Suggestion: Quick temporarily fix for 1340-1370 deadzone

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Utilizing the calculations of the 40 billion T3 honing simulation spreadsheet results provided by Challia and Mattjestic life (NEW T3 Honing Success EXCEL! 40 BILLION Simulations Results! | Lost Ark - YouTube), the required material to go from 1340 to 1370 for a player with “AVERAGE” luck is 28.6k Guardian stones, 9.8k destruction stones, and 1.21k Honor Leap stones. The estimated time to accumulate these materials would be roughly 1-1.5 month of daily playtime (maybe less). And that is for a player with AVERAGE luck.

My suggestion to temporarily improve the player’s game experience who are currently in the deadzone is to revise the item level requirement of the hard mode Oreha’s Well dungeons and Night Fox Yoho from 1370 to 1355 (the current item level requirement in Korea/Russian servers).

How does this improve the deadzone?

  1. Reduction of honing materials required to get to 1370.
  2. Reduction of RNG since the hard mode abyssal dungeon gear is 100% from +0 (1340) to +6 (1370).
  3. Increase difficulties of the encounters which can lead to better gameplay (or worst). For example, Igrexion was an easier fight due to the difficulty of the encounter was set at 1325 item level in KR/RU, but the entry requirement is 1340.
  4. Gives players something to look forward instead of grinding the same content for 1-2 months.

Personally I do not know the current situation at AGS and Smilegate such as whether if the future content(Heroic Guardian, Abyssal trials, PVP vendor) are ready for release. The changes of honing rate were only recent in Korea according to my sources and the change now will lead to the frustration of those who spent a lot of money to obtain 1370 item level. This is why I believe that the change in Oreha hard mode and Yoho to 1355 is a good “TEMPORARILY” fix until we can obtain more content and increase the sources of honing material. I am just regular player who greatly enjoy the game and want the game to succeed, so I hope changes are coming soon.

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They know what will improve the deadzone—this was solved in other versions as you noticed.

They intentionally removed these solutions to get you to swipe.

They either implement what has already proven to get people through the deadzone… or they don’t and the game hemorrhages players and is branded p2w.

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Yeah, it’s literally 100% inxecusable what they did to our version of the game.

Like not even their mothers could find a decent argument to defend them, this is straight up moneygrab 101.

It’s not even 1340-1370 deadzone if we talk content, it’s pretty much 1325-1370, it’s just that 1325-1340 honing isn’t as bad.

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at least give us 1355 dark fox yoho having no new content for the entirety of 1340-1370 is so terrible

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It also costs great leaps, the only source of which will be Yoho and the AH, and great leaps are SUPER expensive atm. Would need Unas to switch over at 1355 too.