Level 50-56 (expanded to 58) Gear Progression Guide
Intro
You’re reading this guide. Probably because you’re brand new at the game and are trying to figure out how to gear up. Good gear costs money, and money is hard to come by, especially if you’re trying to do everything by yourself as a newbie. This guide serves to help you to save money while getting geared up for Valencia content. This gear will help you to smoothly transition into more expensive gear.
Note: This sections in this guide are ordered for fresh level 50s. If you’re higher level, use your own judgment on the progression order.
Scroll down to the bottom of the guide for the level 58 free gear.
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Getting Dim Magical Armor and Dim Magical Sub-weapon Level 50
Your first piece of free gear will be obtained after completing the penultimate (one before the last) quest before the Mediah story questline. A good way to check your main quest line progression is to press O to bring up the quest window.
After completing the quest A Disaster Foretold, you will be rewarded with a Magical Sub-weapon Box. Open it to receive your Dim Magical Sub-weapon, boasting 7-9 AP and 17 DP, it eventually upgrades to Roaring Magical Sub-weapon for a whooping 17-18 AP and 12 DP.
You will be presented with the quest Looking for Adventurers right after. Completing it will reward you with Dim Magical Armor which gives 48 DP, it upgrades to Roaring Magical Armor with 60 DP. If you ever lose your Dim Magical Armor, you can exchange 2 Tokens of Promise for a new one from the NPC Grandus.
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Upgrading the Sub-weapon (Calpheon)(Level 50)
The first series of quests you will be doing for sub-weapon upgrade will be World of Enemies and For a Sharper Weapon. You should to be doing them together, as they go through the same enemy areas.
After completing World of Enemies #6, you will be given your first Magic Sub-weapon Exchange quest.
After completing the final World of Enemies and For a Sharper Weapon quest lines, proceed with Strongest Enemies and Enhancement Sacrifice questlines. They also both go together.
Completing Strongest Enemies #2 will unlock Magic Sub-weapon Exchange II.
Optional: At this point, you should be level 51-53, I suggest completing the Many a Pickle Makes a Mickle questline to earn a lot of black stone quest rewards and to gain some level exp before moving on to Mediah. The rest of the free gear and upgrades will be obtained in that region and you won’t want to come back to Calpheon any time soon.
From here you can either go to the section Upgrading the Sub-weapon (Mediah) or Asula Accessories
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Upgrading the Sub-weapon (Mediah)(Level 50+)
The last two sub-weapon upgrades require you to complete half of Mediah’s main questline.
You unlock Magic Sub-weapon Exchange III after you finish the first 13 Mediah main story quests. The quest in question should be Tinya’s Trust. Then you need to complete another 12 Mediah main quests to unlock Magic Sub-weapon Exchange IV, the quest in question is Reunion at Last. You get Roaring Magical Sub-weapon for it.
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Asula’s Accessories (Level 50+) & General’s Belt (Level 53+)
These are the accessories that everyone tend to use until they progress to the point of having TRI weapons and armor. They give a respectable amount of AP and are dropped in Mediah grind spots.
Asula’s Necklace (11 AP) – This drops at the Abandoned Iron Mine, the easiest grind spot in Mediah. This is the first Asula you should be grinding for.
Asula’s Rings and Asula’s Earrings (7AP) – Both of these drop at Helms Post. It’s a very popular grind spot and each drop makes the grind for the rest easier. Definitely get the necklace first to facilitate the grind here.
Asula’s Belt (6 AP) – This is the last piece and drops at Elric Shrine and Canyon of Corruption. It’s a noticeably harder grind spot than Helms and therefore should be obtained last. This is the least valuable Asula accessory, which means you can skip getting this belt and use the General’s Belt from Unstoppable Thirst for Power questline (Unlocked at level 53). The General’s Belt has a neat passive that increases PVE damage significantly, which is far more valuable than Asula’s Belt for killing monsters.
While you’re working on getting Asula’s accessories, you should be also doing other level-gated free gear questlines, such as upgrading your chest piece or getting the General’s Belt or getting the other free armor pieces.
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Upgrading Dim Magical Armor to Roaring (Levels 53-56)
Each level you gain after level 50, all the way up to 56, you complete a level of Six Steps for Personal Growth. Starting from Six Steps for Personal Growth III, each time you complete one, you’ll be presented a quest (Magic Armor Exchange I – IV) to upgrade your chestpiece. The quest NPC is always the blacksmith in Altinova. Make sure you have the armor in your inventory instead of wearing it when you turn it in. At level 56, you gain your Roaring Magical Armor
Boots, Gloves, Helmet, and Main Hand (Levels 53, 54, 54, 55)
While grinding for Asulas, you can work on these as you fulfill the level requirements. Each of these serve to teach you some BDO lifeskill mechanics.
Note: these questlines can only be done once per account.
Five Rings of Illezra requires you to have completed the Mediah main quests, which you can find under the Main tab of the quest window.
Both of the bosses from the Illezra questline require special quest items to defeat. Brute forcing them without the quest items will lead you to fail.
King of the Arena has a tough boss fight, try your best to get all the other gear before attempting this one. Successfully completing this questline will reward you the Black Abyssal Weapon (90 AP). If you talk to Abdul Jaum in Altinova, you can freely change this weapon into a weapon box for another class’s use.
+15 LIVERTO WEAPON
In addition to the Black Abyssal Weapon, you can also get a +15 Liverto Weapon Bundle from your rewards tab upon reaching level 55 for any class. But cannot be freely exchanged for use of another class, unlike the Black Abyssal Weapon.
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Katan Awakening Weapon (Level 55 but really 56)
You can get this weapon at level 55, but you can’t use it until level 56. To get this weapon, simply do the Valencia main quests up until Bashim’s Answer.
This is the least valuable free gear. So when you spend money to progress your gear further, make sure to upgrade your awakening weapon first. If you had been saving money by grinding all these free gear, kudos, because you saved enough to buy a 100+ AP TRI green awakening weapon.
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Grana Oath Earrings and Rings of Power (Level 58)
At level 58, you unlock the Kamasylvia main story questlines. Completing them would give you an Anbelif Earring (8 AP, 4 accuracy) and a Grana Oath Earring (8AP, 14 accuracy). They may not be major upgrades to Asula’s Earrings, but if you also completed Valencia main story questline part 1, you unlock a questline from the NPC Purajin that gives you Ring of Power (free DUO Crescent, 11 AP) at the end. You can do this (the main story quests and Purajin’s questline) for 2 Grana Oath Earrings and 2 Rings of Power. Those are great placeholder accessories to have as you push toward softcap gear.
The Ring of Power questline WILL require you to kill monsters from Pila Ku, so most of you reading this guide will probably need help. Ask a guildie or server chat, and it’s likely that someone is available to help.