Lost Ark Online

Trying to level up my gear for the Chaos dungeons. They are easy. BUT I can't move to tier 2 because I keep getting the same pieces of gear. I have enhanced the four I have received. Should I just keep grinding the stones to enhance those further?

Engraving. Just jewelry slots? Where do you get all these "recipes"? Also, these except like five look damn near useless, unless I am reading them wrong.

EDIT: Soon as I post this. Get weapon and pants. Upgraded all. Just need to get some more destruction fragments to hone gear for tier 2!

Game is fun!

jayrebb said:

Crossed gunslinger off as well, that's another soulfist. Great class if you are really into Lost Ark.

I need a dumbass class because I'm having trouble getting into the game. It's not about not being willing to play at a high level, but rather getting a foot in the door.

Think it's down to Artillerist or Sharpshooter for range, and then moving to zerker.

I was strongly advised to avoid ranged classes, but I've been trying to force it and find one that fits. Come live, its going to end up being a melee I'm almost certain.

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I feel you on this. Only classes that feel right to me are Gunlancer (Like this class was made for me). And like you, Zerker. I hate the build up energy or what to use this skill type. I also hate having to put reticles on the ground. So Gunlancer it is!

Brahma said:

I feel you on this. Only classes that feel right to me are Gunlancer (Like this class was made for me). And like you, Zerker. I hate the build up energy or what to use this skill type. I also hate having to put reticles on the ground. So Gunlancer it is!

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I cycled through 5 different classes and agree, Gunlancer is a lot more fun and looks like it'll be fun af in the later levels where you're at. Ill check back in on the game when it actually hits retail, though. Aside from little petty shit like spelling errors and such, the game is ready for launch as far as I can tell and from what Ive read about later end content. So if there is something technical, outside of giving other MMO's space to cool off first (New World, Endwalker etc.), then I havent read or seen anything about it. Maybe the changes about the level range and arena, but I dont get why that would be so hard? I guess?

Brahma said:

Trying to level up my gear for the Chaos dungeons. They are easy. BUT I can't move to tier 2 because I keep getting the same pieces of gear. I have enhanced the four I have received. Should I just keep grinding the stones to enhance those further?

Engraving. Just jewelry slots? Where do you get all these "recipes"? Also, these except like five look damn near useless, unless I am reading them wrong.

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Yes, you'll be upgrading that gear for the remainder of beta to increase your ilvl (can also use the shop to speed up quite a bit).

Engravings come from jewelry slots as well as from your ability stone. The recipes drop / come from a myriad of places (as well as being tradeable on the AH). There are class specific ones and general ones. There would presently be a limited amount of 'ultra awesome' ones.

Daidraco said:

I cycled through 5 different classes and agree, Gunlancer is a lot more fun and looks like it'll be fun af in the later levels where you're at. Ill check back in on the game when it actually hits retail, though. Aside from little petty shit like spelling errors and such, the game is ready for launch as far as I can tell and from what Ive read about later end content. So if there is something technical, outside of giving other MMO's space to cool off first (New World, Endwalker etc.), then I havent read or seen anything about it. Maybe the changes about the level range and arena, but I dont get why that would be so hard? I guess?

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Game is definitely ready to go (arena stuff was already fixed). It's in a totally different spot than New World was though in that, most of the polish and fun comes at end game (where as NW was a lot more fun to play before hitting cap). My last real concern relates to the lack of complete transparency with the cash shop.

Janx said:

Went ahead and installed the RU client. Going to dick around there until release.

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Do you need a VPN to play it?

Can someone explain to me why I can't use this heavy armor engraving? Hell explain engraving period. I just don't get it.

Hateyou said:

Your armor looks heavy enough as is. Just leave it be.

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May your balls drop prematurely.

Brahma said:

Can someone explain to me why I can't use this heavy armor engraving? Hell explain engraving period. I just don't get it.

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Short version? You're trying to use the level 2 version of the skill book when you first need to complete the level 1 version of the skill book. Each versions require 20x of the books to unlock before you'll be able to use them on your rings, so there's a natural progression and makes it so the previous versions of the books maintain a certain value.

As it relates to engravings, they're separated into two aspects: Class specific engravings & general engravings. Your ability stone will grant you (up to a maximum of) +10 into two non-class specific engravings. The abilities which will be present in your ability stone are RNG from a drop perspective, plus extra RNG in terms of when you forge them (and how many points you get into them). Your earrings/rings will also provide a +1-3 boost into random engravings (not to mention the need for your accessories to have good 'stats' --) not all stats are created equal here and depend on your class as to which you should focus on). The engravings books are then used as a boost to further increate or limit the negativity of a specific engraving you're targeting (after you collect your books, you can increase your rings by X amount into the engraving you want, thus providing a whole lot of points).

In addition to all of the above, your ability stone & accessories will also provide a negative engraving. The idea is to balance this out as best you can to maximize the stuff you want and minimize getting too many of the negatives.

Ok. So I didn't have a stone equipped. WTF does a damn stone have to do with engravings!

So I need to take this stone to be faceted I assume. It will give me "good" stats vs "bad" stats. I need to balance that via RNG. So collecting as many stones as possible to appease the RNG gods is what I need to do. I think I was dismantling these because I only see three in my inventory.

I then need to collect 20 recipes to apply this to this ring? That seems like a lot if so.

I’ve never seen a video where the players don’t look like they’re moving at snails pace. Does movement speed ever pick up at end game or am I spoiled by arpgs? Shits a dealbreaker for me in isometric games , moving like it’s 1999 and I’m loading up icewind dale on my lvl 1.

Brahma said:

Ok. So I didn't have a stone equipped. WTF does a damn stone have to do with engravings!

So I need to take this stone to be faceted I assume. It will give me "good" stats vs "bad" stats. I need to balance that via RNG. So collecting as many stones as possible to appease the RNG gods is what I need to do. I think I was dismantling these because I only see three in my inventory.

I then need to collect 20 recipes to apply this to this ring? That seems like a lot if so.

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You can't really collect them. You buy them off the AH, sometimes we'll get events that give you a stack of 20 boxes that you can choose which ones you want when you open them. A few game activities (affinity (rapport? lol) will give you 2 or 3 like that too.

It's nothing to worry about in beta. 20 (green) level 1 books will give you level 1 of an engraving. Putting those on both rings will give you 6 points (3 each), which is rank 1, which is pretty useless in most cases.

Pasteton said:

I’ve never seen a video where the players don’t look like they’re moving at snails pace. Does movement speed ever pick up at end game or am I spoiled by arpgs? Shits a dealbreaker for me in isometric games , moving like it’s 1999 and I’m loading up icewind dale on my lvl 1.

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Agility stat and some engravings affect move speed, maxes out at like +40% I think. Most people in the beta aren't gonna have anything close to that, and practically none while leveling, since Agility only comes on jewelry and randomly. IMO the base run speed was probably cut in half during development because of this. If you look at the base run speed animation you can tell it looks like your character is (slightly) moving in slow motion. Lots of mmo's do this shit.

I stopped doing all the sidequests and just focused on the MSQ, upon watching some youtubes saying thats the fastest way... It really killed any fun I was having, hit about 30 and it was the first time I just stopped from boredom. The whole personal island/stronghold mechanic really turned me off.

Im not sure its necessary content but I just fucking hate it, I felt the same way with the personal island shit in Albion Online, it feels like some lowgrade mobile game that wants to sell me microtransactions when that entire piece of content was presented to me.

Housing in these games just doesn't feel right to me after growing up playing Ultima Online. Just my opinion and more than likely its not even necessary content but if it is... shitty.