Greetings, Adventurers.

Below you will find the Black Desert Global Lab patch notes for Aug. 30th. 2018.

In today’s update, there are Expansion of Black Spirit Rage Skills, New Quests, Changes to Swimming Controls, and more.

Please read on for more details.

[Updates]

[Ninja]

● Sudden Decapitation, Sura ChaoSpree, Bloodthirst: Katana Shower are now Black Spirit’s Rage skills.

[Kunoichi]

● Lunar Dash, Sah Spree of Sonan, Chain Crash: Sah Chakram are now Black Spirit Skills.

[Witch]

● Equilibrium Break, Detonative Flow, Thunder Storm are now Black Spirit Skills.

[Wizard]

● Cataclysm, Water Sphere, Hellfire are now Black Spirit Skills.

[Monsters]

● New monsters Kreator, Alten, Kalten were added to the Valencian Desert.

- Kreator roams the Valencian Desert and summons the ancient weapon Alten and Kalten during battle.

- There aren’t a lot of Kreators, so another Kreator will appear 10 minutes after it dies.

- You have a high chance of learning knowledge when you defeat a Kreator, Alten, and Kalten.

[Quests, Knowledge]

● New quests revealing the story behind the Aakman in Valencia and the ancient civilization were added.

* This questline can be started by characters that are level 58 or higher. The character must also have completed the ‘Edana's Descendant’ quest which is a part of the Valencia Part 1 main questline. Accept the first quest through the NPC Barhan Nesser in Sand Grain Bazaar.

* These quests can only be completed once per family.

- The Suspicious Aakman

- The Aakman that People Know

- The Aakman that I Know

- The Ambushed Pilgrim

- The Unknown Threats of the Desert

- Aakman to Aakman

- To Ancient Ator

- Their Mission That’s Gone Astray

● The questline ‘Mysterious Calling’ that gives you knowledge of the islands along the coast ofin the ocean by Calpheon has been added. By completing this questline you’ll learn about Peyon Sea, Epheria Sea, Ahrmo Sea, and the node managers between Calpheon Sea and  Epheria Sea. Learning all this knowledge will increase your maximum energy by 10.

*  You can get the first quest of this questline from Black Spirit if your character completed the '[Boss] Witch-Hunting' quest.

* The rest of the quests will appear under ‘Suggested’ in the quest window (O). These quests can be completed once per family.

-Mysterious Calling

-Falasi’s Longing

-The First Island

-Not Looking for Treasure...

-The Island with a Sad Tale

-The Island Filled with Laughter

-The Island that’s Always Crowded

-The Post that being Completed

-The Secret of the Rare Insect

-Chased Out Twice

-The Vicious Island with Strong Winds

-The Curse of an Ancient Civilization?

-Looking for a Trace that Does Not Exist

-Between Legends and Treasure

-Chased Out Three Times

-The Bluffer’s Ore

-The Seas were Rough.

-Cox Pirates' Grey Ship

-Member of the Pirates

-How Did Someone from Florin

-The Scattered Villagers

-What are Treasures

-Meaningful Words

-Loaded with Stories

● Finish the ‘Mysterious Calling’ questline to get to select one of the additional quests below.

* You’ll earn the title, ‘Knows Falasi Pretty Well’ once you complete one of the quests below.

- The Seas Where The Navy and Pirates Battle

- The Seas that Hold Bountiful Untold Treasures

- The Seas that Rules the Sleeping Ancient Civilization

[Items]

● There are 3 new Bookshelves that you can get when you complete the ‘Mysterious Calling’ questline.

* When you interact with the bookshelf you’ll get a buff that lasts 1 hour.

-Bookshelf with Knowledge on Falasi’s Sailing Know-hows (Skill EXP +3%)

-Bookshelf with Knowledge on Falasi’s Excavation Know-hows (Life EXP +3%)

-Bookshelf with Knowledge on Falasi’s Hunting Know-hows (Combat EXP +3%)

● The following item has been added to Srulk’s Amity Shop, the Wharf Manager NPC in Port Epheria.

-Ship License : Srulk’s Simple Fishing Boat

-To use the Amity Shop, you must have 300 or higher Amity with the NPC. The Ship License  costs 150,000 silver and 300 Amity with the NPC.

[Fixes and Changes]

[Characters]

● Improved the swimming system

＊ As the traditional ground-base auto run you can now press T key to autoswim

- With the Navigation Guide turned ON press T key to automatically swim to your destination through the marked route.

- While Auto Swimming if your Stamina is 300 or higher, you can press Shift key to swim faster.

- While Auto Swimming if the Stamina hits 100 or less, the character will stop to recover Stamina. When the character recovers the Stamina back to 1000 points, Auto Swimming will start again.

- Auto Swimming cannot be used while diving or submerged.

* The character’s direction can now easily be changed while Swimming/Diving.

-Enhancements have been made to enable a diagonal and reverse movement while Swimming/Diving .

＊Added additional controls to go up/down while diving

- With the key to move forward W pressed press E to swim up.

- With the key to move forward W pressed press Q to dive deeper.

＊Stamina recovery rate increases by 50% during the recovery motion.

＊Stamina will automatically starts to recover while floating if the character reaches 100 or less Stamina.

● The character will now be looking at the Adventurer when first logging into the game.

● Fixed the issue where skills in quick slots were not activating occasionally.

● 'Rage Absorption' skill will now be active at the Skill Window prior to Level 35.

● Fixed the issue where grappling skills’ defense effect would not be applied properly when using the skills.

[Sorceress]

● Turn-back Slash I, II, III now have the same area of effect when using it with 10% Black Spirit's Rage.

[Berserker]

● Hit Damage description added to the Skill: Black Spirit : Slugfest

[Tamer]

●Heilang: Upward Claw III, IV skill damage while using 100% Black Spirit's Rage has been adjusted.

● Absolute: Upward Claw skill effect has been changed.

●’Black Spirit: Echo Pierce’ now cause the same amount of skill damage as ’ Ultimate: Echo Pierce’, and was modified to 8 hits.

[Valkyrie]

● The hit sound of the Lancia has now been amplified to sound clearer.

[Musa]

● Changed the effect of Fiery Angel while using it with 50% Black Spirit's Rage.

- Front Guard Effect → Super Armor

- 1 Extra Hit → 3 Extra Hits

- HP Recovery +40 per successful hit

● Black Spirit: Dash Slash skill was changed to be easier to use after using Spinner.

● Added HP Recovery Effect Description to 25% Black Spirit's Rage: Flow : Dash Slash skill.

● Changed the effect of Below the Belt and Fiery Angel while using Black Spirit's Rage.

[Maehwa]

● Black Spirit: Moonrise  skill was changed to be easier to use after using Sticky Snowflake.

● Sticky Snowflake Skill effect range was reduced.

● Added HP Recovery Effect Description to 25% Black Spirit's Rage: Flow : Cloud Stab skill.

● Fixed the damage where 200% Black Spirit's Rage: Chaos: Red Moon will work properly after learning Chaos: Red Moon I

● Changed the effect of Moonrise while using Black Spirit's Rage.Black Spirit's Rage.

[Witch]

● Fixed the issue where Detonative Flow will occasionally not activate while sprinting with Aad Sphera.

●  Fissure Wave (Black Spirit's Rage) Skill now knocks target off the mount on a good hit.

[Wizard]

● Aqua Jail Explosion (Black Spirit's Rage) Skill now knocks target off the mount on a good hit.

[Kunoichi]

● Fixed the issue where the Flash Slash skill damage while using Black Spirit's Rage was being piled up with the damage from the previous levels.

[Kunoichi, Ninja]

● The cooldown time for Ninjutsu: Block Jump was adjusted.

- Previous: 10 seconds → Changed: 18 seconds

[Items]

● New description added to erased Guild Items after leaving a Guild.

- ※ This item was erased since you are no longer in a Guild.

- Item description 'Additional Critical Hit Damage +10%' was changed to 'Critical Hit Damage +10%'.

● The line describing ‘Critical Hit’ in the item descriptions in the list below have been unified.

- Beast's Draught

- [Event] Beast's Draught

- Coconut Fried Fish

- Crispy Coconut Fried Fish

- Fish Soup

- Meat Soup

- Special Fish Soup

- Special Meat Soup

- Butter-Roasted Lobster

- Golden Butter-Roasted Lobster

- Serendia Meal

- Special Serendia Meal

- Special Arehaza Meal

- Margoria Seafood Meal

- [Battlefield] Exquisite Cron Meal

- Simple Cron Meal

- Exquisite Cron Meal

- Energizing Cron Meal

- [Event] Simple Cron Meal

- [Event] Exquisite Cron Meal

- [Event] Energizing Cron Meal

● Increased the amount of Combat EXP gained while using Book of Training - Combat, as described below:

Lv. 61 ~ Lv.61.99 : increased x2.5 times

Lv. 62 ~ Lv. 62.99 : increased x2 times

Lv. 63 ~ Lv. 63.99 : increased x1.5 times

Lv. 64 ~ Lv. 64.99 : increased x1.2 times

● Changed the necessary materials to craft, Hughol’s Lancia ‘Dragon Slayer Lancia’ item’s description.

- Before : Hughol’s Great Sword → After : Hughol’s Lancia

[Contents]

● The amount of time required to defend in Savage Rift successfully from stage 1-25 has been decreased by 4 minutes.

● You no longer have the 50% chance to enter stage 26 as the Savage Rift Renewal event has ended.

- Thank you Adventurers for trying out the new Savage Rift. We are working towards getting stage 26 added permanently to show our appreciation for our Adventurers.

● There is a 40% that you will enter stage 26 in Savage Rift.

- If Saunil appears, you are guaranteed to enter level 26 if you survive.

- Stage 26 is very hard so you better be well prepared.

- You have a small chance to get an Ogre Ring from the Savage Rift Reward Box if you clear stage 26.

- You will be given 1 or 2 Black Crystal, Soiled Ogre Ring, and Trace of Savagery when you open the Savage Rift Reward Box when you clear stage 26.

● Now there is a 50% chance to stun the Cyclops for 5 seconds with the ‘[Savage] Lynch Cannon’.

● The knockback resistance of monsters in Savage Rift has been increased.

● The time it took to install the following structures have been decreased.

- Barricade: 5 seconds > 2 seconds

- Hwacha, Flame Tower : 10 seconds  > 5 seconds

- Iron Barricade Upgrade: 10 seconds  > 5 seconds

● Fixed the issue where monsters would appear in the wrong area in Savage Rift.

● You are now able to move while your turning on the spot on a Fishing Boat.

● You are now able to turn while going backwards on a Fishing Boat.

● Fishing Boats were changed to stop in a natural sliding motion over a certain distance  according to the laws of inertia.

● It’s been changed to look a little darker when the sail on the boat turns invisible.

● The message displayed when you click on the boat icon when there isn’t a ship available or the ship is too far away has been changed to the following.

-The ship cannot be used or is too far away.

[Quests, Knowledge]

● Your chance of getting the quest objective ‘Obtain a Hard Black Crystal Shard’ has been increased for the ‘[Daily] Second Preparation’ quest.

● The navigation for the 'Weird Devices' quest will now take you through the shortest route.

● The item 'Spirit Lamp' that is used in the quest 'An Unsettling Rumor' has been changed to 'Atanis Firefly'.

● Lanterns that were given out as a quest reward will be replaced with the ‘Atanis Firefly’ that serves a similar function.

- Secret in the Underground Storage

- Clear Justification

- Courage for Orwen

- Philance's Clue

- Curse Runs in the Bartali House

- Secret Duty

- Ever-joyful Garnier Nomad Troupe

- Husband's Well-Being

- Marni's Creation

- Before Andria Is Seen...

- Did You Say Rock Spider?

- Mom and Child

- Invisible Special Fish

- Worse Than an Ogre

- Decorations for Furniture

- Destroy the Cannon

- I Need Cedar Sap!

- The Manes' Symbol

- Safe Water

- Repair the House Alone

- Need Natural Feed

- A Useful Animal

- Awakened Artifacts

- The Rumbling Sound of Drieghan

[Environment, NPC, Effects, Cutscenes]

● The weird camera angle that was being used when you interacted with the Origin of Clear Water in Glutoni Cave has been fixed.

● Fixed the area where characters would get stuck in a particular location within Roud Sulfur Works.

● Fixed the area in Terrmian Beach that looked different on the mini-map from its actual topography.

● Fixed the area where characters would fall inside the building with a lft in Keplan.

● Fixed the roof of Mediah Castle and blocked the light shining through.

● Soundtracks played in the background will repeat 3 minutes after it ends.

● The range where you can hear the street performers from has been decreased as to not interfere the music playing in the background as much.

● Nardin the Stable Keeper in the Ahib Conflict Zone no longer provides the Horse Market and Breeding Market services.

● Lune the member of the Old Moon Guild has left Valley Lily Inn.

● Fixed the abnormal camera motion in cutscenes when Remastered/Ultra Mode was applied.

[Interface Changes]

● The boss monster’s HP has been made more visible in dark areas.

● The UI effects of the following UI has been changed.

- Pet Hunger Status UI

- Weight Limit Exceeded UI

- Mail UI

- Coupon UI

- Value Pack Benefits UI

● The customizable HP Bar, Black Spirit gauge, PVP button, EXP bar, and other designs have been changed.

● The background image in the minimap has been removed.

● The buttons that are displayed under the items in the Pearl Shop has been modified to show simplified text if it’s original text spilled out of its space.

● The size of the buttons in Party UI window has been increased in size to resolve the issue of the text going out of the box.

● The checkbox of the Custom HP Bar in Edit UI window has been relocated.

● Lantern has been removed from Equipment window.

● It has been improved so that the background color will not show when the mouse cursor is not over the quest widget.

● Scroll function has been added to the quest widget.

● Fixed the issue where the menu UI to choose your Transportation was being overlapped with item slots.

[System]

● The amount of milk obtainable from the milking minigame has been changed from 10% to 15% at a time.

● You can no longer place the same pearl item in the the Cart with slots.

● The Fore Chop and Hind Kick skills are no longer available when you ride your horse with a matchlock equipped.

[Resolved Issues]

● Fixed the skill description for [Sorceress] Black Spirit: Violation.

● Fixed the following skill descriptions related to the Tamer class.

- Black Spirit: Upward Claw

- Black Spirit: Roaring

- Black Spirit: Allround Spinner

- Black Spirit: Legendary Beast Dance

- Echo Pierce

● Fixed the skill description for [Musa] Flow: Dash Slash

● Fixed the skill description for [Maehwa] Chaos: Red Moon

●The item description of the Basteer Sub-weapons has been changed to no longer display their selling price.

● Fixed the issue where the Altinova Freight Wagon wouldn’t transport.

● Fixed an awkward dialogue included in the ‘A Message from the Guard Commander’ quest.

● Fixed the awkward line that the NPC has when you obtain knowledge on Alejandro Farm.

● Fixed the awkward dialogue that you have when accepting the ‘Long! Sticky! Stinky!’ quest.

● Fixed the awkward dialogue that you have when accepting the ‘Do Not Eat’ quest.

● Fixed the issue where another NPC image was displayed for knowledge on Melana.

● Fixed the issue where the ‘Prancing Lamb’ would go inside walls.

● Fixed the issue where some of the goblin NPCs were below ground level in Western Guard Camp.

● Fixed the issue where you couldn’t acquire the knowledge on Cleia, the Marketplace Director in Heidel, when interacting with her for the first time.

● Fixed the issue where the wrong dialogue was displayed when taking to the soldier in the outskirts of Valencia City.

● Fixed the issue where an unnatural camera angle was used interacting with Holo, the Holo Forest Node Manager NPC.

● Fixed the issue where the time remaining on guild missions wouldn’t reset intermittently.

● Fixed the issue where the instructions for leaving Black Spirit’s Training would not be displayed.

● Fixed the issue that caused the remastered UI to disappear upon completing the tutorial on learning skills.

● Fixed the issue that allowed Adventurers (who are unable to use Black Spirit’s skills) to lock Black Spirit’s skills by using hotkeys.

● Fixed the issue that caused the settings for boss notifications to intermittently reset.

● Added a feature that displays huntable boss monsters such as Khalk, Blue Whale, and Griffon with an icon in the world map.

● Fixed the issue where the descriptions of some event icons on the top left part of the screen were not displayed properly.

● Fixed the issue where you could not connect intermittently due to the second password verification error message being displayed.

● Fixed the issue that prevented immediate distribution of guild bonus after the guild bonus reset on Saturday at midnight.

● Fixed the issue where the color of the guild’s crown mark was displayed in silver.

● Fixed the issue that caused the camera to intermittently stop while using the mouse to pan the angle.

● Fixed the issue with the gloss of the items not being properly displayed upon previewing the Pearl Box.

● Fixed an issue where mount music was not searchable.

● Fixed the issue where the changes would not be saved if you set the interface scale to 100% in Display Settings.

● Fixed the issue where black shadows would appear on both sides of the screen when using the ‘Take Portrait’ function in Remastered/Ultra Mode.

● Fixed the issue where characters would walk inside Junaid River.

● Fixed the issue where the amount of silver in storage displayed in the Marketplace window was different from the amount of silver in storage displayed in the Pre-Order window.