Black Desert

Avatar of Nyx said:

Nah, only one Vell heart is enough. You need 3 Garmoth Heart's though...

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Really? I thought it was just 2. Nope, seems you're right. Need another heart. Sold the Vells, got a pre-order up for the heart. Seems like a fair trade.

Heart on your offhand isn't all that big of a deal. Kutums heart works just fine in the interim and is cheap as hell. Garmoth offhand is waaaaaaaaay late game. Like full NOV/DEC territory.

32.7k trash at Hexe with Lv2 Agris. Seems a decent hour. I must be improving.

Tapped sept mainhand and dec neck back to back, felt good. Doesn't feel good to get like no benefit out of it because I'm spot capped already and have a ways to go until next spot.

Night vendor event happening now, go burn your energy and silver. Cron bundles and secret box are the main draw, mythical censers and ferns if you need t10, vells if you need it, 300 stacks if you need. I'm also grabbing the crows coins.

I wish PA didn't overvalue stacks so badly. I need a bunch of 300s, but the prices they want for them are retarded. The Cron stone bundles are also retarded. If you get unlucky, it's actually MORE expensive than vendor Crons.

Night vendor's main appeal is Vell's IMO and that's about it. I guess censers too if you need T10s.

Yeah agree. A 300 stack is nearly the same price as a Vell's Heart? No thanks. I rarely buy much from these events, but it does make my alt army feel useful. Ive been saving for the purple pigment for my Sov weapon, The Night Vendor will not break my resolve!

Let me update and say don't bother with the secret boxes, they're trash unless you hit a very rare jackpot.

Uriel said:

Let me update and say don't bother with the secret boxes, they're trash unless you hit a very rare jackpot.

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Isnt that about normal? All those boxes that have a bunch of good rewards but its random dice on what you get, and 99.9% of the time I get a cron stone or maybe 10 of them. Never the good stuff.

Ok so i lied about doing the Night Vendor stuff. I went through 26 characters at 653 energy on each. I ended up buying all the Krogdalo Horse Armor of the Wind boxes that i came across to enhance for profit, 5 total. Ran all five that I bought up to +10 and sold them for enough silver to buy that purple Sov pigment. For the money, Im a little underwhelmed, but it does look better than the gold.



Quick edit - crate making early verdict = not worth it unless you devote most of your online time to it

Did a run at Jordine last night, had a rocky start but buffed up properly and used the right crystals and started an hour. 1.8bil (agris, L2, including cost for harmony/tent) for my trouble. Did an hour at DSR, 990m for the time I did, not a single event though.

Tried Orzekea, I can survive it, and kill stuff, but no where near fast enough. I actually thought I wouldn't be able to survive it. I guess I go back to DSR and learn how to do that properly, or something.

1HR DSR run.

You just need to meet the minimum requirements for Jordine - 350AP and 427 DP. Don't forget to get 100% stiffness res though.

JOESAN21 said:

What was your total AP going after Jordine? I have been debating starting him but not sure if I'm ready overall. Been doing a bunch of sea stuff and ignoring the AP grind since blowing 40,000 crons

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I think it caps out at around 1470-1480.

Not exactly sure how people are getting total AP higher in this AP bracket (355).

Oh, are you guys talking about Aetherion the grindspot, not Jordine the Edania boss? I thought by "Jordine" you meant the boss, not the grindspot.

Yeah, Aetherion cap is 1595AP. You can get your WON Edania crystal which gives you some Edania specific AP, as well as making sure you're using Edania draughts. You can also use Envy's for another 5AP over Courage perfumes, but the orders take a while to fill - so you're better off making them yourself.

Aetherion is generally not worth grinding though, because if you can meet the AP requirements, you're roughly at the Orzekea requirements too (although they are untyped mobs so it's harder to hit the AP cap than Edania). But even Darkseekers is better silver/h at that AP. You should do your Aetherion weekly quest though, since it gives you 40 primordial fragments that you can sell. It's not really worth doing once you can start doing Orbita+, but it's a decent little 1.2bil influx every week when you're still around DSR levels of AP.

Choice actually had a pretty solid breakdown on one of his streams a few weeks back about Crimson Desert's financials. His main point was that even with the game being considered a success, it likely only just reached breakeven or might even still be slightly in the red depending on how you account for everything. People tend to underestimate just how massive the cost is for a game of that scale. When you factor in the long development cycle, the multiple delays and restarts, the size of the team, and especially the marketing push, the total investment gets enormous. At that point, selling a couple million copies isn't some huge windfall, they're just barely climbing out of the red.

That said, his analysis was based on around 2ish million units sold at the time. Since sales have continued at a steady pace since then, it's very possible the game has finally tipped into a modest profit. But even then, we're probably not talking about some runaway financial success. But knowing Pearl Abyss, they'll probably double down on projects already in the pipeline like DokeV rather than taking big new risks. They've already sunk the cost into those, so the goal becomes maximizing return across their existing portfolio.

Meanwhile, Black Desert Online will probably just keep doing what it's been doing for the last decade, which is quietly chugging along. Honestly, the consistency of BDO's playerbase over 10 years is kind of wild. It's never really exploded or died off. It just sits there as a stable, reliable revenue stream while they try to land their next big hit.