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Blade & Soul cover artvsV Rising cover art

Blade & SoulvsV Rising

Blade & Soul leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); V Rising leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS4 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Blade & SoulV Rising

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads4 vs 4

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Blade & Soul leans harder on variance: Gear drops and upgrade RNG gate progression somewhat

Optimization7 vs 8

V Rising leans harder on optimization: Base defense, gear, blood type planning

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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