Greetings, Adventurers.

Below you will find the Black Desert Global Lab patch notes for Aug. 22nd, 2018.

In today’s update, there are new quests, Improved Quest UI, Expansion of Black Spirit Rage Skills, New Elixirs, and more.

Please read on for more details.

[Updates]

[Tamer]

● The Moonlight Strike, Echo Pierce, Garuda skills are now Black Spirit’s Rage skills.

- Black Spirit: Moonlight Strike, Black Spirit:Echo Pierce, Black Spirit: Garuda are now available in the Skill window.

[Musa]

● The Below the Belt, Flow: Dash Slash, Fiery Angel skills are now Black Spirit’s Rage skills.

-  Black Spirit: Below the Belt, Black Spirit: Flow: Dash Slash, Black Spirit: Fiery Angel are now available in the Skill window.

[Maehwa]

● The Sticky Snowflake, Flow: Cloud Stab, Moonrise skills are now Black Spirit’s Rage skills.

 -  Black Spirit: Sticky Snowflake, Black Spirit: Flow: Cloud Stab, Black Spirit: Moonrise are now available in the Skill window.

[Valkyrie]

● The Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae, Terra Sancta, Promptness skills are now Black Spirit’s Rage skills.

-  Black Spirit: Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae, Black Spirit: Terra Sancta, Black Spirit: Promptness are now available in the Skill window.

[Items]

● A new elixir has been added.

- This elixir focuses on defense. It will decrease your AP, but increase your DP.

- The Elixir of Fortitude can be produced if your alchemy level is Skilled 1 or higher to make. There is a slight chance of obtaining Elixir of Strong Fortitude when making Elixir of Fortitude if your Alchemy level is Artisan 1 or higher.

- Crafting Materials: Oil of Fortitude x1, Clear Liquid Reagent x5, Tiger Mushroom x4, Trace of Savagery x3, Pine Sap x5

● The new 'Unidentified Stone Case - Ring/Earring/Belt/Necklace' accessory box has been added.

＊Unidentified Stone Case - Ring: Tungrad Ring, Eye of the Ruins Ring, Ring of Crescent Guardian, Forest Ronaros Ring, Ring of Kagtum Loyalty, Mark of Shadow, Debris of Unidentified Stone Case

＊Unidentified Stone Case - Earring: Tungrad Earring, Narc Ear Accessory, Blue Whale Molar Earring, Fugitive Khalk's Earring, Red Coral Earring, Witch's Earring, Debris of Unidentified Stone Case

＊Unidentified Stone Case -  Belt: Tungrad Belt, Valtarra Eclipsed Belt, Orkinrad’s Belt, Basilisk's Belt, Tree Spirit Belt, Ancient Weapon Core, Debris of Unidentified Stone Case

＊Unidentified Stone Case - Necklace: Tungrad Necklace, Ogre Ring, Laytenn’s Power Stone, Serap's Necklace, Ancient Guardian's Seal, Scarla Necklace, Debris of Unidentified Stone Case

＊Resplendent Unidentified Stone Case: Tungrad Ring, Tungrad Belt, Tungrad Necklace, Tungrad Earring, Orkinrad’s Belt, Ogre Ring, Laytenn’s Power Stone, Eye of the Ruins Ring, Narc Ear Accessory, Basilisk's Belt

- You can buy the cases after you learn about the Unidentified Stone Case. You can learn about the cases by completing the 'Profitable Information' questline.

- Unidentified Stone Cases are made by Bram and Boltz at Calpheon, in the building behind Giovanni Romano.

- You can get 1 of the Unidentified Stone Cases by completing an optional daily quest from Bram.

- The Unidentified Stone Cases can also be bought for 1 Gold Bar 100G from Boltz, the NPC in the Calpheon Workshop.

- You can open the Unidentified Stone Case for a chance to get an accessory or Debris of Unidentified Stone.

- You can exchange 100 Debris of Unidentified Stone Case from the Unidentified Stone Cases for a Resplendent Unidentified Stone Case through Alcott the NPC.

- You have a 100% chance to get 1 accessory when you open the Resplendent Unidentified Stone Case.

[Contents]

● Houses are now available at Muiquun in Valencia.

- Muiquun 1

- Muiquun 2

[UI]

 ● Quest Widget UI has been reworked.

- The reworked UI shows the quests in this order - Guild >Recent> Regular.

- Quests are now color coded.

Yellow - Main quests

Purple - Guild quests

Green - Recently started quests

Grey - Regular quests

[Quests, Knowledge]

● The new questline ‘Profitable Information’ follows the secret stories of the Calpheon Market Street. You can start the questline by accepting the quest from Rubin the City Herald in Calpheon.

● The new knowledge 'Unidentified Stone Case' has been added. It can be gained by completing the new story quests.

● The new repeatable quests in Calpheon ‘Get Me My Revenge' and 'Not Enough Materials' have been added.

- You must choose between ‘Get Me My Revenge' and 'Not Enough Materials'. You can only accept one of these quests.

- You’ll get 1 ‘Unidentified Stone Case’ when you complete either ‘Get Me My Revenge' or 'Not Enough Materials'.

[Environment, NPC, Effects, Cutscenes]

 ● The new Marketplace NPC Makaan Mudor has been placed in Muiquun.

- Makaan Mudor trades with Adventurers with low Karma.

[Fixes and Changes]

[Characters]

● Debuffs will not be applied on characters using backstep with forward guard active.

● Cooldown will not activate when the user fails to tag their characters in a danger zone.

● You are now able to select characters after getting on a wagon and then become idle.

[Tamer]

● Tamer can now use Heilang: Surging Tide VI or Absolute: Surging Tide after using Evasion while riding Heilang.

[Dark Knight]

● It has been changes so that cooldown will not be reset when using the skill Unveiled Dagger after the skill Dusk.

[Striker]

● Striker will no longer switch to his Gardbrace when he falls after using a jump attack from a high place with his Gauntlet.

● Flash Step has been changed to activate smoothly when using it with Martial Spirit Shard.

● Striker can now combo faster after using Crouching Wolf with his Gauntlet.

● Fixed the starting motions of Ultimate Crush IV to make it look more natural.

● Fixed the starting motions of Ultimate Crush II,III, IV to look more natural when they are used during their cooldown.

[Items]

● New description telling that the followed quests can be performed only once a week, has been added:

 - Scale of an Ancient Creature

 - Figurine of an Ancient Creature

● Boss armors were removed from the Challenge '[Reached Lv. 20!] Global Lab Support Kit 2'.

● The following items that were sold by the Global Lab exclusive Goods Vendor NPC Eiorah have been removed.

- Global Lab Weapon, Outfit Box

- Global Lab Awakening Weapon Appearance Box

● The consumable item Atanis Firefly has been added. It is used to light up dark places.

- Atanis Firefly lights up the character’s surrounds for 1 hour.

- Atanis Firefly can be bought in General Goods Vendors.

- The previous Lanterns and Oil for Lantern have been removed and are no longer available in General Goods Vendors and Loyalties Shop.

[Contents]

● Fixed the text related to Guild Bonus has been updated as:

”This will reset every Sunday at 00:00 UTC.”

● Guild War has been changes so that if a war declared by a guild with 10 members or less is not accepted by their opponent, it will be called off at midnight on Sunday.

● If identical rewards are given in different Challenges, they will all be combined and displayed as one reward.

● A message saying you need to get closer to the ship will be displayed when you are a certain distance or more away from the ship and click on the ship icon try to go to the ship’s wheel.

- This only applies to Epheria Sailboat, Epheria Frigate, and Old Bartali Sailboat.

● The amount of power consumed when using the Quick-Retreat skill on Epheria Sailboats, Epheria Frigates, and Galleys has been reduced by 50%.

● The issue where the cannon items equipped on the Epheria Sailboats, Epheria Frigates, and Galleys dealt 3 times its stated damage has been fixed.

● The amount of damage dealt by the ramming skill on Epheria Sailboats, Epheria Frigates, and Galleys has been reduced by 30%.

● It is now easier to use the ramming skill on Epheria Sailboats, Epheria Frigates, and Galleys.

[Monster Changes]

● Screen will shake less now when defeating Fat Catfishman.

● Durability of Offin’s Force Shield of Mirumok Destroyer Offin the World Boss has been decreased by 30%.

● It has been changed so that DP will not increase when Mirumok Destroyer and Mirumok Watcher Offin Tett go berserk when failing to destroy Offin’s Force Shield.

● The following items have been added as loot of destroying Offin's Force Shield:

 - Offin Tett's Light Sealed Weapon Box

 - Valtarra Eclipsed Belt

 - JIN Magic Crystal - Cobelinus

 - BON Magic Crystal - Cobelinus

 - WON Magic Crystal - Cobelinus

 - Black Magic Crystal - Cobelinus

 - Ancient Magic Crystal - Cobelinus

 - Destruction Spirit Stone

 - Pure Forest Breath

 - Tree Spirit Stone Fragment

 - Black Stone (Weapon)

 - Black Stone (Armor)

 - Degraded Wood Fragment

● It has been added that Black Spirit Possessed Chest will appear from the Treasure Chest that appears with Kamasylvian Poacher.

 - Be aware of that Black Spirit Possessed Chest can make a surprise attack which inflicts a lot of damage.

 - There is a higher chance of getting valuable loots from Black Spirit Possessed Chest compared to ordinary Treasure Chests.

● HP of Sycreeth the Field Boss of Sycraia Underwater Ruins has been decreased by 66%, and the DP has been decreased around 25%.

● It has been changed that Sycreeth the Field Boss of Sycraia Underwater Ruins will not drop any spoils when it disappears 15 minutes after getting summoned.

[Quests, Knowledge]

● New way to obtain Knowledge for ‘Power Engine of Ancient Weapons’ has been added.


-Upon having obtained Knowledge of all the monsters below, talk to Marzana to bring up the button to obtain the Knowledge for ‘Power Engine of Ancient Weapons.’

• Kalqueesh



• Vodkhan


• Tukar Burmol



• Tukar Demol

● Description of ‘'※ This quest can be completed once a day, and it will be reset at 00:00 UTC every day.’ has been added to the followed quests:

- [Daily] Sensing Danger

- [Daily] Formidable Fellas

- [Daily] Protect My Rum!

- [Daily] Obnoxious Structure

- [Daily] Getting Ready to Go Out

- [Daily] Buy Me Some Time!

- [Daily] Second Preparation

- [Daily] Mystical Investigation

- [Daily] Fiercen Fellas

- [Daily] Reason for the Weird Noise

[Environment, NPC, Effects, Cutscenes]

● It has been improved so that rocks in Kamasylvia region will look more natural with better reflection on the texture.

● Fixed the issue where screenshot result looked awkward when using Ansel function of NVIDIA.

[Interface Changes]

● The UI image showing the time for time attack type contents have been changed.

● UI format has been rearranged so that you can find where Remastered Mode or Ultra Mode is with more ease from Settings > Display Setting.

- Highest (Remastered) has been changed to Remastered Mode.

- Description of Ultra Mode has been changed.

- Warning message will pop up when selecting Remastered Mode or Ultra Mode.

● Improvements have been made so that system message will appear when failing to get on board your ship from using auto-mount function.

● The following notification message will be displayed even when the menu button UI on bottom right part of the screen is turned off.

• Weight Limit Exceeded alarm notification


• Character Durability alarm notification


• Mount Durability alarm notification

● The function to separate UI has been added to UI edit mode.

- You are able to use the old UI (that separates) if you check the ‘Custom HP bar’ option.

● The new button ‘View Capes’ has been added in the Pearl Shop (F3) when you select an outfit.

● The new button ‘View Capes’ has been added in the Dye window(J).

● The color on the ‘Change Skill’ button in the Worker List window has been changed.

● Fixed the issue where the mount selection screen in the stable would be displayed outside the screen when playing the game at a low resolution.

 [System]

● Expression of fine details have been improved when using the SSAO(Block surrounding reflections) option while Remastered Mode is applied.

 - Elaborate decorations and sharp corners are visible much more clearly.

● The strange lighting effect on characters has been fixed while Remastered Mode is applied.

● The lighting on the character’s face indoors has been fixed to look more natural while Remastered Mode is applied.

● Outfits with metal that reflected too much light in certain locations has been fixed while Remastered Mode/Ultra Mode is applied.

● Shadows cast indoors and in dark places have been fixed to look natural while Remastered Mode/Ultra Mode is applied.

● NPCs can be heard clearly as the volume of background music and sounds were lowered for when NPC starts speaking.

● The alert that sounds when a boss appears will now sound faraway.

● New watermark image for each serviced region has been applied.

● Black Desert Online logo has been temporarily changed to the Black Desert Online Remastered logo.

[Resolved Issues]

● The quest icon of '[Fishing] Piranha' has been changed to Piranha image.

● It has been changed that Deliver the White Salve to Tarif Village mission, one of the missions of [Trading Lv. 40] Medicines to Save Lives questline, can now only be performed in Tarif.

● Objective description of Marni’s Stone (Sycraia) has been changed to Sycraia Monster x250.

● Wrong descriptions of usage of Gazelle Meat item have been fixed.

- Gazelle Meat can now substitute for Deer Meat, Lamb Meat, Fox Meat, Rhino Meat, Pork, Beef.

- New Recipe has been added where you can obtain Rare Jerky from drying Gazelle Meat.

● Fixed the issue where the screen looked awkward when talking to Konko NPC located on the perimeter of Valencia City.

● Fixed the issue where NPC location looked unnatural while performing “The Epilogue and History of Wandering” quest.

● Fixed the issue where the interaction spot appeared when talking to Stone Pagoda NPC from which you can complete ‘Nosy Black Spirit’ quest.

● Fixed the issue where Learn button of Skill Enhance window was not instantly activated when resetting Enhanced Skill.

● Fixed the issue where character name would not appear when aiming is released after sniping.

● Fixed the issue where Pearl Abyss Company Logo Animation was portrayed in different proportions depending on the resolution of the monitor.

● Fixed the issue where Guild Bonus was not rewarded right away at midnight on Saturday. (Midnight from Saturday to Sunday).

● Fixed the issue where character sight would get widened for characters who are not using Boss Sight function, when receded away from Boss.