Black Desert Online Update: Full Patch Notes Listed (May 17)

A massive update has come to Black Desert Online, and you can expect some bug smoothing and character adjustments. Here's the Black Desert Online Update: Full Patch Notes Listed (May 17).

Looks like we’ve gotten a series of buffs, but only for the Warrior, Valkyrie, Wizard, Striker, and Corsair. It's a sad day to be a Drakania main. But we’ve also gotten plenty of bug fixes and general improvements. So, let's get into it.

ALL CLASSES

Warrior

In order to balance Awakening Warrior's disadvantages in PvP combat, we have improved the flow and damage of the critical combos Grave Digging -> Flow: Slashing the Dead and Pulverize -> Flow: Tempest.The duration of Flow: Ankle Break's increased Critical Hit Rate effect is now the same as that of Warrior Succession's Prime: Spinning Slash, and this effect will now be applied to Flow: Tempest as well. We’ve also increased the damage of Frenzied Strikes, the main PvE skill, in order to be even more effective at taking down monsters.

Awakening

Pulverize (I to III)

Pulverize, Flow: Tempest

Grave Digging, Flow: Slashing the Dead

Grave Digging (I to IV)

Frenzied Strikes (I to III)

Flow: Slashing the Dead

Flow: Ankle Break

Valkyrie

Though the skill Prime: Divine Power of Valkyrie Succession has high damage, it was difficult to combo with other skills while Glaring Slash and Sword of Judgment, which are primarily used after the main skills during PvE, had weak damage. As such, we have improved Prime: Divine Power to be easier to combo with, and we increased the damage of Prime: Glaring Slash and Prime: Sword of Judgment.

Succession

Prime: Glaring Slash (I to IV)

Prime: Sword of Judgment (I to IV)

Prime: Judgment of Light I

Prime: Divine Power I

Witch, Wizard

In today's update, we have increased the damage of Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows for Succession Witch to improve its combat performance when used in conjunction with other skills. Additionally, we have increased the reduction in cooldown of Prime: Elemental Flow when comboing with skills of the same element for Wizard Succession, allowing players to use their main skills more frequently. Furthermore, we have also increased the damage of Prime: Frigid Fog: Control and Prime: Earthquake: Destruction to enhance their combat effectiveness.

Succession

Prime: Multiple Magic Arrows

Prime: Frigid Fog: Control (I to III)

Prime: Earthquake: Destruction

Wizard

Succession

Prime: Elemental Flow

Striker

Previously, Awakening Striker required Adventurers to switch to gauntlet to use the skill Massive Suppression, which is used to knock down enemies after grabbing. Adventurers had to switch to gauntlet or use movement skills such as Double Flash or Spiral Cannon – Ferocious Assault to move and then switch back to gardbrace to attempt a grab. This improvement will make it more convenient to use Massive Suppression and knock down enemies with the gardbrace.

Main Weapon

Flow: Mass Destruction

Silent Step

Tornado Kick

Awakening

Hell Break

Endless Fight

Descent of Fury

Black Spirit: Ferocious Assault

Skull Crusher

Corsair

For the Corsair Succession, it was difficult to continuously perform the same combos due to the high cooldown of Mareca, which has a high damage output. Therefore, we have made adjustments to allow for more frequent use of Prime: Mareca: Whale Song, Prime: Mareca: Spiral Soak and Mareca: Spiral of Dreams which are mainly used for defeating monsters. We have also increased the damage output of Serenaka so that it can deal enough damage even when Mareca is on cooldown.

Main Weapon, Succession

Absolute: Crashing Wave

Prime: Wave Lash (I to IV)

Prime: Ocean's Pearl (I to III)

Mareca: Spiral of Dreams

Prime: Mareca: Whale Song

Prime: Mareca: Spiral Soak

Contents

Trade Quest Improvement

[Season] Ancient Weapon Invasion

Waragon Nest, Shultz Guards, Basilisk Den

Spring Season Graduation Begins!

Related: Genshin Impact 3.7 Full Patch Notes Listed

Graduation Notice– Adventurers who have purchased [Event] Black Spirit Pass, make sure to claim all Season Pass and Black Spirit Pass challenges and rewards.– Unused purchased [Event] Black Spirit Passes can no longer be used after Season graduation.– Honorable Adventurer's Certificates that can be obtained during the Season Server Graduation quest can be used on normal servers.– You cannot graduate if the character has Fughar's Timepiece.

Item

Quest, Knowledge

UI

Trading – New Function in Order Contract Window

Modified or Changed

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