In Blade & Soul NEO Classic, equipping your character with powerful gear is essential to maximizing your effectiveness in both PvE and PvP content. Whether you're raiding dungeons, fighting field bosses, or engaging in thrilling arena battles, understanding how to acquire, evolve, augment, and optimize your weapons and accessories will be key to becoming a formidable force. This guide will explore all the aspects of weapons and accessories, focusing on the various systems in place to improve your gear, including Weapon and Accessory Evolution, Augmenting, Sealing, and the use of Mantra Stones, Soul Cores, Soul Shields, Blade & Soul NEO Classic Divine Gems and more.

Weapons and Accessories Overview

In Blade & Soul NEO Classic, weapons and accessories are fundamental pieces of equipment that can be obtained through various methods, such as completing quests, clearing dungeons, defeating field bosses, participating in Wheels of Fate, transmuting items, or buying from NPC merchants. These items are crucial for boosting your character's Attack Power (AP), and they can be further enhanced to unlock additional features and stat bonuses.

Primary Stats:

Attack Power (AP): The primary stat for all weapons and accessories, which directly influences your character's combat strength.

Additional Stats: Sub-stats are randomly rolled when you acquire a weapon or accessory, and these stats can vary, affecting the overall performance of the gear.

Upon obtaining new equipment, weapons and accessories can be further upgraded, evolved, augmented, and customized through several systems to enhance their stats and unlock new abilities.

Weapon and Accessory Evolution

Evolution is one of the most crucial aspects of gear enhancement in Blade & Soul NEO Classic. By evolving your weapons and accessories, you unlock new tiers of power and additional upgrade opportunities.

Evolution Tiers:

Heroic: The base version of your weapon or accessory.

Awakened: The first tier of evolution, requiring upgrade materials and a silver/gold fee.

True: The final tier, providing maximum stats and abilities.

Each evolution can apply random enchantment effects, which may be re-rolled for a fee. Additionally, this process may unlock new Mantra Stone slots, Soul Core slots for weapons, or Skill slots for accessories.

Evolution Features:

Enchantment Effects: Each successful evolution has a chance to apply a random enchantment, improving the stats of the item.

Unlocking Slots: With each evolution, there's a chance to unlock new slots for Mantra Stones, Soul Cores (for weapons), and Skill Slots (for accessories).

Evolution Progress: Evolution is not guaranteed, and failures will result in a loss of upgrade materials and silver/gold fees, but they contribute to Evolution Progress. Once Evolution Progress reaches 100%, the next evolution attempt is guaranteed to succeed.

Weapon and Accessory Augmentation

Augmenting your weapons and accessories with Psyches offers additional stat bonuses, further increasing their effectiveness in battle. Augmentation is a more reliable enhancement method compared to evolution because it is guaranteed to succeed.

Augmenting Process:

Psyches can be crafted or purchased from NPC merchants, and each augmentation adds a specific bonus to your gear's stats.

Augmentations come at a material cost, but the success rate is 100%, ensuring that your gear will always improve when augmented.

If you choose to augment an item that has already been augmented, you have the option to either keep the existing augmentation bonuses or apply new ones.

Augmentation Benefits:

Additional Stats: Augmenting can boost various stats, such as Attack Power, Critical Rate, and others, depending on the Psyche used.

Customizability: Augmentation allows for tailored stat boosts, giving you flexibility in optimizing your gear for specific roles or content.

Sealing Weapons and Accessories

Sealing is the process of making your weapon or accessory tradable. This system allows you to transfer items between characters or trade with other players.

Sealing Process:

Before sealing a weapon or accessory, any equipped Soul Core or Mantra Stone must be removed.

Sealing requires Sealing Charms, which can be crafted at the Earthseers Crafting Guild. These charms are consumed during the sealing process, and they ensure that your gear can be safely transferred.

Sealed items can be traded between characters or sold in the market, giving players the opportunity to exchange their hard-earned gear.

Resealing: Items that have been sealed can be unsealed and resealed as many times as needed, allowing for the exchange of gear throughout the game.

Mantra Stones

Mantra Stones are powerful items that can be slotted into weapons and accessories to provide additional effects. These stones offer a wide variety of buffs, ranging from increased stats to special abilities that can significantly enhance your character's performance.

Mantra Stones Overview:

Obtaining Mantra Stones: They can be obtained by completing Heroic Dungeons or crafted at the Forge keepers Crafting Guild.

Tiers: Mantra Stones come in varying tiers, and higher-tier stones offer more potent effects.

Fusing Mantra Stones: To create higher-tier stones, you can fuse 5 Mantra Stones of the same tier. This process can result in a more powerful Mantra Stone, improving the overall effectiveness of your gear.

Equipping and Resetting: Once equipped, Mantra Stones cannot be extracted and must be reset to equip new ones. Resetting a Mantra Stone requires a special item, and it comes with the risk of losing the current stone.

Mantra Effects: Examples of effects include increased damage, reduced cool downs, or other situational buffs that enhance a specific aspect of gameplay, such as PvE or PvP performance.

Soul Cores

Soul Cores are powerful items that can be slotted into weapons to unlock unique boss skills and significant stat bonuses. These cores are dropped by various bosses across different regions and dungeons.

Soul Cores Overview:

Obtaining Soul Cores: You can acquire Soul Cores by defeating bosses in different regions or transmuting them from Soul Core Crystals.

Transmutation: Soul Core Crystals can be used to transmute new Soul Cores, providing a way to acquire more powerful variants.

Salvaging: You can salvage Soul Cores to obtain Soul Core Crystals, which are then used for transmutation. This process allows you to collect different types of Soul Cores or upgrade your existing ones.

Soul Core Features:

Boss Skills: Each Soul Core unlocks unique skills associated with specific bosses, providing new abilities for your weapon.

Stat Boosts: In addition to unlocking special abilities, Soul Cores provide valuable stat boosts that can significantly improve your overall combat effectiveness.

Soul Shields

Soul Shields are an essential part of your character's defense, offering stat boosts such as increased HP, defense, and resistance to various debuffs. These shields are collected in sets and can be equipped to enhance your overall durability.

Soul Shield Overview:

Soul Shield Sets: Soul Shields are part of numbered sets, with each set providing an additional bonus when equipped with 3, 5, or 8 shields of the same set.

Fusing Soul Shields: Soul Shields can be fused with Soul Shield Primers, which are acquired from the Dragon Trader NPC. This process allows you to increase the stats of your shields.

Reinforcement: You can reinforce Soul Shields by using identical shields as reinforcement material, further enhancing their stats.

Soul Shield Benefits:

Defensive Bonuses: Soul Shields increase your character's survivability, making them essential for surviving tougher PvE encounters and PvP battles.

Set Effects: Equipping multiple Soul Shields from the same set grants powerful bonuses, such as increased resistance to debuffs or additional health.

Soul Badges and Mystic Badges

Soul Badges and Mystic Badges are specialized items that enhance the power of your character's skills.

Soul Badges:

Enhancing Skills: Soul Badges enhance a skill's power, increasing the damage or effectiveness of your abilities.

Enchantment and Augmentation: These badges can be enchanted up to +10, and they can be augmented with Psyches to further improve their effects.

Mystic Badges:

Skill Effect Enhancement: Mystic Badges enhance the effects of your skills, such as increasing the number of Fury Stacks or other skill-specific attributes.

Enchantment: Mystic Badges can also be enchanted to improve their stats, further optimizing your skills.

Acquiring and Upgrading: Both Soul and Mystic Badges can be purchased from Dragon Trader NPCs, and they can be upgraded using materials obtained from salvaging other badges or gear.

Conclusion

Mastering the equipment systems in Blade & Soul NEO Classic is crucial for success in both PvE and PvP. Whether you're evolving your gear, augmenting weapons with Psyches, slotting powerful Mantra Stones, or reinforcing your Soul Shields, every piece of equipment plays a vital role in enhancing your character's power. By understanding these systems and properly optimizing your gear, you can ensure your character is always ready for the challenges that lie ahead.

MMOexp BnS NEO Classic Team