Has the game vertical progression gotten to insane levels?
What always stood out to me in BDO was how the gear remained pretty much meta for a long time before you needed any upgrade. Hell, people were still running ogre ring until karazad released, since pen debo only offered 1 more ap and the little ap boost from the debo set. Thats like 8 years of meta. Same thing for boss gear before fallen god. Another example is vells heart.
Now, Karazad got released october 31st 2024. Thats not even two years ago. And mind you its a whole new accessory tier set with not 5 levels like the ones we were used to, but 10 damn levels of enchantment. Now it's not even been 2 years and they released an entire new better set of accessories (ekleta). Here getting to my point, its not even been 2 years and we are already reworking on our entire gear? I get that progression is the entire purpose of the game but the speed at which things are going compared to the past is incredibly fast. And thats just the accessories. We also went from boss armor→fallen god→ edania. Same shit is probably gonna happen to sovereign. It used to be that you could quit the game, came back after a while and your gear still mattered. Instead you come back, your gear is garbage and given away like candy.
Lets also add how Crons are absolutely necessary for everything unless you wanna criple your progression even further.
I get it that some people have absolutely no life and DECd all their gear in like a month, i saw some streamer with dec edania armor and OCT ekleta, but like does it make sense to balance the game around these people that complain they have no content when they burnt hemselves out by griding 12 hours a day? Meanwhile they are like 4% of the playerbase and the rest wont even reach 800gs before edania part 5 or whatever. Or maybe they just want people to buy crons as much as possible to push sales up, idk. At least this is my theory why they are pushing so much content.
Id like to hear the opinion of more veteran players really.