Tuvala Gear: Season Character Armor, Weapons, & Accessories (2024)

Tuvala Gear is the second set of beginner friendly gear available to Season Characters after Naru Gear.

• We can obtain a full set of PEN Tuvala that fills all armor, weapon, and accessory slots: 11 different gear pieces in total.
• Tuvala gear is only wearable by Season Characters until it is converted after the character graduates from Season Servers.
• Tuvala enhancement material (Time-filled Black Stone) is easily obtainable and drops from monsters on Season Servers.
• Tuvala Gear was introduced to BDO, with a patch on June 22, 2020 and has seen great improvements to ease of enhancement.

Tuvala Gear Benefits:

• You can trade PEN Tuvala weapon/armor for TET boss weapon/armor after graduation.
  • Boss gear will be account bound.
  • Boss Accessories are not included.
  • Details in our Guaranteed PEN Boss gear guide.
• Tuvala Gear has higher enhancement chances than normal gear. TET and PEN is the biggest challenge.
• Tuvala gear is automatically converted after graduation to be useable by all your characters.

How to Obtain Tuvala Gear

• Exchange PEN Naru:PEN Naru armor/weapons can be exchanged for PRI Tuvala gear. (Excludes Awakening Weapon and accessories.)
  • After successfully enhancing to PEN (V) Naru gear, the enhancement window will allow you to convert Naru into PRI (I) Tuvala gear.
  • Press the CONVERT button to convert the Naru gear into Tuvala.
• Exchange Time-filled Black Stones: Time-filled Black Stones can be exchanged to Blacksmith NPCs for Tuvala Gear.

Beginner Tips:

The first set of gear a Season character obtains is the blue grade Naru gear. After enhancing any Naru gear to PEN, you’ll be able to automatically convert it to PRI Tuvala gear in the enhancement window.

Extra Tuvala Gear and Accessories can be obtained by exchanging Time-filled Black Stones to Blacksmith NPCs.

You can also obtain 1 PEN Tuvala Ring and 1 PEN Tuvala Earring as rewards from completeing certain objectives in the Season Pass.

Tuvala Gear Enhancement

Right click a Time-filled Blackstone to begin enhancing Tuvala armor and weapons.

Tuvala Gear is cheaper and easier to enhance than normal gear. (But more difficult than Naru gear.)

• Higher Enhancement success chances.
• PRI, DUO, & TRI enhancements on Armors and Weapons are Guaranteed to Succeed!
  • +15 → PRI costs 10 Time-filled Black Stones (-20 Max Durability).
  • PRI → DUO costs 20 Time-filled Black Stones (-20 Max Durability).
  • DUO → TRI costs 30 Time-filled Black Stones (-20 Max Durability).
• Plentiful Time-filled Black Stones: top grinding spots yield about 200 or more stones per hour.
• Extra Time-Filled Black Stones can be exchanged for other goodies like Failstacks, Valks’ Cry, or even Item Collection Increase scrolls.

Exchange Time-filled Blackstone for Tuvala Gear:

• 2 = Tuvala Weapon or Armor x1
• 10 = Tuvala Accessory x1

Repair Max Durability of Tuvala Gear:

• 1 Time-filled Black Stone recovers 5 Max Durability. (50 with Artisan’s Memory)

Please see these guides for more details on how to obtain Season Enhancement Materials:

• Time-filled Black Stones
• Rift’s Echo
• Season Quests
• Season Pass

Melting Tuvala for Time-filled Stones

If you end up with extra Tuvala Gear or Accessories, you can melt them down for more Time-filled Black Stones.

Guaranteed PEN Tuvala via Tides Black Stone!

Wooot! A guaranteed enhancement for Tuvala from TET to PEN.

• Frozen Tides Black Stone: armor and weapons
• Boiling Tides Black Stone: accessories

Obtain 1 of each stone via Season Pass. This is also a rare drop from Rift’s Echo and other Season mobs.

Enhancement Materials from Afuaru

Afuaru is a rare spawn while defeating mobs in Valencia and higher AP zones. Chase him down and kill him for loot.

On Season Servers, Afuaru drops Season enhancement materials:

Enhancements for Tuvala Gear:

• Time-filled Black Stones
• Rarely, Frozen Tides Black Stone (free TET (IV) to PEN (V) enhancement for Tuvala gear.)

Season Party of 3 Zones:

The following are Season-friendly grinding spots for a party of 3:

• Waragon’s Nest
• Basilisk Den
• Shultz Guard

Afuaru will drop loot for up to 3 Adventurers.

PEN Tuvala Armor Stats

	Tuvala Gear	PEN Tuvala Gear Stats
	Tuvala Armor	Defense (DP): 84 Evasion: 38 (+114) Damage Reduction: 46 (+18) Max HP+200 Max MP/WP/SP +100 Weight: 21.00 LT
	Tuvala Gloves	Defense (DP): 55 Accuracy: 48 Evasion: 24 (+72) Damage Reduction: 31 (+13) Weight: 10.00 LT
	Tuvala Helmet	Defense (DP): 75 Evasion: 26 (+56) Damage Reduction: 49 (+10) Max HP+100 Weight: 16.00 LT
	Tuvala Shoes	Defense (DP): 72 Evasion: 41 (+86) Damage Reduction: 31 (+8) Weight: 11.00 LT

3-Set Effect:
Max Stamina +200
4-Set Effect:
Attack Speed +1 Level
Casting Speed +1 Level

Equip 3 or more from the same set to trigger the set effect.
(Tuvala Helmet/Tuvala Armor/Tuvala Gloves/Tuvala Shoes)

PEN Tuvala Weapon Stats

Tuvala Weapons	PEN Tuvala Gear Stats
Tuvala Main Weapon	Attack (AP): 114 ~ 118 Accuracy: 192 Extra Damage to All Species +19 Extra AP against Monsters +10 Attack Speed +3 Level Weight: 13.50 L
Tuvala Sub-weapon	Attack (AP): 29 ~ 31 Defense (DP): 17 Accuracy: 12 Evasion: 10 (+30) Damage Reduction: 7 Extra AP against Monsters +58 All Special Attack Damage +10% Ignore All Resistance +10% Weight: 15.00 LT
Tuvala Awakening Weapon	Attack (AP): 114 ~ 123 Weight: 13.50 LT Extra Damage to All Species +10

PEN Tuvala Accessories

	Tuvala Gear	Tuvala Stats
	Tuvala Belt	Attack (AP): 14 ~ 14 Accuracy: 8 Weight Limit +80LT Weight: 0.50 LT
	Tuvala Earring	Attack (AP): 13 ~ 13 Accuracy: 8 Weight: 0.40 LT
	Tuvala Necklace	Attack (AP): 25 ~ 25 Accuracy: 16 Weight: 1.00 LT
	Tuvala Ring	Attack (AP): 14 ~ 14 Accuracy: 8 Weight: 0.17 LT

PEN Tuvala Gear Set Total Stats

A full set of PEN Tuvala gear and accessories is the best setup a Season character can obtain.

Attack:

• AP 236~242 (239)
• Awakening AP 236~247 (241)
• Accuracy 308
• Max MP(EP)/WP/SP 100
• Max Stamina 200
• Weight Limit 80LT
• Bonus AP 40
• Bonus Awakening AP 40
• Extra Damage to All Species 29
• Extra AP Against Monsters 68
• Attack Speed 4
• Casting Speed 1

Defense:

• DP 303
• Max HP 300
• Damage Reduction Rate 14%
• Ignore All Resistance 10%
• Damage Reduction 164
• Evasion 139
• Hidden Damage Reduction 49
• Hidden Evasion 358

Tuvala Awakening Weapon Enhancement Levels: Chances & Costs

Here is a chart showing enhancement details of a Tuvala Awakening Weapon.

Tuvala Armor Enhancement Levels: Costs & Stats

Here is a chart, showing the enhancement levels of the Tuvala Armor (chest piece).

Item Effect
Max HP+200
Max MP/WP/SP +100

– 3-Set Effect
Max Stamina +200

– 4-Set Effect
Attack Speed +1 Level
Casting Speed +1 Level

Tuvala Necklace Enhancement Levels: Costs & Stats

Here is a chart, showing the enhancement levels of the Tuvala Necklace.

Tuvala Failstack Charts

Armor & Weapons

** Since Refined Magical Blackstones were removed, these are now 100% Guaranteed Enhancement.

Accessory Failstacks

Armor & Weapons

Tuvala Failstack NOTE:

These Tuvala Failstack Charts are an estimate of what the majority of players use. Personally, I like to use higher stacks because I’m that good. 🙂 Other players take the more risky gambler approach to enhancement!!!

…no thrills or sudden deaths for me please… along with my sweet predictable pie. 🙂

Tuvala Gear Comparison

The PEN Tuvala Gear set is a nice gear set, but doesn’t quite reach the stats (251/253 AP) of softcap boss gear, with TET armor/weapons and TRI accessories.

Tuvala Gear is still a decent gear set and better than any blue grade gear set you could put together. For, example: Liverto with blue grade armors/accessories.

Tuvala is a nice armor set for adventurers who are brand new to BDO or veterans who have had a tough time obtaining enhanced boss gear. A fully enhanced Tuvala Gear set will allow you to venture into even some Elvia monster zones.

Tuvala Awakening Weapon Comparison

Are Tuvala Awakening Weapons all that great? Let’s look at a comparison of some of our more popular TET Awakening Weapons, including the new-player only Cliff’s Weapon.

Tuvala Awakening Weapon Benefits:

• Generous supplies of special black stones specific to Tuvala Enhancement.
• Higher enhancement chance numbers than normal weapons (For TET Enhancement it’s 7% vs Cliff’s 2.9% and Dande’s/blue-grade 2%)
• AP is slightly better than the blue-grade Alloria and Cliff’s with an item effect much better suited to both PVE and PVP.
• Nearly the same powerful all species damage buff as the Dandelion.
• Can be enhanced all the way to PEN, unlike Cliff’s weapon.
• Option to trade a PEN Tuvala Awakening for a TET Dande.

Tuvala Awakening Weapon Disadvantages:

• TET Dande is clearly the winner in AP and item effect (having an average of 8 more AP for TET)
• TET level of Tuvala is weaker than the Nesser Awakening Weapon unless it reaches PEN enhancement.

Conclusion:

Tuvala Awakening weapon is a powerful weapon! Not as good as a boss weapon, but it’s better than the other competitors! It is also better suited to both PVE and PVP because of its item effect. It is a good stepping stone to the boss Dandelion.

Exchange Tuvala for Boss Gear

After graduation, you can exchange 1 PEN Tuvala gear (not accessories) for 1 TET boss gear.

The boss gear will be bound to family, and you can attempt to PEN and Caphras it later.

Read the details in this Guaranteed PEN Boss Gear Guide.

Tuvala Upgrade via Narchillan

You can upgrade Tuvala even more, by melting Narchillan gear and obtaining a Combatant Stone.

See our Narchillan Guide for details.

Think carefully about doing this though, since you don’t need this for Guaranteed PEN.

Sources & Additional Info

• GrumpyG’s Season Server Guide
• GrumpyG’s Tuvala Gear Exchange for Boss Gear
• GrumpyG’s Exchange Naru
• GrumpyG’s Time-Filled Black Stones and Rifts Echo for Tuvala Enhancement