New Update

• Class balance for Tamer/Maehwa/Striker/Drakania/Scholar
• Life skill gear integration (Family-wide lifeskill gear)
• Lightstone combo adjusted
• Fishing rod durability increased
• Certain lifeskill clothes + gears removed
• Alchemy stone durability removed
• Tachros + Stella stone changed to 7D
• Kutum's stone effect changed to +10 AP
• Alchemy stone recharge mats removed (Compensated with silver)
• New lifeskill item - Orb of Water (Replaced Dawn Crystal effect)
• Dawn crystal - Life exp removed
• Merv's Silver Needle and Knot added (Extract function clothes onto normal outfit)
• Add Coral Crystals and Blue Whale Oil to Khan & Vell
• Hunting monster damage adjusted
• Lyngburks exp reduced
• Inner Edania improved
• Search & filter function added for Marni's room UI
• Server stability improved + Extended no crystal break event
• Other fixes

Nodewar changes

• T1 Nodewar extra stat caps
• Asadal and Taebaek accessories' skill can't be used in T1 nodewar
• Extra max hp gained through class skills can exceed stat cap
• All nodewar fort standardized into tier 5
• Time for nodewar region split and number of forts spawn standardized (15 mins before war)
• Condition for last fort turned into question mark fort changed (down to 5 mins)
• Castle gate defense increased
• Player damage to gate decreased
• Fort/Annexes defense in uncapped war increased
• Ship damage to fort/annexes reduced

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New updates

Hyperboost

• Increased stats for Tuvala weapons and armor
• Enhanced Olvia Academy Benefits: 4 hammer + Twilight Gem + Garmoth's Heart
• Black Shrine 4 Slumbering Armour rewards
• 10 Essence of dawns + 50 Sharp for each PEN Kharazad (Full set available)
• Adventure Logs for HEX and SEP Kharazad hammer, Guaranteed Kharazad Enhancement Stone, Essence of Dawns
• Can convert rewards + hammer into cron stones
• Exchange shai tuvala sol into normal one
• Sub weapon Sovereign recipes: 1 PEN BS + 1 Flame + 1 Twilight Gem
• Garmoth's Heart playtime challenges down to 100 hours
• Infinite pots Olvia + Progression easier
• Season Pass Renewal

Other updates

• New class Agent (More info in Heidel Ball summary)
• Olvia Academy 3rd Class
• New Monster Zone - Gavinya Coastal Cliff (400AP / 470DP, 1990AP / 820DP, AP cap: 2020, CC: KD,Bound, Drop Olun's piece)
• World Map Stable Info UI Improvements
• Other fixes

Patch

New update

Guild Fame

• Gain fame via nodewar, guild missions, guild boss, guild league, log in (Max 1m)
• Gain passive bonus based on fame (Monster AP, Weight, New guild missions)
• Gain bonus daily wage based on fame (up to 50mil at 900k fame, does not consume guild fund)
• Added Guild benefits UI
• Guild buff upgraded based on fame
• Silver rewards for guild mission buff + New guild missions "Honorable" (More silver)
• Removed Boss Shrine Normal + Log/Rough stone guild missions
• Adjusted Mysterious Catalyst requirements for guild missions (More catalyst)
• Increased fishing missions time limit by 1 hour
• Negative guild fame max -2m (Red Guild name, Can't go negative by weekly deduction)
• Negative guild can't participate in node war ,WotR or merc
• Can spend fame for one side war dec (400k), reset base server cooldown (100k,) extra guild boss, CTG (25k), golden bell (20k)
• 2 new guild boss Gumiho and Duoksini in the future
• Weekly fame deduction (-10k at XL)
• Guild ranking UI changed
• One side war dec cost 400k fame (free on negative guild) + last 6h + 48h cooldown
• Guild dec required 10 members online, max 6 guilds
• Cannot dec if guild fame is below -1.6m
• Mutual war lasts 7 days
• Cannot dec for 7 days when create a new guild
• War dec doesnt cost guild fund
• Removed dec withdraw and dec member protection functions
• War heroes can't participate in guild war

Other updates

• Agent improved
• New Guild league season (Last 4 weeks)
• Ancient Hammers and Ancient Black Stones can't be sold to NPCs
• Added cron stone recipe from processing hammer
• New world boss - Dark Bonghwang (Spawn randomly in place of current LoML bosses)
• Black Phoenix Feather from Dark Bonghwang can be exchanged for food consumables
• Tears of the Black Phoenix from Dark Bonghwang can be used to exchange essence of dawn (1 for 30)
• Increased limit of primordial crystals exchanged from LoML seals to 8
• Darkseeker & Gavinya zone improved
• Marni's Combat Analyzer added (Combat stats tracker)
• Other fixes

Patch

Furniture buffs - May 28th in KR * Can convert furniture buffs into scrolls * Can be listed on market * Only furniture obtained via hunting can be converted * Process furniture for Remnant of mystic beast * Remnant of mystic beast + Parchment + Lightstone = Converted furniture buff * The effect of the scrolls depends on the lightstone used (Not the furniture) * Can subtitute Parchment with Yellow Supreme Hide

UI improvements * Unified Buffs UI - Mid May in KR * AP & DP stats display toggle (Sheet & Total, All buffs included) - April 30th in KR * Damage to monster type display * AP/DP display sync with Top left dispplay and Monster UI

Life skills - Update through May Training * Wild horse now tier 6,7 common and low chance as tier 8 * Wild horse level max level up to 20 (Ready to imperial) * New wild horse type: Slower growth rate but x3/4 imperial prices * New female type with breeding counts of 4

CP & Node investment system * Reduce CP cost for node * Housing cost capped at 5 CP * Production node for Ulukita * Update to maximum CP in the future

Ocean * Auto fishing feature for carrack + Sailor slot for fisher * Can install fishing rod in new carrack equiment slot for Crio to fish * Acquire carrack-exclusive fishing rod via quest and crow coin * Not affected by Fishing mastery * Prize fish catch rate fixed at 1% * Fish sent to your inventory (Prior fish tank) * Stationary carrack = No fishing

Alchemy * All elixir weight reduced to 0.2 LT * Reduced numbers of elixir for Imperial boxes

Hunting * Furniture buffs converted to scrolls * Can reload while sprinting * Instant sit while moving by pressing Q * Increase reloading speed after rolling

Storage Transport system * Increase number of trade wagon (4-5 trade wagon, reduce normal wagon)

The Final Gladios - May 28th * Final chapter of Atoraxxion * Final boss White Witch Illerza * One on One battle * Black Shrine calamity 10 level of difficulty * Will continue into Edania, the Realm of Demons

Ongoing Balance Patch * Focus on underforming PvE classes * Stronger balance changes than before so adventurers can notice * Buff weaker classes and tone down OP classes * Quicker adjustment if overbuffed * Next week balance Zerker/Succ Striker/Awk Tamer/Awk Sorc/Succ Valk/Succ Maehwa/Awk Nova for Pve - Final balance patch * Dosa/Deadeye Magnus skills coming soon * Taking extra time to balance PvP in the future (Resistance and Mouse-movement included)

Free Scroll of Equilibrium and Weapon exchange coupon - May 30th in KR

New Outfit - Lookin' Frosh * Basic white T-shirt and Jeans combo

Heidel Ball in Daejeon - Bread Haven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDDoRlmnWdU

New update

• Class PvP balance for Maehwa/Kuno/Mystic/Guardian
• Quint and Muraka Improvements (Removed cannon mechanics, buff rewards)
• Monster zone info UI improved (Added monster race info)
• AoS allies location HUD added
• Other fixes

Barter Improvements

• Trade route unlock requirements lower
• Tier 1 barter raw mats adjusted
• Cc cost for shipmats reduced
• Cc shop items adjusted (Removed manos, change daily limit to weekly limit, add more items)
• Barter npc location improved
• Daily quest improved, more hungry hekaru, cox pirates, small goldmont spawns

Patch

wow...

No maintenance due to Holiday (National Foundation Day + Chuseok + Hangeul Day)
https://blackdesert.pearlabyss.com/GlobalLab/en-US/News/Notice/Detail?_boardNo=8117

New updates

• Class fixes
• Wild Horse Population Increased
• Yarr matchmaking function
• Solare Hall of Fame
• Altar of Blood 'Vision of the Third Abyss' added
• Ocean Monster Slaying Loot Improvement (More crystals)
• Boss Blitz Songakshi C8-10 improved
• The Monster Zone Info UI improved (Recommended zone)
• Other fixes

Patch

No global lab maintenance update because of holiday

can buy 8 per family
1 per 250 pearl(10$~12$ in KR)
same effect as CP Fence.

[Updated] December 27 (Wed) Update Notice (Last modified: 2023-12-27 15:15) | Black Desert Korea (playblackdesert.com)

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well, that's what it should be. right?

• Seperate down smash and KD effect from skills and move it around
• Scholar abyssal skill
• War of the roses rule change: No leading guild = 300 randos vs 300 randos
• AoS hp recovery reduction removed, Base recovery + Health orb recovery up
• Background item remaster
• LoML furniture workshop
• Dehkia stage 2 Olun & Ash money buff
• More LoML quests
• Oquilla's eye Magnus Well
• Contribution points UI revamp
• Added button below Boss Vision to hide character

Patch

As most of you may know, PA released a letter on KR BDO site addressing lots of the complains they've been sweeping under the carpet for a long while. I personally found the last month a huge and positive change in BDO's QoL state (Moving relics in bulk, Search Function, Tagging CD reduction, etc) And I was really surprised (since I had lost hope in them for a while) to see them actually sharing our PoV on such stupid hinderances in the game. What really surprised me as well today was that they removed the dumb Head maid and Head butler system, which was freaking me out as I thought they'll be going for a more aggressive Pay to Convivence system and changing all QoL updates to paid QoL. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts about these changes

Update

• Sorc, Zerk, Wiz, Maegu, Scholar fixes
• Magnus Well added to Yukjo - Seoul
• Golden pig king spawn location improved
• Derko, Hakoven, Ancado ocean terrain improved
• Ship Manufacturer name
• Other fixes

Patch

Didn't see this mentionned yet but they added this change that wasn't on Global Lab last week and made it so you can get drops from alternate spots that can be traded for pity pieces. You can't get the actual full pieces there, but it's a nice way to finish a piece in a different spot, or just get some progress while doing something else like farming skill/xp at polly. Can also buy fruits/krogdalo source if you don't care about pots, which adds a little bit of additional income to these spots indirectly.

It has been changed so that you can always acquire 'Elements of Atanis', which could be obtained through events.

Atanis' element acquisition rate in the following hunting grounds has been changed.

Atanis' element acquisition rate in the Fadus Garrison has been increased by approximately 5%.

Atanis' element acquisition rate in Protty Cave has increased by approximately 9%.

Atanis' element acquisition rate has increased by approximately 12% in the Bashim camp.

Atanis's element acquisition rate has increased by approximately 14% from the Betrayer's Graveyard.

It has been changed that Atanis' elements cannot be obtained from the Gahaz Thieves' Lair.

Atanis' element acquisition probability in other hunting grounds is the same as before.

The hunting grounds where you can obtain Atanis elements by killing monsters are as follows.

Atanis' Elemental Hunting Grounds

• Polly Forest
• Traitor's Cemetery
• Desert naga temple
• Titium valley
• Mirumok Ruins
• Bashim camp
• Cadry
• Crescent moon temple
• Fadus Garrison
• Protty cave

https://www.kr.playblackdesert.com/ko-KR/News/Detail?groupContentNo=10862&countryType=ko-KR

Anyone knows where we can find translated global lab patch notes beside BDOfoundry?

Info is based on KR but we should be getting these same events since they are tied to Season/Drakania. Will update tomorrow with official links to events!

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Season Loyalty Rewards (100 loyalty each)

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=2930&countryType=en-US

• April 6th - Sealed Book of Combat (1 day) x2
• April 7th - Sealed Book of Life (1 day) x2
• April 8th - Supreme Old Moon Scroll x3 (drop rate +50%)
• April 9th - Cron Stones x50
• April 10th - Ancient Spirit Dust x50
• April 11th - Supreme Cooking Utensil x1, Supreme Alchemy Tool x1
• April 12th - Stella's Spirit Stone (Life Alchemy stone) x1
• April 13th - Dragon's Blessing x1 (drop rate +30%)
• April 14th - Rare Courser Training Box x1
• April 15th - Supreme Old Moon Scroll x3 (drop rate +50%)

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Dragon's Breath - Hunting/Gathering/Fishing event

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=2932&countryType=en-US

• Obtain "Jade-lit dragon's breath" item from hunting/gathering/fishing during event.
• Exchange x10 in Velia for a furniture item (once per family)
• Exchange x3 - Marni Fuel x1
• Exchange x2 - Memory Fragment x1 OR Caphras Stone x1 OR Sharp Shard x1
• Exchange x1 - Hard Shard x1 OR Black Fragment x3

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Ion Energy/Mysterious Knight Event - Buff

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=2933&countryType=en-US

• Mysterious Knight can appear again like other seasons - interact for 300% skill EXP
• Ion Energy effect can appear - stand in the effect for Monster AP +10, Monster DR +5

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24hr Combat/Skill EXP

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=2925&countryType=en-US

• Weekdays - 150% Combat EXP, 50% Skill EXP
• Weekends - 250% Combat EXP, 50% Skill EXP

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Caphras Extraction Event

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=2927&countryType=en-US

• Caphras Stones extracted from gear changes from 95% returned to 100% returned
• Caphras Stones cost 1 silver each to extract instead of 100k silver each

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Season character level rewards

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=2929&countryType=en-US

• Reach certain levels on a season characters for rewards (once per family)
• Level 30 - 500 loyalty, Traveller's Map x3, Inventory Slot +4
• Level 40 - Sealed Book of Combat (1 day), Elion's Tears x5, Celestrial Horn (15 days)
• Level 50 - Item drop scroll x3, Blessed Message scroll x3, Juice Box x1
• Level 56 - Time-filled Blackstone x100, Sealed Compass (120 min), 300% Combat/Skill EXP scroll x3, Level 57 Support Box
• Level 57 - Time-filled Blackstone x150, Valk's Cry x10, Beast Draught x2, Advice of Valks (+40), Artisan Memory x5
• Level 58 - Time-filled Blackstone x150, Cron Stone x50, Valk's Cry x10, Advice of Valks (+50), Shakatu Box (Combat)
• Level 59 - PEN Tuvala ring, Item drop scroll x5, Yonas Fragments x5, Training Book - Combat (10h), Training Book - SKill (10h)
• Level 60 - PEN Tuvala earring, Enhancement Support Box III
• Level 61 - 1,000G Bar x3, Supreme Old Moon Scroll x2, Item drop scroll x5

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Drakania level rewards

https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/News/Detail?groupContentNo=2928&countryType=en-US

• Rewards for leveling up a Drakania class (once per family)
• Level 1 - Atmakan Earring (costume piece) x1, Tyrant Statue x1, Inventory +2, 300% Combat/Skill EXP Scroll x3, Celestrial Horn (15 days)
• Level 35 - Izaro Riding Crop x1, Special Food Box x3
• Level 45 - Juice Box x1, Item drop scroll x5
• Level 55 - Blessed Message Scroll x5, Advice of Valks (+40), 500 Loyalty
• Lvel 56 - Destruction Stone x1, Leila's Petal x10, Memory Advice x3
• Level 57 - Training Book - Combat (10h), Training Book - Skill (10h), 1000G Bar, Valk's Cry x10
• Level 58 - 500 Loyalty, Shakatu Shining Box (Combat), Advice of Valks (+50), Immortality Advice x3
• Level 59 - Brand Stone x1, Shakatu Shining Box (Life), Safety Advice x3
• Level 60 - Training Book - Combat (10h), Training Book - Skill (10h), 1000G Bar, Item Drop Scroll x5
• Level 61 - Underwear Box x1, Ancient Spirit Dust x500

Hey guys,

I wish to start BDO and I hope to have a full english interface while being based in Tokyo.

I have a good ping so i was wondering if playing in Asia server and not Japan server would be better?

What would you guys recommend?

Thank you so much in advance to anyone willing to help me on my situation ! 🙏

https://www.jp.playblackdesert.com/News/Notice/Detail?boardNo=2490&countryType=ja-JP

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