This is purely a gear progression guide. So crystals will be excluded from this. You do not have to follow this guide verbatim, but this is just to give you a general direction of where to go with for your gear.
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Your first goal is to make sure you get a rosar, yuria, or elsh axe, as you will be using that until you are at the point to where you can get and start upgrading boss gear. The reason why the armor setup is the way it is is for the set bonuses. Essentially you want to either go full grunil or full heve.
Everything else is pretty straight forward. Your main goal for accessories is full asula and for your offhand, you’re going to want to get an oros as soon as possible for grinding purposes.
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In this case, everything is the same from the last build. Only thing you need to focus on at this point is to get all of your armor and weapons to atleast duo.
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At this point, for the extra sheet stats you have the option to turn your gear into yellow quality via Ultimate Weapon Reform Stone and Ultimate Armor Reform Stone. You don’t have to, but if you want the extra on-sheet stats without gambling your blackstones away, echanting your armor and weapons from green to yellow is guaranteed.
As for the accessories, when you’re at the point where all of your weapons and armor are duo, you will want to swap out your asula set for duo+ blue accessories. ANY AP only blue accessories will work. You are not limited to the build you see above, though it’s recommended if you don’t have the slightest idea of what to go for. Also if you’re wondering what the yellow grade earring is, it is the earring you can get for completing the Kamasylvia questline. If you do not want to do this, then just try to make another duo blue.
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If you are not at this point yet, your end-goal for this build is to get everything you have to TRI; even your accessories. Do NOT try to TET any of your weapons or armor, as it is a waste of resources and will be swapped out very soon anyway.
(the Ring of Power is from completing the Valencia questline)
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With full TRI, your next goal is to try and get your hand on any kind of bossgear possible with the exception of a few which will be covered in a moment. The RECOMMENDED piece you should be getting first is a TRI kzarka. With the huge accuracy increase, this will be your biggest powerboost.
Now even though you should be getting a TRI kzarka as soon as possible, this doesn’t mean you should try and get other boss pieces as well. The only boss gear you should NOT be aiming for is muskans, leebur, and rednose. Muskans and leebur because those are evasion based boss armors, and zerk having the lowest base evasion in the game, those will be utterly useless on him. Rednose because it literally costs the same as dim tree armor, but has no HP bonus. So you might as well go for dim tree armor unless for whatever reason you don’t want the extra HP for the same price.
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Now that you have your TRI kzarka, your next focus will be getting a dandelion iron buster and working towards getting the rest of your bossgear. You will want to go for what ever you can get your hands on while keeping in mind what was stated in the last build example. Though ideally, if you want an order in which you should get them, it is as follows: kzarka > dande > bhegs > urugons or dim tree armor(doesn’t really matter) > griffon/giath.
The following few builds will be displaying that. Now KEEP IN MIND griffon and giath are very similar in performance. Just go with whatever you get first for now.
Side Note: While you’re in the process of getting full TRI bossgear, it is recommended that you try and push for lvl61, as it will you a capotia ring as a reward which is the equivilent to a TRI crescent ring. So that could have been quite a bit of silver you just saved by hitting it.
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Wow! Look at that. Full TRI bossgear ez. Now what’s next?
So by now you will want to start working on getting better accessories(making them TRI), and if you have the silver, buy or enchant a nouver. For accessories you just want to go with the cheapest upgrade and work your way up. By the end, you should have full TRI blue accessoires.
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Now here’s where the real grind begins. Now that you have full TRI bossgear, weapons and blue accessories, it’s time to go for TET and try to hit softcap. The worst thing you can do at this point is roulette your gear. Not only do you lose most of the progress you worked for, you have to make those gains again, and on top of that try and go for TET again which is going to cost more resourses than if you just tried to enchant one piece at a time.
IDEALLY you want to TET in this order: kzarka > dande > nouver > bhegs > urugons or tree > griffon/giath. The “best” way to hit softcap is to work on your armor and weapons while working on your accessories at the same time. The remaining build examples will be showing the progression that was described.
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Side Note: If you have the money and you want to go for a BiS belt, you can try to enchant a TRI tungrad belt.
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Side Note: If you have the money and you want to go for a BiS necklace, you can try to enchant a TRI tungrad necklace. Also something to point out, you can either go for a laytenn or an ogre. They both have the same stats.
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Side Note: for earrings you can either go for a TET witch’s or a TRI tungrad. They both have the same sheet stats. The only difference is that the tungrad has BSR and TET witch’s has 2 more accuracy.
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Congrats. You are now at what we call “soft-cap”. Now that you completed the tutorial, you can now actually start playing the game.
Progressing Past Soft Cap In BDO
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At the point of softcap, people usually go down 2 paths. They either try to go for PEN attempts, or they go for the safer route and try to achieve full yellow TET accessories.
Unless you’re RNG carried, going for TET accessories is the recommended route given that at 100 failstacks, you have around a 27% chance of succeeding on a TET accessorie as oppose to having a 3% chance of succeeding PEN at the same amount of failstacks.
Now with that said, you can go about choosing which accessorie to try for TET in two ways: either you go for the cheapest upgrade, that being your crescent ring, and then work your way up. Or you go for the biggest gain if you don’t happen to have any silver issues; and that would be your ogre ring. In the build above, the cost efficient path was chosen.
Side Note: If you happen to have cron stones available and you have a pretty high fs, it doesn’t hurt to try for a PEN using them. If you have no idea of what you should try to PEn first, your dandelion is usually the goto.
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For earrings you have a few choices to make. You can either go the full ap way and try to TET your tungrad earring, or you can try to enchant TET narc earrings, which will give you the same AP as a TRI tungrad earring but will also provide you with +4 sheet DP along with 4 DR for a little extra tankiness. In the example above, the tungrad path was chosen.
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At this point you most likely won’t need a guide as to what to go for next since at this point, there’s not really a suggested route to go for when choosing which piece to PEN first. You could either do weapons or armor first. Either way, you still hit like a truck.
