BDO Horse Breeding & Exchange: How to Gain Tiers

Breeding Horses at the <Stable Keeper> gives you a chance to gain a higher Tier horse.

An increase in horse tier usually means better base horse stats, but there are some exceptions, depending on your goals. For example, some horse coats have better base Turn/Brake or Sprint/Acceleration.

Horse tier is different than horse level. Horses have a maximum level of 100. You level horses by riding them on your character, with or without a wagon.

• Max Horse Levels: tier 1-7 horses up to 30. Tier 8, Dream, and T10 (Mythical) horses have a max level of 100.

How to Breed a Horse: Step by Step

1. “Check In” 1 male horse and 1 female horse at the <Stable Keeper>
   • IMPORTANT!!! only certain stables allow horse breeding to occur
   • Horse Breeding Stable Locations: Trent, Keplan, Calpheon, Epheria, Velia, Heidel, Duvencrune, and Altinova
   • If you don’t have a male horse, you can use the Breeding Market to rent someone else’s male horse to use its breeding chance.
2. Make sure parents have “Breedable” counts greater than 0. (If one has 0, you can “Exchange” it instead or use a Breeding Reset purchased from the Pearl Shop. See details below.)
3. Recover both horses to ensure full Stamina, or you will get a “No Energy” error message.
4. Ensure the mother’s stable has one empty stable slot for the foal.

Select the male horse then “Register at Breeding” button on the menu that pops up

Select “Show Only Me” unless you want to sell his breeding chance to others.

• “Show All” shows the “Price” you will obtain if another player uses him for breeding.
• “Show Only Me” will cost 35k silver and makes sure other players can NOT buy his Breed chances.
• If you want to cancel after registering the male horse, select the “My Registrations” tab and select “Cancel”.

• Select the mare you want to breed with your registered male horse.
• Click “Breeding Market” button at the bottom of window
• Click “My Horse List” tab and select the male horse you want to breed her with, hover over the 35k silver button. It shoud say “Request Breeding”.
• “Request Breeding” opens up the available mares at the current stable.
• Place a checkmark in the box next to the mare you want to breed and hit the “Request Breeding” button.

The confirmation window tells you it will take 2.2 hours until the breeding is complete. Click “OK” to start.

• Breeding Timer is shown in the Mare’s stat window at the Stable Keeper.
• Optionally, click “Complete Now” in her stat window. Costs 130 Pearls to bypass the Breeding Timer. Pearl cost decreases as Remaining Time decreases.

When the breeding time has completed, select the mare in the stable window and hit the “Complete” button. This will open a window to register your new foal. You’ll be able to see your foal’s appearance, sex, and base stats in this window. Give your foal a name and register it to see its tier and skills.

The horse calculator images in this guide are from bdolytics.com. Thanks Warflash! 🙂

View our Horse Leveling Guide.

Horse Breeding Limits

• Breed Counts: males can breed twice and females once without resets
• Breeding Resets: An item that can reset horse breeds for Tier 1 to 8 horses can be purchased in the Pearl Shop.
  • Breeds must be at 0 to use a reset
  • Horse Breeding Reset (Female): Pearl cost 640 Pearls
  • Horse Breeding Reset (Male): Pearl cost 330 Pearls
  • Horse Breeding Reset Limits: Male horses can breed 2x (4x with reset) and female horses 1x (2x with reset)

Horse Breeding Stables: Their Locations & Expansions

Breeding Horses at Different Stables:

The parents don’t need to be in the same stable. They do need to be in Stables that allow breeding market registration:

• Velia
• Heidel
• Port Epheria
• Calpheon City
• Keplan
• Trent
• Altinova
• Valencia City
• Shakatu
• Sand Grain Bazaar
• Grána
• Duvencrune
• O’draxxia
• Balacs Altar
• Awina’s Tail
• Wind Nol’s Perch
• Eilton
• Pilgrim’s End
• Sherekhan Iron Mine
• Bronte’s Bolt

TIP: View the Stable locations of all your mounts by opening the world map (M) and clicking the Horseshoe shaped icon in the bottom right.

Stable Expansions via Horse Ranch

The default amount of Stable slots is 2 or 3, but you can expand many of them by purchasing a “Horse Ranch” house in select cities.

Horse Ranch Stable Expansions:

• Velia 4 Stable slots
• Heidel 6 Stable slots
• Glish 6 Stable slots (No breeding)
• Calpheon 7 Stable slots
• Trent 6 Stable slots
• Keplan 6 Stable slots
• Altinova 6 Stable slots
• Grana 5 Stable slots (T9 and T10 breeding)
• Sand Grain Bazaar 3 Stable slots
• Valencia 5 Stable slots
• Duvencrune 5 Stable slots
• Muiquun 3 Stable slots
• Nampo’s Moodle Village 2 Stable slots
• Dalbeol Village 1 Stable slot
• Nopsae’s Byeot County 2 Stable slots

How to Increase Your Stable:

To expand the default Horse Stable slots available in these cities, go to your World Map and Filter “Horse Ranch” housing, after clicking on the city icon.

Be aware that buying Horse Ranch housing can be costly in Contribution Points. Many of them have prerequisite houses you have to buy.

Stable Expansion with Pearls

You can buy up to 10 Stable slots per territory for 300 Pearls each.

Buying the Calpheon territory Stable Expansion Coupon gives you 1 extra stable slot in 3 different cities:

• Calpheon City
• Trent
• Keplan

Stable slots in certain cities may also be purchased separately at the Pearl Shop for 100-300 Pearls each.

TIP: You can also purchase 1 extra stable slot in several major cities for 3,000 Loyalties in the Pearl shop.

Horse Breeding with Coursers

Benefits of Breeding with Coursers

Coursers are horses with a specific set of skills. They have golden horse icons.

They are over 3x more expensive in the Breeding Market.

When you breed two Coursers, you get a foal with 2 horse skills. If just one parent is a Courser, you only have a 50% chance of getting two skills.

Starting with 2 skills is a benefit because it increases your chances of obtaining an above normal amount of skills. Many low Tier horses struggle with learning 2 skills.

NOTE: Exchange of courser parents produces foals with only one skill.

Courser Skill Requirements by Tier

Tier	Required Horse Skills for Courser
1 & 2	Charge
3 & 4	Charge / Drift
5 & 6	Charge / Drift / Sprint
7	Charge / Drift / Sprint / Instant Accel / Sideways
8	Charge / Drift / Sprint / Instant Accel / Sideways / S:Instant Accel / S:Sideways

To view a detailed list of horse skill info, visit our BDO Horse Tiers, Skills, & Stats List.

Horse Breeding Guide for bdolytics.com Calculator

Keep in mind, horse breeding doesn’t always produce a better horse. It might even be worse or lower tier than one or both parents.

• Since patch, you will no longer obtain a horse lower than tier 6 via breeding.
• For example, when breeding 2 level 1 horses of tier 6, you will no longer have a chance to obtain a horse of tier 4.

The horse breeding calculator at bdolytics.com will help you see the chances of obtaining a higher tier horse.

Click horse tier and level in the calculator and it will show you up to 23 breeding brackets.

The numbers with the diagonal colored backgrounds represent each Breeding Bracket.

In the image, Breeding Bracket #4 for T1 level 1 female and T1 level 1 male shows a 56% chance of the foal gaining a tier and being female. This would be the worst possible outcome, but at least you would gain a tier 2 horse.

If you level both T1 parent horses to level 4, you would jump up to the next breeding bracket of 5. Then you would have a 30% chance to obtain a tier 3 foal from two level 4 and tier 1 parents.

As you improve the level of your parent horses, you will notice the black highlighted box move toward the bottom right corner. If you increase the female parent’s level by 1, the black box will move down by 1. If you increase the male parent’s level by 1, the black box will move right by 1.

The bottom right Breeding Chance Bracket is the best possible outcome for the two parents you chose.

In the image above, the highest possible Breeding Chance Bracket is 12. That would require leveling the parents to 27 and 28. Then you would be guaranteed at least a tier 4 foal and a 9% chance to obtain a tier 7. But is the leveling time worth it? To answer that, visit our Horse Leveling Guide and also bdolytics.com horse leveling calculator.

Horse Breeding Results in Lost Tiers? What?!

The higher you go up in Horse Tiers, the more chance you have of actually getting a lower Tier horse.

Breeding two T7 horses, without leveling them, will result in a lower tier horse. Who knew horse breeding to be so risky?

Horse Breeding: the Ultimate Advanced Uberness!

Players that love training and horses, will want to learn about the complexities behind horse breeding.

We no want potato horse?! :O No? Go to our Horse Breeding Advanced Guide.