Tag: Black Desert Online

You know those games you love to play that you are pretty convinced that no one else in your circles plays – but you just absolutely love it so much? That’s Black Desert Online, for me. This game is grind city, with a billion and one systems to learn that only get more confusing the longer you play – and yet there’s still something that draws me in.

Let me be completely honest though. I’m doing very little ACTUAL game play. What I’m doing is logging in, setting up for fishing, and then going afk for 15 hours until I come back to bags full of fish. Then I take a portal and go to a far away land and sell those fish, earning around 2.5 billion silver each day. I reached Guru 10 which was a nice accomplishment.

My TempusGameIt statistics show just how much time I spend AFK, and since you might not have heard of this app before, I’ll be doing a blog post about that in the near future, too.

Anyway, comfort gaming. BDO is the perfect game. It gives the illusion of me making progress without actually spending a lot of time actively playing – which I completely understand sounds backwards as far as gaming goes, but does seem to work for me on a very basic level. It’s a lot like an idle game, at least the way I’m playing lately. The thing is, the game CAN be as hands on or off as you’d like and sometimes when life is busy I want that very familiar feeling of gaming but I just don’t have the energy or the free time. With this ‘idle’ gaming, I feel like I’m making progress and working towards something. Why is that important to me? No idea, but it is. So, while the world is crazy hectic and has a lot of moving parts, I’m just hanging out with my fishing rod, and for now, that’s enough.

Happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!

When I want to game, but don’t really have the time or maybe I’m out of spoons, the game I jump to is almost always BDO – this game has a lot of AFK / passive game modes that make it absolutely worth it to get my gaming fix when things are a bit rough. It has also been quite some time since I played, and a lot of QoL changes have taken place that I am completely in love with.

First, I created a Dosa, my first male character (my one issue with BDO is that classes are still restricted by gender). I made a season character – but seasons have changed now, they’re no longer static dates that rotate, you can create one when ever. I had a scholar in the works (the newly released class before Dosa) but decided that I didn’t want to continue with that, for now. Anyway, apparently life skills are now family (account) wide! That was one of the first changes I noticed. This is a fantastic change, I used to swap characters all of the time and I’m very glad it went account wide. On that same note, harvesting tools are also now shared across your family, another VERY delightful change.

One of the less favourable changes that happened is the hotkey for fishing, it’s ‘ now (the key beside enter) on QWERTY keyboards, other languages might have it elsewhere. To stop fishing, right click and move back to battle stance. Confusing, I actually had to watch a video on how to fish since the changes took place.

There’s been a bunch of other changes too, things I haven’t managed to wrap my head around yet. I don’t know what artifacts are, how to use them, or what to do with them. The same can be said for the transfusion window. I do have bits and bobs scattered all over the place, so I’m taking my time and sorting things out and figuring what I want to work on – when I don’t have the time to actually pay attention, I set up for some AFK fishing (there’s an event going on at the moment) or some mount training.

BDO has never been the easiest of games to get into, there’s a LOT to it, and the cluttered UI easily scares people away – but – I think learning the mechanics slowly is doable, and I really love how beautiful the game is as well as the incredibly robust life skill system (crafting). There’s apparently a new life skill releasing this year and I’m excited to see that, too. Plus, the game doesn’t require a subscription and the expansions are always free. Sure, there’s lots of ‘please buy this’ in the shop, but I’ve honestly never felt that pressured, they give away so much for free.

In any case, I’m enjoying my return and hopefully I can figure out what else has changed given some time. As always, happy gaming, no matter where you find yourself!