Why do I, as an Awakening player, have to have full PEN armor and weapons, but Succ players get to get away with a TRI Dande or TRI green awakening weapon? 

The price of a BASE PEN Dandelion can range from about 15 billion silver+. 

A C20 TRI Dande?  About 5 billion silver.

Devs?  Was this intended? O____o'

Its simply a early cost saving.

In the end we end up buying a PEN dandy. Just not a priority

First of all pen dande is only 12b max now in na

also secondly as ^ said u still want pen dande. contrary to popular belief awakening weapon does affect succession, but it's just so marginal people are willing to sacrifice that in order to make gains somewhere else. 

Who's forcing you to use a pen main hand as an awakening char? 

you also have the option of using a pen liverto which is even cheaper than the tri you're complaining about 

@catastigma @asdsadfas K.  12b, 11b, whatever, it's still within the realm of reason.  This "marginal" difference in performance is well worth the extra ~7 billion savings then, so Succ gets to save ~7 bil vs awakening players.  K.

@claydough First of all, this was a question.  A frustrated question, but a question, none the less. TF outta here with that "complaining" and "forced" word salad BS.  The disparity in price between a BIS awakening Dande vs TRI Dande is notable and worth questioning, since, Succ and Awak were advertised to be equal, or something like that, players can choose one or the other and not be gimped for it.  A price disparity is not that.

Also that snide "YoU cAn UsE a LiVeRtO" is so brainless and devoid of critical thought, it's not even worth a proper reply.

Thanks Cata and Asds for answering the QUESTION.

You can't use a pen liverto or a less-than-pen main hand because you'd lose a lot of accuracy.
Tri dandelions instead provide to succession players more accuracy than a c9+ pen awakening weapon. Its cost is 5b only and the damage loss is negligible. You asking this question are clearly a non expert player or in bad faith not wanting your cheap exploited toy to be fixed.


Anyway, few solutions have been proposed in this thread, I suggest you to keep it up so that it can be seen from the staff:

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Community/Detail?topicNo=35&topicType=26&returnUrl=%2fCommunity%3ftopicType%3d26+%26amp%3bsearchType%3d+%26amp%3bPage%3d7+%26amp%3borderBy%3d12+%26amp%3bsearchProfileAccount%3d%26amp%3bsearchText%3d

Thank you for the links, will have to check them out.  Also, I don't really believe that players will eventually work towards a PEN Dandelion.  When there are players over 670+ GS using TRI Dande with Succession.  Well known, high GS streamers like Hunter_Juju and Vert are using, and have been using, TRI Dande for a long time.  I think Juju got an Awakening Blackstar recently, but Vert, who is 670+ GS is using TRI Dande on his Succ Hashashin.

Here's Vert's gear.  Sorry it's darkened, it is a screenshot of a paused Twitch livestream.

(No shade to Vert or anyone else doing this.  It's META, I get it.  But uhhh....yeah.  Not how the devs intended it to be, I would have to assume)

Yeah, not really buying that players will eventually get a PEN Dande when high GS players, who would definitely go for the stronger weapon if it was that much more beneficial, are using a TRI Dande.  Maybe the difference in damage from a PEN Dande is neglibly higher than a C20 TRI Dande, but if that is true, then that difference in damage is so miniscule, it's not even worth it to shell the extra ~10 billion silver for.......Which, bring me back to my original question.

Sorry to all you Succession players.  But you know this is not how it's "supposed" to be....unless you admit that rolling Succession is the "easy mode" choice over Awakening.  But even then, I thought Awakening or Succession was supposed to be on equal footing?  This price disparty between BiS builds is....uh...not that.