BDO Season: Summer 2023 Guide

Season Server is a temporary server that gives additional leveling and character growth benefits not available on normal servers. In order to enter a Season Server, you must first create a Season Character.

Season Benefits:

• Season Server Buffs: Combat EXP +300%, Skill Exp +100%
• Life Rewards: Life EXP +30% (excludes Trading) and +100% basic resources
• Fughar’s Timepiece: obtain 2 characters by leveling 1
• Tuvala Gear: special gear for Season Characters
  • get plentiful enhancement items for Tuvala Gear
  • shows higher enhancement chances
  • Tuvala Gear Exchange for Boss Gear
• Notable Season Rewards:
  • Inventory Slots
  • Season Pass Rewards:
    • Choose 1 pet
    • 140 Failstack
  • Challenge Rewards:
    • Level 59: PEN Tuvala Ring
    • Level 60: PEN Tuvala Earring
  • Special Season Gift:
    • PEN Capotia Accessory

Season Dates

Season 12 (Summer Season) started May 24, 2023.

Season start to end used to be approximately 2 to 3 months. But now you can enjoy Season for longer.

You can take advantage of Season Server the entire time, or graduate early when you are done.

Season Character vs Normal

A Season Character is just like a normal character except for a few key differences.

• Season Characters can enter both Season and normal servers.
• Season Characters are restricted to wearing certain gear like Naru, Tuvala, Asula, and main quest line gear.
• In order to obtain Season drops, you will need to enter a Season Server with a Season Character.
• Season Characters can’t flag for PVP, but can enter a Season PVP Server with a +50% drop rate.
• Season Characters can’t obtain a T9 Dream Horse from the Stable Keeper.
• Season Characters frequently get leveling buffs and free items, but can otherwise level, fight, loot, and play normally.

Season Character Creation

Your first step is to create a Season Character.

If you are a brand new player, you will have no choice but to create a Season Character, if a Season is currently active. (since patch July 27, 2022)

You must have one open character slot. (Character Slot Expansion Coupon = 10k Loyalties or 600 Pearls)

Click the button to make a new character.

Next you will be able to customize the appearance of your character.

Season Leveling Buffs

Season Servers provide a Life Skill, Combat, and Skill EXP buff for faster leveling. The EXP buff will be active regardless of a character’s level.

Season Character Gear

Season Characters can only equip Naru, Tuvala, Asula Accessories, main quest gear, and other gear that has a special Season icon on them.

For players, who have already done the main story line, on a different character, you can wear any of your old quest gear.

Season Character Gear Progresson:

PEN Naru → PRI Tuvala → PEN Tuvala → TET Boss

1. PEN Naru gear is exchanged for PRI Tuvala Gear. How-to exchange Naru. (Requires Season Character)
2. Enhance your PRI Tuvala to PEN with Time-Filled Black Stones
3. PEN Tuvala gear can be exchanged for TET boss gear. Tuvala Gear Exchange

Season Character Tip for Veterans

You can skip the main quest line, if you have already completed it once before.

Special Growth Questline:

• Be a Season Character on a Season Server.
• Complete the quest, “[Balenos] Dark Clouds Over Velia” (part of the main beginner Balenos questline)
• Select “[Crossroad] Simplified” button on the “Select Quest” pop-up window that appears after turning in “[Balenos] Dark Clouds Over Velia” to Alustin in Velia.
• From Black Spirit: “[Special Growth] Birth of a Prestigious Family”
• View progress: press O key then Main tab.

For more details, and other veteran tips, please view our Simplified Main Quest guide.

Fughar’s Timepiece

IMHO this is a powerful Season Reward.

It’s like leveling 2 characters at the same time.

Fughar’s Timepiece transfers your Season Character’s status, Combat/Skill EXP, and Tuvala Gear.

Your orginal Season Character gets to keep their levels and Combat/Skill EXP.

Read more details in this Fughar’s Timepiece Guide.

Season Graduation Memories Box

Gift Box Full of Memories is given at Season Graduation.

This is when Season ends and your character is converted to a normal character.

Notable Rewards:

• Exchange PEN Tuvala for TET boss gear
• Advice of Valks (+60)
• Secret Book of Old Moon

Event Travel Kit

Challenge Reward for attaining level 56. Receive extra goodies by opening the Travel Kit from levels 57-60.

[Event] Lv. 57 Travel Kit (Open to Obtain All of the Following)
[Event] Lv. 57 Travel Kit	Gold Bar 100G x1 Black Stone (Weapon) x30 Black Stone (Armor) x30 Memory Fragment x20 [Event] Elion’s Tear x3 [Event] Lv. 58 Travel Kit
[Event] Lv. 58 Travel Kit	Gold Bar 100G x1 [Event] Splat Fisher’s Clothes Set (7 Days) x1 [Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) x5 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x2 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x2 Advice of Valks (+20) x1 [Event] Lv. 59 Travel Kit
[Event] Lv. 59 Travel Kit	Gold Bar 100G x1 [Event] Blessing of Kamasylve (7 Days) x1 Book of Training – Combat (3 Hours) x3 Book of Training – Skill (3 Hours) x3 Advice of Valks (+30) x1 [Event] Lv. 60 Travel Kit
[Event] Lv. 60 Travel Kit	Gold Bar 100G x1 [Event] Shakatu’s Luxury Box x1 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x5 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x5 Artisan’s Memory x10 Advice of Valks (25-35) x1

Season Pass Rewards

Season Pass is a series of goals that reward Season Characters with goodies.

Rewards must be collected in consecutive order, but most can be completed out of order ahead of time. (You just can’t collect right away.)

Notable Rewards:

1. Frozen and Boiling Tides Black Stone: 100% Enhancement for TET to PEN on Tuvala Gear – save hundreds of Cron Stones.
2. +6 Inventory
3. Advice of Valks (give Failstacks of +30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80)
4. Horse Emblem: Fine Horse Qualification (Tier 8 horse comes with skills S: Instant Accel, Instant Accel, and S: Sideways at 100% )
5. [Season] Summer Seal
   • Advice of Valks (+140)
   • Mount Skill Selection Coupon (3100 Pearls!!)
   • Choose Your Pet Box:
     • Flondor Duck (900 Pearls)
     • Shaggy Dog (900 Pearls)
     • Phoniel Squirrel (900 Pearls)
     • Otter (Premium pet – 1100 Pearls)
     • Lost Penguin (Rare pet – 1100 Pearls?)
     • Fluffy (900 Pearls)

Season Black Stones

Time-Filled Black Stones are used to enhance your Season Gear.

They can also be exchanged for Fail Stacks:

• 20 = Advice of Valks (+10)
• 40 = Valks’ Cry x1
• 50 = Advice of Valks (+20)
• 150 = Advice of Valks (+30)
• 500 = Advice of Valks (+40)
• 300 = Item Collection Increase Scroll x1

Note that these Failstack items, that increase Enhancement Chance, can also be used to enhance normal gear later. So make sure you turn them in before Season Graduation!

Season Gear Enhancement Items:

• 10 = Tuvala Ore x1
• 30 = Refined Magical Black Stone x1

Season Afuaru

Afuaru is a rare spawn while defeating mobs. Chase him down and kill him for loot.

On Season Server, Afuaru spawns like on normal servers, but drops Season goodies.

Enhancements for Tuvala Gear:

• Refined Magical Black Stones
• Tuvala Ores
• rarely Frozen Tides Black Stone (free TET (IV) to PEN (V) enhancement for Tuvala gear.)
• spawns in normal monster zones and those grinding spots recommended for parties of 3 on Season Server

Season Coelacanth

[Season] Coelacanth is an item drop that occurs while fishing in special areas on Season Servers only. Weekly quests reset on Wednesdays 6:00 PM Central Time (Thursday 00:00 UTC). See maps for designated fishing areas for [Season] Coelacanth drops.

Exchange to Fughar:

Condition	Coelacanths Required	Exchangeable Items
1x per Family	[Season] Coelacanth x50	Advice of Valks (+60)
	[Season] Coelacanth x25	Choose Your Concentrated Boss Crystal Box x1
	[Season] Coelacanth x20	Burning Moonlight Black Stone x10
3x per Family	[Season] Coelacanth x25	* Dreamy Crystal of Balance x7
	[Season] Coelacanth x20	3 Tuvala Weapon Exchange Coupons
1x per Week per Family	[Season] Coelacanth x20	[Event] Courser Training Box
	[Season] Coelacanth x12	[Event] Enhancement Help Kit I
	[Season] Coelacanth x10	Combat & Skill EXP 300% Scroll x5
	[Season] Coelacanth x7	Advice of Valks (+40)
	[Season] Coelacanth x4	Yona’s Fragment x5
	[Season] Coelacanth x3	Magical Shard x5
	[Season] Coelacanth x3	Mass of Pure Magic x5
No limit	[Season] Coelacanth x1	Time-filled Black Stone x5

*Dreamy Crystal of Balance grants 100% chance to enhance a TRI (III) or higher Capotia accessory up to PEN (V).

Season Alchemy Stone

After completing a series of 9 quests, you will be rewarded with a very nice Alchemy Stone, Treant’s Tear. You will also be rewarded with other helpful Life Skill goodies.

Treant’s Tear Effects:

• Life EXP +30%
• Cooking/Alchemy Time -1 sec
• Processing Success Rate +10%
• Weight Limit +50
• Gathering/Fishing +2
• Gathering Item Drop Rate +10%

How to Use: Press RMB to equip the item in your Inventory, and press (U) to use. You can use it along with Alchemy/Spirit Stone of Life.

Duration: 10 min
Cooldown: 10 min
Durability: 150
Fuel: Mystical Spirit Powder

Season Riding Crop

“Fughar’s Riding Crop” is a season character exclusive riding crop that is obtained as a Season Pass reward.

• Item Effect:
  • Max Mount Speed +20%
  • Max Auto-run Speed +50%
  • Auto-run sprint speed +20%
• This item can only be equipped by season characters and it will be removed after the season ends.
• This item cannot be enhanced or registered on the Central Market.

T8 Horse with Courser Skills

“Horse Emblem: Fine Horse Qualification” is a tier 8 horse that is obtained as a Season Pass reward.

• Courser Skills that are 100% Learned:
  • Instant Accel
  • S:Instant Accel
  • S:Sideways
• This horse will need to learn the following skills to earn Courser status in order to upgrade it to a Dream Horse:
  • Charge
  • Drift
  • Sprint
  • Sideways
• This horse cannot be registered on the Horse Market, but can be upgraded to a Dream Horse and then sold.

Season Quests for Atoraxxion

Atoraxxion: Vahmalkea and Sycrakea and Yolunakea provide an extra chest for Season Characters. This unique chest has many enhancement items for Tuvala Gear.

Quest: “[Co-op][Weekly] Vestige of the Rifts Bestowed by Vaha”
Quest: “[Co-op] [Weekly] Vestige of the Rifts Bestowed by Syca”
Quest: “[Co-op] [Weekly] Vestige of the Rifts Bestowed by Yolu”
Start NPC: Fughar
Chest Reward: Atoraxxion: Rift Chest

Season Atoraxxion Requirements:

• Level 60+
• “Invitation from I” Black Spirit main questline
• Completed Succession or Awakening questline
• Completed the quest “[Atoraxxion] Talibre’s Tear” in the quest line “[5-person Co-op] The Last Stronghold, Atoraxxion” which allows you to interact with the Sol Magia in the Ancient Stone Chamber.
• Afterwards, you can defeat the final boss in Atoraxxion: Vahmalkea/Sycrakea/Yolunakea and get the weekly rewards without doing the main questline.

Season Grinding Spots

Grinding spots on Season Servers are identical to normal servers, with a few important differences.

Season Grinding Spots:

• drop Tuvala Enhancement materials
• spawn a special Afuaru that gives enhancement mats
• earn 300% Combat EXP and 50% more Skill EXP
• can enjoy the hunt without concern of PVP. (unless you enter a special PVP Season Server)
• may have crowded grinding spots, especially at the start of Season

Season Ancient Weapon Event

Kill a certain amount of mobs and there is a chance an Ancient Weapon Invasion Event may start.

• Spawn Locations: Mediah and Valencia monster zones
• A warning message will appear and Ancient Weapons will spawn after 5 minutes
• The more adventurers there are nearby, the more will spawn.
• Expect an event boss to spawn.

Possible Event Rewards:

Season Quests

There are many helpful quests for Season Characters. Here is a summary of a few:

Season Quests from Main Questline:

Speak to Black Spirit after completing Valencia, Kamasylvia, Drieghan, and O’dyllita.

Reward: Tuvala enhancing materials

Achieve Tuvala Enhancement Success:

Rewards:

• obtain TRI (III) —> Advice of Valks (+40)
• obtain TET (IV) —> Advice of Valks (+60)