in 2019 are you still forced to play awakening weapons?

[🌟booma🌟 🚴🎧]

greetings i liked black desert but awakening weapons were annoying i liked the play style with warrior and striker but their awakening weapons suck.are standard weapons vaild or do i have to play with awakening weapons in 65+ content ?

[Lord Odin]

When a class is awakened your not forced to use the awakening weapon, you can switch between both. I prefer Witch using the staff and very rarely use the awakening weapon, it's your choice, you can carry on playing a pre-awakened class just don't use the memory fragment that takes you past level 50.

[123]

Originally posted by Volk:

Originally posted by iNoc:

Thats just dumb saying that you will be forced to switch playstyles to something you dont like. First of all, you should choose a class that has an awakening that you like, not the non awakening weapon. If you feel forced to switch playstyles to something you hate, then why did you even choose the class?

I'm sorry, as a new player how am I supposed to experience an awakening play-style until i actually get to awakening?

You are correct, Volk.

You are also fortunate that currently it is very easy to get to level 56+ and test out the awakened play style for each class. Test the classes and find what you enjoy playing. Alternate characters are extremely useful to have for many things so know that you have not wasted any time here.

Save yourself some silver and work the "King of the Arena" quest line to get your Black Abyssal weapon box. The Black Abyssal Weapon is a main hand equivalent to PRI - DUO level and can be converted from class to class once per week . You "re-box" it - hand it to another class - have them open it and the weapon becomes usable for their class. It's perfect for testing alts without investing the silver.

[Shosin]

Did this man just say warriors awakening sucks this mans high af

[🌟booma🌟 🚴🎧]

Originally posted by ★ Hell Boy ★:

Did this man just say warriors awakening sucks this mans high af

i started to play bdo when there were no awakening weapons.
i liked my warrior in vanilla as the ranger and wizzard but i dont like any awakening weapons so i quit.

[Malitias]

Originally posted by Lord Odin:

When a class is awakened your not forced to use the awakening weapon, you can switch between both. I prefer Witch using the staff and very rarely use the awakening weapon, it's your choice, you can carry on playing a pre-awakened class just don't use the memory fragment that takes you past level 50.

So you're suggestion is to intentionally gimp your own character so you can't do any higher level content? What a mess.

Originally posted by 123:

Originally posted by Volk:

I'm sorry, as a new player how am I supposed to experience an awakening play-style until i actually get to awakening?

You are correct, Volk.

You are also fortunate that currently it is very easy to get to level 56+ and test out the awakened play style for each class. Test the classes and find what you enjoy playing. Alternate characters are extremely useful to have for many things so know that you have not wasted any time here.

It still takes quite a significant amount of time to get to that level, just to find out whether or not the awakening weapon is something you actually like. The game totally disrespects the players time investment in that regard.

[mana🌎🌍🌏🇺🇸🇳🇱]

I must be very unique. No hate please -- but I chose a class based on NON Awakening. A year into the game and I have no interest in ever becoming Awakened. I LOVE the game. Yes - I respect players becoming Awakened. IMO do you have to to do it to enjoy the game? no. I am satisfied and grinding all over the place / making money / enjoying the story and the quests and the grinding. Is there anyone else doing this? Because I am very satisfied. cheers <3

[🌟booma🌟 🚴🎧]

Originally posted by mana🌎🌍🌏🇺🇸🇳🇱:

I must be very unique. No hate please -- but I chose a class based on NON Awakening. A year into the game and I have no interest in ever becoming Awakened. I LOVE the game. Yes - I respect players becoming Awakened. IMO do you have to to do it to enjoy the game? no. I am satisfied and grinding all over the place / making money / enjoying the story and the quests and the grinding. Is there anyone else doing this? Because I am very satisfied. cheers <3

i would love to do it also but im afraid to get farmed in pvp and to be to weak for the new regions.
how big is the difference between awakend and vanilla?