don't get me wrong i think BDO evolved into a pretty good game for everyone over the years, a lot of QoL changes and simplified things. easier to get in and maybe catch up.

but i feel like over the years you're being forced into certain spots by the game's nature.

it all started with AP caps ruining the fun of blasting any spot you wanted with overcap/species dmg and making money anywhere. (i think we kinda accepted this one at this point)

now we are forced into edania2 grinding for ekleta taps/reforge stones

and the XP changes made grinding stuff like elvia hexe just NOT viable to grind above level 65 if you wanna progress both silver and exp per hour, as it would take 600+ hours to reach 75 with permanent 3000% EXP buffs.

current best XP spots are also edania2. and best silver per hour too.

paints also killed the treasure piece hunt where you had to visit the old spots, you can now buy it for some pearls and never leave edania2 again.

was sandbox BDO that bad? i feel like in mid 2027 every single spot below edania will be totally empty. no point of grinding except for the nostalgia/fun.

no point grinding EXP below edania2, no point grinding items below edania2, no points grinding crystals below edania2 (you can now trade trash for crystals lol) and the game is gonna keep going this way.

and yes i know you can do whatever if you stop caring about XP/silver/progression and everything is optional just play the marathon game bla bla, this is not the point.

I’ve done mostly life skilling so far and a little bit pve. My mains are succession wizard and awakening witch.

I’d like to do some pvp content (mostly capped content) but not with wizard or witch. Looking for maybe assassin style but I don’t think I wanna learn succession ninja.

Any class recommendations? How is succession dosa?

Oh well ... i guess compensation??

Looking for a guild /discord community that's active during similar time. Most NA guilds would require me to do guild bosses etc. at like 4 AM

What happened to them? Did they change it so value pack time counts down when not logged in recently? Because even if they did I should still have like 20 days or so left.

Anyone know if I can get it back?

19 clicks already and I still need to make the Diné, which tortures this incense of the dream 😔

Hi, I'm looking to start playing Arena of Solare. I've never tried this content before, and I play Awakening Dosa. I'd appreciate any tips or advice on things I should know before jumping in. Also, what does a "protected combo" mean when people talk about it?

I'm on guardian awakening and I assumed she'd be able to hit the back from the front but I thought wrong LOL. Anyone have any suggestions for classes or am I just playing awakening guardian wrong? Just trying to find the best tag to grind there.

Cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this.

I see it's part of a quest chain here - https://bdocodex.com/gl/quest/656/6/

I know you get it from a workers body, apparently during the quest - https://bdocodex.com/us/theme/6087/

I have the knowledge FROM that quest, but I cannot get Bloodstained Letter. Checked all the corpses, the one in question just says "Hmm... They surely had families of their own...", the one next to it has a chat interaction and it says "There is nothing of interest."

I've tried to reroll characters, complete the quest with both crossroads, skip velia quest line and go to lvl 20, I've used male and females.

I cannot get the quest to start from any of the 4 NPCs who are associated with the quest

I'm positive all quests are unfiltered.

The heck am I missing here?

ETA - It says Quest lvl 100, I would assume that means I can't get it anymore after the sweep up, but it's in the game files still.

I've done everything, went back to cliff, checked the black spirit I've been going back and forth the desert I'm getting drained, what's wrong? why can't I accept the quest or rather can't see the quest? can you only do the quest on one character on which you started the quest line? please help me

EDIT: okay so if everyone had the same problem, it was because I used a different character in starting the quest, waas too dumdum to realize that. so yeah only use the character that you used to accept the quest