Since you can't move the home of a worker to another city, my gold and blue workers will forever remain in Velia and Heidel. My Velia and Heidel warehouses also have maximum slots from storage houses. I setup the workshops for upgrading my end-game weapon, shield, and armor in the other cities. The need for more contribution points never ends!
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Black Desert Online |OT| Come on in, the sand's fine [Mediah Update]
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TatteredHat
Member
Does this game have some sort of progression path for fishing, or can you reasonably keep fishing in the exact same spot to level up? I'm Apprentice 6 now and things have slowed down considerably, but I guess that might just be by design.
Zera_Bloodwinter
Member
For someone who only cares for open world pvp roaming (both solo and or small/large scale) would this be worth looking into? Having played DAOC, WoW, WAR, Aion, Rift, ArcheAge, GW & GW2 I've been around the MMO block. I hear this has a cash shop. How much is it effecting pvp? I keep hearing about this "Ghillie" costume that supposedly has caused a shit storm. Can anyone elaborate? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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The state of open world PvP is too early to call. Don't let anyone say otherwise. Real warfare stuff hasn't started yet.
LowParry
Member
Hmmm. I'm still deciding if I like this game or not. I appreciate the open world but...all I do is fish. Fish fish fish. With some combat here and there but still. I'm just so used to the theme park type of MMO. Maybe a little rafting will change some things up......with fishing.
RoodyPooUS
Member
Leveling got really slow with default weapons at 35 but finally got to 500 amity to buy Yuria bow, also had enough stones and silver to get it to +7 and got some accessories and armor, im broke but ready to grind when I get back tonite.
finalflame
Banned
Just bought this. Between this and The Division, gold help me.
Any tips, GAF?
Any tips, GAF?
vakarian32
Member
Have a go at building the Ferry instead, it will give you something to work on for a while and introduce you to some other parts of the game by collecting the materials and managing workers etc. Don't bother building the raft though, it's junk and moves way too slow.
I'm kind of in the same boat, well I also like doing quest/leveling up but every single place is just soo full of player with clearly not enough monster for everyone... it feel like my tamer will stay level 30 quite some time...
But I have a ferry now, and a fishing rode so I'm happy doing still more fishing for money I don't even spend.
And it also made me spend a little more time on my alts, seems like valkyrie could be fun, while witch is kind of becoming boring ( lvl24 atm), powerfull no doubt, but pretty boring.
Zera_Bloodwinter
Member
Fuck it, took the plunge. Please don't be another ArcheAge!
Going Sorc. Game is DL'ing now.
Going Sorc. Game is DL'ing now.
Looks like my Guest Pass finally ran out.
I did get my Tamer to level 20, around 50-60 energy/contribution points, and to Heidel and the surrounding areas, though.
So much time tabbed out afk-fishing trying to get specific fish for a quest or auto running between Olivia, Velia, and Heidel because of Storage or some Quest I forgot to do.
Somehow, actually managed to max out the limit of Quests I could have at a time.
I'd probably get at least $30 worth out of it, but not sure how much I'd actually play since I still have to finish up a number of other games as well.
I did get my Tamer to level 20, around 50-60 energy/contribution points, and to Heidel and the surrounding areas, though.
I'm also not sure on the game.
So much time tabbed out afk-fishing trying to get specific fish for a quest or auto running between Olivia, Velia, and Heidel because of Storage or some Quest I forgot to do.
Somehow, actually managed to max out the limit of Quests I could have at a time.
I'd probably get at least $30 worth out of it, but not sure how much I'd actually play since I still have to finish up a number of other games as well.
There's something that really draws me to this game, and I don't know what it is. Are there oceanic servers? I recall reading a forum post that this may be the case but can't seem to find any confirmation, I don't want another wildstar situation where the game is near unplayable.
Are there any dungeons like WOW instances, or is the majority of the pve content based around farming, fishing etc?
Are there any dungeons like WOW instances, or is the majority of the pve content based around farming, fishing etc?
I'm not in love with every aspect of this game, but its diverse structure makes it far more enjoyable than the standard instanced dungeon routine. I've been running trade routes and crafting and it's good fun that doesn't require my undivided attention all the time.
Add me, NA guild.
Family: Bearform
Name: Hewf
Add me, NA guild.
Family: Bearform
Name: Hewf
vakarian32
Member
Before I left for work this morning I plugged in my old xbox controller, rubber banded the sticks and left my character doing this in my empty house:
Wonder what level my Breath will be when I get home
Wonder what level my Breath will be when I get home
Once we start getting some open guild combat / tasks going, and dungeon exploring among other things arrive, I think it'll start scratching that itch.
Hikami
Member
How high? Like, do you know the level range?
It's like if the party is more than six levels apart and the mobs appear purple to the lowest level member, you all get insanely reduced XP.
I know why they do it like that, but it doesn't change the fact that I've always hated mechanics that discourage partying.
So a few pages back someone had mentioned that for them turning off "high end mode" meant the game had no more puddles/wet floors in spots. Other people also mentioned that for them this was not the case at all and with high end mode off they still had these. I was fooling around with some settings in game and I now believe I understand why this is. My settings in game were "high-end" on and everything else set to the highest.
Before logging in I ticked the settings icon on the patcher however and found that my graphics settings were set to "medium high" or something along those lines. After fooling around a bit I believe that the patcher setting and high-end mode are exclusive to one another. In my case with the patcher set to medium turning off high-end caused me to lose the puddles. When I turned the patcher up to "high 2" however turning off high end mode no longer caused these to disappear. This leads me to believe that high-end is really just a brute force toggle for the absolute highest settings in several areas, bypassing whatever your patcher is set at currently.
If anyone else is having the issue with no puddles without high end please give this a shot. I had previously completely overlooked the settings in the patcher.
Before logging in I ticked the settings icon on the patcher however and found that my graphics settings were set to "medium high" or something along those lines. After fooling around a bit I believe that the patcher setting and high-end mode are exclusive to one another. In my case with the patcher set to medium turning off high-end caused me to lose the puddles. When I turned the patcher up to "high 2" however turning off high end mode no longer caused these to disappear. This leads me to believe that high-end is really just a brute force toggle for the absolute highest settings in several areas, bypassing whatever your patcher is set at currently.
If anyone else is having the issue with no puddles without high end please give this a shot. I had previously completely overlooked the settings in the patcher.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Sounds like you like it to me
You will thank the stars you have that money when it comes time to upgrade that gear
Oh I have no doubt that it will get usefull, just looking at the price of the best fishing rode and all made me quickly realise how little my few millions will get me.
Aadrian1234
Banned
And finally reached level 45 ! Wonder when i'll be PK'd for my first time
Phreakuency
Banned
ROBOKITTYZILLA
Member
Calpheon is amazing. My main home is in Heidel but going to setup shop in Calpheon for some things too.
Is anyone playing this game on a laptop?
I'm curious about the absolute minimum I could get away with for running the game at low settings, low resolution, and low FPS. As long as I could log in, burn energy on crafting or gathering, let my workers work, and maybe fish, like when I'm traveling or at lunch breaks at work or something.
Could a Surface or other integrated video card laptop handle this? (I build my own desktops but don't have a laptop or tablet so not really familiar with that variety of hardware.)
I'm curious about the absolute minimum I could get away with for running the game at low settings, low resolution, and low FPS. As long as I could log in, burn energy on crafting or gathering, let my workers work, and maybe fish, like when I'm traveling or at lunch breaks at work or something.
Could a Surface or other integrated video card laptop handle this? (I build my own desktops but don't have a laptop or tablet so not really familiar with that variety of hardware.)
I'm running on a pretty old laptop. Most pieces are decent enough but my GPU is seriously lacking, as in beneath the minimum specs. I've got an integrated Intel HD graphics 3000 chip with an NVidia GT 540M that I can use for games.
It's not ideal, but I find it more than playable. I'm getting between 20-25 fps most of the time. In cities, especially near storage keepers, trade manager and fishing areas can be a bit spotty.
It doesn't bother me too much because I'm upgrading quite soon but I can see how this could be unplayable for some.
notworksafe
Member
Some of the filters and shots in this game make it real easy to make it looks like some sort of horror film
Still looking to trade.
Before I left for work this morning I plugged in my old xbox controller, rubber banded the sticks and left my character doing this in my empty house:
Wonder what level my Breath will be when I get home
Wonder if that would work for strength too. Need to level that up badly.
vakarian32
Member
It does! I got 10 strength levels overnight doing that.
OgTheClever
Member
Hey, I'd be interested in joining the EU guild if there's spaces available. I'll be online for at least the next hour.
Family name: The_Enigma
Character name: Allothiel
I've loving the game so far. Currently I'm 'stuck' in Velia because I haven't decided on anything to specialise yet, so I'm trying pretty much everything for the time being. My character is a lvl 17 Valkyrie.
Family name: The_Enigma
Character name: Allothiel
I've loving the game so far. Currently I'm 'stuck' in Velia because I haven't decided on anything to specialise yet, so I'm trying pretty much everything for the time being. My character is a lvl 17 Valkyrie.
JamesGoblin
Neo Member
Too sexy for immersion, OK otherwise - especially if you enjoy PvP.
PS I could spend hours in that char editor...
PS I could spend hours in that char editor...
shiiiiit, guess I know what I am going to be doing. Anything crazy needed to setup an xbox controller?
I'd advise two things.
1) Grind out your main to 50 so you can start getting dailies. This is the only way to really progress end game, barring some economic activity that can net you stupid amounts of money.
2) Create an alt to take your time with, if you enjoy questing and checking out this and that.
Gives you the upsides of both. I took my Valk to 50 within 24 hours of release, and have been taking my time on a Ranger alt. Currently lvl 23, with high trade, fishing, and gathering levels. I actually make more money on the level 24 than I do the 50. The 50 is the money sink.
OgTheClever
Member
Thanks for the advice. I'll probably still stick around in Velia for a few more days doing different things and then I'll just dedicate a few days after that to exploring and levelling to 50 via combat. I don't feel like rushing just yet while I'm learning the game systems but I do realise you can level up quite quickly compared to other MMOs if you just focus on combat.
I will be making alts in time as well to test out other classes and for the bonus energy. I actually don't really feel I need to use that much energy yet because contribution points are limiting me more and I'm gradually increasing it through questing.
Hikami
Member
That's why he advised you to get a character to 50
The daily quests you unlock at higher levels give you way more contribution points than whatever you'd find around Velia. Still good to take your time if you want though. I did all the quests in Velia and Heidel on my main before deciding to just grind it out to 50.
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