While you are standardising the classes of BDO with updates like lifeskills based on family and not on character or music playing for all... Shai is no more the only one to play music and to start with professional rank on chemistry and harvesting.
It is time now, to balance these decisions, to allow Shai to have Boss-Blackstar-Bogayed awakening slot weapons.
PA is stubborn.
The fact that you can tag a Tuvala Sol to any other Tuvala awakening weapon means that the ability to have a blackstar Sol is already in the game. They don't want to give us a proper blackstar Sol because we're "unique" in that we are meant to buff only and do lifeskills. Damage was never an option for PA, which is also why our modifiers are so fucked up.
TL;DR: We're never getting BS Sols. Deal with it.
I think you're right. My opinion on the matter is that after or even during the Pipe class release, they probably should take a whole big look at Shai and turn it more into a combined weapon class like Archer and Scholar. Turn it into a regular class apart from the Alpaca / Donkey I suppose.
Although, the ridiculous support power of the class needs to go down and there's a damn good reason why it's banned on AoA tournaments.
Yeah, they should also give every class the ability to dance like shai.....since the devs said that shai is not a class.
The only "unique" thing about shai is that she still doesn't have blackstar awa weapon 🤣