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Currently BDO is a closed faction, be glad to have more folks actively join us.

Quite honestly, BDO is a fun game - lots of things to do/learn/progress. There is some RNG grind on gear progression, but ways to do that in-game (fail-stacks/etc) that give opportunities to do it without requiring you to throw your wallet at it. For example, when you put stones into your armor to level it - you can go from +1 to +8 without fails, past that to +15 it gets some RNG/difficulty. Good news is your armor/weapons do not "explode" when failure happens, you just take a durability hit and you can repair that. Past +15, Pri is non-fail, Duo and above can fail and MAY step back a level on failure. The other good news is that if you level a set of Grunil armor (for example) you can hand it off to one of your other characters (shared bank space) and they can use it. That is really all there is to the "pain" of the gear progression. If you don't want to do that at all - then you can just earn $$ in-game and BUY your gear leveled by someone else (or make money leveling gear for others/etc). Lots of ways in-game to make $$... so not a big deal.

KGB does have a few active knights playing, but unfortunately we don't have enough to do "Node Wars" or "Sieges" anymore. :-/ Eventually, there will be updates that will allow us to just hop into a siege/war on a side that we select and battle along with others - but that is currently not in-game.

Owain, myself, and others who are in-game would be glad to show ya the ropes and get ya going. Definitely not a "shallow" game - but not "overwhelming" either. Level progression is primarily from killing mobs/xp - but there is also skill gain (from use) and Energy/Contribution gain from questing and NPC interaction (all are important). If you are looking for epic end-game raids/grinds for special gear drops (like WOW) - that is NOT BDO. There are world-bosses and other mechanisms for "boss armor" and special item drops, but no huge dungeon raids or dedicated "raid nights" to go with them either.

Hope this helps explain BDO in a "nutshell" - if you want to join us "nuts" be glad to help ya out!



Oh PS... the server is one large US server with multiple "channels" nearly all of which are "crowded" (aka busy in-game) since the game came up on Steam. Certainly seems like a LOT of new folks are coming in from the Steam front (they have their own new-player +XP leveling channels).