I'm going to say it, I don't care if its unpopular: This is the problem with nearly every single promoted Twitch streamer having better gear than me (and I started in 2017) people have such a delusional expectation of what BDO is when all they see is Full PEN ACCESSORY & PEN Blackstar or C20 players. All I see promoted are 300+AP players and frankly their accounts are so OP if they didn't start in 2016 they look sus.

O this is what BDO is! No no no no that's what BDO is for literally the Top 3% of all players.

Level 64, 65? THE TOP 10 Players on the entire server.

It's no wonder New Players don't understand the game.

Everything you said is the opposite.  I've caught up, it's a joke how easy BDO is now. I returned with gear that was worse than OASIS gear.

BDO has never been easier. Even throw away oasis and nachillian gear - which is all you needed.

My season character makes the same silver per hr than my main did 6 months ago. I cannot stress how easy it is to hit the new softcap. This season my alt is making 200-250mill/hr.

They made everyones income outrageously high for easy spots like Val. Then they upped caphra drop rates. Then now they give you easy insta free full tet boss gear - which is all you need to make fantastic silver and it's given for free for playin a season for like a few days to a week LOL. Then on top of that you can get a tet accessory as season reward, then on top of that you have the new capotia level rewards rework so you get them all by 61.

You're at fault, the game can't make it any more easy. I have a new character that's a mae and it wrecks silver by farming mobs with 2-3 skills. You have people farming SE ON SEASON SERVERS.

Now we have 100% pen accessory quests and pen boss gear on top of all the constant giveaway and free items/silver.

You do realize you have to actually PLAY the game, not log in for 1 hour every few days to progress. I don't know how much easier they can make lol.

Stop looking @ streamers and thinking that's the gear you need. You don't. That's the ultimate end goal, dedication, it's a progress. PA has already made you skipp 80% of the progress everyone had to go through even just a year ago. It's up to you if you enjoy the game to put in SOME effort.

200-250m/h "catched up" LMAO

Wait if you see that ppl make 400m/h on seasons in the desert kek

That's my season character lol not my main. It was an example to show you how easy they've made this game. Even if you're picking up 2 trash per mob @ like Sulfur you're still making near 200m/hr. Do you need your hand held?

400m/hr is agris there and other buffs. Yes with agris @ sulfur you can make 300m/hr+ depending on your drop rate. Something like 12-13k/hr casually and getting plenty of caphras, scrolls and map/compass MP parts.

People are not consistently making 400m/hr and prolonged @ val, stop lying. Val is there to dump your agris with a blue scroll then you go use yellow scroll @ elvia and make big bucks.

My main makes more of course, HURR DURR ELVIA so hard. They even nerfed bandits lol, you can do bandits in season reward gear. Please tell me how the games hard lol.

Being pen accessories and c13+ isn't catching up. Catching up means you're in a self-sufficient spot to make steady and fast progress. My season character can already do that. You can enagage in nearly all the solid top spots with minimal effort now.

I leave my season char @ Val when I am bored with elvia and want to use up agris since it's so efficient there. Now I am working a 40% off discount pen to flip. Games so hard bro.

Silly logic. You want to split a communit for no reason. Stop projecting. You're creating for a solution for bias.

The reality is there is rarely conflict unless you've chosen to be on a PVP renoun server with notorious guilds. Everything is so easy now there's nothing stopping you. You are not being griefed 24/7, in fact the most griefing I see are rota bombers or elvia weapon stealers, not PKers.

Why do you think people only post if something they don't like with PVP happened? What if people posted every day if nothing happened? Then you'd be flooded 24/7.

Stop trying to create separate modes. Accept a game for it's core systems and mechanics, you either like it or you don't.

It's just so hard for me to not laugh in hysterics without easy BDO is now and people still complain. My season character is a beast and I played it less than a week lol.

What have u expected? Maybe go back to COD.

it has never been easier for a new player i literly just restarted 2 months ago from scratch and im stronger then i ever was in two months counting the years i played... This just garbage post bro not even tryna flame what your saying is just trash its honestly very easy to progress you gota have value pack and no how to make silver off market and what to craft for profit theres tons of ways to make silver even AFK i made about 5billion yesterday alone and i only grinded two hours which neted over 400m i just bought a tet cres tonight because i sold my shiz game is in easy mode and dont worry about c20 if u dont even have full pen gear yet your problems off my guy u could just go for blackstar tets and say fuck caph stone u dont need them...get to 300ap then u can farm caph stone in olun valley 100 plus hour easily just need 300 ap game is in easy mode and its only gonna get easier signed guy who just made billions doing AFK

OP you are about to get a lot of hate here. My suggestion to you. Is to maybe play some ESO, GW2, or FFXIV if you want a MMO where you can progress to endgame in a releatively decent time period. BDO is for a very niche group of gamers.

Yeah, there is also another category of 'gamers' who are the figure of entitlement: we are now able to skip years of progression by playing 2 weeks but this isn't enough for them to stop crying and begging more more dumbing down of this game.

Those should probably follow previous advice and go play fastfood games.

Lol it's funny that you are shunning wildly successful MMOs. Because they value a gamers mechanic skill more than how much luck, time, and or money they've spent. 

But that is ok. That's why MMOs like this one is a niche of a niche of a niche. Compared to like FPS, MOBAs, Survival, and Battle Royal genres. Because gamers in general like to get outskilled by players. Not get out lucked down, not get out spent down, not get out time spent down.