Elsword
Elsword is a free to play 3D non-stop side-scrolling MMORPG set in a colorful comic book style world with anime-style graphics and RPG elements. Experienced gamers as well as casual players can immediately jump into the game and pick-up the intuitive controls to defeat enemies or string together combos to deal devastating damage. Players can watch and hear their chosen character mature as their look evolves, fighting style progresses and voice changes.
Elsword Online features player versus player (PvP) battles with a strong focus on offensive combos. This pvp is not limited to one on one, and group pvp is available. With powerups and mayhem abound, this is one action packed fighter not to be missed. Either fighting solo or banding together in a party of up to four players, gamers are tasked with weathering fierce dungeon battles to defeat bosses and level up.
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Additional Information
Elsword
KOG
KOG Games
March 23, 2011
MMORPG
Windows (Client)
Latest Updates
This new magic user is after all the gold that can be found.
3 months agoCosmetics, boosts, and real life quizzes where winners can score cash shop currency.
5 months agoMinimum System Requirements (Windows)
Windows XP
MemoryAbove 1GB
Storage3GB Space in the hard disk
Intel/AMD 1GHz
GraphicsNvidia GeForce 5 Series
Additional NotesSpecifications may change during development
Awesome gameplay
Free to roam around
Cons:Nobody says anything
The chat is basically useless
It by default mutes the entire sound
Conclusion:This should not be an online game at all
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There was a lot of good player who got false permanent banned for no reason at all. The player base itself has been damage badly by Kog decision on getting rid of there big supporters.
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I do not recommended this game at all. (This Game is Deserted) Stay Away
The number of players is not high but steady.
If you are more of a PvP-Player this game won't be for you though, there is no skill required anymore, just irl-money to buy weapons to oneshot enemies.
PvE is still fun, for maybe 1-2 hours a day.
Investing real money is not worth it, most of the stuff you can buy is a gamble.
So it is saddening to see the good old elsword wave us goodbye (it isn't closing, it has just gotten really bad). They may as well shut down that game the very second it stops making profit.
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(Elsword)
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(+Pro)
+ 3 Original Character Classes and New Character
+ Costumes
+ Pets
+ Guild House
+ Fishing (only in Korea)
+ Challenge Dungeons
+ Mounts
+ Good Storyline
+ No jobs change require to progress the storyline
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(-Con)
- Weak Point Pvp
- Unfriendly players
- Exploiters
- Bugs and glitch
- Hacker can ruin the fun
- Repeated dungeon
- Gamble Ice Burner box
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The Recommended Character to play: Elsword, Aisha, Rena
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Star Rate: 4/5 (Cool)
Vet that has spent thousands and mad time and I regret it all.
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(Not Recommended)
For me Elsword is semi Pay - to - win game why? Because you can grind the costumes in their new Event dungeons. Well if you don't like grinding your item then this game is not for you :p
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(+Pro)
+ 12 Character
+ Classes
+ Pets
+ Mounts
+ Instanced Lobby
+ Guild House
+ Good Storyline
+ Challenge Dungeon
+ Training Room
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(-Con)
- Gold Seller
- Bots
- Scammer
- Exploiter
- Unfriendly Community
- Stamina System
- Unbalance Cash Shop
- Hacker can ruin the fun
- Broken Game Economy
- Bugs
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This game has become total Garbage now.
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(Elsword Online)
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Elsword is a 2D side-scroller game. it is a casual fun game to play with friends and guild buddy in elsword online.
Elsword has evolved more over the year with each weekend patch update bring more to the story line to the Elsword Team.
There are 12 character now in elsword over the few years ago.All character have different game play style from multiple classes path
and some character are easyer and some character harder to master. you will need knowledge to know what to do in elsword online.
This game is focus on PVE content mostly not pvp. Pvp is the weak point for elsword online. PVE story line is the strong point.
if you looking a for pvp game then this is the wrong one buddy.
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(Community)
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Elsword Community is not healthy at all.This community complain day and night without any rest to the topic on the forum and
in-game. This community will make you go insane hearing the same stuff about the characters in elsword online plus they call you
a Noob for playing any character that they don't like in the game.it really became a nightmare now to social with player who
won't attack you out of the shadow also too player like to be disrespectful mostly to new player and veteran player in elsword.
I see Community elsword video on YouTube showing very bad behavior where player call you a hacker for winning a game with skill
and they even take it too far where they false report you for no reason at all with no real proof.Many good skill player no longer
play this game anymore to the bad player who only ruin the fun for other player in elsword online. I recommended to try find some
friends with play and avoid the chaos community on the forum and in-game as well.
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It any genre Games on the market making itself a Quick cash grab.
The gameplay is dumbed down to the lowest level by having combat being a linear button mashing of skills and attacks in which defense is pretty much inexistent and enemies either do nothing or prevent you from doing anything. It is a "my turn, your turn" fighting game.
It couldn't be more frustrating to now that this is supposedly the sequel of Grand Chase which had one of the best, if not the best 2d side-scroller MMO fighter gameplay I've ever seen.
I can only feel sadness about this game, nothing else. Recommended to teenagers that just wanna see things flashing on the screen.
(To Community Gamer and Normal Player)
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These games that they call free to play are not free at all. They put a stamina system on you to keep going any further on PVE Content. You can limit yourself from playing online games also it another way to make the game a Cash cow. The people are so less knowledge about a game that the developer can take a huge of advantage of them in the long run.
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I mean play a real MMORPG game like LA Tale or Luna online Reborn for a example.
Those are real RPG games that put no sting behind you as it is Free to play. The Game that are complete Garbage are Elsword, Dragon nest, Dungeon fighter Online, Sky forge those game have a Stamina system that put your Experience Down the drain.
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I know the people are going defend this problem but they soon learn the hard way if not then they
are Complete mindless Zombie to the developer. Don't waste your Money on limit Progress game.
(Play a Real game that will bring experience to you as a Gamer or Normal Player.)
+ 11 Amine Character
+ Mounts
+ Pets
+ Costume
+ English Voice Actor
+ Guild House System
+ Fishing
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(-Con)
- Unbalance PVP
- Expensive Cash Shop
- Limit Progressive
- Bugs
- No Class Roles
- Gender Locked
- Less Challenging Dungeon
- Repeated Dungeon Can get boring
- Broken Auction Market
- Certain Animation Skill can low fps
- Hacker can Ruin the game
- Lack of Social
- Megaphone Spam
- Gold Seller
- Botter
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Final Rate: 4/5 The Game is fun to play as Causal or Hardcore with Friends Only in Elsword.
Avoid Certain Company Puslisher
1.Nexon
2.Hi-Rez
3.Gameforge
4.Valve
5.Riot
6.WarGaming.net
7.Daybreak
8.Koggames
9.R2 Games
10.JC Planet
(Stay Away from them Completely or you will get what coming to you)
-Lots of Character Choices
-Lots of Class Choices
-Unique game play
-Interesting characters
-Cool weapons
Cons:
-Paying for certain items (*cough*Ice Burners*cough*)
-Salty PVP players.
-Overpowered characters (Add and Luciel)
-Grinding (I've been grinding for a week ;-;)
-Occasional glitches in trying to log it. (Won't connect to server, game closes)
Okay so I've been playing Elsword off and on over the last two years and it is a good game but all games come with some...issues. One of the major issues I find (and it's highly annoying) is when you're playing PVE and you're in a dungeon with a Luciel or a Add, THEY ARE OVERPOWERED. Now I've never done a play of a Luciel/Add all the way to the level my main is at (which at the moment is level 48) but every dungeon I have played with a Luciel/Add I haven't even had a chance to get a hit in on the enemy before they are all dead. Which is really annoying.
Next thing, the random number generator for item drops. I spent a whole day running a dungeon almost forty times just trying to get a single item to get to Code Nemesis. It is really annoying but what can you do? RNG just freaking sucks in general.
To condense Elsword into a single term, Elsword is hype. The gaming community and actual game play are dominated by it. "What's new" or "What's popular" will generally determines how the general populace behave; from market pricing, to what classes to play in PVP or PVE, or even how people speak. But this is nothing new to the MMO scene, Elsword is different in one aspect: the depravity players will sink to for their own gains whether it be fame, honor, or just plain old greed. So the first advice is to take everything you read from announcements and word of mouth with a grain of salt and not be so influenced by peers.
Well let's tackle the first problem many people are having with and that is just getting to end game. Unlike WoW or similar MMO that gives player a level X jump whenever they purchase an expansion, Elsword players have to grind through all 80-85 levels (depending on your server). Compounded with a stamina system and this will seem like a daunting task. It's not. KoG throws a bone at players every few server events with experience boost and drop rate boost days. There are also experience medals that can be purchased for either in game or real money and the NA server have infinite stamina weekends. On average with 2 hours of play a day, you can max out a character level in a week and two weekends.
Some players dislike all the grinding and prefer the Arena for "instant" action. I can safely say this is one of the largest problem with the Elsword gaming community. When you take a largely novice player base with little to no assets in game and give them an unstable PVP environment with imbalanced characters and players (with and sometimes without the appropriate gear), you can bet there is a lot of grievances for everyone due to the fault of developers and largely the players as well. I know a lot of people won't take the high road and stick with the orthodox method of raising skill and gaining gears. Thus, if a player decides to take the easy path for a cheap dopamine fix and act like a pile of feces whenever anything goes wrong (losing) because the gaming experience isn't what he or she envisioned, that's the complete fault of said player don't you think? Besides just playing through the game content with a nominal pace will net you money.
The economy in Elsword is hyper-inflated, and it has teetered on the brink of collapse for a time, but it has somewhat stabilized. I think one of the reason why so many players turned to PVP is because there's little to no monetary investment required for PVP. To clear up some misinformation, the economy is hyper-inflated in terms of scaling, but a non paying player can buy end game contents or cash only items with only in game currency that they can accumulate through PVE game play at a reasonable pace. This is because the end game dungeons and raid dungeons give millions of the in game money as rewards so pricing for the simplest crafting material will often scale to match the market's wealth.
Because there is no significant gold sink in Elsword, the total amount of money in exchange is constantly rising. (Yes there is a tax system for player to player sales but it can be circumvented with a cash item so the tax system is nonexistent due to skewed wealth distribution of the in game community). To compound this design flaw, the game's currency limit is 2 billion per character, and free market trades are capped at 700 million so we ended up with a situation where anything that's valuable beyond the currency cap ended up being in a state of price flux. When pricing isn't clear and fair on the free market, shit happens like scamming, thieving, real money trade, black market for real money trade, banning, loss of account, lost of email account associated with game account, compromised personal and credit information, criminals who feel empowered and victims who feel wounded, and the development of a cut throat gaming community that's more concerned with gouging the very last few cents a player has instead of going out to "play" the game (and I don't mean just KoG). Alas this is nothing new to MMO, just don't do business with shady people and steer clear of offers that are too good to be true. Customer support will NOW resolve some instances of foul play between players but you need to provide video evidence (there's an in game recorder and bandicam is free).
Next up is the connection problem. Elsword NA is opened to every IP address in the world so you'll be faced with various delay in connection and synchronization throughout the day. This also brings in conflicts between differing culture and ideology but that's the next paragraph. Short version, if you don't want laggy connections, just play when the people in your country are most active. It is not guaranteed.
And now the elephant. Many players claim that the Elsword community is cancerous or toxic but I want you all to take a step back and just look at this with reason for a moment. Life sucks no matter where you are (in game or in real life) and not everything will go your way. Your gaming experience is what you make it to be. So for instance, coming into a game with a pre conceived notion from a review that describes a synopsis experience at best will limit your expectations. Or joining on a whim or following a hyped information release only to find your expectations dashed. That being said, there is a baseline for what we humans find deplorable and there plenty of exchanges in Elsword that's inappropriate for all ages.
The first thing I tell new players is to ignore Megaphones. These are server wide announcements used by players or GMs. Players have to pay cash for them. Sometimes you wonder how a person can spend all day using money to be able to chat for 256 characters intervals in a game. Well obviously some of them are using hacks and others really do have money to throw away. Question is do you really want to spend time being distracted by that? The GMs do their jobs at advertising the game and only their job. That's all, do not expect anything helpful out of them. However, you cannot turn off Megaphones unfortunately. And like I said before, a lot of the common exchanges between people are just trash so what can you do in light of this while avoiding being anti social? Well, limit your social contact to mostly your friends, your guild mates, and people you can trust. I use a 3rd party chat program to talk to the few people I have business exchange or information exchange with. You can disable all chats and the user interface by pressing the delete button. You'll be effectively be playing the game blind but it's really not that hard to and you can turn the display back on when needed. It's a bit drastic but it will block most of the rubbish talk. Next, don't go into sparring for any reason unless you're meeting up with someone privately. Sparring is populated by pedophiles (yeah, really!) and scammers so don't expect any decent conversation or any trade to be reasonable. The forums are equally as bad; you'll have to sort through a ton of shit to find any viable information. If you need help with information for the game, search Google for El Wiki or ask an experienced player in game (someone with a high rank on the pve/pvp ranking boards who is geared and not level 1). Don't get excited by conflicting release information on the forums or join in their stupid discussions. They only get befuddled and derailed by trolls and general idiocy. The last thing I want to say is that meeting the right people really matters so if you find someone you don't like, don't linger and mope about it.
:Pros: (+)
- high quality anime artwork
- intense action (as the character)
- creative abilities
- detailed special effects
- detailed costumes and other avatar accessories
- unique weapon designs
- 3 seperate story arcs per character (or, so you call, job paths)
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:Cons: (-)
- game boot up glitches
- cliche main story (Spoiler: Demons want to revive their demon god and take over El. This goes on once you reach Feita and will not change.)
- immature, sad, angry, and/or repulsive PvP community
- unbalanced with underpowered and overpowered characters (in resemblance to PvE and PvP community)
- terrible economic community (or, sales involving ED)
- overpriced avatar costume parts ($6.00 = 1 piece $36.00 = full set [hair, top, leg guards, gloves, shoes, and weapon])
- easily hacked game
- poor forums
- no refunds from KoG
- (for Japanese and North American servers...-) repetitive, non-stop grinding for EXP and ED (money)
- never listens to the players' suggestions
- Uses fanservice and extra female characters to escape the demands from angry gamers
- Moderators can easily abuse their power and ban anyone they do not like
- Some items from the Item Mall will not spawn in your inventory, forcing you to pay it again (note: no refund either... I think I went over that. :/ )
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:Thoughts:
I have been a player for Elsword for quite some time now (7 years). I have seen this game grow as I grew.
Though, in the mist of its development, KoG did add job paths, new characters, and additional story arcs over time. And through that time, a once simple PvP became slightly unbalanced with the arrival of Chung Seiker. And thus, that began the era of ragers or (in common case for Elsword) salty players.
And as time flew by, the story arc was lengthened with a returning character from Grand Chase; the return of the Red Knight, Elesis... And thus, Elesis single-handedly stole away Elsword's (younger brother of Elesis) title of main character. Players grew an admiration to the returning character, to the point where some players proposed a new name for Elsword. Their proposed name was, Elesis Online.
As time flew by again, the story arc has been lengthened again with a new village,... Sander. And the main story never changed. It still has the same element to the plot like the last chapters. "Demon-army-wants-to-rule-the-world; heroes-defends-the-world-and-stops-the-demons" cliche. ...A once classic, to now, boring and unoriginal plot that has been copy&pasted in anime and video games for decades...
Oh, there is also another character that was added into the game. The one who has dawned PvP and his very essence either triggers a shiver or a deep hatred within... This character's name... is Add. The deffinition of overpowered in the game.
With him and his job classes, players were easily able to rule the PvP community, at a cost of their sense of dedication to reaching to the top with with hardship... and pride...(including his 3rd job path, Diablic Esper)
Now, here we are, with a level cap of 85 (in South Korean server). Story has not changed much. 3 new characters have been created, Lu&Ceil (2-in-1 playable character) and Rose (another pretty-faced character from an entirely different video game added in to silence angry players while KoG does nothing to improve the number of glitches and hackers their game has). Characters are still unbalanced and broken, some of the wrong characters were nerfed (Infinity Sword and Reckless Fist, for example)....
KoG still refuses to give players, who have lost all their character data due to game-breaking glitches, their respected refunds...
And "fun", well, you can get that from broken characters, but it all dies out eventually...
Don't become like me, or the rest of the Elsword gamers...
You still have a path, a future where your money is spent on more "meaningful" things...
A path where you don't have to slave yourself over pixels...
But I am not one to force any path on you.
In the end, the choice is yours and yours alone...
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:Final Verdict:
3/10
10 pvp battles, 4 spammers, 2 script hackers and 3 health/damage hackers, i hate this game now, i would NOT recommend this
rating: thumbs down
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(+Pro)
+10 different character amine
+ many different class path
+ many costume style
+ Pets and monuts variety
+ Good storyline
+ Great customization
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(-Con)
- Heavy grinding
- Pay to win
- Dark Toxic Community
- Bad market business
- Hacker can ruin the game
- Bugs and exploit
- Unbalance PVP
- Anti-Virus issue
- Korea lanaguge only (North America)
- Botter
- Gold buyer botter
- Mega Spammer
Elsword
System Requirement
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OS: Window 7 or Higher
Cpu: Intel/AMD 2.7 GHZ or higher
Memory: Above 2GB
Graphic Card: NVidia GeForce 7 Series
DirectX Version: 11 or higher
Hard Disk: 4 GB Space on Hard disk
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Window XP have been discontinue on April 19 2014.
(Review)
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(+Pro)
+ 10 Character
+ Pets
+ Mounts
+ Profession system
+ Costume
+ Classes Character path
+ Good Storyline
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(-Con)
- Not Friendly Community
- Very Negative Bad Community (including the forum too.)
- Very Bad Economy
- Unbalance PVP
- Pay to Progress
- Server issue
- Gold Spammer
- Hacker can the ruin the game
- Exploit
- Bugs
- Auto Matchmaking
- Connection Global Issue
- Rank system problem
Version: Window 7 or higher
System: Intel/AMD 2.7 GHZ or higher
Graphic cards: NVidia
Connection network: broadband
(+Pro)
+10 different character amine
+ many different class path
+ many costume style
+ Pets and monuts variety
+ Good storyline
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(-Cons)
- No English Voice actor for the character
- Hacker can ruin the game
- Very Negative Community
- Pay to look good
- Very Childish forum
- Item mall issue
- Unbalance pvp (base on weapon and armor)
- Enchantment rate is low
- Bad Economy Business
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(+Pro)
+10 different character amine
+ many different class path
+ many costume style
+ Pets and monuts variety
+ Good storyline
(-Cons)
- No English Voice actor for the character
- A lot of hacker on NA 24/7
- Very Bad Community
- Combo System Broken
- Peer to Peer player (bad connection in PVP)
- Pay Event
- Pay to look good or Pay to win
- Easy to exploit
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(Comment)
Elsword is not a good game. why? because there many hacker who are crawling themselves on the Henir ranking board to look good when all they do show off with hack skill in elsword. I really must say that this game has become the next sudden attack hack paradise for them. it is no longer a fun game anymore for elsword fan and there more stuff behind the dark wall in this company and the corrupt no good Community playerbase. (Bad game and bad Community and Kog)
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Warning sign!
(like I always say once a good game become Corrupted it turn into a Trash can.)
Rate: Thumb down
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By:Guest
Review: (Elsword)
Community: 1/5 star (Poor)
Economy: 1/5 star (Poor) Useless Market System
Kog Host: 3/5 star (good)
Truth fact: Elsword is a good game but it is easily fill with hacker left and right in PVP, PVE mode
that they can make this game a breeze without dying in dungeon plus there many glitcher and Gold spammer running this game down the hole real deep. I tell you stay away from this game as it is no longer good since it becoming corrupted with greedy, troll, dispectful people in gaming community for elsword. if you want to continue to play this game then go ahead be a hard headed person. It really really sad that this game community has completely gone to trash since player do not help or listen to your improvement or idea on the forum. it is a very toxic community that left itself a bad impression for the veteran player and new player as well. I think most gaming community are just really bad as seem to get worse over the month and year behind each game they play or hear about it on the internet. (I'm done with this review for elsword)
Thank you for reading this review for your time and money.
My over all rating for Elsword is 5 out of 10 for 2015 the game has alot of potential but things really need cleaned up if they didn't take the step to add nGuard and remove xtrap to stop hackers and boost client performance I would of given it a 3.
More other Server Mundalist Asia: KR, JP, CN, PH, ID, IN; Europe Gameforge: UK, ES-LA, FR, IT, PL, DE.
America: KOG America NA, Level Up BR.
Server pirates: Void got more stuff amulet +8 +9, break 0%, Unlimited Stamina, All skills free casher, Slot B; exp double, double drop rate. Thanks for Nice Fun
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(+Pro)
+ Costume variety
+ Challenge dungeon
+ Good combat system
+ 9 Character playable
+ Pet, mount, (fishing- not in any other server only korea got it.)
+ Skill variety class and different classes build
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(-Cons)
- Hacker, Exploiter, Glitches can ruin the gameplay and in-game money system
- Limited content
- Stamina system for dungeon (PVE only)
- No English voice actor
- Unbalance classes
- Immature Community and Bad Community
- Suggestion forum is useless ( no opinion from player ever get heard on different server)
- Patch error and Xtrap problem with window
- The Gameplay can be destroyed on character by the player behavior.
- Game master and moderator can abuse their Power by ban hammer random player (Warning!)
- Some item may not work in item mall (Warning!)
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Rate 3/5 star (good)
it would be better if the stamina system was taken off and add more stuff to do if you don't like combat only
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By:Elsan
I PLAY THIS IM LVL 51
does this game work in Asia (middle-east-gulf)
can someone help me pl z
i cant play this game, and opened the web too
The art style is colorful and Epic so you wont feel depressed while going through the dungeons
It does take a bit of time to get stuff but overall its a fun game
Elsword has a bunch of cool events and are currently make 3 paths for all the classes!
Elsword >>Sword Knight/ Magic Knight/ Sheath Knight >>Lord Kniht/ Rune Slayer/ Infinity Sword
Aisha >>Dark Magician/ High Magician/ Battle Magician >>Void Princess/ Elemental Master/ Dimension Witch
Rena >>Combat Ranger/ Sniping Ranger/ Trapping Ranger >>Wind Sneaker/ Grand Archer/ Night Watcher
Raven >>Sword Taker/ Over Taker/ Weapon Taker >>Blade Master/ Reckless Fist/ Veteran Commander
Eve >> Code:Exotic/ Code:Architecture/ Code:Electra >>Code:Nemesis/ Code:Empress/ Code:Battle Seraph
Chung >>Fury Guardian/ Shooting Guardian/ Shelling Guardian >> Iron Paladin/ Deadly Chaser/ Tactical Trooper
and Ara >> ?
so that's Elsword Online job ^^
Apparently this doesn't work in my region.
thanks :D
This game has 6 towns now, :D
And this game was made from KOG and Kill3rcombo,kog who also created Granchase.
I quitted gc so I can play elsword more often c:
and i so much loveing this game ;(
Vindictus closed
Dragon nest closed
PWE closed all games
am tired of this...
Definately worth a try for you arcade/sidescrolling go-getters
Lovely
The ultimate epic games are never allowed for Brazil!
Dude this make me want to break so much things as i can.