I understand what you're getting at. If adjusting the power ratio in PvE so that you don't one shot mobs anymore, then you progress slower. In combination with this agonizing enhancing system, I don't think that would be a very pleasant result either.

But look at it this way. By adjusting the power scaling in PvE, as I described, the enhancing system would come more into focus, so the demand to change it would increase.

And probably for that reason alone, PA will never change the power scaling, because they would have to change the enhancing system a lot, which would make them less money from this system. A replacement would have to be found first.

      By having proper developers. PA is showing over the past 2-3 years that they've fired/relocated [to other teams] anyone that can do any wise decision in BDO. 

      I'd argue that even before big expansions they (and other games) were dealing with creep properly, just when new major Tiers of gear were added in vanilla (from T1 to T2 to T3), there never was an insane power gap like you can see in BDO. A T1 player was 5-10%~ weaker than a T3 player and had [more than] decent chances of winning. In BDO, a *680gs player has no chance against a *700gs+ player, and that *700gs player has no chance vs someone with *720+, and that one has no chance against someone *740+. [*Assuming proper GS, not fake stats!]. And this becomes utterly ridiculous if you pair something like a 680gs player vs a 720+ one, they simply don't deal any damage to them whatsoever while in return they get blasted through frontal guard in one skill. This is further compounded by class imbalance - just unfixable**.

      Comparison is more than fair, it's just PA fangirls that will tell you that it ain't. PA just refuses to take lessons from successful lessons for some reason**. Damage numbers, pity enhancement, instanced group dungeon content and so so many more things have been asked ad nausiem, and they only seem to drip them when their numbers are down bad [along with useless T9 and BS freebies which stifle any feeling of progression in the game].

      Of course, it's possible, just the company is unwilling and lacks [long-term] vision. This also brings us to my double asterisk**:

PA is doing class imbalance and improper power creep on purpose out of a sense of monetization/retention. I am not claiming that this works [great] for them, I'm just claiming that's what they believe in - a completely outdated monetization and retention method that has been proven NOT to work [anymore].

The question is, how are shareholders looking at this chart and not asking for restructuring? The answer is: Nepotism.

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PS. I am NOT human :F.

It's anything but easy with all of the multiplication systems they have going around. If currently a 720gs player 1-shots everyone at >680gs, while those [680gs] players deal 0 damage to the 720gs player, what percentage can you adjust to close the gap? If you blanket lower pvp damage, all those low gs players will deal 50% of 0 damage [:D], while the top end just got an annoying slap to have to chase surviving stragglers that now have a chance to get up and dash-off to the other side of the map.

It's the auxiliary stats [beyond old visible GS], their multiplication, and their inter-interaction that create the 1-shot output that we currently experience. They cannot fix something that had a bad design from the get-go, especially with regard to the class-vs-class table and Ap/DP brackets. [In art, we call this: "You can't polish a turd"] And they most certainly don't care about what we think about their game design philosophy when the response of a 90%+ approval post about resistances is to just double down on resistances.

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PS. I am not Human.

The whole premise of your argument is just silly. 

"If currently a 720gs player 1-shots everyone at >680gs, while those [680gs] players deal 0 damage to the 720gs player"
That's not what happens at all. That's just factually incorrect and wrong. The whole premise of your disagreement is based off misinformation.

"It's anything but easy with all of the multiplication systems they have going around."
There are multiplication systems in the game yes, but the base stats aren't what need to be tweaked. It's the final damage % applied to characters AFTER multiplicative systems that are already in place.

You're thinking too much and making something out of nothing. Stop freaking out over stuff that's elementary. lol

The reason these changes wont happen doesn't have sadly anything to do with either of our points, the simple answer is it leads to cron stone sales. Because of this it directly is tied to their proffits so in them leaving it as they do, they make money. And despite their willingness and want to make the game more accessible they will not sacrafice that.

The amount of work as well to rework pve to be fun would be... immense but It's nice to hope one day it'll be addressed 

You have a fundamentally flawed understanding of game development, balancing, and stat systems if you think that multiplication outputs should be adjusted at the end of the equation after multiplications have been applied. No point in arguing with teflon tho, nothing will stick.

Stop being a PA shill, nobody is trying to freak out anybody over anything, just point out obvious facts about game dev, PA and empirical + statistical evidence of how this game has fared so far.

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BTW, it's EASY to adjust the system pre-multiplications and delete the Class-v-Class and PVP Reduction tables altogether, it just requires a proper team. It's also painfully obvious which classes are OP and why just by looking at the numbers on the skills without even opening the game up whatsoever when some classes have skills on 6s cd that deal 12k dmg (and are unprotected with no cc), while others have skills that deal 40k dmg (that have SA, CC and sometimes even % based healing). Spaghetti code is an understatement for PA's design philosophy..

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Homie, I am on EU and am a 740gs+ pvp player with both endgame accuracy and evasion setups. Come with any gear and scale from 680 to 700 to 720 and try to kill me, I'll be at your service at any time - it's not like i've anything else to do in the game anyway. This reminds me a year ago when another homie on the forum did the same thing, just with trials on NA, and lo-and-behold, it turned out I knew what I was talking about.

Fk me, why did I return to these forums and this game, only brain rot to be found....

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I AM NOT HUMAN.

Added further context to "class balancing" of 6s skills.

I will give my opinion only related to PvP. Everything you say exists, it's called skill on class.

You can't close the difference in gear as you want, it's a bit too much and has no relevance in an mmorpg based on leveling and gear