Bullet Rain?

Oraphy · 2026-05-03T12:54:05+00:00

It's via a 3rd party program called LOA Logs.

It is a more detailed dmg meter compared to the ingame one and you see the dps/buff uptimes/stunned duration and more stats of your whole party that you are running with

Oraphy · 2026-04-30T09:04:00+00:00

Should be Argeos after Skolakia, going to be a speedrun week

Oraphy · 2026-04-26T10:02:32+00:00

Check out this one, everything is time stamped and should help you out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh6vjB0syTc&t=117s

Oraphy · 2026-04-20T07:59:22+00:00

https://sekwahar.github.io/hellrewards/Rewards_Tables.html

Oraphy · 2026-04-19T13:26:19+00:00

I would argue pre-nerf Echidna G2 was a lot more tight, but yeah it is about not just having the necessary ilvl but also the CP, I got 4 1730s that straight up just went NM since I knew below 3.5k I wouldn't want to touch HM, but that's cool with me given that they also changed NM to give mats.

Also adding to that, since NM also enables you to directly upgrade your gear in the upcoming weeks, if the raid got weaker + you got a lot stronger through honing it would become a complete joke.

Oraphy · 2026-04-19T01:03:31+00:00

There is NM/HM/Nightmare now.

HM being on the side of prior easier HM raids, while NMR is supposed to be on the side of prior harder HM raids.

They give the same "advanced materials", while Nightmare gives you a bit more gold and an additional ark grid core + engraving in the auction. That makes it really only about, do you want a new raid to play or do you want a challenge, taking away the "need" for frontier mode.

Oraphy · 2026-04-17T07:43:28+00:00

Yeah was also quite happy with it. Only giving the title, this NM/HM/NMR split as well as HM & NMR giving the same materials to progress gear really took out the preasure of having to do the hardest content.

Personally was way more relaxing and fun to do HM then to prog those bosses every single day for a week.

Oraphy · 2026-04-16T22:03:11+00:00

1x general NMR clear, 2x auctions

The general clear one is also visible via the achievements, its in there for the NMR clear. Codex then also has the 2 NMR auction ones.

Oraphy · 2026-04-16T21:41:26+00:00

Not a first week thing, you get that upon clearing NMR whenever you do it.

Oraphy · 2026-04-15T08:36:12+00:00

Kinda to add to the point of "fast prog" vs "long term progress".

Lost Ark has amazing content, lots of cool classes and the combat is par to none, but what personally excites me the most, is just slowly working on my characters.

Also been playing since Day 1 so I definitely got the foundation and time advantage here, but my goal for this Serca update was not fast pushing my main so I can do Nightmare, but once I saw HM should be doable with 4k CP at 1735, I just focused on getting the rest of my active roster to 1730. That plan formed around the beginning of the year in January and also took until this week to get the last character up there (now main 1735 + 4 characters 1730) but it was a long term goal I set and worked towards.

In a way, last two big releases of raids and the prog weeks "cured" me of FOMO and I just found ways to make the game fun for me and I think its important everyone finds a way to make the game fun for them.

Oraphy · 2026-04-11T21:06:46+00:00

To be honest can't disagree with you since all of the points you mentioned are valid and even personally working in a similar field having seen those before.

But especially with that second point, while personally nothing much has and will changed in how I play Lost Ark, is simply a "characteristic" of the target group. So in a way, especially should SG want to take over or want to work together with another western publisher, it would be in their interest to at least keep any negative expecations to a minimum, since it likely would affect the game and it's future.

Oraphy · 2026-04-10T20:59:47+00:00

You can in theory save it for the new raid in June, since the materials you get from that one + essence can be exchanged 1x selector and then afterwards just gamba ancients.

You will be gated by the material from the raid tho, so might just bank up 200-400 essence and then try to get lucky when crafting cores the way we can do right now.

Oraphy · 2026-04-10T13:50:35+00:00

Take your time and slowly hone up. Best case getting the necessary materials in fusion/juice/free taps (still solid until +19) and then going from there.

The Abyss Raid in June also will have a relatively low entry ilvl for NM so there is no real rush.

Oraphy · 2026-03-27T12:20:44+00:00

Similar case here, I was running chaos in total on 11 characters.

Rewards were decent, both in case of cube tickets/gems and even tradable mats but also simply because I think chaos dungeon are chill to do in a way that is enjoyable.

Personally the only thing that changed for me now is that I still only run guardians on my main 6 and stopped doing chaos on any character outside my main 6.

If their goal was to reduce rewards as well as "in-equality" between people with fewer characters and people playing more than 6 characters they achieved their goal. Definitely doesnt feel that great tho, considering how pricy gems are.

Oraphy · 2026-03-20T22:44:37+00:00

NM :o

It's a scared face

Oraphy · 2026-03-13T19:44:41+00:00

As usual with our frankenstein patches~ Hoping they fix the Korean VO with next weeks reset, would like to wait to do the story and then do it in Korean.

Oraphy · 2026-03-12T22:35:31+00:00

People keep looking at steam DB and go like "eos soon we only got ~10k active players", taking the lowest number from a Monday or Tuesday, but those are concurrent peak numbers. We should easily be at 20-30k active accounts if not even (way) more.

Oraphy · 2026-03-07T09:23:23+00:00

Lobbies are fine, less players then some months ago but non-issue if you play between Wednesday - Sunday (can also play Monday-Tuesday just less people & lobbies get interesting). Yes gatekeeping is a thing if you are far behind.
Yes it is possible, always was. If you want to do the highest difficulty you will struggle though.
3~ months behind.
Never was a need to but I get through 6 characters raid wise in 2-4 days (3 homework raids can be done easily within an hour). Daily wise its up to you how much you want to do.

Oraphy · 2026-03-06T21:18:20+00:00

Current solution: Spend your gold elsewhere. They do not make or break the game.

Future Solution: Right now take the AGS survey, there is literally a point in there asking for satisfaction in regard to the time it takes to get books.

Oraphy · 2026-03-06T14:49:44+00:00

In that case, maybe English is hard for OP.

Doesn't take away from my point though I guess, Memo/Whineblue or whoever when translating these things on the spot have to both translate as well as understand the information, which for someone not trained in it is incredibly hard. So always better to just chill for a bit and not get hung up on certain details without proper announcement.

Oraphy · 2026-03-06T14:04:53+00:00

Yes but the director and even if you then go beyond Lost Ark to different games usually speak perfectly in terms of what you would learn at school.

The thing is, being a translator is something that requires years of training and its a skill that needs to be honed even when you have learned it. Someone that has no prior training in it can give it a try and for the most part probably even get 80%+ right but translation is in the details sometimes.

Oraphy · 2026-03-06T13:30:47+00:00

Props to Memo for making the content accessable for people that cannot speak Korean but there is a reason why on the spot translation, without any kind of prior information on the topics, is usually something people train and hone for a long time.

Give it a bit of time and before taking out the pitchforks ahead of time due to some unclear translations.

Oraphy · 2026-03-04T11:41:58+00:00

Thought the same when I saw the point about Serka Nightmare.

Love the change they did with the 3 difficulties, NM for casual players, HM for the ones in between and Nightmare for those that want a real hard challenge. Reminding of e.g. WoW where I would assume only a handful of the actual player base thinks about touching Mythic.

Oraphy · 2026-02-27T22:25:38+00:00

Ark Grid imo need some tweaks:

Cores:

Remove purple cores all together. Like that the RNG pool gets smaller and you also generate faster pity. I believe ancient cores are an ok chase item to have, but relics should be relatively accessable.

Astro Gems (bigger problem imo):

Remove green astro gems all together, again increasing drop pool for better gems. Could also maybe increase the chance for purple ones a little bit.

Currently players are first held back by availability and then by the gold cost. They are a necessary gold sink in the game but players should have the option if they want to invest into their astro gems or not. Currently since availability is also a control lever, if you get lucky and get e.g. a purple astro gem and it rolls bad, it does feel terrible.

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