How to play Black Desert *Important*

[Ashleylee]

First, this is not meant to discourage anyone from playing, but to try to explain the reality of Black Desert and Black Desert NA.

Second, I am NOT an expert on BDO. I may give you wrong information, not on purpose.

Black Desert dwarfs every other MMO and game I have ever played in terms of complexity. I don't care what you think you know, you know nothing. Neither do I, what i have are little tidbits, think bread crumbs of a bread loaf the size of Texas. That is not an exaggeration.

Black Desert Bible
This Google Doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...VeD3yoqq8/edit is the most complete information source for Black Desert and I'd have to say from my experiences and reading other things, it only covers about 15%. This is primarily because tbh, this game was rushed to North America faster than any KR MMO. It's had Major changes made for North America, and a lot of the information is from KR OBT which was a year ago.

One example is that there is absolutely no correct/updated information about how guilds work in North America, I searched today and didn't find a single post anywhere that was correct. Every single one had outdated or just wrong info. I dont even know all the info, i just know how it worked in CBT2 when i tested it. I made a guild and played around with the options.

I want to re-iterate again, this is not to scare people from BDO. If you are the type of player who just likes to play casual and poke along, then you may be better off with a more established guild Like Tenacious, Helliox has information on that, Tenacious is Rolling on EDAN, not ORWEN. They are also more committed to pvp and sieges and what they expect from their members.

If you like to figure out complex systems and really get into the details of a game and or want to do so with BDO, then I encourage you to roll on ORWEN. Doesnt mean we still cant or shouldn't join a larger guild. Doesnt mean we wont be able to be really good either, just that there will be guilds that will have a leg up with PvP and Sieges. We will have a learning curve, BDO's learning Curve is STEEP, like San Francisco Street Steep.

I for one get RIGHT into figuring these things out. I also think, hint hint, Sarcoth would Love this game for its complexity, I can already hear him, "Oh Cool!, Wow, Thats really Cool" Because there is some really cool **** in BDO. It doesnt have the type of hands of crafting that ESO had but it is not only just as complicated but more so in the grand scheme of things, in my opinion.

There are plenty of quests but they are not for leveling experience, you get maybe 10-15% of your level experience from quests. The rest is farming mobs, its not tedious, at-least i didnt feel it was and I was solo. it was FUN, a lot of fun. You get to practice with your class learn how it works, learn new skills.

If you pre-ordered then u get one pet free along with a horse. The pet is imo, more valuable than the horse.

I'ma stop here before i end up re-writing that bible i linked at the beginning. If you want to learn more the bible has links in the contents to each section about certain topics like amity, crafting etc. Take Note, that bible is still using mostly KR terms which have changed in NA. Not all content is updated, take it all with a grain of salt.

If you have any questions feel free to ask away, i will do my best. I am still very much a noob.