Here are some tips i found: Also really check out this site: http://bddatabase.net/us/ Top 10 Things I Wish I knew Rushing to cap isn't all what it's cracked up to be, you need CP and Energy points for most things and rushing to level cap doesn't give you any of that. And if I'm completly honest it's just not fun. People that rush end up getting burnt out and never really enjoy playing the game. Take your time and enjoy what Black Desert has to offer, there are so many things to discover and mess around with. Don't stress about being the 1st, try to have fun, it is a game after all. Do all the Bag quest, inventory space and weight limit is really important especially when it comes to farming and fishing. And talk to everyone you see, make sure you look at your map for "?" question marks. Completing a set of knowledge grants Energy points. Getting knowledge ranks for all mob types in an area also grants energy points. Check out your knowledge by pressing H. Eating food grants you EXP towards your HP skill, try to buy food from the AH house and use them on CD. It takes a long time to level up your HP, but it's worth it. I suggest buying Milk Tea since it grants extra combat EXP. Don't run around with horses at the start, try to walk/run all over the place to level up your stamina. You can also buy a trade pack such as a Kite in Hidel, create an auto-path loop and let your character AFK walk when you are not there. This will train both Stamina and Strength. Plan your gear path and stick to it, upgrading gear takes a lot of time, money and effort. If you continuously change your gear you will end up wasting a lot of time, save yourself the trouble and plan ahead. Sometimes it is more beneficial to straight up buy the armor pieces at a higher enchant level than actually doing it yourself. I still suggest getting your gear to +10 minimum. You can then sell it to buy +17 / +18 gear. You can hide certain quest types by clicking on the icons above your quest tracker, don't like crafting quests? click the crafting icon. This will hide all quests of that type, you can also sort quests by distance. Never log out, there's always something you can do while AFK. Being in a guild nets you some cash, you basically get a contract and get paid every day. Multiple characters, you can share (almost) anything between your characters (same family name), so you don't have to create new armor sets for each character you own. Energy points are character bound, this means that if I use all my Energy on my Kunoichi, I will still have Energy on my other classes. CP is family bound, this means that the points are shared between all characters and once you invest on one character it will deduct it from your total on all your characters (you can always get your CP back). Fail Stacks is character bound, every character has it's own fail stack and you can use it to your advantage. You can create fail stacks on fodder items, basically the more expensive equipment cost a ton to Enchant. Zaka costs around 40mil per repair, and since you lose 10 durability per failure it can get pretty expensive very fast. So using items such as Rebalth (which you can buy at an NPC) to create fail stacks, this is one of the cheapest methods of Enchanting your more important items. Enchanting is pure luck, I've seen people succeed with 10 stacks and others fail with 50.
