Besides having an extra character slot available, there is nothing else in particular that you need to prepare ahead of playing on the season servers.

Season characters can equip gear and accessories acquired from completing main questlines of Valencia, Drieghan, Kamasylvia, and O’dyllita, so veteran Adventurers make sure to prepare these in advance to guarantee an easier leveling experience.

If you open up the Pearl Shop (F3) and look at “Black Spirit’s Pick” → “Silver Event Items”, you can find and purchase the [Event] Combat & Skill EXP 530% Scroll (60 min) to add some speed to your leveling experience.

We recommend using these scrolls in monster zones from Lv. 50 or higher.

1. Create a season character.

2. Level up through the main questline.

3. Reach Lv. 56 and complete the Awakening/Succession questlines.

4. Grow strong with the Naru gear, enhance them to PEN (V) grade, convert them to Tuvala gear, then enhance them to PEN (V) grade as well.

5. Explore the rest of the world of Black Desert as you see fit.

You can also engage in a variety of Life Skill contents such as fishing, farming, and cooking all on the season server.

Adventurers who have already completed the main questline all the way up to Mediah on a previous character can opt to skip the main questline via this system. It is heavily focused on leveling your season character but also grants rewards similar to those from completing the main questline up to Mediah.

The simplified questline is available only for season characters and requires you to complete the main questline up until meeting with Alustin, the resident alchemist of Velia.

New Adventurers who have yet to complete the Mediah main questline cannot choose the simplified questline.

Unfortunately, once you’ve chosen to proceed with either the main or simplified questlines, you cannot make a switch to the other after.

The simplified questline will unlock the Valencia main questline once you reach Lv. 56.

Season characters can only ride up to Tier 8 Coursers. They cannot mount Dream Horses.

Once the season has been in session for some time, you will be able to graduate before the actual season comes to a close.

There will be notices alerting you that you can graduate from a season.

Monster zones on the season servers drop seasonal materials such as Tuvala Ores, Refined Magical Black Stones, and Time-filled Black Stones in addition to the normal loot tables, and once you’ve enhanced all of your Tuvala gear up to PEN (V) grade, you can sell the remaining materials to vendors as Silver.

Thus, some adventurers will postpone their seasonal graduation until the very end to squeeze every ounce of silver they can earn from these monster zones, while other adventurers will seek to graduate as soon as they possibly can in order to quickly continue with guaranteed PEN (V) accessory and/or boss gear questlines to further strengthen their characters.

If you’re still uncertain on when exactly you should graduate, we recommend that you continue to gather Silver on the season server before you come to a decision.

You’ll be able to claim your special season reward after the season has been open for a certain period of time.

Your season character must be Lv. 20 or higher and can also claim this reward even after they graduate.

You will need the “Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon” to claim your seasonal reward, and you can also pick those from past seasons you’ve yet to claim.

Once you’ve graduated from the season server, you can continue to experience the variety of content offered in the world of Black Desert and claim rewards for doing so through the “Progression Pass.”

If you wish to obtain even stronger gear, you can try your hand with the “Guaranteed PEN (V) Boss Gear” and/or “Guaranteed PEN (V) Accessory” questlines.

You can proceed with the “Guaranteed PEN (V) Boss Gear” and “Guaranteed PEN (V) Accessory” questlines after graduating from the season server.

The “Guaranteed PEN (V) Boss Gear” questline requires you have TET (IV) Tuvala gear from the season servers.

You can recover the max durability of Tuvala gear with either the same type of Tuvala gear or with Tuvala Ore.

Speak to your local blacksmith in town, then choose Repair → “Recover Max Dur.” and use Tuvala Ore to recover the max durability of your gear.
You can only use unenhanced Tuvala gear of the same type as the piece you are attempting to recover the durability of.

Time-filled Black Stones drop from all monster zones on the season server and especially in larger quantities from Valencia, Kamasylvia, Drieghan, and O’dyllita territories.

Some materials have specific zones that drop greater quantities, and you can find exactly from where by checking their respective item descriptions.

You can also obtain these materials from weekly quests, quests specific to certain monster zones, Rift’s Echo, Challenges, and Season Pass Rewards as well.

Refer to the following guide for more details.

Accessories have a chance to be destroyed entirely when failing their enhancement, so you may feel a bit nervous when attempting to enhance these.

Try increasing your Enhancement Chance to higher numbers and attempt to enhance spare accessories instead of those you currently need and/or have equipped.

Do note that you will get a PEN (V) Tuvala Ring and PEN (V) Tuvala Earring at Lv. 60 and Lv. 61, respectively, from Challenges, so you will only need to enhance one of each to PEN (V) grade.

Once your season character has graduated, or has been converted into a normal character, you will only be able to convert one full set of Tuvala gear per gear slot (for earrings and rings, you will be able to convert a pair each.)

The Tuvala gear with the highest enhancement grade will be converted for each slot especially if your season character undergoes automatic graduation (conversion).