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

zulux21

Member
Hopefully someone can get you a guest pass for you to try the game out with. I would, but I gave all of mine out already. You can wait and see if they do a sale on the game packages for christmas/new years. The $50 one would be good if it was half off.

I have a few

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I have access to like 16 more if people need some lol.
 

MikeDown

Banned
So I've wanted to try this for years, never got around to it (last year sucked.)

There's a few packages on the site...is any of the extra stuff actually worth a damn? Also, if you do the $10 package...can you upgrade to the $30 or $50 or is it one and done?
I have like 30 guest passes, PM if u want one
 

Rimark

Neo Member
We better be seeing some Christmas decorations and Christmas costumes tomorrow! Edit: Wednesday I mean lol

Also I need to get myself a polar bear pet.
 

zulux21

Member
part of me feels like I am playing the game wrong lol

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I need to turn more of that money into upgrades for my fishing rod.

I am also for the fun of it running with a +15 kalis shortsword.

I wonder how long it will take to reach level 50 just by fishing :3
 

Hellers

Member
I have played so much BDO in the last few days it`s not even funny. The 200% xp boost for returning players is very handy. My current plan is to get all my characters to 50 before I decide what to main (Sorc is in the lead at the moment).

I spent all of yesterday getting my gathering and processing up to Pro and then doing a load of life skill quests culminating in my long held goal of being able to make pure metal crystals. I don`t need to make pure metal crystals. I was just annoyed I never could. Now I can.

Are we expecting the christmas event to go live today? That would technically give me four "events" on the go. Returning players, regular player daily checkin, those rings and christmas. MUST KILL ALL THE THINGS
 

mintylurb

Member
Christmas event and Snow is live as soon as the servers go up.

Yay, I didn't think the devs could improve upon already excellent, well balanced game but this Christmas event and snow just makes the game even more amazing!! I can't wait to fire up the game as soon as I git home!!!
 

Hellers

Member
I'm busy levelling all my characters to either 50 (In the case of my sorc) and the end of 49 while I have 200% returning player xp. I thought I was going to be maining my sorc for a while but at 30 my Kunoichi seem really fun to play.

So far I have a tamer at 51, Sorc at 50, zerker at 49. My witch ended up turning into my crafter/fisher so I don't plan to ever level her to pvp capable to make things less stressfull. I've got various other characters at different stages. One of each apart from a couple of the blokes.

It's got me hooked deep again
 

zulux21

Member
gah.... it's really really annoying that the daily check in has a 30 minute cool down from log in and if you don't remember to click on the box after that it doesn't count it.

I have missed 2 days because of this :/
 

Hellers

Member
Could someone give me some ranger advice? Up until level 40 I was doing fine. Evasive explosive shot mixed in with some other stuff to knock down did the trick. As soon as I hit 40 my damage turned to shit and it was an utter chore getting to the end of 49. My weapons are +10. I'm kitted out for a lot of extra accuracy. Is there something I'm missing?
 

Hubb

Member
I'm not a ranger master, Sattori is who you want for that. What are you fighting, and are you having mana problems? I think Extraction gems are pretty popular on rangers.
 

Hastati

Member
Just want to say flying Santa event sux but the actual Christmas decorations are great and snow system is even better, holy crap the area across Heidel looks great. Hope they make it even better next year if this thing with Silicon Studios ever trickles down to BDO.
 

mintylurb

Member
Just want to say flying Santa event sux but the actual Christmas decorations are great and snow system is even better, holy crap the area across Heidel looks great. Hope they make it even better next year if this thing with Silicon Studios ever trickles down to BDO.

Yeah looks nice it kills game's performance for me ;x
 
So, I've dabbled a bit in BDO here and there, and I'm just picking it up again on a new rig. In higher resolutions the sharpening filter is just awful (especially currently where there's snow on the ground).

Anyone else have a fix for the vegetation or maybe a way to force AA for a bit of a softer image? Figured I'd ask here first.
 

SolVanderlyn

Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I keep clicking the free trial and it brings me back to the registration page?
 

AyzOn

Neo Member
Had the same issue, just go on your profile, theres a button for it.

I gave it a shot yesterday and I thought it was kinda alright from what I was able to do in the short amount of time.
At some point it crashed on me though so I decided to take a break and do something else.
Just wanted to play it again but I cant find my character anymore, like I even have to select a new family name?

Is that normal and Im just too dumb to find my char or is it gone?
 

Hellers

Member
Had the same issue, just go on your profile, theres a button for it.

I gave it a shot yesterday and I thought it was kinda alright from what I was able to do in the short amount of time.
At some point it crashed on me though so I decided to take a break and do something else.
Just wanted to play it again but I cant find my character anymore, like I even have to select a new family name?

Is that normal and Im just too dumb to find my char or is it gone?

You might be logging into the wrong region. I think there`s an option in the launcher to change it. It might have gotten reset when it crashed on you
 

Hellers

Member
I think everyone goes through that panic at least once :) It was even worse when everything was separate servers.

The returning player event has been a godsend for me. I've been able to get all my characters to 50 and I've settled on my witch to level further. I'm currently testing out my abilities in Mediah and am nearly level 52. I've got some half decent gear (About 87ap and just over 100dp). The Helm's hold guys hit quite hard so I need to be careful but I kill them quickly enough. I do need to earn more money though. I spend it really quickly :)

145 energy and 173 contrib. Sitting on three spare fishing boats. My crafter is doing well. The biggest problem in this game is there's so much I want to do and I can only do one of it at a time :) I fancy more contrib points to give me more flexability but that cuts into the money making
 

Hubb

Member
For the Lavientia's event going on I processed a bunch of stuff today. I could only get the silver/gold rings (the things that grant buffs not rng chests) to proc more than 1 on each processing attempt. I don't know if that means the other stuff is really hard/rare to proc, or if it is unable to proc more than 1.

I have a very high processing level and for every 10 rings I'd make I would usually get back 15.

It is going to be really hard to get more than 1 of the best boxes. I was trying to farm for 2, but I'm still about 15ish short by the end of this thing. I'll be away for a lot of the holidays so no farming time for me. Oh well, some of the other boxes aren't bad either.

145 energy and 173 contrib. Sitting on three spare fishing boats. My crafter is doing well. The biggest problem in this game is there's so much I want to do and I can only do one of it at a time :) I fancy more contrib points to give me more flexability but that cuts into the money making

If you ever start cooking/alchemy the byproduct you make just from cooking everything is a great way to level contribution. I haven't farmed for it in a looooong time and I have over 300 now. I afk cook a lot, both to make money and to get more contribution.
 

ittoryu

Member
Quick question: I was playing again yesterday after maybe 3 weeks of not logging in... my mounts have disappeared. Is this normal?
 

AyzOn

Neo Member
Played a bit more and im at Lvl 20(Warrior) right now.
Im enjoying myself so far and im usually not much into mmorpgs.

I mean I have no idea whats going on and how 90% of the game works as I walk aimlessly through the world. Though I feel like thats part of the fun.

No clue what the nodes are for or how I properly navigate the map, so I just follow the arrows to the nearest quest and do whatever they want me to do. I havent spend a single skill point yet and Im actually afraid of doing the awakening quest since I still have no clue what would be good for my character.

Also it took me around 30 minutes to figure out where I could buy raw sugar and water for the horse taming quest. At least it made me find a couple new npcs and quests so I aint even mad.
 

Hubb

Member
Quick question: I was playing again yesterday after maybe 3 weeks of not logging in... my mounts have disappeared. Is this normal?

They should have all been sent to stables since they merged all the servers together.

Played a bit more and im at Lvl 20(Warrior) right now.
Im enjoying myself so far and im usually not much into mmorpgs.

I mean I have no idea whats going on and how 90% of the game works as I walk aimlessly through the world. Though I feel like thats part of the fun.

No clue what the nodes are for or how I properly navigate the map, so I just follow the arrows to the nearest quest and do whatever they want me to do. I havent spend a single skill point yet and Im actually afraid of doing the awakening quest since I still have no clue what would be good for my character.

You can freely change skill points until level 56 so go ahead and mess around, and leveling skills is worth it. Do the awakening quests because at that level they add things your blackspirit can do. The first time you can awaken an ability is level 50.

Nodes are for using workers to gather, connecting cities/towns together to ship stuff between places, if you get "trade" items from monsters you can sell them for full price, and once you get higher level you can invest in them to get a better chance at getting loot.

At you level you basically want them for workers to gather things from. You also will get energy from knowledge by talking to all the node managers, so if you see one right click it on the world map and it should bring you right to the node manager.
 

Hubb

Member
when does the 30day olvia time start? is it when you first log into one of the channels?

As in you have not logged into the game for 30 days? The timer would have started from when you logged into one of the channels, or maybe it would start from actually logging into a character.
 

dragn

Member
As in you have not logged into the game for 30 days? The timer would have started from when you logged into one of the channels, or maybe it would start from actually logging into a character.

i created a new account 3 days ago
 

Village

Member
hello , much like a great deal of people. I wanna try this game, because o fthe character design.

But I want to ask, is it good. I heard it has a bad pay to win system? Also what's its subsrciption model like?
 
hello , much like a great deal of people. I wanna try this game, because o fthe character design.

But I want to ask, is it good. I heard it has a bad pay to win system? Also what's its subsrciption model like?

The P2W aspect has been overblown, mostly by haters of the game and it's buy to play no fees.
 

dragn

Member
So i'm confused as to how this works, is it just 5 dollars, the game?

yea buy to play, you can also get a buff (sub) that lasts a duration like 7/30 days in the cash shop which gives stuff like extra inventory space,10% more xp or char editing for free

theres even a 7day trial for everyone right now
 

Village

Member
yea buy to play, you can also get a buff (sub) that lasts a duration like 7/30 days in the cash shop which gives stuff like extra inventory space,10% more xp or char editing for free

theres even a 7day trial for everyone right now

So hypothetically speaking, it would only be 5. Dollars?

Also does the trial have restrictions, partcuarly on customization element?
 

ittoryu

Member
Thank you guys, I did find my donkeys in the stable, lol. I am actually having fun with my tamer, but i am not super sure that is the character I want. I've just created a sorceress as well, anyone tried both?
 

Helznicht

Member
How do you even get the client for the 7 day trial?

I created an account and logged in.

If I click on 7 day trial, it takes me to a page where I create the account, which i already did. If I click "already have an account?" on that page it takes me back to the front page.

When I go to my account page I only have options for purchase or code.

If I click purchase it takes me back to the front page where it starts all over again.
 

Eusis

Member
Can you upgrade at sale prices later sans the price you already paid, or no? Might want to get in at $5 then pay more later.
 

Helznicht

Member
I just jumped in for $5. Seems I have a clipping problem with Warrior though.

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Body clips through armors to when I was creating him. Anybody seen this bug? Know a fix?
 
I bought this game the day it released, played it for about less than a week. Never played it again since.
Last screen shot I took on the last day I stopped playing.
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Hellers

Member
I had a good day today. I decided to make a few event things. I ended up with two Serap necklaces. One mark of shadow and then finally out of a splendid box I got a.....soiled ogre ring.

I opened it up not expecting much and got... AN OGRE RING :)

Very happy
 

Hubb

Member
Congrats, crossing my fingers I get at least 1 ogre ring between this event and the daily login rewards. I really want to enchant the one I already have.
 

HeeHo

Member
I just jumped in for $5.

I'm trying out a free 7-day trial, I have spent quite a money lately and while I'm really enjoying the game, I'm kinda loathing the idea of my impending fee of $30. I mean, I can eventually pay it but is the game on sale or something? Is the 5 dollars just for 7 days?
 
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