Finding a guild in this game seems to be a challenge. There is something about guild design and high alt population in this game that makes it feel like there is more ‘friction’ to the process than there maybe should/could be.
Have had a post in LA Guild Recruitment forums looking for a guild for ~3-4 weeks, and check out the forum posts every couple days. Still no luck. I dont feel like my schedule (~10pm-2am EST a few days a week) is overly restrictive; but it seems to be more of a challenge for this game than it EVER was for wow.
In comparison, finding a guild to play with in WoW was always pretty easy, even with a more strict play schedule.
I am not quite sure what the main difference is, and my example is anecdotal, but i certainly feel a large difference.
Maybe restriction for server transfers is part of it? had to server transfer to find guilds in wow often, but that didnt feel like a large obstacle.
Still looking for a guild if anyone reads this… USEast Regulus…
You don’t need to watch many videos, maybe just 5-10 mins or watch a spreadsheat with each mechanics, rest you need to practice by doing. You will learn if you play, nothing is going to be easy first time. You need to spend some time on each gate, and then you’re done forever and know the fight in and out after some clears.
As its been said many times as of late, clown is the beginning of a major decline in active playerbase.
I do believe you can get through vykas… clown will be another story. As someone who has 1500+ hours in lost ark currently, I myself am staring down that barrel as well: SLOWLY prog clown, probably G1 per week, SLOWLY get my trumpets and SLOWLY upgrade… or quit.
There isn’t any other way to get the trumpets from clown. Thus, no other way to progress your character. And why would I want to? Because thats a huge draw to any game. But if I can’t get that within a reasonable amount of time…logic dictates that I bow out and take my wallet elsewhere.
I do wish there was an LFR version of Clown and beyond… Rehearsal but reward us with the trumpets we need. Reward me with trumpets and I’ll forgo the gold from clown tbh. I don’t even care about the gold earned from that raid.
I understand that. I’ve seen some videos of Vykas and the cheat sheets, but after realizing what’s up with Kakul and even Brelshaza I decided to not learn it. I don’t have fun in doing a university degree before entering the raid. You can’t just try it out, it’s wether you’ll get gatekeepers or get kicked.
Wipe mechanics in this game are indeed lazy sort of “challenge” Kakul and Brelshaza are just constant stress tbh especially with elitists in the team.
Thats only my opinion.
I agree with the point on group wide wipe mechanics being lazy design. Why should my mistake, or someone elses, cause the entire attempt to fail… Ok, you want to sprinkle that in throughout raids? Fine. Not every gate, and multiple times per gate. It gets old… All under the guise of difficult mechanics.
Not to mention, the major bottom line draw of LA is its combat. When I have to stop combat to do a dance with orbs or 2d mario or top down birdview simulator grid crap…its so irritating.
Yup, no more free rides vykas/valtan offered. You either pull your own weight or go back collecting mokokos. Somebody said after circus there’s either raiders or quitters. About f time. I have a friend that never got to the ghost phase in valtan, never been at the MVP screen, floor poving most of the fight. And guess what? He said valtan is EZ. Imagine that. I bet there’s plenty of players just like him. That’s why I’m so glad that BS is over.
If normal g1 gives you 1 trumpet, how many you expect to get via rehersal? A quarter of a trumpet?
Im sure ‘pulling your weight’ is the whole point of the raid and SG will not deviate from that. And thats fine. They WILL lose players, hence the OP, hence all of the guildees that I used to run with that I’ve raided with since BC wow, and likely more to come. Thats fine. Enjoy a smaller community and less options to choose from on the AH.
Regarding trumpets and this LFR/Rehearsal version… one trumpet. I forgo the gold for the entire raid, zero gold earned. Just the trumpet. Thats the point. I’ll technically be at a gold disadvantage for the week because of that, and thats a trade off Im willing to make.
Hell. Im willing to pay a few thousand gold per trumpet on the AH if they ever make them tradeable.
Believe me I WILL enjoy not having to carry a dead weight in my party.
No trumpets for people unable to clear clown, cause we’ll have same thing at Brel as we had on valtan/vykas - people will get carried again. Thanks to clown - no level 2 relic set no party accept.
ok nononono nobody is going to u and say high plz join my guild
do u not know what game this is?
its elitist as fuck nobody wants new players or invest since most new players quit and AGS/SG don’t give a fuck.
If you want to find an active guild u need to be min let me check…scrolling right now need to be at least 1460 and on ur main. Most guilds recruiting now small sample are lvl 20 aka they want players at least Vykas HM ready. What that means is u join the noob 1415 guilds or dare say it network ur way into a high lvl guild show dedication and maybe they’ll accept you after “probation” prospect. Most of these guilds discords are open to join so u can test waters to find out which u like.
That guild repository looks interesting, will have to check it out.
also, guess i didnt make it clear - my two main characters are 1507.5 and 1485, with having fully cleared all current content aside from Inferno modes, not that it matter for my topic of discussion much, since finding a guild as new player would be a different challenge i would think.
check out the list here join the Discords
See which group you click with
ik guilds still need ppl for clown
obv prefer supports but looking ahead for Breshalza
Awesome. i appreciate the assistance. Wish i knew about the LA Discord sooner, already looks like a much better way to go about this process… guess naivety also poses some challenges haha.
Early game experiences in most MMOS are very weird. The only exception to me is FFXIV, because the game allows geared players to sync down their gear and do dungeons from all types of levels (it sounds good and cute in theory but this can get very tiring in the long run. But it’s a good idea overall).
I played wow and i would be lvl 17 and queue up in a dungeon have everyone snowball everything, i couldnt even keep up - i was lost in the dungteon lmao. I didnt even manage to hit a spell and then quit. Same thing happened in neverwinter, in ESO, Blade and Soul and so on.
Its not easy to get started in Lost Ark and i dont think it’s the game’s fault i think its the community gating a lot of the content. New players can get to 1415 very easily. The obstacle they will meet is people not accepting them in their parties.
That’s why i HIGHLY advise new players to join a new player guild. Even at this day i see people doing PROG Valtan and Vykas runs in party finder, sometimes i joins those to help.
