Just wanted to stop by and say thank you for making all of your BDO videos. I've been playing the game casually on-and-off since release, and one thing that has always blown my mind has been the lack of straightforward step-by-step content explaining aspects of the game. Something about this game - people just can't seem to explain it simply. You do an amazing job of that.
Thank you for the kind words! I've made mmorpg guides for like 4 years now, starting with blade and soul. So I've had some time to get good at covering exactly what a person needs to know in order to do something without having any questions left in their mind xD
Missing Quests: Like many others I had the same problem with some of the quests not showing and more specifically, Finding Ramy. I found the solution for a couple of them and it probably shares the same principle with most of these daily quests. It’s based on your knowledge, so for example to pick up the Ramy quest I needed to get at least a C rank from the Llamas. As soon as I unlocked the knowledge the quest became available. I also had to gain at least a C rank with Yaks for the daily quest, ‘Special Meal for Yak’ to appear. So if you are missing something then you need to try and figure out which knowledge unlocks it, some obvious others are not - still haven’t got missing bride but will let you all know if I find the trigger. Cheers Update: Bad Hair Day quest is for Male characters only. P.s Thanks for the awesome content. Been playing BDO on console for a couple of weeks and would be lost without your guides.
@@MRwilsondraws the one on top of skill instructor? to find the missing soldier? you need knowledge on the blood wolves. im trying to figure out what i need to the wife mission
@@FPDevisoR according to this link www.blackdesertfoundry.com/duvencrune-daily-cp-quests/ you have to do the whole Dreighan/duvencrune storyline in order to get access to the bride quest. But that link has a BUNCH more not mentioned in the video.
Bruh .... Get Outta My Head , I Was Just Wondering How To Farm Contribution Points ... I Get My Phone And See A Notification About It Lol .... LOVE YOUR CONTENT !!!
I know this is just part of the norm for the comments. I love the easy to digest information. It astounds me at the lack of info on bdo you got a subscriber here
Wanted to say thanks for all the BDO content - the biggest reason I feel like I know what I'm doing is your videos. Respectful suggestion for a future video: all the daily CP quests in the different cities for people that want to hit it hard and really grind to 400+. Again, thanks a million for the videos. Super helpful and sincerely appreciated.
First, awesome video. Really helped me. Although, after a couple of years, a couple of the quests have changed. For me, I also started to stop at the dairy cows south-west of the city just beyond the Y in the road to expend some energy and gain some milk. Found 4 or 5 additional little simple quests to do there, all 200 or 300 CP.
Ok, nice guide although there are few issues with it. First of all, a lot of duvencrune dailies are ommited (counted around 10 of them after completing this route, not counting those requiring to cook/fish something, along the way too), Quest route is also messy, with bit of orgnisation it would be more efficient.. Some of these dailies have specific demands to unlock. things like being a male/female character, main questline finished or knowledge about certain npc. . So, friendly reminder is in place: if you can't see some of these quests check requirements under Recurring >Duvencrune contribution in quest tab. Also real grind for cp tarts around 400. On the level of 350 you only need around 12 days of this routine for one cp. It is not so hard.
This guide is a masterpiece! If you've some time in the future, please add to your todo list another video showing the daily contribution quests in another city. Just to accelerate farming points for new players. God bless you ❤✌
@@EvilDoUsHarm will do. i've yet to start enhancing, i've watched videos but they all seem to zip through the process without much explanation. maybe a easy to follow guide on things like how much cron stones and the other mats will be needed. nothing too in depth, but like what we will need to have sorted out before we attempt enhancement. i apologize if you have already done this, i haven't went back through all of your videos just yet.
I don't want to speak for anyone else, but if you watch his content, you will figure it out pretty easily that enhancing is not something to expect from this channel. There is plenty of amazingly well done content and knowledge shared here, but if you want to learn enhancing, I would go find it rather than wait for it here. Mr.Rapolas has a solid video on enhancing that's almost 20 minutes long and probably the best I've come across, but aside from watching a live stream/VOD of someone enhancing, you're basically not going to get the full experience anywhere. Enhancing is tedious, time consuming, expensive(more than MP buying usually), frustrating, and largely uninteresting. But if you REALLY want to or have to(Tuvala), do a search for enhancing guides and you're sure to find what you need.
Probably really late on this but the two quests on that path at the end of your video, if you go slightly to the west in the field there is a quest to milk a cow for 300 cp as well, then you can jump back on the path and keep going.
I have 375 CP, got most of it from cooking and the daily CP run in Calp. and Heidel. I was looking at prolly 20 days to get through 375 just doing those in Calp. and Heidel. After finding this guide doing the Duvencrune, Calp. and Heidel it took 6 days to get through 375, i was around 0.35 in when i started. I have one goal in this game, to get 400 CP, now it looks doable ) Thank's a Bunch !
You always start with the Blacksmith. He gives you the Thuja Plank for the little kid next to the boxes, who then gives you the basket. You move south to north with dailies as you get all the needed items. Apart from the lady who needs yarn, which you get from killing armadillos.
For me, i cant take several quest on this video such as the soldier. But in exchange u can try a different path when going back from yane (in the corn field, go left instead of path of the first crossing) and in the end u can move to the top temple (2nd quest of this vid), and take the daily quest from the man near the temple it is a simple quest, literally same as 2nd one, bcs u cant take 2 of it at(literally same quest just different npc) the same time
@EvilDoUsHarm thought it might be worth mentioning Elion - Tome of the Sun for the Contribution exp up +10% (from quests) Suddenly 4k CP XP, is now 4.4k. If anyone else knows of more items/buffs/server effects that can help I am all ears. New Olvia has a bonus CP boost mechanic for people with less than 250 CP as well.
I had a blonde moment while I was watching the video. I kept hearing you say that you got 200-300 cp per mission and I was thinking damn cp isn’t that hard to get after all. But then as I was looking at my missions I realized that you were talking about cp exp.
Little late but I'd like to add in a quick stop down in the farm fields. Pick up a quest to run a crate to a guard 15 feet from 2 quest turns in 1 in spot for 600cp, involves milking cows. Free milk too.
love your channel dude! I gotta say you do a great job of breaking shh -stuff down. Any chance you can do some of the other towns to farm Cxp that take less then an hour?
Quick question, after doing this would there be available quests for other cities too? After doing Duvencrune, are there gonna be quests like this on Calpheon? Kinda got confused when he said daily quests
www.blackdesertfoundry.com/duvencrune-daily-cp-quests/ second paragraph says the soldier one requires MSQ completion. For me, I'm not running this one each day.
Yes it’s accurate. Do the full questline for the bride quest. Gain C knowledge on the llamas and for female characters the quest for bad hair day is in a different location and it’s to scold the boy throwing rocks
What would it mean if I don't see a quest on the little NPC with the red bag at 3:22? and on the guard right after... (I am a bit behind on Main Quest line) Thanks for the useful information btw. :)
This may be a dumb question, but I'm new to the game, are these CP rewards in actual points, or %? I just did the first one for 200, and my points increased by only a single point?
Am having a terrible time with the "Bad Hair Day" CP quest. I pick the quest up from the drunk guy, go to the little pool - talk to the little guy making fun of him - but the pool below never opens up to let me investigate or "Look" at it and - it just never completes - not sure what i'm doing wrong here - I can't even delete the quest to retry it - I have to wait until reset =(
I'd like to request/suggest making a video on how to obtain a blackstar weapon, enhancing and where/how to obtain enhancing stones for blackstar weapons...💯👌
That's not contribution point's you get, but contribution EXP... Like the skillpoints, you don't simply get skillpoints for anything, you just get skill exp, and when it reaches a limit you get a point, like leveling up.
For the lost soldier if u dont get the quest you need knowledge on the blood wolves. Im still trying to find wthat i need for the quest os the lost wife
You might not have all quests showing, or you may need to play further into the story - I was under the impression 56 was the only unlock condition, but a lot of people are having issues in the comments
He is similar, but comparing succession to succession - Maehwa plays more like an assassin that doesn't have stealth, where as musa plays more like a brawler, just with how the red blade/blue buff mechanics work on the two classes respectively.
Being a professional cook, I do believe this is true overall, but if you can finish this in 10-20 minutes, that 4k is more than we get from cooking 1000 recipes on average. So, basically, I suggest doing this rotation, doing the Calpheon rotation, and doing the Valencia rotation, then cook for the rest of the time you want to dedicate to CP farming. Of course, this changes if you have to travel to do the daily rotation. It becomes significantly less worth it to ride to Duven, do the rotation, then return to wherever you were. However, if you park an alt here or at any of the daily CP rotations, the time investment:CP ratio is absolutely worth it.
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Just wanted to stop by and say thank you for making all of your BDO videos. I've been playing the game casually on-and-off since release, and one thing that has always blown my mind has been the lack of straightforward step-by-step content explaining aspects of the game. Something about this game - people just can't seem to explain it simply. You do an amazing job of that.
Thank you for the kind words! I've made mmorpg guides for like 4 years now, starting with blade and soul. So I've had some time to get good at covering exactly what a person needs to know in order to do something without having any questions left in their mind xD
Missing Quests: Like many others I had the same problem with some of the quests not showing and more specifically, Finding Ramy. I found the solution for a couple of them and it probably shares the same principle with most of these daily quests.
It’s based on your knowledge, so for example to pick up the Ramy quest I needed to get at least a C rank from the Llamas. As soon as I unlocked the knowledge the quest became available. I also had to gain at least a C rank with Yaks for the daily quest, ‘Special Meal for Yak’ to appear.
So if you are missing something then you need to try and figure out which knowledge unlocks it, some obvious others are not - still haven’t got missing bride but will let you all know if I find the trigger. Cheers
Update: Bad Hair Day quest is for Male characters only.
P.s Thanks for the awesome content. Been playing BDO on console for a couple of weeks and would be lost without your guides.
This ine 100% accurate. I appreciate the comment. I was going crazy wondering why i couldn't get the llama quest.
Any advice as to how I gain knowledge so that I can do the Soldier Daily quests?
@@MRwilsondraws the one on top of skill instructor? to find the missing soldier? you need knowledge on the blood wolves. im trying to figure out what i need to the wife mission
@@FPDevisoR yeah i read about the NPC named Myra, to gain knowledge the missing soldier. I havent figured out the bride quest yet.
@@FPDevisoR according to this link www.blackdesertfoundry.com/duvencrune-daily-cp-quests/ you have to do the whole Dreighan/duvencrune storyline in order to get access to the bride quest. But that link has a BUNCH more not mentioned in the video.
Unreal guides mate, clear and concise.
Wishing for your channel to grow to what it deserves.
Thank you for the kind words!
best way to farm CP is literally become Gordon Ramsay in this game
Good joke ^^
Cant do it now. They nerfed CP farming via cooking with the new byproduct
@@fyuira9585 better this way?
Bruh .... Get Outta My Head , I Was Just Wondering How To Farm Contribution Points ... I Get My Phone And See A Notification About It Lol ....
LOVE YOUR CONTENT !!!
That's what I'm here for ;)
I just finally figured out how to properly do energy farming. This is perfect! As always man you're a savior! Thank you sincerely!
Yes! And as an added bonus, the quests recover energy when you complete them, so go do some gathering first!
I know this is just part of the norm for the comments. I love the easy to digest information. It astounds me at the lack of info on bdo you got a subscriber here
I'm glad this video has helped you! if you have ideas for new stuff please let me know!
Wanted to say thanks for all the BDO content - the biggest reason I feel like I know what I'm doing is your videos. Respectful suggestion for a future video: all the daily CP quests in the different cities for people that want to hit it hard and really grind to 400+. Again, thanks a million for the videos. Super helpful and sincerely appreciated.
First, awesome video. Really helped me. Although, after a couple of years, a couple of the quests have changed. For me, I also started to stop at the dairy cows south-west of the city just beyond the Y in the road to expend some energy and gain some milk. Found 4 or 5 additional little simple quests to do there, all 200 or 300 CP.
Thank you! been meaning to level up my contribution points and you uploaded this. great timing. Thanks for your guides!
Welcome!
Great guide! I have this play every time I do these quests so I don't miss one.
Thanks for racking up my views stats xD
Glad you like the video!
Ok, nice guide although there are few issues with it. First of all, a lot of duvencrune dailies are ommited (counted around 10 of them after completing this route, not counting those requiring to cook/fish something, along the way too), Quest route is also messy, with bit of orgnisation it would be more efficient.. Some of these dailies have specific demands to unlock. things like being a male/female character, main questline finished or knowledge about certain npc. . So, friendly reminder is in place: if you can't see some of these quests check requirements under Recurring >Duvencrune contribution in quest tab.
Also real grind for cp tarts around 400. On the level of 350 you only need around 12 days of this routine for one cp. It is not so hard.
Dear lord i was missing so much on Duvencrune daily quest. Thanks a million for the guide sir
Happy to help! Go get those contribution points!
I knew how to get CP but you always manage to give me unknown infos ^^
Glad this helped you a bit more!
I just found Duvencrune earlier today and then I found this video...
Useful video btw thank you
Thank you Dude your guides are really great. I am new to this crazy game and glad I found your channel.
Thank you! Glad you like them! If you have ideas for more let me know!
This guide is a masterpiece!
If you've some time in the future, please add to your todo list another video showing the daily contribution quests in another city. Just to accelerate farming points for new players.
God bless you ❤✌
Yes, making the video for odraxxia dailies is on my list!
really appreciate you sharing your game knowledge and helping all of us out
Happy to help! If you have ideas for other videos let me know!
@@EvilDoUsHarm will do. i've yet to start enhancing, i've watched videos but they all seem to zip through the process without much explanation. maybe a easy to follow guide on things like how much cron stones and the other mats will be needed.
nothing too in depth, but like what we will need to have sorted out before we attempt enhancement.
i apologize if you have already done this, i haven't went back through all of your videos just yet.
I don't want to speak for anyone else, but if you watch his content, you will figure it out pretty easily that enhancing is not something to expect from this channel. There is plenty of amazingly well done content and knowledge shared here, but if you want to learn enhancing, I would go find it rather than wait for it here.
Mr.Rapolas has a solid video on enhancing that's almost 20 minutes long and probably the best I've come across, but aside from watching a live stream/VOD of someone enhancing, you're basically not going to get the full experience anywhere.
Enhancing is tedious, time consuming, expensive(more than MP buying usually), frustrating, and largely uninteresting. But if you REALLY want to or have to(Tuvala), do a search for enhancing guides and you're sure to find what you need.
Aawesome guide, just what I have been looking for. Straight forward advice, Keep up the guides, as a lot more will come here. :-)
Duvencrune ... best kept secret - convenient and freakin' gorgeous! Also great video thank you :)
Probably really late on this but the two quests on that path at the end of your video, if you go slightly to the west in the field there is a quest to milk a cow for 300 cp as well, then you can jump back on the path and keep going.
your videos are so helpful for a returning player like me ! THanks again :)
I have 375 CP, got most of it from cooking and the daily CP run in Calp. and Heidel. I was looking at prolly 20 days to get through 375 just doing those in Calp. and Heidel. After finding this guide doing the Duvencrune, Calp. and Heidel it took 6 days to get through 375, i was around 0.35 in when i started. I have one goal in this game, to get 400 CP, now it looks doable ) Thank's a Bunch !
Happy to help!
You always start with the Blacksmith. He gives you the Thuja Plank for the little kid next to the boxes, who then gives you the basket. You move south to north with dailies as you get all the needed items. Apart from the lady who needs yarn, which you get from killing armadillos.
Thank you for the contribution point video. By far the easiest way so far
Happy to help!
This helped so much! Thank you for always having detailed guides that dont confuse me
Thanks for being so thorough 👍🏼
For me, i cant take several quest on this video such as the soldier. But in exchange u can try a different path when going back from yane (in the corn field, go left instead of path of the first crossing) and in the end u can move to the top temple (2nd quest of this vid), and take the daily quest from the man near the temple it is a simple quest, literally same as 2nd one, bcs u cant take 2 of it at(literally same quest just different npc) the same time
@EvilDoUsHarm thought it might be worth mentioning Elion - Tome of the Sun for the Contribution exp up +10% (from quests) Suddenly 4k CP XP, is now 4.4k. If anyone else knows of more items/buffs/server effects that can help I am all ears. New Olvia has a bonus CP boost mechanic for people with less than 250 CP as well.
I had a blonde moment while I was watching the video. I kept hearing you say that you got 200-300 cp per mission and I was thinking damn cp isn’t that hard to get after all. But then as I was looking at my missions I realized that you were talking about cp exp.
This was out on my birthday ^.^ Thanks for the video it helped alot
amazing, saved for my dailies, we need more :D
Little late but I'd like to add in a quick stop down in the farm fields. Pick up a quest to run a crate to a guard 15 feet from 2 quest turns in 1 in spot for 600cp, involves milking cows. Free milk too.
I sometimes amazed how his in game avatar looks like him if he were in the game XD
Can you make more guides for additional ways to farm CP please, including after lvl 60 and above 350cp (total)... Please
Flawless, I will do this daily! Thank you, sweetie! ♥
You're so welcome!
Brother your doing great im new to this game you've been helpful thank you
Love the videos man. Just started playing BDO and I have found your videos to be an awesome resource. Also, love the Jesus hair
Don't forget to equip elion - tome of the sun, for an easy 10% more contribution points!
Contribution points is very helpful bro thank you for the tips,
love your channel dude! I gotta say you do a great job of breaking shh -stuff down. Any chance you can do some of the other towns to farm Cxp that take less then an hour?
thank you again for all the guides
Thank you for watching :D
I butchered 50 of them :3 MEAT FOR DAYS KEKEKEKE that guy won't want llama meat anymore
Quick question, after doing this would there be available quests for other cities too? After doing Duvencrune, are there gonna be quests like this on Calpheon? Kinda got confused when he said daily quests
Very helpful. Thanks bro!
Nice guide! Some quests didn't appear for me, though. Specifically the one from the Soldier, and the npc above the skill instructor.
A handful of the dailies here are prerequisite quest lines to unlock them. Some are a huge pain to find too.
www.blackdesertfoundry.com/duvencrune-daily-cp-quests/ second paragraph says the soldier one requires MSQ completion. For me, I'm not running this one each day.
Is this still Up to date? There a many quests that i cant pickup ingame.
Yes it’s accurate. Do the full questline for the bride quest. Gain C knowledge on the llamas and for female characters the quest for bad hair day is in a different location and it’s to scold the boy throwing rocks
Very helpful. Thanks!
Thank you for this guide.
If we get the Caphras contribution book, will that increase our gains from these daily quests?
one of the main reason why I always believe every guide you make is because you look like Jesus. :)
The real answer is to cook. 10 witches delicacies is 900 contribution and you get like 80-100 per 20 minute tool
What would it mean if I don't see a quest on the little NPC with the red bag at 3:22? and on the guard right after... (I am a bit behind on Main Quest line)
Thanks for the useful information btw. :)
@@SS-yp2wh Thanks, but it's not it... Since I also see other quests, just not 3 of the ones he has shown.
@@FabuliciousAF has the same problem, i figured out 2 of them, still missing one, you need blood wolves knowledge and llamas knowledge for 2 of them
Great video, as always
Thank you!
58 allready missing 1 quest from soldier at start
2 missing quest above skill intructor
I literally was just wondering how to get contribution points, thanks bud!
Welcome!
"And if you listened to me and didn't take the shortcut right here, ..."
With the quest Tools from Overseas, the boxes don't spawn, tried changing servers, restarted the game, nothing :(
This may be a dumb question, but I'm new to the game, are these CP rewards in actual points, or %? I just did the first one for 200, and my points increased by only a single point?
Well...
Great guide tnx very much ;)
10:25 “is that even good, I don’t know”, fuck he can read my mind.
I know what you want to ask before you even do xD
I have all quests selected at level 61 but some of them just aren't showing up for some reason
Am having a terrible time with the "Bad Hair Day" CP quest. I pick the quest up from the drunk guy, go to the little pool - talk to the little guy making fun of him - but the pool below never opens up to let me investigate or "Look" at it and - it just never completes - not sure what i'm doing wrong here - I can't even delete the quest to retry it - I have to wait until reset =(
I'd like to request/suggest making a video on how to obtain a blackstar weapon, enhancing and where/how to obtain enhancing stones for blackstar weapons...💯👌
with the 20% contribution book/tomb, and at 362 contribution points i gained 20% not bad
if i have a character lvl 56 but i go to duncrune with a character lower level do these quests show up?
That's not contribution point's you get, but contribution EXP... Like the skillpoints, you don't simply get skillpoints for anything, you just get skill exp, and when it reaches a limit you get a point, like leveling up.
For the lost soldier if u dont get the quest you need knowledge on the blood wolves. Im still trying to find wthat i need for the quest os the lost wife
I so wish we could hire our alts as workers, but pay them in food or a flat contribution point investment each.
im lvl 56 and i dont see the quests, do i need to mske the awa and succ quests?
How much Exp do you need for the actual points?
dang, thank god i watch this, i run out of contri XD
Happy farming!
ty mr jesus
Welcome!
lover your vids
Thank you!
Why would some missions not be showing up? For example the soldier/bride quest.
You might not have all quests showing, or you may need to play further into the story - I was under the impression 56 was the only unlock condition, but a lot of people are having issues in the comments
For some reason the soldier doesn't have a quest for me.
updated guide since theyve seemed to have removed quests and added others for the dailies?
have always loved your videos btw over the years
Great to complete while doing those dailies for dragon slayer weapon.
Very true! the second quest I say to skip at the blacksmith is one of them!
The Quest Ramy who Ran Away wasn't available for me. Not sure how to unlock it.
Llamas knowledge, u need it
i did the whole quest but im still 3/294, do i have to claim them somewhere?
Are you planning on making a tent/camp system guide?
After I learn all the things you can do with it yes!
@@EvilDoUsHarm Thanks in advance, love your videos
Im level 58 but none of the quests show up for me?
Ty!
Im going to try Musa for my next class :)
Is he similar to Maewah? Like ninja and Kuno?
he is similar to Maewah only not ninja and kuno :P
He is similar, but comparing succession to succession - Maehwa plays more like an assassin that doesn't have stealth, where as musa plays more like a brawler, just with how the red blade/blue buff mechanics work on the two classes respectively.
@@EvilDoUsHarm Ohh i would like to see you play PVP for using Musa :). Cant wait for the Musa guide video.
@@andrejjakimovski1622 i mean do they have similar skills like Ninja and kunoichi does.
@@micksilva7374 nop
What is the AP for the Llama? I am currently 245AP with TET Kutum
300 AP minimum, though 9000 DP is also recomended
3:19 i only see one quest, the "whats needed for the house chore"
might wanna mention you meant contribution xp not just straight points so newer people arent to confused
The secondary character have to be level 56 also or he can be a new character?
I have a 56 alt but the quests aren’t showing up... so do I have to do the main quest line at least once, cause I’ve never even started it yet....??
Nvm, I had to go the the “recurring” tab on Quests... 🤦♂️
knowledge missing
I think is just better to cook a lot and change basic meal for contribution.
Being a professional cook, I do believe this is true overall, but if you can finish this in 10-20 minutes, that 4k is more than we get from cooking 1000 recipes on average. So, basically, I suggest doing this rotation, doing the Calpheon rotation, and doing the Valencia rotation, then cook for the rest of the time you want to dedicate to CP farming.
Of course, this changes if you have to travel to do the daily rotation. It becomes significantly less worth it to ride to Duven, do the rotation, then return to wherever you were. However, if you park an alt here or at any of the daily CP rotations, the time investment:CP ratio is absolutely worth it.
Thank you
that missing bride quest doesn't show for me
Thanks man. Just hit level 60 on my Dark Knight and i only have 140CP
Get on that grind! :D
Is there one for Valencia and calpheon?
It is very sad this company doesn't make it free to play. I started playing Never Winter and becoming more and more interested.
neverwinter is trash ever since they removed the foundry
before you say to like this video i already spam it
Thank you!
another video sitting at energy cap for the duration even while doing quests that restore an hours worth of energy, nice
None of these quests were here when i came to this city? i am level 58
I am level 56 and quests dont show up
But u still, at the end only have 3 contribution points??