# Black Desert 2026 FULL Gear Progression Guide - BDO

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[00:00] What is up, GUYS?
[00:02] WELCOME TO MY 2026 gear guide for Black Desert Online.
[00:05] It's been a long time coming, but there have been substantial changes to the game that require me to make a new guide because I do believe that it's going to be a bit of a different path than what I explained in my previous gear guide in 2025.
[00:18] So, in this guide, there's going to be timestamps all along the bottom of the video.
[00:23] So, no matter where you are along your gear journey, you can always go take a look at that.
[00:28] As always, I encourage you to also look at the comments.
[00:31] Sometimes there are pinned comments or hearted comments.
[00:33] If you have questions about the gear guide, I can also answer them in the comment section down below.
[00:38] And sometimes people have great suggestions.
[00:40] Sometimes the marketplace shifts for things, as well.
[00:41] So, you can always see updates and things in the comment section of the video.
[00:44] That being said, let's get going.
[00:47] So, when you first start your Black Desert Online journey, you're going to do the main storyline.
[00:55] You're going to do it all the way through.
[00:58] And as you do the main storyline, you're going to get something called Tuvala gear.
[00:59] Okay.
[00:59] Um and to be
[01:03] clear, if you're not getting Tuvala gear, it's because you're not on a seasonal character.
[01:06] I think you might get Tuvala gear regardless now.
[01:11] I'm not sure cuz they did remove Naru gear from the game.
[01:13] That's not in the game anymore.
[01:14] Um that being said, you're going to be getting Tuvala as you go through and you need to make sure that you made a seasonal character.
[01:19] If your first question is, "Well, I didn't make a seasonal character. Should I go back and make one?"
[01:25] The answer is absolutely absolutely yes.
[01:29] You do not need to delete your current character, but you should be starting the game on a seasonal character every single time.
[01:34] Every single time. Okay.
[01:34] That being said, as you do the main story, you're going to get Tuvala gear, whether it's a seasonal character or not.
[01:41] The seasonal just helps you progress even faster, okay?
[01:43] Um so, as you move through, you're going to be basically equipping your character with all of this wonderful uh Tuvala equipment.
[01:52] Okay?
[01:52] And you're going to get this just for doing the main story.
[01:55] If If wondering which main storyline to do, my recommendation is Ancient Stone Chamber.
[02:00] Uh, that's usually typically the one uh that is recommended that you start with.
[02:03] Although you can technically start with
[02:05] any of them, you're probably just going to have to come back and do Ancient Stone Chamber again if you don't choose it uh the first time.
[02:10] Um, there are also going to be two vala accessories that you're going to pick up as well uh as you go.
[02:16] And we're going to talk about those.
[02:18] Uh, but I'm basically going to fill in the entire gear wheel here, okay?
[02:22] Because as you do the main story, you're basically just going to pick this stuff up as you go, okay?
[02:27] Um, you're also going to be picking up your very first alchemy stone and should do the main story and you start collecting uh rewards and stuff from your Y menu, you're going to get something called a tacro spirit stone.
[02:36] Um, and this will probably be your first alchemy stone.
[02:40] You're going to get a bunch of these.
[02:41] So, don't be afraid to uh oh, if you wasted it or you left it on by accident, no big deal.
[02:45] It's going to be totally fine.
[02:46] Uh, you'll have more of those in the future, okay?
[02:49] Plus you're going to graduate off of it pretty quickly, okay?
[02:52] Um, also when you open your black spirit at some point, usually early on in your journey, they're going to give you uh these things called artifacts, okay?
[03:01] These are things that basically just add they're just more stats.
[03:03] Just picture them as extra gear stats for
[03:06] your gear wheel.
[03:07] Uh, and the first ones you're going to be getting are the extra AP to monsters and it should give you a DR artifact as well.
[03:14] Along your journey, you're going to want to pick up another AP to moms um artifact, but you can just use the ones that they give you kind of right off the bat.
[03:21] I'm just going to leave them as both AP to moms because those are always going to be really good.
[03:25] Um, early on in your journey, you're probably going to want to like as you're as you're progressing through the game, it's going to coach you through how to enhance this tuvala gear to become better and better as you go, okay?
[03:36] So, you're basically going to be able to click this stuff um all the way up to try, no problem, okay?
[03:43] You're they're basically going to hand you try for essentially free, okay?
[03:47] For essentially free.
[03:48] You're going to you're going to pump all this stuff up whether it be your armor or your weapons.
[03:52] they're basically giving it to you at basically a 100% chance, okay?
[03:56] Um your awakening weapon will not actually open up until you hit level 56 and you do your awakening quest line.
[04:00] At the end of your awakening quest line, uh it will give you a PRI awakening weapon, which
[04:07] you can then tap to try for free.
[04:08] It's a 100% chance, piece of cake.
[04:11] Okay, so as you're kind of going through, you're going to reach this gear wheel probably within the first day or so that you play the game.
[04:16] First few days, as you finish the main story, you're going to finish this.
[04:19] And to be clear, if you want to get your Tuvala gear more quickly, you can run to the nearest blacksmith.
[04:25] For a lot of you, you're going to be starting the game in Velia, so I'll show you where the blacksmith is in Velia here.
[04:30] Uh he's right down here, Tranan Underfoe.
[04:33] If you open your map, click on him, um you can run to him and he will
[04:37] You know what? I'm just going to run over there.
[04:37] All right, so if you click shop here from the the blacksmith, you can literally just buy all of this stuff for silver.
[04:43] And don't be worried about the cost of it.
[04:46] I'll be honest with you, Tuvala is super worth it, so you don't really have to worry about the cost of all the Tuvala accessories and things.
[04:54] If you want to gear your your uh character out really quickly, you can do so from the blacksmith or maybe your gear breaks for one reason or another.
[04:59] Um you and you don't want to necessarily repair it, you can always go get it from the blacksmith, too, okay?
[05:04] All right. So, at
[05:07] this point, you've basically gotten through the main story, uh and it's time to enhance your Tuvala gear.
[05:13] The best way to enhance your Tuvala gear, as I just said, is to run up to the blacksmith, buy more Tuvala gear, and just repair it with other Tuvala gear.
[05:21] You are going to get these things called time-filled blackstones.
[05:26] They look like this.
[05:27] Okay?
[05:30] You want to use these to get other things.
[05:31] Okay?
[05:33] Yeah, they're called the They're called like fragments or something now.
[05:34] They keep changing the name.
[05:36] I don't I don't care.
[05:37] Regardless, they look like this, okay?
[05:39] They're purple.
[05:39] They look like this.
[05:40] If you're colorblind, that's not my problem.
[05:41] They look like this, all right?
[05:44] You're going to use them.
[05:44] Don't use them to repair your gear.
[05:47] You can use other two ball gear to repair your gear that you can buy from the blacksmith, okay?
[05:50] Um so, that's how you're basically going to enhance this stuff up.
[05:54] And to be clear, when you get your accessories, you can hit all these to try for free.
[05:59] Like I said, without literally costing you basically anything, okay?
[06:04] Without anything.
[06:04] Now, when you enhance try to enhance them beyond try, they do have a chance to blow up, so
[06:08] um bear that in mind.
[06:10] But basically, you're going to hit this right away.
[06:12] The moment that you get the gear, you should be able to at least run to the blacksmith uh and enhance it to try immediately.
[06:18] Okay, so you're going to hit this gear score pretty quick here.
[06:20] And this gear right here is more than enough to get you all the way through the Valencia quest line.
[06:25] Um and onwards, probably through the Kama Sylva quest line, too.
[06:29] Uh as well as you continue to level up through the game.
[06:31] So, this is looking pretty good so far.
[06:32] Uh all right.
[06:35] So, as you progress, you're going to look down at your artifacts here.
[06:38] Quick explanation for how these work.
[06:40] Basically, there's these um there's these empty little artifacts that sit on your gear that give your gear extra stats, okay?
[06:46] So, they're just going to give your character extra stats, and you can equip these things called lightstones to them.
[06:51] Two lightstones per artifact, and you're wearing two artifacts, which means you have four lightstones.
[06:56] [music]
[06:56] Four your four lightstones can be put together to have a special effect, okay?
[07:02] So, if you equip four any four lightstones in the game, they're going to have a special effect um that those
[07:08] Four lightstones actually trigger.
[07:10] The first lightstone set that I'm going to recommend to you is actually the combat one.
[07:17] Uh not the amplified one.
[07:20] Bro, Garmoth is cooked right now.
[07:22] There we go.
[07:24] Okay.
[07:25] So, you want to go to the central marketplace, and you want to buy these, okay?
[07:31] Four of these combat lightstones.
[07:34] Uh right here, okay?
[07:36] They're 10 mil a piece.
[07:36] They're They're That's basically nothing in this game, as you'll find out.
[07:40] Buy four of them, equip them, okay?
[07:42] and you're going to get extra combat EXP for basically everything that you do.
[07:46] Basically everything you do.
[07:46] The game also might give you a few of these, which is great, okay, and that's fantastic.
[07:51] But putting four of those in your gear is awesome.
[07:52] When you feel like you don't need EXP anymore, somewhere around level 62, once you hit around level 62, you can put things called predation in your lightstone.
[08:06] Don't worry about the amplified, we'll talk about that later.
[08:07] Okay, you can
[08:09] just put four of these predations in here.
[08:10] These just give you extra AP to mobs, okay?
[08:13] Uh but we'll talk about better lightstone effects as you get better gear score.
[08:15] Uh I'll talk about upgrading your lightstone and your artifact setups um so that you have more and more damage from those as you go.
[08:22] But early on, you really just kind of want to use the combat ones cuz they're really, really nice, okay?
[08:26] Um now, early on, you're also going to worry about crystals.
[08:29] And again, I have a whole crystal guide that kind of goes through all of this.
[08:35] I'm not going to spend a ton of time working on crystals in this guide.
[08:37] I'm just going to tell you the guide will be linked in the video description, you can check that out.
[08:40] Um but like you can basically just equip all the crystals that they're going to give you.
[08:43] Uh don't really worry about it.
[08:45] You can always extract them later if you need to.
[08:46] Just equip them.
[08:48] Uh I wouldn't necessarily sell any of the crystals that you're going to get from the main storyline.
[08:52] Some of those are extremely rare, and there's a reason they're worth a lot of money.
[08:55] Uh so, I would keep those, especially like the rebellious crystal you get for the Kama Silvia questline.
[08:59] Um probably wouldn't sell that.
[09:00] Um probably going to or the com- it gives you a Kama Silvia crystal, which you turn into a rebellious crystal.
[09:08] Just kind of equip it and, you know, you'll get it
[09:10] As you go.
[09:11] Get like four Macalods, stuff like that.
[09:13] But again, all of that is explained in the crystal guide.
[09:15] I'm not really going to get into that here.
[09:16] So, as you are grinding on seasonal and you're going through the seasonal quests and doing seasonal in general and grinding low-end spots in Black Desert, you're going to get these things called magical shards.
[09:27] Why does this guy have to park this right here?
[09:29] What are we talking about?
[09:31] Okay.
[09:31] All right.
[09:33] Magical shards look like this.
[09:34] They're these green little green little things here.
[09:36] These are basically ex- These are extremely difficult to get on the marketplace.
[09:39] You need to not sell these.
[09:41] These are critical components to building your gear.
[09:47] Do not sell magical shards.
[09:49] You will probably get them in the form of black magic crystals.
[09:53] Okay.
[09:53] In most cases, you're going to get them they're going to look like this.
[09:57] Okay, sealed black magic crystals.
[09:59] And you can melt these in your heating tab to get magical shards.
[10:03] Okay.
[10:03] Do not sell these as you are grinding.
[10:07] Do not get rid of them.
[10:09] Okay?
[10:09] You keep them.
[10:09] You need to stockpile as
[10:11] many of these as possible cuz you're going to need them for later in the guide.
[10:14] Okay.
[10:14] Now, let's get back to it.
[10:17] Okay.
[10:19] So, at this point, you're basically focused on finishing seasonal.
[10:21] Okay?
[10:23] Um you're going to basically pump all of your Tuvala armor and accessories to PEN.
[10:27] Okay?
[10:27] Do not worry about trying to get them to TET.
[10:29] That's the X there at the end.
[10:30] Um you're basically going to try to work on getting all of these to PEN and this really should not take you very much time at all.
[10:35] You can probably do this in an hour or two as long as you do your weekly quest uh for your seasonal and you finish the main story and all that good stuff.
[10:45] All of getting all of this to PEN is only going to take you a day or two uh at maximum in most cases.
[10:51] So, once this is all PEN uh and you've grinded for a couple hours and you finish the Kamasylvia questline, you're going to hit about level 60.
[10:58] That's usually about when you're hitting level 60 at this point.
[11:00] And the moment that you have everything uh done in seasonal, like the seasonal pass is finished, you should just graduate.
[11:08] It's my opinion that you should basically graduate immediately.
[11:10] Some people will tell you
[11:13] that you should stay on seasonal to try to farm loot scrolls.
[11:17] I sincerely do not uh think that you should do that.
[11:19] I think that the moment that you are basically able to graduate that you should do that.
[11:24] I think that graduating from seasonal requires you to be level 61.
[11:27] Um it might be 60, but it might be 61.
[11:29] Regardless, the moment that you can graduate seasonal, do that.
[11:33] Get all of your stuff to PEN, and then graduate.
[11:35] Okay.
[11:35] Um 60.
[11:38] Okay, so yeah, you need to hit level 60 uh and get all your stuff to PEN, hit level 60, and then graduate, and then you're good.
[11:44] Then, after you finish graduating, then you're going to run to the Olvia Academy uh and you're going to start your Olvia Academy-ness.
[11:54] My recommendation is you take a stroll over here to this place called the Olvia Academy.
[11:58] Okay, you should be level 60, 61 at this point, somewhere around there, uh at least above 56 by this point.
[12:05] And I think that you should start initiating the quests of the Olvia Academy.
[12:09] The game will prompt you uh to start doing the Olvia Academy a lot
[12:13] Sooner.
[12:15] My recommendation for this is get into it the sooner the better.
[12:17] It's very, very easy.
[12:19] It's really streamlined.
[12:19] It's fun, and it gives you a tremendous amount of rewards.
[12:24] You legitimately cannot go wrong with the Olvia Academy.
[12:26] It's going to give you some critical rewards for the game.
[12:28] It's also going to introduce you to different systems in the game, like gathering, fishing, hunting, cooking, alchemy, processing, training, uh farming, sailing, bartering, all that stuff.
[12:37] And then it's going to teach you the basics of the combat as well, right?
[12:41] Uh level 60's the minimum for Olvia Academy.
[12:43] Okay, well then there you go.
[12:45] So, the moment you hit level 60, which should be after you finish the main story, right?
[12:48] Right after you finish the main story through the Kama - Sylvian quest line, you run over to the Olvia Academy.
[12:53] Regardless, the moment that you can start doing this after you hit level 60, the better off you are, okay?
[12:57] So, like just like go over, start it up.
[13:00] It really does not take very long um to to get this done.
[13:03] Honestly, it took me uh I would say I did it for a couple hours, two or three hours, and I got through the majority of the rewards in here.
[13:11] And a lot of this is insanely good stuff.
[13:14] It's really easy for a new player.
[13:16] Um it's going to give you some best-in-slot weapons in the game,
[13:21] like for even end-game players, so uh you're going to need to do it eventually anyway.
[13:26] It's also going to give you a ton of Cron Stones, which as you're going to find out are extremely necessary for upgrading your gear.
[13:30] It's going to give you fail stacks.
[13:32] It's going to give you Essence of Dawn for upgrading Karazhan, which are your accessories, which we're going to talk about here in a second.
[13:37] Uh and it's also going to give you a pocket watch, which helps you get another character to level 61 instantly as well.
[13:42] It's just all around really good and it introduces you to the systems of the game.
[13:46] But moving on forward in this guide, I'm going to go ahead and assume that you've done most of what is available in the Olvia Academy, okay?
[13:53] And I'm going to assume that you have both PEN Blackstar's from the Olvia Academy.
[13:56] We're going to talk in a moment about which Blackstar's you should be picking for that particular thing.
[14:02] There are going to be good and this is important.
[14:05] This is a very important part of this, okay?
[14:07] There are going to be guides that tell you to do Dec Tuvala quest lines, okay?
[14:13] I am specifically going to tell you to
[14:15] only do one of the Dec Tuvala quest lines because the game or two of the Dec Tuvala quest lines.
[14:21] the game specifically allows you to Dec your Tuvala weapon, one Tuvala weapon to Dec, one Tuvala accessory to Dec, and one Tuvala armor to Dec.
[14:29] Okay?
[14:33] Um and you can do this to get a guaranteed piece of end game boss gear for that particular gear slot.
[14:37] Now, the way that the market is currently designed and kind of flowing in Black Desert, only two of these three quests are actually worth it.
[14:45] One of them is not worth it and that's the one that you need to do for your your quest or for your uh your weapon.
[14:53] Okay?
[14:55] So, I The place you get these from is over here.
[14:58] Let's run up to Fughar.
[14:59] Boom.
[15:01] This guy right here you'll be very familiar with him as you're finishing up your seasonal quest Fughar.
[15:04] He's going to have these Dec Tuvala quests for you uh ready to go.
[15:07] They'll basically be sitting in here.
[15:08] Um you can only typically see them uh if you've if you're on a graduated seasonal character.
[15:12] So, you need to have a
[15:15] graduation cap in your inventory, I think, uh is the limiting factor and you need to be graduated.
[15:19] So, you can't even see it if you're a if you're still a seasonal character at this point.
[15:24] There are three of them, like I said.
[15:25] Doing the armor one is fine.
[15:27] Doing the accessory one is fine.
[15:29] Doing the weapon one is not fine.
[15:31] You don't want to do that.
[15:33] The weapon one's going to cost you about 20 billion on average, unless you get really lucky.
[15:37] It's going to cost you about 20 billion silver to get what is equivalent to what is a PEN Blackstar.
[15:43] As of right now on the central marketplace, Blackstars are going for less than 13 billion.
[15:48] So, I'm not in my right mind going to recommend this.
[15:52] Now, as you're doing the quest line, as you're watching this, as you might be watching this months in the future, you might want to check the marketplace for your PEN Blackstar.
[15:59] If the PEN Blackstar is over about 20 bill, then okay, well, then you can do that quest line and get an extra PEN Blackstar through that.
[16:07] Okay.
[16:09] But, if it's below 20 bill, don't do that.
[16:12] You can just go buy one if you need one, okay?
[16:14] Cuz they're they're relatively cheap right now, okay?
[16:14] Okay.
[16:17] Now, we're going to talk about acquiring PEN Blackstars and the reason I told you to graduate seasonal early.
[16:22] Re- graduated, well, not early, but the moment that you finish seasonal, you really should be graduating because the game hands you so much free gear outside of seasonal that you really just there's there's no value in staying on seasonal anymore cuz you can immediately jump to way higher level grind zones and make a lot more silver per hour immediately.
[16:41] So, you're going to collect your your PEN Blackstars.
[16:43] Now, there's different classes in the game require different PEN Blackstars first, and every single class in the game, I know that sounds confusing, but every class in the game is probably going to require you to take a different PEN Blackstar first, okay?
[16:56] So, I'm going to go through each class in the game.
[16:58] I'm going to try to make this as easy as possible to try to decide how you should pick your PEN Blackstar, okay?
[17:05] So, your first Blackstar, your first PEN Blackstar that you're going to get for free, probably from the Olvia Academy or your Y menu, your Y menu will also have a challenge that will give you a free PEN Blackstar and a
[17:17] free TET Blackstar.
[17:20] Okay, so your first one might come from the Y menu, but you'll probably have three when you graduate.
[17:23] you graduate seasonal and then you'll immediately get two more.
[17:27] So, you're going to have like three Blackstars that you're juggling with at a minimum, probably four and we'll talk about that in a second um right off the bat.
[17:33] First PEN Blackstar, which one do you take?
[17:37] In Black Desert, there are two different types of classes, technically three, succession and awakening.
[17:42] There's also classes called ascension classes.
[17:44] Okay, um which we'll talk about third.
[17:47] Okay, when you hit level 56, you're going to do a quest line which unlocks your awakening or your ascension.
[17:52] Okay, some people like to play their class like if you play Ranger for example and you really like the bow on Ranger, you're probably going to want to keep that bow.
[18:00] Succession is an option to continue using the main hand weapon that you really liked in the first place on the class.
[18:06] You're going to continue using that weapon forward.
[18:08] It's going to super buff the [ __ ] out of your main hand skills.
[18:11] IT'S GOING TO CRAZY BUFF up for Ranger.
[18:13] to get crazy good bow skills and your skills are
[18:18] going to get extra effects and animations and different skill animate or like skill cancels and things like this that you can use on the class.
[18:22] So, that's really cool.
[18:24] If you choose awakening, you'll still have access to the main hand tree, but in most cases, you're going to be using them the awakening weapon.
[18:33] Uh like you're going to get an access to a whole extra tree of weapon of skills.
[18:38] Um your whole extra weapon that you're going to be using etc.
[18:43] Ascension As simply as I can put it, ascension classes are all different.
[18:47] Typically, they use a mix of their pre-awakening and their awakening weapon, which is confusing, I know.
[18:51] Some of them even use their off-hand, too, which is really annoying and we're going to talk about that, too, classes like Deadeye, okay?
[18:59] But, as a general rule, if you are playing a succession version of a class, your first PEN Blackstar should be the main hand.
[19:06] Okay.
[19:08] That's the one on the left.
[19:10] All right.
[19:12] If you're playing an Awakening class, let's say you're playing an Awakening Dark Knight, you need to pick the Awakening and
[19:19] Blackstar.
[19:22] Okay?
[19:23] Um if you're playing an Ascension class, I'm going to have to go through them literally class by class to explain to you which one requires which one.
[19:29] Okay?
[19:31] So, all right.
[19:31] So, this should cover pretty much every class and spec in the game, right?
[19:35] If you're a Succession Wizard, for example, you should be taking the main hand first.
[19:38] If you're an Awakening Wizard, you should be taking the Awakening one first.
[19:40] Now, that being said, the second PEN Blackstar you get is going to be the other one.
[19:44] Okay?
[19:47] So, it really doesn't matter too too much which one you take first.
[19:51] You're going to get the other two relatively quickly after you get the first one.
[19:54] So, you're going to end up with three PEN Blackstars pretty quickly.
[19:57] My recommendation is to take one PEN Blackstar in each of the three slots.
[20:00] So, one should be a main hand, one should be an Awakening.
[20:05] Those are your first two.
[20:07] Your third one should be a PEN Blackstar off-hand.
[20:09] Okay?
[20:11] Um now, Shai is an exception to this rule.
[20:15] Shai is kind of cancer uh for a multiple reasons.
[20:19] Okay?
[20:19] Shai can't
[20:22] really take uh three PEN Blackstars
[20:25] because for whatever reason the
[20:26] developers have decided that the
[20:29] the lantern on Shai, the talent tree,
[20:32] requires extra work that you're going to
[20:34] have to go watch a Wutaru guide for um
[20:37] [laughter]
[20:38] in order to figure out. Now, that being
[20:39] said, uh for Shai, you're going to take
[20:42] main hand, you're going to take the
[20:43] off-hand second, and then you're going
[20:46] to take the main hand again.
[20:48] Okay? So, you're going to You're like,
[20:50] "Well, why would you take two main
[20:51] hands?" Because two main hands can
[20:54] immediately get you a sovereign weapon.
[20:57] Okay? Two PEN Blackstars get put
[20:59] together to give you one sovereign
[21:01] weapon, which is the most end-game
[21:03] weapon in the game. And in most cases, I
[21:05] would say that it's a little bit early
[21:06] at this stage to be kind of jumping to
[21:09] sovereign, but
[21:11] in Shai's case, you can't really avoid
[21:13] it.
[21:14] Um now, after your third
[21:17] uh weapon,
[21:18] okay? After your third awakening or
[21:20] after your third PEN Blackstar, cuz
[21:22] you're going to get at minimum you're
[21:24] going to get one from the Y menu,
[21:26] you're going to get two
[21:28] from
[21:30] your Olvia Academy. One of them's going
[21:31] to be given to you at TET, and then it's
[21:33] a guaranteed enhanced to PEN.
[21:35] Then, you're going to get a ton of
[21:37] hammers and Cron Stones. You're going to
[21:39] get a ton of hammers, like free
[21:41] Blackstar, like only use on Blackstar
[21:43] hammers. Uh and the pity is 15. You're
[21:45] going to get something like, God, how
[21:47] many hammers do you get for this?
[21:50] Uh 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. Yeah, so eight
[21:55] hammers.
[21:57] Uh in addition to you'll probably have
[21:59] even more hammers from like the Calpheon
[22:01] Ball codes and things like this as well,
[22:03] which some of which are really only
[22:05] going to be usable on your Blackstar. Um
[22:08] you can use those on your Blackstar,
[22:09] too, right? In any event, you're
[22:11] probably going to end up with a fourth
[22:13] PEN Blackstar.
[22:15] Okay?
[22:16] Uh
[22:16] plus three from the Olvia coins. So,
[22:18] yeah, you're going to have at least 11
[22:20] Blackstar hammers from just the Olvia
[22:21] Academy by itself. Okay? And the pity is
[22:24] 15. So, like you're
[22:26] it's going to be a piece of cake. You're
[22:27] going to end up with at least four PEN
[22:30] Blackstars, all things said and done. In
[22:32] my opinion, you should be taking for any
[22:34] normal class that isn't Shai, which we
[22:36] already covered Shai, okay? You're going
[22:38] to take one in each slot here.
[22:40] Okay? So, you have three PEN Blackstars,
[22:43] okay? Then, for your first sovereign
[22:45] weapon, okay? [music] Because you're
[22:47] going to get an extra Blackstar, which
[22:49] you're not going to be able to sell. So,
[22:50] to be clear, you can't sell any of these
[22:52] Blackstars anyway, because you got them
[22:53] through the Olvia Academy or the Y menu,
[22:55] so you might as well use these to make
[22:56] into sovereign weapons, okay? Um which
[22:59] is eventually going to happen anyway, so
[23:01] it doesn't really matter. Now, the
[23:03] fourth one, in my opinion, again, if
[23:04] you're a succession class, get your
[23:06] first sovereign weapon should be your
[23:08] main hand.
[23:09] Okay, it's not going to be dick.
[23:11] All right, but if you're a succession
[23:13] class, the first sovereign weapon should
[23:14] be your main hand. If you're an
[23:16] awakening class, the first sovereign
[23:18] should be your awakening. Okay? There
[23:21] are going to be a lot of idiots in the
[23:22] Black Desert community that are going to
[23:24] try to tell you at this stage, wearing
[23:26] Tuvala gear, to get two PEN Blackstar
[23:29] offhands so that you can get the PEN or
[23:32] the the sovereign offhand. And it's
[23:33] important to understand that those
[23:35] people are
[23:36] and those people are griefing you, okay?
[23:39] Um there are things
[23:41] um there are thing
[23:43] I'm going to explain it. I'm going to
[23:44] explain it. For those of you that don't
[23:45] cuz a lot of you probably, even veteran
[23:47] players, like, why would you not just
[23:48] get that? Isn't that the most worthwhile
[23:49] sovereign? In some cases, sure, but
[23:53] not really, no. Okay, number one,
[23:57] um and I'm going to go through this why
[23:58] you should be picking the main and the
[24:00] awakening, okay? Um
[24:02] number one, you can instantly get the
[24:05] main hand or the awakening sovereign
[24:06] weapon as long as you have two PEN
[24:08] Blackstars, you just walk up to the
[24:09] altar and it gives it to you. Badabing
[24:11] badaboom, instantly, and then you can
[24:12] just start enhancing your sovereign and
[24:14] have immediate value with reform stones,
[24:16] which we're going to get to in a second.
[24:19] The offhand,
[24:20] if you have two PEN Blackstar offhands,
[24:22] you still need 20,000
[24:25] Caphras Stones in order to craft the PEN
[24:28] Blackstar or the sovereign offhand,
[24:30] which sucks, which is a lot of money for
[24:33] a new player. It's more money than
[24:35] you're going to have for a while. So,
[24:36] effectively, you've bricked yourself.
[24:37] You really do not want to be taking your
[24:40] fourth PEN Blackstar. We'll get We'll
[24:41] get to when this is this is uh
[24:44] when you should be doing this a little
[24:46] bit later, but I'm going to explain it
[24:48] and now is a good time to kind of
[24:49] explain how the AP brackets of the game
[24:51] work, okay? Another reason not to take
[24:53] the PEN Blackstar offhand, if you're not
[24:55] convinced already, is
[24:58] uh hidden AP brackets, okay? [music]
[25:01] Uh what you need to understand is the
[25:02] PEN Blackstar has a ton of monster
[25:05] damage on it. Extra damage against
[25:07] monsters, 171.
[25:09] Holy freaking Toledo, that's a lot of
[25:12] monster damage. And if you look at the
[25:13] Sovereign,
[25:15] believe it or not, it's actually only
[25:16] got 77 monster damage. That's like 100
[25:19] less monster damage.
[25:21] Holy crap, well why? That seems like
[25:22] it's a lot weaker weapon. Well, the
[25:24] trade-off here is that as you get to
[25:26] higher like the hidden AP brackets in
[25:28] the game, which we're going to talk
[25:29] about in a second, basically make it so
[25:30] that Sovereign is a much, much better
[25:32] weapon as you scale into the late game
[25:34] than the Blackstar is. But early game,
[25:36] the Blackstar is definitely the play.
[25:39] You should absolutely want to take the
[25:40] Blackstar every time cuz it gives you
[25:42] that extra AP against monsters. Let's
[25:43] talk about brackets. As you increase
[25:46] your sheet AP, that's what we call this
[25:47] number right here. When you open your
[25:49] inventory in Black Desert, there is a
[25:52] there are three numbers down here, okay,
[25:54] that you're typically looking at. You
[25:55] have your sheet mainhand AP, your
[25:58] awakening AP, and your DP, okay? So when
[26:01] we talk about sheet stats, we're talking
[26:02] about these right here, okay? So
[26:05] whatever your sheet AP is, the game is
[26:07] giving you a certain amount of bonus AP
[26:09] based on what your sheet AP is, okay? So
[26:12] in this case, big bracket cutoffs would
[26:14] be something like 261 AP, you go just
[26:19] for getting
[26:20] if you have 260 sheet AP, you only have
[26:23] 83 bonus monster damage or bonus just AP
[26:27] in general, hidden AP. If you have 261
[26:31] sheet AP, you immediately You don't just
[26:33] get the one sheet AP, you get like
[26:36] almost 20 non-sheet AP. You go all the
[26:39] way up to 101, okay? And the same thing
[26:41] is true once you hit the 265 bracket,
[26:43] you get up to 122, you hit the 269
[26:45] bracket, you move up to 137, and this
[26:47] goes all the way up. To be clear, you're
[26:48] going to move through these these lower
[26:49] brackets really, really quickly, but
[26:51] this is just an example. Anyway, as you
[26:54] move through your gear, it is not cost
[26:56] efficient to do your to get your
[26:58] sovereign offhand until you're at at
[27:00] least 309 sheet AP.
[27:04] That's the cutoff. You need at least 309
[27:07] sheet AP, okay? In order to make it cost
[27:10] efficient. Beyond 309 sheet AP, what
[27:13] happens is every single one AP you get
[27:16] gives you eight
[27:17] monster damage.
[27:19] Okay? Every single one sheet AP you get
[27:22] gives you one. So, if you get eight non
[27:24] or if you get eight sheet AP, you're
[27:26] going to get 64 extra
[27:28] uh hidden AP on top of it.
[27:30] On top of it, okay? And I think it's
[27:32] only damage to monsters. Uh could be
[27:34] wrong about that. But, I'm pretty sure
[27:35] it's only damage to monsters. Um
[27:36] in any event, maybe it is damage to
[27:38] everything. It's just hidden AP in
[27:39] general.
[27:40] Um
[27:42] but, regardless, okay? Because of how
[27:44] the hidden AP in the game works, the
[27:46] TLDR is don't get your PEN Blackstar
[27:49] offhand, okay? This early in the game.
[27:51] You're going to wait. You're going to do
[27:52] it later. Right around the 309 bracket,
[27:54] that's when we're going to get it. Yeah,
[27:55] only monsters. Yeah, that's what I
[27:56] thought in the first place. Okay. Um so,
[28:00] your fourth PEN Blackstar is going to be
[28:01] used to create one of the two sovereign
[28:03] weapons. I typically play an awakening
[28:05] class, so I'm going to use I'm going to
[28:07] pretend like I took the awakening
[28:08] sovereign. But, this the path is going
[28:11] to be the same regardless. Okay. So, you
[28:14] just got your sovereign weapon, all
[28:15] right? With your fourth Blackstar.
[28:17] You're going to want to hit that to a
[28:19] minimum of tri.
[28:21] Minimum of tri. Okay? Then, you're going
[28:24] to be able to put these reforged stones
[28:26] in
[28:27] in here, okay? And they they're actually
[28:29] a special inventory for this now. So, if
[28:30] you open your inventory, there's a
[28:32] little button down here. You click this,
[28:33] okay?
[28:34] Um and you'll be able to add and
[28:36] subtract reforged stones um to this menu
[28:39] and then trade out different loadouts
[28:40] and stuff um for your various weapons.
[28:43] But, basically, these reforged stones
[28:45] give you extra stats.
[28:47] They give you extra stats, okay?
[28:49] And the ultimate setup that you want for
[28:51] your reforged stones is probably
[28:53] something close to what I have, okay?
[28:55] Four of the five reforged stones for
[28:57] everybody on the server are basically
[28:59] the same thing, and then you can choose
[29:00] the last one. And this is for typically
[29:02] PvE, but it also works for PvP, too, if
[29:05] you want to do that. You want the all AP
[29:07] one is really good. Back attack extra
[29:10] damage is really good, so having extra
[29:11] back attack damage, all AP, critical hit
[29:15] extra damage is really, really good. Uh
[29:17] black spirit rage recovery, this is a
[29:19] PvE one. This is bis for best in slot
[29:22] for PvE, okay? And then there's usually
[29:24] you can choose what you want the last
[29:26] one to be. Um I have down attack extra
[29:29] damage on here because I like to grind
[29:30] places that allow me to get down attack
[29:32] damage. I also it kind of doubles as a
[29:34] PvP um reforged stone, as well, so
[29:37] that's kind of nice. But you can put
[29:38] damage reduction in here, you can put
[29:40] all that other stuff in here. And to be
[29:42] clear, if you can't get these stones,
[29:44] there's a really cheap reforged stones
[29:46] on the central market. Just put five
[29:48] reforged stones in your gear. And then
[29:50] just slowly work on over time trying to
[29:51] get the good ones. That's my
[29:52] recommendation.
[29:54] Uh
[29:55] yeah.
[29:56] So, the AP one really cheap and
[29:58] available, absolutely get that. There's
[30:00] an accuracy one for 100 Honestly,
[30:02] they're all available.
[30:03] But the back attack one is a bill, so
[30:05] maybe if you don't want to spend the
[30:06] bill, right? Um then that's fine. But I
[30:09] recommend putting the really good ones
[30:11] in your gear cuz this really helps. For
[30:12] every sovereign weapon that you get, you
[30:14] can put five of these in there. So,
[30:16] really, really good.
[30:17] Okay? Really, really good. So, um and
[30:19] this is why getting at least one
[30:21] sovereign weapon at this stage is pretty
[30:22] good. We're going to put the black
[30:23] spirit uh rage recovery, critical hit
[30:25] extra damage in here, back attack extra
[30:27] damage in here, all AP right here. And
[30:30] then what most people are going to do is
[30:32] they're going to take damage reduction.
[30:34] They're going to take damage reduction.
[30:35] Um and that's usually the best kind of
[30:37] all around lightstone or reforged setup
[30:39] that you're going to get. Uh again, I
[30:41] take down attack damage, but I'm a dark
[30:43] Knight and I struggle for damage, so
[30:44] what are you going to do? So, now that
[30:46] you finished taking all of your PEN
[30:47] Blackstar's and you look like a [ __ ]
[30:49] alpha with your Tuvala gear and your PEN
[30:51] Blackstar's, now it's start time to
[30:53] start looking at the rest of your gear.
[30:54] Okay, the first thing you're going to do
[30:56] and probably the easiest thing that you
[30:58] can do to upgrade your gear at this
[30:59] point, if you haven't done it already,
[31:01] is to upgrade this Takra Spirit Stone to
[31:04] a
[31:05] Athor's Power Stone. That's what I'm
[31:07] looking for. All right, so there's this
[31:08] thing called Athor's Power Stone, okay?
[31:11] If you hit O and you go to your main
[31:13] quest here, all right,
[31:15] and you scroll down, there's going to be
[31:17] this thing called the Ulukita quest
[31:18] line, or as we like to call it Ubukita,
[31:20] this one right here. Ulukita, the
[31:22] exalted land, okay? If you do this quest
[31:24] line, takes an hour or two,
[31:26] if you're speed running it. It's
[31:27] actually a pretty good quest line if you
[31:28] want to listen to it, too. Pretty cool.
[31:30] Um but once at the end of this quest
[31:32] line, you're going to get something
[31:33] called an Athor's Power Stone. Uh and
[31:35] believe it or not, this Athor's Power
[31:36] Stone has one sheet AP on it,
[31:40] which is a big deal, okay? It's going to
[31:41] give you one sheet AP, which helps. It's
[31:43] also just objectively a better alchemy
[31:45] stone than the Takra Stone that you were
[31:47] using before. And you get it just for
[31:49] doing a quest line. So, it's a really
[31:51] good thing, right? It's really, really
[31:53] good thing. So, there is one other
[31:55] alchemy stone that we need to talk about
[31:57] before Vell's Heart, which is going to
[31:58] be really, really hard uh in order to
[32:00] get uh in order to get, okay?
[32:03] Khan's Heart is also an option. You can
[32:06] try to get Khan's Heart, okay? And I
[32:09] don't necessarily recommend it and I'll
[32:10] explain why. There's a quest in the game
[32:13] that if you do the guild boss Khan three
[32:16] times, okay? Usually it's once per week,
[32:18] so it takes three weeks to get it.
[32:19] Alternatively, you can do this thing
[32:21] called merking into other guilds and
[32:23] like you can like swap around, try to
[32:25] get it faster. Most people are going to
[32:27] just do one Khan a week for three weeks
[32:29] and that's if your guild is really,
[32:30] really active, okay? The problem with
[32:32] doing Khan's Heart or trying to get a
[32:34] Khan's Power Stone or Khan's Stone is
[32:37] that one, you can only complete this
[32:39] quest one time.
[32:41] And there are three con stones. Why?
[32:44] Yeah, here they are. There are three con
[32:46] stones. One is the destruction, one is
[32:48] the protection, and one is the heart of
[32:50] life.
[32:51] Okay?
[32:52] Um oh yeah, you can't switch guild
[32:54] anymore. True, so it is just going to
[32:55] take three. Yeah, so I take it back.
[32:56] Yeah, you can't even merc. Yeah, so it's
[32:58] going to take you the three weeks
[32:59] regardless. Okay? So, at the end of the
[33:02] three weeks of you doing the cons, and
[33:05] and to be clear, most guilds in the game
[33:07] do not do con every week. Um if you find
[33:11] a guild that does con, amazing. That's
[33:14] great, but it's hard to do. So, part of
[33:16] the reason I recommend Ahtur's power
[33:18] stone is that something that you can do
[33:19] as the player by yourself without it
[33:21] requiring any outside help at all. Okay?
[33:24] Um
[33:25] again, and and you can only do this
[33:27] quest once, and I strongly recommend you
[33:30] take the heart of life. Okay? Con's
[33:32] heart of life. If you are at all
[33:34] interested in life skilling, or even if
[33:35] you AFK fish every night, it gives you
[33:37] mastery passively. You don't even have
[33:39] to turn it on. It just gives you It's
[33:41] the best life stone in the game yeah,
[33:43] [snorts] outside of omega late game
[33:45] stuff. It's for all intensive purposes
[33:46] the the best life stone in the or
[33:48] alchemy stone in the game for life
[33:50] skilling for all intensive purposes
[33:53] until very very late game. Um and it's
[33:55] extremely good at a lot of different
[33:57] things, and this is really the only time
[33:58] in the game that you can get it for
[33:59] free. That being said, it's not
[34:01] incredibly expensive. Also, if you take
[34:04] the other con hearts, which are going to
[34:05] be replaced relatively quickly. Okay? If
[34:08] you take like the destruction stone,
[34:10] [music]
[34:10] um you're going to have to go sell it.
[34:12] That can be kind of hard sometimes
[34:14] because sometimes the market is bottomed
[34:15] out at min for it, or you can't sell it,
[34:17] or whatever. Maybe it just sells for
[34:19] less than the life one does. That kind
[34:21] of sucks, right? Um if you're thinking
[34:24] like super late game, believe it or not,
[34:26] the con's heart of protection is
[34:27] probably the best DP stone in the game
[34:29] at terms of trying to hit the end game
[34:30] Aakman and Dahn's bosses because it it
[34:33] the end game Adhania bosses are very
[34:34] difficult to hit DP wise, AP wise
[34:37] they're a lot easier in most cases, but
[34:39] DP wise they really are. Sometimes you
[34:40] can kind of cheat your way to the next
[34:42] Adhania boss by having this, but that's
[34:44] a really late game thought that I don't
[34:46] think that a new player should be
[34:47] worried about this stage.
[34:48] All all things said and done, I I just
[34:51] don't think that Khan's heart is
[34:52] necessarily a super great um necessarily
[34:55] the answer for a lot of players, but I
[34:56] am explaining it so that you understand
[34:58] that that option is there. It is
[35:00] slightly better than the A Turos power
[35:02] stone. You'll understand that the Khan's
[35:04] A Turos power stone only has one sheet
[35:05] AP, Khan's destruction stone has two
[35:09] sheet AP.
[35:13] Okay? So, you're going to get one more
[35:15] sheet AP, which is great, but you're
[35:16] going to be eventually moving up to
[35:18] Vell's regardless anyway. So, in my
[35:20] opinion,
[35:21] it's really just not worth griefing
[35:22] yourself taking the Khan's heart of
[35:24] destruction that early on, cuz you're
[35:26] going to go to Vell's anyway. So, you
[35:27] might as well just sit on the A Turos
[35:28] power stone until you get the Vell's
[35:30] heart, because you're going to be
[35:30] sitting with a pre-order forever anyway.
[35:32] Okay? So, and we're going to talk about
[35:34] that. But, again, that's how you're
[35:36] doing Alchemy stones. Right now, I'm
[35:37] assuming that you're sitting on A Turos.
[35:40] Okay? Right now, I'm sitting I'm
[35:41] assuming you're sitting on this A Turos
[35:43] power stone. Now, there are other
[35:45] Dectuvola quest lines that you can get
[35:47] from Fughar. We talked about these
[35:48] before. You're not going to do the the
[35:50] weapon one. Uh at least
[35:53] with the market is where it is right
[35:54] now, you're not going to do that one.
[35:55] You are going to do the Karazhan one,
[35:59] the accessory one is really good. The
[36:01] Dectuvola accessory one, and then the
[36:02] Dectuvola armor one is also really good.
[36:05] And the game should give you enough Cron
[36:07] stones to complete these quests
[36:09] relatively early on with your Olvia
[36:11] Academy quests and then all the code
[36:12] redeems that you've got, you should have
[36:14] enough Cron stones to basically get
[36:16] through this. And this is what I would
[36:17] recommend that you use your Cron stones
[36:18] on is guaranteed gear enhancements.
[36:22] Okay. So, the first Dectuvola I
[36:23] recommend doing is the necklace. Okay?
[36:27] The necklace is going to transition you
[36:29] to Kzarka, all right? Kzarka are the
[36:32] best in slot accessories in Black Desert
[36:33] Online, okay? There are certain in the
[36:36] Black Desert community that will tell
[36:38] you not to go to Kzarka. They'll swear
[36:40] it up and down. They'll tell you to go
[36:42] grind for PEN Deboreka or some stupid
[36:44] ass [ __ ] I'm telling you, they're
[36:48] We will get to the PEN Deboreka thing
[36:49] later, but you're going to have to get
[36:51] Kzarka, okay? It's going to happen.
[36:54] You're going to have to get Kzarka, all
[36:56] right? And so, the first thing you're
[36:58] going to do is you're going to get the
[36:59] necklace, okay? So, what the the quest
[37:01] line is going to have you do is it's
[37:02] going to take that PEN Tuvala necklace,
[37:04] which is why it's important that you PEN
[37:05] everything from seasonal. Uh you're
[37:07] going to take that PEN Tuvala necklace
[37:08] and you're going to deck it. Ugar is
[37:10] going to give you a a uh an item that
[37:12] allows you to enhance it past deck uh
[37:14] PEN. So, you're going to make it hex,
[37:15] sept, oct, nov, and then uh nov, and
[37:18] then deck, all right? And when it hits
[37:20] deck, you're going to trade it out for a
[37:21] TET Kzarka necklace, okay? And this is
[37:23] going to give you your most bang for
[37:24] your buck AP was, all right? So, you
[37:26] should absolutely do this. Um it is
[37:28] possible, now to be clear, there is one
[37:31] audible that you can make here that
[37:33] technically makes sense as a player. You
[37:35] can do the deck Tuvala quest line for
[37:37] your belt.
[37:39] I know this is going to sound crazy,
[37:41] okay? You can do the deck Tuvala quest
[37:43] line for your belt and get the the TET
[37:45] Tuvala belt. Then, you're with your
[37:48] necklace slot, you can buy
[37:52] a TET Deboreka
[37:54] You can technically do this.
[37:57] Okay? Because the TET Deboreka necklace
[37:58] is typically the cheapest of all the
[38:00] Deboreka accessories, okay? And for 20
[38:02] bill, I would say in order to craft a
[38:06] PEN Kzarka
[38:08] by yourself,
[38:09] it's probably going to cost between 20
[38:12] to 30 billion silver.
[38:15] And
[38:16] you can turn in TET Deboreka accessories
[38:20] for PEN Kzarka. You can make that
[38:22] exchange at a at an at an NPC. So,
[38:24] you're effectively buying a PEN Carazad
[38:26] accessory
[38:28] um for 22 bill, which is pretty
[38:30] reasonable.
[38:31] Pretty reasonable. Okay. Um and I think
[38:33] that that is if you want to do that,
[38:35] that's a reasonable path. But, you'll
[38:36] notice that the other Deboreka
[38:38] accessories are much more expensive. And
[38:40] this is just the NA market. You can
[38:41] check your market um
[38:43] if you'd like to. Uh and again, PEN
[38:45] Deboreka accessories can be exchanged
[38:47] for Nouv Carazad, like the Nouv. Okay,
[38:50] the right before like the basically end
[38:52] game. I don't recommend doing this yet.
[38:54] Okay, this is not something that I would
[38:55] recommend doing. Don't even look at
[38:57] this. You can look at the Tet. It is
[38:59] possible to go ahead and buy Tet Debos
[39:01] and exchange them for PEN Carazads.
[39:03] That's absolutely something that you can
[39:04] do.
[39:05] Um and if you want to do get get the
[39:08] belt and then buy the Tet Debo neck and
[39:11] exchange it for the the PEN Carazad
[39:12] neck.
[39:14] Totally reasonable. Totally reasonable.
[39:15] Just understand you're going to have to
[39:16] click the belt to PEN after you get it,
[39:18] which shouldn't be super hard. But, make
[39:20] sure you use Cron Stones.
[39:22] All right. Now, for most people,
[39:24] they're probably not going to do that.
[39:26] Most people
[39:28] are probably and this is what I
[39:30] recommend that you do. You just get the
[39:31] necklace. It's going to be a Tet. Okay.
[39:33] And then, you're going to start working
[39:34] your way through making the various
[39:36] Carazad accessories here a little bit
[39:39] later. Okay. The other Deck Tuvala,
[39:42] which is the next step that I would
[39:43] recommend that you do after you finish
[39:44] the Deck Tuvala quest line for your
[39:45] necklace. Okay, it's the same exact type
[39:48] of thing, but it you're going to be
[39:49] doing it for your armor. This quest is
[39:51] the most cost-efficient quest line
[39:53] probably in the game.
[39:55] Um it's it's really good. It's really
[39:57] good. And you're going to take the shoes
[39:59] every time. It's not really up for
[40:01] debate. You're going to take the shoes
[40:02] every time. Okay. Um in most cases,
[40:05] you're going to be taking the DR shoes.
[40:07] Now,
[40:08] a lot has happened in the game. At this
[40:10] stage, I used to talk about the
[40:12] difference between damage reduction
[40:13] classes and evasion classes.
[40:16] I'm simply going to omit that the guide
[40:18] this time.
[40:19] I don't think that whether you're a
[40:20] damage reduction or an evasion class
[40:22] simply does not matter in Black Desert
[40:24] anymore. Simply because all roads lead
[40:27] to
[40:28] the your final Adhania armor and you're
[40:30] going to have both evasion and DR. Okay?
[40:33] So, really if you up and you take DR
[40:35] instead of evasion or you take evasion
[40:37] instead of DR, it really doesn't [ __ ]
[40:39] matter cuz eventually you're all going
[40:41] to end up [music] on the same path
[40:42] anyway. So, what I'm going to recommend
[40:44] for everyone on every class and every
[40:46] spec is that you just take the blue one.
[40:49] Okay? That's the damage reduction one.
[40:51] You're just going to take the blue one
[40:52] every time on every class and every spec
[40:54] in the game. Yes, some classes are
[40:56] technically a marginally better with
[40:57] evasion, absolutely. Um but ultimately
[41:00] all
[41:02] all roads lead to the same place anyway
[41:03] and I'm trying to make sure that um
[41:05] everybody this is as simple as possible
[41:07] so that people don't [ __ ] this up, okay?
[41:09] Um
[41:10] the the the only thing that you don't
[41:12] want to do, and this is really
[41:14] important, is to take one DR and one
[41:17] evasion. Okay? Sincerely, if you do this
[41:21] if you took this and you thought to
[41:23] yourself where the hundreds of thousands
[41:25] uh
[41:26] of adventures before you had failed that
[41:28] you were the chosen one that could
[41:30] absolutely get hybrid to work, sincerely
[41:33] MapleStory is recruiting. It's a great
[41:36] game for you. Lower IQ required. You can
[41:39] throw money at the game. It's perfect
[41:41] for children like you, okay? And if
[41:43] you're sincerely
[41:45] enough that you actually think that you
[41:46] should go hybrid, again, it's probably
[41:48] not the game for you. Sincerely,
[41:51] if you go if you took both evasion
[41:55] fine.
[41:56] Sure. If you took both DR, fine. Sure.
[42:00] Ultimately, it's not going to matter.
[42:02] But if you took one and the other one,
[42:04] you're
[42:05] Okay? But it still ultimately will not
[42:09] matter.
[42:10] Okay? It's still it's going to be okay.
[42:12] Even if you're
[42:14] it's going to be okay. Um I recommend
[42:16] taking the blue one on every class in
[42:18] the spec in the game because ultimately
[42:19] all roads lead to the same place. It's
[42:21] no use having an argument over what
[42:23] should be DR and what should be evasion
[42:24] anymore. Don't listen to anybody. Just
[42:26] build the blue one and move on, okay?
[42:28] Cuz you're eventually going to have the
[42:29] evasion anyway. So now, once you finish
[42:32] all your deck quest lines here,
[42:34] uh once you finish all your deck quest
[42:35] lines, your gear should look something
[42:37] like this, okay? And you'll notice, man,
[42:39] we're we're starting to get up there
[42:41] now. You're starting to get some gear
[42:42] together at this point.
[42:44] Now you really your gear becomes about
[42:46] trying to hit certain
[42:48] Oh, yeah, try.
[42:49] Yeah, my bad. My bad.
[42:51] I just instinctively cuz mine's
[42:55] Okay, thank you. All right. So your gear
[42:57] should look like this, okay? Cuz it's
[42:59] going to give you a try pair of boots,
[43:01] okay?
[43:02] [music]
[43:02] Um
[43:03] at this stage, your DP
[43:07] really doesn't matter too much and I'm
[43:09] going to explain why in a second. Uh all
[43:11] of your gear progression is going to be
[43:12] centered around your AP and the reason
[43:14] is the game is going to give you three
[43:16] pieces of PEN boss armor.
[43:19] Okay? It's going to give you
[43:21] from you usually get like two from
[43:23] seasonal and one from your Y menu or
[43:24] they've got events going on or whatever,
[43:26] but they're going to give you a bunch of
[43:28] PEN boss armor for free, okay?
[43:30] One way or another. Sometimes they
[43:32] change how they give this boss armor to
[43:34] you, but you're going to get it, right?
[43:36] Um some of it is from the Magnus, but
[43:38] you don't actually have to do the Magnus
[43:39] quest anymore. You just kind of get the
[43:41] box now. So like it's it's a piece of
[43:43] cake. In any event, you're going to have
[43:44] find it find yourself with Bheg's Gloves
[43:47] and it's important that you take the
[43:49] Bheg's Gloves. Bheg, this is the DR
[43:51] version, the blue version, okay? If you
[43:55] take the Leebur's,
[43:57] you you you
[43:59] Yeah, but we'll fix it later. We'll fix
[44:01] it later. The Bheg's is the one that you
[44:02] want.
[44:03] Um
[44:04] for this one, you're You're to want Dim
[44:05] Tree,
[44:07] okay? And for this one you're going to
[44:08] want the Griffin helmet. Okay, although
[44:10] Giath will work.
[44:12] Uh Giath is fine, too. But Griffin's is
[44:14] typically considered better. Uh not that
[44:16] it matters. All right, but you're going
[44:18] to end up with this basically because
[44:20] the game gave it them to you for free
[44:21] for completing other Olvia Academy
[44:24] stuff, graduating seasonal, doing quest
[44:26] lines, events, stuff like this. You're
[44:28] going to end up with these three things
[44:30] one way or another, okay? Um
[44:32] Uh why Dim and not Red Nose?
[44:34] Because it used to be that Red Nose cost
[44:37] less coffers to get the coffers level
[44:39] 10, and so you always took Red Nose.
[44:41] Now, they actually cost the exact same
[44:44] amount of coffers. Uh and Dim Tree's an
[44:46] objectively better armor because it
[44:47] gives you flat HP instead of uh HP
[44:49] recovery.
[44:50] You'll notice that your DP is 356 at
[44:53] this point. That's pretty much enough DP
[44:55] to do most of the lower end spots in the
[44:57] game. You're not really going to have to
[44:59] worry about it. You're also going to
[45:00] start getting coffers like a lot, and
[45:02] you can start just shoving coffers into
[45:04] your armor as well. The game's going to
[45:05] throw coffers at you. You have coffers
[45:07] quest lines from Fughar that you're
[45:08] going to be able to do. You have weekly
[45:10] quests for coffers. There's events for
[45:11] coffers, stuff like that. Uh and I would
[45:13] recommend always putting the coffers
[45:15] into your gloves, um then your armor,
[45:19] then your helmet, okay? And I would put
[45:21] them all at coffers level six first.
[45:24] All at coffers level six first. And this
[45:25] is going to happen over time as you
[45:27] grind, as you play the game, you do
[45:28] quests and things. You're going to kind
[45:30] of just casually get these to coffers
[45:32] level six as you experience the game,
[45:34] okay? And this is why I'm saying that
[45:37] for all intents and purposes for this
[45:39] guide, we're going to be focusing on
[45:40] your AP progression primarily. It's
[45:43] because your DP is pretty naturally
[45:45] going to progress on its own through
[45:47] just coffers quests and things that the
[45:48] game gives you. You don't really have to
[45:50] worry about DP until you get much later
[45:51] into the game, and we'll talk about it.
[45:53] Um but so we're going to shift back over
[45:56] assuming that you have all of this stuff
[45:57] at this point, we're going to look at
[45:59] what you can do to get more AP at this
[46:01] stage. As you are conversing your armors
[46:05] up, okay, relatively early on, you're
[46:07] going to have these things and this is
[46:09] way easier to do now.
[46:12] Call it your adventure log bookshelf.
[46:14] Yay! Okay, Igor Bartali's
[46:18] adventure log. You're going to do this,
[46:20] all of it. If it makes you feel any
[46:22] better, it used to take like 30 hours.
[46:25] You used to have to do like nine
[46:26] different adventure logs and it would be
[46:28] a soul-suckingly
[46:30] shitty experience. Now you really only
[46:32] have to do Igor Bartali's, which I'll be
[46:33] honest with you, doesn't really take all
[46:34] that long. You kind of just buzz
[46:36] straight through it. Some of it's
[46:37] actually kind of fun.
[46:38] And it teaches you a little bit about
[46:39] the game.
[46:40] And it's going to give you a crazy crazy
[46:43] amount of stats. So, if you look at your
[46:45] your gear right here, what we're at 305,
[46:47] and this is after the Kirisada, which is
[46:48] the next thing we're going to talk
[46:49] about. But if you if I enable this, look
[46:50] at this. Boom! 10 sheet AP.
[46:54] 10 sheet AP.
[46:56] Okay, just from doing this. As you play
[46:59] the game,
[47:00] just for doing the main story and doing
[47:02] like the Odellita quest line, the Land
[47:04] of the Morning Light quest line, and
[47:05] other things, you're going to have all
[47:06] these done.
[47:08] Okay. The 10th anniversary one takes all
[47:10] of 3 minutes to do. You just have to go
[47:13] to like four different spots on the map.
[47:15] There's some
[47:17] There's guides on it online.
[47:19] Hello guys. Welcome back to Chris Poli
[47:21] Channel.
[47:22] Okay, good luck with that. I'm praying
[47:23] for you.
[47:25] But like you're going to have all of
[47:26] this [ __ ] done, no problem. Really what
[47:28] you're going to need to get done is the
[47:30] Igor Bartali thing, okay, that I just
[47:33] talked about. It's going to give you six
[47:34] AP, six DP, a bunch of accuracy, and a
[47:36] bunch of HP.
[47:38] Okay.
[47:39] All right. So, all this other stuff is
[47:41] going to get done as you play the game.
[47:43] It'll already be there.
[47:44] Except for Barrier of Infestation.
[47:46] Igor Bartali's you need to do. It's
[47:49] going to give you a ton of AP DP.
[47:51] Barrier of Infestation you can just do
[47:53] all at once right after you finish
[47:54] Bartali's. It'll give you another AP and
[47:56] DP. And again, are guides for this
[47:57] online. It's really easy. It's really,
[47:59] really easy. Uh can't go wrong. Can't go
[48:02] wrong. Really simple. It's going to give
[48:03] you a ton of AP DP. Now, let's talk
[48:05] about Kzarka. So, now that your gear
[48:07] looks like this, we've explained with
[48:08] coffers or etc. as you start to throw
[48:10] these in here, um you're looking over
[48:12] towards AP. How do you get more AP in
[48:14] your gear at this stage? Uh well, you're
[48:16] going to have to go to Kzarka's. Again,
[48:18] there's going to be a lot of people that
[48:19] try to tell you don't go to Kzarka,
[48:21] don't do that. You have to.
[48:23] You basically have to. There's almost no
[48:25] option. You have to go to Kzarka. Now,
[48:28] there will be a point when maybe you can
[48:29] skip part of the Kzarka enhancing, but
[48:31] you do need to at least initially go to
[48:33] Kzarka, which means you're going to have
[48:34] to craft them. Okay? So, you're going to
[48:36] have to craft Kzarka. Takes about four
[48:39] to five bill
[48:40] uh silver uh to craft one Kzarka.
[48:43] There's a recipe for it. You can just
[48:44] look it up. No big deal. You craft a
[48:46] Kzarka at base, and then you can just
[48:48] enhance it up with the essence. It's not
[48:50] very hard. They do not break like the
[48:52] Tuvala used to that you're used to,
[48:54] okay? They don't break like other
[48:55] accessories in the game do. They
[48:56] downgrade. So, make sure you use uh
[49:00] I would say once your Kzarka is like
[49:02] tri, you should be using Cron Stones to
[49:04] tet or pen, in my opinion, okay?
[49:08] Um okay.
[49:09] So, you're going to make Kzarka.
[49:12] All right? And we're going to pump our
[49:13] Kzarka up to tet. I'm just going to
[49:16] pretend.
[49:17] Uh as you go, in my opinion, you should
[49:19] get your belt first, then your rings,
[49:21] then your earrings. Okay? Your earrings
[49:23] last because they they look like you
[49:25] suck. Yeah, to be clear, going from tri
[49:28] to tet earrings doesn't give you an AP.
[49:31] Okay? So, you can leave your earrings at
[49:32] tri.
[49:33] Okay? So, those you can just leave at
[49:34] tri for now. We'll talk about that
[49:36] later. But, the rest of them you should
[49:37] at least go to tet because every single
[49:38] time you enhance them, boom, it gives
[49:40] you one AP. Okay? It gives you one AP.
[49:43] But, um you enhance your Kzarka.
[49:46] Eventually, you're going to want to just
[49:47] put your Kzarka at pen.
[49:49] Uh basically, and again, you're cronning
[49:51] at this point. It should not take you a
[49:53] crazy amount of cron stones Uh to do
[49:55] this, okay? You're going to need sealed
[49:57] magical black stones for this, okay?
[49:59] You're going to need magical shards for
[50:00] this. If you don't have the magical
[50:03] shards to craft your Karanda, you're
[50:05] going to have to put orders down on
[50:06] magical shards or go out and grind for
[50:08] them. Alternatively, you're going to
[50:10] have to buy TET Debo's and exchange them
[50:12] for PEN Karanda. That is your only other
[50:14] option.
[50:16] And that sucks.
[50:17] And that really, really that that kind
[50:19] of sucks
[50:20] uh uh for a lot of markets, you know?
[50:22] Maybe your market's a little bit better
[50:23] for it, but it sucks. But, you're going
[50:25] to have to transition to PEN Karanda one
[50:28] way or another. I am going to assume
[50:30] that you can uh do this on your own,
[50:33] okay? That you're you're going to figure
[50:35] this out one way or another on your own,
[50:36] whether you get the magical shards or
[50:38] whatever. Um
[50:40] you're going to get through them. All
[50:41] right. So, as uh about the time you're
[50:43] upgrading your Karanda, maybe you've got
[50:45] one Karanda on, maybe you've got two
[50:47] Karanda on, but right around the time
[50:48] that you're upgrading your Karanda and
[50:50] you're putting coffers into your armor,
[50:51] which we talked about, we're going to
[50:53] talk about this, okay? Cuz you need to
[50:54] be upgraded to Kabua's artifacts, okay?
[50:57] No, you'll probably get these a lot
[50:58] sooner than what I have pictured here,
[51:00] okay? You're probably going to get these
[51:01] a lot sooner cuz they're pretty cheap.
[51:03] Uh Kabua's is a relatively
[51:05] uh cheap to do, and you're hitting
[51:06] higher-end spots now. You're going to be
[51:08] trying to get to um spots like Hongik
[51:10] Base and Hexe Sanctuary and things like
[51:13] that uh as you continue to get more HP
[51:15] uh or AP, and you're going to need
[51:18] better light stone setup. So, the first
[51:19] light stone setup I'm going to tell you
[51:21] to go to, if you are reach the AP cap
[51:24] for a grind zone, the best light stone
[51:26] setup in the game is typically
[51:28] considered vicious shadows.
[51:30] Okay? Uh which is a it's a shadow, a
[51:33] strike, and two predations.
[51:35] Uh
[51:36] but I'm not going to recommend that you
[51:38] get that until much, much later game.
[51:40] The reason is most people need to get
[51:43] like they're constantly using their
[51:45] light stone setup to boost their total
[51:47] AP numbers. Okay? Because the higher
[51:49] total AP you have, the higher the better
[51:51] grind zone that you can get to, and the
[51:52] better mobs that you can grind. Okay? Um
[51:55] so, in a lot of cases, you you can
[51:57] choose one of two different paths,
[51:59] excluding vicious shadows. You can
[52:01] either go for all-out attack, so it's
[52:03] two strikes and two rages. A lot of
[52:05] people do this, and I strongly recommend
[52:07] that you do. The all-out attack can be
[52:09] used at any grind zone in the game. You
[52:11] might feel a little bit squishy, but it
[52:14] gives you basically the best trade-off,
[52:15] bang for your buck. It's giving you
[52:17] critical hit damage, it's giving you a
[52:18] bunch of AP. You are losing some DP,
[52:20] you're losing 25 evasion and 15 DR.
[52:23] Whatever.
[52:24] Anything you can do to get more AP at
[52:26] this stage is worth it in most cases.
[52:28] Okay? So, all-out attack is just a
[52:30] really good lightstone set up. It's good
[52:31] for PvE.
[52:33] Uh it's marginally good at PvP, too. Uh
[52:35] a lot of people like to use it PvP, too.
[52:37] Um but the other option that you can go
[52:39] with, and this is going to make you a
[52:40] little bit tankier, give you maybe a
[52:42] little bit more damage, but specifically
[52:43] based on what mobs you have, is you can
[52:45] go for species damage.
[52:47] Um a lot you have to look up which uh
[52:50] what type of mobs you're grinding at.
[52:51] Like if you're grinding at Hongik Base,
[52:53] uh the Hongik is demi-human, so you want
[52:56] three roars in an iridescent, um and
[52:58] that's going to give you specifically
[53:00] damage against demi-humans. That'll give
[53:02] you a bunch of extra damage to those
[53:03] mobs without sacrificing your DP.
[53:06] But it only works at spots that count as
[53:08] demi-humans. The same is true for
[53:10] Kamasilvian mobs, the same is true for
[53:12] Aakman mobs, and the same is true for
[53:13] human mobs. Okay? So,
[53:15] I have everything. I'll be honest with
[53:17] you, but I'm a late game player. If I'm
[53:20] If I'm a betting man, I would say just
[53:21] get all-out attack. It is kind of
[53:22] expensive, but
[53:24] it's a one-size-fits-all
[53:26] uh for basically everything. So, I'm
[53:28] going to go ahead and line up all-out
[53:29] attack here and just assume that at this
[53:32] stage you have basically gotten a much,
[53:34] much better lightstone set. Uh rage.
[53:38] Okay? So, you need to upgrade to at
[53:40] least the baseline Kabua's with a solid
[53:43] lightstone setup. You should not be
[53:45] hitting your full pen Karazhan with C6
[53:48] in your armors and then, you know, like
[53:50] like your sovereign weapons and all this
[53:52] without having a decent lightstone
[53:53] setup. Usually around the time that
[53:55] you're starting to look at your your
[53:57] gear and go, "Hmm, maybe I want to go
[53:58] grind Serendia Elvia or maybe I want to
[54:00] try to start reaching for those higher
[54:02] level grind zones." That usually happens
[54:04] naturally in a player's progression.
[54:05] That's when you want to upgrade your
[54:06] lightstone setup to be optimal like
[54:08] this. Okay.
[54:10] Um all right. So, now that you have all
[54:12] of this, I'm just going to go ahead and
[54:14] say it at this point, you've got enough
[54:15] AP, all right? So, we've got 315 AP. And
[54:19] to be clear, you maybe enhance your
[54:21] sovereign beyond try. I'm going to leave
[54:23] it at try for now cuz you really don't
[54:24] need to. Um
[54:25] but uh at this point, you need a little
[54:27] bit of DP, all right? We going to need
[54:29] some DP. And at this point, you're going
[54:31] to put their Caphras level in your
[54:33] gloves all the way to Caphras level 10
[54:35] and then you're going to trade them in
[54:36] one for one with one of the flames for
[54:38] the blue gloves. Again, we talked about
[54:41] this before. Um you're going to get the
[54:42] gloves at base. Um as we love to say in
[54:46] my stream, duo is so free. Right, chat?
[54:49] Duo is really free. You're going to get
[54:51] them at base. Duo is super easy to hit.
[54:54] No real concerns there. Shouldn't cost
[54:56] you too much money. Just bing bing
[54:58] straight to duo. Very free. 99% of the
[55:02] time.
[55:03] Um
[55:03] it's not free. But, you need to get them
[55:06] to duo.
[55:07] Okay? You need to get them to duo. All
[55:09] right? So,
[55:11] the moment that you get these, you need
[55:12] to hit them to duo. All right? So, do
[55:14] the quest line real quick. Cash them in
[55:16] your C10 gloves and the flame. And
[55:18] you're going to need something called a
[55:19] flame to do this. The reason I'm telling
[55:21] you to do your gloves first is because
[55:23] the flame um for the gloves is really
[55:25] easy. So, you need to take a Caphras
[55:27] level 10 armor piece and the flame, you
[55:29] turn them in together, and they turn
[55:30] into, voila, the end game gear. Uh I
[55:33] guess the mid game gear. Now, it's
[55:35] technically called mid game gear.
[55:37] Anyway, this is the flame for the
[55:39] gloves. You'll notice that it is a 100
[55:40] mil. The flame for the uh helmet is 1.7.
[55:44] The flame for the chest piece is also
[55:45] 1.7.
[55:47] Uh and then the flame for the boots,
[55:48] which you don't need, is five bill.
[55:51] Uh or four bill, rather. It's four bill.
[55:54] That's why I told you to get the boots
[55:55] before uh from the uh
[55:58] from the Deck Chu Val quest line.
[56:01] Trust. Trust, okay? Um you're also going
[56:04] to do the exact same thing. I would do
[56:05] the gloves first, then I would do the
[56:07] the chest piece.
[56:09] Then I would do the helmet.
[56:11] Okay? You can do that technically the
[56:12] helmet, then the chest piece. Doesn't
[56:14] really matter. Okay? But your gear
[56:16] should look more like this. Now you've
[56:17] got 414 DP. Okay, now that's a little
[56:19] bit more acceptable. This is a little
[56:21] bit more acceptable. Um at this stage,
[56:25] you'll notice that we finally hit this
[56:27] AP cutoff, this threshold. We're over
[56:29] the 309 bracket now.
[56:31] We talked about it before. You do not
[56:33] want to get the
[56:34] uh the uh sovereign offhand until you
[56:36] have over 309 AP. I would say right
[56:39] around 720
[56:41] to 730 gear score, that's when you want
[56:44] to look at getting your sovereign weapon
[56:45] because that's usually when you've got
[56:47] the DP to grind the higher level spots,
[56:49] you've got the AP to work the higher
[56:50] level spots, and that's when the
[56:52] sovereign offhand's going to start being
[56:53] worthwhile to you. At this stage, you're
[56:55] probably going to have to go ahead.
[56:57] First thing you're going to do is you're
[56:59] going to put an order on a Velsarth.
[57:01] I know it's going to suck, but you need
[57:02] to put an order down on a Velsarth,
[57:04] okay? Cuz I It's going to take you a
[57:06] long time to get this Velsarth. I don't
[57:09] know why the devs have it designed this
[57:11] way, but the concentrated magic is the
[57:13] one that I would keep your order down
[57:14] on. You'll notice that the the I'd say
[57:17] two or three of these sell per day, uh
[57:19] and there's 458
[57:21] orders, uh which means that per day,
[57:25] you have about a 0.6%
[57:27] chance of getting it
[57:29] every day.
[57:32] You have about a 0.6% chance of getting
[57:35] it every day. Maybe a 1%, maybe a 1%,
[57:38] and I know that people in chat will
[57:39] probably say that it's actually might be
[57:42] lower than that or might be higher than
[57:42] that, but there are people in chat chat
[57:44] vouch for me right now. How many of you
[57:46] have had orders on your Vells Hard for
[57:47] months?
[57:48] I got it in 2 weeks. Yeah, that stupid
[57:51] [ __ ]
[57:52] Just drop it XD. Yeah, okay. A year. I
[57:55] have four Vells in my inventory for
[57:57] alts.
[57:59] Do I just ban this guy?
[58:01] In any event,
[58:03] it's going to be a while
[58:05] and you need to get this order down. And
[58:07] at this stage, I'll be honest with you,
[58:08] you're grinding for enough money at this
[58:10] point that 16 bill is not crazy hard for
[58:12] you to get. Just put the order down. Put
[58:14] the order down on the concentrated. This
[58:16] is what you're likely to get and put the
[58:18] order on the on the normal Vells.
[58:20] On the normal Vells. The concentrated is
[58:21] what you're more likely to get. You see
[58:23] the total trades here is 17,156
[58:25] with 612 orders.
[58:27] Okay? And then the total trades here is
[58:29] actually way higher and there's less
[58:31] orders. So, the concentrated is always
[58:33] the priority here. So, you're going to
[58:35] have to be floating about 30 bill at
[58:37] this stage in your gear because you're
[58:39] going to have a an order down on Vells.
[58:40] Okay? At some point, you're going to get
[58:42] that, but I'm just going to assume that
[58:43] you're not going to have it for now.
[58:45] Uh but, you put the order down on that
[58:48] and then you're going to start working
[58:49] on your Blackstar offhand. Okay? In
[58:51] order to get your Blackstar offhand,
[58:52] you're going to need another PEN
[58:53] Blackstar. Okay? Uh in order to get that
[58:56] PEN Blackstar, you can either
[58:58] pity from TET to PEN on a Blackstar
[59:00] depends on how many I'll be honest with
[59:02] you, they give away a ton of Blackstar
[59:04] ham Blackstar hammers for Calpheon Ball,
[59:07] Heidel Ball events, uh Olvia Academy,
[59:10] all of that stuff, and it's possible you
[59:12] have a bunch of extra hammers from that.
[59:14] You can make an extra
[59:16] um PEN Blackstar from that stuff. More
[59:18] likely, you probably don't have an extra
[59:21] PEN Blackstar laying around, in which
[59:23] case you can just buy one. Okay? They're
[59:24] like 13 billion. I showed the price
[59:26] before. I'm not going to do it again.
[59:27] Like 13 bill to buy an extra PEN
[59:29] Blackstar, but you're also going to need
[59:31] 20,000
[59:33] coffers. Yes, you heard me. 20,000 of
[59:36] those little yellow eggs, you need
[59:38] those.
[59:40] 20,000 caphras stones and an extra
[59:42] Blackstar in order to make your
[59:44] sovereign offhand. It's a huge jump.
[59:46] It's a massive jump. And the reason that
[59:49] I told you not to get it before is
[59:51] because you have to save up so much
[59:53] money. It's 13 bill for the Blackstar
[59:54] then 20,000 caphras stones. You're
[59:56] talking like easily 70-80 bill to get
[59:59] this upgrade, but at least at this stage
[01:00:01] of your gear, you've got enough AP,
[01:00:03] you're probably able to grind Gosh, I
[01:00:06] don't know what the total AP is for
[01:00:07] somebody that's 315. What do you guys
[01:00:09] think? Um
[01:00:12] like Hex Marine
[01:00:13] barely getting to Hex. Okay, so they're
[01:00:14] at Hex Marine. Um so yeah, you're at Hex
[01:00:17] Marine. You're able to at least make
[01:00:18] money at a reasonable pace. Yeah. You're
[01:00:20] You're at least You're able to make
[01:00:22] money at a reasonable pace, but it's not
[01:00:23] going to be insane. Okay.
[01:00:25] This is when I would recommend that you
[01:00:26] get your sovereign offhand.
[01:00:29] Okay.
[01:00:30] Um and it's going to suck. I'm not going
[01:00:34] to lie. It's going to suck. It's like 70
[01:00:36] or 80 bill, but PMA, Hex Marine is
[01:00:39] really good money. You're making like
[01:00:40] two to three bill an hour. Not three
[01:00:42] bill an hour. That's that's lying.
[01:00:44] It's a one to two bill an hour,
[01:00:45] something like that. Uh realistically
[01:00:47] speaking
[01:00:48] realistically speaking like one to two
[01:00:50] bill an hour.
[01:00:51] Um and so, you know,
[01:00:53] it's
[01:00:55] Yeah. Maybe even five bill. I would say
[01:00:57] six
[01:00:59] maybe seven bill.
[01:01:01] So, I'm just going to assume that at
[01:01:03] this point you've gotten your sovereign
[01:01:04] offhand.
[01:01:05] Okay. And it's going to take you a while
[01:01:07] to do this. It might take This is the
[01:01:08] first really big upgrade. It's going to
[01:01:10] take you probably over a week or two um
[01:01:13] to to go from what you were at before to
[01:01:15] what you're at now uh to what you see
[01:01:17] right here. Okay. Um and once you get
[01:01:20] it, I do recommend putting the sovereign
[01:01:22] weapon at least at tet at least at tet.
[01:01:25] And this is when I would start moving
[01:01:26] this forward as well. Okay. Um And so
[01:01:29] you have there you have your tet
[01:01:31] offhand. And again, you're going to put
[01:01:32] the exact same stones that you put the
[01:01:33] other in the other one. Uh you're going
[01:01:35] to put back spirit rage recovery AP,
[01:01:38] uh DR is fine, critical hit extra
[01:01:40] damage, and then back attack. This is
[01:01:42] usually the lineup that you want uh for
[01:01:44] that. Uh and usually around this time, a
[01:01:46] week or two, if you got really lucky,
[01:01:48] holy [ __ ] you got your Vell's Heart.
[01:01:51] The moment that you get your Vell's
[01:01:52] Heart, you need to put the cup on it.
[01:01:55] The moment that you get your Vell's
[01:01:57] Heart, you need to put the cup on it,
[01:01:58] okay? So there's those despairs that
[01:02:00] you've been grinding for at Hex Marie.
[01:02:02] Yeah, you should just already have that
[01:02:03] cup uh ready to go.
[01:02:06] Okay. And at the same time that you're
[01:02:07] putting this on here, or the same time
[01:02:09] that you really are getting your
[01:02:10] offhand, like your sovereign offhand,
[01:02:12] you need to make sure that you have your
[01:02:14] accessories cupped as well. Okay. You're
[01:02:16] like, "Well, what are what are what are
[01:02:17] cups?" Cups are things that add extra
[01:02:19] damage to your gear.
[01:02:21] Okay. Um in this case, the most
[01:02:23] important cup that you can get is
[01:02:25] actually the rings. If you do this, it
[01:02:27] gives you 3% critical hit damage, 3%
[01:02:30] critical hit damage on both rings, plus
[01:02:32] 125 HP, okay? The necklace is only going
[01:02:35] to give you 300 HP, but that's a lot of
[01:02:36] HP. Um
[01:02:38] the belt is also really good. Uh it's
[01:02:40] going to give you three hidden AP and
[01:02:41] 100 LT. Okay, whoop-de-shit. But really
[01:02:43] just three hidden AP.
[01:02:44] Um
[01:02:45] actually, I think it's DR. I think it
[01:02:46] gives you six DR and then three hidden
[01:02:48] AP. Yeah. Six DR and then three hidden
[01:02:51] AP.
[01:02:52] So in my opinion, you should cup them in
[01:02:53] order. Usually the necklace is super
[01:02:55] cheap. Um so go ahead and cup out your
[01:02:57] necklace very quickly, easy peasy. These
[01:03:00] usually cost two or three bill at least,
[01:03:02] sometimes four or five, kind of depends
[01:03:04] on things. Uh and sometimes you're able
[01:03:06] to get the cups through events
[01:03:08] and stuff. Uh a lot of times you're able
[01:03:09] to get you know, if you're grinding
[01:03:10] during one of the cup events, boom, you
[01:03:12] bang out all your cups at the same time.
[01:03:14] But by this point, you should make sure
[01:03:16] that these cups are done, okay? Rings
[01:03:18] first, then the the belt is super
[01:03:21] important, too. But, the rings are the
[01:03:22] most important, followed by the belt,
[01:03:24] then probably the earrings last. Um the
[01:03:27] very last things that you're going to
[01:03:28] do. Okay. Cup, you mean put their
[01:03:31] coffers? No. Cups are Cups are these
[01:03:34] things. Right here. Cup of Lonely Cloud,
[01:03:37] Cup of Twinkling Starlight, Cup of Lone
[01:03:38] Tide, Cup of Tragic Nightfall, Cup of
[01:03:40] Earthy Earth Earth Sorrows, okay? These
[01:03:42] are the cups.
[01:03:44] Okay. Um and yeah, they're a little
[01:03:47] expensive. That's why I didn't tell you
[01:03:48] to this point to do it, right? But,
[01:03:50] somewhere around, you know, you're
[01:03:52] you're you're pushing almost 600 or 750
[01:03:54] gear score um at this point. Yeah, okay,
[01:03:57] you can afford to spend 15 billion to
[01:03:59] get like 6% crit damage. Right? That's
[01:04:01] pretty good.
[01:04:03] Right? Um but, you can also just wait
[01:04:05] for an event. The events The events will
[01:04:07] help you get it for free if you grind
[01:04:08] really hard during an event. Okay.
[01:04:10] Um
[01:04:11] So, the next thing that I would do is I
[01:04:13] would probably pump your earrings to
[01:04:14] PEN.
[01:04:16] Uh that's only going to give you one AP,
[01:04:17] but it's going to be relatively easy to
[01:04:19] do with in terms of like cost-efficient
[01:04:21] money-wise, okay? Cuz again,
[01:04:23] TET is not going to give you an AP. It's
[01:04:24] just going to give you accuracy. PEN
[01:04:26] will give you an AP, though. So, I would
[01:04:27] pump your earrings to PEN to get that
[01:04:29] that extra two AP there. And then I
[01:04:31] would be looking back at your armor. I'd
[01:04:32] be trying to get your armor to TRI.
[01:04:34] There are two different ways to get your
[01:04:35] armor um
[01:04:37] like to leapfrog your armor forward. You
[01:04:39] can either enhance the armor yourself
[01:04:42] uh by cronning it, or you can sell the
[01:04:44] DUO and buy the TRI,
[01:04:47] which depends on the marketplace.
[01:04:50] Okay. So, you can sell DUOs and buy TRI,
[01:04:54] um
[01:04:55] the market fluctuates a lot on these, so
[01:04:57] I'd be careful about doing it. Um
[01:05:00] I've had some really bad experiences
[01:05:02] enhancing my armor. Like, I almost
[01:05:03] pitied out my TET armor, God rest my
[01:05:05] soul. Um but, like um for a lot of
[01:05:09] people, what they're are to do is
[01:05:10] they're going to enhance their armor to
[01:05:12] try and then they'll sell their try to
[01:05:13] buy their tet. Like they'll save up like
[01:05:15] a 100 bill or their 130 bill or whatever
[01:05:18] and then they'll sell the try to buy the
[01:05:20] tet.
[01:05:21] And that's that's how people leapfrog
[01:05:23] their armor forward to try to avoid
[01:05:25] trying to enhance it themselves. Okay.
[01:05:29] The armor admittedly I'm going to be
[01:05:31] honest with you is it's a hellscape.
[01:05:32] It's really hard to do. It's extremely
[01:05:35] difficult to to to push this armor
[01:05:37] forward especially to get it to tet.
[01:05:38] It's kind of a slog. It's kind of a
[01:05:40] slog. Trying to get it to try is super
[01:05:42] reasonable. Fine. Trying to get it to
[01:05:44] tet is much much harder.
[01:05:47] Much much harder.
[01:05:48] Um oh, yep. I didn't exalt my bells.
[01:05:50] Thank you. Uh I I put the wrong one on
[01:05:52] there. They look exactly the same almost
[01:05:53] though.
[01:05:55] That one's got a little bit more flare
[01:05:56] to it I guess.
[01:05:57] Uh okay. So, uh I'm just going to assume
[01:05:59] that you're going to tap all of these to
[01:06:01] try which you absolutely can do or you
[01:06:03] can sell the duo and buy the try. That's
[01:06:05] also acceptable.
[01:06:06] Um but again it's going to depend on the
[01:06:07] market. Um I don't know. I enhanced
[01:06:09] everything myself and I had nightmares
[01:06:11] with it but other people I had one
[01:06:12] tapped and it is what it is, right?
[01:06:14] It is what it is. At this stage I would
[01:06:16] probably pen my sovereign.
[01:06:19] Yep. I would pen my sovereign and you're
[01:06:20] getting into more of a late game uh look
[01:06:23] here. And once your sovereigns are pen,
[01:06:25] your armors are all try, and your Kzarka
[01:06:27] are at least at pen, there's a dive
[01:06:30] There's now there's a different path
[01:06:32] that you can go on here but we're going
[01:06:33] to talk about that here in a second.
[01:06:35] It's right at this moment right around
[01:06:37] 760 or so gear score. I would look at
[01:06:39] getting your third sovereign weapon,
[01:06:40] okay? Mainly because you're going to try
[01:06:42] to get your um
[01:06:44] uh and you can leave it at try or pen or
[01:06:46] whatever. You're really doing it for the
[01:06:47] reforged stones. The reforged stones
[01:06:49] give you a bunch of extra damage in PvE
[01:06:51] that I think that a lot of people really
[01:06:52] appreciate. Uh
[01:06:54] so like
[01:06:56] in my opinion you should try to get your
[01:06:57] extra sovereign weapon and reminder this
[01:06:59] one is really easy. You just need an
[01:07:00] extra pen Blackstar. It's like 10 or 15
[01:07:02] bill.
[01:07:03] Easy. And if And if at any point you end
[01:07:04] up with an extra Blackstar, go grab it.
[01:07:07] No big deal. No big deal, right? But
[01:07:10] like at this point you need to have it,
[01:07:12] okay? I should talk about Garmoth's
[01:07:13] Heart for a second.
[01:07:15] All right. So, the game is going to give
[01:07:18] you a Garmoth Heart from your Y tab,
[01:07:21] okay? It's going to give you one for
[01:07:23] free. You should put that Garmoth's
[01:07:25] Heart in one of your weapons.
[01:07:27] Probably the Awakening weapon.
[01:07:30] Probably the Awakening weapon is what I
[01:07:31] would put it in.
[01:07:33] Make it fiery. Woo!
[01:07:35] Nice. Sick.
[01:07:38] Really cool, right? Really cool. The
[01:07:40] next Garmoth Heart, what if you sell it?
[01:07:43] Again, MapleStory is available to you.
[01:07:45] Invest.
[01:07:47] The second Garmoth's Heart that you get,
[01:07:49] okay, which should be a lot lot later,
[01:07:52] okay? Um
[01:07:53] should probably go on your main hand.
[01:07:55] Okay? And the last one should probably
[01:07:57] go on your off hand.
[01:07:58] Okay? So, that you understand what order
[01:08:00] you should be putting your Garmoth on,
[01:08:02] okay? It should be Awakening,
[01:08:04] then main hand, then off hand.
[01:08:06] Alternatively, you can do main hand,
[01:08:07] then Awakening, then
[01:08:09] um
[01:08:10] then off hand, but off hand is typically
[01:08:12] last, okay?
[01:08:13] Um but that's what I would do with your
[01:08:14] Garmoth. Never at any point, never
[01:08:17] Taylor Swift ever are you selling a
[01:08:19] Garmoth's Heart. Never sell your
[01:08:21] Garmoth's Heart, okay? You buy Garmoth's
[01:08:24] Heart off the market from the
[01:08:26] that didn't watch the Blue Squadron
[01:08:28] guide that told them not to sell it,
[01:08:30] okay? It's important. Don't sell your
[01:08:32] [ __ ] Garmoth's Hearts. Not if it
[01:08:34] drops from the boss, not if they give
[01:08:36] you one for free in the future, not
[01:08:38] ever. Don't ever sell your Garmoth.
[01:08:41] So, now we're full PEN sovereign,
[01:08:43] beautiful. Our gear looks great. This is
[01:08:46] when you have to make probably the most
[01:08:48] important decision in your Black Desert
[01:08:50] career, okay? Cuz there are two
[01:08:52] different paths that you can take
[01:08:53] forward from this point, okay? You can
[01:08:56] choose to go buy PEN Deboreka earrings
[01:09:00] on PEN Deboreka accessories and turn
[01:09:03] them into new Carazad because Pen Debo's
[01:09:05] exchanged for new Carazad.
[01:09:07] Okay.
[01:09:08] Um, or you can enhance them one at a
[01:09:13] time.
[01:09:15] Okay. You can enhance them one at a
[01:09:16] time. There are pros and cons to both
[01:09:18] methods. Um, the pros of buying the Pen
[01:09:21] Debo going the Pen Debo route is
[01:09:26] it should be less money
[01:09:29] like raw silver-wise to just buy a Pen
[01:09:32] Debo. This is only The necklace is the
[01:09:33] cheapest one, so maybe I shouldn't use
[01:09:35] the necklace as an example. To just buy
[01:09:37] Pen Debo 186, that's a little bit more
[01:09:39] like it.
[01:09:40] It should be cheaper to buy Pen Debo's
[01:09:42] in exchange for new Carazad than it is
[01:09:44] to enhance from Pen to new Carazad.
[01:09:47] It should be cheaper.
[01:09:49] However, it might not be cheaper on your
[01:09:51] soul.
[01:09:52] Okay. So, a lot of players, they're kind
[01:09:54] of split on this. Um, you're going to
[01:09:56] have to do Carazad, which I've said from
[01:09:58] the very beginning.
[01:09:59] Um, but
[01:10:01] there's two different ways here. Me,
[01:10:03] personally, I would probably enhance the
[01:10:05] Carazad up one level at a time because
[01:10:07] as you kind of get AP, um, you can move
[01:10:10] to higher level grind zones. That being
[01:10:12] said, the way the grind zones are kind
[01:10:14] of laid out in the game,
[01:10:15] you're going to be at Tungrad Ruins for
[01:10:17] a really long
[01:10:20] time.
[01:10:22] Which sucks. Okay. [laughter] But
[01:10:25] So, you're going to be at Tungrad Ruins
[01:10:27] and Dark Secret Retreat for quite some
[01:10:29] time because that those places make a
[01:10:32] lot of money and they give you a lot of,
[01:10:34] um,
[01:10:35] sealed blackstones.
[01:10:37] Okay.
[01:10:37] Um,
[01:10:38] but like
[01:10:40] you can
[01:10:42] I
[01:10:43] I think it's better to try to get that
[01:10:45] stepwise progression where like, okay,
[01:10:47] you're you're just getting you can see
[01:10:48] that incremental change in your gear and
[01:10:49] you're getting, you know, you're
[01:10:50] stepping forward maybe you can try to
[01:10:52] grind higher level spots faster, so and
[01:10:55] if you get to those higher level spots,
[01:10:57] you will make more silver
[01:10:58] per hour. Okay? And they will help you
[01:11:01] reach that new faster. Yes, you're going
[01:11:03] to spend more silver enhancing the
[01:11:05] Kzarka, but you'll be making more silver
[01:11:06] per hour in theory um because you didn't
[01:11:10] go the Dandelion route, right?
[01:11:13] Both of these options are fine.
[01:11:15] Some players, I'll be honest with you,
[01:11:17] if they try to do the PEN Dandelion
[01:11:18] route, this is where they quit the game.
[01:11:20] This is where they quit the game because
[01:11:21] they hate this because it's it's you're
[01:11:24] you're looking at 180 to 200 billion
[01:11:27] liquid silver that you just have to sit
[01:11:29] there and grind out. At no point in the
[01:11:32] game to this point have you ever had to
[01:11:34] grind out that much liquid silver before
[01:11:37] getting an upgrade. That is really hard.
[01:11:39] It takes a lot of mental perseverance
[01:11:41] and it it is it's tough on people. It's
[01:11:44] hard and I've I've seen a lot of people
[01:11:46] quit the game over the PEN Dandelion
[01:11:48] grind. So, again, my recommendation here
[01:11:50] is that this is a marathon, not a
[01:11:52] sprint. Is it going to cost you a little
[01:11:53] bit of money? Sure, but mentally it
[01:11:56] probably will be better to just enhance
[01:11:58] it yourself and so this guide is going
[01:11:59] to focus on the enhancement route. I did
[01:12:01] want to explain the other route to you
[01:12:03] so that you would know your options
[01:12:04] though. Okay. So, we're going to focus
[01:12:07] on the enhancing for this part. If you
[01:12:08] decide to go enhancer here, okay? Um you
[01:12:11] should always keep your necklace about
[01:12:13] two enhancement at levels above the rest
[01:12:16] of your Kzarka. Okay? So, in this case,
[01:12:19] the first thing you should do is put
[01:12:20] your necklace all the way to Sept.
[01:12:22] All the way to Sept. Okay? And honestly,
[01:12:24] before you start enhancing these up, you
[01:12:26] can honestly put your necklace at Oct if
[01:12:27] you want to. At this stage, again, it's
[01:12:30] all Kzarka basically all the time. We're
[01:12:32] going to be pumping our Kzarka up. We're
[01:12:34] going to pump everything to Hex. Doesn't
[01:12:36] really matter what order you push your
[01:12:37] other stuff to. It's always going to
[01:12:39] give you one AP. They changed the
[01:12:40] earrings so that they give one AP at all
[01:12:42] levels except for from Tri to Tet now.
[01:12:44] So, from uh PEN to Hex will give you an
[01:12:47] AP now. So, put everything at Hex, then
[01:12:49] you're going to come back, you're going
[01:12:50] to put your
[01:12:51] uh necklace at oct, then you're going to
[01:12:53] grind these to sept.
[01:12:55] Okay, and we're on the way up. At this
[01:12:57] stage,
[01:13:00] you're going to move this to nouv.
[01:13:02] Okay, again, always two levels above.
[01:13:04] Always at least two levels above. Um at
[01:13:07] this stage, you're 363 AP, you're at 427
[01:13:11] DP, you're doing Jordine
[01:13:13] um for your weekly quests. Um it's time
[01:13:15] to potentially look at getting your
[01:13:17] first tet armor. It's also time to
[01:13:19] potentially look at upgrading your Vells
[01:13:21] Heart uh even further from what you had
[01:13:24] before. Okay? Cuz yeah yeah your
[01:13:26] necklace is nouv at this point. It's
[01:13:28] probably a little bit better uh cost
[01:13:30] efficiency-wise. You're spending 15 bill
[01:13:33] for for two AP and a slightly better
[01:13:35] alchemy stone. I would say that that's
[01:13:36] it's overall worth it and around this
[01:13:38] gear score when all your stuff's about
[01:13:40] sept or so. Okay. Um
[01:13:43] Okay, so
[01:13:45] nowadays in the game, you can buy a
[01:13:47] resplendent alchemy stone and kind of
[01:13:49] combine it uh so to speak with your
[01:13:51] Vells Heart and it makes it into So it's
[01:13:54] the exalted cuz it's got the cup on it,
[01:13:55] then it's resplendent Vells Heart. Okay,
[01:13:56] so it's a marginally better
[01:13:58] marginally better alchemy stone. Okay?
[01:14:01] Not bad.
[01:14:03] Okay, but you can put that on the back
[01:14:05] burner. It's not necessarily required.
[01:14:07] But this is around the time that I would
[01:14:08] look at doing that. Okay, so assuming
[01:14:10] you can do the alchemy stone
[01:14:12] when whenever you want basically. But
[01:14:15] the next thing you want to look at is
[01:14:16] trying to get at least one tet piece of
[01:14:18] armor.
[01:14:19] Okay? And this is going to suck.
[01:14:22] Not going to lie, it's going to suck.
[01:14:24] All right? A lot of people like to sell
[01:14:25] the tri and buy the tet. They leapfrog
[01:14:27] forward like we talked about before. Uh
[01:14:29] but you got to save save up like 120
[01:14:30] bill to do that.
[01:14:32] At least
[01:14:33] in most cases.
[01:14:34] Uh that's rough. That's rough. A lot of
[01:14:37] other people, they just use all of their
[01:14:38] hammers. Every time they get a bunch of
[01:14:39] hammers, they use them all on their
[01:14:41] their armor pieces.
[01:14:43] Okay? It's hard. It's hard, but you do
[01:14:45] need to get one tet.
[01:14:47] You do need to get one TET. Uh which TET
[01:14:50] you should get
[01:14:54] depends.
[01:14:56] Depends. Assuming you're DR at this
[01:14:58] point, you can probably go ahead and get
[01:15:00] the the the chest or the helmet,
[01:15:02] right? But if you want to get off this
[01:15:04] evasion versus DR, maybe you're a you
[01:15:06] feel like you're an evasion class, you
[01:15:08] can go ahead and get the gloves first
[01:15:10] and then the boots second and then the
[01:15:12] uh the chest piece third or whatever.
[01:15:13] That's fine. It's doable.
[01:15:16] It's doable. But like
[01:15:19] probably the chest piece for most
[01:15:20] people. Probably the chest piece for
[01:15:22] most people. And the reason is at this
[01:15:24] point you're starting to do your Adona
[01:15:25] weekly, okay? And the moment that you
[01:15:28] hit 427 DP, you should be going to do
[01:15:31] your Jordine and just start stockpiling
[01:15:32] [music] the stones. Even if you don't
[01:15:34] have a TET piece of armor yet, you need
[01:15:36] to start stockpiling those stones as
[01:15:37] soon as physically possible. That's why
[01:15:40] I've organized the guide the way that I
[01:15:41] have. It gets you to Jordine
[01:15:44] faster than you otherwise would, okay?
[01:15:46] So, at this point you should have a
[01:15:47] decent amount of Jordine stones to at
[01:15:49] least get your armor to duo. Okay. Um
[01:15:51] but having cuz the TET trades one for
[01:15:54] one with base Adona armor. This is the
[01:15:55] end game armor in the game. You're
[01:15:57] transitioning from mid game to end game
[01:15:59] armor at this point, okay? Um and you
[01:16:01] should have enough stones. The stones
[01:16:03] are weekly gated and you can only get
[01:16:05] them by killing a boss. And which boss
[01:16:08] you can kill is dependent on your gear
[01:16:10] score. So, if you have lower gear score,
[01:16:11] you're going to be getting less stones
[01:16:13] per week. If you have higher gear score,
[01:16:14] you're going to be getting more stones
[01:16:15] per week. I didn't come up with the
[01:16:17] system. It's dog [ __ ] I know, but
[01:16:19] that's how it works. Okay. So, you need
[01:16:22] to have at least one TET armor so that
[01:16:23] you can turn it into Adona and have
[01:16:24] something to use your stones on, okay?
[01:16:26] Um you don't really want to go anything
[01:16:27] beyond TET on this before you get your
[01:16:30] next armor piece. Okay, you really don't
[01:16:32] want to don't want to touch anything
[01:16:34] beyond TET. So, we're trying to get to
[01:16:36] the second Adona boss at this point. All
[01:16:39] that matters is trying to get to the
[01:16:40] second Adona boss.
[01:16:42] First you worry about AP, then you worry
[01:16:44] about DP.
[01:16:46] Always in your gear score, you always
[01:16:48] want AP before DP, no matter what class
[01:16:52] you're playing, no matter what period.
[01:16:53] So, we're going to get to the AP
[01:16:54] required for Uruk which is 375.
[01:16:57] Then we're going to turn around, we're
[01:16:58] going to get our DP done. Okay? But, for
[01:17:01] your armor piece, you just make sure you
[01:17:03] can get it to TET and then just leave it
[01:17:04] at TET. Okay? Just just stockpile the
[01:17:06] stones again uh for when you get your
[01:17:08] next TET armor piece at this stage,
[01:17:09] okay?
[01:17:10] Um So, now we need to get to 375
[01:17:13] AP, which is a lot of AP. At this point,
[01:17:16] you're probably grinding a lot of
[01:17:18] Aakman, so you can probably upgrade your
[01:17:20] Kabua's artifacts uh at this point.
[01:17:24] Okay? Um
[01:17:25] and
[01:17:26] again, this is just requires a cup or
[01:17:28] you can buy stuff that you can buy it
[01:17:29] off the central market, that works too.
[01:17:31] Um but
[01:17:32] typically people grind for it in Aakman.
[01:17:35] Uh so, you're going to be grinding for
[01:17:36] this. Eventually, you're going to get
[01:17:37] these. They're not at all a pressing
[01:17:39] matter. They don't matter too much, but
[01:17:43] you're going to want them at some point.
[01:17:44] So, I'm going to put them on here and
[01:17:45] just assume that at some point you're
[01:17:46] going to get these on your journey here.
[01:17:48] That being said, you're basically just
[01:17:49] going to keep cranking out your Kzarka
[01:17:52] until they are at minimum OCT. Okay? So,
[01:17:54] we're going to pump these up to OCT. OCT
[01:17:57] OCT
[01:17:59] OCT
[01:18:00] OCT and then this can go to TET. Okay?
[01:18:04] And again, the necklace always gives you
[01:18:06] two two AP at every level, which is
[01:18:08] Giga. Okay? Um make sure that you're
[01:18:10] doing your dark rifts every week and
[01:18:11] saving the stones. Then by the time
[01:18:13] you're going from Nouver to TET, you
[01:18:14] should the stones should be basically a
[01:18:16] non-factor for you. You should have a
[01:18:17] ton of them. Um just make sure you save
[01:18:19] those extra little Dawn's black stones
[01:18:21] that you get from your dark rifts every
[01:18:22] week. Don't sell those to a vendor for
[01:18:24] 30 million silver, don't do that uh cuz
[01:18:26] it's going to weekly gate your your
[01:18:28] ability to upgrade from Nouver to TET
[01:18:30] eventually someday. Okay? Um that being
[01:18:33] said, right around this level you're at
[01:18:35] 370 AP.
[01:18:37] Um you're getting up there now. Uh I
[01:18:40] would probably look at sovereign at this
[01:18:43] point. You're probably looking at hex.
[01:18:45] This is two AP, okay? You're probably at
[01:18:47] least trying to get to hex sovereign
[01:18:49] here. You're probably at least trying to
[01:18:51] get to hex sovereign here. Um I would do
[01:18:53] double hex sovereign at the point that I
[01:18:55] have oct um
[01:18:58] uh Carazod on and one deck necklace
[01:19:00] here. Now we've got our hex sovereign
[01:19:02] cuz this is how hard this is. This is
[01:19:04] really hard. What if you're employed? Um
[01:19:07] you can do this. It's just going to take
[01:19:09] you an extra 4 and 1/2 years.
[01:19:12] Yeah.
[01:19:13] So if you you just you can do it yeah.
[01:19:15] You can absolutely be employed. Just
[01:19:17] throw that fishing rod in the market in
[01:19:19] in the water and we'll see you in 4
[01:19:21] years.
[01:19:22] Okay. Now
[01:19:25] um
[01:19:26] the awakening weapon, I'll be honest
[01:19:28] with you, the way that I would hit 375
[01:19:30] AP is I would go ahead and get it to
[01:19:32] sept. It's going to give you two AP,
[01:19:34] okay? So now you're 375. Obviously this
[01:19:36] would be the opposite if you just did it
[01:19:37] for the the main hand, okay?
[01:19:40] Um
[01:19:41] Okay, so now we're at the 375 cutoff.
[01:19:43] Here we're at one sept and one hex
[01:19:45] sovereign weapon. We've got a deck
[01:19:47] necklace now and our oct uh accessories.
[01:19:49] If you went the buy pen debo and
[01:19:53] transfer route, you probably would need
[01:19:54] at least I think three debos at this
[01:19:56] point. Um
[01:19:58] maybe four to get to where we're at
[01:20:01] right here, okay? So if that's where
[01:20:03] we're approximately on the track you
[01:20:05] should be for that. Uh okay. So at this
[01:20:07] point then I would turn around the
[01:20:09] moment that you hit 375 sheet AP, I
[01:20:12] would turn around and go ahead and get
[01:20:14] cuz you're doing the weekly every week.
[01:20:15] You're just stacking up the stones for
[01:20:16] Jordine. You have one tet. You're
[01:20:18] stacking up the extra stones. Go ahead
[01:20:20] and get your extra uh your your your
[01:20:23] next tet armor. Okay. Go ahead and just
[01:20:25] bang that out. Quickie. 180 bill. No big
[01:20:29] deal. Get your second uh tet armor,
[01:20:32] okay? And just go ahead and transfer
[01:20:33] that right over and hit it right to TET.
[01:20:36] Bada bing, bada boom. Or TRI. TRI is
[01:20:38] fine, too. Cuz it gets you to the 440
[01:20:39] cutoff. And you'll see you're at Rosalka
[01:20:42] now.
[01:20:43] You're at Rosalka. Okay. And this is the
[01:20:46] the reason I told you to do it this way
[01:20:47] is because you will make more silver per
[01:20:49] hour if you do it my way. Always focus
[01:20:51] on AP first, then come back and get your
[01:20:53] DP towards the end.
[01:20:55] Okay. Don't go beyond TET on your first
[01:20:57] armor piece. That way the second one
[01:20:58] only has to go to TRI.
[01:21:00] Okay?
[01:21:01] All right. At this stage, we're honestly
[01:21:04] kind of cooking. You've got three
[01:21:06] Garmoth's Hearts presumably in your
[01:21:07] sovereign weapons. We talked about that
[01:21:09] before. You've upgraded your Kabua's.
[01:21:10] You are now officially
[01:21:13] an end game player. I would say at this
[01:21:15] point. You're you're you're reaching
[01:21:16] into the end game of BDO at this point.
[01:21:20] You're We're We're going to be talking
[01:21:21] about some big dick upgrades now. Just
[01:21:23] understand everything I'm about to tell
[01:21:25] you is going to cost silver
[01:21:27] and time. It's going to be a
[01:21:30] grind to do what I'm about to tell YOU
[01:21:32] TO DO.
[01:21:33] ALL RIGHT. LOCK IN.
[01:21:35] ALL RIGHT. SO, WE'RE GOING TO GO to PEN
[01:21:36] NOVE on all of this stuff.
[01:21:41] Okay?
[01:21:43] Obviously, your necklace is already done
[01:21:45] at this point.
[01:21:46] And it's time to look back at your
[01:21:48] sovereign weapon again. Okay? Probably
[01:21:51] SEPT on the off hand. And then we're
[01:21:53] going to go to OCT on the awakening.
[01:21:56] Okay? Or if you're a succession class,
[01:21:58] the main hand. But OCT is the really,
[01:22:01] really big
[01:22:03] It's hard, okay? It's like a 3% chance
[01:22:05] on a 300 stack. And it's going to cost
[01:22:08] you a shitload of Cron Stones every
[01:22:09] single time you click it. It's going to
[01:22:11] be suffering. It's going to be hard. And
[01:22:13] Nouver is going to be eight times as
[01:22:14] hard as that. And Kutum is going to be
[01:22:16] twice as hard as Nouver is.
[01:22:17] That's like that
[01:22:19] It's hard. It's extremely difficult.
[01:22:21] Anyone that's done it knows it's going
[01:22:23] to suck it out of you. Whether it's your
[01:22:25] your
[01:22:27] your wallet or it's your time and your
[01:22:29] investment. It's it's rough.
[01:22:32] It's absolutely rough. So, you're going
[01:22:34] to get this to oct and to be clear, your
[01:22:36] weapon does glow more when you get it to
[01:22:38] oct and it is substantial. I can
[01:22:39] showcase that a little bit here. You can
[01:22:41] see that my weapon glows like a [ __ ]
[01:22:43] load at oct here.
[01:22:45] That's pretty sweet.
[01:22:47] That's our
[01:22:50] That's pretty cool.
[01:22:51] Right? And one of my weapons is a deck
[01:22:53] now. One of mine is at nouv.
[01:22:55] And I have 117 fails on deck. Pray for
[01:22:58] me.
[01:22:59] Pray for me.
[01:23:00] Okay?
[01:23:01] Now,
[01:23:03] once you're at oct on your weapon here,
[01:23:05] I would go back and I would just go
[01:23:06] ahead and deck all your Carazods.
[01:23:09] This is weekly gated content. You're
[01:23:10] entering weekly gated time as well.
[01:23:12] Okay? And again, you're doing your your
[01:23:14] weekly every week as well for your
[01:23:15] Adorniga armor. We'll get to that in a
[01:23:17] second. Okay? I would go back. I would
[01:23:19] deck all this [ __ ] Right in here, right
[01:23:22] as you hit 385 AP, it's time to work on
[01:23:25] your DP again. You need to get your DP
[01:23:27] to three or 445.
[01:23:29] And we talked about this before. To be
[01:23:31] clear,
[01:23:33] Cons, this is where Cons can come in
[01:23:35] handy. I mentioned Cons before and I
[01:23:38] said it. Cons, believe it or not, Cons
[01:23:40] heart can actually get you two extra DP.
[01:23:42] It's going to cost you some AP, right?
[01:23:45] But if you have a bunch of AP, you can
[01:23:46] keep working on your your accessories
[01:23:48] and stuff. If you get a bunch of surplus
[01:23:50] of AP, you can put the Cons heart on and
[01:23:51] kind of
[01:23:53] cheat your way to 445. It's doable. Now,
[01:23:56] I don't recommend doing that anymore, in
[01:23:58] my opinion. I recommend just either
[01:24:00] enhancing these up
[01:24:02] to pen
[01:24:04] and hex
[01:24:05] or
[01:24:07] and this is the more this this is the
[01:24:08] better one, is to just go ahead and get
[01:24:10] your next tet piece of armor. Get your
[01:24:12] next tet piece of armor, put it at duo,
[01:24:15] you know, call it a day or pry or
[01:24:17] whatever. Call it a day.
[01:24:19] Call it a day. Okay? Cuz that's
[01:24:21] that's what it's going to take. It's
[01:24:23] rough. It's rough. You're just delaying
[01:24:24] the inevitable if you don't want to uh
[01:24:26] if you don't do it, but like basically
[01:24:28] just dump all your stones into this. If
[01:24:29] you get it to try grade, if you get it
[01:24:30] to deck grade, we're going to leave it
[01:24:31] here for now. Um now
[01:24:34] So, now you're doing
[01:24:36] uh insular at this point, 385. And now,
[01:24:40] honestly, you're just filling out. At
[01:24:41] this point, you should understand,
[01:24:43] generally speaking, what you want to do
[01:24:45] with your gear score. Um you're
[01:24:47] basically going to deck you're going to
[01:24:48] go deck you're going to go deck.
[01:24:51] Um so, your full deck Kzarka here. Uh at
[01:24:53] this point, you're probably going to go
[01:24:55] ahead and oct this. Then, you're going
[01:24:57] to nouv this. Yeah, we're get it's it's
[01:24:59] get it's get we're getting up there.
[01:25:01] We're getting up there because you can't
[01:25:02] get any more AP at this point. You need
[01:25:05] what 390, I think, to hit
[01:25:07] uh
[01:25:08] you need 390 to hit Kutum.
[01:25:11] I'm pretty sure you need 390 for Kutum,
[01:25:13] which means that you're going to need to
[01:25:14] nouv this or you're going to need to
[01:25:17] nouv this, which doesn't make any
[01:25:19] [ __ ] sense because the offhand only
[01:25:21] gives you one AP and one DP. I would
[01:25:23] just nouv the uh the awakening.
[01:25:25] Right? Now, um to get to 450, I'll be
[01:25:28] honest with you, this is the easiest way
[01:25:30] to hit 450 is to just go ahead and just
[01:25:32] hit your [ __ ] to tet. Badabing badaboom,
[01:25:33] you're there.
[01:25:34] Okay, it's the AP that's going to suck.
[01:25:36] Yeah, hitting nouv on your weapon
[01:25:39] rough.
[01:25:40] That's rough, buddy. It's hard. I I
[01:25:43] would know. It's difficult. It's really
[01:25:45] really hard, okay? Like it it's it's not
[01:25:47] getting any easier. It's twice as hard
[01:25:49] as oct is. Hitting deck is twice as hard
[01:25:51] as nouv is. Like it's it's difficult.
[01:25:53] So, I know what I'm asking you to do at
[01:25:54] this point.
[01:25:55] Uh that being said, at this point you
[01:25:58] legitimately cannot get to the final
[01:26:01] boss unless you have full deck weapons.
[01:26:04] So
[01:26:06] us
[01:26:07] uh you're I would get go ahead and
[01:26:09] finish out your Adhanis shoes and go
[01:26:11] ahead and hit those to tet as you're
[01:26:13] able to cuz you're getting three stones
[01:26:14] a week. Uh it should be relatively easy
[01:26:16] to go ahead and get all this up. I would
[01:26:18] say it's going to be I think it's 460 DP
[01:26:21] um, is required for the final boss. So,
[01:26:23] you're going to get this long before you
[01:26:25] hit your deck weapon unless you get
[01:26:27] really carried. And sincerely, if you
[01:26:29] one tap your deck weapon or you get it
[01:26:31] in under 20 taps, please just go ahead
[01:26:33] and tell us about that in Twitch chat.
[01:26:35] Just make sure you lay your family name
[01:26:36] right there so we know who to um,
[01:26:39] who to congratulate in game.
[01:26:42] Um, it's so we know who to congratulate.
[01:26:44] Just from Just Just make sure that you
[01:26:46] you lay that family name out there.
[01:26:48] Now guys, I'm just going to rip the
[01:26:50] band-aid off and I'm going to tell you
[01:26:51] how to finish your gear in BDO. Okay?
[01:26:53] All right. We're going to deck this.
[01:26:55] We're going to deck this.
[01:26:57] We're going to go ahead and deck that.
[01:26:59] We're going to go ahead and uh, we're
[01:27:01] going to go to oct on this. We're going
[01:27:02] to go to oct on this. We're going to go
[01:27:04] to oct on that. We're going to go to oct
[01:27:06] on that.
[01:27:07] Uh, you're going to amplify all your
[01:27:08] lightstones, obviously.
[01:27:11] Crystals all need to be maximally
[01:27:12] upgraded. Uh, at the very end, I would
[01:27:15] say right around the time you're hitting
[01:27:16] oct on your armor and you've got triple
[01:27:19] deck sovereign. Uh, you're bam. Look at
[01:27:21] that. Holy [ __ ] Yeah, we're just going
[01:27:23] to we're going to we're going to grab
[01:27:24] that. We're going to knock that you up.
[01:27:26] We're just going to knock that all the
[01:27:27] way the [ __ ] out, uh, like that. Then
[01:27:29] we're going to do this.
[01:27:32] Okay?
[01:27:33] The DP is always less important than AP.
[01:27:35] Okay? DP is always less important than
[01:27:37] AP. And this is the end game gear for
[01:27:41] Black Desert. This is it. This is as far
[01:27:43] as you can go. This is basically the
[01:27:45] hard cap stop for the game.
[01:27:48] Um,
[01:27:49] if you spent a shitload of money and
[01:27:51] grinded like you were unemployed
[01:27:53] from being a new player to reach this
[01:27:56] point, would probably take you at least
[01:27:57] a year and a half.
[01:28:00] Maybe you could do it in a year. If you
[01:28:02] spent a lot of money. And I mean like,
[01:28:05] we're talking
[01:28:08] $30,000 at least, uh, USD.
[01:28:12] Um, and you have to grind a lot.
[01:28:14] Cuz some of this stuff you you just
[01:28:15] can't you can't spend the money on.
[01:28:18] Yeah, it's all it's all weekly gated is
[01:28:20] the problem. You'd have to get lucky
[01:28:22] and even even spending money to a
[01:28:24] certain point doesn't help you cuz it's
[01:28:25] all weekly gated. So like it's going to
[01:28:27] take you a minimum of a year and a half
[01:28:29] or so
[01:28:30] um to kind of get here, right?
[01:28:33] Right, but most people they're not going
[01:28:35] to spend a dime uh or they're going to
[01:28:36] spend very small amounts of money and
[01:28:38] they're going to reach this eventually
[01:28:39] anyway.
[01:28:40] Uh it's the way that it goes. Like me,
[01:28:42] I'm a free-to-play player, right guys?
[01:28:44] It's the way that it goes. Um so
[01:28:47] All right, guys. That is going to be a
[01:28:49] wrap on my gear guide for 2026 for at
[01:28:52] least early 2026 for Black Desert. If
[01:28:54] you're wondering about lightstones,
[01:28:56] skill add-ons, or crystals at all, the
[01:28:59] link for that video is in the video
[01:29:01] description. You can check that out.
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[01:29:13] comment section as well. So if I didn't
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