Cairenn Tairisiu's Gaming Thoughts

At the point where I'm writing this post, I'm a member of Greythorne, originally founded as a role-play guild but expanded now to a "social" guild, but where roleplayers are welcome and much of the guild leadership are active roleplayers as well. Still, even as roleplayers, people seek to improve their characters over time. I often get criticized for not selling off gear but it's just not my style. As a consequence, I have two level 60 characters. Both of them are in full boss armor and full boss weapons. There are two "shorthand" ways to express the state of your character's gear in BDO. The first is to list the three main stats that show on your inventory page. These are attack power, awakened attack power, and defensive power, also known as AP/AAP/DP. The other way is to just give your renown score (called RS and sometimes intermixed with GS), which is a composite score based on the above three stats plus some formulaic tweaking. My Dark Knigh...

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 ...