What Should I do with my money?

[FargoTony]

Im just now hitting level 54 and Im currently sitting at 103 AP and about 90 DP as lahn and I dont know if i should buy gear or what util I have more money. I currently have about 380 million and from what Ive seen its no where near alot of money so Im confused on what I need to do, any feedback is appreciated thank you.

[Karna5]

Buying weapons has pretty good returns with money, but 54th level is a little early to start spending. I'd go to at least 56th level then decide if you want to go awakening (a different weapon than you're using now) or succession (what you're using now).

Also while 380 million is a heck of a lot early in the game, eventually you'll be making that at least weekly, so don't worry too much about making spending mistakes except with regard to enhancement resources.

Be stingy with cron stones and fail stack scrolls and memory fragments [edit: and artisan's memory]. Consider not spending many of those until you've been playing longer and get a good feel for what's valuable.

But when you hit level 56 or 57, spend away. You'll make it back and be able to spend away again :)

[Karna5]

Post script: I've been making full gear sets for several of my alts who lost all their weapons and armor a week or two ago, and 380 million can easily get one character to 200ish AP/AW and 260+ DP, but you need to know more about what to make and buy. So for now, when you hit level 56 or 57, just spend away, and you'll get better at spending later :)

[Karna5]

Post post script: If you go awakening, instead of buying a good main hand weapon initially, do the Media main quest all the way to the very end. That'll get you a decent main hand Obsidian Abyssal main hand weapon which will get you by until you get good awakening weapon, off hand weapon and armor. Then come back and buy/make a decent main hand weapon.

[Tsel13]

Hold onto your money and focus on upgrading your Naru Armor and Weapons to PEN.
Then exchange your PEN Naru to Narchillan. This will allow you to save up your silver and get pretty decent top mid-level gear.

Being new, try watching and reading all things about Failstacks that is current. I know this will make your eyes roll up under your eyelids, but it is a major aspect of BDO. The knowledge you will be using often. 😊

[Karna5]

Originally posted by Tsel13:

...Then exchange your PEN Naru to Narchillan.....

FYI, non-Season characters cannot do that. They have no access to the Narchillan gear and cannot exchange naru gear.

[Tsel13]

Originally posted by Karna5:

Originally posted by Tsel13:

...Then exchange your PEN Naru to Narchillan.....

FYI, non-Season characters cannot do that. They have no access to the Narchillan gear and cannot exchange naru gear.

Seasonal Character is Naru to Tuvala.
Non-Seasonal is Naru to Narchillan (This one can only be done once per family).
In fact one of my Non-Seasonal Characters (that never played in a Season event) is fully equipped with Narchillan gear that it converted through Fughar. 😊
EDIT: I also use a PEN Asula set with this alt, because you get a lot of 'Dew of Tranquil Forest' when grinding mobs in Polly’s Forest and Fadus Habitat. Which is traded in for the weakened Asula items. Yes, upgrading this is a slight waste of failstacks, but it's cheap for a boss alt.

[Karna5]

Originally posted by Tsel13:

Seasonal Character is Naru to Tuvala.
Non-Seasonal is Naru to Narchillan (This one can only be done once per family).
In fact one of my Non-Seasonal Characters (that never played in a Season event) is fully equipped with Narchillan gear. 😊
EDIT: I also use a PEN Asula set with this alt, because you get a lot of 'Dew of Tranquil Forest' when grinding mobs in Polly’s Forest and Fadus Habitat. Which is traded in for the weakened Asula items. Yes, upgrading this is a slight waste of failstacks, but it's cheap for a boss alt.

Perhaps, but I just mostly finished upgrading nine of my alternate incarnations without access to exchanging naru to narchillan gear. I had to do them all the old fashioned way which I listed above:

1. make a blue TRI awakening weapon and ultimate reform it to yellow

2. make a green TRI sub weapon and ultimate reform it to yellow

3. make a green TRI main hand weapon and ultimate reform it to yellow

4. search the market for a type of armor for which you can afford to buy 25 to 35 of each piece in a set along with 150 black stones (armor) for fail stack increases and make them all TRI and then ultimate reform them to yellow (will cost on average 75 million a piece unless you try to make TRI blue armor in which expect to pay on average 100 million a piece.

At any point if you see on the market a TET anything you can afford for a cheap enough price, buy it. Otherwise expect to make it.

Don't try to make things for which the market doesn't have available 50 or more unenhanced pieces to buy for restoring max durability unless you're good at talking to Ornella in Heidel to buy green pieces from her when they're not available on the market (I had to do that one one of my alts last week).

Every single internet guide on gearing up characters on the internet tells people how to get naru to narchilan or naru to Tuvala, but not one single one of them says what to do when that's not an option.

Even the BDO main page only talks about narchulan and tuvula and does not even take into consideration that it's absolutely not an option in most cases.

I've spent billions so far equipping characters the last few weeks because they have no access to Narchulan or Tuvula gear and lost all their oasis weapons and armor, and some of them still don't have armor and subweapons and main weapons unless you count roaring and its equivalent (which really is only meant to be useful until level 50 at best).

[Karna5]

I know this reply is mostly too late for Jinn's question, but I've been thinking about Tsel13's assertion that new players don't need to spend money on weapons or armor even if they're not seasonal. So I wondered, if I didn't need to buy weapons/armor, what exactly would be the best quality of life item to purchase.

In my humble opinion, it would be a good T8 mount. The main reason is that a T8 mount can grow with you, leveling beyond 30 to the point where you can take it to many places and not worry about low and mid range monsters attacking it when you dismount.

In addition, if you get a T8 mount with Sprint, Drift, Instant Acceleration, Roar and Sideways it's actually a wonderful joy to ride. And if you get a T8 courser with several of those skills even more advanced, it's fantastic.

If you plan to work up the training skill, don't buy a T8 courser (a bit more than a billion). Buy some level one T7 and T8 horses and start leveling them to 30 and breeding them. By the eighth or so T8 horse you train to 30th level you'll probably make your own first T8 Courser free (I've made 3 or 4 T8 coursers this way). However, this takes a lot of overnight training sessions, and if you don't intend to do that save up your first billion and just buy a T8 courser, ideally one with well into 150s speed.

As login rewards you'll regularly get something called [Event] Shining Shakatu's Seal. With the first fifty of these you get, claim a full set of Granverre (blue) horse gear and enhance them to +6 (to go higher than +6 becomes very expensive, so I don't recommend you try that initially).

Once you have a full set of blue horse gear for your nice T8 mount you can work on getting your character stronger and eventually making Krogdolo gear for your mount (or using the Shining Shakatu seals to do that, though that takes a long time).

Don't forget also to buy a blue Izaro riding crop and enhancing it to +7 even if you don't plan to get into training skill. It will let you ride faster and is not expensive to enhance to +7. If you do plan to work training skill, you'll ultimately want to enhance it to DUO or TRI, but that's expensive. Eventually get a Manos riding crop as it'll let you ride even faster, but initially the Izaro is very nice and relatively cheap.

But the main thing is, a good T8 horse is probably one of the very best quality of life large purchases you can make early in your character's life if you don't need to worry about weapons and armor.

Post Script: I imagine Tsel13 will add that if you play a Shai not to bother getting a horse as you'll get a nice donkey. I won't disagree with that :)

[Tsel13]

Originally posted by Karna5:

As login rewards you'll regularly get something called [Event] Shining Shakatu's Seal. With the first fifty of these you get, claim a full set of Granverre (blue) horse gear and enhance them to +6 (to go higher than +6 becomes very expensive, so I don't recommend you try that initially).

Post Script: I imagine Tsel13 will add that if you play a Shai not to bother getting a horse as you'll get a nice donkey. I won't disagree with that :)

lol to the post script.

I do have a question though.
Does it give you a full set of Granverre?
I ask to be sure, because I opted for the Storm horse gear option once with my Shakatu Seals and what I got was an RNG box that would give me one of the Storm items.
Again, just asking to be sure. 😊

[Karna5]

Originally posted by Tsel13:

I do have a question though.
Does it give you a full set of Granverre?
I ask to be sure, because I opted for the Storm horse gear option once with my Shakatu Seals and what I got was an RNG box that would give me one of the Storm items.
Again, just asking to be sure. 😊

Hi, Tsel13 :) Yes, 50 is enough for a full set because each piece costs 10 :)

That's what I did. I used 50 to get a full blue set, then I started saving for the harder pieces of krogdolo gear to make. I bought some of my krogdolo set with shining shakatu seals and built a few of the pieces myself with a combination of harvesting, alchemy and pvm :)

You need a full set of krogdolo for it to be significantly better than granverre, so I think it's worthwhile spending 50 on the blue set before moving onto the yellow set :)

Edit for clarity: When you exchange for granverre and for krogdolo you get to pick what you want rather than open a random box.

Edit #2: I just rode to Raomi in Shakatu, the NPC with which you would exchange for Granverre and Krogdolo horse gear and confirmed they did not change it. You get to pick exactly which pieces you want :)

[Silth]

If you do the main quest line with a season char, you get everything you need for a 61 with boss IV equivalent gear in about 4 -12 hours of game time. If it's your second, char it's faster now with the shorten early quest line.

[kitty]

Originally posted by Karna5:

FYI, non-Season characters cannot do that. They have no access to the Narchillan gear and cannot exchange naru gear.

no, they can. how do you think I've got full Narchillan then?
pen naru - Narchillan for full gear without jewelry.


OP, do main quest and get your full Narchillan gear. that will give you around 180 AP and 300 DP with any rubbish jewelry you'll pick up along the way. gear up and start to save for pen boss weapon. don't waste your money on "some" gear, you'll lose 30% of value if you'll want to sell it later.
this will be good for most of the zones.