Welcome to our Black Desert Beginner Guide. We’ll include a general step by step what to do on a fresh account -> seasonal -> mid to end game guides. We know that there are people who have a hard time finishing the Black Desert game. If you are one of those who find it difficult to finish the game, let’s take you to our Black Desert guide.
Black Desert Beginner Guide
Do your main quest!
Reasons to do your main quest.
1. Contribution Points
2. Energy/Knowledge
3. Overall knowledge of the map and towns
4. Quest accessories (gives you a boost for seasonal starts)
5. Basic armor (Naru pen)
Honestly, pace yourself. Talk to every “?” you see, alt+tab and youtube some guides while you are “auto-running” to your next quest objective.
If you are extremely patient, and want more storage… you could make ALT’s and do some of the quests to start getting more inventory slots on ALT characters.
Black Desert Loot guide for Beginner
I highly recommend looking at monster zones, nowadays you can just click it on the map and it will show what the spot is good for, what rare items you can get etc.
For example; if you hate questing -> grinding for Asula accessories or working on the Tri Asula necklace is a good start… but all of the starting “newbie” accessories aren’t worth it anymore since Seasonal became a thing. (You need a Tri Asula necklace eventually for one of your Journals I believe).
“Recommended AP” is usually a bit too low for that spot, probably better to be 10-20 AP higher so you can “1 shot” the monsters.
Pay to “Win” and Cash Shop info
Honestly I’m writing this because I keep seeing newbies drop $100 and buy weird stuff.
Here is somewhat of a priority list I guess. But a majority of the time it’s best to wait for sales.
1. Tent “$40”, always use your 20% off coupon on the tent
2. Value Packs, again probably best to wait for sales or use a coupon on…
If you are super broke; you can stockpile items and liquidate everything on market with the “LOYALTY 1 day Value Pack” or just wait until you get a free 7 day one from daily logins etc.
3. Pets – probably best to go up tiers 1 at a time for each pet..
Example;
Tier 2
Tier 1
Tier 1
Tier 1
Tier 1
Tier 2
Tier 2
Tier 1
Tier 1
Tier 1
This way you can potentially get lucky; and get a random Tier 3 pet.
If you land a Tier 3, you could honestly try to roll for a T4 and evolve the pet (Makes all pets loot 15% faster).
4. Worker Lodging / Town Storages
Probably one of the better investments for “long term”. Every hardcore lifeskiller caps out their lodging from Cash shop because it pays off in the long run by saving CP (which can be used for other things).
5. Artisan Memories
Arguably one of the bigger whale investments here. People will say RNG is RNG when you are enhancing -> but if you are constantly failing TET on stuff = you get bigger failstacks for bigger stuff later down the road.
6. Outfits to Crons
Whales do this to have multiple attempts for tet/pen blackstar FYI
The rest of the 90% of the playerbase will just pre-order outfits and wait for a whale to buy 10+1 at a time bundles to sell on the market so they can buy it…
If there is inventory slots on sale, put it on your Shai (To fish)
If there is weight on sale, put it on your Shai and Main
Processing outfit is amazing.
Seasonal speed-run
1.Have your friend/guildmate power level you to 61
(Loyalty shop 530% exp scroll, daily 200% scroll merged into a 600%, event 200%, black spirit 20%, Food buff, Seasonal Crystal 50%)
No big deal here if you don’t get boosted to 61, you can AFK train on seasonal server too.
2. Collect all of the rewards and tap your gear to tet, then use the seasonal pass “stone” for pen weapon.
3. Enhance all gear to “TRI” -> talk to Fughar
Fughar gives 1 “40” failstack, so you should end up with X4 from armor and X3 from Weapons.
4.Enhance all gear to “TET” -> talk to Fughar
Same thing, except “60” failstacks.
5. Get the 140 failstack from seasonal pass item.
6. Graduation Reward priority
Obviously new players will pick the “30 AP” necklace.
Then it will be the Pen Capotia BELT “17 AP”
And for the rest it’s probably best to go for the 100 stacks
Need more materials?
Platoon weeklies and Velia Rifts are the best way to get mats.
Always pick 600.
Second weekly should be ore (for accessories)
Seasonal Enhancing Tips/Gear
In the last part I mentioned Fughar gives you a 40 failstack.
WEAPONS
- Step 1; Turn Pri to Duo WITHOUT Refined stones
- Step 2; Turn to Tri WITH Refined
- Step 3; Tap with Fughar’s 40 failstack
- Rinse repeat to Tet
- Step 4; Tap to PEN with Fughar’s 60 failstack
I actually didn’t use the 60 failstacks, because they are more useful for other things, but if you are short on time, I guess it’s worth it to just get it over with.
ARMOR + ACCESSORIES
- Keep in mind, probably best to use the 40 and 60 on accessories…
- Also keep in mind you get a free PEN EARRING AND RING just for leveling to 60.
- You don’t “need” the necklace but it’s nice to have.
Honestly if you are really lazy you could just wait for the “next” Seasonal.. level up to 60 again and end up with another earring and ring.. then choose a belt.
If you don’t care or want more stuff for ALT characters.. sure.
- Step 1; Collect the 40 and 60 fails
- Step 2; “Fail” on Armor with small stacks
- Step 3; Use “fails” from armor on accessories.
Failstacks and why you don’t want to waste them.
In the previous sections I mentioned that I saved the 60 fails from Fughar for a reason.
This is because you can build fails on seasonal gear “easily”, and roulette it like it was nobodies business.
So every time you grind you can turn in the seasonal drops for vendor silver, and exchange 500 stones for a “40” fail.
Once you are out of seasonal here are a few things you can use the “Advice of Valks/Fails” for.
Accessories
- 20 -> Pri
- 40 -> DUO
- 60 -> TRI
- 100 -> TET
Example… if you are a big time gambler using these stacks to make a “TET accessory is huge profits.
Just grind, constantly pre-order and minimum price an accessory of your choice.
If you want to play it safe.. and avoid enhancing.. -> cheap defensive accessories like Orkinrad/Centaur/Cicils
They are still worth money.
If you want to play with the big boys… tungrad ring.. distortion earrings (20 bil at tet?)
AFTER Seasonals
- Work on Journals (raises your gearscore..)
- Once a week “Kzarka” for 1 ap and 1 dp
- Life “HP” journals
- All of this stuff is account wide.. so do it?
- Abyss for global storage management
- Cook for CP
- Knowledge (I would stop at 400 energy.. but if you’re bored why not lol)
- Farm farm for money. Like actual “FARMS” not grinding!
- Enhance to build “failstacks”
- Invest Silver into meaningful things (next couple guides).
- Barter?
- Find a good guild.
Signs of a Guild
1. No one power levels
2. No capped payouts (5m per day)
3. 76+ players, but all “offline”.
4. No payouts
5. No Vell
6. No “CALL TO GATHERS” to Garmoth
These are like the bare minimums. Every guild is capable of sniping nodes, doing guild missions for more silver in the bank -> PAYOUT. If they aren’t paying.. the Guild leader and his friends are pocketing all of the money.
Each payout should be 100M+, think 1-2billion silver divided by 30 players… they are trolling you with low payouts.
5M per day is sustainable even with a guild, because you get weekly funds based on player count (76+ XL is 400million in the guild bank).
Remember it’s an MMORPG… if it’s a bunch of it will effect you in the long run.
I never progressed in BDO until I joined a decent T1 node war guild with cool people.
Simple life skill setups
- Got 100 CP?
- Get 10 farms
- Raise your farming by checking on it every so often so you can remove parasites.
- Once your farming is high enough you will breed spam crops.
- Full inventory of crops -> gather crops for free money
- Breeding -> free stonetail fodder or 900CP nowadays per 20 byproducts
If you are too lazy to raise your farming skill… (it doesn’t take long)
Breed Special Haystacks, each one is like 1mil each.. so if you breed 10 you’ll probably end up with 15-20.. so just sell the excess.
COOKING
Look up how to make Pickled Vegetables… literally all vendor ingredients you can stockpile and cook.
I use dark rift “5k durability” cooking utensils.
WORKER EMPIRE (Just slowly roll workers each time you’re full energy on your ALTs)
All skilled
All professional
All professional GOBLINS
All artisan
Velia first (corn, eggs, wheat etc)
Heidel second (cooking honey, pumpkins, maple etc)
Calpheon third (fir birch cedar)
Tent fourth (tree nodes)
Altinova 5th (ore south of the town)
Valencia City 6th (coconuts and date palm)
Based on CP, these are the areas you want workers at initially, at 300-400 CP you should be able to have all of the decent/close nodes to the towns filled up with workers and lodging.
Constantly beer up your workers every day for a month to a year and see how much silver you get.
Enhancing Playstyle Black Desert Beginner Guide
Each day he grinds, with always a pre-order on minimum price accessories.
Taps all accessories he gets on the weekends to duo
Breaks even, so he goes for Tri
Gets really lucky on TET and sells.
Works on blackstar to build “super” failstacks, or enhances in general and ends up with 200+ fails to use on super endgame items like Pen blackstar, Pen accessories
End of year he’ll have a bunch of TET accessories and roulettes all of them with the 200fails
Boom -> becomes rich asf
Constantly liquidates his worker empire/farm money, processes and is lazy so he’ll at-least pre-order a few accessories at a time.
Saving Playstyle
- Grinds agris. Sells everything.
- Buys a billion worth of processing mats
- Slowly turns it into more silver.
- Does imperial cooking.
- Eventually buys all gear at tet…
- Eventually hits a roadblock of trying to get ultra endgame gear.
- Has absolutely no failstacks to tap higher levels of fallen god armor.
- Uses tiny 100 failstacks or free big stacks from events on tet blackstar.. pre-orders at-least 1 outfit every now and then to get crons for 1 tap a week/month.
- Barters for lazy money, and leeches sailies for his carrack.
Absolutely nothing wrong with this playstyle.
Full on Lifeskiller – Black Desert Beginner Guide
Probably one of the richest players in the game.
Gathers meat all in one day so he can cook enough to turn in boxes for the week or 3 days at a time.
Pre-orders stuff to make trade crates with for big profits.
Has a carrack to barter with.
Hunting meta for a ton of silver.
After a year or so he’ll have so much money, he has more gear than the players that grind.
Black Desert Beginner Guide – Gear progression
1. Full seasonal PEN
2. “Important Journals” finished
3. Pen Weapons or TET Blackstar
4. Pen Armors
5. Full C4 armor
6. TET accessories / mix of free pen capotias
7. Vells heart (3 AP)
8. Caphras Pen Weapon for brackets (265 or 281 etc)
9. Finish Pen Crescent Ring from JETINA (add 3% crit damage)
10. TET tungrad ring (18 AP add 3% crit damage)
11. Fallen God body armor
12. Fallen God Helmet
13. PEN Blackstar or juiced up Weapon Caphras
14. PEN accessories
In steps 1-8 you should be farming Valencia spots for money.
Once you are 270’s AP you are easily capable of farming Elvia spots like Fogans or Orcs.
After Pen crescent Ring and a TET tungrad your DP might be kind of low to do higher end spots; tet narcs and Fallen god body is recommended.
You can actually do Castle Ruins easily with decent guildmates when you have your first Pen body armor.. or like around 310 DP. Everyone has a weapon each cycle of weapon cooldowns and it’s just really decent money.
Otherwise – lazy farming at SULPHURS isn’t too bad with 1 button farmers.
Witch/Valkyrie for lazy infinite pot farming/sulphur mines
Witch Awakening
Core fissure wave… put 7% movement speed on it and you can literally walk from pack to pack and press your hotbar to kill them every 3 seconds.
Valkyrie Awakening
A bit faster than witch, I think you hold spacebar or something and you 1 shot everything.
While working on Jetina gear/accessory
You can do Infinite potion at the same time/weeklies.
Park an alt at the pot spot of choice, then hop on your main at Orcs or whatever.
Keep in mind, even though the inf pot spots don’t give as much money.. as long as your workers and farm is growing crops it doesn’t matter. You can always pre-order a few cheap accessories and tap them to still get money.
Then later on when you are on your main/281K+ you can start dropping more money for max out pre-orders on accessories.
Gambling vs Safe higher odds
I’ve known some players that literally enhance whenever they hit 1bil and repeat.
Then there are players that basically do the same thing, but they will only make “DUO” to sell because it’s more “reliable” instead of gambling for TRI/TET.
Or you know; just go for tri+ when you break even.
EXAMPLE:
I buy 10 billion in accessories.
Tap ALL of them to DUO.
If I end up with 10BILLION in sales ->
I tap for TRI
If I end up with LESS than 10 bil ->
I save all of them for next enhancement session
—> Go for TET/PEN
EXAMPLE 2:
I spend money on memory fragments on gear.
Every fail on tet I get an investment into a big 100+ failstack to use on something more profitable later on.. like tet distortions or something.
Feels like losing money but…
–> later on you have a 200+/300 failstack to use on the best accessories in the game.
Example 3:
Enhance all “farmed” accessories
Liquidate all enhancement materials
Slowly and patiently gain gearscore.
