So what do you think of bless?

Well some cents maybe a Euro about bless:

The general game seems to do its thing but it isn’t some revolutionary nor has Bless astounding features to boost with. The game itself is solid, makes fun PvE and PvP wise. The devs updated the game in a good amount of time to introduce and deliver common features so I have my hopes high that they continue to work on Bless.

The class system – while the general idea is nice the situation is as always – you have one or two major skill builds. If you vary from them greatly you may or may not screw your build up with not harmonizing skills, etc. This goes as far as I would say that certain classes have a fixed build with at least 5 to 6 out of 8 active skills, at least 2 passive skills as well as the matching core skills. This is by far not bad because but also takes away a unique note. However the other side is that some core skills also require 3 to 4 basic skills but the rest is up to you which is nice so it’s more or less evenly distributed. I also like the limitation of skills (could be 1 or 2 more skills but well) since I really hate to have 6 rows of skill icons and skill chain macros and w.e.

Regarding PvE – I have to say that PvE wise the dungeons make fun but aside from that the game isn’t really offering any variety or so. Maybe with the Royal Quests there will be a new change of pace. The Monster Kill Quest are just pure grinding and don’t really make fun at all. Regarding the Mounts, Servants and Pets – I do like the fact that you can tame nearly any mount but they should add the option that you can tame Boss mobs and Field Bosses since some of them have a really nice design and it would be a waste to not have them. Also I would like to see more pet skills (aside from the exp, gold drop, pvp exp and exploration point raise – for example class specific stat unities like increase str/wis for Paladins or so) and also to be able to sell them so you can actually make a profession out of it (taming rare pets with good skills and sell them).


PvP wise I have to say that in general the classes are way more balanced than I have thought. I wouldn’t welcome a PvE server setting as it creates more problems than it solves or completely dumb down the game to a point where I have to ask why people even play it. Also with Royal Quests probably rewarding gems I don’t see a problem with actually buying the Peace Items from the store. Also keep it in mind since items like these exists a PvE server would completely question the existence of these items.

About the Siege of Strasbourg (100 vs 100 BG)/Arena – in general I would prefer to get a similar system to Aion where you can also level up your PvP rank by killing other players in the open world. This already works but the Rank exp per kill is so low that it isn’t really funny. Since death doesn’t decrease your Rank exp it wouldn’t be that bad to raise the open world rank exp gain and leave the Siege of Strasbourg to 1 or 2 times daily (like the Dregion in Aion). The world bosses which I’d call PvPvE are a complete joke (to me) as they come with their own instanced area. Portal camping at its finest as well as limiting the player number to 200 is basically taking away a very big feature I would have like as an real open world pvp feature. Aside from that the world bosses are a joke itself since it’s nothing more than “do 1 or 2 skills, evade, die, run to the portal, run the boss, do 1 or 2 skills, die again”. As melee it’s horrible. As ranged it may go well. As a 5 man paladin group you can survive a good amount of time but ultimately will die also. Basel


Gorge was a nice way to introduce more open world pvp and it makes fun. However as already stated – tweaking to get it right. Gear wise it is pretty easy to get good gear (without the daily login rewards) in a good amount of time and the difference between medicore and better gear is there and you can actually feel it but the difference isn’t an obstacle you cannot overcome. That and lag…. but well…. KR games.


About the content itself – well it is a nice setting as well as showing off each factions view onto each other and so on. Story telling is done in a nice way. I would like to see some more and better / more flashy looking armors and/or costumes.

The game itself is nice but lacks some stronger colors as well as some textures sometimes feel a little unfinished while other areas are incredible. The open world aspect (no borders) is nice but it feels really wasted somehow. I mean I miss the illegal farm hunting from ArcheAge or something like that. Maybe player housing with attackable houses? or building up own forts? would be nice to see a little player freedom in these kind of things.

On other terms the game is like Tera – heavily not optimized and there are still many tweaks to get it run better.

Feel free to disagree

sure otherwise I wouldn't spent my time here it heavily depends on the business model they go with as well as their cash shop setup. If they continue the ArcheAge path - I'll drop the game or continue in KR.

Just want to say that Bless isn't the holy grail but isn't a fail either. Something in between - being a solid game with some flaws which I see and acknowledge but also it's positive features which should be also focused. I'm just sick and tired of hypes and folllowing fails. Aion, Tera, ArcheAge (what I played serious recently) all had their hype trains and whiteknights.

I guess there will be TV commercials - as you said mainly on pro7 though I never bothered choosing a game from a TV commercial (I think the only case was final fantasy crystal chronicles).

Another thing I have to mention is the guild system. This could be a thing which get's criticized when it the launch draws nearer. The maximum capacity of players early on should be adjusted to idk... 20 people or increase the capacity every level by 10 or so.

maximum capacity on the early guild levels. lvl 1 = 10 and lvl lv 3 = 30 is a little low. I'd say either increase lvl 1 to 30 and leave it till guild lvl 5 or decrease the exp cost for lvl 1 to 3.

Other than that the guild system should be fine (in terms of leveling)