Equipment Pieces

◈ Weapons 

These consist of your character’s main weapon, sub-weapon (also called the off-hand weapon),  and awakening weapon. The type of weapon of each category you can equip differs depending on the character’s class.

Main weapons and sub-weapons can be obtained and used from Lv. 1. However, keep in mind that certain classes can use more than one type of each. Some, like Ninja and Kunoichi, have different skills available to them depending on the sub-weapon they’re using (kunai or shuriken).

Differently named weapons have different special effects as well as different inherent stats, so you need to be careful when choosing them.

The third weapon, the awakening weapon, can be used after completing the Awakening quests available for most classes from Lv. 56. Exceptions exist, like the class Archer being able to use it from Lv. 1, albeit not fully fledged.

Please note that if you have not completed the Awakening questline, even if you have obtained an awakening weapon you won’t be able to equip it.
After completing these quests and equipping an awakening weapon you can learn the different Awakening skills and fight in a more often than not completely different way than before.

Conversely, if you choose  the Succession state instead of Awakening, you will still be equipping an awakening weapon, and its stats will be partially reflected in your attack power, but you will not be able to carry out awakening skills. Instead, you can acquire Succession skills, which make your existing skills more powerful.

In Black Desert, defense gear refers to a total of four pieces of equipment: armor, helmet, shoes, and gloves. These mainly increase your total defense. The higher this one is, the less damage your character will take, and greater its evasion chance will be.

Some defense gear pieces, often those considered to be boss gear, and other sets such as the Blackstar one, can receive set effects if several of their pieces are worn together. For example, three pieces of boss equipment worn at the same time will grant your character  +200 max stamina, and if among them you have two pieces of Blackstar equipment, the character will receive an additional +10 reduction to monster damage.

Defense gear can be used everywhere, without any restriction placed by character level or character class.

Additionally, while most types of defense gear are meant to help in battle, there are also equipment pieces of this type that raise stats related to life skills.

◈ Accessories

Accessories are divided into rings, earrings, necklaces and belts. You can wear two rings and earrings each, and only one necklace and belt.

While weapons focus on increasing your offensive capabilities, and defense gear your defensive ones, accessories are versatile. There are both offensive and defensive accessories, as well as those useful for life skills.

◈ Artifacts

Artifacts, relics imbued with the power of the witches of Everfrost, have certain bonuses on their own, but it's important to wear them after they’ve been infused with lightstones. This way, additional benefits can be obtained.

You can equip 2 lightstones per artifact, and depending on the combination of lightstones you use, you can get various additional stats as set effects.

➤ For more information on this topic, please check the [Artifacts & Lightstones] and [Lightstone Combinations] pages.

◈ Alchemy Stones

Items equipped to the alchemy stone slot bring special effects for a certain period of time by pressing the U key.

Depending on the type of stone, it usually has a name like Polished Alchemy Stone of Destruction, or Life Spirit Stone, but there are also those with unique names such as Vell's Heart and Kutum's Power Stone.

As seen in the picture above, alchemy stones may offer you offensive, defensive, life skill-related, or even unique effects for a short period of time, usually from 5 to 10 minutes.

Most spirit stones and alchemy stones produced via alchemy can be sold to other Adventurers in the Central Market. Others, like Kutum’s Power Stone, cannot be sold, and once depleted cannot be used again. The trait of being one-time use stones is shared among spirit stones, including even those that can be sold.

➤ You can read more about this type of equipment in the [Alchemy Stone] page.

◈ Adventurer’s Tome 

The basic adventurer's tome is provided at the beginning of a character’s adventure by the Black Spirit, but you can also obtain new, different tomes through specific quests.

Among them, the Chenga - Sherekhan Tome of Wisdom has the effect of increasing the amount of combat experience obtained as a quest reward by 30% when equipped, enabling the so-called 'Chengarun,' which allows you to quickly complete quests and level up with an optimized route.

Durability decreases as items are used, for example, as an armor absorbs damage, its durability decreases. Additionally, the visual appearance of your equipped items will be affected by the durability loss, which leads to showing your character with degraded clothes.

So long as an equipment item has at least 1 durability, the beneficial effects will persist while equipped. If the durability is reduced to 0, it will be the same as not having the item equipped.

So, before the durability drops to 0, you can get your items repaired by a blacksmith, or you can recover the durability through an anvil in one of your residences.

When repairing a weapon of a reduced maximum durability, depending on the amount of repair carried out, the maximum durability may increase by a small chance.

If repairs are making you annoyed, you can use equipment that doesn’t have durability.The equipment pieces that can be rented from an NPCs using contribution points are not subject to durability.

For such equipment, the better the status, the more contribution points are required. When you no longer need that piece, or want to use the contribution points for something else, you can take back your contribution points when you return the item rented.
However, the bad news is that the rented equipment is not available for enhancement, and is heavier than general equipment.

➤ Please check the [Repair] page for more information on equipment durability.

In the case of alchemy stones, durability is consumed every time you use it, and for most alchemy stones it can be restored by recharging the alchemy stone with fuel materials.
This feature can be accessed from the Stone button of the Inventory window (hotkey: I).

However, please remember that as mentioned previously, certain items equipped to the alchemy stone slot, such as spirit stones and Kutum’s Power Stone, cannot be recharged.