Black Desert

Anyone have a spare guest pass?

Edit: nvm, they are giving away 5k of themhere

You're not the only one. I love the lore, the world itself and more - but I just couldnt take the grind. But what can you expect from an asian mmo.

The funny part is, none of that should of been a surprise. Before I had to stop playing(few weeks into mediah) every video and person I talked to was starting to seriously work on their gathering skills and hoarding lucky tools, because they knew future upgrades would take mats from gathering. And everyone and their mother was hoarding frags(unless you got a kzarka weapon). I was buying 10x frags at minimum every week since prices were going to always go up(especially with boss armor).

Rolled a Berserker on Edan, should I be leveling to 50 and come back and do knowledge and CP stuff later or do it as I go? I know jack about this game.

Both can be put off until you're 50 if you're so inclined. Going after them offers a nice break from the grind but don't come into play very much until then.

Feeling very grindy right now so reinstalling to play (only uninstalled cause I didn't have hd space lol). Have they fixed weird desync issues with giants yet?

Sylas_sl said:

helpful hint: every single day hit F3, go to the loyalty tab of the store, and buy 3x awakening rerolls for 1 loyalty point each (you get 100 loyalty for free each day.) stockpile these for now.

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When the new skill awakening system releases, these will disappear from shop and inventory, so use and enjoy while they last (patch is likely the 20th). Also the new system will be less RNG but looks very uninspired and removes a lot of the good PVP slow and self-healing focused awakenings from most skills. SeeHEREfor details.

Sylas_sl said:

Yeah I just saw this is coming next week.

Heal on spin is basically dead now, RIP Berserker

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So basically I shouldn't play Berserker?

Grab desync issues are largely fixed, but can still happen once in a blue moon. The loss of heals on spin will hurt zerker pve farming, but it should still be manageable. You'll just have to use pots more often now, whereas zerkers are currently able to farm well without the frequent use of pots.

Zerker will still be the most desired melee class in GvG/wars (at least until awakenings) and one of the most powerful 1v1 classes in the game. Their ability to engage on groups and survive the zerg burst is unparalleled, they are tankier than shield classes (and do far more damage than warriors with equivalent gear), and you can legit stunlock someone to death in 1v1 like a wow rogue in 2005.

Also their weapons are cheap as fuck and therefore easy to repair.

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Ok good to know.

Im currently on a 7 day pass. If i wanted to buy the game and drop some money in the store what are the must buy items? I heard something about pets being useful.

Ya man you'll want at least 2 pets as a casual player, 3 if you are going to play the game for serious. Each pet loots for you every few seconds, which saves you time + carpal tunnel with the way PvE farming is in this game (kill hundreds of mobs per hour). More pets = more looting per cycle. Higher tier pets loot faster and have helpful bonuses, you raise pet tier by breeding them but it's not something you need to worry about starting out. Sometimes they do events that award a pet for logging in each day (so far a hawk and a penguin).

Outfits add 10% combat xp boost and some odd stats like jump height, vision increase etc - the xp boost is very helpful once you start grinding lvl 55+. They are also the only way to make your character look interesting... common zerker armor atm looks like a toga and the basic armor models for all classes are pretty stale.

You can buy a ghillie suit if you want, they hide your nametag which can give you an advantage against people who are used to tracking enemy movement thru nametags instead of watching the character model. They don't entirely work the same way in nodewars/battlefield, they change your name to a neutral color which forces opponents to check your guild tag before attacking (especially in the current meta of allying with multiple guilds). I don't have one and I don't think they are necessary but they do have their applications especially with scouting enemy forces/structures during gvg or nodewars. They will make 0 difference versus an experienced player in 1v1 or small-group pvp.

Character slots are useful even if you don't intend to play the alts actively because they give you another pool of energy to do gathering/crafting/conversation/node investment with.

Horse armor outfit increases the chances of your horse learning a skill when leveling up which can result in you making better horses if you equip them with pearlshop outfits when you level them.

Inventory/weight limits are helpful, inventory less so because you can earn like 70 slots pretty easily in-game. Weight limit is more useful imo because it directly benefits you in how many potions you can carry into battle and how long you can farm items before you have to sell/turn-in token items/store shit on your horse.

I would prioritize the purchases this way: 2 pets > outfit > 3rd pet > extra char slots til you have 6 total at least > weight limits > horse armor > inventory

Keep in mind you can buy character slots, inventory, and weight limit increases with loyalty (earned by logging in each day). You can also unlock extra inventory slots with quests, and train your weight limit by autopathing with a tradepack on your back while you are afk.

Thanks for the post, should I just get 1 of each type of pet? Also what should i do with armor, weapon, crystal and other random non trash drops that I get while leveling?

Where can you get saddlebags for your horse? Haven't seen a workshop with those items available for crafting, never see them on the Market, and have never seen them on a vendor, yet tons of people have them.

Dog pets mark enemy (flagged) players I think, cat pets mark resources, and bird pets mark elite monsters. Not sure what the penguin does. Did they add the Fox with Valencia? That one makes water use in the desert lower or something.

Armor and certain crystals you can throw on the Marketplace (auction house). Some crystals are worth just grinding with Processing to get black stone powder. Weapons, except for some, I just vendored when I was playing. Trash drops with no real description are just that, vendor trash. Enemy collectibles can be turned in to certain NPC's for the listed reward (mostly money) by right-clicking the item.

Saddlebag graphic on mount I think comes from putting stuff in its inventory.