Battle Arena and Trial Character Guide

Introduction

The Battle Arena can be accessed at any time by going to the ESC Menu > War > Battle Arena.

Here you can choose which channel to enter. Your character needs to be full HP to join, but once you are in the battle arena you can freely fight other players in the same channel as you without any karma loss or need to flag up.

There is an NPC located in the middle of the area, where you can buy XL potions that only cost 1 silver. You can also set up parties in the arena and duel other players. The area is much larger than open-world arenas and a good place to practice PVP against others.

There are also scarecrows (training dummies) located around the arena to practice skills on.

There are also soldiers located at the arena entrance, and these can be used to practise PVP combos. The soldiers will be affected by crowd control skills and it will give you information such as the “CC count”, type of CC, and the 5 second timer for CC immunity.

1:1 Arena

There is also a 1v1 Arena system inside Battle Arena. The first 2 players to speak to the Halfun NPC are able to enter the 1v1 arena. You have a time limit of 3 minutes and if no winner is decided in that time then the two players will be moved out of the arena regardless of their HP. If a winner is decided then the winner will remain inside the arena to challenge the next player and the loser will be moved out of the arena area. Players who are not participating in the 1v1 battle can watch the progress using the 1:1 Arena UI.

Solare Hall of Fame

• The Solare Hall of Fame can be found in the Battle Arena and has a statue of the top-ranked player in each class from the previous Arena of Solare ranked season.
• The statue resembles the character with their family name, character customizations, and outfit. If the player changes their family name or outfit, it will not be reflected in the statue, but character customizations will be updated.
• Any player can go to the statues in the Battle Arena and use 20 energy to receive the “Blessings of a Great Knight” buff. This buff grants you Breathing EXP +10% for 10 hours.

Trial Characters

All BDO accounts have 3 trial character slots. Trial characters are useful for testing classes since the character is automatically level 60 when created, and has access to all skills straight away.

Trial characters also have special gear to equip, which can be bought from the Haz NPC in the Battle Arena.

Trial characters only take 3 minutes to delete, so you can remake them as needed.

Creating  a Trial Character

To create a Trial character, go to the Character selection screen and make sure you click the “Trial” option in the top right. You can then create your trial character like any other character.

When you log into the trial character, it will automatically be in the Battle Arena on a game channel that only Trial characters can access. To swap to the same Battle Arena server as your friends, you wil need to go into the menu to swap:

• ESC Menu > War > Battle Arena

Learning your Skills

Trial characters start with Skill books in their inventory, as well as basic weapons and inventory slot expansions. Use the 3 books in your inventory (I) to obtain your Succession, Awakening, and Magnus skill.

Now that you have the skill trees unlocked, you can select either the “Succession” tree, or the “Awakening” tree in your Skill Window (open by pressing K).

Trial characters have 4000 skill points, which is more than enough to maximize all your class skills.

You can also freely swap between Succession/Awakening, and unlearn skills by right-clicking the skill icon.

Your skills are categorized by these 3 types:

• Pre-awakening Skills
  • Pre-awakening skills are the skills that are available to both Succession and Awakening skill kits. These are skills that classes start with pre-56.
• Succession
  • Succession classes unlock and use “Prime” skills to enhance the pre-awakening skills, so where possible, you want to maximize these skills.
  • Some skills don’t have Prime versions, so max those and use the Absolute versions instead.
  • You also gain access to a few of the Awakening skills, these are often called “C” skills, because they use hotkeys such as (C+W), (C+S), etc.
• Awakening
  • Awakening unlocks a completely different weapon called the “Awakening” weapon and a new set of skills that use the Awakening Weapon.
  • You can swap weapons using (C), or certain skills, and will use both the pre-awakening and awakening skills, but your main damage comes from your new Awakening skills, and the pre-awakening is usually used for extra utility.
  • You also gain access to 1 “Core” skill, which adds protection or crowd control to one of your Awakening skills. You can choose between 6 different core skills.
  • For Awakening, maximize all of your Awakening skills, and then max out all of the pre-awakening skills as well, taking the Absolute version of the skills.

After learning your skills, you now want to go over to NPC Haz to setup your skill add-ons. Haz can be found near the entrance of the arena.

• Skill Add-ons are additional effects you can “add-on” to certain skills.
• The add-on effect is applied if the skill hits a target and will show on your buff bar or the enemy’s debuffs.
• You can choose 2 different effects for each skill.
• You can apply add-ons to up to 6 skills, with each one unlocking at levels 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, and 60.

Interact with Haz and use the “Skill Add on” button at the bottom. Here you can press the [+] button to select a skill add-on.

Trial Character Gear and Shop

To obtain your Trial character gear, you will need to buy the items from NPC Haz. This NPC only sells items to trial characters.

Purchase the “Arsha Chest II” from Haz to obtain all of your gear. This chest contains a full set of gear, including weapon boxes that will give you the weapon for your class, and 2 costumes that have movement speed/critical hit on them.

The costumes can be found in the “Pearl” tab at the top of your inventory window. Right-click all of the items to equip them.