Season Graduation Guide - BDFoundry (2024)

Introduction

Graduating sounds really complicated and can be a daunting task, but don’t worry, we’re going to take you through it step by step.

You can graduate when you are ready! Take as much time as you need to complete everything you want to do on the season servers and push all of your gear to PEN Tuvala gear.
To graduate from the season server, you just need to complete your season pass and there are no other requirements.
If you haven’t logged onto your BDO account for 180 days or longer, your season character will be automatically graduated and any graduation gifts are sent to your Mail (B).

Graduation Rewards

When you graduate, you will receive your graduation rewards, including the Gift Box Full of Memories containing various useful items.

This box will be sent to your Mail (B).

Item Name	Description
[Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon	An item that lets you exchange a converted Tuvala gear for a piece of Boss gear. More information can be found below explaining the full process.
Fughar’s Letter of Encouragement	A sincere letter from Fughar for Adventurers who will adventure in a rougher world.
Graduation Cap	An outfit celebrating your season server graduation that can be worn on your head.
Cron Stone x100	An item that prevents the enhancement level from dropping if enhancement fails.
Advice of Valks (+60)	An item that changes Enhancement Chance for gear enhancement.
Golden Graduation Gown	A golden Graduation Gown celebrating your graduation from the season server – Shop Price: 10,000,000 silver
[Event] Secret Book of Old Moon (7 Days)	Item that grants various buffs including Combat EXP +100%, Skill EXP +50%, and the ability to reset skills/skill add-ons freely,
[Event] Elion’s Tear x10	Instantly revive your character if they die. Also restores Combat EXP that was lost when dying.
Blessed Message Scroll x5	An item that will help you level by granting the buffs: Combat EXP +200% and Skill EXP +30%. The buffs can be stacked with other buffs.
[Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll x5	Item used to get Item Drop Rate +100% and Item Drop Amount +50% while defeating monsters.
[Event] Giovan Grolin’s Support Scroll x5	Item that has buffs: Life Skill Mastery +100 and Life EXP +20%
[Event] Tachros’ Spirit Stone	A spirit stone that grants the following buffs: Extra AP Against Monsters +5 Combat EXP +50% Skill EXP +30% Attack Speed +4% Casting Speed +4% Weight Limit +50 LT
Premium Elixir Box x3	An item box containing one of each of the following items: [Event] Perfume of Courage, [Event] Perfume of Swiftness, [Event] Khalk’s Elixir
Finto’s Filling/Sweet/Fresh Juice x10	Each item can boost your Health, Breath, and Strength EXP respectively. Finto’s Filling Juice: Max. HP up. Finto’s Sweet Juice: Stamina up. Finto’s Fresh Juice: Weight Limit up. Finto’s Juice can be only used by characters that are under level 29 for Health, Breath, or Strength.

How to Graduate from the Season Server

What is season graduation?

Players can graduate from the season server when they are ready to and in their own time. Graduating turns your character into a regular character, meaning you lose access to season servers and their benefits, but you can now equip all other gear options and start working towards PEN boss gear.

What do I need to do first?

Make sure you have full PEN Tuvala weapons and armor
Completed the entire Season Pass and collected all the rewards
Sold or exchanged your spare Time-Filled Blackstones and other spare season materials

When should you graduate?

Personally, I would stay on the Season until you have everything done that you want to complete on the season server. There is no rush and you can work towards the goals in your own time. You should only graduate if you already have PEN boss gear ready to equip, or have literally gotten everything you possibly can out of the season. Even if you have full PEN Tuvala and are eager to join the normal servers, remember that extra season items such as Time-filled Blackstones can be sold to vendors for quite a lot of silver.

How to start your Graduation

You can graduate after completing your entire season pass and accepting all the rewards (including the Black Spirit Pass if you have bought it).

Simply press the “Graduate” button on the season pass whilst connected to a non-season server (eg. Balenos 3).

You will then be disconnected temporarily while your season server is converted to a normal character.

All of your Tuvala gear will be automatically converted to “normal gear”, which means it can now be worn by any non-season character.

Each piece of your season Tuvala gear with the highest enhancement level will be converted into normal Tuvala gear, and all other duplicates removed (except for rings and earrings which will have a maximum of two of each converted).
You will no longer be able to access the season server, season pass, season quests/challenges, or season-exclusive gear.
When you graduate, one of your Season Character Tickets will be consumed.

Items removed when you graduate:

Black Spirit Pass
All extra Tuvala equipment
Time-filled Blackstones
Rift’s Fragment, Rift’s Echo
Frozen Tides Black Stone, Boiling Tides Black Stone
Fughar’s Riding Crop
Fughar’s Fishing Rod
[Season] Secret Book of the Misty Breeze, [Season] Secret Book of the Crimson Fog
Atoraxxion: Rift Chest
[Event] Fughar’s Special Season Gift Box
[Season] exclusive gear (such as Militia, Azwell, Elsh weapons, etc.)

Quitting the Season

You can also choose to quit the season, which will turn your season character to a normal character without needing to complete the season pass and graduate.

It is recommended to finish the season and graduate properly instead of quitting the season.

Quitting the season will consume your Season Character Ticket
Your character and tuvala gear will be converted to normal character/gear
All other season items will be deleted
You will no longer have access to the season pass, season server, or other season related content.

Exchanging Tuvala Gear for Boss Gear

After graduating from the season, you have 2 options and will want to take advantage of both of them.

Option 1: Boss Exchange Coupon

You will be given a [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon when you graduate each season.
This can be used to change ONE PEN Tuvala gear into TET boss gear.
The TET boss gear can be enhanced and you can put caphras into it.
You are limited to which gear it will exchange to (Eg. Kutum only).
You cannot sell it on the central market.
You can exchange this gear at Jetina later on if you want to.

Option 2: Jetina Boss Exchange

Jetina Boss Exchange is can be done ONCE per account.
You can exchange ONE FULL SET of TET boss gear.
You can choose between the different boss gear options (eg. Kutum or Nouver)
You CANNOT enhance this gear or put caphras into it.
You can only turn this gear into PEN using the guaranteed PEN boss gear method.
You cannot sell it on the central market.

Boss Exchange Coupon (Optional)

If you are a new player, you can ignore the boss exchange coupon and don’t have to use it. Instead skip to the next section and exchange all your gear at Jetina.

If this is not your first season, or you are a returning player, you can use the coupon, but don’t have to. Personally, I like to use the coupon on one item so I can try to enhance it to PEN straight away using cron stones. This way, if the enhancement fails, it won’t downgrade and I can still swap it at Jetina, or if I’m lucky and it goes to PEN, I saved myself a lot of money. A good piece to choose for this is the Kutum weapon, because then you can also get the Nouver from Jetina at a later date if you want to for a PVP offhand option.

Quest Name	Item Obtained
[Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Kzarka Main Weapon	Kzarka Mainhand Weapon Box (open on any class)
[Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Kutum Sub-weapon	Kutum Mainhand Weapon Box (open on any class)
[Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Dandelion Awakening Weapon	Dandelion Awakening Weapon Box (open on any class)
[Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Giath’s Helmet	Giath’s Helmet (not recommended)
[Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor	Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor (not recommended)
[Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Muskan’s Shoes	Muskan’s Shoes (not recommended for new players)
[Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Bheg’s Gloves	Bheg’s Gloves

Jetina’s Guarenteed PEN Boss Gear

At this point, you also need to make a decision whether to go for Damage Reduction armors or Evasion armors. The choice depends on your playstyle and class, but in most cases, you are recommened to go with Damage Reduction armors as a new player.

I recommend reading through our Damage Reduction VS Evasion guide/discussion, which will teach you how these important stats work.

The recommended armor and weapons are shown below:

Ultimately Red Rose will be replaced by Fallen God Armor, and Griffon helmet will be replaced by Labreska Helmet.
The reason you are recommended to take Red Nose Armor instead of Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor is because it requires fewer caphras to level up, meaning you will save silver when upgrading to Fallen God Armor

Damage Reduction Armors (recommended for new players)	Evasion Armors
⇒ Griffon’s Helmet ⇒ Labreska Helmet	⇒ Griffon’s Helmet ⇒ Labreska Helmet
⇒ Red Nose Armor ⇒ Fallen God Armor	⇒ Red Nose Armor ⇒ Fallen God Armor
⇒ Urugon’s Shoes ⇒ Ator’s Shoes	⇒ Muskan’s Shoes ⇒ Ator’s Shoes
⇒ Bheg’s Gloves ⇒ Dahn’s Gloves	⇒ Leebur’s Gloves ⇒ Dahn’s Gloves

Weapon Choices
Kzarka Weapon (recommended)	Offin Tett’s Weapon
Dandelion Weapon
Kutum Weapon (PVE Option – Recommended)	Nouver Weapon (PVP Option)

Once you’ve decided which gear you would like to select, begin the exchange at NPC Jetina.

Jetina's PEN Boss Gear Guide

Enhancing armors and weapons becomes more expensive with each one, so it is recommended to only enhance 2 Armors and 1 Weapon with Jetina’s Method.

For the armors, complete the Magnus Questline to obtain a FREE PEN Griffon’s Helmet, then use Jetina’s Method for your Red Nose and Bheg’s Gloves. Finally, buy PEN Urugons from the central market.

For the weapons, use Jetina’s Method to get your Kutum offhand to Reform level 4. The only difference between level 4 and a PEN Kutum, is 1 accuracy. You can then obtain a FREE TET Blackstar (more info below) for your mainhand or awakening (select the mainhand Blackstar if you are awakening spec, and awakening Blackstar if you are succession spec). For your other weapon slot, keep that at TET for now.

Free TET and PEN Blackstar Weapon

All players can obtain 1 free TET (IV) Blackstar weapon and 1 free PEN (V) Blackstar weapon of their choice.

For new players, it is recommended to select the Awakening Weapon for your TET Blackstar choice, and the Mainhand Weapon as your PEN Blackstar choice.

These rewards are each available once per family and have the following requirements:

Reach level 61+ with your character
Complete one of the following:
- Simplified Main Questline
- Main Questline up to Mediah
- Mountain of Eternal Winter Main Questline
- Land of the Morning Light Main Questline

The TET (IV) Blackstar Weapon Box can then be obtained from your (Y) Challenge Rewards.

You can select either x1 TET (IV) Blackstar weapon (main/awakening/sub-weapon) or x10 [Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger

Once you have selected the Weapon Box, it can be opened on any class to receive a weapon suitable for that class.

Shai cannot open the TET (IV) Blackstar Awakening Box.
TET (IV) Blackstar weapons obtained from the box cannot be registered on the Central Market.
Only non-season characters can open the TET (IV) Blackstar weapon box and equip the claimed weapon.

▼ 4 Choices (Choose 1) ▼
TET (IV) Blackstar Weapon (1 Main/Awakening/Sub-weapon)	[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x10
TET (IV) Blackstar Main Weapon Box (Additional option for new players)	TET (IV) Blackstar Awakening Weapon Box (Recommended for new players) ※ Not recommended for Shai Class	TET (IV) Blackstar Sub-weapon Box ※Not recommended for new players	[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x10 ※ For veteran adventurers who do not require TET Blackstar weapons.

▼ 4 Choices (Choose 1) ▼

TET (IV) Blackstar Weapon
(1 Main/Awakening/Sub-weapon)

[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x10

TET (IV) Blackstar Main Weapon Box

(Additional option for new players)

TET (IV) Blackstar Awakening Weapon Box

(Recommended for new players)

※ Not recommended for Shai Class

TET (IV) Blackstar Sub-weapon Box

※Not recommended for new players

[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x10
※ For veteran adventurers who do not require TET Blackstar weapons.

The PEN (V) Blackstar Weapon Box can also be obtained from your (Y) Challenge Rewards.

If you selected the Awakening weapon as your TET Blackstar choice, I would recommend selecting the Mainhand weapon for your PEN Blackstar.

Right-click the box to open the options and choose between a mainhand weapon or awakening weapon box.

You will be asked to type a specific sentence into a pop-up box to confirm your choice.

Type one of the following sentences depending on your choice:

My PEN (V) Blackstar main weapon
My PEN (V) Blackstar awakening weapon

Once you have selected the Weapon Box, it can be opened on any class to receive a weapon suitable for that class.

Shai cannot open the PEN (V) Blackstar Awakening Box.
PEN (V) Blackstar weapons obtained from the box cannot be registered on the Central Market.
Only non-season characters can open the PEN (V) Blackstar weapon box and equip the claimed weapon.

Season’s Special Reward

You can receive a special reward by exchanging the Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon at NPC Fughar
The coupon is obtained from the Season Pass when you reach Lv. 10 on a season character.
- If you have already graduated without exchanging your coupon, you can still go to Fughar to claim your reward

You can choose between any of the rewards if you have not already claimed them.

For your first season, it is recommended to get the PEN Capotia Belt or Necklace (whichever one you didn’t pick from Y rewards) since you should have the PEN Capotia Ring from the other methods (info about free PEN Accessories). You can also make another season character in the future if you would like to collect the PEN Capotia Earring as well.

[2020 Summer Season]	PEN (V) Capotia Earring	PEN (V) Capotia Ring
	(Select ONE of the above)
[2020 Autumn Season]	Perilla’s Star
[2020  Winter Season ]	PEN (V) Capotia Belt
[2021 Summer Season]	PEN (V):  Capotia Necklace
[2021 Season+]	Advice of Valks (+100)
2021 Winter Season: Drakania Season: Dawn of Dragons 2022 Autumn Winter Spring 2023 Summer	Advice of Valks (+100) Box
[Opening Special] All-New Season	Advice of Valks (+150)

Post-Graduation – What to do next

After graduating from the season server, you may feel confused and unsure of what to do next. My best advice is to set yourself small goals.

You may want to start by collecting certain treasure items, such as:

Infinite Potions – highly recommended
Archaeologists Map
Lafi Bedmountain’s Upgraded Compass.

As for your gear, there is still plenty to do! The first things you may want to start working toward (if you haven’t already) are the guaranteed PEN boss gear and PEN accessory from Jetina. There are also several Adventure Logs to complete, and other objectives/questlines, such as the Magnus questline.

You will also have access to the Progression Pass by clicking the icon in the top left. The progression pass is similar to the Season Pass, but you can complete the objectives in your own time. You may already have completed some of the objectives, and can accept the rewards by clicking any glowing objectives. For the “Game Tips” category, you can also just click these to complete them.

If you need a bit of help and aren’t sure what to do next in terms of gear or personal goals, check our Gear Progression guide, or feel free to hop into our discord to ask questions!