Bless Online: The Positives

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Published on June 2, 2018 9:00:13 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEJxnhesDd8

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Bless Online (2018)

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While there's been a lot of talk in the past couple of days about the negative aspects of Bless Online. I decided that in today's video I'd take a look at the better parts of the game. I personally enjoy Bless and I'd like to at least try to change the narrative about it being one of the worst MMO releases in recent history.

To start off with, combat is fun. It flows nicely, there's a certain rhythm to the various chains, and learning when to abandon a chain and switch to a new combo or dance between stances is a really cool feeling. I can definitely feel myself getting more proficient with my class (Ranger) the longer I play.

PvP especially openworld PvP is a lot of fun, the devs are actively balancing for it only a couple days in. Most games these days do not focus on openworld PvP so it's gratifying to see a game where it's not considered a bonus feature to get the hardcore PvP crowd to try the game.

Taming is also a great system. It's fun to tame everything from cute gerbils and marmots to huge wyverns. I can't wait to go tame some giant wyverns and some cute snow leopards :3

One of the best things about Bless is that Neowiz is actively listening and balancing. The game has been out for less than 5 days and there's been a patch every day. On day one Neowiz had new servers up within 2 hours of release and even more went up throughout the day. After making changes to class damage they gave everyone three 1 Lumena skill reset scrolls and they also have allowed transfer of founders pack items to another server for those who want to create characters on the same servers as their friends/guildies. They're also actively communicating and discussing their intent with upcoming patches and addressing player grievances such as shoddy translations in the tutorial and tooltips.

Now I know that the balance patches haven't been perfect, trust me, I'm a Ranger, I am feeling the damage nerfs -.- But Neowiz is trying, they've already stated that they will be making more changes soon to bring classes more in line with each other and to reduce the difficulty of PvP with the changes. And at least they're trying. How many people here can think of a game where certain OP classes or tactics were left in for months. The bruiser meta in League, the Mercy 5 man rez meta or the dive/moth mercy metas in Overwatch. Pretty much any Hearthstone season with an OP deck. Witchzards until about two weeks ago in BDO. Or even the opposite where your favourite class was left in an awful spot for months like Evelyn in League or the Necro in GW2. As long as Neowiz continues to make good changes to the game I think that Bless will be able to become a good game.

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