Black Desert Online: PvE Grinding - Season to Mid Game, What, Where, and Why?

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You’ve finally chosen a class after agonizing for hours, and maybe reading my previous piece on how to choose one (wink wink).

Once you start your Season, you’re probably going to be overwhelmed because Black Desert has so much item bloat it’s kind of ridiculous. You manage to make it through the Season after you ask your friends, server chat, or your favorite content creator (I’m a big Fakeuni and Biceps fan myself), or you just power through and you figure it out later because the newbie inventory is a godsend. When you finally crawl out of Season, and you’re now let loose onto this absurdly huge open world, you probably have no idea what to do. It’s just you and your free pegasus and a bunch of people in Heidel, afk fishing or cheering. You might ask yourself, «Soooo, what now?»

This won’t be a typical grind spot guide…not really, at least. I will attempt to help you with the important progression points in PvE as a whole. Note that any of this stuff is truly mandatory to experience Black Desert in its entirety, like life skills or field/world bosses, the large majority of pvp, but if your goal is gear progression, then this is the place.

For the purpose of this article, I will be referencing Garmoth.com for most points. This site is basically the one stop shop for everything you could possibly need, short of an index or encyclopedia. It has everything, from guides, to world boss timers, to grind spot aggregate silver per hour, to gear planners and caphras calculators. It truly has everything you need. 

There are three golden rules when grinding and gearing: 

Simple Cron Meal is a food item that will be useful for you for 95% of your time playing in PvE

They are extremely cheap, and will give you such a huge