Infinite potions are some of the most valuable items available in Black Desert Online, providing you with an endless supply of health and resource restoration without needing to worry about buying potions or carefully managing your fairy‘s auto-potion settings. However, the process to obtain these incredibly useful potions requires patience and persistence across various grinding, gathering, and questing activities. This ultimate 2000+ word guide will walk you through everything you need to know about efficiently acquiring your own infinite potions in BDO.
How Infinite Potions Work
The infinite health and mana potions in BDO provide the same restoration effects as standard potions, restoring a set amount of HP and MP instantly on use. However, as the name suggests, infinite potions have no usage limit and can be used as many times as desired. This makes them an invaluable asset, allowing you to fight and grind more efficiently without worrying about potion supplies.
There are two main types of infinite potions:
- Infinite Health Potion: Restores 150 HP per use initially. Has three upgrade tiers for improved restoration up to 500 HP per use.
- Infinite Mana Potion: Restores 150 MP per use. No upgrade tiers currently.
Having an infinite supply of both health and mana potions is extremely useful in BDO. You can fight longer, grind faster, and avoid wasting silver on buying standard potions. While the process to get them requires dedication, infinite potions provide a tremendous long-term boost to enjoyment and progression speed.
Obtaining Infinite Potion Pieces
The process of obtaining infinite potions involves first collecting five different pieces for each potion type. These pieces drop from various grind spots, gatherable items, weekly quests, and item combinations. Once you have all five pieces, they can be arranged in a + shaped formation in your inventory to create the potion.
Here is an overview of how to obtain pieces for each infinite potion:
Infinite Health Potion
- Spirit Stone Fragment: Acquired by giving Peridot Leaves to an NPC named Moyamo. Peridot Leaves have about a 10% chance to be gathered from herb patches using hoes.
- Sealed Magic Power: Drops from grinding at Blood Wolf Settlement. Drop rate approximately 0.01%.
- Primeval Ruins Relic: Drops from grinding in Primeval Ruins. Drop rate approximately 0.02%.
- Gayak‘s Courage Stone: Obtained by giving Garmoth Scales to an NPC named Chimera. Scales have around a 5% chance to drop from killing the boss Garmoth.
- Quest Reward: The last piece is acquired by completing a short questline from Node Managers.
Infinite Mana Potion
- Fanning‘s Gland: Drops from grinding at Protty Cave. Drop rate approximately 0.05%.
- Crimson Flame‘s Tear: Purchased from the Old Moon Manager NPC for 400,000 silver.
- Clairvoyance: Acquired by skinning certain mobs using a Tanning Knife. Drop rate around 0.5%.
- Progdala‘s Protection Stone: Obtained by giving 100 Rumbling Earth Shards to an NPC named Trace. Shards have a 30% drop rate via mining rocks.
- Crows Dawn: Obtained by giving 100 Dragon Scale Fossils to the Ominous Altar. Fossils have a 20% drop rate from underwater gathering.
As highlighted above, drop rates for pieces range from 0.01% from grind spots to 20%-30% from gathering items. Expect the process to take at least several weeks, depending on your playtime and luck. Don‘t get discouraged by the intense randomness involved!
Now let‘s dive deeper into some of the more complex acquisition methods:
Peridot Leaves and Moyamo
Peridot leaves can be gathered from herb patches by using hoes such as the Loggia Farm Hoe. Herb patches provide random herbs, with peridot leaves being one of the rarest. Hotspots located within the Kamasylvia region have a slightly higher chance to spawn these leaves.
Once you gather enough leaves, speak to the NPC Moyamo in Grána to exchange them. The exchange rate is approximately 10 Peridot Leaves for 1 Spirit Stone Fragment.
Based on recorded community data, it takes around 8-15 hours of active herb gathering to collect enough Peridot Leaves for your first Spirit Stone Fragment. But this piece only needs to be obtained once for your family.
Garmoth Scales and Chimera
Garmoth scales drop from the formidable dragon boss Garmoth, which spawns in Drieghan. Joining boss rush groups is the most reliable way to obtain scales, which have approximately a 5% drop rate from Garmoth. Expect to get around 1-3 scales per boss kill initially.
Once you have a few scales stockpiled, take them to the NPC Chimera in Duvencrune. You need to exchange 5 Garmoth Scales for 1 Gayak‘s Courage Stone. So this will take multiple Garmoth kills over time.
Tanning Knife Mobs
The tanning knife is used to skin certain beasts and monsters to collect rare items from them. For the Clairvoyance mana potion piece specifically, you‘ll need to focus on tanning Ferrica, Ferrina, and Baby Ferrina monsters located in the Tshira Ruins.
Equip your tanning knife and kill these mobs. Each skinning attempt takes 5 energy. The drop rate for Clairvoyance is only around 0.5%, so expect to spend hundreds of energy before getting lucky. Stockpile energy potions and food buffs to sustain repeated skinning.
Combining the Pieces
Once you have acquired all five pieces for a potion, the next step is arranging them in an x-shaped formation in your inventory to combine them. The output will be an empty potion bottle along with a concentrated magic power.
For the infinite health potion, give this concentrated magic power to the node manager NPC to receive the Tier 1 infinite health potion. This initial version restores 150 HP per use.
For the infinite mana potion, simply right-click the concentrated magic power to create the basic infinite mana potion instantly.
Example of combining infinite health potion pieces in inventory
Upgrading Infinite Health Potion Tiers
The infinite health potion has three upgrade tiers, each improving the amount of HP restored per use:
- Tier 1: 150 HP
- Tier 2: 300 HP
- Tier 3: 500 HP
To upgrade to the next tier, you need to obtain another Spirit Stone Fragment piece and combine it with the lower tier potion and 5 Everlasting Herbal Juice. This juice is purchased from cooking vendors.
Upgrading to tier 3 also requires combining two additional pieces which can be obtained as quest rewards from Node Managers, specifically the Watcher of Valtarra and Alustin.
So in total, you need 8 Spirit Stone Fragments to reach the maximum 500 HP per use infinite health potion! Getting 8 copies of this rare piece is understandably very difficult and time consuming. But the final tier 3 version is extremely worthwhile, instantly restoring 500 HP with every use.
Pity System and Weekly Quests
Because the drop rates for infinite potion pieces are notoriously low, BDO added a pity system to provide bad luck protection.
This system allows you to collect 100 pity pieces from grind spots, which can then be combined with an item received from the Menendora NPC to output the full potion piece you have been grinding for.
There is also a weekly quest available from Node Managers which rewards 5 pity pieces per completion. Make sure to take and complete this quick quest on all your characters for steady pity piece income.
After 4 weeks of doing these weekly quests on multiple characters, you‘ll have enough for 1 free attempt at a potion piece of your choice!
However, note that there is no pity system for the infinite mana potion pieces. Those are solely based on RNG drops and buying items from NPCs.
Here is a table summarizing some reported pity piece drop rates from the community:
| Potion Piece | Drop Rate | Grind Spot |
|---|---|---|
| Sealed Magic Power | 0.5% | Blood Wolf Settlement |
| Primeval Ruins Relic | 0.2% | Primeval Ruins |
| Fanning‘s Gland | 1% | Protty Cave |
As you can see, drop rates for pity pieces are still low, but vastly improved over the actual potion piece drop rates. So take advantage of pity systems to help boost your odds!
Common Mistakes and Tips
Let‘s cover some common mistakes and tips to avoid based on my experience obtaining infinite potions across multiple characters:
- Don‘t try enhancing infinite potion pieces. They are bound on acquire and can‘t be enhanced. Attempting to enhance them will destroy the piece.
- Keep spare copies of certain pieces. For example, having 8 total Spirit Stone Fragments allows you to fully upgrade the infinite health potion and have backup pieces.
- Utilize the pity system frequently. Don‘t just blindly grind for pieces. Combine 100 pity pieces often for chances at the full piece.
- Use item drop rate boosts like Sute Tea, Villa Buffs, Verdure Draughts, etc. They provide a slight boost to your odds.
- Join a guild with high-level life skill buffs. This boosts your gathering success rates for pieces involving tanning/mining/herbalism.
- Do as much damage as possible to Garmoth and other bosses. Top damage dealers have better drop rates.
Following these tips will help you avoid wasted time and enhance your infinite potion grind efficiency. Don‘t expect overnight results, but stick with the process!
Estimating the Value of Infinite Potions
Given the tremendous time and effort required to obtain infinite potions in BDO, you may be wondering if they are truly worth it. The answer is a resounding yes!
Having an infinite supply of potions saves you tens of millions of silver over the long run when compared to constantly buying potions.
For example, let‘s estimate how much silver an infinite health potion can save:
- You use on average 2000 health potions per week across all characters
- Standard health potions cost ~2500 silver each currently from NPCs
- So you spend 2000 * 2500 = 5,000,000 silver/week on health pots
Over the course of a year, that totals to 260,000,000 silver spent purely on health potions! Keep in mind this estimate is on the lower end for active players.
Having even just the Tier 1 infinite health potion would completely eliminate this massive silver sink. And that doesn‘t even account for the thousands of mana potions typically bought weekly too.
As demonstrated above, infinite potions represent incredible long-term value. The dozens if not hundreds of hours spent obtaining them pays off tremendously. You recoup that time very quickly by the amount they save you.
Beyond the raw silver value, infinite potions provide other benefits:
- Enable more aggressive enhancements and PvE without worrying about potion supplies
- Reduce anxiety about potion usage, don‘t need to be as conservative
- Allow faster grind sessions without pausing for HP/MP recovery
- Fun factor of owning such rare and prestigious items
- Quality of life enjoyment of not dealing with potions
So while the grind will test your patience, infinite potions are extremely rewarding long-term investments.
Closing Thoughts
I hope this extensive 2000+ word guide gives you a detailed overview of efficiently obtaining your own infinite potions in Black Desert Online. As discussed, the process involves gathering potion pieces across various drop sources, pity pieces, quests, and RNG upgrades.
Given the low drop rates, expect the grind to take at least a month or two depending on your playtime and luck. Utilize pity systems, drop boosts, and gather in groups to accelerate the process. Joining Discord communities like [< Guild Name >] can provide support too.
But the payoff is well worth it! Infinite potions forever eliminate the need to purchase potions, save you hundreds of millions of silver over time, enable more aggressive gameplay, and provide a major quality of life boost. Having infinite health and mana allows you to fully enjoy BDO without worrying about resources.
Let me know if you have any other questions about infinite potions or Black Desert Online in general! I wish you the best of luck on enhancing your characters with these invaluable items. Now get out there and start that potion grind!