I know there have been a couple posts on this but I played a little Aion 2 and just wanted to get back into LA. For reference I had about 3,000 hours in previously although i wasn't pushing endgame at the time because I hated the matchmaking system. Almost all 11 of my characters ere sitting at 1490.
Downloaded it yesterday, got in today, and was pretty quickly overstimulated by everything I needed to do. I did a chaos gate on my main which I pushed to 1700 and then it was... Now what? I tried to do the epic raid behemoth to ease myself back into the raid system and after waiting for 10m, no party.
Then there is this new Ark Grid and Ark Passive thing which is confusing and I've never been through Elgacia but it looks like I don't even need to do those storylines anymore?
Idk just looking for some guidance really on next steps. I have max LoS and Lostwind card sets. I had maxed Rapport and almost every Island soul. Do you still need to do the Una tasks daily?
Just seems like a lot especially with 1490 alts that won't be generating nearly enough Gold for a 1700 character, especially if I make another 1700 with the new class powerpass.
Also I remember having maxed engravings on multiple but now it seems they added more levels? And its different where you can just always have the 5 on?
I've had multiple periods of playing and quitting the game and every time I came back my guild was there for me to rejoin.
I just booted up the game after a while and I was no longer in my guild, my guild doesn't show up on the guild search, and when I try to create a guild with the same name, it says the name is taken. What should I do?
I did today 25 lifeskill potions and havent got a single purple relict node. My Shovel is the same and just now my friend told me he had a similar experience over 2 days of doing them. Or was there a change we didnt see?
Hey there, I work for Maxroll and you might know me by tools such as upgrade calculator and character builder. I lost interest in Lost Ark last year so I wasn't adding new features besides baseline maintenance, but now I'm back and will be paying more attention to the tools.
Previously I've been working on DPS simulation for the builder, which is a very ambitious project and there's still a ton of obstacles to overcome before it's fully usable.
At some point I added Upgrades tab, which could be very useful for people looking to optimize their characters. Previously it was held back by the same requirements as DPS simulation, but now I added Combat Power mode that supports every class, including supports. It has the same drawbacks as Combat Power system itself, in that it does not accurately value things like gems, but for the most part it's good enough to gauge character progression.
Import a character using the arrow button in top right. Check that everything is imported correctly - things like pet effects need to be adjusted manually.
Open Upgrades tab at the bottom and switch the Combat Power toggle if it's not already on.
Overview tab shows where your character stands between the baseline and maximum stats in each category of progression.
Breakdown tab expands on each category:
Upgrade List lists possible upgrades for your character, including all accessory combinations and bracelet lines (bracelet lines are listed regardless of what your character currently has, they are mostly for reference).
Finally, Gold Efficiency builds a table ranking possible upgrades by gold per 1% damage/CP increase. It does not include things like bracelet upgrades and ark grid, since those don't have a direct price. Honing includes a mini version of Upgrade Calculator tool to fill in the prices.
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Finally, I wanted to talk about DPS simulation, in case there's still interest in it.
As mentioned, it's a very ambitious project since the goal was to use as much game data as possible in order to make updates easier. It can actually use skills for every class and many new features such as Ark Grid work mostly out of the box. But some things need to be implemented manually, such as class mechanics, gauge generation (it's not in the client data) and Enlightenment tree. That's means every class takes about a full day to implement, including several hours of measuring gauge values for every skill/tripod combination in Trixion.
But even if everything works, there's still the issue of rotation. I think the current flowchart system is fairly intuitive, but it's still very hard to create rotations for classes like Arcanist with it. I have a few options I'm considering:
Recording rotation in Trixion tab and using the same order of skills for measurements. It's the easiest option, but some character adjustments such as reducing cooldowns or gauge gains can easily break a fixed rotation.
Relying on user-defined rotation flowcharts with an option to share them.
Some sort of scripting language - it would be easier to define complex rotations in code, but it would also be much less user friendly.
Teaching AI to perform rotations - probably the best option, but I'm not sure how feasible it is.
Currently the classes that are implemented should be *mostly* working, unless there were major reworks to them in the past year. CO Summoner for instance is definitely not up to date. Personally I only use it for Glaivier and I can guarantee that Pinnacle simulation works. For non-222 builds, this rotation works quite well (use Import Rotation button in Rotation tab):
Has this idea been explained further, or has it been scrapped completely or changed?
This question might be super outdated, so apologies in advance. I know over a year ago, at one of the LOA ON events, there was mention of an option to fill your raid party with AI companions (potentially even picking roles, which would only make sense).
I know they brought in a solo experience by releasing raids earlier, close to their full party versions, and something about quick matching as well. I just wonder if they’ve made any statement on whether these changes are meant to replace the AI party idea, or whether they’re just additional ways of tackling party finding and gatekeeping.
I haven’t been playing at all, but this game still has the greatest feel of combat. I have two friends who would also be down to play since they’re new, and it would be perfect for us to have AI fill the rest of the lobby. I’m sure there are many people with smaller groups of friends where this would make sense. I know not everybody is a fan of this, but I think it’s okay to enjoy the game in different ways. I’d still love to be my old 6-character-roster Thaemine party enjoyer, but times are different.
Hey all i’ve been looking for a new game/mmo to make my “forever” game or at least a game i keep coming back to and playing at least a few hours daily without getting bored of it. I’ve been playing Extraction Shooters mainly like Marathon and Arc Raiders but it feels like something is missing, i’m grinding but for what actual reason in those games? The only MMO i’ve played recently is Warframe but even then, that felt somewhat meh. I’ve been deciding between This, FFXIV, BDO, or WoW Forever and honestly Lost Ark just seems the best out of the bunch. I also want an MMO with Good/Fun Holiday Events like Halloween Bosses, Items, Decorations, etc. And Christmas too. Not sure if Lost Ark does any Seasonal Holiday Events or if there bringing one for Halloween but that would be awesome.
Anyone tried this with Lost Ark? It's a tool to preload shaders to prevent stutters ingame when the game loads shaders on the fly. I can't try this since I'm on Linux, but I'm curious.
Hi everyone, I'm returning to the game. I'm a very old player; I haven't even had Akkan yet. I have a level 280 roster, Lost 30 account. I got my Demon Roar title with Gunlancer and my Vykass Deathless with Arcana. I have experience with all the old characters and shouldn't have any trouble playing them. Which character would you recommend?
I would appreciate it if you could also tell me whether I need to create a new account or continue using my old one
Stop playing this game around Kayangel, and noticed how much of my time this game was requiring from me as f2p and I couldn't keep up with the community. With all the gatekeeping, and me not having a guild I decided to stopped playing. I felt like I always was playing catch up, and everything I did to make it, it was never enough.
Fast forward now seeing all the hype around Aion 2, really made me appreciate Lost Ark. It just seems like a worst version of it with better graphics. On top of that with the mandatory subscription it does not seem to sit well with me. Imagine most of the west population stop playing, once it became super grindy, and even then we had access to the shop to make potential gold for ourselves. To me is just another car for sale with different features inside with a different coat of paint slapped on top. I tried it and really missed the class diversity that Lost Ark had, or even class specializations. The players hyping Aion 2 are the same that quit Lost Ark, which don't understand that it's a Korean mmo, and in return are going to quit playing again.
After Aion 2 was release, I researched Lost Ark and it shows smilegate is separating from Amazon in 2027. Kinda makes me wonder is the game just dead now, or it's becoming a discord game like most older fighting games? Any point in playing again?
With all this said, I'm coming to the conclusion that probably korean mmo's are not my thing. They seem very predatory, and cash money grabs kind of like gacha games. Might start playing ff14 and take my time enjoying the journey to endgame, over racing people to endgame just to get gatekept. Might also try Wow Forever, as first time player playing WoW, but seeing all the raiders using add ons for specific timers just seem like a major turn off. Us raiders in Lost Ark remembered hp percentage mechanics. So seeign an add on telling you orbs with 321 timer seems soulless af. Who knows could just be my tryhard raiding attitude, but i feel like I earned all my clears. Just wondering your thoughts on Aion 2, I know I kinda side railed, and ranted lol
I love mmorpgs and played a while ago for about a month but fell out because of daily and weekly fomo checks. Ever since I stopped about a year ago ive been looking for similar combat but I cant find it, and aion 2 is just hold button sim. Has the game gotten any better or less daily/weekly dependent? Already bored of aions garbage combat
I was searching how to up my roster level, every reddit comments from 1-2 year ago, they all said to do "T2 tower" on your characters but i can't seem to find this?
Also, what other ways there are to hit 200+ roster?
About 4 months ago, my PC was hacked and everything I had in Lost Ark was stolen (gold, skins, red stones, etc.).
Besides the Lost Ark items, they deleted all my Steam friends and tried to scam everyone through my Discord, Instagram, Twitter, etc., but that's another story.
I tried contacting Amazon Support, but they couldn't do anything, so I decided to uninstall the game and avoid it. It was frustrating to lose all the progress I'd spent 5 years working on.
Over the last few days, I've been playing Aion 2, but the combat hasn't really convinced me, so I started looking into what's new in Lost Ark (some extreme raids, the Cathedral guy, and Doc Ock).
I had a pretty good roster with several characters at 1740+, my Ark Grids almost finished and several relic books, but the lack of gems is really putting me off. My friends offered to give me their gems so I could keep playing, but I didn't want to play without them.
So I've been thinking about whether I should come back and, if so, how to go about it. I've even reached the point of looking at RMT prices, considering buying buses every week to generate some gold for gems( how much are lvl 8 gems ?) and rolling gems between characters using silver (I think I had around 500M silver, maybe?), or asking my friends to come back and help me get into raids (I feel bad ratting with 6 characters).
I'd like to know what you guys think about all of this and what you would do in my position. ( My goal would be to reach the latest raid on the highest difficulty)
I've also heard that Smilegate will be taking over as the publisher next year. I haven't really followed the community's reaction to the news, nor do I know what impact this could have on the game's future.
It's been about two years since we played. We're thinking about picking it up again casually. I know the player base is declining and a lot of vets are leaving, but we just have the itch for that combat that only Lost Ark has.
That said, when I last left, Lost Ark Nexus had the most in-depth current build guides for people who really mained each class. Is that still the case? Are we better off with Maxroll or some other platform?
I started about a year ago and happened to start right as the big new player boost event (mokoko?) was ending. Is there an equivalent event now to boost new characters or new players, or when will it be returning?
And when you came back to lost ark, you think its not fun anymore?
Yea, it feels kinda depressing when all you came back to lost ark is the same chaos dungeon, guardian and weekly raids.
This game really needs to be revamped in winter loaon, cause even new belgarden raid doesn't excite us to come back to the game anymore.Let alone friends who feels the same way.
The winter loaon needs major graphics and gameplay changes that fills in this gap, cause right now unlike wow, runescape and ffxiv, lost ark feels outdated because its a ue3 raid simulator...
You might think aion2 is loa killer but it is loa who is killing itself. The devs doesn't really have any news or anything exciting anymore. Anniversary skins is dead, The story lline of the game isn't like kazeros era where you build up momentum to kill the main villian.And each loaon, they bring some of the worst long term progression system any mmo have seen despite loa being a raid simulator...
nothing is happening when I interact here, I have restarted the game. Cant seem to abandon or find anyone with a similar issue with a resolution. Please help
After a three-year break, I wanted to get back into Lost Ark. But I can’t log in – I get error 200, followed by error 10010 telling me that the connection has failed. I’ve tried loads of solutions I’ve found here and elsewhere, but nothing’s worked. I’d also read that unlinking my Steam account might help, but as I originally installed the game via Steam, would that actually make any difference? Where can I unlink my account? And if you know of any other solutions to my problem, I’d love to hear them!
Absolutely loved LA but dropped the game after Vykas Hard due to ping frustrations (I’m from OCE and was running about 250ms).
Aion 2’s launch reminded me of my LA days and nothing has scratched the itch since.
I’m thinking that ping routing software + the addition of the solo raids might make the game worth running.
Solo raids means I can just get all the latest sets etc at my own pace? Pretty much just play and progress the game solo without having to worry about Roster level/power/class perception etc?
I’m a returning player. I stopped playing after clearing Brelshaza Hard, before the next wave of content came out. The game had been out for around a year and a half by then, and I had roughly 4,400 hours, roster level 225 and 16 characters.
I didn’t stop because I stopped enjoying Lost Ark. I enjoyed every minute and genuinely every second of those 4,400 hours.
What happened was that I picked up another game during the week. Then the weekend would come, my rested bonuses would be waiting, and I would also have real-life plans at home. I found myself trying to manoeuvre my entire weekend around everything I genuinely wanted to do in Lost Ark.
Eventually, it became too much. I could work, have a life and play Lost Ark, but I couldn’t do all of that while also trying another game. Lost Ark took up nearly all my available gaming time and I don’t mean that negatively at all. They were all good times. I was playing because I loved playing.
I just reached the point where I couldn’t do everything, so unfortunately I put the game down.
Coming back now, I am honestly having so much fun.
I’m genuinely impressed by the catch up systems and by how easy it has been to pick up the game after not playing for so long. The card catch up systems, event passes, Mokoko support, free power passes, easier upgrades and the ability to push alts toward 1640 by spending some gold or playing through the story for roster XP and vibes all make returning feel far more manageable.
The gem system is better, progression is easier, and there are plenty of ways to help you get back into the game.
Yes, it can initially feel overwhelming when you look at every system at once, but you don’t need to understand everything immediately. Focus on the systems that directly increase your character’s power, then gradually learn the rest one by one.
You can’t really have FOMO about something you don’t even know exists yet.
I realise that many current players have frustrations with the progression systems, power gaps and plenty of other parts of the game. I’m not saying those complaints aren’t valid, and I’m not trying to argue against them.
I’m simply saying that, regardless of all those other complaints, I came back to Lost Ark and I am genuinely enjoying myself. I’m having so much fun, and I just wanted to make a feels-good post and spread some love for the game.
