Black Desert Online How to Maximize Knowledge Guide
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Outfits (Outfit & Weapon Outfit)
Main idea is to get two outfits and fuse them for seasonal outfits.
Normal outfits: 5 AP + 5 DP (10CP) / piece
Seasonal outfits: 16-25 AP + 16-25 DP (potential 32 - 50 CP) /piece
How to obtain outfits for fusion
Step 1: Go to your camp
Step 2: Open the Dye Workshop
Step 3: Select "Craft Outfits"
Step 4: Craft Either an "Armor Outfit Chest" or a "Weapon Outfit Chest"
It will take by default 5 days but the crafting time will be reduced if the worker crafting it has high Dexterity attributes. Process can also be quickened if player uses Life Plus (20% faster crafting speed)
F2P tip: Save your 1-day Life plus from events and only use it after collecting all the materials you need. Activate it before crafting the outfit and the time taken will be reduced significantly.
Step 5: Open the chest with the character that you want the outfit for. For example, if your main is a Ranger, open the chest with your Ranger character.
Disclaimer: From what I've read though is that the chance of successfully fusing an outfit is not very high, similar to successfully fusing pets. How true this is and to what extent, I have no idea. I don't have the resources to test it out.
Collection
These are the collection tabs that you should aim to complete first. If everything is completed, it will result in a 31 CP gain.
Prelude To War
The Graves Full of Resentment
Tip: Lets pretend you're loaded with Black Pearls and are missing some components, just click the item that you're missing and click "Purchase Item" and you will be redirected to the market so you can purchase the item if it's available. Works for trade shop/deco workshop items too.
Knowledge
General Knowledge
(Menu > Knowledge > Learn More)
Search for the knowledge that gives Attack or Defense. Completing these knowledge tasks will increase your CP and there is a total of 237 CP here just waiting to be obtained (as of South Mediah)
For Academics and Adventure knowledge categories, the following link provides all the answers you need: https://en.bdmbase.ru/blog/knowledge/
For Ecology, just tap the magnifying glass of the species that you are looking for, and tap the 'footsteps' logo. This will auto path you specifically to that monster. Do note that you might not get the knowledge from killing the monster right away. You might have to kill that particular monster a few times before you successfully acquire the knowledge you need.
Boss Knowledge
General Boss Knowledge (Boss Rush and World Boss)
Bosses that directly increase your CP:
- Giath (+AP), Dastard Bheg (+DP), Titium (+DP), Kelcas (+DP), Uraka (+AP), Kzarka (World Boss), Kabuamilles (Ruins) etc
Total Boss Knowledge
You can think of Total Boss Knowledge as one huge exp bar that is filled by the exp you get from completing any boss rush/guild rush/world boss. That's why it's always best to push as high as possible when it comes to boss rushing because despite the item rewards being the same/similar, there is a difference in the EXP earned per boss rush.
Indirect CP gain through combined boss knowledge (Look at Attack and Defense gained at the top middle part):
Menu > knowledge > Boss tab > tap the magnifying glass
Black Spirit
Higher Black Spirit level = more CP.
1 Black Spirit level = 8 CP (4AP + 4 DP)
Just try to aim for the highest possible Dark Energy EXP.
1. Top right lightstone
2. Pets
3. Combat Plus
These three things are the only sources that increases Dark Energy EXP at the moment.
Unpopular opinion: I feed yellow gears that are worth 3m or less to my Black Spirit. Most people would disagree but I think chasing silver is not the play. If I was loaded with silver, I would purchase all the cheap yellows and other weapons and feed them to my Black Spirit because that gives CP and that progresses you forward. It's just as good as buying AP/DP skills books in that sense. Each Black Spirit level increases your CP by about 10 -12 CP.
Some would argue that farming silver will eventually lead to being able to purchase BIS* gears but I think statistically speaking, the more boss rushes & ruins I complete and the more mobs that I kill, I will eventually get a drop I need or at least enough drops to sell to fund the BIS gears I eant. Keep in mind that the process is accelerated by the slight increase in CP I have.
*BIS = Best in Slot, for the uninitiated.
Passive Skills
Skills Menu > Scroll all the way down. | "9 AP + 8 DP = 36 CP"
These are the passive skills, they can be levelled up by obtaining Passive skillbooks (the purple skill books). Passive skills carry over to all characters, so even if your main is an Ranger and you start a new Witch character, the Witch character will still benefit from these stats.
How to get these passive skillbooks?
1. Just kill stuff. A lot of stuff.
2. Some story quest rewards also give these books
3. Node Manager. AP/DP Skill books pop up regularly when your node level is high enough.
Go to a high mob density area that you can kill very efficiently and you will rake up a lot of skill books in no time. You would want to aim for the areas with mobs whose names are in orange and have high mob density.
Source: https://en.bdmbase.ru/all-about-monsters/
Personally at 3331 CP, I am still having a really good time at Cron Castle Patrol Route. I average about 1800 mobs every 30 mins and a loooot of stuff drops that my pets are having trouble keeping up with. I think a good benchmark of efficient farming is 1 mob/sec or 1800 mobs/30 mins
Skill Training Effect (WIP)
Will be updated once I figure out how this thing works. All I know is that only AP and DP contribute to the total CP gained.
Skill Menu > Skill Training Effect (at the bottom right, above the "use all skillbooks" button)
Character Level
The higher the level of your character, the more Base Character CP the character will have. Do note that this is tied only to the particular character and will not carry over to other alts/toons unlike Base Family CP.
Unrelated to CP but, when your character reaches max level, a special "10% Drop Rate Increase" buff will apply to that character.
Pet Album
Menu > Pet Album
As of Jan 2020, there is currently a total of 11 CP to be obtained from the Pet Album.
Pet Tier 1: 3 CP
Pet Tier 2: 2 CP
Pet Tier 3: 3 CP
Pet Tier 4: 3 CP
Conclusion
Inventory> 🔎 Check CP (located at the top left)
Use your "Check CP" table as a checklist or guideline for what you can work on to increase your CP.
Comment in the section down below if there are any questions related to CP, what you think about the guide and what I can improve on.
Good luck with the grind!
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2020-01-11 20:58
Black Desert Online How to Maximize Knowledge Guide
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