Guide: Enhancing & Failstacking Part 1: Weapons & Armor [Black Desert Online]

[@clonerstive]

Noob here! This is easily the absolute best guide on fail stacks I have seen. Video or otherwise. This is the best guide that even describes what a fail stack even _is_! Looking forward to part 2! :D

[@condorX2]

Oh man! I just found this game in 2020 and this is a 3 years old video.

[@brasil221]

I'm only 12 minutes into this video and I already understand this better than I have in 100+ hours of playing. Thank you so much for such a good explanation and demonstration!!

[@Shinee158]

First of all, I'm glad you not quit the game. I like your attitude to the game, and your guides is the most welcome of all streamers. This guide is one of the most welcome guide, a guide about failstacks. In the forums you can't found any god information. Even from guildies, then don't share to much about their secrets about failstacks. No, I have long time seek after a nice giude about this... you got it!! Thx Morrolan :)

[@kcameron4198]

Was completely lost until I watched this. Being new to BDO this helped a lot.

[@subarashikun]

as a new player in the game i found this to be quite helpful i also loved that BGM you used

[@MorrolanTV]

thank you!

[@nobu2683]

52 fs on my +15 Kzarka attempt... I realises NOW after watching your video how bad I am at failstacking .. Thanks for all usefull infos ! it's really gonna help me :)

[@iTs_HeavyKev]

Hands down the best and most helpful guide I've seen from a beginners pov! Really great work this deserves a lot more recognition

[@grandpawnapkins7429]

Thank you so much for this. I just started on ps4 and got to mid 50s on my main and I didnt understand enhancements until I found this video. This is the best and most detailed guide Ive found so far on YT. You earned a sub my guy! :D

[@DiMacky24]

Thanks for another extremely helpful guide. Sucks what happened with their monetisation but I'm glad you're not letting the vitriolic circle-jerk ruin your enjoyment (I've never let it ruin mine.) Also your awesome radio voice would be missed!

[@z33trbo]

despite a lot of people ranting about how they hate this system, i love it. Makes it harder to get progression(and risky), and better gear feels a lot more special. I will play games that include this type of progression going forward. (ArcheAge, BDO so far)

[@arthurknoxx]

Hey man thanks a lot for this guide. I was so lost and confused about gear upgrades!

[@MorrolanTV]

Sorry for the delay! PART 2 is finally here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ6whGyFr5eEgKM

[@oryon87]

Can you link the table of stacks and % plz??

[@toters911]

i went from 10 to 90 stacks on my liverto staff trying to go from 14 to 15 when i first started playing, i didn't really know how important stacks were. So much money..... "BUT" i accidentally double clicked on enhance when i got it to duo and i got TRI at 0 stacks -.-

[@zSeiryu]

+toters911 First character I pushed yuria to 52 on +15 lmao

[@JoaoPereira-jo5kp]

Is there an efficient way to get stones or silver to buy stones?

[@zSeiryu]

You get stones by camping field/world bosses, daily boss awakened scrolls, daily graduation (can only do it once). They start stacking up fast, I usually have 500+ armor stones now.

[@Aqxea]

Wow, thank you. Great video. I finally understand what failstacks are. I appreciate it.

[@kupacmac]

After watching this video, I'm of the same mindset as Lazy Peon, just save up money and buy what you want instead of going through this headache.

[@Allmondboy]

^

[@insidiouslol2682]

kupacmac I had the same mentality... until I realized how much more of a headache it was trying to find items on the marketplace that you actually want.

[@kupacmac]

@Insidious LoL True it is hard to get certain items, but they usually get posted eventually. It's just a matter of figuring out how much to put down on the pre-order.

[@BC_Joshie]

good luck pre-ordering TET Boss gear. its actually not that bad enhancing, it works out around the same price if you got lucky and bought it or enhanced yourself

[@SuperLewiboy]

BC Joshiee Not to me man, I have shit luck.

[@ashryver3605]

Damn dude. The old UI brings back some serious memories.

[@ReCodeDetro]

Despite being a founder and still being new to the game at level 54 this really did help a lot.

[@MorrolanTV]

glad you enjoyed it my friend!

[@swejugfewknlfEIU292]

The method of stacking "failstacks" in our characters is compared to "Blacksmith's Secret Book" but less expensive? its a new item.

[@hannibalcrusoe8784]

Very ambitious video for fail stacking. Nice job! perhaps one of the best I have seen.

[@jyolikearock_]

Best explanation of how fail stacks work and why they are useful I've seen or read so far. Thanks so much for this video!

[@marcinh6848]

That was actually a very well made and most informative piece of guide that can be. Very good job!!!!

[@TheRok]

My friend, this is an absolutely awesome video! I haven't even finished watching it all, yet, but I couldn't help but feel great watching and learning this stuff so easily. The way you explain it makes it feel so easy to understand. The most inspiring part of this for me is that very, very few people can accomplish this when it comes to these BDO concepts. Seriously, I don't know a single player, including well known BDO KZbinrs (some who quit), who can explain this concept so clearly. You're also helping me understand that some of the “frustrating” parts of this game were actually designed to be at least “little blessings” in disguise. Of course, it would've been easier if they're full blessings, but I'll take little blessings to help me not get frustrated, but actually be optimistic. Thank you. I'm really grateful to you. =)

[@Mikt25]

It's important to note that there are situations where you SHOULD force an enhancement such fishing rods going to +8, +9, and +10. Any failure can, and usually does, drop it down a level. Also, know that a force does not reduce your fail stacks. If you has +30 stacks, you will still have +30 after the force.

[@BenDol90]

Amazing guide man, earned yourself a sub :)

[@caryzab4136]

nice

[@fuzz992]

Your videos are really good. Thanks a lot. You are really making things much more clear for me as this game is a bit confusing at first.

[@MorrolanTV]

I appreciate the kind words!

[@Redgrave0826]

Dude i can't thank you enough for this video! Your explanation was exactly the level of detail I needed and it's all so comprehensible! I've only recently started the game and it's honestly been so overwhelming with my recent lvl up to 50. My AP and DP can't hold up out there. Im on my way to pt.2 now! Goodluck to you and your endeavors!

[@technotechie9325]

On that Korean failstack chart, the last column on the right says "boss item enhancement success rate"

[@cookytrix]

best enhancement vid ive seen/heard. thank you

[@TheNuke03]

Quality of your videos is top notch

[@elmono5327]

This helped so much and this I think is one of the best things that helps the economy in BDO.

[@glennimation]

Welcome to bdo, Where you need to fail to succeed XD

[@klinkikloenkibaboenski8391]

so thats what my teachers were trying to tell me...

[@trime1015]

Art imitates life.

[@Makari126]

finally understanding this, after my 3rd attempt playing this game which took over a year lol

[@RAPHAEL351]

Literally just came on youtube to look this up and it was first vid on my recommended

[@LuqaslncredibIe]

I don't see why so many people complain about the system. Its like the best enhancing system ive seen in quite a while. Insteat of just having a 2%chance for your last upgrade you can farm up for it systematicly and make money out of the process. Its a so damn good system. Everything else would either be a guarantee which would be ways too casual. A cash experience which would be complete trash. Or a pure rng thing with 2% or so for the last upgrades.

[@timotee95]

Thank you for making this. I have been playing less because I get bad luck with the upgrading gear. Gets confusing. I wish BDO would make a video in game that shows how to do this. I really happy you made this video. Very good show and tell for novice upgraders like me. Time to get back playing and grinding for black stones. Keep the great content coming . Thanks again

[@8Bit_ch]

what a nice guy ! i spend few days getting information about upgrading gear. all you get on youtube is people showing the whole process in a montage style video with lots of dubstep +3times speed and no explanation at all.i dont even get the sake of this crap. this was very helpfull! you earned a follower :) one question where to get memory fragmens exept from daily rewards and the AH?

[@MorrolanTV]

You can get memory fragments by combining 5 Ancient Relic Shards, 5 Forbidden Books, or 5 Scrolls Written in Ancient Language. They turn in to boss scrolls which you can fight for fragments.

[@8Bit_ch]

thx :) it seems you get durability via normal repair but its incredible painful and rare as fu**

[@blackshiro3354]

Really nice guide even for 2019, except you were reading the chart wrong, in the first collumn you need to look at the number you are trying to get. So If your weapon si +14, you look at the 15th collumn. (You probably know it by now, but just for new players watching)

[@michaelcarbonara5830]

dude love your vids, with all the new updates you need to make a new vid(s) especially with the changes to enhancing

[@gpkai]

I'm not sure if you covered this in the video and I'm sorry if you but does this guide also apply to fishing rods? Specifically the balenos fishing rod?

[@ashleysamaniego1975]

so failstacks increases the chance of upgrade? im still pretty confused

[@bladined]

Such a great and detailed guide, thank you sir! Can't wait for part2

[@Sokiane]

So to upgrade my Liverto from +8 to +9, I should start around 11 fail stacks ? Or since it's expensive to repair ? And just keep the -3 below the max from there ? And really good guide! Helped a lot :) nice voice and not rushing through it :D!

[@psychoscotch]

Great guide. Still waiting for part 2 :)

[@QUM0KO]

Thank you for this guide, it helps so much. I use the armor I get from drops, or my workers make to repair durability instead of selling it on the AH. I'll be waiting for part two.

[@vidarsimonson6993]

10:16 when do i get that black spirit "skin" has arms and a cape, and bones on his body

[@biggreggdavid4341]

complete the main quest line

[@deeterfly]

Your explanations and video are crystal clear. Thank you. However, what a bizarre damn system for gearing.

[@acesan5724]

Are you using krea to just build uo fail stacks? Or are you actually like trying to upgrade to krea? Im tryn upgrade my rosar staff, but its hard to recover durability since their quite rare and expensive to you do the same thing in this situation?

[@illhaqu777]

so if i have failstacks on different charakters it improves my chances for enchanting on 1 charakter also? i dont saw that your failstacks on the othere charakters are gone so?

[@fairytalesim7153]

What's the difference between normal gear and boss gear?

[@DryTEKGI]

So just a question if I get it right. Every time I fail enchanting I will get +1 failstack right. And with each failstack my chance to enchant that item increases right?

[@wsjsk175]

hey dude this was extremely helpful man. ty

[@Makari126]

How do you treat enchanting from +12 to +15 when you said that you only use the force cost benchmark guide until +11 and later from +15 the different method with the chart...are you then still using the force cost benchmark-method until +15?

[@psychoscotch]

Great guide! Thank you very much! One question though, if I need to go PRI or higher on a grunil armor, is it better to keep the items blue quality or there is no difference between blue and ultimate. Thanks

[@willyzhu9558]

Vert informative video! You got yourselve a new sub :)

[@TwT-qn8ms]

I want to know what the deal is with quality of items (green, blue, gold, ect) do you start from green work your way up and as you get to +15 the quality goes up?

[@brawler4456]

so what's this thing i see people combining two of the same item in the enhancing window and then getting pri? is that an old thing or can i just buy 2 regular bows, combine them, and get a pri with some fail stacks?

[@WhiteVampire888]

I havent really started playing the game but watched a few tutorial now. But meanwhile, a question appeared: What is the actual lategame? Is it only to upgrade your stuff and make more money or is there also something like REALLY hard content you need the upgraded stuff for?

[@JackofAce]

Hey Morrolan Great video man~! Just have a question for ya, would you recommend using Grunil gears to build failstacks? or the cheap ones you can purchase from vendor? Thanks.

[@MorrolanTV]

I personally use Grunil and sell it when I'm done, but this is partially because I have a grunil workshop that runs 24/7. Most players prefer reblath as it requires less upkeep.

[@DubstepFlavours]

Love the guide, explained pretty much everything I wanted to know. I have 2 questions though: 1. Instead of switching characters, could it be useful to buy an appropriate 'Blacksmith's Secret Book' and seal the failstacks, since you can pretty much treat those as 'a different character with failstacks' at that point? Or would that be a waste of money, and it's more efficient to just make a couple of low level characters and drop them at my storage box? 2. It looks to me like the 'failstack chart' says the first column to be "Enchant level you are going to". So, since you were upgrading your +12 helmet, and your planning on going to +13, doesnt that mean you look at the +13 line, with the most beneficial failstack count being 20, instead of your mentioned 18? Anyway, thanks for the guide, helped me a lot!

[@bighit20100]

nice vid! helps me a lot! but how do I make my Pri weapon into ultimate? Because it's green now

[@Stornox]

Great video. Yeah I used mine 55fs for Liverto to go from +14 to +15 hehe now I regret it

[@JanErik.]

I did the exact same thing haha. Learn as we live I guess.

[@Stornox]

Hahhaha true dat

[@wasd3108]

I played the game for 2 weeks when I made 59 failstacks at +13 yuria, and made +14 with it, later I made PRI with 8 conc. stones... currently saving for TRI liverto, ain't fkin with that luck :P

[@jontargaryen3955]

i gotta say man this guide helped alot i was able to Pri all my equipment for really cheap thanks to this

[@Spriqqan]

i know this is old Is it better to do the upgrading yourself or should i buy higher tier armour/weapon? like for example upgrade a weapon from level 0 to +15? or buy a +15 armour/weapon?

[@stripyzeeber7899]

Okay, but how do you make the grunil orange? All I have is green. how do you do that?

[@jc86112]

Hi, Morrolan, I just found your gear Enhancing guide useful. I am a beginner of black desert. As beginner, I don't have enough black stones for armors. I've acquired 1 set of purple equipment with about 140 black stones. Do I do all 4 pieces leveling up together or focus on 1 piece first? How many stacker characters should I create for enhancing equipment (to be safe side)? Thanks. You've been EPIC !!

[@MorrolanTV]

You want to level all your armor pretty equally. Going from +5 to +6 gives the same amount of DP as going from +14 to +15 so just do the easy enhancements first. As for alt characters, you should have the absolute maximum number of characters that you are willing to buy. Alts are very useful in this game for more reasons than just enhancing, for example, they also have their own energy pools you can spend on various things.

[@DiamonDust]

In this guide, it looks like you were just upgrading a single piece of gear (shield), but what about an entire armor set? Should I work on each piece one by one until they get to +15 or so, or should I build them up evenly?

[@Hutchings02]

This fucking game! failed duo with 25+ fail-stacks 7 times, got it on the 8 and quit the game out of frustration. now 8 months later i reinstalled the game and came back to try for tri ...Boom! it works the first time. you should add afk-stacks, they're clearly a lot more effective

[@ezechel]

fs system dont work: Afk time or dont play game giggles:D

[@RobotBodoh]

Hahaha afk stacks

[@jixster1566]

this video helped me SOO much. THANK YOU

[@OneOutMillion]

hey man. is there any visible idea to reach 25 fail stack without touching ur duo boss gear , after all the new items added to the game?

[@roadhouse2]

What if im a new/returning player who doesnt have bossgear och duo/tri w/e to save failstacks for, should i still spare the stacks for future? im currently lvl 53.

[@Kirayamatoplay]

hey can u do a updated ver of this now that things has changed

[@YonexCC]

I'm assuming Krea shield is one of the cheapest items to do fail stacks with? Gonna start soon as well. I have over 300 armor and weapon stones each with almost 1k hunter seals lol.

[@jotasdomingo2123]

this is a really good video, thanks!

[@divinepickle4866]

Hands down earned a sub haha. Thanks a lot man

[@xoYamo]

The thing is.. if i click armor to enchant, i cant select my blackstone. Any tips??

[@Regigigas777]

So is the max durability repair permanent or temporary until the max durability repaired is weathered down below the amount fixed?

[@DamiliusRG]

need part 2 =D

[@MorrolanTV]

It's here finally! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJ6whGyFr5eEgKM

[@sorataakihiko4875]

Question : I understand that force is losing me way more resources than the random but it has 100% success right? If i keep collecting the resources kai force to PEN wouldn't that be simplier? and doesn't this mean that i am forced to create new characters? I am fine with my Maewa i don't really feel like making another character, but do i really have to have 10 ors character that you have in order to get my weap to TRI and above all that doing all this process?

[@MorrolanTV]

You can only force regular gear to TRI, and you can only force boss gear to +15. You also can't force accessories. Whether you like it or not, you need failstacks for higher level enhancements, and if you force, you can't get those enhancements. Forcing is only viable for players who are happy with a low ceiling on their gear progression. And yes, the system forces you to use multiple characters. I have 12 characters and sometimes even that isn't enough to failstack adequately with bad luck streaks on boss gear.

[@vaporiiz]

Great vid, subbed!

[@namehereplz13]

Simple Question; I am level 55 (highest character) on a Dark Knight. Why is your black spirit so different at 10:15

[@MorrolanTV]

When you do the main Mediah or Valencia story quests, some interesting things happen with the Black Spirit.

[@namehereplz13]

Thank you, I just got into the Mediah questline

[@blakleaf6113]

when is it a good time to start enchanting?? at what lvls? should i keep the stones until far later in the game when i aquire better gear maybe?? (lvl 25 bers)

[@MorrolanTV]

You can start as soon as you get blackstones. It's really up to each player to decide how much enhancing they want to do on their own, and how much they want to try to buy from the market.

[@blakleaf6113]

im just worried that if i start enhancing my gear maybe later in the game i will be able to buy a gear thats better than the already enhanced and i will not have stones to enhance the new one!! so what im actually saying is that if the enhanced gear is (lets say) rated 4 stars and i find a non-enhanced gear thats rated 5 stars whats the point of me enchancing the first one? sry for long comment :P

[@MorrolanTV]

If you aren't sure what to enhance yet, I would hold off and learn a bit more about the game & your class first, just save up your materials for now.

[@blakleaf6113]

thanks for ur replies m8 thats what i'll do!! thank you!!!!

[@pnwdayz6287]

very good video! a little long but there is alot of information to give out so that is cool... u could cut away the scense when u are shanching characters tho.. just make sure people know u change character and then cut the whole changing part away.. would make the video slightly shorter^^

[@MorrolanTV]

I think it's pretty concise, actually

[@candlekeep2002]

did this change somehow? I just finished upgrading all of my gear to pri without using any fail stacks. The only piece i had trouble with was my helmet (took 5 tries).

[@marieketie]

Even though this is a pretty old video, I am happy to have found it. I have been playing BDO for over a year now (leasurely, not fanatically upgrading) and I found failstacking far too complicated to do serious enhancing. Now I finally begin to understand it!

[@VanishingKaizer]

How about enhancung a sub weapon. I cannot enhance my shuriken for some reason

[@knox7248]

I'm on 63 failsstacks with my bheg gloves from 14 to 15.. still +14 x) I was so damn mad and just kept trying and trying . Good to know that I have to stop there for Tri Tet? bzw. should I try to go to force my liverto from +15 to tri? Or should I leave it on 15 until I get kzarka? It kinda hurts when I have to sell it later on when I've maybe a kzarka :/

[@lulmiek]

UGHHHH I GIVE UP FORCE ENHANCE THEM ALL

[@Da_Niepel]

i fell unlucky to never get failstack over +10 with stuff i dont need, only boss armor will not upgrade -.- so what to do in this case?

[@lukasmisanthrop8557]

such a great video. so much apprechiated.

[@heman594]

I just started playing a little more than a week ago and still on my first character, should I bother going past +7 weapons and +5 armour at this time?

[@SoulessTwo]

Fantastic guide! really. but i got two questions. 1. How do you fund all this upgrading? iam 56 since today with ny warrior and great sword. but i get the feeling even at sausan or manes i make so little money.. when people speak about several "100 million" of repairs.. how do you do that? 2. what do i do if iam "lucky" and get more then 30 fs and have no better items to upgrade? my best are my +15 grunil and +7 liverto. thanks!

[@MorrolanTV]

1. Sausans and Manes are both fine for money. Sausans is better if you can solo a good route. I've just been playing for a long time, and I'm very active into life skills & workshops as well as grinding for a good mix of active & passive income. 2. Just save those stacks. 30 stacks will be very important when it comes time to make TRI attempts on your boss gear. This is also a good range for DUO attempts on some of the better accessories, which I'll have a guide out for soon.

[@SoulessTwo]

Ok thank you very much. :-) Well then iam off into my upgrading journey. Also from now on i'll follow your channle. Keep up the fantastic work. 😀

[@heiswithout]

This is so unnecessarily complex....

[@cptisma7772]

for do that need too much silver so what is best way for mack mony plz?

[@Tyrant369]

Amazing video!

[@TheSpeep]

trying to get to higher failstacks, constantly gettinbg +10/11/12 enhancements on a 4 stack or so... not sure if my luck is rly bad or rly great...

[@neroprintingservices]

so much to learn and explore. im currently leve 61, using event exp boost 200% plus 100% bill i get 0.006 to 0.008 exp every 3mins. a long way to go. im just grinding mobs, horse, cooking beer, connecting node and time to time doing some quest. soon, il be doing enhancements, boat trading and more. i watch this video preparing me when im in to enhaning. amazing. thank you for the information. oh, im not using elixer and buffs, need to learn that part also. amazing

[@samhanbury1174]

Done my Liverto from Duo to TRI with 25 Failstacks ^^ And build up 49 Failstacks with my 14 Grunil Helmet xD Playing this game since 14 days. level 58 with 62 % ^^ Kinda used 2 Grinding due to diablo, but that whole failstack thing was confusing me so hard :D And yes I DID wasted those 49 FS on my grunil xD

[@femi9879]

Sam Hanbury you're level 58 in 2 weeks?? Do you grind 24/7?! Bloody hell

[@phil2Fun4life]

Frezzo its not hard to get that lvl..

[@femi9879]

Philippe B Once I hit lvl 56 it's just been hard ever since for me.... I don't know where to grind to level up effectively T_T

[@jamesarmstrong1189]

How do you get your stones? If you grind for them then where do you grind, or if you buy them where do you grind for the gold! Also what lvl is your main

[@MorrolanTV]

Pirates or Gahaz are the best money grind spots at the moment, but a lot of my wealth also comes from lifeskills.

[@button9]

I've seen other guides talk about and start with failing accessories for the first few stacks. Is there a reason you didn't do this? (like simplicity or speed) Or has the failure of those changed, so they don't fail as much?

[@tekrunner987]

People don't really bother with that anymore since the price of black stones dropped. It can save you a little money, but it's not really a significant amount.

[@MorrolanTV]

I remember seeing those too, most of them said you should get your first 5 stacks on accessories... this is just absolutely not efficient, considering how often accessories will PRI and reset your stacks. You CAN use accessories for failstacks efficiently, however, and I'll cover this in part 2.

[@tekrunner987]

It used to be efficient (statistically) to build the first 2 or 3 stacks (but never 5) on cheap accessories back when stones were 300k.

[@MikersGamingVideos]

thanks morraloan. I need more AP I'm only lv 51 so far and i have a liverto +11 should i stop enchanting it for now and use a +15 yuria for now ?

[@MikersGamingVideos]

let me add I don't have enough money to risk enchanting it higher

[@MorrolanTV]

If you already have the Yuria at +15 you can keep using it, but you only need the Liverto to hit +13 to break even with the +15 Yuria in terms of AP, and it has a lot more hidden accuracy.

[@MikersGamingVideos]

no i don't have a yuria I was thinking of buying one instead of enchanting the liverto any furthor because repairs for a semi casual like me is cancer

[@MorrolanTV]

Definitely don't buy a Yuria if you already have a +11 Liverto. You can spend that same money getting your Liverto to +13 pretty easily.

[@MikersGamingVideos]

that chart at 33:00 do you have one for accessories ?

[@davidduncan9993]

Great Guide great Logic