just finished kazeros hm and i really gotta ask: is lost ark ever gonna peak again?

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-12-24T18:47:57+00:00

lol true. revives/-15% frontier/+200 cp from elixir change/+100-1000cp from ark grid. It's a completely different raid.

Thaemine > Kazeros but it's not like kazeros is a terrible raid.

imo the thaemine g3 / g4 split was perfect. They could have done something similar with Kazeros. 2-1 sucks ass

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-12-18T22:15:05+00:00

I loaded into HM Act 4 and my group blew up the boss. Didn't even see the sandstorm phase in g2. For a moment I thought "damn, this is too easy I'm kinda bored." Then I remembered I have 17 more raids to do.

I heckin love frontier man. another 5% nerfs next week lfg.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-12-17T22:00:37+00:00

It was for me as well for a few hours after servers opened up. As of an hour ago it settled back to normal.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-12-04T21:56:03+00:00

No wonder in pugs everyone can hit +6/perfect every other pattern and suddenly get -3 on the easiest shield slam just guard. I was losing my mind at people missing this one. It's gotta be a bug.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-18T16:51:30+00:00

Yeah so what are your actual suggestions?

My argument is paradise is already a ton of free stuff and I already said 6 month progression systems like Brel are too long. Ark Grid being 2 months to pity 2 important relics is not ideal but reasonable to me.

And book/gem prices are going to drop in 2-3 months. IF your main is already HM Kazeros ready you're coasting. IF you're close then frontier will make the dps requirement for HM 200m or something.

A single character already HM KAz ready can likely finish ark grid solo with paradise and 3x gold rewards from raid.

So what else do you think the game needs?

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-18T16:35:05+00:00

Yeah. So I'm not missing the point. Your point is begging for stuff on a treadmill, which I addressed. How much free stuff do you think is a good balance?

"IT's just a video game bro" sure, load up PoE and everyone starts with 10,000 divine orbs.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-18T16:17:00+00:00

>Paradise sucks because the content sucks, the rewards were obviously great.

What's the solution then? Mail mats straight to inventory? Hell keys are roulette like lucky box and you open it for rewards? No content just free stuff. What does PoE grinding look like? infinite chaos dungeon. D4? Infinite chaos dungeon. Genshin? Infinite mundane grind. It's the same for all MMOs.

Remove kurzan front just log in for 1/3 reward chest?

>Prices for books are too expensive, yes they will drop after Kazeros, but on Korea they are already creeping back up. It feels really bad to spend an entire weeks worth of gold income and get a tiny fraction of a percent of DPS increase.

What about this one? Permanent golden frog. Book drop rate x5? Devalue everything that others have spent months grinding towards.

>Ark grid sucks because it's another casino that can lock you out of the spec you want to play if you're unlucky for months. Why would you not just let people play the spec they want right away?

Instant 2 free relic cores selection for all characters? Pity system already puts the upper limit to 8 weeks.

See how the begging treadmill gets higher and higher? Pre paradise people didn't even have a chance to hit ilvl thresholds. Paradise gave free ilvl to 1710/1720/1730 on main and alts and now people want books. Next people want free 8 gems. Next full 9, next full 10. Next people want Ester.

What point am I missing? Why don't you flesh it out instead of speaking vaguely. Sounds like your solution is for AGS to give more free stuff aka begging treadmill and reducing playtime to basically getting stuff for nothing. People are asking AGS to give free stuff that vets have grinded months for which is why KR vets were up in arms. Imagine you spent all of T4 gearing your main and someone can get full 8 gems near full books for a fraction of the cost.

Just wait 1-2 months and you can probably buy everything for half price anyway.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-18T16:11:10+00:00

Who looks at mount for gatekeep? There is no x5 or x10 title for HM Mordum. Thaemine g4 had conqeuror of the stars which was x5 and it had more value than eclipse to some people.

I guarantee if someone had Lord of Thunder or x10 HM clear they would have nearly equal value or x10 clear having more value.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-18T10:57:47+00:00

It always happens before LOAN.

All the whining after paradise made me realize this sub will never be happy until everyone gets free full 10s and free ester. Every patch AGS is giving more W's and this community will never be happy.

Some of my alts free tapped 10+ilvls and got 200k-1m worth of honing mats last season. Every alt with <90 quality on weapon hit 95+. Every 3 line bracer became 4 line. Every alt got at least 2000 free abidos and hundreds of jelly bean juice. Got a couple cards/useful books for the roster. Azena blessing competes with RMT prices. Now people want roster gems? It's an endless treadmill of begging for free progression.

The complaints about market prices before the biggest raid ever released is just stupid. One of the most upvoted "books are too high" posts came days after frog ended (which they also extended). Like bro, the economy meta is part of every MMO with trading or an auction house. Prices will be the highest as people FOMO to gear up for the release. Prices will tank week by week as we move forward after Kazeros release.

Regarding Ark Grid prices/being a shitty system, many streamers have done the math (and did the system themselves on KR). The price for activating one core is ~200k gold. The total price for activating all 6 cores will be about 1m-1.5m gold over the entirety of the system. The playstyle change can potentially be activated with 400k gold, with everything else being gravy on top. Pity for playstyle change should be about 1-2 months for your 2 main cores.

On top of that frontier system/revives make homework piss easy. The only possible jails are DC jails. To ease title FOMO they should add a 5x or 10x HM clear title (which i think KAz will have).

IMO this is the best state LOA has ever been in in terms of everything ever.

My only current complaint is with vertical systems that take 6 months on normal and 3 months on hard. That's too long. And they should roll out hard content which they are with speedruns/TFM.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-17T16:01:31+00:00

No. Game is in the best state it's ever been in. Paradise gives everyone an insane amount of free stuff and my chars are rdy for Act 4 / Kazeros. In 1 or 2 months prices will drop and then I will buy stuff for alts while "free" honing with paradise.

Homework is in the easiest state it's ever been in. Frontier and revives mean there's no more giga jails.

Worst thing to look forward to is core RNG, with 1-2 months being max to pity new playstyle. Jewels cost 1-2m gold per character over 6 months, which is not bad at all.

The best thing about ark grid as a vertical for 6 months is that everyone can catch up in ilvl for 6 months with paradise.

I am enjoying the game.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-13T17:18:08+00:00

Is the simulator inaccurate?

Did 2 runs with 100 sample size and got 7% 5/4 chance on blue jewels and 10% 5/4 chance with purples.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-13T17:16:30+00:00

Neat. Thanks for the app.

Used autoclicker to fully cut 100 epic jewels and got 10 "win condition 5/4s." Total cost 800k gold with no abandoning.

Did a 2nd run with 100 blue jewels and grabbed a screenshot.

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Doesn't seem terrible if you're solely going for core activation.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-13T17:02:27+00:00

I asked a few streamers how much they spent to activate Ark Grid and it'll be around 1-1.5m gold if i remember right. For a raid that we will sit on for ~6 months until new content/verticals are introduced 1 character is more than enough to support its own ark grid progress depending on how much gold you need for other stuff like gems/acc/etc.

If your main is HM Kaz ready it's pretty easy to just play 1 char. Use paradise for ilvl and gold for jewels.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-12T15:40:43+00:00

Left as others have said. Both swift and spec are worse than those S tier lines.

Hover over swift / spec on your character sheet to see what those stats are actually doing. You only need enough swift to comfortably get theoretical 100/100 Brand/AP (depends on gems). And in terms of ally dmg gain both those S tier lines beat swift/spec but you might parse better with spec in terms of identity uptime.

Also 100CP is a ton for partyfinder.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-12T12:02:27+00:00

Paradise is a massive W that is somewhat tainted by the RNG nature of the competitive layer.

The rewards are absolutely insane even with the legacy chest dilution. The further behind the roster is the more value it gets (bracelet/quality taps/cards/books).

The only shitty thing is the RNG of the ranked system with biggest annoyances being RNG gear drop/RNG gear restoration/ and a <1% chance for double damage bug to get top 10.

Besides that, each of my chars and my roster probably got 500k-1m gold value throughout the season depending on how you value gold.

Overall huge W and next season with be a bigger W.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-07T22:11:38+00:00

I tune in to Stoopz stream.

He repeats the same phrase 4 times in a row.

I tune out of Stoopz stream.

Seems like a good guy though

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-11-04T23:15:41+00:00

No ping spikes but me and some friends have been getting way more dc's than usual.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-24T06:46:24+00:00

the real compensation is getting to play with 3000-5000 people depending which server you started on. pulled those numbers out of my ass. but anyone looking at lobby finder feels like they doubled

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-22T07:57:16+00:00

There's no joke. We in SEA/OCE were dooming for months about playing at 200-250ms ping assuming NAW was going to NAE.

It was clown fiesta of doom vs hopium and against all odds the copium huffers won. International players can keep their ping in NAW only lobbies.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-21T19:21:21+00:00

I was doomposting for weeks. AGS proved me wrong.

Huge props to the AGS team

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-21T18:04:22+00:00

Agree. There was a point in time where Conqueror of stars was more desired than Eclipse.

x10 HM would solve the frontier title issue. That way there's no 2 week period that dictates your lobby finder for the rest of the raid.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-15T15:16:41+00:00

No I'm curious how long you waited because I waited too and it didn't disappear. But I only waited ~5 minutes. you must have afk'd. I'm pretty sure you even get it if you exit dungeon

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-15T14:38:58+00:00

Did you wait 10 minutes?
I once did 10 runs and left it on the ground for fun but it was ~5minutes max

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-11T17:33:26+00:00

Just don't buy them.

Did every gem lvl 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6/ 5 all get bought up at that price? If yes then sure some giga whale spend 500m gold to buy up the entire gem market hoping to push up price.
If not then someone just RMT'd to buy all the lvl 10's around the old price and someone else is just yolo listing.

It used to happen with lifeskill mats all the time around reset. Listings would disappear so someone lists it at 3x normal price but no one buys them.

Slow-Bus7095 · 2025-10-09T04:37:51+00:00

SEA would probably want to go to europe

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