Greetings, Adventurers.
As previously announced in our "A Letter to Black Desert Adventurers," the Black Desert team has been discussing the possibility of adjusting the Season Servers to lighten the progression hurdles and help newer Adventurers settle into Black Desert. With this purpose in mind, we’ve decided to conclude the Summer Season early during the September 15, 2021 (Wed) maintenance.
But don't worry! This farewell to the Summer Season will be immediately followed up by a new "Season+" server. The new "Season+" server is a bolstered version of the previous season with improved Tuvala gear enhancement chances along with more boosts between the graduation stage and end gear progression. This revamp is also particularly meaningful to the staff in that it embodies our best efforts to reflect the Adventurers’ needs and suggestions voiced out to us.
We sincerely hope that the Season+ servers can deliver the renewed adventures that we hope for you to experience.
So, get ready to jump right in and join the new Season+ servers!
1. Summer season ends during the September 15, 2021 (Wed) maintenance!
2. New Season+ starts after the September 15, 2021 (Wed) maintenance!
3. All Season Pass & Black Spirit Pass rewards are automatically completed.
4. Collect all Season Pass & Black Spirit Pass rewards before the September 15th (Wed) maintenance!
5. Collect all finished Season challenge rewards before the September 15th (Wed) maintenance!
6. All Summer Season characters will be converted to 'Normal Characters' during the September 15, 2021 (Wed) maintenance.
7. All "Season Quests" in progress will be removed.
8. Unconverted Tuvala gear will be converted automatically.
Summer Season End & Season+ Start Date
| 2021 End of Summer Season | Closed during September 15, 2021 (Wed.) Maintenance |
| 2021 Start of Season + | Begins after September 15, 2021 (Wed.) Maintenance |
Season Character and Quests
- All Summer Season characters will be converted to ‘Normal Characters’ during the September 15th maintenance.
- All ‘Season Quests’ in progress will be removed as well.
Season Pass & Black Spirit Pass
- The Black Spirit Pass was removed from the Pearl Shop (F3) during the September 8th (Wed) maintenance. (Added)
- Uncompleted Season Pass & Black Spirit Pass missions will be completed for you during the September 8th (Wed) maintenance.
- Make sure to receive all the Season Pass & Black Spirit Pass rewards before the September 15th (Wed.) maintenance.
- Any unreceived Season Pass & Black Spirit rewards will be deleted during the September 15th (Wed.) maintenance.
- Once you claim the normal rewards of the Season Pass, the Black Spirit Pass rewards will become available. (Both the Season Pass and Black Spirit Pass rewards must be claimed in the order from start to finish.)
- The Season Pass and Black Spirit Pass will both end during the September 15th (Wed) maintenance, please make sure to claim your rewards beforehand.
Challenge Removal
1) Summer Season Character Level 15 - 60 Challenge
2) Autumn Breeze Rolling in Rewards
3) Fughar’s Gift Box
4) [Season] On the Lucretia Dagger!
* The challenges above are scheduled to be removed during the September 15th (Wed.) maintenance so please make sure to receive all challenge rewards before the maintenance.
Item Removal
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Item List (Removed during September 15th (Wed.) maintenance.) |
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- Honorable Adventurer’s Certificate - Time-filled Black Stone - Refined Magical Black Stone - Tuvala Ore - Time-filled Black Stone Bundle - Refined Magical Black Stone Bundle - Tuvala Ore Bundle - [Season] Secret Book of the Misty Breeze - [Season] Tuvala Conversion Stone Box and other [Season] Tuvala Conversion Stones for each Tuvala part. - [Season] Leveling Aid Boxes (including all boxes for different levels) and [Season] New Adventure Box. - Tuvala gear and accessories that haven’t been converted. - Rift’s Fragment - Rift’s Echo - [Season] Rift’s Thorn - Frozen Tides Black Stone - Fughar’s Timepiece - [Event] Fughar's Gift Box |
* [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon will remain in your Inventory and will be useable in the next season. Please note that you cannot obtain the [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon during Season+. (Fixed)
* If you have the [Season] Crow Merchants Guild Contribution Certificate I/II, you will still be able to accept and complete the "Crow Merchants Guild's Gift" even after the season ends.
Quest Compensations
Adventures who were not able to complete the ‘[Season Server Graduation] At the Crossroad’ or ‘[Season Server Graduation] Into the Big Wide World’ will receive the rewards below through the in-game mail (B).
| Completion Rewards for Uncompleted Quests | |
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Gift Box Full of Memories |
Fughar’s Letter of Encouragement |
- You will be excluded from the compensation if your Summer Season character has been deleted or no longer exists during the September 15th (Wed.) maintenance.
Continuable Season Quests
| Quests Available after the September 15th (Wed.) maintenance |
| - You can still complete the ‘[Season Special Gift] Dreams Ebb and Flow’ quest through the Black Spirit if you’ve completed the Summer Season Graduation. |
Unconverted Tuvala Gear
Summer Season Tuvala gear that have not been converted with conversion stones will be automatically converted and returned to Adventurers during the September 15th (Wed.) maintenance following the criteria below.
* (Tuvala gear for equipment slots that was already converted will not be sent to you.)
| Tuvala Gear Conversion Criteria (In order of Priority) |
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① Unconverted Tuvala gear with the highest enhancement level per equipment slot (1 per equipment slot except 2 for earrings and rings for a total of 13): E.g.) If you have a “PEN (V): Tuvala Gloves” and “TRI (III): Tuvala Gloves” in your inventory or storage, then only the “PEN (V): Tuvala Gloves” will be converted.
If there are two or more identical types of Tuvala gear with the same enhancement level, then the second criteria will be followed.
② Branded Tuvala gear (Item Brand Spell Stone): E.g.) If you have a branded “PEN (V): Tuvala Gloves” and unbranded “PEN (V): Tuvala Gloves," then the branded “PEN (V): Tuvala Gloves” will be converted. If there are two or more identical types of branded Tuvala gear with the same enhancement level, then the third criteria will be followed.
③ Most recently crafted Tuvala gear: E.g.) If you own an unbranded PEN (V) Tuvala Longsword (crafted on September 1) and an unbranded PEN (V) Tuvala Amulet (crafted on September 10), then the more recently crafted PEN (V) Tuvala Amulet will be converted. |
* Any Tuvala gear that is excluded by the criteria above will not be recoverable.
* Tuvala gear that have been converted this way will be placed in the Inventory of the character that graduated from Summer Season. However, if your Inventory is full, then the gear will be sent to your Heidel Storage.
* Additional Notices
- If you want to use one of the deleted gear instead of the converted gear, please contact us via [Support Center] before the October 13, 2021 (Wed.) maintenance.
- Please provide the name and enhancement level of the converted gear you wish to exchange as well as the name and enhancement level of the gear you want to recover when submitting your ticket.
- Please note that we can only provide recovery services only once per equipment slot for the converted gears.
The goal of the new Season+ server is to alleviate progression hurdles for newer Adventurers but we also plan to gradually expand the various boosts so that even veteran Adventurers feel more comfortable when settling into their new season character.
* In order to provide more details regarding the “Season+,” we’ve updated the content below on September 9, 2021 (Thu) 8:20 (UTC). (Added)
Season+ (Scheduled for September 15th)
1. New Season Pass & Black Spirit Pass
The beginning of the ‘Season+’ server will also bring about a new Season pass and Black Spirit Pass. Completing the new Season Pass and the Black Spirit Pass will grant you Season Seals that you can exchange for three types of Weapon Exchange Coupons. These Weapon Exchange Coupons are not the Tuvala Weapon Exchange Coupons, but rather the Weapon Exchange Coupons for Boss Gear.
2. Fughar’s Timepiece
First made available in the 2021 Summer Season, Fughar’s Timepiece can be obtained again in the new Season+ server. Using Fughar’s Timepiece with a Season Character will convert your Season Character into a normal character. Subsequently, the entirety of the Combat EXP & Skill EXP earned by your Season Character will be automatically copied to a normal character of your choice. It’s important to note that the Season Character you just converted to a normal character will retain its Combat EXP & Skill EXP.
3. Various Improvements
Completing the Serendia main questline will now grant you an additional pet. Additionally, the unnecessarily varied Mediah region's monster loot will also be reorganized. Main quest rewards will be boosted to give more valuable rewards and Valencia region monsters will drop better loot.
4. Improved Tuvala gear Enhancement Chances
Enhancement chances will be adjusted in the Season+ server to make Tuvala Gear easier to enhance.
Season+ (Scheduled for September 29th)
1. PEN (V) Tuvala gear (All 7 types) can now be exchanged for TET (IV) Boss gear.
After the September 29th maintenance, the seven different types of PEN (V) Tuvala gear can now be exchanged for TET (IV) Boss gears that cannot be traded on the market.
To provide a little extra something for all Adventurers, we’ve also made it possible to trade in a TET (IV) Boss gears (available on the market) in exchange for a TET (IV) Boss gears (unavailable on the market). Please keep in mind that this exchange is allowed only once per family. Furthermore, once you’ve enhanced the Boss Gear to PEN (V), you can craft it into the Fallen God’s Armor, which can be listed on the Central Market.
Right now, you might be wondering what the benefit is when you trade in a Boss gear for a one that can’t be traded on the market. Not to worry! These newly exchanged Boss Gear will offer a new way to be enhanced to PEN (V) level with steady effort!
Refer to the image below to see how the new system works.
▲ You can obtain TET (IV) Boss Gear for all seven of the equipment slots (Main Weapon, Sub-weapon, Awakening Weapon, Armor, Shoes, Gloves, and Helmet) via exchange. Afterward, you can try to enhance the obtained Boss Gear to PEN (V) with the new way that will be introduced in Season+. Additionally, all PEN (V) Tuvala Gear that has been previously converted (not limited to Tuvala Gear converted during the 2021 Summer Season) can be exchanged for TET (IV) Boss Gear (cannot be traded on market) in Season+.
2. More Support from Growth Pass
When Adventurers graduate from Season+ server, we’ll be providing a Growth Pass to help Adventurers to live the experience in the world of Black Desert. Growth Pass will consist of various challenges (and matching rewards) that will not only help you learn more about the world but also gauge your progression in the diverse contents of Black Desert. When you’ve finally completed the entire Growth Pass, you’ll be more than ready to dive deeper into your journey in Black Desert. Growth Pass will be made available to any Season+ server graduated character, free of purchase.
▲ As this image was taken during development, it is displayed in the Korean language. This content will be translated to the supported languages before it releases, but the contents may be subject to change.
We are currently preparing more announcements to give you more information about the upcoming updates. Make sure to keep an eye on our website for more notices regarding Season+ and all the contents & events that we have in store!
Happy adventuring!
the current season in order to do so... Maybe I am in the minority but now I can't help but feel a bit worried and stressed about all the season stuff I have yet to do, as I personally tend to play MMOs at a slower pace, though I do enjoy completing things
over all... Really can't wrap my head around this decision to end it early!
now I'm in a bind due to this, and I have no answers to my questions as noone knows anything. Also, I'd use this PEN atenpt on a dandelion that was converted like 3 seasons ago, can I do that? Or I will have to waste a PEN tuvala and __create an identical second
dandelion for my character for this purpose?
OK, what are these random characzers added to my text every time I edit it? PA cant make a damn forum properly? WTF???
under Kakao Games. I hope that it will aid many people in their journey and __create a more meaningful experience that stops ending with people rouletting, quitting, and saying BDO sucks. BDO is a wonderful game & growing your gear out of hard work & not just
LUCK will be the best addition yet.
GOOD JOB!
Pretty much everyone I've ever tried to get into bdo has immediately decried it as a gambling simulator and to this day, it's a characterization that can't be dismissed.
are
you expecting players to develop a single well geared character and to just delete these season characters after obtaining whatever gear they can generate? If these extra season characters are not "throw away" characters, how can a player gear up so many? And
what is the point of a Growth Pass on character you expect us to delete?
For example, once I __created a corsair for summer season, my previous main only milks cows now to harness energy. Once I used a Fughar's timepiece for another character - a tamer - the corsair was basically worthless - level 61, but with nothing but Oasis gear.
(Her job now is to gather tree sap.) Now once I __create a new character for Season+, what's the point of continuing with that tamer, since it won't have the benefit of a Growth Pass? Furthermore, when I complete Season+ and Growth Pass on a new character, yet
another season will start, requiring more new characters.
So is it better to not play the season at all or to __create a temporary season character that I will later delete after removing any usable gear?
One:
How many of these converted (not sellable on market) boss gears can we make PEN with this new method? Only one, or all of them? For example, if I have 5 converted TET Dandelions, can I PEN all of them with
the new method? Can we do it once per eqiopment slot (so a full gear, once)? Orwe can PEN a single item only?
Two:
Are they removing the cyclical seasons we had so far, or they will return regularly, just as until now? Or we will have only this Season+, which is a one time boost for newcomers,and everyone will be able to do one season from now?
They complain "this is too hard and this takes time". Why they have to get everything right now?
Everyone will get full V, then elvia spots will get adjusted in a way, that 500-700gs players are all grinding at the same spots. How's that long lasting solution?
Once they get full V, they will start complaining again "bruh I don't wanna collect caphras and there's nothing else to do". You know what's next step, they will quit the game. They might come back once you give them another free pen accessory. My guess is
that will be just an endless loop and won't get you longterm players.
This is an grinding mmo, if one complains that everything is too hard, well it might not be a right choice for those people.
In the end you are just making veteran players pissed of because you are giving everything free to everyone, everything they once worked hard for. Their thousands of hours grind flushed down to the toilet, so to say.
Also stop giving more free accessory boxes, remove rifts to make accessory prices back where they should be. Not giving free accessories means players will be divided to different spots on the game which is good. More room for people to grind and it would be
good for the economics as well.
This is what the game needs. Not 4% success rates that destroy meaningful progress or eternal silver grinds that __create burn out.
If I use timepiece with my Nova, to level up a Hashashin, can I keep the Nova's Tuvala weapons and not change them to Hashashin weapons? I want to keep the nova weapons after season ends.
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