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

BDO and BnS maintenance at the same time...c'mon guys ;)

Log into Warframe and get the anniversary gifts:D Warframe has fantastic combat that reminds me of BDO. BDO has that Dynasty Warrior touch added as well:p




The Mediah update will add mobs that are level 51-55 ish I think, which will speed up leveling in that range. Right now while leveling 1-50 you're probably mostly grinding on purple/red mobs and getting lots of XP, at 50 everything is white or green already.

Nice! Do you know how much XP you lose when a player ganks you currently?
 
Do you mean for selling trade goods? Prices change constantly based on transaction volume from players (and apparently other factors, too) so unless the game has some kind of API you can get info from I doubt something like that exists.

If you just mean trade manager inventories, I have not seen anything like that. I sorta started some notes but nothing as organized as an app or fancy spreadsheet yet.

Other than what you mentioned, I believe the prices can also be independent for each player. For example, while one player had a vendor that was buying a specific item at 200%, when I checked that same item the percentage was completely different for me. I can't confirm but it would make sense. Otherwise players would just mine or share the information and constantly flood the appropriate vendors for maximum profit.

How will Awakening weapons work? Do you need to be lvl 50 for those or? Hopefully its not too difficult or tedious to get them, really want that greatsword warrior.

I haven't experienced any of this myself but based on information gathered thus far:

- In one of the Valencia updates, you get a quest at level 56 to unlock the awakened weapon.

- Awakened weapons are not designed to be upgrades or superior to the original weapons. They are designed to make the combat more dynamic and balance classes by addressing their weakness and adding counters to other classes and situations. For example, the Warrior's awakened weapon adds a huge DPS increase at the cost of defense, the Ranger's awakened weapon adds enhanced melee combat options, and the Sorc's awakened weapon adds much better AOE capabilities. In some cases they are considered the go-to weapon such as on Warrior but in other cases they are considered to be strictly situational such as the case with Ranger.

- It is a new main hand weapon that you can switch to on the fly with 'C'. There is a very short cooldown on the switch so you can weave weapon types and skills in and out of various combos. It is very easy to switch to either weapon on the fly.

- As this is another physical weapon and not just an appearance change, you will have to enhance this weapon the same as your other main hand with weapon blackstones. There are no corresponding off hands so you will use your existing off hand but the appearance may be altered (e.g. Valkyrie).

- It has an entirely separate and complete skill tree but I believe skill points are still shared. You will get up to an additional 300-400+ skill points to obtain the skills.
 

Pheace

Member
Servers aren't up yet but you can start downloading the 900MB patch through the launcher for those of you who can use a headstart.
 

Tankshell

Member
Servers aren't up yet but you can start downloading the 900MB patch through the launcher for those of you who can use a headstart.

Confirmed no Mediah update if patch is only 900Mb? Guess it must be hitting next Wednesday then.

EDIT - strange the way we think of a 900Mb patch as small these days :)
 

Baliis

Member
I think it's 1% of the required xp to the next level.

Haven't been ganked in pvp yet surprisingly, but 1% sounds about right from my occasional random death.

I'm actually surprised I haven't had like, any pvp encounters aside from that night at Calpheon Shrine, but that was a guild war so no losses. Usually if I run into a guild group, they'll be kind enough to tell me to fuck off rather than just kill me and a few people I thought might try to gank me invited me to parties instead.
 
Haven't been ganked in pvp yet surprisingly, but 1% sounds about right from my occasional random death.

I'm actually surprised I haven't had like, any pvp encounters aside from that night at Calpheon Shrine, but that was a guild war so no losses. Usually if I run into a guild group, they'll be kind enough to tell me to fuck off rather than just kill me and a few people I thought might try to gank me invited me to parties instead.

I wish i was that lucky. Every time i went to calpheon shrine, i got ganked by a full party. I would stay away from them too, they were the asshole "this place is mine" groups too that killed you even if you were grinding mobs in a room that they aren't touching

I wanna hurry up and level up and upgrade my gear so i can murder some folks to put them back in their place
 

Tankshell

Member
Promised I'd post these up, from last nights EU GAF gathering on Velia beach :)

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Good to meet up with everybody!
 
I don't feel like being a power user. I just like to get more information and explore. I think I found my calling lol.

Sell a few things here and there to make a buck too, maybe a few rares hopefully.
 

grate

Member
What's the status on the NA guild? Started playing, but I know there was talk of a member cap earlier in the thread.
 

datamage

Member
Is there a way to disable the text at the top of the screen when you're fishing?

Also, is there any interesting loot at the end of the game, or is all just +ap +15, etc? Like for you EQ vets, any loot that can proc, or have right-click effects?
 
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Queen of Hunting

Unconfirmed Member
How has the game turned out. Recommend jumping in ? Hows gaf clan doing
 
I'd love to play this game, it looks really good and everything.
But it is region blocked in my country, so its developer and publisher can go straight to.....

They just don't want my money.

(#Pissed)
 
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Queen of Hunting

Unconfirmed Member
The clan is doing good, we completed some missions and yes I do recommend jumping in.

What is your playstyle? what you like depends on the class you will go for.

Thats good to hear. In most rpg games i tend to like the bow class or mage n sometimes warrior. Im not someone who enjoys the tank or dot spammer or summoner type.
 
3 guild spots left.

Make sure you are actually online and on Orwen server, Calpheon 01. I'll be on for a while if you want an invite. Send a whisper to: Kuronuma

I can't send the invite unless I receive a whisper from your character.
 

Velkyn

Member
Thats good to hear. In most rpg games i tend to like the bow class or mage n sometimes warrior. Im not someone who enjoys the tank or dot spammer or summoner type.

I'm still trying to pick my main class, too, but you might like witch/wiz or ranger. I like Witch, but I find it a bit repetitive.
 

Not Spaceghost

Spaceghost
Valk is nice, but kinda boring lol. Shield into spear into shield is basically all you'll need for anything for grinding. Sometimes I'll mix it up with shield into spear into sword of judgement into shield if I need the extra damage.

Just a tip for mobility, any shield skill can combo into shield chase (I'm not sure about shield throw though, sometimes it seems like it doesn't, but other times it does). You won't need it much for leveling, but it's nice for dodging around ogres.

I don't really find it boring because I love tanky classy but yeah after I basically maxed out shield throw I realized how it is 90% of what I am using lmao. I've even gone as far as to use the shift space skill to regen SP mid combat just to throw another shield because using the LMB moves to regen SP required more effort lol.
 

Hellers

Member
Over the last few days I've moved my base of operations to Calpheon for convenience and upgraded all my workers to blue and yellow. I've got nodes connected from Epheria, through Calpheon, Glish and Heidel all the way back to Velia. The new workers are paying off. Big increases in secondary and tertiary gathering when they're out working.

My next mini project is to be able to craft the top tier fishing rods (My witch is at skill 7 fishing at the moment so I want to be ready). The only thing I can't do is the pure metal crystals so I need to level my gathering and processing on one character to be able to take the quest for the knowledge. I'll also need to be able to create some solvent so tonight I'm going to start investigating alchemy on a different alt.

And then on another character I'm finally going to make a start with farming.

Then with the zero hours of the day I have left I might do some grinding :)
 

Hellers

Member
I wish energy would regen a bit faster on offline characters. 1 per hour is very, very slow. Especially given the increased energy requirements we have over the F2P versions. As it is I have a pool of 117 and if you're wanting to do anything specific on a character (Like leveling gathering it takes far too long to regen that energy if you still want to be able to do something else on a different character.

We're encouraged to have a lot of alts but most of the time you can't really do anything with them.
 

Anilusion

Member
I wish energy would regen a bit faster on offline characters. 1 per hour is very, very slow. Especially given the increased energy requirements we have over the F2P versions. As it is I have a pool of 117 and if you're wanting to do anything specific on a character (Like leveling gathering it takes far too long to regen that energy if you still want to be able to do something else on a different character.

We're encouraged to have a lot of alts but most of the time you can't really do anything with them.

It would be nice if logging out in a bed made you regain energy faster.
 

omlet

Member
I wish energy would regen a bit faster on offline characters. 1 per hour is very, very slow. Especially given the increased energy requirements we have over the F2P versions. As it is I have a pool of 117 and if you're wanting to do anything specific on a character (Like leveling gathering it takes far too long to regen that energy if you still want to be able to do something else on a different character.

We're encouraged to have a lot of alts but most of the time you can't really do anything with them.

It's 1 per 30 minutes, but, yes, it's still very slow... maybe every 15 min or something would be nicer.
 

omlet

Member
It's a weird feeling when you'd rather AFK in bed for energy than AFK fish.
I haven't used the bed since day 2 of having it. If I'm AFK for long enough to set up something extensive, then I'm AFK for longer than it takes my energy to refill naturally, so I might as well fish or backpack. I'm at the point where it takes over 6 hours logged in to regen my energy naturally which still fits within a night of sleep or a day at work. I guess when I get to the point of having 300 max energy or something I will want the bed again...

Your alts still get energy bonuses if in bed while logged on your main.

Are you sure? I logged an alt out in bed before and didn't notice a difference.

I should do a test tonight and pay more attention.
 

Mupod

Member
I swore off korean mmos after TERA but god dammit my friends are apparently picking this up. I doubt they'll be on the gaf server though.
 
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Queen of Hunting

Unconfirmed Member
Thanks for help i gotta wait week to buy now so excited tho
 

-tetsuo-

Unlimited Capacity
I only need like 400 more Birch for my fishing boat. I will cry manly tears when it is finally out on the water ; ;
 
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