Hello, Adventurers.

This is The MMORPG, Black Desert.

These are the updates made to Black Desert on March 11, 2020.

(Patch size: approx. 693 MB)

※ Please read below for details.

 

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• ● Event 1. EXP Hot Time!

Event Period

- March 11, 2020 (Wed) after maintenance - March 25, 2020 (Wed) before maintenance

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• ● Event 2. Monster Hunting Aid Arrives~!

Event Period

- March 12, 2020 (Thu) at 00:00 - March 25, 2020 (Wed) at 23:59 

 

• ● Event 3. Listen to Toshi’s Request!

Event Period

- March 12, 2020 (Thu) at 00:00 - March 25, 2020 (Wed) at 23:59

 

• ● Event 4. Roll on! Black Spirit’s Adventure!

Event Period

- March 11, 2020 (Wed) after maintenance - March 25, 2020 (Wed) before maintenance

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• ● Decreased the amount of Contribution EXP required per Contribution level. 

Contribution Points play an important role in Black Desert as they are used for production, trading, and many other contents. The required amount of contribution EXP was decreased so that new Adventurers can have an easier time settling into the world of Black Desert. It is applied across the scale so this change will affect all Adventurers. However, this will be especially helpful for new Adventurers that are just starting out.

• ● Added the < Dreaming of a Full Haul > sailors.

 

 

|  ALL CLASSES

• ● Changed the accuracy of certain skills from 100% to 50%.

Classes	Skills	Classes	Skills
Warrior	- Take Down - Counter - Prime: Counter - Slash while on a mount - Warrior's Spirit Damage from skills after learning Succession: Warrior's Spirit * Slash * Prime: Forward Slash * Deep Ground Slash	Witch	- Mana Absorption - Toxic Flood
Sorceress	- Shard Explosion - Flow of Darkness - Blade of Darkness - Nightmare	Wizard	- Mana Absorption - Lava Field - Flame Knot
Rangers	- Spirit Binding - Flow: Rooting - Bow Skill while on a mount	Dark Knight	- Luscious Snare - Imperious Command - Succession: Imperious Command - Kriegsmesser Training while on a mount
Berserker	- Smack Down - Undertaker - Rock Smash - Corpse Storm - Lava Piercer - Flow: Shooting Mobility - Rooting - Prime: Lava Piercer - Elastic Force while on a mount	Striker	- Massive Suppression - Hell Break - Echo Spirit - Flow: Bite Off - Heavy Fist while on a mount - Hits by Echo Spirits that appear during certain skills
Tamer	- Stretch Kick - Soaring Kick - Cloud Stomping - Flow: Cloud Ride	Mystic	- Binding - Dragon's Pit - Infinite Fortitude - Hits by the dragon that appears during certain skills
Valkyrie	- Counter - Punishment - Celestial Spear - Purificatione - Wave of Light - Prime: Counter - Prime: Celestial Spear - Valkyrie Slash while on a mount	Lahn	- Soul Raid - Moondance while on a mount
Musa	- Blooming - Counter Assassination - Projection Summon Hit  - Flow: Extra Credit Summon Hit - Prime: Blooming, Slice while on a mount	Archer	- Righteous Fire - Extra Hit of Black Spirit: Radiant Explosion
Maehwa	- Blooming - Sticky Snowflake - Prime: Blooming - Slice while on a mount	Shai	- Forest's Echo - Sun's Fury - Earth's Tremble
Ninja	- Suicide Fall - Flash Bondage - Heart Aiming - Wind Slash while on a mount	Guardian	- Juggernaut - Awakening: Juggernaut"
Kunoichi	- Suicide Fall - Ninjutsu: Sinew Cut - Assassin's Trail - Heart Aiming - Delighted Blast Lunar Explosion Hit - Wind Slash while on a mount

 

 

• ● Prime: Ground Slash - Removed Critical Hit Rate from the skill effects.
• ● Prime: Take Down - Increased cooldown time from 7 seconds to 13 seconds.
• ● Prime: Scars of Dusk - Changed the damages of this skill to the following:

Prime: Scars of Dusk	Before	After
Prime: Scars of Dusk I	1042% x 4, Max 2 Hits / 1355% x 5	938% x 4, Max 2 Hits / 1220% x 5
Prime: Scars of Dusk II	1162% x 4, Max 2 Hits / 1510% x 5	1046% x 4, Max 2 Hits / 1359% x 5
Prime: Scars of Dusk III	1282% x 4, Max 2 Hits / 1666% x 5	1154% x 4, Max 2 Hits / 1450% x 5

 

 

• ● Prime: Raging Thunder - Fixed the issue where the skill duration would be shorter when used while moving.

 

 

• ● Purification - Fixed the issue where damage was not being applied when the skill was used repeatedly.

 

 

• ● Shrunk the area the waves shot out from the skills Projection and Flow: Extra Credit hits.

- The distance the wave travels and the distance the enemies are pushed back have also been decreased.

• ● Flow: Extra Credit - Increased the combo speed of this skill after using Projection.
• ● Flow: Dash Slash - Hold LMB after Below the Belt to combo with this skill.
• ● Flow: Backflow - Press D or A + RMB after Below the Belt to combo with this skill.
• ● Prime: Gale - Serene Mind buff is no longer required to activate Super Armor effect on the 3rd hit. Super Armor effect on the 3rd hit will be applied at all times.

- Prime: Gale 3rd hit area will increase when Serene Mind buff is active.

● Prime: Serene Mind - Changed the buff duration from 5 seconds to 7 seconds. 

● Prime: Serene Mind - Changed the skill description. 

● The following skills will consume the buff from Prime: Serene Mind and will have reduced damage when activated during cooldown:

- Rising Storm: Blaze

- Prime: Blooming

- Prime: Cyclone Slash

- Prime: Gale

• ● Prime: Blooming - The following changes were applied to the stun effect on the extra hit that was added when used with the Prime: Serene Mind buff:

Before	After
Stun by every hit of the energy	Stun only with first hit of the energy

● Prime: Blooming - Fixed the issue where the damage would be divided when hitting multiple targets.

● Ultimate: Musa Spirit - Fixed the issue where the Serene Mind buff was not being applied.
● Fixed the following skills where their activation speed was slow when used during cooldown with the Serene Mind buff active:
- Rising Storm: Blaze
- Prime: Gale
- Prime: Cyclone Slash
● Fixed the following skills where they would active even when toggled if the Serene Mind buff was active:
- Prime: Gale
- Prime: Cyclone Slash
- Rising Storm: Blaze
- Prime: Blooming

 

 

• ● Sticky Snowflake - Added Reduce All Evasion Rate -3% upon good hit. 

● Sticky Snowflake - Changed damage to better reflect the skills increased attack range.

● Prime: Blooming, Maehwa: Ascension to Heaven - Fixed issue of damage being split when used against large number of enemies.

• ● Fixed the skill descriptions of the following skills to add missing information on skill accuracy.

- Petal Drill

- Black Spirit: Petal Drill

- Petal Bloom

- Black Spirit: Petal Bloom

- Flow: December

- Flow: Cloud Stab

• ● Flow: Moonlight Dash - Changed to be added to Quick slot.
• ● Flow: Moonlight Dash - Changed skill damage to be identical to Moonlight Dash's damage.
• ● Changed the following skill's damage due to their attack range being increased.

- Frost Pillars (when not on cooldown)

- Flow: Tip of an Iceberg

 

 

|  NINJA, KUNOICHI

• ● Smokescreen - Changed the Increase Evasion Rate effect as follows.

Smokescreen	Before	After
Smokescreen I	All Evasion Rate +6% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +6% for 10 sec
Smokescreen II	All Evasion Rate +9% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +6% for 10 sec
Smokescreen III	All Evasion Rate +12% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +6% for 10 sec
Smokescreen IV	All Evasion Rate +15% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +9% for 10 sec
Smokescreen V	All Evasion Rate +18% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +9% for 10 sec

• ● Sudden Decapitation - Improved skill to change from Shortsword to Sura Katana state upon use.
• ● Drastic Measure - Improved to be comboed into after using Vacuum Slash's or Sudden Decapitation's 2nd hit.
• ● Flow: Execution - Improved to combo into Serpent Ascension's transition stance hit after use.
• ● Prime: Fatal Blow - Changed Melee Attack Power Increase to All AP Increase.
• ● Changed Succession flame, poison and bleed damage effects from 18 sec to 9 sec.
• ● Changed the following skills' PvP damage.

Skill	PvP Damage
Prime: Blade Spin	Reduced PvP Damage -23%
Prime: Black Moonlight	Reduced PvP Damage -23%
Prime: Fox Claw	Reduced PvP Damage -22%
Prime: Beheading the Dead	Reduced PvP Damage -22%

• ● Reduced extra hits and extra attack range of Prime: Shuriken Flight and Succession: Crescent Slash, respectively.
• ● Reduced move distance when using Alert stance skills after using Prime: Smokescreen, Prime: Evasive Shuriken Malice.
• ● Changed the increased evasion rate effect of the following skills.

- Ninjitsu: Oni Shadow

- Shuriken: Moon Dive

- Prime: Smokescreen

Before	After
All Evasion Rate +18% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +9% for 10 sec

● Serpent Ascension - Fixed typo of actual number of extra hits during transition stance in skill description.

 

 

• ● Danse Macabre - Improved to be comboed into after using Lunatic Discus and Chain Crash: Sah Chakram.
• ● Chain Crash: Sah Chakram - Increased Critical Hit Rate +50% against monsters only.
• ● Chain Crash: Sah Chakram - Changed to be used even during cooldown.
• ● Chain Crash: Sah Chakram - Improved to combo even faster after using Halfmoon Slash, Flow: Indignation.
• ● Lunatic Discus - Reduced cooldown from 15 sec to 12 sec.
• ● Lethal Spin Spree - Reduced PvP Damage -17%.
• ● Prime: Tendon Cutter - Changed for extra hits to occur only after the 3rd hit.
• ● Changed the PvP damage of the following skills.

Skill	PvP Damage
Prime: Flash Slash	Reduced PvP Damage -15%
Black Spirit: Prime: Flash Slash	Reduced PvP Damage -18%

• ● Changed the Increased Evasion Rate effect of the following skills.

- Ninjutsu: Oni Shadow

- Ninjutsu: Tendon Cutter

Before	After
All Evasion Rate +18% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +9% for 10 sec

- Assassin's Trail

Before	After
All Evasion Rate +15% for 10 sec	All Evasion Rate +9% for 10 sec

• ● Prime: Skull Crusher - Improved to be comboed even faster after Twisted Collision.
• ● Prime: Skull Crusher - Changed to only activate while having landed on the ground after Flow: Fatal Smash.
• ● Succession: Flash Step - Improved effects as follows.

- Can use continuously up to 3 times.

- Uses stamina when using continuously.

• ● Succession: Ankle Hook - Changed skill effects as follows.

Before	After
Bound on good hit	Bound on good hit (only monsters) Push on good hit (only monsters)

• ● Flow: Bombardment - Changed LMB after use to connect into Combo: Venom Fang.
• ● Discharge Energy - Improved to combo more easily into next skill.
• ● Discharge Energy - Improved temporary slow effect of characters hit by skill.
• ● Prime: Rampaging Predator - Improved to combo into following skills.

- Knee Hammer

- Wolf's Hunger

- Rage Hammer

- Roaring Tiger

- Hidden Claw

• ● Prime: Rampaging Predator - Improved to connect faster when used after the following skills.

- Flash Step

- Knee Hammer

• ● Somersault - Improved to combo into Prime: Skull Crusher by pressing F after use.
• ● Mass Destruction - Improved to combo after use into Prime: Crimson Fang, Prime: Roaring Tiger.
• ● Prime: Wolf's Fang - Improved Stun effect to apply to monsters and enemy adventurers nearby after either Charging is complete or Flow: Prey Hunt's Energy Explosion.
• ● Adjusted Vigor to be appropriately consumed when using Prime: Wolf's Fang instead of Discharge Energy.

• ● Hidden Claw - Fixed issue of debuffs being applied to all damage when used right after Dash Buster.
• ● Succession: Flash Step - Improved effects as follows.

- Can use continuously up to 3 times.

- Uses stamina when using continuously.

• ● Prime: Sea Burial - Improved to be comboed into Flow: Sky Rammer, Flow: Strikethrough.
• ● Somersault - Fixed issue of Q+F not activating when used after Scissor Kick.
• ● Hidden Claw - Added missing skill description of "Pushes the target on good hits”.
• ● Prime: Hidden Claw - Fixed issue of final hit not activating when skill was on cooldown.

- Added description of knockback effect not applying with final hit if skill on cooldown.

• ● Rage Hammer - Fixed issue of Shift + Q incorrectly activating Enhanced Nature's Wrath/Unbridled Wrath in certain situations.
• ● Fixed issue of the following skills being unable to enhance skills due to consuming Martial Spirit Shards even when there were 30 shards.

- After Prime: Rage Hammer

- Locked Black Spirit: Roaring Tiger

- Locked Black Spirit: Prime: Roaring Tiger

• ● Black Spirit: Prime: Roaring Tiger - Fixed issue of locked skills activating in certain situations.
• ● Fixed issue of Succession skills using up gear durability at incorrect levels.

 

 

• ● Changed so while pressing RMB to move in non-combat state, you can now press LMB to jump.

|  ITEM 

• ● Added the following items available for Guardians to open.

- [Event] Premium Outfit Box

* Open the above box with the Guardian to obtain [Guardian] Ynixtra Premium Set.

• ● Added information on Red grade gear to the Memory Fragment item description.
• ● Changed Assorted Side Dishes' Knowledge Description and 1 ingredient.

Originally Dried Squid x2  => Squid x1

• ● Edited the item effect of Golden Pig's Blessing.

 

 

| MONSTER

• ● Fixed issue of the following Co-op recommended monsters allowing other adventurers to collect items after they've been defeated.

 - Sea Monster Habitat

| MOUNT

• ● Improved BreezySail to allow for Cannon Fire even when Continuously using BreezySail on an appropriate vessel.

* You can use BreezySail on the following vessels.

- Improved Epheria Sailboat - Improved Epheria Frigate

- Epheria Caravel - Epheria Galleass - Epheria Carrack

| QUEST & KNOWLEDGE

• ● Changed "[Lv.58] Valtarra Altar of Training" to be visible in the suggested quest window even when following the renewed Kamasylvia main quest line.

| UI

• ● Improved the following UI.

- Find NPC

- Conquest Status

• ● Divided Navigation Path Setting by Water and Land.

- Can adjust in General Settings → Misc. window.

• ● Improved the message that appears while installing furniture or crops when unable to install more due to placement limits regardless of the type or placement.
• ● Improved Node/Conquest War and Red Battlefield to show Kill Notifications even when killed and/or forcefully slaughtered.
• ● Improved Enhancement window to reveal necessary items for Enhancement even if they are not in possession.

● Changed the placement of certain active Guild Skills to the top of the Guild Skills Information window in order to be a bit more accessible.

• ● Changed so respective Storage Keepers need be met first to activate Storage per Territory function in the Find NPC window.
• ● Fixed issue of certain guilds being displayed with a line across their names in the Guild Rank window.
• ● Fixed issue of Storage UI opening outside the upper screen when opened through NPCs.
• ● Added quick buy function for Storage space in Illiya Island.
• ● Adjusted View Other Character's Inventory function's default setting to Auto-Arrange in the End Game window.

● Changed the Change Server UI so the View Server Details window's default setting is to be closed.

● Changed for New/Returning Adventurers so the View Server Details window's default is to be open.

● Reduced font size of View Server Details window.

● Trimmed details on Node/Conquest Wars by Territory in the View Server Details window.

• ● Added information about Trial Characters when selecting the Trial Character tab in the Character Selection menu.

 

 

• ● Fixed issue of various plants floating in mid-air in some parts of South Kaia Mountain and Balenos Mountain Range.
• ● Fixed issue of Alchemy cooldown occurring even when attempting and failing to use Alchemy while in bodies of water.
• ● [Sorceress] Fixed issue of Shared Explosion sometimes not inflicting damage when character was customized to the shortest height setting.
• ● [Kunoichi] Fixed graphical glitch of weapons appearing transparent for a while when using Danse Macabre after Lunatic Discus.
• ● [Shai] Fixed graphical glitch with effects not appearing correctly while idle in talent stance.
• ● Fixed typos for the following skills.

- [Striker] Succession: Martial Deva

- [Striker] Striker's Vigor

- [Striker] Discharge Energy

• ● Fixed issue of the minimap not appearing in certain seas.
• ● Fixed issue where Adding Friend by Character's Name to a friend already on one's Friend's List would send an additional friend request.
• ● Fixed graphical glitches in certain situations when wearing the following outfits:

- [Mystic] Gloomy Fox Outfit

We hope you enjoy your time in Black Desert,

Thank you.