Pen Roulette

These are your realistic options for getting a PEN item: YOLO it like some of these facebook guys, and get two PENs on your first month in the game. (0.001% chance for PEN, 1% chance if you are a pretty girl) After you have full TET gear (ideally, 3 TET weapons and 4 TET armor pieces,

Getting Started – What’s Enhancing?

It’s a question many new players may have, what the hell is enhancing after all? Well, you know that in most MMOs you acquire gear by completing high-end dungeons, raids and group activities, which of course changes with each and every patch, making your previous gear obsolete? Well, BDO is the complete opposite of that!

What You Will Need – Enhancing Materials

In order to make an attempt at enhancing your gear, you have to use some special enhancing materials, found throughout the world of Black Desert in many different ways. The main story quests of the game, will award you with many of these materials, as well as walk you through a series of quests that

Black Stone (Armor) & Black Stone (Weapon)

Item Usage: Black Stone Armor & Weapon, are the most common and useful enhancing mats, since they are used into attempting most gear up to a certain level, and their average price is around 200K Silver per piece. So for example, you can use Black Stones to get your weapons / armor up to +15, and

Hard Black Crystal Shard & Sharp Black Crystal Shard

Item Usage: These are the “upgraded” versions of their respective black stones, quite more expensive and hard to find. A Sharp can go up to 4 million per piece, while Hards hover around 1 million silver. You heat them together with black stones through Processing, in order to make Concentrated Magical Black Stones (see below). How

Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) & Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon)

tem Usage: These are the “ultimate black stones”, since they are used to upgrade high-level gear. For example, you need them to get a weapon / armor piece from +15 to +16 (known as PRI) and up. Similarly, high-level mount / wagon / ship gear uses them – more on that in the enhancement chances section

Memory Fragment & Artisan’s Memory

Item Usage: These are definitely the most important items in Black Desert Online. Memory Fragments are used to repair the Max Durability of Boss Gear. Each Memory Fragment repairs 1 Max Durability, and it costs way more than 1 million for each memory, so you can understand better the importance of them. Artisan’s Memory is essentially the most pay to win item

Ancient Relic Crystal Shard & Forbidden Book & Scroll of Ancient Wisdom

Item Usage: All 3 of these items work the same way – they drop from grinding areas, and you can combine 5 of them into making a boss scroll, which after defeating will award you with memory fragments. Combine 5 Ancient Relic Crystal Shards to make 1 Ancient Relic Crystal Summon Scroll (3-4 memory fragments per scroll). Combine 5 Forbidden Books to

Advice of Valks

Item Usage: An item you will fall in love with, so make sure to keep them safe, and don’t use them carelessly! Advice of Valks can hold a Failstack amount inside it, so you can save it for later. For example using more than 25 failstacks for +15 to +16 weapon, is considered a waste, since

Blacksmith’s Secret Book

Item Usage: As mentioned above, you can use a Blacksmith’s Secret Book to save your Failstacks into an Advice of Valks item. You will notice there are 20, 30, 40 and 50 versions (as well as 100 in the pearl store), so for example a 40 book can hold up to 40 failstacks. If you have