Echo Of Souls

   
Echo of Souls is one of my favourite games that i'm currently playing.It is a Korean based MMORPG that was redesigned and recently launched for NA and EU players and was published by Aeria Games in May of 2015.
     At the moment, there are 6 classes that you can create and each class have 2 skill paths you can choose from.

• Warrior which have the berserker(dps) and protector(tank) path.
• Rogue   which have the duelist(dps) and assassin(DOT dps) path.
• Guardian which have the stormguard(dps) and earthguard(tank) path.
• Sorceress which have the firemage(dps) and icemage(dps) path.
• Archer which have the huntress(dps) and bard(support) path.
• Warlock which have the tormentor(dps) and reaper(dps) path.

The classes are gender locked which i really hate and as you can see there's no healer class in this game, and in my opinion there's no need for one.

We have information that in 1year from now a new class(Paladin) will be released and i'm so excited.Here are some links to take a quick sneak peak from this class:
Paladin creation:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLRQcb-pZ6g
Paladin gameplay:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoYmw6av-e8

Gameplay have both PVE and PVP options.Let's talk about the PVE first.
         One of the things i like a lot about this game is the fact that there's a quest leveling system and 80+ areas exist with over 2000+ quests.That means you will always see different areas and face many kind of monsters while you leveling your character so you don't get bored.
        When you reach level 10 you can choose the skill path you want to play.Also there are many solo dungeons and each one have a final boss which drops good items for your class.
        When you reach level 70 you can join the party dungeons where you can team up with 4 other players.Each party dungeon have 3 bosses and each one drop powerful gear but you must cooperate with your team and play your class good if you want to beat the bosses.
        An other thing PVE have is raids where you team up with 10 or 20 players because the bosses are very hard but if you want the best gear that's the place you are looking for!
       The last thing i'd like to point is that there's a dps meter where you can see the damage you deal in each fight which is pretty cool in my opinion.

→So Echo of Soul for me have one of the best pve because killing bosses is not easy and you must find a strategy to kill them and it gives you a big challenge.There's only one bad thing which is the matchmaking system and only with that you can enter dungeons/raids .Sometimes you can wait 10 or more minutes to get matched with players to enter so something like that can make you close the game and never play it again.

PVP:

     There's 1vs1 arena.It is a match between 2 players and the winner is the last man standing.
     There's 3vs3 arena.It is a deathmatch and victory is achieved by killing all the enemy team players.
     For intense and strategic PvP action, take a group or queue up solo for a 15 vs. 15 battlefield with randomly matched opponents and allies.
     Battlefiend have 2 maps:
          1)Mettle's Theater where the first team to score 10,000 points win.To get points you must
spread around the battlefield to capture the five towers which steadily earn points for your team.
          2)Tribulation's Vale:Travel down the five lanes connecting each team's base and struggle with
the enemy over the resource nodes spawning at the halfway points. Collect the most resources to win!

Claim victory to earn experience, gold, and points to trade for awesome items and PvP gear!

→I really like pvp in this game because even if you are not strong and play smart you can win very easily and that's really unique but there's something really unfair which can happen on the battlefield and you will get angry for sure.As you understand 30 players apply to enter the battlefield and the teams are randomly made.But some smart and strong players make premade teams and that means that many really strong players team-up before applying to enter and if you apply with a party, then all the party members will be on the same team.So the other team have to face many strong players together and has no chance to win! Of course as i said if you play smart you can win but sometimes! When the opposite team is extremely stronger then you just can't!

There's also a map called Valhalla which is only for Guild pvp.It's a very big map that opens
certain times of the day and only the players who have joined a guild can enter.In the
middle of the map there's a boss and each guild tries to kill it first because it drops a big amount of gold.

→The game gives the option guilds to make friendship and team up with other guilds, so if you are on a small guild with no allies don't even bother going to valhalla.This option shouldn't exist in my opinion and every guild should be alone so everyone can have the same chance to kill the boss.

Soul system:

This game is unique because it have a soul system.Every time you kill a monster you get it's soul.When you have many souls you can purify them to earn soul skills that are 4 kind of buffs:

• Attack
• Critical
• Defense
• Heal buff.

The more you use the soul skills the more stronger they get.The max level of the soul skills is 6.An other thing that makes this game unique it's the mounts you can ride(Probably because i like riding mounts).There are so many and all of them are very good designed and cool.

The only bad things i have to say about this game is:
    1)If you are looking for a game with very good graphics this is not the game for you.
    2)You can't move and attack at the same time.
    3)Many times you have to wait a lot to enter a dungeon or raid
    4)They should really do something about the premade teams on the battlefield.

Last but not least this game is not that much pay2win and i'm saying that with personal experience.In pvp it's all about knowing your class, the rotation of the skills and play smart.If you do that you can very easily kill a stronger player.

After all the above being said, let's take a look in the EOS world:

Here is the official site of the game where you can download it:
http://echoofsoul.aeriagames.com/

kk