Hello, Adventurers.

This is The MMORPG, Black Desert.

These are the updates made to Black Desert on October 23, 2019.

(Patch size: approx. 0.98 GB)

※ Please read below for details.

Event

● Set Out for the Vast Ocean with the Great Expedition! 

Event 1. The Black Market comes to the Dancing Marlin Tavern

Event Period

- October 23, 2019 (Wed) after maintenance ~ November 6, 2019 (Wed) before maintenance 

Event 2.  Sailing Levels Set Sail!   

Event Period

- October 23, 2019 (Wed) after maintenance - November 6, 2019 (Wed) before maintenance

Event 3.  Let’s Barter, Pu! 

Event Period

- October 23, 2019 (Wed) after maintenance - November 6, 2019 (Wed) before maintenance

Event 4. Sailing EXP Hot Time! 

Event Period

- October 23, 2019 (Wed) after maintenance - November 6, 2019 (Wed) before maintenance

[Click here for more details]

• ● Halloween Festival - Part 2! 

Event 1. Engulfed in Darkness, the Black Witch, Isabella! 

Event Period

- October 23, 2019 (Wed) after maintenance - November 6, 2019 (Wed) before maintenance

Event 2.  Appearing from the Dark, Hexe Marie! 

Event Period

- October 23, 2019 (Wed) after maintenance - November 6, 2019 (Wed) before maintenance 

Event 3. Complete the Halloween Adventure Log! 

Event Period

- October 23, 2019 (Wed) after maintenance ~ November 6, 2019 (Wed) before maintenance

How to get Halloween Pumpkin Candy
Event Period
- October 24, 2019 (Thu) at 00:00 - November 5, 2019 (Tue) at 23:59

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New and Improvements

|  CONTENTS 

• ● The challenge "Daily Blood Frenzy!" was fixed so that you can receive the rewards as a scroll and not use it immediately after collecting it.
  
  
  

|  ALL CLASSES 

• ● The class passive skills were expanded up to 11 (XI) or 21(XXI).
• ● The available passive skill levels for Ranger, Musa, Maehwa, Ninja, Kunoichi, Dark Knight, Witch, and Wizard were adjusted.

 - Therefore, the passive skills for Ranger, Musa, Maehwa, Ninja, Kunoichi, Dark Knight, Witch, and Wizard will be reset.

 - As the levels of the skills were changed, certain passive skill effects were changed as well.

 - Passive skills where level 10 (X) was the highest can now be raised to level 11(XI) when the character reaches level 63. Passive skills where level  20 (XX) was the highest can now be raised to level 21 (XXI) when the character reaches level 63. 

 ※ Following the passive skill expansion, the passive skills were reset. Adventurers, please obtain the passive skills again after entering the game.

• ● The character will now remain standing when cancelling the fishing action that spends energy, and stay standing even if a Fisher's Chair is equipped.

|  RANGER 

• ● Spirit Healing - The effect MAX Stamina increase was added.

|  TAMER 

• ● The new passive skill "Beastial Instincts" was added.

 - Amplify her Beastial Instincts to perform sharper attacks.

|  ITEM

• ● If the login reward item is a coupon, then it will be automatically added to the Coupon Book.
• ● Items that cannot be obtained will no longer be displayed in the Crafting Notes.

|  MONSTER

• • • ● The world bosses will go berserk and the time of their disappearance was changed.

    - World bosses will disappear 30 minutes after their initial appearance.

    - Garmoth will not appear if the structures that appear before Garmoth arrives are not destroyed within 15 minutes.

     - They will go berserk for the first time 15 minutes after their initial spawn time.

     - They will get increased AP and DP after going berserk for the first time.

     - They will go berserk for the second time 25 minutes after their initial spawn time.

     - They will get even more AP but their DP will decrease significantly after going berserk for the second time.

    - The world bosses going berserk will stack up to the second time. They will disappear 5 minutes after going berserk for the second time.

    • ● The world bosses with the new function are as follows:

     - Kzarka, Nouver, Karanda, Kutum, Offin, Garmoth

● The Gold Bar rewards that can be obtained by defeating the world bosses Kzarka, Nouver, Karanda, Kutum, Offin were increased.

|  MOUNT 

• ● The skill Dark Flame Steps of the Dream Horse Doom will no longer have the stun effect when it is used during cooldown.

|  NPC, BACKGROUND, SOUND

• ● Fixed the issue where characters would move abnormally in certain areas beneath the Valencia Castle.
• ● Fixed the issue where the flag would go through the walls in certain areas of Altinova Arena.
• ● Fixed the issue with the auto-moving structures in Cyclops Land.
• ● Fixed the issue with the abnormal camera movements with certain NPCs in Grána, Khimut Lumber Camp, and Calpheon Slum.
• ● The sea route between Ancado Inner Harbor and Hakoven Island was made wider.
• ● The cutscene effects displayed when opening the door to Kratuga Ancient Ruins was changed.

 - When entering Kratuga Ancient Ruins, the location the characters are moved to is now farther away from the door.

|  QUEST & KNOWLEDGE

• ● The quest requirement for the quest Occupied Cron Castle was changed from level 48 or higher to level 21 or higher.
• ● The quest [Event] Season of Training is no longer available.
• ● Fixed the issue where the quest name "Until We Meet Again" was displayed in the widget when selecting the Crossroad main quest in Mediah "[Crossroad] For Altinova".
• ● The item Gyfin Rhasia Stone was fixed so that the item can only be used while the Kamasylvia main quest "Dangerous Negotiation II" is in progress.

|  UI

• ● Fixed the issue where the Repair window would disappear when opening Repair window while the Campsite Storage is open.
• ● Fixed the issue where certain buttons would appear abnormally when interacting with the Crow Merchants Guild Vendor NPC in Hexe Sanctuary, and Bacho Ladericcio at Calpheon Shadow Shrine.

- Fixed the issue where Exchange button would appear when the above NPCs do not have the function.

• ● Fixed the issue where the name of the regions would be cut off or bleed out of the minimap.
• ● The weight indicator in all UIs displaying weight have been standardized.
• ● The minigame UI for capturing a horse, training, Medicinal Herb Device and the Crystal Extractor has been updated.
• ● The Set Looped Auto-Path and Retrieve Looped Auto-Path windows will no longer open at the same time.
• ● You can now activate Speak function while adjusting Speaking Volume in the Voice Chat window.
• ● Fixed the issue where the Guild Storage was not visible when using Sticker UI function on Inventory(I) window. 
• ● Fixed the issue where the Guild Storage window disappears when moving items to other slots after opening both Guild Storage and Inventory (I) while using Sticker UI function on Inventory window.
• ● When force enhancing through the Enhancement window, the description will now change according to the item being enhanced.
• ● Fixed the issue where characters could not be tagged even with character tag turned on.
• ● The Mailbox (B) has been improved so that it is easier to distinguished whether there is an item enclosed in the mail.
• ● The maximum quantity displayed in the Guild Shop has been limited to 1000.
• ● Fixed the issue where the wrong price would be displayed when gifting multiple adventurers in the Pearl Shop (F3).
• ● Breed counts remaining will be displayed in the Stable's Exchange Horse window.

 - Hovering your mouse over the Breeding Price (Request Breeding) button will display the text for requesting breeding.

 - The Horse List window that is displayed when pressing the Breeding Price button in the Breeding Market will now show the breeding count remaining.

• ● The corners of the updated UI have been rounded.
• ● New UI's button designs have been improved.
• ● Fixed the issue where items/skill tooltip would close when attacked even with the "Hide UI When Attacked" setting turned off.
• ● If you have set the auto-path loop by ALT + RMB in the World Map (M), the completed auto-loop window will now appear.
• ● Fixed the issue where the deposit guild funds window wouldn't close in the Guild (G) window.
• ● Readjusted new UI locations.

- NPC Shop

- Give Gift

- Maid/Butler List

- Guild Auction House

- Worker Exchange

- Boss Alert

- Hotkey Settings

- Item Brand

- Weapons Exchange

- Event

- Ranking

- Mail

- Find Party

- Life EXP Transfer

- Storage and Search Storage

• ● Item Drop window's navigation button has been moved to the bottom.
• ● New Item Obtained window's close button has been moved to the top right.
• ● You can now click on the item name or count in the NPC's item exchange list to exchange.
• ● The NPC dialogues that used to change when pressing quest or exchange will now stay the same when pressing other buttons below.
• ● Fixed the issue where the mouse cursor would deactivate when opening the Black Spirit's Safe in the (New) UI.
• ● UI that has been opened by right-clicking the (New) ESC menu's Recently Used tab can now be closed when selecting menus other that the Recently Used.
• ● Fixed the issue where the reward window would appear in an abnormal locations in quests that complete automatically after a conversation.
• ● The key guide on the top will now display the new Hotkeys when playing a minigame after changing the Hotkeys.
• ● Fix the issue where the (New) UI's Recently Used tab will not be displayed when opening the UI from the right side.
• ● In the NPC exchange window, the activation indicator (R) will be moved to the selected list when selecting it with LMB.
• ● In the Quick Hotkey Settings, the settings will not be applied when closing the window without setting the Hotkeys.
• ● Fixed the issue where the selected appearance of the horse would not be retained when using Change Horse Appearance.
• ● A new message displaying the result when exchanging items with NPCs has been added 
• ● You can now check the items obtained from exchanging with NPCs without closing the Talk to the NPC window.
• ● [Event] Halloween Bag and [Event] Halloween Goodie Bag icons have been changed.
• ● The text in  the upper section in the Manage Crafting window of the Shipyard will be shortened if the information is too long. 

 - Mouse over the area to see the information displayed in a tooltip if the information is shortened.

• ● Fixed the issue where the text overlapped in the Ship Info window.
• ● Fixed the issue where the LED Animation Effect description in Game Settings did not line break properly.
• ● The message "You must first select a mount." will be displayed when you do not select a mount in the Breeding Market at a stable and click to register.
• ● Fixed the issue where the skill names of ships would spill out of the screen.

|  SYSTEM 

• ● New sound effects have been added when right-clicking or using items in the inventory.
• ● RAZER Gaming LED Effects have been applied.

 - RAZER Gear

 - Keyboard, Mouse, Mouse pad, Headset, Chroma Connect

• ● LED effects will be applied in the following situations:

 - Launching game

 - Enhancing

 - Enhancement fail

 - Enhancement success

 - HP is between 40% to 20%

 - HP is below 19%

 - 7:00 in-game time

 - 22:00 in-game time

 - Rare item obtained 

 - Full inventory

 - Level-up

 - New mail has arrived

 - World boss appears

 - Golden Bell has been applied

 - Black Spirit's Rage 100%

 - Enter a body of water (river/ocean)

 ** Turn on Settings -> Other -> LED Animation Effect.**

• ● If the notification message in the Lakiaro minigame is long, the background image will also be adjusted.
• ● Fixed the issue where the notification 'The headset/microphone is not connected, or there is a problem with the connection.' would be displayed continuously when adjusting the voice chat volume with your mouse without a connected mic.

• ● Auto-pathing to the Wharf Manager Dario on Illiya Island has been fixed.
• ● Auto-patching to Calpheon Chapel 2-1, 2F has been fixed.
• ● You can now store matchlocks in Morco's Gear Bag.
• ● The following information was added to the item description of Morco's Gear Bag.

- Equipment slots that share gear (ex. Trina Demolition Axe, Matchlocks) must be empty to change gear.

• ● [Witch] Fixed the issue where the Weenie Looney Outfit's dyed parts would look different from far away.
• ● [Lahn] Fixed the issue where the Sanguine Petal Outfit's dyed parts would look different from far away.
• ● Fixed the issue where adventurers would spawn at an abnormal location when using Escape in Kratuga Ancient Ruins.
• ●[Ninja] Fixed the issue where the shoulder part would look abnormal when wearing the Petroglyph Outfit.
• ● [Ninja] Fixed the issue where holes would appear when wearing Yurei outfit.

We hope you enjoy your time in Black Desert,

Thank you.