Journey North and unfold the story of Act XII. Venture to unexplored lands starting March 22nd. For more details on what's awaiting check out our Patch Notes below:

Blade & Soul 18.0 Patch Notes

General

Zen Archer "Way of the Thunderstrike" Skill Specialization

• • This new skill specialization is now available to all Zen Archer's who have completed ‘Legacy of the Hongmoon Clan’ quest.

New Field: Northern Continent

• Exploration Journal - A new chapter has been opened.

  • Explore Northern Continent, and strengthen yourself with ‘Exploration Journal’.

  • Collection, Soulmate, kills, story, and Bigyung are available from Exploration Journal.

  • Exploration Journal will be shared across all characters.

  • This new system will provide rewards step by step throughout the process.

• Field Boss
  • Dragon Pulse is created in front of Elder Birch of Plinth Valley and will lead to Wildwill Den.
    • Alarm will reach out to you in two ways, 5 minutes before, and the moment the Dragon Pulse is created.
    • The Dragon Pulse will maintain for 5 minutes.
    • When the Dragon Pulse disappears, the door to Wildwill Den will open.
  • Field Boss ‘Hamann’ will spawn in ‘Wildwill Den’. Defeat ‘Hamann’ and get one of three treasures. (Hamann Treasure, Hamann Elite Treasure, or Hamann Prime Treasure)
    • Field Boss ‘Hamann’ will disappear 30 minutes after spawning, regardless of whether it is in combat or not.
    • Dragon Pulse will appear if Hamann is defeated, or 30 minutes elapsed after Hamann is spawned.
    • 10 minutes after Dragon Pulse appeared, characters inside ‘Wildwill Den’ will be moved outside.

Spawn timetable	Dragon Pulse timetable
Mon/Tue/Wed/Thur	1:30 / 19:30 / 22:30
Fri/Sat/Sun	1:30 / 13:30 / 16:30 / 19:30 / 22:30

• • • ‘Hamann’ quest ‘Notice: Recruiting for Ghoul Tree Hunger Expedition Unit’
      • Able to receive by letter from Quest Journal after completing Act 12 Chapter 8
• New System: Wanted
  • Hunt down target NPC, and get ‘Northern continent Honor Coin’ as exchange.
    • This system opens once you complete Act 12 Chapter 3.
    • The NPCs from Wanted vary, and will reset on 06:00 AM every Wednesday. 
• New Epic quest ‘Act XII: The Northern Red Moon’
  • New quest ‘Act XII: The Northern Red Moon’ updated
    • Interlude: Branch of Chaos’ must be completed to proceed.

• Achievements

  • 21 new achievements added for ‘Northern Continent’ 

• Shop 

  • Visit Ajanara Monastery > ‘Docheobi’ and check 25 new ‘Northern Territory’ paintings in sale.

  • ‘Bounty Coin Exchange Merchant Gillyu’ is in Northern Territory > Central Commerce District.

    • Check all items exchangeable with ‘Northern Continent Honor Coin’.

Events

Hunger Expedition

• Duration: March 22nd - April 19th 

• Reward Redemption Period: April 19th - May 24th

• Accumulate Earth Coins through defeating Field Boss Hunger and spinning the Earth Prize Wheel by and completing the "Recruiting for Ghoul Tree Hunger Expedition Unit" quest.

• Exchange Earth Coins at the Dragon Express

Name	Restrictions	Limit	Exchange Item
Bounty Painting Chest	Account	30	x3 Earth Coin
Abyssal Throne Painting Chest	Account	30	x5 Earth Coin
Abyssal Throne High Quality Painting Chest	Account	20	x7 Earth Coin
Mysterious Northern Continent Imprint Chest	Account	50	x3 Earth Coin
Northern Continent Guardian Gem Chest	Account	5	x10 Earth Coin
Premium Special Quaint Stone Chest	Character	3	x5 Earth Coin
Premium Special Vitality Stone Chest	Character	3	x5 Earth Coin
Gilded Square Garnet	Account	3	x10 Earth Coin
Gilded Square Obsidian	Account	3	x10 Earth Coin
Bound Sterling Crystal	Account	2 [weekly]	x4 Earth Coin
Sacred Vial	Account	2 [weekly]	x4 Earth Coin
Pet Pack	Account	2 [weekly]	x2 Earth Coin
Stigma Crystal Fragment	Account	2 [weekly]	x2 Earth Coin
Synthesis Stone	Account	2 [weekly]	x8 Earth Coin
Oculus Stone Fragment	Character	50 [weekly]	x4 Earth Coin
Upsurge Essence	-	-	x2 Earth Coin
Radiant Starcross Stone Fragment	-	-	x1 Earth Coin
Shadowed Starcross Stone Fragment	-	-	x1 Earth Coin
Skystealer Crystal	-	-	x1 Earth Coin

Events that are ending

• The 7th anniversary event.
  • Removed exchange item in ‘Dragon Express Festival’
  • ‘Shrouded Ajanara Hard Growth Pass Ticket’ is now replaced as antique, or as outdated.
• Hongsil’s Secret Storehouse
  • Removed ‘Chocolate’, the event item from Hongsil’s Secret Storehouse.

Dungeons

New mythical dungeon ‘Abyssal Throne’ 

• New mythical dungeon ‘Abyssal Throne’ is now in Dasari Palace.
• ‘Abyssal Throne’ located in ‘Blackmoon Sanctum’ in Dasari Palace. 
• Below quest must be preceded to enter Blackmoon Sanctum.
  • Complete ChimeraLab – Letter from Choi Jina
• Here is the entry condition for ‘Abyssal Throne’

Entry condition - Level 60
Daily Quest	NPC	Location
Deep Passage	Jengyo	Dasari Palace > Black moon Sanctum Cross-Server Dungeon > Abyssal Throne lobby
Attraction quest - Vessel versus Vessel

• Demonsbane
  • ‘Abyssal Throne’ is now in Demonsbane tab.
  • Demonsbane gimmick added in ‘Abyssal Throne’ from each stage.
    • Demonsbane gimmick will change weekly.

• Quest
  • Observe new story of ‘Abyssal Throne’ by completing ‘Letter from Choi Jina’, ‘Strange move’, and ‘Deep Passage’.
    • The new quests are available after completing side story of ‘ChimeraLab’.
    • Daily and Attraction quest is still available even if the side story isn’t complete.

• Challenge
  • ‘Deep Passage’ added in Daily challenge.

Cross-Server dungeon > Cross-Server Lobby

• Changed the dungeon category displayed from Cross-Server Lobby.

Before			After
Easy	Normal	Hard	Easy	Normal	Hard
Namdo Shrine	Namdo Shrine	Namdo Shrine	Alter of the Infinite	Alter of the Infinite	Alter of the Infinite
Hall of Trials	Hall of Trials	Hall of Trials	Namdo Shrine	Namdo Shrine	Namdo Shrine
Substratum	Substratum	Substratum	Hall of Trials	Hall of Trials	Hall of Trials
Cold Storage			Cold Storage
Heaven’s Mandate			Heaven’s Mandate

Level/Difficulty adjustments

• ‘Altar of the Infinite’ is now a Heroic Dungeon, it was a Demonsbane Dungeon.
• The stage levels for ‘Altar of the Infinite’ are replaced with ‘Easy/Normal/Hard’.
• ‘Substratum’ dungeon now can be entered via world.
  • Can enter through Moonwater Plains > Zaiwei.
• Rewards acquired from quest, bonus, and boss for ‘Altar of the Infinite’, ‘Substratum’ have been adjusted.

Prize Wheel

• In ‘Abyssal Throne Cross-Server Dungeon’ lobby, Prize Wheel for ‘Abyssal Throne’ has been placed.
  • Use ‘Abyssal Throne Prize Wheel Ticket’ 1ea to use.

Abyssal Throne Prize Wheel Items

Oculus Stone Fragment 5ea bundle

Abyssal Throne Insignia Chest

Abyssal Throne Attribute Stone Selection Chest

Oculus Bonus Skycell

[Oculus] Heroic Dungeon Bonus Skycell

[Darkweald] Hourglass

5-Upsurge Essence Bundle

Saon’s Grand Psyche

• ‘Oculus Attribute Stone Chest’, and ‘Oculus Psyche Chest’ is now outdated.
• Oculus Prize Wheel from Cross-Server Dungeon Lobby for Chimera Lab, Grim Nexus, and Chaos Supply Chain are maintained.

General Changes

• Dungeon/Battleground Lobby now shows speech box.
• Dungeon/Battleground Lobby now allows to use Social Actions.
  • There are some exceptions which a few social action cannot be used.

Skills

Attributes 

• ‘Debuff Defense’ has been revised in ‘Character info’.
• The damage equation has been changed for ‘Debuff Damage’ and ‘Debuff Defense’.
  • When attacking target under Debuff status, minimum 125% of damage will be inflicted.

Common Skills

• Restraining skills are not usable to target under break status.
• ‘Bonus damage to target inflicted with Cursed Poison effect’ has been corrected Precipice/Zenith/Meridian/Dawnbright Mystic Badge ‘

Destroyer

• Tooltip ‘Movement Speed increase during Willpower’ added to Stone Breaker/Reaper > ‘Typhoon’, ‘Executer’.
• Debuff icon tooltip for Reaper > ‘Scar’ has been fixed similar to actual effect given.
• Damage for Iron Will > ‘Hurricane’ has been fixed similar to what’s displayed in tooltip.

Assassin

• Tooltip which ‘Lightning Rod’ overlapped has been fixed for Way of the Shadow > Starcross Necklace

Force Master 

• Tooltip of Frost Orbit in Way of the Frost > Martial Tome has been fixed similar to actual effect given.

• Fixed issue which ‘Frost Shackles’, ‘Sacred Flames’, and ‘Glacier’ do not show up on Martial Tome if the quest ‘Way of the Frost > ‘Legacy of the Hongmoon Clan’’ is not complete.

• Fixed issue which effect of ‘Snowball’ does not show up from Way of the Frost > Some weapons as tooltip.

• Fixed issue which item skill is not triggered with Way of the Frost > Some bracelet/mystic badge after using ‘Ice Comet’

• Fixed issue which unusable skill displays in Way of the Frost > Phantom Save > Martial Tome

Soul Fighter 

• Fixed issue which wrong damage tooltip was written in Way of the Eternal Soul > ‘Frost Storm’.
• Fixed issue which ‘Displace’ does not display attack damage from Way of Enduring Strength/Eternal Soul > Certain situation.

Archer

• Fixed issue which effect is used twice from Common > Some bracelets.
• Tooltip of ‘Dawning Spark’ in Breeze > ‘Dawnbright Mystic Badge’ has been fixed similar to actual effect given.

Astromancer 

• Fixed issue which animation did show properly when using Way of the Stormweaver > ‘Storm Step’, ‘Vista’

Musician

• Fixed issue which icons did not display properly in Common > Dungeon Guide.
• Fixed issue which the effect of Nymph Descent could not be disabled from Amplify > Certain situation.
• Fixed damage area of Amplify > ‘Stringless’ same as tooltip.
• Fixed issue which Talent tooltip displays Light Steps when selecting ‘Delicate’ in ‘Amplify > Martial Tome.

Equipment and Items

Mythical > Bracelet

• New mythical bracelet ‘Oculus Bracelet’ updated
  •  By enhancing, Boss Attack Power and Mystic Damage Rate are obtainable.
  • Enhancing up to either 6 or 16 level will have bonus stats.
  • This bonus stats obtained from above condition can be reset with other attributes.
  • 'Oculus Bracelet’ offers free socket, allowing you to equip ‘Equinox’.
  • The enhance level of ‘Starcross Bracelet’ can offer succession to ‘Oculus Bracelet’.

Mythical > Belt 

• New mythical belt ‘Oculus Belt’ updated.
  • By enhancing, Boss Attack Power and Mystic Damage Rate are obtainable.
  • Enhancing up to either 6 or 16 level will have bonus stats.
  • This bonus stats obtained from above condition can be reset with other attributes.
  • ‘Oculus Belt’ offers free socket, allowing you to equip ‘Solstice’.
  • The enhance level of ‘Starcross Belt can offer succession to ‘Oculus Belt’.

Soul

• New mythical soul ‘Endlessness Soul’ updated.
• ‘Unrefined Reverent Soul’ can be purchased from Dragon Express.
• ‘Endlessness Soul’ can be acquired by either evolving or succession to ‘Unrefined Reverent Soul ‘.
  • Evolve material ‘Wu Yi’s Essence’ is not yet obtainable in the game.
  • ‘Unrefined Reverent Soul’ uses ‘Manifest Soul’ with enchant level over 10 as offering.
  • Through succession, all enchantment effects of ‘Manifest Soul’ except the first one will be moved to ‘Endlessness Soul’.

Psyche

• New psyche ‘Ascent’s Psyche’ and ‘Ascent’s Great Psyche’ are updated for Soul
• Transmutation now available for ‘Ascent’s Great Psych

Imprint

• New imprint ‘Hamann Imprint’, ‘Glowing Hamann Imprint’, ‘Searing Hamann Imprint’, ‘Noble Hamann Imprint’, ‘Luminous Hamann Imprint’ updated.
  • New imprint applies up to 1200 of potential stats

Resonance

• ‘Spirit Eye’s Resolve’ added as resonance effect.

Insignia

• Red > ‘Lefty’ added as Abyssal Throne exclusive.
• Yellow > ‘Tourniquet’ added as Abyssal Throne exclusive.
• Purple > Common Insignia ‘Strengthening Potion’ added.
• Special > The release condition for Insignia ‘Benediction’ is now matches with tooltip.
• Special > Icon for ‘Shock Treatment’ changed.
• Insignia chest does not provide ‘Substratum’ exclusive anymore.
• Insignia fuse does not provide ‘Substratum’ exclusive anymore.

Amulet

• Some Hongmoon XP Charm’s useable condition has been adjusted between ‘Hongmoon Level1~Level49’.

Gildstone

• ‘Oculus Equinox Starcross Gildstone’ and ‘Oculus Solstice Starcross Gildstone’ is now obtainable in ‘Altar of the Infinite’.
• ‘Oculus Equinox Starcross Gildstone’ and ‘Oculus Solstice Starcross Gildstone’ can be equipped in the socket from Bracelet and Belt.
  • Through enchanting, up to 3 enchantment effects are added, but not changeable by resetting.
  • Stats for enchantment effect obtained from enchanting will increase depending on enchant level.
• Gildstone’s tooltip now has name of the dungeon which applies Demonsbane effect.

Gem

• 8 kinds of ‘Hongmoon Eminent Gem’ updated(Obsidian and Garnet excluded).
• 16 kinds of ‘Dyad Eminent Gem’ updated.
• ‘Dyad Gilded Heptagonal Aquamarine-Amber’ and, ‘Dyad Gilded Octagonal Aquamarine-Amber’, and ‘Dyad Gilded Eminent Aquamarine-Amber’ updated.

Shop

• ‘Trade Gang Sanghae’ from Mushin’s Tower now has ‘Oculus Bracelet’ and ‘Oculus Belt’ for each class.
• Achievement condition removed from Associate Master Angler’s sales category.
• 5 new items added for sale from Associate Master Angler.

Demonsbane first clear reward

• First-clear reward will be given for clearing each level of ‘Abyssal Throne’ for the first time.

Bonus reward for Skycell

• ‘[Oculus] Heroic Dungeon’s Bonus Skycell’ added, allowing you to recharge bonus reward count

Material consolidation

• A few materials used for past contents are consolidated to ‘Shimmering Scale’.
  • The required number of items to swap ‘Shimmering Scale’ is different according to items.
  •  If the number of materials owned is less than requirement, exchanging with ‘Shimmering Scale’ is impossible.

 

Crafting

Craft > Common

• New orders updated.

Crafting guilds	Type	Order
Forgekeepers	Masterwork	Fusion Stone
	Sell	Forgekeepers Fusion Stone Bundle
	Masterwork	Blessed Fusion Stone
	Sell	Forgekeepers Blessed Fusion Stone Bundle
	Masterwork	Legendary Gem Hammer
	Sell	Forgekeepers Legendary Gem Hammer
Earthseers	Masterwork	Earthseers Mysterious Revival Charm
	Sell	Earthseers Mysterious Revival Charm Bundle
	Masterwork	Earthseers Mysterious Resuscitation Charm
	Sell	Earthseers Mysterious Resuscitation Charm Bundle
	Masterwork	Earthseers Mysterious Luck
	Sell	Earthseers Mysterious Luck Bundle
Soul Warden	Masterwork	Soul Wardens Master Shield Base
	Sell	Soul Wardens Master Shield Base Bundle
	Masterwork	Soul Wardens Brilliant Insignia Chest
	Sell	Soul Wardens Brilliant Insignia Chest Bundle
	Masterwork	Soul Wardens Sparkling Insignia Chest
	Sell	Soul Wardens Sparkling Insignia Chest Bundle
Radiant Ring	Sell	Radiant Ring Gem Chest
	Sell	Radiant Ring Fragment Chest
Silver Cauldron	Masterwork	Silver Cauldron True Hongmoon Potion
	Sell	Silver Cauldron True Hongmoon Potion Bundle
	Masterwork	Silver Cauldron True Frenzy Potion
	Sell	Silver Cauldron True Frenzy Potion Bundle
	Masterwork	Silver Cauldron True Persistence Potion
	Sell	Silver Cauldron True Persistence Potion Bundle
Acquired Taste	Masterwork	Acquired Taste Delicacy Mild Dumpling Soup
	Sell	Acquired Taste Delicacy Mild Dumpling Soup Bundle
	Masterwork	Acquired Taste Delicacy Spicy Dumpling Soup
	Sell	Acquired Taste Delicacy Spicy Dumpling Soup Bundle
	Masterwork	Acquired Taste Delicacy Meat Dumpling Soup
	Sell	Acquired Taste Delicacy Meat Dumpling Soup Bundle

• Some orders are removed.
  • What is removed: Bloodstone, Bloodstone Fragment, Silver Scale Fragment, Onyx Scale Fragment, Sealed Shield Engraving for Fallenm-Beluga-Grand Celestial-Constellate-Thornbreaker-Avenging Warrior

• Shop items for craft related updated.

Shop	Items
Mushin’s Tower Trader Kangcha	Chaos Critical Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Accuracy Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Block Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Evasion Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Piercing Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Defense Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Reflex Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Boss Attack Soul Shield Primer
	Chaos Evasion Soul Shield Primer
Mushin’s Tower/Ajanara Monastery Kang Sangyoung Dragon Express Associate Master Angler	Brilliant Rare Element

 

System Changes

Challenge Quests

• ‘Deep Passage’ added in Daily Challenge.
• ‘Notice: Recruiting for Ghoulo Tree Hamann Expedition Unit’ added in Daily Challenge.
• Removed ‘The Low Road’ from Daily Challenge.
• Few rewards have been changed from Daily Challenge.
• Removed ‘Circle of Sundering’, ‘Den of the Ancients’, ‘Spectral Shrine’, Arena Match’, ‘Beluga Lagoon’, ‘Whirlwind Valley’, ‘Nova Core’, ‘Celestial Basin’, and ‘The Primeweald’ from Daily Challenge.
• ‘Defeat Batara’ added in the quest ‘Masterful Task’
• ‘Defeat Alter of the Infinite: Soryan’ added in the quest ‘Favor and Fortune’, ‘Howl of the Hound’

Ranking Revamped

• Overall ranking system has been revamped.
• World Ranking and Chevalier Ranking added.
• The World Ranking is achieved by gathering up the result obtained from contents of World Ranking.
• Mastery can be obtained depending on which rank player reaches.
  • Each mastery represents below.

Mastery	Rank
Grand Conqueror	1st
Grand Challenger	2nd
Grand Master	3rd
Soul Master	4~10th
Platinum 1	11~20th
Platinum 2	21~30th
Platinum 3	31~50th
Gold 1	51~60th
Gold 2	61~80th
Gold 3	81~100th
Silver 1	101~200th
Silver 2	201~300th
Silver 3	301~500th
Bronze 1	501~700th
Bronze 2	701~1000th
Bronze 3	1001~1500th
No Tier	-

• The contents of Chevalier ranking does not affect Mastery of World Ranking.
• Depending on Mastery, Realtime/Weekly/Season rewards are given.

Ranking Seasons

• New ranking season has begun.
  • Once new season begins, previous ranking records will be deleted.

Type	Contents	New season	Period
World Ranking	Shrouded Ajanara	Shrouded Ajanara Regular Season	2023/03/22 ~ 202/04/19
	Sanctum of the Masters	Sanctum of the master’s Regular Season
	Grim Nexus	Grim Nexus Regular Season
	Chimera Lab	Chimera Lab Regular Season
	Abyssal Throne	Abyssal Throne Regular Season
	Total Tier	Total Tier Preseason
Chevalier Ranking	Duel Solo Match	World Martial Arts Tournament Regular Season
	Tag Match	World Martial Arts Tournament Regular Season
	Whirlwind Valley	Dragon’s Fire Regular Season
	Beluga Lagoon	Dragon’s Fire Regular Season
	Nova Core	Dragon’s Fire Regular Season
	Clan War	Clan War Regular Season

Ranking Rewards

• Some ranking rewards have been changed.
  • Amulets removed as exchange for increased EXP from Arena Match, Chevalier Ranking.
  • Ranking removed for Spectral Shrine.

Ranking Shop: Kang Sangyoung

• Items sold by NPC Kang Sangyoung have adjusted.
  
  

Hongmoon Mastery

• Maximum level cap of Hongmoon Mastery has been increased up to ‘50’.

Hongmoon Score

• With the change of Hongmoon Mastery level cap with ‘50’, obtainable Hongmoon Score has been increased up to ‘290’.

Unity

• Maximum level cap of Unity has been increased up to ‘240’
• Changed unlock level of Unity for the slot for Splendor Stone.

 Salvage 

• Salvaging can now be canceled by mouse right click.

Windstride

• Cooltime for Windstride has been reduced to 30 seconds.

Options

• When entering zone where Hamann/Hunger is located, the graphic setting will be auto-adjusted in order to optimize combat experience.
  • Graphic setting cannot be made from this zone.
  • The adjusted setting will be restored once leaving this zone.

Antique 

• When expiration date of the item is less than a day, a symbol will appear on the inventory icon’s bottom left side, as alarming purpose.

Membership

• While membership is activated, materials required to use for some systems can be consumed even if they are in the storage.
  • Applied system: Crafting, Transmutation, Evolve(Enhance/Reset effect /Succession/Reinforcement/Upgrade/Augment/Fuse/Breakthrough) 

Equipment Guide

• Endlessness Soul, Oculus Bracelet, and Oculus Belt added in Equipment guide.
• All other info missed in the past has been filled up.

Feedback system

• Feedback system rendering has been updated.

Market

• Amulet1, Amulet2, and Chest added in Market >Evolve category.

Dungeon/Battleground Lobby, and Arena Lobby Interface

• Background and UI have been renewed for lobby of Dungeon/Battleground, and Arena.