Grand Chase Season 5 Begins with Major Content Revamp

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If you're a fan of side-scrolling brawlers and have yet to try KOG Games action-brawler Grand Chase now may be the perfect time to do so. The publisher just announced the start of the MMO's 5th Season which brings about the largest set of changes Grand Chase has seen since its inception. We're talking a more streamlined World Map, fluid quest progression, redesigned dungeons and smarter AI to start with. Check out the trailer above for a few glimpses of the changes intercut with some slashy CGI.

Perhaps one of the most immediately noticeable changes has to do with how new players obtain any of Grand Chase's 19 playable characters. In the past players would need to unlock each through difficult quests or purchase them outright through the shop. Now, all new players get four character slots and can choose from any of the characters from the beginning for free. Current players will need to purchase a slot for any new character, but can then freely select one from the full roster.

A large amount of effort has gone into streamlining the dungeons in Grand Chase starting with the level and platform layouts being reworked while mob types and numbers are randomized. Dungeon mobs and bosses are now stronger too, thanks to their improved ai and greater damage output, which -coupled with the new randomization- will hopefully provide a greater consistent challenge for players. Since mobs now deal extra damage, players have also had their character's damage re-balanced to better fit the new dungeon difficulty.

Other improvements include a new dodge skill and a new boss-rush dungeon mode called Dimension's Door which functions like your typical tower dungeon with waves of increasingly difficult enemies and occasional boss fights thrown at you. In the future KOG Games intends to continue releasing further Season 5 updates in waves with additional dungeons and a focus on improving PvP in Grand Chase.

A full recap of all the changes and additions coming in Season 5 can be found on the official Grand Chase Season 5 page here.

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (16)

RyuKaiser 9 years ago
This. So much this.

rena 9 years ago
don't forget the community is pretty bad since most people in that game will start complaining hell on wheel in the pvp room telling you can not play elesis or lire or amre or rin or any other character or there job version on different classes. very low population due to the character separation coming out people didn't like it so more player on what left of the playerbase has went down even futher down the hole. elsword is fun to play but it is totally not worth it since it has a stamina system which is just a Korean grind fest game to make you do less stuff inside the game and hinder your gameplay on the character but pvp is not limited which is backward and totally mess up on that game.

MechroJay 9 years ago
I started playing when Lass first came out, I immediately did everything to unlock him. I used to play this when i was like 8 this and Trickster Online(Lion:CyberHunter). Lol being a kid was easy you had like whole days to either play MMOs or play outside(did both)

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Bic Boi 9 years ago
Sidescrollers are great..but something about Grand Chase never agreed with me. I think it's the art style..flat backgrounds but the models are angled in a way that makes everything look awkward. Surprised this is still alive, tbh since Dragon Saga is a tad superior of a game, especially since it offers a full world instead of instances.

solidpt 9 years ago
can i play this in EU ? or Elsword ? wich one is better ?

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Sanity 9 years ago
I played this game a long time ago...It was fun back then since you could've get some shet for free...Right now nothing...
Just download Elsword and chill...

Karnaij 9 years ago
LOL only 4? used to be a bunch of free to play champs then you had to go through missions to get others or pay cash lol all they did was take away a couple of free slots and take away any chance of unlocking others with missions enjoy paying a shit ton of cash to have all champs

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