Hello, adventurers.

This is The MMORPG, Black Desert.

We’d like to announce the updates made to the Black Desert as of 2018 January 25th (Thursday).

After today’s maintenance, you will find new contents including Crone Stone, Totem of the Sea, Mysterious Accessories and Battle Arena! (Patch volume approx. 843 MB)

Please find the details below.

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【Events】

● Awakening Weapon Exchange Coupon Event

: Period :2018 01 / 25 ~ 02 / 08 [▶Go to Event]

● Daily Shopping with 1 Loyalty

: Period : 2018 01 / 25 ~ 02 / 28 [▶Go to Event]

● Double Hot-Time Event

: Period : 2018 01 / 25 ~ 02 / 01 [▶Go to Event]

   Drop Rate Boost for Black Stone (Weapon, Armor)

   Combat EXP +30% + Skill EXP +10%

   Mon ~ Thu 20:00 ~ 02:00 (6 hours)

   Fri ~ Sun 20:00 ~ 02:00 (54 hours)

【Characters】

● All characters can now get up faster by pressing LMB or RMB after knockdown.

【Warrior】

● Fixed the graphical glitch that occured on the arms when equipping Bern Armor or Clead Gloves.

【Berserker】

● Fixed the issue where bounded Berserker was able to get up right after.

【Sorceress】

● The area that can be Dyed on Sorceress’s Serendian Soldier Suit have has been changed to how it was before the January 11th patch.

【Witch】

● A graphical glitch with down part of Witch’s neck while wearing Dreaming Star has been fixed.

【Items】

● Fixed the issue where the 3-Set Effect was applied while wearing only 2 parts of the Zereth set.

● New items, ‘Crone Stone’, ‘Totem of the Sea’ are now available.

● Mysterious accessories are now added to the game.

● You can purchase the mysterious accessories from Blacksmith located at each city.

● The maximum Durability recovered from using Artisan’s Memory has been increased from triple(x3) to quadruple(x4) the usual durability recovered.

【Monsters】

● Bleeding effects are now displayed in the same direction with attack when you are attacked by following monsters:

  - Mutated Obsidian Monster

  - Giath

  - Green Orc Skeleton Warrior

  - Moghulis

  - Helm Raid Captain

  - Ogre

● Fixed graphical issue where Helm Raid Captains’ movements were awkward when swinging their axe.

【NPC】

● Dialogue with Villager NPC and Heidel Pass has become more natural.

● A Calpheon Guard wandering among the guards in formation in front of Valks has been removed.

● Different greeting motions from some certain NPC to the Lord (Guild Master who owns the Castle) in Calpheon have been fixed.

【Mounts】

● The “Auto-consume feed when Stamina is low” option will now be on by default when your mount is on Auto-run.

【Content】

● Battle Arena has been added.

   You can always enter the Battle Arena through the ESC menu wherever you are. [ESC > Battle Arena]

   It is a specialized battlefield for adventurers who want to try out player-to-player battle without losing their Karma.

   You should be at level 50 or above to join.

【Quest, Knowledge】

● Changed the appearance of the button that appears when you talk to NPC Freharau when you have the Knowledge “Freharau and Enlightenment” and you have over 301 Amity with him from that of a Gain Knowledge button to a Dialogue button..

● During a quest Harder with Platinum, the possibility to find Platinum from Helm Tribe Mineral Wagon has been increased. from 5% to 25%.

● You can now gain Knowledge Monarch of Darkness, Belmorn by talking with Freharau from Port Epheria after completing a quest “Heading to Epheria..”

【Pearl Shop】

● New items are now available in our Pearl Shop!

   Click here to find out more! [▶Go to Notice]

【UI】

● Fixed the issue where the menu that appears after Right-clicking items in the Inventory came out of the screen.

● Descriptions about Professions (Life Skills) on the My Information window are now more detailed.

● Descriptions in the Pet Exchange window have been changed to be clearer.

  - Added more descriptions on how to use the group Out function on the tooltips for the Out buttons on the bottom of the Pet List.

  - The Feed All Window will now close along with the Pet List window when the Pet List window is closed.

● The width of Transport Status Window in the World Map has been adjusted to be wider.

● The Skill Add-on Window should remains open and the Dialogue window should not return to the default after you Add-on a Skill.

● The Hotkey to switch between Walk/Run can now be customized in the Settings window.

● Replaced “siege” and “siege war” with “conquest” and “conquest war” in UI and system message text.

● Fixed the issue where a lock icon remained on Equipment Slots even after equipping a regular outfit and a Pearl outfit for the same corresponding part.

● The Event button in the ESC Menu now has the word “Hot” on it. Event rolling banners will now be on the bottom of ESC Menu

● The names of all discovered Nodes, Towns, and Cities should now be displayed in your World Map.

● Fixed the issue where Characters were able to go through the wall of Kzarka Shrine.

【Sound】

● Fixed the issue where event sounds in event areas were intermittently not playing.

【Resolved Issues】

● Fixed the error that showed your Character’s Buff effects when they were supposed to be hidden (e.g. during Emergency Escape).

● Fixed an issue with boats getting stuck at some certain locations.