Greetings Adventurers, 

Our latest event "Season of the Hunt" is expanding with the addition of part 2. By defeating monsters, fishing, or gathering, you will have the chance to acquire special pouches which contain great rewards!

Also, for those following the path of peace and not into hunting stuff, you will be able to enjoy EXP bonuses for Mounts and Training, and also more chances to get a higher tier foal when exchanging your horses!

But that is not all: From now on, there will be some permanent quests to obtain three pets for free! Take good care of them!

Who said second parts were never good? Enjoy the events and see you next week with more exciting content!

*Notice: Next week’s regular maintenance will start on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 08:00 UTC instead of Wednesday. Exact times of the maintenance will be announced with the next maintenance announcement.

[New Events]

• Season of the Hunt, Part 2

  • Period: October 2 (after maintenance)–October 16 (before maintenance)

  • Event 1: Special Pouch Drop

    • During the event period, defeat monsters, fish, and gather to obtain one of the two random pouch items: [Event] Rarity Pouch or [Event] Fortune Pouch

  • Event 2: Ride the Tide

    • Ride to your favorite hunting grounds while enjoying Training EXP +100% and Mount EXP +50% boosts during Fever Time, get rewarded for performing Imperial Delivery, and enjoy increased chance to exchange your horses for a higher tier foal!

  • Click <Here> to learn all about the part 2 of events for the Season of the Hunt.

• Build Your Guild

  • Event 1: Recruit New Guild Members

    • Period: October 2 (after maintenance)–October 30 (before maintenance)

    • Join a guild as a new adventurer and check in for 8 days while reaching Lv.56 to help grow your guild with guild funds, skill exp, and guild items!

  • Event 2: Guild Attendance Rewards

    • Period: October 2 (after maintenance)–December 31 (23:59 UTC)

    • Guild attendance reward will be offered to guild members who are in a medium-sized guild (starting from 31 members) or above during the event period.

  • Click <Here> to see this guild promotion event in detail.

• Health, Breath, Strength

  • Period: October 2 (after maintenance)–October 23 (before maintenance)

  •  During the event period, complete these new quests offered by the Black Spirit in-game and receive Finto’s items to help you boost your Breath, Strength, and Health.

    • These event quests can be completed once per family.

    • These event quests can be found under Recommended tab from the Black Spirit.

    • These event quest can be found under New Quest tab in quest window (O) during the event period.

[Ongoing Events]

• Season of the Hunt Part 1 

  • Trina Knight’s First Support Kit: (September 25 (after maintenance)–October 23 (before maintenance)

  • Complete Marni’s Stones: September 25 (after maintenance)–October 8 (before maintenance)

  • Special Challenges: September 26 00:00 UTC–October 9 23:59 UTC

  • World Boss Drop Rate Boost: September 25 (after maintenance)–October 8 (before maintenance)

  • Fever Time Boost: September 25 (after maintenance)–October 8 (before maintenance)

• Fall Festival: September 25 (after maintenance)–October 23 (before maintenance)

[Reward Distribution]

• Dedicated Gift of Appreciation

  • A special gift of appreciation was gifted to thank loyal adventurers for their love for Black Desert Online.
    "There are many new players who take their first steps into Black Desert and there are those who return for more adventure, but there are adventurers who traverse and enjoy the world of Black Desert every day. 
    Today, we would like to extend our gratitude to these avid adventurers with our sincere thanks and a gift from our hearts.
    We hope to present you with more future content for you to enjoy, with a pleasant and smooth ride along the way. And as always, thank you.

  • Reward for the highest level character in your family.

    • Lv50–Lv59: Advice of Valks (+70)

    • Lv60 and above: Advice of Valks (+101)

  • All existing adventurers who logged in to the game at least once between September 18 (after maintenance) and October 2 (before maintenance) will receive the gift via the in-game mail.

  • Adventurers who received login rewards for new and returning adventurers during September 18 (after maintenance)–October 2 (before maintenance) are not eligible to receive this gift.

  • Please make sure to claim your gift before the maintenance on October 8.

[Content]

• Free pet quests!

  • New quests were added for you to acquire pets to accompany you on your journey. 

  • The below quests are available once per family and can be accepted from the quest menu under Suggestions tab.

• This is a permanent addition, so try to get all three pets!

• Guild skill Ample Storage levels 9 to 16 were added.

  • Guild Storage Increase per level: Lv9–Lv10 +2 Slots, Lv11–Lv14 +3 Slots, Lv15–Lv16 +4 Slots

  • Guild Point Requirement per level: Lv9–Lv11 5 points, Lv12–Lv15 10 points, Lv16 15 points.

[System]

• Central Market Warehouse Capacity now increases with your Family Fame.

  • 0.2 Warehouse Capacity Increase per Family Fame point. 

(For example, Family Fame of 1402 will increase the Warehouse Capacity by 280.4)

[Game World]

• The rowboat at the Outpost Supply Port was swept away and has disappeared.

• Fixed the unnatural stones in some parts of Lamo Valley.

• Fixed the issue where you could perform abnormal gathering near the Mausoleum of Mediah.

• Fixed the frame drop issue in certain parts of the Old Wisdom Tree area.

[NPC]

• Fixed the issue where you could not sell items to Samantrina of the Acher Guard Post.

• Fixed the issue where the auto-run navigation for Kaia Feresio via Find NPC sent you to the 2nd floor of the Great Library of Calpheon.

• Fixed the issue where the Find NPC route for general goods merchants in certain areas, such as Helms Post, sent you to the wrong location.

• The functions of the Epheria Contract Renewal and Frigate Contract Renewal are now combined.

  • Both the Epheria Contract Renewal and Frigate Contract Renewal can be used to renew either the Epheria Sailor Contract or the Frigate Sailor Contract.

  • The description of the Epheria Contract Renewal explains how you can obtain it.

• Now you can acquire the "Heroes’ Song" from World Bosses.

  • The item drops from Kzarka, Nouver, Karanda, Kutum, Offin, and Garmoth. The item is a poem written to commemorate the heroes who together defended the world. The item heals the character for 5000 HP over 30 sec. and is used upon acquiring it.

• You can now hand in Marni’s Stone after Lv 64 to Wacky Toshi.

  • You can collect samples and exchange from Lv 62, but will receive very little Combat EXP after exchanging.

• Changed Mastery items available for purchase from NPC stores to not be shown in the Crafting Note.

• For details on newly added Pearl Shop Update, please click < Here > !

• Fixed the issue where sometimes the summoned Dark Rift monster could not be damaged.

[Quest]

• Fixed the issue where there was a metal structure between the rocks when you head down the well during the "The Place Where the Wind Blows" quest.

• Fixed the issue where you could not accept the "Death of the Cows" quest.

• Fixed the issue where the navigation path of the "Flowers in the Desert" quest sent you across the ocean.

• Fixed the issue where one of the options with Nella Encarotia for the "Curiosity Becomes Fear" quest gave you the wrong NPC as target.

• The quest icon for the "[Gathering Advancement Lv50] From the Hand of a Person" quest was changed to better fit the quest.

• Fixed the issue where the following quest did not properly give their rewards.

  • Wanted: Hekaru

  • Wanted: Ocean Stalker

  • Looming Threats from the Ocean

  • Ocean Predators

  • A Treasure Swimming in the Ocean

  • Outlaws in the Ocean

  • Stay Sharp!

• Fixed the issue where you could not repeat the “[Repeat] Sacrifice for Aal” quest.

  • This quest was automatically removed from characters that had accepted this quest. Please accept again to complete the quest.

[Knowledge]

• Fixed the issue where you did not receive Energy for acquiring the Ash Forest knowledge.

• Now you can save and load navigation routes from the World Map (M).

  • RMB on the World Map to set and save 3 routes.

  • You can load and delete the saved routes by pressing the buttons located at the bottom of the World Map.

  • Alt+RMB to save consecutive routes.

  • The routes are saved locally to your PC, so they won't be loaded when you play from another PC.

• Now you can set key bindings for ship controls.

• Now you can view the inventory of your other characters.

  • The bag button in the End Game menu shows you the contents of their inventory.

• Changed the item image of the Giant Grouper.

• Updated the HP, Durability, Stamina, Food, and Lifespan UI of the Mount UI.

• Fixed the low equipment durability UI to display descriptions when you mouse over the UI.

• The UI showing low durability for mount (horses, wagons, ships) equipment now shows both the navigation button and the description text.

• Fixed the issue where the correct text color was sometimes not applied when you receive a Black Spirit's Gift reward.

• Fixed the issue where the Health UI and Family Buff UI overlapped if you toggle the Health UI to be disabled and use a shortcut to toggle a preset UI that has the Health UI enabled.

• Fixed the issue where the Bartali Sailboat was displayed as an Epheria Sailboat in the UI that shows your mounts in use at the End Game menu.

• Fixed the guild storage window to pop up on the left of your inventory window.

• Changed the guild storage window to close when you press the tab button in the guild window.

• Fixed the issue where the Imperial Fishing Delivery displayed the "Connection to the Node is required." error message, which does not require Node connection.

• [Kunoichi] Fixed the issue where Ghost Greeting did not activate by using the LMB after Ninjutsu: Shadow Explosion.

• [Kunoichi] Fixed the action of returning to standby mode after Tendon Cutter to be more natural.

• [Musa] Fixed the issue where you could not move the character if you use Absolute: Rising Storm after a forward Blind Thrust without having learnt Ultimate: Rising Storm.

• [Witch, Wizard] The following text from the description of Summon: Keeper Gorr, Keeper Tett, Keeper Arne, and Keeper Marg were moved to the tooltip. 

  • If there is no summoned creature, press F to summon Arne/Gorr.

• [Shai] Fixed the issue where the "Secret Duty" quest was shown as available in the World Map to Shai characters.

• [Shai] Fixed the issue where you could not cancel "Do it Better!".

• Fixed the issue where you could not dye a normal equipment with a Pearl outfit of the same slot equipped.

• Fixed the issue where the UI indicating low durability of your horse gear overlapped with the Altar of Blood matchmaking UI so you could not cancel matchmaking.

• Fixed the issue where the mount skill description text in the stable UI overflowed out of the window if it was longer.

• Fixed the issue where the lighting looked abnormal around the Magoria Pirate Ship.

• Fixed the issue where grass appeared to be floating in thin air at certain locations in Loopy Tree Forest.

• Fixed the abnormal navigation path to Bipache of the Abandoned Land from Dimanthor, the stable keeper of west Calpheon City.

• Fixed the navigation path to the Chapel 2-1, 1F of Calpheon City.

• Fixed the issue where you could not auto-run to Black Spirit Training NPC Jamey Drucker at the north of Calpheon.

• Fixed the issue where grass appeared to be floating in thin air at certain locations in Calpheon Castle Site.

• Fixed the rankings info of the Valtarra Altar of Training to be displayed properly.

• Fixed the issue where the word Skill List in the World Map's (M) mount information window was not displayed.

• Fixed the description of Loggia Trainer's Clothes and Izaro Trainer's Clothes.