My Lost Ark Experience

[@SaIem000]

I remember seeing your character on my server like a month ago questing through Elgacia and I was surprised that you were still actively playing :D Im looking forward to more lost ark content!

[@DeRobertC]

Glad to see you making videos again! We actually talked about this back in the day but the combination of vertical progression only getting harder and gatekeeping becoming worse I just got turned off the game by the second time I had to take a week break for a vacation. Smilegate was known for following through on promises but people seem to forget how they promised to slow down on vertical progression and work on horizontal content after KR players were complaining about hard vertical. A few months later some KR players complained about lack of content and they went right back to vertical. I was hoping there would be a vast amount of horizontal content by now so I could come back to try the game. Now I'm back on BDO for the foreseeable future. Also you did touch on "whale brain" which is so damn common and makes it feel so much worse back when I had to wait hours in party finder. All these gear score monkeys gatekeeping the hell out of everyone despite they themselves not being able to do the mechs. Hopefully they scale down the vertical and introduce some horizontal so I can feel comfortable coming back.

[@PlasmoX]

I really enjoyed your take on this. I do find a lot of people are not willing to put their ego aside to just do the mechanics so we can at least clear the gate in a timely fashion. I find a lot of the stagger mechs in the game are fine as long as you are willing to hold skills specifically for that pattern or use a ww. I laughed a bit on your take on colour blindness as a barrier for doing some of the mechs. This is not an excuse. The game has other identifiers outside of colour. For g3 brel geometry, red is a perfect circle around the boss, blue is always double circles on a X pattern, and yellow is a single squashed circle. They have this for G1 vykas as well, where there is a circle indicator on one of the cardinal locations on the gate indicating which one it is. This matches the orb that you're kiting too.

[@raymondhoho]

"The trade merchant will leave quite soon."

[@thellamasrevenge]

I will say, in defense of the color blind argument, the color blind mode in accessibility is kind of iffy in this game. I do stars in my static & I'm color blind, but my raid members call out the color for me. The color blind option for my type of color blindness made all of my demonic skills the same color as the pink/purple/red/whatever vykass mechs such as pools, chains, explosions, etc. I've had it off ever since because it made learning that raid so much harder for me, because i couldn't see what people were talking about. Nowadays, I don't play shadowhunter as much & I understand the game better than I did back then, so it doesn't really impact me nearly as much as it once did, but shapes is one of the few things I genuinely can't see & need the other person to communicate with me on because if she holds up blue, It blends in for me and i straight up can't see it lol

[@phelesmephisto7981]

It feels like the person who came up with the meta of "solving" colour blind issues in games by applying a global filter to the whole game never spoke to a colour blind person in their life. I've always found that these options usually make visibility even worse -- on top of changing the art of the whole game, which nobody wants -- and you get developers ans players telling you that creating colour-coded mechanics is fine because they already have colour blind options. All I'd want is to be able to change the colour of important markers. Big sad.

[@Auururu]

sounds like it's time for the BDO comeback

[@welkingunther4298]

I think the main reason why I thought valtan was fair even for new players was because the good players could still perform and potentially clutch/carry the fight. A player messing up/falling off/missing counter won't cause the raid to wipe for everyone. No one's fun is hampered. And honestly, being the only one alive for his 'ghost phase' is pretty fun. Future raids just turned into knowledge checks that impact everyone.

[@YukishiroDHarrown]

I totally agree with you for Valtan and Vykas Legion Raid have fair mechanic and pattern but for Crown, Brel and after Brel is not fair for me. Only one problem in this LOA for me is "One mistake it wipe entire raid" it make everyone in community become toxic and gatekeeper even you learn much and can solve all mechanic because many mechanic in this game it like final exam but one person fail can made everyone in that class fail too and you will waste in game time for legion raid and not have time to explore for horizontal content

[@rc8929]

Kyangle is closer to Valtan/Vykas where the only mechanics that require all players alive is early in the fight and are fairly easy (lasers 4th gate at 140 bars). But all the criticisms of the game fairly spot on. The way the game is designed it creates a toxic environment due to massive vertical content and legion raids being very hard for beginners. Even now, playing since launch, I am lacking in BiS cards, and lvl9+ gems which is a perpetual problem that only a reset or redesign (read nerf hp pools of later bosses) will fix it.

[@juicyjewbjewbs5595]

Totally agree with your perspective about the trivial mechanics. I personally think the issue is the coordination required to avoid these mass wipe mechanics. It just creates a toxic environment when you're stuck repeating it and there's no communication apart from salty comments/statements from the team.

[@petergonzalez9943]

On reset day I run thru all the gold earning & endgame raids with my main and the log off til next reset day and rinse & reset. That is Lost Ark in a nutshell. It's a one day game.

[@chrisjo9840]

15:05 very minor correction: you get 3 chances now (used to be 2) and it's RBG, not RGB 25:25 i agree completely, it's a shame smilegate thinks boosting ilvls up to brel is beneficial to new players.. i started last december with the 1445 power pass and it was perfect. forced me to learn legion raids one at a time at ilvl, each first clear was a huge milestone in itself that provided an immense sense of accomplishment, now new players get to play lobby simulator and "chill reclear" jail 31:50 you hit my biggest gripe of the game: gatekeeping. i dont blame the players for it, it's an issue smilegate doesn't seem to know how to address. there's simply too much homework to do, and each wipe, especially for the longer gates, is too time-consuming to give any potential agents the benefit of doubt think kayangel gate 3 rings mech got it right - instead of insta wipes would prefer bosses heal back up and repeat failed mechs, so if you continuously fail mechs the raid eventually wipes from attrition/berserk timer

[@suiko4399]

this video should get more views ❤

[@anon3118]

i think guild wars (1 and 2) is the best MMO story, but I haven't played FF. I definitely enjoyed lost ark's story when I played during release. Its way better than bdo lol

[@s.a4034]

I really surprised by rowen story quality , im sure thats work of a (or a team of) pro writers.

[@bryanmoyna9715]

The ilvl gatekeeping design is an infinite carrot on a stick, i completed my objectives in 2 months and quit the game, then came back tried pvp for 2 weeks or so, played the market making massive profit then quit forever. I cannot deal with the ilvl BS and RBG on top of RNG on top of RNG, its a waste of time and soulcrushing but i think the worst part of it all is the lack of a real social system in the game, this is a single player game IMHO and people who stay are people who rather play alone and only go multiplayer when theyre forced to, which creates a lone wolf community and if thats the case why would i stay here instead of playing, way better, single player games? when an MMO turns into a solo experience, well i have to ask myself, why am i playing this? And 10 times out of 10 the answer is "i dont know" then quit. Made my own guild from the beginning, got to 52 or so members, i actively tried to recruit social people, not forcing them to play together but rather expecting people interested on making the journey together, of the 52 only 6 to 8 players bothered to at least speak, and we played together some times, that was the best part of the game for me, my memories, but some quit, some went afk for the same reasons i stated before, this game is soulcrushing to me. Oh, and i did take care of my guild, i kicked a lot of people who were not social, ghosts and AFKers, i even kicked my ol pals once they quit the game, i tried to create a place for people to communicate and cooperate, even made a discord despite not liking it, but man this game is not made for social people, the irony...an MMO for single players X_D. Without people and wit ha soul crushing environment i just cant, i played BDO and i think BDO is way better than Lost Ark, not by much but yeah, not as depressing. P.S: We were high ilvl players, accepted, helped and had no problem accepting people with lower ilvl. I was on the top 5 ilvl of the guild and we could do high-end content. The guild itself was leveling real well and it was worth joining. Its not like i had a guild nobody would want to join, problem was i didnt wanted ghosts in the guild and made sure to kick them ASAP and still failed to find people. In short, i wanted people, not players.

[@Pekins]

Vindictus 2 any time now....

[@Wenedi]

The combat and legion raids are great. The life skills are a good start that needs development. The time gating is ridiculous and should be removed. The variety of endgame activities is ridiculously small and many things get boring quickly. The PvP is dead. Gatekeeping is ridiculous... That's just imo though

[@pootie3181]

You posted a g2 mvp screen. LOL. Man is doing prokel and he's like dang I can't believe you guys didn't do any damage. LOL

[@ShuffleAssi]

Good review, loving the game a lot as it is. Still looking forward that the crybabies receive more love with upcoming updates regarding the so called "homework". We gonna see, I often see a lot of new players but veteran players need to assist them and help them - showing them the ways. I do love to help new players, at least informing them what they need to do to progress or telling them how some mechanics in raid works. Imo every veteran players need to help newer players though, people tend to quit quite soon if they do not receive some love :)

[@maxpayne2327]

Alote players left this game

[@brodqga]

lost what?

[@steelbeams468]

TLDR: I have no hands and don’t want to wipe and prog with other new players.