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BDO Alchemy Stone Rework Guide: Everything You Need to Know! This video provides a comprehensive overview of the upcoming Alchemist Stone Rework in Black Desert Online. It details the changes to the enhancement methods, the new materials, and the impact on PvE, PvP, and Lifeskill players. The guide explains how to obtain the new Celestial Essences, combine alchemist stones, and what costs players will face.
BDO Alchemy Stone Rework Guide: Everything You Need to Know!
1. Alchemist Stone Rework: An Overview
  • ✅ The video covers the rework of the alchemist stones in BDO.
  • ✅ A major patch for this is already available in the Global Lab.
00:01 - 00:09
1. Alchemist Stone Rework: An Overview
  • ✅ The video covers the rework of the alchemist stones in BDO.
  • ✅ A major patch for this is already available in the Global Lab.
00:10 - 00:44
2. Concerns and Reassurances about the Alchemist Stone Rework
  • ✅ Don't worry: Your Vell's Heart won't get worse or dissolve.
  • ✅ Normal alchemist stones will also not be destroyed, but can continue to be used and improved.
01:38 - 02:30
3. Celestial Essences: Rift Bosses and Timegating
  • ✅ Rift bosses always give 20 weak Celestial Essences.
  • ⚠️ Rift bosses appear on the map as purple or red portals.
  • ⚠️ Collecting the essences is timegated, which slows down progress.
  • ✅ On December 31st, all Rift Bosses will be reset and appear completely.
02:31 - 02:39
4. Upgrading Weak to Full Celestial Essences
  • ✅ A weak Celestial Essence is combined with ten Sharp Black Crystal Shards.
  • ⚠️ The market for Sharp Black Crystal Shards is currently very tight.
03:16 - 03:32
5. Combination of Hearts and Alchemist Stones
  • ✅ Vell's Heart or Kns Heart can be combined with radiant, splendid or shining alchemist stones.
  • ✅ The formula for this is: Heart + Alchemist Stone + Full Essence.
03:33 - 03:49
6. Exemplary Combinations and their Effects
  • ✅ The combination can be done with different hearts (green, yellow).
  • ✅ Example: Combination of Vell's Heart and Radiant Alchemist Stone of Destruction.
03:50 - 04:12
7. Statistics Comparison: Vell's Heart vs. Combined Alchemist Stone
  • ✅ Vell's Heart has 8 AP, 10 Accuracy and 5% Attack Speed.
  • ✅ Combined Stone (Example): 10 AP, 12 Accuracy and 6% Attack Speed.
04:13 - 04:22
8. Summary of the Combination Formula
  • ✅ Full Essence + Alchemist Stone (Choice) + Alchemist Stone (Choice) = Combined Alchemist Stone.
04:23 - 04:32
9. Separation of Combined Alchemist Stones
  • ⚠️ Separating the combination results in the loss of the essence.
  • ✅ Alchemist Stone + Alchemist Stone remain.
04:33 - 04:52
10. Extraction of Improved Alchemist Stones
  • ✅ Improved alchemist stones (with blessed shard) can be extracted.
  • ✅ When extracting, you get the heart piece back.
04:53 - 05:28
11. Combination and Extraction Process
  • ✅ Extraction must be done before combination.
  • ✅ After the combination, the blessed shard can be added again.
  • ✅ Before disassembling, the blessed shard must also be extracted.
  • ✅ Combination is only possible without the blessed shard.
05:29 - 05:49
12. Formulas for Combining Different Hearts
  • ✅ Vell's Heart, Carn's Destruction Heart, Carn's Protection Heart, Carn's Lifeskill Heart and Behellt of Berk can be used.
05:50 - 06:06
13. Why the Combination is so Powerful
  • ✅ Vell's Heart only gives 8 AP, 10 Accuracy and 5% Attack Speed.
  • ✅ Vell's Heart is interesting because of the new AP calculation (additional monster AP from 310 AP).
06:07 - 06:39
14. Active Abilities and their Significance
  • ✅ The active abilities of the alchemist stones are extremely strong.
  • ✅ Example: 16 AP, 16 Accuracy, 10% Attack Speed Car Speed.
06:40 - 06:52
15. Rarity and Market Situation of Alchemist Stones
  • ⚠️ The alchemist stones are extremely expensive and rare on the market.
  • ✅ Self-construction is often not profitable due to the high costs.
06:53 - 07:05
16. Changes in Manufacturing and Pricing
  • ✅ There are many changes to adjust the manufacturing method and prices.
  • ✅ Disassembling is less interesting, but overall it will be more interesting.
07:06 - 07:18
17. Protection Form for PvPers
  • ✅ Protection Form (yellow stone) is particularly interesting for DP builds.
  • ✅ Example values: 16 DR, 16 Evasion, 250 Max HP and 8% All Resistance.
07:19 - 07:47
18. Lifeskill Alchemist Stones
  • ✅ Lifeskill alchemist stones are interesting for lifeskiller.
  • ✅ Example values: 2.5% Alchemy Cooking Time, 25% Processing Success Rate, 120 in Traast, three collecting Fishwang and 25 Loot Rate when collecting.
08:08 - 08:21
19. Market Overview and Identification
  • ✅ You can better identify the alchemist stones in the market.
  • ✅ It starts with the imperfect stones.
08:22 - 08:47
20. Alchemist Stone Levels
  • ✅ Imperfect → Rough → Polished → Stable → Sharp → Radiant → Splendid → Shining.
08:48 - 09:06
21. Distinction by Colors
  • ✅ Distinction between white, green, blue and yellow alchemist stones.
  • ✅ The topic is simplified by the update.
09:07 - 09:22
22. Simplification of Levels and Colors
  • ✅ The rough and polished levels are deleted.
  • ✅ Different levels (white, green, blue, yellow) are adjusted to the respective levels, so that there is only one color per level.
09:23 - 09:45
23. Colors of the Alchemist Stones after the Update
  • ✅ Imperfect: White
  • ✅ Stable: Green
  • ✅ Sharp: Blue
  • ✅ Radiant: Yellow
  • ✅ Splendid: Red
  • ✅ Shining: Purple
09:46 - 10:05
24. Imperfect Stones: Variants and Relevance
  • ✅ Imperfect stones have Lifeskill, AP and DR variants.
  • ✅ AP and DR are relevant for PvP, purple for PvE, green for Lifeskiller.
10:06 - 10:36
25. Colors of the Higher Levels
  • ✅ Stable: Green
  • ✅ Sharp: Blue
  • ✅ Radiant: Yellow
  • ✅ Splendid: Red
  • ✅ Shining: Purple
10:37 - 10:50
26. Sorting out Variants
  • ✅ Blue, green and other variants are removed to increase clarity.
10:51 - 11:51
27. Price Overview of the Alchemist Stones
  • ✅ Radiant: 10 to 100 billion (maximum price)
  • ✅ Splendid: Increases from 12 billion to 150 billion to 1.5 trillion
  • ✅ Shining: Increases from one trillion to 10 trillion
11:52 - 12:36
28. Effects on Lifeskiller
  • ✅ Lifeskiller will also be affected by the price increases.
  • ✅ They have to bend over to earn their money and then even more to buy the alchemist stones.
12:37 - 12:45
29. KS Heart and Lifeskill Experience
  • ✅ KS Heart gives an additional 30% Lifeskill experience.
12:46 - 12:55
30. Small Change: Charging World Powder
  • ✅ World powder can now be charged immediately.
12:56 - 13:06
31. Enhancing: The Pity System
  • ✅ There is a pity system at every level, so you can't fail.
  • ✅ At some point you are guaranteed to have the thing.
13:07 - 13:18
32. Use of Cronstones
  • ✅ Cronstones can be used at any level, except the first.
13:19 - 13:36
33. Failstacks and Polishing Level
  • ✅ There are no failstacks, only indirectly through the polishing level.
13:37 - 14:18
34. Polishing and Success Rate
  • ✅ From 80% polishing level you can press, but 150% is recommended.
  • ✅ The success rate is based on 150% polishing.
  • ✅ It is recommended not to be stingy and to polish fully.
14:19 - 14:30
35. Materials for Polishing
  • ✅ Different materials are required depending on the alchemist stone.
  • ✅ Lifeskiller can generate money by selling these materials.
14:31 - 14:54
36. Tables for Lifeskill Materials
  • ✅ Tables show which materials are particularly effective and cheap.
  • ✅ The goal is to always force 150%.
14:55 - 15:04
37. Material Requirements and Number of Clicks
  • ✅ The question is whether you need so many materials at all, since you can only click a finite number of times per week.
15:05 - 15:44
38. From Imperfect to Stable
  • ✅ 30% Chance
  • ✅ F Pity
  • ✅ Two Celestial Essences
  • ✅ No Cronstones
15:45 - 16:03
39. From Stable to Sharp
  • ✅ 20% Chance at 150% Polishing
  • ✅ Eight Pities
  • ✅ Three Celestial Essences
  • ✅ 55 Cronstones
16:04 - 16:30
40. From Sharp to Radiant
  • ✅ 3.3% Chance
  • ✅ 45er Pity
  • ✅ Ten Essences
  • ✅ 390 Cronstones
16:31 - 16:42
41. Essences as Bottleneck
  • ✅ Silver is not the problem, but the essences.
16:43 - 17:33
42. From Radiant to Splendid
  • ✅ 1.2588% Chance (fix)
  • ✅ 120er Pity
  • ✅ 20 Essences
  • ✅ 3780 Cronstones
17:34 - 18:07
43. From Splendid to Shining
  • ✅ 0.2% Chance (fix)
  • ✅ 750er Pity
  • ✅ 30 Celestial Essences
  • ✅ Almost 5000 Cronstones
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