Hello, adventurers.

This is The MMORPG, Black Desert.

We’d like to announce the updates made to the Black Desert as of 2018, February 8 (Thursday).

During today’s maintenance, we made such updates as “Ninja” and Enhancement Level PRI, DUO and TRI (Patch volume approx. 798.10 MB)

※ For the details, please refer to the contents below.

● Let’s celebrate Ninja update, We will hold the Event: NINJA LEVEL UP EVENT!

- Event Period : 18/02/08 after maintenance ~ 18/02/22 before maintenance

- Reach specific levels with Ninja and receive rewards!

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● Let’s celebrate Ninja update, We will hold the Event: Collect Assassin's Seals!

- Event Period : 18/02/09 00:00 (GMT+8) ~ 18/02/22 before maintenance

- Play with Ninja, our newest class, and get items!

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● Let’s play BDO, We will hold the Event: Login Reward Event!

- Event Period : 18/02/09 00:00  ~ 18/03/15 23:59 (GMT+8)

- Special login rewards available for adventurers!

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● More enjoy BDO, We will hold the Event: Special Discount Coupon for New Adventurers!

- Event Period : 18/02/08 after maintenance ~

- We welcome you to the exciting world of Black Desert!

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● For your lovely Valentine, We will hold the Event: Romantic Valentine Day Event!

- Event Period : 18/02/08 after maintenance ~ 18/02/22 before maintenance

- Celebrate Valentine day with us!

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● Fixed the issue where the following Classes would activate Black Spirit Illusion if you pressed Z while they are moving in the non-combat stance:

- Sorceress, Tamer, Witch, Wizard and Ninja

● Fixed the issue where the Characters were not following the mouse cursor when the button View was on from Customization.

● Fixed the issue where Emergency Escape intermittently did not work normally while using other Skills.

● Fixed the issue where a Character that used Emergency Escape sometimes would walk towards another Character.

【SORCERESS】

●  Fixed the issue of Karlstein Armor so will be registered on the Marketplace.

【WITCH】

● Fixed the unnatural appearance of the feathers on the back of Cavaro Shoes that appeared when was Sprinting.

● Fixed the graphical glitch for Witch’s Karlstein Outfit arm piece that appeared on combat stance

【TAMER】

● Fixed the graphical glitch on Tamer's lower back while wearing Karlstein Armor.

● The new class 'NINJA' has been added.

- The Ninja is an agile close-quarters combatant. With dashes, aerial skills, and even teleportation, Ninjas can get up close to their opponents alarmingly fast.

- Designed to land precise, deadly strikes, Ninja can conceal themselves until the time is right. When in a fight spot, Ninjas can also make use of stun and debuff techniques to regain the upper hand.

● The Enhancement Level PRI, DUO and TRI has been added to Weapon and Defence Gear.

- When upgrading from PRI to DUO or from DOU to TRI, Concentrated Black Stones will have to be used; Concentrated black stones can be obtained from heating Hard/Sharp Black Crystal Shard and Black Stones.

● Your workers can now do trading on the Marketplace.

● Combat and Skill EXP and Prognyl Silver Bar have been added as reward to some of the recurring quests.

● The Rhutum Outstation Exploration Node Manager NPC, Resting Rhutum, has been fixed so he will no longer be attacked by monsters.

【ITEM】

● The name of some items in Indonesian have been changed to English.

● Descriptions of some item in Indonesian have been polished.

● Some Elixir items have had their Cooldown changed to 10 sec.

- In order to prevent possible ”cooldown” that may arise due to connection delays from issues such as loading time differences depending on unique PC settings and preferences, cooldown of under 1 minute will reset after reconnecting back to the client from the Character Selection screen.

- To not inconvenience our Adventurers because of this change, we have reduced the Cooldown of Elixir items.

- However the cooldown for Elixirs like the Whale Tendon Elixir, Elixir of Deep Sea, and Perfume of Courage have not been changed.

● Chances of getting each items from the following boxes have been changed to be equal to one another:

- Fishing Boat of Abundance Part Box

- High-Quality Wagon Part Box

● The following items' Ranged/Magic Evasion has been reduced by 50% but the same quantity of Melee Evasion has been added.

- Vangertz Shield, Saiyer Ornamental Knot

【QUEST & KNOWLEDGE】

● The Knowledge Sezec Hunter can be learned from talking with NPC Abdul Jaum along with NPC Telshir during the quest The Incompatible Ones.

● Combat and Skill EXP and Prognyl Silver Bar have been added as reward to some of the recurring quests.

【MONSTER】

● Fixed the goat that was stuck in a stone on Goat Mountain, Serendia.

【MOUNT】

● Your horse will stay put if you move further than a certain distance after Calling it.

● Fixed the issue where your Mount could gain EXP from moving to another location via using some of the contents available from the ESC menu.

● The Guild Bonus has been added

- Any Guild with at least 30 members can now distribute Guild Bonus.

- Guild Bonus can be distributed once every seven days, and can be up to 40% of your Guild Funds.

- Guild Bonus can be distributed only by guild masters.

● The Hide Other Character function (Shift + F5) has been adjusted to function appropriately.

● Fixed the issue where Grapple Resistance was not properly applied up to the Max 60%.

【UI】

● A new Mix & Match button has been added to the Pearl Shop.

- If you click the button to activate the Mix & Match function, your Character’s outfit will not change even if you select a outfit set.

- If you select single outfit pieces, you can preview the outfit ensemble you have chosen.

● Description that shows when sitting, laying down, or walking is now displayed regardless of character’s level.

● The message that appears when you are moving in the combat stance saying you should press Tab to change back to the non-combat stance will now only appear for Characters under Lv.30.

● Fixed the issue with scrolling in the Recruit Guild Member section on the Guild window.

● New colors for the Journal have been added to help differentiate the following:

- Title Obtained and Level Achievement (yellow)

- Enhancement Failed and Death (red)

- Enhancement Success (blue)

● Fixed the issue with text about Recovering Maximum Durability appearing in the item tooltip for Lantern items.

● Fixed the issue where scroll button looks abnormal.

● Fixed the issue where the World Chat button was missing from chat window after using the Megaphone.

● The size of tooltips should now adjust to the amount of text within.

【BACKGROUND】

● Fixed the issue with unnatural falling motions Characters made when falling off the bridge handrails near Heidel

● The game world has been decorated in a Valentine’s Day theme.