English Patch Notes Global Lab BDO 03-04-2026

Details of the update for the Global Lab BDO test server, which was released on Friday, April 3, 2026.

Please note that Black Desert test server update information applies specifically to the test server itself and is subject to change when the official servers are updated.

Character 

Berserker

We’ve improved Awakening Berserker’s combat flow to allow you to incorporate ranged pressure using Flame Buster before closing in for a melee finish. We’ve also adjusted Titan Syndrome’s effect, so Flame Buster can now apply greater pressure to enemies during the skill. For PvE, we have adjusted Devastation’s relatively low damage compared to its casting speed, allowing Berserker to continue his combo with Awakening skills rather than Main Weapon skills.

Main weapon

Predator’s Hunt I ~ Absolute

• The bound effect has been changed to apply only to monsters.
  •  In addition, when you have acquired the Predator’s Hunt I ~ Absolute skill, the bound effect of the Falling Rock skill has been changed to apply only to monsters.

Fearsome Tyrant I ~ Absolute

• The stun effect of the skill has been changed to apply only to monsters.

Awakening

Titan Step

• Changed so that the Super Armor effect is applied while using the skill. 
• The distance traveled when chaining into a Titan Step after Sprint and Lava Piercer has increased.
• Explosive Slash after Flying Kick, Flow: Improved to smoothly transition into the Barrage technique.
  • In addition, it has been improved to allow for faster linking with other skills and movement actions than before.

Flow: Ancient Wave

• The skill’s defense judgment has been changed from forward guard during charging to forward guard during skill usage.
• It has been changed so that charging is not forced.
  • Accordingly, the attack has been changed so that it is triggered immediately when the right-click input is released, even if the Titan Syndrome effect is not active.
  • Similarly, even with the Titan Syndrome effect active, you can maintain the charge state by holding down the right click.

Titan Syndrome

• An effect has been added where the Flow: Shooting Mobility is applied as Flow: Ancient Power when the skill’s effect is maintained.
  • In other words, when the Titan Syndrome effect is active, Flow: Shooting Mobility changes the status effect to a knockdown effect, and Air Smash and Down Smash effects are not applied.
• An effect has been added where the damage of the Flow: Split Shot skill does not decrease even when used during its cooldown while the skill’s effect is maintained.
  • • However, the Air Smash and Down Smash effects of the Flow: Split Shot skill do not apply.

Flow: Shooting Mobility

• The stun effect, which applies only in PvP situations, has been changed to knockback.

• The PvE damage of the following skills has been changed as follows.
  • Accordingly, the PvE damage of Flow: Earth Dividing skills will also be changed.

	Skill name	Before change	After change
	Devastation IV	Attack damage 4036% x2, max 3 hits 47.98% damage in PvP only	Attack damage 6256% x 2, max 3 hits 31% damage in PvP only
	Black Spirit: Devastation	Attack damage 3982% x 2, max 4 hits 49.47% damage in PvP only	Attack damage 5106% x 2, max 4 hits 38.1% damage in PvP only

Valkyrie

Main weapon

Shield Chase

• Changed so that stamina is not restored while using skills.

Just Counter I ~ Absolute

• The Stiffness effect has been changed to apply only to monsters.

Judgment of Light I ~ Absolute

• The stun effect that applies only to adventurers has been removed.

Divine Slam

• The cooldown has been changed from 10 seconds to 7 seconds.

Celestial Smite

• The cooldown has been changed from 15 seconds to 10 seconds.

Succession Valkyrie has been adjusted to carry out combat with her defensive strengths and healing capability. While less mobile than Awakening Valkyrie, she has been improved to play a more definitive role supporting and fighting within a group. Additionally, we have improved her combo cycle by aligning skill cooldowns, while allowing Prime: Shield Throw to be mixed in as one of her main skills.

Succession

Guard

• Changes have been made so that sprinting is possible while in defensive stance in Guard.
  • Sprinting while in defensive stance consumes 250 stamina.

Prime: Shield Throw

• It has been changed so that it cannot be activated during the cooldown.
• The action speed has increased when activated independently without linking with other skills.
• The speed of the shield retrieval animation has increased.
• The attack range has been changed to be concentrated in front of the character.

Succession: Flow: Spinning Shield

• The activation speed of the skill has increased.
  • Due to the increased activation speed, the damage of the skill has been changed as follows so that higher damage can be expected when using Prime: Shield Throw in conjunction with Succession: Flow: Spinning Shield.

	Skill name	Before change	After change
	Prime: Shield Throw III	Attack damage 4414% x1, max 4 hits 33.41% damage in PvP only	Attack damage 5385% x 1, max 4 hits 27% damage in PvP only

Prime: Noble Will

• This will be changed to an exclusive effect of Valkyrie Succession. Accordingly, the Max HP increase effect has been changed to apply upon acquiring the Prime: Holy Prayer skill. (Max HP increases by 500 when acquiring Prime: Holy Prayer V.)
  • If you successfully hit an enemy with the corresponding Succession Skill, allies within the skill’s attack range recover 850 HP each.
    • Prime: Divine Power, Prime: Judgment of Light I, Prime: Judgment of Light II, Prime: Judgment of Light III, Prime: Purificatione, Prime: Sanctitas de Enslar

Prime: Purificatione

• The health recovery effect for yourself and allies has been changed so that it does not apply to allies.
  • However, when the effect of the Prime: Noble Will skill is activated, the HP recovery effect is also applied to allies.
  • Accordingly, the HP recovery effects applied to yourself have been integrated into a single effect, and the amount per hit has been changed from 160 to 650 upon a successful hit.

Prime: Judgment of Light III

• The activation speed of the skill has increased.

Prime: Sanctitas de Enslar

• The effect “Taunt surrounding foes upon landing” has been removed.

• The attack damage increase effect obtained in Succession state has been changed as follows.
  • The effect AP +16 obtained when using Shield Chase I ~ IV skills has been changed to Melee AP +36.
  • The Melee AP+20 effect obtained when using the Prime: Severing Light skill has been changed to Melee AP+36.
  • The Melee AP effect of Prime: Sanctitas de Enslar Skill has been removed.

We’ve balanced the Awakening Valkyrie’s offensive and defensive capabilities, ensuring a well-rounded playstyle. Instead of a more supportive role, she will now be able to play more aggressively from a distance using skills such as Hastiludium. Furthermore, we’ve tweaked her defensive and CC effects to shift her combat focus from the Main Weapon to Awakening Skills.

Awakening

Purificatione

• The НР recovery effect for yourself and allies upon a successful hit has been changed so that it no longer applies to allies.

Flow: Divina Vult

• SuperArmor effect has been added while using the skill..

Flow: Lucem Fluxum

• A frontal guard effect has been added while using the skill.

Terra Sancta

• The cooldown has been changed from 12 seconds to 9 seconds.

Vindicta

• The cooldown has been changed from 3 seconds to 5 seconds.
• It has been changed so that it can be activated at any time while in defensive stance. However, it cannot be activated when the Forward Guard is destroyed.
• The activation key has been changed to Left Click or W + Left Click while in Defensive Stance.
• The effect of reducing attack speed/casting speed upon a successful hit has been removed, and an effect reducing all damage by 20 for 10 seconds upon a successful hit has been added.
• The Stiffness effect upon a successful hit has been changed to knockback, and it has been modified to apply to adventurers as well.
• It has been changed so that you move forward and attack when using the skill.
• It has been improved to seamlessly transition to other skills after using the skill.
• Down Attack has been removed.
• The damage of the skill has been changed as follows.

Lancia Training

• Improved the smooth synchronization of left and right movements of the “Lancia Training” skill in defensive stance.

• The PvP damage application ratio of the following skills has been changed.

	Skill name	Before change	After change
	Sacrum Ferit IV	30.38% damage in PvP only	36.7% damage in PvP only
	Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae IV	15.35% attack 1 damage in PvP only 23.04% last attack damage in PvP only	17.6% attack 1 damage in PvP only 25.8% last attack damage in PvP only
	Sanctitas de Enslar III	18.61% damage in PvP only	23.2% damage in PvP only
	Blitz Stab	25.9% damage in PvP only	28.7% damage in PvP only
	Ultimate: Blitz Stab	25.9% damage in PvP only	28.7% damage in PvP only
	Hastiludium III	50.01% attack 3 damage in PvP only	65.81% attack 3 damage in PvP only

Guardian

We’ve made improvements to make Succession Guardian’s combo cycle more seamless, and address her lack of of low-risk skills to employ during combat.

Main Weapon, Succession

Gate Crasher

• The cooldown has been changed from 12 seconds to 9 seconds.

Prime: Boulder Crush

• The attack speed of the skill has been increased.

Prime: Savage Hack

• The attack speed of the skill has been increased.
• The damage of the skill has been changed as follows.

Class modifications and changes

• [Valkyrie] Fixed so that Verdict: Lancia Iustitiae always activates first when left-clicking after using Sanctitas de Enslar or Flow: Divina Vult skill.
• [Valkyrie] Fixed an issue where the combo to other skills did not flow smoothly after using the Flying Kick skill.
• [Sage] Fixed an issue where the defense judgment of the Black Spirit: Impaling Flash skill was applied differently from the normal Impaling Flash skill.

Content

Red Battlefield Improvement

As part of our continued efforts to balance the rewards from different content so you can earn Silver and enjoy PvP at the same time, Red Battlefield has been improved. We increased the number of Battlefield Tokens obtained on victory and changed the Exchange List to be more appealing. However, we have designed these rewards to only be given to Adventurers who truly enjoy Red Battlefield by adopting the auto-matchmaking system from the Arena of Solare and set minimum requirements to obtain Battlefield Tokens in order to minimize griefing. Please note that this minimum requirement is not based on your strengths, but on how passionately you have been enjoying Red Battlefield.

• The entry method for the Red Battlefield has been changed.
  • The system has been changed from the previous method of separately selecting a room to an automatic matching system via a single matching request button.
  • If 40 or more adventurers apply for matching to participate in the Red Battlefield, the match is successful and an accept button appears.
  • Once the match acceptance is complete, you will automatically enter the Red Battlefield.

• The battlefield of the Red Battlefield has been changed from the capital, Valencia, to the ruins of a castle.

• Minimum requirements have been added to obtain rewards when participating in the Red Battlefield.
  • The minimum requirements are met when the number of enemy adventurers defeated/dead and the amount of damage dealt or taken exceeds a certain threshold, and rewards can only be obtained if these minimum requirements are met.
• The Battlefield Tokens obtainable based on Red Battlefield results have been revamped.

※ We would like to inform you that, as new Battlefield Tokens can now be obtained in the Red Battlefield, existing Battlefield Tokens will be changed to ‘Faded Battlefield Tokens’ and will be deleted after a certain period of time.

Notice regarding the scheduled deletion date for Faded Battlefield Tokens
Korea: During the scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Global: During the regular maintenance on May 7, 2026 (Thu)

*deleted Faded Battlefield Tokens will be converted into 100G Gold Bars per item and distributed.

• Tokens of Battle obtained by participating in the Red Battlefield can be exchanged for the following items in the Manage Currency UI.

Item name	Number of seals required	Number of acquired	limits
Gold Bar Box (Minimum 5 x 1kg ~ 15 x 1kg can be obtained upon opening)	50	1	3 times a week
Caphras Stone	3	30	7 times a week
Sturdy Forest Tread	3	1	10 times a week
Perfume of Courage	3	1	10 times a week
Perfume of Deep Sea	3	1	10 times a week
Sealed Black Magic Crystal	3	10	10 times a week
Marni’s Unstable Fuel	2	5	10 times a week
Superior Whale Tendon Potion	1	5	5 times a week
Tough Whale Tendon Elixir	1	2	5 times a week
Tears of War	1	5	Once a week
Resplendent Lightstone of Fire	1	1	10 times a week
Resplendent Lightstone of Earth	1	1	10 times a week
Resplendent Lightstone of Wind	1	1	10 times a week
Red Essence	50	1	Always
100G gold bar	1	1	Always

Guild League Season

Guild League is returning as a two-week event season. This season was made to give you a short but concentrated experience of a slower-paced regular Guild League.
We look forward to seeing you spectacularly prove your Guild’s valor and unity in the Guild League.

• The Guild League event season is scheduled to run for two weeks starting from the next official server update.

• The progression and battlefields of the Guild League event season are the same as the existing regular season.
  • You can find detailed information about the Guild League through the Guild League Adventurer’s Guide for each region.
• The following rewards will be distributed to all guild members based on the rank achieved at the end of the Guild League event season.
  • Rewards will be distributed during the scheduled maintenance on the day the Guild League event season ends.
  • Rank rewards are given only to guilds that have recorded 3 or more matches in the Guild League during the Guild League event season.
  • If your rank is ‘Apprentice’ guild member at the time of reward distribution, you will not receive the reward.
  • In the Guild League event season, titles awarded as rank rewards in the regular season will not be given, and titles you already possess will not be retrieved.

Final 1st to 3rd place
Item name	Number
Guild funds	300 billion silver
Cron Stone	3000 pieces
[Party] Harmony Draught – Human	30
Perfume of Envy	20
Perfume of Tenacity	20
Sturdy Whale Tendon Potion	30
Sturdy Whale Tendon Elixir	15

Final 4th to 10th place
Item name	Number
Guild funds	250 billion silver
Cron Stone	2,500
[Party] Harmony Draught – Human	30
Perfume of Envy	20
Perfume of Tenacity	20
Sturdy Whale Tendon Potion	30
Sturdy Whale Tendon Elixir	15

Final 11th–30th place
Item name	Number
Guild funds	200 billion silver
Cron Stone	2,000 pieces
[Party] Harmony Draught – Human	30
Perfume of Envy	20
Perfume of Tenacity	20
Sturdy Whale Tendon Potion	30
Sturdy Whale Tendon Elixir	15

Final 31st–60th place
Item name	Number
Guild funds	150 billion silver
Cron Stone	1,000 pieces
[Party] Harmony Draught – Human	30
Perfume of Envy	20
Perfume of Tenacity	20
Sturdy Whale Tendon Potion	30
Sturdy Whale Tendon Elixir	15

•  Adventurers who participate in the Guild League during the Guild League event season can obtain the following rewards based on match results.

Win	lose
Gold Bars 1kg х 6 Perfume of Courage х 5 Perfume of Deep Sea х 5 Superior Whale Tendon Potion х 10 Tough Whale Tendon Elixir х 3 Sturdy Forest Tread х 3 Essence of Gallantry х 1	Gold Bars 1kg х 2 Gold Bars100g х 5 Perfume of Courage х 2 Perfume of Deep Sea х 2 Superior Whale Tendon Potion х 5 Tough Whale Tendon Elixir х 1 Sturdy Forest Tread х 1 Essence of Gallantry х 1

Monster

• The drop rate of Deboreka accessories has increased in the following zone.

• The drop rate for Deboreka Earrings at Star’s End has increased.

• The drop rate of the Deboreka Ring in the lower level of the Sycraia Underwater Ruins has increased.

• The probability of obtaining Gem of Void in Orzekea has increased.

• The HP of the next boss appearing at Edan’s Throne has been reduced by 20% compared to the previous version.
  • Aetherion Castle – Jordine
  • Nymphamaré Castle – Rusalka
  • Orbita Castle – Enslar
  • Tenebraum Castle – Cartian
  • Zephyros Castle – Caphras
• The amount of experience points gained in the following hunting grounds has increased by approximately 25% compared to before.
  • [Dehkia’s Lantern] Gyfin Rhasia Temple (Above)
  • [Dehkia’s Lantern] Mirumok Ruins

Request, knowledge

• Knowledge has been added to 128 types of items that could be obtained through processing but previously lacked knowledge.
  • You can acquire knowledge when crafting items through processing.

• The icons for loach and dried loach have been changed.

type	Before change	After change
Mudfish
Dried Mudfish

UI

Added warehouse memo feature and improved world map warehouse UI

As the world of Black Desert expanded, so have your needs for storage. Because of this, we’ve received feedback from Adventurers that they found it difficult to keep track of where all the items are among large amounts of items they keep in their expanded storage.
To address this, we have added a Storage Memo function that allows you to note down the purpose of each storage and easily identify information you need.
Moreover, we have improved Storage Roster on the World Map (M) into a list so it can be viewed at once, much like NPC Storages. We hope these changes help make your adventures more convenient.

• Added a memo feature to the warehouse.
  • You can now record the purpose or specific details of each village warehouse using the memo function.

• •  The warehouse UI on the World Map (M) has been changed to a list format, allowing you to check warehouses and memos in other villages.

• The display method of the ‘Promote’ and ‘Instant Complete’ buttons in the promotion information of the entire worker list has been changed from text to icons.
• We have revised the instructions for boarding and disembarking the vessel to make them easier to understand.
• The design of the furniture tab icon has been changed in placement mode. 

A number of changes and amendments have been made