So If you ask most BDO Veterans about AP capped grind spots, most will tell you "Mediah and Valencia are AP capped".

But apparently all grindzones have some kind of AP caps, and any AP after the cap is limited from 70% to 5% only.  Learned this luckily when Youtube recommended this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkBHP1Xw3w

So wth.... Why do we have AP caps?....

Originally i think they was invented to push away hiGS players from low area to let weak players grind as well.  As for now i think they exist to limit silver generation, more silver very bad for economy, because why woold you bothet grind for supplies if you can just go grind 1bil/h and buy them from  MP, oh wait, there is nothing on MP, because everyone grind silver.

because devs are lost  and cant balance classes. normal approoach would be to have spots for mobile classes and spots for immobile classes (that should have way higher static damage then) but both yielding same amound of profit but hell na, they are doing these arbitrary caps and still there are super overperfoming classes/specs in pve 

What?  You mean a 50 CP item isn't supposed to outperform a 150 bil silver item?  Who knew!

Makes an end game player feel great to work so hard to get those couple extra AP, only to be capped.......

What supplies? Those 0+ penny-worth accessories with a drop chance of 0.01%? With exception of the most expensive ones, average player earns more from trash in an hour than these accessories are worth, and in an hour you have a 99% chance of not dropping an accessory (or even all day).

I wonder what is to blame for the fact that we have an empty market and everyone is aimlessly grinding silver?

Oh yes: a ridiculous enchant system that punishes us for playing, sets us back in progress, and even deprives us of everything we've earned.

I've said it many times, but I'll say it again: without a guaranteed (but not ridiculously expensive) enchantment system, BDO opens up the way for the next years of vegetation (same as it is in Cabal Online).

Progression hasn't existed on this game for a few years now.
The cap AP is part of this choice, like all the other simplifications

As I said on another topic a few weeks ago
PA don't respect their players, you can grind for 10 months to get an item and watch these clowns give it away for free on a whim
you can go grind for months to increase your ap and in the end realize that it's useless because AP CAPS

Since they decided that all game content should be accessible to everyone, there is no reason to play anymore.

Remember it's an mmo with a very low multiplayer content lol, an mmo based only on the cash shop and the extraction of costumes..

an mmo where 99% of the suggestions are players trying to fix the shit that the "gamedesigners" do... and they're not ashamed, they keep asking for suggestions https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Forum/ForumTopic/Detail?_topicNo=33368&_categoryNo=7&_searchType=0&_sortType=6&_orderType=False&_bigPageNo=1&_pageNo=1&_pageSize=25&_searchDay=0&_forumListType=0 while there are hundreds and hundreds waiting to be to be read.. 273 pages of suggestions is that shit for them? isn't it because their game designers have been doing shit for years and forcing players to come here to voice their opinions? players who actually play the game?

an mmo where the devs spend their time buying players with gifts j hammers / cronstones etc so that they think about something other than the current state of the game.. an mmo where you feel like you're playing an old gasha game with 15000 spam on the screen, events / calendars that are only there to force you to log in every day

An mmo where you have to wait for the release of a big game to get content? seriously? and not to mention the obstinacy of the leaders, when you do shit, you have to learn to go back... https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Forum/ForumTopic/Detail?_topicNo=21432&_categoryNo=7&_searchType=1&_searchText=music&_sortType=6&_orderType=False&_bigPageNo=1&_pageNo=1&_pageSize=25&_searchDay=0&_forumListType=0
A year since the players gave their opinions on this shitty choice, assume it PA... and it's not the first time that they've been stubborn and refused our opinion...

They don't listen to "our" suggestions, at best they listen to suggestion of korean streamers and streamers only suggest changes that help them make more content, which is never good for the game.

As example you can look at streamer influenced thread that reached 5k likes in 2h while there is like only 20 active people on forum.

tl dr - all the poop changes comes from "content creators", keep hyping and loving them, well, those who do don't play game, so ofc they agree with content creators, quess PA gonna learn it hard way when those "content" cretors move on.

As for suggestions  on this forum, if you  profile check OP of suggestion, mostly  you'll want to cry, for real, someone who achieved zero in game suggesting major changes.

Wait till you find out there is a central market.You know to let the gamblers do their thing an you just buy it. Before you say EU market is dead yous have had more pen blackstars than NA be on the market. You even have some laying on the market right this second 2 x Pen Blackstar Longswords.

Imagine only counting trash loot as money and everything alse you get has no value.

Also bdos enhancement system is better than alot of kr mmos. Should go play Traditional Archeage , celestial to divine to legendary to epic to god forbid Mythic. Now that was proper backwards progression oh and if you had one piece off hardcap be a bummer if it just vanished with out any fail safes to increase chance for next time like failstacks or to protect it like crons.

EU have more players so the market is better aswell.

The weapons would be relativly okay if they would merge them and the supply would not split on nearly 30 items.

And yeah the enchanting is much easier here than in most other eastern mmos.