Greetings Adventurers,

Here are the latest update details for Black Desert Online on January 5, 2022 (Wed). Today’s patch contains 113 updates and is approximately 1.47 GB.

2021 Winter Season Graduation Commences!

● Fughar, the Crow Merchants Guild Chief Manager, is lending a hand in Winter Season graduation so that you can convert your season character who has completed the Winter Season into a normal character.

Graduation Period	Jan 5, 2022 after maintenance – Mar 2, 2022 before maintenance
Requirements for Graduation	- Adventurers who have not purchased the Black Spirit Pass must complete all of the "Season Pass Challenges" and collect rewards - Adventurers who have purchased the Black Spirit Pass should complete all of the "Season Pass and Black Spirit Pass Challenges" and collect rewards - You must not have Fughar's Timepiece

- Details for the Winter Season graduation are as follows:

Quest	Starting NPC	Quest Objective	Completing NPC
[Season Server Graduation] At the Crossroad	Crow Merchants Guild Scribe, Leyla, at the workshop in Velia	Complete the [Season] Fughar's Special Timepiece quest and talk to Fughar	Fughar
[Season Server Graduation] Into the Big Wide World	Fughar	Use the Honorable Adventurer's Certificate	Fughar

- Upon using the Honorable Adventurer's Certificate, your season character will be converted to a normal character.
- Complete the quests listed above to obtain Tuvala Conversion Stone Box, Gift Box Full of Memories, and Fughar's Letter of Encouragement.
- The contents of the Gift Box Full of Memories are as follows:

Gift Box Full of Memories Contents

[Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon x1 Graduation Cap x1 Advice of Valks (+60) x1 Golden Graduation Gown x1 Cron Stone x100 [Event] Secret Book of Old Moon (7 Days) x1 [Event] Elion's Tear x10 [Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) x5 [Event] Giovan Grolin's Support Scroll x5 [Event] Tachros' Spirit Stone x1 Blessed Message Scroll (100 min) x5 Premium Elixir Box x3 Finto's Filling/Sweet/Fresh Juice x10

 

Notes on Graduation
- You can use the Boss Gear Exchange Coupon obtained from the previous season.
- You can exchange your PEN (V) Tuvala gear for a TET (IV) Boss gear unavailable for transaction via the [PEN (V) Boss Gear]: The Best Deal quest.
- Use items and accept all rewards obtained by completing the 'Season, Black Spirit Pass Challenges' if you have purchased the [Event] Black Spirit Pass since you cannot use the items after graduating.
- You cannot graduate while you have Fughar's Timepiece.
- You can use the 'Honorable Adventurer's Certificate' item obtained from a graduation quest on a normal server.

 

Tip! Fughar's Timepiece is a very special item you can obtain during the Winter Season.
You can use the item before graduating if necessary instead of deleting it to graduate.
▶ Go to [What Is Fughar's Timepiece?]
* Go to [Adventurer's Guide] -> [Season Graduation] if you want to check out more details on the 2021 Winter Season graduation!

● Added a "Season Special Gift" quest that you can accept and complete via the 2021 Winter Season graduation.

Quest	Quest NPC	Quest Requirements	Quest Objective	Quest Reward
[Season Special Gift] Dreams Amongst the Aurora	Fughar	Season character who is Lv. 20 or higher and has completed [Season Server Graduation] Into the Big Wide World	Talk to Fughar	Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon x1 Cron Stone x50 Fresh Orange Juice x10 Sweet Wild Berry Juice x10 Sour Green Grape Juice x10

- You can exchange the Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon obtained from the aforementioned quest for one of the following six special rewards from Fughar.
* However, if you've already received the special season reward, you cannot receive the reward for that particular season again.
- You can exchange the Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon for special rewards after graduating from the Winter Season.
- Adventurers who have not received any of the season special rewards can obtain the rewards from the previous season through the next Season.

Type	Season Special Gift
2020 Summer Season	PEN (V) Capotia Earring or PEN (V) Capotia Ring
2020 Autumn Season	Perilla's Star
2020 Winter Season	PEN (V) Capotia Belt
2021 Summer Season	PEN (V) Capotia Necklace
2021 Season+	Advice of Valks (+100)
2021 Winter Season	Advice of Valks (+100)

 

● You can exchange Tuvala gear for boss gear with the Boss Gear Exchange Coupon via the following quests.
- Talk to Fughar with the Boss Gear Exchange Coupon in your inventory to accept the following quests. You can only proceed with one of the following quests at a time.

Quest

[Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Main Weapon [Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Sub-weapon [Season] Even Sharper Weapon: Awakening Weapon [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Helmet [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Armor [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Shoes [Season] Even Sturdier Armor: Gloves

Events

Character

● Improved Black Spirit's Rage 100% and 200% skills to gain the following effects.

Black Spirit's Rage skills were originally designed as a type of "finishing move" that would provide a sudden burst of thrill and excitement in battle. However, currently it's more efficient to maintain the Rage Absorption buff instead of using the Black Spirit's Rage skill. Thus, we made some adjustments so that players would be encouraged to use these skills. Now when you use Black Spirit skills at 100% and 200% rage, you will obtain the buff effects for a certain period of time. We've also adjusted the damage for using Black Spirit skills at 200% rage, and are currently looking into adjusting damage numbers for 100% Black Spirit's Rage skills as well. With this update, we hope that our Adventurers will enjoy feeling like the main character of an action movie from time to time on the battlefield.

● Rage Absorption (Common), Black Spirit's Rage (100% and 200%) - Changed to no longer gain the buff effects of Rage Absorption (Innate) during the skills' effects.
● Rage Absorption (Innate) - Changed to no longer gain the buff effects of Rage Absorption (Common) and Black Spirit's Rage (100% and 200%) skills during the skill's effects.
● Changed season characters to no longer attract monsters after summoning (,) the Black Spirit.
- Even monsters that have been aggro-ed by season characters will stop attacking when the Black Spirit is summoned.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Descending Current (I to Absolute) - Fixed the issue where the description mentioned Knockdown instead of Bound as the debuff applied for the skill.
● Black Spirit: Descending Current (I to Absolute) - Fixed the description to reflect the actual number of targets affected.
● Black Spirit: Descending Current (I to Absolute) - Added the Critical Hit Rate +100% in PvE effect.
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Raging Thunder (I to Absolute), Black Spirit: Prime: Raging Thunder (I to III) - Fixed the description to match the actual damage and number of hits.
● Black Spirit: Raging Thunder (I to Absolute), Black Spirit: Prime: Raging Thunder (I to III) - Added the Critical Hit Rate +100% in PvE effect.
● Black Spirit: Flame Buster - Changed to now apply explosion attacks to targets.
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skill.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Prime: Upward Claw (I to IV) - Changed the damage reduction in PvP to apply equally to all attacks.
- The damage reduction per skill level has been adjusted as follows.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Legendary Beast Dance (I to IV) - Fixed the skill description to match the actual damage and Bound effect.
● Fixed the issue where the AP restriction would not be applied while riding Heilang in Tier 1 Node Wars and Mediah, Valencia Conquest Wars.

● Fixed the following skill descriptions to match the actual effect.
- Black Spirit: Prime: Rising Storm (I to IV), Black Spirit: Projection (I to III)
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Fixed the following skills' descriptions to match the actual hit and Floating effects.
- Black Spirit: Chaos: Red Moon (I to Absolute), Black Spirit: Prime: Red Moon (I to IV)
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Shining Dash - Changed to activate without prep motions.
● Black Spirit: Shining Dash - Integrated the skill's stab attack hits to the last attack. Changed the attack area to now focus on one specific point.
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Lethal Spin Spree - Fixed the issue where the attack area of certain attacks didn't match the skill description.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Meteor Shower (I to III) - Removed the extra damage based on Max MP effect.
● Black Spirit: Meteor Shower (I to Absolute) - Fixed the description to match the actual attack's effect.
● Black Spirit: Prime: Meteor Shower: Focus - Changed the last attack to now hit the focused target.
● Black Spirit: Prime: Meteor Shower: Focus - Fixed the description to match the actual attack's effect.
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.
- Black Spirit: Prime: Lightning (I to III) attack damage and last attack damage have been unified as follows.

● Black Spirit: Aqua Jail Explosion - Fixed the issue where the description didn't mention the skill's movement speed reduction effect.
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skill.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Absolute: Obsidian Ashes - Fixed the issue where the damage was abnormally lower in PvP.
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Seed of Catastrophe (I to IV) - Changed the damage and attack description to match the actual motions as follows.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Obsidian Ashes (I to V), Black Spirit: Absolute: Obsidian Ashes - Fixed the issue where the Bound effect wasn't being applied on hits.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

For Black Spirit: Cymbidium, we fixed the issue where the damage of the Absolute and Prime versions were switched.

● Marked Bloom - Changed the Skill Demo to match the actual skill's motions.
● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Earth Shatter - Changed the description to match the actual debuff effects.

● Black Spirit: Get Well - Increased the HP recovered to self and allies as follows.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Fireborne Rupture - Changed the description to match the actual defense effect.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Serpent's Coil (I to III) - Fixed the issue where the Increase All Evasion Rate effect of the non-Black Spirit versions of the skills (I to III) were activating.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Black Spirit: Command: Frozen Earth - Fixed the issue where the description was missing the Critical Hit Rate effect.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Changed the following Black Spirit's Rage skills.
- Damage reduction in PvP has been changed accordingly.

● Changed the Guard Gauge reduction effect for the following skills.
- Black Spirit: Mareca: Whale Song (I to III), Black Spirit: Absolute: Mareca: Whale Song, Black Spirit: Prime: Mareca: Whale Song

● Changed the probability of the fish catchable via ice fishing.
- [Event] Frosty Yvrug can be sold to NPC vendors for 10 million Silver.

● Changed the function of the three Tuvala weapon exchange coupons.
- Adjusted the item description for the three Tuvala weapon exchange coupons.

● Changed Naru gear's appearance to match that of Tuvala gear when equipped.

● Changed the icon of Ancient Magic Crystal of Nature - Adamantine.
● Adjusted the maximum price of Ancient Magic Crystal of Nature - Adamantine on the Central Market to 50 million Silver.
● Adjusted the maximum price of Red Battlefield Crystals on the Central Market to 200 million Silver.
- Red Battlefield Crystals: Harphia/Cobelinus/Viper/Hystria/Carmae/Power/Adamantine/Addis

● Changed so you can no longer break an Alliance when your Alliance is participating in a Node/Conquest War before the ongoing war has completely ended.

● Added a sound effect to play when exchanging PEN (V) Naru gear with PRI (I) Tuvala gear.
● Changed so that your character cannot climb up certain trees in the Tooth Fairy Forest.

● Fixed the "Appoint Master" button to be available even if your guild is lacking Guild Funds.
- If your guild lacks Guild Funds, pressing the button will display the "Insufficient Guild Funds" message.
● Changed the text on the requirements to level your character up to Lv. 50 from Lv. 49 to be more clear.

● Adjusted the time that takes to automatically check in a ship anchored near a wharf from 2 hours to an hour.
● Fixed the issue where repeating motions in certain locations would cause a drop in frame-rate.
● Fixed the issue where the game client would sometimes crash while moving with characters.

● Carried out the optimization of memory usage and relevant tasks of your game client when first logging into the game.

● Changed the text on the Refresh function for the UIs on which you can use the Refresh function.

● Changed the Berserker's thumbnail image in the Class Introduction → Choose a Class page.

● Changed the following terms in English:
- Agrakhan Awakening Scroll Piece to Awakened Agrakhan Summon Scroll Piece.
- Awakened Agrakhan Awakening Scroll to Awakened Agrakhan Summon Scroll.
- Awakened Ancient Puturum Awakening Scroll to Awakened Ancient Puturum Summon Scroll.
- Moghulis Awakening Scroll Piece to Awakened Moghulis Scroll Piece.
- Puturum Awakening Scroll Piece to Awakened Puturum Summon Scroll Piece.
- Dark Knight's Quality, Faith to Code of the Dark Knight: Faith.
- Dark Knight's Quality, Abstinence to Code of the Dark Knight: Moderation.
- Dark Knight's Quality, Dominance to Code of the Dark Knight: Dominance.

● Fixed the issue where making your helmet visible after equipping certain gear on your Shai would make it seem like the dye was not applied.
● Fixed the issue where your Berserker's arm would appear abnormal when equipping certain gear.
● Fixed the issue where your Witch's Blackstar Armor shoes would appear abnormal in certain situations.
● Fixed the issue where your Witch's Marnist Armor skirt would appear abnormal in a combat stance in Awakening.
● Fixed the issue where certain hair styles for Ranger would appear abnormal on the Customization - Hair UI on the Beauty (F4) window.
● Fixed the issue where your Dark Knight would appear abnormal when equipping the Darkborne Rose Shoes and Darkborne Rose Gloves with certain outfits.

● Fixed the issue where summoning the Black Spirit (,) would place your character in combat stance.
● Fixed the issue where the name of the item you craft would appear abnormal when you craft it in your residence.
● Fixed the issue where you could use the Character Name Change Coupon and the Character Name Transfer Coupon again before maintenance.
● Fixed the issue where Pisces, a monster that spawns in Atoraxxion: Sycrakea, would sometimes appear abnormal.
● Fixed the issue where certain hair styles for Ranger would appear abnormal on the Customization - Hair UI for the Beauty (F4) window.
● Fixed the issue where the key guide on the Character Creation window would appear different depending on the screen ratio.
● Adjusted the direction of the controls of the Gamepad to match the actual direction when setting the ESC (New) Menu to open on the right of the screen.
● Fixed the issue where the UI would appear abnormal when selecting the Find NPC UI on the upper right of the screen with your mouse cursor.
● Fixed the issue where the item description would flicker when hovering your mouse over the Reward for Each Completion on the Ancient Black Spirit's Adventure UI.
● Fixed the issue where the Real-Time Key Input UI would not display after cutscenes play.
● Fixed the issue where activating your Alchemy Stone when having caught a fish via ice fishing would prevent you from being able to proceed with the minigame any further.
● Fixed the issue where ice fishing would randomly cancel while fishing.
● Fixed the controls to feel more natural when ice fishing.
● Fixed so your character will no longer detect collisions while ice fishing.
● Fixed the issue where certain parts of the background in the Serene Spring appeared abnormal.
● Fixed the Alpaca's mount icon located on the upper left-hand corner of your screen.
● Fixed certain regions of the O'dyllita Territory to display correctly on the World Map (M) window.

We hope you enjoy your time in Black Desert,
Thank you.