Black Desert News

Greetings, Adventurers! I'm GM Polly, and the team and I have prepared three events to welcome the new players into the world of Black Desert.

Because these events are dedicated toward our new Adventurers, they will take place on the Season servers!
[h2]Rift’s Echoes with GMs![/h2]
Event Schedule and Server

How to Participate

① At the times listed above, go to the Rift’s Echo spawn location on the servers above.

② Defeat the monsters that appear from the GM-spawned Rift’s Echo and obtain Season enhancement materials!



What is a Rift's Echo?

An item that is said to open a rift that calls forth various monsters, including Red Nose, Dastard Bheg, Saunil Siege Captain, and Kavali. If you defeat the monsters that appear, you’ll be able to obtain season enhancement materials.

Spawn Locations and Obtainable Items
 
[h2]Defeat World Bosses with the GMs[/h2]
Event Schedule and Server

How to Participate

① At the times listed above, go to that particular World Boss' spawn location on the servers above.

② Defeat the World Boss that appears with the help of your peers to obtain loot from the World Boss!


* Click on the image to open a new tab with a bigger version.

What is a World Boss? There are currently 9 World Bosses in Black Desert: Kzarka, Karanda, Muraka, Quint, Nouver, Kutum, Mirumok Destroyer Offin, Garmoth, and Vell

World Bosses appear in specific locations, so anyone can join the fight. However, it’s best to get your AP and DP high enough for you to have a chance to earn loot as well as withstand their attacks, especially if the world boss is in their awakened state!

You can partake in the World Boss Raids in any server since the World Bosses share HP across all servers. * Not including Olvia and Arsha.


And to all the new players out there, enjoy your adventure to the fullest! Take care everyone!

Greetings Adventurers,

Here are the latest update details for Black Desert Online on September 7, 2022 (Wed).

[h3]Traveler's Horse[/h3]

With this update, we added the "Traveler's Horse," a time-limited rideable horse we previous introduced as the "Untamed Horse." If you don't have a horse taken out and/or have checked in your horse in the stable, you will be able to borrow the Traveler’s Horse by talking to a Stable Keeper NPC in town. This horse has the Start Accel, Sprint, Drift, and Instant Accel skills, and you won't have to return the horse as it will return by itself to the nearest stable when you dismount. We hope that all of our Adventurers, both veteran and new, will find this newly added mount useful in their travels.

● The Old Moon Guild, who manages all the stables in Black Desert, has added the "Traveler's Horse" to the Stable Keepers in town for the sake of Adventurers' ease of travel.


● You can borrow a Traveler's Horse by talking to the following Stable Keepers:

● Traveler's Horse has the following skills:
- Start Accel, Sprint, Drift, Instant Accel (Skill Training 100%)
● Only one Traveler's Horse can be borrowed and no additional horse can be borrowed while another horse is taken out.
● Please note that Traveler's Horse will return to the nearest Stable after 5 minutes of being dismounted.
● The Traveler's Horse cannot equip horse gear, but it can still Sprint without a saddle.
● Traveler's Horse cannot use Stable Recovery / Remote Collection / Horse Market / Imperial Delivery / Sell function (but the Mount Information window can be checked).
● Traveler's Horse will return to a Stable when clicking on Disconnect, Character Selection, or Change Character.

[h3]Class Changes[/h3]

We've improved on the damage, effects, and combos for Kunai Stab in Succession. Now the Fatal Blow - Flow: Fatal Blow Combo - Kunai Stab combo will be more efficient thanks to the added Stamina recovery effect, making it more viable in PvE. In addition, we added command inputs to Prime: Shackles, making it easier to combo into the skill.

Succession
● Prime: Shadow Explosion
- Changed the damage penalties for multiple targets to now only apply in PvP.
- Improved to combo more smoothly into Shadow Clone.

● Kunai Stab
- Changed so Fatal Blow's damage will be applied to the skill damage, along with the following:
* Fatal Blow's attack damage and critical hit rate
* Fatal Blow's maximum number of targets
* Fatal Blow's Skill Add-ons (Skill no longer has Skill Add-ons)
- Improved to combo more smoothly into other skills.

● Prime: Shackles
- Changed the skill's motions, along with the following:
* Unified the skill's attack area to the widest area.
* Changed so the distance at which the skills attacks are applied has been narrowed so that all attacks are applied faster.
- Improved so you can press SHIFT + C in idle stance to activate the skill.
- Improved to combo more smoothly into Shadow Explosion and Shadow Clone.
- Improved to combo more smoothly after Prime: Ankle Cutter, Prime: Fox Claw, Prime: Shadow Explosion, or Prime: Shadow Clone.


● Prime: Shadow Brand
- Added the Assassin's Mark effect to the following skills:
* Prime: Fox Claw (I to III)
* Prime: Shackles

Just as Awakening Drakania's uniqueness becomes more apparent the better you become at utilizing the correct skill at the right moment, we decided to implement both big and small improvements to her combos. Also, to reduce some of her clunkiness, we increased the activation speed and attack area of certain Dragonblood skills.

Succession
● Prime: Dragon's Fury
- Fixed the skill description.

● Prime: Dragonborn Constitution and Ceaseless Vengeance - Fixed the skill descriptions.

Awakening
● Storm Maul
- Improved attack 1 to now combo more smoothly into Doombringer.
- Improved attack 1 to now combo into Impale
- Added "Recover 40 WP on hits.


● Hexeblood: Sundering Roar
- Improved so the character attacks in the direction the camera is facing when comboing with another skill.

● Legacy
- Slightly increased the skill's attack speed.
- Improved so Legacy activates faster when using the following skills:
* Flow: Cloud's Strife, Flow: Extinction, Savage Decree (in Dragonblood) attack 2, Flow: Obliterate

● Dragonblood: Crackling Flame
- Changed "Stiffness on hits" to "Knockdown on hits."

● Flow: Dragon Flight
- Changed Stamina cost from 250 to 100 and consumes 150 Stamina (up to 450) when continuing the skill.
* With these changes, it will cost the same amount of Stamina as before to travel the maximum distance with the skill, but will cost less Stamina if you stop before you hit the max distance.

● Dragonblood: Tip of the Scale
- Slightly increased attack 2's attack area.

● Dragonblood: Storm Piercer
- Slightly increased the attack areas of attacks 1 and 3.

● Flow: Obliterate
- Improved to now combo more smoothly into Doombringer.


● Hexeblood: Tip of the Scale
- Changed attack 3 to activate faster when continuing the skill.

● Hexeblood: Tectonic Slam
- Fixed so the skill activates when comboing into Doombringer during the Core version of the skill in Hexeblood.

● Dragonblood: Savage Decree
- Improved so your character will now combo in the same direction as the camera.

● Improved the following skill motions to activate more smoothly:
- Dragonblood: Spiteful Soul
- Dragonblood: Tectonic Slam
- Dragonblood: Crackling Flame
- Dragonblood: Tip of the Scale
- Dragonblood: Storm Piercer

● Legacy: Fixed the issue of the skill not activating after switching to your trion.

[h3]Contents[/h3]

● Applied the following improvements to Arena of Solare.
- Fixed the issue where your character would fall through certain structures in the Ruins of Tzol.
- Fixed the issue where player hits weren't registering in certain terrain of the Jade Starlight Forest.
- Slightly moved the Black Sun team's starting position to the center of the hill at the Jade Starlight Forest battlefield.
- Changed so your party won't be disbanded even after leaving your Practice Mode match.
- Fixed the issue where only the three most recent matches were appearing in the Arena of Solare Rankings window.

● Extended the following events to Sep 21, 2022 (Wed):
- It’s Time to Push the Limit for a +230 Stack
- Vanquish the Aberrant Dark Rifts
- Patrigio’s Night Market Madness

[h3]Item[/h3]

● Added the following items to the item list that can be automatically used via Radiant Fairy's Continuous Care.


[h3]UI[/h3]

'We decided to clean up the buff icon UI by unifying certain buffs, like "church buffs" which displayed 2 or more buff icons, in a similar manner as we did with campsite buffs. We will continue looking at ways to improve the buff icon UI, particularly the feedback given to us by many Adventurers on unifying buffs that grant similar effects. Additionally, we improved the buff icons of buffs, like the one for "Book of Combat", to be more intuitive.

● Improved buffs that took up 2 or more icons to now only take up 1.
- Added new buff icons and tooltip descriptions.

- Improved the buff description and changed the buff icon that can be obtained by using Book of Combat/Book of Life to an item icon.

● Improved the auto-navigation (T) UI to now display a button you can press to toggle auto-Sprint.
- You can press this button to turn the auto-use Sprint feature ON/OFF while using auto-navigation.
- The following UI is displayed when auto-using Sprint during auto-navigation:


[h2]Pearl Shop[/h2]
● New Outfits: [Archer] Nightwarden



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

Additional Notices
- This event applies to all Black Desert servers including Olvia and Season servers. However, all the other sources of Combat EXP boosts in Olvia and Season server will not stack with the event buffs.
- The event buffs will not affect Combat and Skill XP acquired from completing quests.
- The event’s Combat XP buff will not apply to level 50 or below characters. However, the Skill XP buff will still apply.
- The event EXP buffs will stack from other EXP buff sources such as scrolls, elixirs, and the Value Pack.
- This events Hot Time benefits do not stack with other Hot Times, and this Hot Time event has priority over any other Hot Time event.
- Accessing the game before this Hot Time begins, the UI indicator for Hot Time will not show up, however the effects will still be applied as written in this notice. The UI element will show once you reconnect to the game.
- The duration of the Book of Training does not pause when disconnecting or switching characters, and will continue until the effects of the book expire.
- The contents and duration of the event may be changed, modified, or cancelled at any time due to unforeseen circumstances. Any changes made will be announced in this Event page.
- If you participate in the event in an inappropriate way, you will lose access the event, items obtained during the event will be retrieved, and your account will be restricted.
- 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].

[h3]Let the coupons fall into your lap![/h3]
One coupon each day will be released, so don’t forget to claim them!

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Additional Notes
- Only 1 Item will be distributed for those items without a quantity listed.
- Coupon codes are no longer redeemable after the expiration date, and any redeemed items stored in the Web Storage or in-game mail (B) will also disappear after the expiration date.
- Each coupon can be redeemed once per Family.
- Entering a coupon code incorrectly 10 times in a row will restrict your coupon use for 1 hour.
- Coupons can be redeemed from the in-game Menu (ESC) → Adventurer Support (F11) → [Use Coupon] menu, and redeemed rewards will be sent to your in-game mailbox (B).
- 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].