On August 24, the August update for Lost Ark will launch, which will bring legendary pets into the game. We at MeinMMO have summarized all the important information about the big update for you.
When will the update be? The August update will be installed on the live servers of Lost Ark on August 24. This has now been confirmed by the official Twitter account. Thus, the MMORPG continues to adhere to the new Wednesday as patch day.
The servers will go offline on the 24th for the weekly reset at the usual time of 9 AM. They will stay offline for 4 hours before you can set off for Arkesia again and enjoy the new update.
You can find the exact patch notes directly on playlostark.com. Nevertheless, we have summarized and explained the major cornerstones of the update for you.
What’s in the update? In August, you can expect a relatively small update compared to the previous monthly updates. Nonetheless, you can look forward to the following things:
- The pet ranch is coming to Arkesia. There you can earn a new currency and get legendary pets, known as pets, for the first time. These provide enormous gameplay advantages.
- Additionally, a new and an old event will start: The Mahakara Festival: Blooming Mokokos and the Event Guardian Raids are making a return.
- New skins that will be futuristic
- All power passes are now usable
- Otherwise, you can look forward to several bug fixes and “quality of life” improvements
With the last monthly update, the Arcanist was introduced into the game:
Your own ranch and cookie factory
What is the pet ranch? With the ranch for your companions, your own island expands with another aspect. There you can not only let your creatures play and relax with each other but also unlock tangible and gameplay-relevant bonuses.
This mainly happens by elevating your pets to legendary status with the ranch. This gives them a larger inventory and additional buffs that enhance your character. However, before that, your pet needs to earn experience, which also takes place in the ranch.
To unlock it, you must upgrade your fortress to level 15 and then accept the quest “Yay, a Companion Ranch” from your estate manager. After that, you can get started.
How does the ranch work? Your companion ranch is fundamentally divided into two different aspects serving different purposes. On one hand, you have a leisure facility for your creatures. There they play and recover to strengthen their morale.
On the other hand, there is the cookie factory. In this, your companions work and produce delicious jelly cookies, which depletes their morale. When a companion’s morale is exhausted, they can no longer produce jelly cookies and must return to the playground.
These cookies then serve as a new currency in Lost Ark, which you can use to obtain new and exclusive items and even strengthen your pets.
How can you improve pets? The longer your pets work in the cookie factory, the more skills they learn. They level themselves from rare to epic to legendary. Furthermore, your companions can produce more cookies the higher their skills are.
When a pet reaches the maximum skill level, you can upgrade it to a legendary companion. To do this, you must feed it companion growth tokens, which you can get for jelly cookies from the respective vendor.
Legendary pets enhance your character
What do legendary pets bring? The new legendary pets provide you with various advantages that are useful on your journeys through Arkesia. On one hand, you unlock the ability to purchase the third inventory page of your pet’s inventory as soon as the animal reaches legendary status.
On the other hand, it can receive an additional combat buff, in addition to the two that an epic pet can already use. However, this third ability works a bit differently and is not permanently active like the other two.
When your companion levels up to “legendary”, one of five abilities will automatically be unlocked. If you want to change it, it will cost you 20 crystals at the companion trainer. These abilities each have 3 different effects, of which you will always activate one randomly in battle.
These are the abilities:
- Heart’s Cheer
- 20% chance to heal 8% of your maximum HP
- 40% chance to create a 5-second shield worth 10% of your maximum HP
- 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
- Serenity’s Cheer
- 20% chance to reset the cooldowns of resurrection and movement skills and decrease all your cooldowns by 40% for 8 seconds
- 40% chance to create a 5-second shield worth 10% of your maximum HP
- 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
- Heaven’s Cheer
- 20% chance of 3% more attack speed for 8 seconds
- 40% chance to create a 5-second shield worth 10% of your maximum HP
- 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
- Courage’s Cheer
- 20% chance to increase your movement speed by 5% for 8 seconds
- 40% chance to create a 5-second shield worth 10% of your maximum HP
- 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
- Resonance’s Cheer
- 20% chance to generate 10% more special action energy over a period of 8 seconds
- 40% chance to create a 5-second shield worth 10% of your maximum HP
- 40% chance to heal 3% of your maximum HP
Changing the appearance: Furthermore, legendary pets can change their appearance. You can change your companion’s visual appearance to that of any other companion you have unlocked. However, you will need to purchase a companion customization potion, which you can get for jelly cookies from the vendor.
Once you have fed your pet with this potion once, you can change its appearance as often as you like without incurring additional costs. In line with that, brand new companions are also coming to Arkesia in August.
These are cute Shiba Inus that will go into summer with a scarf. You will be able to purchase these cute dogs in the shop starting August 24, and they will also serve as skin providers for your legendary companions.
Maharaka Festival: Blooming Mokokos and Event Raids
What is this event? The Maharaka Festival: Blooming Mokokos will start alongside the update on August 24 and is intended to expand the currently ongoing summer festival. Therefore, it remains a summery event where you can compete against each other in quirky mini-games and earn rewards.
It will only be about new possibilities to earn the leaves of the Maharaka tree and buy rewards such as mounts and skins. We currently don’t know if the purchasable items will change or what new mini-games await you.
Old event returns: Additionally, the event guardian raids are returning to Arkesia. In this mode, you must defeat 3 guardians at once alone or in a group. However, you will receive special buffs and an event currency for doing so.
The event guardian raids had been in the game for some time and enjoyed great popularity. Many players should be looking forward to the fact that it is now returning.
New skins to match the pet ranch and for the future
What new skins are there? What the new skins are exactly called is currently hardly known. The only one mentioned by name in the preview is the Achatemiau sweater, which provides you with little wings and a tail. However, these are attached to a cozy sweater and aren’t necessarily summery.
Furthermore, the current blog entry includes an image that shows various cat ears and more summery skins that we can expect with the next update. We will show you both below. Additionally, Lost Ark shared a short video of the new outfits on Twitter.
Wingsuit Skins: Additionally, on August 24, a new skin series will come into the game that has nothing to do with companions or summer. These are the futuristic wingsuit skins. These are available for your armor as well as for your weapons.
Your mount can even turn into a cool motorcycle that could easily come from Cyberpunk. If you liked the continent Arthetine, you should also like the new skins. Along with the wingsuit and pet ranch skins, there is also a new costume for weapons that is more classic in style.
Furthermore, there are new skins for your fortress. There you can now build a futuristic racetrack where you can zoom around on your motorcycles. But don’t expect a racing game, it’s just skins.
Bug fixes and new restrictions
What will be fixed? In addition to the new features, there will also be some new bug fixes included in the update for the MMORPG. You will finally be able to use all power passes again. Last week, the free ones were reactivated, and this week the paid ones will follow.
However, these also come with some restrictions. If the highest gear score on your account is increased through a power pass, these restrictions apply, presumably as a protection against bots.
If your highest character is at gear score 460 and you buy and use a Punika power pass that boosts you to 1,302, you will have to live with the following restrictions for 72 hours:
- The gold payment request cannot be received
- Gold cannot be sent as a mail attachment
- Items cannot be sent as mail attachments
- Currency cannot be sent during a 1:1 trade
- Items cannot be offered during a 1:1 trade
- Items cannot be purchased or listed on the market
- Items cannot be bought, auctioned, or registered at the auction house
- You cannot participate in loot auctions
- Crystals cannot be purchased
You can chat again: Additionally, a number of bugs have been fixed that prevented you from participating in certain chats. Also, the Unas gold from daily quests is now available again as real currency rather than coins.
Previously, you had to click these coins individually, and some players complained that they had to click over 700 times. That is now also a thing of the past.
What do you think of the August update in Lost Ark? Are you excited about the pet ranch and will the update bring you back to the game? Many active fans are looking forward to the quieter August, as they have time to catch up to the current content, what do you think? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments here at MeinMMO.
