Black Desert released an update on Wednesday, August 5. This update introduces the Guild Reputation system and adds a new boss, 'Dark Bonghwang.' It also includes minor changes, such as class improvements and the addition of Marni's Combat Analyzer.

- Succession Ninja: The attack speed increase effect of 'Succession: Shadow Blade' has been moved to 'Shadow of Darkness'

- Agent: Improved 'Death Bombardment' so the character rotates based on camera direction; improved 'Marksmanship' skill chains; improved 'Flow: Relocation' to prevent passing through monsters when activated forward; improved 'Mozambique Drill' to be usable during cooldown (with reduced damage and no crit chance applied); and lowered the level requirements for four skills

- Guild Reputation can be earned through activities such as guild member logins, Guild Missions, guild boss raids, and PVP (Range: -2m to 1m)

- Cumulative Guild Reputation provides daily Guild Mission charge counts and daily salary bonuses (bonuses do not consume guild funds)

- Passive skills can also be acquired as benefits, each consuming 1 Guild Point

- Guild Reputation enhances guild skills: Fortuna's Blessing, Master's Touch, and State of Nothingness

- Guild Reputation is consumed for actions like declaring war and resetting the cooldown for setting a home server

- War declarations can now be made by consuming Guild Reputation without requiring consent (requires 10+ online members, -1.6m+ Guild Reputation, max 6 simultaneous wars)

- If Guild Reputation is below 0, the guild cannot participate in the War of the Roses, and the guild name turns red (reputation below 0 is only possible via war declarations)

- War can be declared against guilds with less than 0 reputation without consuming Guild Reputation

- Guild Reputation naturally decays every Monday at 00:00 based on guild size (2500 / 5k / 7500 / 10k)

- Guild Mission silver rewards adjusted to approximately 1.8x–2x

- 'Honorable Guild Missions' can be accepted with 800k+ Guild Reputation (rewards are 2.8x–3x the previous amount)

- Removed Black Shrine Hwanghae Normal difficulty requests and log/rough stone gathering requests

- Dark Bonghwang has a chance to appear in place of world bosses (Sangoon, Uturi, Bulgasal, Golden Pig King) at their original locations

- Guaranteed rewards include Ember of Origin, Land of the Morning Light Boss Seals, Gold Bars, etc

- Probabilistic rewards include Flame of Origin, Dark Bonghwang's Feather/Tear, Subtle/Origin Boxes of Dark Devourer, etc

- Dark Bonghwang's Feathers can be exchanged for items like 'Hearty Meal' with 'Heo Seung-won' on Yukjo Street in the Land of the Morning Light

- Dark Bonghwang's Tear + Essence of Dawn can be used to obtain a large amount of Essence of Dawn

- Available via [ESC - Character - Marni's Combat Analyzer]

- Tracks damage dealt, damage taken, and DPS (records up to 1 hour and 10 minutes)

- Ancient Hammer and Ancient Black Stone can no longer be sold to shops

- Heating a Jet-Black Hammer now yields 200 Cron Stones

- Outfit Chests and Premium Chests of Gratitude now occupy only 1 slot in bags/storage