Category: Black Desert Online News

PearlAbyss and Daum were on hand during a Korean press event to reveal forthcoming content additions for Black Desert Online. The new content will first be implemented on Korean servers, but it is likely that it will also arrive for other version at some indistinct point in the future.

If there’s one piece of criticism I continually see popping up around Black Desert Online, it’s that the PVP is horribly imbalanced due to “power creep”. No matter how much you play, you’ll never catch up to the top 1% who have already invested significant chunks of time and energy into forging all the best gear and pushing beyond the soft level cap of 50. Now, reading that, this is usually followed up with “You should probably not even bother trying.” But here’s where I disagree.

This week in Black Desert Online, I managed to hit level 24… after 7 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes of playing and AFK-ing. But enough about how I’ll never hit level 50 – let’s talk about what to do with all that silver lining your pockets.

Black Desert Online players looking for even more to do will be thrilled to hear that the Media expansion will indeed be arriving today after maintenance is complete. According to the site, there will be over a thousand new quests and a 30% larger game world.

Black Desert Online will be expanding as early as March 30th. Called the Mediah update, the content will see the game world expand by 30%, include a thousand new quests, new guild missions, new 40v40 skirmishes, new weapons, alchemy modes, new weapons and more powerful armor sets to name but a few.

I remember when playing Dark Age of Camelot that one of my favorite ‘dungeons’, Spindelhalla, was a non-instanced location set in the open game world. As a classic dungeon alongside other locations such as Nisse’s Lair or Darkness Falls it demonstrated that there isn’t always a need to instance a location in order for it to be fun and functional.

A new post from the Daum team has shown up on the Black Desert Online forum to inform players that the gifting option from the Cash Shop has been shut down. According to the post, this was done “due to abuse and credit card fraud by third parties (gold sellers and others)”. The post further indicates that those who have been flagged as taking part will be ‘sanctioned accordingly’.

As of the March 23 Patch, you can now breed pets in the NA/EU version of Black Desert Online. We are using the new Korean pet breeding system which Korea just received a week ago. By reading this guide, I assume you know the difference between pet levels, tiers, special skill, and buffs. If not then you should consult this guide.

In case there isn’t yet enough to do in Black Desert Online, Daum has some pretty cool new activities to fill up those empty moments. With yesterday’s update came a new Easter event where players attempt to collect five different types of Easter eggs to exchange for a special egg or a furniture item.

As I round up on yet another week with Black Desert Online I’m no closer to my goal of hitting at least level 45 before assigning a score… and it’s not for lack of trying. Black Desert’s a game that’s custom built to mess with anyone who has the slightest propensity for attention deficit disorder and well… what was I talking about again?