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New player experience in two words: Overwhelmed followed by Uninstall.

As a new BDO player for the current season, I feel like I am DROWNING with all of the terms and info being thrown at me. Your guide is an amazing help.

Not a new player myself, but it's great you covered some of the settings and alerts. Many of the alerts get annoying real quick, I couldn't disable them quick enough. Overall great guide, will definitely help new players have a smoother experience.

I just started playing this game and there is SO MUCH going on that I've watched 3 or 4 beginner guides just to wrap my head around it. This guide was the most useful by far! Thank you for clarifying so much so clearly!

Great guide, I just grabbed the game, made a character and am enjoying it but I'm already having questions, which you covered. Helped me a lot!

Great guide, I wished I watched your video before I started a season character I would have been more relaxed and had more fun without overwhelming myself.

Just came back after 5 years or so and it was pretty overwhelming, so glad I stuck with it past the initial part. Great guide and its much needed for alot of us.

Great great guide and love how you're smiling and welcoming, I found a lot of videos like this but I always click off within the first few minutes for some reason but this is the one. Thank you

thanks very helpful for a returning player that hasn't played in years. appreciate your content

Been playing for over a year now and didn't know about the free respec. That's amazing thank you!

Hey! you save me so much time. Gonna start the game right now with all your do's and dont's. Thx for the guide.

Best beginner guide I've seen so far Explained everything very simple and clear 👌

Great Guide. The first region is also the first portion of the story and the story continue to Eternal Winter. Even thou the story is weak, if anyone is interested in the story. They should try to start at Ancient Stone Chamber.

great guide, just started for a week now and it gave me so much info.

Just started, thank you. This is the best beginner guide so far

Great video, I'm brand new to bdo and this guide really helped.... now I'll jump to your enhancement guide XD

You pointed out some things that i didnt hear about in other videos,Thanks for the great guide.

Very helpfull, im just now starting out and this is one of the better videos ive seen.

Ah dude I had no idea about the skill preset. 👌🏼 Nice one!

While this didn't have information I was looking for, this guide is actually great for someone who has not played BDO at all. Good job, lots of good information in this period.

Good guide for us newbies. Haven't started yet but thanks to your guide, some of it helps me understand more about the progress of the game. Will play soon on asia server. Thank you.

Best intro video I have seen. I've been looking for a good one for a while.

thx for the reset tip via skill npc. i was playing the game a few years on an off and didnt know that one, will sure come handy 😁

this was so helpful! thank you so much! :D

Great video man

Amazing video! Well explained, great flow and perfect advice.

Thanks and greetings from germany. I startet yesterday and i love it. Good Video!

i was thinking to buy the game because a friend of mine is playing. My last MMO was Lineage 2 and after that i couldnt find a game that gives me the vibe of L2. Your video helped a lot to make the purchase because your video is sooo helpfull for new players! Thank you so much! Keep up the good work!

gona use this for my family, thanks Mr.Biceptimus

Woah such a nice guide I am starting BDO from today many told me not to but I chose to feel it The BDO rush either no other good mmos out there anymore

Dude!!! Your channel is seriously the first one that I've come across that is so idiot friendly, lol, thank you so much for the indepth beginning guide, I am currently waiting for the game to download and was very anxious; one, because it being an older game I knew it was going to be a tuff ride getting caught up. But watching your video here you have put alot of this anxiety to ease. I really hope you will make follow up videos like a follow along for maybe the first few hours of gameplay to provide an overview of what should be done and not. Also, like GW2 inventory was a real issue for me so maybe you can give some tips on how to manage the inventory; like when to clean it, where to store it and what to store, what to sell, etc., etc. You will be my go to man, pls don't let me down, many of us noobs/idiots need your teaching!

New player here, your tips are amazing! Earned my sub

Returning player here, started watching your stream during drops. Stayed after for the content.

You are a good boi 😂 nice video, chill, informing and actually helpful! Sub earned.

Very informative. Subbed!

Thank u for this feature. U are the best =)

Really good video, that followed it`s own advice... : "It took it`s time" I play for 6 years now (they give you an in game cake early on the day you've made your account) and I've just learned the "free succession/awakening mechanical reset" thing so +1 for Biceptimus on that... I wanna just write fairly short weird thing... Depending on your overall mood, level of immersion into story lines and such and your character choice (because probably because of too much gaming, the character I currently am on, I have 21 at the moment and on some of them I have done the content I am talking about, affects my perception of the in game environment. And how you see the environment (through the eyes of your in game avatar, sort of, because it is 3rd person game... fortunately...) affects you. I am gonna try to give an understandable example. Also damn I've said I am gonna be short... I guess this is my short... Shai as a class is tiny little girl (which of course is 5 000 years old thou)... Guardian is mighty tall and large and muscly (depends on how you make her) and curvy at the same time (I mean who doesn`t do their Guardian Curvy)... One and the same pet cat... next to the Shai and when you are on the Shai looks kind of ~large you know... You are OMG that is a Large Cat... that very same cat next to the Guardian (or some of the large male characters, even thou Guardians are larger than some Warriors and warriors are of the large males... Berserkers being the literal Giant sized and Sages are fairly large males as well), but back to the cat, so that cat next to large character looks like well Smaller Kitten... My point is... now multiply the entire BDO detailed environment (if you play on remastered) by that "cat size perception" thing. Also different characters do give you different non visual "feelings" of strengths and weaknesses based on class specifics... Fragile Quick Close range... Bulky Close range... Distance Operator... etc...Now all of that.. all of it... once you go trough the entire very well tailored as Biceptimus have said Eternal Winter (if you so chose for a starting option) *spoiler alert* The end depending on all of the written above might somewhat affect your mood towards the negative... Again it depends on you as a person, your current state... etc., etc. And of course "game goes on"... I just want to mention during the first part in the place called Odylita there is something fairly emotionally intense as well... but that is many, many hours into the game in... Even thou >The Entire Main Quest Line< is doable within one beginning to end Season frame... There are 2 things about that... I have played for 6 years so even if I am not Biceptimus strong player (or many others are still way > me) I do know my way around... and yes After Mediah (as he've said) the return kind of ~diminishes in terms of in game enabling stuffs...You are left only with the adventure and the exploration... sure it add ups to in game stuffs as well but you can simply gain more of many other activities... Yet I have 0 to 100 MSQ on at least few different classes trough Seasons.

Great video, I have been more than a little overwhelmed with BDO so far....this is very helpful. Side note, I had to click on your "about" tab to verify...I knew you were a Dane from the first few seconds of this video :)

perfect guide for new players!! GJ

I am realy happy that you sad most important thing about first character. Use what is coolest loking for you)

this was super helpful tysm

I've been playing this for just short of a month now and my gosh, I wish I got into it sooner, I've wanted to ask questions in group chat and/ server but I get anxious, I know people can be cocky or purposely tell me incorrect advice for jokes. There is so much to unpack in this game! I'm currently just following story thankfully, I'm grateful that I found this video this was so helpful

Awakening and succession tend to be complementary. In classes where the base kit is more orientated to 1v1, awakening usually gives you more aoe. In mid-ranged classes, awakening tends to give you more melee options, and in melee classes awakening gives you mid-long range options. Also, awakening tends to cover the qualitative flags of the base kit: if it's a slow but hard-hitting class awakening gives you movement and i-frames (I.e. Nova), if it's a damage-heeavy class it gives more cc options (e.g. Mahewa, sage), if it's a glass cannon it gives you more protection (e.g. witch and maegu), while succession emphasise both the advantages and disadvantages of the base set: if you have a glass cannon, succession make it even more glass cannony, if you have a 1v1 cc class succession makes it a cc beast and so on. Awakening is usually more complicated to play effectively, but if you feel your class is great but something is really missing, awakening may fix it for you

GREAT EXPLANATION

With the new skill points system, you get enough to maximise either succession or awakening; as you receive two preset slots on every character for free, you can simply fully learn succession and save it to slot one, and awakening and save it to slot two (without learning enhanced and add on skills), for an even faster switch. Then you can buy additional slots on your main for specialised builds (I.e. pve or pvp), if you don't want to bother re-learning the add ons every time.

thanks for this i subbed and liked :)

Thank you for the UI settings! The UI is what ran me off. It felt so overwhelming

thx for advices ! im new ... very well done...ty for ur work!

You are great ! thank you 4 help :)

I've never watched a video longer than 10min in one go. You sure kept everything nice and simple while keeping us engaged and never losing interest in the first few minutes. Great tutorial indeed. Keep up the good work.

Big thumbs up for the timestamp!

Gj Bicept

You have new subscriber now :p

thank u ;)

3:25 Its the main quest that i got ALL my materials to enhance ALL my gear to Tuvala v, so i don't know what you are talking about here, a bit miss leading, sure you can get drip feed materials while grinding but if you are new, you have no idea how or where to grind. So my advice is to 100% do the main quests for each region on the seasonal servers. If you don't you are shooting yourself in the foot and creating your own struggle.

So what happens if its not a season? Its not worth starting? And what equipment do you use then?

Rather than trying to pick a class based on what you think looks cool, I'd say pick a class that feels fun. Start by going through the class list in game and just reading the description. Create a shortlist of about 5-8 that you wanna try. Watch a few youtube video guides on those 5-8 classes and pick from there. If you really wanna be a nerd about it, do what I did and create "Trial" characters for the best 3 and test them out before making your final decision. (Trial characters are available in the top right during the class pick phase, they start with level 60 and "Factory Default" gear. You can use them to playtest any class you want). 🙃

I started playing yesterday and gotta be honest theres so many menus and unexplained systems that my eyes just kind of glaze over. I wish theyd introduce them in a stagger as you played

Problem I have is I have so many returning gifts and items since 16" I have no idea where to store them and what they all do

Man I 1000% agree with the advice to play what you think you like - if you don't, try something else you think you will like. But don't chase what's the strongest just because. I knew before I started playing that I would probably enjoy Ranger the most. I got recommended Tamer by someone so Tamer was the first thing I made. I was disappointed with it (this was 2016, before awakenings existed and before the plethora of Heilang buffs and fixes) and I made Ranger. Loved it. Love it till this day, even if it has been a super bumpy ride. Now, I am an altoholic and I play all female classes, (and I have dupes so I am actually always at the character cap) of which I definitely have a top 5 I play more than the others. Some new classes over the years have blown my mind and shown me how fun they are, others are just genuinely super good in PvE (I don't PvP). To this day my Ranger remains my main, even though her PvE performance is often really not great (and I suck at playing the class, to be honest), but it is just my favorite, so best choice I ever made. In moments where I absolutely want to make use of drop scrolls and whatnot and be as efficient as possible, I tag other classes I love that clear better and then I just switch back to Ranger for the fun. We play games for the fun, in general, so that is what is most important. Of course, some people are allergic to not being the most optimal all of the time, but since BDO is highly luck dependant and a marathon instead of a sprint, even after 7 years I can say confidently no mistakes were made. It might not work for everyone, but I firmly believe it is the best approach for the majority of people. Countless others got pissed after their strong class got nerfed and then feel like they have to jump to a new strong one. Naturally, it can be frustrating if a class you genuinely love performs bad, OR if they get nerfed and THEN perform bad. The good thing is that there are ALWAYS uses to them. You can still clear rifts and scrolls with them. You can still go to lower AP (attack power) spots where they clear easily but where you can grind super rare drops (believe me, if you want inifinite potions, in many cases your AP does not matter much and you should just use what you LIKE, because it will otherwise just destroy you mentally. Most of those spots are snooze fests you'll be stuck in for 50+ hours). And even if you couldn't be bothered to do any of that, you can still either build another class you like (honestly, almost every class has elements you might like... though coming from an altoholic this might not mean much) or tag them. There is a tag system where you can copy your main gear to another character. This means that you can keep building the class you like the most even if they're bad at the moment and you can copy that gear to something you like that performs better. There's so many options, that chasing after efficiency alone, is not the right move, IF that in and of itself isn't what you enjoy the most. Some do.

I know this might be dumb but I’m planning on having one of every class at level 61 just so I have a collection of them and make one big happy family

As a new player, buy the tent. Buy the season black spirit pass. These helped me quite a bit. Get 7 days of every passive buff and play the game a.few days each week and you should be making plenty of.progress on main story and journals as you do msq. Grinding is a bit of a waste of time before you need to finish season as crystals are cheap to fill up slots with whatever. Resistance to knockdown and stiffen are useful but not needed.

4:30 season char gets deleted? What game, as far as ive seen its the same thing, standard like in POE, after the season the char goes to normal. Curious what games you are referring to where the char on a season gets yeeted and deleted after the season is over.

so i play ninja , should i lock out ninja envasion in the skill tree? or is that different than other characters evasions?

I'm GW2 player and there is a little more systems in BDO (it's close to lost ark) I don't know if I'm able to grind this game out but for now I'm just enjoy sandbox and low level questing

If i lock evasion when i double tap a s or d will it do the dodge instead or will i still have to hold shift

I save succ and awa to 1 and 2 and just swap between them that way since we always have enough points anyway

Is there any way to remove skill addons to make it empty? I want to make a preset with nothing selected but I already equipped addons before i got presets :(

I have a 3060 rtx 12gb, had to undervolt the GPU in order to play this lol ... had my GPU reach temps above 80 degrees sometimes which would cause the game to crash... undervolt helped and now I can play on high/remaster without issues and around 65 degrees on my GPU, no performance loss. This is literally the only game that was causing me issues lol

1st mistake to avoid: to pick awk warrior and become dependant to its mechanics even if its a torture to play in pvp due to its terrible state

If I delete my Season Character, can I make another one?

Ive justvstarted playing on PS5 but dont see any option to create a season character, is this not an iption on console?

New Player here, literally started yesterday! Thank you for this advice! Veterans Help please! One Question: Are the Items from the FESTA Event Coupons for your Whole Account? Or will they be bind to the character that claims it? Especially the Costume Boxes and Horse... (tbh I don't even know what the "original Costume" and "premium Costume" mean lol

what if i already started normal charakter? should i start again on season?

Very great guide. Thank you :).Is there a way to remove those skills in the middle of the screen in does & don't part of the video?

We started to play with friends, we do all mission and upgrading our tuvala gear. However we get so many items that we don't have any clue what to do with them. Sometimes we don't have enough place in eq to take them all. We like the game very much, but as begginers is very hard to understand it, especially when english is not your main language :D Can you make a tutorial what to do after upgrading tuvala gear to PEN?

hi man, new player here, thanks for the vid! quick question, i have difficulty w remembering all the keybinds, so the different attack symbols showing left of your warrior during the awakening part of the video, how do i get them? thanks again for the exceptional vid!

Preset with no skill points used is absolutely genius

2:04 what about sales/events/maintance/patches? Is steam simliar? In ff14 steam gets patched later for example and maintance is longer, theres also sales on tmog and events and such making the loadstone version supperior to steam.

Hey guys! Beginner here! How well does this game do with 3 other friends? Will it be worth the fun or passable? Since the character gameplay looks really really fun! And how does a Sage, Berserker, Woola combo in PvE?

Some beginner guides say start on a season server while you say dont. No wonder I’m hesitant about starting the game. Grrrrr!

played 15 hrs and dropped, cuz needed space for other games. game looks beautiful

Been playing BDO recently on Steam can anyone tell my why I don't see Regional Servers on Steam? Is it an issue only in Steam client?

So we have to make 2 presets yes? One with awakening no points spent and one with succession no points spent right?

As a seasoned MMORPG veteran I say starting a new class from a high level is really bad. You miss out on the entirety of the leveling process, which sounds good in theory, but not only do you miss out on the satisfaction of progression that way, you also don't learn its abilities and quirks slowly, 1 by 1, slowly improving each of them. It's like putting an entire 10-course meal onto a single spoon and swallowing it, it's terrible.

Question here. I have played before and I have a character at level 47. And now I made a season character and leveled it to 20 and I got bored of the class. Can I play my lvl 47 char who isnt on season server or I will lose too much progress?

Can someone clarify, the old character keeps its level/xp right?: I feel like that's worth mentioning, it essentially gives you two chars to play! And family fame etc.

Why do you say not to worry about events? I find checking the events on the official website really helps you understand what certain items do and what the community meta is. Horse training event? Nows the time to imperial trade some horses for T10 mats. Fishing event? Looks like I'll be overnight fishing this week. Not to mention the rewards for events are pretty good. Also I disagree with new players starting on season servers. They can enjoy better EXP and CP buffs on Olvia while still grinding for season rewards in non season servers via the regional subjugation quests and I really don't think the extra silver you get from being in a season server is more valuable than the CP gain when you're just starting out and have none.

hey i got to watever level ur allowed to start the awakening quest but i jus wanna pvp tried it got clapped is there a way for me to get pvp gear or it’s based on sum else?

Question : Is it worth starting a season with only 7 days left in it ? Is that enough time to finish it, or should I wait for the next season ?

11:30 in comparison tho is the one on the left alot more time consuming than the right, I just want to rush to endgame I don't care for any story but I'm also a new player

how can i change starting zone on xbox ?

I kn/ow you have a good intention with this guide. but the guide from 2 years ago is still the same as this one.. and still applicable to this day Not gonna deny that the leveling itself is so fun (for a new player) and the combat ? Absolutely amazing *chief kiss. But once you reach 650-670GS theres no content that makes you stay in the game beside grinding and pvp.... I hope that next guide isnt gonna be a grind guide or a gearing guide, and something more fun and diverse (if the dev even gonna bother to add new feature/content, LOL)

I dont have any good reason to early graduate specially as new player after uy have all pen tuvala u can just grind mobs with season boosts and the extra money u get from all the time stones is nice i mean 100k piece and weaklys give 600 and when using bunch of loot scrolls u get them insanely fast so its good early money making for new player

I get fugars timepiece ervery Season ?

Very helpful for a newbie and his wife😅

New sub here only had to watch a few minutes before making this comment and continuing with the video . Quick question i made a seasonal character really didnt like how slow guardian was . So i made a drakana i really enjoy it but i couldnt do the season servers . What do i do about this can i delete the guardian ? Also you said about not bothering when questing ? Which is what i am primarly doing as want to just level and then do the awakening quest line etc . Any help apreciated . Thanks

I am trying to get into bdo but I don’t understand a lot of the in game crafting, storage, gear, ect… just following the main story and worried I’m falling behind in other areas.

how important are the combos? i currently try to execute the one which gets randomly displayed in the right corner. sadly it never tells me if i executed them right