gwrtheyrn posted:

Katt posted:

I strongly recommend this video for players who want to gain contribution points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5LdczQOE38

It gives something like 1-2 points per day until something like level 250.


As well as a large chunk of energy. (does not affect energy cap just more energy that you would recover normally)

Katt posted:

Sorry! Post updated!

gwrtheyrn posted:

In case it wasn't clear, the energy thing is a bdo meme because kakao doesn't know poo poo about this game.

Ineptitude posted:

What are the similarities between Striker and Mystic? Do they literally have the same skills or is the similarity "unarmed melee class"?

I am having a lot of fun playing mystic but cannot remember my striker being this much fun, or fun at all really. I no longer have a striker or free slots so i can't really check either.

Katt posted:

This game has the weirdest quests.

A warrior woman is being a bit tomboy-ish.

You buy her a ham and that solved everything. Mission Accomplished.

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

I also have not played for a very long time, but have decided that, instead of participating in the Koreagrind, I wish to become the Cooking Mama. Are there any good guides for following my dreams out there because I've seen a fair amount of conflicting information

J posted:

Yeah, if the node and worker system is what interests you and you want to be the biggest slavemaster you can be, here's how I'd do it.

Take all the nodes that produce the main ingredient for beer. Wheat, barley, potato, corn. These are near velia, heidel, and calpheon. There is a sweet potato node in mediah too but no need to worry about that early on. Don't sell these, you'll be using them yourself.
Once you're level 40, you'll have access to most of the daily quests in calpheon. This is a 15ish minute circuit of running around town that should get you a few CP per day until you start hitting CP softcaps. Here's a walkthrough of what order to do them in.
Don't burn yourself out on this, but if you just loving love daily quests and are level 50+, mediah has a shitload more of them.

The daily quests are more to build up your node empire while you're new and don't have a lot of silver to throw around. In the long run, cooking is the best way to get CP, but to do it effectively you need to be able to stack effects that reduce your cooking time. Many of these require effort, silver, or both that you probably won't have as a new player. I'll list them anyways though.

Advanced cooking utensil. -1s cooking time, and 900 durability compared to the vendor bought utensil that has 100 durability. You can make these from a level 3 tool workshop. You'll need to mine rough stones, and chop logs to make these.
Teff sandwiches (-.5s), or teff bread if you can't get sandwiches. -.3s
Alchemy stone of life. Depends on tier, but somewhere between 1 and 1.4seconds off.
Silver embroidered cook's clothes. -1second per enhancement level. +1 clothes are easy to get, just smash +0s together until you get one, don't worry about failstacks. +2s are more difficult, you'll want 10-15 failstacks before trying those. +3s are a much bigger pain in the rear end, +4 is super duper expensive. +5s basically don't exist. The market prices for these are hard capped way too low so the higher level ones basically never get sold.
Pearl shop cooking outfit, -2seconds.

Get as many of the things on that list as you can, and then just cook beer. You'll end up needing it to feed your workers sooner or later. Cooking anything produces byproducts that can be turned into npcs for a reward. One of them is contribution experience. If you go hog wild and get all of that stuff I just listed, including high tier cook's clothes and an alchemy stone, you can get your cooking speed down to 1 second per combine and can burn through an entire advanced utensil in 15 minutes. Then it's just a matter of producing enough utensils and having enough cooking materials to keep going.

Early on when your node network is small and your workers aren't artisan level yet, you might get tempted to sell excess beer. Don't do it. Eventually you'll get lazy about cooking, eventually your network will grow and you'll need more of it.

sexpig by night posted:

kinda a stupid question but since this game is so grind heavy do I really need to worry about doing story quests or should I just spam-murder cute things and pick up quests for poo poo like bag space as I want?

Katt posted:

Doing story missions is a great source of knowledge though which increases your energy cap.

As well as a ton of silver and blackstones.

J posted:

I really like the lifeskills side of this game and can probably answer most questions about it. Except hunting/training stuff, I've not messed with those myself. But everything else I can probably help with. I'll repost an old post of mine, since workers and contribution points are the backbone of lifeskilling, and cooking happens to be the best way to gain contribution points. For cooking, you'll want to get your cook time reduction down as much as you can, I have a list of all the things that do that below. Then you have to source materials, either from workers and nodes, gathering it yourself, or from the market. The high tier cooked meals in this game tend to be composed of lots of other subcombines, and keeping track of all the materials you need can be exhausting. Fortunately, someone has a great spreadsheet that will create a shopping list of materials for whatever you're looking to make that includes all the subcombines. For an in-game map that shows nodes and gathering spots, famme's site is great.

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

And apparently a lot of story quests also give you inventory expansions so you might wanna just do them anyways, though I will say the game hands you so much free silver in the form of house glory rewards and also for apparently no reason I already have like 33 million+ in the bank with a bunch of uncollected gold bars and I've actively played for maybe 10 hours total

Katt posted:

It's comparable to the third best alchemy stone but also the alchemy stone where most people stop levelling.

gwrtheyrn posted:

*fifth* best actually, sharp, resplendent, splendid, and shiny are all above sturdy, but the blue tier does apply yellow stone effects. Not really sure where the nerf rumors are coming from

Drythe posted:

Did something change that added P2W to this game? I keep seeing that but there's like, no good way to P2W

Drythe posted:

Yea but that ratio is like, terrible, even for idiots like me.

The only people doing that would be oil tycoons who would probably just buy an account

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

Every time I have to press the R button to pick up an enemy drop I say "gently caress you" aloud knowing that if I shelled out five human dollars I could get a pet that picks all the drops up for me which would make the five minute grinding sessions in between my half-hour horseback rides to the storage NPC to clear out my six inventory slots go much more smoothly

Katt posted:

Yeah sure if you for cooking purposes count multiple stones of the same strength :p

The speeds goes -1,1 second. -1,4 seconds and -1,7 seconds (best) and the spirit stone offers -1,1.

gwrtheyrn posted:

It starts at 0.5 and goes up 0.3 every tier. It's just that the highest tier doesn't exist because it has like a 0.15% chance to upgrade and explodes if you fail

Kak posted:

Is there any grouping in this game or is it just a single player game disguised as an mmo like everything else these days?

Svensken posted:

So apparently the latest Windows 10 and Nvidia GeForce Driver don't mix well for BDO. I guess I'm taking a break from this good bad game until it's fixed (I'm not going to roll back a Win10 update for one game).

I was really looking forward to the Mystic too

Alpha Mayo posted:

So what's the best way to buy this game? Are the $30 or $50 packages worth it? Or is there a way to get the game for less than $10?