so i have been doing some of the ocean quest series during the season. i understand that instant teleports have never been a thing in bdo, but an hour long trip? really? 

why is so much of this game designed to make the player miserable? wtf?

i would actually consider 15 minutes to be pretty long . . . but a freaking hour? the ocean stuff in this game to me is the saddest of all. so much potential and just so much absolute garbage design. ugh.

Don't worry, with a good boat the travel is far faster than that. 

Now you know why sea content in BDO is dead.

i realize that yes, maybe with a good boat it will be faster. but somebody had to actually sit down and say 'yea, 1 hour trip is good' (15 min from olvia to leema, and then 45 min from leema to ratt) - it is mind boggling to me that somebody could really think this way. once you start from leema you really don't have some kind of choice to get out of it. maybe there could be a ship captain who at least warns you before letting you on how long the trip will be.

and yea sadly i can see why ocean stuff is dead. and like i said it is sad to me. i have been doing some of the ocean quests for giggles during season and it seems with some effort that it is a really untapped source of what could be a lot of fun. just such terrible design --- garbage autopathing of ships/boats since day 1 of the game(but hey they added new music last patch right? . . .) --- ships/boats getting stuck since day 1 of game --- and as i muddle though the quests (which are just going from island to island to talk to an npc and then go to the next island) i feel like geeeeeeeeez such a wasted opportunity to add something fun to the game. 

Even with carrack green gear (so softcap) it won't be much faster. No one goes to port ratt unless they REALLY have to.

Even doing only daily tasks for sailing it's a waste of a few hours. Of course you can optimize the route, use 2 alts for tasks but it still takes much too long.

I will say it again:
Who even care barter today? Whoever managed to earn some extra money before 3 or even 4 bartering nerfs, he earned. Now without free perm compass (Lafi is a treasure because offer more function then normal compass, because Lafi is impregnable, there should be an option to have a basic compass permanently), pve only channel and many changes in sailing, ocean content does not exist for me. I have carrack volante green +10, sailors for best speed, sailing master (+ manos tri gear for mastery) and ... I feel like I'm standing in place with 145% speed. I almost don't feel any difference between the current ship and epheria sailboat. Many times I send ship from Port Epheria to Velia and go to Velia on horseback. It's 2 or maybe 3 times faster. Yes with the wind on my back and 0 flow my ship almost flies in the air on Margoria, but then you have to go back upwind and flow. So biggest problem = flow. You have almost 0 speed and you can't accelerate. They should be removed from game, especially that they prevent harpoon fishing which it requires fishboat and this boat simple can't move vs 20 and more flow. Ship stamina (food supply) is also joke. When using the Breezy Sail (sailing is super slow without it) we have enough supplies for 40 - 50 minutes sailing. It should be reduced considerably, even tenfold. Ship repair - total fail. This should work same as for horses - they eat carrot and get life back. And it should be the same with the ship. We use repair materials from the hotkey bar and ship is repaired right away. Without these changes, a crocodile hunt for blue gear makes no sense to me. There is, of course, also the issue of ammunition. Maybe we have a lot of it, but each volley is 9 bullets, and we need to fire a few such volleys to kill smh like candidum, black rust or large pirates. And ammunition, as well as stamina, can't be refilled cheaply and in large quantities outside the port. If I have to come back to Port Ratt every 20 minutes to replenish my supplies, I prefer not to go out to the ocean. And basically, I don't even remember the last time I was on the water. And last word for bartering. PA reduces parley? "Great", just that it doesn't change anything for me. To use 3 resets (base + 2) I need 8-9 hours. Why? Because bartering goods they weigh too much. Here too there should be a 10 fold reduction. It is pathetic how little can be loaded onto a ship. I can barely fit within the limit to go to Marogia only once. So we have to return to the port over and over again to unload some goods and collect others. It is a huge waste of time and ... ship stamina.

A carrack with green gear must be realy slow! /s
Last time I drove from Ratt to Epheria it took me like 20 minutes (or 30 max.) with my Epheria Sailboat!

Any base carack without gear is worse than caravel or galleass with blue +10, but any carrack with green gear is better then caravel or galleass with blue +10. And that's why you should wait with the construction of the carrack until you have enough coins to buy a carrack green gear with few (eg. 5) lvls. Also green carrack gear is same for all carracks. Only blue gear gives the carrack its greatest bonuses and it depends on which carrack we have chosen: combat damage is increased and cargo greater load capacity. One problem: crocodile grind takes away the urge to live. Amount of materials needed is enormous and the drop rate is practically zero.

I like sailing and bartering but as it currently looks, it completely rejects me from such in-game activity.

Seriously... Except the harpoon fishing, everything else is vastly exaggerated.

look the bright side, at least it is not 12 hours like in a flight new york tokyo ^_^

and it prove black desert is big open map if you need one hour to go point a to point b ^_^

because it is dead sea very salty sea and lowest point in black desert ^_^