Incidentally, the fact that standard fights had me doing more than just one combo string started to make the Assassin feel both daunting and rewarding. I was having Blade and Soul NEO Classic Divine Gems some brain whirring moments when I would completely forget what buttons to hit or I would mess up the timing, but then I would also zero in and focus and start to slowly puzzle my way through it all. I hadn’t really felt a comb-heavy buttons-per-minute MMO class like this since pretty much every class in Black Desert. It really started to open my eyes.
That’s not to say that I’m suddenly really digging into this game overall. I am still absolutely abusing the “F” key in order to skip all of this game’s dialogue at breakneck pace, and the game’s “world” still feels like a series of small maps connected by tunnels on a very guided path. Themepark MMOs are often my preference, but hooooo boy is this one uninteresting.
It’s a good thing, then, that the Assassin’s skills and the ramping up of combat in general is still enough to keep me pushing through because there really isn’t much to Blade and Soul NEO otherwise. Fighting might be its only sauce, but hot damn is it a tangy sauce.
I actually have an option available to me. For the most part I’ve been playing alone in a crowd, bar incessant party invites from bot accounts over and over enough that I had to turn on auto-decline. But I’m now at a point when I can get into a dungeon run or two provided I can find a party to join at the times that I’m able to play this cheap BnS NEO Divine Gems game, anyway.