[ BLADE & SOUL ] Royal Zen Bean - Unlock Skill Achievement (Hongmoon Secret Technique)
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Royal Zen Bean
Purpose of Royal Zen Bean:
Unlock Skill Achievement for last tier of a skill.
ie. Force Master's Inferno Move 2 Tier 5
Royal Zen Bean could be acquire from Dragon Trade Courier NPC or directly from Dragon Express via Inventory UI
Royal Zen Bean in Dragon Express
Royal Zen Bean from Dragon Trade Courier NPC
Royal Zen Bean could be consumed from inventory after purchase and unlock corresponding Skill Achievement.
Highest Tier of skill require allocation of 2 skill points.
[ BLADE & SOUL ] UPGRADE : Weapon Upgrade with Transmute Elements
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Elements for Weapon Upgrade
Upgrade weapons with Transmute Elements is another alternative than using other weapons as offering.
New Elements could be obtained from Item Transmute in Inventory UI.
Transmute Elements requires:
1. Element Powder from salvaging equipments,
2. Fusion Powder from salvaging soul shields, and
3. Soulstones from daily quests or pvp rewards. (purchasable from marketplace)
Pros of using Transmute Elements in upgrading weapons: 1. Better Inventory or Storage Management
Doesn't need to use up inventory or storage slots in stockpiling many offering weapons. Players could just salvage weapons on the spot during questing/dungeons and use the Element Powders to fuse Elements for weapons upgrade later on.
Lower Basic Cost per Element used during upgrade
2. Similar upgrade cost
Despite the transmute cost is consider high that stand around 50 silver per element and require certain amount of Soulstone (5 for each element), its upgrade fee is rather low while using weapons as direct offering cost around 10 silver +/- each and only offer relatively low growth EXP. When factor everything up, both methods' costing are more or less the same.
3. Have a chance to generate a bonus Elder Dragon Element
During the transmute of Elements, have a small chance of generating an additional Elder Dragon Element.
[ BLADE & SOUL ] ITEM : Convert Viridian Valor Stone to Cinderlands Valor Stone
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Viridian Valor Stone
Cinderlands Valor Stone
Location of Wheel of Fate in Yehara's Mirage
Players could convert any excess Viridian Valor Stone to Cinderlands Valor Stone by spinning the Wheel of Fate located beside Coin Exchange Merchant NPC Sujun in Yehara Mirage
Sujun and Wheel of Fate
Cinderlands Valor Stone Trader Sujun
"Try Again" that obtained from wheel could be exchange for additional Viridian Valor Stone with Sujun NPC
Cinderlands Valor Stone Chests that obtained from wheel could be opened for 1-2 Cinderlands Valor Stone
Soul Shields in Blade & Soul serve same function as typical armours in other standard MMORPGs which give additional status points to a characters.
Basic Traits of Soul Shields
1. There are total 8 slots for soul shields and each slots tied to a specific number from #1 to #8 and only the piece of soul shield with that corresponding number is able to be slotted in.
ie. Piece #2 only could be slotted into slot #2 but not others.
2. Soul Shields will give extra status points or buffs when equipped pieces are belonging to same set. Set effects will come into effect when 3 / 5 / 8 pieces of the same set are equipped.
Set effect of Blackram Supply Set
3. Salvaging some trash soul shields will yield Fusion Powder, that is essential to serve as base ingredient for Soul Shield Fusion.
4. If the character did not wear any costume, the effects and status points that given by Soul Shields will not kick in.
Without costume : Reddish Soul Shield Panel Status points and effect inactive
1. A Soul Shield could be enhanced by fusing it with other Soul Shield.
2. Soul Shield Fusion windows could be opened via 'Manage Equipment' sub-menu by clicking on Soul Shield itself.
3. By approximation, 20% - 70% (randomly) of the first secondary status point of the offered Soul Shield will be fused into the base Soul Shield.
3. Offered Soul Shield could be in any piece number.
4. Offering (offered Soul Shield) will vanished after fusion completed.
5. If an enhanced Soul Shield were fused again, it will lose its original bonus and gain the new bonus from its new offering.
EXAMPLE (Click to Enlarge)
Using Blackram Supply Soul Shield #8 as base and Elite Critical Soul Shield #5 as offering will yield an improvised Blackram Supply Soul Shield #8 with additional 40 pts of Critical.
[ Blade & Soul ] Kung Fu Master Tutorial #8 : Meteor Slam
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SKILL DETAIL
1. Skill behaviour of Meteor Slam is similar to Grapple (Tab). Whilst Grapple used to pin opponents at any negative states (stun,daze,knock down, knock back so forth) on ground, Meteor Slam (Tab) serve as air-version Grapple which pin down any airborne target directly from air to ground.
2. Meteor Slam doesn't share the same countdown with Grapple, which means using it will not risking potentially being in the situation that you can't pin down a boss during critical time (as you got Grapple ready). So you can use it at most of the time that you want to.
LB : Ground Pound
2 : Pummel
3. If bosses were airborne by other members, try to spam Meteor Slam (Tab) to pin down the boss and use Ground Pound (LB) then Pummel (2) to buy additional boss down time.
LB : Sky Kick
4. When a boss is stunned but Grapple (Tab) yet to cooldown, KFM can Sky Kick (RB) to airborne the boss and pin it with Meteor Slam (Tab) instantly.
*to have better control on Sky Kick timing, KFM can be built into solo boss stun. Refer to this LINK.
5. Other than using Sky Kick (RB), given the right circumstances, is possible to launch the boss with Smite (F) as well.
[ Blade & Soul ] Kung Fu Master Tutorial #7 : Solo Boss Control (Backstep Kick)
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COMBO SEQUENCE
SS : Backstep
LB : Tiger's Pounce
1. Backstep (SS) to trigger Tiger's Pounce (LB) and immediately kick on boss to inflict first Knock Down counter.
3 : Leg Sweep
2. Follow by Leg Sweep (3) to inflict second Knock Down counter.
Tab : Grapple
LB : Ground Pound
2 : Pummel
3. Grapple (Tab) the boss right after it knocked down, punch it with Ground Pound (LB) once or twice, then follow by Pummel (2) to maximize the down time of boss.
[ Blade & Soul ] Kung Fu Master Tutorial #6 : Solo Boss Control (Sprint Kick)
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COMBO SEQUENCE
1. Sprint toward target, when it come into range less than 16m and more than 6m, LB icon will switch to Swooping Crane. Jump kick and inflict first Knocks Down counter.
2. Right after the first Knock Down counter, immediately Leg Sweep (3) to inflict second Knock Down counter.
3. Grapple (Tab) the boss right after it knocked down, punch it with Ground Pound (LB) once or twice, then follow by Pummel (2) to maximize the down time of boss.
