[Boop Dessert]: Six months of effort and I upgrade to the wrong horse.

In BDO there are currently 10 Tiers of horse. You can catch up to T5 in the wild, T6 if you find the diamond in the rough

T8 you can get through breeding with RNG, decent horse-training gear and some good amount of training levels to back you up

Getting a T8 from nothing can take maybe 1 month if you are gunning for it

After getting the T8 shit gets dicey

Each Tier can become a "Courser" which means your horse has learned a specific array of skills. You get skills when the horse levels, but they're not guaranteed and rely on the same mechanics as breeding; rng, gear, your own skill level

So you will get a lot of duds that are only good for selling and you can't move beyond T8

BY MAGIC I got a Courser T8 waaaaay back in November

So I started working toward T9

In order to get a T9 you need:
T8 Courser
500 mil worth of Materials
Fuck ton of RNG luck

The first time you try a T8 enhancement you have a 1% chance to succeed, second time is 1.2% chance, third is 1.4% and so on

Each attempt roughly costs between 450-500 mil

BUT SUCCEEDING? Worth it

Okay so T9 gets interesting because you aren't really dealing with horses anymore but magical ponies

T9 has three types;
- A pegasus that can jump high, fly, run terrifyingly fast and is attributed to wind.
- A unicorn that is durable, moderately fast, but is unimpeded by any terrain and is attributed to earth.
- A FLAMING HORSE CALLED DOOM that is decently fast, but shits an AoE fire attack as it zooms. It can also carry friends. Attributed to fire

When upgrading your T8 Courser to a T9 Dream horse there are 3 attributes you can "train" the horse with (wind, fire, or earth) and that equates to the % chance that you'll get one T9 type over the others.

Basically, if you train your horse with wind attribute constantly, you have a ~higher chance~ that when you trigger the upgrade you'll get the Pegasus

Anyway, from November until today I was training my T8 Courser with primarily earth elements

I really wanted the unicorn because it is the most versatile for terrain and basically opens up the desert that I otherwise dread going to because of all of the movement penalties, debuffs (heat stroke at day, hypothermia at night) and I just don't like camels and having to swap my gear every time I reach the desert's edge

AND GUESS WHAAAAAAAAT

I got a pegasus.

Yay.

So I guess I can fly now but the desert is still inaccessible and that was 8.4bil in attempts and I am frankly a little offended

I shouldn't say inaccessible. I can go. But.

Camels

8.4bil sounds like a lot. IT IS. But the horse is worth 12-13bil so it's not... the end of the world

12-13 bil after it's leveled

But now we start the real battle of leveling the horse and praying it gets the correct skills and stats to actually be worth that much

Theoretically, I can train the pegasus and sell it in hopes of buying someone else's unicorn. But I'd be 1) losing money 2) there are no guarantees I'll be able to get someone's unicorn because the market moves too fast

There's an RNG time delay between when someone puts a Dream horse on the market (you get a big in game announcement) and when the horse actually becomes available for purchase. It's somewhere between 10-15 min. but it means refreshing every second and sweating nervously for at least 5-7 min

Oh. Lol. And T10? We don't talk about T10. That's at least a literal year away and that's if I had TWO pegasus