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Sounds like what a company like NCSoft would not do. The thing is... a Steam release would honestly help in pushing playerbase numbers up a little to make content more active again but I highly doubt that this will ever happen.

As the title says... I think I've been trying to write about this for months now... but the game and this community is dying because barely anything is happening. Before we get to the urgent fixes, I still want to compliment on the recent Daily Rest change. This was indeed a step in the right direction as it helps tremendously for people that do not have so much time playing this game every single day. Thank you. Probably the best change since years. Now... let's get to the key points: Gold Income I still read about how something is done about this... but nothing is happening. It's nice that you guys place more gold on the battle plague, in Demonsbane rankings... but that isn't close enough to anything. We need ACTUAL gold income fixes: more daily gold, daily gold box from 3 daily challenges (with a premium key to obtain more gold), more weekly gold, raids gold buffs etc... We have the korean upgrade system now with only very small changes but still the same income as before. This is hurting the game, as most people need months to even upgrading one piece of their gear. Do something, this is priority NUMBER ONE. The longer you wait, the more people leave this game. More resources Very simple point, we talk about: - Sacred Vials - Pet Packs - Skystealer Crystals Give us actual ways to farm them. How about a Celestial Basin buff? Demonsbane content Bring the next tier of Demonsbane accs soon. From my knowledge, there won't be a dungeon for about 4 months now unless NCWest changed the release schedule. If not, consider moving the next Demonsbane dungeon forward. This dry period will hurt the game, massively. Hongmoon Coins We need more sources of Venture Tokens again. Very simple. Ranking is dead because it got unlucrative for the majority of the playerbase with only the top 1% making actual good HMC gain. That is everything. I've been posting about months for various issues that should be looked at asap. This is all I have left to say now. I won't be posting anymore feedback, because I literally named various concerns about the state of NA/EU Blade & Soul. Now it is on the developers and the team of NCSoft/West to do something or do nothing. I do hope you take this feedback very seriously, because players are leaving every week and it would be very sad if that trend continues.

That is the absolute worst site to ever look for estimated playercounts. Their numbers are completely randomly calculated, no logic behind anything whatsoever. Currently, I would estimate the same as Uldrum... around 3k unique daily logins, while having around 400-600 players online at the same time (for Jinsoyun/EU) and even less players on the american server (NA/Yura), maybe not even half of EU.

Don't worry guys. I really just gave you the best solution we have right now. I know, there's a million better ways to fix this issue without having to spend real life money.... but since you all did play as long as I did... I can sadly only say that I think all these suggestions are very unlikely to ever happen. I had no ill intention when I suggested this, it literally IS THE BEST option right now. Otherwise you're stuck grinding for weeks if not months with barely any progression.

There is already a solution: The Battle Plague. It gives quite nice gold for a little real money cost. Go get it, it's worth it.

In all nice feelings and honesty... your wishes won't be heard. There is meta specs and there is very bad specs. It is how it is. They won't fix this anytime soon, more like they will built up on it. New specs are always overbusted so people are pleased into swiping or rerolling which does involve real money cost as well. It's a business strategy. I gave up on it tbh. You either play the game or you don't and you deal with the changes they release to the game if you do decide to keep playing. That's the only way.

I found one more Soul Boost problem: We need 9x Champion's Heart Evolution Stone for True Champions Heart. Stage 32 however doesn't offer 3x Champion's Heart Stone, it only offers 1. We're stuck with Awakened Champion's Heart - Stage 2 after progressing from Stage 32 onwards. (We acquire 7 in total instead of 9 which are needed right now!) Please fix this stage and also send a Level 32 Reward Compensation to all qualified accounts. Thank you! Btw, appreciate all the hard work @Green Storm! Thank you so much! ☺️

The one thing that is infuriating me the most is the costume called "Lotus". We literally had the EXACT same outfit, just recoloured to black/red named "Dahlia" in the last rotation. You can't tell me this wasn't intentional and someone thought it's a funny joke... because it's not. What the hell is going on? What is with all the feedback we gave you guys? It feels like we were just ignored once again and it makes me actually sad because people wanted good cosmetics, not recolours after recolours.

Thanks for all the great summer outfits, highly appreciate the Dahlia recolour called Lotus instead!

THIS. I can only fully agree with you here. Being forced to run 1 dungeon for 300 runs when the weapon drops from all 3 dungeons... it's a pain.

Which is absolutely crazy because now you pay less gold for +6 to +11 for all accs. Only so you start at +6 with Starcross and don't have to deal with even worse rates and more gold drain.

This is still a major issue as of today that keeps me from actually playing beyond the finished Soul Boost on 3 characters. I can give a very good example to this: Just from adding all soul boost psyches to my accs and badges.... I wasted around 1400 gold. However, we still make barely any gold from content. The only option would be to buy the pass for 30 dollars every single time that gives you atleast around 20k gold. Now... to even consider going for Starcross accs, I should get most of my skystealer accs to +11. Just one acc from +6 to +11 costs around 3-4k gold... you have 6 of them. That adds up to 18-24k gold just getting all of them to +11. Sure, this got a lot better with the recent patch (people wasted sometimes over 50k for one acc rolling RNG fiesta lmao), but it's still much... why? You need to spend weeks or months to even get them into this position... just so you don't have to deal with this massive cost of upgrading Starcross to +6 (which is RNG). The pass is indeed a nice paid option and gold boost but only a bandaid fix. What needs to be done is ACTUAL fixes to the gold income by doing ingame activities... a few RNG related 1k gold from weekly chests won't do it here. Korea gets a daily chest with MINIMUM 1k gold (premium key)... with a small chance to even receive 5k gold. We can also reach that stage... but have to grind 4-times as hard. That is demotivating. Korea gets more gold from daily dungeon quests.. something we could honestly need at this point because gold is needed more and more. It just feels like a huge chore. There's definitely some room for improvements.

Hello again with yet another suggestion. As far as I know, in Korea you pay around 60-70 dollars for a Class Change voucher. We should make it similar in NA/EU pricing. 100 $/€ is way too much. You have to keep in mind that not every country in Europe offers great payouts per month for a job, so we should really decrease the NCoin price here. I can guarantee you, more people would buy it if it is cheaper. We don't have to make it 10 bucks, but slightly more expensive than a Level 60 boost should be reasonable.

I don't know if Green Storm still reads this feedback thread... but I do have some amazing suggestions for the Premium tab... and it's great this is finally a consideration because it has been outdated for so long now. Okay, here we go: Keep the weekly chests for Sacred Vials, Pet Packs and Sterling Scale Crystals Nothing should be changed here. They should stay as they currently are, with the difference of spending the Solar energy directly instead of having to transmute Spectrum Stones. Maybe increase the limit and require less Refined Honing Oil and Solar Energy if that is possible. Outfits This has been a problem for so long now. This game offers a variety of amazing costumes, head/body adornments and hairstyles that people simply can't get. The problem isn't that they aren't available by playing the game, the problem is we can't get them in general! 3 outfits in a monthly rotation and a new outfit with some promotions is way too less ways to get some good looking outfits in the game. There is also a very limited amount of dungeons you can still get dungeon outfits from. Now... here comes my great suggestion that would absolutely be a big plus point for Premium membership: We do have a clothing merchant in the game. This person offers outfits and RNG outfit boxes in exchange for Chromatic Threads or Designer Threads. Right now, we have a very limited way of getting these threads... Chromatic Threads can only be bought on the Hongmoon Store (You also need these to recolour cosmetics!) and Designer Threads are especially hard to get without any promotions happening in the Hongmoon Store. Put Chromatic Threads into the Premium tab. There should be two exchange options: 1x Chromatic Thread for 1x Fabric OR 1x Chromatic Thread for 1x High-Quality Fabric. Maybe also consider to add a small gold fee per exchange (5 gold). Put Designer Threads into the Premium tab. There should only be one exchange option: 1x Designer Thread for 1x Fabric AND 1x High-Quality Fabric. The fee per exchange should be around 10-15 gold. This includes some fixes: Making the clothing merchant actually being used more, give people a way to finally obtain Designer Threads, making it a strong selling point for Premium membership. Please, consider this. We need more ways to obtain more cosmetics in the game. It's one of the strongest points this game has. This would be a great start. Obsidian gems We still lack these gems. There is very limited ways to get them and we do need more help with that. All gems except diamonds and obsidians can be acquired by running the Chaos Supply Chain or doing Koldrak. Put a monthly limit of 3 Premium Obsidian Chests into the Premium tab. These would offer a RNG selection of Gilded Square, Gilded Pentagonal and Gilded Hexagonal Obsidians with the highest chance to obtain the Gilded Square variant. You can also consider nerfing this by one tier: Triangular -> Square -> Pentagonal. Scales for upgrades We need ways to exchange older scales for newer scales as they no longer have a purpose in the game. 1x Blackstone -> 1x Elder Scale 1x Silver Scale -> 1x Nocturnal Scale 1x Onyx Scale -> 1x Shimmering Scale I know... this might be a problem for NCSoft with people having stacked up a lot of older scale fragments or scales in general. Consider to add a weekly limit around 20-25 per scale option so people can't dump them in one go and have huge amounts in a matter of minutes. There's need to a balance, this is a good way to start. Soulshield options The current selection of soulshields is very outdated. This need a long overdue change: Remove Fallen Soulshield parts Remove Celestial Soulshield parts Remove Scarlet Soulshield parts Remove Steelbreaker Soulshield parts And add these for a discounted price per item into the Premium tab: Serpent's Den Soulshields for a discounted Twisted Heart price Poharan Soulshields for a discounted Chaos Emblem price ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Many people said to also add True Poharan Soulshields to the premium tab. I disagree with that, unless you put a achievement requirement behind this. This is the current best in slot in the game and it should only be obtainable by doing Stage 5 of Chaos Supply Chain. However if you do add them, require characters to have finished atleast Stage 5 of Chaos Supply Chain in order to obtain them. Also, make these RNG only. They should be harder to obtain than their weaker counterpart. And that's pretty much everything I can give feedback for. I really hope this will be considered and brought to attention with NCSoft. I don't know how much of these suggestions might ever make it into the live game, but I do hope some of then can. Please, strongly consider my point about outfits. I don't know why this is such a overlooked problem when the fashion in this game is one of the most strongest selling points in Blade & Soul. There should be a paid way to obtain more outfits and I think this idea is a great way to start.

I think the only bad thing about this is the actual upgrade chances for the accs. Droprate should not be changed. What do people do after finishing it in 2 days? Right, they sit there, no content and complain yet again that there's nothing to do. The only dungeon that is an exception to this situation is Chaos Supply Chain. Something has to be done here, atleast decrease the costs at the vendor for Soul Shield parts and primers.