Lost Ark coming to NA/EU! Smilegate to pair with Amazon Game Studios as Publisher!

[Onikaroshi]

4 random classes. There's no holy trinity in Lost Ark.

I remember such issues from a few months ago, though, when most players couldn't get into instances together. Maybe they reintroduced them with the patch in some regions / dungeons?

Or people just aren't queuing dungeons cause there's no point.

[blackpink]

Well I have the one bard and I'm 1421, 268 honing fails according to the achievement, not sure if that's average. I'm not seeing this issue everyone talks about when you don't play alts, I'm doing more than fine tbh. Then again, I might be the exception and not the rule.

Do you not use any solar mats? If not, you're just getting lucky and that's just how it is. Plenty of people don't use solar mats (cuz they're so damn expensive) and hit pity or close to it a lot, on each level. I've been using solar grace and protection for armor and all of them for weapon and it's like 2-3k gold per hone but I haven't gotten more than 4 fails yet, so it kinda does work out (but it theoretically can get way more than that which I'm terrified of). But like I said if you get lucky and get at most 3 fails and don't use any solar mats then yea you don't need gold at all.

This is at 1415+ I'm talking about btw.

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Sure, x2 for playing how many extra characters? Because afaik you can't transfer everything because bound stuff. Pretty sure you're just playing more to advance faster, not just to keep up with content, which I was making the argument for.

You can transfer 99% of stuff.

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Was normal leveling dungeon, does it need holy trinity or just 4 random classes to start?

no one queues for leveling dungeons what? lol. Just solo it.

[Frostfred]

Do you not use any solar mats? If not, you're just getting lucky and that's just how it is. Plenty of people don't use solar mats (cuz they're so damn expensive) and hit pity or close to it a lot, on each level. I've been using solar grace and protection for armor and all of them for weapon and it's like 2-3k gold per hone but I haven't gotten more than 4 fails yet, so it kinda does work out (but it theoretically can get way more than that which I'm terrified of). But like I said if you get lucky and get at most 3 fails and don't use any solar mats then yea you don't need gold at all.

This is at 1415+ I'm talking about btw.

Even with solar mats, the ratio seems incredibly lucky. Some people just are like that. My friend is now starting to get her first pieces to 1370, and she didn't buy any solar mats - just used the ones we got from events, including the books. Meanwhile, I have more honing fails than her (according to the achievement), and am at 1351, slowly getting my first pieces to 1355.

Though we don't intend to do any raids either way, just casual around a bit as long as we enjoy it, so it doesn't really matter in the end.

[Gomelus]

Do you not use any solar mats? If not, you're just getting lucky and that's just how it is. Plenty of people don't use solar mats (cuz they're so damn expensive) and hit pity or close to it a lot, on each level. I've been using solar grace and protection for armor and all of them for weapon and it's like 2-3k gold per hone but I haven't gotten more than 4 fails yet, so it kinda does work out (but it theoretically can get way more than that which I'm terrified of). But like I said if you get lucky and get at most 3 fails and don't use any solar mats then yea you don't need gold at all.

This is at 1415+ I'm talking about btw.

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You can transfer 99% of stuff.

I do use all the solar mats I get for free: maps, ghost ship, events, whatever it gives you stuff. I haven't bought any off the AH, and I've gotten several pieces to pity or like 90% artisan energy which is pretty much the same.
I thought it was less the % of roster bound stuff from alts, my point still stands, you're playing double the characters to get double the mats, so it's not really you're getting extra mats, you're just playing at 2x speed. And if you're using just rested bonus well... you're losing some mats along the way for the sake of keeping your sanity which is fair. Personally I don't like playing alts, so as long as I can avoid it, it's fine.

[blackpink]

I do use all the solar mats I get for free: maps, ghost ship, events, whatever it gives you stuff. I haven't bought any off the AH, and I've gotten several pieces to pity or like 90% artisan energy which is pretty much the same.
I thought it was less the % of roster bound stuff from alts, my point still stands, you're playing double the characters to get double the mats, so it's not really you're getting extra mats, you're just playing at 2x speed. And if you're using just rested bonus well... you're losing some mats along the way for the sake of keeping your sanity which is fair. Personally I don't like playing alts, so as long as I can avoid it, it's fine.

Yea so you just got lucky, so you're closer to the exception, not the rule. Not saying there's anything wrong with that but not everyone can progress at normal speed with only 1 char. It just comes down to luck. Having more alts is not to funnel mats, it's to provide gold for all the solar mats (at least has been the case for me). My alts are all 1340 so the only thing I've been getting extra of are stones and I used 0 of those extra stones. I am aware I can convert the reg leapstones but it's not worth it at all so I haven't bothered and I never have needed to.

And using the mats from the stuff you get for free isn't really enough to cover every hone (24 solar grace + 4 protection for each hone attempt or another 12 blessing as well).

[Gomelus]

Yea so you just got lucky, so you're closer to the exception, not the rule. Not saying there's anything wrong with that but not everyone can progress at normal speed with only 1 char. It just comes down to luck. Having more alts is not to funnel mats, it's to provide gold for all the solar mats (at least has been the case for me). My alts are all 1340 so the only thing I've been getting extra of are stones and I used 0 of those extra stones. I am aware I can convert the reg leapstones but it's not worth it at all so I haven't bothered and I never have needed to.

And using the mats from the stuff you get for free isn't really enough to cover every hone (24 solar grace + 4 protection for each hone attempt or another 12 blessing as well).

Oh that's for sure, I mostly try to max the solar mats on the first one just for doubling the chance of success, but after that I go raw.

[Daedius]

Artillerist zooming about with capitalising the Swiftness stat and Spirit Absorbion Rank 3 just for a laugh to get questing and Islands done faster with 147% base movement speed, trying to get the Awakened Bonus of the Romanticist set for an additional 4/8%...

[Ophenia]

Was normal leveling dungeon, does it need holy trinity or just 4 random classes to start?

You could matchmake for leveling dungeons at the beginning but now nobody does them anymore. I'm usually checking in normal and hard mode if there are some people, just in case as it's more fun to play in group, then I do them solo

[ldev]

Artillerist zooming about with capitalising the Swiftness stat and Spirit Absorbion Rank 3 just for a laugh to get questing and Islands done faster with 147% base movement speed, trying to get the Awakened Bonus of the Romanticist set for an additional 4/8%...

Doesn't movement speed cap at 140%?

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Its more than just funnel mats too. You talk about gold being the worst resource of all - my 3 x 1370 alts produce 6-7 greater leapstone each daily, thats 18-21 total, for 7 days, at 105g which is the price right now on my server (was 135 last week and before), we talk about between 13 230 and 15 435 gold weekly. Add to this, 3 x phase 1 Argos, 3x both HM abyss and quickly you can see that you stack up some good gold. Im not counting my 3 x 1340 who do also their guardians, but i wait rested for them now, i used to run daily but its too much. Those produce small leapstone at 35g each, and run normal abyss.

But with that being said, you do you! There is no wrong way to play, as long as you have fun. But there are benefits for having alts.

Every alt also increases chance of useful accessory or ability stone to drop, and if you have a paladin/bard alt - accessories are money.

[Daedius]

Doesn't movement speed cap at 140%?

Typo, 137%*.

But with the compass on Islands it can go beyond that.

[Ophenia]

I fucking love that entering on a Ghost Ship is enough to tag you for the week... I have no idea how such shit makes it into any game, especially in group content that doesn't scale down. No way I'm suffering through the ghost ship captain alone

This kind of mechanism will be terrible once the playerbase dies out (if it's not the case already)

[bbr]

I am officially done, uninstalled and done.
Sick of the bots, and the lack of action against them.

[D3athsting]

Why do i only see berserkers in open world, are all those bots?

[KrayZ33]

Why do i only see berserkers in open world, are all those bots?

Yes.
All 5 million of them (give or take).

[hattahat]

Smilegate brags about its high current player count so i suspect that's why bots are rampant in west servers.
https://newsroom.smilegate.com/bbs/b...ews&wr_id=1117

[Lindon]

Smilegate brags about its high current player count so i suspect that's why bots are rampant in west servers.
https://newsroom.smilegate.com/bbs/b...ews&wr_id=1117

Even if we say that bots account for 50% of the playerbase Lost Ark is still applicable for those points mentioned in the press statement.

Why do i only see berserkers in open world, are all those bots?

Generally most of the Berserkers you see in the leveling zones are bots. Most of the real players have already gone past those zones so you'll not see many real players occupying space in those zones.
You will however barely see any bots when you go to Tier 2 or 3.

[Jtbrig7390]

Random question.

Has anyone tried this on the Steam Deck with the Steam OS and if so how was it.

[Ophenia]

More than half an hour for the T1/T2 matchmaking to find 4 people, on a game with such an emphasis on alts ? Yeah, that can't be working that well

Trying to gear up a pass-less alt is so fucking cancerous and long now

[The Oblivion]

More than half an hour for the T1/T2 matchmaking to find 4 people, on a game with such an emphasis on alts ? Yeah, that can't be working that well

Trying to gear up a pass-less alt is so fucking cancerous and long now

most people dont have a bunch of t1/t2 alts at this point i imagine. additionally, if you make an alt, it gets out of those tiers in a day or two pretty easily.

[bbr]

Even if we say that bots account for 50% of the playerbase Lost Ark is still applicable for those points mentioned in the press statement.


Generally most of the Berserkers you see in the leveling zones are bots. Most of the real players have already gone past those zones so you'll not see many real players occupying space in those zones.
You will however barely see any bots when you go to Tier 2 or 3.

50%? HAH, no, you aren't even close.
https://steamdb.info/app/1599340/graphs/

I'd say it's closer to 70-80%, If not worse.
Most MMOs will see a downward trend - this one is "increasing" because of the new bots being added.

It's even listed as the number 1 most played game atm, but when you actually log on - there's almost nobody in the end-tier towns.
The game has more bots than players - simple as that.