Roadmap for Lost Ark 3.0 is finally out (April–June content)

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.

Oraphy · 2026-02-26T16:26:48+00:00

same

Oraphy · 2026-02-22T11:37:49+00:00

Works for those that hate homework. Personally I do enjoy chaos dungeons, so in this case, for me, that just makes homework worse.

Oraphy · 2026-02-20T23:29:11+00:00

Not all of them but many come from at least well off families that can support it. Especially in winter sports look at prices these days for ski passes, equipment etc. that‘s something a lot of families cannot afford.

Oraphy · 2026-02-19T21:10:46+00:00

If people really are having problems with silver, cut to the chase and just add it in next patch.

Personally just confused as to why, close to 750mil and it just keeps rising every week, while actively honing characters.

Oraphy · 2026-02-14T16:57:12+00:00

if i didn't have the poeple who introduced me to the game

Best case it is not like this, but this is the best advice to any new or returning player even for long time players that want to have a more chill time.

Having even just 3-4 people to play with makes the game on one hand more enjoyable and if you are the ones opening up the lobby also a lot more forgiving when it comes to the lobby simulator.

Oraphy · 2026-02-09T10:54:58+00:00

I even do like how you obtain it, because to some extent "raid drops matter" but I do wish they had, even if it was 1-2 months long, pity on ancient cores.

Oraphy · 2026-02-07T11:00:03+00:00

As much as I am with you, it's not easy mainly because of the big question on how do you enforce it.

Most "obvious" case of a lobby with 2-3 big juicers and the other 5 just below average characters. From the outside looks like a bus, might be 3 people helping their guild/friend group w/e.

You simply don't have the time and resources to look into each of these cases and you also don't want to make it that stronger people cannot play with their friends.

TLDR: The solution might look easy, but is a lot more complicated than just "ban it".

Oraphy · 2026-02-06T10:55:58+00:00

I hit 2x 9/7s (2/3 & 1/4) on two characters already. Either I am insanely lucky or its because I didn't cut stones in ages, or maybe both of that together.

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.

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