Black Desert Online News

Pearl Abyss has made life for Black Desert Online PC players just a little bit better in this week’s update. Front and center is the addition of Tier 5 and Alpha pets. Players can now train up their faithful from Tier 4 to Tier 5 and will be able to designate one of those Tier 5 pets as an Alpha [...]

This week’s Black Desert Online update for PC revamps the entire Balenos questline including the hub town of Velia. The questline now comes with fully-voiced cutscenes, enhanced visuals for NPCs, and streamlined quest pathing as part of Pearl Abyss renewed focus on storytelling. The bulk of the update focuses on balance adjustments for all playable classes. Of significant note is [...]

Black Desert Online kicks off the pre-season for its new Arena of Solare PvP mode. The new 3v3 matchmade mode is designed to ease new players into team PvP combat by ensuring that all players start off on the same footing with normalized gear stats. The pre-season will allow players to familiarize themselves with the new PvP arena and will, [...]

For Black Desert Online PC players in South America, Pearly Abyss will be taking over publishing responsibilities for the game in the region starting on June 23rd. Affected players can now start transferring their accounts from the current publisher, RedFox Games, to Pearl Abyss in preparation for the handover. “Players who transfer their accounts during this period will receive exclusive [...]

As far as MMO’s are concerned, the more people online, the merrier… until it’s not, especially when lots of people are hacking away at mobs in your favorite grinding spots. To make this less of an issue, Pearl Abyss has introduced private monster zones located in a new instance called Marni’s Realm. The new instance will give players access to [...]

Pearl Abyss has rolled out a big quality-of-life update for Black Desert Online with the goal of making life easier for players both old and new. The update introduces Artifact Presets, tweaks various quests and world bosses, and makes more cutscenes skippable. As the name suggests, the Artifact Preset feature will allow players to edit, equip, manage, and save Artifact [...]

Pearl Abyss Head of Gaming Design Jesse Joo hints at new content coming to Black Desert Online in an interview with Wccftech.com. While Joo repeatedly dodged questions like a pro max evasion ninja, the still managed to pry quite a bit of information on what’s in store in the future for the popular MMORPG. The Mountain of Eternal Winter storyline [...]

Pearl Abyss is hoping to fix Black Desert Online’s inflated economy by adjusting the market prices for Pearl items as well as the number of Valks Cry and Cron Stones that players get from Pearl Outfit extraction. “Since our last change to the silver value of Pearl items on August 11, 2021, Black Desert’s in-game economy has been influenced by [...]

Black Desert Online has reopened its public test server, a.k.a. The Global Lab, to once again test its new Arena of Solare PvP content. The Global Lab will be open until May 1st with arena battles happening at specific hours throughout the weekend test. The Arena of Solare offers a way for new players to ease into Ranked PvP content [...]

Pearl Abyss has introduced a new O’dyllita questline in Black Desert Online’s console version as O’dyllita Part 2 arrives with the fantasy MMORPG’s latest update. The update also opens up the new Narcion Hunting Grounds featuring new monsters to hunt and new rewards to earn by way of a new material that can be looted from the new hunting mobs. [...]