● Separating the Node and Conquest War structures allows us to tailor the Node War experience to different levels of experience. To start this process, each tier of node war structures will have different levels of durability.

Other Node/Conquest War Changes

● The damage for the Hwacha (Tier 4/Conquest War) and Flame Tower (Tier 4/Conquest War) increased by 50% against Humans.

● The ‘Barricade’ which can be crafted from the Siege Weapon Workshop, and the ‘Iron Barricade’ it can be upgraded into, have new names and modified durabilities.

- The ‘Sturdy Barricade’ crafted from the Siege Weapon Workshop is not restricted by Node tiers, and can be used in Conquest Wars.

As we are making these changes to Node/Conquest War items, we will be removing the existing structures from the game. Guilds that had the following items in their storage will receive a refund added directly to your Guild Funds:

Node Restructuring

● We are reducing the number of Nodes available for node wars by around 37%. Condensing the amount of nodes available each day is designed to make the remaining nodes more competitive. As the total number of nodes has decreased, taxes earned has increased by roughly 37% for each node. As we are reducing the amount of nodes, all forts across the world of Black Desert have been removed. Forts built in Node Wars before the maintenance on April 14th have been removed, and guilds compensated for the cost. 

● There are also adjustments made to the Tier of certain nodes. Please note that if you owned one of these Tier 4 nodes before the update, you will not be able to post up for Conquest Wars.

● When capturing Calpheon, the additional 50% Item Drop Increase will apply to both Calpheon and Kamasylvia.

Dev Note

Although this effect was visible in game, the effect was not applied. I’m incredibly sorry for the issues raised, and we will check more thoroughly in the future. We will be sending all adventurers 5x Item Drop Increase Scroll (60 min.) and after the next maintenance, we are planning to run an additional item drop increase event for 2 weeks.

The first item change we are making is to the maximum prices of PEN grade Ogre Rings and Ring of Crescent Guardian. PEN Ogre Rings have been increased by around 30%, and PEN Ring of Crescent Guardian has been increased by around 20%. Please remember that it may take time for the prices on these items to adjust.

We are also making improvements to Morco’s Gear Bag so that it will no longer unlock the items that it stores after disconnecting.

Pets will now use their skill as soon as they can after being brought out. There may be a short initial cooldown, but once that has completed, the pet will be able to use it’s skill as soon as possible.

Monsters in the Valencia region with the tag, Violent, will now have 30% more HP.

We will also be reducing the recommended level for Swamp Naga’s by 1 level.

To make life easier for adventurers, we are making changes to the Magical Sub-weapon quests. You will now be able to complete these quests in Mediah, as well as Calpheon City. If you have not completed nor in the process of doing the ‘Magical Sub-weapon Exchange I’ quest, you can complete the ‘Uncontainable Heat’ quest from the Mediah main quest. This will then allow the Black Spirit to give you the quest, ‘Cleansing the Cave’ which will allow you to receive the ‘Magical Sub-weapon Exchange I’ quest. This will not allow you to duplicate the amount of Magical Sub-weapons you can receive, and once completed in one area, you cannot complete it in the other. 

We are also making changes to a few of the early sub-quests in the game to help newer players focus more on the main quests. The requirement changes for these quests provide a very low barrier to enter, but enough that it will no longer distract new adventurers.

The quests that help connect Valencia part 1 and 2 main quests will now be displayed in the Quest List.

As mentioned in a recent note, we are changing the quest requirements to start accessing the Valencia Quests. The new requirement will be for adventurers who are Level 55 and above, and have also completed the Mediah Main Quest. Quests which help link Valencia I and Valencia II main quest story lines will also now appear on the recommended quest list. These quests are:
-Sahazad’s Worth
-Barhan’s Authority

-Manmehan’s Passion
-Saya’s Interest

Due to the change in requirements for the Valencia main quest, we have tried to make the Balenos ~ Calpheon Main Quests more comfortable by offering more movement speed buffs in parts where there are long distances to travel. 

Completing the ‘Abandoned Fate’ quest will now give adventurers the ‘Giath’s Secret’ knowledge. Adventurers who have already completed this cross road quest, but have not acquired the knowledge, can speak to Grusha to receive it.

Other Quest Changes

• Fixed an issue where pre-renewal Kamasylvia quests were sometimes displayed in the Quest List for players who have not progressed Kamasylvia Main Quests.
• The requirement for ‘Abandoned Fate’ has been reduced to one quest.
  -The quest will be completed once you return to Grusha after discovering ‘Grusha’s  Journal’ in the goblin Cave.
  
• Fixed the issue where the knowledge entry for ‘Smoked Fish Steak’ had the wrong number of Mudskippers required.
• Fixed an issue where the rewards window for,’Embarking on an Adventure’ would show as empty in certain circumstances.
• Greatly decreased the regen time of Cron Castle Barracks that are required for ‘The Lost Records of Cron’ quest.

All Class Changes
●Successfully hitting another Adventurer on horseback with the Black Spirit’s Rage 10%, 25%, and 50% will now de-mount them.

● You can now obtain ‘Fragment of Darkness’ when successfully hitting targets with the following awakening skills:

- Dead Hunt

- Engulfing Shadow

- Abyssal Blow

Dev Note: Our original design ideas with Sorceress was that we wanted players to switch between both Awakening and Pre-Awakening in order to generate fragments. This mechanic ended up becoming more of an inconvenience than an interesting mechanic, so we decided to make it so certain awakening skills can generate ‘Fragment of Darkness’.

● Fixed the issue where the description related to Accuracy was omitted from the descriptions for the following skills.

- Flow: Dash Slash

- Twister

- Flow: Extra Credit

● The ‘Crust Crusher’ skill’s Critical Hit Rate effect will now apply in PvP.

● ‘Crust Crusher’ will now pull enemies together. 

● The activation speed for ‘Crust Crusher’ was increased.

● ‘Crust Crusher’ cooldown decreased by 3 seconds.

● The CC effect of ‘Twister’ is changed from Stiffness to Floating.

● Removed the ‘split damage’ effect which was unnecessarily applied to Musa’s Awakening and Main Weapon Skills.

Dev Note:

We decided to first look at Musa’s Crust Crusher and Twister skills in improving the overall kit of Musa. Crust Crusher is a major skill, yet it’s long wind up makes it inconvenient. With this change we are also reducing the cooldown of the skill because the cooldown was too long considering the amount of damage it could do. The CC effect of Twister was changed so that it could be utilized better when connecting with other skills.

We also removed the split damage effect, which is where when attacking multiple targets, the amount of damage would be distributed to each of the enemies instead of the same amount of damage being done to each enemy. 

● You can now combo Flow: Cloud Stab after Stigma.

● You can now combo Flow: Moonlight Dash after Flow: Cloud Stab.

● You can now combo Moonrise after the second hit of Petal Drill.

● Fixed an issue where the skill effect was not shown for Hop II and Hop III when used to go forward.

● Fixed an issue where the Black Spirit: Get Well did not apply to allies when a World Boss was summoned.

● The damage of ‘Land Buster’ will not decrease even when ‘Infernal Destruction’ is on cooldown.

● You can now combo ‘Skull Crusher’ during the use of ‘Flow: Crosswind’. 

● You can now combo ‘Flow: Bite Off’ after Rampaging Predator faster than before. 

● Decreased the movement slowdown when hitting an enemy with ‘Spiral Cannon’ 

● You can now combo other skills faster than before after the following skills: 

- Endless Explosion

- Fallout

- Silent Step during Awakening.

- Flow: Crosswind while using Spiral Cannon. 

● Second and third hts for ‘Ultimate Crush’ will now be used faster on consecutive use.

● You can now use ‘Rampaging Predator’ in the pre-awakening state.

● Boats that are destroyed will now have an entry written in the journal. 

● You can now only enter Altar of Blood if you have full HP

- Losing HP while queuing into Altar of Blood will cause you to leave the queue. 

● Fixed an issue where in certain circumstances, items could not correctly be placed on tables inside residences.

● Applied fixes that will help improve frame rates when acquiring items, knowledge and skills. 

● Reduced the number of amity points needed to buy donkey gear sold at the amity shop of Partus, the stable keeper of Keplan. You will now require 50 Amity instead of 500.