Black Desert News

Greetings, Adventurers!

The Arena of Solare, a matchmaking-based PvP content, has finally arrived with the update on Wednesday, June 8.

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[h3]What is the Arena of Solare?[/h3]

The Arena of Solare is a matchmaking-based PvP content where you can compete against your fellow Adventurers in 3 vs 3 matches with a Best-of-5 format using equalized Arena of Solare-exclusive gear. Points can be earned depending on match results, and during the regular seasons in the future, you can even obtain “honor” rewards depending on the points you earn.

* Please note that this preseason will not have separate “honor” rewards.

▶ Link to [Celebrating the Arena of Solare]

To ensure the introduction and progression of the new Arena of Solare are as optimal as possible, the Arena of Solare will undergo a preseason before the regular seasons. Please refer below for more information about the preseason schedule.



[h3]Arena of Solare Preseason Schedule[/h3]



* To ensure the preseason is optimal as possible, the Arena of Solare will have designated availability times during the preseason.

- However, the Preseason’s schedule and availability times are subject to change.

* Please note that the records from the preseason will not affect the next Arena of Solare season.

We hope you enjoy the Arena of Solare during this preseason! We look forward to your feedback and will do our best to provide the best service possible.


Happy adventuring!

Greetings Adventurers,

Here are the latest update details for Black Desert Online on June 8, 2022 (Wed).

[h3]Arena of Solare[/h3]

"FREEDOM... to fight!"
The preseason for the Arena of Solare begins with today's update.
It's the first-ever 3 vs 3 PvP arena in Black Desert where all players battle for victory with equalized gear.
We will later let you know of our future plans for this content little by little.
I hope you can start enjoying PvP in Black Desert from today as you battle freely.

● The preseason for the Arena of Solare has begun.
- The Arena of Solare is a 3 vs 3 match-type PvP content that you can enjoy without having to worry about differences in gear specs.
- You can participate in the Arena of Solare from Lv. 60 with a character that has completed the Succession/Awakening questline.
- You start with Arena of Solare exclusive gear and can unlock other pieces of gear to equip as you progress.
- You may either gain or lose points depending on the Arena of Solare match results, and will get Solare emblems depending on your score.
- You can use the "Find Match," "Set Gear," and "History" options of the Arena of Solare menu by going to Menu (ESC) -> War (F7).


How to Participate
● You can participate in the Arena of Solare from Lv. 60 with a character who has completed their Succession/Awakening questline.
- Press the "Find Match" button from the Arena of Solare menu for auto-matching.
- You will automatically enter the battlefield if all 6 participants accept after matching is complete.
- You can only start matching after equipping the exclusive gear.


Set Gear
● Adjust your exclusive gear loadout via the "Set Gear" feature from the Arena of Solare menu.
- You can select the gear you want to equip for the battlefield and also select crystals you want to equip on your gear from the "Set Gear" window.
- Early on, you have access to basic gear and crystals. You can later use "Seals of Solare" that you get once a match ends to unlock a variety of other gear and crystals.


Arena of Solare Rules
● For the Arena of Solare matches, the team with the best 3 out of 5 will win. You'll get a maximum of 3 minutes per round.
- The team with the higher total HP among the surviving members will win when the match ends.
- If the total HP is the same, the team with a higher total damage wins.
- The match will conclude in a tie if the total HP and total damage of both teams are the same.
● In the Arena of Solare, not only will you be provided with exclusive gear, but you also cannot use potions, meals, elixirs, etc. Also, the effects of certain skills will be adjusted.
- The stats for the Arena of Solare exclusive gear will be applied instead of the stats of the gear currently equipped to your character.
- You cannot use any type of potions. However, your character's default HP/MP/WP/SP recovery will greatly increase.
* The amount naturally recovered within the Arena of Solare will be similar to the recovery amount you get from using Ornette's or Odore's Spirit Essences with a Fairy that's acquired the skill "Miraculous Cheer V."
- Using skills that recover HP within the Arena of Solare battlefield will recover only half the amount normally recovered.
- In the Arena of Solare, the Guard Gauge, a defensive feature of all classes, will be equalized across classes.
- The AP, Damage Reduction, Accuracy, and Evasion stats will be halved for all characters.
- The remaining time for the effects of meals, elixirs, and perfumes will not be wasted. Their effects will instead be nullified and their time remaining paused while within the Arena of Solare if you used the items before entering. The effects will be applied again and the remaining time will resume being consumed upon returning to the previous location after the match's conclusion.
- The stats for your character's max HP will increase by 2,000 and your character's Critical Hit Rate, Attack and Casting Speed, Movement Speed will be at Lv. 5 while in the arena.
- Upon entering the battlefield, Black Spirit's Rage, HP, MP, SP, WP, cooldown, and other supplementary resources will all be recovered.
- The cooldown for Emergency Escape will reset each round.
- The "traces of elements" buffs for skills, exclusive gear, and the battlefield will only be applied in the arena.
- The Total Family Bonus from Adventure Journals will not be applied.

Battlefield
● You'll randomly enter one of the three battlefields for the Arena of Solare.

Olun's Valley
- The most basic battlefield in which you can test your skills without other variables.

Ruins of Tzol
- The battlefield where the Unknown Sphere and traces of elements of powerful forces appear.
You can command the battle if you use the Unknown Sphere well.

Areha Palm Forest
- Battlefield where the elemental traces, Flora's Breath and Wind's Song, appear.
You can command the arena if you use the elemental traces well.

Emblems of Solare / Match Points
● Your points will fluctuate depending how you perform in the Arena of Solare. You will be awarded an Emblem of Solare based on your point bracket.
* Everyone will start at 1150 points. Then you will earn points for every win and lose points for every loss.
- You can earn more points the longer you maintain a win streak.
- For Adventurers that reach the higher ranks, they will be deducted points depending on their rank if they do not participate in matches for a set period of time.
* Solare Incarnate V: If you do not participate in matches for 3 days, you will lose 30 points for each day afterward.
* Radiant Spear IV: If you do not participate in matches for 7 days, you will lose 20 points for every 3 days afterward.
* Twilight Spear III: If you do not participate in matches for 14 days, you will lose 15 points for every 7 days afterward.


Deserter Penalty
● If you leave a match before it has ended, you will need to use the reconnect window to return to the battlefield until the match ends.
● Penalty points are accrued depending on the circumstances behind you leaving a match.
- If you don't re-enter the match: deserter penalty gained
- Re-entered the match but lost: loss points gained
- Re-entered the match and won: victory points gained

Arena of Solare preseason Period
● You can only use matchmaking during the following hours in the Arena of Solare preseason.


[h3]Liana's Tool Bag[/h3]

Valentine's Apprentices, Liana and her twin brother, Ludowig, have come up with an incredible invention.
The invention of "Liana's Tool Bag" will help Adventurers who enjoy Gathering to manage their inventories and Gathering tools.
The tool bag holds one of each type of Gathering tool. You can either press F5 or F6, or scroll your mouse wheel to conveniently engage in each type of Gathering activity by equipping the tool bag.
Many of our Adventurers have been wanting this for a while now, and we also have been wanting to develop it, which is why it's such a pleasure to finally present this item to our Adventurers with this week's update.
We recommend you fill up your Energy before proceeding with the quest to obtain Liana's Tool Bag as you'll need to pass a trivia quiz!

● "Liana's Tool Bag," a bag that automatically equips all tools held within to conveniently perform Gathering activities, has been invented.
- You can use the [Tool Bag] menu that will appear on the Inventory UI upon obtaining Liana's Tool Bag to store one of each type of Gathering tool.
* Lumbering Axe, Fluid Collector, Butcher Knife, Pickaxe, Hoe, and Tanning Knife


- The Interaction button for the proper Gathering materials will appear on the Ring Menu if you get close to the Gathering materials while Liana's Tool Bag with the Gathering tools is equipped in a slot.
- Use F5 or F6, or activate your mouse cursor and scroll the mouse wheel from the Ring Menu if you want to adjust settings for Interaction.
* Herbs: Barehanded Gathering ↔ Gathering via a Hoe
* Trees: Lumbering ↔ Collecting fluid
* Animals: Butchering ↔ Extracting ↔ Tanning
- The settings for Interaction for Gathering will be set until you re-adjust them.


● There's a rumor going around about how to obtain Liana's Tool Bag.
- Rumor says Adventurers who get recognized as a "knowledgeable Adventurer" by answering all of Liana's riddles correctly will receive a special bag invented by Valentine's Apprentices Liana and her younger twin brother, Ludowig.
- You can accept "[Tool Bag] Liana's Invention" from the Black Spirit from Lv. 49, then find Liana to accept and complete "[Tool Bag] Liana's Trivia" Part 1 and 2 to obtain Liana's Tool Bag (once per Family).
* [TIP] We suggest you prepare Energy Potions since a lot of energy may be consumed during the trivia quiz.

[h3]Item[/h3]
● Added colors to item description backgrounds that match the grade of the item.


● Added the item "Cup of Earth's Sorrows" that can be crafted using materials dropped in Elvia Serendia.
- This item is used to upgrade earrings.


● Increased the maximum price of PEN (V) Blackstar main weapons, awakening weapons, and sub-weapons to 200,000,000,000 Silver.
- Due to this change, an improvement was made so that the max number of Marni's Unstable Fuel required for copying PEN (V) Blackstar gear will be fixed at 150.

Even though the maximum price of the PEN (V) Blackstar is getting increased to 200 billion Silver, we will keep the item copy cost the same as before. This is so we can uphold our intent in the update where we lowered copy prices by 50%.

● Increased the Central Market max price of the following upgrade items by 2,000,000,000 S\ilver:
- Cup of Arid Moonlight, Cup of a Lonely Cloud, Cup of Dwindling Starlight, Cup of Lone Tide, Cup of Tragic Nightfall

[h3]Quest, Knowledge[/h3]

Kakuo's Paw-doodle Class Quests
● Added new [Residence] quests that rewards you with furniture containing the art of an brilliant up-and-coming Otter paw-doodler.
- Kakuo, a brilliant up-and-coming Otter paw-doodler, has arrived in Splashing Point (located south of Altinova, Mediah).
- Kakuo is a doodler who was found in Corsair's Slippery Scallywags Den. He is extremely determined in turning Splashing Point into Doodleton.
- Go to Kakuo in Splashing Point to accept a daily Family quest from Lv. 56. If you pay for the base cost along with the additional cost, you will obtain an artistically expressive paw-doodle portrait of each class.
* You will get the item "Kakuo's Certificate" by completing the "[Daily] Paw-doodling Kakuo!" quest.
* Go to Kakuo with the item "Kakuo's Certificate" in your possession to complete the "[Daily] Kakuo Paw-doodles for Real!" quest. You can get the class portrait of the class that completed the last quest.
- You need to go to Quests (O) > Quest Type and activate "Life" in order to accepts the quests "[Daily] Kakuo Paw-doodles!" and "[Daily] Kakuo Paw-doodles for Real!"
- The additional payments required by Kakuo depends on his mood that day. (However, forfeiting the quest then accepting it again won't change his mood nor the additional payments required for the day.)


Corsair Class-exclusive Kakuo's Paw-doodle Quest
● Go to Kakuo with a Corsair character that is Lv. 56 or higher and have completed her succession and awakening questline to accept the "[Residence] Paw-doodle" questline.
- You will see how Kakuo's memories with his Slippery Scallywags Cap'n Corsair inspired him to become the brilliant doodler to capture her greatness in his paw-doodle.
* You will need a ship to proceed with this questline. If you do not own a ship, complete the "[The Great Expedition] First Sailboat into Oquilla's Eye!" questline found in Quests (O) > Suggested to obtain a ship.
- Complete the questline with Corsair to get a Corsair portrait from Kakuo for free (once per family).
* You could get Corsair's portrait without completing this questline, however, Kakuo won't recognize you as his true Cap'n and will charge you full price for the portrait.
- Try decorating your residence with the wonderful works of the brilliant doodler Kakuo!


King's Key Questline
● Released the secret behind the "King's Key" that can be obtained by completing Nova's awakening questline
- Go to Basquean Ljurik, the Calpheon storagekeeper, with a Nova character in possession of the King's Key to start the quest pertaining to the key.
* [King's Key] King's Chest
* [King's Key] Secret of the Empty Frame
* [King's Key] Branded
* [King's Key] Last Star
* [King's Key] Shattered Memories
* [King's Key] Maha's Veil
* [King's Key] Priceless Oath
* [King's Key] All For Your Sake
* [King's Key] Secret Notes of the Soul
* [King's Key] Are You Seeing This?
* [King's Key] Outing
* [King's Key] Just Like Old Times
* [King's Key] The Dog who Loathes Its Master
* [King's Key] Legacy for Revival
* [King's Key] Kings and Subjects
* [King's Key] Pinky Swear
* [King's Key] Rainy Late Fall
* [King's Key] Last Will
* [King's Key] My Queen
* [King's Key] Francesca Seric
- If you've lost your King's Key, then you can talk to Black Spirit to get it back.
- You can get a special piece of art to decorate your residence by completing this questline.

- There's a rumor going around saying that Patrigio of Crow's Nest, a misty island in the distant sea, has aquired a special piece of art.
- Go to Patrigio to start the quest that rewards the special piece of art (available once per family).

[h3]UI[/h3]

● Improved the Villa Scroll UI so that you can more easily and conveniently check out villa scroll buffs from your campsite.


[h3]Pearl Shop[/h3]

● New Outfit: [Warrior] Ossa Cerberi


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

Greetings, Adventurers.

What does Drakania’s Awakening look like? And when will it be released?
What other content is being developed?
We’re here today to answer some of those questions for you!



[h3]Drakania Awakening Update[/h3]

Q. What’s Drakania’s Awakening weapon and appearance like?

“As we mentioned before, we are developing Drakania’s Awakening by analyzing the playstyles and countless feedback given to us by our Adventurers.
Drakania’s Awakening weapon will actually be “two spears of different shapes and form.”
We also wished for her Awakening to bring out more of her draconic nature, so we have been designing her movement skills and attacks to display an actual dragon’s wing. We felt this was the unique type of action and feel we wanted Drakania’s Awakening to embody.”

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[h3]Drakania Awakening Teaser[/h3]

Q. What’s Drakania’s combat style like?

“Upon Awakening, Drakania awakens her inner dragon, taking on a different form to display her draconic power that’s left unseen when in human form. The moments she spreads her wing is when she fully reveals her draconic powers.
While not applicable to all skills, certain skills will display different action and/or effects when used in human form versus her dragon form.
However, all of this is still under development, so we are only able to share these as concepts for the time being. We will reveal more at a later date.”

Q. When will Drakania’s Awakening be released?

“Many of you may be asking “Drakania’s Awakening, when?!”
We’re here to announce that she will be available next month. We’re targeting her release for the third week of July.”

Q. Besides Drakania’s Awakening, what else is in store?

[Screen Alert Changes]

“We’ve received a lot of feedback on how the alert messages in the upper portion of the screen cause break the sense of total immersion in the game. We will be readjusting the value of all in-game items to reduce the number of alerts that are displayed during gameplay.”

[Buff Duration Improvements]

“We’ve heard a lot regarding the different durations of buffs,

So first, we’ll work to unite all foods and scrolls to a 30- or 60-minute duration. Secondly, for buffs used while defeating monsters, we are considering making a feature like the fairy’s Miraculous Cheer skill that will use buff items automatically.”

[Old Moon Grand Prix Matching]

“Having to physically move to the Old Moon Grand Prix to participate in the race lessened its approachability. With the recent matching technology we developed for the Arena of Solare, we seek to change the Old Moon Grand Prix to adopt a similar matching system where you can simply register for a match, continue playing the game, then queue in when the race is ready. We’re experimenting with adding this system to other content such as Atoraxxion.”
However, we ask you for your understanding and patience as it may take some time to develop.

[Increase 1-time Central Market Purchase Amount]

“There are times where our Adventurers seek to purchase a large number of items, only to be forced to purchase in limited quantities over multiple attempts. We felt too many of our Adventurers were inconvenienced by this limit, so we seek to increase this amount. However, to prevent any form of cornering of the Central Market, we are still deliberating on the appropriate amount.”

[Node/Conquest War Command Post and Annex Conditions]

“We’ve received a lot of feedback regarding Node/Conquest Wars, particularly the many inconveniences endured by our builders. We are currently looking into ways to make building Command Posts and Annexes a bit easier.”

[Imperial Crafting Delivery Box Weight]

“Whereas Imperial Delivery was limited in amount per server, currently delivery is limited in amount per Adventurer. Therefore, we felt there was no need for the delivery boxes to weigh so much. Many of you may have been inconvenienced with suddenly becoming overweight after packing a delivery box, so we plan on reducing the weight of these boxes to 1/5 (10LT) of their current weight sometime soon.”

[Wizard Physique]

“We wanted to share our hard labor thus far in improving the physique of the Wizard class. The work is almost complete, as we created all-new animations and are currently adjusting all existing outfits to look perfect on his new model. This has taken a bit longer than we first anticipated, so we ask for your patience and understanding.”




[Lowering Barrier-to-Entry and Increasing Income for Great Ocean Content]

You need better ships to enjoy more Great Ocean content; however, we feel that the ships take too long to build.
Caravels and galleasses can be built in a few days with some investment, but the process is very complicated and requires a lot of materials which make them difficult to obtain. Therefore, we plan to improve caravels and galleasses by making them quicker to build. Furthermore, we are thinking of ways to make materials like Verdant Black Stones easier to obtain.
However, carracks are the ultimate ships that many Adventurers who enjoy Great Ocean content aspire to obtain. So, these will remain the same. Instead, Sunset Black Stones will be changed to take 20 minutes to make so that items can be equipped faster after upgrading the carracks.
We are also aware that the income from hunting Saltwater Crocodiles, which is required to upgrade carrack equipment, is fairly low. We will work as quickly as possible to get this adjusted soon. Also, they will be balanced so that they can be hunted solo.

[Item Restore Methods]

Many of you have contacted Support when you have accidentally deleted an item. To build on the current iteration of the Item Restore function, we are working on adding more in-game functions to address the most common item restoration-related issues.

[Concerns – Guild Wars]

Looking over our CS tickets, we’ve noticed there are quite a few Adventurers who are exhausted from one-sided declarations of war by guilds. Thus, we have been deliberating on implementing changes to the current Guild War structure, and we are looking forward to hearing from more of you regarding this matter.

First, we are thinking of making guilds designate their type of gameplay. Warring guilds, adventuring guilds, life skill guilds, sailing guilds, and so on. By doing so, warring guilds will be able to continue declaring war on each other as before, but guilds of other designations will only have to conduct war if both guilds mutually agree.

By doing so, guilds that wish to conduct war will naturally continue their warmongering ways as before, whereas guilds more pacifist in nature will have an actual choice in whether they wish to engage in war or not, since if both guilds agree, they will still be able to engage in a guild war as before.

There are countless circumstances that affect guild wars, so our discussion on addressing this issue has been ongoing for quite some time now. We feel that we still need some detailed discussion on the designation for Node/Conquest War guilds, so we wanted to pitch the big picture concept and see what our Adventurers had to say on the matter.

Greetings Adventurers,

Here are the latest update details for Black Desert Online on May 31, 2022 (Wed).

[h3]Contents[/h3]

We made some quality of life improvements to the music album content so that our composing Adventurers will be able to compose with greater ease and in record time. We will continue to look for even more ways to improve on the music album even after this latest update. We'd like to thank all of our brilliant Adventurers who busily compose their hearts away in the world of Black Desert.

[h3]Music Album Improvements[/h3]
● Added hotkeys for quicker use of the following functions during composition.
- Edit Mode: E
- Select Mode: S
- Play/Stop music: SPACE (Requires notes on the score.)
- Delete note: Delete (Requires having dragged over and selected notes with your mouse via Select Mode.)
● Improved the background of the Compose/Score window so that it's easier see the notes.
- We changed the background colors so it's easier to distinguish between black and white keys.
- Added a white line to mark the first note in every octave.


● Improved the function for copying and pasting notes in the Compose/Score window.
1. Select the desired notes via Select Mode, then copy them by pressing Ctrl + C.
2. After copying the notes, select the top portion of the desired measure, then press Ctrl + V to paste the copied notes.
3. You can always set Note Attribute to different values (1/4 to 1/64) to pick the right point in your score to paste your notes.
4. After copying the notes, you can also use the same method to paste notes with other instruments as well.
* If both instruments share the same technique, you can also copy and paste techniques along with notes as well.
5. After pasting the notes, the score will automatically re-focus on the measure where you pasted your notes.
6. If you pasted the wrong notes, you can always use the Delete key with the notes selected to remove them.


● Improved the function for moving notes in the Compose/Score window.
- Improved the area where you can select and move notes via Select Mode.
* You can now move notes to areas within your score that aren't visible on your Compose/Score window.
- Improved notes to now remain selected even after being moved. You can move the notes again as long as they remain selected.
- You can copy notes up to where they're visible on your current Compose/Score window.
* Ex) If you copied some notes where they're not fully visible on your current Compose/Score window, you will only be copying those notes to the point that's cut-off on your window.
- If you go out of the instrument's range or exit Select Mode, all notes will be removed.


● Added the "Replicate" function to copy all the notes of one instrument to another instrument with ease.
- Select "Replicate" by clicking the top right corner of the instrument box located on the left-hand side of the Compose/Score window. You can copy all the notes of one instrument to another instrument that has the same octave range.
- You will then be able to select a new instrument you wish to replicate all the notes of the previous instrument.
- The selected instrument requires the replicated instrument to share the similar musical range.


[h3]UI[/h3]

We did want to introduce the feature that allows you to immediately check the Item Drop Rate Increase stats currently being applied with the last update. However, we thought that the level of completion was important as we wanted to make it more convenient to use, which resulted in implementing the feature later than intended. Improvements were made so that you can now check the Item Drop Rate being applied more conveniently from the My Information (P) window or Item Collection Increase Gauge UI.

● Added a UI that allows you to check the Item Collection Increase stats currently being applied.
- You can check this out from the Item Collection Increase Gauge UI and Battle Stats from the My Information (P) window.
* Node investment buffs applied according to a set probability are not included in the displayed total, nor will they be applied over the max limit

My Information (P)

Item Collection Increase Gauge UI

● Improved to display the stats for each level on the tooltip information of Ability stats on the My Information window.




● Separated each of the View My Character's Name, Show Monster Name, Show My Character's HP Gauge, and Show Monster HP Gauge features.
- You can adjust each of the settings for the "Show Name" and "Show HP Gauge" features by going to General Settings -> Show/Hide tab from Menu (ESC) -> Settings (F10) -> Settings.


[h3]Pearl Shop[/h3]
● Added a feature that you can use to check your purchase history to find all purchases made in the past 30 days from the Pearl Shop (F3).
- You can cancel purchases that have not passed 7 days (168 hours) since purchase from [Purchase History].
- To cancel a purchase, you must have all items obtained from the purchase in your character's inventory or Pearl inventory.
- You can cancel purchases once every month, and upon canceling a purchase, the item obtained will be retrieved and you'll get your Pearls back. (Reset 1st day of each month).


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

Greetings, Adventurers!

It's already been 2 months since CalpheON Episode 2 last March 26 – and while several of the updates that were presented at the event, including the Manos Processing Stone unification, Pet AI improvements, Marni's Realm, etc., have been released, we thought many of our Adventurers might be wondering about what's still in the development pipeline.

That's why we've prepared a dev commentary video with some news about our upcoming updates, so take a look below! As always, we appreciate all our Adventurers for supporting Black Desert, and we hope you'll continue to look forward to our future updates.

[h2]Dev Commentary: June Updates Preview[/h2]
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* Translated subtitles available under Youtube's closed captioning (CC) feature.