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Black Desert Guide How To AFK Fish

How to AFK Fish in BDO

Fishing is an incredibly simple activity. To start, find some water, equip your fishing rod by right-clicking on it, and you press space.

If I was regular fishing, once my character got a bite, I press space and play a little minigame and catch the fish. Instead, if you want to AFK-fish, you press space, tick the box “throw away useless items caught during auto fishing” and wait. Once you got a bite, your character will auto-catch the fish after 3 minutes, all you have to do it wait. After your character caught the fish, it will automatically start auto-fishing again. Now you can go away and do something else besides playing BDO, while still making silver.

Repair Rod

You use the fishing rods durability up when you catch a fish, every time you start a new fishing session you should go and repair your rod at the blacksmith, this costs a small amount of silver.

Why AFK Fishing?

AFK fishing is quite possibly the best and easiest AFK life skill in the game. Processing can beat fishing for a more active player but for anyone that wants to log into two or three times a day, when should I go to bed when I get home. Fishing is usually a fantastic source of money that can make you millions of silver. It also gives you Relic shards, which you can use to go and get memory fragment to sell them for even more silver or use them to repair gear you are trying to upgrade(memory fragment is usually the bottleneck for upgrading boss gear in BDO).

Fishing is straightforward to do all you need is a fishing rod inventory space and find yourself a decent hotspot to start fishing.

Inventory Space

An essential thing for Fishers is inventory space you need as much space as possible because each fish you catch a fish; it will take up one inventory slot; they do not stack. Ancient Crystal Shards also doesn’t stack; the silver keys do stack though. The more inventory slots you have, the more time you can be AFK. So if you want to AFK for the max amount of time over a hundred inventory slots so you can AFK for a reasonable amount of time.


BDO Best Fishing Rod

The most important thing for a Fisher, the fishing rod. So there are a few different types of fishing rod in the game you can purchase them on Central Marketplace. Go to fishing tools under “life tools” section in the Central Marketplace, and you can see there are a Balenos fishing rod and some others. The one you want if you’re AFK-fishing is the Balenos rod, and it reduces auto-fishing time by 10%.

How To Get +5 Fishing BDO

Getting +5 fishing is important for reducing the amount of time each cast of your fishing takes, making you more profit in the end. Here are several methods for getting +5 fishing:

  • Join a guild with +2/3 in the fishing buff
  • +2 Silver Embroidered Fishing Clothes which adds +2 fishing
  • Food Buffs – Balenos Meal and Fruit Wine add +2 and +1 in fishing
  • Splat Fisher costume adds +1(optional)
  • Get a penguin pet, which adds +1(optional)

Pets for Fishing BDO

The best pet for AFK-fishing is the penguin. Penguins reduce the auto-fishing time, making them good pets to have if you AFK-fish.

Brand Stone Black Desert

What Branding does it halves the durability loss of an item that works when you’re grinding or getting killed, but it also works for fishing. Which means instead of 70 durabilities, it sits at 140, which doubles the amount AFK-time.

Pearl shop Outfit

There is a cash-shop outfit you can get that helps. It’s not that important, you don’t need it. You can kind of ignore it unlike the processing outfit, which is a must if you do any form of processing.

Where To Get Fish and Where To Sell It BDO

where to get fish there’s a lot of good places for absolute beginners I would just go to the valley of hotspot so it only hotspot you can’t miss it if you would have a Leah over here and then you just kind of walking on the beach just a little bit around here rush you will see a huge massive player sitting on the beach fishing you can’t be there and you just go over there and you fish and you will have a much better chance of getting a higher-quality fish in my inventory

But start with you don’t want to go through with the hassle is on these fish take the fish by Velia or Heidel and go to sell them there. Now you do have other things to know when selling fish these are the Imperial trailer because there’s an Imperial Fish Trader that you can trade the fish to who will give you an excellent price for your fish, but those things don’t matter so much when starting out.

You can finish the night off with several million silver worth of fish and ancient crystal shards in your inventory

What to do with your Ancient Crystal Relic shards?

Ancient Relic Crystal Shards do you have two Major options; you can run them yourself, so you put them together into the form of a plus if you press this little combine them into your little disco ball thing. Then you can go run them in somewhere near Keplan(right-click on the scroll to guide you to the location). Relic runs give you enhancement materials such as memory fragments, black stones and hunter seals which can be traded in for black stone armor or weapon. I recommend trading it in for black stone armor since you can get 1 black stone armor for two hunter seals.

If you don’t want the hassle of having to run them simply sell them for about 900k-1.3m each, I have 20 of them, they do increase the amount of silver you gain from fishing quite substantially. If you have the time, I do recommend running them, because memory fragments are hard to get or are usually really expensive.

For the most part fishing is a simple task, it is probably the easiest AFK life skills to set up in the game as well as one of most profitable for people that go away from there, hopefully, this guide was helpful to you.