BDO Fishing Mastery Guide: Life Mastery Series

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Fishing Mastery & Orange Grade Fish, Oh My!

Anglers get ready for some serious fishing fun with the addition of Fishing Mastery! Fish mongers now have a bigger incentive to level their Fishing Life Skill. With high Fishing Mastery and Life Mastery levels, you can potentially earn twice as much as you used to.

Let’s look at a few such “Prize Catch ” fish, found by harpooning:

• Requiem Shark: 75 million Silver
• Giant Black Squid: 50 million Silver
• Ghost Whale: 100 million Silver

You sell these bastions of the sea at the vendor, so you don’t have to worry about them expiring, but they also can’t be increased in value via a Trade Manager or Imperial Fish Trader.

Fish that are trade items can be increased in value via bargaining with Traders and distance bonuses or Imperial Traders. 

Prize Catch Fish Price List (Orange Grade Fish)

Saltwater Harpoon Fish:

• Black Spotted Dolphin (10,000,000)
• Giant Black Squid (50,000,000)
• Requiem Shark (75,000,000)
• Ghost Whale (100,000,000)

Prize Catch Fish Locations

Saltwater Harpoon Prize Fish Locatons

Black Spotted Dolphin
Ahrmo Sea, Banto Sea, Peyon Sea, Zenato Sea, Altinova, Sea of Silence, Valencia Sea, Margoria N (both tables), Nox Sea

Giant Black Squid
Ross Sea, Margoria S, Margoria N, Margoria M?

Requiem Shark
Margoria M

Ghost Whale
Margoria N (in small area with a specific harpoon table, not sea-wide see note)

Moonraker’s Note:

“For the Ghost Whale we now know that it is limited to a small area within Margoria N not sea-wide like most.
I made a seperate guide to help explain and locate this area to help find it.”

[Fishing] Ghost Whale – EU Region First – details and location

Orange Grade Fish Rate Chart from Fishing Mastery

Harpooned Orange Grade Fish Rate Chart

Fishing Mastery Gear

There are many items you can obtain that will buff your Fishing Mastery or Life Mastery level. Manos gear is the best, but also extremely expensive to enhance.

• Loggia Gear  (sold by Camellia Loggia <Seed Vendor> for 1 million Silver at Loggia Farm)
• Geranoa Gear (sold by the <Material Vendor> Geranoa in Calpheon City for 10 million Silver)
• Manos Gear (Processing > Manufacture of rare ingredients.)

Crio’s Fishing Chair:

• Crio’s Fishing Chair +100 Fishing Mastery (limited to 100 uses)

 Fisher’s Clothes:

•  Loggia Fisher’s Clothes Fishing Mastery +3 (up to +280 for PEN), Fishing Ability +1, Movement Speed +1
•   Crio Fisher’s Clothes Fishing Mastery +4 (up to 330 for PEN), Fishing Rank +1 to +2, Movement Speed +1 to +2
•  Manos Fisher’s Clothes Fishing Mastery +5 (up to +400 for PEN), Fishing Rank +1 to +3, Movement Speed +1 to +3

 Crio’s Fishing Chair

Equips to tool slot in your equipment window.

Item Effect 
Fishing Mastery +100

Notes:

• can’t be enhanced
• can’t be stacked
• limited uses: 100 Durability (Can’t be repaired. Consumes 1 durability per fishing attempt) 

Obtained By:

• 5xTattered Boots to Crio in Velia
• 5x Fish Bones to Crio in Velia

 Loggia Fisher’s Clothes

Equips to Top, Gloves, Shoes, Helmet.

Item Effect 
Fishing Mastery +3 (up to +280 for PEN)
Fishing Ability +1
Movement Speed +1

+1 to +15 Enhancement: – Black Gem

PRI to PEN Enhancement:– Concentrated Magical Black Gem

Can be enhanced up to +5 without failure

Obtained By:

•  Marketplace: +0 to PEN
• Camellia Loggia in Loggia Farm for 1,000,000 Silver or Zaaira in Velia for 1,500,000 Silver

Fishing Mastery Clothes Comparison & Enhancement Levels

Life Mastery Gear Enhancement

Life Mastery clothes and accessories can be improved by enhancement, using Black Gems crafted from Black Gem Fragments.

• Life Mastery gear can be upgraded to PEN (V)
• Enhancement levels increase the Life Mastery given
• Life Mastery gear enhancement with Black Gems does not use the traditional Failstack system. Enhancement Chance is always a set amount no matter how much you fail.
• Enhancement with Black Gems “have a higher success rate than the previous enhancement methods.” (70% PRI, 40% DUO, 30% TRI for greed grade.) Although it seems from player reports that RNG is a-foot!

SOURCES & ADDITIONAL INFO

• bdocodex.com Loggia’s info
• Mao Mao Prince Fishing Community – chat and talk app for fishing advice and guides.
• Moonraker’s Fishing Mastery Guide – forum post of fish list and locations with player updates
• blackdesertfoundry.com Life Mastery page
• invenglobal.com Fishing Mastery page

Fishing Mastery Patch Notes

All patch notes below are copied from the official website. View Source

• Fishing Mastery system was added.
  • Added Orange grade fish.
• You have a higher chance of fishing the newly added Orange grade fishes or Ancient Relic Crystal Shards with higher Fishing Mastery.
  • Orange grade fish can be caught at freshwater, ocean, and certain spots, and can be sold to Traders at a high price (Imperial Delivery not available).
• Chance to catch Orange grade fish is the same in all territories and it varies by the points you have.
  • Fishing chance by Fishing Mastery are as follows.

• The above is only for normal fishing and not harpooning.

•  Added the following Orange grade fish. You can check them in the Fish Guide.
  • Corvina
  • Blue Bat Star
  • Golden Sea Bass
  • White Grouper
  • Albino Coelacanth
  • Black Eye Crab
  • Golden Albacore
  • Footballfish
  • Pirarucu
  • Black Spotted Dolphin
  • Giant Black Squid
  • Requiem Shark
  • Ghost Whale
• Added Crio’s Fishing Chair. Now you can sit while fishing.
  • Crio’s Fishing Chair can be crafted at the Carpentry Workshop level 3 of each of the territories.
  • Crafting Material:  Standardized Timber Square x15, Ash Plywood x15, Steel x5, Monk’s Branch x5, Trace of Origin x20, Plywood Hardener x5
  • Crio’s Fishing Chair has a base durability of 100, and consumes 1 durability per fishing attempt.
  • Crio’s Fishing Chair can be equipped to the character and gives Fishing Mastery +100.
  • Now you can trade in Fish Bones and Tattered Boots for Crio’s Fishing Chair with Fish Merchant Crio at Velia.

• New Life Skill items which can be conveniently purchased through NPC shops were added.
  • Loggia Fisher’s Clothes
  • Loggia Sailor’s Clothes
  • Loggia Hunter’s Clothes
  • Loggia Alchemist’s Clothes
  • Loggia Cook’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Hoe
  • Loggia Trainer’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Gatherer’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Craftsman’s Clothes
  • Loggia’s Lumbering Axe
  • Loggia’s Fluid Collector
  • Loggia’s Tanning Knife
  • Loggia’s Butcher Knife
  • Loggia’s Pickaxe
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Lake
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Vitality
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Energy
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Sun
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Wind
  • Loggia’s Processing Stone – Lava
  • Loggia’s Necklace
  • Loggia’s Earrings
  • Loggia’s Ring
  • Loggia’s Belt
  • Loggia’s Riding Crop
  • Loggia’s life tools and Processing Stones can be purchased from Camellia Loggia in Loggia Farm for 1,000,000 silvers or from Zaaira in Velia for 1,500,000 silvers.
  • Loggia’s Accessories increase all Life Skill Masteries.

•  Added items which can enhance Life Skill Mastery items.
  • – You can enhance Life Skill Mastery items up to PEN (V), and the higher the enhancement level, the more the Mastery will increase.
  • – Life Skill Mastery clothes can be enhanced up to +5 without failure.
  • – Green grade Mastery gear can be purchased from the NPC shop. Also, you can easily enhance them by using the Black Gem and Concentrated Magical Black Gem.
  • – When enhancing with the Black Gem, the enhancement will not be affected by the enhancement chance increase and Valks’ chance increase you already had before.
  • – When you fail an enhancement attempt while using the Black Gem, the enhancement chance increase value will not increase.
  • – When you succeed an enhancement attempt while using the Black Gem, the enhancement chance increase value will not reset.
  • – Enhancement attempts using the Black Gem have a higher success rate than the previous enhancement methods.
  • – You have a low chance to obtain Black Gems by butchering monsters you Hunt.
• You can obtain the Black Gem Fragment through the following Gathering activities.
  • Mining, Barehanded Gathering (excluding Golem gathering), Hoe Gathering, Fluid/Blood Collecting, Tanning, Butchering, Lumbering.
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Darkness x250, Translucent Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Bloody Tree Knot x10, Deer Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Flame x250, Mud Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Spirit’s Leaf x10, Fox Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Rifts x250, Red Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Monk’s Branch x10, Pig Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Earth x250, Green Crystal x10, Fire Horn x1, Old Tree Bark x10, Weasel Blood x100
  • Simple Alchemy of Powder of Time x250, Black Gem x10, Fire Horn x1, Polished Opal x10, Wolf Blood x100
• You can obtain 1 Black Gem through Simple Alchemy of Black Gem Fragment x1, Black Stone (Weapon) x1, Black Stone (Armor)
• You can obtain 10 Black Gems through Simple Alchemy of Black Gem Fragment x10, Black Stone (Weapon) x10, Black Stone (Armor) x10, Black Stone Powder x1
• You can obtain 1 Concentrated Magical Black Gem through Simple Alchemy of Black Gem x5, Sharp Black Crystal Shard x1, Hard Black Crystal Shard x1
• Please note that currently Farming Mastery and Trading Mastery systems are not available. Although the values of Farming Mastery and Trading Mastery are shown on the new Mastery UI, found under My Information (P), these values do not have any effect due to the fact that there are no contents that are directly affected by these values at the moment.

Patch Notes 10th September 2019

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• New Blue grade Mastery equipment and items have been added.

  • Crio Fisher’s Clothes

  • Srulk Sailor’s Clothes

  • Robeau Hunter’s Clothes

  • Gorgath Alchemist’s Clothes

  • Roroju Cook’s Clothes

  • Izaro’s Training Clothes

  • Carta’s Gatherer’s Clothes

  • Carta’s Craftsman’s Clothes

  • Dostter’s Steel Hoe

  • Dostter’s Steel Lumbering Axe

  • Dostter’s Steel Fluid Collector

  • Dostter’s Steel Tanning Knife

  • Dostter’s Steel Butcher Knife

  • Dostter’s Steel Pickaxe

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Lake

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Vitality

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Energy

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Sun

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Wind

  • Techthon’s Processing Stone – Lava

  • Izaro’s Riding Crop

  • Geranoa Necklace

  • Geranoa Earring

  • Geranoa Ring

  • Geranoa Belt

• Newly added Blue grade Mastery items can be purchased from NPCs.

• Blue grade Mastery outfits and Geranoa accessories can be purchased from the following NPCs:

  • Geranoa of Calpheon for 10 million Silver.

  • Zaaira of Velia for 15 million Silver.

• Techthon’s Processing Stones can be purchased from the following NPCs for 10 million Silver.

  • Heidel: Techthon

  • Calpheon: Geranoa

  • Ahib Conflict Zone: Marutuba

  • Duvencrune: Hughol

• Dostter’s Steel gathering tools can be purchased from the following NPCs for 10 million Silver.

  • Calpheon: Geranoa

  • Duvencrune: Derjeen

• Techthon’s Processing Stones and Dostter’s Steel gathering tools can be purchased from the following NPCs for 15 million Silver.

  • Velia: Zaaira

• Izaro’s Riding Crop is available for purchase from Izaro of Heidel, Zaaira of Velia, and Geranoa of Calpheon, and is also available from stable keepers who have the Amity shop function.

• The above items can be enhanced from +1 to +15 with Black Stone (Weapon) and requires Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) from PRI and above.

• The above items will receive Enhancement Chance +1 when you fail enhancement at +8 and above.

• Enhancement is affected by your Enhancement Chance, which is reset once you are successful with an enhancement.

• You will lose 1 enhancement level when you fail enhancement at DUO and above.

• For the Life Skill Mastery patch notes,  please click <HERE>.