Gear Progression From Seasons to End Game Guide | 2024 Edition | Black Desert

[@micke7261]

It's worth watching videos like this every time because the meta changes quite often in BDO. Thanks for updating this guide :)

[@theoddone990]

It's also worth mentioning that new players (one-time only) get a TRI Capotia accessory through a challenge and can make it gauranteed PEN using the dream crystals. So it can be used instead of Tuvala accessories after season graduation. Best choice would be to choose a TRI Capotia necklace from the challenge and enhance it to gauranteed PEN. Additionally you can get a PEN Capotia belt and ring/earring directly from Fughar after each level 10 season pass by exchanging the certificate thing. (Can be done on multiple season characters so you can get both belt and earring/ring) As for armor, completing the Magnus questline gives a gauranteed PEN boss gear piece as well so make sure to pick a PEN Red Nose from that. Thanks for the amazing video!!

[@beeda503]

Any reason for red nose over something like urgons? Urgons are the hardest to guarantee PEN with jetina and will make you way more tanky when grinding

[@lucien4980]

im a new player and i was worried going PEN red nose was the wrong choice after magnus. Glad it wasnt.

[@LamHoang-dp6ui]

​@@beeda503yeah get urugon

[@MyManJohnny]

7:24 Griffon's also gives +6 hidden dr at pen compared to Giath's helmet. I would recommend completely skipping upgrading your converted tet boss kzarka and dandelion to pen or buying them from the market place. With Journals, free pen Capotia accessories that you can obtain from finishing seasons, and free tet blackstar you can get high enough ap bracket and monster ap to grind anywhere in the early game grind spots. At these spots you can expect to make 600-900mil silver per hour, which means that in about 20 hours of grinding you have enough money to buy duo Godr-ayed weapon. That is going to be your best in slot until pretty much the late game.

[@lucien4980]

whats the name of some of the grind spot i can do after seasons? i Just graduated recently and have capotia acces PEN and tet blackstar

[@MyManJohnny]

@@lucien4980 Bummer, leaving season as soon as possible is not the the best since the seasonal blackstones also increase your silver/h by significant amount. Spots depend on the class you're playing, some classes have way better healing which helps a lot at lower gs. But in general, spots you can try are: Aakman, Hystria, Kratuga, lower Sycraia, Valencia spots in general, Sherekhan, Bloodwolfs, Tshira, Mirumok, Ronaros, Manshaums, Elvia Bhiragi, Elvia Imps... Dreighan and Kamasylvia spots are less money but you're also working towards your hp/mana infinite potion

[@EMu-kd3mq]

Graduated season characters can grind, poly forest, manshums, centaurs, blood wolf settlement, and mirumuk etc. Depends on your mobility and if your class has aoe will determine if you are gonna make decent money or not at a certain grind spot. Example Wizard excells at manshums,miru etc but cant do centaurs effectively.

[@DanielTune]

Bro singlehandedly keeping bdo contention up by himself

[@Myhok]

Gearing up in Bdo is so frustrating. After months and month of mindless and mind numbing grind, i got to AWA 304 AP 401 DP and still getting one shotted left and right. After almost 3 years and now 5k hours, i still can't defend a grind spot. Yesterday a berserker just walked through me like i was made out of thin paper, not even a fight, just walked through me. Getting insulted on top after something like that, does not feel like "i want more of that" XD. But there is no other game like bdo so we stay.

[@Gahet]

I'm about to graduate my first seasonal character and this answered a lot of the questions I had about gearing, thank you!

[@NoztrozeR]

Thank you for this. It's been really helpful not only to understand the gear progression of BDO, but also in realizing that I will probably never get really into BDO. Sounds like a bit too much upkeep and time investment. But hey, the game is extremely fun to grind in. The combat never stops being fun, at least in my experience. So there's always the fun in that part alone.

[@bluesquadronlive]

Great video again Jonlaw!

[@Jonlaw98]

Thanks dude

[@Jaibie123]

Returning to BDO once again (now my PC can do remaster!) my god it so bizarre for me to see how PEN boss gear is much more fluent to get. With so much available also brings more questions.. Would love some input on my next gear path. Looking at moving my PEN boss armors to c10 and pump then into the fallen/lebreve etc slots. Think I know what is correct but fomo kicking in. When Jetina first came out I made my first armor as Dim Tree and then enhanced myself the remaining Bheg, Griffon and Urugon to PEN. After coming back and now the Magnus questline offers a free PEN I have some choices.. Redeem the quest and choose Red Nose and Caphras that slot (then just use the Dim on an alt) OR redeem the quest for like Griffon/Urugons sell my sellable helm/glove/boots to fund more Caphras. Im not a full focused grinder I have been building my family quests back up and doing adventure logs etc so im around 6 Bill cash silver 4k Caphras. SO im pretty poor but I do have lots of hoard materials since game launched. Caphras are limited and my past couple of week grind spots have been Caphras focused as they are now my bottle neck. Can anyone confirm if the Magnus quest item is turned into a fallen god/Labreve/Ators indicate your name after converted? Not going to lie I like that all of my PEN gear has my name tagged :)

[@paoloreginato]

I started the game yesterday, currently lvl 53, should i do the Magnus now? or Look for other quests? or Grind a boss? Feeling kinda lost

[@beeda503]

I jumped ahead so i might have missed it, getting the journals knocked out is a pretty high priority. Soon as full pen tuvala you should start on barrier of infestation, bartalli, deve, pavini, LoML, and dorin morgrins. Also the agris journal will make you a good chunk more money each day

[@CageFT]

3:40 I finally got around to questing. I'm at lvl 35 and just updated my weapons and set off to explore. Found the Soldiers Graves (SSE of Heidel) and got into a scuffle with a skeleton.... So after panic running back to safety! I realized I was slamming shots of lizard blood and not HP potions 😮🤮 I just wanted to share that with ya. Thanks for the vids 😁

[@-ZeusLeague]

Quests that give gear are account wide, or I can make a new character and get them again and again?

[@JAE-yq3bz]

What should I get in exchange for season seals? Mythical Censers? I already have T4 Pets and some maids.

[@Jonlaw98]

Yep the T10 mythical censer, exp exchange stuff if you ever want to reroll. Otherwise anything you need in particular

[@miyano7224]

Hey John, when do you consider getting Garmoth's Heart?

[@Jonlaw98]

I would probably put an order of them asap, they're not as hard to get now but it might still take some time

[@miyano7224]

@@Jonlaw98 thanks man

[@sarkybae]

is it better to grind the material for reform 5 or buy pen boss gears

[@betlogboy3]

I know it's late.. but, would it be better to go grind for a base kharazad instead of starting with the Jetina upgrades?

[@Jonlaw98]

Yeah 100%

[@aiimer89gamer26]

Im really new but almost end my season char bcs i habe everything done so far. What items should i use for berserker?

[@Dekoan01]

Where is the quest for the second jetina pen acc, i cant find it :(

[@Ryusuke13Gaming]

@Jonlaw98 I'm level 58 and cannot find the free pen accessory as you mentioned, where is it and where is the level 60 one just in case

[@Adrianxmusic]

Hi! Which one OP Class is in current time and which one you could recommend to start with to returning player? I had 3 years brake from game. I need to learn again how to play my main DK, I forgot almost all skill movement. This game have so many thing that "shout" at me, I feel lost in it. I wanna play new char, that is more OP than DK, cuz DK always was cheeky and under powered, but I never tied to make real new character in this game, cuz I was bored to learn new character skills rotations etc. Now I ready to do this, to "start again" i this game.

[@excat]

I'm a returning player. I haven't played since the first season. When I graduated back then, I only got to exchange 1 piece in for boss gear, but my understanding is that has changed now. Since I've completed a season already, when I complete this season character I'm on now, will I get the option to exchange all of my gear for boss gear?

[@MateiGabrielmusic]

I'm new player. why u can t grind silver in season servers and then purchase blackstar pieces from market? then just upgrading them until it becames to hard and THEN you should graduate?

[@whitetiger8994]

its better to reform tet boss gear or directly get duo dahn/lab/fallen?ator is better to convert for sure righ now(nvm was in the conclusion)

[@MyManJohnny]

The price of buying duo dead god armor and upgrading a jetina piece yourself is about the same if you hit average on pri/duo. But there is always a chance you'll fail a lot and then spend a lot on memory fragments.

[@whitetiger8994]

I feel like its way higher 12 bil only for c10

[@whitetiger8994]

+ reforming cost a lot of mem frags + flame

[@MyManJohnny]

@@whitetiger8994 at least on EU, if you check out garmoth, you pay 12.7bil for c0-c10, reforming costs about 9, 11, 13 bil for first - third piece, so 11bil on average, then you have 2bil flame and about 5bil left for mem fragments which is enough for hitting average chances on base-duo

[@viqrg6139]

Which bs weapon should i upgrade first as an archer

[@arenkai]

I just wish there was a way to speed up the Jetina quests... It's such a pain go have to wait when you play daily

[@falsie.]

Bro just take your time. It much faster now than before it was 2 piece daily before now its 4 daily. You need to be patience

[@ardaaygun5910]

This is already sped up version, it used to be 2x more time

[@ArmedAndHammered]

Same tho. I have very limited playtime. Some days I can play all day but other days I can't play at all due to work. Wish they didn't limit the amount of dailies you can do. Or at least make it so that you can bank multiple dailies and complete them later.

[@DaaFreestyle]

How would you go about upgrading the TET blackstar to Pen. Just wait and save crons until you have enough or collect a lot of high failstacks and try it raw?

[@addminustraitor8514]

always crons when upgrade your first TET blackstar. if not enough crons, stay TET, dont ever raw.

[@-alexandru]

I would say that for me it worked nicely converting to DUO godr then staying at DUO because its very easy to get to DUO until you have enough silver to get TET (sell duo get tet) and then click all the crons/hammers onto the TET godr or TET bs we got for free. I applied this and now I am already at 2x tet godr (since kutum = bs) and 1x tet bs that I click with hammer and with crons the GODRs. Hope that gave some info, I think for me it worked greatly since I can grind every spot now besides Ulukita. Just saving is limiting you to only grind X amount of max AP spots (due to being at TET BS) I think therefore duo/tet godr gives a little more for the brackets until RNG system helps you to get any pen (either the godrs/the tet bs laying around). On the other hand silver for 2x tet godr ~ almost 1x pen bs but at least you have a lot of AP in both your succ/awak spec ready for any tag before getting the PEN BS. Maybe this approach is wrong but I think for me it worked to progress little bit and gave me some goals in grinding silver (buying the tet godrs) instead of relying on RNG poopo system (due to already failing a lot for that pen bs/pen godr with 300stack - very unlucky). Some people might say godr is trap but from what I wrote above I think only if you enhance the GODR from 0 to PEN - that is the actual trap. Good luck.

[@falsie.]

​@@addminustraitor8514but we all know there a lot of ayers will raw tap it after losing amounts of crons. But yeah i recommend not to raw tap it if you only have 1 TET blackstar atm.

[@Jonlaw98]

Always cron, and preferably on a 230+ FS.

[@MyManJohnny]

If you have spare and want to boost the stack, you can raw tap it although it is not efficient way to get higher stack. If it's your main weapon, only cron it. Never raw enhance your main gear. Always only spare pieces.

[@ThePolyCount]

Is better to get the TET BS on your mainhand or awakening if im a succession class?

[@Jonlaw98]

mainhand

[@Gladioul]

do you think khan's heart: destruction is worth it for 2ap over the alch stone u get for free?

[@Jonlaw98]

For 8+ billion silver, no. It would probably be better in the long run to save and go for a Vells heart and upgrade that one.

[@digislots862]

would love if you got or used garmoth with seeing waht upgrades look like :D i did as well my jounry nearly 6 month away from tuvala to 700gs watched the video , gear didnt learn mutch but lighstones i did

[@almightysun7407]

i realy love videos like this, its good information for new players. How to progress gear faster. Thanks

[@michaeldiy1510]

Thank you!!!

[@kenzosim159]

does this factor in the free PEN armor you can get from wuju or purely jetina?

[@Jonlaw98]

You can convert either of those to fallen god, if thats what you're asking

[@xFullMoonBlood]

Id love some of ur input regarding eva/dr: Im 700 gs (currently full duo fallen god with c7 urugons), Im thinking about swapping over to evasion after getting the boots to duo fallen god as well. Im playing succ maegu. Do you have any idea what that would do to my pvp/pve performance? Im hoping for a somewhat net-neutral. I hope that im slighty tankier in pvp wihtout losing too much dmg and Im hoping that im not gonna get one shoted in higher pve spots just because I swapped (if the spot is a one shot in general ofc but im talking about making myself oneshotable just bc of the swap).

[@Jonlaw98]

For PvE, it will most likely feel the same as it does now, for pvp, depends on who your fighting. Essentially youre trading damage for survivability.

[@patriksobotka7218]

If i deleted my jetinas accesory bcs im dumb can i get it back somehow????

[@Jonlaw98]

you might have to send a support ticket for that one

[@lustclaymore6256]

a maegu build pls?

[@ibrahimelmhadri6576]

I am a returning player. I've created last year a Musa and he's level 6 now (during a season). Now I'm wondering if I should continue my progress on him or start a fresh new season character (an other Musa or maybe something else ?). I don't really want to lose my cool looking armor and my silvers BUT I'm kinda lost on what I where in the story. I forgot a lot of things and my inventory is a mess. Continue or new character ?

[@Jonlaw98]

Starting a new season is easier now than before, plus youll get more stuff

[@ibrahimelmhadri6576]

So if I really want to play a Musa, maybe I should just start a new one ? Got 3 tickets right now.@@Jonlaw98

[@ibrahimelmhadri6576]

Thank you !@@Jonlaw98

[@danielmiguelaalfonso6698]

I've a question, I'm playing maegu right now and I don't know which build should I go for because there are lot of different opinions, should I build evasion or accuracy maegu?, I'm mainly focused on PvE.

[@beeda503]

DR and accuracy will work better in pve long run. You can also swap dahn glove and ator shoes later for the evasion version at anytime

[@robertleont]

Question. since I have started play in the console version (ps5) . Is the console version on par with the pc version with nerfs and buffs and events? Or how far is the pc version from the console? Does all the recommendation apply too with console version players too?

[@Jonlaw98]

I think console is missing a region or 2, I dont really keep up with console updates tbh. As for events, I think its different but gear progression remains the same

[@ninjaaesthetics4214]

@@Jonlaw98we have dahns and FG, just missing winter and ators

[@mrv4720]

Is Jetina second pen still coming or nah?

[@Valkirth]

it's still coming, no date given yet.

[@Nemesis.Project1]

You should use garmoth next time you do this.

[@noluri5744]

So here is my thing: I am currently on Tet Main Blackstar, Tet Offhand Blackstar and Pen Dande. I still have to choose my free Tet Blackstar weapon from the event, and I am not sure which one to choose. Is it worth getting the Tet Blackstar Awa and swap it for my Pen Dande? Or should I keep the Dande and choose something else and sell one of my current ones for profit?

[@MinamiX3]

Your dande sucks if you want to pve. Get the tet awake. Bicept did the mafs behind it if you want to watch it.

[@ninjaaesthetics4214]

Yeah on console we only have FG and dahns

[@Trevor_Morgan]

Thank you John for this video. I love all your videos. Also your help me improve my english because I from Ukraine. Sorry if I made some mistakes on comment. Thank a lot.

[@holdonL]

очень нужная информация, спасибо, что сообщил, откуда ты родом...

[@Trevor_Morgan]

@@holdonL а это секрет?) мне нечего стыдиться откуда я родом. А тебе лишь бред свой написать и не молча.

[@helldelta7673]

They can go all the way down to pri again for me it don’t stop at tri…. Don’t know why that is. Guess it’s cause they hate console players.. they always have

[@slasher454]

guardian awakening build

[@Vayue]

ain’t no way I try to leave constructive feedback and this guy just deletes my comment? xD

[@Jonlaw98]

? I don't delete comments, you may have posted a wall of text that got filtered by KZbins auto mod though lmao

[@Vayue]

@@Jonlaw98 it was more than a few sentences, dunno if id call it a wall of text tho, but my point was that your videos are great & you have a lot of knowledge/exp in the game, but the way you demonstrate it could be better. The video could use some edits/cuts rather than being done in one take, also I suggested using Garmoth to explain the gear progression better. ^ now that im rewriting it, it probably got filtered because I put a link for garmoth, my bad