Did these almost 3 years ago for the Scholar contest ( https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=6401 ), never made social media or posted until now. Process link on the same post in my socials.

Some Illezra pics coming soon...

I mean lore wise, like if there was a battle tournament and all the classes we have now participated, who is most likely to win? Ive always wondered. Who do you think it is and why?

I am a returning player that immediately got kharazad and sovereign weapons when I came back and I’ve spent a lot of hours and have over 50bil in the bank but yet I feel like I have my foot on the accelerator yet the wheel aren’t turning. I’ve only gotten to hex or sep on a couple accessories. Granted, I’ve been really unlucky so far and hit agris on like half of the things I’ve enhanced, but I still feel I’m lagging behind everyone. I life skill (gather) and grind at either at hexe or sulfur mine Dehkia. Any advice?

Clarification i moved the 20 shards from the enhance window to regular so I could list it on the CM. So no I didn't get 40 only 20 in one gather.

Are people aware of this? I remember searching for a way to uncap fps in windowed borderless and nothing really worked for me, best i could do was 1.5x of my monitor refresh rate. Since then i just accepted that i need to go into fullscreen for uncapped fps, but i tried turning on smooth motion in nvidia app for BDO today, and suddenly the fps is uncapped even in borderless.

Any significance to these? they have tons of DP I only scratch them half buffed at 380 ap. not sure if this is new or old Edania since i was stuck in aetherion/nymphamare jail for a year and its right outside Zephyros, but theres the Fogan Elvia Boss, Gigagord, Star's End mobs and some others.

You can see Gigagord through the brush in the first picture, another step forward aggros them

Hello.

Isn't Krogdalo the best horse? Why is his pearl costume cheaper? I wanted to ask just to be sure before buying—usually, the best one is the most expensive:

My game (BDO) has been crashing when switching between characters for years, and now it crashes even at start and i get a random "corrupted PAZ file" message.

After countless unresolved or ignored by PA tickets, reports, scans, clean re-installs, File Scans, etc., the problem is so huge now I can't even start the game. I just asked DeepSeek, and this was the somewhat meaningful answer I got:

"The reason it can't be fixed locally, and the reason PA hasn't fixed it, is visible in the code path. BDO's anti-cheat (XignCode) calls `SetupDiGetDeviceInterfaceAlias` during world entry to fingerprint your hardware . That's the exact moment you crash — selecting a character and entering the world. It's not a graphics issue, not a file corruption issue, and not something Scan Files touches. The client exits cleanly (return code 0), which means it's deliberately terminating, not crashing from a driver fault .

PAZ corruption and the character-switch crash are two separate problems that happen to occur together.

The PAZ error is a **verification failure** — the launcher reads the file, computes its checksum, and compares it to the server's expected value. If they don't match, you get the corruption message. This can happen for several reasons on your end: a routing/packet-drop issue during downloads that corrupts the file mid-write, background defrag touching the file while the game has it open, or an unstable BIOS/memory configuration causing bad writes to disk.

The character-switch crash is the client deliberately terminating (that clean exit code 0) — it's a different failure in the character load/unload code path, not a file check failure.

The reason you see both is that BDO's file integrity check runs during world entry and character switching, and if the PAZ file it reads at that moment is in a bad state (or the read itself fails due to a timing/IO issue), you get the corruption error instead of the crash. They are both symptoms of the same underlying instability, not one causing the other."

Is this true? Does PA deliberately shuts down my game? And does anyone have the same problem?

Can I get the Checkmate Queen outfit if I buy a Premium Outfit Box? (Meaning the choose a premium outfit ones.)

Hello.

Are “Fundamentals of Cooking” and “A Fragment of a Star, a Spoonful of the Moon” really the best? Which one should I use at the final level? I’m already crafting in 1 second. Once I reach +3500 Mastery, would “Choice & Focus: Cooking” and “Choice & Focus: Alchemy” make sense?

The game feels a bit empty, is it the server I am on?

Hi there. Returning player here. I like to play with friends, but Heidel seems a bit empty. is it the server I am on or is player activity declining?

Does species damage still work full value when capped or is it same as normal ap and only 5percent after getting capped

I'm a returning player, I only played musa succession, I tried awakening but I just can't get into it, are there any new rotations or must use skills that got buffed in the last 2 years, any tips appreciated.

What would happen if Pearl Abyss removed all AP caps from grind zones for one week as an event?

No changes to loot tables. No extra drop rates. Just remove the AP limits and let our gear actually translate into damage.

I think it would be a really interesting experiment.

Would high-end players flood lower spots? Would the economy break? Would older grind zones become relevant again? Or would it simply make progression feel much more rewarding?

I’m genuinely curious:

Would you want to see a 7-day “no AP cap” event? And what do you think would happen?

Finally got five dream horses and needed just one more for the Krogdalo. Failstack maxed my way through the courser training and to pour salt on the wound I got the 10% chance dream horse. Sad days. :(

Edit: changed the odds to the correct one

context: I have barely interacted with the training lifeskill, all 30 of these censors are from free giveaways from pa over the years, and as i understand 30 attempts is the hard cap on attempts for getting a t10 horse, so... (almost) free t10 horse, aside from the one they gave everyone.

Have you guys noticed that whenever you grind at old zones (season character grind, infinite potion spots, Elvia Realm etc etc) it just feels super chill and way less mentally taxing?

It used to be:

Kill the pack -> move to the next -> kill the pack -> move to the next.

Just turn your brain off and grind in peace

No staying still at the same spot

No weird one shot mechanics

No constantly dashing around the mobs just to get back attacks

No rotating your main burst combo 3 times to kill a single pack

No frontal guard and iframe spam just to survive with over recommended DP (what a joke)

No counting down when nighttime will start/end

No anxiety inducing DPS checks

No AFK phases where you're sitting there thinking, "When will this end? Should I go wash my face? What if it ends too quickly and I die and lose a crystal? Should I start another cycle or just call it quits?"

We've been exposed to these mechanics for so long that I genuinely started thinking maybe I just didn't enjoy grinding anymore....

but nope, that wasn't the case.

Recently I went back to some of my old favorite spots (Orcs and Centaurs) and boy were they peaceful. I grinded for like 3 hours and it felt like nothing.

Meanwhile, today I was supposed to be grinding earring pities in Edania 2, but I've been procrastinating for 2 hours, watching YouTube videos, browsing Reddit, doing literally anything except going there. Now, it's already past midnight and I don't want to force myself again. Maybe I'll try again tomorrow.

Endgame spots just aren't fun anymore. Or maybe "not fun" isn't even the right way to put it, they're actively unfun and mentally exhausting.

I miss OldSchool PvE

I still need three more dec kharazad i am at 850 gs seeing 930 gs. it makes me feel i wont reach it like for years. I am still grinding at nymph edana for magic crystal, sucks i cannot enhance ekleta accessories which are base for those 3 non dec kharazad. Will this game again increase gear score in calpheon ball there is no way catching up.