BDO Cooking Guide Part 1 - Gear, Mastery, Materials and Leveling to Guru

Welcome to my Cooking by the Book series where I make mastering cooking easy.
In this video, we'll look at how to set up for cooking, including gear, utensils, lightstones / artifacts and mastery in Black Desert Online.
I'll also show you how to get materials and how to power level cooking to master and guru.

If you have any questions or feedback on the video, feel free to drop a comment below.
Videos 3 to 5 of the series are still in development and I try to incorporate any feedback I get.
Planned are:
Video 3: Bdolytics guide
Video 4: Profit optimization with bdolytics
Video 5: Advanced cooking concepts

Sorry if this video feels a bit chaotic at times. This is my first big video and I was kinda learning everything on the fly.
I had tons of ideas for the video and really had to restrain myself from implementing all of them to not make this video a complete clusterheck :)

References:
1) Bdolytics: https://bdolytics.com/
2) Lifeskill Discord:   / discord  
3) Mastery and proc rate explained in detail: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
4) Lightstone combinations: https://garmoth.com/artifacts/lifeski...
5) Mastery gear cost calculator https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
6) SE vs. mastery clothes calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
7) Gathering rotations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U...
8) Gpw's hunting calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
9) Liana’s Life Skill Quests: https://grumpygreen.cricket/liana/
10) Material substitution sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
11) Imperial Cooking FAQ: https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/...
12) Cooking TLDR 2022: https://i.imgur.com/iKcYc8e.png
13) Cooking/Alchemy XP Calculator (Warflash) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

0:00 - Intro
1:52 - Getting 1 second cook time + Utensils
4:29 - Mastery
5:43 - Gear (Artifacts, Accessories, Clothes)
6:59 - Q1: Mastery or Silver Embroidered Clothes?
8:28 - Basic Materials
11:08 - Bottleneck Materials
13:02 - Material Substitutions
15:06 - Q2: In which town should I cook?
16:18 - Leveling to Guru
22:20 - Q3: Leveling from Guru