Global Lab Updates – 4th October 2024

Dosa Awakening

• Ungeom and the Dosa monk, who realized the coexistence of the five elements, have been awakened.
  
  • Awakening Weapon: Sunsword

• All adventurers can pre-experience the Dosa Awakening through the Black Desert Research Institute.

※ Black Desert Research Institute updates and applications may be changed and adjusted when the official server is updated.

GM Note – [Black Desert Global Lab] Pre-play Awakening Dosa, the Master of Elemental Generation!

• With the release of Dosa Awakening, the attack power application ratio during succession and awakening has been changed as follows.
  • Succession: 70% of main weapon attack power and 30% of awakening weapon attack power are applied.
  • Awakening: 70% of the awakening weapon attack power and 30% of the main weapon attack power are applied.

• Following the release of Dosa Awakening, the ‘Tuvala Pendant’ owned by the adventurer’s family was automatically exchanged for the ‘Tuvala Sunsword’.
  • You can check the Tuvala Sunsword in the location (inventory, etc.) where you held the Tuvala Pendant.

• With the release of Dosa Awakening, the ‘Marni Pocket Watch’ owned by the adventurer’s family has been removed.
  • The improvement items used to improve the Marni Pocket Watch will be moved to the warehouse in Heidel City.
    (Improved items: Karanda’s heart, Inverted Heart of Garmoth)

Arena of Solare

• In Arena of Solare content, the stat application ratio and exclusive equipment/crystal modification items have been changed as follows.
  • Among the character’s abilities, the percentage of attack power, damage reduction, accuracy, and evasion applied has been changed from 50% → 100% 
    • Accordingly, the characteristics of attack power, damage reduction, accuracy, and evasion power according to the character’s skills and equipment are more reflected .
  • The enhancement level of all armor has been changed from TET (IV) to PEN (V)
    
  • The Caphras enhancement level for all armor has been changed to level 7 based on PEN (V).
  • Combinated Magic Crystal – Hoom/Macalod Crystal has been changed to Ultimate Combination Magic Crystal – Hoom/Macalod
    

Magic Crystal
Before change	After change
Combined Magic Crystal – Macalod Combined Magic Crystal – Hoom	Ultimate Combined Magic Crystal – Macalod Ultimate Combined Magic Crystal – Hoom
Equipment enhancement level
Before change	After change
Example of enhanced equipment abilities
Before change	After change

Quest, Knowledge Changes

• When completing some Serendia main quests, the mount has been modified to not be automatically called.
• Among the quest icons displayed above NPC heads, only life quests have been modified to display a green border.

Hardcore Server Preperations

• The hardcore server-only prison ‘Arena of the Dead’ has been added to the Cantusa Desert, between Muquin Village and Pila ku Prison in the Valencia Territory
  • This area will be available on official servers first, but you will not be able to enter it.
    • When the hardcore server is opened in the future, it will be used as a place for dead characters to bicker.

• UI usability has been improved when talking to NPCs while using the pad-only UI.
  • When there are new quests and conversations, improvements have been made so that those items can be checked first.
  • It has been improved so that completed quests can be completed by repeatedly pressing a specific key.
  • The issue where the cursor position was unnatural when receiving season pass rewards has been fixed.
• In the case of a UI that expands when pressed, the UI has been improved to expand to the scroll position where the currently selected item is when expanded again.
• During the stable tutorial, guidance on horse recovery has been added.
• In the menu displayed when summoning the Black Spirit (/), the ‘Item Improvement’ item has been changed to ‘Improvement/Refinement’.

• The number of deaths has been modified so that if a vehicle dies during the War of the Roses, the number of deaths does not increase.
• An issue where rewards based on the results of a base battle were received multiple times under certain circumstances has been fixed.
• The issue where the next base war would not proceed when a base war did not proceed in all territories has been fixed.
• Tunkta [Dekia’s Lantern] has been modified so that knowledge can be obtained when defeating monsters that appear in the hunting ground.
• Among the additionally created Lakiaros through the Lakiaro gathering mini-game, the phenomenon in which the Lakiaros of all stages except for the 2nd level regular Lakiaro (thick Lakiaro) disappeared about 2 minutes after appearing has been fixed.
• The names of non-Sarma NPCs that can be encountered near Sarma Forward Base and Sausan Garrison during quests in the Mediah region are displayed above the heads.
• The dialogue and behavior of some characters in Unjongga, Land of the Morning have been improved.
• The movements of a specific character located in Bukpo, Land of the Morning, have been modified to be expressed more naturally.
• The issue where the name of Nine located in Suragan of Gyeongbokgung Palace, Land of the Morning, was displayed as Musa has been corrected.
• The issue where the camera looked through the Sky Carriage during spectator mode while riding the Sky Carriage has been fixed.
• The issue where invisible ash trees existed in the eastern border area of ​​Serendia has been fixed.
• The issue where unnatural objects were floating in the air at certain locations in the Sherekhan Tomb area has been fixed.
• The issue where the quest icon did not disappear from the world map (M) despite completing the ‘[Processing] Pride of Bear Village’ quest has been fixed.
• The issue where the same dialogue was displayed repeatedly during the quest ‘[Blackstar Weapon] To the Altar of the Dead God’ has been fixed.
• An issue where the direction of the arrow in the item tooltip showing the next enhancement level was reversed when checking the registered item in the equipment enhancement window has been fixed.
• When applying the production base filter on the world map (M), the phenomenon where the territory classification filter was only displayed up to the O’dyllita territory has been corrected.