Family Name: Meatballia
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I'm going to use the following image as an opening statement:

I have played through both of grind sessions above at the recommended gear score.

The differences are huge, though:
1) The combat exp is worse now than before any revamping efforts were made to the spot. It was, back then, a consolation prize. I mean, drops were bad, but at least you could go Saunils for exp, if Miru was not your favorite cup of coffee.

2) Loot overall is worse now than 8 months ago. In 1 hour of fighting for the Trina Knights, I had (swapping channels too, 'cause the place is literally deserted) 10 Seething Saunils attacks, but only 6 towers, no Siege Captains, no bosses and the only crystallized despair dropped just as I was leaving the area, at the end of another eventless flag assault.

3) Adding salt to injury, these numbers are, as you can see, during events with really high drop chance. Worth noting that the current game loop of the Saunil Battlefield is less fun too, not just unrewarding.

What I'd suggest would be

1) An increase in combat exp in the zone if the valuable loot is to be scarce.

2) An increase in either the value, the amount of trash loot or both.

3) Reorganizing the monster spots, as some are on steep slopes (and we all know how attacking up a ramp works in BDO). While at it, maybe bring them closer to the rift too and center and adjust the rift's position to not end up fighting outside the area during flag assaults.

4) Lastly, a guaranteed siege tower spawn during flag assaults and an increase in the spawn rates of the siege captains and bosses. Saunil Battlefield is not Hexe, where bosses are irrelevant.

5) I don't really see how the place can be made fun again, with the current iteration of the game loop. Flag events are few and far between and profoundly unrewarding. For an increase in the ferocity of the saunils' attacks, the place looks disturbingly serene and the saunil groups are, probably even more bored than the few unfortunate adventurers that have the bad inspiration of going there.

Edit: P.S. PA, please bring the Forum into the 21st century. Not only we have very few editing tools, but even these get completely ignored at posting, converting the thread into an ureadable mess. Thanks!

Bump fix it PA please xd. To OP I can highly reccomend u Giant Spot a lot of despairs, low agris waste you can grind with 20k Agris for almost whole hour its really nice and easy spot.

I'm a big fan of being funneled into a very limited amount of grind spots, if aiming for something valuable and even fewer if wanting to have fun! </s>

Thanks for the suggestion, but I probably won't go there. As opposed to Giants, though, saunils used to be fun for me, before PA revamped them... first into an elites hunting ground and now into irrelevance. They're as fun as a headache now. And, seeing how this is a game, to play and enjoy for months on end, I'd rather not have a headache throughout the entire time.

I was fine, 8 months ago, with low Despair drop rate. Trash was as bad as what you'd get at Dread Winter Fossils, but at least the exp and fun were at high levels, especially when multiple towers were spawning at the same time. So I'd like some of that back, I guess :)

am i taking crazy pills, isnt15k trash with yellow there is avg? I remember when i grinded 300 despairs there i always had over 15k each hour, maybe im tripping

It's around 11k with yellow. Or was. But definitely not 11k at 270 ap.