𑄝 Characters 𑄝

Blade & Soul

Alice Quinn

Force Master

NA Yura

Blade & Soul NEO

Ivy

Force Master

NA Viridian

Alice KR Stuff Discord

Alice

Greetings Warriors,

I am Alice from the Blade & Soul Discord “Alice KR Stuff”. My Discord became a place for players to find information about future content and help players make informed decisions when playing the game. I wanted to share my story of how I started Blade & Soul and how my Discord came to be. I have spent many years translating content and developer letters, so I felt it was time to write my own letter to the community.

𑄝 Discovery 𑄝

I started playing the game back in 2016. While the game had launched in January, I did not find the game until that summer. Before B&S, I tried a few MMOs playing solo, with the last being Guild Wars 2. Outside of MMOs, I enjoyed playing Sid Meier's Civilization. I never stuck to an MMO for a long period of time until I discovered B&S. The combat of the game, the customization of the characters and the cosmetics are what really caught my eye and made me want to keep playing. I started Blade & Soul with the Force Master class. My second option would have been Assassin since that was the type of class I had played in Guild Wars 2, but Force Master stood out to me the most and looked like it was the most fun.

Art by: Vivi

𑄝 My Story 𑄝

“This raid was the most fun I have had in the game. We spent hours together progressing and laughing at our mistakes. I was fortunate enough to be able to raid with some of the kindest players in the game, which made this one of the most enjoyable moments for me.”

The game’s combat and mechanics felt very different from previous MMOs I’ve tried and found myself playing every day. I spent most of my early time just running dungeons multiple times a day to get cosmetics. I had always been a solo player or played with a friend. It wasn’t until I was invited to a party by a player named ObseneTangerine to run a dungeon with his clan, that I started to take the game more seriously. They invited me to join the clan Ares. It was a very small and friendly group of skilled players who showed me how to become a better player. I learned how to really play my class in PvE and PvP.

The clan slowly grew and we were recruiting players as we had news B&S was going to get its first raid. Skybreak Spire or also referred to as Black Tower (BT) was what really defined the game for me. Running hard mode dungeons in 4 player mode was only fun for a while until it just became a grind to get gear. Having a raid with 24 players all having to work and progress together showed me the real enjoyment in an MMO. This raid was the most fun I have had in the game. We spent hours together progressing and laughing at our mistakes. I was fortunate enough to be able to raid with some of the kindest players in the game, which made this one of the most enjoyable moments for me.

The release of Scion’s Keep and Temple of Eluvium or Vortex Temple (VT) brought out a more competitive side. I was spending a lot more time focusing on getting gear and doing PvP after the first raid. With the release of the second raid, we were more ready and serious about clearing. We spent even more time progressing with even longer raid sessions. This is when my gaming experience changed going forward. I was being more competitive with ranking and doing more 6v6 PvP maps. I wasn’t the best by any means, but I want to thank all the PvP players for not flaming me and Longzhu for being my duo and carrying me.

When my clan Ares closed, I spent most of the time just playing with friends without a clan. We had a lot of fun doing our own things with our small group of friends. We eventually were recommended to join a clan called Imperious. I was hesitant at first, but I was convinced it would be a fun place to start over. Unfortunately, this was met with a lot of drama early on around the release of the third raid, Nightfall Sanctuary (TT). This raid was infamous for creating drama in the community causing clans to close, ending friendships and players quitting. This caused my entire friend group to either quit or go on an extended break soon after. With none of my friends to play with, I also took a break from the game. This was a low point in my B&S career facing that level of drama that I haven’t dealt with before. It left a lot of uncertainty if I wanted to continue playing B&S. I want to say thank you to Spacefiller for speaking up and pushing back against hateful comments during this time.

After taking a few months off from the game, I eventually started playing again and played with some friends that were still around. I played with a lot of different groups and different clans throughout the year. Eon was the clan that I would spend the most time around as most of my friends hang out in their Discord. Tequila Monster was a very helpful and friendly person to play with. He was always willing to take you into a dungeon and teach you the mechanics, especially when I was just coming back to the game. I started to enjoy the game again and formed a new friend group to play with including Longzhu, Rhazenshia, Panda, Jiwon, and Nana. I would continue playing the game for over a year without any clans until a friend of mine mentioned he was thinking about joining one. Lucindre was running content with a clan called Eris for a while and told me he would be joining them. I have been friends with Lucindre for years and we shared the same thoughts about clans, so I trusted his judgement. We both joined Eris and right away it was a different environment than I expected. It was a big clan, but it had a lot of friendly and welcoming people that reminded me of my first clan Ares. I convinced my friends to join as well and made a lot of new friends and memories there. Eris brought back a lot of the competitive side of gaming I had missed, and I was clearing content on release. We were also clearing raids within the first week. I spent the rest of my B&S time in Eris until I eventually quit B&S around 2021. Thank you to everyone that I played with over the years and the friends that carried me through dungeons.

The next four years were spent hanging out in my Discord and trying to be helpful with the knowledge I had. I thought my days of playing B&S were over, until they announced NEO. NEO was an interesting and different take on B&S, and it made me curious to try it. NEO launched in February of 2025 and I played at launch with the name Ivy. I played on the Viridian Server trying to avoid a lot of the older B&S players. I mostly wanted to play anonymously, running dungeons with random people. This brought back a lot of enjoyment from the early days of B&S and I met a lot of new people. I had a lot of fun from the nostalgia of the game but ended up quitting only a couple of months later to focus more on real life obligations. Thank you to all the new and interesting people I met along the way in NEO that made it an enjoyable experience.

𑄝 Discord 𑄝

“I didn’t intend for the Discord server to become what it is today, but I don’t regret it happening. I have met a lot of amazing people over the years. There were a lot of challenges along the way, but I learned a lot of useful skills as a result.”

I saw Discord as an easy way to organize my information for games. I would create servers just to have a quick and easy way to find information while I’m in game. I had multiple servers I would name “Alice Stuff” or “Alice BNS Stuff”. I spent most of my time looking at and trying to get cosmetics in the game. That’s when I started looking towards other regions for cosmetics that hadn’t come to NA yet. That is when I created “Alice KR Stuff” to organize all the cosmetics to make it easy to link someone who asked me for it, instead of having to search through all the images in my folder. This Discord was created in February of 2019. Eventually, people would ask for more information. This is when I decided to just invite some of my friends to the Discord so they could search through the information for themselves. The original members were Longzhu, Compliant, Salomae, Tequila Monster, Tangle and Teliona.

During this time, we had streamers from the Korean Server who contributed heavily to the community. They were always open to answer questions and provide information. While they might not be around any longer, I wanted to thank Skelly1, Kisoo, Nodah, and Nyan. They were the people I watched the most and had the most influence on how my Discord would turn out. In April 2019, an invite link was posted into one of those streamer’s Discord and I woke up to hundreds of unread messages. It went from 8 people to over 400 overnight. I was completely caught off guard by all the pings and questions, but I did my best to help everyone. I was completely unprepared for something like this, since I never intended to create a public Discord for everyone to join. The Discord was not set up for that, and I had to quickly learn about moderation, channel permissions and using Discord bots. I was adding a lot more information to the server than I originally intended to. I was spending more time working on the Discord than playing B&S. I had to start adding moderators to help as I saw the Discord growing very quickly. By the same time next year, the Discord was over 4000 users. It peaked at around 7300 users in 2025.

I didn’t intend for the Discord server to become what it is today, but I don’t regret it happening. I have met a lot of amazing people over the years. There were a lot of challenges along the way, but I learned a lot of useful skills as a result. Moderation was the hardest part of running a Discord server. Having to figure out what a Regex is to combat phishing and hacking attempts will probably be the hardest thing I had to do. There were always new ways people were getting their accounts hacked on the platform. I wanted my server to be completely safe from that, which was a lot harder to do behind the scenes. I was playing B&S a lot less or stopped playing for most of the time the Discord server was around. This allowed me to just run the Discord during my free time. I have spent more hours working on the Discord than I have played B&S.

The Discord seems to have filled a very specific niche that didn’t exist for B&S. I don’t think the type of Discord and the way it was set up existed for most games in general. There wasn’t really a place to go and find information about upcoming content from a different region in the way it was presented. I wanted people to be able to look for exactly what they wanted to know without having to see the same questions asked multiple times. I made use of Discord features in a different and unique way that wasn’t what it was intended for.

The B&S players can be tough to handle, but I did my best to help everyone and be fair to everyone. There were many times I wanted to just delete everything and walk away. The reason I never did it was because of all the information that was on that server. It was like an archive of B&S. There were many times I received DMs from people looking for a very specific type of information that was found somewhere in my Discord.

After years of advocating for an official Discord server for B&S, one was created in 2024. With an official place for players to communicate with the community managers and a single place for everyone to go with questions, my Discord, along with the other B&S community Discords, were no longer necessary. My Discord saw a lot less activity during 2025. While this may seem like a bad thing, I see it as something that needed to happen. Without playing B&S for a while, I have lost touch with the current state of the game and was not able to help people as much as before. There is now a single place for everyone to find help, and that will benefit the community even more. My Discord has become just a place to talk about random games, off topic discussions and the best place to get cat emojis. I will still try to update the information, when possible, but my moderators along with myself have become busy outside of B&S.

I want to thank everyone who was part of my Discord community over the years, who contributed to the discussions, helped me with information and provided endless knowledge in areas I had none before. I met a lot of people not just in NA, but in every other region B&S was available. My hopes for my Discord community going forward is to just try being a friendly place for people to hang out.

My Discord couldn’t have made it without the help of my moderators and contributors, so I wanted to thank Longzhu, Kiwi, 888Jambo888, Brice, Hallie J, Nyewi, Leody, Ted, Teliona, Compliant, Darksma, Tsuki, Heyu, Nanami, Bananan, Hora, Konbo, Stone, Yasin, Ayame_Rikku, Noira and LEaN. They helped contribute to the Discord over the years and I couldn’t have done it without them.

- Alice

𑄝 A Word from my Mods 𑄝

Hallie J

My experience with Blade and Soul has been pretty good. Honestly, it's a really fun game to play and I've met a lot of nice people along the way. One day I got invited to Alice KR Discord server by a player in game. It was a very informative Discord with lots of nice Blade & Soul players.

The information contained in the server was very valuable and the server atmosphere and vibes were nice. I had good interactions with other people in the chats and had a good time. A while into me being in the server Alice made me a moderator.

Being a moderator for Alice has honestly been a joy. I enjoy helping around the server and working under Alice to help bring advanced information and news and anything else the community needs to be successful and plan ahead. I primarily write a summary of the patch notes each patch and publish them, so players in many other Discord servers who are subscribed to the channel can see it and know what is coming.

When us moderators have questions, Alice has always made time for us and made us moderators feel seen and heard. Alice and her Discord server I feel has been a pillar of the community for years now and hopefully years to come, as the game keeps going.

Tsuki

My character's name is Tsuki WL. I played on Windrest EU before merging. I played Blade & Soul for 6 years (2016-2021). I was a Warlock player, and I liked my class because it is a support class and I was able to support the team.

I first discovered Blade and Soul as a recommendation from my brother. What caught my interest was the Wuxia style and fluid combat. I kept coming back to the game because I was able to build a community and had my own clan.

I played Live and I also tried Neo. I didn't enjoy Neo because the skill system was not to my liking. One of my favorite parts of Blade and Soul was getting excited for Thursdays to come because Bethany and Jonathan would be showcasing the upcoming content on a Live stream. I would then compare it to the information that I already had from the Chinese and Korean servers, such as new systems, new weapons, and new upgrades. My favorite zone in the game was Nightshade Harbor, hands down. My best memories are from raids and large group content. Level 45 was the best golden age for me.

Blade & Soul and Discord introduced me to a lot of new people who later became friends from all over Europe and the US.

Nyewi

The B&S community, just like any other MMORPG community, has always looked for information to prepare for upcoming patches and gear, especially when it comes to upgrading costs and damage prioritization. Alice created this community to share information from the Korean servers (the main server, always ahead of the others) and to spread knowledge that is otherwise hard to obtain due to the region being closed off and the heavy language barrier.

Thanks to the Alice KR Stuff Discord, I’ve met dozens of people who share the same passion for the game, with all kinds of different characters and personalities to interact with. It has become a central source for information, discussion, and theory crafting, as well as a place to analyze meta shifts and changes together with players from all around the globe.

The Server has always been the most passionate place to have updated breakthroughs from every B&S Server as it is driven by passionate Moderators assisting Alice in gaining resources of other B&S released regions, making it the ultra B&S information hub. Whoever plays B&S, back in the days or today, the name Alice rings a bell as the calm and always helpful person, making them a perfect Leader and my boss of content updates for B&S Live.

The memes and emotes fulfill a perfect role in the Discord server as they are always up to date with the season. At any time of the day there is someone out of the Alice KR Discord community to have a chat about anything and everything, even outside of B&S content like politics, memes, anime, stock trading and other video games of current interest. Deep down we are all hoping for a revival of the old B&S genre and that is why we are still stuck there.

Kwinera aka Kalina Alba

I began playing Blade & Soul in 2016, and it was a genuinely magical experience from the start. I quickly fell in love with the game and met people who would eventually become close friends. As the game evolved and I became more geared, I noticed many newer players struggling with content, so I made it a point to help—whether that meant carrying them through dungeons or taking the time to explain mechanics. Along with friends, I helped build and support a clan and Discord server focused on recruiting players and teaching mechanics in new content, which was incredibly rewarding.

As my real-life responsibilities grew and my playtime decreased, I still wanted to give back, so I became a moderator in Alice’s Discord server, created helpful reference sheets for things like HM levels, Gildstones, and Soul Badges, and kept my DMs open for anyone seeking advice. More recently, I became a content creator for NCA, streaming both to give away coupons provided by the NCA team and to showcase the game’s combat and visuals that I love so much. I hope to continue being a positive presence and a reliable resource for the community and those who follow my content for as long as I’m able too.

Ted

I’ve been involved with the server for about five years now. I started out mostly doing translations, but I eventually took the lead in the Hoyoverse section.

I feel that the server is an information hub that bridges the gap between regional servers and players. Under Alice’s leadership, the community has successfully consolidated a niche group of players who are either passionate about the game or technically proficient in translation, or both. By interpreting Korean patch notes and updates ahead of their Western release, the server provides valuable information that allows top players and their clans to strategize for difficult raids. Being one of the translators within the community, I was able to meet a ton of different people from a variety of different regions. I also remember writing detailed guides on Astromancer and dungeons such as the Doll House.

I’ve gained some good friends from the server. Whether it was during my time in Blade & Soul or more recently with Hoyoverse, I’ve been able to develop great friendships thanks to the experiences from the server. I’m especially proud of my friendship with Jambo, someone who has gone out of his way to help with everything from Blade & Soul translations, Maplestory help, and Hoyoverse discussions.