Yeah, I read about things losing Potential when you trade/buy/sell/transfer them. Aside from it being a bad system, it also doesn’t make sense at all.
If I acquire a rod/staff with my Archer, I want to be able to transfer it to my Wizard without losing anything on it. I haven’t heard of any MMORPG where equipment becomes permanently worse just by trading it.
And yeah, it doesn’t make sense. Why would the item’s potential drop from trading? What in-game justification exists for that? I completely understand the potential dropping from failing an upgrade of some sort, because you actively work on the equipment. But trading does nothing to the equipment aside from being passed on from one person to the other
If I give a glass of water to my friend, the glass doesn’t immediately lose potency. That’s just ridiculous