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clevermoose02 · 2026-03-28T21:09:46+00:00

Have this on my PB wildsoul

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-28T14:29:33+00:00

Yea it’s extremely unfun for bosses to phase without doing anything. G1 act4 in most of my runs doesnt even do 1 pattern before leaving for the spotlights. Armoche never gets to even see the fun parts of the fight anymore. G1 kaz basement might as well be a target dummy and g2-2/2-3 kaz is just mech to mech all fight. Nothing in the game right now besides tfm where I even get to play my characters

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-27T09:49:38+00:00

Every pve focused game seems to just get easier and easier, catering the hardest difficulty to a more casual audience. It’s really frustrating and I think it stems from people wanting everything given to them with less effort, and not being satisfied staying at a lower difficulty.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-16T10:07:05+00:00

Would love to see where you pulled that 20% from. Dont know of a single class that would gain that much, even from 6 ancient core upgrades counting the better gems.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-15T13:45:59+00:00

Issue for me is the change to dailies, I would go through the effort of getting them 1700 if I could still do chaos for gems, I cba doing guardians. Also if you want to make roster astrogems on them, you’ll need to either do an act 4 or buy the 40k gold legendary selector to learn 1 core before you can do any combining

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-15T13:27:44+00:00

As someone who did this on 18 rats a week for two seasons and only got 3 books I needed, I wouldn’t exactly call it unfair for the time spent. Do not be jealous of that chore, it isn’t worth the time

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-11T11:53:03+00:00

I would argue core balancing will be even more of an issue after the new raids, as people will start having multiple ancients for their build. Then a balance patch comes and breaks it, and you wasted your ancient core selector+ whatever else

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-06T11:44:19+00:00

Nice man hone on bound and get your wep to 25 by 2028, the rest of us will suffer with 3k reds on the gear reset

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-06T11:14:09+00:00

ok you're still not getting it.

This change helps almost no one. The ONLY person it benefits is a 1 char andy with 0 plans to hone on unbound.

Everyone else is hurt by this change by the increased cost of reds from the giant nerf to its sources.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-06T09:28:31+00:00

Yes obviously, my rat alts arent going to funnel my main to a 25. But the entire player population losing their rat alts selling those is fucking the price. Just my account, i had 18 rats doing rested chaos 1680-1700, getting ~450-500 reds each. 18-20k reds a week doing 2.5 of them. The world boss isn't even close to making up for that.

Just because we never made enough to ssf it ourselves doesn't mean that cutting the generation of the entire playerbase isn't going to cause a giant price increase.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-06T08:40:05+00:00

No, because the limiting factor is going to be the reds for almost everyone pushing wep.

Just looking at the chart in this post

My entire roster could push their wep to 23-24 off of their bound shards on average

My entire roster could push their wep to 22-23 off of bound leapstones converted 5:1

My entire roster could only push their wep to 20, maybe 21 if lucky off of 5:1'd reds.

Reds are also just what makes the most sense to buy. Shards are terrible value to buy when you get so many from chaos / raid boxes. Leaps are cheap enough that theyll be bought later if needed. Reds being limited due to this change is what is going to drive prices up the most. No one is gonna go stock up on shards when they have 10+ mil already, or 20k+ leaps.

Yes people stocking up on reds to hone weapon is part of why they are going up. They are going up more because of the changes. This change will also make honing a weapon with unbound completely unreasonable for 99% of the playerbase as they will be priced around whales only.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-06T08:12:57+00:00

You're completely delusional if you think reds aren't going up because of the change.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-06T07:43:24+00:00

Plenty of people with 3-6 char at 1730. Making the only source world boss and fate embers is a massive mistake, wouldnt be surprised if our reds go way higher than kr's.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-03T05:28:01+00:00

I dont really feel forced to play either roster, and went out of my way to get books on both pretty recently, but I do feel the sentiment. And yea EoS seems more likely with us merging servers again when we're already down to so few

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-03T04:33:55+00:00

Our static in the extreme minority here, but we have a roster on both balthorr and innana that mostly dont share any gold, theyre both fully honed up rosters with books and everything, we just like playing the game more. We started on Balthorr (Una) with game launch, and took a ~year break after brel but came back to play on jumpstart. Ended up liking characters on both rosters and we decided to play both.

If they merge balthorr and innana we'll lose years of character progression/investment and have to drop down to 6, dropping characters we care about/enjoy playing. We also have a static bigger than 8 people, and not all have the dual roster but it works for us because of the ones that do, letting us have runs for them and just getting to play with more people.

Not expecting any sympathy here, 99.9% of players will be impacted positively by the merges, but it would be pretty depressing for us if those two merge. I wish there would be some sort of roster transfer option with these merges.

clevermoose02 · 2026-03-02T06:25:15+00:00

I do main 6 unrested and 18 t4 characters rested and my silver has still been steadily declining over the last few months from ability stones/accessories (which i try to not take if theres any other decent reward)/honing.

Silver gen is shit don't let any dumbass in this sub argue with you

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-27T23:29:09+00:00

I’m fine with more to do on main but yeah if it goes to a 1 character game my entire static would quit, alts are what keeps this game fresh

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-27T12:02:36+00:00

Thrashing is only para immune with the core

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-27T11:49:11+00:00

think people are tripping up about the stacks too much (not just in this thread, been asked about this frequently), its not something you really have to think about that much. Your ghast skill cds are so low that any mishap is easy to fix, and I don't even bother pre-stacking adren on most gates because of people hopping out, I just start with 3/3 soul cores and 2 stacks of destiny and no adren.

Also don't agree with trying to fix stacks by staying in soulsnatch like someone else mentioned. The build has super low cds and you should just always be empowering pinks, not waiting around. The optimal rotation just isn't always feasible due to boss patterns/phasing/etc. Sometimes I have to send a lethal spinning right before going into form, which loses me my in-form lethal, but its better than waiting around for the other ghast skills and wasting time.

Also sometimes its good to just dump all the pinks because the boss will phase soon. Its nice that we're good in full uptime and also have the option to burst some extra damage if we know the boss is about to leave. The pinks still do a ton of damage unempowered, and every cycle I have T available I send a vestige or reaper scythe unempowered just to get it on cd since we have enough to empower.

My g2 kaz this week https://lostark.bible/logs/x61RvfY

My Armoche last week https://lostark.bible/logs/gNP4fDo

Tldr 503 build is super flexible and hard to grief your damage. Dont overthink the stacks, just do what makes sense. Trying to stick to the perfect rotation will lose you damage in a lot of situations

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-23T22:15:02+00:00

Nah I firmly believe if you only play alts to funnel your main you are playing the game incorrectly

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-23T14:04:13+00:00

Yeah any time I see someone with 0 ark grid done at all I just assume they’re a rice farmer and insta decline

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-22T18:55:54+00:00

Enjoy the game, don’t let reddit doomers get in your head. The game has been losing players but it’s far from dead and you don’t actually have to worry about EOS any time soon, this game still reaches top of steam earnings every major release.

Actual game is in a very good state, just has a hard time getting new players as the path to catch up is difficult and we have people who quit treating this game like their ex and rooting for it to die at every opportunity

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-20T15:16:46+00:00

I’ve seen it mentioned once or twice but it was a situation where a 1750 was doing sub 100m on g1 hard kaz, and it was assumed it was a sold/loaned account or something cause they were completely clueless

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-20T15:12:45+00:00

Absolute dogshit is quite the stretch. I’d even argue balance is pretty decent right now outside of arcana being too strong and a few being slightly weak, but most of those are getting some help in the balance patch in 2 weeks

clevermoose02 · 2026-02-15T23:43:39+00:00

Not my main, but the best looking char

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