Hi,
I tried looking around Google and the forums, but haven’t found exactly what I was looking for.
I would like to know, if possible, if going past +20 on any gear is optional or worse than waiting to transfer to new gear, get around +12 and hone from there.
If anyone has a source with upgrade chances for current gear and future gear it would be much appreciated.
I have heard from KR streamers that it is less efficient to hone beyond +20 since the odds will be increased when transferred to Abrel set. In my own research going +21 wep (to have an easier time in Clown and first time Abrel), +20 for everything else is the most efficient unless you intend to do G3+G4 Abrel week 1
That’s good to know, thanks for the information and recommendation.
they say to stop at +21 because of the massive price spike for +22 since it tanks from 3% to 1%. its not like new leaps and new crystals are going to be cheap either but that content is so far out you might as well just hit gear randomly with your bound mats just for fun
I think +21 was the reasonable goal but past that it goes to insanely low rates. With that said we don’t even have clown yet so we are a fair way off going down in upgrade level to get better rates again if you want to stop. At this point I don’t know if mats are even worth selling tbh today on euc blues got down to 3g and reds were at 7g.
I guess the simple answer is if you still want an expensive gold engraving or are f2p and want to save for skins better to stop but if not there is no real point in stopping. Just don’t expect to get the upgrade once trying for +22 and higher you can’t force these in any efficient way.
+21 has identical odds to +20 and has barely any additional material requirements, so if you found getting everything to +20 easy (aka you have them all now) you may as well push to +21 on everything.
Heres an image from Zeals video explaining it:
Full video: LOST ARK #1 ADVICE FOR RELIC GEAR HONING - YouTube
As you can see, its always going to be less efficient to go past 20. But going to 21 isnt nearly as bad as going to +22 on anything.
+21 the weapon and on the side tap armour all to +20. Then slam everything into the weapon like a madman evil laugh
I am using only free special hones and bound mats on main past +19. So far all 19 and weapon 21.
You can go to 21 but at 22 it becomes to expensive to be efficent… so 20 or 21 is your own preference depending on what ilvl and how many gates you want to be able to reach first week of abrel when upgrading to ancient…
If you wanna do all of Brelshaza Raid Week1 You Should aim for Full 21 and a 23 weapon.
If not - economically it’s the best tp stay at full 20.
My Advice: opt for full 21
but you cant do G5/G6 if you stop at 1490, or? as G5/G6 requires higher gearscore to enter?
for support it would be chest 23 and other pieces 21?
If you are full 21 with a 23 weapon after upfrading one gear with the frist cear chest from brel nomral G2 you can upgrade one 21 gear to brelshaza relic and reach the required Level for G5 and G6 week 1
Yes the chest is the suports weapon…
Until we get clown or Belzasha you will have everything on 20 or 21 xd
Please don’t, we need 1520 supports for p56 first week.
Wow, thank you so much everyone, I will watch the video provided to have more insight, but it seems a lot of you are confident 21 is fairly worth going for.
But dont force yourself bc until we need this lvl it will take a long time.
Maby push a alt as well.
+21 is the general concesus on the best stopping point to take a full advantage of the artifact set gear level increase and + reset. Since +21 still uses the 3% hone rate its not much more over +20. But +22 the % drops to 1% essentially tripping the average cost from the level prior.
If you got the materiasl/money sure but its generally means you just burning gold that could of been used to make the artifact set grind better since even the effect of the transfer is lessened going above 22.
