How Easy Are Solo Raids? New Player Tries Solo Kakul in Lost Ark

With the release of Solo Raids in the Western Lost Ark, I wanted to test how easy a New or Returning Player will deal with these raids, essentially blind. My friend Mark was brought back after a 2-year hiatus after failing to complete Vykas on release to perform this test. I will sit in a call with him calling out mechanics and recording the time and deaths taken to get the clear. This episode, Clown or its real name Kakul-Saydon.
We are using a barebones kit provided by the game and he doesn't know his rotation, but he is 60+ ilevel over the raid, 1540 (the point at which gold honing starts so a good place to park and test the raids for new players likely start point). He is also playing a blue gunlancer, which wasn't intended, that provides significant cheese ability to the mechanics. So follow along as we test the average new player to Lost Ark try these Solo Raids.
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[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

If anyone viewing this is having difficulties with their personal prog on a certain mech let me know, and I will try to help! Although Mark didn't clear, I have multiple times with near ilevel characters so I can help out as best I can! Also apologies on length, tried to cut it down to like 12 mins, but from almost 4 hours, it was tough...

[@user-uo8qh9zn8z]

Just so you can tell your friend for the future - If you quit the raid by disconnecting or quitting the game instead of clicking "leave raid", thats why you get locked out. however you will get a ticket back in probably 2 days.

[@showtimeap3]

This video validates how my own solo clown experience went as a new raider. Also I did NOT know where was a place to practice mario 3. That is a game changer. I love this series!!!!

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

appreciate it! Definitely go try it out in trixion, significantly less debilitating then having to learn it mid prog lol

[@showtimeap3]

@@IntoTheCrawlspace After spending a lot of time practicing in Trixion, I now feel like mario 1 and 3 are my calm times during the raid lmfao. Just re watched for fun and I laugh every time you say "....brother..." xd

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

@showtimeap3 every 1 “brother” you hear there’s 4 more cut for time aha. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt calm in Mario 3, more the opposite in my case lol.

[@xTiiTANxx]

I have been playing since release, watching this brought nightmares… but this video was really entertaining… we all went through this when this raid came out

[@wdadwdwdwadw8604]

what your friend needs now is some serious character control.

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

This will become very apparent on a certain gate 4 soon…

[@miguelseidelfaroni236]

@@IntoTheCrawlspace It took 3 days for me to clear as BK. That shit was hard, especially for me who is not patience, i died from falling 90% of the times lol

[@synth4tk]

lmao... I laughed so much at the shield part

[@Landstalker1999]

Solo raid is by no means easy but it is stress free and anxiety free. Another thing is you don't have to worry about time issues as you can leave whenever you want and come back later but for party raid you can't do that. And last but not least.... PLEASE BUFF THE GOLD REWARDS

[@kovi2772]

Appreciate the reddit post about this . i will go watch it all for reminders of the good old days. with a solo twist!

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Reddit post? * oh I see

[@lucaas_pg]

You can do it bro! I have faith in you!

[@Minotking]

For anyone who struggles with Mario 3 first jump, you can hold your D key right from the beginning and jump right away you will have perfect timing always

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Also noticed they seem to have made it easier, significantly less timings that will have the ball push you off now (coming from someone whom always died on this first jump). I remarked about this in the video, but cut it for time.

[@SV2K]

In order to quit raid without losing your entry for the week: press the "stop" button in the top left. Do not just alt+f4 the game, since that leaves your character in raid but disconnected.

[@Shidensen1994]

Really? So you can spam the raids over and over again? What is the right moment to stop the raid?

[@SV2K]

@@Shidensen1994 you cannot spam the raid. Each character can do each raid once per week. There are multiple bosses per raid and once you beat each one it saves your progress for that week. The ticket system used to track this has a few quirks and can prevent you from continuing a raid you are partially through if you end the raid through certain methods such as alt+f4.

[@SV2K]

The meter gain in G3 solo is a lot slower than the real raid. I recommend getting 50% meter before the flame tower even spawns. In normal mode you could go from 0% to 100% when mario entrance mech starts, but in solo even starting at 25% is really hard to get enough meter. Gunlancer should definitely turn OFF their shield identity for meter generation or else they will gain almost zero meter at all.

[@josetamad]

Dayum. Appreciate the grind

[@MindWarp-xg5ej]

The fun part is that going through them with a different class will be almost as difficult as the first time due to different positioning. By the way, I spent 22 hours and about 140 attempts on G4 Brelshaza :3

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Oh just wait for him to get there….

[@Eliteqtlol]

The best part is, normal or hard mode mechanics are not the same as solo mode. So you’ll still have more to learn in these raids. I will admit, getting some raid mats and little gold is a good start.

[@dogukansariturk7641]

This series is soooo good

[@gilbinpena8039]

Nice video man!, tip for last part of Mario 3, when you get to the edge you can just jump till the end and don't press right arrow (>) because it fucks you. so just w,w,w,w,w,w till the end.

[@henrytrieu5547]

to confirm yes for GL they got the patch around echida release in KR that their meter gain got reduced when their shield is up same with arti turret mode. we got that patch some time far later after KR.

[@annekire]

Proging as gl solo is sad, big ups to him

[@nekrovx]

My biggest advice for clown near ilvl solo is to bring atros and to know how to burst once you know his patterns xD this is the worse raid to solo near ilvl, I was memeing around on my sorc that was 5 lvls above clown and with the 5x3 supporrt with NO gems I was able to clear all of it but my bingo board at the end was almost completely full xD

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

I did it on a 1490 glaive with similar support, sounds like our bingo boards were the same lol

[@chuan813]

Aint no way my man went from the back to the head and then said this is the side hehe

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Just wait until gate 1 counters on Brel…

[@MyKarlFranz]

That his back what u doing.... crack me up

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

I almost tapped out there aha

[@skrtiee]

when he couldnt figure out what clowns side was in g1 stagger mech i thought bro was gonna jail himself 💀

[@skrtiee]

i finished the vid bro did jail himself after 3hrs😭

[@philxx100]

Isn’t that the abroad in Japan music playing with clown 1 fight

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

I believe so, most my music comes from a music provider service and there was a bunch of tags on this artists music to Abroad in Japan

[@HooveyGuy]

Yo big fan of the series! It’s been a while I wonder when the next Brel raid video is going to be out ?

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Hey man appreciate it, just wrapping up the editing, it’s long and trying to cut as much as possible. So should be out in a couple hours!

[@petetam7394]

keep up the good work bro

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Appreciate it friend, thank you!

[@Landstalker1999]

Just clear Gate3 clown once and only do Gates 1&2 after that. Same with Brelshaza. That extra time and stress on the final gate ismt worth the extra little gold or mats. The first few gates are super easy once you understand but Mario and final gate of Brel is just meh, not worth the squeeze.

[@kedigiller111]

Hi! My item level is 1540 (items are at level +15), it did not require gold while honing up to this level. Now it starts asking for gold for every honing? Is this normal or is there something else I need to do? I thought they removed the gold requirement for honing.

[@mahms012]

Gold requirement was removed up till 1540 only. After that it costs gold.

[@parserocamarma]

I can't handle Valtan yet xddd Well I'm having a hard time understanding the parries and I die because he throws me into the void but then I train the parries a bit, I think it's because I try to parry him maybe from afar because my counter attack has a dash but he doesn't get it, I'm getting the hang of it

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

What character are you playing? I presume you mean the ones at ghost phase?

[@hanshoz]

nice, but don't tell a gunlancer to throw whirlewind grens, he has way to much stagger to need that for those easy ones. bash, shield bash and shield shock are excellent stagger skills with "low" cooldown.

[@alexou857]

G3 is hell hen!

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

sure is :(

[@Mo-dj1yp]

I remember when this shit came out, I only ran it on 2 chars and just enough to get horns, pugging this was cancer lmao

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Early to even a few months after release pugs were down right torture aha

[@Tokiomy]

Im curious how far he will get,try geting him in grup content after he does all solos I like this series

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

I will need to if I have a hope of getting him to akkan or voldis

[@BuffPomsky]

only if a group will take him lol...but popularity may help for that. solo raids are the future

[@NeoKronos44]

for some reason in solo the flame turrets give very little gauge, its better to find the balls \shrug

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Yeah I couldn’t tell when he was playing, don’t know if it was a nerf in normal I just never noticed, but on my solo run I was going into Mario 3 with no difficulty via just the balls

[@NeoKronos44]

@@IntoTheCrawlspace yeah very strange change. it's not like they did any significant damage in normal anyway. but also now that teaches the wrong thing to learners cause in normal you want to prioritize flame turret ?_?

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

It is a very odd choice, I will say the oddest is making solo players learn Mario 3. There’s a large portion of players who’ve gone their whole clown career never touching Mario 3 and they force solo players to…

[@DoggyP00]

@@IntoTheCrawlspace I don't know if it was even a choice rather than just blindly nerfing damage and guage generation. I ended up holding dps until 70% guage at the start because just naturally dpsing never gave me enough time.

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

I found in my solo runs the balls gauge gain seemed higher? I don't think in regular clown I was ever able to fully juice from the balls, but I swear in solo they were getting me there a majority of the time. Especially on runs where they seem to overlap, which seems to be a common occurrence in solo.

[@DoggyP00]

Your friend can't skip every mech because he's a gunlancer anymore xd. It might be worth taking a sprinters robe to make showtime easier.

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

I blitzed through it in the edit, but usually the deaths at showtime were due to him zoning out and not getting the first one aha. When he was locked it was fine, but at the tail end he was zoning hard.

[@DoggyP00]

​@@IntoTheCrawlspace I see. I always had the most trouble with showtime. It was also the most frustrating in pugs especially towards the end of when it was ran. I never had much trouble with mario though, so that's the tradeoff

[@whizbang4794]

I came back to try the solo raids and I really really want to like this game but I've come to the conclusion that ill simply never have the skill for this game...

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

You will develop it. The whole reasoning behind me making videos is that I am a novice player at this game. No experience with this format and am just not good at it. I just have slowly forced myself to learn how to function in it and try to get better at it. I just really enjoy the combat, even if I lack the skill. Eventually these raids stop being so overwhelming and you get a flow to your class and the enjoyment shines. You just gotta put a little time to get there, but of course that’s only if u want to aha

[@procos5108]

14:38 too far, body blocked from position you'd move to after pressing g. Should've told him to press q 15:17 should tell him to walk up to edge then press w 3 times, dont touch left/right

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

I had to cut a majority of the coaching, but yeah at that part I basically had drilled it into him in the 1 hr trixion training to just get to the edge then just press hop 3-4 times depending on clowns positions at the end. He just kinda spaced out at that part every time aha

[@dominikb9202]

Like the format, like the gameplay which is actually fun to watch compared to other games. Hate the game. Still the same shit show like before. Just doing a daily or another chaos dungeon is already increasing my blood pressure. Doing honing is completely tilting me these days. Can't catch up without either months of tryharding or swiping a couple hundred bucks. Having no good gold income is still a major issue.

[@kbm-iy9tj]

I mean free 1520 pass which i was able to push to 1600 pretty easily with thew supermokkok buffs and mats as well as using event shops. Unas which i do with the auto complete thing u can buy in shop and other raids are my main source of gold. I am thankful that i know the mechs and play this game well so i have a group of peple to clear raids with, which is where most the chokehold lies discord helps with this a bit. Regardless pushing to 1610 Shouldnt be crazy difficult but shouldnt take more than a month if u just do your dalies which seem to be a prob as u dont like chaos dungons, i mean thats more of a person thing and i cant say anything about that.

[@dominikb9202]

@@kbm-iy9tj I already spent 40k+ to get to 1561. It´s at least 500k to 1600 unless the akkan gear from the event is pushing you higher. The buff as shown in the honing window is a meager 3% success chance. I Am constantly running out of shards. Only thing I have is 100m silver and I just finished the DD 30 card set. Used the set on a summoner btw. Just burned out from doing multiple chars daily stuff on two other previous server. Once at release and then switched to other region due to the hour long Q times.

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

Honing is definitely not the greatest experience. Personally pushed 3 characters 1620 past 2 weeks has been painful with pities. Have you checked out the Lost Ark Nexus? It has a bunch of resources on how to get stuff in the game. Like things like chaos line in south Vern, the bridge and tower are a huge shard resource. Also check out the maxroll honing calculator to show average cost to hone certain pieces. It shouldn’t cost you 500k to get 1600. To push 1540-1600 it cost me roughly 60-80k, things like those books for boosted honing rates help a lot, and you can find plenty of them in the solo raid vendor and the event shop. Also when you hit 1580, there’s a chest that gives you Akkan gear that boosts you to 1585 immediately and it resets the honing rates a bit, and the express character gets boosted rates from 1580-1600. Still a lot of gold from just only doing solo raids, but things like unas and life spilling actually contribute a lot of weekly gold for a newish player doing mainly solo raids. Apologies for the long text. Just wanted to help out if you are still harbouring some love for the game aha.

[@dominikb9202]

@@IntoTheCrawlspace I spent 40k+ from 1540 to 1561. I used what I had on books and the things to increase success chance. It´s just 8-12% chance. Not really that high. In the video from another creator it was 450k from 1580 to 1600 alone I think. Checked the tool. Says on average 30k gold +14-17 weapon being +18. Had quite a few pities so it matches my cost so far. Worst case scenario is 80k and 600k shards to reach 1580. Gonna try some solo raids and see how I like to play those with summoner. Still have a backup soulreaper 1593 from another event.

[@IntoTheCrawlspace]

the SE will eat good, even as a backup!

[@m1hirpatil]

x39 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@m1hirpatil]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@gabriellek4855]

The most cancer raid on ilvl period