As part of the major content updates, the Korean MMORPG Blade & Soul will receive significant changes to the skill trees of existing classes. Following the announcement of the engine upgrade, this is the next vision.
In the second Vision Preview trailer, the developers discuss the changes that the classes of Blade & Soul will experience in the future. In addition to new abilities, the already existing ones will receive new mechanics to enable additional interactions and synergies between various skills.
More abilities for the Warlock
What does such a specialization look like? As an example for the new specializations, the class Warlock has been chosen.
The abilities of the class depend on the respective focus of the Warlock. There are:
- Distortion Focus: Allows players to quickly move through space and time by creating rifts in matter. The Distortion Warlock will also be able to control gravity and space to prevent enemy attacks.
- Thrall Focus: Allows control over darkness and undead minions that assist the Warlock in battle.
- Curse Focus: The name says it all, the Warlock fights his opponents using various curse spells.
The new artworks for the class suggest that the various specializations will have specific elements assigned to them.
For example, the focus of the Distortion Warlock could be the element of lightning. Similar changes will be made to other classes in Blade and Soul.
You can watch the second Vision Preview trailer here:
Why is all this happening? Blade and Soul is still doing well in South Korea. Apparently, NCSoft has decided to continue investing in the MMORPG and its future.
You can read about what the first part of the Vision Preview trailer was about in our article on it:
Blade and Soul: MMORPG switches to Unreal Engine 4 – gives a preview
