Hello Developers,
First, I would like to thank you for your time and effort dedicated to bringing Lost Ark to the the West.
For some context, I am an American living abroad - to be specific I am currently living in France. As you can imagine, I have friends in the US with which I like to play hence my reason for playing on US East servers.
While I was aware that some events would be based on regional time-zones I would like to point out a few issues I have encountered that I hope can one day be resolved as I am certain I am not the only European player on a US East server:
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Adventure Islands : As it stands, I really have only one choice for Adventure Islands on weekdays and it currently starts at 1am local time (DST has not yet happened in France). Please consider adding an additional Adventure Island event a couple of hours earlier perhaps allowing EU players on US East to participate in these events at a reasonable time.
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Sailing Co-Ops : This issue is similar to the above, as the first Sailing Co-Op of the day begins at the same time as the first Adventure Island meaning an EU player currently has to choose between one or the other in addition to staying up late. As such, I have not yet been able to participate in a single Sailing Co-Op. I might also suggest staggering these events so they don’t happen at the same time.
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Bound Items : This last issue is unrelated to the previous in-so-far as time-zones are concerned however I would like to voice my frustrations in-regards the inability to determine whether drops from an event are character bound, roster bound or tradeable in advance to participating in a given event.
For example : I participated in a tier 2 (960?) ghost ship on my main (currently 1325) last night as I am not a high enough level to participate in tier 3 ghost ship (1370?). Imagine my disappointment upon receiving 19 moons breaths that are player bound. It would have been great to know ahead of time whether these are character bound or not. Not that it would matter as my alt is not yet high enough level to participate in tier 2 Ghost Ships anyway. I
t just seems ridiculous to me that an event that can only be completed once per roster per week such as Ghost Ships drop honing mats that are character bound. I can understand not wanting them to be tradeable, however it seems logical to me that rewards for weekly roster events should be roster bound rather than character bound.
These are minor issues however, I can say confidently that if these three issues were resolved - at least the first two, that European players would be very grateful.
Thanks for taking the time to read this post.
Cheers,
Matsume