BDO Energy Guide: Potions & Recovery Items

What is Energy?
Energy is a form of currency in the game. You can exchange or use it for resources in BDO, which can then be sold on the marketplace for silver. Used this way, Energy helps you gain money, so that you can buy better gear to strengthen your character. But BDO Energy has many other uses. Energy is more precious than silver because it’s limited and takes time to recover.

Popular Uses For Energy:

• Combat Exp Buff: +20% costing 50 Energy with Black Spirit.
• Life Skills: Gathering, Farming, and Hunting.
• NPCs: Knowledge, Amity, and Quest answers.
• Node Investment: Item Drop Rate of up to +10%.
• Hiring Workers: 5 Energy per worker attempt.

Starting Max Energy:
You begin the game with 50 Max Energy.

End Game Energy Cap:
The current energy cap is 690. Periodically, new content is added that increases the maximum energy you can obtain.

Energy Regen & Recovery

Energy is gleefully spent! But what then? Do we have to wait… and wait… for energy recovery?

Energy Regen Rates:

• Offline: 1 energy is recovered every hour when you are logged out of the game.
• Online: 1 energy is recovered every 3 minutes when you are logged into the game. That’s 20 energy every hour. (Increase this with Energy Recovery items.)

Energy recovery is important for many of us! But don’t loose heart! Lets uncover some helpful energy regeneration tips.

Alt Army for Energy Regen

A larger family means a larger energy pool to work with. All alt characters have the same maximum energy as your main character. When they are logged off, they get an Energy Recovery rate of 1 energy every hour. So get busy filling up all your empty character slots ASAP!

Stay Logged In!
Black Desert Online really likes to keep people logged in so that their maniacal and evil plans unfold… *blinks* Where were we? Oh yes. If you stay logged in, then you don’t get a massive 2000% Energy Recovery penalty of massive proportions. So mean!

BDO Energy Item List

• Beds:
  • Amity/Quest/Crafted Beds: +1
  • Pearl Shop Beds: +2
• Artifact Lightstone Combo:
  • Yawning Hedgehog +1
  • Refreshing Dream +2
• Kamasylve’s Blessing: +2
• Villa Buff – Turning Gates: +1
• GMs Blessing: +1
• Red Battlefield Daily Quest: 200 Energy
• Daily Gathering Quest x4: 80 Energy
• Energy Potions: 10/20/30/50 Energy every 10 minutes
• Duvencrune Hotsprings: +1
• Sea Palace Hotsprings: +1
• Event Items: +1
• Online: +1 every 3 minutes
• Offline: +1 every 1 hour
• Miraculous Herbal Medicine: +500 Energy Restored Immediately and +30 Energy Recovery for 60 minutes

Artifact Combos for Energy

Energy Potion NPC

You can perform “Energy Exchange” at certain NPCs.

For example, Alustin, the alchemist in various cities, will allow you to make Energy Potions by giving him energy in exchange.

Click on the “Exchange” button to dump your energy into a potion. This allows you to store energy for later use during Life Skill events. Or you can earn silver by selling the potions in the marketplace.

Energy Exchange Costs:

Small to Large Energy Potions exchange in a 5 to 1 ratio, meaning you give 5 energy and store 1 energy in the bottle.

The Extra Large bottle has a slightly better ratio. Energy Potion (Extra Large) is the best value if you’re converting your own energy, because it stores 1 energy and costs 4 energy.

Event Energy Potions & Items

Energy items can be given away during events.

• [Event] Festa Beer → 100 Energy
• [Event] Marni’s Endurance Potion → 100 Energy
• [Event] Energy Gourd Bottle → 100 Energy
• [Event] Dark Chocolate → 20 Energy
• [Event] Cold Draft Beer → 20 Energy
• [Event] Warm Milk → Energy Recovery +1
• [Event] Hot Chocolate → 15 Energy

Energy Regen with Tent Villa Buff

Villa Turning Gates → +1 Energy Buff
There are six Villas in Valencia Territory that will sell you a buff with +1 Energy.

• KARASHU’S VILLA – E of Altinova location map (Easiest location. No desert.)
• SHAKATU’S VILLA – W of Shakatu City location map
• MUNA’S VILLA – inside Valencia City location map
• KIYAK’S VILLA – NW of Valencia City location map
• MARZANA’S VILLA and TALIA’S VILLA – located just outside Ancado Inner Harbor

TIP: Players that have tents, can purchase buffs at their campsite as long as they have a Villa Invitation or Secret Book of Old Moon.

Camping Tent for Villa Buffs

If you purchased a Naphart Camping Tent from the Pearl Shop, you can use your Villa Invitation or Secret Book of Old Moon to remotely purchase buffs instead of having to go to the Villa itself in Valencia.

Buying Villa Invitations

Villa Invitations are purchased from the Villa Manger at a Villa in Valencia Territory.

• Villa Invitations cost 10,000,000 silver and last for 7 days.
• You can purchase more than 1 Villa Invitation to get more buffs.
• See chart below for a list of the Villa Buffs, price, effects, and which Villa offers the buffs.

Energy Recovery with Beds

Staying logged in while AFK on a bed is one way to quickly recover more energy.

Pearl Shop beds give 3 times as much Energy Recovery.

When considering a bed purchase, make sure it’s worthwhile to you. Time spent laying AFK in a bed, could have been used AFK processing or fishing, for example. You will loose out on AFK income, so be sure to calculate the profitability.

• Amity Beds: Furniture Dealers in cities often sell beds for 500+ Amity. For example, Lebyos located in Heidel
• Quested Beds: There may be others, but I know of one quest called Settling Down in Heidel.
• “Handcrafted” Beds: Crafted with a worker at Furniture Workshops in various cities like Velia, Heidel, Calpheon, and Altinova. Handcrafted Beds List

All but yellow grade beds have 10 Durability (10 uses) and the same Energy Recovery rate of +1.

Amity Beds from Furniture Dealers:

• Velian Bed → Sealus → 24k silver + 500 Amity
• Heidelian Bed: → Lebyos → 28k silver + 1000 Amity
• Calpheon Bed: → Lylina → 32k silver + 1000 Amity
• Mediahn Bed: → Verosi → 38k silver + 600 Amity

Velian Bed is the best choice because it is cheapest and still offers the same benefits other low grade beds.

Max Energy from Titles

1500 titles gives the best buff to maximum energy. This buff is shared with all your characters.

Other Buffs: You also get boosts to Luck, Combat Exp, and Stamina. The max buffs you can gain from Titles is currently +8 Max Energy, +3 Luck, +200 Stamina, and +12% Combat EXP.

Title Categories:

• World Titles: World titles are received as you complete quests, events, knowledge, enhancement milestones
• Combat Titles: Kill a certain amount of different monsters.
• Life Titles: Life Skill and crafting milestones.
• Fishing Titles: Catch a certain amount of different fish.

NOTE: You do not need to get only Life Skill Titles to get the Max Energy buff. All titles are added together.

View titles on bdolytics.com

Energy Crystals

Increase your max energy by 20 when you equip 2 Magic Crystal of Infinity – Energy.

Buy these at the marketplace or craft with an Alchemy Tool (Skilled 1).

Node Investment

You can invest energy into a node to increase the drop rate of rare items from bosses and monsters that are associated with that node.

First you must purchase the correct grinding spot node with Contribution Points. Then click the Invest button to raise the energy level of the node.

Item Drop Rate from Energy Investment of Nodes:

• Item Drop Rate increases by 0.5% x the investment level.
• Item Drop Rate increases to 5% at Lv.10.
• Item Drop Rate increases to 10% at Lv.20.

Node War Benefits:

• Doubled Node Investment Benefits for occupied territories.
• For example, if you occupy a Tier 3 Fort in a Calpheon territory Node War, the Node Investment Benefits for both Calpheon and Kamasylvia regions will be doubled for one week.

Is Energy Lost When Withdrawing Contribution?

Energy invested in nodes is NOT lost when you withdraw Contribution.

However, nodes that have their CP withdrawn will NOT give the item drop rate buff.

• You must purchase the node again with CP, in order to have your previous item drop rate buff.
• The energy invested will still be the same as when you withdrew your CP from the node.

Black Spirit Energy Combat +20%

Combat Exp: +20%
Skill Exp: +8%
Duration: 30+ minutes
Cost: 50+ Energy
Level Requirement: 50+

Black Spirit (,) → “Exchange”

• You can have the Combat EXP buff and the Skill EXP buff going at the same time for 100 Energy.