On a sub-note from that topic… how much effort do you put into character appearance?
(Armor, skins etc) Cause I have definitely worn slightly shittier gear to keep an appearance I like.
Personally, I could spend HOURS in a character creation screen, just… creating characters/coming up with names for said character.
I’ve seen some… less than… “cared for” creations, so I was just curious what amount of effort you guys put in.
I realized I was in the WORST lighting I could find in Feiton to show off my Paladin lmfao, but let’s see those characters!
That breaks my heart… and I hate it even more just because I have a good friend that also does that. I just… don’t understand NOT wanting to create your character the way YOU want to.
I really want to use the reskin and customize my character look, but what I worry is, it could screw up on different lightings, which easily happens when we dye our costumes and it looks bad in certain areas, for example Punika and Wildwater Island both are bright but different tone.
And I also worry that the look I go for won’t suit the costumes that might come later on… since I don’t want to spend to keep changing looks hard choice to make tbh.
Currently just using the preset look from character creation and I’m looking good with my Lawmaker chestpiece … though kinda envy seeing others with custom looks heh.
To add, in previous mmo’s, there would be that “this is the hair I want!” kind of thing, but here in Lost Ark, I also have to consider with clipping issues, or the hair just doesn’t look right… or almost the same… just doesn’t feel it.
I find that the “other lighting” options for the character creation really helps with that. Just being able to see it from a more “in-game” perspective, as well as day/night looks.
Its hard, I re-dyed multiple times and some white are just different white in different lighting.
When you mix and match,
Chestpiece costume A - White 1
Chestpiece costume B - White 1/2/3 (trying to match with Costume A)
Both tested in dye shop lightings, all look good, in current town look good, then you enter chaos, guardian, other island or continent and suddenly… it’s off white…
Hence I just go with full black because different shades of black isn’t as noticeable as bright colors.
Also used those color tools suggested by Koreans but still off. Or my sense in color is just bad
I LOVE IT! I was playing around with a sorceress but I think I’m going to wait for one of the newer mage classes before I actually commit, but I’m loving the design I have for her so far
The try-on outfits make me happy, cause they’re all amazing and beautiful, but they also make me sad cause I have to work really hard to find/get the good ones hahaha
It definitely could be a sense of colour thing. I have a buddy of mine that’s got like… pretty severe red/green colour blindness (can’t see green worth shit), so a lot of his “colour palettes” don’t turn out how he thinks they look.
I thought his character had purple hair for the longest time (cause I would watch him play on Discord while I ran my dailies) and then I met up with him in game and BOOM. BRIGHT ASS PINK hair. He had no idea LOL
Creating my character the way I want them is incredibly important. I spend less time on it than I used to, but there’s so many good ways to make a character so that seems ok.
Usually I spend at least 2-3x the time/effort on my main than alts, and my alts are often better looking, so that’s partly why…
As for skins, Lost Ark in unique in that…armor/weapon aesthetics are relative to other games – non-existent. The only character I’ve actually tried customizing is my Glaivier, who is my only T3 char below 1370 atm.
hard choice to make tbh.
… though kinda envy seeing others with custom looks heh.
