Black Desert drop rates

Pearl Abyss keeps an official list of every random-chance item in the Black Desert Pearl Shop, with a probability page for each. We start with the Mystery Outfit Box because its table is complete and adds up to exactly 100%.

What the rates mean in practice

Three quarters of Mystery Outfit Boxes pay out in upgrade materials: 40% give 250 Cron Stones and 35% give 35 Artisan's Memory. Only 25% give outfit boxes of any kind. The top result, ten Premium Outfit Boxes, comes up 0.5% of the time, so you would open 1 ÷ 0.005 = 200 boxes on average to see it. The next tier, seven Classic Outfit Boxes at 1%, takes 100 on average. There is no disclosed guarantee.

One result is three more Mystery Outfit Boxes (2%), which slightly stretches each purchase but doesn't change the chance on any single opening.

How it plays

Black Desert is an open-world online role-playing game (MMORPG). It starts with a detailed character creator that lets you set everything from height and build to the face and skin.

Combat is non-targeted and fast: rather than selecting an enemy and trading blows, you aim attacks yourself and chain commands into combos, which Pearl Abyss says calls for quick reactions and precise control. Beyond quests and monster fighting there are world bosses to take on with other players, and in Node and Siege Wars guilds fight large-scale battles for territory, with the winners taking control of taxes and resources.

If combat is not your style, much of the game is given over to life skills: farming, gathering, fishing, cooking, alchemy, trading, sailing, hunting and horse training, among others. You can do any or all of them as you explore the world.

What it costs

On the PlayStation Store UK, Pearls run from £7.99 for 1,000 to £87.99 for 13,850. These are console Pearls. PC Pearls are not sold as a Steam add-on, and the probability page we use is the PC NA/EU one, so check the console region's own list before comparing the two directly. Black Desert Mobile's Pearls are a third currency again, sold in the app stores for a different box; the Black Desert Mobile drop rate calculator covers its Encarotia's Boutique odds.

The most recent official Pearl price we found for the box is in Pearl Abyss's Pearl Shop update of 26 June 2024 (PC, NA/EU). A pack of two Mystery Outfit Boxes cost 2,600 Pearls and came with two Mystical Cron Stone Bundles as extras. That works out at 1,300 Pearls a box, before counting the extras. The pack was on sale from 26 June to 10 July 2024 and hasn't appeared in the 2026 Pearl Shop updates we checked, so treat it as a guide to the price rather than something you can buy today.

At that price, the average of 200 boxes for the top result comes to 200 × 1,300 = 260,000 Pearls. We don't convert that to pounds, because the price is in PC Pearls, while the PlayStation Store prices above are for console Pearls, which are a separate currency.

How we checked

Rates come from Pearl Abyss's own probability page for the box (last edited 4 April 2024), read on 29 September 2026. Prices are the PlayStation Store UK listings on the same day, the Pearl price of the box comes from Pearl Abyss's own Pearl Shop notice, and the player figure is the 30-day peak of concurrent Steam players on Steam Charts. The gameplay description is based on the publisher's Steam store page.

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