The Blade & Soul website has been updated with some more info on the game, this time ye 'ole skill trees. From the looks of it, each skill can be dustomized by using a tree, and the game will come packed with a few pre-set plans for those who aren't ready to fully customize their character.

Through training, effort, and perseverance, a martial artist hones the skills of their style—their class. These skills vary greatly from class to class, and through the wielder’s wisdom and preparation, their individual style is defined. The skills a martial artist applies themselves to can be focused upon, improved, and increased in power and impact. And by specializing one’s focus, even those of the same class can call upon vastly different abilities.

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Skills are customizable at any time out of combat, encouraging martial artists to focus their attention on improving skills for different situations. Skill choices can also be saved, as there’s an opportunity to unlock additional pages in the skill book to save individual builds to swap between at-will. You could, for example, have one build to balance damage and survivability for adventuring alone, and another that’s more attuned to supporting other players in a world PvP setting.

How you choose to customize your skills is up to you, but recommendations on builds that work well for your class are also provided, for those who prefer to purely focus on combat.

If you care, you can customize, if you don't you can select a preprogrammed build, otherwise you're going to be able to basically assign talents per skill, which is rather awesome. Full details are on the official site.

Blade & Soul is coming soon, it's a martial arts MMO that has had a lot of players salviating for awhile to get it over here in North America / the west, with it having been out in the east for awhile now. Hopefully we'll be able to get our hands on it soon, until then though, these updates give us a peek at how the game is going to run.


To read the latest guides, news, and features you can visit our Blade & Soul Game Page.

Last Updated: Mar 14, 2016

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