The game's official website provided brief introductions to the classes in each discipline. During the game's operation, it had also selected plenty of exciting combat videos posted by players and featured them on the class introduction pages, so players could choose the classes they liked for their adventures.
So far, most players' knowledge of Spiritual Energy classes was still limited to those few lines on the official website.
[Imaginative]
[Spiritual Ascension]
[Transcendent power]...
Whether taken individually or put together, these phrases all gave people the feeling that this was absolutely badass.
But a feeling was just a feeling. In reality, after one version had passed, most players thought Spiritual Energy classes were "pretty weak"—at least in the early game.
Even the big shots who recommended Spiritual Energy classes would suggest picking up another combat-focused main class and treating the Spiritual Energy class as a "secondary" one.
[Play for the future]
[Just level it up a few times early on and learn a few basic skills. Focus on your main class first, and invest in your Spiritual Energy class when you have resources to spare.]
The Spiritual Energy class combat videos featured on the official website had only reinforced this view.
Spiritual Energy players usually fought by piling a bunch of buffs on themselves and then going "pew pew pew." They were neither as flashy as the Body Cultivation Style nor as straightforward as the mechanical classes, and when it came to being impossible to guard against, they got absolutely trounced by the mental classes.
So even though Bai Fu had done plenty of promotion and dangled the Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain as bait, many new players joining the Silent Court were still hesitant to pick a Spiritual Energy class, afraid they would ruin their characters.
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