Fishing | Activities Black Desert Online Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
Fishing is an inseparable part of Black Desert Online. Thanks to this, you can not only relax or enter a competition, but also get richer. While you are fishing, your health is replenished automatically. Therefore, it is a good idea to consider fishing when you are low on health. To start fishing, you only need the fishing rod. You can buy it at a low price from a fisherman in virtually any city.. Unlike regular items (armoring) the fishing rod can be repaired. One lasts you for several tens of fishing sessions and, after its durability runs out, you can simply throw it away. To start fishing, you simply need to stand at the riverside, seaside or other patches of water and throw the equipped fishing rod. You are not required to have any bait. However, if you have one, it shortens the time necessary to catch a fish, which translates directly into the effectiveness of the entire process.
Fishing is all about playing a minigame. If you catch a fish, there appears a fish icon above your head, which tells you to pull. During the pulling process, a window pops up, where you need to hit a appropriate (blue) bar. If you hit the bar filled in blue (the blue bar fills all of the available space), fishing ends in an automatic success. If you hit the bar that is not entirely filled in blue, the game displays a sequence of keys that you need to tap. IF you play the minigame properly, you catch the fish, if not- the fish breaks loose. If you hit the red bar, the fish breaks loose automatically. After you end the minigame, you get to see what you have caught. At this point, you can either accept it(a valuable fish, a stone, a key) or throw it away (an old wellington, net, sock) and continue fishing. Your success depends mainly on your fishing level.
You train fishing by fishing. The more time you spend on fishing grounds the better the items that you catch. There is a price list of fishes and items and you can look it up at any moment, by accessing the inventory. At the initial fishing levels, you will be catching low-quality items and cheap fishes. However, this is not an obstacle on your way to catch something of more value. Making money on fishes consists in selling them to Trader Manager. They re interested in any species of fishes and their price depends on the number of nodes that you have bought. If you, therefore, catch a fish with a price cap of 10 000 silver pieces, you go to the trader and are offered mere 3000 silver (30% of the item's full value), this means that you do no have trading nodes connected with the city. Therefore, before you start selling your fishes, you need to connect nodes.
An important aspect of fishing is also the stocking level of fishing waters. It may be abundant or exhausted. Stocking level is directly connected to time that you need to catch a fish or an item. While fishing, you can also catch interesting items. These are keys you can use to open chests all around the game world, which you can loot for magic black stones for enchantment of items, or the magic stones themselves. It is better not to sell them to the traders, because you can use them for upgrading your gear.
Fishing is an activity that can be performed all over the game world. It will become available after choosing fish icon from the list of previously assigned tasks (no. 5 in the interface). The tasks not only focus on catching fish. A certain amount of time is devoted to crafting fishing rods of higher tier or gaining access to new fisheries. All these processes will affect fishing. You will receive new fishing outfits, increase your luck and abilities to catch fish, and fishing rods that differ in terms of statistics.