only late game when you have to keep aggro off not crap dps and not die at the same time.

sans wrote on 2016-02-18 22:46

Quote from Brynn;1293845:
Have they announced anything about Warlock yet? Game just came out so prob not but that'd be cool. None of the current classes interested me really. Blade Master turned out to be pretty lack luster.

http://www.bladeandsoul.com/en/unchained/

Here's your Warlock on March 2nd.

... Which is the same day as Black Desert's release.

TLCBonaparte wrote on 2016-02-19 06:02

Really? The March update actually adds Warlock?

Syliara wrote on 2016-02-19 07:59

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Really? The March update actually adds Warlock?

Yes they specifically said it adds warlock on march 2nd. Also adds in 8th floor of mushin tower and naryu labyrinth.

sans wrote on 2016-02-21 04:16

[SPOILER="So..."][video=youtube;KA9nnJ4jmBM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA9nnJ4jmBM[/video]

What's with Poh being involved in 46~50 story quests?[/SPOILER]

sans wrote on 2016-02-26 09:37

http://www.twitch.tv/bladeandsoul/v/50481610 - Pre-March patch stream.

Bots being investigated - they can't publicly announce their anti-bot methods to counter their counters.
Master Loot option being removed - I've personally never encountered this myself, but its good to remove a dickish move that fucks the entire party and denies them loot.
No legendary weapons from Naryu Labyrinth - Not enough resources to get them yet or it'll effectively be pay2win, which NCSoft doesn't want.
Door dungeon exploit fix & bans for excessive exploitation (100~ times) - Good riddance, it was troublesome to get to Ogong without an exploit party. If KR never fixed the bug to begin with then the KR players must be well mannered.
Stuff about Warlock. I'm not going to play one, but spiritualization buff would help a lot.

So, ignoring the bad writing and translations, I'm overall fairly satisfied with NCSoft's advancement with B&S, with good explanations to their actions.

Syliara wrote on 2016-02-26 10:18

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http://www.twitch.tv/bladeandsoul/v/50481610 - Pre-March patch stream.

Bots being investigated - they can't publicly announce their anti-bot methods to counter their counters.

Master Loot option being removed - I've personally never encountered this myself, but its good to remove a dickish move that fucks the entire party and denies them loot.

No legendary weapons from Naryu Labyrinth - Not enough resources to get them yet or it'll effectively be pay2win, which NCSoft doesn't want.

Door dungeon exploit fix & bans for excessive exploitation (100~ times) - Good riddance, it was troublesome to get to Ogong without an exploit party. If KR never fixed the bug to begin with then the KR players must be well mannered.

Stuff about Warlock. I'm not going to play one, but spiritualization buff would help a lot.

So, ignoring the bad writing and translations, I'm overall fairly satisfied with NCSoft's advancement with B&S, with good explanations to their actions.

People in cross server didnt even use this as far as I know. What people would actually do is they would instead set the loot rules so that epics and above would be auctioned and then would quickly open the chest at the end and take everything since everything is basically superior quality. As far as I could tell master loot function never actually worked, since I tried to use it in a bsh 4 man when me and 2 friends had a random and we told them about our loot rules and said we would master loot just in case (cause we couldnt trust them). I got no notification to use master loot and the loot rules worked exactly the same as normal so I think people are confusing it with just changing the base auction quality.

sans wrote on 2016-02-26 21:42

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Yay. But do I want bacon over a 600k HP mob with Warrior Tokens (breakthrough mat)?

sans wrote on 2016-03-21 22:50

[video=youtube;A5blceLTBxU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5blceLTBxU[/video]

[Image: http://i.imgur.com/thTjTBx.jpg]

Two updates in one month. They really want to get us up to level 50 and compete against the world. Now...

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Finally, it's time for Assassins to rejoice! Anyone who continues to refuse us can go burn in hell.

Syliara wrote on 2016-03-22 00:24

Holy shit please ncsoft can you give us a break.... I mean Im happy its being released soon but ffs I was so ready to play ToS for a while while waiting for this update now im pretty annoyed....

sans wrote on 2016-03-22 02:30

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Holy shit please ncsoft can you give us a break.... I mean Im happy its being released soon but ffs I was so ready to play ToS for a while while waiting for this update now im pretty annoyed....

https://forums.bladeandsoul.com/topic/194163-weapon-progression-guide/

If you're worried about weapon progressing, you shouldn't have a reason to complain about that anymore.

Syliara wrote on 2016-03-22 06:50

I was never really worried about my weapon progression since I had true pirate for like a month, I knew they were going to have true pirate move onto the next weapon at level 50. I'm annoyed because i intended to take it slow and completely finish my gear by getting my moonwater soul and my 28 ap diamond this week then stocking money. Now I'm going to have to skip both of those in lieu of stocking money for better gear.

sans wrote on 2016-03-23 18:57

http://imgur.com/a/MXli3

... Just why game. :srsly?:

They also added Team Rocket's motto and The Wizard of Oz references... I'm honestly getting sick of these stupid memes.

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If you do not like spoilers I SERIOUSLY recommend not reading part 2 as it is for the foreign storyline that we do not even have yet. You have been warned....

[SPOILER="Part 2"]I'm a bit hazy on the foreign storyline and a couple of them are a bit different based on region, however what basically ends up happening afterwards and this is really generalized is to embrace the full dark side so to speak you must fall deeper into said dark side by defeating your friends and stealing their chi (by friends ofc i mean the npcs you have met). So what ends up happening is you go along and start beating up those friends, stealing their chi, and all around being a dick to them. Now I'm a bit hazy on the specifics and if its changed or not since I basically watched these vids a couple years ago but you end up betraying Mushin for some reason and he gets mad at you and basically tells you "fine ill just take all that chi back that you stole since its all connected to me anyways" and drains you of all the dark chi in your body before leaving you. This part I might be a bit mixed up about its either Madun shows up and sees your basically drained on chi and uses this opportunity to put the finishing touches on you so they can finally infuse you with the FULL power of those 8 warriors or w/e and purge the mark of the black rose from your body and then you end up going back to the friends that you beat up and reinfusing chi into them, OR its the other way around and mushin had drained his chi but not the other people's chi from you and you go infuse them back with their chi and then your empty idr. Annnnyways, once you do that you basically get the full power of the hongmoon inside you since the mark of the black rose stops fking up your chi. Now all the while jinsoyun is preparing something very big, she intends to summon the dark lord to their realm by using namsoyoo as a sacrifice since shes the last person alive with the royal blood needed for the ritual, however you interrupt and try to stop her and basically she turns into some weird thing and you have to beat her up. Once thats done Mushin steps in and tries to do something (I forget the specifics) but it turns out that inside of him he actually had a fragment of the dark lord that had been sorta subconsciously affecting his decisions so as to subtly help jinsoyun or whoever open the gate for the dark lord to come to their realm. He did not know this, however jinsoyun did and had purposely went through all of this trouble (and I mean EVERYTHING, even the begining parts) just to get mushin to show himself so that she could expunge the dark lord from this world completely. She is able to destroy the fragment in him or something, but the gate for the dark lord is already opening and the only person who can stop it is YOU, yep you. This part is where you basically become a bad ass and jump into the sky surging forth at the portal with all your badass hongmoon glowy stuff in front of you and you blow up the portal and the dark lord with it. Jinsoyun ends up sorta dieing? its a bit complicated and about to get to that. So afterwards everything sorta goes back to normal right? Not really, this is the best part of the storyline imo... So you are able to somehow go into the spirit realm sort of or w/e and you get one last chance to talk to the spirits of your fellow brothers and sisters of hongmoon along with your master. They tell you thank you for keeping on the hongmoon path and such and that they are going to move on now and not to worry about them and such. Its really a very heartwarming farewell. Right before they do though Jiwan or w/e her name is the one with the celestial blade of the 4 guardians shows up with jinsoyun's body and asks you politely to infuse her with some of your hongmoon chi so that she can live a normal life and forget all about her dark side. Your sorta begrudgingly accept and do so, and she turns into an innocent little girl. By the way, the floating woman in the very beginning that saves you from drowning is yes jiwan of the 4 guardians.

Before I forget to mention this, sometime basically right after you go to the side of mushin theres a flash back that really explains how all of this happened. Basically jinsoyun was jiwan's apprentice and was learning things from her but mushin came and I believe killed jiwan to try and get the celestial blade but jinsoyun steps in and tries to stop him and puts him near death with the mark of the black rose. The other 2 guardians show up and are dumbstruck by what's happening seeing jiwan dead, but mushin uses the opportunity to blame her death on jinsoyun and the other 2 believe him. She ends up defending herself and beating up iksanun too I believe until hong steps in and goes hulk mode and beats her up and throws her off a cliff where they think she is dead. Thats basically the backstory to how it ended up starting.

I know i'm missing alot of details and some of this might not be correct but I am very tired and havent looked at the storyline in a while. Also I'm missing something else kinda cool but I want to sleep so blah... There is also more to the storyline, which is really neat but thats saved for another day, thats just the first "chapter".[/SPOILER]

[SPOILER="NA Silverlands Arc"]The whole thing with us betraying our friends and stuff doesn't happen in NA. It was probably in the original "Dark path" that got removed. However, there are still some traces of evil in us, such as outright refusing to help a little girl find her daddy and only returning to help them because it benefited us.

First we get called into Mushin's tower and Mushin tells us to fight him to see if we're strong enough (a dumbed down version of his 8th floor form, with 100k HP). He then directs us to defeat Jinsoyun, and Yura sends us to Silverfrost Mountains, where the capital of the Talus Dominion sits. Meanwhile, the little bitch Namsoyoo who backstabbed us in Viridian arc is getting accustomed to Talus royalty.
We land just outside Zaiwei (Talus capital), where we're roped into helping the Talus led by Captain Yu Chun; the capital's blocked off access to anyone since the Lumang Syndicate are assaulting Skypetal Plains and kidnapping little girls. This is because their leader, King of Thieves Yunsang (who we've been told about throughout the Cinderlands arc), is searching for his daughter Yunwa. We trick him with a fake Yunwa and then capture him.
We meet Juwol from the Cinderlands arc as we search for Yunsang, and we learn from her that she and Yunsang had "stuff in common" (leaders of groups and whatnot) and were "in love" or something along the lines, and she got pissed when she found out Yunsang had a daughter and thought he slept with someone else, without realizing Yunwa was adopted (and we only just tell her about this now instead of during the Cinderlands arc). Juwol tries to intervene Yunsang's capture but fails, and she gets captured as well (she also sheds a tear when Yunsang takes a hit for her).
In Zaiwei, we run into Yehara who's also searching for her niece Yunwa. We're also introduced to the 7th of the Eight Masters Leerok, who also turns out to be Soha's brother. He welcomes us with an assassination attempt ("If they block it, they're the one... If not, oh well."), then we chase him to his school and fight him; Soha just shows up and says hi (and her outfit changed for some reason).
We get roped into a tournament whose victor is given a choice to serve as a bodyguard for a member of the royal family; we take this opportunity to return to Talus Princess Yunma Fei's side (she's fine, she just got taken back to the capital and quietly sits in her royal chambers, nothing more). Namsoyoo recognizes our name on the entry list (why are we not being discreet?) and asks us via rulebook to pretend to not recognize her since she's still a whiny selfish bitch who doesn't want to go back to Bamboo Village. Dochun and Blackram Captain Gwon from the Viridian Arc returns and fights us in an attempt to get back Namsoyoo, who is now under Talus royalty as Jinsoyun promised her. Gwon ragequits and Dochun gets rejected and sent to the dungeon, and we don't give a shit about Namsoyoo.
We learn Yu Chun is one of Yumna Fei's right hands and help them uncover shady dealings with the Talus Chancellor to learn what Jinsoyun is planning. At one point, Madun shows up and summons the rest of the Eight Masters to help stop some corruption.
We decide to take the battle to Jinsoyun, but of course she kicks our ass again, makes the dark chi in us even worse, and sends us to the dungeon. Yura shows up with Yunwa in tow; Jinsoyun's pleased to know that Yura's been helping Mushin (and knows we got help from Mushin) and has plans for her later.
Yunma Fei rescues us and we regroup with Dochun, Yunsang, and Juwol. We also find the real Talus Emperor, Yumna Kahn, locked up; Gubong tries to stop us from escaping, but he recognizes the emperor, gets a brief memory lapse, and leaves. We get carted to Snowfrost Monastery shortly afterward.
As we're told to walk off the dark chi, Lusung, Mushin, and Jinsoyun illusions show up and make us feel even more shitty to the point where we want to commit suicide, and Jinsoyun is kind enough to leave us a dagger to do the deed. We get stopped by the Eight Masters, who, with the help from the chi of the Spirit Beasts in Moonwater, purge the dark chi but all of them turn into stone in the process. (Also the buddha statue in the Sanctum of the Eight missing one of its eight arms... Foreshadowing the 8th and final Master?)
We regroup with Dochun and others and he tells us that he used to fight for the Stratus Empress Namsolyn (who is actually Namsoyoo's mother) alongside Yunma Kahn (a mere Stratus General who slept with the Empress) and Gubong (we were told of Gubong during the Cinderlands arc, who worked for Stratus and then got backstabbed). The group gets attacked by Ebondrake Cult (some group you see rallying people in certain towns), but they escape and Dochun rescues Namsoyoo. The Emperor and Empress form the Talus Dominion because of Stratus Empire conflicts or w/e, and Namsolyn eventually dies after giving birth to Yunma Fei; the threat of the assassins separate Fei and Namsoyoo, which led to Dochun adopting her. So we learn that Yunma Kahn and Fei is Namsoyoo's step-family, and Namsoyoo is the only sole heir of the Stratus Royalty, therefore foreshadowing her role in Jinsoyun's Divine Mandate Ritual (the stuff that corrupted Highland Necropolis in Moonwater when Yura tricked Stratus Prince Sogun into sacrificing Stratus Princess Solaan to heaven or hell, the latter of which occurring).
We are asked by the Talus Emperor to help reclaim his throne, and to do that he needs his treasures he hid across Silverfrost: a crest in Primeval Forest and his Seraph Sword Shiverstone Range. We find these items, regroup with everyone, and recruit a Talus general.
During our time in Shiverstone Range, we arrive at Jiwan's home and see the past exactly as detailed earlier: Mushin kills Jiwan for her sword, Mushin puts the blame on Jinsoyun, Jinsoyun retaliates, Hong and Iksanun throw Jinsoyun off a cliff, Jinsoyun goes down path of vengeance.
We finally get to talk with the "white ghost lady" who's been helping us the entire time: Jiwan. She pleads us to help Jinsoyun from Mushin and helps us realize if we keep going down revenge we'll just end up like Jinsoyun unless we seek justice instead.
With Yunma Kahn and his army prepared, he tell us to recruit people on Moonwater for his cause, and tells us to visit Heaven's Reach (where the Hongmoon school perished) once more to ease our mind. The act abruptly ends with this small talk, there's just 6 more chapters left, some of the scenes advertised in the trailer aren't even included in what we have.