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Pyros

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Imagine for a moment if instead of unlimited entries, and a full heal and item/ult replenish after every floor, that you received 3 tickets per day, that you could use for tower, cube (for silver, cuz silver was rare and things like respecs costs 30k a pop) or platinum fields for mats to craft stuff to make gold (also rare, no Una bags etc).
I've played DFO, I'm well aware of the various shit systems the koreans can come up with. DFO's tower used to be 1 entry a day and you had to do it 100days to get a reward, with many of the floors having instant kill stuff where it was a matter of one shotting the enemy before they one shot you. They made it less shit and eventually replaced it by another tower that was less shit, although it still requires like 30days to get anything out of it.
 

Brahma

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Getting frustrated now. Playing daily and seeing little progress. Like now I need charisma to even do some rapport quests. No idea where to begin on this. Have like 18 tokens from the islands, and no idea which ones I am missing, or easily obtainable for the ones I miss.

Life leapstones are a pain. Failures are frustrating. Blah blah blah...
 

Gravel

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Getting frustrated now. Playing daily and seeing little progress. Like now I need charisma to even do some rapport quests. No idea where to begin on this. Have like 18 tokens from the islands, and no idea which ones I am missing, or easily obtainable for the ones I miss.

Life leapstones are a pain. Failures are frustrating. Blah blah blah...
For charisma, start doing the hidden story entries on adventurer's tome (hover over it and it tells you what stat it gives). Using the Papunika map works best in my experience.

You can also use the in game codex and search for Charisma Potion and it'll tell you all the places to earn them. Do the easy ones.
 

Voldeth

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Getting frustrated now. Playing daily and seeing little progress. Like now I need charisma to even do some rapport quests. No idea where to begin on this. Have like 18 tokens from the islands, and no idea which ones I am missing, or easily obtainable for the ones I miss.

Life leapstones are a pain. Failures are frustrating. Blah blah blah...

Suineg linked a pretty good rapport guide in Discord this morning - I would check that out.

As for the island heart's, you're so close to 20! Check out: Road to all 20 Island Tokens Guide for Lost Ark on Maxroll.gg and find 2 missing ones.

As it relates to failures, don't let that get you down. It's going to happen, just shrug it off and focus on doing stuff you enjoy and getting ready for next week's abyss resets to run them with the guild.

Are you farming all the collectibles? Are there certain spots that work best on each continent?

I am farming them but honestly, rapport is all new for me (I purposefully didn't do some stuff that was tedious to avoid having to re-do it) and I don't really have much expertise on the subject, beyond higher level named NPCs seem to have a higher drop rate, so I try to find areas that have quick respawns to let me farm them -- or I just run the dungeons quite a bit.
 

Aazrael

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So once you've done the "catch up" islands each tier whats are you all doing for mats? Is it just chaos dungeons and guardians?
 

Voldeth

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Voldeth Voldeth HTF do you have so many skill points??

A myriad of ways? To begin with, I'm level 53 - so there are more skill points from there than most people. I've also unlocked the skill point potion for every continent that provides one, including Punika (which is a greater skill potion, thus why I went through the added hassle). I also prioritized skill points, so I completed most things that provide more (island hearts, giant heart's, Omnium Stars). I've unlocked every one that's readily available and gone out of my way in certain cases. LA's combat system is the best in the business and I love the tripod expansion of abilities, especially when playing alts so having these unlocked was a high priority for me.
 
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Brahma

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So once you've done the "catch up" islands each tier whats are you all doing for mats? Is it just chaos dungeons and guardians?

Abysmal also. I buy the extra mats at the end for 40g for the leapstones. My cubes when a ticket drops.
 

Pyros

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It's time, fuck this questing shit
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Gravel

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Hit pity on my last piece. Can't remember if this was attempt 5 or 6 though. Sadly I was incredibly relieved!

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Aazrael

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Are levels beyond 50 just for skill points or does it have some other purpose as well?
 

Jox

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My weapon luck has been absolutely insane in T3. That is three attempts in a row (30%, 15%, 15%) that have succeeded on the first try. Got level 53 and missing .8 for the Punika skill point, which I should get tonight. The amount of damage with the skill points and weapon compared to even someone at 1340 is pretty significant -- almost tempted to use some gold to push to 1370 with all the people stopping to sell mats.

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Is that a soulfist weapon? If so, know of any good guides I can watch. Class seems very punishing so far, having a hell of a time landing spirit bombs on t2 stuff. I'm ending up wasting the cooldown on it most of the time and only using it when something gets staggered.
 

Voldeth

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Is that a soulfist weapon? If so, know of any good guides I can watch. Class seems very punishing so far, having a hell of a time landing spirit bombs on t2 stuff.

Yes, I'm playing Soulfist until Scouter gets released, at which point I'm immediately switching and returning to the good life. Soulfist in T2 (and beyond) is landing your ults, which is incredibly rewarding when you land and it crits. It's also, as you pointed out, very punishing when you miss. I only picked the class because it was one of the few that I hadn't played in KR, entirely because of the fact that I refused to play such a heavy ult dependent class with a high ping. I wouldn't be able to offer much in the way of guides beyond what you can find on Maxroll. I veer pretty heavily from what's posted there just by virtue of my preference of playstyle, so I don't look very much up. Comfort in an encounter and boss pattern is paramount for the class though, as you're absolutely garbage tier DPS if you miss your ult.
 
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Pyros

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Are levels beyond 50 just for skill points or does it have some other purpose as well?
At 55 you can put 11 points in skills and at 60 you can put 12 points. Adds some damage to skills, and obviously you get skill points to go with. And yeah at 52 you unlock the trainer thing in the stronghold which lets you generate lots of xp over time on one(two once upgraded) chars, up to 1 level lower than your highest(so at 52, you can get your alts to 51 fast with it for example but it stops at 51, need main to be 53 to continue to 52 and so on).
 

Kirun

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JFC Abyssals are so fucking cancer with matchmaking. I wish I didn't need the gear, because I'd rather just faceroll through potato content and get my pitty gold each week, rather than deal with the absolute fucking retards who play this game.
 
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Chimney

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Woo let's scoot the retards into T3 <_<

Other than some HP tweaks I hope they don't fuck with mechanics. Nothing in T1/T2 is so difficult to learn after a handful of tries.
 
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