Black Desert

They already did. You can buy Cron stones and use them as part of the enchant process to guarantee the primary item doesn't get destroyed.

KR just put in a quest to kill zarka 100x for weps.

I'm basically at 15 everything and all blue gear. The thought up going +more and enchanting accessories is tiring with my already casual playtime.

Graphics are gorgeous, combat is so damn fun, lots of interesting mechanics (i.e. fishing, horse breeding), no McDungeons, good amount of content updates, what the hell else can I ask for?

So why is it that I can barely stomach logging in every day to get my free weapon stone?

Because of the sense of grind ahead of you.

The grind is one thing, its not disguised as much as other games. Just like others have said. I think the bigger contributing factor is that even if you work your ass off and you had +20 everything and all your gear was best in slot - no one would notice at a glance that you had accomplished/lucked up on all of that. No one really cares about a persons gear (really), but they are missing the boat on the psychological impact of making the player feel boastful, masculine and proud of their accomplishments. That, paired with the fact that the game doesnt influence you or encourage you to make social interactions makes this game lack luster. They went too far into the single player territory in order to sell outfits for $30 bucks. The game is still fun to play, but the desire to log in just wanes the longer you play.

Honestly it tied up in node wars and stuff unless you're a crafter or Fisher guy. Of your sub leveled and sub geared you're fucked in pvp but not as much as other games.

I still enjoy the game because the combat is so satisfying.

Playing asian games puts you on the fast track to MMO nihilism.

I want a tshirt that says 'anyone who matters knows who i am', then in tiny writing on the bottom 'in black desert online'
Can't think of any mmo with a bigger world than this. Valencia expansion is just ridiculous. Takes longer to run across now than the old antonica treks in eq. Wtb timed wizard spires

So how has Valencia been? Did they release Ninjas or was that going to be in the Part 2 patch?

I was more of a balanced play style, but yeah now I'm right there with you chopping trees like it's the last best hope for mankind.

I have a 50 something Giant, with a ton of dyes/armor sets/pets. Also should have quite a lot of items/money/gear, especially on my crafting alts. I think L57? A couple over the soft-cap. I haven't played since about a month post-1st update raising that added the zone in the east, and raised soft cap from 50-55. 3 tier 3 pets, exp buff on two I think. Oh and a +15 Liverto (the best weapon at the time I quit), I don't know if any of this is relevant anymore though. I think I'm +15 in every slot, or should be. I don't know, I was almost fully maxxed but restarted because Steel Taritas was bullshit, so I'm not sure if I was able to get +15 on my new set of armor or not. If it's not full +15, it's pretty close.

I spent around $700 (mostly trying to get the EXP pets, which other people got with around $200) in the cash shop then quit a week later because all I was doing was AFK fishing for level EXP. Fuck me.

Whoever wants it can have it I guess, just PM me. Gonna give it to whoever I like the most.

One of the major reasons I quit was the way they were doing updates. Completely out of the blue and almost at random. There was a guy who wasted like 500+ hours grinding to 55, and then not 3 days later they drop an update making 55 obtainable in about 10 hours of grinding. I kind of hated not knowing whether the gear/levels I had would be made obsolete without any warning, especially since organized PvP had no official date either.

It's a really fucked up way to run a company if you ask me. It'd be like playing WoW @ Vanilla, and then randomly dropping expansions that makes your progression completely obsolete without anything more than a three day warning. Except worse, because the soft cap would go up. All that awesome shit you had? Yeah, fuck you... come grind some more. So I said fuck it, I'll fish for money and exp (gives you quite a bit as long as you're way out in the ocean and aren't pked). I was spending way too much time setting it up, with the boat travel time and all that I just caved in.

I had/perhaps still have the coolest looking costume on the server. People started fucking copying my colors/costume down to the very last detail and it annoyed the shit out of me.


Edit: I need to change my e-mail, password, and shit before I hand it off though. So it'll be a few days before I get around to all that bullshit.

I'll take your account.

What's up with valencia grind spots? Aside from the ones that drop BIS accessories, the others just seem outright bad. Desert nagas and titium valley seem like the "starter" valencia spots, but they both seem way worse than pirates or sausans to me. The valencia spots just seem to drop way less miscellaneous "stuff," like coins/scrolls/armor pieces/blackstones/etc. And the vendor trash is like, 1-1.2k each. What am I missing here? Granted, I don't have the nodes levelled but the gap seems so large that I don't think levelling the node is going to help.

Susauns is still a money spot in KR from what I've read through secondhand accounts.

Started playing again recently as a Maehwa, pretty fun class, though something seems buggy with their Ultimate Chase skill. The description says that you can use Chase during other skills, in effect to break their animations, and I think this is the case with 99% of the skills I use, except for the Blind Thrust / Nemesis Blade combo. Probably just me holding how Space a bit too long, so it triggers another Blind Thrust, but I'd think I should be able to break out of that animation with Chase.

I stopped playing before the Mediah update, so it seems a lot has changed. I remember getting a series of quests from the Black Spirit which would reward armor / weapon black stones, which was triggered by having an Ultimate Basteer weapon at +7. Now, on my Maehwa, I got the ultimate basteer to +7, and the black spirit gave me a quest to replace it with a +7 Bares weapon + 5 weapon stones, but nothing else after that so far at lvl51. I've done a similar armor quest where I had to upgrade pieces of Dobart gear to +5, and exchange that for another named armor (Agerian, Zereth, etc), this netted me more armor stones than I started with, but I haven't gotten kill X number of mobs from the black spirit that rewards armor or weapons stones. Was that removed?

Since there are now weapon and armors with 2 gem slots, is it possible to have 2 of the same gem in a piece of gear?