Black Desert Fairy Guide – Skills, Tiers & Appearances (2024)

Fairies are very similar to pets in Black Desert Online because they also play an extremely essential role, as they are able to provide buffs to your whole family of characters that are in no way replaceable. Obtaining a fairy with a high level and very useful skills is a long and money-wasting process, and it won’t even spare your wallet.

This guide aims to help alleviate some pain though, as we will go through anything you need to know about BDO fairies, what to look out for from early on, and how to get the best results with the least waste of resources and time!

Table of Contents

Fairy Basics & Frequently Asked Questions

Fairies can be very useful during your adventures because your fairy may have important skills like auto-potion function, higher weight penalty reduction, or instant resurrection.

Unlike pets, you can only have one fairy at the same time, but she will physically follow, talk to you, and support you everywhere. You probably won’t find the perfect fairy at first, but luckily you have the option to replace your existing fairy with another at any time.

If you’re not happy with her abilities, you can get items from the Pearl Shop that can change your fairy’s skills.

What is Laila's Petal?

– Laila's Petal is an essential item because you can change them into random fairies through a quest (I will explain this in the ‘How to get a new fairy’ chapter). As a novice player, do not delete them in any way. These can be obtained as a rare drop from killing monsters, fishing, or gathering. Keep collecting them, and read our ‘How to get a new fairy’ chapter to find out how you can turn them into fairies, and other valuable items.

What is Sweet Honey Wine?

– Sweet Honey Wine is a kind of fuel as it can upgrade your fairy to higher levels. You can buy this wine from the Central Market, or you can cook it in your residence.

Recipe for the Sweet Honey Wine
2 x Top-Quality Cooking Honey
4 x Full-bodied Exotic Herbal Wine
10 x Sugar
2 x Fruits

What is Ornette’s Dark Honey Wine?

– Ornette’s Dark Honey Wine is the P2W version of Sweet Honey Wine. It serves the same purpose, but can only be obtained in the Pearl Shop.

What is Special Honey Jarand Unstable Crevice?

– Special Honey Jar is a special item that can place on the Unstable Crevice you find outside of Kamasylve Temple. An Unstable Crevice is a red object that blinks every 3 to 5 seconds. They will randomly spawn in areas of Balenos, Serendia, Calpheon, and Kamasylvia. If you interact with them by placing a Special Honey Jar here, you will obtain Laila's Petal or a fairy as a reward. Btw, it’s also a way to get more fairies.

Special Honey Jar‘s Alchemy Ingredients:
x2 Top-Quality Cooking Honey
x5 Fruit of Abundance
x1 Essence of Liquor
x2 Purified Water

What is Fairy Powder?

– Fairy Powder can be rarely obtained through gathering. Currently has no function, you can sell it to an NPC.

Fairy information window at Black Desert Online.

The Fairy Information window can be opened if you have a registered fairy. This window can be opened by clicking the butterfly icon at the top left corner of your screen. If you can’t see this line of icons, go to the settings, the Edit UI option, and turn on the Mount section of the top left of your screen. And note that the feature is only available if you already have a registered fairy. As you can see in the image above, in this window you will find all the interactions that are related to our fairy: here you can see its skills or choose from different options that you want to perform.

Fairy Tiers

There are 4 tiers of fairies and each tier can have a different amount of levels and skills. The Gift (Luck +1) is a base skill, this is what every fairy has as a starting skill. They learn a random new skill in every 10 levels. Getting the greatest fairy from RNG boxes is quite a challenge.

Faint – It’s Tier 1, has a maximum of 10 levels, can get 1 skill + Gift
Glimmering – It’s Tier 2, has a maximum of 20 levels, can get 2 skills + Gift
Brilliant – It’s Tier 3, has a maximum of 30 levels, can get 3 skills + Gift
Radiant – It’s Tier 4, has a maximum of 50 levels, can get 5 skills + Gift

Gift: Luck +1

Each ability can be obtained at levels 1 through 5. You can see in the table below what level of abilities each tier can acquire, and it can also be seen that only tier 4 fairies can acquire the highest level abilities:

Fairy Tier	Max Level	Available Skill Ranks
Faint	10	I
Glimmering	20	I to III
Brilliant	30	I to IV
Radiant	50	I to V

Fairy Skills

Tingling Breath
	Level	Effect
	I	Underwater Breathing +5 sec
	II	Underwater Breathing +10 sec
	III	Underwater Breathing +15 sec
	IV	Underwater Breathing +20 sec
	V	Underwater Breathing +30 sec

Feathery Steps
	Level	Effect
	I	Weight Penalty Reduction up to 105%
	II	Weight Penalty Reduction up to 110%
	III	Weight Penalty Reduction up to 115%
	IV	Weight Penalty Reduction up to 120%
	V	Weight Penalty Reduction up to 125%

Fairy’s Tear
	Level	Effect
	I	Instant Ressurection without losing EXP. 12 hours cooldown
	II	Instant Ressurection without losing EXP. 6 hours cooldown
	III	Instant Ressurection without losing EXP. 3 hours cooldown
	IV	Instant Ressurection without losing EXP. 1 hours cooldown

Inexhaustible Well
	Level	Effect
	I	Auto-use Purified Water/Star Anise Tea during Heartstroke/Hypothermia (30 min cooldown)
	II	Auto-use Purified Water/Star Anise Tea during Heartstroke/Hypothermia (20 min cooldown)
	III	Auto-use Purified Water/Star Anise Tea during Heartstroke/Hypothermia (15 min cooldown)
	IV	Auto-use Purified Water/Star Anise Tea during Heartstroke/Hypothermia (10 min cooldown)
	V	Auto-use Purified Water/Star Anise Tea during Heartstroke/Hypothermia (5 min cooldown)

Miraculous Cheer
	Level	Effect
	I	Auto-use potion when HP/Resource is depleted. 6 sec cooldown
	II	Auto-use potion when HP/Resource is depleted. 5 sec cooldown
	III	Auto-use potion when HP/Resource is depleted. 4 sec cooldown
	IV	Auto-use potion when HP/Resource is depleted. 3 sec cooldown
	V	Auto-use potion when HP/Resource is depleted. 2 sec cooldown

Morning Star
	Level	Effect
	I	The summoned fairy will shine and light up the surroundings.

Continuous Care
	Level	Effect
	I	Auto-use from 5 selected items.
	II	Auto-use from 8 selected items.
	III	Auto-use from 12 selected items.
	IV	Auto-use from 16 selected items.
	V	Auto-use from 20 selected items.

What is the best skill compilation?

Radiant Fairy with all V skills in Black Desert Online.

Can I change my fairy’s skills? – Yes, but you can only do this using the P2W method. At the Pearl Shop (F3, Travel Aid section) you can purchase an item called Theiah’s Orb. This item will replace the skill you select randomly with another. However, for one change, you need as many pieces from this item as the abilities the fairy has (has 1 skill: 1 orb, has 2 skills: 2 orbs, and so on).

Fairy Personalities & Appearances

Photo took by Norelly in Black Desert Online

There are 5 different fairy personalities in the game:

Serene
Joyful
Prim
Aloof
Meticulous

The personality you get is shown in your fairy’s name and is completely separate from the tiers. Personalities are affecting the color of the Morning Star skill, and the fairy’s voice line, but there are no differences in appearances. The fairies speak to you faithfully to their personality, except for Serene Laila because she doesn’t speak. The changes in Morning Star skill are as follows: Meticulous’s glow is green, Joyful’s glow is orange, Aloof’s glow is blue, Prim’s glow is pink, and Serene’s glow is yellow.

If you want to change the look of your fairy, you’ll need to buy a Fairy Appearance Change coupon from the Pearl Shop, but these are usually only available for a limited time, so it won’t be easy to get. We currently know two of these: the Tick-Tock Fairy which also gives you an additional Skill EXP +10%, and the Puck Fairy, from the Berserk event.

How to Get Your First Fairy

If you have never had a fairy, you must embark on a quest to obtain a fairy. After level 52, you can take the quest ‘Fairy Queen Theiah’ from your Black Spirit (at the suggestions tab). The prerequisite for this mission is to complete the [Boss] Witch-Hunting quest.

This quest leads you to Kamasylvia temple in Mediah, where you should talk to Fairy Queen Theiah. A quest chain will be started, hand over x2 Cooking Honey, use Special Honey Jar on the Unstable Crevice, which is located in the back of NPC Theiah, talk to Theiah again, and then hand Laila's Petal to Theiah.

At the end of the line, you will get a Sealed Fairy Wings. This is an RNG box, which gives you a random tier of fairy. Now you can register your first fairy, and summon her.

Managing Your Fairy

Growth

You can manage your fairy’s growth at the Fairy Information window(if you can’t find it, take a look at the picture above). This is only possible if the fairy has not yet reached the maximum level. You can level up your fairy by feeding her with gear, Black Spirit’s Claw, or Sweet Honey Wine. Higher-grade gear will give more exp, but the most efficient gear (in terms of exp/money ratio) is Blue gear. I recommend you to look around for blue gear at the Central Market and make the best decision, but for example, the Lemoria or Akum is usually a good choice. However, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that only the higher-level fairies are worth leveling up, it is not worth wasting gear on lower-tier ones.

Blazing Nouver/Kutum – 375.000 EXP
Boss Armors – 47.500 EXP
Ultimate Awakening Weapons (boss weapons) –13.000 EXP
Ornette’s Dark Honey Wine – 13.000 EXP
Lemoria armor – 3.300 EXP
Liverto/Blue Weapons – 3.000 EXP
Ultimate armor/weapoons – 500-1.700 EXP
Black Spirit’s Claw – 1.500 EXP
Blue/green armor/weapons 25-500 EXP

Rebirth

Two kinds of rebirths can be done on fairies: the Persona Reset or the Growth Reset. The Growth reset will reset all of the fairy’s skills and levels back to 1. You can only do this if your fairy is at least level 10 or above, and you will need a Fairy Queen’s Might for the process (this is a Pearl item). The Persona Reset will change the personality of the fairy, i.e. her voice and her Morning Star skill lantern color will be changed, you also need a Fairy Queen’s Might for this process.

Sprouting

Once your fairy has reached the maximum level, you have the opportunity (but only once!) to raise her to a higher tier level. The success rate will be different depending on how many materials you are using, and the rate can go up to 100%. The materials that can be used are Sweet Honey Wine or Ornette’s Dark Honey Wine, but only one type at a time. If the upgrade fails, you can rebirth your fairy and level it again to try the upgrade again. When you sprout a Tier 3 fairy, you will need x400 Sweet Honey Wine OR x25 Ornette’s Dark Honey Wine for the maximum success rate.

Release

Your fairy will be released and you will receive a proportional amount of Fairy Powder to your Fair’s luminosity and growth level.

Summon/Unsummon

You can summon or unsummon your fairy by clicking this button. Some interactions can be can only be done when your fairy is summoned or unsummoned. However, the abilities of your fairy can only be used if the fairy is summoned

Hiding your fairy

If you want to enjoy the benefits of your fairy but don’t want to display it, you can set this in your settings. Go ESC -> Settings -> General Settings -> Show/Hide, and at the Fairy part, select the Hide Fairy option.

Pearl Shop Items for Fairies

Item	Price	Function	Availability
Ornette’s Dark Honey Wine	150	leveling	permanent
Theiah’s Orb	250	fairy’s skill change	permanent
Fairy Queen’s Might	1000	fairy rebirth	permanent
Fairy Appearance Coupons	variable	appearance change	seasonal

How to Get A Better Fairy & Swap Your Old One

Photo took by Norelly in Black Desert Online

If you are not happy with your current fairy, you can look for a better one instead. However, to apply a new fairy, you must release the previous one. There are 2 ways to obtain new fairies:

1. [Lv. 50] [Repeat] Mysterious Companion

This is a repeatable quest from Theiah located at Kamasylva Temple in Mediah. You must give her 2 Laila's Petals and she will give you a Sealed Fairy Wings, which is an RNG box that contains random tiers of fairies. The quest can be repeated countless times.

Laila's Petal is obtainable from killing monsters, fishing, or gathering. Newly available from Black Spirit’s Adventure board (ESC, Reward, Black Spirit’s Adventure) or also can be obtainable by Unstable Crevices.

2. Searching Unstable Crevices

An Unstable Crevice is a red object that blinks. They will randomly spawn in areas of Balenos, Serendia, Calpheon, and Kamasylvia. If you interact with them by placing a Special Honey Jar here, you will obtain Laila's Petal or a fairy as a reward.

Special Honey Jar‘s Alchemy Ingredients: Top-Quality Cooking Honey x2 + Fruit of Abundance x5 + Essence of Liquor x1 + Purified Water x2:

What can I do with fairies I don’t want to use?

Tier 1 & Tier 2:

Exchange with NPC Ceilyn: for Sweet Honey Wine(s)

T1 fairy gives x1 Honey, T2 fairy gives x3 Honey.

Tier 3 & Tier 4:

Exchange with NPC Ceilyn: for Sweet Honey Wine(s)

T3 fairy gives x20 Honey, T4 fairy gives x40 Honey.

Exchange with NPC Herawen: for Mythical Feather(s)

T3 fairy gives x1 Feather, T4 fairy gives x2 Feather.

General

Laila's Petal

Weight: 0.50 LT

- Personal Transaction Unavailable
- Description: Fairy Laila's aura from the unstable rift. Take two to Fairy Queen Theiah to get a "Sealed Fairy Wings," containing a Fairy within.
- How to Use:
※ Category: Fairy
※ Main Usage: Important ingredient to exchange into fairies, helpful companions to any adventurer
- Exchange Info
Kamasylve Temple
- Exchange 1: Mystical Spirit Powder x5
- Exchange 2: Sealed Fairy Wings x1
- Exchange 10: Fairy's Blessing x1
- - Price: Silver 500,000

General

Laila's Petal

Weight: 0.50 LT

- Personal Transaction Unavailable
- Description: Fairy Laila's aura from the unstable rift. Take two to Fairy Queen Theiah to get a "Sealed Fairy Wings," containing a Fairy within.
- How to Use:
※ Category: Fairy
※ Main Usage: Important ingredient to exchange into fairies, helpful companions to any adventurer
- Exchange Info
Kamasylve Temple
- Exchange 1: Mystical Spirit Powder x5
- Exchange 2: Sealed Fairy Wings x1
- Exchange 10: Fairy's Blessing x1
- - Price: Silver 500,000

Feed

Sweet Honey Wine

Weight: 0.50 LT

- Personal Transaction Unavailable
- - Marketplace Information
- Market Price: 1,010,000 Silver
- Warehouse Capacity: 1.00 VT
- Description: Wine made from honey, a favorite of Fairies. It is tooth-achingly sweet.
- How to obtain
It can be produced by using a Cooking Utensil in your residence if you are at least Cooking Beginner 1.
– You can use this to grow your Fairy; it gives more EXP than other materials that can be used to grow your Fairy.
- Usage: Choose "Growth" in the Fairy Information window and select this item.
※ Caution: Any attempt at making a Sweet Honey Wine without having first acquired knowledge of Sweet Honey Wine will result in failure regardless of whether the right ingredients were used, and all the ingredients used during the cooking attempt will be consumed.
- - Crafting Materials(Beginner 1)
- Cooking Honey(2)
- Full-bodied Exotic Herbal Wine(4)
- Sugar(10)
- Fruits(2)

Feed

Sweet Honey Wine

Weight: 0.50 LT

- Personal Transaction Unavailable
- - Marketplace Information
- Market Price: 1,010,000 Silver
- Warehouse Capacity: 1.00 VT
- Description: Wine made from honey, a favorite of Fairies. It is tooth-achingly sweet.
- How to obtain
It can be produced by using a Cooking Utensil in your residence if you are at least Cooking Beginner 1.
– You can use this to grow your Fairy; it gives more EXP than other materials that can be used to grow your Fairy.
- Usage: Choose "Growth" in the Fairy Information window and select this item.
※ Caution: Any attempt at making a Sweet Honey Wine without having first acquired knowledge of Sweet Honey Wine will result in failure regardless of whether the right ingredients were used, and all the ingredients used during the cooking attempt will be consumed.
- - Crafting Materials(Beginner 1)
- Cooking Honey(2)
- Full-bodied Exotic Herbal Wine(4)
- Sugar(10)
- Fruits(2)

Feed

Sweet Honey Wine

Weight: 0.50 LT

- Personal Transaction Unavailable
- - Marketplace Information
- Market Price: 1,010,000 Silver
- Warehouse Capacity: 1.00 VT
- Description: Wine made from honey, a favorite of Fairies. It is tooth-achingly sweet.
- How to obtain
It can be produced by using a Cooking Utensil in your residence if you are at least Cooking Beginner 1.
– You can use this to grow your Fairy; it gives more EXP than other materials that can be used to grow your Fairy.
- Usage: Choose "Growth" in the Fairy Information window and select this item.
※ Caution: Any attempt at making a Sweet Honey Wine without having first acquired knowledge of Sweet Honey Wine will result in failure regardless of whether the right ingredients were used, and all the ingredients used during the cooking attempt will be consumed.
- - Crafting Materials(Beginner 1)
- Cooking Honey(2)
- Full-bodied Exotic Herbal Wine(4)
- Sugar(10)
- Fruits(2)

Misc

Top-Quality Cooking Honey

Weight: 0.10 LT

- Personal Transaction Unavailable
- - Marketplace Information
- Market Price: 373,000 Silver
- Warehouse Capacity: 0.10 VT
- Description: A natural resource originally obtained through Gathering that has been Processed for use as a Cooking Ingredient.
- How to obtain
It can be produced by shooting a Wooden Beehive with a Matchlock and then Grinding the acquired Beehive.
- - Price: Silver 200
- - Byproduct of Crafting
- Cooking Honey(Beginner 1)

Food

Full-bodied Exotic Herbal Wine

Weight: 0.10 LT

- Personal Transaction Unavailable
- - Marketplace Information
- Market Price: 2,750 Silver
- Description: Richly flavored grain wine brewed with longer fermentation.
- Fishing Speed +1
- - Duration: 45 min.
- How to obtain
> If your cooking level is Skilled Lv.1 or up, there is a slight chance of obtaining Full-bodied Exotic Herbal Wine when making Exotic Herbal Wine.
- - Price: Silver 118
- - Byproduct of Crafting(Skilled 1)
- Exotic Herbal Wine(Beginner 1)