Category: Blade & Soul News

I’ve been playing Blade & Soul a lot since its Head Start began late last week, and today I’m happy to report that I’m still having a good time, for now. The core of B&S enjoyment, at least for me, is in the game’s combat, PVP, and group dungeons. The combat essentially being the chief reason I’d recommend people play this F2P MMORPG. But that doesn’t mean NCSOFT’s most recent effort is perfect.

I was hoping to be able to write an article about gameplay in BnS, the first of a new column, but after running into numerous issues installing the game, let alone playing it, this is the sad panda result.

This past week we got a solid look at Blade & Soul from NC Soft. The game launches on January 19th, 2016 here is North America and many of you may have been playing in the betas. Blade & Soul has had great success in Korea, China, and Japan over the last few years and continues to draw fans with its heavy action combat style of play. The team also has a very aggressive post launch schedule for 2016 which we will go into below.

Start, finally getting our bearings officially and starting our own small clan on the Old Man Cho server. We’re sure many of you have played or dabbled in the closed beta events, but for those launching themselves finally into this Eastern Wuxia themed MMORPG, we’ve put together a list of things we wish we would have known going in.

MMORPG.com is very pleased to present this exclusive sweepstakes event! We have partnered with NCSOFT to give away 35 Master Packs valued at $124.99 each! Players who get a Master Pack will receive an extended booster pack, premium points that lets them start at level 4, 7,200 NCoin, a unique costume and so much more! Enter for your chance to win now! This sweepstakes will run from Jan 15 through Jan 29, 2016.

Looking to lay eyes on Blade & Soul? Tonight’s your chance when our own Bill Murphy will be streaming today’s founders head start at 6:00 pm Pacific / 9:00 pm Eastern in the MMORPG.com live stream channel. In addition, lucky viewers will have a chance at scoring a Blade & Soul Master Pack just for attending!

After many players expressed umbrage at the fact that NCSoft GMs reserved names ahead of the designated day for founders to do the same, NCSoft Brand Manager Omeed Diariani has responded over at Blade & Soul Dojo.

The Blade & Soul site has been updated with a terrific new launch guide to get players ready to roll when servers go live for Founders on January 15th and for the wider public the next week. Founders will also be able to reserve character names beginning Monday, January 11th and through January 15th.

NCSoft and the Blade & Soul team have announced a special launch sweepstakes that will see a pair of lucky winners (1-NA, 1-EU) take home an Alienware X-51 PC and runners up scoring a Blade & Soul goody bag.

Perhaps this is a little premature, but in the fairness of a slow post-Holiday news week, you’ll have to forgive us for getting excited about Blade & Soul’s impending head start on January 15th (next week!). So as we’re counting down the days, here’s the info you need to get prepped and ready for the moment the servers come on.