First of all iv got to say I love what has been done with the game and all the changes made since the beta plus the size of the map is something else.

The graphics with remastered on are great and the game has plenty of things to do and sink my time into which is why I would recommend bdo to my freinds especially for the abundance of content provided for free.

Pros

.Detail to armor is great 

.Horse riding mechanic is great same for Mount variation which I hope is increased

.Loved modding skyrim this is my new RPG/mmo with no need of mods

.npc variety is great

.different path questlines also great

.community are very helpful 

.central market is great and very handy

.costumes for customised characters is great has its cons which il get to later

.Seasonal events are fun and in ways quite rewarding

.options of how to make silver passively also great

.class type asin playstyle type is very diverse also great

.boss fights are fun so far 

.Rifts are fun and rewarding has its cons aswel

.variety of pets great 

Cons 

.need a way of farming cron stones which I would

put forward rift boss fights to drop 25 or the vendor price be reduced to 750k or 1 Mil each 

.cosmetics mainly armors being locked to characters and not class is bizzare and bad considering if you delete a character and make a new one of the exact same class non of the armor cosmetics are still unlocked so you would have to buy them again, I myself made this mistake since I'm a returning beta player and only had one character lvl 2 at the time which was not classed as a Seasonal character so i just played on that one not thinking anything of it so i bought things on that character due to not knowing seasons are free to make a character which i would of rather put my cosmetics on that charcter but carnt without paying again ,when I did find out seasons were free I made a new guardian thinking my cosmetics would atleast be usable I could deal with stat's not being the same but cosmetics hit hard ,BTW when I found out seasons were free to make a character I was already lvl 56 on normal so no fughar Timepiece would not work on my main guardian since too high a level which has put me off purchasing any other cosmetics again and tbh i would of bought the tent aswel if not for the above reasons since i actually really enjoy the game so far.

.gate keeper random boss near lvl 54 area that if he kills you he just stands over your dead body waiting for you to revive to instakill you again instead of disengaging which would make more sense plus sucks loosing xp going to a safe area because of this.

.Lastly no way to combine valks iv got loads of 10s that will never be used so would be great to be able to combine them even if it was limited to only combining to a max of 80 and no higher and 140 be like they are now 

You lack experience in this game(or gaming in general) that is clear from the points you made.

I suggest seeking a guide, as you are not at the level yet where you would need to use cronstones, if that is an issue for you then you do something wrong. Also things like gatekepers... just ignore 'em, old, dead content that PA never bothered to remove.

As for the locked costumes, it is clearly written on the items, and it's not like you would need to main the season character. You can trade the gear you get from season to your main after the season ends, so that will not be an issue, you can keep your old main.

lack gaming experience in this game ? I'd say I'm doing alright for a guy that works and doesn't sit at the computer all time so you could class me as the average consumer I guess,  all my gear is pen aswel on seasonal character except accessories, and narcillin? On my main with some pen items I've solod about 10 rift bosses on difficult or very difficult including echo rift bosses solo, completed magnus quest and got my pen v giaths helmet  ,so granted im no god tier player atall but id say atleast decent ish lol I know I've yet to get to fallen god territory admittedly or kill a world boss but im working my way there. 

all guides I've seen say get them from season events ,log in rewards or pearl shop I havent seen a better option that doesnt involve spending real money or waiting for someone to put a cosmetic on the market once a blue moon or 2 mill a pop at the blacksmiths So just think it would be nice for more options that is all or the blacksmith to drop the price .

 Comes to cosmetics it only makes sense to me to be class based ,I play other mmos like eso and destiny 2 kind of is one and is the one il use for example if I buy a cosmetic for armor for my titan or unlock one an if I delete my titan character and make a new one my loot on character will be gone but any cosmetics bought with real money stays with my account and can be re equipped on my new titan character since its just cosmetics which I would say is a better show of faith with money spent in game than the one bdo provides atm ,obv like you said it clearly says character bound which I'm not denying I'm just stating I'm not fond of it. 

I came back after 5 years, took only 10 hours to get to full pen, we still have a long way to go, probably barely scratched the surfac. Hahaha, I can still how others laughing at us. 😅

I mean, besides the facts that PA Devs and balancers are the worst in the MMO industry? No one in pearl abyss cares about you, they just want money, and the experience in the game is so unbalanced and buggy, during node wars you can expect to be demolished by classes that need hard nerfs, and then follow that up with a game crash. Seriously the worst of the worst.

Like for example, this most recent update. Who the hell thought that Archers who are already one of the most OP Ranged characters need additional buffs? Out of touch and totally inept would be my discription.

With evasion being a pandemic, and ranged being the meta, they are trying to make melee classes without iframes go extinct.

Well hopefully if the devs want more money they'll tweak the little changes I mentioned about cosmetics I know it's a long shot but worth the try.

Comes to archer iv yet to actually use the class but noticed on the minatour field that it was a good class one shotting groups of adds at some right distance so yeh im guessing my guardian wouldn't have a chance unless a luck shot.

Node wars iv yet to try tbh so i cannot complain atm and comes to pvp I'm not a pvp main but from what I've heard  you don't loose crystals if killed or exp so only time will tell ,but I do think it should personally be an option to opt into and shouldn't be forced on the player.

But if I'm wrong about pvp and crystals please tell me so I know what to expect once season is over 

If you have lots of real money to throw away or if you love the grinding same mobs for hours in similar rotations, killing the same bosses again and again so you can get better gear and involved in pvp, then yeah you might enjoy the game. However I enjoy focusing on life skills, sure I spent some time and had my fun for some time with all life skills, bought some pearls and life skill item/costumes but sadly currently most life skills are not worth spending your time actively in them. Which is pretty ridiculous. The general argument is it is a difference in AFK play, then why not give the player to option to be more active in life skills? Fishing has this a bit right if you are not enjoying it, you can just afk fish with low efficiency, if you like life skills/fishing/minigames you can actively fish and enjoy both life skill and increased efficiency (I am not saying fishing is worth your time ofc, obviously it is not outside of events which is another problem) Most life skills are only still partly alive because of events/players who really enjoy them/players who keep doing them for the fallacy of sunk cost since they invested a ton of silver-real money-time on them. Sure they took the dead trading and shot it in the head again for some reason... but all life skills are pretty much not worth it which is bad for economy/game/life skill players aka everything. I know grinding mobs is the priority and core of the game I am not expecting even life skills to be rewarding close to grinding, however, you can not deny they are all unrewarding to different degrees. You can grind centaurs as a beginner grinder, do I need to talk about how much money you can make as a life skill player at the beginning, and people keep saying get manos/increase mastery as if you can do it with your current life skill income, not to mention mastery is not relevant in some life skills... Trying to keep life skills/economy alive with events and giving stuff for free is never gonna fix the real problems and ensure the survival of the game, If the current approach and problems continue, they will only get worse and kill the game. Since the main concern here making money, it should be pretty hard to make money from a dead game. So it is not only a problem for players but for developers and publishers as well.