is not lost ark is the people and you lack empathy search some help.
and to op try discord communities make some statics look for guilds
ill take a reaper any day i like when the bosses become dps sponge with their debuff.
So you are in a normal situation then.
Because for every DPS slot there are at least 10 people requesting to join. Either you get picked or not.
But if you end up spending 2hrs and longer in party finder, constantly getting rejected for someone with higher item level, but worse engravings/cards/gems, that’s when you know, you are being gatekept due to a number, that barely means anything.
Lost Ark community is extremely toxic, elitist and loves to gatekeep. If your character is off-meta or if they have a negative bias towards it they will press that deny button. Find yourself a clan with friendly people.
Merry Christmas.
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Yeah well… this game is bad designed.
For now I only finished clown g3 once because I ran it once with my friends. Now I am done with g2 and have to find a party for G3 but I don’t want to apply to the bunch of parties because they want too much.
I also missed the first week of brel, and now I am the one that no one wanna take with because my lack of experience.
I made a 2 month break, came back … played a week and I realized again why I left. I see no hope in this game. If there wont be fundamental gamechanges, this game will have around 25k active player in the end of the year.
I mean. Even TFT have more viewer than Lost Ark in Twitch.
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My only advise would be to take a break from this game and play another one meanwhile.
Taking it personal is just silly, in most cases it has nothing to do with you or your characters even.
I personally try to make balanced parties in terms of having a support and some synergy on both parties, and if i can have the luxury of adding some utility along that like a gunlancer for a raid that has big stagger checks, then i am denying the 15 sorcs, reapers and berskers that applied and take the gunlancer, even if they are better geared.
There is just so many dps players that you need to be both lucky and very well geared to get a spot.
Whenever i make a caliligos lobby on my bard, i get atleast 20 applications within 30 seconds, I usually play with 1-2 friends, so i can litterally only take 1 of those 20 people along.
OMG wtf
Make your own party and stop cry.
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Unfortunately, this late in the game and with the NA audience, it is impossible to fix the gatekeeping problem. This is why you HAVE to find a group of friends or community that you can run with. My core group is 4-5 and we run stuff together all the time, especially the needed-quality group stuff like Cali, clown, vykas, and brel. I jumped into LA on release with very few friends but went out of my way to find a guild/community because I knew I would need a group/guild to run content in the future.
I do understand the feeling of being gatekept and it sucks. But if you aren’t making the effort to find a group of friends/community to run with, that’s on you.
Also @OP, you chose to main a newer class. I’ll be honest, I’d gatekeep you and take another DPS simply because you’re on a newer classes. If not you, but most other reapers, there are chances that y’all don’t even have maxed out tripods and we know tripods are just as important as gems and engravings for damage. And unfrotunately, just like zerkers, reapers share the same floor in terms of stereotypes and experiences I’ve had with most of them. So being biased, I would rather take my chances and take another classes even if they’re less geared. To fix this? Read my first paragraph, find a solid static.
On one side, it sucks to not be able to join a party when you have a good build (like in OP’s case, 5*3). But most people don’t like reapers so RIP
On another side, I do think that some ‘gatekeep’ is justified – Like this guy that just tried to join our party…
New class. Also forgot to post your item level and raid you’ve been denied.
If it’s 1475 for clown or 1490 for brel don’t even bother replying.
Gatekeeping is never justified. You are supposed to let him in your group and carry him.
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Are you talking about the latest content, or any content?
Because if you are talking about latest content (a.k.a. Brelshaza), the only way you can play that raid is if you have a guild or friends ingame.
Otherwise, you will be stuck out of it (like me).
You hurt my heart
My lung too
if there was no support shortage from either reducing the number of supports required per group or some other way this would not be happening.
If groups were fully operational with 1 OR 2 support problem is solved.
Poor whale, finally feels what it’s like to be gatekept.
The 50/50 you are feeling is the 1/20 chance that a well-built free player who is 4x3+1 has to get into any group.
Sorry you have to experience the same thing your own community enforces on any player who doesn’t buy RMT.
I always gatekeep new classes, because
- They are new at the class and have no idea what they are doing
- They are whales who swiped their way into high end raids. They will gatekeep all free players once they lead their own parties.
I joined a hard Valtan with my 3x3 support two days ago, led by a 5x3 Reaper. He accepted me but started talking trash about 3x3 after the match started. He died in gate 1. As anyone would do, I stood on his body pinging and talking trash until we wiped and reformed.
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Most reapers people get to see are actual floor povs lol maybe thats why
funny enuff I had same exp
odd much since it was a guardian raid
those players really ruin the exp for newcomers
No, it is decided by what Zeals, Stoopz, ATK and Saintone have to say about the class… LMAO