Blade & Soul, the martial arts MMORPG from NCSoft, will receive a significant update to its skill system with the upcoming update “Secrets of the Stratus Realm.” The skill trees will be abolished and replaced with level-based moves.
Blade and Soul previously featured a complex skill system, in which you could choose various abilities from a large skill tree and thus create your perfect martial arts hero.
This system is unnecessarily complicated according to the developers. Therefore, it will be replaced in the upcoming update “Secrets of the Stratus Realm” by a simpler mechanic.
Blade & Soul – Skills by Level
The new skill system of Blade & Soul, which will be released with the update “Secrets of the Stratus Realm,” is not a comprehensive tree with many options. Instead, you will receive new skills at certain levels that you can choose from a selection. This should make leveling easier and allow you to build your hero more effectively than if you had to choose freely from numerous unrelated skills.
You can also access elements of the respective class with the new skill selection and decide, for example, whether the Blade Master is specialized in fire or lightning. Changes also occur with the Hongmoon levels and points. You can now advance to level 50 and Hongmoon level 20. However, you will not receive skills through Hongmoon levels anymore, but instead 5 points per level that you can allocate to attack or defense. These points can be redistributed at any time as long as you are not in combat.
Ready for the Raid thanks to Hongmoon Training Room
If you want to try out your new skills but don’t have a raid group at hand, you can enjoy yourself in the new Hongmoon training room. In it, you will find training targets and can view and test your combos in a menu.
If you like, you can even spawn whole dungeon and raid bosses. You can entertain them as a tank, or you can activate an NPC tank that you can then heal. Alternatively, as a DD, you can also deal heavy damage and test your DPS potential.
The update “Secrets of the Stratus Realm” will be released on April 12.
Also interesting: Blade and Soul – Stable Quarterly Figures
