Black Desert's 26th new class, Maegu has been released.

After Woosa’s release, many adventurers displayed great interest in her older twin sister, Maegu. We’d like to thank all of our adventurers for their patience. First off, Maegu’s main weapon is the “Foxspirit Charm.” Her inherent traits include the ability to summon an “illusory double” and being a ranged character who utilizes agile movements to perform a flurry of spectacular spells.

Though her double only appears for specific skills, the double is marked on the minimap and also retains the her Family, character, and Guild names, allowing her to cause great confusion among her enemies. Maegu can also switch places with her double with the tap of a button. We look forward to seeing the creative PvP tactics our adventurers will discover while playing as Maegu.

In addition, during her the development process, we placed strong emphasis on her combos and agililty. Maegu has several movement skills that can be easily comboed into other skills in her arsenal, enabling her to boast a rather fast-paced playstyle. Once our adventurers get used to her gameplay, they will be easily be able to dish out quick and critical combos. To balance such such advantages, we made some of her more powerful skills have longer casting times, all while keeping her level of entry not too difficult, especially for PvE.

Today's patch added Maegu's Lv. 56-58 enhanced (Rabam) skills and two Prime skills.

First off, we designed her Lv. 56 Rabam skills to be comboable with other skills. The Front Guard and Super Armor of her Lv. 57 Rabam skills were respectively designed to add some utility to bolster her stability when necessary. Last but not least, her Lv. 58 Rabam skills include Spirit Sparks, which will boost her melee defense with Front Guard and HP Recovery, and Soul Charm, which can be useful when used as Maegu re-enters the fray thanks to the HP Recovery effect.

Her Prime skills include Prime: Fan of Flames, a ranged attack that reduces your enemy's movement speed to keep them at bay, and Prime: Nukduri Dance, which deals melee damage with an AP Increase buff that can be used in all directions

Once again, thank you for all your interest and love towards Maegu. We hope our adventurers enjoy playing our new character. Thank you.

In addition, contents updates that were mentioned during 3rd anniversary stream such as 5th Tier Pet, and Adventure journals that can acquire Family AP/DP are currently being tested. We will inform you through additional notice once the preparation is completed and the update schedules are confirmed. 

▲ New Class Maegu Combat Video

• The fox-summoning Do wielder of the Jwado School, Maegu has been released.
  • Main Weapon AP 100% will apply to Succession until Maegu's Awakening is released.
  • Succession is available through the questline after Maegu reaches Lv. 56.
• Maegu's awakening weapon slot is unlocked. Marni's Pocket Watch can be equipped in this slot after completing Succession questline.

• Added Rabam skills.
  • You can learn the first Rabam skill at Lv. 56, the 2nd at Lv. 57, and the 3rd at Lv. 58.
  • You must learn the preceding skills to learn a Rabam skill.
  • You can only learn one Rabam skill for each of the aforementioned levels.

Heavenly Return/Spirit Parade

• Added Heavenly Return and Spirit Parade as Rabam skills learnable from Lv. 56. [Heavenly Return] [Spirit Parade]

Petal Snare/Constricting Charm

• Added Petal Snare and Constricting Charm as Rabam skills learnable from Lv. 57. [Petal Snare] [Constricting Charm]

Spirit Sparks/Soul Charm

• Added Spirit Sparks and Soul Charm as Rabam skills learnable from Lv. 58. [Spirit Sparks] [Soul Charm]

• Added the following Succession skills:

Prime: Fan of Flames

• Added Prime: Fan of Flames to be learnable from Lv. 59. [Prime: Fan of Flames]

Prime: Nukduri Dance

• Added Prime: Nukduri Dance to be learnable from Lv. 60. [Prime: Nukduri Dance]

• Added Hall of Adventurers: Maegu, a new chat group for Maegu adventurers.
• Character slots can be expanded up to 30 slots with Character Slot Expansion Coupon since the new class has been released.

Foxspirit (Family AP +1, Family DP +1)

• Applied the Revered Fox Spirit Family buff to celebrate the release of the new class, Maegu.
  • Period: Apr 5, 2023 (after maintenance) - May 3, 2023 (before maintenance)
  • Applied Effect: Family AP +1, Family DP +1

Blessing of Fragrant Wind and Blessing of Breathing Earth

• You can obtain the below items via challenges.
  • Blessing of Fragrant Wind:
    
    • Duration: 5 Hours / Cooldown 5 Hours
    • Life EXP +30%
    • Mount EXP +20%
    • Life Skill Mastery +50
    • Energy Recovery +1
    • Cooking/Alchemy Time –1 sec
    • Weight Limit +100LT
  • Blessing of Breathing Earth:
    
    • Duration: 5 Hours / Cooldown 5 Hours
    • Item Drop Rate +20%
    • Combat EXP +100%
    • Skill EXP +20%
    • Extra AP Against Monsters +5
    • Monster Damage Reduction +5
    • Knowledge Gain Chance +10%
• The above items and challenges will be deleted during the May 3, 2023 (Wed) maintenance.

Today's update marks the beginning of the "Spring Season."
Since last Autumn Season, we've been adding improved Life-skilling content such as increased items collected from Gathering including seasonal enhancement materials on the season servers. The theme for the Spring Season is "Fishing."
First off, we decided to increase the amount of Combat EXP gained from Fishing threefold, thereby encouraging adventurers to branch out to different playstyles to avoid feeling restricted to PvE content for growth.
We've also added the coelacanth to the seasonal waters, which can be exchanged for "Dreamy Crystals of Balance," items that grant guaranteed enhancement of Capotia accessories. We've also greatly reduced the difficutly of the weekly season quests that awarded you with seasonal enhancement materials as well. We hope that all of these quality-of-life improvements will enhance your new season character's lifestyle in the Spring Season.

• Spring Season has sprung. (Apr 5 2023 (Wed) after maintenance - Jun 28, 2023 (Wed) before maintenance)
  • You gain boosted EXP when playing on a season server, where you can equip "Tuvala gear" to quickly level up your season character while completing the season pass.
  • Select "Season Character" in the Character Creation menu when creating a new character to access the season servers.
  • Season characters can access both season servers and normal servers. Normal characters cannot access the season servers.
  • Season characters can only equip seasonal gear issued by completing the main questline and cannot mount up on Dream Horses.
  • For more information, please refer to the Adventurer's Guide - [Season Servers & Characters].
  • With the start of a new season, several servers have been changed to Season servers.

[Spring Season] Thrice the Combat EXP Gains from Fishing!

• The Combat EXP gains from "Fishing" during the Spring Season have been tripled as mentioned in [Increased Combat EXP Gains from Life-skilling].

[Spring Season] Level Up with the Seasonal Fish, [Season] Coelacanth!

• Adjusted the probability of fishable items from the above locations due to the addition of the [Season] Coelacanth for season servers. (Normal servers remain unchanged.)
• The "[Season] Coelacanth" is only fishable on Season Servers, and can be exchanged for a variety of items such as the "Dreamy Crystal of Balance" (thrice per Family), which can be used for guaranteed enhancement of Capotia accessories.
• The [Season] Coelacanth can be sold to NPC vendors for 500,000 Silver.

Coelacanths Required	Condition	Exchangeable Items
[Season] Coelacanth x40	Once per Family	[Event] Maid for Hire Box
[Season] Coelacanth x50		Advice of Valks (+60)
[Season] Coelacanth x25		Choose Your Concentrated Boss Crystal Box x1
[Season] Coelacanth x20		Burning Moonlight Black Stone x10
[Season] Coelacanth x25	Thrice per Family	Dreamy Crystal of Balance x7
[Season] Coelacanth x12	Once Weekly per Family	[Event] Enhancement Help Kit I
[Season] Coelacanth x10		Combat & Skill EXP 300% Scroll x5
[Season] Coelacanth x7		Advice of Valks (+40)
[Season] Coelacanth x4		Yona's Fragment x5
[Season] Coelacanth x3		Magical Shard x5
[Season] Coelacanth x3		Mass of Pure Magic x5
[Season] Coelacanth x1	No limit	Time-filled Black Stone x5
Tip! The Dreamy Crystal of Balance grants 100% chance to enhance a TRI (III) or higher Capotia accessory up to PEN (V).

[Spring Season] Season Pass

• You can start the Spring Season Pass.
• Check the season pass from the season pass icon on the top right of the screen.

[Spring Season] Spring Seals

• Progressing through the Season Pass for the Spring Season will award you with [Season] Spring Seals.
• Normal rewards: Up to 80 seals / Black Spirit Pass: Up to 40 additional seals

[Spring Season] Recurring Weekly Season Quest Improvements

We've reduced the number of monsters required to be subjugated for the weekly season quests. We originally designed these quests to require numbers befitting the amount of Tuvala enhancement materials they awarded, but, as with all things with the passage of time, we felt the numbers to be a bit too high. It was good to see adventurers banding together in platoons to subjugate the mushrooms, but we felt it was time to give a fighting chance to individual adventurers as well.

• Adjusted the following weekly season quest objectives for the Spring Season.
• You can proceed with one of the following quests for weekly reoccuring quests:

• For the Spring Season, certain items exchangeable in past seasons via the seasonal "Rift" items (i.e. Rift's Butterfly) have been incorporated into the Time-filled Black Stone.
  • Changed the amount of Time-filled Black Stones required to be exchanged into Advice of Valks.
  • Added Item Collection Increase Scrolls to be exchangeable with Time-filled Black Stones.

Tip! Need a Guide for Starting the Season?

• Details regarding the season server can be found in [Adventurer's Guide - Season Server & Characters].
  • You can find more information and guides through the table of contents located on the left side of the Adventurer's Guide.

Tip! Any Life Skill Buffs from Previous (2022 Autumn & Winter) Seasons?

• The Life Skill buffs that began from 2022 Autumn Season which include "Life EXP +30%," "Increased Basic Resources from Gathering" and "Tuvala Enhancement Materials from Gathering" will roll over to this season as well!
  • Notice
    • The chance to gather Tuvala enhancement materials and seasonal items does not apply to water scooping, shoveling, milking, and barehanded Gathering.
    • The following are rare Gathering resources and are not affected by the Hedgehog pet's special skill.
    • Time-filled Black Stone, Refined Magical Black Stone, Tuvala Ore, Rift's Fragment

Warrior

Succession

Prime: Spinning Slash

•  Fixed the issue of command keys listed in the tooltip description of Prime: Spinning Slash having no effect.

Tamer

Tamers have always had movement options limited to solely the Evasion and Legendary Beast's Power skills. Particularly known for "hopping" around with forward Evasion, the lack of any defensive effects at the end of the skill was a clear Achilles Heel of the class.
To address this weakness, we decided to grant her the Super Armor effect at the end of Evasion, while slightly increasing the Stamina cost. We also improved Tree Climb to further bolster any areas where Tamer’s movement skills were lacking.
For Succession, we changed the defensive effect for Prime: Roaring, one of her major skills, into Super Armor so that Tamer would have the means to deal damage for both individual and group skirmishes.
Also, we noticed that Prime: Allround Spinner wasn't being used as frequently, so we adjusted the skill to now maintain Forward Guard while dealing a decent amount of damage.
For Awakening, we changed the starting portions of Skyreach to now grant the Invincibility effect, thus allowing the Tamer to utilize this skill to either break through or retreat from enemy lines.

All

Evasion (I to III)

• Changed the defensive effects and Stamina cost of the skill as follows.
  • Invincible when starting to move forward or laterally → "Invincible -> Super Armor when starting to move forward or laterally"
  • Stamina Cost: 150/130/100 → 150
• Evasion I - Fixed the incorrect skill description. [Before] [After]

 

Summon Heilang (I to XI)

• Changed the damage as follows.
  • PvP damage -60% → -50%

 

Scratch (I to Absolute)

• Improved the speed of comboing after the following skills.
  • Flash: Pole Thrust, Flash: Stance Shift, Void Lightning, Trample, Fearful Trembling, Throat-Burn, Prime: Moonlight Strike

 

Legendary Beast's Power

• Improved the speed of comboing after the following skills.
  • Prime: Lightning of Earth, Trample, Surging Tide (Modified)

 

Lightning Burn

• Improved the Super Armor effect to last until the end of the skill animation.

 

Tree Climb (I to Absolute)

• Changed the skill as follows.
  • Removed the attack damage.
  • Cannot be used while on cooldown.
  • Changed skill animation and increased traveled distance.
  • For Succession, improved to travel further when used after Prime: Moonlight Strike or Legendary Beast's Power.

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Main, Succession

Prime: Allround Spinner

• Changed the damage and cooldown as follows.
  • Attack damage 1053% x7 → 1264% x7
  • PvP damage -59.4% → -60%
  • Extra attack damage 1021% x8 → 1264% x8
  • PvP extra attack damage -71.4% → -60%
  • Cooldown 12 sec → 9 sec

 

Prime: Moonlight Strike

• Changed the damage and number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 710% x3 → 994% x5
  • PvP damage -16.1% → -50%

 

Prime: Roaring (I to VI)

• Changed the Forward Guard effect to Super Armor.
• Prime: Roaring I - Fixed the issue where the skill description did not mention the pull in on hits effect to only apply for PvE.

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Awakening

Celestial Slam

• Removed Down Smash on extra attack hits.

 

Flow: Soaring Strike

• Added Down Smash on hits.

 

Cloud Stomping

• Changed to now spin up to eight times when used from a high place.

 

Skyreach

• Changed the skill as follows.
  • Added Invincibility to the start of the skill.
  • Changed to combo into Echo Pierce with X/A after moving forward with the skill.
  • Improved the speed of comboing into Soaring Kick after moving forward with the skill.
  • Changed the number of last attack hits from 6 to 8.
  • Fixed the issue where the skill was consuming the Stamina cost of Cloud Stomping, and vice versa.

 

Leaves Dropping/Flow: Gust

• Match the distance traveled when performing the skills backward to that of performing laterally.

 

Black Spirit: Allround Spinner IV

• Changed the damage as follows.
  • PvP damage -46.6% → -41 %

Maehwa

Main, Succession

Stub Arrow/Charged Stub Arrow/Prime: Charged Stub Arrow

• Fixed the issue where you could fire 4 or more Stub Arrows.

Wizard

Main, Succession

Prime: Flame Explosion: Spread/Prime: Lightning Storm: Strike/Prime: Blizzard: Domain

• Fixed the issue where the casting animation for the skills reverted to the previous version.

Witch

Awakening

Fissure Wave

• Fixed the issue of a lower Accuracy Rate than shown in the description being applied when activating Perfect Sign after Fissure Wave.

Archer

All

• Adjusted the damage for lower skill ranks.

Earth Kick (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 275% / 356% / 425% → 358% / 463% / 553%

 

Flow: Volant Kick (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 174% / 356% / 432% → 226% / 463% / 562%

 

Flow: Ascending Spirit (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 161% / 224% / 415% → 209% / 291% / 540%

 

Vine Cutter (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 75% / 198% / 374% → 98% / 257% / 486%

 

Ensnare (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 224%/334%/519% → 269%/401%/623%

 

Gaping Darkness (I to IV)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 228% / 258% / 401% / 624% → 296% / 335% / 521% / 811%

 

Main

• Adjusted the damage for lower skill ranks.
  
  

Spirit Arrow (I to X)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 233% / 279% / 325% / 368% / 410% / 451% / 487% / 530% / 540% / 653%
  • Changed attack damage 293% / 339% / 385% / 428% / 470% / 511% / 547% / 590% / 640% / 713%

 

Meteor Dive (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 135% / 334% / 601% → 162% / 402% / 721%

 

Covering Fire (I to IV)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 84%/132%/389%/573% → 109%/172%/506%/745%

 

Storm of Light (I to V)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 56% / 104% / 124% / 298% / 565% → 73% / 135% / 161% / 387% / 735%

 

Winged Strike (I to III)

•  Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 119%/177%/363% → 155%/230%/472%

 

Wrath of Nature (I to IV)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 101% / 178% / 334% / 494% → 121% / 214% / 401% / 593%

 

Earth Shatter (I to V)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 88% / 167% / 314% / 569% / 712% → 106% / 200% / 377% / 683% / 854%

 

Bolt of Radiance (I to IV)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 189% / 311% / 428% / 624% → 246% / 404% / 556% / 811%

 

Arrow Explosion (I to V)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 204% / 321% / 465% / 617% / 734% → 265% / 417% / 605% / 802% / 954%

 

Ascension

• Adjusted the damage for lower skill ranks.
  
  

 

Greatbow Training (I to IX)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Base attack damage 88% / 112% / 156% / 198% / 233% / 301% / 376% / 482% / 617%
  • Base last and jumping attack damage 114% / 146% / 203% / 257% / 303% / 391% / 489% / 627% / 802%
  • Changed attack damage 148% / 172% / 216% / 258% / 293% / 361% / 436% / 542% / 677%
  • Changed last and jumping attack damage 192% / 224% / 281% / 335% / 381% / 469% / 567% / 705% / 880%

 

Radiant Explosion (I to II)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 79% / 470% → 206% / 611%

 

Spear of Sylvia (I to II)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 57% / 284% → 74% / 369%

 

Uproot (I to II)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 55% / 378% → 72% / 491%

 

Luthraghon's Call (I to II)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 124% / 366% → 149% / 439%

 

Full Bloom (I to II)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 106% / 415% → 127% / 498%
  • Arrow attack damage 127% / 499% → 152% / 598%

Shai

Talent

Time to Shine!/Shout to the Sky

• Changed the skill description to mention the correct skill duration.
  • 30 sec -> 60 sec

Guardian

With today's update, several of Guardian's Succession and Awakening skills have had their damage increased for PvE only.
Guardian is known for her slow but powerful attacks that are easy to combo into, but we recognized that her skills’ damage lacked a bit of "oomf.”
Thus, we increased the PvE damage for certain skills so she can be more effective in combat.

Main, Succession

Prime: Black Blood Circle (I to IV)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 667% / 815% / 1107% / 1456% x 10 → 867% / 1059% / 1439% / 1892% x 10
  • PvP damage -44.7% / -44.7% / -44.7% / -52% → -63.0%

 

Flow: Black Blood Eruption

• Changed the skill damage and attempts as follows.
  • Applies the damage of Black Blood Circle x6 → Applies the same amount of damage as Black Blood Circle
  • Slightly reduced the visual effects of the skill's pre-attack animations.

 

Prime: Black Blood Slaughter

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 1432% x8 → 1650% x8
  • PvP damage -52% → -58.3%

 

Prime: Avalanche Strike (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 1142% / 1350% / 1545% x7 → 1484% / 1755% / 2008% x7
  • PvP damage -52% → -63%
• Changed the cooldown as follows.
  • 9 sec / 8 sec / 8 sec → 9 sec / 7.5 sec / 6 sec

 

Prime: Mountain Slam (I to IV)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 816% / 997% / 1357% / 1665% x9 → 1060% / 1296% / 1764% / 2164% x9
  • PvP damage -52% / -52% / -52% / -58.3% → -67.9%
• Changed the cooldown as follows.
  • 13 sec / 12 sec / 11 sec / 10 sec → 13 sec / 11 sec / 9 sec / 7 sec

 

Prime: Mutilation (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 949% / 1160% / 1370% x8 → 1103% / 1381% / 1650% x8
  • PvP damage -60% → -66.8%

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Awakening

Awakening: Juggernaut

• Slightly improved the controls while moving and the starting speed of the skill.

 

Fireborne Rupture

• Changed the skill damage and number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 1211% x4 → 1415% x6
  • PvP damage -40% → -65.7%

 

Flow: Suppress

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 1195% x8 → 1453% x8
  • PvP damage -39.2% → -50.0%

 

Cleansing Flame (I to IV)

• Changed the Critical Hit Rate from +25% to +50%.
• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 994% / 1257% / 1520% / 1783% x8 → Attack damage 1178% / 1489% / 1801% / 2113% x8
  • PvP damage -55% → -62%

 

God Incinerator (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 938% / 1136% / 1320% x14 → 1219% / 1477% / 1716% x14
  • PvP damage -35% → -50%

Corsair (Modified)

We've increased Corsair's Succession and Awakening capabilities for PvE.
For Awakening, we wanted to make her combos connect more rhythmically, so we increased the activation speeds of Pirate's Life For Me, Flow: Earth-render Patraca, and Cap'n's Orders: Open Fire!
We particularly made Cap'n's Orders: Open Fire! available without needing any build up motions, and we look forward to see how our adventurers take advantage of this change in both PvE and PvP content alike.

Main, Succession

Prime: Storm Surge (I to III)

• Changed the All DP reduction effect on hits from -15 to -20.

 

Overflow (I to Absolute)

• Changed the All DP reduction effect on hits from -15 to -20.
• Changed the skill damage and number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 206% / 508% / 780% / 911% x6 → 278% / 686% / 1053% / 1235% x9
  • PvP damage -45% → -72.9%

 

Prime: Cap'n's Orders: Open Fire!

• Changed the number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 1420% x6 → 1420% x8
  • PvP damage -40% → -55%

 

Prime: Wave Pout

• Changed the skill damage and number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 884% x3 → 1160% x5
  • Wave attack damage 884% x3 → 1160% x5
  • PvP damage -30% → -68%

 

Tide's Kiss (I to Absolute)

• Changed the skill damage and number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 553% / 771% / 958% / 1068% x6 → 656% / 915% / 1137% / 1268% x9
  • PvP damage -40% → -66.3%

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Awakening

Wind-piercer Patraca

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 1201% x5 → 1682% x5
  • PvP damage -32% → -51.45%

 

Cap'n's Orders: Open Fire! (I to III)

• Changed to always activate quickly.
• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 1075% / 1253% / 1564% x6 → 1226% / 1428% / 1784% x6
  • PvP damage -35% → -43.02%

 

Close Quarters: Suppress (I to IV)

• Changed the skill damage and number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 682% / 792% / 901% / 1102% → 776% / 903% / 1027% / 1256%
  • Last attack x4 → x6
    • Last attack -x2 for PvP only.
  • PvP damage -35% → -42.97%

 

Close Quarters: High Spirits

• Changed the skill damage and number of hits as follows.
  • Attack damage 1200% → 1368%
  • Last attack x4 → x6
    • Last attack -x2 for PvP only.
  • PvP damage -35% → -42.98%

 

Sun-shielder Patraca (I to III)

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 1008% / 1208% / 1422% x6 → 1159%/1389%/1635% x6
  • PvP damage -30% → -39.12%

 

Flow: Earth-render Patraca

• Increased the skill activation speed.

 

Ocean's Allure

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Attack damage 1146% → 1284%
  • Mist Effect damage 1008% → 1130%
  • PvP damage -40% → -46.45%

 

Pirate's Life For Me

• Changed to activate faster if performed from the last attack only.

 

Smooth Sailin' (I to Absolute)

• Fixed the issue where you couldn't combo into Mareca Swing from performing the skill forward with your patraca.

Drakania

Today's update for Drakania improves her performance for both Succession and Awakening in PvE.
For Succession, the damage of Brimbolt Strike has been increased to have an overall impact on PvE. As for Awakening, we have reduced the cooldown for one of her major skills Dragonblood: Sundering Roar to strengthen her performance in PvE.
We previously made small changes to the action animations of her Succession skills. Drakania wields the two-handed sword known as slayer, and we aimed to make the animations feel a bit smoother rather than feeling heavy like a greatsword.
However, some adventurers felt that the emphasis on smoothness was too strong, thus in today's update, we have made adjustments to certain skills to give them a more pronounced impact. Players may feel that the attack speed or combo speed has increased due to these changes, but please note that such is not the case.

Main, Succession

• Slightly adjusted the attack animations of the following skills.
  • Drakania's animations such as when preparing and commencing an attack have been given a slight boost to feel more impactful.

Adjusted Skills (Modified) 

Skewer
Flow: Asphyxiate
Omnislash
Azure Onslaught
Dragon's Maw
Brimbolt Raze
Blazing Strike
Markthanan's Flourish
Brimbolt Strike
Flow: Brimbolt Wave
Prime: Sundering Claw
Abyssal Fang
Soaring Assault
Flow: Markthanan's Claws

 

Prime: Brimbolt Strike (I to IV)

• Fixed the issue where normal Flow: Brimbolt Wave would combo from the skill even when activated with max ion output during another skill.
• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Base attack damage 857% / 991% / 1360% / 1729% → 987% / 1171% / 1520% / 1902%
  • Max ion output attack damage 1114% / 1288% / 1768% / 2248% → 1283% / 1522% / 1976% / 2473%
  • PvP damage -58.46% → -62.4%
  • PvP extra damage -20.8% → -28%

 

Prime: Sundering Claw

• Changed the skill damage as follows.
  • Base attack damage 1588% → 2064%
  • Max ion output attack damage 2144% → 2786%
  • PvP damage -57.1% → -67%

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Awakening

Dragonblood: Sundering Roar (I to IV)

• Changed the cooldown as follows.
  • 21 sec / 20 sec / 19 sec / 18 sec → 17 sec / 16 sec / 15 sec / 14 sec

Hunting Byproduct

• Added new Byproducts that can be obtained through hunting.
  • Wildspark can be obtained at a fixed probability when butchering hunting monsters with a Hunting Mastery of 250 or higher.
  • Collect 10 Wildsparks and visit NPC Liana in each major city to exchange them for the following items:

Required Item		Exchangeable Item (Select one)
Wildspark x10		Spirit Pouch of Ferocious Beast x1
		Black Gem Fragment x5
		900 Contribution EXP + Hunting EXP x30

Increased Mythril Acquisition

• Increased the amount of mythril you can obtain via gathering and production nodes:
  • Reduced the respawn time for Mythril Ore by an average of 60%.
  • Increased the amount of Mythril Ore obtained from gathering by an average of 50%.
• Increased Mythril Ore production rate by 3 times in the following production nodes:
  • 2 mining nodes at Khalk Canyon
  • 1 mining node at Olun's Valley

Details on Wagon's DP and Durability Increase

• Increased the wagon's DP and max durability as follows:

Details on Wagon's Cover and Max Durability Increase

• Added Max Durability Increase to some wagon covers.

Details on Horse Gear Max HP Increase

• Increased Max HP for some horse gear.

Mercenary's Life Buff

With this update, we've added an additional daily choice in an item that can grant you a Life EXP buff. Now Adventurers who enjoy Life-Skilling content can opt for the Mercenary's Life item for a boost to Life EXP gains every day. Just like Mercenary's Experience, Mercenary's Life can be claimed from Challenges and stored away so you can use them whenever you please.

• Added Mercenary's Life (60 min).
  • Effects: Life EXP +50% for 60 min
    • You can craft Mercenary's Life (Life EXP +150%) via Simple Alchemy (L) with three Mercenary's Life (Life EXP +50%).
• Unified the items Mercenary's Experience and Mercenary's Skill, which were acquired through the daily challenge "Daily Blood Frenzy!"
  • You can obtain Mercenary's Experience with the combined effects of Combat EXP +200% and Skill EXP +30% through "Daily Blood Frenzy!"
    • This item's effects cannot be stacked with the original Mercenary' Experience and Mercenary's Skill.
• Items with higher buffs can be crafted through Simple Alchemy with three "Mercenary's Experience".
• Changed the daily rewards from the "Daily Blood Frenzy!" Challenge (Y) to Mercenary's Experience and Mercenary's Life.
• Added 50 Contribution EXP to the base reward for "Daily Blood Frenzy!"
  • The name of said Challenge has been changed to reflect the update.

• Added that [Guild] Pledge of the Blood item can also be used by Staff and Secretary in the description.
• During the March 22 (Wed) maintenance, the Port Ratt area has been changed. Therefore, any stored or used Port Ratt Wharf Expansion Coupons has been converted into Wharf +1 Expansion Coupon Selection Box.

Contribution Weekly Quests

Greetings, Adventurers! As you explore the world of Black Desert, the "Contribution Points" you earn by contributing to various regions are essential for purchasing houses, hiring workers, renting items, and serve as the overall foundation for your entire family.
To help our adventurers acquire these Contribution Points more quickly, we have added new weekly quests in addition to the existing Cadry and Shultz Guard weekly Contribution Quests. Enjoy the new opportunities to boost your progress!

• Added new weekly Contribution Quests, allowing you to gain a large amount of Contribution EXP.
  • Requirements for the weekly Contribution Quests are as follows:
    • Subjugation quest: Available from Lv. 56 or higher.
    • Gathering/Training/Farming/Bartering/Sailing/Hunting quest: Available from Lv. 49 and higher.
  • The amount of Contribution EXP that can be obtained by completing the quest varies depending on your current number of Contribution Points.
  • (Adventurers with Contribution Points between 220 and 349 are eligible to accept the quest.
  • You can only accept and complete one of the quests listed below.
  • The newly added Subjugation weekly contribution quests can be completed simultaneously with the existing Cadry and Shultz Guard weekly Contribution Quests.
  • Please note that the Contribution EXP Increase effect of Caphras - Journal of Glory and Elion - Tome of the Sun will not be applied to the following quests.

• You can obtain a large amount of Contribution EXP when you proceed with the following weekly quests.
  • The amount of Contribution EXP that can be obtained upon completing the quest will vary depending on your current number of Contribution Points.
  • You can complete each of these weekly quests separately for each monster zone.

• Fixed the issue where the durability of gear equipped on the marine mount would not decrease when the mount is in use.
• Fixed so you obtain each fragment accordingly to an equal probability from the Ancient Ruins Defender of the Ancient Shrine quest.

• Fixed the issue of the Skill Guide window being displayed wider than normal.
• [Wizard] Fixed the following motions:
  • Eating on the table, Leaning on the wall, Collect fluids, Turn off the lights, Lie Down, Milk a Cow, Water Scooping, Pickaxing, Drinking Tea, Sitting, Equipping Harppon, Equipping Matchlock, O/X Quiz!, Shh! when reading books, Holding a broomstick, Holding a beer, Reject, Tasting wine, Wave Flag, Confident, Tease, Follow Me, Praise
• Fixed the issue where the amount of necessary alchemy materials was incorrectly displayed in the Corrupt Oil of Immortality knowledge.
• Added the related quest NPC info to the description of Capotia accessories.
• Fixed the sorting feature for the Points tab to function properly in the Distribute Bonus window.
• Fixed so the automatic line breaks in the guild notifications appear more natural.
• Fixed the issue where the screen would occasionally brighten when waves rolled in the sea.
• Fixed the issue of the terrain of an island near Sycraia Underwater Ruins being displayed abnormally on the World Map (M).
• Fixed the issue where the lighting in certain caves of the Western Valtarra Mountains was too bright.
• Fixed quest conditions of [Suggested] Jarette's Headache.
• Fixed the issue of not being able to accept [Suggested] Eileen's Request, A Very Minute Flaw.
• Improved Ancient Weapon Ator's appearance that shows during the tutorial.
• Fixed the issue where, under certain circumstances, the price of items displayed on the Black Desert+ Central Market and the in-game Central Market were different
• Fixed the issue of the summoned monster showing in other adventurers' Dark Rift.
• Fixed the issue where the "Process all identical items" function was not working properly for non-stackable in the inventory.
• Fixed the issue where items could not be obtained from boxes or bundles that contain 20 items or more.