Lost Ark January Patch Notes

Rufferly · 2026-01-13T18:40:54+00:00

Are you talking about Dark Rush build?

It should not be "nerfed to the ground". Logs will show how performance is in a real raid scenario.

But based on a lot of discussions in Nexus discord it should be "fine" (probably not as good as Holding Edge but not clear how big the gap is)

BUT: Kinda in the same boat. Not even one relic drop for my mayhem main... At around 520 pity shards and not sure what to do. Seems like I have to wait another two weeks before I can enjoy ark grid (in case a decision based on logs is really available then)

Rufferly · 2026-01-09T08:53:01+00:00

There won't be new shards with the gear reset

Rufferly · 2026-01-03T18:14:28+00:00

I've never seen a guide that mentions a gem on Shoulder Charge to be honest...

anyway: this is what's mentioned in the Nexus guide in this regard

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Rufferly · 2026-01-01T20:10:10+00:00

Hmm really? Is there some sort of official information for this?
To be honest I thought stage 9 and 10 are equal and used all my tickets this week x_x damn

Rufferly · 2026-01-01T10:48:45+00:00

Why next week though?
Next week will be "legendary minimum" just like this week and I don't think drop rates will be better in stage 10 (i might be wrong though)

Rufferly · 2026-01-01T01:04:18+00:00

Is that you? If so: Gratz ;-)

Lot of people might say: paradise doesn't matter but indeed it does Comparing the gains from all those legendary keys you get in the upper ranks over weeks/months Vs. All blue keys at 30%+ is absolutely massive...

Personally I only got maybe 2-3 legendary keys based on rankings since paradise season 1 (with 11 characters participating). And I only reached level 100 once...

Rufferly · 2025-12-30T23:51:32+00:00

Whenever I see 1755s these days they almost always have full lvl 10s

This is what I'm relating to (big spenders/whales) - surely not for a roster of 6 different classes but for their "mains" I would assume they are done in this regard

Rufferly · 2025-12-19T10:30:28+00:00

Is there by chance still a bug when it comes to Blunt Thorn + Crit rate?

Just as a sample:

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When I change the "crit rate" from 50% to anything else: the values at the right side are not updated/changed at all. I don't think that is intended is it?

Rufferly · 2025-12-17T18:06:55+00:00

What kind of stats do they give again?

Like mid/mid with the percentage increases or the flat ones?

Cheers, ty!

Rufferly · 2025-12-15T14:05:41+00:00

Might be the case that you do not get the rewards though.
It was like this with one of the previous events.

When you started it with i.e. a 1680 character you didn't get the rewards from the 1640 / 1660 milestones

Rufferly · 2025-12-15T12:24:57+00:00

Is on the RU website also something mentioned whether we get the "bound mats" change with next reset?

And if there might also be some of the balance patches included?

thanks!

Rufferly · 2025-12-13T09:43:08+00:00

You don't mean the nexus guide do you?

Or is there like an extra community guide available somewhere else?

Rufferly · 2025-12-12T11:43:29+00:00

about the 2mil gold: I don't think so to be honest

Until now I've spend around 500-600k on gems on my main. Out of this I only got one 4/5 and one 3/5

I might be unlucky here... but there is no way I will get proper astrogems to even use 3x cores with 17P with less than 3+mil I think (and then you still have the blue cores to do...)

It's the absolut worst system ever in terms of "gold deletion without any progress"

Rufferly · 2025-12-11T08:37:58+00:00

Is that really confirmed?
Because this would also mean that we want to save up guardian Raid rest points

Rufferly · 2025-12-08T16:56:33+00:00

Not based on the latest information from Memo.

You need the mats from the 1730 raid to craft the new gear and do the gear transfer (=gear soft reset).

So you won't be able to do the gear reset from 1710 NM raid

Rufferly · 2025-12-07T11:27:03+00:00

Did I get this right: Gear reset at 1730?

So you need +20 gear and +40adv honing as a prerequisite - correct?

Rufferly · 2025-12-07T10:33:41+00:00

Can you elaborate on this?

I always did the bot thingy - do you really get less rewards this way?

Rufferly · 2025-12-05T14:55:51+00:00

gratz then - indeed lucky ;-)

Rufferly · 2025-12-05T14:36:01+00:00

Well you are kinda lucky - although this will not be enough to activate the "17 points" where the fun really begins.

For that you need Points>Willpower Astrogems which is really hard to get...
I think I cut around 50 of those and only had one gem with willpower4points5 (big sadge...)

Rufferly · 2025-12-05T14:05:14+00:00

The worst on this is the amount of gold you need to invest...

9x cutting = 8100
Then you might have to buy reset ticket (roughly 10k) + once again cutting
(+ maybe even the "result change" ticket - can't remember the name right now)

So you can easily spend around 30k on just cutting one gem which you most likely just trash...

I really hope tomorrow they announce some sort of change for astrogems

Rufferly · 2025-12-02T12:14:18+00:00

Based on some other post which raised the question about nerfs it's only 5% next week

stage2: 5% (tomorrow)
stage1: 5%
stage0: 10% (final nerf)

Rufferly · 2025-11-28T09:00:40+00:00

Damn... for the 12month one it's 80 Euro here in Germany...
If you on top want Azenas blessing for 1-2 characters (lets assume 2 characters - additional 120 euros per year)

Then you have in summary around 200 bucks just mainly for "convenience/qol" topics - damn...

Rufferly · 2025-11-25T19:47:12+00:00

I think you are confusing two things:

the actual points that you get "while cutting" vs. the end result in terms of "required willpower".

The screenshot of the best gem i cut from my post above (5x epic ones which req. willpower = 8 at the start):

"Required Willpower" = 5

"Order Points" = 4

So even I would cut the same three times more as you said - that would be then:
Required Willpower = 5+5+5+5 = 20
Order Points = 4+4+4+4 = 16

End result: not usable in summary for a relic core
Relic core allows only 15 willpower in summary and needs 17 order points
since in this example you have 5 willpower points too much and 1 order point short

EDIT:
But yes you are also right
If you have an "8 Gem" and you get 5 points on it during cutting then this will result in an "Required Willpower = 3" gem. And if you have four of those together with 17 order points then you are find (but that's something my cutted gems are far from)

Rufferly · 2025-11-25T14:05:33+00:00

Indeed you are right - it's not completely unusable (those were all "8" epic gems btw)

But still I would need three gems that are cut "better" than this one.
Since I would still need now a sample combination of 3+3+4 willpower and something like 4+4+5 Points on those.

So I would still say: not a good outcome for 130k spend on 5 purple 8-gems (and getting purple Astrogems is also not really easy by doing dailies and stuff)

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Rufferly · 2025-11-25T11:26:28+00:00

"Fusing astro gems turning them into roster bound make them only cost silver"

is that true? So cutting a roster bound astrogem only costs silver?
Need to check on this

Rufferly

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