What are the features of the English version of Lost Ark?

The English version of Lost Ark has arrived, and in this game, Many classes are available in our version and only four archetypes (Warrior, Monk, Mage, Shooter) when writing this article. However, when creating a character, the player chooses just the archetype because you must first go through a short prologue.

He will tell you about the history of the world and introduce you to the gameplay for the selected archetype. It will last until about level 10, where at the end you will have to fight a rather simple boss. Or you will be on the island.

Only after that will your character be sent to the local goddess, where she will offer to test in action and then choose a class, keep in mind that in the test mode, they give out a random set of class abilities and, alas, they cannot be changed.

For each archetype, you need to go through the prologue only once. After that, when creating a new character, the system will skip it and go straight to class selection.

All classes, of course, have a special fighting style. Still, in addition to this, each has its unique class mechanics and a special ult ability, which becomes available at the maximum level 50.

The mechanics of each class is located at the bottom of the screen on the Hotbar. By default, for most, it is activated by pressing the Z button, but some have an additional ability on X.

• What are the features of battles in Lost Ark and what types of currency games are there?
• Lost Ark Guide: Quests and Dungeon
• Lost Ark Guide: Character Stats, Abilities and Tripods
• Lost Ark Guide: Equipment and Its Development
• Lost Ark Guide: Peaceful professions
• Lost Ark Guide: Craft
• Lost Ark Guide: Sea
• Lost Ark Guide: Endgame Content
• Lost Ark Guide: Auxiliary Systems

What are the features of battles in Lost Ark and what types of currency games are there?

Each character in the game world can deal with normal (white) and critical (yellow) damage, but besides this, several additional factors are worth knowing about and constantly keeping in mind.

• Don't be alarmed. Almost all bosses with a huge supply of HP have a small x2 or, say, x16 addition to the right of it. This is done so that users can see how the HP bar decreases and how much damage they inflict on it. Otherwise, she would move by the millimeter, especially if the boss has more than 800k health.
• Exhaustion - strong opponents and bosses, have another purple one under the HP bar. The enemy will stand still for X seconds if it is completely knocked down. Almost every class has abilities that cause certain damage to this bar. Read the description carefully.
• Carefully read the description of the abilities, as there may be a postscript "Damage from the back," which means the ability to deal increased damage. When fighting large opponents, don't miss the chance to massage their back with this feature in mind.
• Some opponents have unique properties (power-ups). This is depicted as a small icon above their head. For example, a mob will periodically summon a slowdown field, create explosions around itself, or hang on nearby mobs' invulnerability to attacks after death for X seconds.

Next, we will look at the main types of Lost ark currency. I also decided to add items that are also consumable and useful (besides, they are in the currency tab).

• Silver is the main currency of the game.
• Lost Ark Gold is the currency used for trading at the auction and in some activities after the item drops (auction for items). Getting it is much more difficult.
• Lupine Coins - drop from elite opponents, in dungeons, treasure maps, etc. You can find an NPC in all major cities who will gladly exchange them for useful items. For example, in Korea, it is from him that a very necessary engraving for the Demonic class is bought for 300k.
• Pirate coins - issued for almost all marine activities and can be exchanged for useful items at certain NPCs.
• Feathers - allow you to stand still in the event of the death of a character, initially issued as items, but after use, they are added to the account. It is not easy to get into the game, and saving them for especially difficult content is better.
• Sillian Coupons - needed for activities on a special table (read about endgame content), you can have a maximum of 10 coupons, and every day you are automatically given three coupons. Ideally, the player should spend at least three coupons every day not to go to waste.

Related: A Handy Guide to Making Lost Ark Gold & Silver in 2022!

Lost Ark Guide: Quests and Dungeon

Lost Ark is a type of MMORPG where you will have to complete various quests and dungeons to level up instead of killing a huge number of opponents to fill the experience bar.

For convenience, all quests are divided by color. It helps determine the type of reward without even studying the description itself.

• Orange - the main storyline, which, unfortunately, ends after the passage of the first mainland.
• Blue (with a globe icon) - so to speak, world quests, at a certain stage, replace story quests, taking the user through the main continents up to level 50.
• Yellow - side / additional quests that arise from the NPC requires the user to kill X opponents or collect several items. Sometimes in this category, some quests can be completed several times.
• Red - appear only once at certain points as you move along the story/world line.
• Green - these are quests related to peaceful professions. As a reward, you will receive experience and useful items for gathering.
• Purple - special quests with a very useful reward. For example, as a reward for such quests, the user can receive a jar of increasing the main characteristics or additional skill/profession points. Also, through such quests, new abilities of your character, such as an ult ability, are unlocked.

On every mainland, there is at least one dungeon in almost all locations to which you will be sent along with the storyline. Unfortunately, they are passing content that you are likely to forget so far.

Dungeons are designed for single or group passages, but based on my experience, I can say that it depends on the chosen difficulty (by the way, there are only two of them). On normal, killing the final boss is quite easy, as if you are going through a prologue, but on hard, it will take much longer and can be lethal.

By themselves, dungeons are needed more for the plot component than as sources of new equipment since, after a few levels, you will change it anyway. The so-called cinematic / arc dungeons occupy a special place.

In them, in the course of the storyline, you find parts of the Lost Ark, and by themselves, they look simply divine.

Lost Ark Guide: Character Stats, Abilities and Tripods

The character's combat effectiveness mainly lies in the correct strengthening of the characteristics. In the world of Lost Ark, they are divided into main and auxiliary ones, and you will pay special attention to the latter.

• The main ones include only two characteristics: endurance - increases the character's HP, strength - the main parameter that increases the character's damage. Here it is worth clarifying that the last characteristic is different for each archetype, and for example, instead of strength, some archetypes will have dexterity \ intelligence there.
• Secondary characteristics allow you to fine-tune the character by determining what exactly you want to focus on. Besides, almost all equipment enhances these parameters.

We can conclude that only the characteristics affect the character's damage based on the above. This is not the case because the user also needs to pump and enhance abilities (skills).

• The pumping becomes available after passing the prologue. You will be given a certain number of points at each new level, which can then be invested in the ability you need. One ability can be pumped up to level 10, and as it increases, more and more points will be required.
• Strengthening occurs through a unique system of tripods. It is just a set of improvements, divided into three categories. Each becomes available as soon as you pump the ability to a certain level. This system plays an important role, as it can give the skill new effects, for example, make the character invulnerable for the duration of the cast or hang a shield from incoming damage (tripods depend on the class).

Lost Ark Guide: Equipment and Its Development

First of all, character development is determined by the average level of all equipment worn. In the common people, it is called GS. The English Gear Score is displayed in the upper right corner of the character window.

It can be said that the point of most MMORPGs is to increase the GS level to unlock new sources of equipment that have a higher GS than yours, but sooner or later, you will hit the content ceiling. On the other hand, increasing the level of equipment opens up new content for you. For example, the storyline of the continents that will be added will require a certain GSA from the character.

You can increase the level of GSA not only by obtaining new equipment, but the game also has a sharpening system called polishing, and almost anything can be polished five times while significantly increasing its level.

At this writing, we will have a simple enchanting system that only requires the player to have a certain amount of auxiliary materials and special polishing stones. In the future, a new system with a chance of failure when polishing will appear for Tier 3 equipment.

In addition to GSA, character development is determined by such factors as the presence of engraving, inserted runes, bonuses to abilities, a special stone, a change in characteristics, all of this further in order:

• Engraving (enchantment) - applies only to rings that can give the character new special effects under certain conditions.
• Runes - allow you to enhance various character properties, for example, increase resistance to damage from a certain element. But to insert runes in the equipment, there must be a free cell of a certain color.
• Bonuses to abilities - when enchanting equipment to +3, they have bonuses to certain class abilities. They can be changed to others at a special NPC, but this happens randomly.
• Stone - on the right side of the equipment window, under the jewelry, there is a place for a special item, which mainly increases the secondary characteristics of the character. You should be introduced to him in the course of short training.

Lost Ark Guide: Peaceful professions

At about level 20+ in the story, you will reach a small village, where access to the so-called peaceful professions will open, in a more understandable language. Under this term, the resource collection system is veiled.

Peaceful professions are divided into six categories based on the type of resources you collect:

• Herbalism - allows you to collect various plants needed to create potions.
• Hunting - killing animals, you will collect skins from them. They will be useful for creating armor.
• Logging - allows you to get two types of wood at once, which is used to create many items. For example, a fire to heal allies or, most usefully, flares (mark the guardian on the map).
• Mining - ore for making bombs or various types of armor/weapons. Sometimes if you are very lucky, you can get stones.
• Fishing - the fish that you catch can be used to create food (gives the character a buff) and, for example, to make bombs.
• Archeology - if I remember correctly, the resources from this profession allow you to create runes for equipment.

Unfortunately, you won't be able to upgrade all professions at once, or rather, it's better to invest your efforts in only one. Otherwise, you won't be able to collect high-level resources due to one very unpleasant feature.

For this reason, it is better to decide right now what you need or adjust to the needs of the guild \ const party because resources can be exchanged via mail.

Each profession uses special tools to collect a certain resource, and for example, you can extract wood with an ax or a saw while receiving two different types of resources.

An important feature of peaceful professions is how they function. Unlike most MMORPGs, here, in addition to tools, the character switches to a special "Craft" tab when collecting resources.

Switching occurs automatically after pressing the collection button, but you can return to combat mode only by pressing a special button. For this reason, you should not collect resources near a group of mobs, as you can hesitate and die without having time to switch.

And finally, the peaceful profession has its level. It increases when collecting any resource or when completing green quests.

Lost Ark Guide: Craft

The crafting system in the game, I would say, is quite primitive and simple. If we talk about the process itself, the user will need to find the NPC that has the recipe he needs, gets the necessary resources, and pay a certain amount, waiting X minutes of real time.

The components cause the main difficulty since they can be divided into ordinary and special. In the first case, you will need resources of a certain grade and additional consumables bought from a nearby NPC.

With special ones, everything is no longer so simple because they are again divided according to the degree of difficulty of obtaining:

• Resources from merchants - based on the name, they are sold by some merchants for a special currency. This includes NPCs of platinum fields (more on them later).
• Activity resources - this category includes a special set of guardians since the reagents for its creation are knocked out from the guardians themselves (although we will change it, so everything will probably be easier).
• Unique items - needed to create red armor, very difficult to obtain and require a lot of effort from the user.

Lost Ark Guide: Sea

At the end of the final chain on the first human mainland, you will be given the initial ship and finally allowed to go to sea to the next continent, but there are several rather interesting features besides this.

The first includes directly marine activities, presented in the form of the following content:

• Diving
• Treasure Raising
• Fishing
• Hunting
• Exploration of shipwrecks

But all of them are tied to the ship and the degree of its development since activities differ by grade (determined only by color). For example, a diver and a treasure crane of the first level will be effective only for the initial grade.

Efficiency is expressed in a reward, or rather, in the fact that you will get something truly useful for upgrading a ship or, say, for sale at an auction.

It is also worth noting that each interaction with sea activities spends special energy, located at the bottom of the screen (instead of an experience bar), but doesn't worry. It is restored over time.

And periodically in the ports, you need to restore the ship's energy supply by paying a small amount of silver. Energy is needed for movement. As soon as it runs out, the speed will decrease significantly (roughly speaking, the ship will break down).

The second feature is the islands (49 will be available to us), scattered throughout the eastern part of the sea, but here's what you can do on the islands themselves:

• Some are a free PvP zone where you can easily fight other players and even fight for valuable prizes from random events.
• Most of them contain quests, in return for which the player will receive the heart of the island (read in the endgame content) or other useful rewards.
• Some contain world bosses (read in the endgame content).
• Some islands become active only at certain times, and special events take place.
• Much more.

Lost Ark Guide: Endgame Content

And finally, let's look at the endgame content that will have to be content with the first few weeks.

• PvP - three modes are available: every man for himself, team to team, 1v1 battle in turns in teams.
• Efon Union Quests - a huge list of weekly quests with various rewards. They affect almost all the content of the game.
• Halls of Chaos (Chaos Dungeon) - unlocked after completing a short quest, located in major cities. Group activity where you have to run through the already familiar corridors of one of the dungeons and kill the boss under a special amplification effect. You can only take part in this activity three times a day.
• Chaos rifts - randomly appear in certain locations after opening the portal. If I'm not mistaken, up to 30 players can enter it. The main quest is to kill the final demon, having previously destroyed everyone who gets in your way.
• Guardians (guardians) - perhaps the most difficult group content, where you have to fight one of the ancient guardians, the peculiarity of this activity is that you will not see the boss's HP and in normal mode, three lives are given out for the group. It seems like we will have a simpler mode available with an increased number of lives, and a more difficult one, where you can fight several guards simultaneously.
• World bosses (location bosses) - Each continent has several world bosses from which valuable items can fall. A crowd of high-level players can only kill such an enemy.
• Treasure Maps are an item that you can get randomly from various content. After use, you will be shown parts of the map with a specific location, on which the entrance is marked with a cross. Your quest is to find it. Depending on the difficulty (grade), the location's name will not always be written, and sometimes it will be necessary to play a certain melody before entering.
• Collectibles - this type of content includes Momoko seeds, island/giant hearts, and paintings (works of art). These are items that the character can get in completing certain quests or find by exploring locations. Depending on how much has already been collected from special NPCs, useful items or nice bonuses become available for purchase.

Sillian's Quests - in every major city, a rectangular table provides access to certain activities for the "Sillian Coupons" I mentioned at the very beginning.

In our version, only the following activities will be available:

• The Dark Tower is a solo content where the player needs to go through 100 floors starting from the first, each with its reward and requirement for the GSA level.
• Cube - activities for several players, wherein total you need to go through several stages for a while. Before each, players will be given a positive or negative buff, so it all depends on luck or, more simply, randomness.
• Platinum fields - two activities exclusively for peaceful professions (three types of collection for each), are small locations with top resources to collect. The main quest is to bring a few objects (you can't miss them). As soon as the timer ends, the system will issue coins (special currency) depending on how many objects you brought. There should be an NPC near the table to exchange these coins for useful items.

Lost Ark Guide: Auxiliary Systems

Under this heading, I decided to collect the game's important features, in my opinion, which I didn't think of where to insert succinctly, and it seemed very strange to single out a separate item for them.

• In the world of Lost Ark, every adventurer actively uses songs. From the process of teleportation to the transition to the goddess's location, the system becomes available after completing the story mission in the first city. Initial songs will be given to you as you progress through the story, but there is content in the game that will require special melodies, and they are sometimes very difficult to obtain.
• Mounts - become available after the first city (at about level 15), greatly simplifying the process of moving around the city and locations. In total, for passing all the continents, you will be given three mounts (a horse, a beetle, and a wolf), but there are many more of them in the game.
• The Adventure Book is a list of things you should do on each continent. The list includes completing the story/world chain, several key side quests, killing world bosses, killing named bosses, collecting items, developing relationships with NPCs, etc. For a certain percentage of completing the page of one continent, awards are issued and sometimes they are very pleasant, for example, you can get a song.
• The GSA book (honestly, I don't remember the name in Russian) - I'm not 100% sure that we will have it, but this is an interface where all activities are collected for a certain GSA range. That is, you can safely see where you go to get the equipment you need or the item you want.
• Reputation system - in other words, this feature can be described as developing relationships with the NPC. For this, they will give you gifts, and some at a certain level of relationships will have quests that tell their story. You can increase relations by giving gifts, performing special songs, or using certain emotions (each NPC has its preferences).
• Fame stats - in addition to the main characteristics, the character has a separate tab where the so-called fame characteristics (intelligence, courage, charm, and kindness) are collected. They are mainly used in the NPC system. Some will not talk to you if the IQ is very low. On the other hand, if you have enough charm, a unique dialogue option will become available in the conversation.