What kind of rewards am I getting in exchange for risking my 5b Girin's tear? 
Do I really have to risk a 5b crystal for a non-existant advantage money-wise in PVE? 
I agree with the risk-reward thing as long as you make 1b/h and risk to break a 200m crystal, but not when crystals are worth way more than the hourly income. Lately every crystal price has increased too much.

I use a girin's fragment in my PVE setup because the Tear benefits are not worth the risk and are not impactful at all, but then, what's the point in making such a endgame item?

To be frank, this game would be infinitely better if the entire top 1% who's over 700GS would quit. Then PA could fix their horrible mechanics such as crystals and enhancement system and then start to dominate the market of MMO's as finally living up to its potential and being the best MMO made for both casual and hardcore players.

Thats a pretty good suggestion actually, best compromise I've heard in a while. It wont make the crystal market completely dry up, but you basically get a number of "freebie" deaths, and can always control when you need to be more careful and how much you are willing to risk. Cudos.

They can also remove crystal break and add new ways to use crystals, like they did with blue and gold accessories. 

1%... Over 700GS? More like 730.

Yet, you're right, some mechanics are indeed counter productive and seem to hinder both pve and pvp. 

+1 

nah dont do this... 

I agree it should be a feature, but it shouldn't be a free feature. Coming from TERA where you had crystal binds to prevent crystal breakage, I felt it was balanced for the cost (especially since the market was player controlled). 

If it were just a feature that permanently removed crystal breakage for free for everyone, the market for crystals would grind to a halt. Once you got your tears and your end game crystals there would be exactly zero incentive to grind for crystals anymore. This cuts quite a bit of the market out of the game and cuts quite a lot of mandatory content out too. Make it an item you need to purchase for x pearls and you can only purchase x amount a week similar to the fairy's tears but capped so there is still difficulty in the grind.

If you can just grind without worrying about being penalized for dying, where's the difficulty? Where's the need for skill to keep yourself alive? Exp loss isn't an incentive to stay alive and aside from crystals breaking it's the only other incentive you have.

I'm sorry but, who cares if the crystal market crashes I think that is a much more insignificant issue than the crystals breaking preventing people from participating in hard content. There are tons of dead shit on the marketplace, who cares, most of the low end crystals are already dead anyway with 6 month waiting times to sell.

Im not sure if any Devs are reading this or CMs (if you are please show our posts to them! ily) but this is my experience as a new player who started playing as a Lost Ark refugee after the latest Heidel Ball.

Currently im 285 AP 331 DP. I've been in love with the game so far. Currently i've upgraded into farming harder spots since i've gotten more gear. Spots like Orcs/Fogans. In my ~50 hours spent there in the past couple weeks I've had 5 deaths. None of them were due to gameplay. I've never even dropped below 70% HP. 3 of them resulting in crystal loss. All 5 of them were due to either Disconnect or Server instability. I know for certain 2 of the deaths were server disconnect because I have a 1080p 60fps stream playing perfectly in the background and I asked my roommate who was playing FPS games at the same time who had no issue. But the game lags out for ~5-10 seconds and I came back dead. The other 3 deaths were my internets fault. Maybe 2-3 times a day it will hang for a few seconds. The issue is thats long enough to get booted to the "reconnecting screen" that takes ~30 seconds to resolve even though the internet came back after a few.

This saddens me because I know I will never be able to equip the more expensive crystals and challenge harder endgame spots that you guys seem to be releasing more of. All of that content is now innacessible to me because I happen to live in NA where most of us cannot get reliable fiber. Even doing my current content and losing ~200mil crystals feels bad. It's not a huge loss but it's such a vibe kill to get punished for something entirely out of my control. Makes me just want to log off and play something else for the day. Eventually I don't know if I'll want to come back the next time. This might sound dramatic but I'm just being realistic. Spending all my gameplay time at centaurs to avoid deaths when theres a plethora of other interesting spots I could enjoy but are out of reach because of the crystal break mechanic frustrates me.

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TLDR: NA internet is unstable compared to KR. Crystal break is much more frustrating here because of that. Implementation of a "internet instability detection" is likely too hard and open to exploitation. On top of that it's clear the general community dislikes the mechanic regardless. This thread has a 95% upvote rate. Almost all the large reddit posts have 80-90% upvotes. PA please do the right thing.