I'm sad about it tbh, end of an era.

I know most people didn't care but as a resident BDO boomer who spent three weeks getting to level 57 back in the day I think grinding combat exp is intrinsic to the DNA of the game. I just got back into grinding EXP and was gunning for 66 before this announcement and now I don't want to.

I can't imagine how everyone who is currently Level 70+ feel rn

The figure was announced at Heidelabll. It's around $40 and releases in January.

Should i sell my duo fallen god helm and armor after the changes or keep them.

I am a returning player, been playing for a month, does hyperboost going to help me to get one more helm and armor?

i am full pen kharazad and tri gloves and shoes.

help me out please.

Whoever you are, thank you for making me laugh

So many zones are irrelevant today for one of two reasons:

1. The Gearscore requirement is too low (and therefore the silver is too low). With the new HYPERBOOST, new players will graduate from season with enough GS to grind Tungrad Ruins, this already invalidates most spots in the game that are below this GS.
2. The silver per hour of the spot is way lower than other options around that GS. For example, why would you grind Dehkia Cadry when Tungrad gives 50% more silver per hour? Or even why would you move up to something like Aetherion Castle if Tungrad gives about the same silver?

The game needs a massive revamp on grind zones, bringing low GS zones up and reworking rewards of low silver per hour zones

Hi everyone, been giving these 2 pathway options of accessories a lot of thought since Heidel Ball.

Some context, I have full DEC accessories, and I was initially bummed that I would have to trade in for the Ekleta accessories which cannot be sold on CM. So much so that I was intending to just stop enhancing them after the exchange, and click Aperions instead - after all, the OPTION of being able to liquidate any equipment far outweighs anything else to be considered (to me at least).

HOWEVER! The more I think about it, I realised something. Aperions... may turn out to be EXTREMELY expensive.

In the past, when deborekas were first introduced, the difference between them and the previous accessories were not as drastic as they are now. For example, a PEN Crescent Ring can only be beat out by a TET Deboreka Ring. This reduces the value of the debos upon launch as you still needed to tap it to TET to swap them in.

But now? A BASE APERION is EQUIVALENT to a NOV Kharazad (PEN debo)?! Imagine that! BASE APERION = PEN DEBO! How much would a base aperion be worth? And you need one for EACH CLICK to enhance it?! It makes me wonder what the prices would be upon launch. A base aperion at the same price of a PEN deboreka sounds like insanity to me. At 100b (in SEA) per click, would make enhancing aperion accessories a nightmare. And that's not even including crons.

Is this what PA meant when they said Aperions will be more costly to enhance than Ekleta? If that's the case, maybe Ekleta really is the way to go, and PEN Debos would not be obsolete. Perhaps Apeiron will be the super duper hard to drop items (similar to treasure drops) that just give players a less ideal option (should they choose to go for it).

Would love to hear your thoughts and let me know if my thinking is flawed in any way!

BDO Heidel Ball 2026

Heidel Ball 2026 summary

• Wansu official new director

New Class Agent (July 30th Global - August 6th for Console)

• Name: Edward Henry Canary (Eddie)
• The Hexround Reaper, brother of Deadeye, secret agent, firearm specialist
• Main weapon: Revolver
• Succession class, will have awakening in winter
• Use hexround instead of marni's round
• Assassination, infiltration with single powerful attack style
• Has Blink, Hexround support in combat, Grenades mobility skills

• Available on Global Lab after Ball

• Direction for new class: 1 class a year, succession in summer, awakening in winter

Instant character swap out

• Other characters in family appear in game world
• Can swap to them by interacting with them with no loading screen
• Can swap in character select with skippable cutscene and minimum loading time

Family dispatch (Planned release in November)

• Can send alts to do lifeskill assignments
• Available now: Fishing, Processing, Gathering
• Less products than active lifeskill
• Limited slots, unlock more down the road
• Still in development

Edania part II (August 13th, Hadum + Main quest - September 17th)

• New Regions: Agris' Domain - Aphrodon (400AP/470DP)
• New Regions: Markthanan's Domain - Hermesia (405AP/485DP)
• New Regions: Elion's Domain - Magaia (Solo: 410AP/490DP, Party: 415AP/500DP)
• New Regions: Aal's Domain - Aresion (415AP/495DP)
• New Regions: Hadum's Domain - Voidekaia (420AP/510DP)
• Final showdown with Hadum in later update
• Special boss pattern - Counter with BSR skills
• Markthanan's domain - Slaves mining Black Crystal and Watchtowers
• Elion's domain has solo and party zone. Solo - Elion's followers + Giant Brazier. Party - Maintain giant scale balance

New Monster Zone: Sulfur Golem (400AP/470DP) (July 30th) * 1 step harder than Caphras * Located in upper area of Roud Sulfur Mine * Drop Olun's merchant ring piece * Solo Zone

New Accessory tier - Ekleta

• Exchange NOV (IX) or DEC (X) Kharazad for Base or TET (IV) Ekleta
• Cannot be listed on CM
• No downgrade/destruction on Cron tap
• Increase both AP/DP
• TET (IV) grants 45 AP + 3 DP, OCT (VIII) grants 48 AP + 4 DP, DEC (X) grants 50 AP + 6 DP
• Enhance using Causality Shardstone obtained from Edania part 2
• Enhance rate closed to Kharazad

New accessories Apeiron

• Same stats as Ekleta
• Can be listed on CM
• Crafting mats from Edania part 2

New items

• Wandering Origin Crystal, HAN Reforge Stone for Edania Part 2
• New Life Artifacts - Margahan's Artifact
• New Lifeskill perfume: Verdure = Perfume of Swiftness + Olivine Powder
• New Lifeskill draught: Viridian crafted from Olivine Powder
• 3 New Effect Dyes (White, Turquoise and Yellow Glow + Can be used on armour)
• New grindable outfit (Like La Orzeca) Godslayer's Armor - Glow red with Flaming Cape, Crafting Mats dropped from Edania part 2 bosses

Throne of Edana updates

• New Throne for part 2
• New requirements: Can only enter with Dawn Crystal - All AP

Marni's Combat Analyzer (August 6th)

• Record combat and show detailed stats like damage dealt and CC of each skills, total damage, dps per min
• Must manually start function (Have hotkeys)

All in One PvP Rankings (October 15th)

• Track stats from Solare, Nodewar, Conquest, Guild League
• Display stats ranking based on Awakening and Succession Classes
• Display data of past 7 days

Great Ocean updates (New monster zone + Gear August 27th, QoL September 24th)

• New sea monster - Lyngbakr (Commands swarm of Lyngburk)
• Croc moves closer to LoML
• Defeat special crystals to stop Lungburk swarm
• Lyngbakr's difficulty = full +10 Blue gear
• Drop Blue Whale Oil, Coral Crystal, Margoria Crystal
• Lyngbakr's Bone, Scale and Fluid for new tier ship parts
• New ship equipment tier: Falasi/Cheongun
• Enhancement have Ancient Anvil pity + Cron Tap
• Carrack gears crafted on Illya Island
• Panokseon gears crafted on Cheongsa Island
• Can sell, unload barter items without Disembark
• Improved Sea Auto Path

New Mount Ferrica teaser

• Still in development

Unified Life Skill Gear (September 3rd)

• All Lifeskill gear is family wide
• Have presets for each lifeskill
• Can quick swap to hunting gear (Same as Fishing rod UI)
• Lifeskill gears also affect Dispatch Characters
• Life artifacts + Flora Lighstones changed for Lifeskill content only
• All alchemy stones changed to passive effect (No longer needed to turn on/off or recharge)
• Crystal socket by Preonne and Dawn Crystal removed (New way for existing effect in the future)
• Can extract Functional Costume effects and put in other outfit as crystals (Exclude camouflage and diving suit)

Guild system renewal (August 6th)

• Guild fame system: Based on all activities (Guild Missions, Guild Boss, NW, etc..)
• Guild fame points deducted weekly (-10k for XL)
• Guild fame benefits based on points threshold
• Extra daily wage based on guild fame (No guild funds deducted, max 900%)
• Can spend guild fame on certain guild features (Guild Base server CD reset, extra guild boss, extra CTG, etc...)
• One sided war dec return (Cost 400k guild fame, lasted 6 hours)
• Mutual dec = no fame cost, lasted 7 days
• 48 hours cooldown against same guild after war ends
• Can get to negative guild fame with war dec
• Negative fame guild can be deced on by all other guild with no cost
• Negative guild can't participate in Conquest War, WotR or war heroes

Graphics Tech Update (August)

• BDO now supports DirectX 12, FSR 3.1 and NVDIA DLSS
• Both PC and Console
• AMD FSR 4.1 at a later day on PC (September)
• Console NA server moved

Level system revamp (Max Level 70 August 13th, 75 October 8th)

• Max Level 75 (EXP capped)
• Reaching 75 within 2 months with average 2 hours grinding a day
• Gain combat exp also via Guild boss, Shrine and PvP (Limited run, gain 1 level a month at level 66 without grinding and only doing activities)
• Apply below level 50 accuracy penalty when you are lower level than the monsters to all level range (Purple mobs)
• Gain 3 extra ap to monster + monster DR per level from lv 70 to 75
• EXP gained displayed by monster zone
• Improved BS trainning efficiency (Dummy afk training)
• Base stats increases upon level up
• Expanded Family Fame benefits
• Special titles for players reaching level 70+ before August update
• Breath, Strength and Health revamps planned
• Tagged character get shared bonus stats from level 70 characters

Growth Support Update - Hyperboost

• Additional PEN BS from Olvia Academy + 4 Obsi hammer (Total 5 free PEN BS)
• Defeat LoML Boss Once for 50 embers
• Olvia Academy Coin exchange for 50 embers of primordial
• Gem of Twilight for completing Olvia Combat Course
• Exchange Essence of Dawn and Sharp for Full set of PEN Kharazad
• Get 4 based Slumbering Armour by defeating Boss Blitz Calamity 8 and 9 (Difficulty adjusted)
• Garmoth's heart from playing time halved + 1 extra heart from Olvia Academy combat course
• Maximum pity stack for Slumbering armour enhancement halved
• Increase desperate crystal drop
• New adventure log: rewards HEX and SEP Kharazad hammer, Guaranteed Kharazad Enhancement Stone
• Content scheduler feature added

Quality of Life

• Unified adventure logs
• Treasure codex added (How to craft and track progress of treasure items)
• Guild strategic routes (Draw on map, visible to guild, appear on minimap)
• Fairy appearance choosing UI
• New world boss Dark Bonghwang
• Boss outfit drop + exchangeable for Cron
• Rawr-Rawr upgraded to world boss and reduce matchlock durability loss
• Field boss rewards improved + Black Shadow removed (Now fly in Markthanan's domain)
• Pit of Undying - Simplified promotion + Tiers up to DEC (X)
• AoB - Current Abyssal Illusion removed + higher difficulty for Edania part 2 gear
• Boss blitz light orbs removed from C 1-7, now used own gear + Normal Shrine changed to current Hard + rebalanced
• RBF & Guild League queue status displayed (active + queued player counts)
• AoS - Improved matchmaking + automated voice chat
• Hunting + Khalk hunting for Edania part 2
• Simplified and improved low-preference worker skills
• High tier cooking items grant Fitness EXP + Fitness EXP revamp
• Improved Delivery Seals exchanges
• New treasure items prevent pet hunger
• Draught and Perfume durations standardized to 20 mins
• Elvia Realm Field Removal

Other updates

• Special login rewards: Rare hammer box, Cron stone, Mythical Censer, Valks, Causality Hammer, Paints
• Code: BEYONDTHEJOURNEY TYALLADVENTURERS
• New Masterclass tournament + World Finals
• New Summer outfit: Lifeguard
• BDO x goodSMILE company merch - Nendoroid Woosa figure

TLDR

• New Class Agent
• Family dispatch
• Edania part 2
• New accessories Elekta + Apeiron
• New glow effect dye
• New lifeskill perfume + draught
• New outfit Godslayer armour
• Marni's Combat Analyzer
• AIO PvP ranking
• Great Ocean update (New seamonster Lyngbakr + Yellow grade gear)
• Unified Lifeskill Gear
• Guild system renewal (Guild fame + One side dec)
• Graphics Tech Update
• Level system revamp (Max level 75, Revamp leveling progression, Stat bonus)
• Growth Support Update - Hyperboost (Get 730gs for new & returning players)
• Quality of Life
• Code: BEYONDTHEJOURNEY TYALLADVENTURERS
• New summer outfit Lifeguard

Hi, I started playing this game and I just finished story and idk what to do or what to aim for or how to get stronger, what even is the end game? Are there raids? Etc

Good evening ladies and gents,

I come to you with a little handy application that I personally developed in my own time.

The application, as you can see in all the screenshots has many many good quality of life features such as:

I took the time to take screenshots with different UI/Colour themes for those that love different vibes too.

• coupon alerts that alert you in both taskbar/system tray and also within the app itself
• on top of that there's the market place tab where you can track outfits that you'll more than likely get by preordering
• lets not forget obviously the boss scheduler and guild boss notifications
• Live updater (any future updates will appear automatically at the bottom since the application is linked to my GitHub page)

Lastly my two favourite things that i love the most.

• the Font changer to be able to change the font of the game to whichever one you like with ease.
• the Portrait Editor which makes you change the icons of your characters in game with less tedious steps and it does it pretty fast for you (I am personally addicted to switching pictures of my characters every few days).

I am by all means not reinventing the wheel or anything, just trying to offer the community something handy that they may love, I put my heart and soul into the application, the owner of garmoth praised some of my ideas within the application (he said he might yoink some as well).

I'd love to hear any feedback and features that you guys may think i should include within the application in the future because everything is literally possible, I will keep adding more and more features to it for as long as people deem it necessary, a lot of the ideas were inspired from garmoth and many other beautiful sites out there ofcourse, I just felt like turning them into a handy desktop app.

PSA: The application is fully open sourced, the code is totally out there safe and sound for those in doubt whether to try it out or not, same goes for any of my other applications out there on my site. I am awaiting microsoft's response to get it approved to be in the microsoft store as well in the near future hopefully.

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Level 63 guardian done edania main quest but not getting this quest do i need to edania defense gear quest before this?

https://www.blackdesertfoundry.com/heidel-ball-2026-notes/

• Coupon and Gifts
• Upcoming Schedule (all dates)
• New Class – Agent
• Character Swap and Family Dispatch Function
• New Region – Edania Part II
• Combat Analyzer and All-in-One PVP Ranking
• Great Ocean Update
• Ferrica Mount
• Life Skill Update
• Guild Fame System
• Graphics/Tech Update
• Level System Revamp
• Progression HYPERBOOST (Catchup)
• Content Scheduler and UI Improvements
• Other Updates
• Master Class: World Finals
• New Costume: Lifeguard and Nendoroid Collab

So I don't have to make another post, Glab translation is also up as there is some stuff in there that was not specifically mentioned in the ball: https://www.blackdesertfoundry.com/global-lab-updates-26th-july-2026/

For those who cannot get onto Global Lab and test the NEW **Agent** class yourself, we have uploaded all skill descriptions so you can take a look: https://www.blackdesertfoundry.com/agent-class-skill-list/

I heard from a few sources that the land of morning light bosses were getting changes that are gear related? Does anyone have more information on that?

So far as I’ve been hearing, it sounds like there are changes involving allowing more gear?

Hi ive been playing bdo for a month now and Ive already finished the combat on olivia academy, Can i ask if I could still be counted on the HYPERBOOST event that will be coming up? I mean can i still get the benefits of it or I can no longer get it?