Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is the brand-new free-to-play MMO that has already made strides among players who love MMOs and RPG games. Much like any free-to-play game, however, it is full of information that the game generally doesn’t mention outright, which can throw a new player off guard. So, if you are jumping into the game day one and don’t know what to look out for, here are some general tips and a checklist for you to follow.
Choose Your Preferred Class In-Game
Since Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is an MMO with classes, you might want to choose the class that looks best suited to your preferred playstyle. Don’t focus on choosing the so-called “Meta Classes” right now because it is early in the game’s cycle, and there’s no meta to begin with. Blue Protocol: Star Resonance features eight classes, each playing differently from the other, namely:
- Shield Knight
- Marksman
- Verdant Oracle
- Frost Mage
- Shield Knight
- Stormblade
- Beat Performer
- Heavy Guardian
Read through their description, and pick the one that fancies you. If you don’t like the class you chose later on, you can always switch it out later by going to the bureau and speaking with Millia, who gives you a quest letting you change your class.
Focus on Class Progression Early On
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance has various skills and talents attached to each class, which you’ll be upgrading over time as the main story progresses. As such, you need to focus on what skill and talent you are unlocking.
The game is forgiving when it comes to talent progression. Talent lets your class perform unique skills and attacks in combat. It maxes out at 70, and while you won’t be able to unlock every single talent in the tree, you can reset it for no additional cost at any time, and you’ll get your talent points and items used back. So, take your time and experiment with the talent tree.
Where you absolutely have to keep an eye out and know what you are doing is with the skill training. Every class in-game can equip a total of four skills, and the equipped skill costs in your ability score. While skill upgrade is still something you don’t have to worry about since it uses Luno, which is easy to get, advancement is something you absolutely keep an eye out for.
Skill advancement increases the tier for your selected skill, determining the skill’s performance. To advance, you’ll need a skill book, a rare resource that is hard to come by and unique to each class. So, be very mindful of which skill you are advancing with the skillbook, because once you use it, you will need a premium item called Astral Recall Key to roll back your mistake.
So, chart out what skill you want your character to focus on, and build and advance your character accordingly around those particular skills.
Unlock the Float and Phantom Dash Skill Early On
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance features a huge open world to roam around, which might take you quite a while to explore completely. When you’re on your missions, you’ll want to float, dash, and cover ground quickly. Fortunately, there are two skills you can unlock early on, right after getting access to the open world.
First, to obtain Float, visit the Ancient City of Vill area on the Asteria map and locate a giant blue flower in the middle of the field. It is easy to spot, and you have to resonate with it to receive the Float skill. Once you get the skill, go to the skill section, visit the Terra Resonance tab (the third tab), and equip the Float skill. Now, when you see the vortex of air shooting from the ground, get inside it to reach vertical height, and hit your attack button to start floating.
Similarly, visit this place on the map, marked above, to find a wind tunnel beside the teleporter. Activate and get into the wind tunnel to reach the mountaintop, where you can get the Phantom Dash skill. Like Float, you’ll have to equip it in your Terra Resonance tab, and once you do, you can dash at any point in time.
Focus on Keeping Up with the Dailies and Main Story Quests
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance doesn’t let you progress through the main storyline in one go. Rather, it unlocks over time for everyone. So, focus on completing your main story as quickly as possible so you can keep up with it and keep leveling your character systematically.
The main story quests give a lot of experience, and your level is tied to the main story quests. So, focus on doing them as much as possible quickly, because the higher your character level, the better you’ll perform in fights.
Outside of the MSQs (Main Story Quests), you should also focus on your dailies. They don’t take long, and you can earn approximately 6 million EXP per day by practically devoting a few minutes of your time.
How The Monetization Works In This Game
Blue Protocol: Star Resonance is a free-to-play game, and as such, features monetization you’d expect from any free-to-play game. It, however, features various monetization systems, so you should know where to spend your real-world money properly, if you want to spend some at all.
The game has a season pass, which works like a Battle Pass, and finishing certain questlines will progress through the pass, rewarding you with goodies that help with progression. Then, there’s the Monthly Card, which provides fixed Red Orbs for in-game usage in the item shop for costume gacha pulls, getting crafting items, and daily rewards in the form of Red Orbs every time you do your daily login for thirty days.
Finally, there is an outfit gacha system and a Fashion Store for players who love fashion in these games. They don’t provide any strategic advantage, outside of just showing your fashion sense to your friends.
Join a Guid
I know solo players might be thinking twice about joining a guild, but consider joining one since it really helps with progression in-game and provides you with some nifty rewards. Blue Protocol: Star Resonance features a Guild Shop, which features progression items otherwise not found in other places and is unlocked by progressing through guild quests and guild dailies, and earning guild coins.
So, join a guild that fancies you early on in-game, and start doing the guild activities whenever possible. Doing so will reward you with the Guild Coins, which you can use at the shop later when it unlocks.
These are some of the beginner tips we feel you should be aware of in Blue Protocol: Star Resonance. Of course, how you play the game is on you as a player, since every playstyle is different, and this is an MMO at the end of the day.
