• The ‘injured soldier’ ​​near Quint Hill has been changed so that it is not attacked by monsters.

 

[Saunil Camp]

•  <Sharp> Saunil Siege Captain roars and uses a pattern that deals less damage than before.
• The red intensity of the attack projectile color of the Saunil Siege Tower has been reduced
•  The following changes have been applied to the Hwacha
  
  •  The arrow’s projectile speed and damage have been increased, and the number of arrows has been increased.
  • The rate of fire has been significantly reduced compared to before.

• When a Hexe soldier is killed, there is a chance that a <lost soul> skeleton warrior will appear.
  • The <Lost Soul> Skeleton Warrior approaches the adventurer and explodes, inflicting damage to the adventurer and monsters, and reducing the adventurer’s movement speed, attack speed, and casting speed.

[Elvia Distortion]

• Shadow Warrior, Shadow Caster, Shadow Archer, and Gigagod have been renamed as follows.
  • Shadow Warrior → <Shadow of Nightmare> Kitskala
  • Shadow Caster → <Shadow of Nightmare> Calestra
  • Shadow Archer → <Shadow of Nightmare> Shafeng
  • Gigagord → <Shadow of Nightmare> Gigagord
• <Shadow of Nightmare> Knowledge has been added so that you can acquire related knowledge when defeating Kitsukala, Kalestra, Shafeng, and Gigagod.

• The weight of miscellaneous items that can be obtained after defeating monsters (Kitskala, Kalestra, Shafeng, Gigagord, Ogre, One-Eyed Giant) that appeared in Elvia Distortion has been reduced.
  • ‘Shadow torn apart’ weight: 0.3LT → 0.1LT
• The numbers of Kitsukala, Kalestra, and Shafeng appearing in Elvia’s distortion have been reduced.
• <Shadow of Nightmare> The time it takes for Gigagod, Ogre, and One-Eyed Giant to disappear has been increased from 5 minutes to 10 minutes.
• <Shadow of Nightmare> The following changes have been applied to the one-eyed giant.
  • The pattern of eating food and increasing defense when health is less than 10% has been removed.
  • A pattern that eats food and increases attack power when health is below 30% has been added.
  • When swinging the weapon 360 degrees, it has been improved to avoid the attack by moving behind the one-eyed giant.
•  <Shadow of Nightmare> The flame summoned by Gigagod has been improved so that it does not knock down the adventurer.

Music Album/Music Composition

Improved composing convenience

•  Shortcut keys have been added for quick access to the following functions while composing.
  • Edit mode: E (edit)
  • Selection mode: S (select)
  • Music play/pause: Space Bar (Available only when notes are registered.)
  • Delete note: Delete (Available only when a note is selected by dragging the mouse in selection mode.)

 

• The background of the composition window has been improved so that you can conveniently check the notes while composing.
  • The background color of the composition window has been changed to the color corresponding to each key so that the white and black keys can be distinguished immediately.
  • A white dividing line has been added so that you can immediately see the note of each octave.

 

• The note copy & paste function has been improved to make it more convenient to use copy & paste while composing.

1.  In the selection mode, you can copy notes by selecting the notes you want and pressing Ctrl + C.
2. After copying the note, you can paste the note by selecting the timeline at the top and pressing Ctrl + V.
3. If you set the note interval (1/4 to 1/64) in the note properties, you can specify the timeline more precisely and then paste.
4. After copying notes, you can paste them on other instruments in the same way.
   • ※ In the case of instruments that support the same playing method, copy & paste is also applied to the playing method.
5. When pasting a note, the scroll bar automatically moves to the pasted timeline.
6. If you paste a note incorrectly, you can remove the pasted note again with the Delete key while the note is selected.

 

•  The note movement function has been improved to make it more convenient to use note movement while composing.
  • The range that can be moved by moving after selecting multiple notes in selection mode has been improved.
  • * When moving selected notes, you can move notes even if they go beyond the area of ​​the currently displayed composition screen.
  • Improvements have been made so that the note selection status is not canceled even after moving the notes, and notes can be moved again.
  • When a part of a note is out of the composition screen, the note length is reduced by that part.
  • * Ex) If the selection is released while the note is moved to the left so that only half of it is visible, the note will be cut as far as it is out.
  • However, notes will be removed if they are out of the range of the instrument or if the selection mode is turned off.

 

• A note duplication function has been added so that you can conveniently apply the same note to another instrument while composing.
  • You can duplicate notes and octaves with other instruments by selecting ‘Duplicate’ from the detailed instrument menu on the left side of the composition window.
  • You can add instruments to be applied by duplicating notes from the menu.
  • Notes in a range not supported by the duplicated instrument are not applied.

 

[Composition TIP] In the composition window, you can scroll the score horizontally by operating Shift+mouse wheel (up/down).

Monster Changes

• The camera shake effect of Vodkan and Khalkish in Hystria Ruins has been improved naturally.
• The camera focus effect of Atoraxion – Sycrakea Phisesis has been improved naturally.

 

• Mirumok Watchers and Keepers have been changed so that they can be killed after all monsters have been summoned.
  • The health of Mirumok Watcher and Keeper has been reduced by 400% compared to before.
  • If you fail to kill within a certain amount of time, Mirumok Watcher and Watchman explode and inflict damage.

 

• The world boss Nouver has been changed to keep his flight status shorter and come down to the ground faster.

※ The following changes cannot be checked at the Black Desert Research Lab and will be updated on the official server.  <Despair> Gyfin Rasia Killer has been improved to appear near the Tower of Transitioners.

UI Changes – Item Drop Rate Display

•  A UI has been added to check the currently applied item collection increase.
• You can check it in the Item Collection Increase Scroll UI and Battle Information in My Information Window (P).
• ※ Base investment benefits that are probabilistically activated are not included in the total display, and do not apply beyond the maximum.

My Information Window (P)	Increase Item Drop Rate Scroll UI

 

• Improvements have been made so that the value for each stage is displayed in the tooltip information for potential stats in the My Info window.

Level Stat	Explanation
Attack speed	As you level up, your attack speed increases. Level 1: 5% Level 2 : 9% Level 3: 12% Level 4: 15% Level 5: 20%
Movement speed	As you level up, your movement speed increases. Level 1: 5% Level 2 : 9% Level 3: 12% Level 4: 15% Level 5: 20%
Critical Hit	As you level up, your critical strike chance increases. Level 1: 5% Level 2 : 9% Level 3: 12% Level 4: 15% Level 5: 18%
Fishing	As you level up, the fishing time decreases.  Level 0: 15% Level 1: 30% Level 2: 35% Level 3: 40% Level 4: 45% Level 5: 50%
Gathering	As you level up, all gathering times are reduced. Level 1: 25% Level 2: 45% Level 3: 60% Level 4: 70% Level 5: 75%
Luck	As the level goes up, the item drop rate increases. Level  1: 2.5% Level 2: 5.0% Level 3: 7.5% Level 4: 10% Level 5: 12.5%

 

•  My character and monster’s name / health gauge view function has been separated from each other.
  • Menu (ESC) – Settings (F10) – Game Settings – In the Game Settings – View menu, you can set the name view and health gauge view status respectively.

Other Changes

Quest, Knowledge

• A place to acquire knowledge that could not be acquired after the main quest reorganization has been added.
  • Ancient Stone Chamber and Ethan: Received rewards after completing the quest ‘[Balenos] Fragment of Memory’ or acquired by talking to Black Spirit
  • Receive rewards after completing the quest ‘[Balenos] Infected: Bartali Family’ or obtain through Black Spirit conversation

 

 

Backgrounds, NPCs, Effects, Cutscenes

• It has been improved so that it does not swim when moving to a short character such as Shai in a specific location in the southern swamp area.

 

Bug Fixes

• The problem that the chat window arrangement looked awkward when entering a specific character string into the chat window has been fixed
• The phenomenon that characters could climb on certain trees in the Ogier River has been fixed.
• [Winter Mountain] The phenomenon that the character could not move intermittently after the ‘Going to the End’ cutscene has been fixed.
• Fixed the issue where the character fell into the well when rolling forward on the cover of the well in Bartali Farm.
• The phenomenon that party members and guild members wearing camouflage clothes were displayed as adventurers with hidden identities when the character outline view option was turned off has been fixed.
• The typo in some lines of the quest ‘Return, Inheritance of the Legend… Prelude to Hunting’ has been corrected.
• The phenomenon that the suitcase could not be moved to the warehouse when the Great Marni’s Stone was stored in Clorin’s Travel Bag has been fixed.
• The phenomenon that floating water was temporarily stopped when using the Pearl Shop, Dyeing Window, or Skill Window while floating has been fixed.
• The phenomenon in which the icon indicating that the appearance cannot be changed is not displayed when using the customization with the appearance change impossible setting applied in the beauty album has been fixed.
• In the drop item information, the phenomenon that Naban Meadow’s acquisition item information was awkward has been fixed.

Class Changes

Warrior

• The damage of the Black Spirit: Solar Flare IV skill has been changed. (PvP damage is the same as before.)
  • 1 hit damage: 1541% x 2, max 3 hits → 1730% x 2, max 3 hits
  • Last hit damage 1541% x 20 → 1730% x 20
  • PvP damage reduction rate: 60.9% → 65.2%

 

Ranger

• Fixed the issue where the defense increase buff effect was not applied when using the skill Black Spirit: Elven Rage too quickly.

 

 

Sorceress

• The stamina consumption of the Violation I~III skills has been changed.
  • Endurance consumption: 300 → 200

 

•  Shadow Leap skill’s endurance consumption has been changed.
  • Endurance consumption: 200 → 150

 

• Changed so that the fragments of darkness do not recover when the Prime: Crow Flare skill is successful.

※ These changes have been modified during the adjustment process of the Black Desert Research Lab.

• The phenomenon in which the fragment of darkness was consumed twice under certain circumstances when using the Core: Violation skill has been corrected.
• Fixed the issue where the attack range did not increase when using the Succession: Beak Kick skill by consuming a fragment of darkness.
• Fixed the issue where the character stopped when trying to use the Flow: Night Crow skill in awakening without acquiring the skill.

 

 

Berserker

•  Added information about applying the forward guard effect when using the Lava Piercer or Prime: Lava Piercer skill in connection with the skills below.
  • Evasion, Succession: Weakling Hunt, Prime: Beastly Wind Slash, Prime: Tackling Rock
    

 

• Fixed the issue where the skill specialization was not applied to the first hit when using the Black Spirit: Devastation skill.

※ The following changes cannot be checked at the Black Desert Research Lab and will be updated on the official server.  The skill specialization stage of the Prime: Fearsome Tyrant skill has been changed to stage 2 and the skill specialization stage of the Raging Thunder skill has been changed to stage 3. When a successful Headbutt hit is applied has been changed so that the effect of increasing the melee hit rate is applied immediately upon the first hit. It has been improved so that Ultimate: Frenzied Destroyer can be linked smoothly with Prime: Devastation, Evasion, Shake Off, Flow: Windstorm. Fixed the bug in which the Weakling Hunt skill was preferentially activated when trying to link with the Prime: Predatory Hunt and Weakling Hunt skills.

 

 

Tamer

• The following changes have been applied to the Legendary Beast Dance skills
  
  • Legendary Beast Dance: Vermillion Bird, Legendary Beast Dance: Azure Dragon, Legendary Beast Dance: White Tiger, Legendary Beast Dance: Black Turtle skills have been integrated into one skill again.
  • * As a result, Core: Legendary Beast Dance has been integrated into one skill.
  • If you right-click the mouse after acquiring the Core skill, the cooldown time of the skill will be applied after the first activation.
  • The cooldown time of the Legendary Beast Dance I ~ IV skills has been changed.
    • * Cooldown time: 6/5/4/3 seconds → 7/6/5/4 seconds
  • The number of hits in the Legendary Beast Dance: Vermillion Bird has been increased by 2.
  • The number of hits in the Legendary Beast Dance: Azure Dragon and Legendary Beast Dance: White Tiger stances has been increased by 1.
  • The attack range of Legendary Beast Dance: Black Turtle has been increased.

 

• New skill – Legendary Beast Dance: Assimilation skill has been added.
  • When the enhanced state is activated, different skills are strengthened according to the Legendary Beast Dance skill
    

•  The following skills will be strengthened while in the Vermillion Bird state
  
  • Garuda, Flow: Ascension
    
    • Enhanced Effect: Increases attack range, deals 80 burn damage every 3 sec for 9 sec upon successful hit

Normal	Enhanced

※ The above skill effects cannot be checked at the Black Desert Research Lab and will be updated on the official server.

• The following skills are strengthened while in the Black Turtle state
  
  •  Allround Spinner, Flow: Soaring Strike
    • Enhanced effect: Increases all defense by 20 for 10 seconds when using skills, recovers 40 HP for each successful hit

Normal	Enhanced

※ The above technical effects cannot be checked at the Black Desert Research Lab and will be updated on the official server.

• The following skills are enhanced when in Azure Dragon status.
  • Moonlight Strike
    
    • Enhanced effect: Movement distance increase, movement/attack/cast speed decrease by 10% for 10 seconds upon successful hitting
  • Flow: Full Moon
    
    • Enhanced effect: 10% movement/attack/cast speed reduction for 10 seconds upon successful hitting

Normal	Enhanced

※ The above skill effects cannot be checked at the Black Desert Research Lab and will be updated on the official server.

• The following skills are strengthened when in Backhoe status.
  • Beast Rampage
    
    • Enhanced Effect: Decreases defense for 10 seconds upon successful hitting 10
  • Flow: Intimidation
    • Enhanced Effect: Increases the hit rate by 15% for 10 seconds upon successful hitting

Normal	Enhanced

※ The above skill effects cannot be checked at the Black Desert Research Lab and will be updated on the official server.

• The attack range of the 1st and 2nd hits of the Celestial Slam skill has been changed to be the same as the last hit.
• When the ↑↑ key is pressed in the awakening state, the forward evasive movement skill is activated instead of the Legendary Beast’s Power skill, and it has been changed to switch to the pre-awakening state.
  • Existing Legendary Beast’s Power skill can be activated in the same way by pressing shift + space bar.

 

• The damage of the Black Spirit: Allround Spinner IV skill has been changed. (PvP damage is the same as before.)
  • Strike damage: 1616% x 12 → 1800% x 12
  • Additional hit damage: 1616% x 13 → 1800% x 13
  • PvP damage reduction rate: 40.5% → 46.6%

 

 

Musa

•  The damage of the Black Spirit: Prime: Dragon Bite IV skill has been changed as follows. (PvP damage is the same as before.)
  • Hit damage: 1113% x 4, max 9 hits → 1250% x 4, max 9 hits
  • PvP damage reduction rate: 60.5% → 64.8%

 

Kunoichi

• It has been improved so that the character rotates along the camera when using the Prime: Danse Macabre skill in connection with other skills.
• Tendon Cutter I~Absolute level skill’s endurance consumption has been changed.
  • Endurance consumption: 300 → 200
• The Kunai Block skill has been improved so that it does not consume stamina in the starting motion.

 

 

 

Dark Knight

• Prime: Obsidian Ashes has been changed as follows.
  • The movement speed of the projectile has been increased.
  • Dusk, Chain: Dusk, Succession: Hallucination Trap (new skill) has been improved to link smoothly after the skill.

 

• The duration of the trap that appears when using Hallucination Trap (new skill) has been deleted and changed to explode immediately after the skill is activated.
• When ← or → + F is input, Hallucination Trap (new skill) has been changed to be activated before Unveiled Dagger.
  
• While using other skills, it has been improved to link smoothly with Hallucination Trap (new skill).
  
• Critical Chance +50% effect that only applies to monsters has been added to the skill Cluster of Despair
  
• The effect of Critical Strike Chance +40% that only applies to monsters of the Grip of Grudge skill has been changed to 50%.
• Illusion Sword Critical Strike Chance +30% effect that was applied only to monsters of the Soul Snatch skill has been removed.
• The damage of Black Spirit: Spirit’s Legacy I~III skills has been changed as follows. (PvP damage is the same as before.)
  • Strike damage: 1600% x 25 → 1800% x 25
  • Damage reduction rate in PvP: 70.9% → 74.1%
• The phenomenon that only the Chain: Dusk skill is activated and Hallucination Trap (new skill) is not activated when using the Hallucination Trap skill from a slope to a low place has been corrected.
• The phenomenon that the stamina was not consumed when using Hallucination Trap (new skill) when the Dusk, Chain Dusk skill was on cooldown has been corrected.
•  When the Dusk, Chain Dusk skill is on cooldown, the phenomenon where you could not move the trap when using the skill Succession: Hallucination Trap (new skill) has been fixed.

 

 

Mystic

• The phenomenon in which the number of hits of the normal hit and the Dragon Strike is applied by 1 less when using the Rising Dragon skill after acquiring the Core: Rising Dragon skill has been corrected.

 

 

Lahn

• Skills with additional damage to the guard gauge (guard break) have been changed from Prime: Blade Dance skills to Prime: Cymbidium skills.

 

 

Guardian

•  The damage of Black Spirit: Prime: Claw Reveal has been changed as follows. (PvP damage is the same as before.)
  • Hit damage: 1666% x 6, up to 4 hits → 1875% x 6, up to 4 hits
  • Damage reduction rate in PvP: 62.3% → 66.5%
• Fixed the issue where the Accuracy Increase buff effect was not applied when quickly linking the Black Spirit: Cleansing Flame skill
  
• Fixed the issue where Omua’s Objurgation skill was activated first when ↑ + right-clicking after the God Incinerator skill, instead of the Frigid Wind skill.

 

Nova

• The skill description of the Accel: Royal Fencing: Remise skill has been changed to match the actual effect.
  • Swipe 1,2 Hit Damage, Hit Hit Damage, Last Hit Damage: 1273% → 1373%
•  PvP damage reduction rate of Accel: Royal Fencing: Remise skills has been changed.
  • PVP damage reduction rate: 66% → 68%

※ This change is a corrected description of the phenomenon in which the actual damage was displayed differently during the adjustment process of the Black Desert Research Lab.

 

 

Sage

•  Fixed the issue where the appearance of Kiv was awkwardly exposed when linking the following skills during basic attack.
  • Form Shift, Illusion Compression, Ator’s Energy
    
• When the Bolt skill is on cooldown, the Rift Chain skill has been improved so that it can be activated in Kibelius state.

 

• The following defense judgment effects are applied when Spear Bolt, Flow: Aftershock is used.
  • At the start of the skill: Super Armor
  • When Disappeared: Invincible
  • When Appeared: Super Armor

 

• The Spear Bolt, Flow: Aftershock skill’s stiffness effect has been changed to apply only to monsters.
• The effect of the Core: Spear Bolt skill has been changed.
  • Skill Effect: Front guard when using skill → Knock down on successful charge attack
• The front guard effect of the Shock Relay skill has been removed.
• It has been improved to return to the starting position of the skill after using Impaling Flash.

 

 

Corsair

• The skill Cap’n’s Orders: Open Fire! that is activated after using the skill Cap’n’s Orders: Cease Fire! has been changed to a key input form instead of ‘automatically activated’
  • After using The skill Cap’n’s Orders: Open Fire!, you must press the F key or ‘hold it’ to link to the Cap’n’s Orders: Cease Fire!
    
  • After using the Cap’n’s Orders: Open Fire! skill, it can be quickly canceled/linked to another skill depending on the situation, or into Cap’n’s Orders: Cease Fire!
    

 

• It has been improved so that you can activate Wave-breaker Patraca in the state of the main weapon. Triggers when the Whirling Slash skill is on cooldown or locked.
• It has been improved so that Riding Waves, Flow: Wave Skedaddle can be linked with the Wave-breaker Patraca skill.
  

 

• The linkage of the Heart-catcher Patraca skill has been improved.
  • You can link faster and more naturally than before after using the Crow’s Mark, Wind-piercer Patraca, and Wave-breaker Patraca skills.

 

• Cap’n’s Orders: Open Fire! Skill activation speed has been increased.
  • However, the Core: Cap’n’s Orders: Open Fire! activation speed is the same as before.