The subcategories under “Topography” and “Character” are the easiest topics to complete. When visiting different regions to collect Topography Knowledge, you should collect Character Knowledge at the same time. Talk to every NPC you see as you are trying to get Topography Knowledge, and you will be completing both Topography and Character categories.

The Adventure Journal is also a good topic to try, but it will take some time to complete since you have to do some quests in the associated region. Aim for Character and Topography first if you want to increase your max energy quickly. Get additional Knowledge from the monsters at major grind spots, and it won’t be long before you have 250 Energy.

Some easy topics to get are Ocean Knowledge, Node Manager (Northern Sea), and the Iliya Island Adventure Journal, if you haven’t traversed the ocean and the islands. You can either follow someone who already has the ocean map, or sail on your own boat. The common route is to depart from Port Epheria, head north and visit the islands and sea to the north of Epheria, turn to Velia, and then sail further towards the east. You will get 36 Energy in about 3 hours.

At first it might seem like progress goes quite slowly, but getting 250 Energy is not so hard! :)

Thank you for the wonderful suggestion! We will work on some guides showing how to reach major grind spots in Valencia and will post them as soon as they are done :D

1. Kamasylvia Part 2 and the Mystic were updated in the KR server before Rabam's Enlightenment. So if the order of updates goes the same, Rabam's Enlightenment will be updated in the EU server later this year. However, Rabam's Enlightenment just adds two new skills to each character and is not as big as a new class or a new region. So there is a chance that EU will get it during this fall or early winter.

2. As you mentioned, Dandelion weapons are extremely rare and the prices vary according to the popularity of each class. For a popular class, the pre-order price for +0 Dandelion is about 1 billion and the price goes much higher for TRI Dandelion. Someone once failed to get it with pre-order even though he/she placed 1.6 billion for pre-order.

There are a few ways to make pre-ordering successful. One thing you can try is to receive pre-order/Marketplace registration and increase your pre-order price by 10 million everytime you fail to get the item. Another way is to pre-order +2 to +15 weapons, which are not as popular as +0 and TRI weapons, to minimize competition.

3. Crate trading is a good source of passive income. It's hard to give you all the details through comments so we'll give you a brief guide on how to trade Crates.

1) Buy a Lodging in Port Epheria and hire Workers. Use Energy to hire Professional Workers.

2) Expand your storage in Calpheon using CP, and also buy a Timber Workshop in Calpheon. (Packaging crops Crop Workbench will also make a good amount of silver)

3) Send your Workers to the Forest Nodes near Calpheon to gather the raw materials for Crates. You will need three kinds of timber: Birch (north of Calpheon), Fir (southwest of Calpheon), and Cedar (north of Trent)

4) If you have collected enough timber, and start making plywood. Put the plywood you made and Black Stone Powder in the warehouse to start making Crates. Make sure you send your Workers in Epheria to Calpheon to work in the Workshop, to get the distance bonus.

5) Bring the Crates to Valencia for maximum profit. For desert trade buffs, please refer to one of our guides: https://www.invenglobal.com/blackdesertonline/articles/1810/bdo-guide-50-markup-with-one-single-buff-a-way-to-become-a-magnate-with-the-desert-trade-buff

As the others mentioned, you need to use a Hunting Musket to get Water Strider Knowledge. (Try putting it in the quick slot.) Attack Water Striders until their HP is low, and finish them with a Hunting Musket.

For Bookshelves, you can either make one or buy one from the Pearl Shop. If you are going to make one yourself, go to Annolisa Rosie, select Knowledge Management, and create a Knowledge Bookshelf.

You will need some silver to create the Knowledge Bookshelf, and the price goes down if you have higher grade Knowledge. Also, you will lose some Knowledge in the category you choose to transfer to a Bookshelf, resulting a decrease in your maximum Energy. You need to have all the Knowledge in a specific category to make a Bookshelf for that category.

The Bookshelf will be added to your inventory once you make it, and can be placed inside your residence. You will get “interior points” by placing a Bookshelf, and have a chance to gain Knowledge from it. However, there is a chance that you will not get the Knowledge you want, so making a Bookshelf by yourself is not recommended.

Another way is to purchase a Bookshelf from the Pearl Shop. Go to Pearl Shop - Interior - Furniture - Furniture Set. Be careful when you are buying a Furniture Set, since not all Furniture Sets have a Bookshelf in them. Check the detailed item list before you purchase one.

If you don’t want a Furniture Set, you can purchase a Bookshelf separately. It will cost 300 Pearls. Once your character starts reading a book from a Bookshelf, your character will enter “Reading a book” status, and you will be able to switch to your alternate character.

Try borrowing Practice Matchlock from Merio (the NPC at North Kaia Ferry) and then hunting Water Striders with it. If you don't get the Knowledge before the durability becomes 0, return it and borrow it again. I'm sorry I can't tell you how long it will take as it's all RNG :(

Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll be happy to help you!

One joke among KR players is that Pearl Abyss has abducted some aliens with higher technology to work for them and that’s why they develop things really fast.

Not many KR players liked the 2nd Awakening (Skill Enhancement) when it first came out, but it underwent several buffs and is getting better. Some players are looking forward to having more 2nd Awakening skills, as the newly added 2nd Awakening skills are pretty good. (https://www.invenglobal.com/blackdesertonline/articles/2904/bdo-kr-players-comment-on-the-recent-balance-update-and-skill-enhancement-part-2)

For Chimney Sweeps, did you mean CP instead of Energy? Even in the KR server, only a few players have 500 CP… Maybe you’ll get 500 CP from Chimney Sweeps if you do the quest until the day you die…?

For your last question, are you asking about the CP you gain from Kamasylvia Part 2 daily quests? If you could be more specific with that question we would greatly appreciate it :) We’ll post a reply again once we have the answer to your question!

Savage Rift is a good way to get some silver and exp if you don’t like grinding. Surely it’s hard to have fun and efficiency at the same time :( I guess you have to decide between having the fun playstyle and cool moves of a character, and having the general efficiency that comes from a “good” character. But fortunately, the Striker underwent several buffs and is one of the high-tier classes now. He's getting more popular. Actually it’s the Mystic that was outclassed by the Striker. The Ninja was revamped in the last KR update to consume less WP and recover more HP, although there were no changes in the damage that the Ninja deals. Everyone is looking forward to seeing more buffs for the Ninja!

I love Ninja Awakening too! I'm not a Ninja main but hope they get some decent buffs in the near future xD

1) As BDO Inven KR is the biggest BDO community in Korea, Pearl Abyss has always been monitoring Inven KR since the CBT. Some well-known issues and bugs first broke out in Inven KR and they were fixed right after. That being said, we believe that PA is aware of the issue regarding class balances. It is hard for us to know the direction of updates that PA has planned, but judging from the previous updates, PA is listening to the players. Some changes that were made before were based on the community's opinions.

2) Among the grind spots added in Kamasylvia Part 2, the most efficient spot for level 60 or above characters is Gyfin Rhasia Temple. It's kind of hard to solo, and players usually group up to grind in Gyfin Rhasia Temple. You need about 240 Awakening AP and high DP to grind in the spot. You can make a good amound of silver and farm exp at the same time.

That is a great idea! Thank you! I mean, we all enjoy playing BDO even if our servers and countries may differ. We will consider how we’ll be able to let Pearl Abyss know NA/EU user reactions and their comments. It would also be nice if we prepare a separate section for BDO players to write comments on for Pearl Abyss to see! We will try our best to be that bridge for you all! ^v^

Mystic buffs are coming! Mystic underwent some revamps today. Her overall damage output increased and her mechanics were adjusted to work better. I think we need more tests on PvP to see Mystic's performance after today's patch, but she got better in PvE.

And about Ninja's forward guard on Serpent Ascension... well, there were no buffs for Ninja today so... in my opinion, chances are pretty low... :(

Mystic's biggest strength is high magic defense. Mystic is not bad in 1vs1 PvP, although not as good as Striker. She has a lot of super armor/forward guard skills but has only one grab skill so it's hard to initiate a good combo. Striker is better in the current meta. Striker has two grab skills and underwent many buffs in the past few months.

Mystic's role in medium and large scale PvP is mainly debuffs and pulls. Her awakening skills can debuff enemies or pull them towards her. As you know, Wizards&Witches are powerful in large scale PvP. Mystic can survive well due to her high magic defense.

150 ms ping sounds hard to deal with x..x As Mystic is a character that needs smooth combo and has to use super armor skills at the right moment, it might be hard for you to play high level PvP :(

Thank you! :D

Accuracy is an effect that does give us headaches when setting our gear, and there have been some changes to it, too. It would be too long to post in the comment section, so we’ll write it on a separate post.

Although there are differences with the update order or environment, KR, NA, EU BDO players all enjoy playing this game. We are trying our best to provide KR news & information to players on the NA/EU server, so that they can get what they need without any inconvenience brought about by language barriers. It would be totally great if we all could talk about BDO together and communicate! Feel free to leave any ideas you come up with, we are always open to listening to you all :D

Gryphon's and Giath's Helmets have the same DR/EV value. KR players have ran number of tests and have concluded that the two helmets have the same defensive efficiency. You can just choose between DR+Resistance or 100 HP :D

We believe that PA is aware of the problem. A lot of players have been telling the devs about it, and some 2nd Awakening skills do have forward guard/super armor. Unfortunately, Musa's 2nd Awakening skills are not considered useless at the moment as they don't have any protection. On the other hand, Maehwa's 2nd Awakening skills have iframe&forward guard and are pretty useful... :(

Thank you for the warm compliment!

Other than partying up to grind in high level spots (e.g. Gyfin Rhasia Temple in Kamasylvia Part 2) and Savage Rift, there are no real group content at the moment. However, a new Ocean Raid Boss, Vell, is in the pipeline and will soon come to KR. We don't know how many players are required or what they should do to hunt Vell, but we hope Vell can be a new and fun group content for everyone :D

There were some changes in the chat window in some recent updates like adding an icon that indicates chat type (World, Guild, Party, etc.) next to each line, but there are no changes regarding what you have mentioned :(

Accuracy is determined by each character's base stats, gear setting, skills, elixirs, and food.

According to many tests, each character has different base Accuracy. Even Musa&Maehwa/Ninja&Kuno have different base Accuracy, even though they are just gender counterparts of each other.

Some Accuracy buffs have numerical values (gear, elixir, food, etc.), but not all of them do. The best example would be the "increased Accuracy" in Kzarka weapons. We still don't know the exactly how much Accuracy does Kzarka weapons give, and there are still a lot of tests to find out these hidden stats.

Some skills have their own Accuracy buffs. For example, Warrior's Ground Roar IV gives +10% Accuracy. These kind of buffs can be huge.

Accuracy is also affected by the difference between your level and enemy's (player or monster) level. For example, your Accuracy will drop significantly against the monsters that appear in purple. In this case, most of your attacks won't hit. The same rule applies in PvP, although the Accuracy drop in PvP is not as big as in PvE.

Each class needs different amount of Accuracy, and recommended Accuracy for PvP and PvE is also different. In PvP, your Accuracy must be higher than enemy's Evasion in order for your skills to hit the enemy, so for most cases Accuracy is more important in PvP than in PvE.