Global Lab Updates – 7th April 2023

Adventure Start Area – Land of the Morning Light

Season Graduation

• <Crow Guild Manager> Fughar has started helping season graduates so that season characters that have completed the spring season can be converted to regular characters.
• More information about Graduation can be found in our Season Graduation guide.

• How to graduate for the spring season:

• Using the Honorable Adventurer’s Certificate will convert the season character into a regular character.
• Upon completing the above quests, you will receive [Season] Tuvala Conversion Stone Box, Memories Gift Box, and Fughar’s Letter of Support.
• The contents of the gift box with memories are as follows:

Gift Box Full of Memories
[Season] Tuvala Conversion Stone Box x1 Graduation Cap x1 Advice of Valks (+60) x1 Golden Graduation Gown x1 Cron Stone x100 [Event] Secret Book of Old Moon (7 Days) x1 [Event] Elion’s Tear x10 [Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll x5 [Event] Giovan Grolin’s Support Scroll x5 [Event] Tachros’ Spirit Stone Blessed Message Scroll x5 Premium Elixir Box x3 Finto’s Filling/Sweet/Fresh Juice x10

• ‘Season Special Gift Quest’ has been added, which can be carried out through the spring season.

• Through the quest below, you can exchange Tuvala equipment for boss equipment with the ‘[Season] Boss Equipment Exchange Coupon’ obtained from the ‘Gift Box of Memories’.
  • You can proceed with this quest by visiting Fugar while possessing the item ‘[Season] Boss Equipment Exchange Ticket’ there is.

Black Shrine (Boss Rush) – Levels 6 to 7

• The boss levels 6 and 7 of the Black Shrine have been opened.
  • Levels 6 and 7 will only open after the first player on the server succeeds in defeating the boss at the previous difficulty.
    • Eg. When the first player defeats level 5, level 6 will be opened for all players.
  • Level 6 and 7 bosses have additional mechanics as well as the attack patterns in previous difficulties.

• A quest has been added to obtain 2 additional Jewels of Light required for the Black Shrine content.

• The buff icons of the bosses appearing in the main quests of the Land of the Morning and the Black Shrine have been improved.

New Mansion Furniture

• Exclusive furniture for the manor, the “Antique Tiled hexagonal pavilion” has been added.
  • It can be crafted at the Furniture Workshop in Level 3 of Dalbeon Village No. 5.
  • The ‘Design: Antique Tile Hexagon Pavilion’ item can be purchased for 30,000,000 silver coins from <Furniture Merchant> Youngchil in Dalbeol Village.

Trade Lifeskill – Mysterious Giant Caravan

• A Mysterious Giant Caravan has appeared that buys up all cheap trade items and sells them when the price stabilizes.
  • If you buy all of the stock at the Mysterious Giant Caravan, you will not be able to purchase trade items for a while due to a lack of stock, and the trade item price will not fluctuate for a certain period of time.
  • Afterward, when the market price of trade items recovers due to a lack of stock and increased demand, the Mysterious Giant Caravan will sell its inventory and purchase trade items.

Condition	Trade item price fluctuations are kept below 40% of the cost basis for 3 trade resets
Blackout Period	Unable to purchase trade items and no change in the market price for 42 trade resets (7 days)
After Blackout	Changes in market price to the cost of trade goods

• The Order Contract window has been improved to display the price at which the trade item was purchased and the current trading price.

 The text of the <Old Moon Guild Newsletter>, which contains news about trade product price fluctuations, has been improved.

• Harden, a trade manager in the Calpheon region, and Linjiana Herba have started buying trade items again.
• Fixed the issue where trade items could not be sold depending on where you were talking to NPC Wolfgang in Calpheon.
• It has been modified so that you can deliver Imperial Crafts to Calpheon Imperial Crafts Delivery Manager Beh.
• It has been modified so that you can deliver Imperial Fishing to NPCs outside of the main towns and large cities.
• The text of the Old Moon Guild Newsletter, which contains news about trade item price changes, has been improved.
• As the Imperial Trade was removed, the titles of NPCs with the <Imperial Delivery> title were removed.

※ Updates related to trading activities cannot be checked at the Black Desert Lab, and will be updated on the official server.

Gathering Lifeskill – Thousand-Year-Old Wild Ginseng

• ‘Thousand-year-old Wild Ginseng’ has been added, and can be obtained with a low probability in the gathering mini-game that is triggered when acquiring the knowledge ‘Deep-rooted gathering’.
  • The chance of obtaining Thousand-Year-Old Wild Ginseng is not affected by the gathering level, gathering mastery, or hedgehog effect.
  • The effect applied when using Thousand-Year-Old Wild Ginseng is applied to the entire family for 90 days.
  • Thousand-Year-Old Wild Ginseng can be registered on the Central Market
  • The special efficacy of Thousand-Year-Old Wild Ginseng, which has been passed down as a legend among the residents of Donghae, was made known by Simmani, who first discovered the Thousand-Year-Old Wild Ginseng.

Land of the Morning Light – New Short Story

• A new story has arrived in the Land of the Morning.

• One Black Spirit quest has been added to the ‘[Story] Camellia’ quest series.
  • A character who has completed all of the Camellia Flower series quests, and can be found in Black Spirit (/) – Quests – Recommended Quests.

Land of the Morning Light – New Adventure Log

• A new adventure journal [Land of the Morning Light Story Encyclopedia: East Sea Edition] has been added.
  
  • Unlike the existing adventure logs, this adventure log is a type of journal where you can revisit the stories you have already completed.
    
  • If you gain certain knowledge while progressing through the story of the Morning Light, you can revisit the story through the Story Encyclopedia.

Guild Improvements

• It has been improved so that you can invite/join guilds and renew contracts even if you are on another server.
  • As before, guild position changes and expulsion is possible regardless of connection or server.

Other Changes

• In the Land of the Morning Adventure Journal, the following unobtainable knowledge has been modified to be obtainable.

• Added a scene where you look around the beach when talking to Momo during the quest ‘[Balenos] To Velia Village’.

• The story cover of each story in the story journal has been modified so that it changes when all quests are completed.

• Fixed the issue where the client was intermittently unstable during loading.
• Fixed the issue where objects were unnaturally exposed at certain locations in Bronte’s Thunderbolt area.
• Fixed the issue where the description text of the Spoils of Disappearance: Mudangryeong/Songgaksi/Jungyeopgun (2 items) were displayed differently from the actual item.
• Fixed the issue where rice seeds planted in the garden were exposed as rice seeds.

• Fixed the issue where the image reflected in the mirror was unnaturally exposed when placing a dressing table.
• Fixed the issue where parts of the waterfall and river were unnaturally exposed.
• Fixed the issue where the camera was unnatural when accepting the ‘[Morning Land] Dokkaebi’s Gift’ from the Black Spirit after completing ‘[Nation of the Morning] Small Request’.
• Fixed the issue where the route guidance was unnatural when searching for directions inland from Gooseae and Nampo Seas in the Land of the Morning.
• Fixed the issue where the portraits of some Jirgo Viano knowledge were exposed differently.
• The issue of unavailable price ranges being exposed between the web integrated exchange and the in-game integrated exchange has been corrected so that the price ranges are displayed the same.
• Fixed the issue where you could proceed with a cutscene while riding a mount under certain circumstances during the quest for the Land of the Morning.
• Fixed the issue where transparent objects remained at certain locations in Bartali Farm.

Class Changes

Warrior

• Prime: Heavy Strike skill has been changed as follows.
  • Changed to link up to 3 hits even when pressing the ↓ key while using the skill.
    • However, when the Prime: Pulverize skill is available, the Prime: Pulverize skill is activated.
  • Changed so that the critical hit chance of the last hit is not applied when the skill is activated during cooldown.
  • The activation speed of the skill’s final blow has been increased.
  • After the last hit of a skill, it has been improved to smoothly link to the next skill.
    • Counter, Scars of Dusk, Spinning Slash, Shield Strike, Prime: Pulverize, Ground Slash, Severing Thrust

• • The phenomenon of the character being momentarily slowed down after a successful skill hit has been alleviated.

• Prime: Spinning Slash skill has been changed as follows.
  • The speed of skill attacks has been changed.
  • The damage of the skill has been changed as follows.

• • Changed so that the critical hit rate does not apply when using the skill during cooldown.

• Prime: Earth Tremor skill has been changed as follows.
  • The cooldown of the skill has been changed from 12 seconds to 10 seconds.
  • The damage of the skill has been changed as follows.

• Changed so that Flow: Overwhelm will not activate with ↑ + Left Click when the Solar Flare skill is on cooldown.
  • Accordingly, the Flow: Overwhelm skill has been changed to activate when the space bar is pressed while using the Forward Head Chase skill.

Archer

• The Gaping Darkness skill has been changed as follows.
  • The skill control key has been changed to ↑ + E.
    • Accordingly, the skills Flow: Shadow Hack and Flow: Verdure Clout have been changed to be linked when the E key is held.
  • The skill has been changed so that it always activates when using Forward Activation.
  • Forward Guard’s application time has been increased.

• The forward guard effect of Volant Kick has been moved to the effect of Covering Fire.

• Fixed the issue where the description of the hit rate was not displayed in the description of the skill Absolute: Covering Fire.

• The forward guard effect of Vine Cutter has been moved to the Arrow Explosion skill.

• The skill Sunfall has been changed as follows.
  • Changed the Earth Shatter skill to a flow skill.
  • When using the Earth Shatter skill, it has been changed to activate together with Sunfall if Sunfall is in a state that can be activated.
  • All defense reduction -15 effect has been added on successful hits.

• Increased the activation speed when using the skill Piercing Cry forward.

• The Double Tap skill has been changed as follows.
  • Changed so that the 2nd hit is strengthened regardless of whether the 1st hit was hit or not.
  • When the 2nd hit is activated, changed to allow stamina recovery.

• Ultimate: Zephyr Leap skill has been changed as follows.
  • The defense judgment of the skill has been changed as follows.
    • Forward guard while using skill → Super armor while using skill -> Forward guard
  • Increased the backward movement distance when using Ultimate: Zephyr Leap while in Great Bow state.

Black Spirit: Ultimate: Zephyr Leap

• Black Spirit: Ultimate: Zephyr Leap skill has been changed as follows.
  • The skill’s 3rd hit has been removed.
  • The defense judgment of the skill has been changed as follows.

Before change	After
Invincible while disappearing, forward guard while using skills	Invincible while disappearing, super armor while using skills

• The Uproot skill has been changed as follows.
  • The skill’s additional hit behavior has been changed.
    • As a result, the distance traveled backward has been increased.
  • The falling motion does not appear during mid-air motions, and the falling motion is displayed when the character is in the air above a certain height during the landing motion.

Meteor Dive

• The movement distance of the Meteor Dive skill has been increased.

• Luthraghon’s Call skill has been changed as follows.
  • The  CC effect on which the attack is applied has been changed to match the arrow’s trajectory, and the damage has been adjusted as follows. (The maximum range of the skill is the same as before.)
    • Increased the size of attack rolls applied per hit.

• The skill Ravenous Talon has been changed to the skill Flow: Call from Sky
  • After using Luthraghon’s Call, right-click additionally to activate Flow: Call from Sky

Before change	after

Light’s Path

• The rate of fire of the skill has been increased.

• The attack range, which was applied differently for each attack, has been unified to the widest range.
• The number of hits that were applied differently for each attack has been unified into the most hits.
• The damage that was applied differently for each attack has been unified to the highest value.
• Decreased the amount of Mana consumed when using the Light’s Path skill when learning Greatbow Training at levels V to X.

Before change	after
Required 30 MP for Greatbow Training I~IV Required 60 MP for Greatbow Training V~VIII Required 100 MP for Great Bow Training IX~X	Required 30 MP for Greatbow Training I~IV Required 45 MP for Greatbow Training V~VIII Required 60 MP for Great Bow Training IX~X

• A description of the amount of damage reduced in PvP has been added.

• The Spear of Sylvia skill has been changed as follows.
  • The skill’s behavior has been changed.
    • Accordingly, the damage and effect of the skill have been adjusted.
  • Changed to a skill that fires long-range projectiles.
    • However, if the enemy is close to the archer, a melee attack will be performed.
  • The effect of Core: Spear of Sylvia has been changed as follows.
    • Bound on successful hit → Forward guard while using skill

Before change	After Change

Skill linkage	Skill linkage
▲ Link to Spear of Sylvia after Light’s Path	▲ After Spear of Sylvia using Flow: Light’s Trail, Link to Righteous Smite

Marked Bloom

• Marked Bloom skills have been changed as follows.
  • Changed to be unusable during cooldown.
    • Accordingly, the cooldown has been changed from 7 seconds to 6 seconds.
  • The skill Full Bloom is changed to a single skill instead of a flow skill.
    • Damage has been adjusted accordingly, and has been changed to enable skill add-on effects.

Before change	After

• The movement speed reduction effect when the skill hit is successful has been removed.
• Stiffness (applies to players only) effect on successful hits has been added.

Full Bloom I~III, Black Spirit: Full Bloom

• Full Bloom I~III, Black Spirit: Full Bloom skills have been changed as follows.
  • Arrow damage is no longer applied if you are in close proximity to an attack target.
  • The range of close-range strikes has been reduced.
    • Based on the above two points, the damage of short-range hits has been greatly increased. (However, the damage during PvP is reduced compared to before.)

• • The critical hit chance of arrow strikes has been removed, and the critical hit chance has been changed to apply to short-range hits.

Before change	After

Flow: Grand Bloom

• Flow: Grand Bloom skill has been changed as follows.
  • When using a skill during cooldown, the critical hit rate has been changed so that it does not apply.
    • As a result, the arrow hits during cooldown have been changed to only reduce 3 hits instead of 5 hits.
  • Light Strike’s attack range has been reduced.

Piercing Light I~III

• It has been changed so that it will not always be pushed back when using Piercing Light I ~ III.