So as title says what is there to do . You grind all day or have set session , life skills half of it passive  pvp open world barely there with friends . AOS training boring now rank hasn't been back for a while Dungeon  would be interesting if the puzzle was removed well for some people . We don't got good quest to pursue they trying being new people in and make them stay but no activity . Or do anybody got recommendations .-. I just sit there chatting most the time I love the game I just want something to do 

I feel you.  PA doesn't give us anything interesting to do.  It's all up to the players to make events that others could have fun doing.  The most fun I've had in a while is participating in the Shai Strike in Heidel on Mediah 1.  For me, it's mostly been AFK, as I've been busy IRL, but still, I feel there's a purpose to what I'm doing.

PA just doesn't give me that with anything they do.

We used to have the best open world PvP of any mmo and that was the end game.  Luckily they removed that from the game to make it better 😁 Now you can just grind hundreds of hours until you can go to a higher AP area and then grind there for hundreds of hours.   That's the end game.  

So true.

I realize that OP is really a criticism of things changed or left unchanged, but taking it literally: if you don't have a carrack, that will keep you busy for a while, but is much quicker to acquire than before, and after that, barter for silver or do other ocean content. It's still grindy in its way, but if you get into that, it has a very different feel from the land game.  Maybe good for an in-game break of sorts.

BDO is not a prison sentence, dont trap yourself to a game. Move on.