Lost Ark Online

Yea the weapon switching is mainly why I want to change class. It's really cool but I'm too old to juggle stances and 16 skills.

I did sorc to 30ish on EU before I switched to US East and Gun Slinger and I enjoyed the sorc more.

Trying to get my character Dkkar into the guild on Regulus if we have room.

Xerge said:

Nah i'm still 40 while everyone else in my group is over 50 doing raids. The in between is the worse gameplay loop i've ever experienced, or close. This is the first time I've taken off my studio quality headphones and turn on logi speakers.

1-50 is barely worth a person's time.

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I cant argue with that all. The set pieces, thw dungeons, the encounters where you can actually fight and use your abilites....so far amazing. 10/10

The questing through all the zones, picking flowers, feeding cats after killing 1000 mobs in a festival event, the moving a rock 5 ft from one place to another, the mounting up and running to kill 2 mobs.... 0/10. Fucking awful.

Searching Lost Ark on Twitter gives some interesting results:

Voldeth said:

This is just such an unnecessary and silly change. It's like no one at Amazon understands ilvl restrictions to equip gear - who exactly is this protecting? I'd love to know the rationale of the change.

On a separate note, I failed my +15 on two items to the point where the game gave me a pity 100% in both cases. I'm at 1090 now with 3 more items to upgrade before T3 but still having a blast. I was worried that re-doing skill points would be frustrating but it hasn't been anywhere near as bad as I remember -- at 312 points now and have spent very little time actively working on it. Just set up the alt army (Scrapper, Sorc, Berserker, Gunslinger) with the final spot being saved for Scouter because Amazon can have me forgive them for all their stupidity by announcing it's the next release before Valtan.

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Can you give me some guide or something to pursue skill points? Or are you just doing them by memory? I desperately need to start working on them because not having enough points for tier 2 skills in like shoulder charge or diving slash is shitty.

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Just looking at that skill points content..

Wow at the amount of content you can do in this game. I feel like I will have things to do for a few years.

This game has a strong Guildwars 2 vibe but without the good quests and interesting mounts. That said Guildwars 2 lacks noticeable gear progression beyond how it looks and has no ship content.

Raes said:

Welp, those chucklefucks at Amazon just took the medal for retards of the year. I'm getting close to tier 3 and went to the AH to check on gear prices. But, there was nothing there. I'm like, huh? Surely people are at tier 3 already. Had a bad feeling as I went to the Chaos Dungeon board to check and...YUP tier 3 chaos gear is untradeable. What the actual fuck?

Buying and selling chaos gear is part of the fucking game, and is extremely profitable early on. People get to a new tier, run their 2 chaos for the day, and rng doesn't get them a full set, so they go to the AH. Or they go to buy a higher quality piece to switch out to. And at tier 3, we get tripod bonuses on gear, totally random. Being limited to only your own drops is going to suck ass. Well, at least until people start reaching the legendary tier which drops "broken" gear that is just for bonus swapping. That's still tradeable. This is some serious bullshit.

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Yeah, almost got screwed by that at T2. First chaos didn't give me a helmet. 2nd did though, so no problem. Didn't want to spend gold on one.

mkopec said:

Got there is just so fucking much to do in this fucking game its so overwhelming.

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People just need to relax. This would be like if WoW launched with Classic, TBC, and WotLK all unlocked. Just take your time, enjoy this shit. You're going to hit a wall hard if you take the mentality of, "I GOTTA HIT 1500 GS ASAP!".

Its easy to feel overwhelmed and the idea that its like WoW with 3 expansions launched all at once is spot on.

What Ive been telling people still in tier 1 - You can tell the difference in questing, not by its content, but how its paced and the activities it includes, as soon as you get to Rohendel. Rohendel still suffers a bit from it, but its better. Then in Yorn, I barely noticed anything that would take away from what Im doing and in Feiton - I was basically in the groove and not a single quest took me out of it. What Im getting at is that in the older content, the complaints were warranted and they made changes to the process. In Rohendel (to an extent), Yorn and Feiton everything is just trying to keep you moving and the story, from what I could gather just from spamming through it, is that you never go from killing small guys > medium guys > SUPER AWESOME GUYS > joe down the street, like you did in the base game.

Also, whoever thinks Sorcerer is difficult is whacked. Try any class that has a 3-5 second locked animation class on 6/8 abilities. Sorcerer igniter build has 6/8 instant casts, 2 locked animation casts and your meter gives you obnoxious haste so your long cast abilities are cut down to a 1-2 second cast time. Then all your secondary stats are put into Specialization so you can max out meter more - so you're basically non stop tap and move, tap and move.

Armadon said:

I'm having a lot of fun being a casual. I just hit the first island after you get your boat. Don't really know the story too much since I skip some things but have an idea about it so not to clueless. I know I fucked up my skills but just waiting to hit 50 then respec.

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Playing pretty casual myself, in almost the same spot of the story. But my understanding is that you can respec at any time for free.

Armadon said:

I'm having a lot of fun being a casual. I just hit the first island after you get your boat. Don't really know the story too much since I skip some things but have an idea about it so not to clueless. I know I fucked up my skills but just waiting to hit 50 then respec.

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Waiting on 50 to respec? Am I missing something? Can't you reallocate skill points on the fly or are there or skill points I'm not aware of yet?