Title: Developers - Whats the point of gearing up in this game at the moment?
Family Name: Whyso

Region (NA/EU): EU

Only content that is using your gear in full capacity is RBF(RedBugField), T4 nodewars(or better to say abuse wars) (2 times a week on shittiest nodes you could have chosen in history of BDO) and one Castle (lag/zergfiesta)siege(1 time a week). 

Honestly, with how bad your balance is and how you ignore feedback, dont even see the point of running value pack anymore(what for tbh? i mostly pop it coz im too lazy to sort out storages, but u r honesly finally giving me amazing incentive to do it).

Kama blessing? why? so i can play rbf and pop heidel buff due to energy regen? i can buy energy pots from market place. grinding isnt needed coz no gear needed.

Old moon book? its not that hard to ride for villa invitation once a week.

What's the point of gearing up in any mmo? Most of the time it's the latest dungeon and or the highest tiers of pvp, however broken or buggy they are. 

Then, there are games like GW1 or GW2, where the gearing up process takes roughly 1 month, after which, there's a choice to hunt  skins and titles or just continue doing the same content for fun. 

Since dungeons in BDO have a blantant disregard for your gear, favoring the one-shot mechanic more and most of the organized pvp being capped or equalized, getting gear in this game feels pretty close to chasing legendary skins in other games. 

u can get obscene amounts of money even with tuvala gear on right class.

u dont need much gear to participate even in t3 content and 66% of the available sieges. 

whats the point? 

dont get me wrong im 730+++ gs, im asking for logic in this.

You gear so you can grind on spots that yields half the silver that a 190AP spot give, what else do you wish for?

What's the point of getting the Orzeca outfit. Or other feel-good drops? It's what I was saying earlier. That it feels like gearing up in BDO is akin to hoarding rare skins in a different game.

It would be nice to have places where you'd have your gear put to the test, along with your knowledge of your class. Problem would be then, that the rewards from such challenges - based on PA's tradition - will be so bad that such places will just add to the pile of DoA content. 

I don't know how much PA can do though, with the engine being what it is (I mean, the poor bugger can barely render textures 10m in front of you).

I also don't see a way out for any of the activities. If the content requires proper gear, it's restrictive and discriminating towards the new players who'll never have a chance to ketchup or mayonese or some other whiney excuse and, because of the 190AP spot Cat mentioned, will be DoA. If the content doesn't require proper gear, then you, who actually put the effort to gear up, will feel... trolled, to say the least.

As for pvp, I don't do that much. But I did see the debates over ultimate green gear and it probably does feel like a slap over the eyes.

problem is that tuvala guy makes more money than me even there on low ap spot, if he is good class for it. balance in this game is nonexistant, on both pve and pvp.

id get it that fast mobile clases are better on some spots, and then weaker on other spots, but then we have classes like awk valk or nova or suc hash that are gigachads anywhere. developers are actually totally lsot in fixing their own game.

No point at all realy, the high end content suck donkey balls.

They need to keep those Tuvalas in mate, imagine if the new players had to grind Gehaz for 60mil/h where a pen BS cost 160bil on mp;_) Any new guy would just say fck it there are other games.

Now they blasting centaurs for 700mil+ kratugas on seson for 500+, items are way more obtainable for most people.

Kinda feels same as what they did to WoW with LFR, you pay sub you get expics just show yourself in raid. People dont care about how they got items anymore they care to have them only.

This may offend some people, but those typical ''casuals'' are golden when it comes to company souce of income. Most of all remember: PA is a company not a Charity organization.

Years ago the scrubs boasted on this forum about how great bdo is that they don't devalue gear. Apparently this didn't aged well.

It's personal for everyone.

My current main goal for gearing is so I can be strong enough to do Oluns and farm the La Orzeca costume. I guess after that I'll have to set a new goal.