I mean, major

Previously, 1 skill could do anywhere between 1 hit to 42 hits depending on class

But hits and how quickly you went through one skill was heavily tied to your fps rate

So obviously, the faster the hits process, the faster you can move on to the next skill and the more damage you can deal in a very short timespan

The main change (although there's more!) is that they have significantly reduced the number of possible hits down to 1-5 (some exceptions because lol animations) and then mushed the damage into those fewer hits

KR already has these changes

And the verdict is that better PCs took a "nerf" LOL

But everyone else got a massive buff

Thus, evening the playing field

60 fps and 144fps are performing at a similar rate

WHICH IS. Amazing? lol

It may seem odd if you aren't used to fps being the primary determining factor of your dps but from living with this for years, well damn

THE OTHER CHANGE is to DR and EVA and I'll explain that a bit but bear with me cause it is complicated

BDO's gear is a straight ladder, for the most part

Everyone has mostly the same gear. There's not really a meta in that sense? Accessories have a meta, crystals and artifacts have a meta, but it's class-specific. But the majority of your armor and weapons are going to be the same between everyone

Armor has only 2 branches, Evasion (Eva) or Damage Reduction (DR)

Evasion previously did what you would think it would do. You either get hit or you don't. This made it the best choice for small scale fights or fights with fewer opponents.

Damage Reduction is also true to its name. It reduces the damage you take by a % no matter how many things are coming at you, so better for larger scale fights or more opponents.

Eva has usually been the preferred choice for PvP, DR for PvE with some exceptions because some classes naturally have Eva or DR passives so you should ideally compliment your class

1 full set of eva or dr is about 280-300bil at the moment, obviously the market shifts around

You can make 500mil-1bil per hour at end game grind spots

depends on your rng

So because of the cost and investment, generally speaking you have to pick a side and stick to it

This can lock you out of some classes if you value being ~optimal~ since like I said, there are passives for eva and passives for dr depending on your class

SO THE CHANGE THERE

Eva and DR will become one and the same

SORT OF?

Eva will now reduce incoming damage by a %, just as DR does

However, for eva you are reducing the % based on your opponents accuracy

For DR you are reducing the % based on your opponents attack power (AP)

SO BECAUSE OF THIS and like eva and dr having passives, so does accu!

THEY HAVE ALSO HAD TO ADJUST ACCU lmaooo

Needless to say, they have adjusted and tweaked most aspects of combat with this update, nothing is the same and it's mind boggling

And to make a bit more sense of this, I should add I suppose, with your accessories there are 4 branches

Accuracy, AP, DR and Eva

If you take Accu, you are inevitably sacrificing AP, the sets with accu do not have as much AP

If you take AP, you are sacrificing DR

Likewise if you take DR, you are sacrificing AP and Accu, if you take Eva you are sacrificing AP and Accu

So somewhere in that hot mess, it mostly evens out

There are some special effect sets that add some pizazz but they are very class specific and very situational so I'm not going to bother explaining lol BUT THEY ALSO HAD SOME CHANGES because why not at this point anyway

KR has been very positive about the hit number changes, I haven't heard much about the Eva/Accu changes yet but I suspect we'll hear a lot after Saturday's Siege battle since that is usually what makes or breaks changes like these

Even if it's bad news, they are going to still go ahead and just adjust from what we have

They luckily haven't done a major adjustment like this since 2021 so once every 3 years is........... as much as anyone can withstand

Oh. There's one more major change lol

WHILE YOU DO YOUR SKILLS. I'll make it succinct if I can

Some skills give you no protection, you can just get bonked and be cc'd or take the full brunt of damage

Some skills have Foward Guard which, well, protects your front like a shield would

Some skills have Super Armor which protects you from being cc'd but you still take damage

Some skills have Invincibility which....... well make you invincible but generally deal diddly squat damage

Good for a pinch

So FG and SA are also getting adjustments.

This, however, is not done yet. They have just warned us it's coming

SA, in theory, will also reduce damage but instead of making you fully immune to cc, it will become a % chance

FG will also be a % of damage reduced but at a higher rate than if you were to SA

They have also teased getting rid of FG entirely and moving everything to SA to avoid some confusion but.......... oof

Coming from an FG heavy class I will need time to adjust hoooboy

I am sure there are more changes but

It's exhausting LOL

We'll see how it goes but wow, going to be wild for a few weeks until people adjust