Hungibungi

You need to be lvl60, it says on the bottom left corner.

Altar and Chimera got swapped in some quests, so to do Altar st3-5 quests you need to do Chimera st3-5. Since Altar is a Heroic dungeon now, you can not do Chimera st3-5 quests, been like that for 4-5 months now or something

Can you please send in a screenshot (if the picture doesn't work just send in a link :D) like this: Meaning the SB window with you hovering over the Steelbreaker Soul Shield - Chest 1? 🙂

They clearly don't care anymore. They didn't fix any of the bugs (even tho there are more than 10 at this point), even gave 5 days worth of compensation instead of the usual 7... After Green Storm stopped being our Community Manager the whole game went into chaos, but at least they always gave 7 days worth of daily login compensations. Suddenly we got a new Community Manager and we only get 5 🙂 Seems fair enough, maybe it's like with the Support team. They think that reset time on EU is midnight CEST and that the event is working as intended. I don't know what they are checking, but we can be sure that they either just make things up, or they are checking the KR server for reference and not ours. That would probably make sense as EU reset time is at midnight KST, which most likely aligns with the KR server's reset time perfectly (but I am not 100% sure...) uwu

This topic: Monday at 06:29 PM Announcement: Monday at 11:35 PM Maybe look at the times first 🙂

Thank you!

Can You please at least change the title to 'Feedback: This update made the new/returning player experience unacceptable'? 🤗

Scrap this guide, change of plans. There is no way to get Oculus Ring, Earring, Gloves as they don't drop from Isle stage1. 😞 More details here:

Disclaimer: that emoji was put there with the built-in emoji picker, so I hope it's not breaking rules So straight to the problems: SoulBoost has been broken for months now, there is no way to finish it as quests are bugged We can not acquire any upgradeable accessories as a new/returning player: This new update deleted skystealer, starcross accessories from the game, as there is no way to get upgrade materials anymore There is no way to obtain Oculus Ring and Earring other than exchanging 20 Oculus Essences How is a new/returning player supposed to obtain Oculus Essences? Getting 20 Oculus Essences (per accessory) for a new/returning player is near impossible, unless they have someone carrying them Isle stage 1-4 doesn't drop accessories + previous Demonsbane dungeons drop Starcross accessories which are not upgradeable anymore Without upgradeable accessories it is almost impossible to do stage 5 demonsbane dungeons: Since there is no useful drop from easy mode / stage 1-4 dungeons, new/returning players have even less experience than before as they won't farm easy content for no rewards just to practice SoulBoost gear is barely enough for stage 5 dungeons as their hp keeps getting higher and higher without SoulBoost getting better Combined with new/returning players having close to no experience, I am almost 100% sure none of them are able to do stage 5 Isle Why were 2.5 tiers of accessories removed in 1 patch without any notice? This whole situation could have been avoided if you would have only removed Skystealer, maybe Skystealer + Starcross... But Oculus as well?! I seriously doubt any of you actually have any idea how this game works now, you removed the best accessory of yesterday from the game! There is no way to acquire the newest ring, earring of yesterday, hallo? Good job... I tried to do some damage control with yesterday's updated new/returning guide, because you changed so much in 1 update that the whole gear progression changed for new/returning players, but you screwed even that up. I am beat, you really did manage to do the impossible now! I made some guides here on the forum before when the new player experience was really bad to give them some directions on how to progress, but now... Yeah, I think it is official now, imma say it. You screwed over new/returning player so much that there is no way for someone to progress after this update if they did not reach lvl60 and upgraded their gear before this patch hit!* I hope you have a nice day, thanks for reading this 🙂 ~Hungibungi *Unless they get a carry from someone / somehow have enough experience to do mechs and do good rotations at the same time + get 3 other teammates who can do the same in stage5 Isle /Abyssal.

It is still really active. You should be able to see either a #bot-spam or a #class-requests channel where people write in which class they play with (it unlocks channels for that class). I think you need to have at least 1 class role to see the general channels as well, but not 100% sure about that.

Sadly it seems like I can't put links into the post, so... Can I please ask You (one of the Moderators) to change: 'read this guide' into a link with: bit.ly/BNSNewAndReturningGuide 'Academy Discord server' into a link with: discord.gg/KymkGQva5R It was fine in the last guide, so I hope it is fine now as well. Thank you! 🙂

Hi-hi! Time to update the guide since they just removed 2 whole tiers of accessories (by removing upgrade materials) from existence, sooooo... Here we go! (This is posted before the update hits, but... I am not really hopeful about them keeping Skystealer and Starcross materials, so... Yeah) This is just a general guide with not much information, please read this guide made by Soulris for detailed information! Want a guide for your class and/or for dungeons? Join the Academy Discord server! Also, this is just my opinion. The main point is to have fun, so feel free to skip/add a few steps! 😊 Inventory management: Cosmetics can be put into the Showroom (F3) Keep everything from SoulBoost, F8 Dungeons, Raids, Battle Passes, Daily / Weekly Challenge rewards Keep random coins you get from dungeons, they can be exchanged for rewards in their respective NPC shops Keep food, charms, keys, repair tools Keep everything that is marketable, you can sell them for some extra gold Early game (aka story and basic stuff): Join Crimson in EU and Cerulean in NA You can change faction in Silverfrost Mountains -> Zaiwei -> Merchant Square and talk to the NPC Sul Lipin Finish yellow, purple questline Orange questline is optional, imo u can skip them but you do you Mid game: Upgrade your weapon to +1 before you use the SoulBoost tokens! Daily routine: Every Heroic and Demonsbane dungeon at least once a day Shrouded Ajanara and Sanctum of Masters once a day You can find people in Faction/World chat and/or inside F8 I would recommend only doing Easy Mode and Stage 1 difficulty dungeons until you are comfortable with your class/spec and are near the end of SoulBoost Do not join Hard Mode or Stage 5 difficulty dungeons until you know what you are doing (and know mechs)! Check out the Hongmoon Store (F10), in particular the Hongmoon Coin tab for free items Chaos Supply Chain Stage 5 is a good entry into harder content, I would recommend starting with that one as your first Stage 5 dungeon You also want to farm out the True Poharan Soulshield set You want to have Crit on all of them You want to have Accuracy on 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 You want to have Mystic on 3, 4, 7, 8 You want to have Recovery on 1, 2, 5, 6 Crit and Accuracy is more important than Mystic and Recovery early on You should use Psyches on them once you have a perfect roll You can feed them into each other to increase stats Get Oculus Ring, Earring, Gloves from Stage 1 Isle and upgrade them to +6 Do not use your Psyches yet, wait until you get the set from Isle, Abyssal Stage 5 Upgrade your Unity Stones until you have all Orange, then start rerolling for Boss AP / stats you lack (like Crit / Accuracy) Farm out / get from NPC every Gildstone and make them +3 (if you have extra, reroll for better stats) Start making a debuff dmg Compound page (at first a Mystic / Debuff dmg hybrid page is fine) Turn in tasks as you complete them in your Journal and Art Gallery Use Insignias Get one of the AP Achievements Get the Shrouded Ajanara Badge and Amulet End game: Get the accessory set from Isle and Abyssal Stage 5 (half Oculus, half new tier) Use your psyches on them Upgrade them as much as you can Upgrade your SoulBoost Soul/Heart/Pet/Talisman to +12 Only tier them up with SoulBoost tokens! Next SoulBoost will give free upgrades You ideally want to make them +14 before making them Mythic rarity, but if you are not a hardcore grinder be happy with +12 Start upgrading your Gildstones Upgrade your Amulet and Badges Once the rest of the new tier comes out, you ideally want to Success your +20 Oculus into them making +16 new tier, buuuuuuuut you can be happy with +16 into +12 as well 😊 Get the new weapon from Stage 8 dungeons and start upgrading it Alts: You want to have 3/6/9/12 alts You only need to do 1 alt every 3 days Meaning you do 1 alt daily per every 3 alts you have Rest rewards stack up to 2, meaning they save the unclaimed rewards for 2 days, so doing them every 3rd day means no rewards lost They are useful for some events, gives some extra gold daily Gems: There are weapon and pet gems, but tbh they are a hassle and should only touch them if you wanna rank

Hi-hi! First of all, this post is about the Thai and Vietnam version of the game, not our region! I am writing this here, because I am sure you all have some friends over there enjoying the same game we do, maybe some of you even play in those regions as well. So, what happened? Both of the regions posted at around the same time about the game going into end of service. I am not sure whether we can post the announcements here, as even tho it is the same game, the region is not the same. You can find it pretty quick with a bit of googling if you want 🙂 Thailand: 14 June 2023 - 'Terminate service for Blade & Soul game, players cannot log in to the game.' Vietnam: 15 August 2023 - 'Officially closing Blade & Soul Vietnam server' What does this mean for our region? Nothing really... Yeah, nothing... I am sure the sudden change in game/support/forum quality we got not a long ago will get better soon! 🙂 Khmm... So don't worry you all, this small issue we have with the rankings will get fixed before the next maint uwu Thanks for reading this news report, hope we can kill the new birdie together soon! 🕺 PS: Please keep the comments free of Code of Conduct violation if you can, thank you! ❤️

Support got back to me. Their answer exceeded my expectations! Lemme quote, just to make sure everyone understands clearly how far Support is gone from reality... Sure. We are all blind, dumb and delusional. Reset is at midnight CEST (10PM GMT) just like described in the official announcement. Sorry that I ever questioned you, you are absolutely correct. Turns out that I haven't realized something really important. We are Koreans! How did I ever doubt it? We live in Korea, the forum and support is Korean as well. I am writing in Korean, it just auto transtales it to English! And ofc my Windows time is set to CEST by mistake, once I changed it to KST the reset timer is actually correct. Thank you for fixing my problem, you are truly the best! *Edit: Actually this is not true, even if you change ur timezone to KST, you will be 24 hours ahead of reset times... Woops! ❤️

It happened to people who do their dailies at the same time every day as well. All of this could be fixed if you would finally change timers from midnight KST to EU midnight as you said you would in the announcements 🙂 PS: It is not really KST midnight, it is 24 hours before KST midnight, we are a full day behind of in real life times.

1: Support is not helpful, multiple people said that support either confirmed that reset times are correct and working properly; or said that post it on forums. 2: Support most of the time does not accept bug reports, as they confirm that 'I understand how this is important for you, However, we do not have the timeframe of when this will be addressed by the development team.' or tell us to complain on forums instead. 3: I am sorry, but I really do have to ask this. Does any of you play with the game? Just casually, maybe once a week or so. The current issues are so absurd that if any of you would play the game once a week, you would notice how almost everything is broken atm. And I am not even joking. Daily and weekly quests/challanges reset at midnight KST instead of 10PM GMT Daily challange rest is reset way before the quests/challanges do, meaning the whole thing bugs out For example, I did 2 characters daily challange one after the other. 3 days later this happened: One character had 1 rest points, and gave 2 day worth of daily challange rewards. One character had 2 rest points, and gave 2 days worth of daily challange rewards. How did that even happen? You might ask. Well... I did the first character before rest reset, even tho the challanges were reset already. Between me finishing my first char and the second char, rest reset (or did it?). It only reset on my UI, still only gave 2 days worth of daily challange rewards... Why was it on 1 rest anyway? I am 100% sure it was 3 days later, as I have 7 chars and only do main+2alts a day, so can't mess up rests... For some people weekly challange is not doable at all, when they complete weekly quests it does not count. Probably has to do something with broken timers as well, for example doing them at a certain time or something Daily challanges are a full day behind, we have the 7 daily challanges on saturday, sunday and monday instead of friday, saturday and sunday And these were just the problems with the daily/weekly challanges, plenty more stuff are broken / doesn't make sense.

Hi-hi! I made a feedback form! forms.gle/ZsG454ZZMRFXKfvc8 I want to make a long wall of text about the things that are either broken, or needs some changes. I am pretty sure that I wouldn't be able to gather every issue, so please help me gather stuff! I promise the form is not long and it doesn't need a username / email etc either. Just stay calm, be constructive and try to list as many things as you can think of. Thanks! 🙂 PS: it's more about things that can be changed 'easily', and not things that would require a complete game design overhaul. And please don't use acronyms much!

EU had it mid-day every week since release. Now NA has it mid-day and EU at midnight.

You are wrong. Eu had this same exact problem, now it switched. Eu has maint while we are asleep and NA has it mid-day. Since EU has way more players, I think it is fair; should have been done years ago…

Hi-hi! Now that we have the official patch notes, it is time to correct a few things in it. My prev post contains mostly everything, but I wanted to correct it line by line here. Field Boss ‘Hamann’ will spawn in ‘Wildwill Den’. Defeat ‘Hamann’ and get one of three treasures. (Hamann Treasure, Hamann Elite Treasure, or Hamann Prime Treasure): Hamann Treasure (0.1-4.99% dmg): 2-6 ely+moonstone; 7-16 soulstone+sacred; 1 new rare element; %Hamman art1; %Hamman art2; %Northern Continent Insignia chest Hamann Elite Treasure (5%-9.99% dmg): 3-7 ely+moonstone; 8-18 soulstone+sacred; 1-2 new rare element; %Hamman art1; %Hamman art2; %Northern Continent Insignia chest Hamann Prime Treasure (10%- dmg): 3-8 ely+moonstone; 9-19 soulstone+sacred; 2 new rare element; %Hamman art1; %Hamman art2; %Northern Continent Insignia chest Hunt down target NPC, and get ‘Northern continent Honor Coin’ as exchange. and The NPCs from Wanted vary, and will reset on 06:00 AM every Wednesday.: I think you meant mobs and not NPCs, but will see tomorrow. Would be fun to hunt down actual NPCs tho! 🤯 You forgot to post what we can exchange them for: Insignia chest: 5 coins, 20/week/char Art chest: 10 coins, 10/week/account Hon's manuscript: 75 coins, 1/week/account (these give 1 HM points in P (?)) Square pet gem chest: 50 coins, 2/week/account Vial + pack + sterling + stigma: 10 coins, 2/week/character What about the rat hunt? You said nothing about it...: Random rats will appear while hunting (probably doing point 2 above) Normal Treasure : 3 ely+moonstone, 30 soulstone+sacred, 1 new rare element, %HM point for P Elite Treasure : 3 ely+moonstone, 30 soulstone+sacred, 1 new rare element, %HM point for P Prime Treasure : 5 ely+moonstone, 50 soulstone+sacred, 1 new rare element, %HM point for P, %Orange unity stone chest Removed ‘Chocolate’, the event item from Hongsil’s Secret Storehouse.: Two things... It was supposed to end on 04/04, so... Is the patch notes wrong, or do we get it removed a week early..? qwq What about the Cloudrift Coins? They weren't mentioned at all. Changed the dungeon category displayed from Cross-Server Lobby.: It is called Altar of the Infinite, not Alter 100 other things There should be 3 events coming (with trove being one), yet you only mentioned 3 What is a Blessed Fusion Stone? I see someone translated the RU patchnotes who doesn't play the game, as here in this version they are called Synthesis Stones. You posted skill bugfixes, but 'forgot' to mention the actually useful informations, like the 'massive' bard nerf uwu (not that massive, but it does nerf almost every skill of 1st spec) I am sorry, I actually wanted to correct everything, but then I opened up the correct patch notes and realised it would take not joking, at least 3 hours, so gave up. Hope they will fix it later, but for everyone else, feel free to look at the ru patchnotes and google translate them. ❤️ Also, found some interesting google sheets that might be useful (if there are translated ones out there I am sorry, didn't see it): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vgdMzM11fCv_sqGJ0yKjRvzTAQ0agL5TLcP7Hk0dTHU/edit#gid=2085837055 (look out for multiple tabs) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KR9VjR1tjMf5tnLnFK3Q4s143rY1qR4d0hzHSDIuJXw/edit#gid=0

Just finalized the crafting list. Has proper translations with effects as well 🙂

Hi-hi! 1st of all, I read the Code of Conduct to make sure this post won't get deleted. Please make sure you do as well before you decide to comment, don't make this post be deleted! Thank you ♥ 2nd of all, everything in this post is to be taken with a huge pintch of salt, this is not official news. Make sure to follow the news page for official news! So... It took a long time to get all of this together into 1 post, it doesn't contain everything and ofc nothing is 100% correct. 🙂 It is totally possible that I am wrong, that I misunderstood some parts or mistranslated others. Contents: General revamps of multiple in-game systems A part of the new continent with new story, called Eastern Island in the Northern Continent A new Demonsbane dungeon with the 2 remaining Oculus accessories, called Hall of Epiphany Archer 3rd spec, called Lightning Arrows (they will probably name it something different, but it is lightning themed) Skill changes Events 1. General revamps of multiple in-game systems: A journal will be added, similar to the art gallery. Complete quests to get extra stats. Bounty Hunt It resets with the weekly reset It will give you different mobs to hunt every reset It gives the new coins mentioned in section 2 HM level upped to 50 from 45 Unity level upped to 240 from 210 Rankings revamped: New UI Rewards are unchanged, except for the new World Rankings (it gives gold, xp, chat symbol, portrait frame) New dyad gems Octa dyads can not be transmuted anymore New tier added instead New soul New soul psyche Skystealer accessories and the last 2 starcross gildstones have been removed from the NPC shop The 2 new oculus gildstones and a new tradeable upgrade material have been added instead You can buy Poharan SS primers for those wooden crafted thingies as well (?) F8 has been updated: Substratum rotated out, Altar of the Infinite rotated into Heroics and the new Hall of Epiphany has been added F8 Heroic dungeon rewards have been updated Skystealer mats are still here You get more extra rewards (the daily limited ones at the end) You get more daily quest rewards Updated wheel with the new gildstone box The lvl60 voucher now completes quests up to Act 12 Epilogue, grants HM14 and 200 gold, gives updated gear that doesn't matter anyway cuz u just use SB gear Crafting guilds have been updated Removed bloodstone, silver&onyx scale, shield engravings Added a new crafting material (similar to rare element) into crafting boxes Added a lot of new crafting recipes (I am still translating at the time of posting this, so might need to wait a few hours until it's done sorry :c) Fishing updated New fishing spot in the new continent You can fish from a boat or from a bridge New species of fish New achievements Updated shop Account: 10 new rare element (1000 each)/day, 2 gem box (13000 each)/week Character: 3 pet and vial (6000 each)/week, 20 new rng chest (5000 each)/week Daily challanges updated Now you will need to do 5 on weekdays and 7 on weekends 2000 gold has been removed, a gold chest has been added instead 2. A part of the new continent with new story, called Eastern Island in the Northern Continent: It is located above the Divine Realm close to the top of the map. While hunting, a rat may appear. There are 3 types of rats, each has their own loot. A new boss, called Haman (they might name it something different) It is similar to Koldrak (big question mark?) It gives coins, a chest depending on how many % of damage you contributed (really similar loot as Koldrak?) It can be entered every 3h, at x:30 (so 30 mins delay compared to Koldrak?) New achievements 3. A new Demonsbane dungeon with the 2 remaining Oculus accessories, called Hall of Epiphany: Has a lot of HP 🤯 2 new Oculus accessories 2 new Oculus gildstones 3 new insignias New achievements New psyches 4. Archer 3rd spec, called Lightning Arrows (they will probably name it something different, but it is lightning themed): Just wait until patch day, sorry (you need to see it and it's quite hard in a forum post xD) 5. Skill changes: Sadly I don't really play with every class and I have no clue how to interpret most of them... 6. events: They are not fun if someone spoils them for you, are they 😜 Expect 2 of them to come 🙂

Blade and Soul 2 is on PC, been out for 2 years now. It is mobile first, pc second tho; would not recommend playing longer than a month.