We had absolutely no clue you wanted these honing buffs
Good news is they don’t have to!
Currently sitting at 607 hours since 3-day early access. I hit Vykas on release.
Doesn’t take long if you play efficiently. Especially with material prices being the lowest they’ve been since launch, I’d say new players will have a better experience than all of us who are already at endgame did getting there.
We definitely need a better experience for new players.
July patch is also comparable to release times for RU and the last buff in JP.
RU: T1/T2/1370/1415 global honing buffs in between Vykas and Clown
JP: T1/T2 with Argos, 1370 a month before South Vern, 1415 in between Vykas and Clown
Western: Vykas in June, Clown probably August (was 2 months to Clown in KR).
So July patch is a logical place to release them, unless they plan to screw us even more and release it later than RU/JP even though we’re supposed to be catching up faster.
They’re planning honing changes for mid lost ark 2.
The only honing changes left to be added into the game are the global honing buffs to t1, t2. These didn’t get added to KR until brelshaza was released. It will be the same for our region.
There’s no evidence to suggest we will get it at the same time. The honing buff was introduced because the game was dying in their region, nothing more, nothing less.
Considering our version of the game hasn’t even closely followed the path of JP/RU there’s no reason to suggest why we would receive things in any different time frame than the region our version is actually copying
Yes and considering our version isn’t dying thanks to artificial bot inflation of concurrent, we have no real time line of when our save face honing buffs will be given, as it was in Kr.
Less than 10% of the current playerbase is bots, idk what this comment is but you’re on something for sure.
The fact you think the current numbers are only 10% says you either don’t actually play or you’re more casual.
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No I’m just not one of the delusional people that somehow think there are over 30k bots in the game with 250k concurrent players, bots haven’t surged since the initial ban wave when queues times on NAW went out of control. Feel free to comment if that happens again
I guess the only way to get it through to people that over 50% is still bots is for queues to return, unfortunate.
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There is something wrong with you if you think half the concurrent playerbase is bots considering there’s barely any of them running around anymore, what a funny guy
Enlighten me by heading to early game zones, Vern, and punika chaos gates . I’m not sure what else to tell you.
Bots don’t need to spend much time roaming and questing now, they spam una gold for rmt anyway.
Idk why you guys are so worried 1415 hyper express coming soon just wait.
Nobody cares, plus if you are from NA then your opinion doesn’t matter
Can someone tell me what these honing buffs are? And until what ilvl are they available.
Shout out to all the gatekeeping tribalism in this thread… who cares for the players who wanna do the content, it isn’t fair to us because we already got there. Imagine wanting better for a game dummies
They buff the success rate and give you +2 lvls per gear piece in t1 and t2 from 1-12. You also get increased chance in t3 until a certain point (believe it’s 1415 and it really helps counteract the 1340-1370 deadzone)
Oh thatd be nice, thanks for your response . Last month it cost me more to get from 1340 to 1370 than 1415-1445 (which shouldn’t be the case honestly). Also T1 and T2 are pretty much outdated and useless content I don’t see why new players have to go through all that grind.