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Introduction
Are you struggling to level up and earn loot for the best items? If you need the best tips for farming and grinding in Black Desert Mobile, this is the guide for you. This guide looks and where you want to grind or farm, the basics of how to do it, and the best places to make the most of your time. Don’t waste hours trying to grind with only a few levels to show for it!
Basics
Before you start, you need to understand your combat power with the mobs you will be farming. This is crucial for optimizing your time and making sure you get the best value out of your grinding time.
Mobs in Black Desert Mobile are classified into five levels.
From weakest to strongest, these are Gray, Green, White, Orange, and Red. Gray mobs are seven levels or more below you; Green mobs are 4 to 6 levels below you, White mobs are up to 3 levels below or above you, Orange mobs are 4 to 6 levels above you and Red mobs are seven or more levels above you.
This is important to know. Gray mobs give you no experience for killing them. Green and White mobs give you 100% experience and drops. Finally, Orange and Red mobs give you 200% experience and drops. You want to focus on Orange and Red mobs for the most effective grinding as you get the most per kill. This is a critical point in the best grinding and farming!
Remember, your combat level will affect where you farm, as the color of the mob will change from person to person depending on their level. Don’t just go to locations you see posted as they might not be right for your level! The worst feeling is finding this out after a few hours of killing mobs with no good drops and with little to no experience gained.
Location
Now for the more specific part. It is important to check your map for the best areas to farm in regarding the best loot you can find. Combined with the level of mobs, this is probably the most crucial consideration. Scroll over each area on the World Map to see the level of mobs available and the loot that can be dropped.
Mob Level
You want to look for Orange mobs as they can be killed more easily than Red mobs. As they can drop similar loot and give similar experience, it is best to kill Orange mobs as this can be done more quickly than killing Red mobs.
This means you will get more loot drops and earn experience faster at the same time. Again, focus on killing Orange mobs, even if they are 300-400 CP lower than you.
Loot Available
After the mob’s level, loot you can collect is the next most important consideration. Ideally, you want to farm in an area with a high ratio of Red and Orange item drops – you can see this on the right of the screen when you click on an area. This means you can farm these high-level items.
You do not want to farm in an area that has no good drops as you have no chance of getting useful items. This means you might get some experience, but you will not get the items. It is more efficient to farm in an area where there are the correct level mobs and good loot to maximize the efficiency of your farming and get the best of both worlds.
How To Farm
Black Spirit Mode
Okay, down to the actual process of farming.
One method to make this as painless as possible you should put your character into Black Spirit mode. This will automatically kill mobs for you. However, don’t jump in and start yet – keep reading! To make the most of this, make sure you go to the area you want to farm in (or kill mobs as part of a quest) and then go into Black Spirit mode.
If you activate it in a town, it will give you an area the game recommends. This could be fine, but it might be an area that drops zero loot, which is the worst thing for effective farming. Go to the area you want to farm in first and then go into Black Spirit mode to save lots of frustration.
AFK Farming
The second strategy is called AFK farming. AFK farming is known to be three times more effective than Black Spirit mode farming, so if you possibly can, do as much farming as you can using AFK farming. This will save you a lot of time and is the most efficient way to get it done.
This is when your character is farming mobs with your phone or screen is in AFK mode while not using Black Spirit mode.
If you do use this strategy, you should make sure your pets are adequately fed, and your bags are empty, as your pets can starve in an hour or two, and your storage can get filled up.
The final way of farming is the manual method. The manual methods mean you have to actively play and kill mobs. This sounds like a lot of effort, but it does mean you can run re-doable quests to get the most experience and rewards. It also means you can target Violent mobs, unlike in the two strategies above. Violent monsters give much better drops, which can make all the difference. It’s probably around a 90% drop chance and is almost always an Orange or Red chest.
Summary
There you go, all you need to know for the best grinding and farming sessions of your life. Make sure to find the right level mobs (Orange and Red), the best loot that can be dropped (again, Orange and Red), and choose the most efficient farming strategy for you. The exact location depends on your level, so just keep searching, and you’ll be a grinding pro in no time.