Was following Blade and Soul for a year or so now, it was something my guild and I would have loved to play when it came out - But we tend to stick to F2P games, so we were devastated when we found out it was going to be P2P.
The class and combos though, this game is very sexy for pretty much anyone who enjoys MMOs.
Although, the rehashing the chinese folk setting irritates me.
Forgot this thread existed. I got into that private server... God, probably almost a year ago.
BnS turned out to be kind of a let down to me. While the combos were fast paced, the combat itself was still very stationary. It was without a doubt a beautiful game, but the illusion of movement wore off pretty fast for me.
Japan's servers are now f2p, I was playing on playbns's russian server before, but its fairly different from the japanese. Its not too bad lag wise either, For being an NA user I only get about 200 ping