You do realize that the game was considered to be trash and wasn’t popular before legion raids in KR? Back when RNG luck played a massive role in how fast you progress.
After it got popular, for every next raid you need just one or two upgrades across the entire set, so everyone progresses more consistently because it’s all about artisan energy and not getting lucky. Not to mention how later on they get free honing token attempts after completing raids.
Having to upgrade 6 items with 5% chance on each means that noone will get lucky enough to create a huge advantage just on upgrade RNG.
Upgrading each piece 3 times at 30% means there are huge differences between people’s progress just because someone got lucky and others didn’t.
But you obviously don’t understand the basics of RNG, but just blindly type “it’s KR game, deal with it”. Well, I’ve got some news for you, at the current stage of the game it was not popular in KR, it took off later on.
I think the current system is an excellent design.
The thing is, you are progressing at the rate the game system is designed for you to progress at. You might have bad rng, and it feels bad because you see others around you that have reached higher item levels. But it won’t always be bad, probability sometimes goes in your way and you one tap upgrades that should have cost way more materials to achieve.
There are a few avenues for you to feel better about your rate of progression:
Figure out if there are more optimal ways to acquire materials (pirate ships, weeklies, unas leapstone dailies, events, chaos gates, etc)
Figure out if there are more optimal ways to spend your materials. Books help tremendously when upgrading in the 1350-1365 range. 15% → 25%? Yes please. 10% → 20%? Even better.
Stop comparing yourself to others. Everyone has gone through this, and some are luckier than others. Some are willing to pay 1000s of dollars to go faster. It is meant to be a difficult progression system. It will feel that much better when you achieve the next goal marker.
If 3 tries to pity… why do we need anything lower than 30% rates? Imagine 1% honing rates. Fail 3 times for pity. heh
Patience is part of this game, if it’s enough to make you not enjoy the game, there are other alternatives out there that you may enjoy. If they intended for us to progress through it faster, they will make it so.
Usually end game content takes the most time and patience. When new content is release, the previous ones usually become easier or more convenient to breeze through overtime.
So, if you still enjoy playing this game and want easier progress, don’t do latest content. When Valtan/Vykas comes out, do Argos etc. When Brelshaza comes out and likely honing patch and some hyper express some patch sooner, you can get to Valtan a lot easier.
3 fails is way too low but I will say this. I definitely don’t find it fun spending over 7k stones, 120+ greater leapstones, a boat load of silver and like 8k gold just for one pity enchant from lvl 13 to lvl 14.
However I am at the point now where I just dont even care about honing anymore. I know it’s gonna fail so I just press the button, get my artisan energy and move on with my day
All, this does is read make the game easier for me, The game is a seasonal mmo it’s not meant to be sprinted through GASP i know right that’s not a concept Na/EU players are used to hearing when it comes to mmorpgs. Guarente if the honing was as ez as you want it you’de prob be one of the ppl who sprint to high cap and then complain a month later about not having anything to do.
you know you will go through a few phases when honing, im on like 85% artisans energy on my weapon upgrade to 20 rn which is like 20+ failed honings so far and at the start i was still excited to get the upgrade potentially, in the middle i got disappointed and a little over the middle of my honing i got angry and was mad that this was statistically not even likely to happen, now im just basically emotionless when clicking the honing button and just looking forward to when the upgrade is guaranteed which will be sometime this week or start of next week, if it upgrades earlier then nice, but yea i think people just have to experience this and then learn that its just part of the game and doesnt actually take away from the fun of playing it, even though my ilevel hasnt increased in ~3 weeks and that thought can be frustrating you will eventually get your upgrade and you dont lose out on anything, the game is designed in a way where you can go through each of the content stages at essentially any time and there is no reason to rush anything
They have the power to adjust honing rates, pity rates, more materials, more events, adjust gold rewards in dungeons etc. They need to balance out how much effort a player is willing to go through before they quit and help move the general population to higher content at a reasonable rate. The games been out for 3 months in NA so they dont have solid data yet just releasing some events to see how we progress for now. But yes they can lower the amount of pity’s needed for T1-T2/Early T3 but at some point you need the grind, this is an MMO. If they keep losing players, they lose potential customers, relying on whales and people with no self-control with their finances is not a healthy enviroment thats why they should release other sources of revenue like more skins.
MMO genre progression is mostly focus on players who are willing to spend many hours in a game and willing to grind. Lost Ark is casual friendly as it is. You can get to the same point as the person that spend 4x more time more than you. I got ± 370 honing failures at this time and many of my gear get pushed to 100% Artisan Energy. It just is as it is and you should expect that when you was downloading the game. My only advice about honing? Focus more on Artisan Energy than success % rate(One depends on the other but i mean that you shouldn’t expect every honing attempt to succeed). Calculate how many honing attempts per day you can do and how much Artisan Energy that gave you. Check how much bonus materials can you use to get more Energy per Honing and focus to not get on 97-99% of it. And with that system is way easier to swallow the failure and if you succeed then you got really nice surprise. Simple as that.
to fuck everyone who did it earlier right