History VideoGame / Elsword

* PlayingWithFire: Subverted with Magic Knight, when you consider that one of the job's biggest selling points is its idle animation, which includes a flaming hand, Magic Knight does a lot more with Spectral Swords than with fire itself, his Fireballs barely count because they don't look fire-y at all and are replaced by runes when you take the further advancement into Rune Slayer.

* KillItWithFire: Subverted with Magic Knight, when you consider that one of the job's biggest selling points is its idle animation, which including a flaming hand, Magic Knight does a lot more with Spectral Swords than with fire itself, his Fireballs barely count because they don't look fire-y at all and are replaced by runes when you take the further advancement into Rune Slayer. Played 100% straight, however, with the Pyro Knight and further Advancement into Blazing Heart, even the abilities which ARE based in Spectral Swords have fire effects!

* PlayingWithFire: Literally, on Elsword's Magic Knight job.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Ara, when activating her En Mode, gets completely possessed by her Guardian Spirit, Silver, and this is one of the many bodily changes that she undergoes because of that. Double points because Silver is described to be both ruthless and merciless while Ara is described to be kind e compassionate.

** Ara's job advancement Little Hsien can even do TeleportSpam as she slashes enemies in range.

** Was played straight [[OlderThanDirt all the way back in Season 1]] though, and it was coupled with NightmareFuel too, as the timer ran out the screen got progressively darker, once it ran out, the dungeon would "light out" and all players would immediately die and not have the option of using ressurrection stones, immediately failing the mission. The NightmareFuel comes from when the lights go out, if the timer ends during the stage portion all you could see were the particle effects of the Alterasia Pollen in the air... Time out in the bsos's chamber though, and not only could you see the pollen, you could also see the boss's [[RedEyesTakeWarning Red]] [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing eyes]], staring directly at the screen.

** Also coupled with [[FakeDifficulty Fake Difficulty]] because after the revamp, what enemies are what is completely random, and even what enemies spawn is completely random, so you might either end up with an almost harmless enemy becoming a Commander, which is easy enough to deal with, or you can turn a projectile-immune, ranged-damage, or even a multi-hit enemy into a Commander. Multi-hitters are the most dangerous: Pretty much every enemy attack that is multi-hit also deals damage in an area, combine that with the insane damage boost Commanders have...[[note]]To give some context, high-level Normal enemies tend to deal anything from 3000~7000 damage per attack. Commanders can deal anything from 10000~30000, ''per hit''. Normally, level capped players have anything from 110k~250k HP.[[/note]]

* GameFavoredGender: The male classes in general have more power than the females.

** Ironic, considering that before it was the other way around.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Beautifully done on the Fourth Volume of El Type Season 2, "My Mascot And Me", where a seemingly random character receives a package which is a {{Book Ends}} moment for the Volume, considering how the story was going and how it was pure comedy, everyone thought the character was Ara Haan, but her eyes were obscured. However, with the release of the video showing off the Eight Character, Elsword's Sister (Who's [[GrandChase Elesis, no less]]) it's been confirmed [[ChekovsGun through her necklace]] that the character in the El Type was, in fact, Elsword's sister.
** Double points because Elsword's sister is actually mentioned in the El Type, but in such a comical way nobody thought anything of it.
*** Aaaaaaaaand Triple Points because the Main Character, who's supposed to be a student nicknamed "Raven", enters the world of Elsword, just before the last page showing off Elsword's Sister.

* FakeDifficulty: See Boss In Mook Clothing above, also, some bosses (Like Karis, Ran, Fallen Chloe though she's a miniboss, to name a few) will be almost permanently in Super Armor and when they are not, their Super Armor treshold (Essentially how many times you can hit them before they automatically activate Super Armor to counter you) is so low and the counter-super armor so high that your option is to either not deal damage at all or deal damage but risk taking half your health as damage.

* BossInMookClothing: The Secret Revamp after the release of Hamel's Secret Dungeon, Temple of Trials, adds two "tiers" of enemies to Secret Dungeons. Normal enemies, which are basically slightly stronger versions of enemies from the normal dungeons of the city, and "Commander" enemies, which, as the developers themselves described, "were designed to be minibosses in their own right". Stupidly enough, Commanders are actually more dangerous than a few minibosses, due to ridiculously high damage, almost infinite Super Armor and a ridiculously large health pool - some of them can instantly kill even the tankiest members of a team.
** Also coupled with [[FakeDifficulty Fake Difficulty]] because after the revamp, what enemies are what is completely random, and even what enemies spawn is completely random, so you might either end up with an almost harmless enemy becoming a Commander, which is easy enough to deal with, or you can turn a projectile-immune, ranged-damage, or even a multi-hit enemy into a Commander. Multi-hitters are the most dangerous: Pretty much every enemy attack that is multi-hit also deals damage in an area, combine that with the insane damage boost Commanders have...[[note]]To give some context, high-level Normal enemies tend to deal anything from 3000~7000 damage per attack. Commanders can deal anything from 10000~30000, ''per hit''. Normally, level capped players have anything from 110k~250k HP. Might not seem like much to the tankiest classes like the Lord Knight or the Iron Paladin, but it's quite certainly a lot to the squishiest like the Yama Raja or the Elemental Master. And that's assuming it isn't a Commander Shadow Master who can instantly kill even the toughest Iron Paladin.[[/note]]

** Also coupled with [[FakeDifficulty Fake Difficulty]] because after the revamp, what enemies are what is completely random, and even what enemies spawn is completely random, so you might either end up with an almost harmless enemy becoming a Commander, which is easy enough to deal with, or you can turn a projectile-immune, ranged-damage, or even a multi-hit enemy into a Commander. Multi-hitters are the most dangerous: Pretty much every enemy attack that is multi-hit also deals damage in an area, combine that with the insane damage boost Commanders have...[[note]]To give some context, high-level Normal enemies tend to deal anything from 3000~7000 damage per attack. Commanders can deal anything from 10000~30000, ''per hit''. Normally, level capped players have anything from 110k~250k HP. Might not seem like much to the tankiest classes like the Lord Knight or the Iron Paladin, but it's quite certainly a lot to the squishiest like the Yama Raja or the Elemental Master. And that's assuming it isn't a Commander Shadow Master who can instantkly kill even the toughest Iron Paladin.[[/note]]

** Also coupled with [[FakeDifficulty Fake Difficulty]] because after the revamp, what enemies are what is completely random, and even what enemies spawn is completely random, so you might either end up with an almost harmless enemy becoming a Commander, which is easy enough to deal with, or you can turn a projectile-immune, ranged-damage, or even a multi-hit enemy into a Commander. Multi-hitters are the most dangerous: Pretty much every enemy attack that is multi-hit is also AoE,combine that with the insane damage boost Commanders have...[[note]]To give some context, high-level Normal enemies tend to deal anything from 3000~7000 damage per attack. Commanders can deal anything from 10000~30000, ''per hit''.[[/note]]

** There are reports of a party of Code Electra doing [[UpToEleven 2 thousand above]] of those orbs.

* ShipTease: The 2013 Valentine's Day and White Day event videos sail the following: [[SlapSlapKiss Elsword/Aisha]], [[LoveAtFirstPunch Elsword/Eve]], [[MayflyDecemberRomance Raven/Rena]], and [[ScrewYourself DeadlyChaser/IronPaladin]].

* DualBoss: The boss at the Dragon Road (Bethma's first stage) are two boss lizardmen. Later on you get a Triple Boss in Underground Garden (Feita's fourth stage).

** Also the level cap put for the characters are actually pretty low when compared to most RPGs, and that late-game dungeons will tend to be more than a match for the characters even when they're on their max level.

* PlayerExclusiveMechanic: A minor case: while Epic NPCs thrives on SecretAIMoves (see below), Noah (Elemental Master) cannot do XXvXX combo[[note]]2 fireballs, then circular plume of fire and an explosion[[/note]] - the explanation is that she's pyrophobic.