Regardless of the level and class of the character in the game, it is impossible to do without a hired worker. Slaves are an integral part of the gameplay in the Black Desert universe. They help in the extraction of ordinary and rare resources, craft and improve the quality of equipment, can perform various tasks, and create goods.

How to hire workers

Before proceeding with the purchase of workers, it is necessary to provide them with housing. In large cities, 1 place of residence of a slave is available without buying a house. In other cities and when more than one worker is required in the city, it is necessary to purchase a house and select the “Barrack” assignment for it. One such house allows you to provide housing for two slaves. Houses for expansion (Barracks) are displayed with an icon with a bed.

In the capitals, you can hire workers from the NPC mercenary merchant (indicated by an icon with a pickaxe) or purchase them at an auction from other players (at the NPC, the auction tab). To interact and open a shop for hiring one worker, 5 energy points are required. You should not pay attention to the external appearance, since this is just a picture. When choosing a slave, you need to look at the characteristics and skills.

Types and types of mercenaries

The type and quality of the worker determines its price at the merchant and at the slave auction:

• Human- has high luck (a chance for an additional bonus of creating high-quality armor or, when extracting resources, a chance to find something valuable) and average characteristics. Recruited in Serendia.
• Goblin- performs tasks assigned to him as quickly as possible. Recruited at the Balenos location.
• Giant- the most enduring worker (a large number of energy points). Recruited in Calpheon

The quality of hired workers, like things, is determined by color:

• lazy (white),
• normal (green),
• specialist (blue),
• master (yellow),
• expert (orange).

Exist named slaves. They have an additional characteristic and a good level of skills, they can be bought from special NPCs, which can be identified by their appearance.

Raise the level of friendship with such NPCs to 500, and they will open access to hiring. When buying a contract for a named slave, the number of friendship points will be reduced and you will need to slightly increase the level of friendship. Named slaves can only work in the cities listed on their certificate (hover the mouse over the slave and read the information about skills, additional characteristics and city).

Advice. During the purchase, you can choose where the funds will be debited from: from the warehouse or from the inventory. Select the desired option with the checkbox.

additional characteristics

Descendant of the Troll - 30% chance to restore 1/2/3 energy after completing a quest
Incredible Luck - 100% chance to return one type of material after production

For completing assignments, the worker gains experience, he can pump up to level 30. In addition to leveling up, the skills of the mercenary also increase - one passive skill point is added every five levels. There are three types of skills: A (high rank), B (medium rank) and C (low rank). The appearance of ranks is random, slaves can have the same skills, but different ranks.

Every 10 levels, the employee has a "Test" button. Thus, the quality of the worker can be improved (for example, from a master to an expert). After improving the quality of a slave, its level becomes 1, all skills are reset, and only one random skill remains. The energy of work is completely restored.

Thus, each employee passes the test three times. It happens that all attempts to improve the quality of a worker are unsuccessful, such a worker should be fired or sold at an auction of slaves.

Luck - Luck +0.4\0.7\1
Improved dexterity - mining speed +5 (wrong gamenet translation?)
Ease - work speed +1\1.5\2
Master - work speed +1\2\3
Furniture production - furniture production speed +5
Tool production - tool production speed +5
Tailor - costume production speed +5
Farmer - node speed +5
Blacksmith - +5 weapon/armor production speed
Profitability - 5\7\10% chance to return 10% of the amount of one type of material after production
Speed ​​- movement speed by +5\7\10%
Processing - processing speed +5
Dexterity - jewelry work speed +5
Caster - siege weapons production speed +5
Builder - construction speed +5
Mechanic - speed of production of carts and ships +5
Stamina - 5\8\10% chance to recover 1 energy after working
Mass Production - Mass Production Speed ​​+5
Leg Training - Increases movement speed by 0.5 per worker level
Skilled Artisan - Increases work speed by 0.2 per worker level
Light hand - increases luck by 0.2 per worker level
Expert dexterity - mining speed +5

Information about the hired workers will open if you click on the "Pickax" icon (located next to the icons of the horse, pet).

On a large-scale world map (Latin M key) in the upper right corner there is a “Workers” button, by clicking on it a window with information about personal slaves will appear. Here is a complete list of hired slaves, their place of work, the time until the end of the assignment and how many repetitions need to be done. To get information on slaves in a particular city, you need to open the world map and select a city, then click the "Workers" button.

List and characteristics of workers

Detailed information for each individual slave is displayed when a worker is highlighted in the list. In the window that appears, the skills, characteristics of the mercenary and his experience are described.

In the same tab, a test will take place, which lasts 1 day and only one worker can pass it. Restore button to restore work (energy) points. Button "repeat" - repeat the instruction issued earlier.

You can restore energy at a time, dismiss or assign tasks to be repeated for several workers, for this you need to select the ones you need by ticking them.

Job assignment

Workers perform two main functions: collecting resources and producing items.

In order to create good equipment or trade goods, you need to collect resources from which these items will be crafted. Many resources can be collected on your own, but some cannot be found without slaves.

To collect resources, a node must be opened where mining will be carried out:

• Click on this point with the right mouse button,
• In the window that opens, select a slave and set the number of repetitions of the order.

Advice. There must be one free space in the warehouse for the worker to start performing his tasks. For 1 task, 1 point of work energy is spent.

After assigning a mercenary to work, a window will appear with information about the current status of the task (time to completion and number of repetitions).

To cancel repetitions, click the "Cancel" button. The current task will be completed and the slave will return to the city.

With a high level of luck, a worker can accidentally get some rare resources.

It is impossible to create and improve items on your own in production houses. To do this, you need to send hired workers there.

Assignment to work occurs in the same way as when collecting resources. All crafting ingredients must be in storage. If there is no space left in the warehouse, the slave will continue to create things, but will put them in the closed slots of the warehouse. There will be no problems with the fence from these cells.

Recovery of work points

To replenish the energy points of a worker, it is necessary to feed him with special food. Products are created independently in the residence on the culinary table or bought at auction. There are five types of food for workers in the game. "Cheese pie" restores the most energy points (7 points), "Oatmeal", "fish in breadcrumbs" and "freak and snake stew" will add 5 points each, and beer only 2 points of work.

In the tab with information about the worker, click the "Restore" button. and choose the desired dish. Food should not be in storage, but in your character's inventory. In this case, you do not need to be near the mercenary.

It is impossible to settle a hired worker in another city, but he can be sent there to work. Trade communications must be established between cities (trade nodes are activated). Everything created or mined by slaves is brought to the city where they were hired. Mercenaries only do their job when you are in the game.

One of the most notable features of today's popular MMORPG Black Desert is that almost all items from the premium store (or pearl store, where game items (costumes, pets, etc.) can be bought for real money) can be purchased at the in-game auction without investing any real money. It will be enough to accumulate a solid amount of in-game currency - silver.

For example, a cat pet in Black Desert costs 450 and 500 rubles (pearls) in the premium store.

At the auction, prices vary somewhat, but on average, the joy of owning a cat helper will cost the player approximately 5.5 - 6 million silver. This is quite a lot of money.

In addition, buying premium items will be complicated by the fact that there are a lot of people like you who want to buy donated items for silver. That is why the Pearl auction tab is almost always gray, which means that all items are sold out. In addition to items from the premium store, it is very problematic to buy armor with a high level of piercing at the auction, and, for example, rare weapons, Liberto or Kzarka.

But you should not despair. Buying rare items on the Black Desert in-game auction is possible, you just need to put some ingenuity and patience into this process.

To begin with, of course, you need to accumulate the required amount of silver. And focus not on the minimum, but on the maximum price of the item at the auction. Let's say the player needs Grunil Armor [+15]. In this case, the chest must contain at least 14,300,000 silver.

After the financial issue is resolved, the most interesting and difficult thing remains - to "catch" the item at the Black Desert in-game auction.

The first thing to do is to set a notification about the registration of the necessary item for sale. This is done in the auction menu, in the lower right corner when choosing the item of interest. When you click on the "Enable Alert" button, a notification will appear at the top of the screen that you will now successfully receive messages as soon as the item is registered.

You can not be afraid to miss the appearance of the Armor.

Now you can safely play (farming on the rest of the Grunil set), waiting for a message about the receipt of the desired Armor for the auction. An alert will appear in the lower right corner of the screen.

As soon as the alert has been noticed, it is necessary to start moving towards the auctioneer if the player character was far away. Pay attention - you need to go to the auction of the city in whose warehouse the accumulated funds are located: the specifics of the game are such that each city has its own warehouse and, accordingly, the treasury.

It is not necessary to fly headlong, as many do, and then get upset when they do not see the desired item on sale. The fact is that the notification about the registration of an item is far from a sign that it can already be bought. The game mechanics is designed in such a way that it is impossible to purchase an item immediately after it has been registered, it simply does not appear in the list of goods.

Usually, after the registration of the item and its appearance on sale, it takes about 20 minutes, that is, you can safely walk to the auction and 10 minutes after the notification, stand in the "guard of honor" - that is, already purposefully "catch" the coveted Kzarka, armor or cat.

Having opened the auction menu, you need to find the necessary thing, the acquisition of which is about to happen, and open a list of items available for purchase. If everything goes according to plan, then the list should be empty, i.e. until the auction has not yet appeared what has already been registered. The most crucial moment comes - "catching".

First of all, you should prepare and check the box in the lower left corner of the window in advance so that the money for the purchase is immediately withdrawn from the warehouse. Otherwise, you can miss the thing in a hurry, because when the item goes on sale, you can’t waste a second - you are not the only one so smart. To a greater extent, the rush in this matter is needed for premium items - costumes and pets, because the number of people who want to get them is growing every day.

Your next tool for the next few minutes should be the Refresh button.

Press it constantly, with a small gap, because the Grunil Armor [+15] is about to appear.

And for motivation, imagine how your “competitors” around the game world, on all servers, also press this button with excitement ...

And finally, the Armor appears in the list of available goods.

The “B” badge on the newly appeared product is a recent innovation of the developers, apparently, having the purpose of protecting themselves from bots, which, according to rumors, are buying up all valuable goods with lightning speed. Its essence is to show that the item is expensive, just exhibited and cannot be bought immediately. After a while, when several (or one, or none) people try to buy it, it will become available for "standard" purchase.

Has its own quest system. If you want to learn the mechanics as quickly as possible, learn more about the game world, get additional influence points and useful things, then you will have to complete various quests. You can receive tasks either from the Black Spirit, who accompanies you throughout the game, or from numerous characters (NPCs).

Black Desert quest window

At any time in the game, press the O key to open a window with completed and current quests. There is a built-in filter here, you can also study the detailed description of tasks here. You have the opportunity to even refuse to complete a particular task. Why do it? You will learn about this below. Finally, there is the most important feature that greatly simplifies your task - automatically following to the next item on Black Desert quest.

Filters are of several types:

• Selecting a task by its type - craft, research or combat.
• The choice of a quest depending on the series - history (plot), quests from the Black Spirit, etc.

If you open the global map, you can see the detailed description of the quest if you click on its LMB symbol. In this case, you will not know what the reward is. If you click on this RMB symbol, then your character will automatically begin to follow to the desired location.

Right: quest window

How to complete tasks, classification of quests in Black Desert

Any NPC you meet in the game will give you quests. Someone does it right away, while other characters do it when a number of conditions are met, which include reaching a particular character level, friendship with this NPC, etc. Take a look at the map and you will see exclamation marks. They indicate those characters who are ready to give you a task.

But that's not all, because exclamation marks come in one of three colors:

• A yellow exclamation point indicates that this NPC can give you a quest.
• A blue exclamation mark indicates that the quest given by this character is in progress.
• The red exclamation point indicates a character from whom you can take a reward for completing a previously taken and completed quest.

Please note that the Black Spirit is not displayed on the map. To understand that you have completed his task or he has the next for you, pay attention to the icon in the lower right part of the screen. It is she who will be highlighted at these moments.

Except quests in Black Desert from the Black Spirit and NPCs, you can complete the missions received from the guild. These tasks can be activated by the head of the guild.

In total, there are seven different categories of quests you can complete, including the Black Spirit Quest, Story Missions, General Quests, Research Quests, Trade Quests, and Crafting Quests. Finally, every day there are certain quests, which are called daily.

What is the reward for Black Desert quests?

Award for passing quests Black Desert can be XP, influence points, energy, equipment, furniture, potions and other items. Other tasks will give you additional rewards that you can choose from (for example, they will offer three items, but you will only get one).

There is one important note: if you receive an item as a reward, then make sure you have free space in your inventory before picking up a well-deserved trophy.

What to do if the task is not running?

There are different situations when you are unable to complete a particular task. Let's list them:

• Taken the same quest to gain knowledge from different characters on the same account.
• The fact is that if one of the heroes completes such a task, then information about this is stored in the memory of the surname. In order for another character to receive and complete the quest, you must first cancel it, and then take it again.
• Quests related to the collection and transfer of items to any character have certain features. First you have to find and extract the resource, and then transfer it to the quest giver by selecting the phrase in the dialog box. Please note that you need to get this resource. If you get it in a different way (for example, buy it), you won't be able to use it to turn in the quest. Those resources that you, although you obtained, but did it before accepting the quest, will not work either.

Why does the quest chain break in Black Desert?

Very often, storyline quests are interconnected and follow each other. But not always after the completion of the current quest, you can immediately get the next one. In many situations, you will first have to wait for a certain amount of time to pass. But this pause will end not after, for example, a day, but when certain conditions are met. Either you will have to gain knowledge, or you will have to reach one level or another, etc.

Black Spirit Quests

The Black Spirit appears at the very beginning of the game and, looking ahead, stays with your hero forever. It is those quests that the Black Spirit gives out that are plot and tell the story of the game.

To summon the Black Spirit, you need to press the not quite familiar \ key. Automatically, the Black Spirit can appear when reaching a new level or completing his current quest. The name of the quest will appear on the right side of the screen.

When the task is completed, an inscription will appear on the screen stating this. Summon the Black Spirit, turn in the current quest to him, collect the reward and take on a new task.

Quests in Black Desert from NPC

Each character in the game gives your hero a quest under certain conditions. For example, when reaching a higher level or increasing friendship (affinity) with this NPC.

To find a character who can offer you quest in Black Desert, pay attention to the map, where you will see a yellow exclamation mark.

In the lower right part there is a list of all the NPCs of the settlement you are in. Among all the characters listed, you will notice those who have quests for you. Just double click on his name to see the hero.

It also happens that when you kill a particular mob, you can pick up an item with which you can activate a new quest.

Classification of quests from NPCs

The tasks that you can receive from NPCs are divided into several types. They are repeatable, mini-games, mob quests, trading, exploration, non-skill quests and special quests.

It is clear that repeated quests in Black Desert are completed several times, with a certain time interval. They are taken from the same quest giver. For example, such quests include "Quest for a cat", "Quest for goats", etc.

Mini-games are understood as tasks that, in their structure and content, resemble, excuse the tautology, mini-games. To complete the mission, you usually have to acquire an additional item by spending cooperation points. For example, you may need a gun, flute or fishing rod. You will need to execute certain commands, which are the main part of these quests. Tasks of this type are “Shooting”, “Fisherman” and “Ratcatcher”.

Quests for mobs in most cases are associated with the killing of one or another monster. Often you need to kill either a certain number of some creatures, or knock out the desired item from them. Often these tasks can be obtained from mercenaries located in taverns. The reward for completing the task is experience points and valuable coins that you can exchange for good money from merchants.

More narrowly focused tasks are associated with escorting NPCs from point "A" to point "B", the delivery of some object, the study of some area. It is noteworthy that for completing trade quests you get a wheel that expands your inventory. Of the special quests, for example, we will give one that offers you to activate the PvP mode ahead of schedule.

Quests from the guild

Guild masters can choose different quests from the general list of missions in the guild. They can issue these tasks to members of the guild.

To select the task that you want to complete, you will need to spend one or another amount. This parameter is called the "quest price". You will also need to take into account the time to complete the quest. But if such tasks can be completed, then the guild will receive a decent reward, which may include guild points, experience and various items, including sharpening stones, siege tents.

Quests from the guild are for ordinary mobs, for elite monsters and for the creation of some kind of item.

Although the tasks of the first type are associated with the killing of simple mobs, usually the required number goes off scale - about 250 pieces. On the other hand, the quest is issued for the entire guild, so the total number of mobs killed by all its members is calculated. The higher the guild level, the more substantial and difficult the quests will be, but the amount of reward received will also increase.

An example of a quest. Treasures of Valencia quest chain

Before describing this chain, we note that in order to successfully complete 21 tasks in this chain, huge amounts of energy points, time and money will be needed.

In general, to complete the entire quest chain, you will need:

• 3 bars, each with 1 million gold.
• 520,000 gold to purchase all four books.
• Several shovels.
• Huge amount of OP.
• 5 glasses of beer.
• Consumable items - tea, water, cans for HP, MP and FP.

You can take the first task from NPC Aru-Aru. Look for it in the territory of the capital of Valencia. The character will ask you to interact with various books. This is quite simple to do, but after that you have to steal 3 items at once. Each stealing attempt costs you 12 EP. And the first time, for 3 calls, stealing exactly 3 items is unlikely to work for you!

For a successful theft, you must sneak up on the character from behind, duck down and press the F2 key. If this key does not work, then perhaps the F1 key is responsible for theft in your layout. When you steal everything, then return to Aru-Aru and turn in the quest.

In order to take the next task, you will need to purchase a dictionary from Aru-Aru. During completing Black Desert quests this chain will need to purchase four books, each of which costs 130,000. The NPC, after you return to him with the stolen items, will ask you to distribute them to other characters. After that, you will need to dig up the grave of the King.

Head to the Valencia Castle and go down into the dungeon. Attention! You don't have to jump into the well! Interact with the inventory device that is used for excavation. This should be done in the place where circles are shown on the ground (in the center of the circles).

The Guardian should appear. You need to destroy it. Having done this, return to Aru-Aru for a new quest. You must dig sand in the desert. Just follow the marker, chat with the target and dig up the desired item. By the way, it is advisable to buy shovels in advance, because they will still be needed.

After this task, you will need to deal with the NPC Giovanni. Aru-Aru will direct you to him after completing the sand digging quest. To get the right item from Giovanni, you will have to deal with two other tasks. Take the first quest - you need to kill fat mobs near the mines, next to the volcano. It's north of Valencia. On the second quest, you need to deal with the Fogans south of Valencia.

After completing the tasks, talk to Giovanni. For the item you need, he asks you to bring him an ingot worth 1 million. You'll have to do it! After that, another quest from Giovanni will begin. Move to one place, and then return to talk to the man again. But he won't be here anymore. Chat with the three partners of Giovanni. Only one of them is telling the truth. But who?

Take the task from the one who claims that Giovanni is digging sand in the desert. Follow the marker, find Giovanni and take the next quest.

You'll need shovels again. Dig sand until you find the right thing. Apparently, the item can only be found in one place - southeast of the standing Giovanni.

Return to the capital of Valencia and approach the new NPC, which is located on the pier. Chat and get a task - to drag 5 glasses of beer. After buying it, give it to the character and get the desired item. Open inventory and uncheck "auto sort". Place the chest and the key in the right order - first the chest, and on the right is the key. You will receive Toki's diamond. Give it to the character in the indicated place.

Complete a few simple tasks until Aru-Aru asks again to buy the book and steal the key from another NPC. It will be very difficult to steal this item. You can use up about 200-300 EP! When you have the key to the Rabam warehouse in your hands. Then you have to travel. Move to the northwest of the desert and talk to the NPC, who will ask you to give him 2 ingots worth 1 million each.

After giving these ingots, move to the indicated place where you need to destroy the monsters. And again you have to go to the other end of the map. Don't forget to bring shovels with you to dig up the item.

Look around this place. Be careful, a piece of the object should flash. This is where you need to dig!

When you dig up 5 coins, the ruins will appear entirely.

Return to Aru-Aru to complete the quest. This completes his quests.

Chat with the Black Spirit, who will speak to you first. Go to Giovanni, who will offer to rob Aru-Aru. Steal this key and take it to Arehaza. Pass it to the dark-skinned one and communicate with the spirit. You will receive the quest you need so much, according to which you can choose a ring as a reward and an inlay stone.

Complete the task and communicate with the Black Spirit. Distribute a ducat to Aru-Aru and Giovanni for 1000 Influence.

In the world of Black Desert, there are different types and sets of armor. True, almost all of them can be counted on one hand, and with time and with an understanding of what your character needs, the choice turns out to be very, very small ... And so it turned out that my character from the twentieth level to this day runs in the Grunil set.

It was very sad for me to look at the whole thing, and the situation had to be corrected somehow. According to the quest line, I got the first suit, which is placed in a special cell. It also gives a +2 bonus to running speed. But over time, his appearance became boring.

However, it turned out that in the world of Black Desert there are a lot of other costumes, for every taste, and even a special production workshop - a dressing room for tailoring them. I was delighted with this fact and, having scouted the situation, I decided to sew Jareth's Clothes.

I must say that crafting in Black Desert is not an easy process, requiring skills, organization, money and patience. So, before I started sewing, I needed to earn additional influence points in order to buy a house (for the production of this costume - specifically in Heidel). I already had local free laborers available, so the next step was to get crafting materials.

The crafting of the costume itself was divided into three stages: the manufacture of golden armor, the manufacture of a pattern of expensive clothes, and the tailoring of the costume itself.

For the golden armor, I first had to… steal a pattern from a specific NPC! At the same time, she trained her zero stealing skills. However, it was possible to steal this particular pattern the first time. With bars of gold and steel, as well as with silk, the auction helped me. The black stone powder was made by my workers in Velia, so the golden armor was made fairly quickly.

Rubbing my hands, I moved on to the second stage - the pattern of expensive clothes. For her, I needed permission to produce the best women's clothing, which, of course ... had to be stolen from the same NPC! Permission did not want to sneak in any way, but the vigilant guard very quickly ran to my soul every time the owner of the coveted recipe caught me by the hand. So I learned how to quickly ruin relationships with NPCs and drain positive karma. There were no other options for obtaining a pattern, so I had to learn how to steal and not get caught, no matter how my righteous soul protested against such a pastime in the game. What was not in the pockets of the maid! But after a bunch of unnecessary things and a stack of golden armor recipes, I finally came across the very pattern. Delighted, I began to study the recipe further ... well, so, thick leather of the highest quality, thin leather of the highest quality ... The auction this time did not help me much, there was only one piece of thin skin in stock, the other two had to be obtained in a different way.

Got into the recipe. I realized that I need to cut 100 pig skins for one piece of top quality leather. Upset. Decided to take a detour by buying intermediate crafting results at the auction - high quality leather and softener. I started production ... and nothing happened to me. It turns out that only a master can make such a skin. Only his rank gives the appropriate knowledge of crafting. At my pace, I'll get the masters only by the end of next year, probably ... I had to look for salvation again at the auction.

After a week of checks and watching for the coveted skin, I still managed to buy it. Black Stone Powder was still available. And finally, my worker was able to make a pattern of expensive clothes.

The third stage turned out to be quite easy compared to the second one - raise the level of friendship points with the blacksmith to 500 using the mini-game, buy Jareth's clothing pattern for the dark knight, get a couple of rare opals (at the auction) and more black stone powder ... Start production ...

And here it is, my coveted costume! Sparkles gold on the character. What is it - he took all the slots of the armor, and not the suit?

So this is easily solved - just buy a coupon for an outfit for 800 rubles in the game store and transfer the costume to the correct cells! Hands go down.
A curtain.