In Black Desert Online, your family fame is a moderately important aspect of the game to work on improving. The benefits of your family fame are in the form of daily silver pay-outs (sometimes called the BDO family fame fund), a bigger market warehouse and reduced market taxes.
Family Fame Points for Combat, Life, and Special Fame
Below the portrait of any of your characters you see you fame points for each category. There are three types of fame in BDO, combat fame, life fame, and special fame. The sum of the fame points from these three types forms your total family fame. By moving the mouse over the icon you can also see the amount of silver you get for every fame tier and how much tax is reduced in the central market.
Combat fame
The sum of the combat level of all your characters above level 15 gives your combat fame score. However, characters at level 56 get double points for each level, and characters at level 60 get 5 points for each level.
This means that it’s important to hit levels 56 and 60 to maximize combat fame for the least amount of work as can be seen in the table below. Combat fame tiers range from 15 points to 6001+.
Life Fame
The combined life skill levels of all your characters whose life skills have reached professional 1 count towards your life fame score. This means that you get life skill fame points for each life skill at or above professional 1 on each of your characters. Life skill levels up to master give half a point and each guru level gives one point. Note that all your skill levels give points, not just the levels above professional 1, they just don’t start counting until professional 1.
For example. Say you have life skills at skilled 10, professional 3, professional 7, artisan 4, master 4. Your life fame is then found like this:
32+36+43+53 = 164
164 / 2 = 82
82 + 1 = 83 life fame.
When a life skill on one of your characters is at skilled 10 and then reaches professional 1 your family gets another 15 points of life fame. So pushing some life skills to professional 1 on your alts is a sound way to level up your life skills. Personally, I do this by letting my alts use the cooking and alchemy side dish for experience and then spend some time in getting processing to professional 1 by processing flax threads or gathering water. There might be a faster way to level life fame, but this is the method I use.
Life fame tiers range from 10 points to 900+.
Special Fame
In many ways, this is the hardest fame category to level up. For special fame, your total gained knowledge/10 plus your contribution points give your special fame score. By pressing the H button, you can see your total accumulated knowledge on the bottom left.
So, for example, if you have 1420 knowledge pieces and 145 contribution points. This gives you:
1420/10 = 142
142+145 = 287 special fame.
The special fame tiers range from 50 points to 1501+.
Silver Earned with the Family Fame Pay-out System
Your score for combat experience, life skills, and knowledge/contribution is compared to a tiered list, with each tier awarding you a certain amount of silver each day. This daily allocation of silver is placed in your chest at the end of each day, from where you can claim it.
Below is a table that shows how much silver is paid out for each tier of a particular fame type. As you can see combat fame rewards the most silver, followed by life skills and special fame giving the least.
| Combat Fame Points | Silver Payout | Life Fame Points | Silver Payout | Special Fame Points | Silver Payout |
| 15-300 | 300.000 | 10 – 150 | 100.000 | 50 – 250 | 100.000 |
| 301-600 | 480.000 | 151 – 300 | 175.000 | 251 – 500 | 175.000 |
| 601-900 | 660.000 | 301 – 450 | 250.000 | 501 -750 | 250.000 |
| 901-1200 | 840.000 | 451 – 600 | 325.000 | 751 -1000 | 325.000 |
| 1201-1500 | 1.020.00 | 601 – 750 | 400.000 | 1001 – 1250 | 400.000 |
| 1501-1800 | 1.260.000 | 751 – 900 | 475.000 | 1251 – 1500 | 475.000 |
| 1801-2100 | 1.440.000 | 901+ | 600.000 | 1500+ | 600.000 |
| 2101-2400 | 1.800.000 | ||||
| 2401-2700 | 2.040.000 | ||||
| 2701-3000 | 2.220.000 | ||||
| each 300 points up to 6001+ | +180.000 silver |
From this list, you can see that the fastest way to gain your first daily pay-out of silver through BDO’s family fame fund is by increasing the combat level of a few characters, preferably two characters to combat level 56, and then level a few more by a few levels until you reach the second combat fame tier.
To reach the third combat fame tier you will either need to get a single character to level 60 and two others to level 56 with a few below level 56. Or you need to get at least 4 to level 56 and then also a few more below that level. After that you will need to push characters to level 60 or buy more character slots.
Increasing your families life fame level is extremely time-consuming and special fame is not really worth focusing on but it will rise naturally as you play the game. A neat trick to increase your life fame level is to have your alts use the Witch’s Delicacy and Mysterious Catalysts you get from cooking and alchemy until they hit professional 1.
Central Market Tax Reduction From Family Fame
The final benefit of fame in BDO is the tax reduction you get from your total family fame. Once it hits 1000 points you get a 0.5% tax reduction on all your sales. You then get a 1% tax reduction at 4000 points and 1.5% reduction at 7000 points. Your total family fame is found by adding together the fame points from each of the categories.
Now, this might not seem like much, but keep in mind that at 1% tax reduction, you get an extra 1.000.000 silver for every 100 million in sales on the marketplace and near the end game this really starts to kick in.
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