Family Name: Grygiel

Region (NA / EU): NA

Suggestions / Comments:  This system is extremely punishing and at the very least needs to be re evaluated to determine if this is best for the game. Backwards progression exists HEAVILY in BDO with the state of the enhancing system BUT cron stones exist.  There IS a way to counteract backwards progression when enhacning and not a way to prevent crystal breakage. Not using expensive crystals or not playing the game does not consitute a "workaround" to the problem. The fact that a self serve system was implemented to restore 3 crystals a year ((probably because of everyone contacting support)) says there is a problem.

Get creative:

Simply remove crystal breakage, no one is going to miss it  (my vote)

Crystal Brand Stones  (would most likely be another pearl shop item, NOT a fan of this option, although branding a crystal would render the item no longer sellable on the MP thus "removing" them from the game)

Allow cron stones to be stored in the transfusion UI and be consumed instead.

Crystal durability that needs repairing from powder of lower tier crystals.

DYING IN YOUR GAME AND BEING SETBACK 1-3 HOURS IN TERMS OF RAW SILVER IS NOT FUN

I hope people keep posting this topic, I will keep upvoting it.  Maybe eventually PA will listen to it's players and remove crystal breaking and gear downgrading upon death.  At the very least we can annoy them until they cry.

Absolutely.  I don't understand the mentality of punishing players so badly for mistakes.  A few min delay, etc.  Months of work?  Rubbish

Firm handshakes. I'll be there right beside you upvoting them as well! The squeaky wheel gets the oil.

+1 to removing crystal breakage from the game. Imagine getting to grind a few hours a week just to get totally blasted and lose hours of time input for one moment of a mistake or desync or lag, etc. Legitimately, crystal breakage has been the singular factor that has made me think about quitting BDO. Other amazing content in this game suffers because this system exists. I would love to learn and grind Dehkia Olun's with my buddies.

Who would down vote removing crystal breaking is a mystery to  me.

There are always such "white knights". Some will spend their entire lives defending this pointless, endless grind.

Additionally, Koreans have a different mentality, but even they see that "Western" MMOs are more enjoyable for players and offer greater playability. That's why I have been saying for a long time that the US/European market should have its own version of BDO managed by the Western branch of PA, not by the Koreans, because they completely do not understand our problems and expectations.

Crystal break had sense when they were really cheap and crystal loss was something like "meh heh nothing happend" nowadays when u lose 5 hours gameplay due to Girin broke it's annoying... But imo they will not change it.. From the other hand in few months current crystals will be worthless..

Even if it was 100-150m for the crystal, it was still a senseless loss.
The crystals should be indestructible, and there should be no exp loss for dying. Why? Because punishing a player for trying to play the end game is just stupid. Additionally, someone probably didn't calculate how much 5% exp is for lvls higher than 60.
And there will never be a problem with a surplus of crystals because:
1. "producing" end game crystals is already difficult and artificially limited by the game itself
2. players have already given many suggestions on how to use the crystals, e.g. by grinding them into a new type of powder from which you can produce e.g. vell and garmoth heart.

Please, I beg you! I've spent so much on crystals. I'd pay pearls if necessary

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