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Arena of Solare Regular Season

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HrVjZbJCJA

Arena of Solare, a matchmaking-based 3v3 PvP content with equalized gear,

has returned for its regular season with the update on Wednesday, August 17!

If you want to learn more about Arena of Solare, take a look below!

[h3]3v3 Arenas Await[/h3]

In the Arena of Solare, you have exclusive “gear load outs” that allow you to play in your unique PvP-style and compete with “skill alone”.

Once you find a match, you’ll enter one of the five available arenas.


▲ New Arena: Manshaum Forest


▲ New Arena: Cadry Ruins


▲ New Arena: Jade Starlight Forest

Certain arenas will have various objectives that offer effects such as restoring HP or buffing AP, so you’ll need to plan your strategy around them

➤ Learn about the objectives

[h3]Practice Makes Perfect[/h3]

Need some time to polish your PvP skills? Then start warming up in practice mode!


▲ Select Ranked or Practice Mode

In practice mode, you can queue up by yourself or party queue with others and practice with friends or guild mates.

(Party queue for practice mode will be added in a future update!)

Otherwise, if you feel confident in your skills, you can jump right into Ranked mode!

[h3]Know Thy Self, Know Thy Enemy[/h3]


▲ Click the Magnifying Glass button to find out more!


▲ You can see if they are playing Succession or Awakening, and what Skill Add-ons they are using!

Want to see what gear load out someone else is using? You can check out the gear of opponents after a match, and you can also see the Skill Add-ons and stats of each class!

[h3]Class-based Top 20 Rankings[/h3]


▲ Top 20 Rankings for Each Class

With 24 classes in Black Desert, you might be wondering who are the best Adventurers playing each class.

Now you can see the ranking of the top 20 Adventurers for each class and aim for the top!

➤ P.S. There's also an event for top 3!

[h3]Spoils of Glory[/h3]



Don’t let sweaty palms keep you from the weekly rewards that can let you obtain Cron Stones and Advice of Valks (+110) from the Arena of Solare!

➤ Find out more

A Week of Special Rewards

August 17, 2022 (Wed) after maintenance – August 24, 2022 (Wed) before maintenance

Celebrating Arena of Solare’s first regular season with a very special set of login rewards!



[h3][Event] Glory of Solare Box Contents[/h3]



Additional Notice
- Items listed without a quantity are all 1 quantity.
- Unreceived login rewards due to missed logins during the event period cannot be recovered.
- You must log in with a level 7 or higher character to receive login rewards.
- Login rewards can only be collected once per Family.
- You can collect a second login reward when you play for an hour (or more) on Saturday and Sunday. This only applies to Adventurers that have less than the maximum number of stamps available and have not collected all the login rewards during the event period.
- Pearl Abyss reserves the right to change or cancel the event depending on mitigating circumstances. If changes are made, they can be found on this event page.
- Event items may have restrictions (sale/trade) and/or different binding settings/expiration dates. Due to this reason, these items cannot be transferred or restored.
- For details such as whether the item is bound, please refer to the in-game item description.
- Items and/or rewards that were used normally cannot be recovered.
- Participating in the event using inappropriate methods may result in a cancellation/retrieval of your reward(s) and/or restriction from the game.
- For any questions or concerns regarding the event, please contact us via [Support].
- Any content not mentioned on this page is subject to the [Black Desert Event Rules].

Arena of Solare Season 1, Summer Events & More!

Greetings Adventurers!

August 17th marks the first regular season of the Arena of Solare. The 3v3 PvP mode showed some incredible fights in the arena during pre-season, and soon you'll be heading into intense battles to determine who are the top players in Black Desert. Could it be you? Make sure to stay tuned to all of Black Desert's channels to see what changes are coming to Season 1 of Arena of Solare.

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And of course, the Terrmian Beach festival is still going on! Will you choose to fight alongside the Papus or the Otters? Will you fish to your heart's content on the golden shores? Or maybe you just want to kick back and do some shopping at the exclusive Terrmian Night Market. Whatever you choose to do on the beach, make sure that you make full use of the Papu/Otter exclusive stores, with items such as Memory Fragments, Advice of Valks, Cron Stones, and more available. Remember that the side you choose in the Papu vs Otter events determines which of the merchants you can use.



Terrmian Beach Events: - Do We Fish for Papu or Otters? - Sand Castle Shore-down - Auction: Masterpiece of a Thousand Years - Sand Castle Crasher - Papu and Otter’s Special Shop Week 2! - Dicey Shore-down

For this weekend, make sure you log in to claim your Summer Postcards! Each day you'll be able to log in and collect a small gift from your in-game mail, with items such as Artisan's Memory, Advice of Valks, and of course, Terrmian Event Dice! These postcards will only be available for a short time, so make sure you collect them from your mailbox every day this weekend.

[NA/EU] Patch Notes Summary - August 10, 2022



Greetings Adventurers,

Here are the latest update details for Black Desert Online on August 10, 2022 (Wed).

[h3]Contents[/h3]

● The following improvements have been applied to the Sand Castle Crasher event.
- Improved so that you can interact with most NPCs located near the Terrmian Beach.
- Changed so that the NPCs (Benns Lamute, Benns Morio) that accept '[Event] Blue Terrmian Coins' for exchange can be identified easily by displaying their name.
- Changed so that the "Dispatched Storage Keeper" and "Lenan's Storage" Sell Item feature is not available for items at Terrmian Beach.

Auction: Thousand Years Masterpiece
- Somebody has left behind a chest for adventurers who have come to "Auction: Thousand Years Masterpiece."
*NPC Roro who promotes the Auction: Thousand Years Masterpiece now guides you to the location of the chest.
* You can obtain the "All's Fair in Vacation and War" title and art and "Disharmony" furniture through the chest located behind Roro.
* You cannot reobtain the title and furniture item if you already proceeded with the previous event "Auction: Thousand Years Masterpiece - Find the Hidden Artwork on Terrmian Beach!"
- Changed the quest name for [Event] Hidden Secret Chest to [Event] Papu and Otter Disharmony.

Ancient Black Spirit's Adventure for Summer!
- Improved so you can better identify which rewards you're exchanging for your Sweet n' Sour Strawberry Banana Sherbet or Sweet n' Savory Starfish Sherbet, which are obtained via Ancient Black Spirit's Adventure and Challenges (Y).
ex) When proceeding with the [Event] Papu Exchange: Sharp Black Crystal Shards quest, you will see a description regarding the items you will be obtaining.

Special Papu and Otter Merchants at Terrmian Beach!
- Relocated Palio and Donsella, visiting vendors of special merchant guilds, to near the Thousand Years Masterpiece Auction at Terrmian Beach.

- Added system alerts to display 5 minutes before Palio and Donsella arrive on Terrmian Beach.

Terrmian Night Market
- You can now store the 10 special food items from the Night Market in your Family Inventory.
- Your character will now display an animation when eating Night Market food items.
- Changed how cooldowns work for Night Market food items as follows. Item descriptions have been changed accordingly.

- Changed the basic movements of "Terrmian Night Market" Vedio.
- Changed "Terrmian Night Market" Puria, Melnia, and Vedio to now be a bit more aggressive with their sales pitches. They now have been placed one foot forward from their previous positions..

Sand Castle Crasher - Papus vs Otters!
● The following changes have been applied to Red Battlefield: Sand Castle Shore-Down.
- Increased the attack speed of the Brave Pine Blader's rage (RMB) attack.
- Increased the attack area of the Dreamy Bubble Shaman's basic (LMB) attack.
- Changed Family Names to no longer display for characters upon entering the battlefield.
- Changed so the health bars of allies and foes no longer display in the battlefield.

● Applied the following changes to the "Who’s the King of the (Sand) Castle?" (PvE) event.
- Applied the following changes to the 8 Transformation Scrolls usable at the Sand Castle Crasher.
* Scrolls with 20-minute cooldowns have had their cooldowns reduced to 1 minute.
* Added text detailing what happens to these items once the event ends.
- Applied the following changes to the 6 permanent Transformation Scrolls awarded during the event.
* Changed scrolls with [Event] to [Crasher].
* ex) [Event] Fierce Pine Blader Transformation Scroll → [Crasher] Fierce Pine Blader Transformation Scroll
* Added text detailing that you cannot damage monsters while transformed with these scrolls.
* Changed the items' icons.

- Changed so that the looting restrictions are maintained even after a certain period of time has passed after defeating Papus and Otters in Sand Castle Crasher.
- Improved the "[Event] [Daily] Clean Out the Stinkin' Otters" and "[Event] [Daily] Sock It to the Mouthy Papus" quests as follows.
* Reduced the number of Papus/Otters to defeat from 50 to 10.
※ Adventurers who have yet to complete this quest but have defeated more than 10 Papus/Otters will automatically see the quest completed after the maintenance on August 10 (Wed). Adventurers with less than 10 Papus/Otters defeated will be able to complete the quest by only defeating 10 Papus/Otters after the maintenance.
* Changed the location of the quest NPCs for convenience.
> Use the navigation guide from the Quests window or locate them near the Sand Castle Crasher or by the Lamute Gang.

Weekly Terrmian Happiness (Feat. Terrmian Special Coin)
- The quests [Event] Sand Castle Repairs I and [Event] Sand Castle Repairs II can now be accepted normally.
- Improved the quest [Event] Grilled Fish for the Campfire so that you can cook Sea Eel and Herring in the campfire.
- Changed so that [Event] Sunset Butterflyfish have a 10% chance of being caught in the [Event] Purple Butterflyfish’s zone, and vice versa, in the Papu and Otter fishing zones.
* The chance of obtaining of all event fish are the same.
- Added text detailing on which NPC you can buy Lumbering Axes from for [Event] Campfire for Tonight.

Do We Fish for Papu or Otters?
- The Papu's Bravery and Otter's Diligence buffs granted by handing in Sunset Butterflyfish to Panira and Purple Butterflyfish to Pucio at Terrmian Beach respectfully, have now had their duration increased from 3 to 10 hours.

Sand Castle Crasher Festival! Fixes
- Fixed so you can now access the menu and other functions from the Red Battlefield UI upon entering the Sand Castle Shore-Down.
- Fixed the issue of Papu and Otter Chief not appearing during Sand Castle Shore-Down.
- Fixed the issue of "Papu Empress" Papuraora and "Otter General" Crioniak appearing in abnormal locations at the start of the battle between Papu and Otters.
- Fixed the issue of the Navigate feature appearing unnatural when using auto-navigation in the Terrmian region.
- Fixed the issue of Silver being stored abnormally in the Inventory when selling items at the Terrmian Night Market.
* Silver stored in this storage will be moved to Velia Storage.
- Fixed the issue of the NPC names displaying and disappearing for a certain period of time near Terrmian Thousand Years Masterpiece Auction House.
- Fixed the issue of the plate and fork remaining when the character was eating.
- Improved the quest objective for the "[Event] Campfire for Tonight" quest.

● Applied the following changes to Red Battlefield:
- Fixed the issue of not being able to enter the Red Battlefield when the Hunger debuff is being applied.
- Fixed so the Red Battlefield cannot be entered with the Fishing Rod equipped.

[h3]Items[/h3]
With this update, not only are we changing the La Orzeca and Nouverikant outfits to be dyeable as our Adventurer's see fit, we've also added additional quests to revert your La Orzeca and Nouverikant outfits into outfit boxes so you can wear them on another character.

We look forward to seeing the different color schemes of La Orzeca and Nouverikant outfits to be posted on the Photo Gallery soon.

● Changed La Orzeca and Nouverikant Outfits to now be dyeable.
- The parts that can be dyed are the following:


※ You can obtain the La Orzeca outfit through the following means.
La Orzeca Helmet
- You will first need to obtain "Quturan's Left Lung" to begin the La Orzeca Helmet questline.
- Defeat monsters in Thornwood Forest, Ash Forest, or the Crypt of Resting Thoughts for a chance to loot Quturan's Left Lung, or you can craft it by collecting 100 "Quturan's Black Leaf" that drop from the same monster zones as well.

La Orzeca Armor
- You will first need to obtain "Quturan's Right Lung" to begin the La Orzeca Armor questline.
- Defeat monsters in Tunkuta, Olun's Valley, or the Crypt of Resting Thoughts for a chance to loot Quturan's Right Lung, or you can craft it by collecting 100 "Quturan's Ashen Leaf" that drop from the same monster zones as well.

Quturan's Ashen and Black Leaves also have a low chance of being fished up from the waters of O'dyllita.

Female classes can obtain the La Orzeca Helmet and Armor more akin to the male class version through the "[Daily] La Orzeca's Orb" quest. (This appearance change is permanent and cannot be reverted.)


※ You can obtain the Nouverikant outfit through the following means.
Nouverikant Helmet
- Use Manufacture (L) with PEN (V) Dormant Nouverikant Helmet, Cantarnia's Crystal x30, and Concentrated Nouver's Aura x3 to craft the "Sealed Nouverikant Helmet."
* PEN (V) Dormant Nouverikant Helmet: Bring the Bloodstorm Nouver's Split Horn to the scholar in the royal palace of Valencia to obtain the "Dormant Nouverikant Helmet." Collect "Bloodstorm Black Stones" to enhance the Dormant Nouverikant Helmet up to PEN (V). The helmet's enhancement success rate is always 100% guaranteed, with only the amount of Bloodstorm Black Stones required increasing per enhancement level.
* Cantarnia's Crystal: Purchase from Francia, the librarian of O'draxxia.
* Concentrated Nouver's Aura: Use Heating (L) on Concentrated Boss's Aura x1 with Latent Nouver's Aura x10.
** Bloodstorm Black Stones: Use Heating (L) on "Bloodlit Eye of the Desert" x1 and Black Stone (Weapon/Armor) x100.

Nouverikant Armor
"- Use Manufacture (L) with PEN (V) Dormant Nouverikant Armor, Cantarnia's Crystal x30, and Concentrated Nouver's Aura x3 to craft the ""Sealed Nouverikant Armor."" "
* PEN (V) Dormant Nouverikant Armor: Bring the Bloodstorm Nouver's Ragged Wing to the scholar in the royal palace of Valencia to obtain the "Dormant Nouverikant Armor." Collect "Bloodstorm Black Stones" to enhance the Dormant Nouverikant Armor up to PEN (V). The helmet's enhancement success rate is always 100% guaranteed, with only the amount of Bloodstorm Black Stones required increasing per enhancement level.
* Cantarnia's Crystal: Purchase from Francia, the librarian of O'draxxia.
* Concentrated Nouver's Aura: Use Heating (L) on Concentrated Boss's Aura x1 with Latent Nouver's Aura x10.
** Bloodstorm Black Stones: Use Heating (L) on "Bloodlit Eye of the Desert" x1 and Black Stone (Weapon/Armor) x100.


● Added two new daily quests that will revert your La Orzeca Outfit into an outfit box.
- [Daily] Primeval Form: La Orzeca Helmet
* Quest NPC: Limitte of O'draxxia
* Condition: Incarnation of Greed: Helmet quest complete
- [Daily] Primeval Form: La Orzeca Armor
* Quest NPC: Burt Bedmountain
* Condition: Incarnation of Greed: Armor quest complete
- These quests will become available after you have completed Incarnation of Greed: Helmet and Armor quests, respectively.
- Hand over Cantarnia's Crystal x2 with either La Orzeca Helmet or Armor to obtain the La Orzeca Helmet or Armor Boxes, respectively.
※ You can purchase Cantarnia's Crystals from Francia, the librarian of O'draxxia, for 500 million Silver each.

● Added daily quest that allows you to revert the Nouverikant Helmet/Armor back to its sealed state.
- The quest can be accepted if you equipped the Nouverikant Helmet/Armor, or have it in your Pearl Inventory.


To alleviate new Adventurers from the inevitable inventory clog that comes from random green-grade gear looted from monsters, we initially implemented such gear to drop in box form. We have now made it so that you can more quickly obtain the crafting materials you can obtain by using Heating on such gear. Now if you have any green-grade gear on you, you can exchange them with certain blacksmiths to immediately break them apart into their assorted processing materials.

● Improved so you can now exchange green-grade boxes with certain blacksmiths to obtain processing materials from the contents of said boxes.
- The Dwarven blacksmiths of Gavinya Great Crater have discovered a new method to retrieve crafting materials from boxes without taking out their contents, and have spread this knowledge to blacksmiths near and far.






[h3]Monsters[/h3]
● Applied the following changes to the loot that can be obtained in Murrowak's Labyrinth of Mountain of Eternal Winter.
- Increased Caphras Stone drop rate when defeating Ironclad Murraska and Murraska by 3.3 times.
- Changed the following loot that can be obtained from "Earth-shaking", "Leader", "Violent Leader", "Ironclad Murraska", "Egg-brooding" Murraska, "General", and "Queen's Wing" Murrasto.
* Increased Heavenly Essence (Stun/Grapple/Knockdown/Ignore Knockback Resistance) drop rate to approximately 2 times.
* Increased Forgotten Witch's Token's drop rate to approximately 1.25 times.
- Increased Embers of Frost's drop rate to 2 times when defeating "Queen" Vercedes.
- Increased the junk loot dropped by "Leader" Ironclad Murraska, "Earth-shaking" Ironclad Murraska, "Violent Leader" Ironclad Murraska as follows:
* Before: 5-10 junk loot
* After: 10-20 junk loot
- Increased the junk loot dropped by "General" Murrasto and "Queen's Wing" Murrasto as follows:
* Before: 10-20 junk loot
* After: 20-40 junk loot
- Changed the vendor price for "Decomposed Exocrine Gland" dropped from Murrowak's Labyrinth.
* Before: 9,870 Silver
* After: 11,980 Silver

[h3]Quests & Knowledge[/h3]

● Added new guild war missions.
- With Hadum's corruption running rampant in the territories of Serendia and Calpheon, the people have begun calling upon guilds for aid with the following missions.

- The following rewards can be obtained by each guild mission size:


[h3]Pearl Shop[/h3]

● New Outfits: [Musa] Goldscale Dragoon


[h3]> You can read the rest of update details here <[/h3]

Dev Commentary: Upcoming Updates


[h3]Class Balance Updates[/h3]
  • Coming to the August 5 (Fri) update in Black Desert Global Lab.
  • We’ll start with adjustments to overly powerful PvP classes, then focus on updates to classes that are overwhelmingly efficient in PvE and those that show low efficiency in PvE.
  • Our goal is to reduce the gaps and variances between classes.
  • After that, we will be taking additional feedback and then making more fine-tuned adjustments.


[h3]Arena of Solare Regular Season – Starting August 17 (Wed)[/h3]
· Improvements to Info System ·

  • Improvements to the info system will allow you to see in more detail how well you did in a match and how other top-ranked Adventurers are playing.
  • You will be able to see top-ranked Adventurers’ crystal set-up, Skill Add-ons, and more.
    Additionally, class-based rankings will also be viewable.




Top rankers will be rewarded special benefits such as outfits.

· Practice Mode ·
  • Before jumping into rank mode, Adventurers will soon be able to practice with Practice Mode.
  • Practice Mode will allow you to party up with friends and guildmates before heading into a match.
  • When ranked mode isn’t available, practice mode will be available to play!


[h3]Quality of Life Improvements[/h3]
· Marni’s Realm - Hystria & Aakman ·
After a server optimization update, Hystria and Aakman will be added to Marni’s Realm.
Our goal is to add them as soon as possible!

· Automatic Food & Elixir Skill - Coming Soon ·
  • Fairies will be able to automatically use foods and elixirs with the new skill: “Continuous Care.”
  • Three presets will be available so that you can have different settings for varying situations.
  • Fairy tiers will be maintained. Max levels will be increased to level 50 and an additional skill can be learned.
  • Miraculous Cheer V and Feathery Steps V can be learned with similar probability.


· Conquest War & Node War Improvements ·
You will be able to directly select your guild and your opponent’s guild’s colors,
allowing for easier identification of opponents.

  • Conditions for building forts and command posts will be made less restrictive,allowing you to build on more rougher terrain.
  • Additionally, the default building preparation time required for forts and annexes will be decreased to
    1 second before Node/Conquest War begins.
  • Remote installation will also be added to Conquest War.

· Inventory QoL Improvements ·



Items obtained while adventuring will be better grouped together, so that they are easier to identify, which means that novice Adventurers can manage their inventories with more ease.

· Improvements to Maids ·
Maids will get a new ability that will allow you to easily move items between characters located within the same region.



[h3]Adding More Content to Outfits[/h3]

· Outfits and Their Stories ·
  • To give outfits more context, background stories explaining the outfit’s origin and concept will be added.

· Changes to Outift Release Schedule ·
  • Our development direction for outfits will change, so that the same outfit will be released for multiple classes and come with a story.
  • More classes will be able to wear the new outfits and there will be less waiting.


[h3]Battlefield of the Elves[/h3]
New Conquest War will be expanded to match the growing world of Black Desert
* Tentative name.