Blade and Soul Guide: What to do once you hit level 45.

I've been playing Blade and Soul since launch and one of the very popular questions I see from fresh level 45s is what do I do now? So i'm here to help you out and point you in the right direction because as new player I know it can be somewhat overwhelming. So let's get started.

1.) Upgrade your weapons and accessories!

When you hit level 45, your main goal should be to upgrade your weapons, ring, earring, and necklace to Awakened Infernal Stage 10 or close. This will ensure that your weapon and accessories are close to max as possible and it'll also make it easier for you to do end game content.

Eventually you'll come to a point where you'll start needing Moonwater Transformation Stones and Soulstones to upgrade your weapon and accessories. Right now those items are expensive and difficult to obtain so upgrade everything as much as you can. Always upgrade your weapon first, then your accessories. Your weapon will always take priority over everything else.

If you cannot upgrade everything completely right at level 45 don't worry about it. That's where end game content will help you along the way to obtain materials, gold and other stuff that you'll need.

2.) Get your level 45 Soul Shield and Belt

Your Soul Shield is very important because it increases your Health Power and also increases your stats like Critical, Evasion, Block and more. So once you ding level 45 the first thing you wanna do if you haven't already is get your level 45 soul shield and level 45 belt by going to Hogshead Hamlet and visiting Moonwater Valor Stone Trader Ryujo. You will need 16 Moonwater Valor Stones for the soul shield and 10 for the belt so hopefully you've been saving them up.

Very important! Make sure you get the Level 45 Soul Shield and not the level 41 ones. The level 45 soul shields cost 2 Moonwater Stones where as the level 41 soul shields only cost 1. So please heads up on that.

Hogshead Hamlet Location

 Moonwater Valor Stone Trader Ryujo

3. Do all of your dailies

Now that you've completed step 1 and 2 you're ready to do some end game content. When you hit level 45, you'll probably notice that you don't have a lot of gold to begin with and that's perfectly normal. When I finished hitting 45 on my toon I had roughly about 3g luckily for us, dailies give you a nice amount of silver per daily quest so that is why I recommend you do your daily quests as much as you can. Here is a quick guide of the stuff you should be doing.

Do all Faction Dailies (There are 6 areas where you pick up quests)

Do all Poharan 24-man Dailies (aka E. Fleet Supply Chain, Blackram Supply)

Do the “Big Four” dungeon dailies (Brightstone, Pigsty, Skittering, Oogong)

Farm Cerulean Camp in Misty Woods for Moonwater Arena Soul Shield (PvP set)

Farm Poharan 24-man bosses for Blackram Supply Soul Shield (PvE set)

(Optional) Level your crafting and farm Brightstone for the Moonwater Stone recipe

3. You will continue to do all of the above dailies each day, regardless of where you are on your soul shield sets and equipment. In this order, here is what you need to get for equipment as soon as you hit 45:

Moonwater Belt from Hogshead Hamlet merchant

Obtained with Moonwater Valor Stone

Awakened Infernal Stage 10 Weapon

Awakaned Infernal Stage 10 Accessories

Moonwater Arena Soul Shield Set from Misty Woods

You obtain this by farming the bosses at the Cerulean camp in Misty Woods. Head out there and look for a party in Faction chat or in Teamspeak. The full set requires 160 tokens dropped from the bosses.

Blackram Supply Soul Shield Set from Poharan 24-man

These are obtained from the boxes dropped by the bosses in Poharan 24-man instance

Siren Bracelet obtained from Poharan 24-man

Dropped from boxes from the bosses

Siren Belt obtained from the Merchant outside Poharan 24-man for 20 Siren Emblems

Emblems are obtained from the Poharan 24-man dailies and from boxes dropped by bosses

Storm Siren Weapon from Poharan 24-man

Until you are able to upgrade your Hongmoon weapon with Moonwater Transformation Stones, I advise picking up the Storm Siren Weapon from Poharan 24-man and using it

4. Current End-Game.

Now that you have completed all of the above tasks, there are a few things alongside your dailies and the above tasks you could work on in order to prepare for the patch on February 10th, 2016:

Farm for Prestige Points. The best place to do this is by killing Soojin on the Crimson Beach Outpost. He gives 2 points per kill, turn them in after 21 points for x3 credit.

Start working on achievements. Your achievements will give you points which are required to unlock your Hongmoon levels once they come out and get more skill points. So farming achievements can not only be a fun adventure, but it is also a necessary one to be as strong as possible.

Farm 6-man Poharan and 4-man Poharan for Perfumes. These perfumes will be required to level up gear.

Make sure to do your PvP and Faction dailies in order to 1) Gain soulstones and 2) Gain gem fragment pouches to increase the quality/usefulness of your gems

Optional: Train up your crafting skills and/or farm Brightstone Ruins for the Moonwater recipe so you can make stones for clanmates/yourself.