I've been playing for almost 5 years. I almost have my Carrack, I have an empire set up, my life skills are pretty set, and I just past 700gs. With that time spent on Black Desert I have to say, I dont think the devs play the game much.

I'm not trying to be rude. It's just what the evidence suggests. Some classes that were already good got buffs, then some classes that have been worse off for a while got nerfs. Where's the Corsair been? Cool class, but dead now. The awk Lahn is what I've always played tho. Its a fun class, but man she got slapped down. Succession is alright, but I dont really like it. Why as an mmo would you force all players towards 1-3 classes?

I don't think this balance went well at all. High geared players weren't really effected much. I already had a couple of years work to still go to catch up, now that just got doubled. I dont make much silver at all now. Maybe this will push some people to life skills tho. I guess we'll see.

Please just look into balancing classes better. I want to see this game around for 10+ more years.