LoML Purpose?

[Karna5]

I'm currently in the fifth or sixth story unlock for Land of Morning Light (hard to be sure since they often flow into each other without me realizing a new story began).

I'm countless hours into this (it's around two or three hours per story), and I'm struggling with the worst impediment in a PC game: Boredom.

Mind numbing, painful, want to cry boredom.

I've been hit three times with the bug in which it puts me into combat without me being able to move or attack until eventually I die helpless or give up and reset in futility. But these are just bugs.

I've been hit 1,000,000,000 by the friggin annoyance in which I pull out my awakening weapon, and the game puts me back to main hand. so i switch back, and it switches me away. And I switch back, and it switches me away.

So far two or three times I've beaten boss monsters in story and then had a cut scene saying I lost the fight (gosh that's stupid).

The character voice actors are all over the place. One guy talks in Texas drawl, and another talks in stereotypical California surfer (or valley girl), and the over acting melodrama is so absurd it should be funny, but it's not. It just makes me not care about the actors.

When I was playing Red Dead Online they'd periodically introduce characters who were very interesting. Villains that made me hate them or quest givers who delighted me and wanted me to visit them for quests and their shop. But I have not met a single interesting character yet in LoML.

I'm told there will be fourteen stories to unlock. I've no clue if that's true, but I know my GUI shows me 8, and I'm struggling to care.

What exactly is the point of doing these story unlocks?

I have no interest in Boss Blitz. In fact, I literally despise the idea of doing it based on my understanding of its mechanics.

So is there an actual reason beside quest count to do LoML? I don't seem to be getting any rewards which will help me in my BDO characters or game.

I don't get caphras. I don't get crystalized despair or silver or PEN boss gear (like Magnus). It doesn't seem to offer anything at all useful.

Is there a reason to suffer this life killing boredom doing this quest chain?

[TheWarden]

If you are playing BDO for the story....then stop. It is bad, has always been bad, and will always be bad.

[Boomer Click Bait]

The best part about the story is pressing R

[Karna5]

I finally made it to the end of Land of Morning Light story quests yesterday, so for the curious I found the answer to the question I posed which is what's the purpose.

There are twelve boss stories and one epilogue. Around two thirds of the way through the progression you get +1 DP. At the end of the epilogue you get +1 AP.

That's it. There doesn't seem to be any other impact on our characters. The whole thing is essentially a side game unrelated to BDO.

With all the other regions the main quest gives us gear and offers areas with monsters and loot we can use toward our character progression. With LoML completing the story missions just leaves an empty land with nothing to do related to our character progression.

[Daggoth]

Y'know when people ask what they want in BDO and there's one guy who goes "I'd really like a focussed storyline expansion, even if it has nothing to do with the black spirit"?
This is the storyline for that one guy.

That said the thrust of the stories is pretty decent, especially in the second stack of Tales when they link it all together. It's just that the minute-to-minute storytelling is blegh.
I even liked the little epilogue quest which is just tongue-in-cheek dumb.
I played with Japanese voices so their VOs don't trip my stereotyping gag reflex as easy.

Never playing through them again though.
LoML is, currently at least, a one-and-done experience for many players, much like Port Ratt was back then. You go there to have been there.
There's some lifeskill stuff and the boss blitzes so maybe keep an alt there if you care.

[joj0.st4r]

the boss rewards can give you a nice jackpot in dropping the fallen god gloves
then you have the crystals and accessories that drop

you have alot of contribution points for no effort + giving you the island coin for beutiful and strange herb

and you have lifeskills to do for crystals and you can go around collecting beutiful and strange herb

the energy recovery potion you can make from that herb is too good
and I mean if you do not lifeskill
you could just sell it

[Karna5]

Originally posted by joj0.st4r:

the boss rewards can give you a nice jackpot in dropping the fallen god gloves
then you have the crystals and accessories that drop

you have alot of contribution points for no effort + giving you the island coin for beutiful and strange herb

and you have lifeskills to do for crystals and you can go around collecting beutiful and strange herb

the energy recovery potion you can make from that herb is too good
and I mean if you do not lifeskill
you could just sell it

Jojostar, is that can drop or will drop. For instance, in normal BDO you get combat experience, skill experience, silver, guaranteed trash loot and regular valuable loot just from fighting mosnters.

In Boss Blitz, even if you fail to beat the boss, do you get combat XP, skill XP, guaranteed trash loot and consistent rate of valuable drops per hour?

Something that has a chance of something for success where it takes even veteran players as much as fourteen hours to beat a boss is not a reward. A chance of reward doesn't count.

For instance, let's say I'm 42% into 62nd level. How much XP will I get in an hour of boss blitz regardless of success? Will I progress in level experience just from playing?

Let's say I'm trying to save another 4 1/2 billion so I can buy something. How much silver will I make per hour in boss blitz regardless of success?

Let's say I'm trying to save up 3000 caphras. How many caphras will I get per hour? How many accessories will I get per hour even if I fail to beat the boss?

I hear a lot about that valuable things CAN drop. But how much WILL drop per hour, and how much will my character grow in her goals per hour?

[Daggoth]

Not sure if you're aware and having a poke or not, but boss blitz isn't grindable. You get a max of 5 reward packs a week.
LoML isn't another grind zone (unless you do sniper hunting). It's quite obviously set up as a unique area where you don't just run circles for 8 hours a day (unless you sniper hunt lol).
A strange land beyond the ocean where the normal doesn't apply, and mystical tales interweave into whatever and whatsit blah blah blah.

Once you've "experienced the wonder" of the storyline, it's just 5 bosses (of your choice) a week for the chance of a jackpot on Sundays.
Don't read too much into it. Just R Spam as usual if you don't care about the story and burn through it so you get the option at least of boss blitzing for potentially good rewards.

[Karna5]

Originally posted by Daggoth:

Not sure if you're aware and having a poke or not, but boss blitz isn't grindable. You get a max of 5 reward packs a week.
LoML isn't another grind zone (unless you do sniper hunting). It's quite obviously set up as a unique....

I wasn't and am not kidding. That's my whole point. LoML is disconnected from BDO. It has nothing to do with it. It's a side game at best.

The time you spend in LoML does not help your characters. It doesn't give you experience nor silver nor useful items for the time you spend in it. It's wasted time for those of us who are still, after 13.6 thousand hours, still trying to build our characters so we can do some of the harder areas.

LoML does not help us toward that goal. It's quite frankly a waste of time in the context of BDO progress.

[ToryJJ]

boss blitz/crystal slots.
thats what im doing loml for.
storyline?
ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Koreans are bad at writing interesting characters/Making good boss fights that are telegraphed and actually doable in a decent amount of time
So Ill most likely be looking up a guide to do LOML boss rush.

[Daggoth]

Originally posted by Karna5:

The time you spend in LoML does not help your characters. It doesn't give you experience nor silver nor useful items for the time you spend in it. It's wasted time for those of us who are still, after 13.6 thousand hours, still trying to build our characters so we can do some of the harder areas.

LoML does not help us toward that goal. It's quite frankly a waste of time in the context of BDO progress.

After 13.6 thousand hours, you can afford to spend 10 being less than 110% optimal max hyper grind.
Not everything in the game has to be hyper focussed on hyper gains for the hyper tryhards.

LoML is, quite bluntly, korean pandering. It's mini-korea with koreans doing korean things because that's what the Koreans that make up a large part of BDOs userbase want.
Don't want to spend a few hours exploring the new land? Then forfeit and head back to the mainland and forget this zone ever existed.
There is the +1 AP/DP on offer for doing the tales though, and you unlock crystal slots and new weekly bosses. So either deal or leave basically, complaining won't change anything.

[Nhika]

Boss blitz = best crystals in game atm, only way to get them and to get Dahns gloves.
If not, make those orcs in elvia extinct lmao

[tadsaine]

i am coming back to BDO after a very long time away. my experience with the new expansion has been mixed. on one hand, i like that there are not zones of monsters to grind, but at the same time the story is weak which makes progression a bit of a chore.

i wish that player housing worked the same way as it does on the mainland - i really love the life skills aspect of this game, and LotML isn't as compelling in this regard. hopefully there will be more continuity in the future.

that said, i love the landscapes, the music and atmosphere. it just feels a little too disconnected from the rest of the game right now but i'm willing to give it time. this game is so deep and that i'm still feeling overwhelmed (but totally getting sucked in) with how much has changed since i last played!

[Tyrone Biggums]

idk why story even exists in bdo magnus was by far the worst for me those puzzles can eat my @#%#RW

[Karna5]

Originally posted by Nhika:

Boss blitz = best crystals in game atm, only way to get them and to get Dahns gloves.
If not, make those orcs in elvia extinct lmao

The crystals don't matter to me because they get smashed on death, and they're too expensive so make the death penalty too extreme. I'd never use a crystal worth more than a few million silver unless it can't be smashed.

But I'm really not clear on the gloves. Can I get the gloves just for playing Boss Blitz, or do I have to win boss blitz? What if I play boss blitz for several hours but lose. Do I get anything just for playing? And if I win, is it guaranteed gloves, or is it RNG?

The RNG in this game is already brutalizing me (24+ attempts to PEN armor pieces, 24+ attempts just to try to TRI a godr aye and still failing, etcetera). If it's just more RNG then it sounds like maybe there's no reward for failure and probably no reward for success?

Clarification would be nice. Thanks :)

[Daggoth]

There are about 10 bosses in boss blitz, and 10 (7 currently) difficulties for each. These are always available, just go to the location and shout "fite me 1v1 scrublord!" (or hit the boss blitz button up the top of the screen).
You can fight whoever you want at whatever difficulty you want as often as you want until you win 5 times.
If you've already done some of the tales, I think you should be able to fight some of the bosses already, the rest unlock as you do their tales.
Once you win 5 different fights (difference in either boss or difficulties), you can't fight any others, however you can repeat the ones you won to better your own clear times.
The resets on Sunday 12:00am at which point you are able to claim rewards for the fights you have won in the previous week. Losses mean nothing and get nothing but you don't lose anything (I don't think crystals break in there?). Your top 5 wins get prizes.

The reward bundles have a RNG chance for the gloves. The chance is better the higher difficulty you cleared, as well as your rank in the clear times.

It's just like regular bosses that you fight and win a box which might have a garmoth heart, but at these are solo, on demand, and you can go nuts trying to beat your best clear times if that's your jam. It has leaderboards and timers and full esporting.

The official guide https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=339