why u complaining about pen BS, seen tet and pen god armor? PA wants full see of it at some point, can you imagine that? Losing pvp bec some random lucked out with his hammers 0.35% for pen god pieces multible times? LOL just imagine!!!

There's a reason why Genshin is skyrocketing in popularity. Because there is RNG but it is capped by pity guarantees after X failures. Whereas BDO is basically just RNG or whale to P2W. BDO is handicapped from being a top MMORPG or growth model because of this. 

I know everyone just loves my advice here... so here it is anyways. 

I have been in enough MMOs to know it is not always best to refine your junk jewelry.  Here for example, when I want something upgraded, especially accessories, I buy them from other players in the Central Market.  If the item I want is not there, I post it up anyway.  Eventually somebody else will make it and sell it.  Nothing random about that at all.  Most of the time it is a huge savings on farming currencies and wards needed to make the item you want.

I know most of you won't take my advice. In fact I am counting on it. Since you are the ones who bust your ass getting this done, then end up selling it to me.

There is one little problem: pens price is so astronomically high that the average player is not able to collect such money to buy them in realistic time.

Except one of my guild mate has an account half as old as your and he got a full TET blackstar set entirely bought from market and he works full time.

Oops doesn't fit your narrative.

Lol. 

Except that the guaranteed result is still random as you only know the level of the character / item. Nice to have a 5 star character, but which one? And if you want to unlock their full potential, you need several copy of this exact character.

So in the end, the pity system there is only a screen, you can "throw the dice" over and over and never get what you're waiting for. But nothing's wrong in this game, because there's a pity system, right? XD

Gambling with real money in an online game is now a plague, be it in BDO, Genshin Impact or any other, but it reaches another step in the dishonesty when they try to hide it behind such a false pity system. 

That don't really have anything to do with genshin's popularity.

It's a better game, that's why it is more popular.

But the two game don't even share the same genre, so that ain't really mean anything.

One tapped this the other day.  One Tapped that "Collect" button.  And yeah.  I have a life outside BDO.

Pretty "average", but veteran player.  I play active for about 2-3 hours on work days, sometimes less.  1-2 hours on Saturday, sometimes less.  All day-ish on Sunday.  Pretty normal "gamer" schedule, I'd say.

From start to finish, got enough silver to sell both TET Tungrad Rings and buy this in about a month and a half.  A month and a half.  I'd say that's "realistic", considering, it's a PEN freaking yellow accessory.  You may argue that new players won't be able to do this, uhhhh well, DUH -- new players are still chasing TET boss gear / TET Blackstar.  No brainer, dude.  It's a progression-based game, they're still in infantile stages, you wouldn't criticize a 30 year old adult being able to run faster than a 2 year old toddler, would you?  How moronic would it be to say "hey, that 2 year old can't run as fast as that 30 year old man, UNFAIR TREATMENT JUSTICE WHEN?!?!?!" KEKW.

Now for the flex = Double PEN Crescent in 7 more days (missed a few days QQ).  301 AP Kutum, here I come baby! /o/  *zooms away*

Oops, did I get some dust in your eyes, Senemedar?  My bad