Does anyone have concrete knowledge about the key differences between our version of lost ark vs the eastern audiance.
Mainly with regards to progression, is our material aquisition and honing percentages in line with Koreas version of the game when it was in this current patch cycle.
Gold amounts, honing percentage, material rewards from content, materials from events, event frequency and bonuses, alt progression rates.
Im mainly wondering if our version has anything “nerfed” so to speak in order to prolong the first 2 tiers of the game to keep people out of current cycle content, or if anything is nerfed to prolong the climb from early T3 to current endgame content. Is our game similar in comparison to Korea. I have no experience with the other versions of the game so im more so wondering if everything we have is par for the course or if modifications have been made for our game.
Maybe i think of this game wrong but when i think of other games, lets say a typical current expansion is T3, and patch 3.0 is the current cycle of content say valtan or whayever is out now.
I would expect T1 and T2 (two expansions from the previous few years) could be rapidly ran through with very little time, lets say idk 3-4 days levelling. Then you hit current expansion (T3) and you do the questing and introductory dungeons for all patches and end up witb some baseline gear to get you started on current patch content and spend like 2-4 weeks increasing your gear and now your doing mythic or savage progression.
Does korea have fast tracks to bypass T1 and T2 F2P without knowledge transfers or maybe increased punikq tickets or something. And for 1325-1370, is there a certain pontent cycle where this window speeds up. I just came back to the game like 1.5wks ago and went from 1180 to 1350 but the climb from 1340 to 1370 seems insanely staggering. Like id like to be doing some current content but i feel like by the time i reach valtan the next thing will release and ill ve in this weird purgatory indefinetly.
Anyway any info or discussion is appreciated, bit lengthy but i want to make sure i get my thoughts out there clearly and concisely.
Basically the key differences are that honing cost significantly more gold (like 2.5x), but you also generated way way more gold via alts (and most dungeons gave a lot more gold) because there was no character cap (we have a cap of 6 character) and a lot of content didn’t have an ilv limit (Argos/Oreha Hard could be run at 1325), so many people just had like 20 alts and would run argos/oreha hard busses (like 7k gold per character), plus 3100g from T2 stuff per character every week.
Outside of that, the main differences were:
Heroic guardians from the start of T3, once per character, instead of a roster limit of 3.
No research for honing until Vykas (and then all the research, including the 1460 one)
No need to do horizontal content/gets alts to t3 if you played in T2
4 months to Valtan instead of 2 months (less playtime needed to get 1415 in 4 months)
Ability to buy 960 powerpasses in cash shop from start of T3
That’s KR.
Then we have JP…
T1/T2 honing buff with Argos (100% chance, no silver/gold cost, +2 levels per hone to +12, 20% exp (shard) reduction)
1302-1370 honing buff a month before Valtan (+20% chance, 50% material/gold reduction (crystal, leapstone, fusion), 30% exp (shard) reduction)
Heroic Guardians and Abyss Trial from week 1 of T3
Much better events (ex: 1390 powerpass with Valtan that gives the +20% honing chance through 1415, and way way more mats including like 300 GHL)
Honing buffs were planned for release at one point (redacted patch note)
SG (Gold River) gave a timeline that makes no sense without honing buffs (1 month Argos, 2 month Valtan)
Things went really bad without honing buffs (Argos release)
Since it was Gold River’s timeline that got messed up, I imagine someone at AGS got greedy and had SG pull the honing buffs to make content longer and more necessary to swipe for ilv.
I’m pretty sure a lot of things are not aligned between AGS and SG.
If AGS wasn’t involved (Assuming that SG was the publisher) things would have been taken care in much professional manner.
