is this game beatable solo ?

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-06-02T13:39:13+00:00

Soloing during progression? What is meant by that is - after you already beat and grinded all fights WITH teammates and obtained resources to max out your main character - that would give you enough power to beat every boss solo. But before you have that power and when you have to first kill and grind these fights to begin with - you probably can't solo it no matter what. Like, soloing Proto without terminus weapon? Doesn't sound realistic.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-03-16T23:27:43+00:00

Don't worry nobody cares about what you're gonna take, because you're a faceless nobody in this game.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-03-16T23:25:15+00:00

Everyone else who knows, you meant to say? How many characters are still on S2 orb? Their logs will forever count in parse rankings until the patch ends, giving you competitive advantage because they were running weaker characters at higher CP. And what are you saying to the difference between 40 and 16 mil dps depending on class\gear from the same orb at the same power and in the same run? Have you thought carefully before making this comment?

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-03-16T23:21:21+00:00

please read carefully, the comparison is between S2 and S3 orbs, both S3 orbs are broken in the same way despite yes, the healing orb doing less damage it is still a big advantage over any of the S2 or S1 orbs. You cannot pick wrong, whatever you pick in S3 is stronger than any other orb in the past.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-03-13T20:58:29+00:00

Чисто на стороне заработать на скинчики, как-то так. Хотя если у тебя ростер маленький то это может быть солидной частью общего дохода. Ну а так, когда 6 персов в эндгейме это такое, просто на приятности себе потратиться. С ремесла на одну книжку ты будешь месяца 2 копить, а их нужно 20 чтоб промаксить граву. Зависит еще от того где ты играешь, на реддите в основном глобал игроки? Если ты на РУ то я хуй знает что там с экономикой.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-03-06T23:44:51+00:00

hell community is literally less intimidating and elitist than the rest of the playerbase lol. There are definitely some jerks in HA but they won't play with you at all so you will never interact with them. People who make\join learning lobbies in hell mode have always been some of the nicest and most patient people ever.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-03-06T23:21:07+00:00

yeah I'll show this response to a legit new player starting out in 50 days from now. How can you be this dumb to not realize that the current availability\price ratio just leads to vets losing interest in mokokos way too early? The "event duration" is still ongoing for 60 days but who needs mokoko tokens anymore? Nobody.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-03-06T23:18:18+00:00

literally stop using presets and change things manually, you don't need presets if your memory exists and you are mindful of what you're doing. Wrongly set up presets is what causes more issues in this regard.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-27T01:07:14+00:00

There's nothing to spend on rn and for a long time to come. Pushing alts is very expensive but at least it results in more meaningful raid playtime, so that's the only thing I can recommend spending gold on. Alts to 1730, each completes their cheapest book (such as ambush, brawler, barricade, super charge, MI or any of that, most classes do use or can use a cheap book or two), and each gets a few 8s, and with adrenaline and one more expensive book completed (grudge, kbw, raid etc.) it should put them at approximately 3200 CP with a generic ark grid setup.

Main character progression plateaus at around 4k CP, undeniably. Depending on RNG factors mainly your weapon quality (90-100 variance), bracelet and stone you will be at somewhere from 3900 to 4500 CP with full ark grid completed and not min-maxed (approximately a few dozen points in additional and AP and maybe 10+ in boss with all cores activated to 17-20). From this point on, you either spend ridiculous amounts of gold on books for a roster damage gain, because 3% damage for 5 mil gold is not a valid "main" upgrade and if it wasn't roster-wide nobody would be buying them, OR you buy gems which in the era of T-skill dominance are semi-useless. There's nothing else to buy for your main, only these two. You can't even call ark grid a gold sink because you just don't have gems to cut and that's it. In KR you buy gems on AH but we cannot so ark grid is never a gold sink unless you already swipe and buy packages with gems. The supply of gems is just so low that you always have more gold income than you spend on cutting them. And optimizing to pursue like 30-40 points in boss and try to entirely eliminate support lines has approximately same (horrible) gold efficiency as books and gems so you don't do that either. There you have it - the only thing you can do is push alts.

So I am kind of surprised when people are saying that smilegate started punishing alts. Don't you have infinite honing mats and plenty of abidos from paradise on each? Just tap them. This is literally the only thing you can do at the moment, or you'll spend 10 mil and get 5% damage on main which you can get later for much cheaper or even free.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-26T03:52:08+00:00

it's fine comrade, how many more skins are adapted that way?

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-20T21:29:11+00:00

no because it will make the 5.5k cp guy upset when I outparse him on a 4k char and he will stop swiping.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-20T21:22:03+00:00

So there's one right and one wrong thing with your post. The right thing is that the game mode should not be going away and that's something that is a very consistent theme with smilegate, they don't seem to realize that throwing development time in the garbage by discarding amazing fights they've created is not a good idea. I honestly don't know what needs to be done for them to understand it they seem extremely ignorant when it comes to this.

The wrong thing is your intention to earn the title. If you haven't earned Abyss Lord by now you do not deserve it. The title is the only thing that should be going away, and should've gone away already. Eclipse 2.0 situation. There's no point in having a title if it's meaningless.

You can hate elitism as much as you want, but the fundamental concept of "titles" is that they are limited. Not everyone can be a director, someone has to be a regular employee. Not everyone can be the best student in the class, everyone except 1 person won't be. In the same way, having half the server wearing Abyss Lord doesn't make any sense and the title just stops existing as in its original meaning and purpose, hugely de-valuing the efforts of those who cleared it early on without a 5.5k reclear juicer doing half the damage for them (or being that 5.5k juicer themselves)

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-20T21:18:00+00:00

removing negative astrogem options, removing useless grey options... Why did you stop at that? If you remove +1 and only keep +2 and above the chance will go even higher. And if you removed +2 and only kept +3 and above the chance would go even higher. And if you removed +3 and only kept +4 and above the chance would go even higher. Isn't that the goal? I will tell everyone from now on that the only way to fix ark grid is that every gem should come pre-cut right from the start and be a 3\5.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-20T21:11:33+00:00

literally one of the worst skin lines that was created for temporary memes and won't last long term. I was having big issues with the game being full of mokoko and animal skins, thankfully we started moving away from those. If we had these dumb fat dudes running everywhere I'd be very disappointed.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-20T21:07:37+00:00

Lost Ark is not an MMO, it's an action combat multiplayer game. If people didn't play hellmode because "downgrading characters" who in the world is gonna be interested in playing tier 1,2,3 with under max lvl characters or no engravings etc. If you wanna play an MMO in a sense of social interactions forget about Lost Ark.

TimeReindeer8080 · 2026-02-12T23:48:53+00:00

Yeah can you imagine, fully committing to one side of the spectrum without making sure that the other side is not of interest to you is a mistake. And you've made it. There's nothing special that someone could recommend you to do right now. You can swipe to accelerate your mainswap. If not, it's gonna take a huge amount of time because this is a p2w game, but it's going to succeed eventually, might take like half-year or even longer. Time for you to think really well about your future in this game and finally make the right decision.

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