It's been more than a year since we launched The Great Expedition. First off, we'd like to thank all our adventurers who continue to show their love and support for this content.
Until now, Black Desert Online's ocean content mainly consisted of seeking profit through barter while defeating monsters such as Hekaru or Pirate Ships. However, many adventurers who were expecting a wild naval battle with enormous carracks have expressed their disappointment. Hence, starting with this update, we are planning to add monster zones in which you can experience the immense power of the carracks. Here, you will feel the full power of the carracks and be rewarded for your efforts.
Here is the long awaited update! The main quests in O'dylitta Part 2 takes our Adventurers through the story about the daughters of Sylvia. An exciting story will unfold about the events that happened in this peaceful and beautiful looking forest.
Last time when we released Nightmarish Kzarka, we were worried about our adventurers' response as it was significantly harder. To our surprise, it received a lot of positive feedback from the community. Adventurers were pleased to see that we finally have a great world boss. Of course, the loots that dropped also helped in this.
We are now glad to announce to you the release of an even more powerful Nouver: the "Bloodstorm Nouver." This world boss demands quick decisions to be made with a variety of attack patterns and attacks with sharper claws and teeth. We hope it will be an exciting experience for our adventurers. We are currently working on Karanda and Kutum as well. We hope to hear a lot of suggestions and feedback for our world bosses.
Kzarka, bereft of his soul by Illezra who brought the Three Days of Darkness upon Mediah, has begun to consume the adventurers who stand in the way of his Ritual of Resurrection. On the days his rage reaches its peak, he plunges into rage as "Nightmarish Kzarka" and darkness shrouds the skies of Serendia.
Known to many by the title "KeeezAaannng!", the World Boss Kzarka will now occasionally appear in a new form. The newly created Nightmarish Kzarka comes back with a force to reclaim its fame as being the first World Boss of Black Desert. The renewal of a World Boss was quite a challenge to us as adventurers had been asking about it for quite some time now. We didn't want to radically change things by shooting up the difficulty levels so we decided to make Nightmarish Kzarka appear by chance and retained some of the experience with the Kzarka we are familiar with. (We have plans to renew other World Bosses as well but we might approach it differently from how we've handled Kzarka. Ex) Boss appearing only during the evening, or only appearing when a group of adventurers join forces together.) Nightmarish Kzarka will drop better loot compared to the regular Kzarka. But beware, as Nightmarish Kzarka is much more challenging than its previous form.
La Orzeca Outfit is the very first outfit in the game that can be obtained through loots. Its design was based on the ancient theme (Black Spirit concept) along with added effects and an exclusive title once it is crafted. This outfit has been aimed for adventurers who are at a fairly advanced level and hope to distinguish themselves aesthetically. We hope this outfit can become another exciting goal for adventurers to seek out as it is unique not only in its look but also in the adventures you must overcome to claim it as yours. We did consider adding special effects to the La Orzeca Outfit but we decided not to as it should be an optional challenge instead of a compulsory one. Hence, the outfit will have normal effects just like other regular outfits.
We’ve had many requests from adventurers asking about adding dairy cows to Valencia City and O’draxxia. Matters are being discussed and decisions haven't been made but it seems there's a good chance that discussions will end up with Valencia City having camels added instead of dairy cows, due to the regional environment.
Graverobber Afuaru was created as a refreshing element in combat for adventurers while defeating monsters. However, we felt that it wasn't interesting enough so we've made changes so that treasure materials drop at a very low rate in regions where treasures can be found, and added it to O'dyllita.
Many treasure items are awaiting to be found by adventurers in the world of Black Desert. Garmoth's Heart, which has certainly been the biggest center of attention, is a treasure that directly affects your equipment level, making adventurers very anxious to obtain it. To help relatively new adventurers dive into this race, we aimed to create a system where patient and constant efforts in the long-term was a requirement in attaining this item. Black Desert will continue to discuss ways to encourage participation from adventurers of different passion to be included in our future.
We've added the new Advisor and Cannoneer guild positions.
The Advisor position is granted even greater authority than the Guild Officer position, as the Advisor can even renew Guild Officer contracts. Guild Masters can appoint their most trusted Officer as an Advisor, and so we've added this position in hoping that it will allow for more flexible and convenient guild management.
Cannoneers are quite important for a guild that enjoys Node/Conquest Wars. We've added the Cannoneer position not only to identify that appointed guild member as the Cannoneer, but to grant them some bragging rights, too. At the moment, there are no special powers specific to this position. However, we are currently in the middle of preparing something.
We plan on developing even more positions to diversify the roles of guild members in their respective guilds. We are especially taking into consideration how to make each position unique, so we ask for much of your suggestions and feedback as well.