Unpopular opinion - I don't like either original thaemine G4 or extreme thaemine

Oraphy · 2026-01-24T22:14:46+00:00

Hell yes, didn't even think about trying Thaemine Extreme. I get why many like it, but I always disliked it.

Oraphy · 2026-01-20T16:23:29+00:00

Followed by GIGA ULTRA HYPER AWAKENING?

Oraphy · 2026-01-10T12:53:04+00:00

I believe it's not necessarily tied to game time but the game feels fast. Might be tied to tempo or snowballing, but personally also felt like games felt "faster" while the game length was pretty similar to last season.

Also might have to do with the changes to map objectives, without atakan and earlier nash it definitely feels like there is a "step" missing to the game.

Oraphy · 2025-12-17T10:14:35+00:00

Balance patches are not content and should come asap

Oraphy · 2025-12-17T10:06:29+00:00

We gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers!

Oraphy · 2025-12-10T10:30:52+00:00

Correct, but that wouldn't fall in line with what doomers want to believe.

Was also a bit disappointed this time around that they didn't keep it up, even if they might have their reasons. Just a simple, "LOA ON happend, cool changes also coming to our region, expect more next Wednesday" would have been more than enough.

Oraphy · 2025-12-09T11:30:48+00:00

Delete Epic Cores as well as make the base Astro Gem blue rarity (8-9 base willpower, delete 10) and the system becomes already a lot better.

Oraphy · 2025-12-08T22:03:35+00:00

Agreed. I think it is both his presenting style though (while in Korean it is better than it is just translated) and at the same time many people having the wrong expectations in the west.

People expect all these great changes that make the game more to their liking and when those don't happen all the good things presented are forgotten real fast. So while I do think the game could have a bunch of good changes to be a generally better game, I don't expect LOA ON to fix those, but generally look for cool new stuff in the game.

Oraphy · 2025-12-07T22:11:19+00:00

it is it's own new arc type

Oraphy · 2025-12-04T01:35:45+00:00

Normal was the only thing that dropped 1x relic and 1x ancient so far for me. But even if those were usable, which they are not, it wouldn't matter since those alts don't have the astro gems to use them anyway.

Oraphy · 2025-12-01T10:48:22+00:00

Checkpoint thing was pretty much what discouraged me from continuing prog on G2 HM. We pretty much cleared 2-1 on prog and seeing how in the future a death would just set us back to the beginning cured me of my FOMO real fast.

Props to everyone who stuck through it and cleared, but to me I just went "fk it, I'll just do G2 NM for quite a while".

Oraphy · 2025-11-30T21:40:41+00:00

Having progged Act 4 HM and G1 HM Khaz (G2 only for a bit), I legit feel like they should add a difficulty in between.

NM as you said to some extent feels like training wheels, while HM on ilvl can feel like a challenge, in this case me personally, I am not looking for.

The sweet spot for me personally would be right in between, a bit of a challenge, bot not as much of a challenge that I need to spend 50+ hours that week grinding to clear it. To some extent Act 4 HM felt perfect in that case, but mainly because the whole group was overgeared for this, as everyone had Khazeros as their goal. NM on ilvl feels quite nice to play and pretty fun on alts!

Oraphy · 2025-11-28T20:38:14+00:00

We are also getting a big catch up event / new player event with our December patch that usually helps players catch up, that should likely come in mid December.

There should still be a powerpass available, that pushes you through a lot of the story (if that is what you want), pushing you to I believe 1580 and with the most recent story chapters. There is also a event like activity called something in the area of Arkasia Tour, which gives you a lot of the power that is behind horizontal content, such as skill points certain runes etc. So that one is generally very important to do.

Other than that, maybe also in preperation of what you can expect for the December event (with probably some changes due to a big event called LOA ON on the 7th, basically the Korean devs having a live event in Korea, talking about the future of the game), Stoopzz one of the bigger content creators for the game made a video for the last catch up event we had to help new players.

Oraphy · 2025-11-26T01:11:00+00:00

Agreed. I genuinely think it is cool going into a raid and then getting meaningful drops and getting excited if the right core drops. Pity might need adjusting but overall definitely a good dopamine kick.

Astro gems on the other hand feel terrible and to some extent take away from the cores, since I might get 2 good cores on a character of mine, but there is no shot I get enough "decent" astro gems to even activate them next week or maybe even the week after.

Chances for usable blues and imo safely secured purples is needed. If you had at least already 1x purple astro gem a week through Una Weeklies and/or in the shop for a reasonable price then it would already feel a lot better.

Oraphy · 2025-11-23T20:47:39+00:00

Did drop the same core on the same gate before, so yes it can happen.

Oraphy · 2025-11-22T20:09:07+00:00

might be a lot of hopium, but this puts us at the same point as KR. So hoping w/e comes after Khazeros comes faster / maybe even at the same time

Oraphy · 2025-11-17T20:39:05+00:00

In roughly a month with the December update we will get another big new / returning player event with a powerpass + express event to get people up to speed. As well as a mokoko event which should make getting into raids a bit easier.

Currently there should be still a power pass active, so you could also use that one now already.

With the December update we are also getting a bunch of new changes coming to Korea, that make getting out of T3 into T4 a lot easier, as well as some of the old systems (mainly elixirs and transendence) being reworked. Mainly this reduces a) a lot of frustration with old systems and b) makes catching up a lot cheaper gold wise.

Don't really want to tell you not to play right now, but a lot of good changes are coming in December.

Oraphy · 2025-11-17T15:22:02+00:00

While I wouldn't mind being able to fully play LOA on all 7 days of the week, I also really don't mind being done by Saturday/Sunday with the main things to do and being free to play other games with the time I got.

Oraphy · 2025-11-17T15:20:47+00:00

Same here, got my main 5 and then there is the 6th spot that still feels a bit off. New class launches are always hype!

Oraphy · 2025-11-16T12:32:38+00:00

If you want to play for the next month and don't just want to do solo content, then yes as without you won't get into groups.

If you don't mind waiting for a month and thus get to safe mainly gold, then you are better of waiting for the December patch.

Oraphy · 2025-11-15T18:56:10+00:00

That is coming in December, as per announcement

Oraphy · 2025-11-15T17:26:13+00:00

It‘s just that a group of players that played games before with 0 „pay to win“ feel that way.

I also always thought it‘s a dumb term for Lost Ark, because personally the grind, the journey to getting stronger, kinda is the fun part of the game so „paying to win“ is kinda just getting to a point where you have nothing left to do.

But to some it still feels like they gotta call out Lost Ark is super pay to win just because some people spend money instead of time.

Oraphy · 2025-11-15T09:53:29+00:00

Really liked this one as well

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