BDO Festa 2024
Huge New Updates!
By nyaiera
Published: Dec 16, 2024
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Introduction
The BDO FESTA 2024 is the 10 year anniversary of Black Desert and showcases new content!
- The BDO Festa 2024 comes with new coupons and event rewards during the BDO FESTA period
- This guide will provide a quick summary of all the upcoming content in a simple format
- Deadeye, a new gunner class has been announced with a story trailer along with a combat showcase
- New content, changes, quality of life along with PvE and PvP content will be added in the future!
Some rewards from BDO FESTA are coupons, check out this guide to never miss a coupon again!
New BDO FESTA 2024 Coupon & Rewards
With update and showcase events like Black Desert's Festa or Heidel Ball, some of the things players are most excited about are getting the reward coupons.
These coupons feature a tonne of rewards that players can use, usually including outfits and upgrade materials!
To make things easier, here's the code for you to copy: GRAT-EFUL-TENY-EARS. BDAD-ECAD-EADV-TURE
The main code from the event is GRAT-EFUL-TENY-EARS, here's what the coupon includes!:
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10000x Cron Stone |
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1x Advice of Valks (+200) |
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1x Advice of Valks (+250) |
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It's important to note that the standard J's Hammer of Loyalty can't be used on Sovereign Weapons
Upcoming Rewards and Login Rewards
An additional Coupon will be released on December 19th that will give even more enhancing materials and a special Fairy cosmetic appearance change!
These new special types of hammers can be used on Sovereign Weapons and Kharazad accessories, protecting them from enchant, just like how the original hammers work.
The special coupon will change the appearance of your fairy, letting you have a little Black Spirit following you around instead: 
A player character with the new Black Spirit Fairy appearance
But that's not all, the Winter login event rewards are worth mentioning here too as they contain outfits, upgrade materials and horse materials!
The login rewards period will be from Dec 20, 2024 (Fri) 00:00 (UTC) to Feb 26, 2025 (Wed) 23:59 (UTC) so there's plenty of time to get your items!
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 Choose Your Winter Outfit Box |
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Day 2 |
 Advice of Valks (+150) |
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Day 3 |
Advice of Valks (+160) |
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Day 4 |
Advice of Valks (+170) |
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Day 5 |
 [Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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Day 6 |
[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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Day 7 |
[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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Day 8 |
Choose Your Spring Outfit Box |
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Day 9 |
Advice of Valks (+180) |
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Advice of Valks (+190) |
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[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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Day 12 |
[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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Day 13 |
 Mythical Censer |
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Mythical Censer |
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Day 15 |
Choose Your Summer Outfit Box |
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[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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[Event] Dim Origin of Dark Hunger x3 |
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Choose Your Fall Outfit Box |
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 J's Hammer of Loyalty |
For the Outfit boxes, there's also a breakdown on which costumes the boxes include, here is the list of outfits:
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Choose Your Spring Outfit Box |
Primavera Outfit Box
Academia Outfit Box
Sugar Rush Outfit Box
Wonderland Outfit Box
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Choose Your Summer Outfit Box |
Yeoreum Outfit Box
Coco Summer Box
El Pento Summer Box
Lovely Bloom Outfit Box
Shell Belle Outfit Box
Mr. Mussels Outfit Box
[Shai] Conch Cherub Outfit Set
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Choose Your Fall Outfit Box |
Taebaek Outfit Box
Tiger Emissary Outfit Box
Marnist Outfit Box
Pumpkin Outfit Box
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Choose Your Winter Outfit Box |
Grandpa Cron's Helper Outfit Box
Winterland Soiree Outfit Box
Jolly Winter Dream Outfit Box
Snowflake Outfit Box
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New Class Deadeye Announcement
Players have been asking for a Gunslinger to be added to Black Desert for years and now one has finally been added.
Deadeye is a cowboy themed, gunner who has a mix of revolvers and heavier weaponry. She's a quick, mobile character with a mix of fast, instant and long charged up attacks.
She's also confirmed to be from America, which you can see during her storyline trailer reveal:
You can find out more about Deadeye and check out her skills by clicking on the here!
Deadeye is scheduled to be released on December 24th on all regions of the game and more info is set to be released about her story in the coming days.
She also shown off her awakening weapon, a Rocket Launcher called Lil Devil, though not as much was revealed about this just yet.
Free Tier 10 Mythical Dream Horse
The last time there was a large content update like this we were given free Tier 9 horses, this time, they're giving away a free Tier 10 Mythical Dream horse!
As a quick option, it's generally recommended to choose the Pegasus / Mythical Arduanatt for their ability to glide, they're a great all round option.
This Free Tier 10 Mythical Dream horse will be available in game from December 24th!
If you want to know more about Tier 10 Dream Horses to help you decide which to pick, check out our guide here:
Dream Horse Pity System and Training Revamp
The devs mentioned that if players are unlucky, they can end up having a high amount of fail stacks when attempting to create a Dream horse or Mythical Dream Horse.
The Ancient Anvil pity system will be applied to the crafting of Dream and Mythical horses, making players guaranteed to get their horses after a set number of attempts, the pity needed will be 30 attempts.
This system will be added on the January 16th update, so stay at or below 30 attempts on your horses!
New Dream Horse: Voltarion
A new horse has been announced, it features a lightning theme and has abilities focused around it, it can also teleport. Voltarion will also be added to the updat on January 26th.
When double jumping, Voltarion will always automatically teleport into a dash, giving you extra distance this is a base skill called Lightning Charge:
Once in the air, Voltarion can use another skill, Thunder fall which will slam you towards the ground, just press F when you're in the air. This skill will also cause an AoE Stun.
Voltarion will have more skills than any other Dream horse, but these are currently the only skills that have been showcased.
However, Voltarion will have a different way to be obtained. Currently it's expected to be obtained through PvE or PvP goals and Voltarion will be a Content reward.
Possible Tier 11 Horse Concept
While still in the concept and design phase, it was also mentioned that there's a possiblity of a Tier 11 horse being added that combines the unique skills of all 3 Tier 10 horses.
Instead of changing out your Tier 10 horse using the Kragdalo's Sanctuary, the horse would run like Doom, transform to Pegasus to glide and run across water and sand like Dine.
But this is an idea that they would like feedback on, rather than something that's currently in development.
Duskwing Flying Dragon Mount
Duskwing is a flying black dragon mount called the Harbringer of Doom, unlike Pegasus / Arduanatt this isn't just gliding but complete free flight movement.
Duskwing also features a fire breath attack that casts down flames in a large AoE radius. Duskwing is only available as a Guild Mount and is an honor reward for PvP.
They mentioned that you'll need to accomplish feats even after becoming a Lord in order to unlock Duskwing and this will be possibly available in War of the Roses too.
We'll also get a free trial of 14 days to use the dragon Duskwing starting on January 16th!
Huge Season Server Overhaul
There's a lot of exciting changes coming to Season servers, mostly based around Tuvala gear. Now with the game's gear progressing to higher levels, Season server is being adjusted to be a suitable catch up.
The first of the changes mentioned was that stacks will be made easier, giving more stacks from Advice of Valks, ranging from +50 to +100 which should make it a bit easier to hit PEN Tuvala gear.
The Season servers will also have a constant +1000% Combat EXP boost in the future to help new players progress their Seasonal characters.
After graduation, you'll be able to gain materials for the Infinite HP & MP Potions and materials for guaranteed PEN Boss gear as well.
After graduation, players can revisit NPC Fughar and be awarded with 100 Atanis' Element and 40 Oquila Pieces of Old Moon.
You'll also be given 6 different Marni Stones that can be filled by killing monsters from popular Infinite potion grind spots.
These Marni Stones can be turned in for 500 Caphras stones each for a total of 3000 Caphras stones, to help new players progress their gear.
Because of Sovereign weapons and Kharazad Accessories, the devs received feedback that it might be hard for newer players to catch up to this new type of gear.
To work around this, changes are being added to Tuvala gear. Once you graduate you'll be given 1 Essence of Ascent weapon and 1 Weapon of Ascent Accessory.
Using these Essence of Ascent items on a Tuvala weapon allows you to upgrade it to a HEX Tuvala weapon. You can then use black stones to enhance the HEX Tuvala weapon all the way up to DEC.
This DEC Tuvala weapon can then be exchanged for an untradable PEN Blackstar weapon. The estimated cost for this is 20 - 30 billion silver.
New players already get a PEN Blackstar Weapon for a leveling goal, so this would give them 2 in total.
For the accessories, you'll upgrade the item to HEX just like with a Tuvala Weapon. After the Accessory is HEX you'll need 90 Essence of Dawn to make it DEC.
These upgrades are 100% guaranteed chance upgrades, so you won't have to worry about accessory RNG.
This DEC accessory can also be made into a TET Kharazad Accessory. You can also melt down the Essence of Ascent into 30 Essence of Dawn if you'd like instead.
Easier Blackstar and Godr-Ayed Weapons
Going from TET Blackstar to PEN Blackstar will now only need 20 fails to hit the Ancient Anvil 100% success rate.
For Godr-Ayed weapons, all enhancements from PRI to PEN will have their difficulties halved, meaning it's much easier to hit the pity requirements for ancient anvil.
Life Skill Changes
Life skill changes to different skills are being added, these changes will be added in throughout winter.
The life skill Mastery cap will be increased to 3000 to give more veteran life skillers some extra benefits, however these benefits aren't huge as 2000 can already be difficult to hit.
To help with reaching higher mastery level, new accessories called Preonne accessories will be added. They're basically the Kharazad accessories for Life skills, and can be enhanced to DEC.
They also don't break if you fail an enhancement, just like with Kharazad accessories which makes the process less frustrating.
Unlike Kharazad Accessories, Preonne still uses the pre-set enhancement rates without stacks like Manos accessories. You'll also use Black Gems instead of Essence of Dawn.
More Manos gear will also be added to provide additional upgrades for Life skill gear
Fishing Changes
The fishing log was described as an underused feature of fishing and is being revamped. Now it'll be more accurate to measure fish sizes by adding a second decimal.
There will also be a new weekly fishing tournament. 5 Types of fish will be randomly selected each week, the player who catches the biggest of each fish will be rewarded.
Also new fishing spots and prize catches will be added to help give fishing a more unique experience.
Sailing Changes
A new UI has been added for Sailing, you can now manage different Sailors. You can also add a Sailor for Auto-fish while sailing, letting you AFK fish while you sail.
Fish that you catch will still goto your inventory, not the boats inventory. Sailors also have different abilities and hiring a First mate can let you have a compass effect among many other effects.
You can manage sailors like this on five different type of ships - Carrack Advance, Balance, Volante, Valor, and Panokseon. Each ship has different role slots.
Ebenruth's Ocean Tear Nol
One of the gear types a Captain can use is a Sea Crystal however it had a random stat range that was quite large, so now it's been cut in half so that you'll have a better chance at getting good stats.
Also the Ebenruth's Nol couldn't be used at the same time as a Sea Crystal. Now a new item Ebenruth's Ocean Tear Nol combines the effects of the Sea Crystal and the Ebenruth's Nol.
Not all Sea Crystals can do this though, only a new item Rusalka Sea Crystal can do that, this Sea Crystal must be crafted with 10 Origins of Margoria
Horse Training
Horse training will be made 25% quicker to help you make more profits from AFK training, this is to help keep it in line with other available options that are also receiving upgrades.
You can now also use a wagon to register up to 4 horses at once, collecting them up before returning which should speed up the process of taming wild horses.
When a horse levels up it's stats increase by a range, the devs have said this range of increase causes too much of a difference between different horses and as such it's being reduced.
Currently the range is 0.1 to 1.3, after the changes it will be 0.6 to 1.3, meaning the stat increase horses receive will be much closer.
There will also a be an all new Training Simulator to give you much more detail on your horses stats and how it's being raised:
PvP Changes
The devs mentioned that PvP had a barrier to entry and to help reduce this, they intend to boost the rewards of PvP content substantially, to reduce the amount of PvE players must focus on.
They also mentioned the idea of changing or removing PvP resistances because of the way they can impact PvP fights.
Next, Class damage differences are to be removed and changed to a new system. This new system will provide classes with a role and will function similarly to a rock, paper, scissors format.
These class roles will be split up into melee, shield, magic and ranged classes and skill descriptions in game will reflect these changes. Awakening and Succession classes will be considered seperately.
Global labs will see these changes first so they can be given feedback before being rolled on to live servers.
RBF Changes
Red Battlefield is set to have changes, the rewards being boosted significantly to help encourage players to participate.
RBF will have better matchmaking, this is to help stop late joiners and make matches fairer. Matchmaking also means that people who AFK in RBF can have their matchmaking and rewards effected.
Guild League
Guild league has received positive feedback however larger guilds have been unable to join. Now larger guilds can seperate themselves into 3 teams.
These three teams, 1st, 2nd and 3rd teams. 1st teams will fight 1st teams, 2nd will fight 2nd and so on. If no matches are available, this MMR can open up but the battles wont effect the team's MMR.
Arena of Solare
There's also going to be updates to Arena of Solare, the most notable being the all new replay system that allows players to watch back their matches or share files with friends.
However if there is huge balance patches you might lose your footage, so make sure to record a match you really like.
Nodes & Conquest Wars
The average gear score of players has increased because of the Sovereign weapons and Kharazad Accessories:
Because of this, the devs want to include the gear score limits of the conquest and node wars will be adjusted, changing the amounts to 600 gear score and 720 gear score.
They're hoping to unify the two different amounts to avoid confusion between Node War and Conquest gear and will be adjusting the gear scores as necessary.
They'll be increasing the Construction Node War from 1 hour to 2 hours along with changing a few other rules. They're also rebalancing things like the Trina Axe to make sure it's still effective.
The dragon Duskwing previously mentioned will also be added as part of an update to wars!
Hardcore PvP Servers
The new hardcore PvP servers will offer a unique game mode where players will have up to 2 hours of game time per real life day to play on the servers.
These servers minimize team play, there's no chat or grouping up and you're unable to see other people's names. You start pre-geared and can grind monsters for better gear.
You'll have Survival points, similar to RBF, if you die you lose points. If you kill another player, you'll gain some of their points. this will all take place in the open desert and if you die you'll respawn in a random position.
There's no food items and if too many players group up in one area, then a black fog will enclose the area and only one player can come out alive.
Bosses will spawn in the desert that will give a lot of points when you kill them, but other players will want the points too, making it a dangerous location.
The first Hardcore server is set to release in January!
Atoraxxion Part 4
The final part of the Atoraxxion series that will tie up the original Black Desert story featuring Illezra, the requirements are 350 AP.
The dungeon will also feature grind spots instead of the other three. The other 3 Atoraxxion dungeons will also be reworked to have grind zones instead of just mobs that lead you to the boss.
These grinding zones can still be skipped for faster boss run completions but will make the dungeons more active. This update is scheduled for Feburary.
Land of the Morning Light
A new grind zone Golden Pig Cave will be added that utilizes an NPC and slowly filling a reward piggy bank. Once this reward bank is filled, it'll drop a bunch of gold for the player.
There will also be new higher levels added to Boss Blitz, adding Calamity 8-10. These modes will use your own gear score instead of exclusive gear and will require 330 AP for level 8 and 350 AP for levels 9 and 10.
You'll only have a set number of attempts on these harder difficulty levels and they'll provide drops for creating the new dream horse Voltarion.
New Region - Eldania / Demonland
The new region will wrap up the 10 year story of Black Desert's original story. It'll feature characters like Enslar, the ancestor of Valkyries.
Jordine will also be in the storyline with a castle of his own as a zone and the Demonland will feature the Hashashin headquaters.
The final boss of the area will be Caphras, an Immortal Alchemist that the devs mentioned will provide amazing rewards suitable for such an important boss.
There will be a unique domain PvP mode to the region, with the first player to conquer a domain getting special priviledges.
As a lord of Edana you can PK without karma in your domain as well as get a portion of the revenue from people farming in the zone.
Players can either negotiate with their Edana, challenge them to combat or try to sneakily kill mobs without being noticed.
If the current Edana is missing for too long, a powerful boss will take the combat challenge in their place. This content is still in development.
Snowboarding
Previously Snowboarding had been announced as a feature of Mountain of Eternal Winter, however the devs felt like the snowboarding was difficult to turn into content.
The snowboarding felt fun just on it's own, as a standalone minigame. So, they've decided to add it back in the form of a winter event.
There'll also be fishing and some pearl shop outfits that match the snowboarding theme of the winter event:
What did you think of this years announcements and the 10 year anniversary celebrations? Let us know!
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