With armour being mere decorative equipment in Blade & Soul rather than something players need to spend hours mixing and matching to get the best stats from, the full-body outfits on offer both in-game and through the Hongmoon Store cash shop can be chosen by players based on personal preference and budget alone. Costumes and accessories seem to be a big seller for North American publisher NCSoft, with the publisher having already released a number of paid costumes to the public since taking servers live in early-January 2016.
In a post last week, I mentioned that a number of costumes which were originally available via the cash shop were being removed. It turns out that NCSoft have decided to hold a “Limited Rotation” program for the store, where costumes will leave the store every fortnight and be replaced with new costumes. Some of these might just be temporary removals, while others might be more indefinite removals which correlate to a one-time opportunity or a particular event. With quite a few costumes available on the other official servers for this game, there seem to be quite a few costumes ready for players to unlock and equip their characters with.
In the next rotation, which will be available starting March 11th, the “White Hot” and “Dreamcutter” costumes will be available for purchase via the Hongmoon Store, alongside the “Bow Before Me” hair accessory. You can see previews of these on my own characters in the image above. Until they launch however, the price of them isn’t certain. These two costumes will replace ‘The Great General Set’ and ‘The Empress’ New Clothes Set’, both of which are currently available to purchase for 1,399 points apiece. You can see a preview of these costumes below.
