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Olvia Academy is open, get free stuff Edition
>What is BDO
Black Desert Online is a Korean MMORPG developed by Pearl Abyss. It features non-tab targeted action combat, RNG, guaranteed upgrade mechanics after you spend 4 times the item's worth and then they give the item away for free, more RNG, brand new fun pvp modes trust me, open world pvp and bullying/getting bullied, coomer outfits like slutkinis, shondoms, real rootin' tootin' American cowgirls, monkeys, infinite grinding in a circle or a private circle, +5% AP caps, RNG and a pseudo sandbox experience that doesn't matter now that marni exists.
>News and Updates
https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Notice
https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/ko-KR/News/Notice
https://www.sea.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Notice
https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice
>coupon codes, gear builder and grind spots info
https://garmoth.com/
https://bdolytics.com/en/NA
>waste your money sheets
https://bdoworkshop.com/
Kharas:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aDMV3351YbrExLyudvvXFhhD_WIQoS _q-4hnbaPOho0/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Sov weapons:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19lMMmYTbvMy8HOxwMv9LFpwZrko_rd CHcQuv-Nb85g0/edit?gid=0#gid=0
>guilds
NA: Jealousy
EU: Cuties
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what i do? goon my peenus weanus of course!
hahaha! :D
top activity to do in BDO: jork your weeeanus peeeanus! hahaha!
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>>2218141
You know an MMO is dead when all they do is just give massive "free" material packs on the regular. Lost Ark does this too because its a cheap way to bribe brown players (the only ones left) without actually fixing anything.
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>>2218230
That's not the BDO/PA problem, they cornered their own progression paths for anyone that is not a vet with a 780+ GS. The game is a mess once you grow out of Tuvala and realize the TET to PEN Bossgear is a trap and PEN Bossgear to C10 and Base FG is another scam. Then you got a market showing so much gear that could be removed from the game as it has no purpose or right to exist anymore leading to more confusion etc.
They cleaned up some of the mess they created since Debos and Sovs with the academy and latest ball gifts.
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>>2218265
The way they've been going about new gear has been horrible. Imo tapping tet to pen was a lot healthier and was less of a slog, and you also had caphras levels too so if you just weren't a lucky person you could still get those guaranteed stat increases. Hex to dec is like banging your head against that same pen wall 5 times in a row except now you absolutely can't afford to raw tap those later enhancements anymore. I dunno man it just feels bad having to rely on crons so much these days, and yeah sure they give out a lot of crons for free but that's a band-aid solution for an issue they created.
I don't really know what problem 5 more enhancement levels were supposed to address?
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>>2218230
They conflated content with progression. World's too big. Incentive structure broke down into a massively stratified and largely pointless grind-climb. There was a kind of consistency which was still in play right up until about Ulukita - only just. LoML was already a big misstep by many accounts and the decision to repackage all the gear and add a bunch of new tiers was a bridge too far. People have lives and there's no cohesion because the top is way too big of an ask to reach. There seems to be no balance they're willing to strike between what compels players to login, play & progress against what generates profits for the company. The ocean of crons and outfit melting is not just a bad system, in my opinion it's what has caused the fucked up mindset to endlessly add new gear and progression. You can't fix this. Cron stones are the signal "you will never reach the cap, you will never be able to rest, the system will fight you the whole way and in a singular patch we can add hundreds of hours of progressive-RNG which you either must grind or swipe for".
It's too much.
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>>2218406
I totally agree, it's a band aid to treat a shot wound. PA lost control of their own systems and progression. I guess they wanted some quick money, so just add a new tiers and tards like Bald Legion swiped for $4k+ to get an DEC weapon on release day but for anyone else it's a mess. Yeah we got new grind zones pumping even more silver into a hyper inflated market but that's about it.
I still enjoy the game and play it daily and it's just sad, this game could be sooo damn good but oh well.
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>>2218450
Koreans are literally a different species. Their mind is unironically wired to love this. They WANT this. It's surreal to see them chatting in their own moon runes. They get mad if a game isn't p2w enough. They get mad if a game isn't entirely about vertical progression and nonstop daily and narrow content as homework.
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>>2218526
>They get mad if a game isn't p2w enough
This is literally why throne and liberty failed in korea, which I always thought it was funny since it failed in the west for entirely different reasons. It didn't fail over there because it was a terrible mmo, it failed because they were mad that there was no prospect of them being able to whale and 1v60 entire guilds, and when you're competing with lineage 2 in korea by making a pvp mmo you'd better bet your ass they expect lineage 2 levels of p2w.
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I think progression is fine up to a point, then it starts to get absurd with NOV/DEC weapons required to do edania bosses or for top spots.
It's a "92 is the half of 99" situation where AP capped gear for orbita is around 1 trillion, and the next step requires 3 to 5T. So even worse than half.
I think it's by design to slow people down while they worked on crimson desert, so h(c)opefully it'll get better from now on.
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Bunch of whiny bitches up in here. BDO embraces the simple and straightforward grind. It's what made games like old school Maplestory great, and why everyone is excited for the reboot. Why does everyone pine for that time? Because simplicity of objective is greatness. BDO captures aspects of that well at a time when nearly no other MMO does the same.
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>>2219218
You're actually fucking retarded lol. The new gear is basically the equivalent of nexon adding cubes to the game eternally powercreeping everything "old school" and you're sitting here deepthroating the devs over it. Dumbass.
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>>2219325
I saw this tamer once
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>>2219298
Shai are uggo
>>2219325
Tamers with big thighs are the closest we have to Elin so I agree
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i'll tame-her if you know what i mean
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Olvium Frontia!
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>>2219537
>timegates
The timegates aren't for you. 2-3 Edana armor taps per week are 10b in crons. The weekly taps for the alchemy stone cost 12b in sharps. 6 DEC Kharazad taps per week are 65b in crons. To reach the ceiling of the "timegate" you will need to be grinding 13b per day, every day. Be real. The timegate is here to keep the gigawhales on a short leash so they can return and dump a few hundreds or thousands every week.
>AP caps
Before the rework, every sheet AP gave you 1 AP to monsters plus 2-3 for every bracket you reached. With the new system, every sheet AP gives you 10 AP to monsters plus the brackets. So, the new 5% AP cap is closer to 50% AP cap with the old system, the only difference is that the species AP now doesn't ignore the AP cap.
With the addition of Amplified lightstones and extra attackspeed from Vell upgrades, you will be outperforming your own scores in older grindspots by a mile compared to what you used to if you were grinding at a spot, let's say DSR, with capped gear and Ain succ weapons.
You sound like you are not playing the game and you are parroting opinions of youtubers. I'm not saying the game doesn't have problems, it's just that the ones you are complaining about are nothingburgers.
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Well what a nice night of fishing
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Only demons still play this game
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lil sissy bro assumed a lot of things and made up several scenarios in his sissy little head, he wasn't worth a (you) desu
13b a day isn't even much btw, not sure what kind of gearlet you are but you can earn more than you need for all your weekly taps, and it isn't correct as anyone who can earn 2-3 edana stones should have 1 or 2 DEC kharas already so you need less.
but here i am, arguing with retards
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>>2219537
Erm actually weekly gated quests isn't timegating, ackshually. Plus like, it's totally optional, dude, just don't do the weekly timegated content that objectively gives a lot of money and rewards? It's a sandbox MMO bro, you can take the significantly slower route of not doing your weekly timegated checklist and basically grief your progression if you want to.
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>>2220704
Well despite all of the dooming and objectively terrible changes they've made to the game, BDO is still a pretty solid MMORPG that's avoided turning itself into a colossal shitshow of an embarrassment over the years, which is already a very low bar to begin with. Are we really surprised about Ashes though? Most of us said it was a scam from day 1, warned people about it for years, they didn't listen and decided to buy into the blatant scam game. The only sad part is that the people who bought it are getting refunds when they shouldn't be. Idiots should be punished so they can learn their lesson and stop supporting shit games.
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>he quoted something that i cannot ctrl+f in the thread, i'm going insaaane!
i am using the greentext quoting feature to misrepresent, distort, or otherwise take out of context what the other person says to construct my argument in a way that makes him look stupid and me intelligent.
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>>2221161
>i am using the greentext quoting feature to misrepresent, distort, or otherwise take out of context what the other person says to construct my argument in a way that makes him look stupid and me intelligent.
This is so me
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This thread sucks. Can we just not make another when this one dies?
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>>2221076
Being somewhat realistic though - most games (at least alternatives to BDO) are in a sorry state. BDO? Dying? That's the same old story since 2018. Yeah, PA is going to mercy kill this thing eventually. The problem is the scene is bleeding the fuck out.
AoC is now dead. Star Citizen, no matter how much they pump into it, will never reach playable release. WoW has been a shitshow for ages. XIV is BDO with extra emphasis on gooning and awful WoW-like features. GW2 never escaped second fiddle status (surely GW3 will be different!). Runescape is ran by retarded bongs who are dedicated to ruining a good thing. What, play Maplestory? Might as well burn the building down and go swipe in gachaland - it's basically the same shit with anime girls and a guarantee of EoS instead of this endless treadmill nonsense.
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>>2222566
nah they're just depressed jerks or something, something something muh nostalgia, that's the only reason why anyone would have anything non-positive to say about a game even if it isn't explicitly negative. must be the wind
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>>2222566
BDO is different. Unlike Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty, which are shit games, BDO is dying because the developers redirected everything to Crimson Desert and DokeV, while denying that resources were pulled away from this game. I don't know who they think they're fooling. But now that the game is basically done, BDO will bounce back as it should.
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>>2223293
This is cope. Even if the developers do return nothing will be fixed. BDO is going down a one way road that leads to gamba boxes and cron stones. Mr.J isn't going to descend from the clouds, and suddenly make trading a life skill again or give us meaningful gear choices. Fuck no we will continue to get recycled events one after the other every two weeks. This game is essentially in a pre-maintenance mode before the real maintenance mode begins. Buy more pearls.
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>>2223582
base game is fine up to a point, the endgame though is dogshit. there's zero incentives for side activities and it's just a road to endgame which again, it's dogshit, but there's a really solid core to work with. i think it'll be fine.
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>>2217914
Ugggghhhhhhh the academy uniforms are sooooo hot!
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>>2222305
BDO looks like a game where the developers and publishers never said a word to each other, and the developers did a good job designing the world while the publishers were like "How the fuck are we going to milk as much money out of this as possible?" and then the publisher was like you know what fuck 90% of this content it's all just stuff players are going to pass over anyway let's design a main story quest where the player barely interacts with any of this, make some shit story line that makes very little sense, and send the player on 20 hours worth of fetch quests until they reach level 50, and that's when the whale bait comes out. Want to get good? Swipe mommy's credit card
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>>2224431
that's exactly what the game has become, a sales funnel that pressures you to swiping for FOMO and progress
grinding and actually playing the game out in the world used to be the equivalent of $30+/hr in pearls, now it's far less with no point, capped, and timegated
it doesn't even make sense to grind anymore, not logging in to afk fish to up their fake steam numbers for their investors either
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I'm having fun
Got like 10 iridescent lightstones the last 7 days
Too bad the droprate event is over
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>Run event
>People spam the previously dead content
It's literally that easy PA just keep doing that, keep doing RBF events and maybe some node war events too. Do world boss and field boss events all the time. Hell, they could do an event where the murrowak mobs are heavily buffed and it becomes a true party zoneso 6 people per room, with 6 rooms, means 36 players on one server all bum rushing the queen at once
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no caphra event again
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Just a reminder for those who wish to join Cuties. Please, include /vg/ or /vm/ in your application, so we can give you the appropriate rank. And for those who are already members, whisper guild master or advisor, if you need to have your rank updated.
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>>2229082
I'm not lying mate. I've spent money on this game for sure, but only on outfits for the sake of looks and such things, never for Crons to push gear, and I can do well in RBF. Sure I'm not the best and dying is a common occurrence, but that's not the same thing as doing well.
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>>2230737
I guarantee it's both, the only way to realistically get into uncapped pvp enough to enjoy it anyway and not get raped while doing zero damage is to either nolife so fucking hard you break the hamster wheel and pass the threshold of gear that will be given away for free in the next couple of months, solidifying your place as an endgame playersince it's basically impossible to fall behind at a certain point no matter how much free shit tourists get, or you flat out whale to get yourself there. Most people never pass that point where they're just breaking into low endgame gear, and when they do get close the devs raise the cap by 20 and give for free what that person spent the last couple months semi-seriously working towards. Regardless, uncapped pvp is undeniably pathetically dead as shit so even if I'm somehow wrong the retards coping with their dead pixel paradise aren't suddenly going to get a wave of new players vying to gear up and play shit ass red battlefield with them so they aren't lonely anymore.
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>>2220162
real shit: using a controller is by FAR the most comfy way to play this game. I honestly don't know how people can grind BDO for hours and hours on keyboard + mouse. BDO is at its peak to me when you open a video on Youtube, plug in the controller, lean back, and just grind for an hour or two while chilling.
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>>2217914
>put in buy order for Vell's back in October
>take 5 month break
>come back
Its just that easy guys
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>>2234737
I'll probably just level her, tag her and see if I like the gameplay. So far the most annoying thing so far is that this class does that goofy shit where when you stow your weapons they just completely disappear. Like come on what the fuck.
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Sup, I think I have a 50 or two in your game of assorted hot bitches I made when their classes came out. Never really deep dove or understood most of the systems of the game, just logged in and collected free shit/tried to progress whatever I was doing. Has the coom gotten better? Any new huge titty waifus I could come play? Overall how would you say the state of the game is for someone who might want to come play casually for a short time
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>>2235016
The game isn't made for playing for just a short time, but you can definitely play casually. If you don't want to commit to an MMO with lots of grinding and intricate systems and minmaxing and afk playing then this might not be the game for you, however I would say that the world is great to explore with a lot of depth to almost all the locations, and the combat is satisfying for the most part. So if you already own the game then there's little reason not to see if you like it, but be aware that to play this as a main game it wants at least a fair bit of dedication.
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>>2235022
Yea that's what I was worried about. I don't care much about PvP or doing whatever the current PvE content is, I just wanna grind combat on a cool class and maybe buy some outfits really. This game still has one of my favorite char creators and few other games have such attractive characters + actually fun/good combat so
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>>2235016
We got Daemonis, Lillien and the k-pop idol outfits recently, the coom is certainly there and rather than any away from it, I think they're embracing it. Just don't play shai, they're in a mediocre spot for solo content and also get censored
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>>2237308
already floped lel
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>>2237808
number go up, i'm retarded and gay
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look, unless pearl abyss competes with this, i am not going to play it as my main game anymore. simple as
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REDHORSE2026RISE
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Get this fucking trash out of my inventory lol I just logged in for the crons nigger. PA is trying their hardest to keep people afk without actually doing anything.
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mid game that needs gacha to work, it kinda working out, but im already trying to play space cadet xenoblade now. sorry pal. you missed the curve. (nice try tho, but youre locked into to bimbos and dwaggins yet again)
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>>2238875
At this point I am convinced they're trying to kill off BDO. They don't know what to do with it anymore. Right now they're just keeping everyone logged in AFK so they can tell the investors that at least M"A"U and logged hours are still high, so people still "love" the game. And they're going to position Crimson Desert as the new money maker by copying GTA Online and make a shit ton of money while they no longer have to pay server costs to jew out the last shekel as they offload the bandwidth and compute burdens to users as peer 2 peer networking is used. I now unfortunately believe that unless we make Crimson Desert fail, BDO will never again have primacy in attention...
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>>2239610
>unless we make Crimson Desert fail
It was too late in 2017 when they went back on their promise of not making the game p2w. By the time the class reboots happened it was fucked but there was still some fun to have. We are now in 2026 and there is zero hope of this game "improving" in any meaningful way. Making Crimson Desert fail isn't gonna do shit, except maybe cause them to ramp up the p2w and whaletitty milking out of sheer spite that kim dae-il's dream game was a successful.
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>>2239610
>unless we make Crimson Desert fail
Not gonna happen. I watched the 3 latest trailers and game appears to play like a fantasy Red Dead2, and normies eat up that kind of thing.
They're also running a lot of publicity for the game and a lot of big non-bdo streamers have already said they're going to play it on launch. There's a non-zero chance it will approach Elden Ring in popularity.
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>>2239835
Allah forgive me for uttering this, but have you seen the gaming forums? Nobody is actually interested. The main game subreddits and dedicated forums are lukewarm at best. In all honesty I can't see it being a financial flop in that they don't recoup costs, but I think Elden Ring level IS a zero probability. It's closer to Assassin's Creed than RDR2, and the former is just yearly slop that nobody really gets excited about.
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>tfw have bdo gf
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bdo daily/weeklies in 2019 be like
>kill a bunch of elvia nagas and get 15 minutes of a free elvia weapon for your next grind hour
>do that one kzarka weekly boss like 4-5 times or whatever to get a permanent +1 ap
bdo daily/weeklies in 2026 be like
>do rift bosses loml bosses pit of undying bosses group loml bosses dungeon bosses to get like 8000000gorrilionzorz then edania bosses to tap gear
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>RBF event
>It is literally just content-starved losers farming gearlets who are only there for the event and pretending their dicks are big because they end every match with 20+ kills
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how we feelin bros
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>>2242918
rift, guild bosses and black shrines are all you need desu, and with dawns crashing in price it might be worth to do just rift and GB bosses and ignore the rest. You get so little from the other things i think weeklies are a gearlet problem because they can't grind good spots.
>>2242992
I play DP shai and i have a blast in RBF.
>>2243067
source: my ass
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>>2244215
Only 8 Dusk Red Seabreams so far. 27 Sunset Red and 123 Red.
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>>2242992
You don't really need to be that geared to be able to do something in RBF. 850gs at minimum will allow you to kill anyone who isn't a dp meme which isn't really a lot these days. You'll still get blown up in SA though.
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>>2244613
On SEA with their cute femboi gfs.
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After 3 great fishing nights I'm getting a big old fuck you from the game I guess.
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>>2247029
Grim, I'm trying everywhere I can other than Velia. The money in Velia comes from the Silver Beltfish and there seem to be a few other spots which also give fish around that value, might be worth trying out some others if the population and/or trade bonuses are better.
This is 24 hours of fishing in Valencia City with 2170 mastery including the new rod, but I think I got lucky. I'll try a few more nights and see what I get.
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>>2249480
NTA. He's got a decent audience but he's a dogshit streamer, just copies everything asmonroach does and if he could grow hair he'd copy the looks, too. I occasionally watch some of his videos for like 2 minutes before he says something retarded and i close the tab, from what i gather he's pandering hard to china for some easy cash and he just reacts to videos.
It basically boils down to "i'm going to overreact to this video, call this chatter a retard, and be a contrarian so i can pretend i am intelligent." and people love that. It's never going to work because if he wants to be asmon so much people will just... watch asmon instead.
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I checked him out the other day because I saw he was live and in the bdo category and I shit you not, he was doing a video review on an asmongold video review of a thing that happened between some normalfag streamers then I realized that we can never go back to the way things used to be
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>use less than 20 censers between Dine and Doom
>ended up getting Krogdalo sooner than I thought
Do mount growth resets also wipe out any inherent skills the horse comes with on registration? And what do people use the Sanctuary for now, if super-horse pretty much does everything?
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>>2249841
nothing at all, he did the right thing by only streaming the game when he wants to make fun of the devs for being retards. meanwhile PA employees see bicep/choice and friends still grinding 8 hour days talking to themselves because their chat is dead and probably think "wow look at how satisfied they are with our product, clearly the game is fine"
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>>2250830
Fuck, I'm just trying to get a single pelicaneel for the fishing event
Cursed character or account
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>>2250957
Nah, third week of getting absolutely jackshit from fishing contests cause I can't pull any prizefish with 2.2k mastery
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Noice, this is gonna make for a good gathering session
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>>2250375
Dug around a bit, apparently it does preserve all skills pre-learned by event/special horses, with a GM's reassurance at that.
https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Forum/ForumTopic/Detail?_to picNo=63525
Also fair for tag characters, never really figured out a secondary class for any particular niche despite somehow getting a metric fuckton of gear copy fuel years ago from boxes.
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>>2249516
>reminded of bdo streamers
>wonder how fakeuni is doing since i remember him from back in the day and when he hopped on throne and liberty
>he completely deleted everything vidya related and rebranded
>now he's making tiktoks and youtube shorts that make millions of views
honestly did not expect that at all
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Anyone got any hints for this? I'm stumped. The name implies a shell or a clam of some sort but all I could find were some Turban Shells nearby which yielded nothing, and Coral Stoneback Crabs which also weren't the answer. The note said it's nearby so I doubt it would be any of the shells in Rusalka's castle.
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I think the Mirumok Ruins in the Valtarra Mountains and Gyfin Rhasia Temple in the southern Kamasylvia mountains are some of my favourite places in the game. I once had an incredibly vivid dream where I climbed to the top of the Valtarra Mountains and there was a temple similar to Gyfin, but more grand, in better upkeep, and clearly implying there was something significant at the summit, but it was protected by super strong Gyfin-like monsters so I couldn't get there. The design was very reminiscent of the Spear Pillar from Sinnoh for those that have played Pokemon.
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Whats the point of this trash existing now
Give us a refund PA
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>>2255684
They're raising the failstacks you gain from sacrificing tet and pen gear next patch.
MAYBE it will be a way to gain post-300 failstacks, because intentionally failing tet blackstars is now a dead method after the 3 free pen blackstars given out at the Academy.
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>>2255684
Given these and the supply of enhancement mats from Elvia Calpheon that never get used for anything else, I was thinking that they could have probably made dedicated protection items to give it some revived use, but I guess they doubled down on giving us a shitload of Obsidian hammers, so there goes that.
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>>2257789
Way, way, way faster to farm the silver.
Bartering/Sailing are lifeskills that don't really interact much with the rest of the game. Ocean content is kinda stand-alone from the rest of the game aside from failstacks/meme frags when upgrading the ship gear.
As a result, the silver you can make from doing them is pretty damn low compared to other lifeskills like Gathering and Hunting. Even if you have red and yellow carracks in full +10 gear and a Nol, you still can't make ships faster than someone who just grinds mobs for silver and buys them.
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>>2257771
The current Olvia Academy course shits out two Cogs to start with and then an Epheria Sailboat, but I think it isn't the 'improved' version. It also gets you up to Professional 1 in both Sailing and Batering, the former of which isn't as bad as it used to be to raise. As already mentioned, other than maybe Vell and Khan having their respective alchemy stones, it's pretty much its own beast. Blue Battlefield exists otherwise for naval PvP warfare.
If you want to go island hopping for any reason, Mythical Dine (or Krogdalo) can also run across water and reach close islands.
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>>2257771
It's worthless forgotten content that PA raped a long time ago then pretends they remember by giving it meager "buffs" every now and then as they buff the rest of the game at 10x the rate. It's certainly cool to do your first tour around the sea in a carrack but outside of that, sea content is probably the most ignored part of the game by far.
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>This is PA's modern demographic
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I hope PA has some freebies coming soon or else I'm gonna quit cause I just blew through my latest stash of them. Made a lot of gear gains but nothing to do with it but grind the same spots I was grinding 15-20 gs ago or do capped content so all I can do is wait for more freebies and hope they put out some real content I guess. The RBF rework and some new maps would go a long way with how easy it is to get gear now. There's just nothing to do with it.
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the S in sorceress stands for sex. the final 2 Ss stand for sex sex. The E? Extreme sex. The O for Oh boy, sex.
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>>2258079
quit, for your own good and mental wellbeing
just understand that the "freebies" are designed to make you feel like you're getting something extra when really they created a serious problem (timegated, ever lengthening hamster wheel) so when they throw you a few crons it feels like they're being "generous" so you stay logged in to keep the player count up for investors, that's how manipulative gooks are
the only thing that would get me playing again is BDO Classic without all this bullshit
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GS is a meme at this point, it's not a measure of how strong your character is, it's just something to hold you back until you are allowed to hit the next tier of mobs. Capped spawns limit you even further. I was 1750ap at orbita and i pulled 22k trash, now i have 1850 and i pull 22k trash.
Video games solved this 40 years ago with something called CHARACTER LEVEL and, ironically, levels would make for a much better progression system compared to enhancing. Your level would show the time you put in the game without relying on RNG, right now you can grind 250 hours and have literally nothing so show for it.
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>>2259298
Damn it's crazy how we didn't have this problem 2-3 years ago and when you got more gear you could actually notice a difference in how fast you kill the mobs and how much trash loot you get. I wonder what happened? Must be the wind or something.
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>>2259298
I love how some of the passives used to have level requirements going up to Lv95 before PA just settled on Lv60-62 being good enough for just having a skill point grind instead, which eventually got abolished anyway. Now it's more or less a tertiary element from grinding and all these Books of Training from events and shit are virtually nigh useless.
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new infos about coming events:
-lots of pearl shop items available for free
-event divided in 2 parts, 2 weeks each starting after next maint
-each part has different rewards as shown in pic
-earn fake pearls by completing daily challenges like kill X mobs or barter Y times
-earn also by grinding, fishing or even world bosses
-up to 49000 by challenges (prob over the entire month not every 2 weeks)
-more by goyslop activities so it's possible to buy everything if you're a virgin loser
Notable items: maids, unlimited range horse horn, panties selection, costume selection (even new bear one), accessories/glasses, tailor coupon, pets, gamba boxes (crons & premium outfits)
All of this available to korea even though it's supposed to be for NA/EU 10th anniversary because they're the israel of asia and the sooner Kim blows them to smithereens the better.
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>>2259670
They need to reassure the investors that their new game will be a success because look how many people still afk fi- play our game!I cannot tell you how many people I've outright seen say that they don't play anymore and haven't for over a year, and that they just afk fish
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>>2260431
Yeah it's a good time to start, what features of the game seem attractive to you?
Some basic tips:
Create a Season Character to start, they are designed to help more quickly gear up new players.
Don't open any permanent costumes or other bits e.g. Blackstar Weapon Boxes on a class until you've tried a few and know that you enjoy it, which mandates getting to at least level 60. There are loads of classes and they mostly all play very differently.
The game is very grindy but you can take it as serious or as casual as you like, and there are lots of alternatives to the main combat in the form of life skills.
>>2260442
You can change between servers with a 5 minute cooldown, there's no such thing as a character or account restriction to specific servers. When you join a guild they will have base servers that you typically will hang out on but still no restriction.
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>>2260452
I see thank you. I think I have an older character I created and I think I got some cosmetics for, could I restart and still use those cosmetics or not?
Also, I remember there's like a bunch of pop ups and stuff, do I need addons to remove those?
I tend to play PVE mostly, so I'm mainly I guess looking to do PVE content and maybe get into PVP which is why I'm wondering how active the game is, as in should I attempt to join a thread guild on EU if there is one, or look for normies, or if the game is not ping heavy try to play on NA?
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>>2260459
Cosmetics are 'Character Bound' meaning they are locked to that specific character, not even sharable between two characters of the same class.
There's a Customise UI menu that you can play about with, almost everything can be turned off. For pop-ups that refer to things such as Central Market registrations, those can be toggled in the regular settings rather than the Customise UI menu.
PvE is the main way to earn silver so if you like that you'll do great, PvP is in varying states of alive and balance. You'll hear from some people in the thread that it's a shitshow and to never bother but that's mostly untrue, there are some uncapped modes where you'll get demolished unless you have 800+ GS but there are plenty of capped PvP options and even some which lend you gear to use, which are designed to be a bit easier for new players to get into. Arena of Solare will give you gear to use so you can try that straight away, but I'd seriously recommend learning a few classes and the combat CC system for a while first, since if you don't know it you'll be left a bit confused what's happening to you.
There is an EU guild calledCutieswhich is friendly and you're welcome to join.
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>>2260514
You can just keep her, but you can't make her season character, she might actually be a season character though if you just made her 2 years ago
If not make a season character and get a bunch of helpful shit then you can tag the season char with your outfitted character and both will have the same gear levels
If you dont want to play her you can melt her costumes down for resources
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>>2260514
There was a change of publisher from Kakao to PA a while ago, if you didn't make sure to transfer your account then everything will be gone.
If it's not then one option is to make another Lahn, which is the class you made with the twin chainswords, then make season gear for that Lahn, and once you graduate move it all over to your original one.
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So what's the deal with this obsession with catching up? What are people catching up to? Catch up mechanic this, catch up mechanic that. No one is catching up so they can do multiplayer PVE content, and the vast majority of players aren't concerned with catching up so they can do uncapped PVP so they don't die as soon as they get cc'd, so what's going on? How can so many people care so much about catch up mechanics in a game where none of them are actually trying or even care to catch up to the consistent players?
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>>2261310
there's nothing else to the game anymore
BDO has stagnated and is purely transactional now in just about every way
it's so bad that they have to give away a calpheon ball's worth of shit every week just to keep people logged in, this is not normal
I'm done with the main game, they ruined the original game I fell in love with, maybe I'll be back for hardcore server 2 or better yet BDO Classic
the game, if you can call it that now, isn't worth the time sink in this state, and all the chronic afk fishers agree with me
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>>2261349
not to mention the fact that they diverted so many resources to crimson desert while allowing BDO to slip into this state shows how little respect PA even has for us, we funded their consoleslop while BDO rots
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i actually despise that game devs put so much emphasis on twitch streamers now
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>>2261702
Yep... how can it compare to /our/ game.
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>>2262017
Pick tamer cuz she's cool
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>>2262017
I think you can make a trial character and then see their outfits in the pearl shop
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>>2262099
All female classes besides Shai and Tamer wear heels. Seraph doesn't have as many outfits simply because she's the newest class, hopefully they will keep adding some older ones for her as time goes on. Pretty much all of the female classes have slutty dresses so really I'd pick based on the class playstyle
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>>2262118
I already have one I started leveling a while back, I think I'll start serpah now and then pick it up mayble later when there's nothing to do, if there are points in this game when there's nothing to do. Is that a good idea?
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>>2262123
Mhm I see, I mean I know nothing about the balance or anything so I'll start with a serpah for now I suppose. I think lahn, mystic and dark knight are really cool too. Like I said there's too many options it's really hard to pick something to get into.
Any other tips as to what I should do as a new player?
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>>2262126
- Have fun and don't worry too much is by far the most important thing
- This game is often described as a grindy sanbox MMO. It's lost some of what made that true in the years but I think it's still correct. If you get bored questing or grinding or whatever then you can always try out a lifeskill.
- Speaking of lifeskills, after you graduate Season there's something called Olvia Academy to do which teaches you a lot and gives you decent rewards
- Don't use Crons for any Tuvala gear despite what the game may tell you, they're far too valuable for that
- Keep as much as you can in your Black Spirit's Safe (B), it's effectively an infinite storage whilst your storage in towns can fill up
- There are lots of systems in the game, some simple and some more complex. If you feel overwhelmed trying to understand them all, then you can without too much worry ignore them for a bit until you feel like you want to learn more. If you're like me and love to learn about some very complex system then you'll have a great time looking into worker empires and feeding your lifeskills
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>>2262219
I don't think it's that good, but I'm looking at it with a vet's eyes. It's probably cost-effective at least, and gives things you likely need as a new player.
How are you looking to spend on this game, just a bit to get you started, or are you happy to spend frequently?
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>>2262271
That's fine, I would recommend not spending loads early on until you know that you enjoy the game anyway, but the double Pearl deals are rare so now is by far the best time to pick some up.
I'm off to bed now, I'll leave you in the capable hands of the rest of /bdog/, but one last thing is to check out the website Garmoth.com, and especially claim the codes that you see by using the redeem page either in-game or on the website.
Don't forget to post your character when you've made her, here's my Seraph that I've tried to make pale and vampire-like.
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>>2262307
Thanks for the help.
I accidently summoned my white pegasus and I don't know how to get rid of it.
As for the character, I was trying to go for a gyaru look but in game the shine is a bit too much. Not sure what to do, I'll figure it out later I guess, for now I'll just keep leveling.
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>>2262310
You can check your horse into a stable at a stable keeper, but there's nothing wrong with keeping it out for when you travel.
>Gyaru
Great taste, check out my Drakania where I tried for a similar thing
>>2262432
Pets that loot yeah there's lots but if you're referring to the Tamer's Heilang then no there's no variations on that one.
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>>2262833
that's the "game" now, burn out your hardware and fans afk fishing because nobody can be bothered to play what they turned BDO into, and the stockholm syndrome cattle cheer for scraps of crons and p2w shit which should have never existed in the first place, all while they pour all the money they made off them into other games
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there's nothing else to do in this game other that fish/afk and adore my pretty character
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>>2265031
grinding isn't fun anymore with the way they implemented gear progression
lifeskilling is chill but not really worth it in terms of silver/h
world bosses are alright but they die within seconds so it's hardly any content
dungeons would be cool if there was a pug party finder like in every other mmo
so yeah imma just stay afk
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New outfit and I'm honestly surprised they made one for shai, looks pretty cool. Not gonna buy it though.
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>>2267838
i don't really care about the setting at all honestly, it's just weird playing this, walking through towns and they're all utterly devoid of players except for velia and sorta heidel, especially compared to what it used to be where some random place such as kamasylvia or altinova had people afk or running errands in town between grinds. absolutely nothing about land of the morning light or edania congregated players in a way that at least give off the illusion that the game is still bustling outside of velia beach, and that makes me feel like the new regions are pointless when they don't offer anything new except for like a couple of grind spots and maybe some shitty chore bosses. like why did they even make seoul as big as it is if exactly zero players were ever going to make it their hub, move their home therebecause they didn't add any player housing there since they knew it was useless fluff to begin with, grind in spots near that area, afk fish there, etc. what's the point? same with edania. now people are.... grinding stars end and sycraia again because of some arbitrary number change instead of an actual lore related expansion to that area?
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>>2267831
that would require a competent dev team, too bad they shifted them to crimson desert, oh and they're going to dokev next
keep spending money like a good cuckold paypig feeding the gookjew machine though, at least with smilegate and lost ark you could plainly see you're getting fucked over, PA is especially insidious
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>>2267838
it could have been fine, but they screwed up by making it too literal
they should have at least done a fusion design and culture and not literally call it seoul or make 1:1 replications. you dont see warsaw in the witcher. sheeit
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>>2268681
Yeah very true. I kinda wonder if I have too passive an attitude for Arsha, I normally don't like to disturb people when they are grinding, but I do want to try and get better at PvP so I think this may help me there
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>>2268940
>I kinda wonder if I have too passive an attitude for Arsha
You and everyone else, it's not like how it was years ago thankfully. Arsha is a pve grinding server where sometimes geared fags go on to look for people to do driveby's on.
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Try contacting any of these officer peoples and hope they're not afk
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>>2272360
Apologize. NOW!
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