Why I decided to quit Lost ark After having 3 characters in T3, and having completed the most recent "Argos" content

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I hit tier 3, played 3 weeks or so, and several things came flooding into my brain as realizations.

If I wanted to actually continue playing “difficult” and “engaging” content, I would have to look for a guild, which this game doesn’t make very easy. If the guild route doesn’t work , you are stuck with pugs with barely any method of checking out who is actually capable of doing something. It’s basically trying to complete raid mechanics with a WoW LFR team.

Once you join a guild, you are set to be a person that has to follow SOME sort of expectations in terms of how well your character is progressing, or people won’t be willing to play with you.

Those EXPECTATIONS are set by the dev company, and amazon. As they have shown just recently, you CANNOT trust them to make these expectations reasonable in any way, shape or form.

If you want to keep up the pace with the “hardcore” and “semi-hardcore” players, and be able to play decently challenging (not mind numbing boring shit like chaos dungeons) content with people who have some braincells. You WILL have to play several alts, do the daily grind on each and every single on of them , OR pay with your wallets.

Even a popular youtuber and korean player that defend this game to the T, have already told stories of “feeling the need to pay” on the korean servers when some new raid released, and they were playing a class that’s maybe not on the forefront of the meta.

I am not going to grind content I don’t enjoy, do a fuckton of adventure tomes, press G 5 million times, just so Smilegate or Amazon can randomly decide that maybe the next content release will have an itemlevel I haven’t yet managed to get because I went for a 1 week holiday in the last couple of months.

Oh! And the amount of content in the game, and even in the korean game , is WAY overrated by people. This is not WoW guys, a new raid is not 10 bosses. Just because they are dangling a 1 boss encounter in front of our eyes as a carrot for the next 2 months of grind, doesn’t mean the content release schedule of the game is some sort of revolution.

Plus from what I have experienced so far, the raids themselves are not in any way shape or form more “fun” or any sort of revolution when compared with Final Fantasy or World of Warcraft content. If anything, the lack of interaction between teammates (no tab targeting) takes away from the whole thing.

I realized I prefer a more thought provoking boss design , with less “spastic” red circle dodging, and maybe more focus on how to maximize your character’s damage. Did I say damage?

You know why they don’t want you to see your actual damage on encounters? Because then it would be easier to see that Joe from accounting who swiped his card is doing 50% more damage than you are realistically capable of.

The whole game screams unbalanced, from the lack of visible damage in encounters, to all the LITERAL TRASH engravings they have filling up the AH and inventories…or the release schedule of classes.

Does anyone actually believe, you can release a new class every couple of months in an MMO , and have it be anywhere close to balanced in the long term? (well, I guess you can, if you have it be a carbon copy of something else with different spell effects)

I posted this on Reddit also, figured i’d post the link in case they delete this thread due to it being blatant criticism: https://www.reddit.com/r/MMORPG/comments/tiqqhj/why_i_decided_to_quit_lost_ark_after_having_3/

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Have fun in WoW & FF14 my dude.

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Said it even before the game launch and as expected rushers will be the first to leave this game.
Take care.

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I said it long time ago aswell, west is not rdy for Lost Ark. Eventually the game will age like a fine wine, and all WoW andies are gonna be mad lmao.

I played wow for 15 years, lost ark for 3 years, I can tell you for a fact that the game is vastly superior in every way.

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Yes, this is a phone game for PC, we know. Play a couple hours a day. This game is not for hardcore PVE OR PVP players, the end game is for rich people who want to kill a single boss for one drip of dopamine.

If you want to do content as it releases, this game is not for you. If you want long complicated raids full of content, this game is not for you. If you want to fuck around with some industry leading combat for an hour or two a day and do casual collect-a-thons the this game IS for you.

I’m sorry it took so long for you to realize this.

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Before you get destroyed by adhom and haters who are coping from being bitter about their hours in other MMOs, realize that they’ll move on to a new “best game ever” as soon as it arrives, and willfully shit all over this one. The MMO circle of hype.

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I just skimmed through it.

TLDR: generic WoW is better post, I’m mad that I have to socialize in an mmo, etc. :yawning_face:

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Its funny because this game is korean, and koreans have a different culture so “pugging” its like having a guild, everyone communicates, everyone knows what to do, everyone is friendly, everyone hitting the matchmaking button is a TEAM

Now the NA culture… lmao

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another goodbye post, game is doomed in the west ; ;

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jesus dude, relax lol.

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once the casual players reach this point they gana realise too.

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So you played 3 chars to T3 and only now realized that don’t want to press G million times?

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Tldr; good riddance.

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you certainly have to, did you expect to be picked out of nowhere by people? or did you expect in MMOs, people are automatically assigned to guilds?

This is a you problem, YOU can always solve this.

Find a guild that aligns with your expectations, your problem seems to be “how do I find a guild” rather than the game itself.

Did you think god make games? it’s people who make games and set the rules for them…

This game is a KR grinding title, why start your journey in a KR grinding title if you don’t like grinding?

If there is a type of content you don’t enjoy, don’t do or play that content, simple fix.

There are 13 continents, it’s not a random number, it’s a one time journey… why whine about something you can ignore if you choose to?

in KR, there are several bosses you can fight with different phases, you can’t expect the game to fully release as it is in KR right now because the company needs to make some money, get it?

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I’m just used to do that with TERA and Aion, but yeah!
The elitist doesn’t like PUGGING because for them there’s nobody who
have a braincell to begin with.

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You make it sound like all guilds are hardcore. What does that make the casual guilds like the one I’m in. We do end game content with those who want to. Some just log in when they want and progress at their own pace. The fault is probably on you if you are only looking at all the guilds up there then complaining that they won’t accept you.

No MMO is 100% balanced. That’s obvious, so I don’t know why that needs to be brought up. At least the devs put in constant effort to try to balance the classes. That’s probably the best approach for longtime balance. I like how you say that tab-targeting equals interaction between teammates… There’s plenty of interactions in Lost Ark, but casual players like you and I probably don’t often notice. I’m sure both tab-target and action-oriented combat have their own pro and cons, but I prefer the latter.

But when it comes down to it. Play and do what you enjoy. Not everyone is the same, and that’s normal. If you don’t like Lost Ark, don’t play it. I can assure you that Lost Ark is neither a requirement nor an expectation in life, so we don’t have to worry about that.

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I read it and enjoyed the read. Speak for yourself only.

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People commenting on the “you have not found the guild that works for you” would do well to remember that the absolutely brutal penalty for leaving a guild really makes it challenging to experiment around to find one that is going to work for them.

Given the present state of the guild leaving penalty, it’s simply not a good suggestion at this time.

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Can I have your stuff???

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Imho WoW was always hot garbage that got popular for the sake of its own popularity like a rolling snowball down a hill gets bigger just cuz it’s big.

Blizz hates its players and they run their own game into the ground. If that’s who you’re going back to then sorry for you.

FFXIV is a pretty good game but compared to FFXI the combat and fights just suck imho.

Lost Ark on the other hand has better ARPG combat than single player ARPGs and has more content and systems on top of it in spades. Unlike a lot of traditional mmo raids too the fights are actually fun to me and action packed and I enjoy doing even guardians over and over. The combat system is just best in class imho.

That said not everyone is the same or should be. Just play what you enjoy we have so many options. No reason to get mad at a game for not fitting your preferences.

I don’t miss tab targeting at all. It’s an imprecise system at the best of times that requires use of macros to make predictable since the tab target switches based on distance.

There’s not any lack of coordination a lot of buffs last about 6 seconds that really spike your damage, which has to be timed with other players which has to be timed with the boss being in a position you can unload without wasting everything and not in the middle of a move that makes you die for trying it. Healing and shielding and damage buffs need to be re actively coordinated constantly.

All this is just tldr for I enjoy it a hell of a lot more. You don’t that’s fine. I like my dark beer you like your weird fruity drink that is brightly colored or whatever. It’s fine. I just don’t get what your intention for the thread is. Do you want to see changes? Or are you just trying to recruit for MMOs you prefer. Cuz I don’t mind the first voices should be heard, improvement happens. But if it’s literally I just like this better and you’re an angry advertisement/bash thread then this is literally pointless to read.

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