Blade & Soul - Big oily tits heading west? Server Poharan: Cerulean faction. F2P Jan 19

[Bombur]

How is world pvp in this game?

Blade and Soul has 2 factions in the game :

The Cerulean Order (Blue faction) - This faction uses wuxia to bring peace and balance to the world. (The good guys)

The Crimson Legion (Red Faction) - This faction uses wuxia for lust and power. (The bad guys)


- Along your journey you will get the chance to join the faction of your choice. When you first join a faction, you’ll be rewarded with a faction costume. Equipping this costume will notify other players, and members of the factions, that you’re ready to fight. Putting on a faction costume not only flags you for PvP against members of the opposing faction, but also opens up daily faction quests and faction-specific Windstride ports (provided you’ve activated them).

- If you never want to world pvp, don't join or wear a faction costume.

- Defeating an opposing faction member within a valid level range provides you with temporary PvP currency known as Prestige Points.

- If you defeat a player of the opposing faction, you are also able to steal their accumulated Prestige points. But be careful - they can do the same back to you!

- Prestige is able to be traded for reputation within your faction, as well as for items and other rewards and costumes. The more opposing faction members you defeat, the more Prestige you can collect and trade in, and the greater the reputation and rewards you can obtain!

- Prestige is something you build up and spend within a single play session; the moment you’re defeated or remove your PvP flag for any reason, you’ll lose any Prestige you have that hasn’t been spent on reputation or rewards. Your Prestige will also be reset by changing channels, taking a Windstride, leaving the zone or game, or unequipping your faction costume.

- You start at Faction Rank 10, and through acquiring reputation, will progress all the way up to Rank 1. The maximum amount of Prestige Points you can collect increases as your Faction Rank increases. You can swap factions at any point, by doing betray quests, but if you do you’ll lose all reputation you’ve gained, and you’ll have to start over from Faction Rank 10 if you ever decide to swap back.

- If you don't want to world pvp, there are Arena's and BG's. The Arena's are 1vs1, 3vs3, 6vs6. In the Arena's and BG's (6vs6) all gear is equalized, and all stats are the same. So it's all about skill. It's a big e-sport in Korea.

[Eanae]

Do people use the item often? I want a lively world PVP game. I don't want instanced PVP only. Kind of like Archeage but not bad.

[Bombur]

Do people use the item often? I want a lively world PVP game. I don't want instanced PVP only. Kind of like Archeage but not bad.

The best looking doboks (costumes), come from the highest pvp ranks, so Korean players like to wear them with pride. Also to master the Qing Gong skills (ability to fly, run up walls, run on water, stuff like that) you need to be rank 6 or higher in world pvp, so there are incentives for players to wear their pvp faction costumes.


There is also an Aion Abyss type zone, called "The Floating Gardens", where you have to wear your pvp faction costume. Rare world bosses and mats spawn here.

Here is a video of it

[Bombur]

B&S is having an Alpha test this weekend from 10 am Fri to 10 pm Mon. Inventions are going out, (check your email). This will be a small test and more invites will be going out next week.





Anyone else get lucky ?

[AidenCarby]

Just waiting on retail, I always burn out on alphas/betas :/

[SamanosukeShiva]

Gonna give this game a try, RL schedule wont allow me to hardcore raid anymore, and this game looks very casual friendly.

[Bombur]

More Costume previews !

[Kipling]

Anyone got alpha access but don't want to play it?! PM me! (All my friends got in but I didn't Q.Q)

[Gulkeeva]

same here *cough*

didn't see one in my spam folder on either account qq

[Scythiroth]

I can't even remember if I signed up for alpha/beta but didn't get an invite anyways. >.>

[SamanosukeShiva]

Twitter post confirmed that everyone who has the founder pack will be invited to the next wave of technical alpha.

[Eanae]

Twitter post confirmed that everyone who has the founder pack will be invited to the next wave of technical alpha.

Can you refund after if you don't like it?

[Senji]

Can you refund after if you don't like it?

Many ganked their money back with Archeage, and that was after launch.

[Eanae]

Many ganked their money back with Archeage, and that was after launch.

Do I have to apply this code in Unused Serial Codes to get Alpha?

[SamanosukeShiva]

The FAQ says you cant refund after using your code

[Bombur]

Codes for Alpha are going out tonight and tomorrow morning, you will get them in a separate email.

[SamanosukeShiva]

Just got them, link to DL the client and code to redeem

[JigglyJam]

i may not have gotten the founder pack in time, oh well

[Eanae]

Assassin is so insanely broken with their CC and teleports...

[Kachiko]

You mean a Rogue class is OP, in 2015? Then again, this is something originally from 2011, so the game isn't really current either. I'll be completely surprised if anyone really gets balance right, with that class arch-type.