Hello, Adventurers.

This is The MMORPG, Black Desert.
 

We’d like to announce the updates made to the Black Desert as of 2019, April 30th.

(Patch volume approx. 326.03 MB)
 

※ For the details, please refer to the contents below.
 

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【EVENTS】

● Ramadan Event - Get rewards depending on your daily Play Time!

Event Period: May 1, 2019 00:00 ~ May 8, 2019 23:59
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● Ramadan Event, Lahn Update - EXP Sharing and Level UP Event

Event Period: April 30, 2019 after maintenance - May 29, 2019 before maintenance
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● Ramadan Event - Lahn arrives with Special Gifts from Cliff!

Event Period: April 30, 2019 after maintenance - To be announced
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● Ramadan Event - 50% OFF PACKAGES!

Event Period: April 30, 2019 after maintenance - June 12, 2019 before maintenance
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● Ramadan Event - Get Black Desert for Free!

Event Period: April 30, 2019 after maintenance - May 22, 2019 before maintenance
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● Turkish Moon for Ramadan has returned!

Event Period: April 30, 2019 after maintenance - June 12, 2019 before maintenance

● As announced through yesterday’s Dev Note, you will be able to obtain Gift from J 'Combat EXP +530% scrolls x53' at 1 Loyalty which will be available from May 30th (limited once per family). This special gift is for every Adventurer celebrating the transfer of Black Desert Service in South Korea. We will constantly put our maximum efforts to update upmost contents in all region and provide better gaming experience. Again, we’d like to thank you all for showing us great supports.

 

【CONTENTS】

● Lahn is finally available to play!

● Fixed the issue where the attacking guilds in the offensive side appeared to be fighting each other in Conquest War.

● The apprentice Guild Member promotion method has been changed as follows:

- Apprentice promoted after two weeks have passed at noon → Apprentice promoted after two weeks then entering the game for the first time

● The navigation for Mansha Forest and Treant Forest as been improved.

● Fixed the issue where less Palm Plywood would be obtained as Processing level would be increased when Processing Palm Plank.

● In order to alleviate the difference among Life Skill levels, the required EXP and obtained EXP have been readjusted for Hunting, Training, Farming, and Sailing. (However, Life Skill EXP obtained from quests will not change.) 

 - We have decided to make adjustments for the 4 Life Skills above in order to alleviate the difference among Life Skills Levels. Therefore, we reduced required EXP for Sailing and increased obtainable EXP for Hunting, Training and Farming.

 * We'll bring our best to preserve the value of every Adventurer's efforts.

 - Required EXP decreased – Sailing

 - Obtainable EXP increased – Hunting, Training, Farming, Sailing, Fishing, Trade

 - With the change of the obtainable and required EXP amount, Life Skill Level for Hunting, Training, Farming and Sailing will also increase proportional to the adjustment made. 

● Followed by the Life Skill EXP adjustment, Adventurer's life skill level for Hunting, Training, Farming and Sailing will also increase.  

- You can obtain life skill EXP when you obtain the following items by performing life contents.

- Fishing EXP given from → Prize Catch (Fish)

 

【ALL CLASSES】

● Information regarding Injury has been added to tooltips of skills that require Black Spirit’s Rage to be performed.

● Fixed the issue where the location of the character appeared awkward when attacked.

● Fixed the issue where the key guide would be turned off and on when the character lacked Stamina while swimming.

● Fixed the issue where the Main Weapon skill icons for Mystic, Archer was not correctly displayed in the skill guide.

● Fixed the graphical issue where the skill effect blur would remain after another adventurer has performed a skill.

● Fixed the issue where the Matchlock could not be loaded intermittently when the character was inflicted with an attack that applies debuff while the character was mounted or moving.

● New class Lahn has been placed in the first slot when you create a new character.

 

【WARRIOR】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Absolute: Shield Charge

- Absolute: Forward Slash

- Charged Shield Strike

- Absolute: Piercing Spear

- Absolute: Counter

- Jump Thrust

- Ultimate: Deep Thrust

- Frenzied Spear

- Ground Roar

- Absolute: Shield Counter

- Quick Heavy Strike"

● The social action ‘Reluctant’ has been changed.

 

【RANGER】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Ultimate: Tearing Arrow

● Fixed the graphical issue where the right chest area would look awkward with the [Ranger] Atanis Armor equipped.

 

【SORCERESS】

● Fixed the typo in the Scythe Training skill.

● Pressing Shift + Space bar while moving will now activate the skill Night Crow first.

 

【BERSERKER】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Beast Roar

● Fixed the typo in the following skills:

- Elastic Force

- Headbutt

- Corpse Storm I

- Weakling Hun II, III

- Fierce Strike

- Raging Thunder

- Fearsome Tyrant

- Lava Piercer

- Titan Syndrome

- Titan Step

- Titan Blow

- Rooting

- Buster Training

- Blasting

- Flame Buster

- Flow: Slugfest

- Flow: Earth Diving

- Flow: Jump Sequence

- Absolute: Wrath of Beast

- Absolute: Storming Beast

- Absolute: Undertaker

- Absolute: Falling Rock

- Absolute: Beastly Wind Slash

- Absolute: Rock Smash

● Successfully landing an additional hit of Powerful Headbutt while performing Headbutt I will now properly recover WP.

● Additional hits will now be activated after using Headbutt or Powerful Headbutt for Headbutt levels II to Absolute.

● WP Recovery effect will now be applied when using Ultimate: Headbutt.

● Attack range increase effect will now be properly applied for Knee Kick attack of the skill Storming Beast II.

● The Counter Attack effect will now be properly applied to when it’s not cooldown for the skill Tackling Rock.

● Fixed the issue where only 1 hit would be applied for the skill Ground Thrust which was launched after Charge during the skill Rock Smash.

● Commands to perform the following skills have been added to the skill tooltip:

- Beast Roar

- Predatory Hunt

● The Bleeding effect of the skill Beast Roar will now be applied in PvE.

● The critical rate of the additional hit of Frenzied Destroyer IV will now be properly applied in PvE.

● Flow: Split Shot will now be continuously activated by clicking then holding onto LMB while performing the skill Black Spirit: Titan Blow.

● Description regarding 'Down Attack' has been added to the tooltip of the skill Giant Leap.

● Black Spirit : Fixed the issue where Skill Add-on effect would be applied to the skill Black Spirit: Giant Leap.

● Black Spirit : Fixed the issue where 1 less additional hit would be launched during PvP for the skill Giant Leap.

● Fixed the issue where description regarding CC status effect and Stamina would not be properly displayed in the tooltip of the skill Flow: Jump Sequence.

● Description regarding CC status effect has been added to the tooltip of the skill Titan Step.

● Description regarding Down Attack has been added to the tooltip of the skill Ground Lifting.

● Fixed the issue where WP would be recovered even during cooldown of the skill Ground Lifting in certain situations.

● Description regarding ‘Damage reduced in PvP and Down Attack’ has been added to tooltip of the skill Flow: Split Shot.

● Fixed the wrong description of the skill effect in the tooltip of the skill Flow: Ancient Wave.

● Description regarding ‘WP Recovery on a good hit and Down Attack’ has been added to tooltip of the skill Flow: Ancient Power.

● Fixed the issue where additional hit damage was not correctly applied by using Black Spirit : Giant Leap II, III.

● Fixed the issue where the skills Storming Beast and Headbutt allowed for abnormally fast launch of skills.

● Fixed a typo in the skill description of Black Spirit: Titan Blow.

 

【TAMER】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Stretch Kick II

● The skill effect will no longer be displayed on the Heilang after the buff from the skill Heilang: Berserk used after Summon Heilang I has ended.

 

【WITCH, WIZARD】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Aad Sphera Training

- Godr Sphera Training
 

【VALKYRIE】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Shield Push

● Fixed the issue where an abnormal motion would come out when using the skill Flying Kick consecutively while performing certain skills.

 

【MUSA, MAEHWA】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Cyclone Slash

- Blind Thrust

- Blind Slash

- Lunar Slash

- Whirlwind Cut

- Whirlwind Cut: Cyclone

 

【MUSA】

● Fixed the issue where the skills Whirlwind Cut: Grinder and Ultimate: Whirlwind Cut would inflict damage on less targets than the max targets of Absolute: Whirlwind Cut after having learned Absolute: Whirlwind Cut.

● Fixed the issue where animation effect and Camera Shaking effect would not match during chopping log.

 

【MAEHWA】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Chaos: Red Moon

- Maehwa: Ascension to Heaven

- Absolute: Charged Stub Arrow

● The skill effect will now be properly displayed when using the skills Blind Thrust I and II.
 

【NINJA】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Boss Slaughter
 

【STRIKER】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Combo: Venom Fang

- Combo: Final Blow

- Flow: Landslide

- Flow: Bombardment

- Combo: Hurricane

- Rising Blast Combo

● Fixed the issue where both the Onyx Jaguar Shoes and Onyx Jaguar Armor would be dyed together.
 

【MYSTIC】

● Fixed the issue where the number of actual targets that received damage from the skill differed from what was written in the skill’s tooltip.

- Absolute: Fetter Knee Constraint

- Combo: Splinter Thud

- Combo: Bolster Thump

- Combo: Hurricane

- Dash Buster

- Flow: Fatal Smash

- Flow: Strikethrough

- Flow: Landslide

- Flow: Sky Rammer

- Black Spirit: Absolute: Roaring Tiger

● Fixed the typo in the skill description of Heavy Fist.

● Fixed the issue where the sound effect of the skill 'Dragon’s Rip' could not be heard by other adventurers.

 

【ARCHER】

● Fixed the issue where the skill Black Spirit: Ultimate: Zephyr Leap would be activated even during the skill’s cooldown while in main weapon mode.

● Fixed the issue where the skill Black Spirit: Ultimate: Zephyr Leap would be activated even when the skill was locked while in main weapon mode.

 

【Item】

● Item tooltip of Fig Pie has been changed: Gathering Resource Gain Chance > Chance to Gather All Items.

● Waragon Nest has been added to the ‘Where to Obtain’ description in the tooltip of the following items:

- Asula's Weakened Magic Ring

- Asula's Weakened Magic Earring

● The texts ‘All Debuff Resistance’ and ‘Ignore All Debuff Resistance’ in description of certain buffs and item tooltips have been changed to ‘All Resistance’ and ‘Ignore All Resistance.’

● The ‘Where to Obtain’ description in the tooltip of Acacia Seed has been corrected.

● The following text has been added to the tooltip of Ultimate Akum defense gear:

- Reform stone must be extracted from this gear by a blacksmith or armor vendor before you can list it on the Central Market.

● Description has been added to Guild item tooltips to state that the item is bound to Guild.

● Line spacing has been added in the item tooltip of Fish items to make it more legible.

● Fixed the issue where the following accessories were not applying the correct effects according to its stats. written in the items’ tooltip.

- Herman Feresio's Necklace

- Marco Faust's Necklace
 

【Monsters】

● The Stone Waragons located in Waragon Nest have awoken after being exposed to the black stones for a long time.

- Recommended AP for Waragon Nest has been changed to 165.

- Monsters in Waragon Nest have been relocated.

- Stone Waragon has been renamed to Colossal Stone Waragon.

- The HP and AP of Stone Waragon, Stone Mutant Waragon, and Colossal Stone Waragon have increased greatly.

- Colossal Stone Waragon will no longer attack first.

- Upon attacking Colossal Stone Waragon, it will now continuously spawn, at max 100, Stone Waragon and Stone Mutant Waragon monsters.

- Stone Waragon and Stone Mutant Waragon monsters spawned by Colossal Stone Waragon cannot be gathered upon after being defeated.

- When Colossal Stone Waragon resets, it will have a cooldown of 2 minutes then recover its HP.

- The following items can now be looted from Stone Waragon and Stone Mutant Waragon monsters:

→ Ancient Spirit Dust

→ Asula's Weakened Magic Earring

→ Asula's Weakened Magic Ring

→ Rocaba Helmet

→ Black Stone (Weapon)

→ Black Stone (Armor)

→ Waragon Hide

→ Waragon Blood

→ Waragon Meat

→ Stone Waragon Hide

- The following items can now be looted from Colossal Stone Waragon:

→ Serap's Necklace

→ Black Magic Crystal - Sturdiness

→ Waragon Hide

→ Waragon Blood

→ Waragon Meat

→ Yona's Fragment

→ Black Stone (Armor)

→ Scroll Written in Ancient Language

→ Stone Waragon Hide

- New Knowledge for Colossal Stone Waragon has been added.

● Vell will now appear in all servers.

- To reflect this chance, Vell’s overall HP has been reduced.

● Fixed the issue where you could not control your Ship if Vell was killed while performing the jump and dive attack that caused tidal waves.

● Fixed the issue where obtainable Hunting EXP appeared abnormally when hunting Black Leopard.

 

【Mount】

● Large Ships (Galley, Epheria Sailboat, Epheria Frigate, Old Bartali Sailboat) can now be Repaired continuously.

- You can perform this by pressing the repair button that appears when Repairing a Ship with materials for Repair held in Inventory.

- If you use up all the necessary materials for Repair or if the Durability of the Ship becomes 100%, the repair will stop automatically. (However, if the Ship is attacked while it is being Repaired, the repair process may stop.)

● Fixed the issue where the sound effect would not stop when getting off the Medium Siege Tower.

 

【NPC, Background, Sound】

● Fixed the issue where Elephants were stuck in walls and stairs of Valencia Castle.

● Fixed the graphical issue where an Auction icon would be displayed for NPC Hans in the minimap.

● The dialogue with NPC Tachros in Velia has been changed to sound more natural for adventurers who have already met Tachros in Olvia.

 

【Quest, Knowledge】

● The navigation for the following quests has been fixed.

- Enervated Black Dragon

- Missing Items

- What is the Elephant Carrying?

- Investigating the Attack

● The part about navigation written in the Quest Summary of the quest ‘To Shakatu's Territory’ has been removed.

● Navigation will now be marked properly from your location to the target destination for the quest ‘The World From Above.’

● Text regarding Quest Requirement has been added and revised for the quest ‘[Returning] Crio's Welcome.’

● Knowledge Hint of Node Manager of Elder’s Bridge Post will now display correct information.

● Fixed the graphical issue with Quest Completion icon looking awkward for the quest ‘How Kind Our Miss Is..’

● Fixed the typo in the quest completion dialog of 'Wandering Rogue Symbols'.

● Fixed the typo in the quest dialog of 'Sweet Interrogation'.

● Quest Requirement for the quest ‘Tasting John Dory’ has changed to fishing Bigeye x3.

- As the Quest Requirement has changed, the Quest Name and Summary have changed as well.

● Fixed the wrong information written in the Quest Summary of the quest ‘The Vessel of Darkness.’

● Quest Requirement to complete the Bartali's Adventure Log Chapter Two has been updated to sound clearer.

● Quest Requirement to complete the quest ‘Identity of the Artifact’ has been changed to sound more natural.

● Fixed the text overlapping issue of “energy required.”and “Click to Play Cutscene” under certain situations when interacting with an NPC.

● Quest Requirement written in the Quest Summary of the quests ‘Identity of the Artifact’ and ‘Secret Revealed will now state the correct quest requirement.

 

【UI】

● A new notification message will now appear after you have completed all Main Quests of a territory.

● Notification for obtaining better gear will no longer appear for the following situations:

- When you obtain gear that increases Life Skills and there is such gear already equipped for every equipment slot.

- When a character that has not been Awakened yet get an Awakening gear.

- When you get gear with level requirement higher than our current character’s level.

● Fixed the issue where abnormal items would appear in the item list of Central Market.

● Fixed the game client crashing issue that occurred at the end of the introductory video clip when starting a new character.

- Fixed the issue where skill video was not coming out in Skill window.

- Fixed the issue where Beauty Album window would not appear in Character Customizing screen.

● Fixed the text overlapping issue of the text “Waiting for approval from the guilds.”and delete button for Guild Alliance.

● Fixed the issue where number Inventory slots would not be displayed when opening and closing World Map (M) with the Inventory open.

● Fixed the awkward placement of Silver, Pearl, and Loyalties in the Inventory window that occurred intermittently when performing Cleanse Gear.

● Fixed the issue where mouse scroll would not work when having more than 10 items placed in Cart of Place Mode in Residence.

● The alignment of the HP and MP(EP) gauge bar on top of the character has been improved.

● The gender of the Dream Horse will now be displayed everywhere Mount Information is shown.

● Fixed the issue where the Accuracy on the tooltip of a Horn Bow item successfully enhanced from Caphras Enhancement was not being displayed properly.

● Forfeit Quest button will no longer be displayed under available quests in Quest window (o).

● Fixed the graphical issue where the scroll button image would appear awkward when clicking on it from Stable.

● Improved the scroll alignment in the 1 on 1 chat window from the Friend List (N).

● The gap between the title and description of Open Special Item window has been removed.

● Fixed the graphical issue where the graph of the work progress in Housing Crafting menu in the World Map (M).

● A title header has been added to the descriptive text that appears when putting the mouse cursor over the Battle Stats list and Breath, Strength, and Health texts under Family Fame.

● Font size has been reduced for the description which is displayed when you mouse over when the text in the buyt/sell history window is too long.

● Extract Chance button will no longer be activated in situations when Enhancement Chance cannot be extracted in Enhancement window.

● The checked Equipment Cleansing fee setting (either to Silver in Inventory or Storage) will no longer reset from the Cleanse Gear window.

● Fixed the issue where the setting for Pet special was not saved.

- The Pet special can only be saved after activating Pets. If you deactivated your Pets then you should select Pet special once again.

● Fixed the issue where Enhancement Level would be displayed abnormally when clicking [+] to increase the Enhancement Level under Select Enhancement Level option.

● You can no longer select Enhancement Level when trying to purchase an item via Central Market when there are no Items Listed for that particular item.

● A notification message has been added when expirable items is removed.

● Fixed the issue where the Growth button would not work intermittently when trying Grow Fairy.

● Some of the Guild Skill icons have changed in color.

● Fixed the issue where the ‘Remove Guild’ button would be activated after disbanding Guild Alliance.

● Fixed the issue where the wrong message stating that you have completed deleting the Knowledge even though you failed to delete Knowledge for not having enough Energy.

● Fixed the issue where the sound effect would not stop when closing Dye window (J).

● Removed the unnecessary text that from the message that appears when failing in Cooking.

● Made an improvement so that sound effect would be played when extracting crystals out of gears.

● The Fish that can be caught in the lake next to Marni Cave Path will not be displayed on World Map (M).

● Fixed the issue where the sound effect would not stop if you put the mouse cursor over the Recharge, Polishing, Growth tabs under Alchemy window while performing these functions.

● The icon that appears when a skill to spawn a Guild Member or a Party Member is used will now disappear after a certain time.

● ‘Repeat’ button will no longer be displayed in the Worker List for Workers registered to Worker Exchange.

● Pop-up UIs will now close when putting in Fishing command (keys).

● Fixed the issue where Vision Range UI would be displayed intermittently when your character has gone far away from a boss monster.

● When you succeed in Enhancing your gear to PEN level using your Cron Stone, you can now deselect Cron Stones from the Enhancement window.

● Fixed the issue where Enhancement Chance would not be displayed in certain situations.

● There will now be a special effect and a system message notifying of the success of Enhancement when you succeed in Enhancing your gear.

● When registering an item via Items Listed on Central Market, the price shown on Status and notification message section will now reflect the additional cost from Enhancement Level of the item.

● Fixed the issue where the Durability of a Ship under repair from a party member would be displayed abnormally when checking the information of Ship through a Wharf Manager.

 

【System】

● Improved some UI that will no longer take up memory.

● With the new addition of Lahn, you can now register up to 17 Classes.

We hope you enjoy your time in Black Desert,

Thank you.