Black Desert News

Greetings Adventurers,

This week is the turn of the Musa and the Maehwa to receive their succession! The two masters of the good old blade are back together, and they are ready to slice their enemies!

On top of the new succession skills, this new update brings you a price increase of some junk items that will you get richer if you love to defeat monsters.

More updates to discover about this week's patch notes below.

Please note maintenance next week will be held on Tuesday, December 24th. 2019.


[h2]Event & System[/h2]

New Events

• Succession of Events, Part 3
  
  • Event 1. Celebrate Musa & Maehwa Succession!
    
  • Period: December 17, 2019 (after maintenance)–January 8, 2020 (09:00 UTC)
    
  • Adventurers who reach a certain level with their Musa and Maehwa characters during the event period can obtain rewards below via the Challenge tab (Y)!
    
  • Click < Here > for full details!
    

• Grandpa Cron's Surprise
  
  • Event 1: Grandpa Cron’s Present
    
    • Period: December 17 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC).
      
    • Grandpa Cron's sleigh will fly through the sky and drop Cron's Gift Boxes over Velia, Heidel, Calpheon City, Valencia City, and Altinova.
      
  • Event 2: Patrigio’s Gift Shop
    
    • Patrigio is in a festive mood and will open up his Cron Gift Shop for this special time of the year! You can find him from 10:00 PM–07:00 AM in-game time, between the following server times.
      
      • NA: Dec. 24 21:00 PST–Dec. 25 23:59 PST
        
      • EU: Dec. 25 00:00 CET–Dec. 26 01:59 CET
        
  • Event 3: Cron Stones Grow on Trees?
    
    • Period: December 17 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC)
      
    • Complete special quests to get an [Event] Snowflake Seed and grow your own Cron Stones.
      
  • Event 4: It’s Time for Crystal Shards
    
    • Period: December 17 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC)
      
    • Enjoy the Fever Time drop rate boost on Sharp Black Crystal Shards and Hard Black Crystal Shards during the entire event period!
      
  • Click < Here > for full details!
    

• On December 25, 2019, a surprise event will proceed so please stay tuned!
  
  • You will only have one day, December 25th (00: 00UTC–23:59 UTC) to participate so don’t miss this opportunity!
    

Ongoing Events

• Holiday of Fortunes:
  
  • Event 1: Daily Fortunes - Special Attendance Rewards: December 11 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC)
    
  • Event 2: Lessons on True Wealth - Special Event Quests: December 18, 2019 (00:00 UTC)–January 8, 2020 (before maintenance)
    

• Succession of Events, Part 2
  
  • Event 1. Celebrate Valkyrie & Tamer Succession!: December 11, 2019 (after maintenance)–January 1, 2020 (09:00 UTC)
    
  • Event 2. Succession: Armstrong's Skill Guide Give Away!: December 11, 2019 (after maintenance)–March 1, 2020 (09:00 UTC)
    

• Deck the Halls: December 11 (after maintenance)–December 17 (before maintenance)
  
  
• Succession of Events, Part 1
  
  • Event 1. Celebrate Warrior & Ranger Succession! (for Warrior and Ranger): December 4 (after maintenance)–December 24 (before maintenance)
    

• Finding the Mysterious Knight: November 27 (after maintenance)–until future notice
  
  
• Succession Slow-Mo Contest
  
  • Duration: December 6–January 12, 2020at 11:59pm PST
    
  • Community Voting: January 15–January 19
    
  • Winner’s Announcement: January 20
    
  • Rules are now updated to include the following classes to participate: Musa and Maehwa!
    
  • Click < Here > to see how you can participate to win Succession outfits and more!
    

Ended Events

• Succession of Events, Part 1
  
• Event 2. Dual EXP Share Event
  

Reward Distribution

• Arsha Leaderboard - Short Clip Contest
  
  • Winners posted < Here >
  • All rewards have been distributed via in-game mailbox (B). Congratulations to all winners again!
    

Content

• Junk Items you can obtain from certain Monster Zones will now be sold at higher prices at the shops.
  
  ※ Silver based on the number and price of the Junk Items (e.g. in your Inventory, Mount Inventory, Town Storage, Campsite) you had previously obtained has
  been sent to your in-game mailbox.
  
  
• Silver price for Pearl Shop items listed to the Central Market has been adjusted.
  
  • Please check < Here > for the full announcement.
    

[h2]Class Changes[/h2]

Warrior

• Fixed a text issue with the skill description of Prime: Heavy Strike.
  

Ranger

• Holding the directional key when using the Prime: Evasive Explosion Shot skill will now activate extra hit.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the Prime: Descending Current skill didn't work normally during combat standby mode when having used this skill before in a Horseback Combat.
  

Sorceress

• Fixed the issue where switching to any other motion while using the Dream of Doom skill caused the skill effects to remain for a long time.
  

Musa

• 
  Added the "Succession" content.
  
  • After Awakening the Musa, accept the quest "[Musa Succession] Understanding Haeam" from the Black Spirit to start the Succession quest series.
    
  • You will learn the skill "Succession: Musa's Resolve" which will allow you to learn more powerful Blade and Horn Bow skills.
    
  • You will no longer be able to use your Crescent Blade skills.
    
  • Added the "Succession" tab to the Skill window. The skills in this tab are affected by the AP of both Main and Awakening Weapons.
    
  • You will be able to learn and use skills in both the "Main" and "Succession" tabs. However, if there is both an "Absolute" and "Succession" versions of the same skill, you must choose as you cannot use both versions of the skill.
    
  • To learn certain Succession skills, you will first need to learn the preceding skills from the "Main" tab first.
    
  • After completing the Succession quests and learning the skill "Succession: Musa's Resolve," you can go back and forth between Succession and Awakening skills by resetting your skills.
    
  • To go from using Succession to Awakening skills, you need to reset your skills to unlearn "Succession: Musa's Resolve."
    
  • To go from using Awakening to Succession skills, you need to reset your skills and relearn "Succession: Musa's Resolve."
    

Maehwa

• Added the "Succession" content.
  
  • After Awakening the Maehwa, accept the quest "[Maehwa Succession] Know Oneself" from the Black Spirit to start the Succession quest series.
    
  • You will learn the skill "Succession: Maehwa's Conviction" which will allow you to learn more powerful Blade and Horn Bow skills.
    
  • You will no longer be able to use your Kerispear skills.
    
  • Added the "Succession" tab to the Skill window. The skills in this tab are affected by the AP of both Main and Awakening Weapons.
    
  • You will be able to learn and use skills in both the "Main" and "Succession" tabs. However, if there is both an "Absolute" and "Succession" versions of the same skill, you must choose as you cannot use both versions of the skill.
    
  • To learn certain Succession skills, you will first need to learn the preceding skills from the "Main" tab first.
    
  • After completing the Succession quests and learning the skill "Succession: Maehwa's Conviction," you can go back and forth between Succession and Awakening skills by resetting your skills.
    
  • To go from using Succession to Awakening skills, you need to reset your skills to unlearn "Succession: Maehwa's Conviction."
    
  • To go from using Awakening to Succession skills, you need to reset your skills and relearn "Succession: Maehwa's Conviction."
    

Kunoichi

• Fixed the issue where the motion description for the Black Spirit: Shadow Clone skills didn't match the actual skill motion.
  
  
• Added a description about the Super Armor effect of the Flash Slash I, Flash Slash II, Flash Slash III, and Absolute: Flash Slash skills to their skill descriptions.
  
  
• Added a description about the "Air Attack on blade hits" and "Down Attack on slash" effects of the Tendon Cutter and Absolute: Tendon Cutter skills to their skill descriptions.
  

Archer

• Fixed the intermittent issue where using the Exhale skill rapidly after having used the Glide skill with Greatbow didn't allow you to use the basic attacks.
  

[h2]Item Changes[/h2]

• Added Item Collection Increase Scroll: Advanced (60 min)
  
  • Item Drop Rate +100%
    
  • Item Drop Amount +100%
    

• You can use Heating in the Processing window (L) on Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) x2 to get Item Collection Increase Scroll: Advanced (60 min) x1.
  
  • The same Processing can be applied on [Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min), and using Heating on Item Collection Increase Scroll: Advanced (60 min) will result in Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) x2.
    

• The tooltip of the Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) has been updated to the following:
  
  • Item Drop Rate +100%
    
  • Item Drop Amount +50%
    
    • Please note the item’s original effects have been added to the tooltip and that the effects of the item remains unchanged.
      

• The Item Drop Amount effect is only applied to Junk Items that drop 2 or more at a time.
  
  
• The number of the Junk Item "Hystria Ruins Fragment" you can obtain by defeating Elten of Hystria Ruins has increased from 1–3 to 1–4.
  
  
• The number of Shining Medal of Honors needed to exchange them for an Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) has decreased from 25 to 20.
  
  
• For details on newly added Pearl Shop Update, please click < Here >!
  

[h2]Monster Changes[/h2]

• Changed the rewards you get from hunting Blue Whale and Khalk as follows.
  
  
  
• Fixed the issue where having another guild summoning Khan at the time you can get the rewards after defeating Khan, the , disrupted you from getting the rewards.
  

[h2]Quests & Knowledge[/h2]

Quest

• Updated quest reward items.
  

We had two goals in our minds when we updated the main quest rewards.
Firstly, to let beginners get the necessary rewards at the required moments, and secondly, to adjust the effects of the main quest reward items based on the game's present standards to make these items actually more helpful.
In Black Desert, you can get gear, consumables, and other items through different methods, and be aided by these items until you get used to the game. However, because a significant amount of rewards were given through sub-quests whose requirements, quest flows, and acceptance times were all different, beginners couldn't get the necessary items at the required moments.
Hence we did this update, which will allow beginners to obtain helpful gear through very approachable main quests.
Now, any player can complete the main quests and get gear that will help the player to grow his or her character at the appropriate time.
We have also updated the effects of the quest reward gear which were released a long time ago.
These effects have been increased so that the character in growth could actually be aided by the reward gear based on the character's growth speed and Monster Zone balance. Particularly, you will be able to get these gear earlier than before and therefore equip the new items before exploring a new region.
Moreover, these items can be enhanced. For accessories, changes were made so that you can easily try accessory enhancement, since failing to enhance an accessory doesn't destroy it but decreases its Max Durability only. You can obtain the materials needed for enhancing or recovering the Max Durability of an item continuously from repeatable quests of each region's Monster Zone.

• You can now obtain the reward gear you could obtain by completing the ADV Support quests from the Suggested quests tab in the Quest List (O) through main quests.
  
  • However, those quest reward gear whose names don't match the main quest were substituted by new items that have the same stats as the existing quest reward gear, and consequently some quest names and dialogues have been changed.
    

• You can obtain the main quest rewards in the following sections.
  
  
  
• You can no longer see the following ADV Support quests from the Suggested quests tab in the Quests List (O).
  
  • [Lv. 51 ADV Support] Mediah: Beia's Black Magic Gloves
    
  • [Lv. 53 ADV Support] Mediah: Derek's Light Leather Shoes
    
  • [Lv. 54 ADV Support] Mediah: Mediah Merchants Union Helm
    
  • [Lv. 55 ADV Support] Mediah: Black Abyssal Main Weapon
    

• The items removed from sub-quest rewards have been substituted as follows.
  
  
  
• New accessories have been added to Valencia, Kamasylvia, and Drieghan Main Quests and you can no longer get the accessories you used to get as rewards.
  
  
  
• You can obtain the main quest rewards in the following sections.
  
  
  
• The following accessories can be enhanced to TRI (III), and are affected by enhancement chance: Red Sand Crystal Ring, Forest's Eye Earring, Rock Heart Belt.
  
  
  
• You can use the following new items to enhance or repair the new accessories you can get from the main quests.
  
  • Freed Magical Black Stone
    
  • Freed Magical Shard
    

• You can obtain Freed Magical Black Stone and Freed Magical Shard from Valencia, Kamasylvia, and Drieghan Main Quests or Monster Zone Daily Quests. Failing to enhance the accessory using Freed Magical Black Stone will not destroy the accessory, but reduce its Max Durability by 10, while repairing the accessory using Freed Magical Shard will recover the Max Durability by 20 each time.
  
  • Use Freed Magical Shard x1 and Artisan's Memory x1 to recover the Max Durability by 80 each time.
    
  • It is impossible to recover the Durability of a new accessory by using Artisan's Memory.
    

• You can obtain Freed Magical Black Stone and Freed Magical Shard from the following daily quests, which can be found under Freed Magical Materials in the Quest List (O) - Recurring quests tab.
  
  
  
• It is now impossible to accept the following quests of the Calpheon City
  
  • [EXC] Necklace of Sealed Magical Power
    
  • [EXC] Necklace of Concentrated Magical Power
    
  • [EXC] Necklace of Dim Magical Power
    
  • [EXC] Earring of Sealed Magical Power Exchange
    
  • [EXC] Ring of Sealed Magical Power Exchange
    
  • [EXC] Earring of Concentrated Magical Power Exchange
    
  • [EXC] Ring of Concentrated Magical Power Exchange
    
  • [EXC] Earring of Dim Magical Power Exchange
    
  • [EXC] Ring of Dim Magical Power Exchange
    
  • Investigate Hexe Sanctuary
    
  • Identifying Shadow Nature
    

• Changed the rewards you can get from the sub-quest "False Rest" in Valencia as follows.
  
  • Ring of Power → Gold Bar 10G x8
    

• We will send a weapon, a defense gear, and an accessory per family for those Adventurers who have completed the new stages for obtaining main quest rewards and still cannot obtain these rewards because they haven't completed the existing stages for obtaining main quest rewards.
  
  
• Added the quest "[ADV Support] Fairy, Mysterious Companion."
  
  • You can see this quest from the Suggested quests tab in the Quests List (O).
    
  • After completing all these quests, find the Fairy Queen Theiah to receive and complete the quest "[Repeat] Mysterious Companion" to get a fairy.
    

• Quests in which you are accompanied by a fairy have been added to the Suggested quests list.
  
  • After completing all these quests, find the Fairy Queen Theiah to receive and complete the quest "[Repeat] Mysterious Companion" to get a fairy.
    

[h2]Interface Changes[/h2]

• A pop-up banner that leads to an item on the Pearl Shop (F3) has been added to the lower right-hand corner of the game screen.
  
  
• The material description from Courser Training (Dream Horse Awakening) window will now appear on the left and right sides of the window.
  
  
• Added an error message which will appear when you have no gears to extract in the Extract window.
  
  
  
• The Energy UI will now appear close to the Fishing minigame UI when fishing.
  
  
• Updated the following UI.
  
  • Start Game window
    
  • Character Selection window
    
  • Server Selection window
    

• Updated the Alchemy Stone window.
  
  
• The Ship Info window will not close anymore when closing the Inventory (I) window.
  
  
• Added "Auto Arrange Items" feature to the Other Character's Inventory window.
  
  
• Added text bubble description to the Other Character's Inventory button in the Disconnect (End Game) window.
  
  
• The text bubble description of an item in the Other Character's Inventory window will now appear fixed on the right side.
  

[h2]Resolved Issues[/h2]

• Fixed a text issue with the quest description of Elixir with Knowledge.
  
  • Before: Skyblue Flower
    
  • Now: Sky Blue Flower
    

• Fixed the issue where your character acted abnormally at a certain area of the Golden Toad Inn in Heidel.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could perform abnormal gathering in certain areas of Desert Naga Temple.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the minimap looked too dark when you were at the Al Halam Sea or Gavinya Coastal Cliff.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the icon for gathering appeared at Oquilla's Eye even when there were no gatherable resources.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the ground appeared to be floating in certain areas of Desert Naga Temple.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could see through some of the structures around the Kiernak Falls.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the bodies of the monsters you defeated at Manshaum Forest did not disappear promptly.
  
  
• You can now exchange a Vitclari of Sealed Magical Power for Seal of Promise x10 via NPC Dobart.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could enter a certain building in Calpheon City abnormally.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the question mark icon would not disappear from the Fairy Information and Potion Setting windows even a potion was selected for the fairy to use.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where guild bosses would not disappear 30 minutes after they were summoned.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the navigation button that appears when your ship's durability is too low overlapped with the Ocean Current and Wind UI.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the mousover tooltips for your pet's extra motions did not appear in the Pet Information window of the Pet List.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the structures that were summoned along with the boss when you used an Ancient Relic Crystal Summon Scroll, Cartian Spell, or Pila Fe Scroll did not disappear when the boss disappeared after because it was not killed fast enough.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the navigation button that appears when your ship's durability is too low navigated to you a stable keeper.
  
  
• Fixed the intermittent issue where the appearance of the Black Spirit would reset or not change.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the skill guide that appears when you are in combat zones did not disappear even when you entered a safe zone.
  
  
• [Tamer] Fixed the issue where effects of the Moonlight Faerie Shortsword was appearing as red.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the explanatory text for the Challenge rewards did not fit the UI.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the AP and Accuracy indicated in the item description did not apply correctly when equipping Basteer Shuriken or Kunai.
  
  
• Added a text which is displayed in the message window when Item Collection Increase Scroll is used.
  
  
• Fixed the intermittent issue where the scroll bar of the Challenge Reward tab from My Information window would stick out of the UI.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could accept but not complete a consecutive quest you had already completed.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you couldn't close the Pearl Shop (F3) by pressing ESC when you opened the pearl box purchased from the Pearl Shop.
  

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Dear Players,

We will perform our weekly maintenance as follows:

[h3]Date: Tuesday, December 17th 2019[/h3]

[h3]Duration: 4 hours.[/h3]

• Global 9:00 UTC ~ 13:00 UTC
  
• Central (EU) 10:00 CEST ~ 14:00 CEST
  
• West Coast (NA) 1:00 PDT ~ 5:00 PDT
  
• East Coast (NA) 4:00 EDT ~ 8:00 EDT
  

[h3]Reasons:[/h3]

• Succession for Musa and Maehwa will be added.
  
• Succession of Events, Part 3 will start.
  
• Grandpa Cron's Surprise event will begin.
  
• Junk Items you can obtain from certain Monster Zones will now be sold at higher prices at the shops.
  
• Quest reward items for some of the quest will be updated.
  

[h3]Ending Events:[/h3]

• Succession of Events, Part 1:
  
  • Event 2. Dual EXP Share Event
    

Follow us on Twitter & Facebook to stay up to date.

We apologize for the inconvenience and we ask for your generous understanding.


Best regards,
BDO Team

Completing all of the special attendance and quests available with the Holiday of Fortunes event will grant you rewards with a total value of up to $200/€200. Don’t miss the biggest opportunity of the year!

[h2]Event 1: Daily Fortunes - Special Attendance Rewards[/h2]

Period: December 11 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC)

• The biggest rewards of the year are here for the holiday season, and you can claim them simply by logging into the game daily during the event period!
  

[h2]Event 2: Lessons on True Wealth - Special Event Quests[/h2]

Period: December 18, 2019 (00:00 UTC)–January 8, 2020 (before maintenance)

• The festive spirit is filling up the world of Black Desert Online, so tackle the special quests that will reward you with awesome prizes for completion.
  

[h2]That’s not all! On December 25, 2019, a surprise event will proceed so please stay tuned![/h2]

[h2]Event Notice[/h2]

Special Attendance

• You can confirm the special attendance rewards via ESC > Attendance Reward under the ‘Special’ tab.
  
• You can collect your rewards from the reward log in the ‘Black Spirit Safe’ available on bottom right part of your game screen.
  
• Any rewards not collected during the special attendance period cannot be claimed after the event period ends.
  
• Special attendance rewards can be claimed once per family during the event period.
  
• The possibility to claim the special attendance reward of the day will be reset at 00:00 UTC every day. This means that if you have already claimed the reward for the day, you will be able to collect the next one after 00:00 UTC. There may be a 1-2 minute lag during the reset.
  
• Every Saturday and Sunday, if you play for over one hour you can make up for a missed special attendance reward. This is only possible if you have missed a special attendance reward from a previous day during the event period. If you have collected all the attendance rewards so far within the event period, then this will not happen.
  

Special Quests

• Special quests can be completed once per family during the event period.
  
• If you have already completed the quest such as awakening your character, you can receive the completion reward right away from the NPC that gave you the quest.
  
• Any exploit or abnormal ways of entering in-game events may result in the restriction of your account.
  
• Reward items given out through events can be Bound or not, depending on the item. Thus, some items cannot be Moved or Restored. Please check the description of the item to confirm whether this item is Bound or not.
  
• Event period and specs. may change with future notice.
  

Completing all of the special attendance and quests available with the Holiday of Fortunes event will grant you rewards with a total value of up to $200/€200. Don’t miss the biggest opportunity of the year!

[h2]Event 1: Daily Fortunes - Special Attendance Rewards[/h2]

Period: December 11 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC)

• The biggest rewards of the year are here for the holiday season, and you can claim them simply by logging into the game daily during the event period!
  

[h2]Event 2: Lessons on True Wealth - Special Event Quests[/h2]

Period: December 18, 2019 (00:00 UTC)–January 8, 2020 (before maintenance)

• The festive spirit is filling up the world of Black Desert Online, so tackle the special quests that will reward you with awesome prizes for completion.
  

[h2]That’s not all! On December 25, 2019, a surprise event will proceed so please stay tuned![/h2]

[h2]Event Notice[/h2]

Special Attendance

• You can confirm the special attendance rewards via ESC > Attendance Reward under the ‘Special’ tab.
  
• You can collect your rewards from the reward log in the ‘Black Spirit Safe’ available on bottom right part of your game screen.
  
• Any rewards not collected during the special attendance period cannot be claimed after the event period ends.
  
• Special attendance rewards can be claimed once per family during the event period.
  
• The possibility to claim the special attendance reward of the day will be reset at 00:00 UTC every day. This means that if you have already claimed the reward for the day, you will be able to collect the next one after 00:00 UTC. There may be a 1-2 minute lag during the reset.
  
• Every Saturday and Sunday, if you play for over one hour you can make up for a missed special attendance reward. This is only possible if you have missed a special attendance reward from a previous day during the event period. If you have collected all the attendance rewards so far within the event period, then this will not happen.
  

Special Quests

• Special quests can be completed once per family during the event period.
  
• If you have already completed the quest such as awakening your character, you can receive the completion reward right away from the NPC that gave you the quest.
  
• Any exploit or abnormal ways of entering in-game events may result in the restriction of your account.
  
• Reward items given out through events can be Bound or not, depending on the item. Thus, some items cannot be Moved or Restored. Please check the description of the item to confirm whether this item is Bound or not.
  
• Event period and specs. may change with future notice.
  

Greetings Adventurers,

One more week we continue with the addition of Succession skills for other classes. This time is the turn to shine for the Valkyrie and the Tamer. What are you waiting for? Seize your forgotten power!

Also, as winter holidays are approaching, the world of Black Desert will be celebrating them as well with the arrival of the Holiday of Fortunes event. This event will reward you with awesome items of high value, so don't miss this special chance!

Finally, a new diary titled "Herald's Journal" has arrived to your shelf. Complete each chapter of this new journal to earn bonuses such as HP, DP and Max Stamina for your entire family.

Enjoy the new holiday events and see you next week with more awesome content!


Please note maintenance next week will be held on Tuesday, December 17th. 2019.




New Events

• Holiday of Fortunes
  
  • Event 1: Daily Fortunes - Special Attendance Rewards
    
    • Period: December 11 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC)
      
    • The biggest rewards of the year are here for the holiday season, and you can claim them simply by logging into the game daily during the event period!
      
  • Event 2: Lessons on True Wealth - Special Event Quests
    
    • Period: December 18, 2019 (00:00 UTC)–January 8, 2020 (before maintenance)
      
    • The festive spirit is filling up the world of Black Desert Online, so tackle the special quests that will reward you with awesome prizes for completion.
      
  • Click < Here > for the full details on this event which offers rewards up to $200/€200 value!
    

• Succession of Events, Part 2
  
  • Event 1. Celebrate Valkyrie & Tamer Succession!
    
    • Period: December 11, 2019 (after maintenance)–January 1, 2020 (09:00 UTC)
      
    • Adventurers who reach a certain level with their Valkyrie and Tamer characters during the event period can obtain rewards below via the Challenge tab (Y)!
      
  • Event 2. Succession: Armstrong's Skill Guide Give Away!
    
    • Period: December 11, 2019 (after maintenance)–March 1, 2020 (09:00 UTC)
      
    • Reach Lv.56 with any class and obtain [Event] Armstrong's Skill Guide (1 Day) at max 5 times during the event period via Challenges (Y) tab.
      
  • Click < Here > for the full details.
    

• Deck the Halls
  
  • Event 1: Do you want to build a snowman?
    
    • Period: December 11 (after maintenance)–December 17 (before maintenance)
      
    • Help Lara build a snowman for the kids and get [Event] Lara's Warm Black Tea!
      
  • Event 2: You better watch out, you better not cry
    
    • Period: December 11 (after maintenance)–December 17 (before maintenance)
      
    • Decorate Ancient Cron Tree and get [Event] Grandpa Cron’s Gift!
      
  • Click < Here > to learn all about the snowy fun events!
    

• Rookie and Returning Attendance rewards have been refreshed!
  
  • Period: Dec. 11 (09:00 UTC)–Mar. 18, 2020 (09:00 UTC)
    
  • Check attendance daily and stack up on rewards like [Event] Lv. 57 Travel Kit*, Advice of Valks, Value Pack, and more!
    
    • About [Event] Lv. 57 Travel Kit: When you open an [Event] Lv. 57 Travel Kit you will get, among other items, an [Event] Lv. 58 Travel Kit. The level in the item name indicates minimum level a character needs to be at to open the travel kit. You will keep getting higher level travel kits, until you get an [Event] Lv. 60 Travel Kit, which contains Gold Bar 100G, Shakatu's Luxury Box x1, Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x5, Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x5, Artisan's Memory x10, and Advice of Valks (25-35) x1.
      

• On December 25, 2019, a surprise event will proceed so please stay tuned!
  

Ongoing Events

• Succession of Events, Part 1
  
  • Event 1. Celebrate Warrior & Ranger Succession! (for Warrior and Ranger): December 4 (after maintenance)–December 24 (before maintenance)
    
  • Event 2. Dual EXP Share Event (for all classes): December 4 (after maintenance)–December 17 (before maintenance)
    

• Finding the Mysterious Knight: November 27 (after maintenance)–until future notice
  
  
• Succession Slow Mo Contest
  
  • Duration: December 6 - January 12 at 11:59pm PST
    
  • Community Voting: January 15 - January 19
    
  • Winner’s Announcement: January 20
    
  • Click < Here > to see how you can participate to win Succession outfits and more!
    

Ended Events

• Get Restored Afuaru's Maps!
  

Reward Distribution

• Arsha Leaderboard Reward Distribution
  
  • To all winners, please claim your reward via in-game mailbox (B).
    

Content

• A new adventure journal, Herald's Journal, has been added.
  
  • The journal kept by Calpheon’s loudest herald Rubin which contains news he gathered from all over the continent is now available.
    
  • You must have the knowledge Rubin and have reached Lv. 56 first.
    
  • Complete all 3 chapters of the Herald’s Journal to get rewards such as
    Extra Stamina, HP, Weight and +1 DP.
    

• Pets will now be guaranteed 100% to acquire 1 type of extra motion whenever they level up.
  
  • The number of extra motions your pet has will depend on its level.
    
  • However, some pets either cannot learn any extra motions, or can only learn certain ones.
    
  • Pets that do not have extra motions:
    
    • Tier 1: Hedgehog, Wizard Gosphy, Snowball Rosefinch, Snowflake Rosefinch
      
    • Tier 1–4: Brown Guide Hawk, Parrot, Sky Hawk, Cursed Looney, Carmadun Owl, Drifty Gosphy, Crow
      
  • Pets that can only learn Joy/Feed/Angry/Sleepiness/Jump/Weeping motions:
    
    • Tier 1–4: Borrum Wolf, Sylvian Wolf, Shadow Wolf
      
  • Pets that can only learn Joy/Angry/Jump/Play motions:
    
    • Tier 1: Snowkid
      
  • Pets that can only learn Angry/Jump/Play/Crouch motions:
    
    • Tier 2–4: Snowkid
      

• Changed the way you summon guild bosses.
  
  • The biggest change is that you no longer need to use summon scrolls.
    
  • From now on, once you have satisfied the conditions to summon a guild boss, you can summon the boss by finding the location of the spawn point from the Guild Boss Subjugation tab in the Guild window.
    
  • You need "summon scroll piece" items to summon guild bosses.
    
  • You can obtain summon scroll piece items by completing guild boss subjugation quests. The example below demonstrates what to do once you have all the summon scroll piece items.
    
    • Once you have collected all the required Giant Mudster Summon Scroll Piece items, you can summon Giant Mudster. Go to Guild window, then the Guild Boss Subjugation tab and you will see that the "Find Location" and "Summon" buttons have appeared. Once you press the "Find Location" button and go to the location where the boss can be summoned, you could select the difficulty level.
      
    • We suggest that you select the difficulty level appropriate for the size of your guild.
      

• There are certain restrictions for summoning guild bosses.
  
  • You can only summon each type of guild boss via the Guild Boss Subjugation tab once a week, and there are a limited number of guild bosses which can be summoned per server at a time.
    
  • If too many guild bosses have already been summoned in your current server, a system message will tell you that too many have already been summoned. In this case, you can either wait a while, or you can move to another server and summon a guild boss there.
    

• Since the way guild boss subjugation works changed, the way you summon Khan, the Eye of the Great Ocean, also changed.
  
  • Before, you had to collect the Cerulean Wave Crystals through guild missions, collect summon scroll piece items by defeating the Cox Pirates' Shadow Ghost, and then change the collected pieces to Leanar's Celestial Map in order to summon Khan.
    
  • Now, you can summon and defeat Khan after completing five guild missions that allow you to obtain Khan Summon Scroll Piece items.
    

• The number of guild boss summons and summon scroll piece items reset on Monday at 00:00 UTC, so don't forget to go on a guild boss raid with your guild on the weekends!
  
  • Please note that you can also continue to use existing guild boss items you still possess.
    

• We focused on "accessibility" as we revamped the way you summon Guild Bosses. There is no longer the burden of someone having to be in charge of handling summon scrolls. You will now automatically accumulate summon scroll piece items as you complete guild boss subjugation missions.
  
  
• Any guild member can now view the type of guild bosses and the number of guild bosses that can be summoned by looking through the Guild window. However, guild bosses can now be summoned only once per week.
  
  
• There used to be different summon scrolls based on the size of your guild. Now, the system has been revamped so that you can select the difficulty of the guild bosses regardless of the size of your guild. Before, small guilds were only able to summon guild bosses for small guilds. Now, you can challenge more powerful guild bosses for better rewards regardless of the size of your guild, simply by adjusting the difficulty level. According to this new system, "0" difficult level guild bosses are approximately the same difficulty as the guild bosses from guild summon scrolls for extra large guilds. The “0” difficulty level is the base level, and it will get more challenging as you increase the number. We are planning to keep working on the difficulty of the bosses at each level, to ensure an enjoyable experience for everyone.
  
  
• Along with this revamp, we simplified the conditions for summoning the guild bosses, especially Khan. Before, you had to complete guild missions 80 times to summon Khan, but now you can summon Khan after completing guild missions 5 times.
  
  
• A message window about refreshing barter information will now appear for the following conditions.
  
  • When barter is available
    
  • When the cooldown for refreshing barter information has passed
    

Tamer

• Added the "Succession" content.
  
  • After Awakening the Tamer, accept the quest "[Tamer Succession] True Loyalty" from the Black Spirit to start the Succession quest series.
    
  • You will learn the skill "Succession: Power of the Beast" which will allow you to learn more powerful Shortsword skills.
    
  • You will no longer be able to use your Celestial Bo Staff skills.
    

• Added the "Succession" tab to the Skill window. The skills in this tab are affected by the AP of both Main and Awakening Weapons.
  
  • You will be able to learn and use skills in both the "Main" and "Succession" tabs. However, if there is both an "Absolute" and "Succession" versions of the same skill, you must choose as you cannot use both versions of the skill.
    
  • To learn certain Succession skills, you will first need to learn the preceding skills from the "Main" tab first.
    

• After completing the Succession quests and learning the skill "Succession: Power of the Beast," you can go back and forth between Succession and Awakening skills by resetting your skills.
  
  • To go from using Succession to Awakening skills, you need to reset your skills to unlearn "Succession: Power of the Beast."
    
  • To go from using Awakening to Succession skills, you need to reset your skills and relearn "Succession: Power of the Beast."
    

Valkyrie

• Added the "Succession" content.
  
  • After Awakening the Valkyrie, accept the quest "[Valkyrie Succession] The Calling" from the Black Spirit to start the Succession quest series.
    
  • You will learn the skill "Succession: Valkyrie's Vow" which will allow you to learn more powerful Longsword and Shield skills.
    
  • You will no longer be able to use your Lancia skills.
    

• Added the "Succession" tab to the Skill window. The skills in this tab are affected by the AP of both Main and Awakening Weapons.
  
  • You will be able to learn and use skills in both the "Main" and "Succession" tabs. However, if there is both an "Absolute" and "Succession" versions of the same skill, you must choose as you cannot use both versions of the skill.
    
  • To learn certain Succession skills, you will first need to learn the preceding skills from the "Main" tab first.
    

• After completing the Succession quests and learning the skill "Succession: Valkyrie's Vow," you can go back and forth between Succession and Awakening skills by resetting your skills.
  
  • To go from using Succession to Awakening skills, you need to reset your skills to unlearn "Succession: Valkyrie's Vow."
    
  • To go from using Awakening to Succession skills, you need to reset your skills and relearn "Succession: Valkyrie's Vow."
    

• Added the Breath of All Creations items, and their key materials the Energy of All Creations items.
  
  • There are four types of Breath of All Creations items, and also four types of Energy of All Creations items. The four Energy of All Creations items can be obtained by defeating the guild boss Lava Chief.
    
  • The Energy of All Creations items have expires in 7 days. Once it expires, you can no longer use it, so you should use it before it does.
    
  • Use Simple Alchemy in the Processing window on Energy of All Creations x1, Oil of Fortitude x20, and Mystical Spirit Powder x20 to get Breath of All Creations.
    
  • The four different types of Breath of All Creations items has one of the following four different stats, as follows.
    
    • All AP +70
      
    • All Damage Reduction +300
      
    • Attack Speed +20%, Casting Speed +20%
      
    • Movement Speed +20%, Fall Damage -50%, Increase Jump Height +2m
      

• There is something you should be aware of before using the Breath of All Creations.
  
  • The Breath of All Creations has a duration of 10 minutes, and its effect will not disappear even if your character dies. There is also a cooldown of 240 minutes, and all Breath of All Creations items share the same cooldown, so we recommend that you use it at the right moment.
    
  • The effects of a Pure Black Stone and a Breath of All Creations do not stack, so if you use both of them, then only the effects of the Pure Black Stone will be applied. Please be careful that you do not use a Breath of All Creations while the effects of the Pure Black Stone are in effect!
    
  • The Breath of All Creations expires in 14 days. Once 14 days have passed, you can no longer use the item, so be careful!
    

• Added a new crystal, Magic Crystal of Infinity - Skill, and one of its ingredients, Stone of Malice.
  
  • Magic Crystal of Infinity - Skill can be produced by using an Alchemy Tool in your residence if you are at least Alchemy Apprentice 1.
    
  • The ingredients for making a Magic Crystal of Infinity - Skill are: Fruit of Destruction x2, Magic Crystal of Crimson Flame - Power x1, Ruby x2, Everlasting Herb x6, Stone of Malice x1
    
  • You can get Stone of Malice at a certain chance from looting the boss Giant Mudster. The rest of the ingredients can be gathered or looted from monsters.
    

• You can now sell Cerulean Wave Crystal items to guild shops for 100,000 Silver.
  
  
• Crow's Trade Voucher will no longer expire.
  
  • All Crow's Trade Voucher items in your possession have been removed and returned to your as non-expiring vouchers via in-game mail.
    
  • We also returned all of your expired Crow's Trade Voucher to you via in-game mail.
    

• For details on newly added Pearl Shop Update, please click < Here >!
  

Quest

• Changed the quest reward for [Co-op] Defeat the Shipwrecked Cox Pirates' Ghost.
  
  • Before: [Guild] Celestial Map Piece – Oquilla's Eye
    
  • Now: Cox Pirates' Artifact (Parley Beginner), Cox Pirates' Artifact (Parley Expert), or Cox Pirates' Artifact (Combat)
    

• The following monsters will no longer drop the item [Guild] Celestial Map Piece – Oquilla's Eye.
  
  • Cox Pirates' Shadow Ghost
    
  • Cox Pirates' Ghost
    

• If the contents of your entry in the Notepad UI gets long, a scrollbar will now appear after you press ENTER. Before, the scrollbar only appeared after you clicked on the UI, or changed its size.
  
  
• The Exchange button will now always appear when you interact with with NPC Duncan, even if you do not possess any Shining Medal of Honor.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where it was difficult to enter your current enhancement chance into the UI when you got an alert message for attempting to enhance an item with a very high enhancement chance, closed the message UI, then tried to enhance again and got same alert message.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where it was difficult to scroll through an NPC's Item Exchange List with your mouse.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the text did not fit inside the tooltips for certain set effects.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could not drag certain windows (e.g. Quick Hotkey, Maid/Butler List, Attendance Reward) by clicking on the upper-right sections of the windows.
  

• Fixed the issue where the effects of certain weapons remained visible even after your character became invisible via certain skills.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where Shais would get stuck in the barricades near the Eastern Gateway.
  
  
• Fixed the graphical issue with areas of Marni Farm Ruins.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where gatherable resources did not appear in a part of Hexe Sanctuary.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could go inside a certain tree at the Lemoria Guard Post.
  
  
• Fixed the graphical issue with NPCs overlapping with certain structures in parts of Valencia.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the icon for gathering appeared at the Desert Naga Temple even when there were no gatherable resources.
  
  
• Fixed the following issues in a certain area: abnormal appearance on the 3D minimap; frame rate drop; ships getting stuck in a shipwreck.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could perform abnormal gathering in parts of the Battle Arena.
  
  • Fixed the issue where abnormal gatherable resources appeared in parts of the Battle Arena.
    

• Fixed the issue where if you chose the Total Score option in the Altar of Blood Ranking window, you could not undo it.
  
  
• The appearances of Improved Epheria Sailboat and Improved Epheria Frigate will now change if you equip gear for them.
  
  
• Changed the names of certain villager NPCs at Grána.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could walk through certain walls in Grána.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could not properly move on certain rooftops in Duvencrune.
  
  
• Fixed the graphical issue where certain structures appeared floating at Marak Farm.
  
  
• [Kunoichi] Fixed the issue where the effects of the Tendon Cutter skill did not match the character's movements.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where coupons sometimes could not be added to the Coupon menu (in the top right corner in the Pearl Shop) if they were originally received as an Attendance Reward.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you would sometimes get stuck in a fort, command post, or recovery center after changing servers.
  
  
• [Wizard] Fixed the graphical issue with the neck appearing disconnected under certain circumstances.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could not use the repair function at your campsite if you had previously opened the Campsite Storage window first.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the mouseover tooltips for the "Storage" and "Open Central Market" buttons in the Maid/Butler List window did not disappear.
  
  
• [Tamer] Fixed the graphical issue where the arms of the Treant Camouflage outfit were too reflective.
  
  
• Fixed the issue with the size of the speech bubble for the Dark Rift button on the bottom right corner of the game display.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the cow milking minigame's mouse key guide overlapped with the minigame UI.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could not load items from your inventory to your ship's cargo at the wharf and the message "The distance is too great." appeared, even though you were close enough.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where you could not see text after the thirtieth line if the size of the Notepad UI was made smaller than default.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the icons of certain Interior items did not appear correctly in the Item Exchange List windows of NPCs.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the My Information window was not brought forward when it was selected if both the My Information and the Ship Information windows were opened.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the effects of the guild skill Ample Storage were not applied.
  
  
• UIs will now be brought forward when you click on or drag the UI.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the color of the text indicating the number of items at NPC shops sometimes turned gray.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the buttons that appear when you interact with NPCs sometimes appeared cramped after you restored down your game window during a dialogue with an NPC.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where items moved to your inventory when both your ship and horse's inventory UIs were opened, and you tried to move items from your ship to your horse.
  
  
• Fixed the awkward navigation for the following quests.
  
  • [Valkyrie] Ideology at the Tip of the Lancia
    
  • [Valkyrie] A Real Valkyrie
    
  • [Valkyrie] Divine power
    

• Fixed the issue where it was impossible to keep playing the game if went to the Node Manager of an unconnected node to trade, then pressed the Node Management button to open the World Map.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the hair of the Shai NPC at Brellin Farm would look awkward.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the Processing progress would be abnormal when you opened the Inventory during Processing.
  
  
• Fixed the issue where the key guide for continuously feeding Honey Wine would be displayed in the Grow Fairy window.
  
  
• Fixed the typo in the speech bubble which is displayed when using the [Valkyrie] Treant Camouflage Set item.
  

Updated 12/12

• You can now see the requirements for getting Deve's Encyclopedia if you do not have the book.
  

• We are aware of the issue where Black Spirit's form appears to be in the original small spherical form. We are looking into the issue and apologize for the inconvenience.
  

Updated 12/12

• We are aware of the issue where you cannot press RMB to reset the skill Succession: Valkyrie's Vow with an Armstrong's Skill Guide item.
  
  • As a workaround, you can reset the skill by pressing the button to reset all skills.
    

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