you cant know what people use their gold for, just think about someone not maxing out grudge because he doesnt play that many dps classes, he just saved 250k gold right there. That will give you plenty of hones. Ilvl alone doesnt tell you shit about people. Yes if someone has +25 weapon, full lvl 10 gems and is 1530 on 6 chars its likely they are not f2p - but those are the rarest people to come by. I currently have 1 x 1500, 2 x 1460 and 2 x 1445 with another 1415 and 2 1370s I dont even play anymore and I havent played actively in months, just did my bare minimum and sometimes even missed entire weekly resets due to me moving countries. Its very possible to have a decent roster just by using resources in a smart way and efficiently. People who have already played on KR or RU are less likely to make mistakes new players tend to make.
well i already gave my opinion as you already said the missstakes that new players are prone to making by players playing ru and kr are minimal. those who play in the ru and kr regions already have 1520 level chracters and 6 1490 chracter with full level 10 gems. on the other hand someone with 1575 level and 6 chracters 1530 full level 10 gems is rarely found and it is indeed called a giga whale. so i cant say anything cuz i dont know what this friend spends or uses his gold on cuz i would be dispecrectfull to comment anything about him without knowing i still think he spend money on the game. you travelling from country to country you are sad to miss your own weekly and daily content but you are already ready for the coming brelsehaza dungeon so dont worry. finally this friends plays 5 sorcerers and this chracter uses grudge and unless he is luck he can go 400k gold with %100 pity to make +21 from +20. which is almost equivalent to his 4 weeks of grinding thats all
For me 1370 → 1415 was pretty much instant because there are no quests. The story quests is what takes time. I didn’t run out of honing materials until I hit 1415. At this point I had enough for 2 attempts, but at 10% success rate I failed both and 1.5 weeks later I am only at 1417 having got 1 success. I am out of oreha fusion, destruction crystals and almost out of gold and leapstones. I put all but 2 stronghold farm slots on fishing, but even collecting for 1 week only amounted to 2 sets of oreha chests and 2 farm slots for mining and logging is not enough to repair my ships.
Still only 10% success rate as well and no books seem to drop for 15+ gear honing. This feels like such a steep wall. At least I was able to buy 4x3 engravings and be accepted on Argos this week. Still having major problems finding Valtan groups although I am starting to suspect it is part of EUW problem.
I’m hesitant to call it a problem, but this unfortunately isn’t very helpful. I clicked that isteri island link and the rewards were 1100 destruction crystals. That’s probably won’t even get 1 successful hone, and it’s just 1 out of 4 resources required.
Thank you, well to be fair it helps that I’m playing the same class. I can afford to push multiple characters into Clown and Brel without having to worry about not being 5x3 engravings or not having gems 
! I mean I still have to buy accessory but I only have Igniter books (and Allout that I bought 6 months ago for nothing) and a single set of Gems (that I can freely push to 9+ since I’m using theim on all char).
My Bard is juiced tho, 5x3 minus book (so I just have to buy DS book to be 5x3), but yeah that’s the avantage of playing multiple time the same class
yea having multiple alts of the same class is very efficient, sadly I couldnt keep up my excitement for my main if I had another 3 versions of it that deal less damage cause of lower weapons etc :P… so Ill probably always be doomed to completely gear and build alts from scratch, costing me a lot of gold… but It keeps the excitement up for me. always happy to log on another class and have some switchup of gameplay!
And 95% of those leave soon after. Try adding them.
They start, have some questionable fun, get their shit kicked in by some of the most aggressive gatekeeping and progression walls ever known by men, and quit due to boredom.
Some of them will quit, but you can’t really stop that. I do still see learning parties and free carries so people are helping out. I’m 1520 and I run deskaluda x2 daily to help out those would be jail runs, get it done with new players in 2 minutes, doing what I can to help.
Funny how you generalize things. Maybe you think everything besides raids is bad yes. And? Does this mean everybody else thinks as you do? Nope it does not. I love everything about the game.
i see mokokos (real ones not bots) every day
so at least in EUC there are people coming back/starting
catch up to what?
you want to catch up to me? or billy that has 3x my play time plays the market and buys gold with $$$?
how do you play life ? do you feel like you can catch up to elon musk? how about bill gate?
a lot of new players are joining every day in the game of life. yet how feasible is it to “catch up”
it takes 2 weeks to get into the 1st legion raid
it took us 2 months
when you go play starcraft how do you catch up to the pros?
what about league? when you started 5 years ago did you want to catchup to faker? how did that goal turn out for ya?
maybe when you started playing basketball how easy is it to catchup to lebron?
wait wait wait
maybe you want to go into a trade how easy is it to catchup to a million $ per year welder?
how about a knife maker?
im honestly baffled by people like yourself
the game rockets you forward so fast that you don’t have time to learn how to move your character and you still talk about catching up
it’s more funny you don’t disagree with 99% of what I said which means at the back of your mind you do silently agree with what I said just that you still enjoy the game. lol
like ok?
you just proved my point to be true only that you simply enjoy the garbage…for now.
I leave too
Its soo good, you feel the FREEDOM of dont have more the CheckListGrind of the Dailies
The time we spent doing boring stuffs, its not worth the little fun we have.
Turns in a second job
Yet, its still living rent free in your head because you are here in the forums commenting. Looking for reassurance as to what decision you made was the best.
The combat gameplay is good, i known if i decide comeback my character will be there, which is brelsh gate 6 ready. But for now i am out for sure. Just look NW 100k+ player or D4 coming up.
When you see people slow down on the freeway to look at a disaster, do you think they’re looking for reassurance that not crashing into cars was the right choice to have made, or that they just enjoy the spectacle on some macabre level?
we live rent free in your head.
you literally have to come on the forums…
visit a “feels like dead game” thread and insert your own input so you feel better that you are still playing a garbage game, pushing ilv, pushing alts but for what? the game ended at 1430.
MANY players and even KR players agree RAIDS are the main appeal to lost ark.
at 1430 you can do
argos/valtan normal/vykas normal/clown practice/ upcoming brel practice.
you can do ALL current and upcoming end game raids…
now what else is left to do? nothing? you beat the game at 1430.
that’s why the game feels empty AF not even 1 year in and already merging with only bots to prop up the playercount
most ppl dont even raid, KR MMO no diff
the ones that raid keep der alts at lets c:
140,000 alts at 1540 so that’s Albreshud G1-2 HM
233,751 alts at 1475-1480 do clown
419,093 at 1460 Vykas HM
403,565 at 1445 Valtan HM
741,000 alts at Argos/Valtan NM
NA took the 6 alt thing by streamers as the holy gospel. In NA its common to see people with 6+ roster all 1490-1500+ some 5x3 planning to do Brelshaza on least 4 alts. Yeah buddy not even KR is that stupid. Streamers sell their social life to get rich and play 10hrs per day. You work from home, have a life, take care of kids. You aint doing Breshalza 6+ times every fucking week.
KR has over 1 million active players and guess how many are at endgame aka Akkan.
ilvl 1580 Akkan NM 147,000 players total
ilvl 1600 Akkan HM 102,285
We talking hmm <24% of the total active player base do endgame raids.
Approximately 625K alts in KR are kept at Vykas HM and they don’t push further.
Your main is banned due to RMT. And you dare bashing others for their ilvl, gtfo
you slow down once, not everyday old friend.
Yeah there’s no real catch up in a game where everyone is doing every thing you need to do daily, daily. You will always be that many days behind past launch that you started resources wise as there aren’t many ways to go beyond the daily homework to gain some ground. Just get a character to 50, use the free passes you get to get 1 or 2 more up. You do have the benefit of honing materials being dirt cheap on market compared to release and stronghold research to help you catch up ilvl wise, but the raid experience you miss out on and the very few learning parties out there will hinder your progress. Blue crystals are not an option as you missed the time to stock up on them when they were down to 400-500 gold per 95.
It’ll be a hard road, but it is possible with dedication and determination.
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