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There's Something Awesome about Maegu (and a Criticism on Gear Progression) | MMORPG.com
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There's Something Awesome about Maegu (and a Criticism on Gear Progression) | MMORPG.com
Maegu released on Black Desert Online, and Lowry is a fan. Like, majorly so. Check out their thoughts, as well as some criticism on gear progression in BDO.
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I used to have a problem with BDO's upgrade system (the RNG aspect), but that's essentially a relic at this point. Mostly, it's best to just grind the silver to buy whatever you want and/or use cron stones to prevent items from failing.
However, it is still a little boring to spend billions of silver to see stats go up by 1 point at a time.
To that point, I wonder how much in game money people spend to upgrade their equipment only to have it fail? It seems like you're better off just buying what others sell.
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Unprotected upgrades in this game is like unprotected sex, its gonna cost you a lot of money.
But come on... that's just.. meh. That's like you're just ignoring the horrible gearing system with a stopgap measure, when the real problem is that the devs should just swallow their pride, admit their gearing system sucks, and overhaul it. BDO could be one of the top 3 MMOs out there, if everyone didn't universally hate the rng upgrade system. They should just fix it, so that we can all come back and give the game another go.
Well, IMO yes and no. I usually play BDO in sessions of 1 to 3 months in a row per year. Can't do more. While the player's animations are usually beautiful, the grind literally spits at your face: "BOOOOOOOOring !" So, it is good as a no-brain-game. And sometimes, tired, coming back from work, I just need and enjoy the stupid hypnotic flashiness of BDO.
Otherwise, I play something more involving and thus more entertaining.
They have made it much easier. Can get PEN items thru quests instead of RNG. Gearing up is massively different than it used to be.
Diablo Immortal had some nefarious hidden percentages that were at 0.3 or 0.5 or something of a chance which was totally undecipherable until youtubers spent money and did a lot of research and pointed out on their videos. I mean even if they make it easier to get the pen items if they reduce the chances at the top end after they introduce these easier methods of obtaining pen items wouldn't that make it just as hard in the end.
This is why I completely abhor these equipment upgrade systems and never participated in it at those high levels in BDO. I dropped the game before I got caught up in it. Same with Archeage and Lost Ark.
They've added a 'caphras' system to boss gear. Once you hit PEN you can feed them caphras stones up to +20 which adds additional AP, DP and/or accuracy. There's no RNG element though, it's a pure silver sink. For the Helmet and Armor, once you get them to +10 you can convert them to the new Fallen God armor or continue to caphras.
Alternatively, there are Black Star and Godr Ayed weapon paths, which at PEN will have the same stats as a +20 caphras PEN Boss weapon. Those have an incredibly low chance to upgrade, but are essentially an alternative way for people who still like to gamble vs just adding caphras stones.
That does sound a fairer system, so I give them credit where it is due!