Black Desert

There are miniboss/champion type mobs which have a much higher chance of dropping the same stuff the standard mobs around them drop. Some people go through clearing out all of the champions then switch channel/repeat.

I discovered the Velia fishing 'hotspot' last night... just under 3mil AFK fishing in a safe area overnight.. feels like cheating.

You can already, there are champions in many of the low level grind areas. They look like a standard mob but much larger and have a prefix like "violent" or something similar in front of their name. The lower level champions will usually drop green items. As you get a bit higher they start dropping black stones.

Elites are found in pretty much all areas (and levels) of the game, they are just tougher versions of the same thing in general. The first real concentration of Elite class mobs your find in game are Rogues and Manes and Mediah, so they start at around level 50. These are your starter elites, mid range elites would be the Helm Golems at Helm's Post/Rumbling Land, and end game are the elites at Ghahaz Bandits in Valencia (I wouldn't touch these without TRI gear). There's a few super elites called Gatekeepers in Valencia that require a well geared group to take down that have a high chance of dropping loot.

Yep, grab your fishing rod and head to the Velia hotspot - follow the beach to the left of the wharf until you find the swarm of AFK fishers!

Then once you go to sell your fish, you'll get the best money by going to an imperial fishing trader and selling all the fish they will accept (blue and yellow fish). There is one on Velia docks, and others in various other towns. It can be hard to sell to the imperial trader as they only buy a certain number of each fish per 3 hours, and especially the one in Velia is fully sold out very quickly after resetting.. if you go to Glish for example you will find it easier.

Alternatively just sell them all to a normal trader but that is much worse money.

There are ways to get even more money than the imperial trader but it requires high skills.

What kind of time frame can I expect for getting up to decent gear levels if I come back on my 56 sorc or ranger? Decent gear being something that will let me be competitive in open world pvp situations (probably tri everything at the minimum i'm guessing).

Depends how much you play. If you played at launch then you'll have 100mil or so in your mailbox which is enough to give you a good boost.

zombiewizardhawk said:

Tri accessories really aren't that hard to get, I feel like people have always vastly overexaggerated that.

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Should be super easy for you.

Indeed, the accessories part isn't as much of a worry as the armor and weapons (and awakening weapon) what with all the memory frag requirements etc.

So I've been playing for about a week now and I really like how you can do stuff while afk.

Fishing is slowly getting better but I've got a shitty 30 durability pole that won't last more than 2 hours or so. Is there something better that's easily obtainable?

I watched a video that mentioned ways to raise fishing enhancement such as joining a guild or acquiring a specific pet. Anyone know how to get that pet? Video also mentioned an outfit that raises fishing?

Just found the Apprentice Fisher's Uniform 10 min after posting.

Spark said:

So I've been playing for about a week now and I really like how you can do stuff while afk.

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I felt like that too when I first started but then I slowly started to lose any motivation to play the game as I would occasionally forget to leave it running while I was at work or whatever. When people are doing shit 24/7 you literally have no hope of ever matching some people.

A +1 crafted fishing outfit would cost less than 1mil. That will give you +1 fishing skill, +1 movement speed and 10% fishing XP.

The best fishing rods for AFK fishing are Balenos Fishing Rod or Epheria Fishing Rod. Either of them is less than 1mil, has 50 durability and most importantly is repairable. As you get more money to burn you can enchant them to add more durability so you can AFK fish for longer. You'll probably find that your inventory slots are the limiting factor pretty soon, unless you spend $ in the pearl shop.

Thanks Sakkath.

Welp, got into full PRI except my shoes which refuse to go up and a duo liverto and now i'm outta money. Apparently they tinkered around with all the turn-in values in mediah so now I have to figure out where I can grind money the easiest I guess. I thought sorc was 56 but she was only 55, 9% to go for 56 and hopefully getting my awakening upgraded won't be too pricey. What's the softcap on skill points these days? I'm at like 790-800 but i'm gonna need a lot more for all my awakening skills.

I consider it extremely worth while. I spent $100 pre-ordering it originally and probably $200 in the pearl shop and am still getting great value out of it. It's such a feature & mechanic rich game. Combat can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be and the graphics are fantastic.

I have not tried it with a controller.

The first skill point softcap is 750, the next one is about 1500-1600.

Controller is arse for most people, some like it.