Black Desert

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Their launcher has been weird for me too the last couple weeks. Im not actively playing to know if it has an impact in game, but patching up these past two thursdays has been a chore.

Failed all 4 hammers (expected) and burned 20k crons with no successes. The true BDO experience. Seeing all this new armor, another enhance to DEC on each piece and another Sov weapon....the cron grind will be unrelenting
 

Uriel

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Sov offhand is a huge upgrade and what most people should be prioritizing right now. The armor can be ignored by most people, since you need TET fallen God just to upgrade to it, and then it's time gated to 1 enhance attempt per week. They also said DP will be less important for grinding, and they're getting rid of one shot mechanics in grind spots. Caphras are gonna be the bottleneck for a bit, since you need 20k I think plus 2 PEN blackstars. They went on pre-order as soon as the marketplace came back from maintenance last night.
 

Zindan

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Very underwhelming Ball. Edanis is a total waste of time since it is gated by having 350AP just to go there. New time travel / world reset won't happen til after Edanis pt2, which is likely 6 months away and probably another 6 months after that if ever.
 

Zindan

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Hopefully the mana pot I have ready will sell, use those funds to perma order caphras for the next month while tapping my old tet for to pen giving me the second needed for sov offhand. Once that is done I'll prolly uninstall and wait for the reset in a year.
 

Uriel

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The heidel ball logins start tomorrow I think, remember to do those for another 3 hammers and a bunch of other stuff. I'm curious if they're gonna adjust trash loot prices when they go through and do a pass over all the grind spots adjusting AP caps, I think the livestream made it sound like they might be balancing them a bit.
 

Zindan

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It is just a term I am using to describe their supposedly upcoming expansion that will allow players to experience existing areas as they were in the ancient past, like Valencia before it became a desert. There was also a large "demon castle" area they were working on, but it hasn't been mentioned at all, so I think it just got changed and rolled into Edania for the pvp types.
 

Kirun

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I guess they figure that veteran whales are the only thing keeping the game afloat at this point. So, they're reluctant to "invalidate" any work/gear via any sort of true reset or seasons dumping you off at a higher AP/DP.
 

Zindan

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They had/have some sort of Hardcore PvP server which was basically a fresh start server, but I think its more like an extraction type battleground across the entire map. Not sure if its still a thing, I only vaguely recall reading about it.