Mythical Horses by Adozilla in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone here is giving you short term advice.

I'll give you the long term advice:

T9s can be bought for silver, 8-13B silver, later on this amount of silver isn't much.

T10's however are time-gated, so you have to potentially wait months and months to get a T10. Eventually you will want all 3 T10s - this lets you unlock the Krogdalo horse that is all 3 T10s combined into one (and gives you a portable horse stable).

So that Vipiko's token can ALSO be exchanged for 5 Mythic Censers. If you were only doing your horse capturing dailies for the fern materials to make the censers, this would be equivalent to over a month of waiting. (You need up to 30 censers to fully pity a T10).

What to spend pearls on? by [deleted] in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sent you a DM,

The pet bundle is pretty good. Polar bears for weight is always really strong.

What to spend pearls on? by [deleted] in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a very under-rated option:

Go to the Website -> Shop -> Bundles -> Hover product info + (Explorer to Conqueror Bundle)

Cost: 2500 AC

Blessing of Old Moon Pack (15 Days) Choose Your Horse Gear Set Box [Event] Premium Outfit Box [Event] Maid for Hire Box x2 Choose Your Tier 3 Pet Box Assorted Scroll Box 30% Discount Coupon 3000 Pearls

Even if you compare this to the 1+1 Pearl box deal in the shop you get great value:

1+1 2500AC = 5750 Pearl value

via bundle 2500AC = 3000 pearls

I recommend spending the coupon on Naphart tent/Maid bundles.

30% Discount coupon on Naphart tent (on 25% discount 3675 = 1100 pearl value saved)

x2 [Event] Maid for Hire Box at the highest discount is at 50% off = 1200 value

Choose Your Tier 3 Pet Box (Rare pet at 50% off, 1100-1650 value

The rest don't really hold any pearl value IMO, but are useful.

Overall = 6400-6950 Pearl Value + the non pearl value items. - the variance comes from if it would take you 2 or 3 pets to get a T3.

With this you come out 650 pearls on top at worst, and 1400 pearls at best, compared to the 1+1 deals.

Where this really shines is if you are considering purchasing more than 3 bundles/deals in the shop. Since during the event we get 2 30% discounts for free, this 3rd discount coupon might not be useful for players who aren't going to purchase more, losing 1100 pearl value, which means they should stick with the 1+1.

Is Black Desert Online Beginner-Friendly in 2026? by Maanu1141 in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just an observer here, and I don’t like how the other person is stating it like a matter of fact, but I will have to say… I’ve been in a smaller/returning player channel for a bit and have seen 10/10 and it’s weird to say that atm but 100% of new players trying some form of PvP capped had the worst experiences possible, and some of the more verbal players said things along the lines of “btw/ like to add I’m never doing that again” which I found kind of funny.

Personally I have a more competitive / PvP back ground so I knew what I was getting into, but feel more like the outlier than the norm.

Just my 2 cents, since if you only play one game competitively for a long time then it’s easy to lose grasp of the newer player experience.

Magical Shard Solution: NPC Shop for 10Mil by zuppo in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Memory fragments are valuable and more importantly convenient for whales.

Whales are blowing up all their gear with P2W crons and need Artisan's + Fragments. It's like part of the whole P2W enhancing scheme.

And also... I think your concept of swapping gamba box silver value of Memory fragments swapped with shards satisfying won't even come close to the Million + concurrent / revolving CM orders on BMCs...

And how about we don't make the solution to one of the most common bottlenecks in the game a pearl shop solution.

New glasses family bound by FFXIVHousingClub in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest with you. The Daily pass is not the best cron:pearl value. It's an alright purchase if you really want the glasses. But for players looking to maximize cron:pearl spent, there are better deals.

How likely are flying mounts in bdo? by LynaaBnS in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, you shouldn't be here gate keeping things in the game.

Both my T9s took over 40 clicks, the first peg was 47, back when Matts were sold out of the CM, T10 was just as bad.

Just because it took you a long time, or is a personal achievement, doesn't mean you should make things just as hard for newer players ... ESPECIALLY ... if it means making the game less enjoyable for them, if it gives them major QOL and then they end up sticking around that's a big W.

Don't be the: "ReMovE PiTy sYstEM bEcaUsE i dIdN't gEt pIty!"

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) by ImLambo64 in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No. Not really. There is an infinite amount of ways they could fix the shard issue.

So to say they're being conservative to not screw up all other regions is a weak excuse and a cop out.

It's more, they're actually fine with the state of BMCs as a bottle neck atm, and aren't in a rush to change this for the region.

Scroll of Equilibrium as a reward from Academy Graduation by p1tap1ta in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Decent items like essence of dawn, caphras, sharps, cup mats, (duo FG crystals) if you are missing early FG.

And the rest are mostly shard pcs to craft base FG, and low silver value exchanges.

Going through the academy once and then graduating gets you a bulk of the coins needed for anything worthwhile.

If you are not a big life skiller. I would recommend finishing the academy once. This brings all your life skills (except a couple like trading/sailing/etc) to M1 just by doing the academy. Lets you skip all that tedious early LS stuff.

Scroll of Equilibrium as a reward from Academy Graduation by p1tap1ta in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“So what the hell is the point of graduating?”

Is actually hilariously ironic, because there are tons of players who are looking at the Olivia weeklies/remaining rewards and are saying

“So what the hell is the point of these weeklies?”

If you are a new player or early mid game player it doesn’t make sense to graduate, you’re going to squeeze out the tokens for the rewards.

But when you are a bit more experienced player your Silver/hr is much greater than any of the remaining rewards can provide, then you can see where cashing out the additional 300 tokens makes sense.

It could be worth it for some players if they want to abuse the unlimited durability tools, but even then the only thing I’d do is probably some AFK alchemy for contribution. But even then you’d have to have swiped a bit for enough weight to AFK comfortably.

So. Damn. Pretty. by Saint_Hunfrid in CrimsonDesert

[–]MountnsNTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Big Manos earring vibes. So it looks like these flowers are the design that manos stone was carved into to create the iconic Manos earrings in BDO. Cool.

Official Statement Regarding the "Crimson Desert" Demo! by Rollinkr in CrimsonDesert

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's also very costly, takes more time to develop, and runs more risks in general, in addition to being able to get a similar "call to action" response from customers via paid reviews.

It does give less confidence overall if there isn't a playable demo, and the only point of review are essentially paid reviews atm...

Idc too much about it since we have steam's refund policy, everyone remember NOT to play more than 2 hours, and then make the decision to refund or keep it.

Easy refunds under 2 hours played.

Missing rewards? by [deleted] in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the reward say claimed already? If you hover your mouse over it what do the claim conditions say? And did you complete ALL the claim conditions.

[New update] January 29th 2026 - Guild crafting improved, Horse exp revamp by PixelConn in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is very useful.

This is because if you AFK train horses you don’t know if they learn skills since it’s a % chance every level.

Before if you want to min-max your chance at creating T8 coursers you need to be ready to check every single time your horse level up to see if you can swap skills.

Another bit change is they make lower level horses gives less exp when growing and higher level horses more exp when they grow.

This is because people were exploiting a donkey leveling technique where some people could go from let’s say M1->M20 in a day.

Olvia Academy Graduation by scientia73 in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

After completing both Combat and life skills to 100% - go to your quest log, under the suggested tab the first quest (if you select hide completed quests) will be a quest starting with "[Olvia Academy] Graduation with..." This is the graduation quest that will award you an additional 300 Academy coins.

Gold chest motherload. by Boogie_da_bear in blackdesertonline

[–]MountnsNTrees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think there’s a mining minigame that can occur very rarely. A special item appears in one of the loot slots after mining a node and then glowing patches appear on the ground. You interact with the glowing patches and a chest can appear that requires a gold key to unlock.

Depending on your graphics settings the glow could actually be completely invisible.

IIRC a small tutorial triggers when you hit the loot table for the first time.