Black Desert Online - The Ultimate Guide to Season Characters

The season server is a recent event in the life of BDO that is designed to make things easier for old and new players by providing events and rewards to its participants that greatly facilitate the leveling and gearing process. One such season usually lasts for a few months, during which time we have the opportunity to develop a new character to an already relevant level.

I think this is a very good opportunity for new players because it helps a lot to catch up with older players as it provides a lot more help than leveling a character during the off-event period. Anyway, anyone can create such a character, not specifically just new or returning players. For them, additional rewards are the attraction, and of course, to try new classes.

Summer Season Details (2021)

Event period: June 29, 2021 – Sept 15, 2021

Early Graduation Period: August 11, 2021 (Wed)
after maintenance – End of the Summer Season

The pre-creation is already over (it was between June 23, 2021, and June 29, 2021), for which we have already received the rewards.

In the main event period, anyone is free to create a seasonal character and join the event, and as we have become accustomed to, can choose any class as a seasonal character. I recommend the newly arriving Corsair more because there are other rewards in addition to the rewards of the season for leveling this class.

What has changed since previous seasons? First: even more rewards! On the other hand, we got friend-oriented content, namely the arrival of Party Monster Zones. We got two other useful new features: a simplified main questline and a new season character transfer system, just in case you don’t want to play with the class you chose first.

Creating a Season Character

You can create a seasonal character at the Create Character window after you choose your character and ticked the „Season Character” option. You can create only one season character per family (each season), however, you have the option to create a new one if you deleted the one you had previously created. As opposed to classic characters, season characters only take 3 minutes to delete.

Once you have created a Season Character, you will see a special mark in the character selection window which shows you that the character is a Season Character.

Changed your mind? No problem: The latest season offers a very useful innovation as we have got an item called Fughar’s Timepiece. It can be obtained once per Family upon completing the [Season] Fughar’s Special Timepiece quest with a seasonal character that is Lv. 25 or higher. This item transfers your season character status and Combat/Skill EXP into a level 25 or lower (!) character. As a result of the conversion, you will also receive 3 Tuvala Weapon Exchange Coupons in the inventory of the newly converted character. If you feel you can’t choose what class to play, check out our Class Guide.

Season Servers

Season Servers are focused on character growth, but Only Season Characters can enter the Season Servers. It provides Combat EXP +100%; Skill EXP +20% buff for the entire duration of the event.

Forced PvP is not possible in the Season Servers. Season Arsha Server, a server that will allow players to use forced PvP, was created specifically for that.

Their name is Season 1-5 and Season(PVP) which was renamed from Kamasylvia 1-4 solely for the duration of the event period. The Season 1 (Novice only) server is exclusive for new adventurers.

Event NPC: Fughar

Fughar is a Season Server exclusive NPC who will be located next to the Stable Keepers in large towns including Velia. Most season-related quests are available from him, so you’ll encounter quite a few during your journey.

Season Pass and the Black Spirit Pass

The essence of the Season Pass is that you have to complete various missions for which valuable rewards come. This is only available on season characters and can be accessed by clicking on the Season Pass icon in the upper right corner (in the picture below). This is a free feature available to everyone.

The Black Spirit Pass, on the other hand, is already paid, it can be obtained from the Pearl Shop(F3) above level 10, it is a premium version of the season pass with premium rewards. The rewards here are also in the Season Pass window, this is in the second column as shown in the image above.

In both cases, the rewards must be activated and taken out one after the other. However, it is not mandatory to complete the missions in order, the system will save them in case you can activate them in order later.

Season Character Benefits

You can pocket several rewards during the event, which are:

1. Bountiful skill EXP

You can obtain the [Season] Secret Book of the Misty Breeze from Fughar whenever you complete the main quests for Balenos, Serendia, Calpheon, Mediah, Valencia, Grána, and Drieghan.

Use the [Season] Secret Book of the Misty Breeze to get plenty of Skill EXP and grow your character by learning more powerful skills.

2. Leveling Aid Boxes

If you reach Lv. 10 with your season character, you will get a [Season] New Adventure Box as a Season Pass objective completion reward. You receive more items from Leveling Aid Boxes as you level up your character. These all contain items that will help you on your journey up to level 61. If you delete this item, the item not obtainable in any other form.

3. Enhancement gear of Advice of Valks

You can accept season-exclusive quests from Fughar, one per Family.

Excluding accessories, if you equip 7 TRI (III) Tuvala gears, you will receive 7 Advice of Valks (+40) , and if you equip 7 TET (IV) Tuvala gears, you will receive 7 Advice of Valks (+60) .

4. Collect and exchange!

During the event period, you can collect special items from the Black Spirit Pass and exchange them for various rewards. In some seasons it was Coco Leaf and later Morning Frostflower, and now it’s Swell Sea Shell.

Available all the time:

– x2: Valks’ Cry x1
– x2: Cron Stone x3

Available via Quest offered at max 3 times per Family:

– x5: Artisan’s Memory x3
– x5: Inventory +2 Expansion Coupon
– x5: Advice of Valks (25-35)

Available via Quest offered at max once per Family:

– x10: Caphras Stone Bundle (10-50)
– x20: Advice of Valks (+50)
– x20: Caphras Stone Bundle (50-100)
– x30: Advice of Valks (+60)
– x30: Blessing of Kamasylve (20 Days)
– x30: Secret Book of Old Moon (20 Days)
– x30: Wizard Gosphy
– x30: Tier 8 White Horse (With Instant Accel)
– x30: Manos Riding Crop
– x30: Specter’s Energy
– x40: [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon
– x15: Tuvala Main Weapon Exchange Coupon
– x15: Tuvala Sub-Weapon Exchange Coupon
– x15: Tuvala Awakening Weapon Exchange Coupon
– x50: 3 Tuvala Weapon Exchange Coupons

You can exchange these items at NPC Patrigio in Velia, these items will, of course, also remain at the end of the season event.

5. Rift’s Echo

Rift’s Echo is a new boss scroll recommended for parties of 5 and can only be summoned on Season servers. You can craft this scroll from Rift’s Fragments x5, if you arranged them in a shape into a +. These fragments can be obtained by defeating monsters in Valencia, Kamaslyvia, or Drieghan, or as a reward from Savage Rift. Rift Echo can be obtainable from doing weekly quests (which I explained below in the Quests section). If your team has successfully defeated the monsters summoned by the scroll, the obtainable items are Time-filled Black Stones, Tuvala Ore, Refined Magical Black Stones, and Tuvala Accessories.

6. Special Monster drop

[Season] Rift’s Thorn can be obtained by defeating monsters in Valencia, Kamasylvia, Dreighan, or O’dylitta. You can exchange them with Fughar.

– x10: Time Filled Black Stone Bundle
– x20: Tuvala Ore Bundle
– x20: Refined Magical Black Stone Bundle
– x5: [Event] High-Quality Draught Box
– x10: Valks’s Cry
– x15: Premium Elixir Box
– x20: Advice of Valks (+20)
– x25: Combat & Skill EXP 300% Scroll
– x30: [Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll
– x100: Advice of Valks (+40)
– x150: Advice of Valks (+50)

7. Crow Merchants Guild Contribution Certificates

15 of these items can each be obtained through the Season Pass and the Black Spirit Pass. These are the latest rewards of season passes, the [Season] Crow Merchants Guild Contribution Certificate I x15 is the Season Pass’s reward, while [Season] Crow Merchants Guild Contribution Certificate II x15 is the Black Spirit Pass’s (P2W pass).

Take this items to Fughar to start the daily quests, which reward you the following items:

• Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min) x1
• Advice of Valks (+20) x1
• [Season] Great Pioneer’s Chest x1.

Seasonal Gears

Special characters deserve special gear. Since Season characters cannot equip regular gear, you have to equip the character with Naru and Tuvala gear. Only the Asula jewelry set is an exception to this, as well as the main story quest’s reward items. Items that can be used are marked with a yellow Black Spirit mark. While seasonal characters have an advantage in many ways, they still lack one thing: their inability to ride T9 horses.

Naru Gear

The Naru gear first introduced in the Autumn season was slightly weaker than Tuvala gear, but they can be obtained during your adventures from Balenos to Mediah. Naru gear can also be enhanced with Beginner Black Stones and allow you to reach higher enhancement levels more easily compared to enhancing Tuvala gear. Show Fughar a Naru gear enhanced up to PEN (V) level and he will upgrade it to a Tuvala gear of PRI (I) level (of the same gear part) for you.

Where to obtain Naru Gear pieces:

• Monsters drop in Serendia, Calpheon and Mediah
• At the end of the main story quests in Serendia and Calpheon
• Exchange Beginner Black stones

About Beginner Black stones:

You can obtain them from the main story quest, or by heating regular black stones to turn them into Beginner Black Stones.

You can exchange them for Naru Gear at Fughar:

• Beginner Black Stone (Armor) x1 = Naru Armor x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Armor) x5 = Naru Accessory x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Weapon) x1 = Naru Main Weapon Box x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Weapon) x1 = Naru Sub-weapon Box x1
• Beginner Black Stone (Weapon)x5 = Naru Accessory x1

Enhancing Naru Gear:

Naru gear is much easier to enhance than Tuvala gear. You need to use Beginner Black Stones to enhance Naru gear, and you don’t even have to use failstacks for it. Naru armor and weapons can be enhanced up to PEN and accessories up to TRI.

How to Exchange PEN Naru Gear into PRI Tuvala Gear?

Once you reach PEN Naru armor/weapons, Fughar can exchange them for you for PRI Tuvala gear. The requirement is a finished Mediah main questline or completed [Special Growth] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 8 in the case of skipping main questlines. So Visit Fughar, if the gear is equipped, unequip them, and select the Chat function with him.

Tuvala Gear

Only Season Characters can use Tuvala gear, and to get Tuvala gear you will need Tuvala Ores. You can get Tuvala Ores by defeating monsters in Valencia, Kamasylvia, Drieghan, and Sycraia Underwater Ruins. When you have collected enough, you can take your Tuvala Ores to blacksmiths to exchange them for weapons, defense gear, or accessories. Blacksmiths NPCs can be found in most large towns.

Exchange Tuvala Ore x1 to one of the following:

• Tuvala Helmet x1
• Tuvala Armor x1
• Tuvala Gloves x1
• Tuvala Shoes x1
• Tuvala Main Weapon Box x1
• Tuvala Sub-Weapon Box x1
• Tuvala Awakening Weapon Box x1.

Exchange Tuvala Ore x5 to one of the following:

• Tuvala Necklace x1
• Tuvala Ring x1
• Tuvala Earring x1
• Tuvala Belt x1.

Tuvala Accessories (from basic to PEN) can be Heated for Tuvala Ores through the Processing Widow(L) and select Heating.

Enhancing Tuvala Gear:

If you need more help about enhancing, check out our Enhancing Guide.

Basically, Tuvala Gear pieces uses Time-filled Black Stones to enhance. It is a slightly more difficult process than enhancing Naru Gear, but still much easier than enhancing the regular gear pieces. However, there is two more item that can be used for improvements, which is Refined Magical Black Stone and Frozen Tides Black Stone. The Refined Magical Black Stone used to perform guaranteed enhancement on Tuvala gear from PRI (I) to TRI (III). Stones required for PRI (I) gear: 10, for DUO (II) gear: 20, and for TRI(III) gear: 30. The Frozen Tides Black Stone guarantees a successful enhancement from TET to PEN in the case of Tuvala Gear enhancement (cannot use on accessories). This stone can be obtained through the Season Pass, but not in very large quantities, so use it wisely.

If the durability of the Tuvala gear goes down if your enhancement attempt fails, go see a blacksmith to recover the Max durability of your gear and try again.

Suggested Fail Stacks for enhancing:

Tuvala Armor & Weapons:

*use 30 Refined Magical Blackstones for TRI if you have them.
**Frozen Tides Black Stone can be used in this level of enhancement.

Tuvala Accessory:

Note: The [Season] Rift Frostflower was the earlier season’s special drop, its equivalent is the [Season] Rift’s Thorn.

Quests

Main Quests

It’s important to follow the main quest chains, because it is essential in many ways, for example, the Season Pass also gets to the last reward through these. I mentioned above that for every milestone you leave when you complete one of the territorial main questlines, you obtain the [Season] Secret Book of the Misty Breeze. This book is important because it contains plenty of Skill EXP which helps you to grow your character by learning more powerful skills. If you started this season as a new player, be sure to follow the main questlines, and ignore the following section that applies to Simplified Main Questline:

Skipping Main Quests

For the summer season, the developers listened to the prayers of the veteran players and we finally got the Simplified Main Questline. Its requirements are a previously completed Mediah main questline and a completed [Pet] Bareeds’ Junaid quest offered by the NPC Bareeds III. Adventurers who fulfill all the requirements and have completed the main questline up ‘till “The Sage of Velia” can accept the [Special Growth] Birth of a Prestigious Family quest from the NPC Alustin in Velia.

Pay close attention when you arrive in Velia with the main quests, because if you do not take this quest, you will automatically start the original questline and you can no longer start this simplified line. This chain of quests is time-saving and all rewards can be earned with it.

This quest gives you a Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 1, this is the first part, and then we finally come to the end through 11 chapters. Follow the instructions in the quests until you reach the last chapter. The last quest of the simplified questline, “[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 11,” will make the character have fulfilled the same prerequisites of a character who has completed the Mediah main questline and allow them to start the Valencia questline.

Simplified Main Questline Overview
Quest Name	Objective	Target NPC	Rewards	Completion of Season Pass
[Season] Birth of Prestigious Family	Go and talk to Fughar	Fughar
[Season] Fughar’s Conundrum	Speak to Fughar	Fughar
[Season] Following in His Footsteps	Speak to Fughar and receive the book	Fughar
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 1	Reach Lv. 20	Black Spirit
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 2	Reach Lv. 30	Black Spirit		Take Off the Mask!; Practice Like You Mean It!; Ready? Then, Embark!; Don’t Be Imp-polite with Me!
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 3	Reach Lv. 35	Black Spirit		Hmph, a Coward!; Justice Theater! A Moment of Choice!; Edan, Stay Out of This!; Feels Like Flying?
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 4	Reach Lv. 40	Black Spirit		Attended Parliament!; Stinks Like Fish!
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 5	Reach Lv. 45	Black Spirit		He’s Qoobe!; Helping the Rhutum Sentry Outpost!; In the Name of Mansha!
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 6	Reach Lv. 50	Black Spirit		We Meet Her, Again!; The Return of Kzarka
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 7	Reach Lv. 55	Black Spirit		Ow, Hot, Hot, Ow!; Someone Said, Life is a Series of Choices?; Save the Abandoned Iron Mine!
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 8	Reach Lv. 56	Black Spirit		Open Sesame!; As I Trusted You…
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 9	Reach Lv. 57	Black Spirit
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 10	Reach Lv. 58	Black Spirit
[Season] Fughar’s Memorandum – Chapter 11	Go talk to Fughar, who can be found in any town	Fughar

If you’ve changed your mind and still don’t want to choose this path, you have the option to forfeit the quest and return to the main quests, but only if you are at the very first quest ([Season] Birth of Prestigious Family) and you haven’t finished yet it. Once you have completed this quest, you would forfeit it in vain.

Weekly Quests

There are 23 recurring quests, which you can do. You can find these at the Quest Window (press O), and select the Recurring tab, and then choose the [Season] Stronger Tuvala Gear title. These give you valuable rewards, so I definitely recommend that you complete these quests.

Obtainable rewards:

• Rift’s Echo
• Time-filled Black Stone
• Tuvala Ore
• Refined Magical Black Stone

Regional Quests

Regional quests are very useful because they give you useful things, like stones and accessories. If you enter the monster area, the quest will be popped automatically. The goal is to kill a certain amount of monsters in each area. The quests rewards are only available for season characters, if you do it with your non-season character, it will give you only Combat EXP.

Daily Red Battlefield

This is again an innovation, namely the seasonal exclusive Red Battlefield only for seasonal characters. Inside the RB, NPC Daz offers a quest called [Season Daily] Join the Red Battlefield!.

Rewards:

• 100 Contribution EXP
• Rift’s Fragment
• Time-filled Black Stone x25 OR Tuvala Ore x10 OR Refined Magical Black Stone x5

How to join: press ESC, select WAR, and then the Red Battlefield option. In the Red Battlefield Status Window, select a server with a special server with a seasonal mark. Only level 50 or higher seasonal characters can enter.

Graduation

There is usually early graduation in each season, which by implication allows you to transform the seasonal character into a normal character, and collect the rewards sooner. Unconverted characters are automatically converted to normal characters at the end of the season but are not automatically deleted in any way.

• 2021 Summer Season early gruadation requirement: rewards earned and claimed from the whole Season Pass (also Black Spirit Pass if purchased)

Your Rewards for the Season

At the end of the current season (or after successful early graduation), you will get many rewards for your participation. Here is the list of the rewards:

• [Season] Tuvala Conversion Stone Box
• [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon
• Fughar’s Letter of Encouragement
• Graduation Cap
• Advice of Valks (+60)
• Golden Graduation Gown
• [Event] Secret Book of Old Moon (7 Days)
• [Event] Elion’s Tear
• Blessed Message Scroll (100 min)
• [Event] Item Collection Increase Scroll (60 min)
• [Event] Giovan Grolin’s Support Scroll
• [Event] Tachros’ Spirit Stone
• Premium Elixir Box
• Finto’s Filling/Sweet/Fresh Juice

Special Rewards

Summer Season special reward: PEN (V) Capotia accessories
Autumn Season special reward: Perilla’s Star
Winter Season special reward: PEN (V) Capotia Belt
2nd Summer Season special reward: PEN (V) Capotia Necklace

Special Rewards can get by exchanging the “Season Special Gift Exchange Coupon” with Fughar. Adventurers who missed out on a previous season reward can select it and exchange for it this time around!

How to Convert Tuvala Gear

When you graduate, you can obtain a total of 13 Tuvala Conversion Stones which matches a full set of gear that allows you to convert the season-exclusive Tuvala gear to normal gear. Keep in mind that using the [Season] Tuvala Armor Conversion Stone will result in items that can no longer be enhanced.

Boss Gear Exchange

You can use the [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon you acquire during graduation on a converted Tuvala gear to exchange it for a Boss gear. Only one [Season] Boss Gear Exchange Coupon is given per Family and since you can convert only one of your Tuvala gear parts into a Boss gear.

When you exchange a Tuvala gear for a Boss gear, it decreases the enhancement level by one.

• Exchanged Tuvala Gear & Boss Gear are Bound to Family
• Exchanged Boss Gear can be Enhanced, even with Caphras Stones
• Exchanged Boss Gear cannot be sold on the Central Market

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