Pearl Abyss has released the Black Desert Online update 2.04 patch for October 28, and this one pertains to Season+ Graduation and more gameplay changes and fixes. Check out the complete patch notes below.

Black Desert Online Update 2.04 Patch Notes:

This update brings Season+ Graduation, the Progress Pass, Mediah Node and Conquest Wars and also the Guild Boss, Khan. Not only this, we’re also introducing a new system that will allow you to get guaranteed PEN Boss Gear, so read on to find out more!

●Fughar has begun helping Season+ characters graduate and adjust to the normal server with the Season+ Graduation.

– The path to graduating on Season+ is as follows.

– The season character will convert to a normal character when using the Honorable Adventurer’s Certificate.
– You can obtain the items [Season] Tuvala Conversion Stone Box, Gift Box Full of Memories, and Fughar’s Letter of Encouragement by completing the quests above.
– The item “Gift Box Full of Memories” contains the following items:

●Changed the 7 types of boss gear exchange coupon quests to now be unified as one type regardless of the specific season said coupon was acquired from.

– As long as you have a Boss Gear Exchange Coupon in your inventory, you can accept and proceed with any of the exchange quests with Fughar. You may only accept and proceed with one quest at a time, but once completed, you may proceed immediately with another exchange quest.

※ While you cannot obtain a [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon from Season+, if you have acquired any coupons from previous seasons, you may proceed with the following quests with said coupon in your inventory:

For more information on Season+ Graduation, please check out the GM Note here!

Added the Progression Pass which, along with the Season Servers, aims to help New Adventurers adjust to the diverse content available in the world of Black Desert.

※ Upon logging into the game, the Progression Pass will automatically update your data. This may take around 5 minutes. Afterward, you’ll be able to proceed with the Progression Pass update.

– The Progression Pass is divided into eight categories that include Quest/Adventure Log, PvE, Farming/Cooking, Hunting/Butchering, Training, Game Tips and Guaranteed PEN (V). Completing these categories will not only increase your in-game knowledge but also greatly help you with adjusting to the game.

– Please note that you cannot proceed with the Progression Pass using a Season Character.

* You cannot complete the [Main] quest objectives with a character that has either proceeded with the Simplified or pre-revamp Main Questline.

– You can obtain rewards each time you complete an objective within a specific category.

– You can also earn up to five types of rewards depending on the number of objectives you’ve completed per category, for a maximum of fifteen different reward types based on your overall progress.

– Certain objectives require you to talk with the Black Spirit, while the [Game Tips] category require you to simply read each description.

– If an objective contains a scroll () icon, it will refer you to the relevant Adventurer’s Board post with more information.

– You can obtain the following rewards according to the number of Progression Pass objectives completed per category.

– You can obtain the following rewards for the number of Progression Pass categories completed.

●'[PEN(V) Boss Gear] : The Best Deal’ has been added.

– Once these quests have been completed, the quests below can be proceeded with once per family. Please make sure that the items you wish to exchange are not equipped, and currently in your inventory.

– Once you accept Jetina’s quest, she will grant you a new piece of TET (IV) boss gear which she’ll have you upgrade with the Old Moon’s Resplendent Reform Stones to draw out your gear’s untapped potential.

– The newly obtained TET (IV) boss gear cannot be registered on the Central Market, nor enhanced normally/with Caphras Stones.

– For more details, please refer to “The Old Moon Guild’s Best Deal – PEN (V) Boss Gear!”

– Gear that has been Caphras enhanced or gear with socketed crystals cannot be excahnged.

* If you have 2 items of the same name and type in your inventory, the item that appears first in your unsorted inventory will be used. This means that if this item has Caphras enhancement levels, you will need to unsort your inventory, and switch the position of your items.
– Shai’s cannot complete the awakening weapon questline with their Talent weapon, the Sol.

● Added the following quests to the Yisar Pjetyo in Tariff available once for every gear slot per Family
to exchange an non-upgraded piece of boss gear obtained through Jetina.

●Once you’ve obtained an upgradeable TET (IV) boss gear from completing the quest mentioned above, you’ll be able to upgrade it from Reform Levels I to V with Reform Stones specific to each piece of gear.

– Each piece of boss gear will require a Reform Stone specific to each equipment slot. There are five Reform Stones from Reform Levels I through V, and using each will upgrade the Reform Level of your TET (IV) boss gear.

●Upgrading your weapon or armor with a crafted reform stone will add the following effects per reform level.

Gear Type	Reform Stone	Extra Effects
Main, Awakening Weeapon ※ Main/Awakening weapon AP increased (ex: Kzarka)	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone I	AP +1
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone II	AP +1
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone III	AP +1
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone IV	AP +2
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone V	AP +2
Sub-weapon ※ Also affects main/awakening AP	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone I	Damage Reduction +1
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone II	AP +1
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone III	Evasion +1
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone IV	AP +1
	Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone V	Accuracy +1
Armor (ex: Dim Tree Spirit)	Resplendent Armor Reform Stone I	Damage Reduction +1, Bonus Evasion +1, Bonus Damage Reduction +1
	Resplendent Armor Reform Stone II	Damage Reduction +1, Bonus Evasion +1, Bonus Damage Reduction +1
	Resplendent Armor Reform Stone III	Evasion +1, Bonus Evasion +1. Bonus Damage Reduction +1
	Resplendent Armor Reform Stone IV	Damage Reduction +1, Bonus Evasion +1, Bonus Damage Reduction +1
	Resplendent Armor Reform Stone V	Damage Reduction +1, Bonus Evasion +1, Bonus Damage Reduction +1

●You can craft each boss’s Reform Stone by Heating the items below

Reform Stone Example
▲ Resplendent Kzarka Main Weapon Reform Stone I~V	▲ Resplendent Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor Reform Stone I~V

※ You can differentiate between the reform stones’ levels by the borders of their icon.

– You can use Processing>Grinding on these Reform Stones to re-obtain the base ingredients.
– You can obtain knowledge on the ‘Resplendent Weapon Reform Stones’ when creating them through heating.
– The crafting method (via Heating) of reform stones for boss weapons are as follows.

Reform Stone	Materials
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone I (ex: Kzarka)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x10 Memory Fragment x50 Magical Shard x20 Rough Opal x1
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone II (ex: Kzarka)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x20 Memory Fragment x100 Magical Shard x30 Polished Opal x1
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone III (ex: Kzarka)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x30 Memory Fragment x150 Magical Shard x50 Brilliant Opal x1
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone IV (ex: Kzarka)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x40 Memory Fragment x250 Magical Shard x100 Moonlight Opal x1
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone V (ex: Kzarka)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x120 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) x50 Memory Fragment x450 Concentrated Boss’s Aura x30 Oquilla Sky Crystal x1

– The crafting method (via Heating) of reform stones for boss defense gear as follows.

Reform Stone	Materials
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone I (ex: Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x10 Memory Fragment x50 Magical Shard x20 Rough Opal x1
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone II (ex: Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x20 Memory Fragment x100 Magical Shard x30 Polished Opal x1
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone III (ex: Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x30 Memory Fragment x150 Magical Shard x50 Brilliant Opal x1
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone IV (ex: Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x60 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x40 Memory Fragment x250 Magical Shard x100 Moonlight Opal x1
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone V (ex: Dim Tree Spirit’s Armor)	Concentrated Boss Crystal x120 Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Armor) x50 Memory Fragment x450 Concentrated Boss’s Aura x30 Oquilla Earth Crystal x1

※ You will require Concentrated Boss Crystals from the same boss as the type of gear you’re trying to upgrade with the Reform Stone.

(For example, if you’re trying to craft a Resplendent Kzarka’s Main Weapon Reform Stone, you will need Concentrated Kzarka Crystals.)

※ Items relating to the production of the materials for the PEN(V) Gear system were removed from the Central Marketplace during the September 29^th maintenance, and was returned to your Central Market storage.

●You can obtain Concentrated Boss Crystals required to craft Resplendent Reform Stones through the following weekly quests.

– These quests reset at the following times:
NA: Wednesday 5:00 PM (PDT)/ Wednesday 4:00 PM (PST)
EU: Thursday 01:00AM (UTC+1)/ 12:00 AM (UTC)
AS: Thursday 09:00 AM (GMT+9)

Quest	Objective	Rewards
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Giath	Hand over Giath’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Giath Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Griffon	Hand over Griffon’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Griffon Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Bheg	Hand over Bheg’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Bheg Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Leebur	Hand over Leebur’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Leebur Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Urugon	Hand over Urugon’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Urugon Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Muskan	Hand over Muskan’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Muskan Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Dim Tree Spirit	Hand over Dim Tree Spirit’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Dim Tree Spirit Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Red Nose	Hand over Red Nose’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Red Nose Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Kzarka	Hand over Kzarka’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Kzarka Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Offin Tett	Hand over Offin Tett’s Light Fragment x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Offin Tett Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Nouver	Hand over Nouver’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Nouver Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Kutum	Hand over Kutum’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Kutum Crystal x115
[Weekly] Imperfect Beings: Karanda	Hand over Karanda’s Latent Aura x2 to Jetina	Concentrated Karanda Crystal x115

●Changed the following items so you can now store them in your Family Inventory.

●Added Concentrated Boss Crystals and Boss’s Latent Auras to the loot tables of the following bosses.

– Boss’s Latent Auras that dropped from defeated World Bosses remain the same as before.

– Boss’s Latent Auras can be obtained by defeating bosses from normal/awakened boss summon scrolls according to a set probability but are guaranteed drops from defeating world/field bosses, and Dark Rift bosses.

* The probability of obtaining Boss’s Latent Auras from Kzarka, Nouver, Kutum, Karanda, Offin Tett, and other world bosses remain the same as before.

– Offin Tett will drop Offin Tett’s Light Fragments instead of a Boss’s Latent Aura.

●You can obtain Concentrated Boss’s Aura, the item required to craft the Resplendent Weapon/Armor Reform Stone V, by using Simple Alchemy with boss gear.

※ You can only use Simple Alchemy on boss gear that can be registered on the Central Market.

●You can exchange Concentrated Boss’s Auras required to craft the Resplendent Weapon/Armor Reform Stone V for the Concentrated Boss’s Aura of another boss at a 2:1 ratio through Jetina.

●Added quests to obtain a special material required to craft the Resplendent Weapon/Armor Reform Stone V.

– You can accept the following quests from Jetina to obtain the Oquilla Sky Crystal or Oquilla Earth Crystal, which you will need one of per equipment slot to craft the relevant Reform Stone.

– The following quests help with crafting the Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone V.

Quest	Objective	Reward
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone : Oquilla Sky Crystal I	Hand over Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon x30	Oquilla Sky Crystal x1
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone : Oquilla Sky Crystal II	Hand over Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon x70	Oquilla Sky Crystal 1개
Resplendent Weapon Reform Stone : Oquilla Sky Crystal III	Hand over Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon x120	Oquilla Sky Crystal 1개

– The following quests help with crafting the Resplendent Armor Reform Stone V.

Quest	Objective	Reward
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone : Oquilla Earth Crystal I	Hand over Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon x80	Oquilla Earth Crystal x1
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone : Oquilla Earth Crystal II	Hand over Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon x120	Oquilla Earth Crystal x1
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone : Oquilla Earth Crystal III	Hand over Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon x160	Oquilla Earth Crystal x1
Resplendent Armor Reform Stone : Oquilla Earth Crystal IV	Hand over Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon x220	Oquilla Earth Crystal x1

– You can purchase Oquilla’s Piece of the Old Moon from NPCs located in any major city for 50,000,000 Silver.

– You can use the ‘Find NPC’ function that can be found in your start menu to find the location of your nearest Old Moon Manager NPC.

●Once you’ve upgraded your TET (IV) boss gear to Reform Level V and have it in your Inventory, you can talk to Jetina to proceed with the “Old Moon’s Brilliant” quest for the relevant equipment slot.

– Upon completing the quest and handing in your TET (IV) boss gear, you’ll be rewarded with the same boss gear enhanced to PEN (V) along with an Item Brand Spell Stone x1 and Crystal Extraction Tool x2.

●Mediah has been added to the active Node and Conquest Wars.

※ After the Maintenance on October 27^th, taxes will begin accumulating for the Mediah Region and Node Wars, and taxes will be less for the first week.

A new guild boss, Khan, has been added.

● You must collect 5 Summon Scroll Pieces, collected through subjugation quests, in order to summon Guild Boss Khan.
– Khan can be summoned once per week at Oquilla’s Eye, located north of Lema Island. Only one Khan can be summoned at a time on a sever, and the boss will despawn after 30 minutes, regardless of the current battle situation.

● In order to fight Khan, you will need to acquire and use the Monsterbane Cannons and Monsterbane Cannonballs. Luckily, these are readily available from Guild managers across the Black Desert world.

※ [Guild] Monsterbane cannons can only be installed on Oquilla’s Eye, and are removed 30 minutes after installation or by Khan’s attacks. If the [Guild] Monsterbane Cannon is destroyed, any cannonballs in the cannons inventory will also be destroyed.

– [Guild] Monsterbane cannons have different modes of fire. They can fire regular shots, overcharged shots and rapid fire. Use these to your advantage.

For more information about the new Guild Boss Khan, read the GM Note here.

●With the arrival of the new Guild Boss Khan, Kahn’s Scale and Khan’s Tendon can now be acquired through this fight.
– Khan’s Scales and Tendons are used in the creation of Blue Grade Ship gear.
– Please refer to these patch notes and this GM note to learn more about ship gear

●[Marni’s Suspicious Playground] The ‘Red Light, Green Light’ game waiting time has been changed from 10 minutes to 3 minutes.

– As a result, the duration of the Oog MK3 has been shortened to 3 minutes.

●[Marni’s Suspicious Playground] Fixed an issue where it was possible to have an unrestricted view in the House of Horrors.

●[Marni’s Suspicious Playground] fixed an issue whre players would not be released from the ‘House of Horrors’ when removed from the Mysterious Jack.

●[Marni’s Suspicious Playground] The area near the entrance of the ‘House of Horrors’ has been changed to a safe zone.

●Fixed an issue where in certain circumstances, the ‘Maleficient Centilutos’ would not reset correctly in Sycrakea.

●Fixed an issue where Maleficient Centilutos would not appear in Sycrakea.

●Fixed an issue where when getting off a horse and being hit with a Crowd Control skill your character would be locked in an abnormal state.

Archer

●Black Spirit: Radiant Explosion – Fixed the issue where the skill’s visual effect wasn’t being displayed when used.

Nova

●Fixed an issue where Axian would not enrage in certain situations.

●Separated [Wizard] Lord Red Gloves and [Wizard] Lord Red Shoes from [Wizard] Lord Red Clothes.

– Added [Wizard] Lord Red Gloves and [Wizard] Lord Red Shoes to outfit boxes that contain [Wizard] Lord Red Clothes.

– Adventurers who had the [Wizard] Lord Red Clothes in their possession will find the [Wizard] Lord Red Gloves and [Wizard] Lord Red Shoes in their storage in Heidel.

●Separated [Sage] Exclatus Gloves and [Sage] Exclatus Shoes from [Sage] Exclatus Armor.

– Added [Sage] Exclatus Gloves and [Sage] Exclatus Shoes to outfit boxes that contain [Sage] Exclatus Armor.

– Adventurers who had the [Sage] Exclatus Armor in their possession will find [Sage] Exclatus Gloves and [Sage] Exclatus Shoes in their storage in Heidel.

●Separated [Dark Knight] Checkmate Gloves and [Dark Knight] Checkmate Shoes from [Dark Knight] Checkmate Armor.

– Added [Dark Knight] Checkmate Gloves and [Dark Knight] Checkmate Shoes to outfit boxes that contain [Dark Knight] Checkmate Armor.

– Adventurers who had the [Dark Knight] Checkmate Armor in their possession will find [Dark Knight] Checkmate Gloves and [Dark Knight] Checkmate Shoes in their storage in Heidel

●Changed the description of the Equipment Tailoring Coupon and [Event] Equipment Tailoring Coupon to show the effect categories of the items.

– ex ) all costumes that relate to Amity are now grouped together, similarly those relating to movement speed are also grouped together.

●After the September 29th reorganization of Valencia Vendor items, it was possible to craft the ‘[Guild] Restoration of Cadry’s Forbidden Book’ with the old vendor items (available to sell for 2,100 silver). This process will no longer be available.
– In order to craft the ‘[Guild] Restoration of Cadry’s Forbidden Book’, you must use the new Cadry Tokens (valued at 15,700 Silver).

●Changed so that you cannot obtain the “Ancient” tagline, have the creator’s name branded, or obtain a special title when you craft an Ornette’s/Odore’s Spirit Essence.

– Items with the “Ancient” tagline will still drop as items you obtain from defeating monsters even after maintenance on Oct 27th 2021.

* Although you can craft an Ornette’s Spirit Essence or Odore’s Spirit Essence with items that have the “Ancient” tagline, you cannot add the “Ancient” tagline in front of the item name.

– However, for Ornette’s Spirit Essence or Odore’s Spirit Essence crafted with items that have the “Ancient” tagline before maintenance on Oct 27th 2021 you can add the “Ancient” tagline, obtain a special title, and have your family name branded to the item after using a “Dawnwish Petal” or a “Duskwish Petal.”

– The Ancient Blessed Spirit Essence and the Ancient Greater Blessed Spirit Essence can be crafted from ingredients with the “Ancient” tagline.

●Changed the Color of the text in the tool tip description for the Lumbering Axe and the Butcher Knife.

●The ‘Marni’s Gear Box’ that are found in the Marni’s Suspicious Playground have had their text modified.

●The awkward locations of the Camera for certain Halloween event areas have been fixed.

●The ‘Dark Portals’ that appear in quests have been relocated in the following quests.

– Collecting Samples

– The Sherekhans’ Approval

– Injured Hunter

– The Last Ritual

●Changed certain alerts to no longer be displayed while playing the following minigames.

– Alerts for Central Market registration, guild notice chat, boss appearance, courser awakening, Golden Bell, rapidly increasing/sharply declining item prices

●Log-in and Server selection windows have been changed to fit the Halloween theme.

● Re-registration function has been added to the central market.

– This will allow you to re-register your goods to the Central Market without having to cancel, find the item, then relist one more time.

●Added the Rulupee Server to the European and Asian servers.

●Fixed an issue where the Marnist Outfit for female classes would appear abnormally when dyed in certain cituations.

●Fixed an issue where during character customization, the Lord Red gloves and shoes would not show in certain situations.

●Fixed an issue where the Dark Knight’s hair option number 6 would look unnatural in certain situations.

●Fixed an issue where the Family Name would not be engraved on PEN(V) Boss Gear when that gear was obtained from the [Season] exchange and enhanced from TET(IV).

●Fixed an issue where the Guild Log would not update correctly.

●Fixed an issue where the [Ranger]

●Fixed the issue where Serpen’s Power Core would be visible to other parties in Atoraxxion: Sycrakea – Syca’s Grave.

●Fixed the issue where the Phantom of Sherekhan appeared abnormal during the quest ‘The Sherekhans’ Approval.’

●Fixed the issue where mass processing materials that do not stack in your Inventory would stop when a message window appears.

●Corrected an issue with the Atoraxxion: Sycrakea loading screens.

●Fixed an issue where the message ‘There is no Awakening Weapon Equipped’ would display in incorrect situations. .

●Fixed an issue where Karma was not decreased when Forced PvP was activated, and attacking/killing other adventurers with a poison mine.

That’s about it for Black Desert Online’s latest patch.

Source: Play Black Desert