Much like Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2 or Blade & Soul, the world is split up between loading screens. I’m not sure if you guys caught that, but yes, Scarlet Blade’s world is in fact segregated. I did note that the first dungeon was located in the 2nd region I made it to a little earlier. Regardless, while I definitely had my issues with the combat, overall it was actually above average for a tab-target system. Maybe other classes are exponentially more powerful than mine was, and I just needed to re-roll. Maybe this was due to the class I chose, though. This just drew out the fights much longer than they needed to be. The HP scaling is absolutely atrocious in Scarlet Blade, especially given the enemies did negligible damage to me. I found that the class I opted to go was initially very powerful, but monsters caught up very quickly, leaving me spamming abilities 6, 7 times just to down a monster 5 levels lower than me. I don’t believe I had any crowd control abilities – which I believe would’ve come in handy, but I was beginning to get stunned by monsters as I progressed through the game which leads me to believe I would’ve likely unlocked access to at least a few at some point. You don’t need to select an enemy to use your AoEs but the vast majority of your abilities require a target.Ībilities themselves were fast, they were responsive, and they looked impactful. Speaking of the combat though, Scarlet Blade uses mostly tab-target, but employs a semblance of action with regards to your AoEs. This means you’re not moving through centralized quest-hubs within each zone, instead, as you complete your current quests, new ones instantly open up and you can begin those right away.
Thankfully you can both accept and complete quests regardless of where you are in the world. It’s more so the fact that monsters had such large pools of HP, didn’t really react to engagement and provided no real challenge that questing became more of a chore than anything else. This made it very difficult for someone who enjoys grouping together large hordes of monsters and AoEing them down to really enjoy the combat.Ĭoupled with the fact that every single quest I came across were either “kill 10, 20 or 30 monsters” or “obtain 10, 20 or 30 items from the very same monster you killed 5 seconds ago,” and you have yourself a very limiting, unenjoyable leveling experience.ĭon’t get me wrong – This isn’t really all too different from the vast majority of MMOs out there. There are large groups of monsters found in every direction, but the area of aggression is almost non-existent. Outside of the classes, though, the world itself feels. But this provides you the option of making a character that is contrastingly different to the norm, and is one of the most fun parts of playing an MMO with class customization like this. I just dumped my skill points into whatever looked and sounded the coolest. While I’m certain there were cookie cutter builds, you know me. Each class has a wide selection of different skills that they can distribute skill points into.
This was further solidified by their skill trees. While nowhere near as extensive as many other Korean MMOs – with the entire Korean MMO genre priding themselves on the extent of their customization options, you could create something that looked and felt unique. Yes, the classes are gender-locked, a staple of Korean development.Īnd while that was definitely limiting, you were given quite a few options for customizing your character. all of which – with the exception of one, happen to be women.
Scarlet Blade offers some beautiful classes. Well, okay there are 2 similarities: Pay to win, and their characters all look incredible.īut often, underneath the shallow surface you’ll find that the games themselves are equally as shallow in terms of complexity, depth and sheer content. Regardless of the type of game, regardless of the developer, there’s one resounding similarity between each and every single Korean MMO: They’re all pay to win. Vindictus, Black Desert Online, Blade & Soul, TERA. Yes, initially, much like the majority of you who clicked the thumbnail, Scarlet Blade caught my attention due to the use of sexualized character models. Scarlet Blade does many things right, but it isn’t without its faults.
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