[Participating in the Nexon PEAK Post Challenge]

A long-running game in my genre that’s somehow already heading into year 16...

And when it comes to RPGs, isn’t one of the biggest reasons people hesitate the fear of being behind?

Ha! But!

If you’re the one worrying about that,

here are 3 reasons you can come back to Elsword “right now” with zero problem!

1. Summer vacation events are live = they’re just handing out items like candy

Classic all-ages game behavior: even for the people who don’t get school breaks anymore, vacation season still means event season, every single time

In Elsword, every vacation season they run a combat power boost event (aka Punch King).

Since this event instantly gives you the previous endgame armor/weapon/avatar set,

you can hop straight into all kinds of content like regular dungeons / raids / PvP right away and actually try stuff out.

Even my precious little Anemos, who I painfully raised bit by bit on Punch King gear,

managed to grab MVP in Sanctuary too! Hoho~

1. They’ve actually been working, pretty steadily(?) at that, on difficulty and QoL improvements

(April 2025 raid single mode update)

(April 2026 convenience overhaul)

Since the first half of last year, they’ve been updating more content you can enjoy solo,

so even players who feel awkward or pressured about party play can just chill and enjoy the game now.

As someone who loves solo play down to the bone, I had to bow once toward KOG for this, not gonna lie.

1. Cutie beauty pretty characters

Source: Nexon Elsword official homepage

Your fave is still out there in Elrios all alone, so how are you gonna just leave them there?

Even if you’re burned out on the game, you can still log in just to see their face ㅋㅋ

Looking at it overall,

if you’re not obsessed with pushing endgame and you just want that fun of making your character stronger at a nice comfy pace,

and you care about character fashion too...

= why are you not playing Elsword?

(Of course, if you’ve got the time and the money, endgame content is totally doable too!)

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My favorite villain is Berthe.

This guy terrorized us 1N years ago with that trash map called Altar of Invocation.

Then he suddenly became a raid boss,

and now he’s a cute pet;;

He shows up so much there’s even an achievement that’s basically like, okay, we’ve seen each other four times already, isn’t that enough?

At this point he might just be some obsessive monster stalking Elsword....

Anyway, 20000~