Introduction

Season servers are a new addition to BDO which first arrived on the 17th June 2020.

Season servers are designed for new and returning players to help them get started in BDO but anyone can participate. There are various rewards you can collect by participating, which will give you a great start in terms of gear. The daily quests also help to introduce you to certain parts of the game without throwing you straight into the deep end. If you’re a veteran player then you can still benefit from playing on the season servers and it can be refreshing to play on them, but the rewards are not too desirable that you would feel forced to participate if you don’t want to.

Season+ (current season) started on 15th September 2021 and is expected to last approximately 3 months. You must create a special Season Character to have access to the Season server (only 1 character can be created per season). At the end of the season, your character will become a regular character.

The Season servers themselves are not actually season servers at all. They are special channels that are added and only Season characters can connect to them. The channels have a special icon on them so you can tell them apart from regular channels

On these channels there is a Combat EXP +100% and a Skill EXP +20% buff running at all times, but PVP is not allowed (you cannot flag up but guild wars will still work) unless you join the specific PVP channel. The Central Market and Storage is not seperate to other channels. You can use your pets, fairy, tent and maids that are already on your account as well. All horses (except T9 horses) and other mounts are available in your stables. It is also worth noting that Season Characters can connect to regular channels as well, but only Season Characters can connect to the Season Channels.

Season Gear

Season characters cannot equip regular gear!

Season specific gear (Tuvala gear or Naru gear), Asula accessoires and main story quest gear is the only gear that can be equipped by a season character. These items have special icons on them.

Naru Gear

Naru gear is easier to obtain and enhance than the Tuvala gear and is also given out as a reward when completing the main story quests in Serendia and Calpheon.

You can obtain Naru gear as a drop when fighting monsters in Serendia, Calpheon and Mediah.

You can also exchange the new Beginner Black Stones for Naru gear:

• Beginner Black Stone (Armor) x1 = Naru Armor x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Armor) x5 = Naru Accessory x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Weapon) x1 = Naru Main Weapon Box x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Weapon) x1 = Naru Sub-weapon Box x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Weapon)x5 = Naru Accessory x1

You can obtain Beginner Blacks Stones from the main story quest, or by heating regular black stones to turn them into Beginner Black Stones.
They are also used for enhancing Naru gear.

Enhancing Naru Gear

To enhance Naru gear, you will need the new blackstones called Beginner Black Stone. Information about how to obtain them is shown above.

Naru gear is much easier to enhance than Tuvala gear. If you fail when enhancing they only reduce the maximum durability by -2. They also require less cron stones to safe enhance (eg. 3 cron stones needed for TET > PEN attempts).

Naru armor and weapons can be enhanced up to PEN and accessories can be enhanced up to TRI.

Once you reach PEN Naru armor/weapons and have completed the Mediah questline, you can take this gear to Fughar and he will exchange them into PRI Tuvala gear.

Tuvala Gear

To obtain Tuvala gear, you must collect Tuvala Ore by hunting monsters in Valencia, Kamasylvia, Dreighan and Sycraia Underwater Ruins. Then exchange the Tuvala Ore (x1 for Armor/Weapons, x5 for Accessories) for pieces of gear at a blacksmith. Tuvala gear pieces can also drop from monsters in Valencia, Kamasylvia, Dreighan and Sycraia Underwater Ruins.

Tuvala Accessories can also be heated using Processing (L) and then selected the heating option. Heating accessories will turn them into Tuvala Ore.

Enhancing Tuvala Gear

To enhance Tuvala gear you will need new blackstones called Time-filled Black Stone. In the Korean patch notes it says these drop from monsters in Valencia, Kamasylvia, Dreighan and Sycraia Underwater Ruins, but players have found they can drop in all regions.
When killing monsters in Valencia, Kamasylvia or Dreighan, you can also drop an item called [Season] Ouk Pill of Rift.

These can be exchanged for:

• Exchange 10 for: Time-filled Black Stone Bundle (contains 30–50 stones)

• Exchange 20 for: Tuvala Ore Bundle (contains 10–30 ores)

• Exchange 30 for: Refined Magical Black Stone Bundle (contains 10–30 stones)

Tuvala gear is much easier to enhance than regular gear. For example, your chance of success when enhancing to PEN with 60 fail stacks is 35%. Your chance of success when enhancing to TET with 40 failstacks is 35%. You will need lots of the Black stones though

The new time-filled blackstones can also be exchanged at a new Seasonal NPC for items such as Advice of Valks (up to +40), or Valk’s Cry.

Refined Magical Black Stone can be used to force enhance the gear from +15 to TRI but reduces the items max durability by 50 each time.

You can repair the max durability again by going to the blacksmith and using an unenhanced weapon/armor of the same type.

All Tuvala ore Time-filled Black stones and Refined Magical black stones will deleted once the season ends and cannot be used in the next season.

Tuvala Enhancing Rates info can be found below:
Check our failstacking guide for our recommended optimal failstacks

Quests

Enhancing Quests

Additional quests can be received from “Fughar” the Seasonal NPC which reward you with Advice of Valks and involve simple tasks such as showing him different gear you have enhanced (such as TRI Tuvala armor rewarding you with Advice of Valks +40).

Advice of Valks are basically stored failstacks. If you currently have no failstacks you can right-click an Advice of Valks to obtain that amount as a failstack. Advice of Valks can be found in your pearl inventory tab. The enhancement quests from Fughar should give you quite a few Advice of Valks to get you started with enhancing your Tuvala gear to higher enhancement.

*NEW* Simplified Main Quest (Existing Players only)

A new ‘Simplified Main Quest’ has been added for existing players who have completed the Mediah Questline before and also completed the “[Pet] Bareed’s Junaid” quest from Bareed in Mediah. This pet quest can be found in your Suggested quest tab under “[ADV Support] Pets, Loyal Companions”.

This questline allows you to completely skip the main story questline and once finished you can continue to the Valencia questline without missing out on any rewards. The simplified questline will also complete your season pass.

To start the simplified main quest, follow the normal story quest up to Velia and then take the ‘[Special Growth] Birth of a Presigious Family’ from Alustin in Velia.

Do not spam “R” when you arrive in Velia so you don’t miss the quest.

Once you have the corrrect quest from Alustin, go to Fughar to continue with the simplified questline and obtain your Naru gear. You will also be given a book in your inventory that you can use if you are on a Season server. Full details of all quests and requirements can be found below:

Main Quests (New Players)

Each time you complete one of the main questlines (Balenos, Serendia, Calpheon, Mediah) you will also recieve a [Season] Secret Book of the Misty Breeze. This item can be used to gain a large amount of skill points. You get a certain amount of skill points EXP so you can use these at any level and it is not worth saving them for after you have gone over the skill point softcap. However, it is worth noting that the amount of skill EXP you get is effected by skill EXP buffs so it is important to use as many as possible. I recommend waiting until you have finished the Mediah questline, then when you go to grind to level 58, pop all the skill EXP buffs you can and use the items at the same time to make sure you aren’t wasting the buffs.

Below is a Skill EXP Buff List. Aim to use as many as you can but don’t worry if you can’t get them all, some are only available at limited times or through the pearl store/events. At the very least, make sure to use Beast’s Draught, Simple Cron Meal, Family Fame buff and Loyalty buff.

If you get stuck or confused at any point, you can open your main quest log [O] then go to the “main” tab to view your progress.

The main story questlines will also give you combat EXP to level your character, as well as lots of Beginner Black Stones to help you progress your gear in the early levels. You must complete the Mediah questline to receive the rewards in your Season Pass so if you are a new player then following the Main Story quests is the best way to get started with the game.

Weekly Quests

There are weekly quests you can complete which will give you Rift’s Echo x1 and allow you to choose one from the following options: Time-filled Black Stone x600, Tuvala Ore x90, or Refined Magical Black Stone x40. I recommend choosing the Time-Filled Black Stones because you will probably run out of these first, but choose whichever you need. You need to be at least level 20 to get these quests but we recommend you are over level 56 because they involve killing monsters in certain zones. You can find the weekly quests by pressing [O] to open your quest tab, then going to Reccuring and they are under the (Season) section. There may be platoon parties you can join to make the killing quests go quicker!

Make sure you have switched on all quests or you will not receive the weekly quest. Do this by pressing [O] then clicking the icons at the left bottom so that they are yellow like in the image below.

*NEW* Daily RBF Quest

A season daily quest has been added where you get additional rewards for joining the Red Battlefield Arena on a season character.

To join the Red Battlefield, open the ESC menu then go to War > Red Battlefield and choose a server. There are special servers for season characters only. Once you are inside the arena, talk to Daz to obtain the quest.

Regional Quests

• New regional quests have been added to certain monster zones in Valencia, Kamasylvia, and Drieghan. There will be two quests per monster zone.
• You will get the quest automatically when you enter the area.
• You must kill a certain amount of monsters in that area to receive Time-filled Black Stones and some combat EXP.
• The quests can be completed once on each of your characters. However, completing the quest on a non-season character will not reward you with the season items and only give you Combat EXP.

Rift’s Echo (Boss Summon Scroll)

Rift’s Echo is a new boss scroll recommended for parties of 5 and can only be summoned on Season servers.

To create Rift’s Echo, you must obtain Rift’s Fragments x5 by defeating monsters in Valencia, Kamaslyvia or Drieghan. You can also obtain them as a reward from Savage Rift. Once you have 5 pieces, open your inventory and uncheck the “Auto Arrange” box. Then move the fragments into a + shape in your inventory. A small “+” button will appear on one of the items and you can click this to combine them into a Rift’s Echo.

Rift’s Echo will summon 3 waves of Violent Boss monsters. Each wave will reward you with better rewards that will further aid your Season Character’s growth, such as Time-filled Black Stones, Tuvala Ore, Refined Magical Black Stones, and Tuvala Accessories.

*NEW* Season Pass

A special seasonal pass has been added to the season servers. You can open the season pass by clicking the icon in the top right next to your mini-map.

You must do each part of the season pass in order to unlock the next reward, but you can complete them in advance and your progress will be saved.

Complete various achievements to unlock rewards in your battle pass. All players have access to the free version and can buy a Seasonal Pass in the pearl store to obtain the premium rewards.

At level 10 you will also be given a leveling aid box. Do NOT delete this box because you will not get it back again. You can open this at certain levels to receive awards and a temporary EXP buff.

You can also receive a new item “Sunset Maple Leaf” from the season pass rewards and from the Leveling Aid Boxes.

• These can be exchanged at Patrigo in Velia for various items (some items can only be exchanged a certain amount of times):
  • Unlimited exchange:
    • Exchange 2: Valk’s Cry x1
    • Exchange 2: Cron Stone x3
  • Up to 3 times per family:
    • Exchange 5: Artisan’s Memory x3
    • Exchange 5: Inventory +2 Expansion Coupon
    • Exchange 5: Advice of Valks (+40)
  • Once per family:
    • Exchange 10: Brilliant Crimson Fire Flower x20
    • Exchange 10: Mysterious Blue Conch x20
    • Exchange 10: Fruit of Yianaros x20
    • Exchange 10: Caphras Stone Bundle (10 – 50)
    • Exchange 20: Advice of Valks (+60)
    • Exchange 20: Caphras Stone Bundle (50 – 100)
    • Exchange 30: [Venia] Merv’s Tailoring Tool
    • Exchange 30: [Da-Dum-Da-Dum] Merv’s Tailoring Tool
    • Exchange 30: Artisan’s Blessing (30 Days)
    • Exchange 30: Choose your pet Box
    • Exchange 30: Horse Emblem: Tier 8 White Horse (with Instant Accel)
    • Exchange 30: Manos Riding Crop
    • Exchange 30: Mythical Feather x3
    • Exchange 15: Tuvala Main weapon exchange coupon
    • Exchange 15: Tuvala Offhand weapon exchange coupon
    • Exchange 15: Tuvala Awakening weapon exchange coupon
    • Exchange 40: Tuvala Weapon exchange coupon (3 set) – this includes a Main weapon exchange coupon, Offhand weapon exchange coupon AND Awakening weapon exchange coupon for TUVALA weapons
    • Exchange 50: Weapon Exchange Coupon (3 set) – this includes a Main weapon exchange coupon, Offhand weapon exchange coupon AND Awakening weapon exchange coupon for BOSS weapons

In addition, one of the new items in the pass this season is the Frozen Tides Black Stone which can be used to enhance TET Tuvala weapons and armor to PEN with 100% chance.

*NEW* Season Character Swap System

Fughar’s Timepiece is an item that lets you transfer your current season character and an exisiting character to switch their combat/skill exp and season status. This is useful if you would like to reroll your season character and don’t want to start again.

Things to remember:

• Your EXP and skill EXP will be COPIED to the normal character (so get as high level and skill EXP as possible first)
• Your normal character will become your season character and your original season character will become a normal character which can equip normal gear now and can’t wear your Tuvala gear
• You will get Tuvala exchange coupons to change the weapons to the new class
• You will have to do the main story quest again on the new character and currently cannot do the simplified version again if you already did it on your other character
• You can only use the Timepiece ONCE PER ACCOUNT

To get started, you need your season character to be level 25 or higher and your normal character to be level under level 25. Go to Fughar and complete the quest ‘[Season] Fugar’s Special Timepiece’ to obtain the special timepiece item, then use the item in your inventory to start the switch. You will then see a screen that allows you to choose the character you want to swap. You will be given exchange coupons to swap the Tuvala weapons to the weapons needed for the other class. You can also buy new Tuvala weapon exchange coupons using your Sunset Maple Leaf items from the season pass rewards.

End of Season Rewards

At the end of the season you will have various rewards. The most note worthy of the rewards is the [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon, which allows you to convert one Tuvala piece to boss gear or yellow accessories. More infomation on this can be found in the section below.

Full details can be found here (REWARDS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE):

How to Graduate (Early Graduation)

The current season is expected to finish around the end of December or beginning of January. However, players will have the option to graduate early at a later date. You cannot create a new season character for the same season if you have graduated early. Graduating early allows you to receive all of the end of season rewards and turn your charcter into a regular character. All characters will automatically graduate at the end of the season if they have not chosen to graduate early.

• To graduate early, you simply go to Fughar and tell him “I want to convert my season character to a regular character”.
• Follow his directions to Leyla. She will have a quest for you called [Season Server Graduation] At the Crossroad
• Go back to Fughar to complete the quest. He will then have the quest [Season Server Graduation] Into the Big Wide World.
• You will be given an item called “Honorable Adventurer’s Certificate”.
  
• You must move to a regular channel and use the Honorable Adventure’s Certificate. This will convert your season character to a regular character (this cannot be undone).
  
• After you have converted to a regular character,you can go back to Fughar again and speak with him to complete the quest. He will then give you your season rewards.

You will get Conversion stones which are used to convert your Tuvala gear into gear that can be used by regular characters. Using Tuvala Conversion Stones will maintain crystals and creator Family name for PEN (V) items. However, you cannot exchange Tuvala gear with a crystal inserted into Boss gear and must remove the crystal first by going to your Black Spirit > Transfusion > RMB the crystal.

You must use these Conversion Stones on each piece of Tuvala gear you would like to keep. There is 1 conversion stone for each Weapon/Armor, 1 for necklace and belt, and then 2 for your rings and earrings, meaning you can convert one full set of gear.

To convert the gear, speak to your Black Spirit and choose the “Upgrade Gear” option. You can then select the gear and conversion stones to convert each piece individually. Make sure to select the correct piece of gear! If you do select the wrong piece of gear, send a ticket and they will help you get it sorted out, but will only do this once per account.

Unconverted Tuvala will be deleted at the start of the next Season (exact date is currently unconfirmed). Make sure to convert your Tuvala Gear beforehand!

The converted Tuvala gear will be changed to Family bound and can be moved to and equipped by regular characters.

Season’s Special Reward

• This season there will not be a new special reward. Players MAY be able to obtain older season specials rewards but this is current unconfirmed.
• The special reward can be obtained by exchanging the “Season Gift Exchange Coupon”.
  

For participating in the 2020 summer season, players were able to get a PEN Capotia Ring or Earring, in 2020 Autumn Season, players were offered the Perilla’s Star, in 2020 Winter Season players could obtain a PEN Capotia Belt, and in Summer 2021 player could obtain a PEN Capotia Necklace. You can choose between any of the rewards if you have not already claimed them.

How the Boss Gear Exchange Coupon works

When the season ends, one Tuvala item (armor or weapons) can be converted into boss gear using the [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon.

However, the armor/weapons will drop by one enhancement level (eg. PEN Tuvala becomes TET boss gear, TET Tuvala becomes TRI boss gear).

The gear also becomes family bound and you can still enhance the gear afterwards, put caphras levels into it, etc. You just can’t sell it on the market!

Season Gear	can be exchanged into
Tuvala Shoes	Muskan’s Shoes
Tuvala Armor	Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor
Tuvala Helmet	Giath’s Helmet
Tuvala Gloves	Bheg’s Gloves
Tuvala Main Weapon	Kzarka Weapon
Tuvala Awakening Weapon	Dandelion Weapon
Tuvala Offhand Weapon	Kutum Weapon

To exchange Tuvala gear for a boss piece, you must first make sure you have graduated and converted the tuvala gear to regular gear using the Conversion Stones. You cannot exchange Tuvala gear with a crystal inserted into Boss gear and must remove the crystal first by going to your Black Spirit > Transfusion > RMB the crystal.

Then go to Fughar and accept the quest for the gear piece you would like to exchange:

• [Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Main Weapon – Converts your Tuvala Main Hand Weapon to a Kzarka weapon box (you can open this on any class)
• [Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Sub-Weapon – Converts your Tuvala Offhand Weapon to a Kutum weapon box (you can open this on any class)
• [Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Awakening Weapon – Converts your Tuvala Awakening Weapon to a Dandelion weapon box (you can open this on any class)
• [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Helmet – Converts your Tuvala Helmet to Giath’s Helmet
• [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Armor – Converts your Tuvala Armor to Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor
• [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Gloves – Converts your Tuvala Gloves to Bheg’s Gloves
• [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Shoes – Converts your Tuvala Shoes to Muskan’s Shoes

After accepting the correct quest, go to Tranan Underfoe (the blacksmith in Velia) and use the “Chat” option. He will exchange your gear for you.

Other advice for New Players

• I would recommend checking out our Enhancing Guide which will teach you the basic systems and how to get started with enhancing your gear. Failstacking can be scary and complicated for new players so I recommend also checking Youtube guides to learn more about the process.
• We have a Gear Progression guide, which aims to aid new players with their gear and what they should be aiming for at the different checkpoints. Check this out for a walkthrough of how to gear up your season character.
• Follow the main story quests and complete the Mediah story quest. You should now be around level 55 and can use our grinding leveling guide to reach level 58. Once you are level 58 you can use our Level 58 – 59 guide, Level 59 – 60 guide and Level 60 – 61 guide though to level very quickly using quests and minimal grinding. You will need a Chenga Tome to do this but the questline to obtain the Chenga Tome is easy to complete and doesn’t require you to kill any monsters.
• We also have lots of other basic guides to help teach you things like how to increase your inventory space, how to use the central marketplace, introductions to nodes and contribution points, etc. Check out our list of guides page for more, just be careful you don’t try to learn too much too quickly because the game can be very overwhelming at first!
• If you are confused about anything or have any questions check our Season Server FAQ to get an answer as quickly as possible. Feel free to pop into our Discord server as well and ask questions!

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