Lost Ark In 2023

[@TheLazyPeon]

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[@knnkidss]

This look like a clone of summoners war chronicle

[@olly1384]

should do baldurs gate 3 series

[@BadgerGamingTV]

@TheLazyPeon please try Path of exile in 2023

[@AttackOnSociety]

Lost Ark is a GREAT game. Better than WoW IMO

[@StillGamingMaybeLatr]

Lost Ark's gameplay is truly amazing and that first month of launch was really something special. I couldn't get past the upgrade system though.... it felt too much like an endless, pointless treadmill after a while.

[@davidgreenfield6423]

I agree fully. There wasn’t a clear vertical progression for me. Like in RuneScape I always have a goal (ex: scyth or t bow) to build towards. But as soon as I hit end game in lost ark I stopped.

[@brunosilva-ed4pz]

That and the annoying dailies... I tried 3-4 characters till i got to the Sorc and i freaking LOVED it! But everything else just made me drop the game ;/

[@Raizy]

Honestly it's not too bad, comparing to other Korean MMOs, in alot of them your gear BREAKS when you fail an upgrade, BDO for example, and there's only like a 3%-5% success rate 🥲

[@CyberGenesis1]

Korean MMOs in a nutshell

[@DiabolicalDestroyer]

It's very easy to get to 1540 now so long as you play here and there, and the newest update is giving players 1580 for pretty much free along with Soul Eater class release.

[@sonnyankau9239]

if this game wasn't an eastern mmo obsessed with stupid monetization, it would be my main game

[@sittkukk8278]

Agreed. I played since Russia servers and even I had finally enough w the bs. Haven't played in over a year and will never go back most likely cuz the core problems will never change due to being a Korean game with their culture of loving p2w gatekeeping love 1 shot wipe mechanism jadajada 😂

[@maskettaman1488]

Yeah. The actual fights and combat are fun. Too bad they're buried under a hundred different soul draining asian bug-person daily or p2w systems

[@JanPapiezGaming]

@@maskettaman1488 true and real + baseg + d4 bad

[@j2theosh6969]

Same man. I loved this game till I started hitting roadblocks in which I had to either grind like a mad man for free to keep up with content or pay which I’d rather not. So sad cuz the game is so good.

[@select20]

Completely agree

[@draco0675]

To avoid going into raids with your chaos build, setup mass preset options in the raid window

[@ForeverDunking]

even that bugs out sometimes lmfao

[@draco0675]

@@ForeverDunking works for me

[@jane3271]

if it does press K (ability window) and it should fix itself@@ForeverDunking

[@timm4315]

I know what you are talking about sometimes I will switch from my raid to chaos and it switches everything but my skills. I have to hit K like Jane3271 said. It only started to do that in the past few months... never had that problem before@@ForeverDunking

[@altonlynch5464]

I solo all chaos dungeons because it is allowed, raids are a different story it requires you to play with others. I play every day.

[@xZanfis]

Clocked in at around 3000 hours on steam before decided to say goodbye. The combat and raiding experience (especially day 1 with a full party of clannies) was something that i will never forget. However, the chores and ruthless honing rng does get worse and worse until you finally decide to say goodbye. I would still recommend this game to absolutely anyone as long as you don't take it too seriously and lose your mind over item lvls :)

[@Testttersste]

Same, i played RU version first way before global release. Also there was a ton of content in RU+Alot of honing buff+mats so i get to experience almost end game from the get go. When Global release came out, i was prepared for all. Sinked also 2k hours was one of the top on my server with my guild mates, no swiping whatsoever just the casual blue gem boxes and 10$ here and there. Couldnt do chaos anymorre, guardians and unas task. I couldnt anymore. Stopped playing and i have no urge to come back lmao lostark just failed as an mmorpg in my mind. Waiting to see what other mmos comes to the market. In the meantime, albion is taking my time.

[@XOceaNX]

Albion is such a grind fest and requires Premium. Imagine doing all this and still get jumped by a party of players preying on soloers and lose all your gear. sigh*@@Testttersste

[@raidenxt8737]

That's the name of the game. I dont recommend anyone to play lost ark non-casually. The gameplay cycle the devs use for the game will suck you dry over time. It is basically: 1) Devs set arbitrary honing goal (like 1490, 1540, 1580, 1600) where it takes a lot of daily-gated effort to get to new content. It's required to access newest content and it's extremely resource intensive and honing gets worse over time. You will be baited by how free and cheap it was at first. 2) Finally play the content, hopefully you have people to play with who wont flame u. Having 7 friends or finding an active, friendly guild is mandatory to avoid the toxic cesspit of raid-pugging 3) Use the mats from the raid to upgrade gear to next level which act as a honing soft-reset, then wait for new content 4) Once new content is out, old honing goals get nerfed by like half 4 months later (-30% resource cost or something), and really-old honing goals get nerfed EXTREMELY hard 8 months later (-80% resource cost or straight up given for free), meaning your effort you put towards current content is constantly being retroactively depreciated. 5) Repeat: new arbitrary honing goal is set In this video, he got to 1490 for free. Back in Nov 2022, that would've taken you some blood, sweat, and tears of replaying Vykas and Valtan raids every week to get to just farming gold. To earn gold, you have to raid until you get sick of them, and raiding unfortunately becomes compulsory chore content for something you were supposed to love doing. Now, those raids are obsolete content once new raids come out. Eventually, the new content will become old content and given for free to entice new players to get in, but the new-new content will forever stay ridiculously expensive to hone to. the name of the game is straight-up FOMO and so you should play very casually and wait for honing nerfs unless you want are willing to have your time or money drained from you. If you get bored of the chores, stop doing them and wait for the content you want to reach to get nerfed

[@orbitae_]

same here, decided to uninstall and while i miss the gameplay, it feels nice to be free LOL (i am going to play TL which is basically the same system as lost ark, i love suffering)

[@TerminalM193]

​@@orbitae_what's tl?

[@Kristu.]

lost ark is one of these games that u install one time per year and remember why u stopped🤣

[@chriso6042]

To me, it just kinda ruined combat for every other game. Ffxiv especially was unplayable after playing lost ark combat.

[@ArcaneMantis]

kinda of like League

[@misutatomasu]

I have over 600 hours. The only reason I stopped was because it has way too many systems to keep up with as the patches/game goes on. With events it even manages to get worse, it's like 10 000 different systems.

[@Hosenbund1]

@@chriso6042 predatory p2w game with mobile game mechanics. you guys make the gaming landscape worse by playing this and giving these greedy devs money.

[@hollowfied702]

Story of my experience

[@HeiSanKos]

The games biggest problem is most likely gatekeeping and gear progression. While they did rework a lot of raids like removed Vykas G1 and Brel G2 and G5 completely, they still have wipe mechanics that you as a never player can easily cause by yourself. Joining a guild is a definitive must. Daily exhaustion is a lot better now. I personally recommend playing 2-3 characters. if you are a working/studying person.

[@LetsBeSeriouslol]

Don't play daily like it's chore, unless you like it. Let fill rested bonus.

[@AngelusGaston]

@@LetsBeSeriouslol You dont gain all of the rewards from playing with rested you only get like 80% thats it. The game wants you to play daily to gain all of the rewards, rested seems like a good idea till you see what you miss out on.

[@LetsBeSeriouslol]

I know, i am current player with 4 characters at current content. And believe me, its enough. @@AngelusGaston

[@krumdark]

It was g2 that was removed, not g1

[@CyberGenesis1]

play 2-3 characters if you have a life? That seems mildly awkward...

[@KG-mv5uo]

One of the best videos on Lost Ark. Accurately describing the game's ups and downs from a non hard-core perspective is tough to do. I will say the combat is absolutely unmatched - ALL TIME best combat of any mmo.

[@SpawnSenpaiowo]

Definitely not all time best, but very good

[@SpawnSenpaiowo]

@@thecasualsperspective Vindictus does have great combat, but its hard to choose a definitive "best" as that will always be subjective. I really, really love blade and souls combat and that'd probably be my vote for best combat, but I can see arguments for BDO, Vindictus, etc

[@mastershake42019]

Just looks like a diablo clone. What's so good about the combat?

[@kyuhnfukaikage1283]

@@SpawnSenpaiowo whoaa i'm surprised you put BnS above Vindi for combat after having played both; do you care to share your thoughts on what differentiates the two for you? ik it may come down to subjectivity but i'm still curious; also i was considering Lost Ark but do you think it's combat is comparable to Vindi?

[@SpawnSenpaiowo]

@@kyuhnfukaikage1283 Vindictus has amazing combat, but I think it's strength lies in the interactivity of its environment - BnS is a much more PvP focused game, and I enjoyed how classes interact and counter one another. It at times almost feels like a game of street fighter or some other more traditional 2d fighting game, where combo's are used in different contexts to do certain things. Vindi very much has set combo's that are optimal and should be used 90% of the time above others, and at times can feel quite cookie cutter. Very fun to do, but I find most classes lack variety. Still love Vindi though. As for LA compared to Vindi, the two are very different and so it's hard to compare. I think LA is more responsive and snappy, but lacks the flow that Vindi does. LA has amazing combat but in all honesty I wouldn't recommend the game. LA has amazing core concepts and gameplay, but the progression system is absolute cancer.

[@Saintone]

It was nice to see your optimism about the game's prospective future.

[@Rephlex01]

Loved the streams when i was playing Lost ark Saintone!

[@mastachief16]

something I think the devs could do with endgame content being more casual friendly, is give the veteran players a "bonus" for bringing a new player that completes the raid or kills a boss for the first time. Like they would get more gold or resources. It may encourage them to bring a new player or 2 to the raid if they get more out of it

[@OfficialFo]

i love how everyone here, no matter where you are right now. we all share that memory of playing this game during the pandemic. or rather sitting in q for 14 hours.

[@srcran]

Been playing since launch, don't ever remember any Que taking more than a few minutes. Not sure what you mean.

[@Dramn_]

I guess you have a bad memory or just didn't actually play at launch.@@srcran

[@srcran]

@@Dramn_ On launch day, by the time I got home to play... all was up and good. Since launch, other than a few emergency maintenances (which we got compensated for), I Haven't had any que issues. Maybe you're just a bit slow and thinking of another game. \o/

[@tristadela4376]

Lol been playing since day one. You can tell this guy is just comment whoring

[@AccendinoMCM]

@@srcran no. You just werent playing on EUC. Every server had a queue, most notably Kadan, Thirain and Zinnervale had 14+ hours queues. Matchmaking completely broken, and even solo instances. Literally could not enter a single instance even by yourself. Classic Lost Ark brainlet, flaming people thinking he knows everything when hes actually clueless.

[@shadwe11]

The idea of being brand new to this game, being showered with items and systems you've never heard of, let alone how to play your class, and then being given access to endgame content just to be gatekept is actually insane. Nothing about that is good for someone trying the game for the first time. The combat, while easily the highlight of the game is not enough to remedy all the massive issues this game has. Which is why it has been bleeding a ton of its player population over time.

[@SVTVeniK]

True, I hate it. Barely made my character and I'm bombarded with milions of chests and items I have no idea what they are for, thousands of popups with things to receive because I'm apparently doing hundreds of different event quests in the background etc etc, I hate it and I can't play it, just can't. Too overwhelmed with everything thrown at me at once

[@Thurnmourer]

It was bleeding players long before any of that. Most of it is down to it being a simply economically predatory game, nevermind the overwhelmingly shitty community.

[@MaThMaTa1000]

He was "showered with items" because he was not brand new but a returning one. Lots of changes happened and they have to adjust old items, sets and stuff which seems like they are just giving stuff. A completely new player don't get instantly to endgame, you still have to level through the story and get used to the gameplay and mechanics

[@iceflower7004]

@@MaThMaTa1000 nah they give out passes that take you straight to endgame now as a new player. My recommendation for a new player is to use a pass to get one character to endgame, then make a completely fresh character to progress through the story at your own pace.

[@reecedactyl]

@@iceflower7004 dont you still have to get 1 char there.

[@MakoRuu]

That inventory management alone made me instantly go "Nope."

[@sol5916]

I would come back immediately if they allowed you to progress solo

[@kao9395]

agree

[@KG-mv5uo]

They don't know how to achieve this without bots being able to do so (which will break the game/economy).

[@Fumble469]

same lost ark raids are super toxic

[@Silentpoppy]

i feel like the game economy was already broken by the 1000000000 bots but i haven't played in like a year so idk how it is now.@@KG-mv5uo

[@shaburanigud]

The dev's said they're working on a solo mode for lower tier dungeons and raids. You'll get a chance to learn mechanics and get rewards by playing on your own. Eventually training yourself for real co-op at endgame content. The current endgame will always be a co-op, but they decided that forcing co-op throughout the whole game was rather unhealthy to newcomers. So fingers crossed that this comes quick

[@adamktaylor]

The equipment was unequipped cause of a recent update! Old Armour sets had to get switched out

[@dragoloco700Official]

After 2k hours and playing since launch, I got absolutely burned out. I found myself doing the samething every day and every week. Even with pretty good gear and Roster level I was left out the groups. I could have easily spent 20 or 30 min searching for a group. Most people don't have patience to teach or to try with other players. Besides, the pressure on Legion Raids you don't know is pretty overwhelming with people being very cruel. My joy became gradually a chore. And started being gatekept like new players. I don't regret leaving the game. It was very stressfull at the end.

[@Ineri-YT]

You made the right choice.

[@sagansagan5395]

Its the same for pretty much any mmo tbh, once you played long enough it becomes repetitive, how could not become repetitive when you reach 2k+ hours

[@IK-nv3hr]

I came back to the game like 4-5 months ago and overwhelmed doesn't even begin to describe how I felt lol. The whole PowerPass grind, rune build, etc. made me feel like giving up. It made me sad that all early game content is literally dead, good luck finding a party to do anything other than end-game :(

[@Azuurinho]

yeah, u missed the catchup servers by just a bit i think? it would help u a bit to not feel as overwhelmed but still, i know how it goes. its the same reason i dont get into WoW

[@leftrom9738]

I remember after 2-3months from the release, I wanted to level-up an alt from the beginning (I had used the pass, at that time). I'm a guy that enjoys the story of the games and the leveling up process, but this was a total disappointment. Until Vern, there were only bots. The game offers passes to skip everything, and go straight to the end game areas; for me this is a huge negative, since there is 0 immersion. At least I have a few good memories when some open world bosses spawned (in Luterra) and everybody was after them, changing channels, etc. I got lucky playing LA in the release era.

[@TrollingNPCs]

@@leftrom9738 You should try final fantasy XIV if you haven’t already. No alts, best mmo story and characters by far, and old content never dies.

[@Sereja_Blincheg]

playing on russian server right now and people are in active leveling also gathering for those open world bosses all the time. Feel really fun and immersive@@leftrom9738

[@TheVitor677]

as expected, korean mmos

[@brennenmay2281]

Honestly my biggest issue is just how intimidating the raids are. They are mechanically difficult and you have to memorize many different mechanics in a video before even attempting. If you're new to the game, it puts a lot of pressure on you to not screw the entire party and cause a wipe. Even when you admit you're new and might need some help, then nobody wants to play with you. If you dont have a guild and friends to play with then it is a tough game to keep progressing in once you get to the raids.

[@ArtemysNyx]

pretty much yea, thats why lost ark can only be a game meant for the few hardcore players.

[@GrippeeTV]

It’s a damn shame this games monetization ruined it, still probably the best combat and gameplay of any MMO I’ve ever played and the sound design of the abilities with some bomb headphones was unbelievable.

[@human-animalchimeraprohibi2143]

@@thecasualsperspectiveLost Ark also has the best combat and boss design out of any game in that space as well.

[@arthurbarbosa9502]

i'd argue monetization was actually pretty fine, as in while yes, some people did spend a lot of money to be at the top of ilvl at all times, it was far from needed and you could easily stay at the current endgame with multiple characters as long as you played somewhat consistently, not even everyday but just enough to not be wasting too many resteds. Personally i believe that what ruined the game for most people was the community's EXTREME gate keeping in guild invites and party finder due to build scrutiny as well as burnout from people thinking they had to do every single task on every single character every single day, which wasn't true.

[@Rastei]

you didnt play much mmos right xD

[@hoofhearted4]

I enjoyed Lost Ark at launch. I loved the combat. going back to something like Diablo or really any other game as a Mage just felt weak. Skills in this game just feel soo good. But I just didnt care for the daily grind. I found myself hopping on every day to do the daily stuff, but just not wanting to progress the story after because the story is boring compared to dungeons, but because of that, I felt stagnant and bored. Completing things is what gives me motivation. I like completing areas, missions, etc. Grinding dungeons and stuff doesnt do it for me. I was still in T1 when I quit. trying to circle back as a T1 or play a new toon, and things like Guardian Raids are dead. Rarely found matchmaking last time I tried. and just felt like it wasnt worth it trying to upgrade my gear and constantly failing.

[@fataliity101]

On Jump Start servers if you tried it, should get a free powerpass to 1415 + an event to help you get to 1540 faster with alot of free materials. Granted the raids are a little dead there right now before Brelshaza (everyone's 1500+ now), but its merging soon with the other servers.

[@cydneywright2623]

yeah old content that isnt in t3 is dead but its only because they gave so many passes to get to the new content with other players. Like fatality said jumpstar servers are good right now and will soon merge

[@omegand.]

>Be returning player >Try to find Valtan training group >Spend 2 hours for nothing >Buy a bus and be done in 15 minutes >Realize this game is dogshit and quit

[@Hosenbund1]

but you can play it f2p!!! just have to buy busses for weeks and months first and do ur dailies as a job! then after some months u can finally raid yourself! lmao

[@shatuas7033]

Actually a really well made video about Lost Ark in 2023. I agree with almost every point made about the pros and cons of this game. Glad to see you have fun in lost ark.

[@Hosenbund1]

predatory p2w game with mobile game mechanics. you guys make the gaming landscape worse by playing this and giving these greedy devs money.

[@elyssair]

The "p2w" is so funny though. Juice as much as you want, if you get into a party with crazy gems, low roster and fail the mechanics and wipe everyone, they'll kick you out hehe. You probably wouldn't get accepted anyway for being sus with gear

[@Hosenbund1]

@@elyssair cope

[@richardj1319]

My main problem with Lost Ark, as much as I've loved it, remains that there's only one way to play the game. Being a sweaty legion raider who needs to study advanced mechanics. Without this, there's really nothing you can do in the game after a few weeks of playing. Once you have most of your horizontal progression done, there's really only daily chores and legion raids left. I would love it if they added more ways to get the gear sets, and some more content focused more towards the casual players who don't want to spend tons of hours trying to learn legion raids just to be gatekept for hours trying to get into a group. It's also virtually impossible to play with friends who aren't on your level, cus all you can do is basically one guardian raid and weekly abyssals. Most of my friends don't want to create multiple alts, and they were stumped when they were content-locked so quickly out of doing anything in a group, pretty much. It made several of them quit the game.

[@jackalo34]

This so much thank you!

[@rjacks3284]

lost ark is too focused on catering to the sweats that enjoy grinding/p2w to the next endgame raid which is not for most people because most players are casual and chill and play for fun. most of the players in game are bots as well.

[@jackalo34]

@@rjacks3284 I wouldn't say most are bots but last I checked about 1/3 or 1/4 are.

[@alessandrobelli]

I absolutely love the combat, the skins, the art style and absolutely despise the endgame and gear progression. Such a pity it's like that

[@idk8964]

we need to mix ESO's empty, floaty, clunky combat with Lost Ark's impactful combat and it would be a masterpiece

[@Frankyroflz]

Got 2500 hours in, I quit around early September, the thing that made me quit was just burnout of doing the same shit every week again and again. Same three raids to get your gold of the week. Same weekly/daily activitities... This game was god tier at the start but once you got stuck in end game and had to repeat weekly raids/other activities with often a chance of getting stuck between gates of a legion boss because one guy in the group keeps fucking up, made me burned out. Especially if you have alts at end game too and had to do the same weeklies 5x in a row with the same consequences i mentioned. Edit: i never had issues with gatekeeping because i was able to experience every raid at release, therefore getting my experience very early. And also, i played a gunlancer (favored class). If i had to introduce this game to a new player i would say to not bother... To much gatekeeping and toxic beheviour going on. This is definately something the devs should be focussing on, cuz new players will never get in if they can never touch a raid... The only way to properly get into this game is find yourself a group of friends/static that is willing to grind with you every week

[@JettyG]

As someone who still plays the game fairly consistently, if you are going to stick with it for a bit, Id highly reccomend rechecking out Glavier with Pinnacle instead of Control, takes a bit of learning but its one of the highest damage and most fun classes in the game in my personal opinion

[@SmHy23]

Exactly, control is so lackluster.

[@Hosenbund1]

most predatory p2w mobile game, dont support this trash

[@maramba32]

@@Hosenbund1not a mobile game

[@Dubcat-]

100% he would find pinnacle much more engaging

[@j.vfuentes3118]

what the fuck r u talking about ? @@Hosenbund1

[@travellingslim]

Metagaming and doing research outside of the game being pretty much required for endgame content has sapped so much fun out of games in recent years

[@in2it85]

*Lost Ark is PERFECTLY designed from start to finish,* *to psychologically making you either spend money, or spend more money.* *From the very start you a trained into developing an addiction for Gambling.* *And the Beautiful thing is, you won't even notice how crazy it all is - until you have Quit the Game.*

[@Hosenbund1]

predatory p2w game with mobile game mechanics

[@yannickclaes90]

Could've been one of the greatest games of the century competing with WoW. Super nice combat and boss fight. Capitalism ruins everything.

[@barcodeguy7627]

For every class i'd always recommend to try both class engravings, you might feel like dropping a class on one class engraving just to realize that you love the other. I almost dropped my Scouter untill i switched from Legacy to AT. Especially when you still have engraving support when a new class comes out, you basically have 3 months to freely test both class specs

[@Weebfox]

Just randomly felt like getting back into LA and giving it a shot almost 1,5 years after and randomly stumbled across this video. I love your style of presenting, and the video overall was just an incredibly enjoyable watch, thank you so much for this!

[@Phunatic]

How has your experience been so far on your return? I randomly felt the same after so much time has passed

[@Weebfox]

@@Phunatic Quite fun actually. I'd be lying if I said that Fresh Story express didnt at least contribute a little bit, but yeah I've enjoyed it again. Combat in the game I've always liked. Super end game raids are still intimidating to me and I dont like the fact that you cant knowledge transfer multiple characters without having to play the story again, but overall my experience has been positive and could say it's a pretty good time to return to the game if you've been thinking about it!

[@lucaleone4331]

"the sound effects are so good" *Me hearing the equivalent of throwing pots and pans down a stair case* 'Ill take your word for it" lol

[@moji96]

As a veteran player i can confidently say that right now Lost Ark in the west is in the best state it's ever been. There are still some big problems that need to be solved like gatekeeping but Smilegate announced a while back that they will add solo content with AI and stuff like that in order for new or returning players to catch up.

[@ImSkyHigh]

Watching you trying to pick a name, and everything being taken, like freaking "lampshade" was amazing LMFAO

[@pedromoreira6218]

you mentioned grouping up with npcs to learn the various mechanics of the game and i think i recall the director of the game saying they wanted to turn the 2 early raids where youd get the gear set that you got from the powerpass into single player with some ai companions to help you learn the various types of mechs in the game since no one does them anymore, they said it will take some time but at least theres 1 good thing they are preparing to address it wich is good as far as to deal with gatekeeping the easiest advice to give is to just join a guild it makes things easier

[@desiotaku8890]

Ai Companions? Heck yes. No more hours of waiting on groups

[@Dubcat-]

Ya just a way to practice the mechanics by yourself without jeopardizing a whole raid would be huge. It's alot of mechanics to learn for new people nowadays

[@TheLazyPeon]

That would be huge, the raiding seems incredible once you know the mechanics perfectly, just being able to learn them in a stress free environment would probably bring a lot of people into the end game raiding scene.

[@shaburanigud]

If I remember correctly, It'll include every dungeon and raid below Vykas or Clown. They said it'll help with newbies to train themselves for the endgame content since the combat is getting more and more hardcore, and people are barring out newbies on lower tier content due to the game being a massive alt focused game and older players want to finish those off as quick as possible. They also stated that they'll never gonna completely make the game to be a single player game, since the devs has said that this game is in the end, a co-op game. But they felt that they didn't need to push that idea throughout the whole game, but just the main endgame content where co-op will really matter. So I think everytime a raid is no longer considered an 'endgame content', it'll get a solo mode in the future.

[@RoyMustang4719]

@@TheLazyPeon That is the main complaint most people have it's just really stressful going in your first time a stress free learning area for the actual raid mechanics would be huge for new people. The guides are just too long most of the time. As for the daily stuff hopefully more of it changes, but sadly I don't think you'll see pheons removed maybe someday they'll take them off the cost of ability stones that's really the best case on that. The last thing that would be really nice would be to see some server merges this has happened in the EU servers somewhat but in na we have way too many servers for the amount of players and some merges would really help make the game feel more lively.

[@trebilicious]

I can't get over the fact that Lost Ark is made in Unreal Engine **3** from the Xbox 360/PS3 generation but looks better than many games running on modern game engines.

[@khalkitty7277]

Very good review in my opinion, as a long term player you end up learning how to aleviate the downsides of the game. First, playing with friends is a reaaaaally good way to make sure you find groups for end game content, so if you are a new player, either find people willing to help you or a group of new players to learn the game with. If you like being a PuG player and want to remain alone (just like I did for 3000 hours of my 3300 hours playtime), find parties that are learning or reclearing with your degree of knowledge, you can't expect to enter a group who cleared the raid 100 times when it is your 4th. Whenever I see a group asking for help to clear a content it fills quite quickly, people on the game (me included) are willing to help, they just don't like when people fuck up the runs that are supposed to be quick. Just don't be the guy that fucks up the mechanic 10 times in a raid and doesn't say anything in chat, we see you :D It's ok to fail sometimes, we all do, and it is also ok to learn, we all went through this. If you are unsure of your skills, create learning parties, once you feel good enough, find reclear parties ! When it comes to the questing, it is as boring as any MMO can get when we don't follow the storyline, I know it isn't for everyone, but giving interest to the lore and universe of the game makes it way more enjoyable in every aspects. The RNG is in fact boring but one day, as I was about to quit for not upgrading my weapon quality after putting more than 200k gold on it, a friend told me "set up a price you are willing to put into it before you try, if it doesn't work, just come back to it later". Everything is easier since then, every time I feel like I am out of luck I just stop trying and I come back to it later (unless I really need to get something for whatever reason but it is quite rare). Anyways, LoA endgame content is in fact stressful to learn but just dive into it with learning parties, there's no pressure there, you are here to learn. We all went through that. Just don't sneak into reclear parties if you have no idea of what you're doing, and everything will be just fine x) To me, the real issue with the game is the lack of "chill" content, LoA is known for its challenging PvE endgame but I think adding more content for casual players to enjoy would be awesome just so the playerbase gets more creative and starts doing more fanarts and all that kind of things. I think it is an important part of an MMO and Lost Ark lacks of it a little.

[@Oboro911]

Still dej game

[@boo5860]

it's crazy because when I look at steam I've got like 400hrs in this game but haven't felt much desire to go back after I quit. It just doesn't seem like I'll be doing anything different or more interesting if I go back. Just more of the same.

[@Moumszk]

i think i've played it until lvl 43 and i was SO bored. It was physically impossible to go on with it

[@MrLutharr]

i love this game (to a point) but the questing is awful. I can understand why someone would check out before it gets good.

[@m.h.4907]

The game is mediocre on so many levels it isn't even describable. There's a reason why it is more than dead

[@MrLutharr]

@@m.h.4907 yup a game with loads of people playing = dead. Seems something is dead, but it's not the game.

[@tightkitchen]

I’ve played this game from launch to Brel. Glad I quit. The grind was ridiculous. I’m too old for this sh@t. What I hate most is the gate keeping. I hate it because it’s necessary especially for people that already know the mechanics and just want to get the homework out of the way quickly.

[@leftrom9738]

26:53 One big mistake: The game is not _considered_ to be pw2, it IS p2w. I grinded hard when it was released, played around 8hrs/day for 3months, until I was burned out. I played my main, and 3alts funneling their mats to my main and joined a guild for the extra honing stuff buy. The amount of grinding (even with the bonus events) at higher levels is mind-blowing, the honing process is slow, the rng is atrocious and it hurts when honing fails. Without putting in some money, you will actually *understand* what gatekeeping means. You seem to brush it off quite easily, putting p2w in (almost) the last place, and briefly mention it. Major mistake.

[@Cuestrupaster]

Lost Ark seems soo cool, but just hearing the words: Gear Score(or any variation of it), Engravings, Gems, or the upgrading system that I forgot the name, and it reminds me why I stopped playing this game...

[@jayhub24]

Literally just downloaded this about to boot it up in a few hours and this drops - nice.

[@GiveMoneyToRandoms]

welcome

[@Hosenbund1]

predatory p2w game with mobile game mechanics. you guys make the gaming landscape worse by playing this and giving these greedy devs money.

[@GiveMoneyToRandoms]

@@Hosenbund1 the game is completely free 2 play , every update is free , if u play the game everyday for 2 hours you will be able to play everything in time I have 5out of 6 characters than can run the latest content without swiping once , and mechanics are the best on the market I played wow and ff you either never played the game or you did and it was to hard for you to start hating

[@apx3507]

You make the best videos I recently came back to Lost Ark and you are spot on brother.

[@rugbyf0rlife]

Got about 3k hours in the game and is hands down one of the best MMO experiences out there in terms of combat, raids and story. Pushing to be the first on a server to down a hellmode raid with a group you hand picked for weeks beforehands is an experience I will nnever forget. I had some amazing times, and some stressful times, but in the end, I will remember the game positively. What got me was the daily grind of 12 characters to keep up as one of the highest geared F2P gunslingers on EU. In the middle of preparing for Vykas hellmode, team drama and the unrelenting daily grind combined with getting an IRL girlfriend was too much, and I just quit. It's a shame I never got to do Brelshaza, as from before release that was what drew me to lost Ark in the first place, but oh well. In the absence of lost ark, I've doubled my income, set up 2 businesses and now live in a different country. Amazing what you can do when you free up 12 hours a day.

[@neverseed1]

who the F plays 12 characters daily? try 2-4 some time. it's much better

[@rugbyf0rlife]

Players at the top 5% of the playerbase. You need that many alts to gain gold and do increased runs. @@neverseed1

[@GrentonCasts]

Ngl i expected a very different direction with this video. I'm really happy you enjoyed your time back!

[@LuizRhetor]

Played for a whole year since launch. Goal was to beat Brelshaza/Abrelshud. Once I managed to beat Brelshaza Gate 6, which was one of the most epic gaming moment in my life - the Legion Raid is simply fantastic, especially the soundtrack, Astalgia of Phantasm - , the FOMO (fear of missing out) just overwhelmed me to the point I had to quit, kinda like a task-paralysis of sort. The burnout was simply too much. I didn't even played that much compared to more hardcore players, around 1426 hours, but the chore nature of dailies, which are the main way to progress in the game, made me have enough of it. I do miss the gameplay, it is just amazing. But the grind/FOMO and the awful community (overall) just keeps me away from it nowadays. Bunch of min/max elitists that don't allow you to join a raid simply because you don't have 1 to 4 percent more DPS thanks to builds diversity. They enforce blindly following the meta. And that DPS difference is not needed to clear the hardest content. Also, I got tired of having to reset a raid simply because a below average player didn't have the skills to run a high risk / high reward skill (Grudge) and died frequently, but still insisted on running it because it was meta., while it absolutely was not mandatory to clear the raid. At least on hard games like Sekiro, Touhou and Dark Souls I know the reset was my fault. On Lost Ark not only the majority of the time it was someone's elses fault, which isn't an issue in itself since everyone dies eventually, but it was because following the meta to dish out ~4% more DPS (IF the player managed to survive the whole fight that is) was more important than managing to survive "survivable oneshots" to actually learn the fight faster and sooner rather than later beat it with experience. The elitists play as if they're playing a minimum vitality Dark Souls build. Sure, eventually you'll learn how to perfectly roll every attack, but until then you will just die over and over again until they eventually, after tons of tries, can perfect the fight. On a singleplayer games there's no problem in doing that. On a multiplayer game, where you block other teammates' progression, you can bet it is a major problem.

[@Azuurinho]

yeah, thats trully not a lot compared to some ppl. i had 1.1k hours on Vykas release '-'

[@floridblade]

My experience of Lost Ark story: shift+G again and again → Oh I got stronger again.

[@Hydr312]

I play since release and combat, classes, cutsceens and raids are so much fun. Also the game is changing. Still fomo and gatekeeping are a big problem for new players

[@Hosenbund1]

predatory p2w game with mobile game mechanics. you guys make the gaming landscape worse by playing this and giving these greedy devs money.

[@DeezGamed]

@@Hosenbund1 you're an actual weirdo for looking for every positive comment on the game to type this same thing lol

[@quoctrungnguyen4553]

@@Hosenbund1 glad i have money and i fuking hate tab target combat

[@Hydr312]

@@Hosenbund1 Bro you never played the game I see. mobile game mechanics? what are you talking? Fun fact you know that mobile gaming market is way way bigger then pc and console market lol.

[@Hosenbund1]

Trash game players

[@guz2371]

Bro is on fire with all these uploads.

[@slextasy]

Every-time I see a video from Peon where he revisits an old game, I feel compelled to try it again... Gonna check out the Reaper, but I do miss my Sorc too

[@JettyG]

Coming from someone who has been playing the game consistently since release, Id reccomend new or returning players staying away from Reaper, Its by far the most gatekept class in the game due to being extremely squishy and more difficult to hold good DPS

[@hyun2989]

To add to what JettyG said, I recommend trying out soul eater that's coming out in a week, thematically close to the reaper but the class is far more forgiving and new player friendly (and does more dps too)

[@slextasy]

Thanks for that, Summoner?@@JettyG

[@slextasy]

Oh nice! Thanks for that!@@hyun2989

[@JettyG]

Yeah if you liked sorc than Id say summoner is a pretty good class to jump into on return, fairly easy and good fun @@slextasy

[@ryanc9876]

The legion commander raiding is what ultimately got a lot of my friends/people I played with to quit. They got stressed out at failing. Even that made me quit even though I wasn't being targeted by the one or two individuals who'd rage and flame. But I've come back to the game after almost a year of being away, and I decided to check out one of the LFG discords for my region and it's been a bit better. Sucks having to go outside of the game to find people to play with instead of just matchmaking for content that we're meant to repeat so often, but it is fun to do a true learning party. Gate 1 and 2 Brel went by super fast despite having someone who wasn't too interested in learning (he kept trying to say he had to attack instead of doing mechs) and no one showed that they were upset with him. We even did gate 3, which was far harder and managed to clear it. A bit hectic, but fun all the same. So yeah, I believe there's room for a lot of improvement, but if you can find some people, which I'm sure as a content creator you can, who won't be pissy if things don't go 100% right, it shouldn't be that bad. The game IS fun to play, just tough to learn unless you go out of your way to seek a learning environment. Do agree about the skipping animation on honing and how they can easily fix it. They have that option for a lot of other things now at least.

[@CCCPWarHammer]

hey man, as a DAY ONE SOLO- PUGGER, player and over 4.500 hours having played, with a roster of 19 characters, i can say the end review was pretty spot on. this video was solid GJ. i do enjoy the game also, side note, pheons will never be removed as it is intentional for profit to sum it up easy.

[@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA]

19 character roster is wild. hate when game's punish me for not having a 1 main that I put all my effort in.

[@Helreir]

They already changed i Pheons once, they can change it again

[@CCCPWarHammer]

@@CHIPICHIPICHAPACHAAPA I should note though, those 19 are not all active. It's just to much...I tried for like two weeks....it was wayyy to much work. Now they are benched chars never played unless I'm really bored... More so characters I wanted to see if I would like or not .I play 6-4 now...at 1580+ even 6 characters can be to much now ..

[@123mrtavsiti]

26:10 there is nothing wrong with that since there needs to be some high skill content in the game. One of the things that is killing Guild Wars 2 is that they aren't introducing rarely ever releasing hard content for the high end players anymore and are pandering to the casual audience for years now.

[@evil.valentine]

I wish MMOs would stop making mechanics that punish the whole raid for failure. If the only person getting punished is the player who made the mistake, people would be more willing to play with newer players.

[@ZechsMerquise73]

if the MMO is fun and not driven by grind mechanics they won't mind losing, because losing is part of the game. if losing prohibits acquisition of resources in an allotted time, it's kind of a job. that's a problem most MMOs have.

[@Long.MAX_VALUE]

The name picking for the new character had me laughing so hard 😂😂 love your videos, overall quality, editing, voice, humor - really enjoyable content every single time! 👍

[@RonyIsCool]

4:50 the feeling could come from the chaos dungeon changes. chaos dungeons are a lot faster now. a not so recent update (that also changed guaridans to 1 per day) made mobs spawn faster in chaos dungeons and that u can attack them immediately on spawn. also they have a bigger aggro range so they will basically run to you from every corner of the map. through this change chaos dungeons can be run in close to 2minutes compared to close to 4minutes before.

[@kermidiu4390]

Honestly, I LOVED Lost Ark - at first, but I just had to put it down because I didn't want to have to keep up with item level. And the game became more of a chore than something I did for fun.

[@JohnnyFiction]

Sadly a lot of eastern games don't get the fact that gigantic acid trip special moves that explode the entire screen is cool when you first see it, then it gets really old and annoying when you're just grinding eventually. When everything is giga damage lightshow, then in the end nothing is.

[@cozypandaa]

Ty for not being one of those people who reviews a game without going deeply into the core gameplay, you actually played all aspects of the game

[@andresmar2000]

Gotta say the leveling was some of the most boring experiences I've ever had with a MMO, literally made me feel nothing

[@ZechsMerquise73]

same. I fucking hated it. Apparently they sped the leveling up by 8x though.

[@jamiestwrt]

Yeah. Calling it trash is an insult to trash 🗑.

[@ubermaster1]

My main issue is that even with the head start servers, the endgame feels overwhelming as hell, I don’t mind the grind at all, but my god the amount of mats they shower you with is insane and I felt so bad constantly asking questions that I felt annoying

[@ravhannah]

My complain and reason for quitting has been the difficulty of honing and gatekeeping to experience latest content. To be accepted into latest content, you have to be a certain item level(honing), have level 8-9 gems, have title (10x clears), and have full level 3 set (lots of Kayangel clears). That means an insane amount of time playing just to get in a party to try the dungeon for the first time.

[@Menroth.]

Ah good old Lost Ark, I for one wont be missing it.

[@EnDegenerate]

surprised you were able to find a group to do the raids lol. Gate keeping in the game is nuts.

[@krumdark]

Don’t apply to groups with higher gear than yourself, and match with others around your own and you should face less gatekeep.

[@ForeverDunking]

guy applies to a full 1580 lobby LOS 30 with a 1520 with dd 18 OMG THE GATEKEEPING IS NUTS IN THIS GAME

[@BlingBoyOto]

@@krumdarkIf you do this you will end up with people on team who don't want to learn how to do the raid or they don't know English. That was the case for me back in the peak days making a party.

[@krumdark]

@@BlingBoyOto I assume if you’re finding the gatekeeping nuts, you’re probably squashed into that group of players as is who are inexperienced .. also there are people who boost their alts up to 1490 as that is basically the starting floor. If you think you’re experienced and deserve better, then make the parties yourself and pick and choose on your own.

[@Hosenbund1]

@@krumdark predatory p2w game with mobile game mechanics. you guys make the gaming landscape worse by playing this and giving these greedy devs money.

[@chaver28]

i got burnt out grinding for end game materials but even though i got burnt out i will always say that this is one of the best mmo's i enjoyed as a solo player :)

[@popeddy]

I went in blind and I loved the exploration and the overall game up until the raids. I dropped the game in an instant. Too bad there's no other way to progress with your gear than just raiding.

[@cyberyaya8483]

Ah playing this game at launch was something else. One the best experiences I have ever had, I never grinded a game so much. So many people playing, insane big community, all the maps full, people getting together, it was true great MMO experience. Everyone being excited for a new update, new dungeon and new bosses, discovering new things and having to learn the phases while communicating with others(while it had the downsides with toxic people and stuff, it was still fun sometimes.) It was also funny my friends going crazy how much I grinded and I already had like consisting 500 hours or so, playing every single day and not missing one. But sadly that things went downhill so fast, with bots taking over and it becoming more pay to win, the dev abandoning it for a while, no good updates and whatever else. Good times always come to end unfortunately. My last played is sep 27, 2022, but probably to get a reward or something, I probably really stopped playing before that.

[@JohnnyFiction]

This game had one of the most aggressive loss of players in gaming history, and the pay to win bs and egregious work that they call end game gives you a good reason why

[@joeb734]

Welcome back! Glad you're enjoying Lost Ark again.

[@DamonSun-hn7cn]

Yes, people who still playing this game: You absolutely deserve it :)

[@ZechsMerquise73]

amen

[@TheRaydiation]

games like this make me love Guild Wars 2, sure we aren't as polished or shiny BUT at least we have a soul.

[@vids4mee]

i remember redownloading the game and i instantly thought fuck that. I thought about the hours trying to learn new mechanics, get toxic groups, trying to find pugs and getting decline spammed... hard pass thanks. My immediate feeling was that the game is not designed for the average person, so the average person likely won't play it. When the first thing you're met with is a one time redeemable pass, it sort of feels generous but you're immediately presented with a tough choice where you need to actually know what you're doing, sort of at a time when you're least in the know. It also reminded me that if you want to play at a f2p level, you have no real agency in the game. I didn't get the vibes that the pay to win gear bullshit had gone, meaning i knew that i'd hit another hard wall eventually, and i'd be waiting on the generosity of the devs to allow me to progress again with another future pass, leaving me with a feeling of "why do I actually bother". Perhaps much of that is unfounded but when you've been burned pretty hard, and the first thing you're met with is a million ways to spend money, you can't help but feel like you're constantly being guided by dark patterns to waste your time so you're encouraged to spend it. Yeah, no thanks. I really don't get the vibe that i'm coming into an online world to hang out and enjoy myself, I get the feeling that i'm being funnelled through a rat maze and I just can't shake that.

[@Dramn_]

Dude the leveling and questing literally made me feel stupid. Like it was so disgustingly boring, braindead and monotonous that I actually could not think properly after a while - never in my life have I had a more life-sucking experience in a game. So instead I did PvP, but besides that; the farthest I got in the "story" was the "quest" where you are in a horrible instant-fail-state stealth mission. Like why? Why can they not make the combat (90% OF THE GAME) COMPLETELY BRAINDEAD easy? Edit: also holy fucking shit why do we have to click on ten thousand rewards

[@MrAnt-hh3bp]

Been holding on through the abuse this game put us gamers through for so long, but there is a limit to everything. Skipped a few weeks due to burnout and the insane gatekeeping prevented me from getting back in ever since. Everybody I started with quit along the way. A shame, really. It was a good game.

[@BlingBoyOto]

I played daily with full time job and was considered semi hardcore. Still locked out of doing anything even though I had the required Gear Score. I guess you're not allowed to be good with Enhanced Weapon Deadeye and should play one of the META classes.

[@Hosenbund1]

predatory p2w game with mobile game mechanics. you guys make the gaming landscape worse by playing this and giving these greedy devs money.

[@MrLutharr]

@@Hosenbund1 dig behind mommys sofa, maybe there is a few coins down there so you can play to. Scrub

[@DTreatz]

It's probably not the devs, it's their financier overlords I'm sure a dev doesn't want to see his hardworked get the fk monetized out of it ruining his game, especially working _years_ on it.@@Hosenbund1

[@danteafton4096]

"Sometimes you get hit by things that it looks like you're out of the telegraph" says TheLazyPeon in his 203 ms ping glory

[@ravenwinter6984]

Honestly, as a solo casual player and a "game-hopper" (I bounce from game to game a lot) I loved Lost Ark's story, progression, and no matter how much or how little time I spent on it, I felt like it was very enjoyable and worth my time. I definitely adore this game, it isn't perfect, but I've loved it ever since it first launched. :) (And I've played just about every MMO available lol)

[@ptahm1808]

The P2W only really applies to the MVP board at the end of a fight, IMO, or access the hardest content day 1, which the game doesn't force you to do (i.e. I still can't do Akkan Hard, but I won't be "late" for the next raid release by only doing Normal mode). With the amount of free passes and mats the game gives you, and if you are at least a semi-regular player, you'll reach the current content quickly and get gatekept only by toxic groups that you don't want to be in anyway. Find a group to play with that has the same goals and pace as you do, and those issues are less prominent.

[@fruitkun]

The chaos dungeons were actually improved. Faster spawn times and more aggressive mobs make it around 20% to 40% faster

[@nobobonobo]

They still haven't removed that garbage?

[@ywleayn4129]

that garbage give you tons of silvers and shards, if they remove it you have to buy shards at AH and silver with gold :xdd @@nobobonobo

[@Bubble_Fett]

Fantastic video! As always! I've recently returned to Lost Ark and really enjoying it - again! Recently experiencing the Legion Raids as well. My first ever Legion Raid experience being Vykas HM (a group of friendly players took me and some others through a teaching raid) and it was terrifying but incredibly fun and very satisfying learning the mechanics! Oh and bobas, of course. Lost Ark is such a pretty game in general. I don't mind the random questing as everything is so pretty to look at. I agree the cutscenes are phenomenal, too! I hope you'll continue playing!

[@gabrielcat72]

Day #1 player here. The most FUN I've had in this game ( and in ALL GAMES ) was the PRE-google era. Where tonza of secrets and easter eggs could only be found through socializing in the game / exploration. Lost ark is no exception. My first raids, I went in ''blind'' , which is how it was intended to be experienced I believe. Whenver i watch the koreas prog a new raid for the first time, i share the excitement of dying a thousand times but learning something each time. It's exhilirating. I would like to see more practice modes ( they've added some, but not for every raid / every mechanic ) because raid anxiety is a real thing. People feel all this pressure to know all this stuff but they were never meant to have to know anything more than what the game tells you. Some mechanics are meant to be puzzles. The pleasure is not in the answer, but finding it rather.

[@kyle784]

Have you tried doing blind runs in your region? They are exactly that and a lot of fun to me.

[@stylec0]

YESSSS I've been waiting for this one for so long

[@ZDY66666]

we need guild wars 3 to save the MMO space at this point... GW2 still has the most fun question with dynamic questlines, the maps are always changing etc.

[@Hosenbund1]

save it? there are great mmorpgs out there.. at least for me mainly playing FFXIV, BDO and OSRS

[@Shibby]

Day 0 player here. Still playing on and off. Would love less RNG in honing, more material gains, and continued reduction in “homework” and single person Raid wipes (make the game more new player friendly).

[@Werdumed]

The western release was one of the greatest things I've experienced in gaming, all of you assholes in EU/Moonkeep, I miss you but not the grind

[@senjusan6359]

Those new servers give you jump start to gear score 1350 or something like this. If you didn't want to go through boring quests you should make character there although you wouldn't be able to PvP with anyone outside those jump servers from what I know

[@GamingDualities]

isnt the whole point of boosting so people can pvp and have fun immediately?

[@ZechsMerquise73]

@@GamingDualities pretty sure it doesn't have gear score in pvp.

[@kynatara]

Without account-wide collectibles i would never play on a new server...

[@maminjooo]

pvp is only thing thats shared between all servers

[@Joe-fb9ns]

its 1415 and u can do that on any server also jump start servers has many issues bigest being bearly anyone plays on them

[@iceflower7004]

That comment you made about having a training mode with ai teammates would actually be the most helpful thing in this game. People would gatekeep way less if they knew there was a way for i level people to actually practice

[@Scyths1]

My advice : Unless you don't mind the never ending daily and weekly extremely repetitive grinds like nearly every other Korean MMO out there, then stay clear of this one. It has the best combat but it also has the worst monetization and the more you reach higher gear levels, the more apparent it becomes that Lost Ark wants you to either play a single class for your entire time playing the game, or wants you to grind 24/7 with every single one of your characters to keep up with the absurd requirements and extreme RNG. Try it out, but don't expect much because at the end of the day this game isn't made for the casual players but for the top 0.1% super big spenders.

[@windtaker11]

Can't casual users ever do top content? Isn't billing user a billing for faster growth than casual users? And does every dungeon get easier if users just charge?

[@Scyths1]

@@windtaker11 -- It's not like that. What casual players will struggle doing is enjoying the last few content with multiple classes. If you plan on ever playing a single class then playing casually would get you at the very last content because there is enough free shit given in the game to boost your main character there even if you're not swiping your credit card. But here is my big warning to you : Don't ever have a thought like "Hmm that class looks cool, should I try it out?". Just don't, because it'll make you quit the game faster than anything else. Paying makes your alts be on par with your main or very close to, that's all it does. It makes you enjoy more classes and you're not stuck with one. That is of course if you don't mind doing Chaos Dungeons, Guardians raids and all the other daily and weekly grinds with every single one of your characters to try to get gear levels on your alts.

[@Zofiuwu]

as a player who start pretty late in the game (doing mi first playthrough from lvl 1-50 when vykas hard was latest raid) but plays it consistenly till the day with no fomo problems or something else the only recomendation i can give to new players are this: 1) DONT BE AFRAID TO TALK WITH OTHERS xD i know its sounds dumb but LA its an MMO, a social game where finding people to play its fundamental, find a guild that has something in common with you. Usually there are people willing to teach some raids in "Learning parties" 2) Be willing to spend time on learning the game cores mechanichs. as the video says now new players are put directly into endgame so their exposure to the early concepts of mechanics in this game (like tier 1 and 2 raids) its 0 so if you dont want to get frustrated and make other people frustrated learn basic stuff like staggers check and stagger in general, destruccion, counters, frontal and back atacks so when you are in new raids you hear stuff like "in 102x theres a stagger check" you know what it means and what to do. A lot of new players enters the game expecting other to carry and they just want to mush some buttons while playing (its not a bad if you are going to be chill but in this game teamwork its pretty necesary especially in latestcontent) 3) (optional) Dont be a metachaser, in my experience everyone who seeks the best class in the game ends up changing main due to balancepatchs xd 4) Before creating a new character SEARCH THE GAMEPLAY OF IT, sadly the preview in lost ark character creation its pretty far from content reality it shows the most pretty visual skills that not always are the ones that you are going to use or see in any guides. So if you want to know how 1 class plays in particular search in YT "CLASS X brelshaza raid gameplay" (for example) and see for yourself, even if you dont understand everything thats happening at least you are seeing real gameplay. Why this its important because some benefits like powerpasses and Mokoko express events are locked in the character you used it so if you regrets your decision you gets fucked xD i dont think anything else on the top of my mind to says, srry for the giant text and the basic english its not my native language. If anyone wants to ask something feel free to ask im not an expert but in the server i play people were really kind to me and make me enjoy the game a lot so i want to give back the same uwu currently im playing on South America Arthetine server. (remember you can do raids with other players from other servers but not other players from other REGIONS)

[@PauloHenrique-ms6ow]

i love the game!! the combat.. the graphics.. is amazing... too bad that the end game feels like a job....

[@1felllikeaduck305]

@TheLazyPeon 19:54 Actually they are planning to do just that, so new players can learn the raids peacefully with both Support and Dps, but we dont know when its gonna be released.

[@marahitano123]

There isnt a better game than Lost Ark when it comes to gameplay, classes, combat and Raids. Too bad it requires to treat it as a second job.

[@berreboswinkel4508]

Deathboi523 has insanely good guides on all the updated fights! Cannot recommend him enough. I was a returning player(quit after argos 1380ish). His guides helped me in the past 2 weeks to clear everything including Brel g3. I’m 1520 now making loads of new friends having a great time. Sure some raids wipe but there’s plenty of good ppl around that don’t complain after 1-2 wipes. Good to see you’re in the same boat!

[@lunattyyk]

Main issue is that its almost impossible to catch up / come back to the game. Everybody knows the raids, you don't, would need to find a teaching guild. You pretty much cant catch up on cards which basicaly locks you out of public groups and limits you to play with the guild(you will be a burden anyway).

[@combatsv]

There's literally card sets for new people that were added, lobbies with ''prog title'' for people that are learning the raid and Mokoko Express rewards that give tons of sh*t to lvl up..

[@jackalo34]

@@combatsv There is indeed a new card set but not having LOS still makes you stand out as a new player n possibly overlooked as dps. Also, there being teaching grps doesnt discount his point about needing to find one or a guild that would take you.

[@combatsv]

@@jackalo34 there are few card sets that perform similar to LOS 18 which isn't crazy hard to obtain for a regular player. Most groups only request general knowledge about the raid (video) (images with mechs)... Impossible to catch up is BS.. they literally give free stuff all the time

[@jackalo34]

@@combatsv Similar is still not the best. Some ppl gatekeep simply bc ur not using the best card set which makes you a newer player more likely to mess up in their eyes judt like how a lot look at roster level similarly. Also, as someone who wants to learn the raid, you still gotta join learning grps so idk why you added the part about just needing to know mechs from watching a video/guide. If you join a non learning run n make like 1 mistake your liable to be kicked so its safer to join a grp where everyone or most are learning so understand mistakes will be made a bit more. I say this as someone who has been on both sides of the situation when I was learning raids I'd missed n watched players get overlooked bc they didnt have los or lwc minimum.

[@jackalo34]

@@combatsv also I never said it was impossible to catch up but op said it pretty much is with card sets specifically and that part is pretty true with how RNG getting the bis sets are.

[@Y-sq3xz]

Remarkable that you never really got into FFXIV, but somehow manage to enjoy this game’s cringe story.

[@SubMischief]

Ff14 is cringe played through hevansward twice any game that sucks for 200 plus hours till you supposedly get to something good just sucks lost ark is fun from the beginning can't say the same of ff14

[@excia7geness]

Great point all around...one of the reason i keep playing is because the developer have proven that they listen to the players feedback and also AGS has been really improving their communication and bring qol updates at the earliest

[@ZechsMerquise73]

I was hoping you'd play a level 1 character and see that by level ~10, there's so many bots (last time I played) that it's almost impossible to see your character.

[@Adrian-ep4qm]

When was the last time you played?

[@fuckzaza]

that changed already some time ago

[@ZechsMerquise73]

@@Adrian-ep4qm I think most people who had a similar experience with any game would never play it again. I've never seen a game with botting so bad that they form rivers in all the paths.

[@painso2539]

@@ZechsMerquise73 you didint answer the question....

[@Im_dsr]

never go near wow my guy@@ZechsMerquise73

[@LottyLettuce]

To explain the guides not matching up to the actual game: Over the past few months they have been working on drastically reducing the time and amount of homework you need to do on a daily/weekly basis. This included removed gates 2 and 5 from brelshaza to make it a 4 gate raid. They also removed a gate from vykas and a raid called kayangel, a 1540 item level dungeon. It's all a good start but there is still a ways to go. Your idea of making tutorial raids with AI to teach you the mechs is a fantastic idea that would really help. Because no matter how much you watch videos the best way to learn is from experience, and nowadays its nearly impossible to get learning parties without already knowing people to help you out.

[@spardacusyt]

Lost Ark marked the end of my interest for Korean MMOs. They're atrocious

[@DerGummiBaer]

so do you still have to play the game with 10 chars at once daily...., i wanna play the game so HARD again, but ONLY with 1 char... not 1000000

[@sammo6458]

for some reason the anxiety i get from raiding in this game is unparalleled and i just cant do it, if they made solo progression i would come back in a heart beat

[@BackFromPurgatory]

I haven't played in forever, but I feel this, it's the reason I quit. The amount of times I got chewed out for failing a mechanic instead of anyone helping me understand it was insane. I had so many groups that would just vote to abandon as soon as the group wiped, or even as soon as a single player died. It made it incredibly difficult to learn anything, and made matchmaking incredibly stressful... And this was near launch, when you'd think people would be more open to people learning, so I can't imagine how bad the gatekeeping is now. It is legitimately the only thing that keeps me from playing it again, which pains me a lot, because I LOVE the combat and the boss encounters.