Game was good from 2017 to 2020. Not anymore.
It's not worth your time and the game devs really try to milk you for your money.

Avoid this game & save your sanity.

The devs move the goal post constantly in terms of gear progression (i.e. what's "BiS"). The reason it was accepted before was that there used to be gear diversity, class diversity, and skill for PVP. Everything was incremental and carefully scaled. 2021-2022 Updates were monstrously unbalanced and were created without careful thought, based off knee jerk reactions to loud and biased players IMO. Game devs had quit or got tired of the loud players, started catering to the FOTMs or those seeking 1 shot mechanics/no counterplay.

Quality no longer matters because PVP is only about burst damage & how OP your class is. Current BDO PVP = Steamroll the enemy with full buffs while being completely protected/invulnerable. This means no counterplay and no skill. The devs used to follow the idea of "big damage = no/low protection, no CC's even", that went out the window back in late 2020 - early 2021 because now FOTMs (the good classes) and new classes have like 5 protected nuke skills with mobility and CC lol. Many classes got left behind, completely undertuned and cannot compete. It's a shame because most of these old classes left behind feel very nice to play. More quality than the new classes today, but just undertuned because they cannot outshine the new classes.

BiS gear is still important because that's what gets you access to the best money makers in the game and/or the best gear that money can't necessarily buy. However, it's a loop cycle made by the devs to where you do it to save time in essence but devs keep kicking the goal and you're just a hamster in a wheel effectively making 0 progress in the end. Devs also occasionally inflate everything to help cancel out all progression. Or introduce completely new BiS that's not built off the old BiS or is so OP that it makes old BiS look like a joke, and it pretty much resets gear progression.

Now it's all homogeneous with realistically 1-2 gear builds. In the end, nothing gear-wise (after a certain point) matters in this game because everything's unbalanced in the endgame, with dev favoritism heavily leaning towards specific FOTMs (i.e. Berserker) and definitely new classes. Artificial game dev inflation cancels out all your time and effort in the game, what's the point in doing anything anymore.

I came back 2024 for a little because devs promised in late 2023 that they would try to resolve the unbalance. It was a joke, they basically gave up before they started. In the end, they just made the FOTMs and what was already ungodly OP more OP.

DO NOT PLAY.

Game was good from 2017 to 2020. Not anymore. It's not worth your time and the game devs really try to milk you for your money. Avoid this game & save your sanity. The devs move the goal post constantly in terms of gear progression (i.e. what's "BiS"). The reason it was accepted before was that there used to be gear diversity, class diversity, and skill for PVP. Everything was incremental and carefully scaled. 2021-2022 Updates were monstrously unbalanced and were created without careful thought, based off knee jerk reactions to loud and biased players IMO. Game devs had quit or got tired of the loud players, started catering to the FOTMs or those seeking 1 shot mechanics/no counterplay. Quality no longer matters because PVP is only about burst damage & how OP your class is. Current BDO PVP = Steamroll the enemy with full buffs while being completely protected/invulnerable. This means no counterplay and no skill. The devs used to follow the idea of "big damage = no/low protection, no CC's even", that went out the window back in late 2020 - early 2021 because now FOTMs (the good classes) and new classes have like 5 protected nuke skills with mobility and CC lol. Many classes got left behind, completely undertuned and cannot compete. It's a shame because most of these old classes left behind feel very nice to play. More quality than the new classes today, but just undertuned because they cannot outshine the new classes. BiS gear is still important because that's what gets you access to the best money makers in the game and/or the best gear that money can't necessarily buy. However, it's a loop cycle made by the devs to where you do it to save time in essence but devs keep kicking the goal and you're just a hamster in a wheel effectively making 0 progress in the end. Devs also occasionally inflate everything to help cancel out all progression. Or introduce completely new BiS that's not built off the old BiS or is so OP that it makes old BiS look like a joke, and it pretty much resets gear progression. Now it's all homogeneous with realistically 1-2 gear builds. In the end, nothing gear-wise (after a certain point) matters in this game because everything's unbalanced in the endgame, with dev favoritism heavily leaning towards specific FOTMs (i.e. Berserker) and definitely new classes. Artificial game dev inflation cancels out all your time and effort in the game, what's the point in doing anything anymore. I came back 2024 for a little because devs promised in late 2023 that they would try to resolve the unbalance. It was a joke, they basically gave up before they started. In the end, they just made the FOTMs and what was already ungodly OP more OP. DO NOT PLAY.