Patch Notes - October 21st 2020

Greetings Adventurers,

With Spooktober in progress, we bring you Halloween and New Great Expedition events.
Rumor has it that Afuaru is now dropping more valuable items. Some seasoned adventurers report that a mysterious quest in O’dyllita will let you obtain Garmoth’s Heart, others said that you can now craft the legendary La Orzeca outfit to protect yourself from Hadum.
Finally, they also reported sightings of a powerful version of Kzarka and a new Alustin’s Alchemy Log.

For more information about this patch and the spooky Halloween and Great Expedition event, read on!

New Events

• Spooky Witchy Halloween!
  • Event 1. Spook is Back
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)–November 4 (before maintenance)
    • Spook will swarm the entire world of Black Desert Online and spawn at random times, random places!

  • Event 2. Defeat Isabella the Black Witch!
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)–November 4 (before maintenance)
    • Gueldia the White Witch needs your help in defeating Isabella the Black Witch again. Help Gueldia and get rewarded for your bravery!

  • Event 3. Halloween Challenges
  • Period: October 22 (00:00 UTC)–November 4 (23:59 UTC)
    • Play daily and get the rewards below via the Challenge tab (Y) based on your accumulated playtime.

  • Event 4. Halloween Quests
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)–November 4 (before maintenance)
    • Don’t miss the additional event quests prepared exclusively for this haunted season!

  • Event 5. Halloween Adventure Logs
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)–November 4 (before maintenance)
    • Halloween Adventure Logs from last year will be available again for this event period! Complete various tasks with these Adventure Logs and get cool rewards!

  • Click < Here > to see these spooky events in detail and get ready for Halloween!

• Set Sail Again
  • Event 1. Set Sail with Burst of Boosts
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)–November 4 (before maintenance)
    • Enjoy all of the following boosts including Sailing EXP +50% or Barter EXP +50% better your ocean adventures!

  • Event 2. Lekrashan Strikes Back
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)–November 4 (before maintenance)
    • During the event period, special field boss Lekrashan will appear at sea!

  • Event 3. Build a Strong Ship
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)–November 4 (before maintenance)
    • Go to specific NPCs to accept special quests and defeat sea monsters! You will be rewarded with materials needed to build a strong ship!

  • Bonus. Special Quests Permanently Added!
  • Permanent addition from October 14 (after maintenance)
    • With a character of Lv.50 or above, enter specific regions in the Great Ocean to see hidden quests appear in the top right corner of your screen.
    • Click < Here > to learn more about the series of events to celebrate the first anniversary of The Great Expedition.

  
  

• Additional Hot Time Boost (from the event Trade with the trio)
  • Period: October 21 (after maintenance)—October 28 (before maintenance)
  • Here are the results of [Event] Supply Box items turned into the relevant NPCs for EU and NA regions:

• Thus, the boost given to both NA and EU regions will be Item Drop Rate +50%!
  • The item drop rate boosts will stack with other boost-giving items.
  • The item drop rate boost will be applied to all servers including Olvia and season servers, but excluding Arsha servers.
  • Please note boosts for turning in [Event] Supply Box items to Martum or Tolo will not be given.

Ongoing Events

• October Events
  • Event 1. Hexe Marie and the Dark Rift: October 14–October 28 (before maintenance)
  • Event 2. Collect Autumn Leaves: October 14–October 28 (before maintenance)

• O'dyllita Launch Events
  • Event 4. Flower of the Burning Moon: October 7–November 11 (before maintenance)

• O'dyllita Attendance Check: October 7–November 11 (before maintenance)
• Refer-a-Friend Promotion: October 7–November 4 (before maintenance)
• Monthly Loyalty - October 2020: October 1 (00:00 UTC)–October 31 (23:59 UTC)
• Level Up Again with Hashashin
  • Event 1: Level Up Again!: September 16–October 28 (before maintenance)

• Collect Commemorative Coins
  • Event 1: Collect by Playing!: September 17–October 29 (23:59 UTC)
  • Event 2: Collect by Leveling Up!: September 16–October 28 (before maintenance)

Ended Events

• Conquer Red Battlefield!
• O'dyllita Launch Events
  • Event 2. Travel with Rulupee
  • Event 3. Flower in the Darkness

Content

• Nightmarish Kzarka

Kzarka, bereft of his soul by Illezra who brought the Three Days of Darkness upon Mediah, has begun to consume the adventurers who stand in the way of his Ritual of Resurrection. On the days his rage reaches its peak, he plunges into rage as "Nightmarish Kzarka" and darkness shrouds the skies of Serendia.

• During the appearance of Nightmarish Kzarka, a greater darkness shrouds Serendia. The Lord of Serendia is looking for powerful adventurers who can vanquish this darkness.
• Nightmarish Kzarka is much more powerful than the regular Kzarka but he will drop more valuable loot. You can obtain up to TET (IV) Kzarka Main Weapon (+0, I, II, III, IV) and also have an increased chance of getting Belongings of an Adventurer, Gold Bar (up to 1KG), or a type of Magical Black Stone.
• [Weekly] Trophy: Kzarka quest and Season Pass quest of defeating Kzarka will not be completed when you defeat him as Nightmarish Kzarka is a unique monster.

Known to many by the title "KeeezAaannng!", the World Boss Kzarka will now occasionally appear in a new form. The newly created Nightmarish Kzarka comes back with a force to reclaim its fame as being the first World Boss of Black Desert. The renewal of a World Boss was quite a challenge to us as adventurers had been asking about it for quite some time now. We didn't want to radically change things by shooting up the difficulty levels so we decided to make Nightmarish Kzarka appear by chance and retained some of the experience with the Kzarka we are familiar with. (We have plans to renew other World Bosses as well but we might approach it differently from how we've handled Kzarka. Ex) Boss appearing only during the evening, or only appearing when a group of adventurers join forces together.) Nightmarish Kzarka will drop better loot compared to the regular Kzarka. But beware, as Nightmarish Kzarka is much more challenging than its previous form.

▲ (Left) Nightmarish Kzarka appears as it deals AoE damage / (Right) Kzarka opening up a series of attacks and AoE damage as a pattern

▲ (Left) Roaring, and attacking with black breath / (Right) An attack pattern in which nearby targets are pulled and dealt with a powerful blow

▲ (Left) Tentacle Summoning attack patterns (You will receive a movement speed/attack speed debuff upon hit) / (Right) A berserk pattern that brings down chaos

※ Images were taken using a GM character which is invincible to attacks.

• La Orzeca Outfit Viorencia Odore, the queen of the Arid Land of O'dyllita, announced that she would grant the Orzeca relic known as the La Orzeca Outfit to whoever brings her Quturan's Lungs, the Divine Tree of the fallen Ancient Orzeca Kingdom.
  • The La Orzeca Outfit was a gear made in Orzeca long ago, in order to protect those from the grips of Hadum. It was created by instilling the powers of the Thornwood goddess into the incarnation of greed.
  • The powers of the Thornwood goddess were extracted from the gear and into Quturan's Lungs when Orzeca met its demise. the Divine Tree. Since then, its whereabouts have been unknown. According to the Ahibs, recently, it can be found from the Monster Zones below.
  • Collect the leaves affected by the powers of the Quturan's Lungs and unite them together into a single source of power. These leaves have a higher chance to drop than the lungs.
  • ※ Perform Simple Alchemy on Quturan's Black Leaf to obtain Quturan's Left Lung, and on Quturan's Ashen Leaf to obtain Quturan's Right Lung.
  • Right-click on the lungs to begin a story quest which is available once per family. At the later stages of the quest, you can obtain the La Orzeca Helmet with Quturan's Left Lung, and the La Orzeca Armor with Quturan's Right Lung.
  • You can obtain the La Orzeca Outfit through NPCs by exchanging additional Quturan's Lungs you obtain.
  • Once you have completed all the La Orzeca Helmet and La Orzeca Armor quests, you'll be given a final quest through the Black Spirit in which you can obtain the "La Orzeca" title.

La Orzeca Outfit is the very first outfit in the game that can be obtained through loots. Its design was based on the ancient theme (Black Spirit concept) along with added effects and an exclusive title once it is crafted. This outfit has been aimed for adventurers who are at a fairly advanced level and hope to distinguish themselves aesthetically. We hope this outfit can become another exciting goal for adventurers to seek out as it is unique not only in its look but also in the adventures you must overcome to claim it as yours. We did consider adding special effects to the La Orzeca Outfit but we decided not to as it should be an optional challenge instead of a compulsory one. Hence, the outfit will have normal effects just like other regular outfits.

• Perilla’s Star Perilla is the former love of Fughar, the Chief Manager of the Crow Merchants Guild. The once lost Perilla's Star she left behind for Fughar has reappeared for adventurers to explore.
  • Accept the quest "[Perilla's Star] Fughar's Woe" from the Black Spirit. The quest unravels Fughar's tragic love story of how Perilla left him and how he had to work hard to escape from his poverty-striken circumstances.
  • The "[Perilla's Star] Fughar's Woe" quest can be obtained by Season Characters or normal characters converted from Season Characters.
  • Complete the [Perilla's Star] Fughar's Woe quest line to receive Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon, which can be used to exchange for Perilla's Star.

• Autumn Season Early Graduation Starts Behind every great feat is a special reward. Meet Fughar to apply for Autumn Season's Early Graduation!
  • Adventurers who've met the Early Graduation requirements between Oct 21 (after maintenance) to Nov 18 (before maintenance) can go to Fughar and receive the “[Season Server Graduation] At the Crossroad” quest to begin your graduation early.

※ AP and DP from Adventure Logs do not count towards this requirement.
※ Check for more details in our GM notes about the [Autumn Season Early Graduation] post.
※ Please note that you will no longer be able to enjoy our Autumn Season related events, contents, and Season Server benefits once you graduate early.
※ You cannot enhance Tuvala weapons by converting them with a Conversion Stone after Early Graduation.

• The completion record of all "[Enhancement] Even Stronger Tuvala Gear" weekly quests has been reset.
• Added Rift's Echo as a Season Server weekly quest reward for defeating monsters.
  • Adventurers who have already completed Season Server weekly quests can reaccept the quests again after the October 21st maintenance.
  • As a reminder, these weekly quests can be found under "[Enhancement] Even Stronger Tuvala Gear" tab in the Quests (O) window.
  • You can accept and complete one of the following quests once per family each week.
  • The Rift's Echo will be given in addition to the Time-filled Black Stone x600 or Tuvala Ore x90 or Refined Magical Black Stone x40 rewards you can choose from for completing the weekly quests.

• Added Alustin's Alchemy Journal in the Adventure Logs.
  • This log holds records of Alustin, the famous alchemist of Velia.
  • This Adventure Log becomes available once you reach level 61 and complete [O'dyllita] Keepsake of Ataraxia, and accept and complete Adventure Log: Alustin's Alchemy Journal from the Black Spirit.
  • Complete the objectives to obtain a large number of Caphras Stones.

• Queen Brolina of Kamasylvia has answered a villager's appeal from Grána and has imported dairy cows from their ally, Calpheon, to start a farm.
  • The farm is located at the west of Grána.
  • The farm is managed by Rosaria the Papu. You can also meet Povios, the Xian Merchant from Calpheon there.
  • Povios is only available to players who’ve completed the renewed Kamasylvia main quest line.

We’ve had many requests from adventurers asking about adding dairy cows to Valencia City and O’draxxia. Matters are being discussed and decisions haven't been made but it seems there's a good chance that discussions will end up with Valencia City having camels added instead of dairy cows, due to the regional environment.

• Changed the Black Desert Team's entrance and revival point of Castle Ruins in the Red Battlefield so that it is not too close to the castle walls.

System

• For Europe, Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, October 25 at 03:00 local standard time (or 02:00 CET) for Europe.
  • Changes to Node/Conquest Wars and world boss spawns for EU servers will take into effect starting with October 28 regular maintenance.
  • The starting and ending times for Node/Conquest War and the Tribute Wagon departure time were pushed backward by 1 hour for our European servers due to the start of daylight saving time.
  • This simply means your Node/Conquest Wars will start at 20:00 CET, and Tribute Wagons will depart at 18:00 CET.

• For North America, Daylight Savings Time ends on Sunday, November 1 at 02:00 local standard time (or 01:00 PST) for Europe.
  • Changes to Node/Conquest Wars and world boss spawns for NA servers will take into effect starting with November 4 regular maintenance.
  • This simply means your Node/Conquest Wars will start at 18:00 PST/21:00 EST, and Tribute Wagons will depart at 16:00 PST/19:00 EST.

• Fixed the issue where the game client would sometimes stop when using Epheria Carrack's FocusFire skill (Q or E).
  

Game World

• Changed the Quarry lighting to be brighter to increase efficiency of Quarry workers for the sake of Marco Faust, the Lord of Keplan who is suffering from sickness in Calpheon.

Coming Next Week

• Certain areas in Bartali Farm will be adjusted with next week's October 28, 2020 regular maintenance (Please check the future announcement for details).
  • As a result, any garden fences and crops planted in this area will be removed and moved to Heidel Storage.
  • Therefore, we ask you to move any installed garden fences from this location before next maintenance on October 28, 2020 since any remaining crops will have their growth reset. We thank you for your understanding in advance.

NPC

• Updated the exchange list of Philaberto Falasi of Port Epheria.
  • You can exchange the Epheria Sailboat Design with the Epheria Frigate design or vice versa through the quest "[Daily] Falasi Family's Kindness."

All Classes

• Improved Emergency Escape so that it displays the cooldown time.

Coming Next Week

• With next week's October 28, 2020 regular maintenance, Skill Add-on system for all classes will be revised where you will have more freedom to customize Skill Add-ons to suit your play style better (Please check the future announcement for details).
• Please note that this means all of your previously set Skill Add-ons will be reset with October 28, 2020 regular maintenance.

By Class

Witch

• Fixed the issue with odd camera movements while turning the camera during Prime: Lightning Storm: High Voltage.

Wizard

• Fixed the issue with odd camera movements while turning the camera during Prime: Lightning Storm: High Voltage.

Ninja

• Fixed the issue where switching weapons from Sura Katana during Sprint would occasionally place the weapon in an odd position.

Striker

• Fixed the unnatural facial expressions made during the use of Crouching Wolf and Succession: Crouching Wolf.

Hashashin

• Added Hashashin to Trial Characters.

• Added furniture items obtainable from sea creatures.
  • You can craft Ocean Stalker Chandelier and Nineshark Chandelier at level 3 Furniture Workshops of Calpheon, Epheria, and Florin using items collected from sea creatures.

• You can now Manufacture Crow's Trade Voucher into an Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) via the Processing (L) menu.
  
• For details on the newly added Pearl Shop Update, please click < Here > !
  

• Gatekeepers of Crescent Shrine, Desert Naga Temple, Titium Valley, and Cadry Ruins have obtained great power through the Argos blood ritual.
  • The gatekeepers now use more deadly attacks as they have been strengthened by the blood ritual.
  • They will also sometimes endure mortal wounds and retreat back to their territory nearby to heal themselves.
  • They will disappear if they are given enough time to recuperate in their territory. Defeat them before they can recover to obtain their loot.
  • You can obtain "Intricately Patterned Mystical Shard" and other valuable items by defeating these enhanced gatekeepers.
  • Increased respawn time for these gatekeepers once they have been defeated. You now receive notification when these gatekeepers appear.

• Rumor has it that Graverobber Afuaru wanders in certain regions carrying more valuable items.
  • Defeating monsters in Thornwood Forest, Tunkuta, Olun's Valley, Crypt of Resting Thoughts, and Ash Forest has a chance to spawn Graverobber Afuaru.
  • Increased the value of the items that Graverobber Afuaru drops at Roud Sulfur Mine, Pila Ku Jail, Hystria Ruins, Aakman Temple, Navarn Steppe, Manshaum Forest, Tshira Ruins, Sherekhan Necropolis, Tooth Fairy Forest (Forest Ronaros), and Blood Wolf Settlement.
  • There is a chance to obtain a very precious item by defeating Graverobber Afuaru in certain regions.

Graverobber Afuaru was created as a refreshing element in combat for adventurers while defeating monsters. However, we felt that it wasn't interesting enough so we've made changes so that treasure materials drop at a very low rate in regions where treasures can be found, and added it to O'dyllita.

• Changed the indicated zone of attack on the ground to be more accurate when Ahib Griffon, appearing in the Dark Rift, uses its whirlwind attacks.
• Fixed issue where Apostle of Immorality would not react to the player or exist in the correct spawn point at Star's End. Partially changed how Apostle of Malevolence appears to make the relevant fix above.

Quest

• A new record about the ancient kingdom Orzeca has been discovered in O'dyllita's Crypt of Resting Thoughts. Queen Viorencia Odore has announced that she would grant the Resplendent Moonlight Chest to whoever helps decipher the Orzeca's Records: Time of Dragons. Rumors say that people have seen the radiant light illuminating from this Resplendent Moonlight Chest, a kind of light only seen in that of a dragon's heart.
  • You can accept the quest "Orzeca's Records: Time of Dragons" from Black Eyeroot of the Crypt of Resting Thoughts, with a character who has completed the quest "[O'dyllita] Vuhura Kaheliak" from "[Lv.60 O'dyllita I] Flower of the Burning Moon" questline.
  • This quest is only available once per family.
  • Complete all 14 missions after completing the quest "Orzeca's Records: Time of Dragons" to be blessed by Queen Viorencia. However, this will not be an easy challenge.
  • Open the Resplendent Moonlight Chest to obtain Inverted Heart of Garmoth.

Many treasure items are awaiting to be found by adventurers in the world of Black Desert. Garmoth's Heart, which has certainly been the biggest center of attention, is a treasure that directly affects your equipment level, making adventurers very anxious to obtain it. To help relatively new adventurers dive into this race, we aimed to create a system where patient and constant efforts in the long-term was a requirement in attaining this item. Black Desert will continue to discuss ways to encourage participation from adventurers of different passion to be included in our future.

• Fixed the issue where the Black Spirit would be summoned automatically even when there was no extra quest you could accept while doing a main quest.

• Fixed the issue where colors wouldn't be applied when a line break was added to the Enhancement Success/Failure text in the chat window.
• Adjusting the Adventurer Name Settings will now affect the settings of the name that is displayed in NPC dialogues and Party notification messages.
• Increased the RMB speed in the following situations:
  • When retrieving or taking out an item from the Inventory
  • When selling an item at the Shop

• Added a button to immediately enter a min and max price in the Guild Contract.
  
• Added more information about life skill level requirements for fishing in the tooltip of the fish during auto-fishing.
  
• Changed to display the required Contribution points and available contribution points for each list while checking the item list that can be rented with Contribution Points by talking to an NPC.
  
• Fixed the issue where the quest name would bleed out of the Quest (O) window when it was too long.
  
• Fixed the issue where the item message would be different from the chat window message when obtaining a treasure item.
  
• Fixed the Guild Member Status list's menu buttons to fit within the screen.
  
• Fixed the Appoint buttons to be placed together in the Guild Member Status list's menu buttons.
  
• Fixed so that Ban feature cannot be designated as a hotkey in the Guild Member Status list.
  
• Fixed the issue where the contract would reappear when an Advisor renews his/her own contract.
  
• Fixed the imbalance in Quartermaster and Cannoneer text arrangement in the Guild Member Status list.
  

• Fixed the issue where the messages of obtaining, successfully enhancing, or failing to enhance the Fallen God's Armor would be displayed as "Fallen God's Armor" in the chat window.
• Fixed the Fallen God's Armor to be displayed correctly in the Web Central Market.
• [Hashashin] Fixed the graphical issue with the gloves that occurred when equipping Domtur Gloves and Mezari Armor together.
• [Archer] Fixed the issue where the armor looked odd when equipping Glorious Shudad or Shudad Black set while wearing Karki Suit.
• [Ranger] Fixed the graphical issue with the eyes that occurred in certain face shapes when wearing Trilby Hat.
• Fixed the issue where the Champron looked awkward when equipping Oquilla Dream Champron of Oquilla Dream Horse Gear Set.
• [Dark Knight] Fixed the graphical issue with the hair when equipping the Arethel Outfit with the Yianaros Headpiece already on.
• [Mystic] Fixed the graphical issue with the neck after setting the game to Remastered mode.
• Fixed the issue where food knowledge that you have not learned yet appears in Cooking.
• Fixed so that Guilds participating in Node/Conquest Wars cannot appoint a guild master and/or change guild positions

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