r/lostarkgame

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

hi, me and my AI friends made a LOA simulator, a la KR Lopec (only CP, no dps score like L-score)

https://preview.redd.it/tppyug51iluh1.png?width=888&format=png&auto=webp&s=a3ed88f2b5d8f6ab096d1dae7cbc235fd48b6ab5

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https://preview.redd.it/fh9slu9hiluh1.png?width=1675&format=png&auto=webp&s=88ddc4c9d58d51f28e9ea0c8ef0cd9dbce122a0c

might have couple of bugs here and there still, do let me know if something is fishy.

we can pretend we have infinite gold and see how much CP maxxing the new bracer/vambrace will get you 🫠

bot might hide post if I put a URL ?
let me know in comments and i'll drop it there i guess

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

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 got enough astrogems to get my builds work, so I reckon it's better to wait for the rework in the future

https://preview.redd.it/slmfetk9teuh1.png?width=1976&format=png&auto=webp&s=62d20991f4e36c72469d0f0d3e7aca4b0edbddd3

There are only 10 slots and I bet support players who play both builds don't have enough slots.

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?

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.

Where can i find crewmates for this ship and is it better than astray?

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD-P671830U

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.

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?

Also, any opinions of the newest classes?

Thanks guys!

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?