Black Desert’s weekly patch continues PvP and class rebalance with Karma penalties and crowd control tweaks

    
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Lahn was already live in Black Desert, but when the game returns from its extended maintenance today, she’ll be reunited with her absolute skills. Kakao is also ushering in two new events today and tomorrow: the Lauren Family Gift event, in which players complete challenges to collect coins, and the Valencia Hunt-a-thon.

“Defeat each of Giant Mountain Goat, Giant Lioness, and Giant Lion with [Hunting] Matchlock during the event period and get the great rewards as your trophies! Participation Rewards are given out to all adventurers who participate in this event and the Special Rewards will be given out to the selected participants who get lucky from a draw.”

Meanwhile, Pearl Abyss’ promised PvP (and PvE too) balancing changes continue, despite the cries of doom on the forums and Reddit. This week’s leg of the rollout nerfs experience for negative Karma players, removes crowd control effects from defense-effect skills in PvE, adjusts some Awakening skills to not apply crowd control effects in PvP, and creates a fixed time schedule for world boss spawning. PvP will also be disabled for 15 minutes after a world boss appears. (No, people aren’t happy about this.)

Kakao does acknowledge the ongoing class balance updates with a trinket too. “Via in-game mailbox (B) after the maintenance, you will be able to find a little token of appreciation we’ve sent for bearing with us the recent class balance updates big and small,” says the studio. “We are trying to provide the best balanced environment where all classes can compete and cooperate in harmony. Please continue to show your feedback and we will endeavor to bring updates that would ensure the most stable surrounding for all.”

Source: Patch notes
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