Hello, adventurers.

This is The MMORPG, Black Desert.

Check out the latest updates for August 2nd 2018.

Introducing Courser, Updated Red Battlefield and PEN(V) gear/accessory Engraving. 
Please find below for detail updates!

 

(Patch volume approx. 1.00 GB) =====================================================================

【Events】

● Attendance Rewards will be __refreshed.
- Period : 3 August 2018 00:00 ~ 6 September 2018 23:59

- Shakatu’s Seal has been added to the new Attendance Rewards!

- Collect the Seals and exchange it to great items. Check out the event page!

[ Click here for more details ]

 

● I am a ‘Black Desert Professor’ Event
- Period : 2 August 2018 (after maintenance) ~23 August 2018 (before maintenance)
- Share your unique tips on how to grow in Black Desert.
  Something that’s a must-know for all new and experienced Adventurers!

[ Click here for more details ]

 

● Black Desert : Remastered
  Leave your opinion and get free gift!
- Period : 2 August 2018 (after maintenance) ~16 August 2018 (before maintenance)
- Remastered Black Desert is coming! Check out the upcoming renewal version now and get free gift!

[ Click here for more details ]

 

● Build Your Sailboat 

  Event ‘Additional Resources: Get more logs!’ has been extended by extra 1 week!  

- Period : 2 August 2018 (after maintenance) ~ 9 August 2018 (before maintenance)
- Remastered Black Desert is coming soon!

- Enjoy collecting Serbianca’s Vouchers and get extra logs for your ship build!

[ Click here for more details ]

 

【Pearl Shop】
● Do you remember the [Berserker] Jungle Beast outfit that won the Global Costume Design Contest 2018? Well it’s finally here! Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winner once again and for the flashy [Berserker] Jungle Beast outfit and latest additions to the Pearl Shop.
[▶Go to Pearl Shop Update]

 

【Contents】
● ‘Courser’ has been added to the horse system. 

- Horse (Tier 1 ~ 8) that learned skills including Charging, Drift, etc are classified as Courser.

Tier	All of the Required Skills to become Courser
1~2	Charging
3~4	Charging, Drift
5~6	Charging, Drift, Sprint
7	Charging, Drift, Sprint, Instant Accel, Sideways
8	Charging, Drift, Sprint, Instant Accel, Sideways, S:Instant Accel, S: Sideways

• An icon for Courser will be displayed on Horse’s Information window and its market price for Selling, price for Breeding and price for Imperial Horse Delivery will increase.

• A foal born to two Coursers is given 2 skills at birth.
• A foal born to a Courser and a horse is given 1-2 skill(s) at birth.

 

● Silver Coins has been added to rewards for playing Red Battlefield.

- The coins will be rewarded based on the combined total of the participant’s AP and DP.

- The AP + DP Calculation will be based on the Main Weapon of the Character.

 

 

AP + DP	Win	Lose
0 ~ 50	250,000	190,000
51 ~ 100	500,000	380,000
101 ~ 150	750,000	580,000
151 ~ 200	1,000,000	770,000
201 ~ 250	1,250,000	960,000
251 ~ 300	1,500,000	1,150,000
300 ~ 349	1,750,000	1,340,000
350 ~ 399	2,000,000	1,530,000
400 ~ 449	2,250,000	1,730,000
450 ~	2,500,000	1,920,000

 

 

● Benefits for occupying Territories of Calpheon, Mediah, and Valencia have been added.

• • For adventurers that belong to a Guild successfully occupy a territory, 50% increase in item drop rate boost will be given.

 

• • • Calpheon - Calpheon Territory
    • Mediah - Mediah Territory
    • Valencia - Valencia Territory (Including Aakman and Hystria)

 

• • (Please keep in mind the tax you can collect from occupying a territory will be the same as before.)

● PEN(V) gear/accessory Engraving has now been added!

• If you succeed in Enhancement of gear or accessories to PEN(V) level, your Family Name will be engraved onto the enhanced gear/accessory.
• Gear/accessory enhanced to PEN(V) before the update on August 2 2018 will not be affected.
• The engraved gear/accessory will not display the Family Name of the maker when listed on the Marketplace. However, the Family Name of the maker of the engraved gear/accessory will be shown upon purchase in your Inventory (I).

 

 

● Fixed the issue where the location info. of a switched character that has been switched via Character Selection window would not be updated.

 

●Fixed the issue where a ship would spin rapidly when another adventurer who was invisible via the ‘Hide Other Characters’ setting boarded the ship.

● Challenge (Y) for reaching Lv.64, ‘[Lv. 64] A Knack For Hard Work’ has been added.

• • For reaching Lv.64 with your character, you will be rewarded Capotia Necklace (Once per Family allowed).

 

 

● Boss Vision Range has been fixed to not be affected by another World Boss that spawns in a different territory.
● Fixed the issue where resizing game client window while performing Concealment and Dash skills would allow irregular actions.

● Fixed the issue where Conquest Status and Score was not being displayed properly under Conquest window.

【Characters】

● The fish effect that appears on top of the character upon a successful fishing during auto-fishing has now been removed.

● Skill level for passive-type skills will now be displayed.

 

● Further improvements have been made to fix the graphical awkwardness in the hair part upon wearing the Coco Hat.


【Maehwa】
● Fixed the issue where Stiffness effect would not be applied to distant targets upon using the skill Stigma.

 

 

[Mystic]
● Fixed the graphical awkwardness in the skirt and body upon wearing Marine Romance outfit.

 

 

[Striker]
● Fixed the graphical awkwardness in the head part that occurred when wearing [Event] Seahorse Diving Hat.
 

[Dark Knight]
● Fixed the graphical awkwardness in the head part that occurred when wearing [Event] Seahorse Diving Hat.

 

 

【Items】

● Item tooltips on Grade 3 Weapon Reform Stone and Grade 3 Armor Reform Stone will now state that the NPC-to-exchange the Hunter’s Seals is now Jeweler Thyshelle Arms.

 

● Text regarding how to use the items have been added to the following items:

• • [Guild] Sailor Contract Renewals, Sailboat Contract Renewals
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● The following de__scription has been added to the item tooltip of Black Spirit's Claw.

• • You will only be able to equip crystals gained from heating craftable costumes tailored with Equipment Tailoring Coupon.

 

● The weight of Apprentice's Five-Grain Chicken Porridge Cooking Box has been decreased from 90LT to 80LT.

 

 

【Monsters】
● The tree spirit will now appear more distant away from the node manager of Forest of Seclusion.

 

● The Altar of Agris has been newly occupied by the Steel Imps now!

 

● Some of the soldiers at Corn Castle went AWOL. There will be less soldiers present at the Cron Castle now.

● HP of Young Candidum, Young Black Rust, and Young Nineshark has increased by 50%.
 

 

【Quest, Knowledge】

● The text “If you are carrying trade items, you cannot move to the Ancient Stone Chamber” has been added to the quest summaries of the following Valencia main quests:

• • • The Leader
    • Edana's Descendant

● Fixed the issue where the quest would not be completed intermittently during progression of the quest Gardaka's Treasure.

 

 

[NPC, Background]

● It has been changed that some NPCs sitting on chairs will no longer greet the lord that conquers the relevant territory.

 

● The background loading speed of certain regions and towns in Calpheon has been optimized.

• • The loading speed of areas where there are many installments and objects has been optimized. Therefore, the game should now be more fluid even with a lower-spec PC or when travelling on your mount.

 

 

【UI】

● Fixed the issue where the client minimized to tray after a long uptime of the game would crash.

 

● It has been changed that High-End Mode (Beta) can be set via Performance Settings > Graphics & Textures > High-End Mode (Beta) now.

 

● It has been fixed that the Window size of the Crafting Note and Beauty Album would change according to the graphic resolution.

 

【System】

● Fixed the issue where abnormal screenshots would be taken when changing Crop mode setting.

 

● Fixed the issue where the shadows would look abnormal when changing Settings > Display Settings > Display Quality > Graphics.
 

 

【Resolved Issues】

● Fixed the issue where Transport of items from Altinova to Ancado Inner Harbor was not possible.

【Known  Issues】
● We are aware of the issue where the Golden Treasure Chest are not currently spawned. We are improving the random spawn system this week and it will be fixed by next week update. We apologize for the inconvenience.

● The following monsters will not be spawned due to an issue. We are currently fixing the problem and the monsters will be back after next week maintenance. 
- Young Candidum, Young Black Rust, Young Nineshark