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Blade & Soul Legendary Update Preview
Team Bloodlust has a Legendary update coming for us this month. New dungeons, PvP 1v1 duels and much more await us this holiday season. Word has it that Team Bloodlust may even be dropping in a new tier of item quality for us, hence the "Legendary" update name. You'll find the official update preview translated below the cut off.

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The Legend
One who finds the secret of the legend will become truly legendary in the world of Blade & Soul. The Frozen Warehouse, Port Blood Shark and the long awaited Spiral Labyrinth! The secrets of the legendary weapon lies within these dungeons. Prepare yourselves!

The Frozen Warehouse
Port Blood Shark now takes a whole new form during the night. When the darkness covers the Port, the spirits of the members of the Choong-Gak Crew roam the port without even realizing that they are no longer of the living. The dead can no longer recognize friend from foe and will attack any living thing that they come in contact with. For that reason the Choong-Gak crew never leave their quarters during the night and thanks to the dead they don’t really need anyone on patrol. There is only one building that is lit up during this dark hour and that is the mysterious Frozen Warehouse. The warehouse emits such a cold air that not even the dead dare to roam close to it. Mysteriously, inside you will hear yelling, like someone is training martial arts along with screeching noises of machines and cogs, ticking and tocking. You will soon find out who or what is inside this Frozen Warehouse.

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The Spiral Labyrinth
Inside the ancient ruins a mysterious labyrinth finally reveals itself. There’s a legend indicating there’s something mysterious hidden within the lowest floor of the ruins. Many enter hoping to find this mysterious treasure. The invaders are met by the Guardians of the spiral labyrinth and they will also meet many traps along the way to make the journey all the more treacherous. It is now up to you and your allies to challenge the Labyrinth to find out what is truly below its surface.

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Night Time at Port Blood Shark
What would be different when you challenge the Port during the night? You will be met with different bosses and challenges as you try to conquer the Port once again during a time of darkness.

Tower of Mushin, the God of Kung Fu; The 8th Floor Revealed.
Finally, the 8th floor of the Tower has been added! Those of you who had reached the 8th Floor after defeating Jung Ha-Do will be met with the one and only Mushin Chun Jin-Kwon. Don’t celebrate just yet, many challenges of the Mushin awaits you in the future.


The Duel
Players can finally meet at the Hong-Moon School to duel each other to test each other’s skills. Challenge your skill and your foes to earn experiences and other various rewards. Dueling is available for all players.

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Update (11/07/2012 - 10:16am PST)
The winners have been announced!
Check the Official Blade & Soul Facebook Page to find out what awesome costumes won.


Update (10/31/2012 - 11:59pm PDT)
The Blade & Soul Halloween Costume Contest has concluded!
Entries from this point on will not be eligible for the prizes.


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Hey guys! We all know NCSoft's Blade & Soul is coming to the west and they want to give their fans some epic loot to get the most out of their incredible game. With Halloween coming up fast, what better way to do that than with a costume contest!?

Blade & Soul has some of the most imaginative design in gaming to date and we want to see what its fans can come up with. So, the Dojo and NCSoft's Blade & Soul West have teamed up with AMD and SteelSeries to reward our best entries with some awesome swag!

The contest will run until October 31st 2012 at 11:59 PM PDT and is only open to U.S. residents.
Contest rules & details.


How To Enter
Simply submit a picture of yourself, or someone you know, wearing a costume that you designed and constructed. You are limited to only that of your imagination and the Blade & Soul universe. Once you have your entry ready, reply to this post and upload your photo URL by using the Posted Image media tag located above the post editor. You can also directly upload your photo by attaching your file(s) to your post entry, you can find the "Click To Attach Files" button below the post editor.

Please be aware that immoral or obscene images will not be accepted. That is to say, keep it PG-13. We also reserve the right to void any entries we deem unacceptable or any entries that we believe have tampered with the security or fairness of this contest.

Prizes
We will be rewarding the top three contestants with gaming gear from AMD and SteelSeries. The winners will be announced on the Official Blade & Soul Facebook page on November 7th! The winners will be selected and contacted by Curse via the email registered to their Bladeandsouldojo.com account and given details on how to claim their prize prior to November 7th.


Get the full list of contest details by clicking here, including eligibility, entry requirements, and other details.

If you have any questions or concerns please private message Revast. We would like to wish everyone the best of luck and a wickedly fun Halloween! We look forward to seeing your Blade & Soul costumes!
Update - The official Western Blade & Soul site has updated their media section with new screenshots and wallpapers. Check it out!

October 4th Patch Notes
A new major patch was released today for Blade & Soul (KR). This is just the start of whats to come for the last few remaining months of 2012. Be sure to check out the 7 Waves Update preview if you didn't catch that last week.

Points of Interest
  • The "Closet" is a new feature that allows you to store your clothes and accessories.
  • The Closet will start you off with 24 available slots. You may unlock up to 56 slots, though the price to unlock rows will gradually increase.
  • You can now enable a feature that alerts you when your daily quest has been reset.
  • You can now redesign your character after purchasing a "Customization Ticket" from the cash shop.
  • Added a feature that allows you to save the customization settings of a character and reapply them to another character.
  • You can now compare how big your character is to other races via a silhouette in character customization.
  • New backgrounds and camera angles have been added in character customization.
  • Several new customization elements and sliders have been added to each race and gender throughout character customization.
  • Jin Males received 3 new hair styles and Gon Males received 4 new hair styles.

Below you'll find the full translated patch notes.

October 4th Patch Notes
Source | Translated by Yuan.

Combat & Skills
Blade Master
  • Fixed a skill description error of Flying Sword skill saying it would be usable during the Summoned Sword state.
  • Fixed the animation glitch where it won’t display your character getting up if you used the “Block” skill while knocked down.
  • Fixed the skill bug of Tier 4 “Guardian Spirit” giving enemies an immune when they were within the skill range.
  • When you learn the Tier 5 of the “Spin Slash” talent the tooltip will now properly display you gain 7 Chi when you hit an enemy

Kung-Fu Master
  • Tier 6 of the skill “Landslide” will now recover 15% health instead of the previous 5%.
  • Targets hit by the Tier 1 of the skill “Choke” will now properly gain a “Unconscious” debuff.
  • Fixed the tooltip issue of Tier 4 Talent of the skill “Hidden Punch” saying it gives 15 second of critical hit chance buff when it is actually 1.5 seconds.
  • You can now use the skill “Escape” when you are unconscious.

Force Master
  • You can no longer use the skill Tier 2 of “Freeze Finger / Frost Finger” on an enemy that is in the air.
  • Your “Back Roll” skill’s cooldown will now show on your buff icon and will countdown until it is available again.
  • Fixed the bug of your Tier 1 “Ice Flower” curing both enemy and your ally’s unconscious state.

Assassin
  • Tier 2 of the “Smoke Grenade” talent will now recover more health in its AOE area, also lowering the cooldown of the skill to 24 from 45 seconds.
  • You can now properly teleport to your teleport Ward skill while under the effect of “Stealth”.
  • The skill “Heart Jab” skill now animates faster also it causes a shorter global cooldown.

Destroyer
  • When you learn the Tier 1 ~ 3 Talent of the skill “Iron Wall” you will now gain the increased 40% of your health healed.
  • When you learn the Tier 1 & Tier 3 of the “Iron Wall talentl your cooldown will be increased to 30 seconds.
  • When you learn the Tier 2 of the “Iron Wall” talent your cooldown will be increased to 45 seconds.
  • When you learn the Tier 3 of the “Kick” talent and if your skill causes an enemy the unconscious state you will gain an icon showing the time left to “Reuse” the skill.

Summoner
  • If you change your summon’s mode to “Follow” mode it will lose interest in its current target and follow the summoner.
  • Tier 5 of the “Flower Pollens” skill will now recover 20% of the health instead of the 5%.
  • Tier 6 of the “Flower Pollens” skill will now recover 100% of your Chi instead of the 50%.
  • When you learn Tier 5 & 6 of the “Flower Pollens” skill your cooldown of that skill will decrease to 24 seconds from 45 seconds.
  • Blade Master will be no longer to deflect the summoner’s takedown skill.
  • Fixed the debuff icon tooltip of the Tier 1 “Retreat” skill to properly display that it is display the cooldown time left on the skill.
  • Tier 6 of “Foxtail” skill will now properly knock back enemies when used during “down, groggy, unconscious, chi choked, dominated or submissioned”.

NPC
  • If you kill a “Corrupted Spider” you will now gain a Large Heroic Medal instead of a Small Heroic Medal.

Dungeon
Dungeon > Heroic Dungeon > Port Blood Shark
  • Toxic Man eating Serpent’s health was decreased.
  • Toxic Man eating Serpent’s “Poison Nova” skill will no longer stack up to 3 times and now will not stack at all.
  • Chung-Rang and Hong-Rang’s damages were decreased.
  • The game will properly kill off both Chung-Rang and Hong-Rang if you kill one of them when the other is Chi Meditating.
  • Chung-Rang and Hong-Rang will no longer be able to Chi Meditate when being submissioned, chi choked or dominated.
  • Hae Moo-Jin’s damages were decreased.
  • Phase 4 of the Hae Moo-Jin’s fight when he used the skill “Craze Winds” it will no longer deflect attacks.

Items
  • Eating “Small Vege Dumpling” now properly shows on the combat log.
  • The inventory will now play a proper sound effect when moving the items “Pirate’s Loot”, “Pirate King’s Symbol”.

Party & Community
  • Once you register your party in the “Party Finder” and select someone as a party leader, you will no longer receive messages from people who wants to join.

Interface
Closet
  • You will now also be able to access the “Closet” from the same NPC who let you access your storage.
  • You will gain 24 slots in total and unlock up to 56 more slots.
  • The cost of the slots gets progressively more expensive.
  • You can store “Clothes, cloth accessories, head accessories, face accessories, summon’s clothes, summon’s headpiece and summon’s accessories” in the closet.
  • You can use the “auto arrange” features in the closet just like the storage.
  • You can also separate them by their categories with the radio button on the bottom of the window.

Settings
  • You can now enable a feature that alerts you when your daily quest has been reset.
  • Fixed the bug of “Auto detect” feature showing in other areas other than the graphics tab.

Chatting Window
  • You can now set the opacity of the chatting window to 100.
  • When you press the “reset” button it will completely reset all the tabs in your chat window.

Gathering & Crafting
  • You will now be able to leave an organization even if they are in the middle of handling your request.
  • Lumberjack organization will now show you where you can find some “Zelkova” trees.

System
Appearance Change
  • You can now redesign your character after purchasing a "Customization Ticket" with a button that is integrated within the character select screen.
  • If you want to customize your character you need to purchase a “Customization Ticket” from the cash shop.
  • There’s now an “Appearance” tab in the photo journal.
  • You can press the “Save Appearance” to save the settings of your character’s appearance.
  • You can press the “Apply Appearance” to implement the saved appearance on your character.
  • The saved appearances will be stored My Documents\Pictures\BnS\CharacterCustomize as the file “race_gender_Date_number.jpg”

Character Customization
  • Jin males got 3 more hair styles and Gon males got 4 more hair styles.
  • You can now select different backgrounds and camera angles.
  • You can now compare how big your character is compared to other races via a silhouette.
  • The outfits you try on will now disaply outfits in this order: Undergarment - Lawful League – Demon Cult – Autumn Leaves – Proof of Event – Racial outfit
  • Some areas of the sliders were increased in its min max range.
  • All races will now be able to change how big their head is and their height.
  • Kuns will be able to adjust their shoulder size, length of their thighs as well as their calves, height of their eye brows, eye shape, eye width, distance between the eyes and shape of the bridge of their nose.
  • Gon males will be able to adjust their shoulder width, shoulder size, length of calves, eye size, eye shape and width of the bridge of their nose.
  • Gon females will be able to adjust their shoulder size, feet size, length of their thighs and calves, eye brow height, eye width and the distance between the eyes.
  • Lyn males will be able to adjust their neck length, shoulder width, thigh width, thigh length, calf length, upper body size, eyebrow height and eye width.
  • Lyn Females will be able to adjust their neck length, shoulder width, shoulder size, thigh length, calf length, upper body size, eyebrow height and eye width.
  • Jin males will be able to adjust their shoulder width, shoulder size, arm length, waist width, thigh length, calf length, eyebrow height, eye shape, eye width and eye to eye distance.
  • Jin female will be able to adjust their shoulder size, thigh length, calf length, eyebrow angle, eye size, eye shape and eye width.
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Blade & Soul 7 Waves Update
Team Bloodlust has just revealed Blade & Soul's future with a preview of their upcoming 7 Waves Update. Thes series of updates will brings along new and redesigned dungeons, PvP battlegrounds, a cross-server party finder and a new class.


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Content Summary
  • 1st Wave - The Sea Snake Supply Basement Dungeon Redesign
  • 2nd Wave - New Solo Dungeon, The Tower of Mushin
  • 3rd Wave - Cross-server party (dungeon) finder. Cross-server party invites
  • 4th Wave - New randomized dungeon, The Spiral Labyrinth
  • 5th Wave - 36v36 PvP instanced battlefield
  • 6th Wave - 1v1 Cross-server battleground
  • 7th Wave - New Class, the Lyn Blade Master

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1st Wave - The Sea Snake Supply Basement Dungeon Redesign
The first update will contain a complete redesign of one of the end-game dungeons, the Sea Snake Supply Basement. The dungeon will be revamped and re-sized into a 24 player field dungeon. The new Dungeon will be called Stormy Sea Snake Supply Basement. Similar to the open world bosses found around the world of Blade & Soul, the bosses of the new dungeon will drop at least one token for everyone to use on a near by Loot Wheel for a chance to win a weapon, Bo-Pae and armor. According to the development team the bosses of the newly revamped dungeon will be significantly harder then your average world boss.

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2nd Wave - New Solo Dungeon, The Tower of Mushin
After all the positive feedback that surrounded solo dungeons Team Bloodlust will be releasing a brand new solo dungeon for the second wave. This new dungeon, The Tower of Mushin, will increase in difficulty as you progress higher through the tower. You'll need to be on top of your game in order to progress through this challenging dungeon. The equipment rewarded towards the end of the dungeon will rival that of the equipment found in end-game multiplayer dungeons.

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3rd Wave - Cross-server party (dungeon) finder. Cross-server party invites
A new cross-server party matchmaking system will be released with the third update. This will allow you to find groups significantly faster for the various party oriented content. You'll also be able to invite friends from other servers to your party before you enter the queue.

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4th Wave - New randomized dungeon, The Spiral Labyrinth
The fourth update will appeal to the randomized dungeon crawling fans out there. This update will contain a new end-game dungeon called the Spiral Labyrinth. The dungeon will contain three floors of randomized content such monsters, bosses, floors and loot. Players will need to be prepared to expect the unexpected as they progress through this Labyrinth.

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5th Wave - 36v36 PvP instanced battlefield
The fifth update will be introducing the first instanced PvP battlefield, the Naryu Crystal Battlefield. This battlefield will feature a large instanced battlefield for 72 players (32 for each faction) to duke it out and conquer. The first to destroy the enemy teams base wins. Players will be able to solo queue or group queue for this battlefield. The battlefield will contain quests and will reward PvP loot.

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6th Wave - 1v1 Cross-server battleground
Team Bloodlust isn't holding out on us PvP fans. The sixth update will contain a cross-server one vs. one battle ground. The battle ground will feature a match making system that pairs you up with opponents of a similar PvP rank.

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7th Wave - New Class, the Lyn Blade Master
The seventh and final update will contain the anticipated 7th class, the Lyn Blade Master. Don't get this class confused with the already established Blade Master. The Lyn Blade Master will have a completely new set of skills, along with some old favorites from the original class. A variety of AoE's, stuns and an all new force grab - not to be confused with the Force Master's grab - will be at your disposal as a Lyn Blade Master. You'll even be able to grab bosses, something Force Masters haven't even mastered yet!

This class will be fairly easy to master compared to the original Blade Master and other classes in Blade & Soul according to the development team. It will also wield a new type of sword, so no need to worry about these little guys stealing your weapons, Blade Masters.

Be sure to check out the video posted above for a glimpse at the new class in action.
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What do you think of Blade & Soul's PvP system?

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    Percentage of vote: 37.22%

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    Percentage of vote: 16.47%

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