The new MMO Bless Online brings fresh air to the genre and comes with a wealth of gameplay systems and content. In our beginner’s guide, we have included all the important tips for you to get off to a great start in Bless Online.
What is Bless Online about?
In Bless Online, two factions compete for control over a continent. The Union has formed in the south, while the north is dominated by Hieron. From level 30 onwards, players from both factions will share quest areas, allowing you to be attacked and killed by other players at any time.
Besides some PvE activities, Bless Online also offers its players numerous PvP activities. There will be no PvE servers.
Choose a faction, select your class
Only one faction per server: Before you can take your first steps in the new MMO, you must commit to a side. Do you want to fight for the values of Hieron or the Union? You can only play one faction per server. If you want to change your faction later, you will need to delete all your characters and start again.
The classes in Bless: The next step is to choose one of the five classes available at the early access release.
- Guardian: A very good tank and strong in PvP and PvE activities.
- Berserker: Very high AoE damage and burst potential.
- Paladin: The only healer class currently in the game. Can also deal damage.
- Wizard: Fast class that can take little damage but deal high damage.
- Ranger: Very agile and deals high single-target damage to enemies.
The two classes Mystic and Assassin will be added later.
You have 4 character slots per server. Through the cash shop, you can create up to 6 characters.
Your first steps in the world – How to control Bless Online
Can you also play Bless with a controller? Your character in Bless Online is controlled with a mouse and keyboard. Use the WASD keys to move and activate your abilities with various hotkeys.
Controller support is currently not planned, but the developer team does not completely rule it out.
If you want to play with a controller at launch, you can configure your controller with programs like JoyToKey or Pinnacle.
The stances: You can equip two stances at the same time, which change your first 3 abilities. You can dynamically switch between stances using the ~ key. However, it is advisable to reassign the key for this purpose. For me, the stance switch is on the c key. The mount ability is now on the “^” key.
To adjust your controls, open the game menu with ESC, go to “Interface Settings”, and switch to the “Key Settings” menu. You can find the stance key under the “Action Bar” tab.
Which combat system does Bless Online use? Currently, the action-combat system is only unlocked for the Berserker class. Later, all classes are expected to benefit from the new control scheme. If you play as a wizard, paladin, guardian, or ranger, you will have to make do with the tab-targeting system.
The quest system of Bless
There are various types of quests in the game:
- Blue marked quests are your main quests. These give you the most experience points. Sometimes, to continue them, you will need to have reached a certain level. So you can’t just play through the main campaign in one go.
- Green quests are side quests. These missions familiarize you with the basic mechanics of the game, like crafting items, taming monsters, and gathering resources. You also receive items needed for these activities upon completion. Try to always complete them.
- Yellow quests are side quests. These grant less experience points, but are usually on the way to a main quest.
You also receive rewards and experience points from the tasks listed below.
- “Memories of a Journey” are episodic stories that are spread across the entire continent. You must have reached level 10 to take on these quests.
- Missions are weekly or daily tasks that reward you with various items and experience points. You can take them on from level 7.
- Hunting quests can be started once you’ve slain a certain number of the same monster. You will then begin a three-stage process where you are rewarded with experience points after each stage. Completing all stages grants you specific items.
Help, I’m stuck
Problems leveling? The main quest often requires you to have reached a certain level. To prevent this, it’s best to take on every side quest you can find until level 13. If you’re stuck between level 11 and 13, it’s advisable to complete some hunting quests. On the Hieron side, a visit to the bandit camp in “Rockfox Outlaw’s Hideout” is recommended.
It’s best to team up with a group of other players to take down the bandits, as the kills are shared among players. It’s important that you always take down the same type of bandit. So if a hunting quest requires you to kill a bandit-slayer, your quest will only progress if you also defeat the bandit-slayer.
The first dungeon: Once you reach level 13, the first dungeon will open up. To enter it, you will need a “Gear-Level” of 1655. So buy equipment from the vendor in front of the dungeon entrance with your saved gold. If there is no vendor there, briefly visit the capital and stock up there.
When buying, make sure to acquire armor recommended for your class. Alternatively, you can obtain a new weapon from the auction house. By now, you should have collected enough gold.
You can manage the dungeon on your own. You will receive as many experience points for defeating the bosses as for completing a main quest. It’s worth running the dungeon a few times before you continue your journey. In addition, new side quests will now also appear, which you can complete.
If you don’t want to do the side quest, just run the dungeon until you have the “Gear-Level” for the new dungeon and are level 20. The “Gear-Level” is 2284.
Your abilities
In Bless Online, every class has stance abilities and non-stance abilities. To reach your maximum potential, you need to master the interplay.
- Stances: Each class has 6 different stances, each with its own abilities. Stances grant you different effects. You can switch between 2 stances at any time.
- Stance skills: These initiate your combo abilities. The sequence works as follows: Start ability -> Link ability -> Finish ability
- Non-stance skills: These abilities are independent of your current stance.
Here’s how to obtain new skills: You unlock new skills gradually by leveling up. If you want to improve your skills, you need to rely on jewels. You obtain jewels through leveling up, completing quests, and defeating monsters. When you improve skills with jewels, you can also remove them from the skill again. The jewels are not lost, but you will need to pay some gold. With the jewel system, you can adapt skills to your needs and partially change their functionality.
This is the PvE content offered by Bless
If you are looking for short-lived PvE entertainment, Bless Online offers you some activities.
Face elite mobs: Elite mobs are particularly strong opponents that respawn regularly and drop valuable loot. Since they are one of the sources for weapons, players will farm these mobs. Elite mobs can be recognized by a special life bar.
Kill world bosses for exquisite loot: In Bless Online, you can challenge 20 world bosses together with other players. They appear in an 18-hour cycle in the following neutral areas:
- Wyvern Valley 1 to 3
- Dry Areas
- White Desert
- Vachel
- North Saltus
Face powerful opponents in dungeons: Bless Online offers its players 7 dungeons per faction at launch. Until the dungeon from level 31, you can also run these dungeons individually.
If a dungeon has an entry limit, it resets every day at 1 AM.
Let loose in PvP
Bless Online also offers its players PvP-focused content. You can hunt players from the opposing faction at any time in contested areas.
When you kill players in PvP, you earn combat points and experience points. Your earnings are calculated based on your collected combat points from the past seven days. The reset is every Tuesday at 1 AM.
Your combat class depends on your earnings from the last four weeks and the earnings of the last seven days.
Breed your mounts and pets
Bless Online has an extensive leveling system for your pets and mounts. You can level them up, teach them abilities, and adapt them to your personal playstyle.
Here’s how to catch a monster: To tame a monster, you need a taming scroll. There are different variants depending on the level of the monster to be tamed.
Simply apply the scroll to a tamable monster, and you will start a mini-game. With a low probability, you may trigger a special mini-game where the captured monster will then possess a higher level.
Tamable monsters can be recognized by a steering wheel or butterfly symbol next to their name.
- Steering wheel: This is a mount.
- Butterfly: The monster is a pet.
The more monsters you tame, the higher your taming level becomes. If you diligently collect monsters, your collection can grow to up to 200 monsters.
Help, I can’t tame a monster: In the beginning, you will receive taming scrolls that allow you to capture monsters up to level 15. If you want to catch stronger monsters, you need to either choose the profession of enchantment or purchase taming scrolls from the market.
Here’s how to enhance your monsters: When you have your pet with you or ride your mount, the monster gains experience points. When the monster’s EP bar reaches 100%, it levels up. Once the maximum level in a rank is reached, you can upgrade the monster to the next rarity grade.
To level your pet, just let it run alongside you. You need to move your mount to level it. It’s best to catch a second mount early in the game, as your horse will eventually need to regenerate stamina.
The order of upgrades: Magical -> Rare -> Heroic -> Legendary
Gathering and crafting – these are the professions in Bless Online
In Bless Online, there are two types of items to gather. You can gather plants with a gathering bag and need a pickaxe to obtain ores. Throughout the game, green quests will pop up frequently. Complete these to learn more about gathering and crafting.
Tip, here’s how to quickly obtain resources: In the open world, you can encounter small monsters with a turban. Click on them, and you will be teleported to a gathering dungeon where you can collect various items for a limited time.
For each character, you must choose one of three primary professions and one secondary profession. It is advisable to create three characters, each practicing different professions, so you do not have to miss out on the benefits of each profession.
These are the primary professions available:
- Armor: You craft clothing, armor, and repair items.
- Handicraft: If you want to craft rings and necklaces, this is the right place for you.
- Enchanting: An important profession if you want to craft taming scrolls and runes.
These are the secondary professions available:
- Cooking: You craft buff-food that gives you various bonuses or regenerates the stamina of your tamed monsters.
- Alchemy: You can craft potions that give you bonuses and create bombs.
The more items you craft, the higher your crafting level becomes. A high crafting level grants you various bonuses.
This is how items work in Bless Online
In Bless Online, you can find items in six different rarity levels. Common -> Rare -> Magical -> Rare -> Heroic -> Legendary.
Items of a higher level are better than items of a lower level.
Here’s how to improve your gear: Go to your faction’s capital. For the Union, it’s the city of Spezia, and for Hieron, it’s the city of Hierakon. There you will find a gear enhancement machine. Despite its rather impractical and long name, it is extremely useful.
You place your gear in the machine, have the necessary materials and sub-materials for an enhancement ready, and start the enhancement process. To improve an item, you need to have reached a certain level.
Caution! An enhancement can also fail. In case of failure, you can lose your enhancement materials and sub-materials. Additionally, the durability of the gear can be reduced, and its enhancement step may be decreased.
Once your enhancement step reaches level 15, it is possible to perform a transcendental enhancement or add an improved spirit slot.
Here’s how to transfer enhancements to other gear: You can transfer transcendental enhancements from equipment to higher-tier equipment. For this, you need a specific material. This enhancement process can also result in a decrease in enhancement level when the higher-tier item is improved.
Here’s how to repair your gear: You can get your damaged gear repaired by a blacksmith in the city or in camps. In case of a failed repair, durability may be reduced. You can craft repair items with armor crafting that simplify this process.
Here’s how to disassemble gear: Depending on the rarity level of the gear, you receive different items. You disassemble items at “Disassembly Machines” at many locations in Bless Online.
This is how equipment souls work: Certain armors can be infused with souls. A soul enhances your character. There are offensive and defensive souls, each with three levels. Since souls are fragile, they can be destroyed in certain situations.
Keep in mind that the soul also has the right pattern. You can only insert a soul with a “Flying Dragon Pattern” into equipment with the matching slot.
- If your character dies in combat against an NPC: May potentially be destroyed.
- If you insert a new soul into an already souled version: Old soul will be 100% destroyed.
- If you disassemble souled gear: The soul will be 100% destroyed.
Find friends and face dangers together in a group
Teamplay is restricted to your own faction. So decide together for a faction, so you can play together.
These are the group options available:
- You can create groups of up to 5 players. As a group, you benefit from certain combat and lifestyle buffs that increase your chances of survival.
- Existing groups can be converted by the group leader into raid groups. These can include up to 20 players.
Here’s how to create a guild in Bless: If you want to create a guild, you need to speak to the guild manager NPC. You can find this in the villages or cities of the factions. To create a guild, you must be at least two players in a group.
When your guild members complete specific activities, the guild level increases through accumulated guild influence. Guild influence is credited every day at 1 AM.
This is how the economy works in Bless Online
The marketplace: If you want to sell your equipment to other players, you cannot avoid the in-game market. For each item, upper and lower limits are specified. You can access the market via the NPC Sarara in the capital cities of the factions.
A sales tax of 15% is applied to your purchases. If you are a premium member, you only have to pay 5% sales tax.
Players cannot trade with each other.
The special currency store: In the special currency store, you can exchange lumena or dungeon and combat points for certain items.
- Lumena: Among other things, character slots, skins, or inventory expansions.
- Combat points: Equipment upgrade items, materials for enhancements, and regular items.
- Dungeon points: Items to enhance sub-materials for pets and mounts.
Earn lumena for free in Bless: You can exchange 1000 dungeon or combat points daily for 50 lumena. The exchange rate is 20 dungeon and combat points for 1 lumena.
Mailbox and messages: Through the mailbox, you can send items between your characters. Additionally, acquired items are displayed in your inbox. You can send all messages that can also be sold in the market.
The warehouse: Each character receives a personal warehouse where you can store up to 48 items. You can access the warehouse through warehouse managers in the major cities of each faction.
This is how to level up the fastest in Bless
Do you want to reach the maximum level as quickly as possible? Then follow these simple tips.
- Start the game and create a character.
- Complete the main quest and initially ignore all side quests until you can enter the first dungeon. If you’re stuck before the dungeon, complete a few hunting quests.
- Then it’s best to catch a pet and hope it has the ability to give you an experience points bonus.
- Buy your starter gear from the vendor in front of the dungeon. If he’s not there, travel to the capital and buy it there. This gives you the necessary gear level to enter the dungeon.
- If your gear level is high enough, enter the dungeon and complete it. If you can’t find other players, you can run the dungeon alone.
- Keep doing this until you unlock the next dungeon. Now continue your main quest.
- Now you need to look for an elite mob. These strong monsters spawn in the world and are some of the few sources for new weapons.
- Farm the mob until it drops your class weapon and run the next dungeon a few times to level up. Remember to gear up with better equipment.
- From level 33, you will get stuck and can either farm elite mobs or do side quests. So farm elite mobs until you can continue your main quest or run through the dungeons.
- The last levels then consist of a mix of side quests, main quests, and elite mob farming.
