Black Desert PEN Blackstar! Buying VS Enhancing guide!

[@MunsterNox]

if you manage to do it tet, consider saving it for the Heidel or Calpheon ball, there are usually 1-2 hammers awarded each time, a huge saving.

[@ShadoSabre]

This is a good shout!

[@Mitutumuch]

thats 4 taps per year to save $200 tapping tet again.

[@rugsthreecrows3697]

Thank you for your hard work. It's truly appreciated. Quick question about using artisan's memory. Am I reading it right, that on average you'd tap 904 times (sum of all used BS pieces to get 1 PEN BS), which would be 3616 artisan's memories (4 frags x 4 artisans = 20 dura repair)? If that's correct, is there a strategic way of using them in this case?

[@ShadoSabre]

Try to only use them at PRI because 20 total durability is removed on a downgrade. Which will save you some accidental repair costs.

[@pl6990]

Knowledge as always, thank you for posting your vids and experiences

[@ShadoSabre]

Glad I can be helpful.

[@katnipcaptin2965]

I’ve seen way too many guild mates and friends try to enhance and end up spending more than what a pen bs is worth at times

[@ShadoSabre]

That's exactly why I said tldr buy it.

[@katnipcaptin2965]

@@ShadoSabre yep I some how enhanced my pen bs awakened, then I bought my main band now working on saving the money to buy my pen be off hand.

[@ShadoSabre]

@katnipcaptin2965 Yeah, I enhanced my awakening too, waiting on my main hand to pop.

[@Staight]

Nice work! I would be very interested seeing this for Godr ayed weapons

[@ShadoSabre]

I will look into this, but I can't guarantee when I can record a video for it.

[@IndraDaka]

Amazing work, job well done

[@ShadoSabre]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@luisgonzaga9286]

Nice video, i literally bought all my offensive gear excluding my pen BS primary

[@ShadoSabre]

Good choice!

[@Modorushiki-tj2tm]

Hey, do I somewhere see how many FS i should use to tap for each level ? Cant find it

[@ShadoSabre]

H32 to 35 is the amount of stacks used obviously round up to whole numbers.

[@lordofentropy]

I'm on the very, very, unlucky to the point of being comical side on my PEN BS Awakening; 92 fails so far, every attempt on a 280 to 316 stack. Doing the math, I have a roughly 99.758% of at least one success in that many attempts. Getting into lottery odds now lol.

[@ShadoSabre]

Ouch! Just one more click!

[@lordofentropy]

@@ShadoSabre lol, indeed :)

[@ShadoSabre]

@@lordofentropy :)

[@lordofentropy]

@@ShadoSabre Funny thing. I actually got it on the next attempt, #93 😆

[@ShadoSabre]

@@lordofentropy see I told you 😆

[@emeukal7683]

Imo to make ut easy: u get free fs and cron. Use those. Easy. No cost.

[@ShadoSabre]

Reduced not 0

[@Leon-yn3lu]

Is the spreadsheet only broken for me? on the profit sheet i have bunch of #REF! #N/A

[@ShadoSabre]

Just checked, and it is okay for me. Go to test prices. Are there any errors there?

[@DeadThePainter]

"just buy it!" Yea Bro 132b is not alot for some only 132 hrs of grinding but for most its 264hrs of grind

[@ShadoSabre]

I mean, I said it's cheaper than enhancing. I never said it was easy. So it is fewer hours grinding than enhancing xD

[@Gaussen]

most people who enhance pen blackstar without cron, don't wanna make it succeed because their aim is failstack.

[@ShadoSabre]

Yeah the 300 stacks are helpful but so is the extra success chance.

[@emeukal7683]

Ye its a second year of bdo thing to use up 300 stacks tho. Tet debo u could just buy.

[@ShadoSabre]

@emeukal7683 Yeah, buy 2 TETs. Try to tap one to PEN with the 300 is my plan.

[@emeukal7683]

@@ShadoSabre 300stack is for debo imo. PEN BS is first year, pen debo second year XD

[@ShadoSabre]

@emeukal7683 Yeah, I meant buying two TET deborekas

[@slayerds5300]

I don't see other region in the docs file, send help!

[@ShadoSabre]

It's the blue EU drop down

[@ilBuGzYli]

I sold my sub and now the game curse me with 23/40

[@ShadoSabre]

Never sell RIP hahah. Seriously though not long till I catch up I'm 19/40 with 3 attempt that we're before the date they backdated too.

[@bumbum9831]

Ok but how is the true average 13 taps tho? Isn't the chance of success 5% ish?

[@ShadoSabre]

True average is where 50% of people have succeeded, not most.