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Event 1. How to 100% Enjoy the Autumn Season! 

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- September 17, 2020 (Thu) at 00:00 – October 29, 2020 (Thu) at 23:59 

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Event 2. Hashashin Has Got You Covered Again! 

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- September 17, 2020 (Thu) at 00:00 – September 30, 2020 (Wed) at 23:59 

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Event 3. Level Up Hashashin Once More! 

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- September 16, 2020 (Wed) after maintenance – October 28, 2020 (Wed) before maintenance 

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Event 4. Hashashin Awakening or Succession? 

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- September 16, 2020 (Wed) after maintenance – September 29, 2020 (Tue) at 03:00 

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Event 5. Unleash Your Hashashin Know-How! 

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- September 16, 2020 (Wed) after maintenance – September 30, 2020 (Wed) at 23:59 

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Event 6. Find the Blackstar... 

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- September 16, 2020 (Wed) after maintenance – September 29, 2020 (Tue) at 03:00 

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MAJOR UPDATES- Hashashin Awakening & Succession

● The Awakening and Succession for Hashashin, the wielder of the arid sands, are now available.
- If you accept the main quest "[Hashashin Awakening] Borders of a Vague Dream" and do the consecutive quests with a Hashashin character of Lv. 56 or higher, you will be able to awaken your Hashashin. Also, after completing the Awakening quest, you can accept the quest “[Hashashin Succession] A Strange Reunion" to activate Succession as well.

[Go to Hashashin Awakening & Succession GM Note]

MAJOR UPDATES- Band

● Added a new feature "Band" to the Music Album.
- "Band" is a feature by which you can summon your Shai to perform when you are either logged in on another non-Shai character and have a Shai in your Family, or when you have two Shais in your Family.
- You can summon your Shai and perform as follows.
* Choose the song you want to play from the Music Album and press the Play button.
* Choose the Shai you want to summon and the instrument you want to play from the Play Settings window.
* Press Play and your Shai will be summoned and start performing.
* You can stop the summoned Shai's performance through the Note UI located on the top left side of the screen.
- You can only summon one Shai when using this feature and the summoned Shai can only play Solo.
- The Shai must have a Sol equipped to be summonable.
- This feature can only be used when in standby mode. You can also summon your Shai from a sailing ship.
- The summoned Shai will disappear If she is at a certain distance away from you.
- You cannot open the Music Album while the summoned Shai is performing.
- You cannot use this feature and summon a Shai from a region where Node/Conquest Wars are in progress.

● While your Shai is performing, any other adventurer within a certain distance from your Shai cannot perform.

MAJOR UPDATES- New Node War Guild Skills and Shining Medal Updates

● Added 4 new guild skills that can be used in Node/Conquest Wars only.

- With the skill "Battle Command to Gather" being added, you can now use "Command to Gather" in servers where there are no Node/Conquest Wars only.
- With the skill "Battle Reorganization II" being added, the skill name of "Battle Reorganization" was changed to "Battle Reorganization I."
- Changed the Guild Members Max HP +100 effect of Call of the Lord (existing guild skill) to +500.

● Changed the number of obtainable Shining Medals of Honor and added a list of items exchangeable for the Shining Medal of Honor.
- Number of Shining Medals of Honor you obtain upon winning the war as follows.

- Number of Shining Medals of Honor you obtain upon liberating a node as follows.

– Added list of items exchangeable for the Shining Medal of Honor as follows.

| CONTENTS

● Additional sightings of the Rich Merchant's Ring Piece have been reported all over the continent. The following clues have been put together based on rumors.

● Added the following 3 types of materials which can mass produce Chiro's material items for the Epheria Carrack.

● The Strong Protection effect you can receive from Red Battlefield Quartermaster Daz was increased by 3 seconds. In addition, the Super Armor effect was added to the protection effect, and the duration of the added effect is the same as other effects.

● You can now obtain Skill EXP from items obtained from defeating the following Guild Bosses.
– Ancient Puturum
– Ferrid
– Giant Mudster

● Added a new weekly Season quest to the Traitor's Graveyard found in Marie Cave.

● Black Spirit: Prime: Descending Current - Fixed the issue where Injury would not be applied to the skill.
● Flow: Pinpointing Gust I, II - Fixed the issue where using the skill would consume MP while Prime: Blasting Gust was on cooldown.

● Predatory Hunt I–IV, Absolute: Predatory Hunt - Fixed the issue where the skills would not activate properly when used while standing on hilly areas.
● Giant Leap I–III - Fixed the issue where using the skills while moving backwards would result in moving a short distance in the air. This issue was fixed so that the character will move the same normal distance as before.
● Improved the character voice effects when using skills to sound more natural.

● Fixed the issue where the character would occasionally go into a non-combat stance when pressing the directional keys after using skills from a non-combat stance.
● Soaring Kick - Fixed the issue where using the skill played its sound effect multiple times.
● Now you cannot summon a ground mount while using a Succession or Main Weapon skill.

● Divine Descent - Fixed the issue where the skill's buff icon was shown in unusual locations.

● Projection, Flow: Extra Credit - Changed the Red Blade sound effect of the skills.

● The animation for playing the Beginner Recorder and Beginner Harp now appears more natural.

● Crown Kick - Fixed the issue where the skill did not combo into other skills.

| ITEM

● Increased the maximum price for which you can register the following PEN (V) accessories on the Central Market.

● Added usage information to the description of Specter's Energy.

| MONSTER

● It is now easier to find a Cursed Pirate Ship.
- Cursed Pirate Ships will now appear near the ships of adventurers.
● Fixed the location of Old Drieghanese Crate, found after Garmoth attacks in Drieghan, to be clearly visible.

● You will now fail to protect the Traitor's Gravestones if the number of enemies from the Traitor's Graveyard exceeds a certain threshold.

| NPC, BACKGROUND, SOUND

● Added buff effect for getting Movement Speed increase.
● Fixed the issue where you could collide into invisible NPCs in the Northern Wheat Plantation area.
● Fixed the issue where the light effect on the character’s body was too intense when the graphics was set to Remastered Mode or Ultra Mode.

| QUEST & KNOWLEDGE

● Fixed the issue where there was no Interact button during the [Blackstar Armor] Power of Ancient Ator quest.

| UI

● You can now toggle numbers display for the Show Stacked HP Bar option in Settings.
● You can now check both the inventory and equipment of other characters in the End Game menu.

● You will now be notified that the game will restart when you leave a guild.
● Added a refresh button to the top right side of the web page UI.
● You can now check the appearance of the World Boss from the World Boss spawn message.
● Fixed the issue where the class icon of the party leader was changed to the location icon when you experience a loading screen after a party member leaves the party.
● If the "Skill Points" text on the top side of the Skill window is cut off, you can now hover over the text to read the entire entry.

Changes and Fixes

● Fixed the issue where the Savage Rift progress screen was displayed when trying to enter the Savage Rift while in the Battle Arena with a Trial Character.
● Fixed the issue where setting the minimap to 3D and then entering the Red Battlefield caused the 2D and 3D minimap to overlap.
● [Hashashin] You can no longer open the Glorious Shudad Classic Set box.
● [Tamer] Fixed the issue where some part of the Daru outfit would disappear when equipping this outfit and the Marine Romance Shoes at the same time.
● Fixed the issue where Artina's Jukebox 10% Discount Coupon was not being registered properly in the coupon book.


We hope you enjoy your time in Black Desert, thank you.