I recently started Lost Ark and now at L27 I have been given my stronghold. However due to the changes related to taking out gold from low level npc rappot, to stop bots farming it, I have none. I need gold to build a structure in my stronghold to complete the A Wonderful Adventure quest but I canât. I am not aware of any way I can get gold until at least L30. Sure thatâs not a huge big deal but it seems to me that this is an unintended effect of the recent changes.
I feel this quest and any others that require gold are now bugged and the should be now changed to require silver, as I have loads of that, so I can complete the quest and any others that also need gold to progress.
OK, itâs not an issue for me now as I have reached a level where Iâm getting gold regulary from UNAâs, etc. Still think it needs changing so at least those early quests can be completed by new players. Either by changing the requirement to need silver or at least allowing new players to gain enough gold to complete it.
I donât think they considered this when they removed all the gold from the early sources, rapport npcs, etc to stop the bots farming it.
The developer team has provided that, They can only interfere with the playerâs quest if thereâs a known issue that can actually prevent the players from completing them but in this case the issue is different.
They also added that, there are several ways to earn Gold in-game however, most of these can be done after reaching level 50.
The quest the player is referring to is actually not a main quest.
The player can progress in the game by completing the main story quest and other side quests that are available in the game.
Once the player have enough resources to build structures for their Stronghold, they can return to complete this quest in question.
A bit of a joke considering it used to be fine until they took out the gold rewards from the low level stuff to stop bots getting gold!
Their âfixâ broke it in the first place so back when I did design and development work we would have regarded it as a bad implemention if a fix for one issue then broke something else so would have dealt with it.
Sure itâs not a huge big deal but if they want new players to enjoy the early experience and stay playing making one build item cost silver to construct so you could complete the quest would be a few minutes work.
Yeah I agree, this is a poor decision on the dev part imo.
Thanks for your view on the matter.
Edit:
In a different thread I received the info that theres 2 structures that dont require gold:
structures âNACT-1 Counterâ and âDyorika Waterwheelâ
-Recpes to be purchased from Trade Merchant - Tago
just blocks you unneccessary until you can somehow acquire a few gold coinsâŚ
All the structures cost goldâŚ