Weird q. How do people gain motivation to grind?

[Dumbrik]

I am stuck..at farming at centaurus for quite some time\
Keep trying to get the gear for orks.. but I am barely 271/269/325 (still need to do some books for ap which Ill end up with 280~)
But still most of my needed gear is the fallen god one which either way I do it with Caphras or just buy it for some extra mills
So if Ill just farm my candle points every day it will still take around a month(doing imperial cooking and farming everyday)

It just.. gets boring to stay stuck at a place like that... My hp doesnt even go down is so.. mindlessly..

Like whats your motivation overall to farm the same spot everyday on your own?
(Not trying to say that is a bad game or smth just that I am getting burnout with only 1h per day.. and even after a month of vacation)

[Mugzz]

I don't thats why I have 35 lvl 61 toons and one set of gear between them.

[Tsel13]

What I do to keep from going into a blank stare with drool dripping from my mouth is....
I only grind an hour a day.
I also change up my grind spots.
Some days I grind at the Necropolis. Other days I grind at Ronaros. Other days at Poly's. Other days at Roud Sulfur Mines. Other days at Desert Fogans and other days Upper or Lower Sycraia.
You have to change up the areas you grind or else you're going to get burnt out.
Yes, some areas make much more trash loot than others, but what good is that when you burn yourself out.
The other thing I do is I have a second main that is purely life skill.
Sometimes I go months doing only life skills before I go back to grinding.
You have to find what works for you, so you don't start dreading the game and you can keep enjoying it.

Yes, Fallen God is the best armor out there right now, but Boss gear with Caphras can still get you into the High-Tier low end areas. Don't be in a rush to burn yourself out. Take it casually. 😊

[Drandok]

Originally posted by Tsel13:

What I do to keep from going into a blank stare with drool dripping from my mouth is....
I only grind an hour a day.
I also change up my grind spots.
Some days I grind at the Necropolis. Other days I grind at Ronaros. Other days at Poly's. Other days at Roud Sulfur Mines. Other days at Desert Fogans and other days Upper or Lower Sycraia.
You have to change up the areas you grind or else you're going to get burnt out.
Yes, some areas make much more trash loot than others, but what good is that when you burn yourself out.
The other thing I do is I have a second main that is purely life skill.
Sometimes I go months doing only life skills before I go back to grinding.
You have to find what works for you, so you don't start dreading the game and you can keep enjoying it.

Yes, Fallen God is the best armor out there right now, but Boss gear with Caphras can still get you into the High-Tier low end areas. Don't be in a rush to burn yourself out. Take it casually. 😊

For some people (myself included) It really has nothing to do with the amount of grinding and moreso the spots themselves. If I grind at a spot and I don't feel it, I just go somewhere else. I was at Giants to get my Pen BS for 2 weeks straight because I loved the spot, and then when I finished it I felt like Gyfins and went there instead. The same mentality can be applied to low-end as well as high-end spots. For grinding it really boils down to what you want to do, there's always another goal, always another item for you to pursue. You don't need whatever you think you need RIGHT NOW, there's always something else to get until you feel like getting that thing. I suggest to set personal goals for trash/hr and work hard to beat your record. If you're the type of person who likes beating personal records, you'd be surprised how far that can take you in BDO before you even feel like you're grinding at all. For me that's the joy of it, knowing I got 100 more trash this hour or 10 more caphras stones is enough for me. The mentality for 700 GS is different for everyone, and the 'right' way to do it is the way that keeps you going. If you don't like grinding Centaurs, don't do it. There's plenty of other spots that offer the same money or this or that, even up to the uber spots like Dekhia, pick the spot you ENJOY, not the 'best' spot. Because something to learn as soon as possible about BDO, is the best grind is your favorite one.

[Uzkniso o.o]

Dunno. I'm currently grinding Hystria for compass, need that last Elten piece.

Guess, it's not about motivation for me. It's perseverance.

Though, the drop rate is such nonsense, that I literally had to look up youtube videos of people dropping this thing, because I started to think that what I'm going for, does not exist. I am not joking.

Can't believe there are players who dropped Elten piece in an hour of grind.

[SaltyWeasel]

To me grinding always has been a form of meditation, putting some music on and just reflect on life.

[Uzkniso o.o]

Originally posted by SaltyWeasel:

putting some music on and just reflect on life.

Hah, yea, I do the same. I no longer remember what BDO sounds like, everything has been muted for years.

[Drandok]

Originally posted by Uzkniso o.o:

Can't believe there are players who dropped Elten piece in an hour of grind.

That's me, got it in my first fifteen minutes at upper gyfin during treasure event and I'm over 50 hours in without Vodkan now :D

[Zhaeph]

Originally posted by Uzkniso o.o:

Dunno. I'm currently grinding Hystria for compass, need that last Elten piece.

Guess, it's not about motivation for me. It's perseverance.

Though, the drop rate is such nonsense, that I literally had to look up youtube videos of people dropping this thing, because I started to think that what I'm going for, does not exist. I am not joking.

Can't believe there are players who dropped Elten piece in an hour of grind.

one person dropped Elten by doing Atoraxxion...

[Nhika]

A lot of players are duo screened with movies on the side... as they are like 1 button grinding with Guardian or something lol

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

Originally posted by Nhika:

A lot of players are duo screened with movies on the side... as they are like 1 button grinding with Guardian or something lol

...or they are watching Twitch on the other monitor for the Twitch drops . Gotta make as much progress as you can.

[Agemos]

Try mirumok in a 2 or 3 person group with guildies or friends. Centaurs are pretty terrible anyway, they just happen to be the easiest place to grind out bmc's and yonas. TBH if i still needed them id rather just grind somewhere else and buy the bmc's for magic shards, belts for yonas than waste my time at centaurs, despite youtubers claiming you can get like 800 mil an hour there or whatever hype of the week they are saying...

Group zones are more fun anyway, stacking buffs/debuffs and just talking to people, not really worried about if your being super efficient or not. Miru has a pretty nice caphras rate aswell, generally 20-30 an hour with node investment; At your dp, they can actually kill you too, if your not paying attention or a dp shai that is.

They drop accuracy artifacts too, which help a lot when you move on to more end-game esque mobs.

[Hosenbund]

Try switching the spots up. grind some other spots, do lifeskills, grind horizontal content, play other classes, and so on.
if you only do the same thing over and over again you will end up burning out from this game.
If you switch your activities up, then its the most amazing grind game out there

keep in mind that stuff like lifeskilling and building a worker empire is an absurd amount of low effort income.
This game is a marathon, not a sprint.
To me it sounds like u try to make a sprint out of it, by only doing the highest income per hour thing, when its actually bad to do in this game in the long run.
Imagine you can do hundreds of millions per day ingame by basically doing almost nothing and just keeping the game running..maybe clicking something every hour or so.
maybe it could even go up to billions, but im not that far yet.

Im at least 90% sure you dont have stuff like a worker empire and you dont really lifeskill from what you told in your post.
Work on your overall account, not just on whats the most profitable thing in the next hour.

[Dumbrik]

Originally posted by Hosenbund:

Try switching the spots up. grind some other spots, do lifeskills, grind horizontal content, play other classes, and so on.
if you only do the same thing over and over again you will end up burning out from this game.
If you switch your activities up, then its the most amazing grind game out there

keep in mind that stuff like lifeskilling and building a worker empire is an absurd amount of low effort income.
This game is a marathon, not a sprint.
To me it sounds like u try to make a sprint out of it, by only doing the highest income per hour thing, when its actually bad to do in this game in the long run.
Imagine you can do hundreds of millions per day ingame by basically doing almost nothing and just keeping the game running..maybe clicking something every hour or so.
maybe it could even go up to billions, but im not that far yet.

Im at least 90% sure you dont have stuff like a worker empire and you dont really lifeskill from what you told in your post.
Work on your overall account, not just on whats the most profitable thing in the next hour.

I do have a worker empire, I just dont know what to do with the resources they make.
With some I can make food which is aight but I have no idea what to do with like wood or ores.
While on lifeskill I am trying to make my cooking skills to.. ug Guru I think? For the imperial thingy... but I still have to let that shai semi-afk cooking for at least 4-5 hrs...
Used to also have a farm till it got boring cause something broke the prices on what I was selling.. and stopped

[Uzkniso o.o]

Originally posted by D u m b r i:

I do have a worker empire, I just dont know what to do with the resources they make.
With some I can make food which is aight but I have no idea what to do with like wood or ores.

Use wood and ore to level up processing. You can also make crates, but I don't recommend that.

Originally posted by D u m b r i:

While on lifeskill I am trying to make my cooking skills to.. ug Guru I think? For the imperial thingy... but I still have to let that shai semi-afk cooking for at least 4-5 hrs...

It's best to hunt for meat, then cook it.

Originally posted by D u m b r i:

Used to also have a farm till it got boring cause something broke the prices on what I was selling.. and stopped

Farming is only worth it if you're getting bottleneck mats, like pepper or garlic. If you're not getting that, then don't bother.

[Mad]

Oh, I hate desert. I've spent there 6 months+, but it burned my eyes out.
I have switched to the forest zones (Kama) and I am farming different spots there, money is crap in compare, but mobs are more fun.
I totally understand the burn out feeling, especially while you're not really feeling hits from mobs, that's why I like mobs with mechanics that would engage me more.

I would recommend what everyone else has already recommended - switch grind spots. I would personally go for the ones that you still lack knowledge of; it really does not matter which as the desert spots are one of the most profitable that are out there.

You have more AP than I do so those might be easier for you, but once you'd be done with desert:
- Miru (solo, or group) is very fun; the mobs have mechanics that you need to look out for (aka' avoid red circles) and some of them are sponges.
- Thornwood Forest is definitely one of my favorites; especially if you can find a partner to duo with as then you'd have 20 of them at you and you can die easily if you're not careful. The mobs had quite a variety of CC, but those were all switched to knockback with today's patch, so it should be easier.

For a chill grind (when watching movies on other screen) I prefer to go to Ronas or if I'm desperate for Caphras - Manshum.