Winning the Enchanting Game in Black Desert Online
NOTE: This post is imported from Tumblr and updated to reflect changes in game mechanics over the course of the 2018 calendar year.
Enchanting gear is at the core of Black Desert Online. Learning how to maximize your chances of success, and minimize the chances of being left with unusable gear, will make the game more enjoyable for you and everyone else as well.
With the addition of Blacksmith books, it’s easy to create a strategy to “win” at the enchanting game now. It does require a bit of money, and patience, but it can reward you well.
The key to winning at enchanting is to build yourself large stockpiles of blackstones, both weapon and armor, but moreso armor, because that’s how you will build failstacks.
So the first step in this process is identifying how to build reserves of blackstones reliably and quickly. The easiest way to do this is to do your daily Serendia boss scrolls. You can do them once a week. If you are level 56 and 150/150/200 or so in stats, you can solo any of the bosses, once you learn their moves, and, of course, it goes better and faster with friends and guildmates if you can get them to join in.
Your goal here is not boss gear, though if that drops, that is great. No, what you want from these scrolls are blackstones and hunter seals.
Hunter seals can be exchanged, in Trent and Tarif, for armor blackstones, weapon blackstones, and reform stones. Two hunter seals are an armor blackstone. Three hunter seals are a weapon blackstone. Let’s ignore the reform stones for now, ok?
By doing your boss scrolls weekly, you can collect enough seals to accumulate 40-70 armor blackstones per week, depending on RNG. Within a month’s time you should have 200-400 armor blackstones set aside. Don’t stop here, because you’ll want more. Just keep collecting seals and blackstones. With Ronin and Narc Brishka scrolls in Kamasylvia, I can get enough seals to collect 100-200 blackstones per week. I normally keep at least a backlog of 1000 armor stones around and at least 500 weapon stones. Often I have more. Build that reserve up! That’s your basis for winning the enchant game!
After you have more than 300 armor blackstones, take 250 or so plus about 30 million silver (maybe 40) in gold bars and go to Velia. The blacksmith in Velia, Trana Underfoe, sells Reblath armor for very cheap prices. Deposit your gold bars into cash in your account so you can spend as needed.
The remarkable thing about Reblath is that it is hard to enchant, almost boss hard, and definitely harder than greens. So buy any Reblath armor piece. I use gloves. And start enchanting. At first it will enchant pretty easily, but around +11 or +12, you’ll start to build fail stacks. Once you get a failstack to +15 to +16, stop. Talk to Tranan, and and buy the cheapest Blacksmith book, that can extract any failstack up to +20. These cost 1 million silver, but trust me, they are worth it. Extract that stack (reducing stack count to zero), and then start enchanting again.
Buy Reblath armor to repair whenever durability runs out. Do not bother to repair damage, just durability. Keep this up, extracting failstacks until you are out of stones, out of cash, or the item hits +15.
Some people advocate creating a negative karma alt to live in Velia, to take your +15 gear, wear that one thing, then get killed by a guard, to break it back down to +14. The alternatives are to either visit the local priest who can "cleanse" a +15 item down to +14 for a 100,000 silver donation, or to just extract the blackstones from that item and start again. How you handle it is up to you, and creating a negative karma alt is definitely a little more efficient if you want to bother with that. The second best, and my personal preference, is just to visit the local priest. The worst choice is to extract blackstones.
At the end of this process, you will have several +18 to +20 fail stacks. These are your main fuel for enchanting. Also, remember that for 500 loyalty, you can also buy Valk's Cry. These are items that allow you to add to your current Fail Stack. So if your Fail Stack is +16, you can add 4 Valk's Cry and it behaves like a +20 Fail Stack. Like the Fail Stack itself, Valk's Cry is consumed when you have a successful enchant.
Further, there is now a new kind of special blackstone, just for enchanting +13, +14, and +15 items. Each of these is aimed at a particular grade of gear. Stablized Magic Blackstone can enchant green quality gear to +13-+15 without risk of failure. Cleansed Magic Blackstone can do the same for blue quality gear. And then there is Flawless Magic Blackstone, which is required for gold quality gear. Note that the kind of stone you need depends on the items basic quality, not the item quality you might have achieved via item transformation. So if you have, for example, an Ultimate Rosar Longsword that is gold quality, you only need Stabilized Magic Blackstones since the base quality of all Rosars is green. These specialized blackstones are given out as part of events rarely or can be collected by fighting world bosses. They're not easy to get but they can be obtained and make enchantment a little easier.
You can use these stored fail stacks, valk's cries, and special blackstones, to take any weapon or armor item to +13,+14, +15, PRI, or DUO. As you do so, occasionally one item might be stubborn. If your DUO stack goes beyond about +28, extract it and save it. It has now become a TRI starter stack. Set that aside, load another DUO stack, and keep on going.
I like to have 2-3 DUO stacks to take any item to DUO from PRI. I figure on average, I’ll get one of those as a TRI stack every second or third armor or weapon item I am enchanting.
When doing TRI enchants, I want one each TRI stack for any item I am trying to enchant to TRI. I also want 3-4 DUO stacks to recover DUO if it gets lost due to a failed TRI attempt. If TRI fails, immediately extract the stack, load a DUO stack, and get DUO back. Then reload the TRI stack, and proceed.
If any TRI stack goes above +45, STOP, and extract that stack. This is now a TET starter stack. The only way to extract stacks above +50 is via a kind of blacksmith book only available from the Pearl Shop, so I don't recommend doing that at all.
If you run out of DUO stacks, STOP, and do not try anything further until you can rebuild your supply of fail stacks. In other words, if your last DUO stack gets DUO back and now you have no more, do not try that TRI stack again. Wait so that you won’t have to play with a PRI enchant weapon or armor piece.
To attempt TET, you want one TET starter stack for an ALT character, because if it goes about +50 you don't want to pay real money to extract it. You also want 5-7 TRI recovery stacks, and 15-20 DUO recovery stacks. The ALT character will be the one doing TET attempts. When they fail, place the item in storage, log over to your main character who has the Advice of Valks fail stacks stored, and recover the TRI level however many stacks it takes. Then swap back to the ALT, and attempt TET again. Rinse and repeat until you succeed. Stop if you run out of TRI or DUO recovery stacks to minimize your damage.
Now in addition to all of this, if you are doing boss armor or boss weapons, you will also need to save memory fragments. These come from a different type of scroll, but these scrolls are assembled from pieces that drop around the world.
The most popular but least efficient memory frag scrolls come from Ancient Relics. Ancient Relics can also be fished up with AFK fishing, which is why they are popular. Forbidden books create the scrolls for the Mediah level memory frag bosses, and “Scroll Written in an Ancient Language”, which drops in Valencia, create the Valencia scrolls. Valencia scrolls give the most memory fragments, typically 5-9 per scrolls, averaging 6 or so. Forbidden book scrolls seem to average about 4-5 per scroll. Ancient Relic scrolls seem to drop 3-8, averaging close to 3 maybe 4 memory fragments per scroll.
There are also RNG mem frag drops as trash during these fights as well, so doing them with other people can slightly enhance your total number of memory fragments gained.
If you have questions, please ask! I am always willing to update this with suggestions and other ideas!
As with anything in BDO, it takes time, patience, and perseverance. With a little planning, you can minimize the frustration and pain of doing upgrades.
I hope this shows you how to win at the BDO enchanting game. It can take a month or so to get firmly grounded, but once you are, you are on your way to winning the enchant game.
Enchanting gear is at the core of Black Desert Online. Learning how to maximize your chances of success, and minimize the chances of being left with unusable gear, will make the game more enjoyable for you and everyone else as well.
With the addition of Blacksmith books, it’s easy to create a strategy to “win” at the enchanting game now. It does require a bit of money, and patience, but it can reward you well.
The key to winning at enchanting is to build yourself large stockpiles of blackstones, both weapon and armor, but moreso armor, because that’s how you will build failstacks.
So the first step in this process is identifying how to build reserves of blackstones reliably and quickly. The easiest way to do this is to do your daily Serendia boss scrolls. You can do them once a week. If you are level 56 and 150/150/200 or so in stats, you can solo any of the bosses, once you learn their moves, and, of course, it goes better and faster with friends and guildmates if you can get them to join in.
Your goal here is not boss gear, though if that drops, that is great. No, what you want from these scrolls are blackstones and hunter seals.
Hunter seals can be exchanged, in Trent and Tarif, for armor blackstones, weapon blackstones, and reform stones. Two hunter seals are an armor blackstone. Three hunter seals are a weapon blackstone. Let’s ignore the reform stones for now, ok?
By doing your boss scrolls weekly, you can collect enough seals to accumulate 40-70 armor blackstones per week, depending on RNG. Within a month’s time you should have 200-400 armor blackstones set aside. Don’t stop here, because you’ll want more. Just keep collecting seals and blackstones. With Ronin and Narc Brishka scrolls in Kamasylvia, I can get enough seals to collect 100-200 blackstones per week. I normally keep at least a backlog of 1000 armor stones around and at least 500 weapon stones. Often I have more. Build that reserve up! That’s your basis for winning the enchant game!
After you have more than 300 armor blackstones, take 250 or so plus about 30 million silver (maybe 40) in gold bars and go to Velia. The blacksmith in Velia, Trana Underfoe, sells Reblath armor for very cheap prices. Deposit your gold bars into cash in your account so you can spend as needed.
The remarkable thing about Reblath is that it is hard to enchant, almost boss hard, and definitely harder than greens. So buy any Reblath armor piece. I use gloves. And start enchanting. At first it will enchant pretty easily, but around +11 or +12, you’ll start to build fail stacks. Once you get a failstack to +15 to +16, stop. Talk to Tranan, and and buy the cheapest Blacksmith book, that can extract any failstack up to +20. These cost 1 million silver, but trust me, they are worth it. Extract that stack (reducing stack count to zero), and then start enchanting again.
Buy Reblath armor to repair whenever durability runs out. Do not bother to repair damage, just durability. Keep this up, extracting failstacks until you are out of stones, out of cash, or the item hits +15.
Some people advocate creating a negative karma alt to live in Velia, to take your +15 gear, wear that one thing, then get killed by a guard, to break it back down to +14. The alternatives are to either visit the local priest who can "cleanse" a +15 item down to +14 for a 100,000 silver donation, or to just extract the blackstones from that item and start again. How you handle it is up to you, and creating a negative karma alt is definitely a little more efficient if you want to bother with that. The second best, and my personal preference, is just to visit the local priest. The worst choice is to extract blackstones.
At the end of this process, you will have several +18 to +20 fail stacks. These are your main fuel for enchanting. Also, remember that for 500 loyalty, you can also buy Valk's Cry. These are items that allow you to add to your current Fail Stack. So if your Fail Stack is +16, you can add 4 Valk's Cry and it behaves like a +20 Fail Stack. Like the Fail Stack itself, Valk's Cry is consumed when you have a successful enchant.
Further, there is now a new kind of special blackstone, just for enchanting +13, +14, and +15 items. Each of these is aimed at a particular grade of gear. Stablized Magic Blackstone can enchant green quality gear to +13-+15 without risk of failure. Cleansed Magic Blackstone can do the same for blue quality gear. And then there is Flawless Magic Blackstone, which is required for gold quality gear. Note that the kind of stone you need depends on the items basic quality, not the item quality you might have achieved via item transformation. So if you have, for example, an Ultimate Rosar Longsword that is gold quality, you only need Stabilized Magic Blackstones since the base quality of all Rosars is green. These specialized blackstones are given out as part of events rarely or can be collected by fighting world bosses. They're not easy to get but they can be obtained and make enchantment a little easier.
You can use these stored fail stacks, valk's cries, and special blackstones, to take any weapon or armor item to +13,+14, +15, PRI, or DUO. As you do so, occasionally one item might be stubborn. If your DUO stack goes beyond about +28, extract it and save it. It has now become a TRI starter stack. Set that aside, load another DUO stack, and keep on going.
I like to have 2-3 DUO stacks to take any item to DUO from PRI. I figure on average, I’ll get one of those as a TRI stack every second or third armor or weapon item I am enchanting.
When doing TRI enchants, I want one each TRI stack for any item I am trying to enchant to TRI. I also want 3-4 DUO stacks to recover DUO if it gets lost due to a failed TRI attempt. If TRI fails, immediately extract the stack, load a DUO stack, and get DUO back. Then reload the TRI stack, and proceed.
If any TRI stack goes above +45, STOP, and extract that stack. This is now a TET starter stack. The only way to extract stacks above +50 is via a kind of blacksmith book only available from the Pearl Shop, so I don't recommend doing that at all.
If you run out of DUO stacks, STOP, and do not try anything further until you can rebuild your supply of fail stacks. In other words, if your last DUO stack gets DUO back and now you have no more, do not try that TRI stack again. Wait so that you won’t have to play with a PRI enchant weapon or armor piece.
To attempt TET, you want one TET starter stack for an ALT character, because if it goes about +50 you don't want to pay real money to extract it. You also want 5-7 TRI recovery stacks, and 15-20 DUO recovery stacks. The ALT character will be the one doing TET attempts. When they fail, place the item in storage, log over to your main character who has the Advice of Valks fail stacks stored, and recover the TRI level however many stacks it takes. Then swap back to the ALT, and attempt TET again. Rinse and repeat until you succeed. Stop if you run out of TRI or DUO recovery stacks to minimize your damage.
Now in addition to all of this, if you are doing boss armor or boss weapons, you will also need to save memory fragments. These come from a different type of scroll, but these scrolls are assembled from pieces that drop around the world.
The most popular but least efficient memory frag scrolls come from Ancient Relics. Ancient Relics can also be fished up with AFK fishing, which is why they are popular. Forbidden books create the scrolls for the Mediah level memory frag bosses, and “Scroll Written in an Ancient Language”, which drops in Valencia, create the Valencia scrolls. Valencia scrolls give the most memory fragments, typically 5-9 per scrolls, averaging 6 or so. Forbidden book scrolls seem to average about 4-5 per scroll. Ancient Relic scrolls seem to drop 3-8, averaging close to 3 maybe 4 memory fragments per scroll.
There are also RNG mem frag drops as trash during these fights as well, so doing them with other people can slightly enhance your total number of memory fragments gained.
If you have questions, please ask! I am always willing to update this with suggestions and other ideas!
As with anything in BDO, it takes time, patience, and perseverance. With a little planning, you can minimize the frustration and pain of doing upgrades.
I hope this shows you how to win at the BDO enchanting game. It can take a month or so to get firmly grounded, but once you are, you are on your way to winning the enchant game.
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