So yesterday i was having this converation with my friend in wich i was like "man i wish bdo had more things to do" and he was like "more!?" so i then felt i had to educate my friend a bit and share my view of the game activities, wich also helped me figure out why i always get bored so fast of this game. as i explained to him we have:

Combat related activities: PvP, Grind

Non combat activities: life skills

Since PvP in this game is an absolute joke in my particular case my options are grind+life skills, so what active options lifeskilling offer??

Fishing (afk activity)

Cooking (afk activity)

Alchemy (afk activity)

Processing (afk activity)

Training (afk activity)

Farming (afk activity)

Sailing (its not an activity just a parameter)

so out of 11 lifeskills 7 are afk activities, we are suddenly left with 4 options, wait... are we?? considering bartering and trading are the exact same thing but one on the sea and the other one on land we could consider trading to be the ugly unprofitable twin of bartering, so in reality we have 3 options left

Bartering: not exactly an exciting activity but is well paid and you can do it actively to increase your efficiency

Hunting: an activity i actually like quite a bit, its chill and active but the silver per hr is an absolute trash wich is demoralizing

Gathering: my personal feelings are that i would rather shave my beard with wax than to do gathering, but i do understand that other people enjoys it and its active so i consider it a valid alternative.

so summing this up, if you are an active player that can play several hrs per day you only have 4 real options grid + 3 lifeskills, in my particular case due to gatering being so boring and hunting being so low silver per hr the list is reduced to grind and bartering wich can get boring rly rly fast.

there will be some that disagree with this list or even come up with stupid argumentation about how bdo is perfect and things are fine, but i do sincerely believe that we need a wider range of non afk activities in this game urgently. and i would like to suggest that hunting gets a boost in profitability immediately, its a damn shame that such a chill but entertaining activity is convalescent right now.

Bottom line, life skills are a waste of time. Time to buff life skills and make them more active than inactive. Remove afk system from life skills and make it that life skills required you to be there constantly producing the products. For fishing, if you caught a fish but isnt there, the fishing rod wont be cast unless you press a button to cast. Love it!

You do that and you'll see over 50% of the current BDO population quit for another MMO in a hurry. The Devs here are not that dumb. They know better than to get rid of their only claim to fame on the MMO market. ~Complete AFK progression~

Just go take a 10 hour patrol of the BDO world. You'll see that less than 50% of the active playerbase is actively playing the game. Most I see and know just leave BDO in tray while doing IRL things or playing other games. That's the only way BDO knows how to pump out the viewed player number counts. Close to that of a popular MMOs that have no AFK features.

In other words, they know their game and their market. I do not see them letting go of said market just to please a few. You are better off just leaving BDO in the tray. While you play a MMO that actual has a active playerbase playing the game.

there is no need for that, few adjustments in the right places could make hunting pretty nice, however aside from that we would certainly need 1 or 2 more activities that are chill and enjoyable but also that can compete with the current meta activities in terms of silver per hr.

Heck even barterig is not active. That thing is semi afk where you just need to check every 3 to 5 min while doing other stuff and bdo minimized

The only active lifeskill is just hunting and gathering

Hell even that training dummy is also afk activity.

And that's the number one attraction to BDO for casuals. Some of those casuals eventually because big time whales in the future. Spending in some cases well into the six figures range for gear.

+1

PA, its time to update lifeskills. 

fishing can also be done active at hotspots

cooking is not afk  its actually considered semi afk at best due to weight issues and the speed of cooking cuz of mass cooking procs chewing through supplies  red sauce is pretty much the only thing u can afk on overnight cuz all its ingrediants weight so little

alchemy  same weight issue but u can def afk on it alot longer than cooking so ill give u that one  plus unless u minmax it to an extreme it can be hard to make profit off it

processing u run into weight issues as well since we got mass processing stones

training is in 2 parts   training ur horse is def afk or while u play another game  but taming horses is active  not afk 

farming is not afk  its an active that u do for like 10 or 15 mins if that and then ignore till u need to do it again

sailing is an activity  usualy comboed with SMHing or sailies or with bartering

bartering is def boring  i wont argue there but its more semi afk than cooking is  just look at the oceans at people bartering and probably 90% of them are afk auto pathing to each and every island

hunting is def a good money maker if u put the time into upping ur mastery and it can easily rival the $$$ of gathering if u know what ur doing... specially when it comes to wolf meat from featherwolfs..  plus hunting is better energy use than gathering due to u can do it for waaay longer

gathering is def boring as well  wont argue there   i usualy do roughly 6k meat a day and call it good since thats the bare minimum i need to reach the 200k wolf meat for a month of guru boxs

so yee  it mostly sounds like alot of the lifeskills u just dont like... and thats fine  not everyone likes the same stuff afterall

and i def agree alot of lifeskills need boosts to make them worthwile money wise but its a game in the end  if u like hunting  go do hunting  its simple as that  

Just cause you spends 10seconds every 5minute to reacharge your matts, it won't be any better in this sense, jsut say'n...