Event

Event 1. Ding-dong, Snowflake Ornament Boxes have arrived! 

Event Period   

- Jan 21, 2021 (Thu) 00:00 – Feb 9, 2021 (Tue) 23:59 

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Event 2. Sign up for Pinto’s Cooking Class! 

Event Period  

- Jan 20, 2021 (Wed) After Maintenance – Feb 10, 2021 (Wed) Before Maintenance 

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Event 3. [GM] Tour Guides in the Winter Season! 

Event Period  

- Jan 21, 2021 (Thu) 18:00 – Jan 22, 2021 (Fri) 18:00

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MAJOR UPDATES - Blackstar Awakening Weapon

● Added Blackstar Awakening Weapon crafting quests.

- The Blackstar Awakening Weapon crafting quests do not involve excavating Star's End with the archaeologist Martha Kiyen as the existing Blackstar gear quests do, but rather follows a different storyline of another faction seeking to uncover the secrets behind Star's End.

- You can complete the Blackstar Awakening Weapon crafting quest series once per character.

- To start the Blackstar Awakening Weapon quest, you will need the Remnants of the Rift, which has a low chance to drop from Dark Rifts, and The Three Legendary Blacksmiths of Mediah knowledge. In addition, to craft the Blackstar Awakening Weapon, you will also require the Specter's Energy, a special ingredient which rarely drops from monsters all over the world of Black Desert, with a slightly higher chance to drop from monsters in Thornwood Forest.

- To learn The Three Legendary Blacksmiths of Mediah knowledge, you will require a Lv. 56 or higher character who has already completed the revamped Mediah Main Quest series, then accept and complete the The Three Blacksmiths quest from Tulem. Adventurers who've previously completed the quest can interact with Tulem to gain the knowledge.

- This quest series has a crossroads quest in its middle portion. Veteran adventurers can choose to face a mighty boss immediately, while normal adventurers can opt for a weakened version of the boss to complete the quest.

- Changed the Blackstar gear's final quest from Dorin Morgrim to no longer be carried out in tandem with this quest series.

● You can improve your Blackstar Awakening Weapon with the Inverted Heart of Garmoth or Heart of Karanda (just like you can for Dandelion and Dragonslayer Awakening Weapons).

MAJOR UPDATES - Blackstar Gloves

● Added the new armor, Blackstar Gloves.

● Added the Blackstar Armor 3-Set Effect Status Effect Resistance for Monsters +10%.

- Status effect resistance for monsters is applied separately from regular status effect resistance.

● Added the Blackstar Gloves crafting quests.

- You can complete the Blackstar Gloves crafting quest series once per character.

- To start the Blackstar Awakening Weapon quest, you will need the Remnants of the Rift, which has a low chance to drop from Dark Rifts, and The Three Legendary Blacksmiths of Mediah knowledge. In addition, to craft the Blackstar Awakening Weapon, you will also require the Specter's Energy, a special ingredient which rarely drops from monsters all over the world of Black Desert, with a slightly higher chance to drop from monsters in Thornwood Forest.

- To learn The Three Legendary Blacksmiths of Mediah knowledge, you will require a Lv. 56 or higher character who has already completed the revamped Mediah Main Quest series, then accept and complete the The Three Blacksmiths quest from Tulem. Adventurers who've previously completed the quest can interact with Tulem to gain the knowledge.

- This quest series has a crossroads quest in its middle portion. Veteran adventurers can choose to face a mighty boss immediately, while normal adventurers can opt for a weakened version of the boss to complete the quest.

※ Changes in Max & Min Prices of Blackstar Gloves & Blackstar Awakening Weapons registered onto the Central Market will be reflected faster than other gear for a 2 week duration after January 20 (Wed) maintenance.

MAJOR UPDATES - Old Moon Grand Prix

● Added the race course Calpheon: Anti-Troll Fortification, exclusive to the Old Moon Grand Prix.

- The new race course crosses through Calpheon to the Anti-Troll Fortification, then returns to the capity city.

- At the bridge cutting through Calpheon, you will need to dodge elephants on either side of the bridge. Racing through the Anti-Troll Fortification, you will need to steer your horse away from the stones thrown by trolls onto the race track. All of these obstacles will make this new race course truly an exciting one.

● Added the following items to drop from defeating monsters of the Kuit Islands and Padix Island.

- Time-filled Black Stone

- Tuvala Ore

- Refined Magical Black Stone

- [Season] Rift Frostflower

- Rift's Fragment

● Changed the method for exchanging Tuvala Ore for Tuvala weapons from blacksmiths in Velia and other capitial cities as follows.

● Removed the AP/DP restrictions for entering the season-only Red Battlefield.

● Royal Fencing: Remise, Swooping Ring, Star's Call - You can now use Black Spirit's Rage for the skills.

- Click either LMB or RMB in addition to the skill input to use Black Spirit's Rage at 10%, 25%, and 50%.

- Each skill will have an additional effect applied such as increased number of hit targets, increased range of skill, etc..

● Added Nova to the list of available Trial Characters.

- You will be able to create Nova as a Trial Character from Friday, January 22.

● Fixed the issue where Axian's summon duration would last for 30 minutes.

● Succession: Quoratum's Opening - Fixed the issue where the skill would still activate even after being locked.

● Quoratum's Protection - Fixed the issue where the skill's All DP increase effect wouldn't apply after having learned Prime: Passed Pawn II,III.

● Prime: Passed Pawn II,III - Fixed the issue where Axian wouldn't apply the HP & SP Recovery effects when using Succession skills after having learned these skills.

● Quoratum's Protection - Fixed the issue where Nova's guards would not disappear when casting the skill after certain skills.

● Prime: Passed Pawn - Fixed the issue where using a different level of the skill with Axian already summoned wouldn't reduce Nova's health.

● Command: Frozen Darkness I-V, Absolute: Command: Frozen Darkness - Fixed the issue where the skill could be set to the Quick Slot even in Awakening even though the skill description stated otherwise.

● Awakening: Rising Star - Fixed the issue where using the skill from the Quick Slot would cause Nova to appear unnatural.

● Made the following skills now useable through the Quick Slot.

- Slicing Ring

- Royal Fencing: Riposte

● Royal Fencing: Remise, Royal Fencing: Fleche - Improved the skills to combo more naturally after the skills' 1st hit.

● Accel: Royal Fencing: Remise, Accel: Royal Fencing: Fleche - Changed the skills to now activate in the direction the camera is facing while using the skills.

● Frozen Ring I~IV - Changed the skills to now combo into Break Orbit while using the skill.

| ITEM

● Improved the [Event] Karlstein Classic Set (15 Days) item so Guardians and Hashashins can now open it.

● Fixed the issue with the Halloween Doll Workshop Prop Set where upon opening the set, the pop-up text was different compared to the actual contents.

● Improved the [Event] Karlstein Classic Box (15 Days) item so Guardians and Hashashins can now open it.

-Shais will obtain the [Shai] Whimsical Alchemist Classic Set (15 Days) from opening the item.

● Added Guardians, Hashashins, and Novas to classes who can open the Karlstein Outfit box.

● Added text to Marine Romance Outfit Set stating that Hashashin and Novas cannot open the outfit box.

● Added Guardian and Hashashin to classes who can open the Karlstein Classic Box crafted from the Old Moon Costume Mill.

● Fixed the issue with the Halloween Doll Workshop Prop Set where upon opening the set, the pop-up text was different compared to the actual contents.

| MONSTER

● The Ancient Weapons in Sycraia Underwater Ruins (Abyssal Zone) have become more active.

- Increased the number of Pirash, Lykin, Kureba, and Elmermol.

- Moved or removed certain Eyes of the Deep Sea.

● Refined the warning alert system that activates at a certain chance when defeating monsters in the Hystria Ruins.

- Setting off the alert system will immediately summon a Watch Tower.

- Once summoned, the Watch Tower will only keep an eye on intruders prior to being attacked.

- Once the Watch Tower is damaged, it will begin to assess the threat level of the intruders.

- Reduced the time required to assess the invaders and summon monsters.

- Increased the number of monsters summoned during the alert's first to third stages.

| QUEST & KNOWLEDGE

● Added the option to learn Nova Awakening skills by talking to Cruhorn Wyrmsbane If your Nova didn't learn Awakening skills even after completing the Nova Awakening quest series.

| UI

● Changed the mouse cursor for the following text input UI to indicate the function to input text.

● Changed the mouse cursor for UI where you can change the size of the UI to indicate the function to change its size.

- My Information window

- (New) Menu

- Chat Window

- Minimap

● Added an effect to easily find Saved Locations after having saved a location to favorites on the World Map when searching in the Find NPC UI.

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  Changes and Fixes

●Fixed the issue with Valencia 17-2 where installing housing items on the 2nd floor balcony was impossible.

● Fixed the issue where entering the customization UI with a class that hasn't had their Awakening contents released yet would prevent them from dying certain parts of their horse gear and campsite.

● Fixed the unnatural wall textures in Muiquun.

● Fixed unnatural ground textures in Olun's Valley.

● Fixed the issue where the composer information of certain Composition Notes were displayed irregularly.다

● Fixed the issue where you could not change the order of your pets.

- If you had the issue where you couldn't change the order of your pets, we've reset the pet order based on the lowest tier, so you will need to reconfigure your pet order.

● Fixed the issue with the quest UI when carrying out a guild quest.

● Fixed the Black Spirit's Rage 200% skills' cooldown to not reset when changing Skill Presets and/or reseting skills.

● Changed the Main Quest and normal quest widgets to no longer overlap.

● Fixed the hide sub-weapon button to appear correctly highlighted when having pressed the button while not in idle mode and the sub-weapon is already hidden.

● Fixed the Mysterious Knight to no longer appear walking on water.

● Fixed the Black Spirit to offer [Season] The End of Strange Travels immediately upon completing [Season] A Back Bent by Time.

● Fixed the quest completion description for [Season] The End of Strange Travels.

● Fixed the issue where after changing the Barter info window on the World Map into Sticker UI mode, you could not leave the World Map even after pressing the ESC key.

● [Nova] Fixed the low quality resolution and graphical issues with the 14th hair option, and removed dark spots that appeared on her neck in Ultra mode.

● Fixed the issue of seeing an irregular page after clicking the Help UI upon entering the Old Moon Grand Prix.

● Fixed the Old Moon Grand Prix so you can no longer use trap items on the race course.

● [Mystic] Bloody Gloves - Added text explaining that wearing the gauntlet will make parts of the gloves invisible in the item description.

● [Musa] Karlstein Classic Set - Fixed incorrect text in the item description.

● Fixed the issue where attempting to repair max durability of the 5 green-grade [Race Horse] Giorgiaro horse gear pieces with Memory Fragments would incorrectly restore durability as if it were a white-grade item (10 per Memory Fragment), instead of restoring durability as a green-grade item (5 per Memory Fragment).

●[Shai] - Fixed the issue where wearing certain outfits would remove some of her lower teeth.

● [Dark Knight] Eclipse Outfit Set - Fixed the graphical glitch that occured with the outfit equipped while sitting.

● Fixed the issue where after having created a Guild, searching for nodes in the World Map wouldn't change the mouse cursor when hovered over the text window to input the name of the specific node.

● Fixed the issue with the Old Moon Grand Prix notices where the text would spill out of the UI for certain languages.

We hope you enjoy your time in Black Desert,

Thank you.