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Not every skill is unique to a Blessing as well – you’ll see skills repeated throughout each tier, such as the aforementioned Eruption Shot.

You can only use the skills that your active Blessing offers at that moment. But I don’t like how constrained it feels in terms of customization. I do like the skills being limited – on console especially massive skill bars don’t work as well as a more streamlined skill system (I honestly can’t wrap my mind around how Final Fantasy XIV does it on controller, but that might be the only good example of a heavy skill-bar game working).

These skills range from utility – such as the aforementioned damage barrier from the Priest, to straight up damage mixed with crowd control, such as the Eruption Shot with the Ranger that deals damage and, later on, will knock the enemies to the ground for a second or two. With each Blessing comes at least three skills (sometimes more in the latter stages of the game) that are mapped to your face buttons when you hold down LB. Blessings are groups of skills you’ll unlock as you progress the story – essentially, you’re pulling from the memory of those warriors who came before you and drawing from that experience. This is down to how Bless Unleashed handles its skill system. While playing in a group I found it hard to keep my tank alive as I had no actual way of healing them. You can apply a damage bubble to the players around you (at the expense of adding one to yourself), but that skill takes a while to channel and recharge. Sometimes I’ll perform the combo just to hear the echo bounce around my speakers, it’s that good. The echo from Penetrating Shot – one of the finishers in the Ranger combo – sounds so awesome every time I hear my Elf release that bowstring.

And the skills at the end of the combo pack a punch, and you know it instantly thanks to the incredible soundscape Bless Unleashed has. However – it is still satisfying to complete a long string combo. Currently, Neowiz and I are troubleshooting trying to figure out the cause, but suffice to say it has marred the combat as a result. While I’m still dealing with some considerable lag when trying to do even basic combos – sometimes the attacks won’t even register though other skills will activate when I hit the corresponding key – I’m starting to get used to the lag at this point and anticipating it when it happens. That’s not to say also that attacks in Bless Unleashed feel lacking either. The major issue I’m finding with the Priest early on is a total lack of healing skills at the outset. There is something for summoning corporeal blades from the ground at your enemy’s feet to do your dirty work for you – it packed a punch many of the skills I had used to that point didn’t. Once I got over that hurdle, though, I did find some of the skills the Priest used incredibly satisfying. However, for the Priest that skill is an AOE attack powerup I would find myself spamming occasionally as a result. This change of pace took some getting used to at first, as I was so conditioned to refill my quiver or mana after each major fight. While your Ranger’s skills are powered by the arrows in your quiver, and the Mage I played used Mana which you had to recharge, the Priest has a skill point bar that recharges over time. My friend was going to join me as a Crusader, the melee tank class in Bless Unleashed, so I opted for a Priest, seemingly the healing class. I took a little while away from my main account (level 15 Ranger on Lumenas if anyone is interested in grouping) to try out a few of the other classes.

So, having that buddy to keep you company can break up the monotony at some point. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of nuance in the quests themselves - even the story quests follow this same pattern mostly. So many of the quests are simple gather or slayer quests – you’re either picking up tens of ancient relics just simply strewn about the ground at your feet or hunting some sort of enemy to the betterment of the people around you. But when you do get in one and you’re trucking along, Bless can feel like a breeze. With so much content geared towards making you stop social distancing in Bless, it feels lacking when you can’t easily find a group overall. Additionally, when you do find yourself grouped up, there doesn’t seem to be a way to share quests with your team in case they missed the quest giver a town away. As of now there isn’t an LFG channel in the chat, so you’re forced to spam General with your requests. The problem I’m finding myself running into constantly is the lack of any real grouping features to help facilitate this. And then another three to beat the big boss of that portion of the story.īless Unleashed is an MMO that really feels like it hearkens back to the old-school mentality that these types of games should be tackled in a group. It took me at least 6 tries to finally get past that point in the quest.