Korean MMORPG Blade & Soul has finally launched in NA and EU, and NCsoft will keep rolling out content and eventually catch up to the other versions. What can we expect for Blade & Soul in 2016? Recently 17173 has sat down with Blade & Soul Dev team and talked about some upcoming changes in 2016.
Besides, a new class is also in designing now. Currently there is still no details revealed, but the official team promised that it will be a brand new class. Meanwhile, a new player challenge feature - Unlimited Tower, a new system to let high level players help new players in dungeon, new ranking list, new storyline and some adjustments in class balance will also be released in 2016. Let's stay tuned.
According to the official team, it's because lots of players are requiring for a way to change their characters' gender. The gender changing card is now in planning, and is expected to be released this year.
the publisher of Blade and Soul in China. In this interview, the official team revealed several upcoming updates to the game, and among them, the one that surprised me most is the gender changing card.
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Firstly, the gameplay content will receive lots of big updates and players can put their hands on some new features after Lunar New Year. NCSoft will introduce a new infinite tower to challenge players’ 1 vs 1 arena ability. Unlike the boss fight in Mushin tower, players will have to fight against powerful guards feature different classes and special AI. Besides, the new infinite tower also features luck and strategy elements. It is unnecessary to defeat 100 guards to enter 100th floor in the mode since the system will award skipping floor bonus according to the clear time of each floor.
After releasing a hybrid class Force Kungfu Master, NCSoft will release a brand-new class in 2016. With lots of brand-new features, this new class won’t be a hybrid class like Force Kungfu Master. In addition, the highly-anticipated sex/race changing items are scheduled to add to the client in 2016. Lastly, the tweaks to class balance are underway, and NCSoft is bringing numbers of class rebalancing changes to Korean version soon.