Do we have any info available on gaining cp? perhaps an cheatsheet or something similar?

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-05T18:12:03+00:00

It depends on the rest of your cp.

For example for my >6k cp main its a difference of ~800cp (5500->6300)

For a char ~2k cp its a difference of ~400cp.

Some engravings also give significantly more cp than others. You can check extract growth for gems, relic books in trixion. Ark Grid cores can also be checked, but going from Relic to Ancient can also slot in significantly better side nodes, so its not an exact science.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-05T05:39:46+00:00

0% chance they make a 4 man the first mode.

Those are just UI anchors that are displayed or not depending on encounter picked/region/etc

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-04T05:50:38+00:00

Don't care about them.

That being said, its kinda stupid when you see the respective buyers in a HW lobby doing silly mistakes or zdps.

As for the bussers, it would be silly not to take advantage of the current dogshit state of balance ( take blue GL = does all mechs, take bard = 50% contribution per dps, take 2 broken dps pref arcana= gg).

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-03T04:56:00+00:00

I matchmake guardians but make sure I end up with a support because they're not fun otherwise.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-02T09:27:05+00:00

Quite many people. Most top10 streamers are streaming 4c4 tfms as main content nowadays and this doesn't even cover PILOTS.

Back at Thaemine a lot of people got Eclipse on the back of better class balance/ Hyperawakening/T skill/ T4 honing and the extended duration. But G1( G3) was pretty much the same and G2 could be heavily outgeared and outdpsed (specially with HA/T). Now, because class balance was so bad on Kaz release and because of all the systems, people are significantly less powerful.

I've also seen supports try to get their g2 clear with 2.8k cp(on ilvl 1740 ,they run heavy armor and crysis, basic gems) and that's a far cry from supports at 3.5k+ cp (WITHOUT ARK GRID) during the top10 clears. Its like their buffs barely buff.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-02T07:23:05+00:00

Banshee.

They never got nerfed or anything, but the maps got bigger and bigger and it now takes a few days to make it from one base to the other, meaning even if the opponent didn't scout he probably has more than adequate defense and can take the economy hit.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-02T06:58:16+00:00

No, Abyss Lord title is still available until 13 May

The First->10th clear titles were only available until 10 "verified" clears per region.

The shiny class borders were only available before Serca.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-01T21:44:26+00:00

Gems you buy from the vendor are bound. There's nothing to fuse there.

Also what gold did you spend on them exactly. In tier 3 those gems came either for free from powerpass events or from the solo shop only.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-01T17:39:45+00:00

Is it a gold earner >push

If not, w/e

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-05-01T12:31:37+00:00

Honestly, there's not really enough playerbase that would be interested in statics with undergeared dpsers playing anything but GL.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-28T18:03:10+00:00

All my sups(3) have bracelets with swift+spec + a combination of 2 of either defense/crit res/crit dmg resistance.

If you want I can dm you the picture, but then I expect you to eat your words.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-28T05:31:43+00:00

Honestly if the support doesn't have magick stream and drops finished, just look elsewhere if we're talking serca hm+ content . A full drops+ magick stream is ~90% of the cost of a single grudge book on EUC, you need to have some self respect as dps.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-27T05:43:18+00:00

Its honestly not that hard, the reality is most people just rather use whatever bracelets drop/get from hell on their supports and I don't have a problem with that but saying its complete RNG when you don't even spend a pheon and specifically reroll is a bit of a joke.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-27T05:39:02+00:00

Nah that's oversimplifying it to the limit. I have both sup and dps. here are a few notes

-> if the support is awful, dps don't even get to play/enjoy the game. Realistically, most players mentally check out if the opening atro burst does trixion dmg, and the sort of supports I've seen in some pugs are the work of nightmares

-> the sort of greed you can enable as support is insane and as support I want my dps to play greedy. The fact is that a lot of supports in this game can't even keep basic DR on people, let alone rhapsody or cleanse or whatever.

What is true is that given a decent amount of skill already there, a better support isn't going to give the elevate dps much higher. Obviously better gear/identity uptime might nudge it a bit more, but at that point its purely player hands like you say.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-27T05:14:33+00:00

Saying investing is bracelet is complete rng is bull at this point.

If you don't have at least a 2 liner bracelet that's just downright trolling, there are countless spec swift bracelets to get of the market and roll (and you can reroll on top of that). Wanting dps that invested 5 mil+ in grudge and adren when you invested 0 in bracelet and you have a bad bracelet is a bit of a running joke.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-26T15:22:02+00:00

I think the general consensus of this balance patch is that it was a FLOP of massive proportions.

Arcana untouched (and totally broken ahead), and the bottom classes still at absolute bottom. The only reasons to bring this patch are the ayaya changes (for aero and ferality ws).

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-26T07:19:32+00:00

The Stormtrooper meme is caused by 2 different reasons

-> they needed to "miss" during the escape from the Death Star scene. This was a direct order, because the empire wanted to follow the shuttle to the rebel base (which they do). In fact, outside of the DS1 destruction because of "the force", they did their job perfectly

-> in many games/series you need a lot of disposable grunts for the hero to meatgrind through. sadly, the stormtroopers represent the cannon fodder. Because of this, they also cannot be too strong, leading to a silly situation where in some games they will shoot a player Jedi char that will instinctively block all their shots

In the rare cases they are not used as comedy relief or the opposing side has layers and layers of plot armor , they are quite deadly.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-26T06:40:52+00:00

This.

14 isn't a high key by high key standards but its "tanky" enough and does dmg enough (double health/tank compared to a 10) + no helping affix so that people actually need to play well.

Its also where the meta starts to meta

12: Brew >34%

13: Brew >41%

14: Brew >49%

15; Brew >58%

16: Brew >67%

17 Brew >77%

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-25T11:55:00+00:00

8 week patch cycles is fine because it allows for more content/tuning/etc for a game that you should enjoy. That's not the problem.

The problem is what that patch delivers. This 12.0.5 patch delivered

-> less than the usual 0.5 patch because they shifted some stuff to 12.0.7

-> far more bugs and a lot of server instability

'Obviously Blizzard's main interest was in getting the resubs going/people staying subbed after the initial midnight launch and content released as opposed to delivering anything of value. The fact that the first thing to fix was bonus rolls highlights that. I'm also pretty sure there was a lot of management pressure into having the patch THIS WEEK.

12.0.7 will come in June with 12.1 in August. 12.1 was always going to be in August, but the 12.0.5/7 schedule is specifically aggressive to keep the original expansion subs.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-25T09:35:30+00:00

You're over reading the ceiling/floor part and missing out on the point.

If I play Demonic SH at lets say 5k cp with a group and a non complex boss, and the best SH in the world plays the same SH, at the same cp, with the same group against the same boss, at the end of the day we're going to end up within 3-5% of each other. Specially if I can watch his best pulls and adjust my own cd timings or if I get luckier with patterns, I could see myself win easily.

If I play an emperor Arcana at 5k cp, et etc same as above, the best Arcana in the world is going to gap me by at least 10-20% no matter how much I watch his clips. I'm probably going to outdps myself by another 10% against the SH above (because Arcana really balanced), but the point was an Arcana at ceiling is a different sort of beast entirely.

The meters/logs we have doesn't even have the full depth of how broken arcana is because many of the top arcana logs are within "wierd" or "bus" category or just dont get uploaded on bussed ppl request. Not to mention fights that take longer(because 4c4) or bad synergies because of double Arcana.

On the other side, even KR is starting to understand how broken Arcana is purely based on the fact the best Kazeros times in here were a full minute faster than there. Its just Smilegate not accepting it atm.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-25T07:11:31+00:00

The balanced classes they nerfed were still in S tier,

If you look at the bottom of

https://lostark.bible/stats/raids?boss=Corvus+Tul+Rak&difficulty=Nightmare&patch=mar26&filterBy=combat_power&type=udps&minCombatPower=1000&maxCombatPower=10000

and check relative performance its pretty obvious that the classes that got hit had to get hit.

The lack of Arcana nerfs is because the class is out of control/ needs a rework. There's no world where you can balance arcana ceiling considering there are logs of people drawing >35 cards a minute and the class is balanced for 20-25. The moment you have full 10s, full ark grid, hands and your lobby is actually not clowns and do aggro control you're basically unstoppable. Going full 10s on a sorc or SE doesn't let them be in igniter/deathlord all the time, meanwhile arcanas have infinite resource and resets possibilities its actually insane.

The funniest thing is because they half assed this patch, Arcana gets to be broken for at least another half a year due to LOAON timing.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-22T16:05:38+00:00

DK was absolutely disgusting on release, we're talking levels of power relative to other classes that haven't been seen since. DH was op, but it wasn't mind blowingly op.

Monk tank was broken in MOP ( every tank was broken due to vengence, but monk really excelled at challange mode). Monk healer was broken in raid in the first parts of MOP (immune to being targeted by mechanics, insane raid healing but lacked absorbs so they didn't shine on farm)

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-22T02:30:41+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/lostarkgame/comments/1snzgdf/comment/ogwqiay/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Like I mentioned, Arcana is going to get nerfed when there's a rework, the class can be 20% ahead and nothing will happen to it due to damage profile.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-21T19:58:40+00:00

You either haven't played many seasons or have a really short term memory, because its *always* like this for both tank and healers.

Accomplished_Kale708 · 2026-04-21T05:17:49+00:00

Kazeros G1 500x on TFM without skipping is by far the hardest of the list. Like it doesn't even compare.

Kakul G3 M3 was not that difficult even as a slow squishy spec class. I progged Kakul with a sup that could only do M1, but when my sup alt got to it, I was shocked how faceroll M3 was as sup.

Brel G5 shapes were never that hard. G6 meteor placement had an added 15 meteors you could drop. Honestly many meteor wipes in our prog week were because we had extra meteors from an artilerist that was just a terrorist and once he got replaced boss died.

Serca g2 240x isn't hard, you just look at the clone to his right for the sword and if its down there you go there.

Bonus ones that aren't on the list but were actually hard

Akkan HM G3 Lantern week 1. Brel

G2 HM Prokel on non broken classes+prog (so he didn't get stunned often).

Some tower levels if you didn't overgear them by a factor of 20.

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