The first two hours of the new player experience is the story (as is the following 14-20 hours). The story content is full solo and you’ll hit lv 50 by around Arthentine, so I am not exactly sure what Tripods (or do you mean Triports) you would want. Sorry maybe I am just reading what you are saying wrong.
Beyond that there simply isn’t a player base that remains in pre-T3 content. That is a big reason why they are condensing T1/2 and making it as fast as possible a new player to get it over with. You will not play with other people for the first couple days or possibly even weeks, you likely won’t even see another player outside of a major city in that time.
Once you reach NV (a day or so into playing) you’ll have enough skill points to level 10 a couple skills and have max tripods for that skill. This is also where the daily content loop that you will spend the rest of your time playing LA begins. Chaos/Guardian/Una/Procyon.
I suppose allowing the new player max tripods on all the skills they have as a temp. buff until they hit T3 could be a fun idea however, just to show what your characters power could be.
The community is not all bad. Those that complain the loudest but are still here are here because they want the game to succeed but it’s been falling short. There are plenty of us in game, on the forums, community discords, twitch, etc that support Lost Ark and want it to be a better experience for everyone, including ourselves, which is where you see most of the heated arguments coming from.
Building a game around a progression system that walks in circles where max ilvl players still need to run super old content to them for gold every week right alongside someone like yourself who is only just getting started is where most of the toxicity and gatekeeping comes from. It isn’t that we don’t want to run with someone new, it’s that we don’t have the time to re-teach these old gates again and again each week.
This is simply bad developer design.
P2W: The game heavily monetizes progression. You can pay in time or you can pay in money, but the chore based systems slow progression grind can be skipped with your credit card, which is pay for progression.
There is no winning. P2W is a myth. In the end all it ever is is the F2P and P2W communities argue against each other while the real winner, the company, just bleeds the players with shitty systems and artificial barriers. P2W = You Pay, the company Wins.
Bots: At one point we had more bots than actual players, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anybody that a large part of the community would complain about that.
Positive Feedback: Has always existed, but it got buried under a year and a half of problems, bad developer/publisher decisions and in-game issues.
Would you rather have read a bunch of lies when you were doing your research, install a new game and realize as soon as you entered what you read isn’t what is real? The whole point of doing research on a topic isn’t to just hear the positives, it’s to understand what you are getting into.
I for one am glad to hear and see a new player, I hope you keep that positive mentality and can have a great time in the game.
Lost Ark is a great game, it just also has great problems.
