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*Original guide from BDO Inven KR by METZEN

Once you reach 58, you should rely mainly on your Awakening skills in order to minimize rotations while you grind. If your gear is somewhat enhanced, your Awakening skills will deal a respectable amount of damage starting from 58. Work to shift your focus from Amulet skills to Awakening ones, ultimately prioritizing the latter.

Since the build simulator isn’t up to date, Amulet autoattack-related skills don’t have any points. Infinite Mastery and Skilled Hunter also have not been properly updated yet. You can refer to the in-game skill tree and max out Infinite Mastery as well as Skilled Hunter.

If you’re someone who only cares about the best leveling build, look it over at each level and decide where the build will go in regards to the final skill.

To kill monsters, you can consume Shards of Darkness using Black Wave while getting aggro with Mark of the Shadow. If you prefer to speed up the process, you can also go with Midnight Stinger - Rushing Crow – Violation. Depending on your AP, you can minimize your rotation by omitting buffs and debuffs. Dream of Doom is good for cleaning up any stray monsters that get left behind.

I wouldn’t recommend prioritizing Dark Flame if you want to focus on leveling because it just ends up spreading out monsters. Consume Shards of Darkness for conserving mana and use Bloody Calamity or Abyssal Flame for health.

At the time of writing, approximately 900 points are required to complete leveling skills and reach level 58. If you’re short on points, skip over Cartian’s Nightmare and Blade of Darkness in the Awakening skills. Since those two skills are situational and will only be used in high level dungeons with a single point in each, you don’t have to preemptively put points in them.

Players’ opinions are divided on Dream of Doom because Imminent Doom is such a good instant cast skill. However, I’m not sure if people whose only focus is leveling really need Dream of Doom. First off, Dream of Doom costs a ton of mana and is only useful in rare circumstances. I count myself on the side which believes that having Dream of Doom in the rotation causes damage loss. That said, Dream of Doom is still a decent skill, although opinions are polarized when it comes to leveling. I don’t think it will serve much purpose other than occasionally finishing off stray monsters with low health, but use your own discretion to decide if it fits your playstyle or not.