Inventory management in this game is a disaster!

[AnHonestSoul]

Since there hasn't been a quality MMO released for several years me and wifey thought we give BDO another try. We play the game on our ROG Ally's (handheld) and GamePass version though for its better controller support.

Starting fresh from the first beginner path was defnitely a better experience than the middle path you could choose back then (couldn't get past level 18). We didn't try the third one because we not really into anything too "asian". Now we made it to lvl 30 even. BUT... our inventories are constantly full! Every couple meters we get literally flooded with fking rewards. Doing season stuff, turning in quests, and what not. We got rewards for + inventory space but it doesn't help the slighest our inventories keep getting full again and again!

I am not sure if this is some way to motivate players to sticking with the game or if this just one of many ways to get players to purchasing convinience things like inventory and storage space. Maybe even a mixture of both. But as it stands. inventory management is a hot mess. Its a disaster. This has never been as much of an annoyance in any other game we played. Rewards actually feel punishing here because of that. Gotta run to storage guy to bank stuff, gotta buy storage for more space, gotta buy inventory slots on top, while all of this is still not enough the inventory/bank is full again within an hour or two of playing. These devs can't be serious?!

How are you guys solving this? Do you just spend hours sorting everything again and again and buy slots and bank stuff everywhere possible? Or is that an easier way to it? We didn't expect this game be an item management simulator. We just wanna fight mobs and craft and go to sea fights as soon as we can. Constant item flood is already draining the fun out of the game for us though.

[Zen]

You make a town your capital and start mass buying storage and dumb everything except trash item, trash item you sell. Everything else goes into storage

[AnHonestSoul]

We just spent a little more than half an hour sorting our inventories and banking stuff. And now we found another tab where we can accept rewards! Countless things we have overlooked even. Another hundred or so items incoming.

Jesus Christ devs!?

[AnHonestSoul]

Originally posted by Zen:

You make a town your capital and start mass buying storage and dumb everything except trash item, trash item you sell. Everything else goes into storage

Ok so there is no other way around buying even more inventory and storage space then? Like some addon that helps with sorting or at least showing me whats worthwhile to keep and what isn't? We already thinking about just selling everything to the vendor and market place since we either don't know what half of these things are even there for nor do we find any kind of use for anything outside of boosts and new gear/mounts.

Also why is there no male viking class? Odin is not amused about this decission!

[BLANK]

Game teaches you how important inventory mangement is fairly early on. My characters have around 2500 weight and it still gets annoying in some grind spots.
I never have problems with inventory slots though. You have to make use of the storage. Worthless equip and stuff that you don't need you can throw in the trash bin.

About you guys not being into "asian" stuff... a huge chunk of the game has asian themes. The arabian influenced desert cities, the whole new continent as well as many other places.
I mean, it's an asian game. Basically has everything from west to east asian stuff.

Your main source of income once you finish the tutorial (lvl 56+ when you unlock your awakening/succession) is trash loot. You basically collect thousands of items and sell them to an npc.

Some tips for you guys:

Throughout the story, especially early on, I wouldn't anything unless the game tells you to via the quest tracker. I'd even turn off my pets. Turn them on once you grind on a spot for a long time.

Horses! When you grind a spot and you have thousands of trash items of a kind, bring it to your horse. Even if it overloads your horse it doesn't matter. Later on when you leave, walk to the horse, grab your stuff, become encumbered and hop on your horse to ride away without any problems.

Use your loyalty points (from the daily login) and buy inventory space and weight with that in the loyalty category.

Wait for weight sale events if you want to spend some money on your character as those are pretty good. You shouldn't need to buy inventory slots as they hand out inventory fairly frequently as event rewards.

Inventory might seem important early on but the real important thing is weight.

You can expand your storage spaces for free by renting houses with your contribution points in cities. The storage space you unlock only counts for the city in which you rent houses.
You shouldn't need to buy storage space for $ ever. It's a waste of money, especially since there's so much better stuff to get if you really want to spend money on the game. (Tent, value pack, weight)

Having the game on during nights and leveling strength might not be a bad idea for your first character if you don't feel like spending a lot of money yet. Google on how to raise you're strength efficiently.

Food! Invest in food from the auction house. The simple meals should give you 100 weight for their duration (if I'm not mistaken) among other things like 30 AP against monsters. They're a must have later on in the game and worth investing into if you don't want to cook yourself.

The whole game is basically a "how much money can I make" sandbox. lol
Making money will always be your main priority, either through grinding monsters or using life skills, so don't have too high expectations regarding the endgame. In BDO it's all about the journey.

Hope I could help a bit!

[lewellyn]

OK, a few things, as someone who's been playing less than a month...

1. Don't claim from the Black Spirit Safe if the item isn't expiring and you aren't going to use it immediately. It's free storage and much of the stuff stacks up in there.

2. Don't *buy* inventory/storage with IRL money. At least not until level 60 and beyond. There's plenty of free storage in game.

3. Use your CP to expand your storage and keep current with your Magnus/Abyss One/well quest line while you do Main Story so that you can access the storage of all cities at all times, instead. You'll eventually use that CP for other things, but in the mean time, why let it sit there unused and wasted when it can be invested as free storage?

4. The game will literally keep throwing inventory expansions at you as you keep playing. And there are many side quests for more. You can get at least *near* the limit of 192 inventory slots for just questing and leveling. (I think I'm at 167 now and I have a couple expansions in my storage I might put on the character I timepiece at end of Season.)

5. Use your newbie inventory that was introduced last week. It's the third weird graphic down on the left of your equipment when you hit i, currently without a tooltip.

6. Use your horse for a few more inventory slots while questing. (And your campsite, for even more, if you bought one.)

7. Get Storage and Market Maids/Butlers. You get at least a few from questing, over time. I'd say at least one of each at first would be a good investment, because...

8. Use the Central Market Warehouse as a *ton* of free storage. It's especially good for the things that don't stack, like Forbidden Books, since they *will* in the Warehouse! And the Warehouse can also store things that can be accessed from any zone, which is potentially helpful if you don't want to do Magnus.

9. If you get items that open into things that you already have stacks of, open them. There's no point in multiple inventory slots being used for the same items.

10. Use your scrolls that don't stack. Especially at level 56+. They don't stack because they're designed to be used!

11. Take the time to keep your inventory and storage clean. This includes sitting there and hitting the Auto-Move button on each city prior to moving things out of Inventory and into Storage, so that you don't have two or more stacks of things. If you think you do, use the Find My Item to move them to your inventory (new as of this week!), and then put them back into one stack in one city's Storage.

12. Don't use things from your Pearl Inventory that will move into your Normal Inventory, until you're ready to use them. The Pearl Inventory is its own system of management so don't even worry about that one.

13. You'll get Family Inventory at 60, from a quest. Other quests will increase the weight limits and number of slots slightly, so that you can avoid spending pearls there immediately as well.

14. Don't be afraid to sell obvious junk loot to NPCs. (All junk loot is grey, but not all grey loot is junk, so beware.)

15. Don't life skill until later in the game. It *will* start consuming a lot of inventory/storage really quickly. Anything you've collected and don't need? Just go and sell it on the Central Market and forget you ever had it.

16. Don't Central Market anything else yet, since there's a good chance you'll end up needing it and buying it back, losing silver in the long run.

17. Store your Silver in the Central Market Warehouse, to make it easier to buy from the warehouse (Esc menu and then the Central Market at the top of the menu).

18. Sell all your currency at Storage vendors. They have a Currency window. The Currency in your inventory will be highlighted. Just right click them all and sell max quantity. If a quest wants a Gold Bar or something, I can guarantee you can find one from a quest somewhere if you don't want to pay the 10% fee to get another Gold Bar.

19. Join a solid guild. Especially one that's able and willing to help you figure things out as you share your screen on Discord while doing voice chat.

20. Use your energy to ask questions in Server (orange) chat and there's also the Lunar Halo Inn chat group (one of the blue ones) that is aimed at new players.

I'm pretty sure I forgot a ton. But I can attest that, while inventory management in this game can be overwhelming, it's not unbearable once you start figuring it out. And they've been actively focused on making it better lately, which is also very good.

Also, if you haven't, be sure to read the GM's New Adventurer A-Z thing they recently posted. I wished that I had it on day 1, when I saw it.

I seriously didn't intend to write a whole novel, but these are the things I've learned. Hopefully they help you.