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Witch and Wizard Guide BDO 2022

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Witch and Wizard are bursty AoE classes. If you’re looking for survivability, we kind of lack that. In BDO, support type classes aren’t really a thing, though we do have important buffs for group PvP. Witch and Wizard are strong in group fights, where AoEs do a lot of damage, and super armor protects us from incoming hits. These AoEs also make Witch and Wiz strong PvE classes.

In a 1v1, we can excel, but not as easily as other classes. We have high accuracy and damage on skills, but that is mostly because late game flows basically add double damage to skills. With the right setup we can be fast, but we aren’t mobile, which makes positioning extra important in PvP.

The high accuracy and damage on skills allows us more flexibility for other builds compared to other classes, but we still need AP need to deal damage. Also, Witch and Wiz are only braindead classes if you’re braindead.

I personally feel that Witch and Wizards, are low skill floor, yet high skill ceiling class. They’re very easy to pick up, and quite simplistic in nature. Big damage in awakening stance, and big heals in staff stance.

As you get closer to the “endgame”, playing the mages become much more challenging. Everyone is under the impression that mages are overpowered, and will beeline for you during a group fight at the first possible moment. 1v1’s are not our strong points, so do expect to lose most 1v1 encounters, unless you’re significantly geared, or are very skilled at the class.

That being said, the mages’ group fighting prowess are second to none. The heals and damage reduction buffs turn the tides of battle, and our large area spells deal massive damage to the enemies on the field. Mages are highly sought after in large siege guilds, and small nodewar guilds alike.

In the end, the mages are what you make them. I personally prefer a glass cannon or assassin playstyle in MMORPG’s, but a support and healer playstyle in MOBA’s and Arcade Shooters. My current choice, the wizard, has fit both of these roles for me, with my only gripe being the ridiculous amount of effort I have to put in to be competitive in 1v1 scenarios.

Good luck, have fun, and most importantly, always enchant with backups.

Witch vs. Wizard

How do I choose?

WitchWizard
Has a buffing block w/ S auto casting Has a grab and normal S block
Block is helpful for group fightsGrab makes wizard better at 1v1
Earth and Lightning ElementsFire and Water Elements
Skills are medium rangedSkills are mid-ranged / melee
Weak awakened black spirit rage skillVery strong awakened black spirit rage skill
YoungOld
Better DPS sustainBurst damage
Reactive classAggressive class
BoobsNo boobs
  • Picking your gender is a highly intimate and personal decision.
  • In the end, it all comes down to which playstyle, elements, and character model you prefer.
  • If you’re looking for the more “OP” of the two, know that both are exceptionally strong, and that neither have an distinctive advantage over another. You should play the class you enjoy though.
  • Both are very strong at PvE, both are very strong in group PvP, both are not that strong in 1v1s.
  • Both have S block

Gear

Witch and Wizard weapons are: Staff, Aad Sphera (Witch) / Godr Sphera (Wizard), Dagger

Gear Progression

Az’s 0-200 AP Gearing Guide Infographic: (Found on /r/BlackDesertOnline)

CLICK THE LINK

The AP Offhand mentioned in this general guide will be steel dagger.

Use URUGON’Sshoes  instead of the Muskan’s and GRIFFON’s instead of Giath’s Helm.

Use the Progression Infographic to progress your gear up to about 200 AP.

Don’t look here before then. Then you can start thinking about different offhands and alternative builds. Some softcap suggestions that people mix and match (assuming TET Dande, TET Boss armor):

2x TRI Crescent Ring2x TRI Tungrad Earring (Wiz)2x TET Whale Molar Earring
TET Rosar DaggerTET Parrying DaggerTET Kutum Dagger
TET Steel DaggerTET Nouver DaggerDUO Ogre Ring (Necklace)
TRI Centaur BeltTRI Baslisk BeltTRI Sicil’s Necklace
TRI Tungrad BeltTRI Tungrad NecklaceTET Red Coral Earring

Crystals

Crystal Priorities:

1: 5 cast speed

2: 5 crit

3: free up 2x helmet gems

4: free up 2x weapon gems

You should use cheaper crystals early on to save money.

When you progress enough in gear, you can start using food/costumes to make up for some stats to use other crystals.

Example:  Kzarka + Boss gear

  • Serendia + Mediah Meals when you have 4/4 crit and cast to get 5/5.
  • Mediah Meal + Crit Costume when you have 4/4 to get to 5/5.

With the new addition of 10s elixir cd, some more stats can made up with elixirs without having to micromanage elixirs as much. It is still more work to keep up however.

As you move towards the right, you gain more freedom to switch up crystals. You don’t have to use the exact same ones, and some are more free than others like the first cell’s 2x MCI – Power can be anything you want really. The legend for some abbreviations is under the chart.

[Click here to find more like JIN/BON/WON Crystals]


Beginner 2 slot Green Armor + 2 slot green weaponAdvanced 2 slot Green Armor + 2 slot Green WeaponLiverto + Green ArmorKzarka + Green Armor/Partial BossKzarka + Full Boss
Weapon Crystals2x MCI – Power2x AMC – Addis
2x BMC – Precision*———————-2x AMC – Power BMC – Precision*AMC – Addis2x BMC – Precision*———————-2x RBF – Power
Helmet Crystals2x MCI – Memory2x Kydcit’s – Adventure (event item)—————————–2x MCI – Experience2x MCI – Memory2x MCI – Experience——————–2x AMC – Agility 2x MCI – Experience——————–2x AMC – Agility
Armor Crystals2x MCI – Evasion———————2x AMC – Cobelinus2x MCI – Evasion———————2x AMC – Cobelinus2x MCI – Evasion———————2x AMC – Cobelinus2x MCI – Evasion———————2x AMC – Cobelinus2x MCI – Evasion———————2x BMC – Cobelinus
Gloves Crystals2x MCI ValorMCI – ValorAMC – ViperMCI – ValorMCI – Precision MCI – Valor AMC ViperBMC ValorBMC Viper
Boots Crystals2x MCI Swiftness

2x MCI Swiftness2x MCI Swiftness2x BMC Swiftness——————–2x RBF – Adamantine——————–Or combination2x BMC Swiftness——————–2x RBF – Adamantine——————–Or combination
Dagger (some daggers have 1 slot)Awakened Black Spirit ———————–MCI Crit1-2 Awakened Black Spirit ———————–1-2  MCI Crit1-2 Awakened Black Spirit ———————–1-2  MCI Crit1-2 Awakened Black Spirit ———————–1-2  MCI Crit1-2 Awakened Black Spirit ———————–1-2  MCI Crit
Other (makes up for missing stat)
Mediah Meal: +1 Casting SpeedMediah Meal: +1 Casting SpeedSerendia Meal: +1 CritCrit Costume Margoria Special: +2 Crit + 2 Move SpeedCrit Costume

Blue – (MCI) Magic Crystal of Infinity

Orange – (AMC) Ancient Magic Crystal, (RBF) Red BattleField Crystal

Yellow – (AMC) Ancient Magic Crystal of Enchantment, (BMC) Black Magic Crystal

——— Option separator

* – BMC – Precision is the +8 Accuracy, +10% Ignore All Resistance version of the gem.

Offhands – Daggers

DaggerStats at TRI/ULTNotes
Steel34 AP3 monster dmg+1 SP ATK 3 DR3 monster dmg1SlotBest starting, after high AP the 1 SP attack may end up adding more damage than extra AP from Nouver. This is the main leveling dagger for when you just start. You should use this until you have at least duo yellow accessories and at least some TRI boss before considering other offhands.
Bronze14 AP3 monster dmg23(+23) evasion5 DR88 Acc +1 SP ATK1SlotNot very useful, since Witch/Wiz has high accuracy modifiers.
Parrying14 AP3 monster dmg27(+81) evasion1 DR+100 HP+ 1 SP ATK1SlotThe DP here is based mostly on evasion, making it very tanky. It has very little difference in offense/defense compared to Rosar. Used for evasion builds.
Rosar15 AP3 monster dmg23(+52) evasion4 DR +1 SP ATK 2SlotThe DP here has less evasion than parrying, but more AP from crystals.
Nouver40 AP5 DR3 monster dmg10% cc resist2SlotHighest AP offhand, and the 2 slots are very useful for more AP and HP, or 2x +1 crit. Does the most raw damage, but isn’t consistent. Compared to steel dagger, it might do less special atk damage, but is better at breaking blocks and through super armors, and is stronger against groups. This is a small upgrade compared to STEEL, and should not be used until other gear is already upgraded.
Kutum29 AP43 mosnter dmg9(+27) evasion11 Acc6 DR10% ignore resist 2SlotHybrid offhand, it provides some tankiness without losing much AP in PvP. The main use for it is the very high PvE damage, causing it to outperform all other daggers in PvE.This doesn’t mean it’s bad for PvP. Required for high level PvE.

Alternative Gear

For the hipster in you, here is a wall of text about pros and cons for various gear builds people have asked about. Lots of new information has come out in the last few months such as hidden evasion and DR, 2 piece set bonus conversion for Grunil and Rocaba, and new boss gear.

Green Helmets:

Most green helmets have higher evasion than Giath, about 4% TET green vs TET boss and 6% PEN green vs TET boss. The controversy is if 100 hp + some DR > 6% evasion. With AP softcap’s high tested hit rates vs TET boss, a green helmet might not help even here.

Griffon vs Giath:

Griffon’s helm provides 6 DR and 5% resist compared to Giath’s 100HP. As a whole, 6 DR is not very much, but as boss armor goes from TRI to TET, it gains more DR than evasion so the extra DR here may help. However, 100 HP from Giath isn’t to be underestimated as well. So far, no one has tested and published data between the two (it would be very hard to test a difference).

Rocaba:

Like green helmets, Rocaba helmet itself has more evasion than Giath. As a 2-piece set bonus, you supposedly gain 20 evasion (information from the datamine). In total you gain more evasion compared to just boss armor. However, if you swap Bheg’s for the 2nd Rocaba piece, you will be losing accuracy from the Bheg’s. If you swap other boss armor for the 2nd Rocaba piece, you will be losing evasion and DR as well.

Urugon’s vs Muskan’s:

TET Muskan’s: 127 evasion + 39 DR, TET Urugon’s: 84 evasion + 71 DR + 1 movespeed. Urugon’s provides much more DR than Muskans (way more than Giath -> Griffon), which fits into the theme that TET boss gains much more DR and tankiness from TRI. In testing, Urugons have been shown to be tankier than Muskan’s in TET boss setups. This is corroborated by accuracy testing, showing that TET boss has ~10% dodge with Muskan’s, which would mean you are getting hit no matter what anyway so more DR would help you more.

In summary, Urugon’s is better than Muskan’s, but Muskan’s are ok for evasion builds. It is actually very similar to Red Nose vs Dim Tree Armor, with testing differences showing similar numbers to the 200 HP difference between the two armors. If you have Muskan’s already, you might as well use them until further into gear progression, but try to get Urugon’s if you have nothing. Don’t get Muskans to start though.

Ultimate Meme Build:

I don’t think anyone has tried this but someone should! [Link]

Skills

Pre-awakening skill basics: (Translated from Inven)

  • Tells you what skills do and specifics about them, good for pre-56 skills.
  • Witch and Wizard have shared skills until awakening.

Guide on Awakening Skills basics: ( Witch / Wizard )

  • Decent read-up on skill basics, tells you what skills do and specifics about them.

Another Guide about Skills and other stuff: ( For Wizard )

Skill Guidelines

Pre-Awakening:

  • Mostly level secondary dps skills like residual lightning and fireball explosion. Then get big skills like Blizzard and Meteor if possible
  • You want to hit 56 for awakening ASAP

Awakening:

  • Pre-awakening skills to keep: Protected Area, Speed Spell, Mana Shield, Teleport+Ult Teleport, both heals, Spellbound Heart, Skilled Hunter, Infinite Mastery
  • As you move into later levels, you gain more skill points for pre-awakening skills such as:
Mind Training (percent CS stacks on +integer, works on awakening skills too)Meteor (useful for group fights)
Freeze (good for small scale PvP)Blizzard (useful for group fights)
Frigid Fog (good for small scale PvP)Lightning (situational)

Priorities:

Pick these skills first, Red is good for PvP but not necessary in PvE:

  1. Awakening skills. Some are not necessary unless PvPing or endgame PvE such as Yoke or Chilling Wave. Debuffs are also not necessary (Paralysis, Ritardando)
  2. Teleport and Ultimate Teleport (why wouldn’t you have these)
  3. Heals: Healing Aura and Healing Lighthouse
  4. Buffs: Speed Spell, Spellbound Heart (blue orb), Sage’s Memory, Protected Area, Mana Shield (Both are EXTREMELY important in PvP), Lvl 56 Rabam Healing
  5. Freeze then Frigid Fog
  6. Mind Training: + Cast speed for pre-awakened AND awakening on top of 5 cast speed from stats.
  7. Pre-awakening damage skills: Blizzard, Meteor, Earthquake, Lightning, Chain Lightning, etc
  8. Absolute skills: You need to level up the pre-awakening to get these in the first place.  Don’t worry about these until you have over 1600 SP.
  9. Level 57 Rabam: Do these after Absolutes because you need to max the prerequisites first

Skill Builds

These are general barebones skill builds. It doesn’t change if you’re a boss alt, or PvE, the skills will  remain the same.You get free skill resets before 56, and one more right after awakening. The trees might vary for you, due to new exp buffs without skill exp buffs. Use these as a general idea.

WitchWizard
Level 50Level 50
Level 56 518 SP  Level 56 518 SP
Level 58 792 SP Level 58 792 SP
Level 60 1254 SPLevel 60 1254 SP
Level 60 1519 SP No AbsoluteLevel 60 1519 SP No Absolute
Level 60 1604 SP Absolute Bliz+MeteorLevel 60 1604 SP Absolute Bliz + Meteor
Level 60 1873 SP All AbsolutesLevel 60 1873 SP All Absolutes

Advanced Skills

Shiomizu’s Wizard Combo and Matchup Guide (Doc)[OLD]

Boesewicht’s Wizard Combos (Doc)

  • Wizard Mechanics and Combos
  • Witches can read and benefit too!
  • Especially important are the matchups vs other classes!

Witch Awakening Skill Explanation and Tips ( youtube )

Absolute Skills

Absolute skills are an extra level on top of unawakened staff skills. They require that you completely max out the unawakened skill before taking the absolute skill. You should not be taking absolute skills unless you are level 60 (or even 61) and have at least 1600 SP. Awakened skills will do more DPS and are much safer to use than a slower but strong unawakened skill, so you will need to max awakened skills first.Skill builds are listed in the skill builds section.

Cranium and Krystalie’s Absolute Skills Video [Link]

  • Shows you the differences between pre-awakened and the new absolute skills

[placeholder for more as more info about these skills come out]

Inven Absolute Skills to take by Efficiency [Link]

  • Efficient Absolute skill usage – scroll to witch/wiz
  • You shouldn’t worry about absolute skills until you have 1600 SP anyway. They are too slow for PvE and situationally used  in PvP.

Rabam Skills

NA/EU link: [official]

  • You can only pick 1 Rabam for level 56 and one for level 57
  • It does not cost SP
  • You don’t lock the skill out if you take these, so you can still use Sage’s Memory

Level 56:

Both: Sage’s Memory + Healing Lighthouse – almost instantly full heals you with super armor.

Likely the better choice, but preference can steer you away.

Wizard: Sage’s + Fireball – situationally used, can be taken on preference

Witch: Sage’s + Lightning – situationally used, can be taken on preference

Level 57:

Both:

Swift Earthquake: Does slightly more damage, slightly faster

Trembling Thunder: Super armor slow, SA lasts longer because it’s slower

One does more damage, the other has a slow debuff. However, Swift EQ requires less SP and you really shouldn’t bother with either until you have enough SP to max out absolutes first.

Witch/Wiz Hotbars

Collage of Witch/Wizard Hotbars [Link]

Here is a link to a collage of Witch/Wiz hotbars. They were taken from experienced witches and wizards.

  • Blue outline = witch, Red outline = wizard
  • The positioning on some of these hotbars may be strange, but this collage is mostly to see which skills people are hotbarring. Position and keys are to your preference!

Summoned Pets

Overall, our pets do little damage but a little damage can add up. They each have a long and telegraphed cc skill that you can use with right click if the pet summon skill is off cooldown. Pets cannot die easily, and can be switched with F. They can be de-summoned by putting the skill on hotbar and using it from there when you get annoyed from them following you all the time.

Ranged Pet

This is Tett (Witch) or Arne (Wizard). Tett is the lightning dude and Arne is the water girl. I personally find that the ranged pets are better for PvE, since they won’t get in the way and the ranged attack can reach farther, allowing the pet to finish off the last few mobs you might have missed.

Melee Pet

This is Gorr (Witch) or Marg (Wizard). Gorr is the rock golem and Marg is the fire golem/demon/thing. The melee pets will stay closer to you and have to close in on enemies to attack. They are useful in that they can block incoming hits since they sometimes will draw auto targeting skills towards them. They can also block other players’ vision in the same way. They are not as useful in PvE since they have to go up to the mobs, but are nice in PvP for the body block.

MP Management

This isn’t ranger, how do we have MP management problems?

The debate about MP management revolves around 3MP sources:

Sphera Training, Mana Drain, and Spellbound Heart

Sphera Training – This involves leveling up Sphera Training to be effective. You end up spamming A+D and left click to get MP back. It’s fast, but you will be interrupting your combat flow (not skill flows) and it doesn’t do much damage.

Mana Drain – This can be down with or without maxing Mana Drain. The upside is it’s kind of fast and you get all your MP back. The downside is this skill does almost no damage, you’re stationary for the duration, and you swap back to staff mode, which will majorly interrupt your combat flow.

Spellbound Heart – This is my favorite option. It’s an orb that follows you around and gives you MP back while giving you 10% movement speed. You might not get completely full, but you also get MP back from awakening skills. The hazard is in 1v1s, where you have to be careful because you might completely run out.

Skill Add-Ons

A note about Add-Ons: Generally Add-Ons have minimal differences between each other. They will work for PvP or PvE. The only main one to get for PvE is the +20 monster damage (which skill it’s on depends on Witch/Wiz). Certain add-ons do not stack. The same buff/debuff can’t be applied at the same time, unless one is from a skill main effect.

Witch:

Az’s Add-On’s:

Hoy’s Add-On’s:

Stolen from Hoy, pre-awakened skills only:

PvP Damage + 5 & +15 DP on Freeze

PvP Damage + 5 & -4% movement speed on Meteor

3% accuracy and 20 MP recovery per hit on residual lightning

Or

5% accuracy and +15 dp on Earthquake

Cranium’s Add-On’s:

Wizard:

Hiro’s suggestions:

Blackburn’s Suggestions :

Taken from Blackburn’s Skill Add-on video ( youtube )

Staff:

Fireball Explosion

All defense +15 for 10 sec. for self. + 15% chance of Down Smash for target

Multiple Magic Arrows

PvP Attack +5 for 5 sec. for self. + Instantly recover 3 MP per hit.

Residual Lightning

All Movement Speed +4% for 10 sec. for self. + Instantly Recover 20 MP per hit.

Awakened:

Aqua Jail Explosion

Attack against monsters +20 for 8 sec. for self.

Inflicts 42 Bleeding Damage per 3 sec. for target.

Cataclysm

All Defense +10 for 10 sec. for self. + All Evasion +5% for 10 sec. for self.

Hellfire

All Critical Hit Rate +10% for 9 sec. for self.

Inflicts 40 Poison Damage per 3 sec. for target.

Special Mechanics

Witch and Wizard don’t really have animation cancels like other classes.

Witch:

  • Using Toxic Field (E awakening) will draw mobs towards it. This includes tamer pets and witch/wizard summons.
  • Queuing teleport ( pressing Shift + Spacebar ), and then immediately facing another direction than the one faced when the buttons are pressed, will project a “fake” teleport animation towards the initial direction, while actually teleporting towards the second one.
  • Magical evasion, earth’s response, and teleport cancel Healing Lighthouse
  • Enabling mouse movements can let you turn certain skills immediately after casting: Blizzard, Teleport, Thunderbolt, Yoke of Ordeal are some examples

Wizard:

  • Using Lava Field (E awakening) will draw mobs towards it. This includes tamer pets and witch/wizard summons.
  • Queuing teleport ( pressing Shift + Spacebar ), and then immediately facing another direction than the one faced when the buttons are pressed, will project a “fake” teleport animation towards the initial direction, while actually teleporting towards the second one.
  • Magical evasion, earth’s response, and teleport cancel Healing Lighthouse
  • Enabling mouse movements can let you turn certain skills immediately after casting: Blizzard, Teleport, Aqua Jail, Hellfire are some examples

Combos and Rotations

Witch and Wizard don’t really have standard combos/rotations. Both classes are very situational, and you should learn which of your 6 skills have super armor or block to use them accordingly. You can learn about your skills and their effects here.

In PvE, skills are still situational. Most Witch/Wizard skills do enough damage on their own to not require combos in PvE. Then it’s just a matter of knowing which of your skills have flows and do big  damage, and using those skills when they’re off cooldown.

An example of a PvP situation is like:

Freeze on CD, a Sorc tries to hop in and CC, so a Witch charges up Voltiac Pulse. Voltiac has SA which prevents CC, and then causes bound. Then you can use equilibrium break which gets a down attack multiplier on bounds for extra damage.

You can be a brain dead Witch/Wizard and just blindly roll AoEs at groups, or you can master your skills and actually get good.

Stats

Stats in BDO, if you’re new to the game, are different from your traditional MMORPG. Many stats are hidden, including the damage you deal, and even whether your attacks miss or hits.

Offensive stats

LevelLevels in BDO are similar to most MMORPG’s. You get higher level, you get stronger. However, gear in this game is not bound by level requirements. Instead, a higher leveled player has a higher chance to land attacks and deal crowd control effects, thus dealing more damage. Skills also deal a lot more damage as you level, thus making you stronger overall. 58 is about average for the PvP scene, and 60 is soft cap, which is not uncommon either.
APAP is your main offensive stat. The more AP you have, the more damage you deal. It is advisable to get as much AP as possible to allow faster farming, and to deal more damage to players
AccuracyMost of your skills will be multi-hit, meaning the damage is split up between multiple strikes of the same attack. Since each hit has a chance to miss, not having enough accuracy will severely dampen your effective damage. Generally, having a Bheg’s Gloves, Kzarka Staff, and a TRI: Red Coral Earring, will be enough to land an adequate amount of hits.
MPMP is used to cast skills. Not having enough MP means not being able to cast skills. Generally, using the right rotation of skills is enough keep our MP up. However, Magical Shield will consume your mana to reduce taken damage. Keep a couple of MP Potions in case things get hairy.
StaminaUsed to perform actions such as jumping or sprinting. Also used to evade (Shift + Direction). You will generally have enough stamina gained from regular play.
Casting SpeedAllows faster casting of skills. A total of 5 levels of casting speed is available. Further casting speed can be obtained via buffs. 5 Casting Speed is recommended at all combat times. Percent casting speeds (buffs, Mind Training) will stack on top of integer numbers (+1,+2,etc)
Critical Hit RateAllows for you attacks to deal critical damage. 5 Critical Hit Rate levels are recommended for combat times. However, prioritize Casting Speed over Critical Hit Rate.
Attack SpeedNot used for Witches and Wizards. Note: No single class will use both Attack Speed and Casting Speed.

Defensive stats

HPImproves survivability. The witch and wizard is naturally “squishy”, so ample HP is recommended for PvP, and endgame PvE play.
DPA combination of damage reduction (DR) and evasion. Some accessories prioritize DR, while others prioritize evasion. Armors are a mix of both, with Boss Gear having generally more evasion. A breakdown of each gear’s DR and Evasion value can be found here.Damage Reduction – Damage reduced from attacks that land. Note that although damage from the attacks are reduced, crowd control effects still affect the character.Evasion – Higher evasion means less hits landing. That means less crowd control effects, and less total damage that actually hits your character. Muskan’s Boots, along with Rosar/Krea/Parrying Dagger provide an hefty amount of evasion. Evasion is a favored counter to “AP Builds” where a player prioritizes high AP without adequate accuracy.
CC ResistanceCrystals will be your main source of crowd control resistance. Manos gem accessories are also via, however inefficient.
Movement SpeedStat that allows faster movement in general. Recommend to get this as high as possible for faster grinding and movement on battlefields.

Videos and Extras

Hiro’s Wizard 1v1 Video (youtube)

  • Nice montage video on Wizard’s 1v1 potential.
  • It’s beneficial to note how Hiro chains his freeze to extend knock downs to keep the opponent on lockdown.

Hiro Wiz vs Striker (youtube)

  • Wizard 1v1 with counter class
  • Also great music

Horsey’s Wiz PvP Video (youtube)

  • Wizard PvP stuff

Blackburn’s Wizard Skill Rotation Guide ( youtube )

  • 42 minute video on how to to be a wizard.

Lyaah’s Witch Duels (Check out his channel for more!) (channel)

  • Vs:  ( Sorc, Tamer )
  • Good reference for witch combos

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. What skill add-ons should I get?
    1. Go here.
  2. What should I do next with my gear?
    1. Go here.
  3. Do I need Red Coral Earrings?
    1. Current data suggests that we do not need RCE. With accuracy reaching nearly 90% vs TET boss with AP gear, we also have accuracy stacked with skills. It may be useful to use against evasion enemies, but those are fairly rare. The following is previous suggestions:
    2. 1x TRI: Red Coral Earring, along with Bheg’s Gloves, and Kzarka Staff is generally recommended to reach an optimal level of accuracy for PvP.
    3. A rough order of earrings are:
      DUO Witch’s Earrings < TRI: Red Coral Earrings
      TRI: Red Coral Earrings = TRI: Witch’s Earrings
      TRI: Witch’s Earring < TRI: Tungrad Earrings
      TRI: Tungrad Earrings < TET: Red Coral Earrings
    4. About 50% of people go 2x AP earrings, and the other 50% go 1 RCE + 1 AP earring. A few do 2x RCE.

Non-Class Help

Asula Information

BDO Official: Link

CC (crowd control) Guide

By Shiomizu: Link

Life Skill Links

Maps: http://www.somethinglovely.net/

Life Skill Help: http://blackdesertanalytics.com/

Life Skill Book

How to life skill: how do I do life skills??

Grinding Map

Why is the grinding map gone??? The old one was very out of date, please contribute by finding/making a new one!

Market FAQ

Az’s Marketplace FAQ: Link

Failstacking Guide

How to failstack: Morrolan TV

Enhancing Charts

Az’s general fail stacks based on nothing but picking random points that may or may not be efficient:

Enhancing to…FS for Green/BlueFS for Boss
101010
111112
121214
131316
141418
151520
PRI15-2015-20
DUO20-2525-35
TRI30-4030-50
TET35+45+

Chinese Probability Chart:

Another Probability Chart:

TO BE CLEAR: The only difference between PVE And PVP is that you do not take PVP damage and movement speed debuff addons if you are 100% PVE FOCUSED.

Skills

Blizzard has been changed to have Split damage. That means, instead of every target receiving the full damage of the skill, the damage is now splits and is lower the more targets are hit. This change means Getting absolute blizzard is pointless.

However, if during node war/sieges/fights you feel the CD of the blizzard is too long, leveling it to tier 3 is not a bad option.

Skill build recommendations (Contribution by the one and only Presbyter!)

Level 1 to 56:

First of all take this note, our pre awakening before absolute feels slow and weak. Its normal. The skill we recommend you to have for damage:

– Chain lightning

– Fire ball + explosion

– Multiple Magic arrows

– Lightning + Residual lightning

At level 56, after completing the awakening quest you will receive a reward from black spirit to reset your skills.

Your goal for 56 should be something like this:

Witch https://bdocodex.com/us/skillcalc/85704/

Wizard https://bdocodex.com/us/skillcalc/85703

If you are not close to that, priorities:

– All awakening skills you are able to take (for wizard exclude chilling wave, witch exclude equilibrium break)

– Mind Training (cast speed)

– Teleport

– Healing aura and Healing lighthouse

– Speed spell

– Infinite mastery (HP passive)

– Skilled Hunter

– Sage’s memory

– If you feel lack of mana, Spellbound heart (can be excluded)

Up to level 60, your priority is to maximize all awakening skills (wizard excludes chilling wave + Flow, witch excludes Equilibrium break + Flow).

To be fully PVP ready, your aim is around 1600 ~ 1800 SP.

Witch https://bdocodex.com/us/skillcalc/85710

Wizard https://bdocodex.com/us/skillcalc/85711

Skill prioritises (Witch):

– Magical Shield

– Protected Area (Nodewars)

– Absolute Meteor

– Absolute Fireball explosion

– Absolute Multiple Magic arrows

– Absolute residual lightning

– Absolute dagger stab

– Blizzard III (Only for node wars and only if you feel the CD is too long on blizzard I)

Past that, the choice depends on player.

Witch RABAM Notes:

level 56 – Sage’s Light. It is the best thing to support your team members, very good for pvp in all scales and pve in all scales.

level 57 – swiftness earthquake. PVE Usage only, nice for quick pulls when grinding.

Skill Priorities (Wizard):

– Magical Shield

– Protected Area (Nodewars)

– Absolute Meteor

– Absolute Fireball explosion

– Absolute Multiple Magic arrows

– Absolute Dagger Stab

– Absolute residual lightning

– Blizzard III (Only for node wars and only if you feel the CD is too long on blizzard I).

Past that, the choice depends on player.

Wizard RABAM Notes:

level 56 – Sage’s Light. Again, for all scenarios it is the most recommended. However, Sage’s Rage is an ok option for PVE and sometimes 1v1 cases.

level 57 – swiftness earthquake. PVE Usage only, nice for quick pulls when grinding.

Addons

Addons are extra effects added to your skills. You can select up to 3 pre awakened skills and up to 3 awakened skills (all unlocked at level 60). You can switch your addons around by either using memory fragments or by having  Cliff’s skill add-on guide (Pearl item) at the skill manager. Skill addons do not affect Rabam skills.

Since addons depend on play style and preference, listed below are examples of good players from witch/wiz discord.

Latis / Smirkes (Wizard)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395004514186297344/565166434205040650/ecd7035c80d4bf356d51a0929cbd0c58.png

Earthquake – Mix PvE/PvP addon, keeping the 20% crit up is easy in PvE as i do 1 tick of it for pulling the mobs (Aak/hyst) and is our only good accuracy buff.

Fireball – Mix PvE/PvP addon, our highest source of mob damage at 25 and has 100% uptime if you’re keeping track, the 10% casting stacks with everything else you do making combos extremely smooth in PvP if you rabam cancel

MMA – Mix PvE/PvP  Use it for last hitting in PvE, Okay 5 pvp AP.

Hellfire – Entirely PvE, though the crit if useful for the awakened kill combo, casting speed is there entirely cause i find the DoT damage on it redundant as i’m never going to use this skill in pvp except when i’m 100% safe and using it too kill people.

Jail – Also PvE, Best source of mob AP in the awake kit

Cata – PvP, Best self buffs % evasion is always busted

Skarium (Witch)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395004514186297344/565171816172355594/574b46faf7a2083b44e0580a9ad958be.png

Presbyter (Witch) – PVP focused.

https://gyazo.com/c2b01dbadb9bae86ddc7d31ace96eab7

Satomi  (Witch) – PVP focused

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/395004514186297344/567033379938238487/unknown.png

Gear

The 0-200 AP Guide found on discord is still the most up to date. The only thing to take notice is that you should not be getting Red coral earrings as part of your main build.

Kzarka VS Offin

For new players and low geared people, the recommendation is still Kzarka Staff. Why? Because it is much easier to obtain compared to offin.

At a higher gear tier, the advantage of Offin lies with bringing up your Pre-awakening bracket to 261 – 269. The +2 crit is also nice touch, but not the major part. These are the brackets which I recommend people who obtained offin to use. If you are able to reach the same Pre-awakening AP with Kzarka, you are better off using it as the higher the gear, the more accuracy can benefit you. It is not wrong to use either one.

Black Star

Will be re-written eventually.

Green Awakening VS Blue awakening

For new players, It is recommend to take the Green awakening (Pri aad sphera/Tati Godr Sphera) because it is cheaper and easier to repair (Altinova weapon merchant sells them).

It is better to save the money for the Dandelion awakening weapon in the future.

End game Builds (By Latis)

Important note: bdoplanner does not display the +2 AP/+2 DP given from leveling up to 56, 60 and from Bartli journal. All builds include crystal setup up!

Regarding cobelinus (if you don’t have garmoth); BON for wizards and JIN for witches.

baseline gear – applies to both classes, Caphras levels are; Level 3 on Dim Tree, Urugon, Bheg and Griffon

https://bdoplanner.com/PolishedAltarBlack

Please note bdocodex does not add any bonus AP/DP from level ups or journals. This lacks 2 AP and 2 DP (Currently).

Wizard (and other evasion style classes such as mystic and striker or if you want to go evasion…)

https://bdoplanner.com/FliesHeidelOgre

The difference in base evasion between wizard and witch is 20. However, this build is essentially better for wizard thanks to 3 SAs. Caphras levels are; Level 1 Kzarka, Level 3 Dande, Level 3 Dim tree and Muskan, Level 13 Heve helm, Level 11 heve gloves.

Progression from here is pen weapons into pen armours, Muskan -> Dim -> Leebur

Witch (and other DR style classes such as valk, warrior, zerker or if you just don’t want to go evasion)

https://bdoplanner.com/CantusaSkunkyTrader

This is a full DR focused build, fitting classes with block or a lot of Frontal guards. Witch only DR gear, Caphras levels are; Level 4 on Dim, Griffon, Ururgon, Bheg. Level 4 Kzarka and Level 2 Dandelion.

Witches unfortunately have a very steep build path from here, going into Pen armours Bheg -> Uru or Dim -> Griffon.

End game grind zones

Aakman

Arguably the best end game spot for both witch and wizard, Money wise. The minimum AP you should have is 240+ with TET Kutum offhand. Here is a link to a guide made by Jackiefelix for aakman

and if you are lost

Underwater Temple

The (at the moment) future end-game grind zone to come. This information was provided by a lovely korean streamer romeo https://www.twitch.tv/gkhy

Minimum AP : 280 (with Nouver). Minimum DP: 320.

Class ranking for grinding there: Top tier are mystic and zerker. Good tier are Sorc, Lahn, Ranger, Darkknight and Valk. Ok tier are Warrior, archer, tamer, musa, maewha, ninja, kuno. Sadly, witch and wizard are probably the worst class for the zone.

Note, as there are not many strikers in Korea, there is no info.

Mirumok

The at-the-moment best EXP group grinding spots (up to 3 people for money + 2 more can leech for EXP). Requirement starts from 235 AP with TET Kutum. At 269+ kutum AP some classes are able to solo.

Gyfin

Another group PVE content, considered lesser compared to Mirumok but is for a 5 man party.

Star Grave

Will be re-written. Major point of the spot : Corrupted earrings (should be added soon).

Minimum AP: 280 (Nouver) / 269 (Kutum). Minimum DP: 320.

List of all changes to witch/wizard (from Korean notes)

The eternal question: Who is better?

Both witch and wizard have their own advantages based on style. Wizard is more fit for open-field fights and 1v1 style, while the witch is stronger in choke area fights. Both can be good at the other points as well. It all depends on your skill and gear.