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Black Desert Online |OT| Come on in, the sand's fine [Mediah Update]

105.Will

Member
Depends on what you hate about most MMOs. There is a bit of grinding, but it's not like low level quest style grinding in other games. Quests in this don't even give traditional experience; you get other rewards that make them worthwhile. There's also a huge variety of quests. Quests for combat are there, of course. But there's also quests for exploration, tradeskills, gathering. We just completed a guild quest to gather tons of logs from trees and were rewarded with a ton of money, for example. Many players opt to skip doing quests entirely, and simply go find the hardest things they can to grind for their levels. A lot of what you earn is shared across alts too.

As for the combat.... even one of the slowest classes in the game, Wizard/Witch, is still significantly faster than most MMOs. The speedier classes are really fast, and it's akin to a fighting game.

Thanks. I'm gonna look into it a little more, but your answer has leaned closer to buying it now.
 

Stiler

Member
I'm not active in-game but you can message these officers to get invited, we have several spots open right now:

ABLE TO INVITE

FAMILY NAME

Dysphoria
Spazznid
Androidcandy
Ishamaru
ROBOKITTYZILLA

Are these the right names? Cause most of them don't work and just say "Character not found."

Still looking for an invite in the NA guild:

Character name: Gyloir
Family name: Anlan
 
Are these the right names? Cause most of them don't work and just say "Character not found."

Still looking for an invite in the NA guild:

Character name: Gyloir
Family name: Anlan

Guild is capped again but we are doing quests to open up more slots.

You can't really do any searches by family name for some reason. It needs to be the character name.

Main characters to contact for invites are:

GM
Ashodin (Venteal)

Officers
Dyscord (Dysphoria)
Aubrey_Plaza (Spazznid)
Shalquoir (Androidcandy)
Ishiori (Ishamaru)
Kuronuma (ROBOKITTYZILLA)
 
Would it be a good idea for me to keep track of everyone wanting in the guild on a text document? I read through here every day, I can help sort out people if we need to

Also yep, i got 7K silver from my contract. That is dumb, i hope that it's possible to edit contracts, i would like to keep a longer contract without breaking the guild funds
 

Elandyll

Banned
I must be missing something with the way the appearance system works, because I look at 15 the exact same way I did at lvl 1 (and dyes are very rare in game as well it seems).

I get that DAUM wants to make money by selling costumes... But no appearance change with in game armor pieces?
Even helmets don't show...

That sounds too absurd to be true...
 
I must be missing something with the way the appearance system works, because I look at 15 the exact same way I did at lvl 1 (and dyes are very rare in game as well it seems).

I get that DAUM wants to make money by selling costumes... But no appearance change with in game armor pieces?
Even helmets don't show...

That sounds too absurd to be true...

There are some armors that will change your appearance. Here are the Valkyrie ones for example:

http://bdo-fashion.com/armor-valkyrie

That said, it's still pretty limited and is a major complaint from a lot of people but it is what it is.
 

Ashodin

Member
Keeping track will help us mark off who's gotten an invite, but you can't invite anyone specifically, they still have to message any of the officers or I online.
 

Hikami

Member
There are some armors that will change your appearance. Here are the Valkyrie ones for example:

http://bdo-fashion.com/armor-valkyrie

That said, it's still pretty limited and is a major complaint from a lot of people but it is what it is.

There's also profession armor.

I have the Apprentice Gathering armor and Apprentice Fishing armor:
You get them from a pretty simple quest related to the profession and get variations of them as your rank increases. They're not really useful in combat but they can be made into costumes that can go over your armor with an item (that we don't have yet in our version.)
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You can craft other appearance changing outfits in some town facilities too but I'm not that far yet. But yeah, actual appearance changing combat armor is very limited though.
 

MikeDown

Banned
I will be mostly off line except for a couple hrs in the evening until tuesday then I will be jumping between this and the Division
 
Keeping track will help us mark off who's gotten an invite, but you can't invite anyone specifically, they still have to message any of the officers or I online.

Yep, already on it. I usually have contact with Sophia, so officer contact shouldn't be an issue for me.

EDIT= Ok, went back for quite a few pages, and picked up all the names i could see that weren't already in the guild. The link is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T4fYnUlySLVrVMvqIOG06XyUNWOJ5l8VIRK4fdB76xQ/edit?usp=sharing
For the sake that this is a public forum, i won't be opening it up for anyone to edit, so I'll catch all names posted here in the future. If your name is not here and you have commented in the past, please quote me with your family/ character names
 

nataku

Member
Yep, already on it. I usually have contact with Sophia, so officer contact shouldn't be an issue for me.

EDIT= Ok, went back for quite a few pages, and picked up all the names i could see that weren't already in the guild. The link is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T4fYnUlySLVrVMvqIOG06XyUNWOJ5l8VIRK4fdB76xQ/edit?usp=sharing
For the sake that this is a public forum, i won't be opening it up for anyone to edit, so I'll catch all names posted here in the future. If your name is not here and you have commented in the past, please quote me with your family/ character names

Guess I'll post mine, though you might want to make note that I don't need an invite until we have plenty of space and are done with grinding guild spots for the most part. I only really have time to play on the weekends and since I work 3pm-11:30pm I'll just be wasting a slot when someone who plays during the same time as you guys would be of more help. I was in before but got booted since you guys needed the slot for help, which is completely fine. I just don't want to be wasting a slot.

Family: Veplerion
Character: Illys
 
Guess I'll post mine, though you might want to make note that I don't need an invite until we have plenty of space and are done with grinding guild spots for the most part. I only really have time to play on the weekends and since I work 3pm-11:30pm I'll just be wasting a slot when someone who plays during the same time as you guys would be of more help. I was in before but got booted since you guys needed the slot for help, which is completely fine. I just don't want to be wasting a slot.

Family: Veplerion
Character: Illys

Sure, i can always edit a description after your name on the list
 

Spazznid

Member
Going to be Cataloging my Breeding attempts for myself, and maybe for anyone interested. Here's my first real breed. I played the Korean Beta and managed a T3 or T4 but at the time, there really wasn't anything known about the system. I was one of the early few who found a lot of the spawns for horses, and one of the few who bred higher tier horses.

Anyways, here's the first couple!
The Breeding process takes 2 hours and 24 minutes, so I'll report back here after it's done and show what I got.

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I'm currently leveling more females, T1 and T2.
 

Teknoman

Member
Time out. mounts have move lists too?

me too

me and my brother both picked up the game and we have barely any idea of what we're doing.

Welcome to the sandbox lol.

I wonder if this is how Ultima Online was in its early days or even Everquest (was that sandbox or themepark?).
 

Kalentan

Member
So I found out that the Awakening weapon for Warrior is a large ass sword in the realm of Berserk...

Valkyries get a large lance and shield.

I feel like I choose wrong (I am a Valkyrie.)
 
I think we can all agree that "I have no idea what I am doing" is the single greatest sign of good game design.

Unless your game is called Auto Assault.
 

Hellers

Member
Time out. mounts have move lists too?



Welcome to the sandbox lol.

I wonder if this is how Ultima Online was in its early days or even Everquest (was that sandbox or themepark?).

UO was my first MMO. I'd just got my first internet connection (56k modem) and wanted to play it. There was nobody to buy a copy from online back then none of the shops nearby in the UK had a copy). Then I went to visit a friend who'd moved to germany and he showed me the area of Munich where all the computer shops were and there was a single english copy of UO on a shelf. When I first played it the feeling was "What the fuck do I do". I ended up doing what I'm doing here. Setting goals and slowly working towards them. In 6 hours I'll have my first rowboat :) In UO the first thing I did was make enough money to buy a boat to live on.
 

Spazznid

Member
Time out. mounts have move lists too?

Yes.

There are a lot of moves, like Drifting, Bunny hopping, High Jump, Front and Back Attacks, Roar, Fast Mount, Quick Start, Fast Stop, Etc.

You can also equip stirrups and saddles and such which all allow you to do things like ride faster, or do mounted combat.
 

Keasar

Member
The astounding detective skills of my character.

*investigates mysterious deaths of cattle on a farm*
*checks a body of a dead cow*
*notices it has been stabbed several times with a sharp object*
*concludes it has to be mutated hummingbirds*

...

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Turns out it was.
 

Teknoman

Member
So I found out that the Awakening weapon for Warrior is a large ass sword in the realm of Berserk...

Valkyries get a large lance and shield.

I feel like I choose wrong (I am a Valkyrie.)

I wonder if its something that works as a skill or a literal secondary weapon?

UO was my first MMO. I'd just got my first internet connection (56k modem) and wanted to play it. There was nobody to buy a copy from online back then none of the shops nearby in the UK had a copy). Then I went to visit a friend who'd moved to germany and he showed me the area of Munich where all the computer shops were and there was a single english copy of UO on a shelf. When I first played it the feeling was "What the fuck do I do". I ended up doing what I'm doing here. Setting goals and slowly working towards them. In 6 hours I'll have my first rowboat :) In UO the first thing I did was make enough money to buy a boat to live on.

Yeah that pretty much explains how I feel atm. That being said, thanks guys for the escort to the warehouse npc lol. Later today if anyone wants to help me take down a boss summon (Red Nose: The giant imp), lemme know.
 

Wozzer

Member
Yep, already on it. I usually have contact with Sophia, so officer contact shouldn't be an issue for me.

EDIT= Ok, went back for quite a few pages, and picked up all the names i could see that weren't already in the guild. The link is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T4fYnUlySLVrVMvqIOG06XyUNWOJ5l8VIRK4fdB76xQ/edit?usp=sharing
For the sake that this is a public forum, i won't be opening it up for anyone to edit, so I'll catch all names posted here in the future. If your name is not here and you have commented in the past, please quote me with your family/ character names

Can I join the waiting list?

Region: NA
Family: Wozz
Name: Wozz
 

Ferr986

Member
Was checking the Pearl Shop and lol, the discount (2900 to 2500) its practically useless if you just want the otufit because you have to buy the 3000 pearl pack anyways.
 

Stalk

Member
Been playing on and off for the last few days now, feeling it. The game is gorgeous and the world feels incredibly vibrant, seeing people running back and forth feels great and the lack of fast travel is somewhat appealing since it actually gives scale to the game. I will admit I am completely lost too but it's refreshing to not be taken through a 1-50 quest chain pointing you at every little thing you can do.

I rented a house, I got a donkey and named him Murphy, joined a guild and ran around generally getting lost. It's fun.
 
Been playing on and off for the last few days now, feeling it. The game is gorgeous and the world feels incredibly vibrant, seeing people running back and forth feels great and the lack of fast travel is somewhat appealing since it actually gives scale to the game. I will admit I am completely lost too but it's refreshing to not be taken through a 1-50 quest chain pointing you at every little thing you can do.

I rented a house, I got a donkey and named him Murphy, joined a guild and ran around generally getting lost. It's fun.

Treat Murphy well.
 

zoobzone

Member
What benefits does join a guild bring aside from having a larger community?

And what can I do with the money I make in end game?
 

Wozzer

Member
Is there a point where I should stop following the quests and just go explore/get lost? I've just visited the ancient stone chamber and am now killing lists of creatures for my now teethy ghostly friend.

Enjoying it so far and feeling expectedly overwhelmed by the amount of unexplained systems and UI.
 

Hellers

Member
Is there a point where I should stop following the quests and just go explore/get lost? I've just visited the ancient stone chamber and am now killing lists of creatures for my now teethy ghostly friend.

Enjoying it so far and feeling expectedly overwhelmed by the amount of unexplained systems and UI.

Keep going. You're about to hit all the crafting system tutorial quests
 

ittoryu

Member
Bought the game and now I have no idea what exactly I am doing :)
Got a Tamer to level 13.

Quick question: where do I get the item from the explorer edition?

I'd be super happy to join the EU people :)
Family name: Strastovski
Name: Viesky
 

MikeDown

Banned
think im going to give in a and buy an outifit

also add me: Family Name: RyokoToast Character Name: Kasmir
& my sister: Family Name: Cornhole Character Name: Scootes
 

Ruruja

Member
Hello, after some deliberation I decided to buy the game and give it a shot. I noticed it says there's no raid/instance content (something I wasn't really a fan of in FF14, my most recent/most played MMO), which sounds good to me - but what is it replaced with?

I'll be on the EU server mentioned in OP, I'll probably apply to that guild at some point - just waiting for this 31GB to download!

first attempt at some ingame photos
they really sud be cropped better, got alot of deadspace

Kinda looks like Anna Kendrick.
 
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