Adventurers,
The Captain of the Slippery Scallywags, Corsair, Awakens. Armed with the Patraca and a crew full of adorable yet deadly critters, this sea-faring class finally unlocks her true potential! This update also brings Graduation from the Season servers, a more detailed stats page for your character and more!

Updated: 2021-08-26

Updated: 2021-08-13

- Blue Maned Lion’s Manor and the surrounding area has been changed into a safe zone.

Use the Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon to exchange for an item in one of the reward groups below.

1. Season Special Gifts can only be received one time per Family.

2. In future Seasons, you will not be able to exchange for previously rewarded items.

3. In future seasons, you will not be able to receive items from the same reward group.

Read more here: Notice

Changes: 08/11 2021

Item Changes

Content Changes

Corsair Awakening

● The Captain and her crew have finally arrived, as Corsair’s Awakening has been released!

-To awaken your Corsair, you will need to be Lv.56 or higher and complete the questline "[Corsair Awakening] Call of the Crow." This questline is available from Black Spirit - Main Quest if their Corsair completed the succession questline.

- After completing the Awakening quest on a Season Character, you will be rewarded a PRI Tuvala Patraca.

● You can now accept the ‘[Valencia] Dawn of a New Age’ on Corsair, awarding you with a 7-day outfit of your choice.
- The ‘[Valencia] Dawn of a New Age’ is available after completing the Valencia I storyline with a character that is over level 56.

● Added “[Awakening Weapon EXC] Patraca, the Heart of the Sea: PRI~PEN(V) quests through which you can exchange PRI(I) or higher enhanced Serenaca to a Tuvala Patraca of the same enhancement level through the Crow Merchants Guild Chief Manager, Fughar.

※ These quests can only be accepted by a season character or a season graduate.
※ You can only accept and complete one of the following quests per family. You must also have a Tuvala Serenaca of the required enhancement level to exchange it for a Tuvala Patraca of the same enhancement level.
- [Awakening Weapon EXC] Patraca, the Heart of the Sea: PRI (I)
- [Awakening Weapon EXC] Patraca, the Heart of the Sea: DUO (II)
- [Awakening Weapon EXC] Patraca, the Heart of the Sea: TRI (III)
- [Awakening Weapon EXC] Patraca, the Heart of the Sea: TET (IV)
- [Awakening Weapon EXC] Patraca, the Heart of the Sea: PEN (V)
※ Any PEN(V) name engraving, item branding or dye information will be removed when exchanges a PRI to PEN Tuvala Serenaca to a PRI to PEN Patraca through these quests.

● Due to Corsair’s Awakening, we have changed the quests, ‘[Enhancement] Even Stronger Tuvala Awakening Weapon I~II’ to be acceptable from Fughar with a Season Corsair.

● As Corsair now has her Awakening, the 100% damage from the Main Hand Weapon has been changed to the normal ratio of damage between the Awakening and Main Hand weapons.

Summer Season – Graduation

● Fughar, the Crow Merchants Guild Chief Manager, has unveiled the Graduation benefits of the Summer Season, for adventurers looking to take the next step into the world of Black Desert.
- Graduating allows you to transition your Season Character into a regular character before the end of the season. Regardless of when you choose to graduate, you will still be eligible for the rewards.

- Graduating the 2021 Summer Season is detailed below

- The Honorable Adventurer’s Certificate can be obtained from Fughar when completing the ‘[Season Server Graduation] Into the Big Wide World.’ Using this certificate will convert your season character into a regular character.
- Once you have completed these quests, you will receive a Tuvala Conversion Stone Box, Gift Box Full of Memories, and Fughar’s Letter of Encouragement.

- The Box Full of Memories contains the following items:

※ Golden Graduation Gown can be sold for 10,000,000 Silver to NPC’s.

※ [Event] Giovan Grolin’s Support Scroll gives the following buffs.

* Graduation Notices

- In order to graduate, you must receive all the rewards from the [Season] Black Spirit Pass. You will not be able to graduate if there are any outstanding rewards to collect.

- If you have purchased the Summer Season Pass but have not used it, then graduate, you will be unable to receive the rewards from the Season Pass. Make sure to use the item (if you have it) before graduating.

- The ‘Honorable Adventurer’s Certificate that is obtained during the graduation quest can be used on the normal server.
- You will be unable to obtain the Fughar’s Timepiece after you graduate. If you intend to use this item, please complete the quest and use the item before graduating.

- You cannot graduate with a Fughar’s Timepiece in your inventory.

● The Crow Merchants Guild Chief Manager’s former Lover, Perilla, appears to have left the Perilla’s Star as a parting gift after leaving Fughar.

- You can obtain quests relating to the story of Perilla and Fughar from the Black Spirit.
- [Perilla’s Star] Fughar’s Woe can be obtained with a season character or a normal character that is level 51 or above.
-You can obtain the ‘Seasonal Special Gift exchange’ after completing the ‘[Perilla’s Star] Fughar’s Woe’ questline.

- The ‘Season Special Gift Exchange’ does not appear as an item in your bag, can can be proceeded by talking to the Fughar NPC. When talking to him, you can collect one of the following items

● On top of the Tuvala Conversion Stones that will allow you to change your Tuvala gear into gear that can be used on regular characters, you also have the possibility of earning 2 Boss Exchange coupons, which will allow you to convert a Tuvala piece of gear into a boss item that is one enhancement level below the Tuvala enhancement. I.e. PEN(V) Tuvala Helmet changes into a TET Giath Helmet.

You can obtain the Boss Exchange Coupon in the following ways:

- [2021 Summer Season] Boss Gear Exchange Quest

- [Swell Sea Shell] Boss Gear Exchange Quest

- You can exchange Tuvala gear for boss gear through the aforementioned quests upon receiving them from Fughar after completing the graduation quests while having the [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon.

- You can only accept and receive one quest per equipment part.
- Boss items that are exchanged cannot be sold on the Central Market, but can be enhanced further.
- Tuvala Gear that is exchanged to be used on a normal character through the Tuvala Conversion Stones cannot be sold on the Central Market or enhanced.

● Changed requirements for accepting the quests, "[Season Pass] Crow Merchants Guild Gift" and "[Black Spirit Pass] Crow Merchants Guild Gift."

Monster Changes

● Changed Apex Urukios at Vaha’s Cradle, Atoraxxion Vahmalkea, to enter phase 3 while invincible when its HP drops to a certain point while a statue.

● Added Camera effects for Apex Urukios when it enters phase 2 and phase 3.

● Changed Apex Lucretia at Vaha’s Cradle to prioritize synchronizing when it’s Hit Points get low.

● Reduced the damage of falling rocks and rock attack patterns of Apex Urukios at Vaha’s Cradle for Atoraxxion. This applies to both Season and Regular Atoraxxion.

Character Changes

● Improved the way that the sound of characters outputs when moving around.

Ranger

● Cold Blade I~IV – Changed the Ranged Accuracy Rate increase effect in the description to match the actual effect.

Guardian

● Prime: Frostbitten Axe I~V – Fixed an issue where the critical hit increase effect wasn’t being applied.

Corsair

● Prime: Wave Lash – Fixed an issue where the skill was not using MP when used while on cooldown.

● Wave Breaker – Fixed the issue where Stamina was being consumed twice when using this skill

● Fixed an issue where corsair would move abnormally in the Pearl Shop and Customization Window.

● Overflow I - Fixed an issue where the enemy was too far away in the skill preview window.

● The camera effects when using the Black Spirit Training have been modified.

● The skills in the Corsair’s Skill Guide have changed.

● Intermittent issues with the Pearl Shop having items disappear has been fixed.

● Fixed an issue where the Forward Guard applied when moving backwards would intermittently stop working.

● Fixed an issue with abnormal movements at the end of movement animations.

● Smooth Sailing I ~ Absolute: Smooth Sailing – Now recovers +10 MP on hits.

● Added Rabam’s Enlightenment – Skill Enhancement skills.
- The first enhanced skill can be learned at Lv.56 or higher, the second can be learned at Lv. 57 or higher, and the third can be learned at Lv. 58 or higher.
- You must learn the preceding skills in order to learn the Skill Enhancement skills.
- You can only learn one of the two enhanced skills for each level.

Item Changes

● Increased the drop rate of the item ‘Dragon Scale Fossil’ in the following monster zones: Tshira Ruins, Blood Wolf Settlement, and Sherekhan Necropolis (Day, Night)

● Changed the appearance rate of Old Drieghanese Crates (in the Drieghan monster zones: Sherekhan Necropolis, Blood Wolf Settlement, Tshira Ruins) to always appear when Garmoth does her fire attack.

- the amount of ‘Dragon Scale Fossils’ dropped by old Drieghanese Crates has increased from 1 to 5 to 10.

● The upper limit of the price of Value Packs on the Central Market has been increased.

● The amount of Valks Cry and Cron Stones that can be extracted from outfits has been increased. 

● Your family name will now be engraved on items that are enhanced to PEN(V) enhancement levels!

- Items that hit PEN(V) before the update will not display the name of the person who enhanced. .

- However, equipment that cannot be registered on the Central Market will not have the name engraved on the item.

- Special equipment which cannot be registered on the Central Market, but will still have name engraving are:
-Fiery Sub-weapons
-Season Tuvala Equipment
-PEN accessories made through the Old Moon Questline.

- On the Central Market, you will not be able to see who enhanced the item to PEN(V), however once purchased and pulled out of the Central Market, you will see the name of the person who enhanced the item.

● In the description of the ‘Eye of Anguish’ item, we have removed the line that states that armors can be heated to create it.

● Dehkima: Token of the Oath, Seal of the Undying and Crow’s Black Jewel have been changed so they can now be placed in the Family Inventory.

Added 08/11

● In addition to the increased drop rate via Excavation at certain nodes added in a previous update, defeating monsters in the following regions now have a higher chance to drop Mass of Pure Magic than before.

Content Changes

● Changed the exchange of ‘Dragon Scale Fossils’ for Advice of Valks to be available outside of Calpheon.

- The item ‘Dragon Scale Fossil’ can be exchanged for the following items.

- Dragon Scale Fossils can now be exchanged at the following NPCs

● The priests that cleanse gear of their darkness were dispatched to each of the blacksmiths in their towns and cities. Through their teachings, certain NPC’s can now cleanse gear.

● When attempting to exchange accessories gained from them ‘Old Moon Guild’s Trade Offer’ for other accessories within this quest line, the description of the exchange quest will now mention that any Item Branding will be removed.

● The PEN(V) accessory exchange quest has been modified to award you with a TET(IV) accessory plus a Dancing Moonlight Black Stone (required to enhance back to PEN).

● In Atoraxxion Vahmalkea, if the ‘[Atoraxxion] Forgotten Vow’ quest started with players standing on each of the platforms, the quest could not be continued. This issue has been fixed.

Added 08/11
● Defeating monsters in the following regions will now drop Caphras Stones, and the drop rate of Caphras Stones has been increased.

● Fixed the issue where completing some of the main quests before becoming a season character by using the item ‘Fughar’s Timepiece’ would prevent completion of certain Season Pass Objectives.

- The objectives that could not be completed before can now be completed by summoning the Black Spirit and talking to it.

● Two new challenges have been added to Atoraxxion: Vahmalkea

- The rewards for these challenges can be collected once per family.

- These Challenge rewards can be collected by logging in with a character that has the Knowledge that is learned after defeating Apex Urukios in Atoraxxion Vahmalkea

- The following Challenges can be completed on the Season and regular servers.

* These Challenges can be completed by defeating Apex Urukios and learning the Knowledge ‘On the Lucretia Dagger’ either on the season server or regular servers.

* The Challenge ‘[Season] On the Lucretia Dagger!’ can only be completed by a season character, therefore it must be completed within the Season Server period.

* You can complete both these Challenges by learning the Knowledge from either the normal or the Season Server.

● The Slippery Scallywags have finally shown themselves on a deserted island near Oquilla’s Eye. These rookie Scallywags have been waiting impatiently for the return of the old guard, as their thirst for adventure is matched only by their appetite for fish. Unfortunately for the captain of the Slippery Scallywags, these rookies have no idea what their Captain looks like, as all they have are some paw-ly drawn art to go by.

- New quests can be accepted on the island.

- The Slippery Scallywags have appeared with the following new Knowledge.

● Added a new title ‘Sussin’ the Slippery Scallywags’ that can be obtained by learning all the Knowledge under the category “The Great Expedition V”.

NPC, Background, and Sound Changes

● Changed the background music for Hystria Ruins and Aakman Temple.

● Fixed an issue where Grace Lauren’s voice lines would overlap in the Atoraxxion Main Quest Line.

● The awkward positioning of various Lake Flondor NPC’s has been corrected.

● The Slippery Scallywags Den can now be seen on the map as their the fame is on the rise.
- You will be resurrected at the Slippery Scallywags Den if you choose to resurrect at the closest town when you die near the area.
- Waruo has appeared at Slippery Scallywags Den for Corsair.
- Waruo runs both a potion shop and a wharf.

UI

● Changed the line break of the message displayed when the duration of the Value Pack will expire before the item is listed due to the waiting time on the Central Market.

● Improved the quest item scrolls that load up on screen by improving the aspect ratio and fonts for texts.

● Selecting Caphras Stones in your inventory will automatically open the Caphras Enhancement Window.

● Changed the interaction UI to be displayed when you go near a Dream Horse with your season character.

- You will be able to view menus such as it’s inventory and equipment.

- However, you will not be able to ride a Dream Horse with your season character.

- If you attempt to ride a dream horse, a system message saying ‘Season Characters cannot ride Dream Horses’ will appear on screen.

● In the disconnect window, when looking at the inventories of your other characters, inaccessible characters will automatically be skipped when scrolling through each character.

● In the Central Market window, the ‘Inventory’ ‘Pearl Inventory’ and ‘Storage’ words have been changed into icons.

● Fixed an issue where the quest selection window did not automatically appear when completing the ‘Sage of Velia’ quest on a season character.

● The ability to go back after searching has been added to the Central Market. Pressing △/Y will now go back one screen.

● Added the ability to search for items in your Inventory, Pearl Inventory and Central Market Warehouse.
● Improved moving items through the Central Market Directors and Storage Keepers to be able to move 20 non-stackable items at a time.

- However, only gear of the same enhancement level can be moved together. As for PEN(V) gear, only one of them can be moved at a time like before.

- Maids/Butlers will be able to perform this action too.

● Added more detailed information about the current character to the inventory and My Stats page.

- First, open the My Stats window, or open it with the ‘View My Stats’ option in the inventory. Then press the ‘Battle Stats’ button displayed on the right section of the window to see detailed stats.

- Damage Reduction and Evasion will be displayed in detail (split into Melee/Ranged/Magic.)

Node War/Conquest War Changes

● Improved the guild skill ‘Command to Gather’ so that Guild Advisors can activate the skill as well as Guild Leaders.

● Changed ‘Command to Gather’ so that, if it was used before the start of Node/Conquest War, it cannot be moved after the war begins.

● Made the following changes for the requirements to use the skill ‘Command to Gather’

● The total attack and defensive stats for Tier 1 Node Wars has been modified. (Note, this includes attack and defenses from sources including; Crystals, Food Buffs, Church Buffs etc.)

● Fixed an issue where the added DP from Node/Conquest War character skills ‘Yianaros’s Light’, ‘Pilgrim’s Steps, and ‘Knight’s Defense’ were not calculated into the tier 1 node war restrictions.

● Changed the World Map to display the attack and defense restrictions for tier 1 node wars, and compare them to your highest stats.
- Added the detail that the stats shown in the restrictions UI are equal to total stats (which is shown in the My Stats UI).
- For the attack related stats, the numbers will show main weapon and awakening weapon attack stats separately.
-For the defense related stats, the numbers will show Evasion, Evasion Rate, and Damage Reduction separately.
- Each of the stats that are under the restriction of Tier 1 Node Wars will be shown in red on the UI. Stats above the restriction will be shown in green.

System Changes

● Fixed the issue where enemy ships were not highlight red during Siege War in Calpheon.

Pearl Store

● As the sales of the ‘Head Storage Butler’ have ceased, the function of this item has been changed to now be available at all times for maids and butlers. This includes both Storage and Central Market Maids/Butlers.

-If you have a maid or butler, you can activate the group command for both Storage and Central Market functions from the UI.

- For those who purchased the ‘Head Storage Butler’, you can find the pearls/discount coupons that were used to purchase the item in your Mail after the August 11^th Maintenance.

Other Changes

● Fixed the issue where when fishing and catching a treasure fish, the final key of the input could not be entered.

● Fixed the issue where equipment set effects would be saved into the skill presets, and can be applied by loading the previously saved skill preset, even though you no longer meet the set effect conditions.

● Fixed the issue where guild passive skills would be saved into the skill presets, and can be applied by loading the previously saved skill preset, even though you have left the guild.

● Fixed the issue with abnormal message appearing when attempting to purchase items under the “Volatile Price Items” category on the Central Marketplace.

● Fixed the issue where monsters’ HP in the season Atoraxxion dungeon would be set abnormally when they are first hit.

● Fixed the progression issue that occurred when accepting Black Spirit quests with a character that has completed all the main quests.
● Fixed an issue where the title, ‘Chosen by Khan’ would show in the title list even though it was unobtainable.