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Stat customization has been a major element in RPG's for quite sometime now. It allows the players to individualize their characters, increasing their power and making them stand out from the crowd. Maybe you want to sacrifice your mages damage to make him more durable, or your warriors defense for more damage. Maybe you want your archer class to have more melee capabilities, or perhaps you just want to strengthen your core abilities. Well, this is what stat customization is all about! Blade & Soul will have plenty of methods and opportunities to allow its players to customize to their hearts content.
Equipment & Stats
Unlike many other MMORPG's, you'll never have to worry about your characters gear looking terrible in Blade & Soul! You'll actually be able to customize the look of your character as you are not burdened by the necessity of having to wear a specific suit of armor just because it yields the best stats. In fact, your characters entire visual appearance, minus your weapon, has no stat enhancing features what so ever!
No stats on your body armor? You're probably thinking that would leave us with less equipment options and less ways to customize our characters. Fear not! Team Bloodlust left plenty of unique ways to compensate. You can obtain stats from accessories, that being two rings, two earrings and a necklace. You can also acquire stats from their unique Bo-Pae system which provides your character with eight stat slots. That's right, eight whole slots from the Bo-Pae system alone. That totals in at thirteen slots for your characters to obtain stats. These pieces can be acquired through killing enemies and completing quests.
Not having stats on your body armor doesn't mean you can run around naked and still be powerful. You are required to have something equipped in your body slot in order to gain stats from your Bo-Pae pieces, which makes up a significant part of your total stat enhancements. This system of visual customization holds true to martial arts lore; never underestimate your opponent and choose your battles wisely. Just because someone is wearing something you get at level ten doesn't mean that they aren't level cap and sporting top end Bo-Pae pieces and accessories. Always have your guard up and treat every battle like it's a fight for life and death, because it very well could be!
Bo-Pae
The Bo-Pae system consists of eight interchangeable stat item slots. The slots can be found in a pie like structure located in the center of your characters profile tab. Each of the eight pieces contain basic stats for your characters; health, attack power, defense and the like.
Each Bo-Pae piece belongs in a set. Collecting and equipping every piece in a set will unlock further stats and even cause a physical appearance change on your character, making him or her glow. Glowing effects vary depending on the rarity of the Bo-Pae set. Here's an example on how the set bonuses work; each set contains roughly three stat bonuses, collect and equip three pieces in a set to unlock the first, collect five to unlock the second and collect all eight to unlock the final bonus. This leaves room to mismatch sets if you feel the eight piece bonus isn't worth it. For instance, you can collect five pieces of one set and three of another.
Item Breakdown & Bo-Pae Modification
The item breakdown feature in Blade & Soul is used in combination with the Bo-Pae system to obtain further benefits. Throughout the game you'll find yourself collecting many Bo-Pae and weapon pieces that you might not necessarily want to use, either because they are lower level or not the stats you are looking for. Instead of just throwing them away or selling them for chump change, you can break down these not so useful pieces. By breaking them down you turn them into dust. You then use this dust in conjunction with more useful Bo-Pae pieces to further enhance the stats of your current Bo-Pae piece. Through this method of enchantment you can take full potential of the Bo-Pae system to customize your character in any direction you choose.
Weapon Gem Slotting
Gemming in Blade & Soul in fairly simplistic. Currently, only your weapons can be gemmed as they are the only items that have sockets. How many open sockets a weapon has varies depending on the level of the weapon. Lower level weapons generally only have one socket or none at all. Higher level weapons can have up to four sockets for your gemming pleasure. The gems that you insert into the weapons are also color coded for your convenience. Purple is critical strike, green is evasion, red is damage, and so on. How powerful these gems actually get is currently unknown. We'll just have to wait for CBT2 and see what we find!
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