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As to be expected, the grind is relatively slow. You get experience from side-quests, main scenario quests, and class specific quests, which are designated with BnS NEO Divine Gems color coordinated markers. The main scenario quests don’t provide enough experience to get you through the story unbothered, so you’ll want to pick up some side-quests along the way, which do help flesh out the world, even if objectives are as menial as picking a specific amount of flowers for an NPC or burning the bodies of jiangshi.
You can also just do the main scenario and class quests if you want, it’ll just be a touch harder. But that’s where the fun comes in. Since Blade & Soul Neo is so skill based, you can tackle bosses and challenges at significantly lower levels and sometimes walk away victorious. It can take awhile to whittle these bosses down (which feel like they have inflated health pools in Neo), but it is possible. Better weapons do help, which can be obtained through quests or in-game gacha wheels that are littered throughout the handful of regions currently available in the game, along with Soul Shields. Soul Shields are where your stats come from, and you can customize what you want to prioritize, like attack and critical hits, and so forth. Sometimes Soul Shields from the earlier eras of the game might suit your playstyle more, and you can mix and match to varying effect.
And while you might be grinding for experience, the real grind is with the aforementioned gacha system. World bosses will spawn in each zone, and you’ll likely be able to find where that location is since players (and bots) will be camping the area. Deal enough damage to the boss and you’ll get a drop that will let you spin the wheel of fortune a prize. This includes Soul Shields, random weapon caches, and even cosmetics which is where the real end-game is. I cannot tell you the amount of time I spent in The Scorching Sands and Gloomdross Forest, not for weapons and Soul Shields, but for outfits.
Even if I wasn’t particularly interested in whatever dropped, I just wanted to add to my growing collection of cosmetics. You could say I was pulled in hook, line, and sinker, just like I was before, but it was genuinely fun grinding away with friends, even if we were waiting on timers, hoping we’d deal enough damage among the handful of other players desperate for a shot at a cool outfit. This does keep more powerful cheap BnS Classic Divine Gems players coming back to old zones, though, so it does have some benefit.