Like they say crazy shit for changes just to see how much people freak out. Half of those wild adjustments never happen

So on the one hand, it's good they test the waters, but on the other hand. I can't handle these jump scares lmao

So a few big announcements happened. They want to overhaul combat

Big yikes simply because we're all here because of the combat. It just can't be beat by other mmos (sorry guys lol)

They want to:
1. Lessen if not half the number of hits a skill does.
2. Make 200% BSR more viable to reach

Allow me to explain

FOR 1, most skills for most classes do like 3+ hits within the skill. My current main class has skills that do 42 hits. ONE SKILL. 42 SMACKAROOS TO YOUR FACE

So naturally people are panicked because that is going to be incredibly hard to balance.

The reason for lessening the hits is to help with fps and lag. Totally agree, it needs help

BDO damage relies on frames. It's entirely tied to your fps. So anything to get fps at a better rate is appreciated

But balancing out hits but increasing damage per hit so no one feels like they've been nerfed just puts people on edge

I am on edge.

42 hits getting threatened down to 12. Or less

My goodness.

AS FOR 2.

BSR or Black Spirit Rage is like an Ultimate ability

You have a gauge that ticks up when you deal damage, take damage, sit still doing nothing. Basically just breathing causes this gauge to go up

It maxes out at 100%, after which you can do an ultimate skill that does beeg damage and a damage bonus for 45 sec or absorb it for a damage bonus that lasts 60 sec and skip the long animation that the ultimate skill consumes that, in some circumstances, could get you killed

Now, some classes can do BSR at 10%, 50% etc. But everyone has 100% BSR

And everyone has 200% BSR

YOU MAY BE WONDERING but Alex you said it maxes at 100%

Welp, naturally, you can equip specific gear that increases that max up to 200%, you can also ask friends to transfer their gauge to you

Previously, the best you could do with the equipment was 180% and you'd have to ask friends to give you that last 20%

Any transferred rage is halved btw

So what they want to do with this current mechanic is make the gear that increases your BSR gauge limit actually let you hit 200% limit more easily

So instead of all the pieces giving 180, they would easily get you to 200, or you can swap out one accessory piece for another equipment item like an artifact

SO THIS IS........ good?

But in PVP this could be...... bad

200% BSR can wipe whole armies if done correctly

So if someone can quickly pop off like that over and over...... ehhhh makes me nervous

They teased some other things as well. Like the next region is out for KR in June, so we might get it in the Fall

They teased some QoL changes we've been dying for

BUT THE SKILL THING AND THE BSR THING

....... ah

No one really asked for this. But okay...

So we'll see what comes of these adjustments

Most are cautious but not outright raging, so it's quite possible they'll go through with it to at least testing it out

Either way, KR always gets these updates first

Like PAs free guinea pigs. Only after KR has dealt with the turmoil do we get the "real" updates about a week or two later

So if it bombs in KR, we might not see it for a month, it really just depends. But thank goodness it won't be tested on us lol

THE CHAOS. THE ANARCHY. THE 1 HIT KOs! Literally 1 hit. Not 1 skill lol

Time will tell

What an interesting way to do dev talks...

Yeah! I mean, it's kinda good because they throw out an idea and see if it sinks or swims with the community and then adjust, release or drop the idea they bring up

So I guess the communication cycle is much faster this way. But of course, people take them at their word so when things aren't liked, it gets uuuuglyyy

But the ugly definitely helps correct upcoming changes that weren't well received so it's KINDA GOOD??

There's a global lab test server that players from anywhere can access, however, the new skills and new quests and new everything tends to be a hodgepodge of half-translated text lmao

Sometimes it's Korean, Japanese, English, Portuguese, French, Traditional Chinese, Turkish..... it's

DIFFICULT

You just guess and run with it

But it's a test server so who cares if you ruin the test a little because it's not translated haha

OH GOD. Sorry this just happened but

People have calculated "NEW META" because of course they did LMAO.

So there is two sets of gear for BDO. JUST TWO. Evasion or Damage Reduction

THERE IS ONLY THESE. JUST THESE. EZ.

But now everyone is looking at the number of hits being dropped and staring at Eva whose whole thing is less hits means less chance to actually be hit

More panic has ensued

So the devs would need to recalculate total damage AND accuracy boosts to skills to prevent Evasion being the outweighed meta