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In BDO, enhancing is the act of increasing the stats of your gear by using black stones. Understanding how enhancing works is probably the most important part of the game. In this Black Desert Online enhancement guide, I will explain the main features of enhancing your gear to help you optimize your enhancing strategies.

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Starting Your Enhancements.

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The first enhancement you want to do is to enhance either your weapons or armor. To enhance a weapon, both primary and secondary, you need a black stone (weapon). You can get those either from looting it of creatures or buying it from the market. Likewise, to enhance any armor piece you need a black stone (armor) which you get the same way. Once you have a piece of gear you want to enhance and the correct type of black stone you can start enhancing.

The Enhancement Screen

To start enhancing your gear you need to open the enhancement screen. To do so you first need to call the black spirit by pressing the ',' (comma) button and then press the enhancement button near the bottom of the screen. That should open up this window.

On this screen, you can see several useful things. First the 'Increase enhancement rate by (+0)' at the top. This is the number of failstacks you have gathered on this character. We will look at failstacks a bit later. Next, you see a couple of windows connected with a line. In the right window, you place the item you wish to enhance and the required black stones in the other. The Skip Enhancement Animation button stops that animation from running each time you attempt to enhance. Under this, you get the option of using Cron stones which we will also discuss later. Finally, you can choose to enhance the item or force an enhancement.

Enhancing Armor to +5 and Weapons to +7

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Getting your armor pieces and weapons to +5 and +7 respectively is easy as enhancement attempts at these levels cannot fail. You simply need to add the correct black stone in the left window and the gear you want to enhance in the right and press enhancement. When you added a piece of armor or weapon to the enhancement screen you probably noticed that you got two additional choices, Enhance or Durable. While enhancing armor to +5 and weapons to +7 these choices do not matter.

If you attempt to enhance further than this you run the chance of failing an enhancement attempt. At this point your choice of Enhance or Durable matters. The Enhance choice means you have a higher chance of a successful attempt, but you lose 5 points of durability if you fail. Durable means that you have a lower chance of success, but only lose two points of durability if you fail. Each failure will also give you a single failstack.

What are Failstacks?

Failstacks is a word used in Black Desert Online to signify the number of failed attempts a specific character has made at enhancing. Failstacks increase the chance of a successful enhancement attempt. This chance increase depends on the gear type and the enhancement level it already has. You can see the enhancement chance tables here. There are also several items that can give you failstacks, or store them for later use. Finally, completing some of the Adventure Log books gives you a permanent bonus to failstacks.

Advice of Valks

The Advice of Valks is a special item that gives you failstacks depending on the level of the advice. Typically it runs from 5 to 40 so Advice of Valks +15 would give failstacks from 0 to +15. Note that you can only use an Advice of Valks on a character with 0 failstacks to begin with. This means that you cannot first get your failstacks to +15 and then use an Advice of Valks – 40 to push it up to +55.

Blacksmith's Secret Book

This is an item you can purchase from blacksmith or armor vendors in each town. There are four versions of this item, which allow you to store failstacks by creating an Advice of Valks. Each item shows the maximum number of failstacks it can store. For example, a Blacksmith's secret book – 20 will allow you to create a single Advice of Valks with up to 20 failstack. Should you have 25 failstacks and use this item you only get Advice of Valks with 20 failstacks. If you have 15 failstacks and use Blacksmith's secret book – 20 you get Advice of Valks with 15 failstacks.

Valk's Cry

This is an item that, when used, gives you a single Valks Enhancement chance. You can at most have 10 Valk's Enhancement Chances active at any time. You can get Valk's Cry by using loyalty points in the Pearl Store. Each Valk's Cry costs 100 loyalty points.

You can also get Valk's Cry failstacks by using a fairy blessing which you get from exchanging 10 of Laila's petals. Personally, I would save all of Laila's petals to get a max tiered fairy (see fairy tiers here) rather than waste them on added failstacks.

Enhancing Armor and Weapons up to +15

To reach an enhancement level of +15 on weapons and armor you continue to use black stones as before. This time however you can fail at enhancing and clever use of failstacks can save you quite a bit of money. What you need to do is start building failstacks on items you can scarp or sell to increase the chance of success on the gear you wish to enhance.

When you start building your first failstacks you should use items that are plentiful and cheap, as this will save you money in the long run. One such item is the Reblath weapon you can get from the blacksmith in Velia. The simplest way is to use a +14 Reblath to build failstacks and when it hits +15 you can pay 100.000 silver to have it purified and reduced back down to +14.

You can talk to the following NPCs to perform Gear Purification:

  • Velia: Ottavio Ferre
  • Heidel: Eil
  • Calpheon: Leona
  • Altinova: Zigmund
  • Valencia: Saya Nesser
  • Grána: Merindora

For a more detailed guide on failstacking, I would recommend reading Alexmac's failstack building guide which is popular and simple but I'm not sure if it is the best.

Force Enhancement

You can also choose to force an enhancement on a piece of armor or weapon. To do so you will need extra black stones, depending on the level of your gear. When you force enhance you will lose a considerable amount of durability, from 30 up to 100, which you need to restore. In general, it is better to build failstacks and then enhance items. However, in some instances, it could be better to force an enhance, such as from +7 to +8 on a cheap weapon.

Losing Durability

Bdo Enhancement Failstack Chart

As I mentioned before, you lose some durability on a failed enhancing attempt. The importance of this lies in the fact that an item that has lost its durability cannot be enhanced further. So if you were thinking of enhancing a piece of armor to the max level without repairing its durability, then I am sorry to tell you that this does not work. The good news is that you can restore the durability of your items at a blacksmith.

Restoring Durability

Each enhancement attempt you fail on a weapon or armor will result in lost durability. To restore the durability you need to talk to a blacksmith, press the repair button and choose Recover Max Dur. from the menu at the bottom of the screen. This will open up the following screen.

You place the item you wish to restore in the left box, the item you wish to use as an ingredient in the right window and then press Recover Max Dur. or Artisan's Memory if you intend to use that.

The items that can restore your durability are the following:

The same item (not enhanced) gives +10 durability.

A single Memory Fragment gives the following durability increases depending on the color of the item: white item +10, green item +5, blue item +3, yellow item +1.

Artisan's Memory

This is a Pearl Store item that quadruples the returned durability. So if you have a blue item and use a Memory Fragment with Artisan's Memory you would get +12 durability restored. Artisan memory is best used to restore select blue items and most yellow items.

Extracting Black Stones

If you have a gear item that you cannot sell on the market for some reason you can extract the black stones back from that item by destroying it. You need to find a blacksmith and select Extraction from the bottom menu. There you can select Extract Black Stones which opens the following screen.

There you can place the item you wish to extract stones from, press extract and you get your black stones. This destroys the item you extract from and you only get back stones that correspond to the enhancement level. So a +15 item will give back 15 black stones.

Enhancing Armor and Weapons past +15

First of all, the enhancement levels after +15 are called PRI (+16), DUO (+17), TRI (+18), TET +(19) and PEN (+20). To enhance armor and weapons above +15 you need to start using concentrated black stones instead of regular ones. You can get those stones from the market or by heating 1 black crystal shards with 2 black stones of the correct type. On top of that, when you try to enhance a weapon or armor to TRI or higher and fail, the enhancement level of your item drops by one point. So on a failed attempt DUO -> PRI, TRI -> DUO and TET -> TRI. You can use an item called Cron stones to protect from this.

You can also force your enhancement up to TRI level (+18). After that, you need to build failstacks and risk failure.

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Cron Stones

How to download excel spreadsheet on mac. You can buy Cron stones from vendors. Each Cron stone costs 2.000.000 silver and you typically need the same amount of Cron stones to protect an enhancement attempt as the item would cost on the market. For example, a TRI Liverto would need around 300-350 Cron stones to protect it during a TET attempt.

If you use Cron stones, you won't get any additional failstacks on failed enhancement attempts.

Caphras Stones

Caphras stones are a way to increase the power of weapons and armor that have reached TRI enhancement or higher. They can also be used to get a guaranteed 100% enhancement chance from TRI to TET and from TET to PEN. How to get and use Caphras stones is explained here.

Enhancing Mount, Ship and Wagon Gear, and Artisan Rods.

The artisan rods follow a slightly different enhancement path than weapons and armor, see the enhancement tables. Firstly, you can fail at every attempt at upgrading, so +0 to +1 can fail. Secondly, you can only enhance these items to +10. Thirdly, starting at +7 to +8 enhancement artisan rods can fall down a single level if you fail, much like enhancing beyond DUO.

Mount, ship, and wagon gear can also fail at each level from +0 but do not risk dropping a level until reaching +7. It is also unclear if they follow the same enhancement chance as the artisan rods. Some personal tests of mine seem to show a different chance percentage, will update as I get a larger test batch.

Enhancing Accessories

To enhance accessories and clothes you need to sacrifice another item of the same type that has no enhancement. For example, if you wish to enhance a PRI Ogre's Ring too DUO you need another non-enhanced Ogre's Ring for the enhancement attempt. You do not need another PRI ring. The base chance mechanics for accessory enhancing are the same as for weapons and armor, but the success rate is slightly different. Please see the table linked above.

The hardest part about accessory enhancing is the fact that if you fail you lose both the accessory you intended to sacrifice and the item you intended to enhance. Mac russian red vs ruby woo.

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Jun 17, 2017

This guide will give you an introduction to enhancing and advice you when and how to enhance what gear you have to achieve higher AP and DP.

What is Enhancing?


Enhancing increases the level of your gear. The level of your gear is represented as a number in front of it. It starts at 0 and increases by 1 per enhancement. After +15 it is called Pri, Duo, Tri, Tet and Pen. If an enhancement fails after Duo it will decrease by 1 level which makes enhancing past Duo very expensive and time consuming.
You enhance by using the enhancement section of the black spirit. You can only enhance once you have finished the 'Awakening' quest which you receive relatively early in the game. You need black stones to enhance until +15 and concentrated black stones to enhance past +15.
The higher your failstack, the higher is the chance that you will succeed in an enhancement. Normal weapon and armor can be enhanced to +5 or +7 without a chance to fail. After that it is advised to build failstacks to increase the chances of your enhancements. You receive 1 failstack every time you fail. Also keep in mind that if you fail a Duo+ enhancement don´t use the built failstacks to make it go back. Save those failstacks and switch to a different character and start enhancing there. My recommended failstacks for each enhancement can be found below.

Preparation


Before you start enhancing properly, you need to prepare certain things to allow for effective and fast enhancements. A lot of these are for pri+ enhancements. If you are only looking for 0-15 you do not need most of these.

1 Low Level Character with Negative Karma


You view your Karma by clicking 'P'. If your Karma is positive go kill wild horses. Do not kill anything else as that will increase your Karma. Once you have negative Karma equip the gear you want to downgrade (from +15 to +14) and let mobs kill you until it downgrades.

Different Characters


Have as many different characters as you can so you can use all of them to enhance and build fail stacks on. You do not want to waste your high failstack count on your characters for low gear enhancements.

Multiple +14 Reblath


Reblath gear (armor, helmet, shoes and gloves) can be bought only at the blacksmith in Velia. You use this to build failstacks and this is the main gear you would want to downgrade from +15 to +14. Reblath armor are very cheap which is why you would want to use them and cannot be sold via the community market.

Green +14 Weapons


You would want a few green +14 weapons to build fail stacks on with your armor stones. Buy cheap ones but also make sure that there are a lot of them in the community market so you can easily recover durability.

Grunil Gear Pri+


Grunil Gear is used by most players before they get any boss armor. It is also very easy to sell them. Certain weapons can also be sold easily like Krea and Rosar.

Black Stones (Armor and Weapon)


You use this to enhance and build failstacks on. The quantity depends on how far you want to enhance. Have more Armor stones and Weapon stones as they are cheaper and you use them more. You can always exchange Hunters Seal for black stones if you don´t have enough. Buying them can be expensive if you buy a lot. Concentrated black stones are also needed if you want to enhance past +15.

Memory Fragments


You need Memory Fragments to recover the durability of your rare gears such as Liverto, Awakening and Boss Gear. The quantity also depends on how far you want to enhance and whether you have Artisans Memory or not.

Durability


A durability of a weapon is very important. The more you use a weapon, the more the durability of that weapon will decrease. When the durability of a weapon reaches 0, it will do very little damage. You can go to a blacksmith and recover the durability of the weapon so it can be used again.
However, when enhancing, the maximum durability of a weapon will decrease by 5, every time you fail an enhancement. This means that the maximum usage of the weapon will also decrease. If you are not careful when enhancing, you will make your durability very low and it cannot be used anymore after a few minutes. This is why you cannot yolo enhance especially on weapons where is it hard and expensive to recover maximum durability (awakening, liverto and boss gear).
To recover maximum durability you go to a blacksmith and use the same gear or a memory fragment to recover. The same gear will recover 10 maximum durability and a memory fragment will recover 1 durability for awakening and boss gear, and 2 durability for liverto. You can use an 'artisans memory' to change the recovered maximum durability by 3.

0 to +15 Method


Enhancing to +15 is very easy unless it is liverto, awakening or boss gear. For those you should be careful because recovering durability for those can be expensive so you cannot just yolo them.

Boss Gear System


  • 0 fs all the way to +8
  • +9 : 8 fs
  • +10: 11 fs
  • +11: 14 fs
  • +12: 17 fs
  • +13: 20 fs
  • +14: 23 fs
  • +15: 25 fs

For normal gear (grunil, krea, rosar etc.) follow the Boss Gear System - 5 fs. They can be repaired easily so you can just yolo it with 0 fs if you want.
For Liverto and Awakening follow the Boss Gear System - 2 fs.

Pri to Pen Method

Bdo Failstack Guide


  • 0 - 15 fs : use +14 Reblath
  • 15 - 18 fs : use +14 green weapon
  • 18 - 25 fs : use Pri grunil
  • 25 - 32 fs : use Pri Boss and Weapon Gear
  • 32 - 45 fs : use Duo Gear (normal and boss gear)
  • 45 - 55 fs : use Tri Grunil
  • 55 - 100 fs : use Tri Boss and Weapon Gear
  • 100+ fs : use Tet

Accessories


Accessories are very different than other gear. You enhance and accessory by using 2 of them same type (yes, you can use a pri and +0 accessory). When an enhancement for an accessory fails, you will lose both of them so be very careful when enhancing accessories. Accessories can only be enhanced 5 times (pri, duo, tri, tet, pen).

Bdo Enhancement Guide 2019

  • 15 fs Pri on blue
  • 20 fs Pri on rare
  • 28 fs Duo on blue
  • 35 fs Duo rare
  • 35 fs Tri on blue
  • 50 fs on Tri rare
  • 50 fs on Tet blue
  • 65 fs on Tet rare
  • 70 fs on Pen blue
  • 100 fs on Pen rare

Regardless of the fs it is very easy to fail so be very careful when enhancing accessories. I would advise you only enhance accessories when you have all your other gear at Tri+. You can also use cronstones for your accessory enhancements. I advise you to use them only during special events like Lauren when the prices are super low or on Pri and Duo enhancements as it is cheap.
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