BDO Crystals Guide: Transfusion Basics

Up to 17 Crystals can be equipped to improve your character’s combat, movement, and life skills.

Since the revamp of 1-4-23, crystals are no longer socketed inside gear, but have a separate storage and transfusion UI.

Crystal UI:

• Inventory (I) → Transfusion button.

17 Total Crystal Sockets:

• Free Basic Crystal Slots → 12
• Outfit Crystal Slot → 1 (Equip Black Spirit’s Claw Outfit to unlock.)
• Storm Devoured or Fiery Awakening Weapon Slot → 1 (Equip either weapon to unlock.)
• Fiery Awakening Weapon Slot → 1 (Equip Fiery weapon to unlock.)
• Land of Morning Light main questline → 2

Crystal Inventory

• 140 Crystals can be stored inside your shared crystal inventory.
• 50 inventory storage slots are unlocked with Loyalties, Pearl Shop, and quest.

How to Store Crystals for Transfusion:

• RMB the Crystal to open the “Transfusion” window.
• Click “View Crystals” button to open the “Crystal Inventory”.
• Right click the crystal you want to transfer to Crystal Inventory.

How to Remove Stored Crystals:

• FREE: click garbage can icon, but the crystal is destroyed. 🙁
• ITEM: use a Crystal Extraction Tool at a Blacksmith.
• PEARL SHOP: use a Black Spirit Essence at a Blacksmith.

Crystal Menu Hotkey Option

You can also assign a hotkey to open the crystal transfusion and preset menu.

Esc → Settings → Quick Hotkeys → Transfusion

Equip Crystals with Presets

Crystal Presets allow you to save and quickly equip a set of crystals.

You can have up to 15 crystal presets. (Obtain an additional 1 with Loyalties, 1 from quest, and 8 from the Pearl Shop.)

• Crystal Presets are shared with your family.
• Changing any preset will change the presets of all your characters.
• The same crystal can be shared with an alt 1 time in each preset.
• TLDR: You can use the same blitzy crystal for all your family!

Crystal Presets Simplified:

• Equip Crystals: Inventory (I) → Preset # → Apply button
• Unequip Crystals: Inventory (I) → Preset # → Cancel button

Crystal Preset Hotkey Option

You can also assign a hotkey to quickly equip a crystal preset.

Esc → Settings → Quick Hotkeys → Apply Crystal Preset #

• When equipping or removing a crystal preset, the preset will be applied or canceled after about 3 seconds.
• If you take damage or get hit by a debuff while changing a crystal preset, the change will be canceled.
• It takes about 3 seconds to apply a preset modification in a combat zone.

Unlock 2 Crystal Slots via LoML

You can unlock 2 crystal slots by completing the main quest line for Land of the Morning Light.

Item Name	LoML Main Quest	Effect
Kkebiwater	Obtained by completing “[LoML] Strange and Beautiful Dokkebi Chest (Tale of Duoksini)“	Unlocks bottom left crystal slot.
Kkebiwater	Obtained by completing “[LoML] Ruler of Taebaek“	Unlocks bottom right crystal slot.

Fiery Awakening Weapon = Crystal Slot x2

Inverted Heart of Garmoth transforms Awakening Weapons into Fiery Awakening Weapons.

With a Fiery Awakening Weapon equipped, you get access to two extra crystal slots.

Fiery Weapon Stats:

• +2 Crystal Slots
• +3% Critical Hit Damage

How to Obtain a Fiery Weapon:

Obtain a very rare drop Garmoth’s Heart, from Garmoth world boss or purchase it at the marketplace.

With the heart, you can complete a quest line to obtain Inverted Heart of Garmoth.

You can also purchase directly Inverted Heart of Garmoth from the marketplace.

Storm Devoured Awakening Weapon = Crystal Slot x1

Heart of Karanda transforms Awakening Weapons into Storm Devoured Awakening Weapons.

With a Storm Devoured Awakening Weapon equipped, you get access to one extra crystal slot.

Storm Devoured Stats:

• +1 Crystal Slot
• +3% Critical Hit Damage

How to Obtain a Storm Devoured Weapon:

Obtain a rare drop, Heart of Karanda, from Stormbringer Karanda world boss or purchase it at the marketplace.

Destroyed Crystals 🙁

Crystals die too?… *sobs*

Crystals Can Be Destroyed Upon Death:

Most equipped crystals have a low, high, or very high chance to be destroyed when you die. The probability is displayed in the crystal’s item info.

• Crystals in storage must be equipped to shatter.
• Stored Crystals are equipped by selecting “Apply” on a preset in the crystal UI.

Deaths Protected from Crystal Loss:

• Dark Rift Boss
• Normal and Season difficulty Atoraxxion
• Deaths from falling

WARNINGS:

• Death from a world boss has a chance to destroy crystals.
• Negative Karma increases crystal loss chances.

Protecting Crystals in Death

Do you have a 62% chance of dying at Dim Sum Tree? 🙂

You have 3 options:

• Unequip the crystal preset: Inventory (I) → Preset # → Cancel
• Equip cheap crystals.
• Risk it all and keep your 90 billion silver crystal equipped, but use Crystal Restore function on it if you die and it shatters. (Details below.)

Cheap Crystal Examples

Extra Damage (Limit 2):

• Magic Crystal of Infinity – Critical Hit → +10% Crit Damage
• Magic Crystal of Infinity – Back Attack → +10% BA Damage

Attack Speed & Crit Crystal (No Group Limit):

• Ancient Magic Crystal – Carmae → Attack Speed +1, Critical Hit +1

Crit or Attack Speed Crystal (Limit 2 Increased Resistance II):

• Black Magic Crystal – Assault → Attack Speed +2
• Black Magic Crystal – Valor → Critical Hit +2

Crystal Restoration

When your crystals are destroyed on death, you can restore them up to 3 times each year for free.

For this reason, don’t use it on CHEAPO crystals that are easily obtained again.

With a Pearl Shop purchase you can increase the max Crystal Restore count to 6.

• Crystal Restore Count +1 Coupon:
  • 2,390 Pearls normal price
  • Permanently increases your crystal restoration count by 1.
  • This item will be non-refundable once used.

How to Restore Crystals:

• Press Restore Crystals button after death.

• After resurrecting from death, click the trash can button on the bottom right of Inventory (I).
• Esc → Adventurer Support → Item Recover → Crystal tab.

Crystal via Item Recover Details:

• The list of broken crystals can be checked on a Family basis, and crystals can be restored within 72 hours from the point of character death up to 3 times for free each year per Family. (6 with Pearl Shop Crystal Restore Count +1 Coupon.)
•  This limit resets upon your first login on Jan 1 of the new year.
• If you’ve lost multiple crystals at once, restoring all of them will only count as 1.
• Restored crystals will be delivered to your Crystal Inventory.
• Crystals broken with negative Family Karma (Karma Stats, Naval Fame) cannot be restored.

Crystal Group

Max Transfusable by Group:

Some crystals are limited by how many you can equip. These have been given specific group names and you can usually equip 2 from each group.

For example, a maximum of two crystals from the Spirit group can be equipped.

“No Group” Crystals:

Many crystals have a “No Group” category. This means they don’t have a maximum quantity you can equip.

For example, the Combat Exp +10% to 20% crystals can be stacked up to 17 times.

Crystal Setup for Weight Limit

Life Skills and certain PVE setups can benefit from crystals that add maximum weight limit.

There are many crystals that add +15 to +75 LT (ex. Gervish).

Life Skill Crystals

There are quite a few crystals that help with Life Skills.

• Magic Crystal of Infinity – Submergence – Underwater Breathing +15 sec
  • You can equip up to 2 Underwater Breathing crystals for a +30 increase in time swimming. This helps those gathering corals and other goodies underwater.
• Dim Magical Crystal: **** – Life EXP +3%
  • You can equip up to 2 Life EXP crystals for a +6% increase. It’s not much, but every bit helps… right?
• Black Magic Crystal – Descent – Fall Damage -15%
  • Don’t laugh! You know that secret gathering spot up high beyond the rainbow? You can equip up to 2 of these crystals.
• Life Crystal: Exp +5%
• Vital Crystal:  +10 Mastery
• Hunting Crystals: hunting is the oddball out of all the Life Skills since it can use certain attack crystals that buff attack speed, critial hit, and damage.