Family Name: Archaic_Triad

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█ Hello everyone and welcome to post #102

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█ I am here to discuss the gross mismanagement of lifeskilling content in the world of BDO. And, the negligence of the development team in sequential rewards content. 

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█ Lifeskilling has been throw into the abyss, and it looks like PA will never redeem it from that abyss. What abyss am I talking about? let me enlighten you with the following. 

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█ All lifeskilling fundamental rewards that are hard gained via direct man-hours are given out as sign-in handouts. It has been this way for many years now. 

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█ The rewards I am talking about are:

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█ Adding these hand-outs to the game has made lifeskilling content IRRELEVANT and UNREWARDING. Every week a flood of free materials just hits the game market, destroying the entire reason for lifeskilling to even exist. On top of that, the market price for these "rare" drops is pitifully low. Any players who need these materials will just set a market order as see it filled easily. 

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█ Scarcity is what makes doing any activity in the game a worthwhile endeavor. Since 2020, the scarcity of lifeskilling gained rares has been next to nothing. Lifeskilling is not worth doing anymore, as you can just wait for these free materials to hit the market.

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▀ Please stop giving away rewards that are gained via ingame activities, it is ruining the game. 

While grinding has high trash loot value, maintaining profits regardless of market conditions, the gathering trash loot (fairy powder) is not worth very much. This combines with central market prices for most gathered items not having been adjusted in a long time, and gathering loot quantities not having been buffed much either. As I understand it, 3k mastery (endgame) only gives 1.5 times what 2k mastery (midgame) gives, whereas endgame grindspots give 2-3 times as much silver as what midgame grindspots give. PvE grinding got massively buffed, while gathering and other lifeskills got left behind, this should be fixed, lifeskills rewards should be enhanced (except sniper hunting, that's super strong right now).

and yet sharps are still 7m each...

it's not like market is being destroyed by the couple freebies they give out, who cares

Agreed, the real problem is not the freebies, it's that even at 3k mastery, gathering makes way less than endgame gathering, so not many people do it. If lifeskilling were more profitable, black gems would be worth more. It would also help if concentrated black gem price were increased once more, currently it is less than the price of its components.

who cares? 

lifeskillers do, everyone is making trash silver with lifeskills (with the exception of hunting, which is just alt-mob grinding).

it feels like a waste of time to do any life activities because of free handouts, and combat makes 5x what life does. 

Like this is a bad suggestion too. You want players who don't lifeskill to be solely dependant on us. And they actually are in a bunch of other ways. You don't think these sweaty grinders are making all the elixirs for harmony right?And I like it when I get sharps or concentrated as a reward too cuz it's free money.