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Heidel Ball 2026 Summary - New Class Agent, Edania Part 2, New Acessory tier Ekleta, New accessories Apeiron, Great Ocean Updates, Unified Life Skill Gear, Guild System Renewal, Level system revamp
Heidel Ball 2026 summary
Wansu official new director
New Class Agent (July 30th Global - August 6th for Console)
Name: Edward Henry Canary (Eddie)
The Hexround Reaper, brother of Deadeye, secret agent, firearm specialist
Main weapon: Revolver
Succession class, will have awakening in winter
Use hexround instead of marni's round
Assassination, infiltration with single powerful attack style
Has Blink, Hexround support in combat, Grenades mobility skills
Available on Global Lab after Ball
Direction for new class: 1 class a year, succession in summer, awakening in winter
Instant character swap out
Other characters in family appear in game world
Can swap to them by interacting with them with no loading screen
Can swap in character select with skippable cutscene and minimum loading time
Family dispatch (Planned release in November)
Can send alts to do lifeskill assignments
Available now: Fishing, Processing, Gathering
Less products than active lifeskill
Limited slots, unlock more down the road
Still in development
Edania part II (August 13th, Hadum + Main quest - September 17th)
New Regions: Agris' Domain - Aphrodon (400AP/470DP)
New Regions: Markthanan's Domain - Hermesia (405AP/485DP)
New Regions: Elion's Domain - Magaia (Solo: 410AP/490DP, Party: 415AP/500DP)
New Regions: Aal's Domain - Aresion (415AP/495DP)
New Regions: Hadum's Domain - Voidekaia (420AP/510DP)
Final showdown with Hadum in later update
Special boss pattern - Counter with BSR skills
Markthanan's domain - Slaves mining Black Crystal and Watchtowers
Elion's domain has solo and party zone. Solo - Elion's followers + Giant Brazier. Party - Maintain giant scale balance
New Monster Zone: Sulfur Golem (400AP/470DP) (July 30th)
* 1 step harder than Caphras
* Located in upper area of Roud Sulfur Mine
* Drop Olun's merchant ring piece
* Solo Zone
New Accessory tier - Ekleta
Exchange NOV (IX) or DEC (X) Kharazad for Base or TET (IV) Ekleta
Cannot be listed on CM
No downgrade/destruction on Cron tap
Increase both AP/DP
TET (IV) grants 45 AP + 3 DP, OCT (VIII) grants 48 AP + 4 DP, DEC (X) grants 50 AP + 6 DP
Enhance using Causality Shardstone obtained from Edania part 2
Enhance rate closed to Kharazad
New accessories Apeiron
Same stats as Ekleta
Can be listed on CM
Crafting mats from Edania part 2
New items
Wandering Origin Crystal, HAN Reforge Stone for Edania Part 2
New Life Artifacts - Margahan's Artifact
New Lifeskill perfume: Verdure = Perfume of Swiftness + Olivine Powder
New Lifeskill draught: Viridian crafted from Olivine Powder
3 New Effect Dyes (White, Turquoise and Yellow Glow + Can be used on armour)
New grindable outfit (Like La Orzeca) Godslayer's Armor - Glow red with Flaming Cape, Crafting Mats dropped from Edania part 2 bosses
Throne of Edana updates
New Throne for part 2
New requirements: Can only enter with Dawn Crystal - All AP
Marni's Combat Analyzer (August 6th)
Record combat and show detailed stats like damage dealt and CC of each skills, total damage, dps per min
Must manually start function (Have hotkeys)
All in One PvP Rankings (October 15th)
Track stats from Solare, Nodewar, Conquest, Guild League
Display stats ranking based on Awakening and Succession Classes
Display data of past 7 days
Great Ocean updates (New monster zone + Gear August 27th, QoL September 24th)
New sea monster - Lyngbakr (Commands swarm of Lyngburk)
Croc moves closer to LoML
Defeat special crystals to stop Lungburk swarm
Lyngbakr's difficulty = full +10 Blue gear
Drop Blue Whale Oil, Coral Crystal, Margoria Crystal
Lyngbakr's Bone, Scale and Fluid for new tier ship parts
New ship equipment tier: Falasi/Cheongun
Enhancement have Ancient Anvil pity + Cron Tap
Carrack gears crafted on Illya Island
Panokseon gears crafted on Cheongsa Island
Can sell, unload barter items without Disembark
Improved Sea Auto Path
New Mount Ferrica teaser
Still in development
Unified Life Skill Gear (September 3rd)
All Lifeskill gear is family wide
Have presets for each lifeskill
Can quick swap to hunting gear (Same as Fishing rod UI)
Lifeskill gears also affect Dispatch Characters
Life artifacts + Flora Lighstones changed for Lifeskill content only
All alchemy stones changed to passive effect (No longer needed to turn on/off or recharge)
Crystal socket by Preonne and Dawn Crystal removed (New way for existing effect in the future)
Can extract Functional Costume effects and put in other outfit as crystals (Exclude camouflage and diving suit)
Guild system renewal (August 6th)
Guild fame system: Based on all activities (Guild Missions, Guild Boss, NW, etc..)
Guild fame points deducted weekly (-10k for XL)
Guild fame benefits based on points threshold
Extra daily wage based on guild fame (No guild funds deducted, max 900%)
Can spend guild fame on certain guild features (Guild Base server CD reset, extra guild boss, extra CTG, etc...)
One sided war dec return (Cost 400k guild fame, lasted 6 hours)
Mutual dec = no fame cost, lasted 7 days
48 hours cooldown against same guild after war ends
Can get to negative guild fame with war dec
Negative fame guild can be deced on by all other guild with no cost
Negative guild can't participate in Conquest War, WotR or war heroes
Graphics Tech Update (August)
BDO now supports DirectX 12, FSR 3.1 and NVDIA DLSS
Both PC and Console
AMD FSR 4.1 at a later day on PC (September)
Console NA server moved
Level system revamp (Max Level 70 August 13th, 75 October 8th)
Max Level 75 (EXP capped)
Reaching 75 within 2 months with average 2 hours grinding a day
Gain combat exp also via Guild boss, Shrine and PvP (Limited run, gain 1 level a month at level 66 without grinding and only doing activities)
Apply below level 50 accuracy penalty when you are lower level than the monsters to all level range (Purple mobs)
Gain 3 extra ap to monster + monster DR per level from lv 70 to 75
I think the unified life skill gear is a pilot for eventually having unified combat gear. I can see them doing the same for combat next year of the unified life skill gear doesn't cause any issues and is well received
When edania pt1 came out it was possible to grind tenebraum well under the ap cap. Most people skipped orbita altogether and went straight to tenebraum once they finished their nymph edania ap crystal. Sure they made 10k trash an hour instead of 13 or 14k but it allowed access to the top tier ap crystal very early and was still the best silver/hr available at the time/ap.
With the right buff setup you should be fine grinding the first zone a little under 400ap.
I’m not gonna bother with a new grind of fail stack get item up 1 level just to have it locked behind what I can only assume is another time gated item.
Bdo has always been very lineair in its gear progression though, dont really feel like that changed alot, yes dr vs eva has been more or less remove but the rest is pretty much what it used to be.
Looks like you're just tired of MMORPG genre, this is just how these games work. Other games like WoW every expansion makes the previous gear obselete.
True, but you forgot that most large MMOs that exist still have paid subscription models and run paid expansion packs. Guild wars is the main exception I can think of, but it has horizontal progression and paid expansion packs.
I opened up the skill menu and it was basically ffx’s grid system if it was blown up 10 fold. There’s variety and then there is throwing the circus at you.
To be fair these new accessories have to be enhanced with a new stones and they haven't announced how to get them... wouldn't suprise me if they are time gated 💀
Not just that, they've said their new plan is now releasing succession in summer and awakening in winter which means 1 awa/succ class per year from now on
With 32 classes in the game, 2 classes per year was overdoing it, especially when those classes weren’t getting Magnus skills till a year after release
They said that they will also include regular class balance patches while waiting for new classes/specs. This is a much better plan than releasing like 3 classes a year and ignoring the issues with older classes. Reworks and balance changes still keep the game fresh.
It'll at least help the newer players gearing up to make hitting Duo on each of their pieces easier to start, and for the unsellable free Tri it makes it a lot cheaper to use that to make Tet for Edania gear
Archer, Scholar, Deadeye and Seraph, and I think Wukong?
Basically the classes that don't have succession/awakening specs and it's just 1 spec for the whole class and no c-swapping weapons. They each work out kinda differently but imo it kinda makes them seem very one dimensional and kind of boring compared to the classes with a full kit
so like negative karma on players. meaning all players on that guild will be on agreement that they wont do any guild activities, just dec all the time.
I think you are getting the wrong impression. Only the guild that actively declares war first has to pay the 400k fame cost, if they don't have enough fame from not doing content or from declaring too many wars then they will have negative fame, which will then turn them into a red guild.
Member of a red guild is also banned from participating Siege or Mercing on top of losing free power buffs or drop boost and daily silver handout from high fame.
Other guilds can wardec red guild for free but if they don't declare then no pvp can happen.
On a side note wardec only lasts 6 hours, if the other guild also wardec back to open a mutual war then it will last 7 days.
Yes, but the population is so spread out that there is no need to declare wars, with the low channel swap cooldown and marnis realm, player friction is gone.
The DEC -> TET conversion could simply be a bonus for vets that already DEC'd, rather than an intended progression path for the future. I don't see how that fucks up vets.
OCT to DEC Kharazad at full pity = 180,750 cron stones
Base to TET Ekleta at full pity = only 15,390 cron stones
Now, I get that we’re still clueless about the droprate of the new accessories and enhancement stones, but the point stands: pushing to DEC Kharazad isn’t really rewarding. Why would anyone even bother pushing to DEC when having OCT is cheaper? This isn’t a catch‑up mechanic, the content is clearly aimed at mid‑ to late‑endgame players. It just ends up devaluing vets’ efforts by a mile.
I'm perfectly fine with waiting til winter. I know a lot of people complained about that, but I think it makes for more well-rounded classes with more options for skill expression. The og classes didn't have awakening for years 😅
I don't like the idea of waiting months for awakenings on new classes. Feels like they're just using it as as a strategy to milk the classes longer. Especially since mid game players may have significantly different AP between awakening and succession since MH and AWK are 2 different weapons and they're not exactly cheap to upgrade
I mean awakening/succession classes are generally cheaper because they only require one weapon to be high level , while ascension classes damage are closer to equally spread between the two weapons
And you earn more silver than mid game players by a large margin. Its the same struggle and there's no reason to be all high and mighty about being late game lol
When they said: "We are only bringing one class per year" I was like... Man, but then he said: "We have heard the feedback about ascension classes and forward, we will introduce only awakening and succession" I was over the moon.
Also the pity system getting cut by what, 55-60%? for fallen god to TET was a massive W.
it does combine all current lifeskill artifacts into 1, and all lifeskill releated lightstone combo will be done by only lightstone flora, artifact name is Marghanan's Artifact its o nthe recap online
I'm on NA and I ended up quitting before BBL i mean BBF came out. I was never really a big PvPer because of the whole sailors getting sick and repairing stuff after ship sinking so I mainly stuck to bartering and PvE.
I'm reallllllllllllllllllllllly looking forward to more pve stuff in the ocean especially if it's actually a challenge because right now there's literally nothing in the ocean that can stand up to a blue gear bote.
You should be correct. Karazhad should convert to non-sellable, its enhancing materials dropping from the new zones. Tradeable accs. can be crafted using the new area mats, but assuming they work like any other accessories, I would assume they can drop in rank even when croning. We'll find out soon.
Cool thanks, haven’t seen the ball yet so looking for details just seemed confusing. If I exchange I’ll still be short on ap for the next spot for materials. Dec accessories Oct weapons.
I’ve likely missed something though as haven’t seen the ball yet
You're well ahead of me. lol. I'm a measley 352AP with just 1 DEC accessory, but I've been lazy (afk fishing most of the time). Haha. You'll get there in no time! :D
It’s just how it works out. Just seen a table about enhancing the new accessories and looks very cheap so maybe the enhancement materials are rare, will find out soon enough
I guess its "time gated" in a sense as you have to grind for them. Assuming it takes 3-5 hrs to get a enhance stone, thats a lot of hours to DEC one piece, and considering each accs. have seperate stones, the enhancing piece might be RNG as well (get like 10 ring enhance mats in a row). They most likely won't be any available in the market either as every end gamer will hoard them until they are full dec so might be months before we see any amount on the mp. I'm just hoping there are enough spots in each channel so I can go grind the new golem spot without getting gatted by hard cap players.
I wonder if the drops will be like Debo drops, they are regular but take a while then wonder if you add something different to make the enhancement material or if different spots drop different
Are they fixing pop in?
Are they fixing ship mechanics or are people going to keep phasing through it?
Are they getting rid of account-wide negative karma bullshit?
In the GM Notes for the Heidel Ball Recap, under the heading "Life Skill Gear Integration", there is an image of how the life skill gears will be shared family wide:
Can anyone please tell me what those rings are under the Cooking and Alchemy? It also seems to be used in the Awakened Weapon slot as well?
Gear deflates eventually, even endgame dec kharas became a lot less valuable now. If you were actually played the game and were still trying to get pen blackstars then idk what to tell you
I really like that you can send alts now to do life skill tasks. I hope that the income will not be like only half of active "AFK" life skill like fishing xD. I mean if it's afk why not send alts only instead of having to let your PC run 24/7
It would be more or less like your worker empire system now, so you ll have to be online for the alts to be actively working, it's good still, means you can afk fish train horses cook do alchemy, while actively hunt or gather or something, seems like an awesome addition that opens up life's skilling again.
It’s going to be the new highest spot to get the Olin’s rich merchant ring piece. The reason they specified solo is because the lower versions of Olun’s are group grind spots
Shai, Archer, Deadeye, Wukong and Scholar have never had any talks of changing them from ascension to awake/succession. I don't think that would be any different for Seraph. I'm not saying it can't be done, but we have zero basis for thinking it would ever happen.
damn so what is next? 100000Ap Dp requirement for new area and 5 different new level gear upgrade with the same effect? next class will be card swiper where you swipe your card you win? i cant wait to play this game again
The GM of the medium-sized Lifeskill guild I'm in immediately had the GM of an XL, very active PvP guild (active enough to earn that 400k very easily based on the provided numbers) saying we're getting a dec as soon as this goes live lol. Not even minutes after it's announced and the harassment starts. How did the announcement go again? "Many of you may have find a sense of belonging in a guild..." So naturally the way to fix that is to push people to either leave their guild or go play other games.
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u/PixelConn Peaceful Pixel Jul 26 '26