Black Desert’s Calpheon Ball Announces Massive Roadmap Along with New Class Scholar

Seoul, South Korea—December 19, 2023 —Pearl Abyss announced today that Black Desert’s year end festival “Calpheon Ball” successfully concluded on the weekend, revealing new class “Scholar,” due to launch this week, and a major roadmap for the upcoming year including “Land of the Morning Light: Seoul.”
  
This year’s Calpheon Ball garnered 250 Adventurers, emphasizing key pillars such as "Character Growth Motivators”, "Player Goals”, and "Simplification" as crucial themes to Black Desert’s future evolution, explaining that perfecting existing elements will guide the game’s future development for years to come. 
  
New Class “Scholar” Coming This Week 
Scholar, a renowned alchemist, and physicist is Black Desert’s 27th new class and will be playable immediately starting this Wednesday. Prior to the update, Adventurers can get their hands on Scholar and test the new class through the Global Lab server. 
  
Scholar can control gravity and wield devastating twin hammers. Unlike most of Black Desert’s classes, Scholar gains access to her new skills through “Ascension” rather than awakening. Once unlocked, she can wield the “Sledgehammer,” a two-handed weapon combining her two hammers. The concept behind this weapon’s power is Scholar’s ability to manipulate gravity in order to wield weapons far beyond her normal ability, and alter enemies' gravity. 
  
The newly revealed 'Magnum Opus' is an exclusive costume for Scholar, inspired by the costumes of Renaissance scholars. It was designed to emphasize her ‘geeky’ side as an alchemist and physicist. The eye, light symbols, and embellishments represent the brilliance of a human being who has stepped into the realm of the divine.   
  
Watch Scholar’s trailer here and her combat preview video here. 
  
New Expansion “Land of the Morning Light: Seoul” Coming in 2024 
Continuing from last year’s highly acclaimed Land of the Morning Light, Adventurers can dive into the extensive Land of Morning: Seoul expansion in 2024. This sequel will feature an exciting story set in medieval Seoul, where one can explore culturally iconic real-life places originating from the Joseon Dynasty, such as Gyeongbokgung Palace, Hanyang Yukjo Street, and Gyeonghoeru Pavilion.  
  
Similar to the mythological boss encounters found in the original Land of the Morning Light, players can challenge eight totally new bosses derived from Korean folklore and myth. Unlike the original Black Shrine content focused on a single player fighting a single boss, these new boss fights enable a large group of guild members to collectively attack their opponent.  
  
Land of the Morning Light: Seoul also will introduce a new swordsman class, unique to the new territory. This descendant of Unsa will wield a sword and a “Gombangdae”, a traditional Korean smoking pipe, and players who choose him will enjoy an action-rich, immersive, and poignant storyline. 
  
Improving Adventurers’ Quality of Life in 2024 
After listening to extensive direct feedback from Adventurers, Black Desert will make a series of adjustments and improvements, adding balance throughout 2024. Not only to improve existing gameplay and quality of life experiences, but to please its hardcore veterans and new players alike.  
  
To make traveling simple, the Magnus system will be improved to avoid multiple loading screens, and instant teleportation to Black Shrine and Atoraxxion contents will be supported. To help navigate Black Desert’s expansive terrain more efficiently, ping checks will be introduced in the desert and ocean with a compass, as well as a Dream horse for all new Adventurers. 
  
Black Desert is intent on decluttering players’ lives with item simplification. Existing tiers and item types, such as Black Stones, products from farming, seeds, crystals, mount equipment, and Reform Stones, will be consolidated and/or removed to reduce their complexity. 
  
In appreciation of Adventurers’ continued support, Adventurers can redeem a special coupon code that unlocks two outfit boxes featuring outfits released in 2023, 4,000 Cron  Stones, Valk’s Advice (+150), two highly desirable J’s Hammers, plus more. 
  
Last but not least, it was announced that the 2024 Heidel Ball will be held on June 22 in Beynac-et-Cazenac, France, a French village, upon which the Heidel region in Black Desert is based. More details will be revealed as the event approaches.