BDO Cooking Guide Part 1 - Gear, Mastery, Materials and Leveling to Guru

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Published 2022-07-27
Welcome to my Cooking by the Book series where I make mastering cooking easy.
In this video, we'll look at how to set up for cooking, including gear, utensils, lightstones / artifacts and mastery in Black Desert Online.
I'll also show you how to get materials and how to power level cooking to master and guru.

If you have any questions or feedback on the video, feel free to drop a comment below.
Videos 3 to 5 of the series are still in development and I try to incorporate any feedback I get.
Planned are:
Video 3: Bdolytics guide
Video 4: Profit optimization with bdolytics
Video 5: Advanced cooking concepts

Sorry if this video feels a bit chaotic at times. This is my first big video and I was kinda learning everything on the fly.
I had tons of ideas for the video and really had to restrain myself from implementing all of them to not make this video a complete clusterheck :)

References:
1) Bdolytics: bdolytics.com/
2) Lifeskill Discord: discord.gg/GUsNAYT
3) Mastery and proc rate explained in detail: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D7mFcXYFm4BUS_MKxT…
4) Lightstone combinations: garmoth.com/artifacts/lifeskill/lightstone/sets
5) Mastery gear cost calculator docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Me9wRktno6DDB4-of9…
6) SE vs. mastery clothes calculator: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zcMEFdwitQem3xM0RQ…
7) Gathering rotations: docs.google.com/document/d/1Uz-Y_fdCXJBhzPisrvzfvs…
8) Gpw's hunting calculator: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hb28t4_hlQxPhd6rKV…
9) Liana’s Life Skill Quests: grumpygreen.cricket/liana/
10) Material substitution sheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o-XZc14-wNMwYS0Ojp…
11) Imperial Cooking FAQ: www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Forum/ForumTopi…
12) Cooking TLDR 2022: i.imgur.com/iKcYc8e.png
13) Cooking/Alchemy XP Calculator (Warflash) docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sdq9WjlxpvdxCFFsn7…

0:00 - Intro
1:52 - Getting 1 second cook time + Utensils
4:29 - Mastery
5:43 - Gear (Artifacts, Accessories, Clothes)
6:59 - Q1: Mastery or Silver Embroidered Clothes?
8:28 - Basic Materials
11:08 - Bottleneck Materials
13:02 - Material Substitutions
15:06 - Q2: In which town should I cook?
16:18 - Leveling to Guru
22:20 - Q3: Leveling from Guru

All Comments (21)
  • @summer_rains
    Updates: - Crop exchange: certain special crops (onion, garlic, pepper, hot pepper) can be exchanged at these rates at any seed vendor: 1 special -> 2 HQ / 4 white crops - Substitution: Date palm wine, teff bred, and fig pie rare procs can now substitute 2 of the regular proc. Updated substitution chart: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o-XZc14-wNMwYS0Ojp…
  • @clcsqueejy04
    I dunno why I'm even telling you this, but you have a very relaxing voice lol. I've been watching your vids a lot lately as I've been doing lots of life skilling, but there's a select few (this one included) that I'll try to put on and pay attention to while I'm lying down to sleep, and i can't finish the video because I wind up passing out. I'm sure some of it is just me being tired, but for some reason this video always puts me to sleep lmao. I don't mean it in a negative way, I legitimately keep coming back so I can try to finish it and learn more about cooking, and your other cooking vids have been insanely helpful, but yeah these videos are just very relaxing lol. Sincerely, an American dude in his mid-30s.
  • @NightmareArcade
    incredibly helpful guide! thank you for taking the time to make this!
  • @St4rF1re
    Thank you for this incredible guide! Especially for a returning player it has perfect structure, especially with the questions! Keep it up :)
  • Great job with this video! Thanks for all the great info, advice, and tips!
  • @Nr1PwnY
    Hands down the best cooking guide on the web! :D Thanks mate
  • So much information and well presented so to fully understand. Thank you for sharing all of this information and all the docs you've added. Brilliant and I'm wishing you much success!
  • @Shek1nah
    I do a 3 Meal rotation: Mediah, Balenos, Valencia. Spare Sausages will be cooked into gratins. Beer is easy, Only Peppers are additional needed for fried vegies. Fish can easily gathered by workers in Epheria (with 6 workers). The higher procs on oatmeal i use for pet food. Since i do Hunting, Blood and Meat are both gathered at vendure bucks in odraxxia. The spare meat i got, i cook into red sauce which i can also use for gratin and valencia meals. i only buy pepper in the market. onions and hot peppers in fences. it is a pretty efficient rotation with minimum material waste.
  • @Daetlus
    So many good qualities to this video you've made! Very informative, correct to my understanding, good pacing, good script, easy to understand. It was a pleasure to watch. I wish you future success. If the rest of your channel is just as good, your channel is worthy of much more attention than it currently has from the BDO community. Thank you for making this great cooking series.
  • @Ghost-tt8ji
    Amazing guide bro, the best cooking guide i have ever seen. Thank you so much for putting the time and effort to make this video
  • @TethoSama
    Thanks for making the guide man, just gonna do the guide.
  • @FREAKINKRN
    Wish I can give this video a thousand likes! Thank you!! ❤
  • I love how I literally never hear grana mentioned as a good spot for lifeskilling but I stay there anyways cause it’s pretty lmao
  • I never comment, but I must say this video is fucking insane. Absolutely fantastic job. Astronomically helpful.
  • @EmnelGaming
    I have some feedback: This is the 1st actually good BDO guide I've found on Youtube. Nicely done!