Black Desert Online is an expanding game with a lot of in-game contents that fulfill the need of all different categories of playerbase but little for PvE players. The PvE part is quite lacking that it has only provided us one special PvE content, Savage Rift that is.

Many players especially PvE ones quickly lost interest in taking part in Savage Rift due to its boring mechanism; It doesn’t allow players to utilize their character potentials that they have build.

While BDO developers try to continue creating the game as a seamless world, there are parts in which it showed that players have to go through some loading screens e.g teleporting to Aakman and Hysteria which technically are dungeons. But these are not typical ones as they don’t have end-dungeon boss.

I believe integrating actual dungeons in an open world game will make the game even more popular; I’ve seen players who lost interest in playing BDO as there are no traditional type of dungeons and raids that require tactical party formation and gameplay.

Below are some of PvE modes I have in mind that I would love from Pearl Abyss to consider adopting and implementing in the near future.

1. Dimensional Gate:

Summon scrolls are one of the boring, no brainer group content that can be done with less effort (except for some Awakened bosses). Summon scrolls should function in a different way in which players use them to create a portal which I’d call it a Dimensional Gate to teleport them to boss realms A.K.A. dungeons.

Let’s take Valencia Castle as an example. Once a party is formed, all party members travel through this gate and enter the castle that is separated from the open world. The castle has mobs that do not respawn upon death, but still give the same benefit of giving EXP and loots as field mobs. To provide some challenging elements of surprise, a random rare mob e.g. Gatekeeper, may spawn before a party enters boss room. Once the party inside the boss room, players need to defeat yet another challenging enemy; a dungeon boss. There is also a chance to encounter an Awakened version of dungeon boss from normal summon scrolls. And this is to encourage players to find parties instead of going to dungeons solo. Additionally, players can obtain a guaranteed Awakened Boss scroll by combining 5 permits. All party members have an equal chance to get loot from all different types of scrolls.

Since dungeons will be a bit lengthy, drop amount and type should be changed accordingly. Dimensional Gate won’t be a replacement to open world areas as players still need to find scroll pieces to summon Dimensional Gates. Also, dungeons won’t be perfect for leveling up as mobs do not respawn.

2. Survival Mode:

Survival mode is another end game PvE content that even some PvP players will find it interesting. This mode tests the ability of players to survive the attack of hordes of mobs and powerful bosses within a limited time. Players can form a party which would be better if they follow a trinity system; Healer, Tank, DPS (and Debuffer). This will make this mode more interesting as it will require teamwork.

Survival Mode starts at level 50, and it’s divided into different set of level range. To get an entry to this mode, each party member has to finish a simple [Daily] Black Spirit quest to get a Permit. The permit is obtained once per CHARACTER. This is to allow players to make use of alternative characters especially those who reroll from one class to another. All participating party members have to have this permit in their inventory.

Survival mode consists of 20 rounds. Each round a party tries to defeat as many mobs for the round boss to appear. If the boss dies, players proceed to the next round and gain additional time. If they fail to defeat the boss within the allotted time or everyone dies, players return to BDO world.

Survival mode can be divided as follow:

Level 50 ~ 55:

Each round a boss from Balenos ~ Serendia appears.

Level 56 ~ 59:

Each round a boss from Calpheon ~ Mediah appears.

Level 60 ~ 65:

Each round a boss from Valencia ~ Kamasylvia appears.

A note to mention that party members cannot use any revival items but dead members can respawn every 5 rounds as long as there is a survived member.

Each 5th round, players take loots; higher rounds give better loots and higher Survival category gives better exchangeable items. If a party successfully clears survival mode, they get some sort of items that they can exchange certain amount of them for blue and yellow gears based on survival mode categories as described above.

P.S. Some players may know where I came up with these ideas! ;)

You can also find my post on Reddit: https://goo.gl/Ya5rua