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    March 19, 2021

    Black Desert Online Daily Questions and Answers Post - FAQ, New/Returning Player Questions, and Useful Starting Resources!

    Daily Questions and Answers Post - FAQ, New/Returning Player Questions, and Useful Starting Resources!

    Posted: 18 Mar 2021 10:00 PM PDT

    Hello and welcome to r/BlackDesertOnline! Please use this thread to ask any simple, frequently asked questions you have about the game and hopefully one of our helpful community members will be able to assist you. If your post was removed from the subreddit for being a commonly asked question, this is the right place for you to be!

    This thread will be refreshed every three days to allow adequate time for responses.

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    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 06:25 AM PDT

    Thanks PA!

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 05:26 PM PDT

    "Death is only the beginning..."

    Posted: 18 Mar 2021 11:40 PM PDT

    When you're a supporter.

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 12:25 AM PDT

    Why I play BDO with one hand

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 01:40 PM PDT

    For hadum grinders :^)

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 04:37 PM PDT

    100 BSA laps complete! Only a few days before they all reset anyway.

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 04:00 PM PDT

    This games pathfinding in a nutshell...

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 07:37 AM PDT

    [PVP Balance] Stagnant meta for an entire year

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 12:52 AM PDT

    Many games struggle with balance. This is an unavoidable fate that having 22 classes with multiple specializations is inevitably going to produce. MMORPG's can amplify this feeling of imbalance, because unlike a MOBA, you can't simply put down the class you've invested time and money on and pick up whatever is flavor of the month without making major sacrifices. These sacrifices come in many forms. Monetarily, the cost to swap to another class is a substantial amount if you feel the need to grab weight for potions or desire anonymity with a ghillie. Most players consider these to be necessities. In the form of time, hours a player has spent on a class could eventually net them an extremely unrewarding experience in terms of end-game PVP. Throughout the history of BDO, especially in Siege or Node War, there has always reigned a "top dog." Ranger's descending current, Wizard's meat ball, Witch's kit post-protection overhaul, Guardian's succession 100% spam, and Berserker's succession 200% spam were all considered to be the driving forces in large scale PVP at the top level. While varying in duration, all these metas eventually came to pass due to nerfs, buffs, or complete mechanic changes so far. Except for one.

    The top 4 guilds in NA's Siege/Nodewar scene all consist of above 50% of their members either maining or tagging a Wizard to utilize its succession. Many of you probably watch a few streamers who have joined, or are in, a siege guild that have tagged a Wizard simply out of necessity. Class diversity has never been lower in the history of this game if you look at end-game PVP. Prior to Wizard's succession, you could argue that awakened Witch or Wizard were just as sought after. Those classes were significantly weaker in every form of PVP outside of largescale. The meta has reached the point where Wizard with its succession no longer has an exploitable weakness where its predecessor once did.

    For nearly an entire year, the Wizard's succession has reigned supreme in end-game group PVP content. This is due to various reasons. The first I'll discuss is the big PVP damage rebalance patch that Pearl Abyss put on Global Labs shortly after Guardian's release. The initial patch was basically a blanket reduction in damage for many of the most oppressive classes, with Wizard's succession being one of the hardest hit by it. Public outcry led to Pearl Abyss walking the patch back and instead buffing the damage of classes and producing the one-shot meta that we've had since. This damage issue was only magnified even further by the class-to-class ratio changes that were introduced later. The damage problem unsurprisingly got even worse once they allowed every class to put whatever armor piercing concoction of add-ons they could come up with on any skill they wanted. This resulted in the meta that has allowed Wizard's succession to sit comfortably at the top for nearly 12 months consecutively. Pearl Abyss has stated they don't intend to nerf Wizard's succession but instead bring other classes up to that level. This is mechanically impossible, and I'll explain why.

    The potency of ranged damage was never the complaint in large scale PVP after the brief stint Archer had before being nerfed into obscurity. Sacha, GM of BlackRose, was well known for his awakened Witch Sage's Teleport Meteor engages. The purpose of this was to CC a large group of people and have his guild play off his CC. Inevitably, Sacha would be trading his life for the engage. There in lied the tradeoff. The issue with Wizard's succession currently is largely rooted in their ranged skills, with meteor being the biggest offender. Not only do they have CC and protection on nearly every ranged skill they cycle, they also do such an immense amount of damage that the class can be played almost completely ranged with great success. There isn't a tradeoff.

    Introducing split teleport to the mix is where the class truly ascends to tomfoolery. Once the gap has been closed by most melee classes a Wizard will iframe away (if the servers allow it.) The melee then must close the gap once again while most likely having caught a slow by any of Wizard's lightning skills. At this point, the Wizard can use any combination of Magical evasion, Earthquake, and Earth's response to buy time for one of their teleports to come up again. Split teleport is also used for the most potent large scale engage in the game currently. Teleporting forward, casting a meteor, and then following up on their own meteor with a melee range burst comparable to that of the strongest melee class in the game is something old awakened mages only dreamt of. It probably should've stayed a dream.

    While having the most powerful offensive kit in the game, Wizard's succession still retains all the support spells its less overloaded predecessor had. Rabam heal, Healing lighthouse, and Protected area have been the staples of support throughout BDO's history. Many considered the recent nerf to Protected area to be a significant nerf to Wizard's succession. It turns out it was the complete opposite. The class which can set up its own engage and then follow up on it benefits greatly from the opposing ball not being able to give themselves 999 DP as a counter. Melee super-armor classes relied heavily on Protected area as the only viable way to play melee in Siege and Nodes above 50v50.

    The ranged meta is currently painfully unrewarding to play in as any melee class for anything outside of small scale. I hope that Pearl Abyss can look at the state of end-game PVP and try to give up on achieving the impossible task of bringing classes strength up to Wizard's succession. With 22 beautifully crafted kits being in the game, it'll be a day long overdue when everyone can finally go back to the class they mained before this balance nightmare began.

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    Got my first PEN ever! Help on a question in the comments.

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 01:13 PM PDT

    My first playthrough I was surprised at the size of the swamp!

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 12:20 PM PDT

    I sent a support ticket the day after I made a pearl item purchase, but since support took 16 days to respond, I can't get a refund, since it is outside of their '15 day refund policy'... does this seem unfair to anyone else?

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 09:03 PM PDT

    My initial ticket to them on 3/2: https://imgur.com/r7XfQVV

    They responded on 3/19-3/20: https://imgur.com/iTONdpn

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    Lahn Succession PvP - "Spring Breeze" (I just like succ more than awake okayyyy)

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 02:47 PM PDT

    This golem followed me all the way to town

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 05:32 PM PDT

    Im shaking right now wtf, dream horse from shakatu shiny box [life], how rare is this?

    Posted: 18 Mar 2021 10:28 PM PDT

    Sage is a fan of naked football/soccer.

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 09:06 AM PDT

    Bartering on a lv.49 character

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 07:10 PM PDT

    Hi, I'm about to start bartering. I read that for avoid being killed from other players i need to do bartering with a level 49 character. But i also read that i need Skilled 1 sailing, and for do this i can do the daily quests with another character (50+) and then get the reward with the 49+ character. It's correct?

    I'm planning to create a level 49 Shai for the extra-weight bonus.

    There are any disadvantages from bartering with a level 49 character? (especially in terms of profit/day, i read that you can make 600+mil/day and with guild missions even more).

    Thank you!

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    King of games

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 04:54 AM PDT

    A right or wrong way to play with this end goal playstyle in mind?

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 09:54 PM PDT

    If my end goal in this game (well, if you can call it an "end goal" since it's a soft cap and there's no real "end") is to...well, I don't want to PvP...I was drawn to the game because it looked gorgeous, the combat seemed fresh and I liked the idea of being able to kind of casually be an explorer, gaining money through life skills, maybe build a house or farm, I'm REALLY thinking about how fun it may be to build a boat and be a fisherman while also hunting whales? (Haven't looked into that at all, but it sounds awesome!)

    Sorry, so what I'm asking is, I keep seeing talk of PEN or TET gear (sorry if those are wrong) and I did watch some videos beforehand that talked about failstacking and how some found that to be one of the more frustrating parts of the game at higher levels. I haven't looked into gearing at all yet, but are those things I'll have to worry/stress about with the goals I have in mind? Basically being an explorer, fisherman, whale/boss hunter of sorts...just an out in the world adventurer that focuses on lifeskills over PvP spots and such! :)

    I have this fear that I'll do things wrong while leveling, or use an item when I should've saved it for later and so forth haha There's just so much! Is there a way I should come at the game while leveling if that sort of playstyle is how I want to end up with my character(s)?

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    How did you decide upon what to play as your main?

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 07:28 PM PDT

    This is less a question about "What class should I play?" as that'll be different for everyone, and more just a general chat about how you specifically decided upon your main character, how you came about doing so (first choice and just stuck with it, one of many that you just like most, etc...) or if you even have a main at all!

    For me, I just began playing and haven't actually had any solid "sit down and play" time, so I've yet to truly delve into any class; however, I do see the drastic difference in styles between characters (even if the combo system is somewhat the same) as I'm currently toying with (REALLY) low level Lahn, Mystic, Witch and Sorceress. Completely different across the board, so I'm curious to hear all your stories on the character front and how/why your choices were made!

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    Nova awakening skill

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 07:17 PM PDT

    So I noticed while I was playing for some reason sometimes the Shift+Q ability has a different animation and does way more damage, does anyone know to use that consistently?

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    Im back here with a new series and hopefully a better editing style. Feedback would be appreciate!

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 02:20 PM PDT

    Made Geralt of Rivia

    Posted: 19 Mar 2021 06:25 PM PDT
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