[Hyperboost] Beginner/Returning Player Guide

Introduction

New and Returning players may feel overwhelmed and confused when playing BDO for the first time. The game is very in-depth and has a lot of complicated systems to get to grips with. There are lots of catch-up mechanics designed specifically for new and returning players, but the game does not advertise the help very well!

Following this guide will help you to find your way through your BDO journey and give you the best start towards endgame gear and content. If you need additional help, you can hop into our Discord Server to ask questions.

Season Servers

The first objective is to make a season character so that we can play on the season servers.

What are Season Servers?

• Season Servers are special servers that only Season Characters can join. Season Characters can connect to regular servers as well.
• They are designed for new and returning players, but anyone can participate in Season by making a Season character.
• Season servers will give you catchup gear and introduce you to the game.
• You can make 1 Season Character at once and can progress in your own time. When you are ready to advance your character further, you choose to graduate and leave the season server.
• You keep your Season character and your gear when you choose to graduate from the season, and it becomes a “normal” character – losing access to the Season servers.

Why should I play Season?

• You can end the season with a full set of gear equal to TET boss gear. This is really good gear to get you started in the game and trying to get it without season is much harder.
• Lots of other rewards you don’t get on normal characters, such as extra inventory space and skill points.
• Season servers have a permanent Combat EXP +1000% and Skill EXP 50% buff
• PVP is disabled – except Guild Wars (unless you join the specific channel), so you can enjoy the game without any worries!

How to get started!

Make sure you select the “Season Character” button when you create a character

When you create your character, you will be asked which starting zone you would like to begin with. I personally recommend starting with the Ancient Stone Chamber zone because it is far less confusing and there are more resources online that are based on Ancient Stone Chamber, since this was the original starting zone. No matter where you start, you can complete both storylines at a later date.

The option to skip/complete the tutorial will appear when you first log into a new character. The tutorial takes approximately 10 minutes and gives a very basic guide to movement and key inputs so I would recommend to skip it. You do not lose anything by skipping the tutorial.

Your Journey through Season

Level 1 to 55

• After creating your season character, follow the main story quests to level up. If you get confused at any point, open the quest log (by pressing O) and follow the quests under the “Main” tab.
• You can press the buttons in the quest log, or on the quest widget to autopath to the quest objectives.
• I also recommend turning ON all quest types at the bottom of your quest log (O).

• When you reach the first town (Velia) you will get the option to take the main questline or the simplified questline.

• You will complete different main storylines the first is Balenos, then Serendia, Calpheon, and finally Mediah. After completing these, the others are optional for now but give extra rewards.

• You will have a Season Pass to complete as well. The tasks on the Season Pass are important to complete.

• Around level 25 – 30, you will start to get Tuvala Gear and  Black Stones from the main story questline.
• Right-click the Black Stones to open the enhancing window. Enhance your Tuvala gear as much as you can. You can do this by just spamming the Enhance button.
• Your Tuvala gear will go up to +15, after that you do not need to enhance it further as you will get free gear through the season pass.
• Keep following the questline and complete the Mediah main story questline – this should get you to around level 55.

Level 55 to 60

• You should have PEN Tuvala Gear from the Season Pass
• At level 56 you get your class Awakening/Succession. These are questlines you need to complete to unlock the full potential of your class. You can find the start of the quest in your questlog (O) under the Main tab.

• Now it’s back to the grind again!

Level 60+

• Now that you’ve reached 60, you have just a few more things to complete the season!
• Finish your Season Pass tasks and take all the rewards.
• If you have spare Time-Filled Blackstones you can exchange them for Item Collection Increase Scrolls at the Blacksmith.
• When you are ready, you can graduate from the season as long as you have completed all of the season pass.

• You may also want to start unlocking additional features by completing the following quests:
  • [Suggested] [ADV Support] Fairy, Mysterious Companion questline – Unlocks the Fairy Companion
  • [Suggested] [ADV Support] Inventory Expansion! – Additional inventory space quests
  • [ADV Support] Pets, Loyal Companions – Free pet quests
  • [Suggested] [Lv. 58] Naderr’s Band – Unlocks Naderr’s Band for enhancing
  • [Suggested] [Lv. 60] Bag of the Stars – Unlocks the Family Inventory

Graduating from Season Servers

Unfortunately, your time on the Season Servers will eventually have to come to an end if you want to progress your character futher. This is referred to as “graduating” from the Season Servers, and this happens only when you are ready to leave the season. You can choose exactly when you want to graduate and leave the season server.

When your character graduates, it becomes a normal character, losing access to the Season Server channels and benefits. However, as a normal character, you can now equip more powerful gear, such as Boss Gear, Godr-Ayed/Blackstar Weapoins, and yellow-grade accessories (such as Capotia Accessories).

You will keep your Tuvala gear, and use them to help you upgrade to those better items.

For new players, it is recommended to take your time and stay on the season until you are sure you are ready to graduate. Even if you have completed the entire season pass and gotten full PEN Tuvala gear, you can still benefit from the season buffs and grinding on the season server. Selling any extra Time-filled Blackstones or other season materials will give you additional silver and can make a huge difference.

Olvia Academy

Olvia Academy is an in-game school you can attend to learn basics about the game. It offers a tutorial for basic combat, introduces you to some beginner monster zones, and an introduction to each life skill through different class courses.

Completing all of the Olvia Academy Courses rewards you with various items, such as a TET Blackstar Weapon of your choice, Obsidian Hammers, Darkstar Blackstone, PEN Blackstar Weapon of your choice, various life skill gear, and Cron Stones.

• The courses can be completed once per family for each class semester.
• After each class semester cycle ends, all progress for Olvia Academy courses and the Academy Passes will be reset.
  
  • Family Rewards – Combat/Life will not reset when the class ends.

Free PEN Blackstar Weapons

You can obtain a total of 2 free TET (IV) Blackstar weapons and 3 free PEN (V) Blackstar weapons

The weapon boxes are obtained from your (Y) Challenge Rewards and by completing Olvia Academy Combat Course

The (Y) Challenge rewards are each available once per family and have the following requirements:

• Reach level 61+ with your character
• Complete one of the following:
  • Simplified Main Questline
  • Main Questline up to Mediah
  • Mountain of Eternal Winter Main Questline
  • Land of the Morning Light Main Questline

How to obtain your Blackstar weapons from (Y) Challenge Rewards

Press (Y) to open your Challenge Rewards.

Select the correct weapon box from the choices below

Crafting Sovereign Weapons

Once you have all 5 Blackstar Weapons at PEN, you can craft all 3 of your Sovereign Weapons.

You should have:

• PEN Blackstar Mainhand x2
• PEN Blackstar Awakening x2
• PEN Blackstar Offhand x1
• Gem of Twilight – obtained from Olvia Academy Combat Course

You will need 1 more item to craft the Sovereign offhand. First, defeat any of the Land of the Morning Light World Bosses to obtain a seal. Exchange this seal in the Manage Currency UI to receive Embers of the Primordial x50.

Then, exchange Olvia Academy Coins in the same UI to obtain another Embers of the Primordial x50

Press (L) to go to the processing window and select the Heating option to turn the Embers of the Primordial x100 into a Flame of the Primordial x1

Now you can go to the Bonghwang Statue at Mount Ahshi in Land of the Morning Light.

Select the type of weapon you want to create, then select the method to craft the weapon

Free PEN Kharazad Accessories

Go to Alustin in Velia and accept the [Alustin’s Support] quests.

Enhancing to OCT Kharazad

Olvia Academy – Emma Bartali’s Adventure Log can be completed to reward you with 2 guaranteed OCT Kharazad Accessories.

• The Adventure Log UI can be found in the ESC menu > Adventure (F5) > Adventure Log > Olvia Academy Journal

Completing this adventure log requires you to do various content and will reward you with:

• Advice of Valks
• Essence of Dawn
• Ancient Hammer (PEN) x10 – used to safely enhance PEN Kharazad accessories (same as using cron stones)
• Ancient Black Stone (PEN) x2 – used to enhance PEN Kharazad accessories with 100% success
• Ancient Hammer (HEX) x10 – used to safely enhance HEX Kharazad accessories (same as using cron stones)
• Ancient Black Stone (HEX ) x2 – used to enhance HEX Kharazad accessories with 100% success
• Ancient Black Stone (SEPT) x2 – used to enhance SEPT Kharazad accessories with 100% success

Free Slumbering Origin Armors

• Labreska’s Helmet
• Fallen God’s Armor
• Dahn’s Gloves – select the blue (Damage Reduction) version
• Ator’s Shoes – select the blue (Damage Reduction) version

You need to complete the Magnus and Land of the Morning Light (LOML) main story questline to unlock the Solo Black Shrine.

• If you chose Land of Morning Light as your starting region you can skip the Magnus questline

After completing the LOML story quests, take the Black Spirit Support quests from your Black Spirit.

Quest Name	Quest conditions	Completion conditions	Reward
[Black Spirit Support] Golden Pig King Calamity 8	305+ AP Complete “[Golden Pig King] Truth of the Gold Mine”	Defeat Golden Pig King Calamity 8	Labreska’s Helmet
[Black Spirit Support] Golden Pig King Calamity 9	315+ AP Complete “[Golden Pig King] Truth of the Gold Mine”	Defeat Golden Pig King Calamity 9	Ator’s Shoes (Select the Damage Reduction – blue option)
[Black Spirit Support] Sangoon Calamity 8	310+ AP Complete “[Sangoon] No Tears Shed in Tiger Palace” or “[Sangoon] A Burning Heart”	Defeat Sangoon Calamity 8	Fallen God’s Armor
[Black Spirit Support] Gumiho Calamity 8	315+ AP Complete “[Gumiho] Back to Dalbeol”	Defeat Gumiho Calamity 8	Dahn’s Gloves (Select the Damage Reduction – blue option)

Igor Bartali’s Adventure Log

Adventure Logs/Journals are once per family content/challenges you have to complete to unlock permanent stats and bonuses for your account. Igor Bartali Adventure log gives permanent +6 AP and +6 DP as well as various other family wide stats. It can take a long time to complete, but it is very important to complete as early as possible.

Infinite Potions

Infinite Potions are treasures to collect in BDO which are basically never-ending potions. They are a rare grinding drop that takes hours and hours to collect. Most people start grinding for the infinite potions while on the Season Servers, since the grind spots are not too difficult, and the infinite potions are very important to collect.

Hammer Challenge Rewards

When reaching a certain displayed (sheet) AP, you obtain a Challenge (Y) reward, once per family.

The reward allows you to choose between:

• Choose your Rare Hammer Box x1 (recommended)
• or Cron Stone x1,000

Example of Gear

The gear example below is what you can achieve after graduating from Season, completing the Olvia Academy Combat Course and Emma Bartali Adventure Log. The gear below does not include any other Adventure Journals, which will also add AP/DP stats.

What do I do next?

Ator’s Power Stone or Vell’s Heart

Obtain Ator’s Power Stone from Ulukita Main story quests, or Vell’s Heart from Central Market and start upgrading it with the reform stones

Start enhancing your Sovereign Weapons

Work towards enhancing your Sovereign weapons. Enhance your main spec first (eg if you play awakening enhance your awakening weapon first and your offhand). BDOWorkshop is a really useful tool website you should become familiar with as it shows the best AP upgrade path.

Inverted Heart of Garmoth

Garmoth’s Heart can be forged to your weapons for additional stats. You can get Garmoth’s Heart through the following methods:

1. Reward when you complete the Olvia Academy Combat Course
2. Challenge (Y) reward for playing 100 hours
3. Random drop from the Garmoth World boss

※ Upgrade your Sovereign Main & Awakening Weapon with an Inverted Heart of Garmoth to gain AP +3 for each.

Enhance your Slumbering Armors to DUO

Enhance all your armors to DUO with the help of an item called Desperate Crystal of Origin. You can obtain these from:

1. Olvia Academy Coin Exchange: x20 Desperate Crystal of Origin
2. Dark Spirit’s Greed from Dark Rift: x10 Desperate Crystal of Origin
3. Seal of the Undying from Pit of the Undying: x10 Desperate Crystal of Origin

What do I do with spare items?

If you already had gear before completing the quests/journal from HYPERBOOST and do NOT need some of the items you obtained, you can convert them into Cron Stones by Heating them in the Processing window.

Please be careful as heating the item will destroy the item.