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MMORPG: Random one I hope for… any plans to introduce a male Ranger, ever? If so, how would he differ from the female counterpart?



DGPA: Design wise, Pearl Abyss has always thrived to make each class feel unique. All classes have individual animation patterns, combat moves and skills. This would be very difficult to achieve when the classes’ gender would be interchangeable. Hence that some classes may look alike and have similar skills, like the Musa / Maehwa and Wizard / Witch, they still feel unique due to their individual appearance, move set and animation routines. We know that many of you might remember the male ranger from the early trailer. In the case of a male ranger, we have been considering various play patterns since it overlaps so much with the forthcoming Elf class, but unfortunately, we couldn't find a solution so far. Click to expand...

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Mythbusting and Information:

There are no female Giants

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There are male Elves

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Men and Women learn magic at the same rate in BDO

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Lore-wise the Far East is reached by going East from Valencia, though evidently one can also get there by traveling Northwest from Calpheon. Few in-lore use the Northwestern passage due to monsters and storms killing most of those who try it. Pearl Abyss has stated that their plans (as of 2016/early 2017) were to finish up the continent we're on and to expand the current map vertically (both up and down).



Many areas in the game are still undiscovered; South of Calpheon, Mediah, and Valencia, and north of Valencia are covered in fog in the map. These areas will be developed, not merely by adding new regions, monsters, or items, but by adding something that can change play patterns of users. In the case of Valencia Part III, for example, new regions will be added but they are mostly maritime, which enable new features such as maritime trade, maritime gathering, and so on. It will be completely different from ordinary combat-centric updates. Click to expand... Q: What are your future plans for Black Desert? What kinds of things will you be working on?



Daeil: For one thing, the map will expand, but not only are we going to add more regions but we are also planning to expand the current map vertically by adding places like high snow-covered mountains, and caves that go deep down. Click to expand... Lore-wise the Far East is reached by going East from Valencia, though evidently one can also get there by traveling Northwest from Calpheon. Few in-lore use the Northwestern passage due to monsters and storms killing most of those who try it. Pearl Abyss has stated that their plans (as of 2016/early 2017) were to finish up the continent we're on and to expand the current map vertically (both up and down).Because of this, getting the "Far East" any time soon seems fairly unlikely.​

The Future? ​

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The Arid/Barren Lands

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The "Snowland" east of Dragan

2/26/2019 Update!



As some may have noticed, this thread became pretty out-of-date as we've learned more.

I've gone through the process of updating it.



Hope you enjoy!



New Classes *

* as of July 16th, 2017 ​





Mystic

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27th of July 2017. She is another class that was trained in the Far East (though born in the West), bringing the number of Far Eastern raised classes to 7 as of her release. It can be noted that her awakening was technically teased with her release Classic Outfit Set gauntlets — A dragon winding around her arms. Mystic is the 15th class of BDO, and was released in KR on the. She is another class that was trained in the Far East (though born in the West), bringing the number of Far Eastern raised classes to 7 as of her release. It can be noted that her awakening was technically teased with her release Classic Outfit Set gauntlets — A dragon winding around her arms.





Lahn

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December 21st 2017. She is another class that was trained in the Far East, bringing the number of Far Eastern raised classes to 8 as of her release. She is also the 10th female class, which left the ratio at 10 female classes, 6 male classes.

Lahn, the 16th class of BDO, was released in KR on. She is another class that was trained in the Far East, bringing the number of Far Eastern raised classes to 8 as of her release. She is also the 10th female class, which left the ratio at





Archer

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The male elves returned to the world with the Archer, with an unprecedented global release on December 12th, 2018. He is the 17th class of BDO, and is also the first class to come with an Awakening Weapon. He is the next Western Continent-raised class since Dark Knight, bringing the number of Western Continent classes to 7. He is also the 7th male class, making the ratio 10 female classes, 7 male classes. He is the first and only male elven class as of February 2nd, 2019.



His release was long-awaited, first being teased in the oldest trailers of BDO that showed off the classes.



Archer is also the only class to have a

dedicated story dungeon

. Sadly, the Archer's personal story doesn't seem to develop at all beyond this point — though it was well-received by the members of the community who enjoy lore and story.

The Future? 2.0 ​

Drieghan



The rest of Drieghan is still unexplored and unteased. We have yet to see much evidence of Dwarven culture and Giant culture being largely influential in Drieghan despite earlier details that it's the Dwarven homeland that was taken over by giants. Perhaps this will in some way influence southern Drieghan, and northern Drieghan has little to do with that. If there is no Dwarven homeland now, many Dwarves and some items will have many incorrect references to a dwarven kingdom in their knowledge entries.



Were the Dwarves perhaps (at least partially) underground? Pearl Abyss has mentioned in the past the possibility of exploring subterranean environments.



Southern Drieghan was called "Viking Territory" in a very old map of the game.​