BDO Caphras Stone Guide (Black Desert Online) (2024)

Caphras Stones are used in BDO as a safe form of gear Enhancement.

Caphras Stones bypass the failstacking system and give 100% Enhancement Chance.

Weapons and armor that are TRI to PEN can have up to 20 Caphras Levels. Start at 0 level and gain experience towards the next level by using Caphras Stones.

Every Caphras Level adds attack or defense stats. These stats are added to the character’s sheet stats, for the purpose of determining DP and AP Brackets.

To start Enhancement with Caphras, summon Black Spirit (,) > Enhancement > Caphras tab

Caphras Exclusions:

• Blackstar Weapons and Defense Gear
• Accessories
• Main quest gear
• Naru and Tuvala Gear

Caphras Stone Enhancement

100% Guaranteed Enhancement

• When gear reaches Caphras Level 20, you can increase its Enhancement level by 1. For example, upgrading from TET to PEN.
• Make sure your item is at 100% Max Durability and click the ‘Upgrade Enhancement’ button.
• NOTE: upgrading gear to the next tier will reduce Max Durability to 0 and reset the Caphras Level

What happens if I want to stop early?

If you get tired of waiting on your gear’s Caphras level to reach 20, you can still attempt to Enhance the traditional way via Concentrated Magic Stones and luck.

• Enhancement Failure with Caphras EXP
  
  • without Crons: if your enhancement level drops, only 50% of the item’s EXP will be kept.
  • with Crons: If you fail enhancement using Cron Stones, 5% of the Cron Stones will be converted into Caphras exp.
• Enhancement Success with Caphras EXP: only 10% of the item’s Caphras EXP will be carried forward to the next level

TIP: As you can see, attempting traditional enhancement with Caphras EXP can be very costly! See below how to extract Caphras Stones instead!

Caphras Extraction

Want a refund of your Caphras Stones? You can extract Caphras Stones from your equipment, but you will loose 5%.

How to extract Caphras Stones:

1. Visit the Blacksmith to remove Caphras Stone from your gear.
2. Click Extraction > Extract Caphras Stone
3. 95% of the Caphras Stone used to enhance the equipment will be returned.
4. Enhancement level of the equipment will remain the same even if you extract Caphras from it.
5. Costs 100,000 Silver per Caphras Stone extraction.

Caphras Stone Recipe

Processing (L) → Simple Alchemy:

1 Caphras Stone Recipe
5 –Ancient Spirit Dust 1 –Black Stone

10 Caphras Stone Recipe
50 –Ancient Spirit Dust 10 –Black Stone 1–Black Stone Powder

Caphras Stone Grinding Locations

The following are a list of monster zones that have the Caphras Stone trait, meaning they have higher than average Caphras Stone drop rates for their difficulty level.

All Caphras Stone Monster Zones:

All of the following will drop Caphras Stones as well. Grinding spots with lower rates, drop about 20 per hour.

Caphras Stones via Dark Rifts

Solo bosses, from Dark Rifts, reward 30 to 60 Ancient Spirit Dust for each Dark Rift boss looted. They also provide other helpful loot.

• Combine Ancient Spirit Dust x5 and Black Stone x1 to make Caphras Stone x1

Example Dark Rift Boss Loot:

Daily Caphras via Villa Quests

Villa quests are located in the Valencia Territory.

Daily Caphras Quests in Valencia

Muiquun Area:

Caphras Quests in O’dyllita

Caphras Quests in Kamasylvia

Caphras Quests in Drieghan

Caphras Quests in Sea Region

Protty Cave:

Sycraia Underwater Ruins:

Caphras Quests for Red Battle Field

Caphras from Solo Boss Narc Brishka

Narc Magic Sealing Stone Reward Bundle has a chance of obtaining Caphras Stone. You get this Reward Bundle by completing the level 56+ quest [Solo] Narc Magic Sealing Stone. This will summon a solo boss Narc Brishka.

If you failed to defeat the boss, you can summon the Black Spirit to accept the ‘Weakened Narc Magic Sealing Stone’ Quest.
• This is a Solo Quest, so you cannot summon the boss while in a party.
• You cannot form a party while summoning the boss.
• The boss will disappear if it is idle for 5 mins., or if it is not defeated in 30 mins. from the point it is summoned.
• There is no penalty for being killed by the boss. However, Mounts must be placed in a safe spot.

Caphras Stones via Gathering

Gathering has a rare chance of giving a Caphras Stone or Ancient Spirit Dust.

Best Items to Gather for Caphras Stones:

# 1. Gathering trees for timber via Lumbering Axe.
# 2. Gathering trees for sap via Fluid Collector.
# 3. Gathering ore and herbs.
# 4. Gathering animals.

Best Gathering Spots for Caphras:

1. Ash Forest – timber – 86
2. North Kaia Mountaintop – sap – 67
3. Garmoth Dead Tree Essence– timber – 65
4. Orc Camp – sap – 62

Caphras Charts for TRI, TET, and PEN

I have Caphras Charts available on seperate pages.

There are two different versions for each chart.

• Caphras Sheet: PEN
• Caphras Sheet: TET
• Caphras Sheet: TRI

Caphras Quantities & Silver Costs for All 20 Levels

Silver costs based upon a Caphras Stone price of 2.65 million silver each. (Market prices fluctuate with supply/demand/events.)

Boss Armor:

• Dim Tree
  • TRI: 1,706 (4,521 mil)
  • TET: 11,189 (29,651 mil)
  • PEN: 24,460 (64,819 mil)
• Other Boss Armor
  • TRI: 1,483
  • TET: 9,729
  • PEN: 21,744

Boss Weapon:

• Dandelion
  • TRI: 1,823
  • TET: 17,689
  • PEN: 33,768 (89,485 mil)
• Boss Main Weapon
  • TRI: 1,590
  • TET: 15,240
  • PEN: 29,403 (77,918 mil)

Lemoria Armor:

• TRI: 580
• TET: 3,630
• PEN: 10,104

Liverto Weapon:

• TRI: 1,123
• TET: 10,763
• PEN: 20,964

Green Armor:

• TRI: 360
• TET: 1,950
• PEN: 6,612

Green Mainhand/Awakening Weapon:

• TRI: 494
• TET: 3,990
• PEN: 9,615

Sources & Additional Info

• GrumpyG’s Caphras Calculator
• GrumpyG’s Caphras Sheet: PEN
• GrumpyG’s Caphras Sheet: TET
• GrumpyG’s Caphras Sheet: TRI
• GrumpyG’s Caphras Record (Adventure Log Journal)
• u/Taywub’s Google Doc showing Caphras levels and current pricing.
• Google Doc “Caphras Stone Sheet BekiLL version” link published originally on reddit