One of the reason that most of the new and even veteran players leave the game is because the enchanting system just too punishing.

Even if you grind for months or years you can end up with worse gear than as you started.
People don't like to be punished for playing. If you spend hundreds of hours in a game you want forward progression not backward.

Idea:
I don't have enough experience to give a perfect solution but I would say remove the downgrading/destroying after failed ench.
(Cron is an outdated solution to band-aid this issue with money)
So even if you fail your hardly built up 10% you don't have to worry about that you will be weaker than a half year ago.
Or make enchanting 100% but enchanting materials would be locked behind challenging content like boss kills, daily/weekly quests, challenging life skills etc.

(Upgrading the same item is a good feature tho!)
For white, green and blue grade gear you could easily farm materials with grinding/ easy life skilling so new players could kinda enjoy the game without feeling the punishing system of enchanting but yellow grades should be the reward of determined players and red grades should be the reward for real champions.

An ingame survey could help a lot to investigate the exact issue with this system and collection informations about possible solutions.
More experienced players suggestions should weight more in this topic than newcomers' but newcomers shouldn't be completely ignored aswell.

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Im sorry to be the first to say this but... BDO enhancing system will stay the same- it's not meant to be an easy win kind of system. 

Hard earned gains are gains you can be proud of. 

Don't misunderstand me. I even said it shouldn't be much easier. You shouldn't to finish the game in 2 weeks!
It just bad that even if you go full hardcore but stay f2p you will never reach the level that a p2w player can with some money investment in a few months.

Cron Stone is not the best solution when you need thousands of them.

Newbies must play the same bdo that the veterans played.
The enhancement system must remains and stay like this forever, it's a Pillar part of the BDO identity.

Stop corrupting the game for each random newcomer. It is up to the player to adapt to the game if he likes it. It is not for the game to adapt to each *new customer*.

Those who love bdo, love its enhancement system. What if BDO's enchantment has a default. is that it is still not sufficiently punitive.

these white knights down every idea put in the forums. no wonder forums dead. 

There is already a 100% enchanting for most item, called chapras enchanting.

Obviously it costs more, but less risk, less reward...

I'm actually glad that PA is finally feeling the pressure of competition and making changes to make the game more enjoyable.  I'm glad they can finally see past their persistent white knights like above and improve their game experience.  This white knight logic, or lack thereof, makes no sense.  They think just like those stories your grandparents used to tell about "back in their day, we had to walk 10 miles to school...in the freezing rain...backwards...while dragging a wagon."  They think 10 years later that everyone else should have to be just as backwards as they were...just so they can feel better about themselves and stroke their own egos.  If it was left up to them, there would never be any progress and everyone would abandon the game as soon as something remotely less ridiculous was released.  I guess that's what they want though...to be king of the playground...even if no one is there by them.  Good thing PA is starting to realize that isn't what makes them profitable or retain their customers.  We're starting to see waves of actual improvements coming in now...and even in the global labs...showing that the white knight way isn't the vision.  White knights said no to dungeons...we have and are getting more dungeons.  They definitely need more work to make the dungeons desirable, but they are doing it.  White knights were extremely against any costume that wasn't a prom dress or full body coffin...we'fe gotten three recent costumes that are actually desirable.  White knights were all pro player killing and mob feeding in open world...PA has been working on the bounty system and publicly announced an operational policy change.  It is a good thing that PA is looking to the future of the game instead of continuing to stroke the egos of those that only want to retain their spot at the top at all costs.  This white knight behavior makes me think about that old children's story "the king's new clothes".  Everyone kept feeding the king's (PA) ego telling him how great he looked in his new outfit, when in fact he was just naked and was too caught up in his own ego and listening to sycophants (white knights) to realize it. 

On the contrary, enhancing is one of the things that while frustrating, probably needs to and can stay the same

If you don't like enhancing as it is, you can buy most if not all PEN gear as enhancing is statiscally profitable other than Kzarka and maybe Nouver but people still sell those too. 

Now imagine that system gets casualized. PEN gear will sit min because of how easy it would be to get that gear. People will now, exactly as you said you don't want to happen, be able to finish the game in 2 weeks. 

OP arguments are of a person who goes to a casino and plays for his last cash, just ignore that!

What I don't like about enchanting RN is the absured cost or enchanting, having tiny chance OK, but also 4k cron for pen bs? 3k cron for tet acc??? what?

Don't get me started on God armor!

Imagine what comes after that, will we have to grind for 6 months for 1 attempt at some point, or will they force themselves into giving out hammers every week? Or yet another pearl item that cuts crons by 90% ( most likely that heh).

I can talk only for myself but I like to be just DONE with enchanting at some point until new stuff comes or new BIS. 

The way it is rn veterans not gonna stick to get a free hammer for their pen god armor attempts.

I play on EU so no 1m crons for me :/