
There is a whole lot going on across all three editions of Black Desert once again, so it’s time to get right into things. And this time around we’ll be starting off with BDO Mobile and its newly released season designed to help players blitz through the levels.
This so-called Knowledge Boost season once again ramps up player progress, but this time with an eye on ramping up the speed of progression for knowledge and Black Spirit level, which normally takes more time even in other season servers. Players otherwise will have to take the usual steps of clearing missions in the season pass in order to get rewards and make it to graduation goodies.
As for other updates in the mobile version, those include several class adjustments including tweaks to what kinds of guarding classes perform, UI updates that include a 10-key mode and changes to maximum button sizes, and a number of adjustments to timing and mechanics in several content instances.
Moving over to the PC version, that’s mostly focused on improving quality-of-life for the MMORPG’s lifeskills: Horse training has been improved, hunting reloading has been streamlined, bonus quests for a number of professions have been updated, and the weekly fishing contest now ends on Saturdays with rewards being divvied out on Sundays. The patch also brings updates to items, carrack auto-fishing, and updates to conquest war rewards and node war mechanics.
BDO Console’s patch has applied a big chonky list of calss balance changes. Pearl Abyss explains that these adjustments are meant to boost underperforming classes in PvE while also promising more updates to PvE and PvP in the long term. The console patch also adds new fish, carrack sailor fishing, new items, and a host of UI updates.
Finally a bit of overall housekeeping for these MMOs: BDO Mobile is hosting a PvP championship this weekend with the winner getting exclusive outfits, unique titles and camp decorations, and 30,000 black pearls, and fans of the series’ music can now pre-order themselves a 10th anniversary vinyl album with three records’ worth of music. The album is set to release sometime in August.