if that already surprises you.

what if someone told you, for defensive builds, a 20million (yes, million) ring is the endgame item, competing with 150billion counterparts.

I'm aware lol.  But it's actually up to a whopping 30 mil now on NA lul xD

Something's really off with game design when green gear outperforms yellow and red.  Amazingly poorly thought out, really impressive, actually.  10/10.

I remember rooting for you in that post you made.  For now, I guess what we need to do is wait until it's addressed, because there's no way something like this is intended....right?  Right?  (Pass me more copium pls)

to be quite honest, they shoudl remove ALL the nonboss/blackstar offhandsfrom the game at this point.

I really appreciated the support and encouragement. ♥ I'll have some of that copium too if there's enough to share lol

Even before the Crystal Preset System was introduced, accuracy and evasion OHs were always valuable pieces of gear.  Now that these OHs can effectively use two crystal slots as opposed to one - along with AP caps being revealed - NA/EU are (rightfully) abusing the crap out of it due to devs falling asleep at the wheel on this one.

It's not necessarily green OH's being bad innately, IMO, it's 100% a game design issue.  Green OH > Red grade.  OMEGALUL moment. 

Time to bag my V BS on my tagged Striker, bust out the TRI Scale Vambrace, and back to Saunil Elite farming I go!!  Woooo :D <3 /s QQ high on copium.

Got tons of it to share!

"PA knows how to actually balance grind spot income -- arbritray grind spot AP caps that don't actually work is temporary!  They'll fix it, for sure!!"

"PA respects players' time and effort! Your hard-earned PEN Blackstar is still BiS, top-shelf, gear!!  They just need to address the problems that are holding it back and making GREEN and 50 CP offhands stronger, which they will!!!!  100%!!! :D"

"PA loves end-game players :D they love players who've loyally stuck around for years and defended the game on the forum and gaming sub-Reddits against pesky naysyers who criticized the dev team!  We're the best type of white knight (blind ones), and PA loves us veteran players!"

"PA listens to our feedback and responds promptly!  Yes, sometimes it takes months, half a year, over a year, or we're still waiting for fixes we've asked for, but they repsond quickly!!"

"Nah, PA doesn't hyper-focus on mainstream ideologies, like show-y things, like over-the-top new class releases, beautifully designed - yet shallow - new regions, making the game overly newb friendly while ignoring the veteran playerbase, they don't make your hard-earned gear irrelevant by boosting low-end grind spots silver income brainlessly so that vets can put on TRI green OH and make 2+ bil an hour grinding Saunil's, they don't leave us in a constant content-drought, PvP is still an important aspect of the game, and they work hard to make BDO fun, fresh, engaging, and meaningful!  They didn't forget what made BDO special to many....the PvX open world conflicts, the long-hard-but-well-deserved gear progression system, the near endless grind always striving to reach the most difficult grind zones, and the player-driven guild interactions that joined players together in-arms, or in-war.  BDO isn't just a shallow single player open world grinder now.....it's still an open world PvX sandbox MMORPG!"

Need more? :)

The game is cluttered with useless items in absolutely every part of it.

They just lost track of their databases and systems over the years, and said systems weren't solid enough to begin with.

BDO stat system was flawed since the very beginning. You can't make a coherent stats system when your original design was to hide most of them from players and manage it in backstage (no, it was never a question of "let the players test it by measuring pixels on screens, it's fun !"). You can't have any confindence in them to handle things in a sensible way when their first intention was to keep players in the dark.

It's a recurrent problem in MMORPGs, it's even more apparent in BDO because the roots of the issue were there since the beginning.

this aged badly.... obviously its all about adding more damage to the game.

good luck to all immobile nontanky classes.