BLADE & SOUL: BLADE MASTER GUIDE
- by Trinity
- Mar 18, 2016
- 3 min read
Blade Master's one of class is most power full on PvP and best tanking in the game. A sword represents balance, and the Blade Master (BM) is the embodiment of an all-rounded class in Blade & Soul Online.
Being both offensive and defensive, Blade Master has good synergy with any class including blade masters themselves, above average disables and great mobility.
Introduction
Blade Master is easily the most popular class in Blade & Soul Online.Appearance-wise/race-wise available as humans, relatable-looks,sexy/handsome, or as kuns, slender elegant elf-like ladies.
Among the weapons, swords are quite possibly the coolest looking weapons rivaled only by the bad-ass axes, no matter which tier of gear you look at.
In terms of controls they are not extremely demanding like kungfu master yet not overly simplistic like summoners, offering a depth of gameplay that keeps players challenged.
The first class I played was a Blade Master, since late 2013 until now and allow me to share my two(ten)cents on end-game Blade Master gameplay.
Overview
Role of a Blade Master:Front-liner, Aggro-holder, Party protection,”Tanker” Sub roles: DPSer(aka adc),blocker, disabler
When you are a blade master, you are the center of the team, taking/tanking all the damage at melee range so the glass cannons are safe from a distance while assassins and the other melees are behind the boss, safe from frontal attacks.
What is tank? How do blade masters tank?
Unlike other classes or other games, the term tank in Blade & Soul does not refer to brainlessly taking damage and resiliently surviving. Instead, BnS’s tank refers to holding aggro, keeping the boss’s target on oneself and obviously survive being the target because no boss is going to continue attacking a dead target.
One of Blade master’s signature moves and the BEST tanking skill, is Block. Do not underestimate this seemingly basic skill because it is godlike in defense. Lasting 4 seconds with a CD of only 1 second, you will not “run out of block”.Blocking will greatly reduce if not negate all damage while you block skills with a yellow area (blockable skills).
Along with the bread and butter “iFrame” default skills Q,E,SS to resist skills with a red area (unblockable skills). This refers to invulnerable frame where the player completely ignores damage and disables. Blade masters also have 3 other unique iframe skills : Multislash (2), Five Point Strike (3), Cyclone (LB).
Other than blocking and iframing, Blade masters have one other skill to aid in being a tank, Warding Spirit(X). It offers not only protection from projectile(range attacks) but also 15% damage reduction. The downside is that it is only available during casting of heaven blade, which has a default CD of 60 sec.
PVP
I’m sure a lot of players like the idea of pvp. So here’s what I can say about Blade Masters’ PVP aspect.
With regards to other classes, ease-of-use, skill-balance, Blade Master is generally regarded as a lower-tier PVP class. Combos are not as straightforward as other classes and controls are demanding when you need to react fast against a human opponent. Most other classes also do not need much knowledge of other classes in order to beat them. For example, summoners are ranged attackers and more often worries about how to blast you down, than about what skills to look out for in other classes. Assassins don’t have to care much about what class you are, their game doesn’t change, get stealth, cut you up.
However, once you have truly mastered Blade master and have known thyself and thy enemies, you will be Stageidable in PVP. Currently, a huge majority of lower ranked players are Blade masters and Kung Fu masters, since these 2 are hardest to learn and use in PVP, followed by a lot of intermediate Force masters, assassins, blade dancer, then most summoners and warlocks can easily get to higher ranks. In the more advanced ranks you will see a lot of blade dancer, destroyer, summoner, warlock. But at the very highest end you will start to see a little more Blade master, Kungfu master, Force master.
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PVE
This will be what this guide is mostly about, and my area of expertise anyways.
I will be listing:
Blade master basics: What to know about Blade masters
Skill faq: not just what appears on text, but how they are like in-game, special things to note, the practical usage of certain skills.
Tanking/Aggro-holding: How to do this and its importance.
DPS analysis: elaborates on the damage each skill does while taking into account CD, special conditions, comparisons with other classes.
DPS optimization: How to maximize the damage you do in any given amount of time or situation.
Boss/Dungeon Specifics: What a BM needs to know in different situations and dungeons.
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