A new update has been released for Black Desert PS4, and this update is bringing the Striker and Tamer awakenings, as well as bringing fairies, Capotia accessories and more! Check out all the latest changes hitting Black Desert.

Discover the true potential of the Striker and Tamer and find new perspectives on their gameplay, as they can now be awakened. Give into nature’s power and punch your enemies with a fiery rage as striker, or discover your true past and strike your enemies with the Celestial Bo Staff as Tamer!

Find out more about their stories at [LINK TO GM NOTE]

The latest companion on your travels has arrived. Fairies offer great utility in Black Desert offering skills which help you on your travels. Auto-potions and Desert drinks, instant resurrections and more! For a full rundown on how to get level up and use your fairy, head to the GM Note here: [LINK TO GM NOTE]

Quint and Muraka make their way to Black Desert Playstation. These new world bosses require teamwork to bring down, and you can find out more information in our [GM Notes].

Trolls often turn to stone to preserve themselves for sustained periods of time, and Quint, the first troll, is no exception. This statue-like entity has finally started to stir, and it’s adding a whole new dimension to the war against the trolls. Quint does not take damage while standing, so it is imperative to take out his legs first to bring him to the floor, where you can unleash your fury at his relatively weak body.

The depths of the Mansha forest are peaceful no more as Muraka emerges from the thick forests to bring death and destruction to anyone foolish enough to stand in his way. He is relatively slow but makes up for it with his incredibly powerful attacks. As his HP lowers, he becomes enraged bringing even more damage than before. Taking out his legs will open him up to damage.

Many of the alchemists across the world have been looking to replicate Marni Stones and apply them to other threats to the world's stability. Although there were many failures, and none quite captured the functionality of the stones, a process was developed which would allow the capture of the aura of World Bosses. The following auras will be available: 

• Kzarka’s Latent Aura
• Nouver’s Latent Aura
• Karanda’s Latent Aura
• Kutum’s Latent Aura

By defeating World Bosses across the world, Adventurers will be rewarded with Latent Auras. By collecting 100 Latent Auras, you will be able to exchange them for the respective bosses Sealed Weapon Box. Once you have collected your weapon box (once per family), you will be able to exchange Latent Auras for Memory Fragments.

Capotia Accessories have been added as rewards for hitting level 61 to 64! Capotia Accessories are incredibly powerful accessories that will give a boost to all characters that can reach those high levels! The Capotia Accessories are only given out once per family, and cannot be sold or enhanced.

Capotia Accessories
Icon	Name	Level Reward	Stats
	Capotia Ring	LV. 61	AP+14
	Capotia Earring	LV. 62	AP+13
	Capotia Belt	LV. 63	AP+14
	Capotia Necklace	LV. 64	AP+25

These rewards can be collected from your challenges tab by going to the Challenge Reward option in the menu.

Trading just got even more lucrative with the addition of the Token of Desert Trading buff. This buff will allow you to get an extra 100% value to any trade good carried through the desert.

To start, you will need to be ranked Artisan in trading or higher in order to start the quest line to unlock the ‘Token of Desert Trading’ buff. Once you reach this level, you will need to complete ‘Peaceful Oasis’ quest line by speaking with Ashim, the General Goods Vendor in Ibellab Oasis. Make sure that you go to Profile>Quests in order to turn on Life Skill quests otherwise you will be unable to see the quest. Once the Ibellab Oasis quest line has been completed, you will need to head to Sand Grain Bazaar and pick up the ‘Rest Area on the Barren Sand’ quest from Atui Ballacs.

Once you complete this quest line, you will first need to wait for the initial 50% buff (given during the quest) to wear off, then head to ‘Pilgrim’s Sanctum: Sharing’ to pick up the 100% Token of Desert Trading buff. You must be at Artisan Trading level 2 in order to get the Token of Desert Trading buff from Samaya, and it costs 100 energy to activate it.

Mysterious and Magical Seeds have been added. These seeds will help you get the most out of your farming.

Mysterious Seeds can be obtained through plant breeding, and when combined with normal crop seeds (I.e Strawberry seeds of any type) through shaking, will become a Mysterious Crop Seed. These seeds can yield more crops when they are harvested.

Magical Seeds can only be obtained once your farming level is Artisan Level 1 or Higher. There is a chance to receive a Magical Crop Seed when breeding crops. This seed will guarantee that alchemical fruit ingredients are received when harvesting.

Both seeds consume 5 slots of a fence, and will give roughly 5x the amount of crop when harvested. This means that you will be able to easily manage your gardens/farms as there will be less crops for you to tend to, while still receiving the same amount of harvested crops.

The Old Moon Fence has been added to Black Desert. Like the strong fence, there are 10 slots for your crops to fit into, however it is much smaller in size making it easier to manage. You can rent the Old Moon Fence for 10 contribution points from Old Moon Managers found across the Black Desert world. These fences count towards your 10 fence limit. You can only get Old Moon fences once you have achieved Farming Master 1 or higher.

Ancient Puturum

A new guild boss is able to cross the threshold of darkness and make its way into the Black Desert world. Puturum is a bird shaped creation of the ancients powered by an ancient fragment buried deep within its chest. This monster is incredibly dangerous, and absolute caution is advised before facing it.

Ancient Puturum can be summoned via the Ancient Puturum Summon Scroll which can be obtained from a new Guild Mission Boss Subjugation. There are varying sizes of the boss, and there are special titles for landing the last hit at each guild size. 

Muskan of Madness

Completing subjugation quests can reward you with an ‘Essence of Fury’, which can be exchanged for either a ‘[Guild] Muskan of Madness Scroll’ or a ‘[Guild] Awakened Muskan of Madness Scroll’.

You can exchange 15 ‘Essence of Fury’ with either the NPC Hakkon (found near the Bloody Monastery) or with a Guild Manager NPC. You will need a significant turnout from your guild in order to defeat the boss, which has a chance to drop Muskan’s Shoes when defeated.

This update is bringing several new UI features that will help make your life in Black Desert a little easier on the eye.

Guild Storage has also been added. You will now be able to place items in your Guilds Storage which allows you to transfer items such as guild boss scrolls, Essence of Fury and more to other members of your guild.

We have also added Platoon Settings to the game. This function allows you to add up to 20 players into a group, which displays the HP settings and locations of other members of your platoon. While in a platoon, Party Elixirs will not apply to your platoon, but other buffs and heals should still apply.

The “Heroes’ Song” item can now be obtained after defeating the world bosses Quint and Muraka, and also from field bosses in the game. The “Heroes’ Song” item recovers 5,000 HP over 30 seconds and activates immediately after being picked up.

World bosses will no longer disappear right away after 15 minutes, but instead they will go berserk before they disappear. World Bosses will go berserk after they have been on the field for 15 minutes raising their AP and DP. At 25 minutes they will enter another berserked stage, this time giving them even more AP but significantly cutting their DP. If they are still not taken out after 30 minutes, the world boss will despawn. This change will only apply to: Kzarka, Nouver, Kutum, Karanda.

We are also making changes to the way that Gold Bar rewards are distributed after defeating Kzarka, Nouver, Karanda and Kutum.

The last of the monster changes is skill EXP acquisition. We will be increasing skill EXP gained from monsters in certain areas to help improve the Skill EXP leveling system.

Dev Team Comment: Around the time of the launch of Black Desert, we improved the leveling experience of the game to make it easier to level up. However these changes focussed purely on the Combat EXP, and left the Skill EXP alone. The reason for this was that we wanted adventurers to learn and familiarize themselves with the skills they learned, and the Skill EXP given matched this, as it gave players a chance to try out skills over a long period of time. However it has become apparent that changes in Skill EXP acquisition need to be made.

Skill EXP gained in the following areas has been increased.

• Cadry Ruins/Crescent Shrine/Aakman/Hystria - Skill EXP Gain +10%
• Basilisk Den/ Taphtar Plain - Skill EXP Gain +20%

• Pila Ku Jail/ Roud Sulfur Mine - Skill EXP Gain +30%

• Ghost Greeting III - Fixed an issue where the first damage was not applied when used during cooldown.

We are making some changes to the enhancement options of green gear. You can now select enhancing for durability or enhancing for the enhancement level between +9 ~ +14 for weapons and +7 ~ +14 for armors. Before this change, you could choose between enhance or durability options between +7 and +14 for weapons, and +5 to +14 for armor.

• Energy Potions of all sizes have been recategorized from green items into Blue items.

• Fixed an issue where flooring would not apply correctly in Olvia 2-4.
• If you have not already acquired knowledge on Shakatu (Town), you can now talk to Shakatu (NPC) to obtain knowledge.