BDO Processing Guide: Gear, Quests, & Basics

Processing Errors

It’s common to get processing errors because base processing success chance is about 70% without items to increase it.

Failing to process only slows down processing and doesn’t destroy your materials.

Processing Errors:

• Processing is not going as planned: Processing has a certain base failure rate. This is a common error that everyone gets without gear. You can reduce failure chances by wearing Silver Embroidered Craftsman Clothes or using items with the buff “Processing Success Rate +%”.
• It is not working at all: The recipe is wrong or Knowledge may be required. (Ex. Heat accessories for Yona’s Fragments.)
  
• Insufficient ingredients to continue processing: You don’t have enough materials.

Processing Tiers

There are 3 tiers of processing. The more advanced tiers are sometimes needed for advanced recipes in other Life Skills.

Processing for Money

Processed materials are usually more valuable the more you process them into higher tiers. (But this does not always mean they will sell well at the marketplace, if at all! Supply and demand, as well as developer min/max pricing, can make any processed item unprofitable for selling on the marketplace!).

Is processing any good for money making? It can be one of the most profitable AFK activities you can do in BDO. (Dependent upon your Processing Mastery level and if you already have the raw material available and marketplace pricing and demand.)

Profitable Processing Example: 1 wheat is currently worth 650-1k. If you grind it, you obtain 1-4 flour, which sells for 1k each. With high Processing Mastery, you can process more in a shorter amount of time.

WARNING: But, again, I must stress that you check the Marketplace price, supply, and demand before starting any processing for money! Flax is a good example of a processed material that increases in price during processing and would be profitable, but it usually doesn’t have a high enough demand. You are lucky if it sells after a week of being on the Marketplace.

Processing Level Impacts Output

Processing Level is important because it determines if you can produce the maximum output of items.

• Ore → Melted Shard: get max procs at Master 1

Oddly, this low tier processing recipe requires Master 1 processing in order to obtain the maximum output of 1 to 4 Melted Shards. However, this is not the norm.

Artisan Processing is your first major milestone because it is an easier goal and covers most processing recipes.

All Processing Lightstone Combos

Note: Lightstone Effects are added to the Combo effect in the list below.

Gear to Quickly Level Processing

There are many items that will increase the speed at which you gain Processing levels.

All of the items that buff Life Exp will help.

For example, the beginner friendly Loggia Accesory set and Life Exp consumables.

Mastery Accessories like Loggia Accessories are nice because they boost all Life Mastery and help all Life Skills. (Unlike mastery clothing or tools that target one specific Life Skill.)

Loggia Accessories also contain individual Life Skill Experience buffs, except the belt, which has LT. (All Loggia Accessores have a very nice set bonus.)

Set Effect: For every 2 Loggia Accessories equipped, you gain Life EXP +2%

Pets with Life Skill Exp Talents:

Choppy, Hedgehog, Penguin, Marmot, Shadow Wolf, Little Lamb, Otter, Ferret, Flondor Duck, Panda (not red), Jojo, Newborn Crimson Dragon, Newborn Golden Dragon, most cat pets, etc (900+ Pearls)

• 1% Life EXP per Tier (up to +20% for 5 pets)
• all pets have RNG chance to learn +5% Hunting EXP (up to +25% for 5 pets)

Beginner Processing Questline

The quests below used to be required in order to do advanced processing recipes.

However, this was removed and now these quests are optional for us questy adventurers. <3

To begin, you must be level 20+ and have your Gathering Skill leveled up to Beginner 7. This is easily done via Empty Bottle gathering at the fountain in Heidel. Purchase 34 Empty Bottles at the Material Vendor near the fountain. Or you can use any river/lake for gathering water. I like Heidel because the Material Vendor is only a couple steps away from the water source.

If your Gathering skill is at at Apprentice 4+, you can skip the Prerequisite Questline and talk to Ficy in the Heidel Workshop. She will offer the quest “[Processing] Practice Makes Perfect”.

Optional Processing Leap Quests:

As you are doing the begginer processing questline, you can follow along with the Processing Leap questline after you obtain Processing level of Beginner 10. These will help you level Processing.

View Processing Leap Questline: O key → [Life] [Leap] Processing Guru

1. Because I Like You

Give Jemkas Wyrmsbane, Node Manager of Northern Heidel Quarry, 3 Iron Ore. If you did not bring the Iron Ore with you, gather them from rocks nearby using a Mining Pick tool. Tools can be purchased from a Material Vendor or the Marketplace, or crafted at a Tool Workshop house in major cities. If you did not bring 10 Rough Stone with you, be sure to mine enough rocks for that also as you will need them for the next quest.

3. Settling Down In Heidel

Meet Luciano Pietro in Heidel , located near the Heidel docks.

5. Bustling Alejandro Farm

Meet Amadeo Alejandro . Follow the road west of Northern Guard Camp to reach Alejandro Farm.

7. A Threatening Scarecrow!

Give 1 Melted Iron Shard to Amadeo. (Processing is not necessary for this quest) If you did not bring the Melted Iron Shard with you, use Heating in the Process Window (L key) to heat 5 Iron Ore.

9. In Search of Higher Processing Knowledge

Give 3 pumpkins to Ficy in Heidel. If you do not already have 3 pumpkins in your inventory, be sure to gather them at Alejandro Farm before you leave.

Questline Requirements:

Gathering Apprentice 4+
OR
Completion of Beginner Processing Prerequisite Questline (written about above)

1. Practice Makes Perfect

Learn Beginner Grinding From Ornella, learn Beginner Chopping From Lebyos, and learn Beginner Heating From Flaviano. These 3 quests can be done in any order.

This quest auto-completes if it has already been done once by another character in your family. Skip to quests 5-7 which can be done in any order.

1b. Working the Ash Tree
(Chopping Beginner)

Process 3 Ash Planks by Chopping Ash Timber. Give 3 Ash Planks to Lebyos. Ash trees can be found around Heidel. It takes 5 Ash Timber per batch.

2. Filtering Feathers
(Filtering Beginner)

Give 3 Lightweight Plumes to Dora. (Processing is not necessary for this quest) Use Filtering in the Processing window (L) to process Lightweight Plumes from Soft Kuku Bird Plume OR Soft Ferri Feather. It takes 5 soft animal feathers per batch.

Tier 3 Skilled Processing Knowledge

View Quest Progress: O key → [Life] Skilled Paradigm

This questline used to be required in order to be able to perform the final 3rd tier of processing, Skilled Processing.

Requirements:

Processing Professional 5+
Gathering Skilled 10+
Have knowledge on Shaking: Beginner
Have knowledge on Drying: Beginner
Have knowledge on Filtering: Beginner
Have knowledge on Grinding: Beginner
Have knowledge on Heating: Beginner
Have knowledge on Chopping: Beginner

Requirements to finish the quest ‘The Best Hide’ and continue forward with the Skilled Processing questline:

Processing Artisan 1+
Shaking Skilled is collected through the Challenge Reward Window after reaching Artisan Processing. (See pic above)

These quests must be done in order from ‘Excellent Magnate’ to ‘Hunting to Extinction’.

1. Excellent Magnate

Open your Quest Log (O), Suggested Tab, and find the Certificate [Skilled Paradigm] questline.  Go to Keplan and speak with a villager who directs you to Vatudun in the mines beneath Keplan.

3. Vatudun’s Request

Process 3 iron ingots with Heating. You can bring the iron ore/melted shards with you, but process the ingots for the quest.

5. Looking For a Woodcutting Expert

Vatudun directs you to visit his buddy, Murghed, in Trent to learn Skilled Chopping.

7. Processing Wood With Fire

Process 1 Sturdy Cedar Plywood by Heating 10 Cedar Plywood with the Plywood Hardener that Murghed gave you. If Murghed does not give you a quest to continue onto Behr, open your Quest Log (O), Suggested Tab, and find the Certificate [Skilled Paradigm] questline and autopath to Likke Behr.

9. The Best Hide

After collecting the Artisan Processing Challenge Reward (Y) and obtaining the Shaking (Skilled), craft 1 Supreme Soft Hide for Behr by Shaking 3 Fine Soft Hide with the 5 Leather Glaze he gave you.

11. Gemstone Value

Process 1 Resplendent Topaz by Grinding 5 Topaz. If this is your first time crafting Resplendent Topaz, you will earn the title “Topaz Demon”.

13. Troubled Oberen Farm (Thinning Skilled)

Visit Matheo Oberen at Oberen Farm

15. Useable Feathers

Process 1 Lightweight Plume by Filtering 5 Soft Kuku Bird Plumes.

17. Hunting to Extinction

Process 1 Supreme Lightweight Plume by Shaking 3 Fine Lightweight Plumes and the 5 Leather Glaze given by Oberen. Earn the title “Firm Machinist”.