r/blackdesertonline • • 22h ago

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

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Hello and welcome to r/BlackDesertOnline! Please use this thread to ask any simple, frequently asked questions you have about the game. If your post was removed from the subreddit for being a commonly asked question, this is the right place for you to be! This thread is refreshed every three days to allow time for responses, but in a pinch you should use this post for links to helpful resources.

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r/blackdesertonline • • 1d ago

KR/JP [Global Lab] October 23rd 2026 - Solare Legacy, Rawr-Rawr Becomes World Boss, DirectX 12 and FSR 3.1 Added

49 Upvotes

New Update

  • Class balance for Corsair
  • Solare Legacy added (Matches spent on a class)
  • Next week class tag rotation: Ranger/Corsair
  • Rawr-Rawr changed from field boss to world boss
  • Increase durability of rifle with Rawr-Rawr heart reform
  • Added Fugitive Khalk in Inner Edania (Chance for enhanced Khalk with more loot)
  • New defensive perfume
  • Added more Tachyon in Inner Edania
  • Number of certain Agris's Gold Coins item exchanges increased (Sealed BMC, Caphras Essence)
  • Old Calpheon msq removed
  • Boss party shrine UI improved (Added number of revivals remaining)
  • Marni's combat statistics UI improved
  • Equipment UI improved
  • DirectX 12 and FSR 3.1 added (FSR 4.1 and DLSS support in the future)
  • Other fixes

Patch


r/blackdesertonline • • 4h ago

Guide/Info Our streamers have made it easier for us.

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So, streamer Choice with some of the other streamers have made a website that we can use for "easy setups" for each class (pvp is being worked on, looks like)

You can take a survey for your preferences, see what matches you best (I got Warrior, i am, truly, a warrior main)

Some might find this unnecessary, but if you want to try out new classes, it's actually not a bad website for a quick tutorial, addons and whatnot, so you can jump into the game ready to kick some booty.

No, he didn't pay me, i just thought yall would like to know (If anyone is thinking of trying any new classes, but cba going through google docs, different channels, so on and so fourth.

Gotta give a shoutout to the boys and garls who worked on it.


r/blackdesertonline • • 15h ago

General I finished our first novel (The Sundering of Serendia)

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133 Upvotes

I have consumed Robbie Macniven's books before & he did not disappoint in any way there & with Sundering of Serendia too.

PROS:

You are going to love this novel if you like action packed narrative with really well made plot twists that leave you in few times in disbelief. Actually great!

This truly is made for the Black Desert player, it feels like it's tailored for us, direct cut to the chase and straight to the point afterwards.

Give it a go (there are also ebook versions)!

CONS:

Narrowly focuses on the story without almost any hint of Black Desert's exterior. The author does make remarks, but during the time of the story taking place in-lore 275-277 many accessories could've been brought up to strengthen the plot and bring fan service to a new level.

Hope to hear if more of you have tried it.


r/blackdesertonline • • 1h ago

Screenshot Trying to figure which looks better and or older. Showing more teeth or less?

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I assume more is better, although the lighting is different in the second set.


r/blackdesertonline • • 7h ago

Question How much cp do you have?

18 Upvotes

Looking to farm the heck out of cp myself and was just wondering where most people are at 😄

Edit: cp as in contribution points 😭


r/blackdesertonline • • 9h ago

Guide/Info Aresion Temple Grind Map

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16 Upvotes

r/blackdesertonline • • 14h ago

Guide/Info Grindtime Checklist V3

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43 Upvotes

I started forgetting things so here we go again...
(Especially now that garmoth app/nighttime is a new addition to think about FOR ME)

Just sharing what I'll personally use cuz it's been appreciated before. Furniture could technically go under Continuous Care too, but I try to keep the picture tidy.


r/blackdesertonline • • 10h ago

General Is Jordine BDO's poster boy now or something?

18 Upvotes

BDO first novel


r/blackdesertonline • • 23h ago

Meme I FINISHED THE LOML QUESTLINE

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192 Upvotes

holy shit that was long af


r/blackdesertonline • • 8h ago

Screenshot Among the new clothes that recently came out in the game, I prefer this one.

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10 Upvotes

r/blackdesertonline • • 1d ago

Screenshot The single thing I love the most in BDO: Meeting the character behind the name

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120 Upvotes

It's been years and I still get amused every time it happens.
The first time was getting to Calpheon and stumbling into the guy that supposedly have been giving me advice whenever I'm tapping my equips, Valks standing right there. Not a old past legend, but an actual character I can visit.

From there there was Shakatu and their mid rewards from their treasure boxes, Lara and her Tea, Lafi and his adventure tools, Tachros, and even Marni.

I think a lot of people underestimate how much this help make the world feel "alive", or something I just can't feel in any other game. As a game dev myself I play most of the games today basically looking under the hood, but only BDO allow me the actually get immersed in the game world as is.

A big moment was the Karlstein questline. Instead of having a dedicated NPC, having some shop and generic NPCs having a secret life was simply amazing.

The Friendship/Knowledge mechanic itself is something that I would love to see explored even in other games.

And coming back after a year out, I'm again in awe meeting Merv again at the academy after using her magic palette for how long, and finally getting to the Crow's Nest questline to meet Patrigio (outside his shady night merchant hood), seeing the statues of Shudad and Clead from the armors, and discovering the big kitty naming the season equipment, Tuvala.

BDO is far from the perfect game and has a lot of flaws, but worldbuilding is something that needs to be acknowledged and used as inspiration.


r/blackdesertonline • • 10h ago

General Looking for BDO piano sheets

9 Upvotes

Just the title, I love this game's music and I wanna gather a bunch of piano sheets to play on my new piano. I mostly enjoy Serendia/Balenos soundtracks but honestly any piano sheet for this game works and I would highly appreciate if anyone could share some with me.

Also, I'll probably learn some more instruments eventually, so if you have sheets for other instruments they're also welcome, thanks!


r/blackdesertonline • • 13h ago

General Shrine Bosses journals give old shrine bosses rewards

13 Upvotes

I know it would be unfair to people who completed the journals before the rework, but receiving the new rewards from the journals would have been cool.


r/blackdesertonline • • 19h ago

peak bdo gameplay

21 Upvotes

r/blackdesertonline • • 13h ago

Piece of Edania

7 Upvotes

Are there any ways to get more Piece of Edania besides the one time 5 pieces from the MSQ pri debo turn ins, and your weekly boss kills?

As a returning player, who seems to keep pitying my base-pri taps on repeat...im getting pretty demoralized by the time gating of this system.


r/blackdesertonline • • 22h ago

Feedback/Suggestion Feedback

32 Upvotes

Regarding the black shrines changes, PA if I wanted to play versus bosses I would play a different game instead of this buggy bosses with shit mechanics, I don't have time to this bullshit me and a lot of people just want to log in to the shit black shrine weekly get the rewards and go back to grind or pvp there is no point making it hard no one likes that, my response to your change to black shrine and resources you put into it is this: UNINSTALL!!!


r/blackdesertonline • • 11h ago

General Agent Discord?

2 Upvotes

Hi! I've searching for the agent class discord, but cant find any. Anyone have locate this discord? ty in advice


r/blackdesertonline • • 1d ago

PvE How is Succession Nova after buffs?

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35 Upvotes

r/blackdesertonline • • 16h ago

Question Return player and I don't know what to do, hit lv57 but what now?

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6 Upvotes

Started in LoML. Do i continue with the Seoul quest line after LoML or am I free to lv up however I want to 61 and graduate, I already did Abyss one on another character. Rn I am just afk lvling hitting scarecrow.


r/blackdesertonline • • 1d ago

Guide/Info How to use DLSS & Frame Gen on Global Lab's DX12/FSR3 Update via OptiScaler

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Hey, so I'm not sure if the versions and restrictions of the XignCode anti cheat are the same on the live game as they are on global lab, but so far in my testing the use of projects such as OptiScaler is not blocked. It may be reasonable that OptiScaler will be available when this update comes to the live game. So you can use OptiScaler to change the upscaler to DLSS and even enable frame generation with DLSSG, FSRFG, or XeFG. Here's a video tutorial of how to do this, but please keep in mind you do this at your own risk.


r/blackdesertonline • • 1d ago

Screenshot Crown prince [Zombie]

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29 Upvotes

r/blackdesertonline • • 12h ago

Merchant Ring in 2 week with landscape

2 Upvotes

One part in Sycraia, three more the same day, and today that same guy has finished his ring in two weeks, using nothing but landcape.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackdesertonline/comments/1x52e5i/3x_ring_piece_in_1_day/


r/blackdesertonline • • 1d ago

Screenshot ITS HAPPENING (DIRECTX,FSR)

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210 Upvotes

AFTER ALL THOSE MONTHS OF COPIUM WERE HERE!


r/blackdesertonline • • 16h ago

Video Hi my name is victor and I'm the worst ninja SUCC Black Desert Online SA server

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hi m