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    October 22, 2020

    Black Desert Online Me, an EU player, watching whatever just happened on NA

    Me, an EU player, watching whatever just happened on NA

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 05:47 AM PDT

    "Let's play tomorrow"

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 04:36 PM PDT

    Hella fun

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 10:52 AM PDT

    I just realised my console hasn't been turned off for the last 11 days...

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 02:26 PM PDT

    Truly a Beautiful game....

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 02:47 PM PDT

    The cycle continues

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 04:20 PM PDT

    State of The Economy right now

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 05:48 AM PDT

    Emergency maintenance for node war bug

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT

    3rd Rabam all class preview

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 10:53 AM PDT

    Sell your caphras pretty please?

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 06:05 AM PDT

    I drew my tamer!

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 04:39 AM PDT

    Maximizing the Efficiency of Your LS

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 10:56 AM PDT

    The TL;DR

    To maximize the efficiency of your LS, use Green LS (30 Min, 50% LS) with Agris active; otherwise, grind without popping LS.

    What's a LS?

    Loot Scrolls (LS for short) increase your income while grinding. Blue LS, aka 50% LS, are the most commonly used LS. They last for 1 hour, increase trash by 50%, and increase your item drop rate by 100%.

    LS are very valuable, as they can (and usually do) dramatically increase the active income you gain from grinding.

    I imagine most people just click on their LS when they start their grind. While LS can be fairly straight forward, there's a bit of nuance if you want to maximize the efficiency of your LS.

    What can make a LS inefficient?

    There are a few obvious factors that contribute to LS inefficiency: you might pop a LS in a spot that's not very profitable, or you might be interrupted while grinding. I will not be discussing these factors, for a few reasons:

    • I think it's dumb to not use a LS if you're grinding a spot you enjoy grinding, simply out of fear that the spot itself isn't the most profitable. It is not worth it to sacrifice your enjoyment for efficiency.

    • It's usually not up to you whether or not your grind gets interrupted. If someone else waltzes into your rotation and begins poaching your packs, you probably weren't asking for it.

    • Every million silver you make in the early stages of the game (grinding early game, and therefore, less profitable spots) is more valuable than the same million you make later in the game, since that million will buy more progress. Saving your LS for later in the game doesn't actually make you more efficient simply because the extra millions you make gets offset by the fact that each million is worth less.

    The two factors that I will be discussing are trash rounding and using the wrong LS.

    Trash Rounding

    Blue LS increase your trash by 50%, for a total trash bonus of 150%: except they actually don't. To be more specific, they increase your trash by at most 50%.

    This has implications for any time a monster drops an odd amount of trash.

    If a monster drops 2 trash when you're not using a LS, then your Blue LS will increase that to 3 trash. However, if the monster drops 3 trash when you're not using a LS, then the math is not so clean. It can't drop 4.5 trash, since dropping half a trash isn't a thing. It won't round up and drop 5 trash, as that'll increase your trash by more than 50%. Instead, it'll round down and only drop 4 trash.

    Since most zones drop both odd and even amounts of trash, in most places, the Blue LS will only increase your trash by 30-40%. In a select few zones, such as Mirumok or Manshaums, the monsters almost exclusively drop 1 trash, which means the Blue LS will barely increase your trash at all!

    In order to avoid trash rounding, we would (ideally) want our trash multiplier to come out a neat multiple of 100%, since that would eliminate any need for rounding. There are two ways (that I'm aware of) to do this:

    • Use a Blue or Green LS and Agris buff, for a neat 300% trash bonus.

    • Use a Gold LS, for a neat 200% trash bonus.

    By using either of these methods, we can earn back the trash that we would otherwise lose to trash rounding. This leads me to the next point -

    Using the Wrong LS

    Even though the Blue LS is probably the most commonly used LS, since it's the one that gets handed out (either through events or through the pearl shop), it's the one that should rarely be used. If you pop a Blue LS and start grinding your peaceful, uncontested rotation, and then 10 minutes into your hour, a horde of goons appear and spam "Yo, duel?", you could end up in a rough spot. Channel swapping runs the risk of swapping into a taken rotation, while dealing with the invaders will cut into your grind.

    It might not even be a bunch of hooligans that interrupt your grind: you might simply lose focus halfway through. It can happen.

    You could, of course, simply switch characters so your LS doesn't tick down, but I know that there are times where I really just want to play the character I'm playing.

    Using Green LS instead of Blue LS is probably better: if you're interrupted, you lose at most 30 minutes of time instead of an hour of time. Furthermore, since we have a good reason to use LS with Agris to minimize the loss of trash rounding, Green LS is favourable since we don't need to have enough Agris for a full hour: we only need half an hour worth of Agris.

    Gold LS are a funky bunch: for the most part, they're worse than Blue LS, and therefore, worse than Green LS as well. There may be a specific circumstance where Gold LS are better than Green LS; however, they are never better than using Green LS and Agris.

    Relative to Green LS, Gold LS sacrifices one hour of item drop rate increase to eliminate trash rounding.

    If you're in a position where you want to use more LS than your Agris point regeneration allows for, you may be interested in knowing whether you should use Green LS or Gold LS.

    If you do not log your income from grinding, then just use Green LS. On the other hand, if you log your income, you are in a position to calculate which LS you should prefer:

    1. Grind for 1.5 hours using a Green LS, to get 3 trials of information.

    2. Grind for 1.5 hours without a LS, to get 3 trials of information.

    3. Take your data from trial 2: double the trash average.

    4. Take your result from step 3, and subtract out the average from trial 1. This is the amount of trash lost due to trash rounding. Convert this value from trash to silver (multiply it by the value of the trash).

    5. For each trial, calculate the average income received from non-trash drops.

    6. Take your average non-trash income from trial 1 and subtract out the average non-trash income from trial 2. This is the rare drop income increase that a LS gives you.

    If the silver you lost to trash rounding is greater than the silver gained from the rare drop increase, then it is better to grind one hour with a Gold LS and one hour without a LS than it is to grind two hours with Green LS. If the silver you lost to trash rounding is less than the silver gained from the rare drop increase, then grinding one hour with Gold LS and one hour without a LS is worse than grinding two hours with Green LS.

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    Warriors : Skill is needed to play my class. Also warriors :

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 08:10 AM PDT

    For All the Zerkers out there!

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 12:03 AM PDT

    Global Lab Patch Notes 22nd Oct 2020 -

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 04:35 AM PDT

    Readable English version: https://www.blackdesertfoundry.com/global-lab-updates-22nd-october-2020/

    All class skills have now been translated including images for the new Rabam skills. Thank you for your patience.

    Highlights this week:

    • Hadum Orc Camp - Grind Spot rework
    • Karanda boss rework - similar to the Nightmare Kzarka update
    • Horse Racing Rework
    • New Field Boss added
    • All classes received new Rabam Skills

    Official patch notes: https://www.global-lab.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?boardNo=1042&countryType=ko-KR

    submitted by /u/sarahd094
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    Just reached 56 - Warrior question

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 07:54 PM PDT

    Any Awakening updated guide? this is my first time playing BDO.

    submitted by /u/SebRev99
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    Mom, can we have...

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 01:20 AM PDT

    Stars end trash - awakening Hash

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 09:28 PM PDT

    Hello I was curious to know if this is decent trash, im pulling 4k to 4.3k as awakening hash. This is my trash on cliffs and main, however on the other rotations I make about 3800. I have 270k and a tet kzarka. My goal is to get tet BS next to push higher trash. I know succ Hash does better in pve but I really enjoy grinding as awakening. Should I be pushing more trash/work on my pulls or is this an okay about of trash?

    I also wanted to ask, about how much did getting a tet BS increase your trash by?

    submitted by /u/thatonesham
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    47 QUADRILLION SILVER BUG

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 12:45 AM PDT

    How is BDO right now ?

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 12:28 PM PDT

    All MMO sux right now nothing new

    I think about try BDO buz i hear is crazy p2w and grindy

    How is thia game right now ? Also how is population ?

    submitted by /u/Durjek189
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    Can’t use item

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 08:56 PM PDT

    So I bought a Topaz earrings of regeneration from market place. I'm level 54. Just started this game a week ago and there is nothing in the description of the item saying why I use it. Someone shed some light on a newb please

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    BDO NA QUADRILLION SILVER NODE TAX

    Posted: 22 Oct 2020 12:18 AM PDT
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