It’s because it’s the best parking spot for alts in Korea : 1445 (pushing slowly to 1460 with bound mats).
This is not 1 vote = 1 player here. It counts alts.
Even with the less popular bots still running around, it hit 77k concurrent last week, with the hype of a major patch incoming. That’s down to less than 6% of its population remaining, in just 5 months. Do you see it making it to 2023 without server merges?
It can happen before. In Vykas HM, I saw medusa twice at the start of the fight lol.
It was 77k at 4am in the morning when somebody posted “ded game” thread.
To be fair, there’s no reason to go above +21 on your gear while we wait for Ancient stuff.
If AGS/SG decides to hold off Brelshaza, everyone will plateau there and allow some people to catch up.
at least you are 1480 and had that problem… i wasted 3 weeks…yes 3 WEEKS of mats from 6 chars at the time and all of my gold roughly 25k at the time, for 1.66 ilvl… and i wasnt even 1430 yet…good lord the struggle, that almost made me babyrage quit for awhile NGL
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Getting 0.33 ilvl increase per hone is fucking stupid, especially at <10% rates.
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Basically like any typical MMO.
Unfortunately a lot here have bought into FOMO and/or are very new to MMO’s and think it’s a sprint.
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I’ll take a 2.5 overall ilvl increase at 3% rate than 0.33 overall ilvl increase at 5%, or even 10%, any day.
Sorry to say that, but it’s wrong to the start, 'till the end 
What isnt worth is honing for +22 and after, because it cost too much.
Each level of weapon give 5-7% damage after the +20.
You act like you thought of something groundbreaking and is the reason why people quit without even realizing one simple thing…
The reason why there’s a high % at 1460 is because those are mostly ALTS. Everyone in KR just levels up their alts to 1460 to be able to do both Legion Raids to get the full set and stop.
Im 1450 i have not even tried valtan yet i dont really have the time to find a static and i dont want to waste people time if I use matchmaking but im still having fun just doing my daily’s slowly upgrading my characters, i dont understand why raids are the only content people value yeah they are fun but maybe im just weird and enjoy a long term goals that will take a while to reach for me i want to get to +20 gear and collect all those seeds
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wrong
they push 5 alts to 1475+ to do 3 legion raids per week for gold
some park their alts at 1472.5 so they won’t lose argos gold
there are alts at 1460 range, but the majority are players in 1445-1460 range
many koreans quit after Vykas hard which is our current patch
ATK confirms this, please watch till 20:35
Got 1470 f2p without buying a single mat off the AH and my closest alt is 1371, so I beg to differ.
22+ costs a shitload because you aren’t supposed to be honing that high, it’s the same as going beyond 15 in T1 and T2, when brelshaza releases we gear transfer once again and drop down. Anyone wasting their mats and gold beyond 21 is a fool.
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Please do the maths before saying stuff…
In your chart, MOST of the playerbase are above 1460, in fact 1 360 000 are above 1460, and just 620 000 are below (or even). So it’s less than a third.
please think and read the whole post before typing
regarding your point, numbers are characters, not accounts
you need to read into them, 1445-1459 is where most characters are at after 4 years of lost ark in korea, some are alts and most are players
1460-1474.99 are players, alts and mostly 1472.5 characters so they won’t lose on argos gold
1475-1490 is the minimum where they have 5 of their alts to do 3 legion raids per week
why would they have gold designated alts doing only 2 legion raids after 4 years and lose on so much gold? think pls before typing
good job on your part :3
doing vykas hard mode on ilevel is very difficult, players who attempted it first week were mostly 1480+, even that is required as well in party finder, try to do it at ilevel or try to apply for party finder groups at 1460 and experience the hard raid
what is required by the game and what is required by the players to run the raid on hard mode week 1 is different, what matters is the ilevel needed to pass the raid, not the entry ilevel, let alone engravings, cards, gems and weapon ilvl and polish
you struggling and failing will pressure you into honing into 1480+ to clear the raid into a weekly basis
regardless, the topic discusses what comes after Vykas hard, and the whole point of the topic was for people to have fun and play at their own pace rather than pressuring themselves hard because they will burn and quit
the raid is staying here forever :3
Not the same issue I am having, but understandable.
For me it ends a 1472.5, because I don’t wanna main what I am currently “maining” in the long term, and I don’t wanna lose the Argos gold in exchange of being able to kukul, because I don’t want to have to do 3 legion raids every week on an alt to get my gold when Argos is something I can knock out in 10 minutes with a pug.
We shall see though.
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let me guess, reaper? :3
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1460 and below is the alt park tbh, and some new players joining the game. Mains are above, but not that many alts.