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Nvidia GPU overusage is existing since the release of Windows 11. I believe it's connected to some changes in the gaming performance algorithm (in Win10 as well). I haven't experienced it with pre-Win11 nvidia drivers but those are considered as really old now. But ye, it can cause troubles in some (I noticed only in DX11) games, sometimes everything runs normally, sometimes GPU power consumtion goes high af. Even in BnS, there is maximum (or above max) GPU usage for no reason in 1 run out of 3-4 when spamming a dungeon. I'm underclocking my card while I'm playing BnS because I couldn't notice any gain with original OC from manufacturer. With MSI, anything is possible tbh...

Well, they didn't promise anything for premium in NA/EU in this matter so we don't have legal grounds...

They warned us in time that translations won't be completed so either you wait till content gets translated or you go with English for now.

It's not really a change and definitely not permanent. Maintenance always starts at 04:00 pacific (US) time and US has already changed the clock to daylight saving time (they do it on 2nd Sunday of March every year). Since we're (EU) going to have our time change on this Sunday, the timeshift will be back to normal for the next maintenance. However in-game timings will be 1 hour off from now (Koldrak times, resets etc...) because the server works with permanent clock.

Quest says you need to talk Old Man Cho after completing Call of the Warring Factions quest. That quest is for entering a faction and it's required for the yellow quest. So you can't proceed because you haven't joined to a faction yet. If I'm right, you should have a purple quest named Calling of the Warring Factions in Quest Journal ( J btn -> Quest Letters tab). Accept it, then you can talk to the clan overseers in that cave. After completing purple quest, you will be able to talk Old Man Cho.

From your mail, I can't see if you reported the case as a bug. Instead you want a prize you shouldn't even get according to the picture you took. Tell them the full story, that there supposed to be a blue field. You most likely won't get compensation but they will try to solve the problem and put the premium field back. It's well known that premium users log into both region anyways...

In an old multirun I got double amount scale fragments than others, sometimes in every turn. How was that fair? Now everyone has the chance for the same amount, except you might need to run more for drops. I don't mind running dungeons for long hours since I like my usual company. Every game gets harder and harder as you advance. Oculus was planned this way and I believe next set will be even harder (ik, we have soo much time till that). It's a good way to get money from whales who're doing endcontent. On the other hand I'd like to quote @Rockiboul This is the reason we're getting content update in every 2 months instead of monthly pace now. Community asked for ease, they got us ease. However this should made you/us realize that they don't want to change the game mechs for NA/EU. Basically Korea dictates for a while now so we most likely won't get changes on the basics (like upgrade costs, rng rates, mat exchanges etc). We might get easier access to oculus stones in the foreseeable future but most likely it will be through events.

Yes as we spent long days partying in 4-men EM dungeons (HoI and FoE mostly) rotating drops. That one is still up (there are lots of multirun parties) and additionally you can solo st1 or em dungeons in minutes and get all the stuff (evolving mats, accs, acc boxes, insignias) which is rng ofc. Sometimes you get lucky and get good drops, sometimes you don't get anything for 5-6 runs in a row. That's the thrill in it 🙂 I spent 35 hours on one of my alts last week to try to get Starcross acc from wolf and got no luck. Got both from daily trains later (one last week and the other one on this Monday) xD Don't know why ppl want to rush end-game content. I stopped playing a year ago, came back in september and made a new char. That one could catch up to my 3.5 years old char in 1.5 months and since then I'm fighting like hell to get up to end-content which means farming day and night as we did with scales a few years back.

A little clarification. Intented start was January. But during soulboost S2, they switched to 2-monthly-content pace and soulboost was affected by that so they had to prolong season 2 to fix the mix in the timings.

Scale exchange was put into the game recently and simply because the scales considered to be 'old' content now. Most ppl don't need scales on mains now and exchanging to higher tier helps people to evolve stuff more easily after soulboost (it helps new ppl and alt chars to get closer to current content). And Grimoir is right, farming scales was harder when scales were high-end stuff than farming materials for accs now.

Reason is easy: this patch only contains event changes and we will get a content update in February. TBH a few weeks and days ago I thought we will be without soulboost for a month. This announcement and even the fact that they remembered the end of soulboost season were a nice surprise for me.

Well, we're pretty far from the topic now xD At least we don't lose item levels now like with the pre-mythical wep/heart etc... never seen a +11 on me it that system 😄 I threw out hundreds of gold(crafting ts included) at once just to reach around +6/+8 each time. I got so fed up that I stopped playing a year ago... I restarted on a new char this September (catching up to my old char wasn't too hard) and now I'm at Oculus +12. True, I lost a lot of gold to get up to Starcross +16 but the running and this events helped a lot. I don't know if I'll go higher or I'll just keep it casual from now on. In BDO, you can lose levels, LA only enables 100% progression on 1 item at once. I played 2Moons(Dekaron) for years: You could break your weapon/armor and lose all your progression in one click at some point (unless you put rm into the game). So yes, BnS is pretty much easy atm.

Every MMO is about keeping people and their wallet busy. The difference is in the approach. BnS is actually handling the rng system pretty well even from the view of NA/EU lately imo.

What do you need tons of? Forget old stuff, you get nothing out of those except some good looking outfits and 50 AP ach from Aero HM. BnS lets you catch up more easily than a few other games I know. This is a Korean MMO and Koreans love RNG and farming stuff. Skystealer accs can't be considered as old accessory yet (according to the devs at least), but crystals will be out of the game soon so they're not for new characters. I got 10 chests from trials in a few hours of farming yesterday. Drop is not impossible, it just takes time to collect the amount you need if you don't die of boredom first. BnS doesn't force you to use Skystealer acc. Upgrading Starcross and Oculus are way easier than waiting for skystealer for decades. Do succession on a few accs, do rest dailies on alts for gold and then you can upgrade in parallel to catch up more easily.

Would be nice, unfortunately I don't have specific information on that. All I know is that you get gloves... or neck chest (they write Starcross Neck Chest in the latest news page, the one with the new dungeon). That chest contains a class rollable neck now. Earring and Ring were class specific in the first place.