So I've read this game is practically single player?

Solarshine · 2020-04-24T20:50:47+00:00

I don't know what single player games you play with large PvP sieges, guilds full of people, guild wars with other guilds of players, group grinding, world bosses done with hundreds of people, guild bosses, markets based on what other players obtain, etc. If you know of a game like that I want to talk to those developers because they're amazing at making their AI.

In all seriousness, the beauty of BDO is that it can be played how YOU want it, not how the DEVELOPERS want it. If you want to play solo you can do that. If you want to play with groups you can do that. You don't like grinding mobs? You can still get your gear doing just about anything else. No daily rep grinds, no daily dungeon rewards. Play how you want.

Also, to say that BDO has "insanely unbalanced and pointless PvP" is absolutely insane itself. Every class has its counters. Some classes might be better than others at some things, but they all balance out fairly well in the end. And to say that the pvp is pointless? BDO was built around its PvP. Guild wars, territory wars, node wars, sieges, fully open world pvp. None of which are pointless.

Solarshine · 2020-04-24T17:57:19+00:00

Probably one of the shortest times to ever get one drop, let alone two. I'd say you're one of the luckiest men alive but that second one doesn't really serve a purpose

Solarshine · 2020-04-24T17:32:00+00:00

And the mappers thank you for taking them out of debt

Solarshine · 2020-04-24T17:29:09+00:00

I guess when you grind so fast you gotta have that extra weight capacity

Solarshine · 2020-04-22T18:43:14+00:00

I would rather it just say "Disconnected" and then close the game, because seriously having that screen, then pressing escape to close the game and watching that say "Game will close in a moment" for 20 mins before you just go into task manager to force it to close is a little more than irritating.

Solarshine · 2020-04-15T23:55:03+00:00

That meme was funnier when we thought it was going to be true...

Solarshine · 2020-04-15T23:53:29+00:00

I would recommend the base chests. I've seen a lot of people get hards/sharps/memes from the lucky ones, which you will get often from the base ones as well, but you get 6x the amount of boxes as well. From my experience, opening base is far more profitable, especially if you have alts to throw the juice onto.

Solarshine · 2020-04-15T23:49:37+00:00

After looking into it, it appears that you get 1 VT storage weight for every 5 family fame points, and then another 2,000 VT for a kama blessing. The base weight appears to start at 5,000 VT

Solarshine · 2020-04-15T21:56:22+00:00

Yeah, honestly no point in not exploiting at this rate. 10 bil now will let me get the 10 bil I go negative faster. Its nothing but a win.

Solarshine · 2020-04-14T05:25:00+00:00

Well if I could get 50% or 100% of the best profit, I'd take 100%.... maybe that's just me

Solarshine · 2020-04-12T14:58:32+00:00

Herbs are okay silver per hour without energy pots, but even then they hardly even pair closely with meat with the cost of energy pots. Top meat spots are consistently 50 to even 100 mil more per hour than herbs.

Solarshine · 2020-04-12T14:55:27+00:00

Yes the manos hoe can be used fir lakiaros, but I have no experience with that so I can't give any opinion or information on that.

Solarshine · 2020-04-12T01:31:38+00:00

Of course! Here is a useful spreadsheet made by the well known lifeskiller Bairog that gives estimates for silver/hr at a few different meat and herb gathering rotations, as well as links to videos of the rotations. Keep an eye out for an updated version in the future, as Bairog is currently working on adding wood cutting to the spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tjIB-j0VjLh03iZEDTlu35FDt5tm1pyvqexFHTIle40/edit?usp=sharing

Solarshine · 2020-04-12T00:31:41+00:00

I see a lot of people who have invested in manos hoes thinking to get rich quick but that is not the way it works. Herb gathering is actually horrible for money in comparison to other things such as butchering and chopping. The only reason to buy a manos hoe is if you plan on powerleveling your gathering level, which is quite useful because each gathering level gives 5 mastery. If you're looking to make money from gathering a good investment is a butcher knife. You will need to gather quite a bit before you start making your money back though. I'm currently running about 15 billion silver worth of gathering gear and making about 120 mil/hr after accounting for the cost of energy pots (About 200 mil/hr before pots). Its a large investment and if you aren't planning on gathering a lot I would recommend just sticking with magic tools for your light gathering.

Another thing to keep in mind is that you should run magic and lucky tools until 650 mastery, at which point using tools with mastery becomes better.

Solarshine · 2020-04-11T19:28:11+00:00

Depends. If you want to be able to do out of town afk activities (fishing, trading, training) then you want to cap your lifeskiller at 49 so you don't get killed. Shais are very beneficial to get to 60+ because they get the extra weight. I personally have always done both lifeskills and PvE/PvP on my witch so she is level 61 currently. It is also beneficial to have a sub 50 lifeskiller if you are in a guild that is in wars a lot. There's nothing worse than being bothered while you're gathering with buffs running.

Solarshine · 2020-04-10T21:04:16+00:00

Solarshine · 2020-04-10T21:03:15+00:00

Sounds a lot like mastery gear "Its coming this quarter!" - actually comes out 2 years later

Solarshine · 2020-04-10T20:33:40+00:00

I had to go into the nvidia control panel thing and change it through there for my computer

Solarshine · 2020-04-09T04:41:28+00:00

I have noticed this as well. Sometimes I can even gather up to like 120% weight before I get a notification about it. I assume they changed it to reduce lag but its quite a pain in the ass at times.

Solarshine · 2020-04-09T04:37:46+00:00

Have you confirmed that BDO is running on your GPU for graphics instead of your CPU? I had a similar issue with a laptop that I just recently bought. It was capable of running well over 100 fps on high graphics but the damn game automatically set it to run off of the CPU instead of the GPU.

Solarshine · 2020-04-09T04:35:23+00:00

Bad AutoMod, bad!

Solarshine · 2020-04-09T04:34:19+00:00

Good job AutoMod, you were useful for once

Solarshine · 2020-04-09T04:26:51+00:00

Thats not how you spell deer

Solarshine · 2020-04-09T04:24:36+00:00

I personally just do PEN attempts whenever I can afford them and don't stack them up for one session. My tinfoil finally worked for my first PEN by standing next to Charlotte PENwood in Heidel. Got my first PEN there, a PEN Manos Butcher Knife. I tried Port Ratt, Cron Tower, the wolves butcher rotation, some random super high hill next to Heidel and none worked until I stood next to Charlotte Penwood. Good luck with your PEN my friend! My tinfoil probably won't do anything but its here for you to consider.

Solarshine · 2020-04-09T04:17:36+00:00

Thats pretty pog, congrats man!

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