Greetings Adventurers,

This week we are starting new events related to the Lunar New Year. We really hope you enjoy them all and to get you into the mood of these festivities, special decorations will be added to all cities in the world of Black Desert Online!

On the other hand, we are excited to introduce two new additions to our game: the "Devour" system, which allows you to convert enhanced gear into Enhancement Chances, and the "Privacy Mode" for those lone wolves that do not like to be disturbed.

We have also good news for those enjoying our new Battle Royale mode as we are introducing two new classes: Musa and Kunoichi!

Please read on below our Patch Notes to know more about our latest additions in detail!

*Please, keep in mind that there will not be maintenance on February 6th due to the festivities taking place in Korea. In order to experience the new events starting that same day, restart your client after 09:00 UTC.

[Events starting Jan. 30th maintenance]

• It's a Cakewalk

  • Event Period: Jan. 30th (after maintenance) - Feb. 13th (before maintenance)

  • During the event period defeat monsters, fish, and gather to get: [Event] Honey, [Event] Bean, [Event] Sesame. Then arrange these items in a certain shape to get a [Event] Moon Rice Cake.

  • Click <Here> to see the event in detail.

• Mammore is Back!

  • Event Period: Jan. 30th (after maintenance) – Feb. 13th (before maintenance)

  • Mammore has returned to the Fleme Hills of Balenos! Defeat Mammore for special rewards!

  • During the event period, Mammore will appear at:

    • [NA] Mon–Fri, Sun: 11:00/15:00/21:15 PST; Sat: 23:00 PST

    • [EU] Mon–Fri, Sun: 10:00/17:00/23:15 CET; Sat: 01:00 CET

  • Click <Here> to see the event in detail.

• Gather Serbianca’s Vouchers

  • Event Period: Jan 30th (after maintenance) - Feb 20th (before maintenance)

  • During the event period, [Event] Serbianca's Vouchers can be obtained everywhere through Gathering. Exchange these with NPC Serbianca for Logs!

  • Click <Here> to see the event in detail.

• Lunar New Year-themed background.

  • Event Period: Jan. 30th, 2019 at 09:00 UTC - Feb 13th, 2019 at 08:59 UTC

  • Lanterns will be in the skies of Velia, Heidel, Calpheon, Altinova, and Valencia

[Events starting Feb. 6, 09:00 UTC]

❆ Please make sure you have restarted your game to see the new events implemented!

• Send Love

  • Event Period: Feb. 6th  (09:00 UTC) - Feb. 20th (before maintenance)

  • During this heartwarming event period, play an hour a day to complete the Challenge (Y) and receive [Event] Sweet Gift Letter.

  • Details will be available soon.

• Valentine’s Day Screenshot Contest

  • Submission Date: Feb. 6 - Feb. 25th (Final Submission Date)

  • Staff Pick: February 25th - Feb. 28th

  • Winner Announcement: March 1st

  • Theme: Cupid

  • Details will be available soon.

• Valentine’s Day-themed background.

  • Event Period: Feb. 6th (09:00 UTC) - Feb. 27 (08:59 UTC).

  • Each major city will have romantic decorations to celebrate Valentine’s day.

  • Tip! Utilize this background change for your submission to the Valentine’s Day Screenshot Contest!

  • *Unfortunately Valentine’s Day-themed background will not be visible in Duvencrune and Grána.

[Ongoing Events]

• Fortune Favors the Bold: Jan. 24th 00:00 UTC - Feb. 13th 23:59 UTC

[Ended Events]

• Golden Drop

[Reward Distribution]

• [Event] Blessing of Kamasylve (7 Days) has been handed out to all adventurers who participated in Shadow Arena before the pre-season.

[Content]

• Injury system has been added.

• Black Spirit's Rage can now be used to inflict Injury on enemies, which will prevent them from recovering HP as efficiently.

  • The severity of the injury inflicted is affected by the amount of Black Spirit's Rage and the skill damage.

  • Those injured with such Black Spirit's Rage skills will temporarily have their max HP decreased.

  • All classes will recover from their Injury every 5 sec, by 10 HP.

  • Continuous damage and extra HP/MP damage will not cause additional Injury.

  • If your character dies, it will no longer be Injured when it revives.

  • An Injured character will not recover when disconnected.

  • An Injured character starts recovering after it is selected in the Character Selection screen.

  • The following chart show how much Injury is inflicted per Black Spirit's Rage consumed.

• “Devour” function has been added.

  • You can use the “Devour” system to convert enhanced weapon or defense gear into Enhancement Chance.

  • You can access Devour from the Enhancement window by talking to Black Spirit.

  • Weapons must be enhancement level +8 or up, and defense gear must be +6 or up.

• Using Devour will consume the item.

  • Your enhancement chance (excluding Valks’ enhancement chance) must be zero when using Devour.

• Privacy Mode has been added.

  • Privacy Mode allows you to hide your online presence from other Adventurers.

  • You can enter the game in Privacy Mode by selecting Privacy Mode in the character selection screen.

  • Some features such as Guild/Friend invitations and whisper will be restricted while in Privacy Mode.

  • System messages will continue to appear when you kill or get killed by other Adventurers while in PvP mode even when you are in Privacy Mode.

  • The system message which is sent out to everyone due to obtaining certain items, ranking display will appear to other Adventurers even while playing in Privacy Mode.

  • When you are playing in Privacy Mode, you will see an icon showing that you are in Privacy Mode, and you will see a message which says that “You are appearing offline.”

  • Messages which appear to other Adventurers such as when you successfully enhance items will display your message as coming from an “Unknown Adventurer” to other Adventurers.

• Your character can now use either a Practice Matchlock (which can be rented with Contribution Points) or a Hunting Matchlock to kill seagulls.

• Bosses summoned with a summon scroll by someone else, as well as other adventurers who summon them, will no longer show up on the minimap while the boss is around.

[System]

• The order of the tabs within the Guild window will now reset when disbanding a Guild Alliance.

• The Apprentice system has been added to Guilds.

  • After joining a Guild, an adventurer will be an “Apprentice” for the first two weeks.

  • Like regular Guild members, Guild apprentices can participate in Node/Conquest Wars and Guild missions. They can collect Daily Pay, receive Allowance, and benefit from Guild skills.

  • Unlike regular Guild members, they cannot receive Guild Bonus and cannot be promoted to Guild Officer or Quartermaster.

  • The day after the two weeks have passed, the apprentice will automatically be promoted to a general guild member.

• Guild Bonus will now only be given out if a Guild has at least 30 members including general members, Quartermasters, Guild Officers, and Guild Masters but excluding Guild apprentices.

• It has been changed that you will now recover 600 HP over 30 sec after killing an adventurer.

• Musa and Kunoichi can now be possessed in Shadow Arena.

[Musa]

• A single-command combo has been added for Musa.

  • When pressing spacebar + LMB while using a basic attack, skills will be activated according to the order of the list below. If a skill has not been learned yet, the last skill used in the combo will be repeated.

1. Blooming

2. Steel Gale

3. Blind Slash

4. Dragon Bite

5. Rising Storm

6. Basic Forward Attack

[Kunoichi]

• A single-command combo has been added for the Kunoichi.

  • When pressing spacebar + LMB while using a basic attack, skills will be activated according to the order of the list below. If a skill has not been learned yet, the last skill used in the combo will be repeated.

1. Ninjutsu: Black Moonlight

2. Flash Slash

3. Ninjutsu: Shadow Stomp

4. Tendon Cutter

5. Kunai Throw

[Sorceress]

• High Kick, Shadow Ignition, and Mark of the Shadow have been replaced by Dark Flame, Rushing Crow, and Darkness Released.

• Rushing Crow is Quick Slot Available.

[Berserker]

• Damage from Predatory Hunt has been increased by 10%.

• Damage from Falling Rock has been increased by 30%.

[Dark Knight]

*The chance of learning Nocturne or Hidden Strike from an Unknown Skill Book has been doubled, and the chance of learning Lunacy of Vedir or Air Strike has been halved.

• Icons for certain skills which have blocks, crowd control (CC), or grab mechanics will be displayed on top of the skill commands for certain characters in Shadow Arena.

  • For block effect skills (Forward Guard, Super Armor, Invincibility): a red ‘shield’ icon.

  • For CC effect skills (Stiffness, Bound, Floating, Knockback, Knockdown, Stun, Freeze): a ‘Stun’ icon with an orange background color.

  • For grab effect skills: A ‘grab (hand)’ icon with a purple background color (if the grab icon is displayed, debuff icons will not be displayed.)

  • Effects which are not applied to Shadow Arena (such as effects which occur when using skills while on a mount) will not display an icon. Effects which only apply to monsters will also not display an icon.

  • If you simultaneously have two effects (block and a debuff/grab effect), 2 icons will be displayed.

  • You can bring your mouse cursor over the icons to see a brief tooltip.

• When using Blessing of Kamasylve, you can now obtain a Shadow Arena chest in addition to the Black Rocks you can obtain as rewards for rankings in Shadow Arena.

  • You can receive one of the following rewards according to your rank for each Shadow Arena match:

  • You will receive one of the following from obtaining the Shadow Arena Chest:

*Added a description about Shadow Arena rewards in the Blessing of Kamasylve item tooltip.

• You can now spectate even when a party member is far away during Party mode in Shadow Arena.

  • Parties will now be maintained even after a Shadow Arena match has ended.

  • Parties will now be maintained even while standing by after entering Shadow Arena.

• Added a Shadow Arena Rankings menu to the ESC menu.

• Shadow Arena ranking rewards have been changed as follows.

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• Your AP and DP will now increase when your Black Spirit experiences growth. Your Black Spirit will grow depending on the number of remaining survivors. This information will be marked in a UI at the top right of your screen.

  • The amount of increase is like the following:

• The amount of Fire Bombs you start off with has been changed from 3 to 1.

• The decreased movement speed effect for Fire Bombs has been decreased from 50% to 30%.

• The Stun duration for Stun Traps has been decreased from 10 sec. to 5 sec.

• The maximum amount of points for survival time has been limited to 200 points at most.

• The killfeed UI has been improved.

• Fixed the issue where you would occasionally not enter into Shadow Arena as a party in party mode for Shadow Arena.

• Added a text which explains that you can only play in solo mode when you create and enter a private room in Shadow Arena.

• You can now switch the locations of the consumable items with the skill slots on Shadow Arena.

• The animation effect after the end of a Shadow Arena match has been changed.

• The animation effect at the beginning of a Shadow Arena match has been changed.

• Your quick slots will automatically be loaded when you possess a character as Black Spirit.

• A special effect has been added for the name of the winners of Shadow Arena matches.

• Reworked the Shadow Arena Stats window.

• Fixed the issue where the mouse cursor disappeared when a message window appears after clicking on the Shadow Arena button in the ESC menu.

• Fixed the issue where the Quick Slot would occasionally not appear when possessing a character in Shadow Arena.

• Fixed the issue with buttons disappearing after closing the Settings window in the Shadow Arena Lobby, then toggling the explanation on the upper right hand corner of the screen.

• Added tooltips for the “Find Party,” “Shadow Arena Rankings,” and “Settings” buttons in the Lobby of Shadow Arena.

• Fixed the issue where Korean text would appear when you click on the macro mode for chatting after entering Shadow Arena.

• Fixed the issue where you would occasionally not be able to enter as a party when entering party mode.

• Fixed the issue where Marketplace information would be displayed for Shadow Arena items.

• Adjusted the size of the Shadow Arena rankings window.

[Game World]

• Additional seagulls have been added to Velia and Port Epheria.

[NPC]

• Changed the camera view during interactions with NPC Horio Tinya and NPC Ain Greid so that they are in better view.

• The monetary value of Tier 1–8 Coursers and Dream Horses have tripled at the Horse Market, Breeding Market, and Imperial Delivery.

  • Additionally, the Horse Market fees will decrease depending on the Training Level in a future update.

• Fixed the issue where boats intermittently didn’t move when characters mounted them.

[By Class]

• Fixed the issue where movement would be unnatural when pressing T and W at the same time while in Awakening mode.

• The skill Rushing Crow is now quick slot available.

• Fixed the issue where the damage from the last hits of Elastic Force I and Elastic Force II were not applied in PvP.

• Fixed the issue with the animation leading into the last hit of Elastic Force.

• Fixed the issue where the Stun effect would not be applied when using Judgment of Light while on a mount.

• Fixed the issue where movement would be unnatural when pressing T and W at the same time while in Awakening mode.

• Rising Storm and Rabam Skill: Quick Shot can now be used while on a mount when equipped with Horn Bow.

• Damage from the skill Stub Arrow when it is used during its cooldown has been reduced.

• When using Chase during its cooldown after making a normal attack with Kerispear, Stamina will now be properly consumed.

• The skill Petal Drill has been changed as follows.

  • Before: Stun on good hits (PvE Only)

  • After: Bound on good hits (PvE Only)

• The skill Sleet Steps can now be used in succession by holding its skill commands.

• Damage from the skill Stub Arrow when it is used during its cooldown has been reduced.

• You can now use the skill Flow: Sky Stepping in succession only up to 2 times.

• Fixed the issue where movement would be unnatural when pressing T and W at the same time while in Awakening mode.

• If you use the skill Ultimate Crush after a basic lateral attack in the Gardbrace stance, Ultimate Crush will start from its second hit.

• On a good Ultimate Crush hit after a basic lateral attack in the Gardbrace stance, all enemies’ DP will now reduce.

• The Echo Spirit animation after using Ultimate Crush after a basic lateral attack in the Gardbrace stance has been changed.

• The skill description for Moondance has been changed as follows.

  • Damage% x 4 → Damage% x1, Max 4 Hits

• Luthraghon's Call will now activate more quickly when used after using Tactical Strike and Flow: Light's Trail.

• Fixed the issue where damage would occasionally not be dealt to targets when using the following skills from a slanted area.

  • Winged Strike

  • Bolt of Radiance

  • Storm of Light

  • Flow: Light's Trail

  • Righteous Smite

  • Glissade

• Reduced the PvP damage for melee attack for Full Bloom and Black Spirit: Full Bloom.

• Gaping Darkness can now be used through the Quick Slot.

• Forward Guard will now apply to the beginning of Luthraghon’s Call and only last until the charging motion ends.

  • The Forward Guard effect will not apply after the charging motion ends.

• The casting speed for Meteor Dive will increase as its skill level increases.

• Forward Guard will now apply in Greatbow mode when moving backwards.

• Fixed the issue where Ravenous Talon would not apply when Stamina was below 250.

• The commands for Arrow Explosion after using Zephyr Leap/Ultimate: Zephyr Leap have been changed from Shift to Shift+F.

• Watcher will now activate even while moving when entering the Q key.

• The casting speed for Earth Shatter will increase as its skill level increases.

• Wrath of Nature and Bolt of Radiance can now be canceled by using Glide and Meteor Dive.

• The animation leading up to the arrow firing during Bolt of Radiance has been sped up.

• Ravenous Talon will restore 30 HP upon each successful hit.

• Fixed the issue where a charging motion was made after performing Watcher, Glide (to the left or right), then Luthraghon's Call.

• The Weight Limit buff given by Value Pack items has been increased.

  • +100 LT → +200 LT

• Fixed the issue where the 3 recipes for the Meat Pasta were different in the Crafting Notes.

• Added a description for the Fluffy Milk Bread which explains that Max HP increases when Health Level increases.

• Added a description about maximum capacity for registrations on the Mount Registration item descriptions for the following Guild items.

  • [Guild] Ship License: Galley

  • [Guild] Registration: Valencia Elephant

  • [Guild] Registration: Cadria Elephant

• You can now exchange Token of Promise items for Dim Magical Armor or Dim Magical sub-weapon.

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

• The AP and HP for the boss monsters for the following Mediah Black Spirit quests have been adjusted.

  • Abandoned Iron Mine Executor: AP +72%, HP +41%

  • Illezra's Servant: AP +76%, HP +34%

  • Awakened Black Spirit: AP +10%, HP -40%, summoned Black Spirit's Energy explosion damage +200%

• The monsters near NPC Horio Tinya at the Abandoned Iron Mine have moved to another area.

• The monster population of Pila Ku Jail has been increased.

• Changed the placements of some of the monsters in the Soldier's Grave area.

• Adjusted the chances of obtaining Scroll Written in Ancient Language when defeating monsters at the Valencia Monster Zone.

  • Bashim Base: +20%

  • Desert Naga Temple: +200%

  • Titium Valley: -10%

  • Crescent Shrine: -10%

  • Gahaz Bandits: -20%

  • Cadry Ruins: +350%

  • Centaurus Herd: +20%

  • Roud Sulfur Mine: +50%

  • Aakman Temple: -15%

  • Hystria Ruins: -30%

[Quest]

• Fixed the issue where you could not properly complete the “What Happened at the Refugee Camp?” quest if you already learned a Knowledge required to complete the quest.

• The NPC for completing the quests below will now be Elgriffin (NOT Margaret).

  • A Secret Strategy of Conciliation

  • Recurrence Prevention

  • Battle of the Elites

• The quest Lost Gift (Adventurer's Tome) has been added.

  • Your character can accept the quest from the Black Spirit if it has completed the quest Black Spirit's Gift (Adventurer's Tome) but does not possess an Adventurer's Tome or Chenga - Sherekhan Tome of Wisdom.

• The Ritual quest has been improved. When talking to Martha Kiyen during the quest, the camera will now show you the way towards the hidden area.

• The quest that needs to be completed in order to be able to interact with an Unstable Crevice, from which you can get Laila's Petal, has been changed.

  • Before: Mysterious Companion

  • After: Into the Sweet Honey Jar
     

[Knowledge]

• Hints have been added for those who do not have yet have Knowledge of the following.

• The issue where the “Enhancement Chance” would appear as 100% when having checked “Force-Enhance” button then checking “Use Cron Stone” button on items of Duo level and above has been fixed.

• Added a description to the “Remove Guild from the Alliance” button in the Guild Alliance tab for the Guild window (G).

• When you need to scroll due to the length of the text at the bottom of the Guild Alliance window, the placement of the descriptions will now be displayed more naturally.

• When you bring the mouse cursor over the buttons at the bottom of the repair screen, the mouse over cursor effect will no longer appear.

• The “Today’s Playtime” and “Time Passed” display in the Accomplishments section of the My Information window will be displayed in two lines when they are long.

• A “?” button which leads to Wiki info page will be displayed in the Recover Max Dur. window.

• Fixed the issue where the Recover Max Dur. window would not be moved when selecting certain areas of the title area of the Recover Max Dur. window.

• Improved the locations of the Sticker UI, BDO Wiki, and Close buttons on the right side of the Inventory window (I).

• The Game Tips, Guild Mount List, and Quick Slot settings window have been revamped.

• Fixed the issue where the text at the bottom of the Pet registration window would bleed out of the text box for certain languages.

• Fixed the issue where a “?” button would be displayed in the Pet registration window.

• The opacity control bar for the Notepad will no longer move after reconnecting to the game.

• The cursor in the chat window will no longer bleed out of the window when typing up a long message.

• The functionality of the certain buttons in the Guild UI have been changed.

  • You should no longer see buttons for the following functions for guild members that are not connected to the server: offer a new contract, whisper, invite to a party, appoint as guild master.

• You can now see what extra, regional quests are available on the left side of the minimap.

• Fixed the issue where the quest information of main quests bled out of their designated windows when they were completed.

• You can now click on complete quests in the quest window to read more about the quest in detail.

• Fixed the issue with button of the quest summary window being shifted in certain situations.

• Added a button which shows your standing while in the Lobby, and the settings and find party button’s locations have been changed.

• Fixed the graphical issue with the Marketplace category icons.
   

[All Classes]

• Fixed the issue where the characters would switch to combat status when equipping certain items while in a non-combat state.

[Warrior]

• Fixed the graphical issue with the underwear that occurred when wearing the Snowflake outfit.
   

[Ranger]

• Fixed the graphical issue on the shoulders that occurred when wearing the Shudad outfit.
   

[Tamer]

• Fixed the graphical issue with Tamer’s feet that occurred when wearing Puff Mini Shoes.
   

[Dark Knight]

• Fixed the graphical issue with the legs that occurred when wearing Arethel Dress, and then Le Vladian Underwear.

[Archer]

• Fixed the graphical issue on the shoulders that occurred while wearing Hunter's Clothes.

• Fixed the graphical issue with the belt on Apprentice Gatherer's Uniform.

• Fixed the graphical issue on the neck that occurred while Apprentice/Skilled/Professional Fisher’s Uniform or Alchemist's Clothes.

[System]

• Fixed the issue where Node benefits would not be applied when the characters were at the underground area of the Gyfin Rhasia Temple.

• Fixed the issue where the wrong message would appear for certain features which have level restrictions.

• Adjusted the camera shaking movement which occurs when the Guild raid monster, Ferrid, dies.

• Fixed the graphical issue with the outline of characters in Crop Mode while using DirectX 11.

• Fixed the issue where the background for the list which appears as a dropdown in the game resolution settings.

[Interface Changes]

• Fixed the issue where the notifications for the Marketplace and Horse Market would not turn off.

• Fixed the issue where the Guild points displayed in the Guild Skills tab within the Guild window (G) would look unnatural.

• Improved the alignment of the Guild Alliance windows.

• Improved navigation within the Calpheon Shrine.

• Improved navigation for the Retrieve a Sealing Stone quest.

• Fixed the graphical issue with the Marketplace category icons.

• Changed the color of the hotkeys that appear during tutorials for new characters, for better visibility.

• Alleviated problems with certain notifications when obtaining an item.
   

[Quests & Knowledge]

• Fixed the issue where the Man of Fortitude could not be attacked. Winning against the Man of Fortitude is one of the quest completion requirements for Arena of Death I.

[Updated 31/01/2019]

[Item]

• Added more comprehensive information to the item tooltips of “golden pouch” items e.g. Golden Pouch of Fortune.

[Shadow Arena] [Dark Knight]

• Removed the CC effect icon from the skill Obsidian Ashes.

• Reduced the skill Lunacy of Vedir’s damage by 20%.

• Replaced the skill Air Strike with Enforcement.

[Shadow Arena] [UI]

• Added a mouseover tooltip for the Black Spirit notification icon, which can be found on the bottom right hand side of the screen.

[Shadow Arena] [Other]

• Fixed the issue where the cutscene that played before each match sometimes played twice.

[Updated 01/02/2019]

[General Fixes/Updates]

• Added a feature in which the Black Spirit lets you know if you completed a main quest, or if you have not yet obtained the quest. This only applies up until Lv. 15.
• Fixed the issue where regions without the Central Market could not exit from the World Map through the ESC key.
• Added a button on the notification icon on the bottom right which opens up the quest window.

[Shadow Arena]

• Fixed the issue where the AP for Kunoichi’s Sub-weapon would not apply.
• Fixed the issue where you obtained Absolute: Divider instead of Dragon Bite for Musa characters.
• Fixed the issue where the beginning animation (where the tower begins to form) would not appear.

• We are aware of an issue where the color for certain dialogue texts occasionally appears wrong.

• We are aware of and currently fixing an issue where skill trait icons for certain skills are not being displayed properly in the Quick Slot in Shadow Arena.

• We are aware that the Guild Master rights and commands are visible to other guild members, however, the buttons are not functional. It will be fixed in future maintenance.
• We are aware of the issue where the play time Challenge event clock resets upon entering Shadow Arena.

[Updated 31/01/2019]

• [Shadow Arena] We are aware of an issue where the AP for Kunoichi’s Sub-weapon is not being applied.

[Updated 01/02/2019]

• [Shadow Arena] We are aware of an issue where you bounce when you are a Black Spirit.
• [Shadow Arena] We are aware of the issue concerning the missing white foggy dome in the waiting area before the actual match of the Shadow Arena that limits the area you can move around in. As we are working on a fix, please do not stride away too far before the match starts from the starting point for the time being.

[Updated 02/02/2019]

• [Shadow Arena] Following condition has been added to the extra reward given for those who are ranked 40th or above. 
  • You must survive in Shadow Arena for more than 5 minutes at least in order to receive the reward.

[Notice]

• Your client may force quit if you are playing BDO while using illegal programs.