Finally reached the endgame, but what’s next? Quests, dungeons, upgrading gear, or maybe sailing? You definitely shouldn’t miss these activities in Lost Ark.
1. Continue the story in North Vern
To progress in Lost Ark, you need to keep advancing the story. The first act leads you to Castle Vern and is the quickest way to reach level 50.
But that’s not where the story ends. After all, you have only found three Arks and brought them to Trixion. Four are still missing.
Here’s what’s next:
- When you leave Vern, it gets icy. You sail north towards Shushire. The quests there take a total of about two to three hours, and you will receive the gear for item level 302 afterwards. Alternatively, you can, of course, upgrade your equipment in Castle Vern.
- Next, the plan is to raise the item level to 460 and move to the western continent of Rohendel. There, too, you should continue with the quests. You can only start chaos dungeons in Rohendel once you have completed the quests.
- With item level 600, you continue to Yorn. There, you raise your item level to 960.
- For 960 to 1100, you sail further to Fayton.
- The (for now) last continent is Punika. There, you will be at item level 1100 and above.
2. Complete squad quests
At level 50, you will receive numerous squad quests that you can and should complete. They provide experience for your entire squad, meaning the level for all your characters on the server. For each level, you unlock rewards in the squad menu (hotkey O).
- The quests are marked in purple; some you need to accept from NPCs, but most appear on their own.
- Among them are some that have [Advisor] before their names.
- Then you just need to read a bit or have someone explain it to you and can directly try out what you learned.
To enter chaos dungeons or guardian raids, you need to first complete the corresponding squad quests.
Also, to use your two free power passes, you need to complete the corresponding squad quest once you reach level 50. It’s called “Ealyn’s Gift.” With the power pass, you can then boost two more characters in your squad directly to level 50.
3. Choose engravings
Most classes in Lost Ark can choose from two class engravings. You decide on one of them and thereby select your playstyle for your character’s future.
For the Shadowhunter, for example, you decide whether you want to focus entirely on the demon mode or leave it out to perfect the normal attacks.
In addition to class engravings, there are combat engravings. These are identical for all classes.
- To level your engravings, you use the class or combat engraving books that you have received throughout the game.
- To bring an engraving to level 1, you must read 20 of the green books, then the blue and purple books. You can find out how this works in our engraving guide.
You can improve certain aspects with them but also degrade them. Therefore, in the endgame, it’s essential to choose the right ones for your character. Maxroll has build guides for every class, detailing the most sensible engraving combinations.
4. Complete adventure tomes
Press N to open your adventure tome. By completing the main quests, you will fill about 10-20% on each continent and receive some rewards, such as potions or collectible cards.
If you reach higher percentages, there are additional items to collect on the continent. For example, you may have missed a mount, rare cards, or decoration for your stronghold.
If you want to play Lost Ark with a focus on completion, you should take the time to revisit some maps.
Bosses, viewpoints, dungeons on both difficulty levels, triports, relationships, and collectibles should be completed to receive valuable rewards.
All over Lost Ark, you will encounter NPCs with whom you can build relationships. At launch, there are more than 70 of them. Through gifts, emotes, quests, and songs, you gain reputation and will be rewarded by the NPCs in the end. However, you have a limited number of relationship actions available each day.
Additionally, you will surely still find a few Mokokos that you left behind during your first run. Papunika provides you with an interactive map to easily locate Mokokos, bosses, and hidden side quests.
As a final reward, for 100% of the adventure tome, you receive the Ignea mark of the continent. In capitals, you can exchange these marks for further rewards, such as a mount, a rune, or a skill potion.
5. Sailing
You receive your boat around level 40 to sail to the next continent. Along the way, you will pass many small islands where you can dock. By the endgame, you should visit these islands and complete the quests, as they provide upgrade materials, maps, and other useful rewards.
On each of the islands, you will experience unique little stories, some of which are very cute. For example, the Panda-Pupu Island is an absolute must.
Additionally, from level 50, events will appear in the top left, as you can only visit some islands at specific times. For example, sometimes a little deathmatch takes place among all present players on Death Grip Island.
The islands are useful for quickly reaching a higher item level. You will reach 460 very quickly through island rewards.
Don’t forget to upgrade and regularly repair your ship.
6. Chaos dungeons and guardian raids
You can enter chaos dungeons and guardian raids as soon as you reach Castle Vern and complete the respective advisor quests. You start chaos dungeons at a statue in the north of the map, and guardian raids at the bulletin board behind it.
While you face many monsters in the chaos dungeon, in the guardian raid, you encounter a single strong boss. There are stronger bosses that you can select as opponents if you have a higher item level.
In the chaos dungeon, you can bring simple healing potions and use as many as you need. You can also die as often as you want. In the guardian raid, however, only combat potions are allowed. These are the ones that heal a specific percentage of HP. Additionally, only three deaths are allowed in your group overall.
You enter the fight with up to four players and can farm loot, especially upgrade material, twice a day. You can start chaos dungeons more often, but you will only receive perception fragments and crystals of disorder then. These can be traded with an NPC near the statue.
We recommend completing chaos dungeons and guardian raids daily. It’s worth it.
7. Abyss dungeons
In the endgame, there are 13 different abyss dungeons to complete, the first one with item level 340 and the last two with 1370. Each dungeon can be completed once per character per week.
You will be rewarded with gold, engraving manuals, and items that increase weapon and gear upgrade chances. The drops are great, but the dungeons are particularly challenging.
Just like chaos dungeons and guardian raids, you can start the abyss dungeons in the north of Castle Vern. Enter them with a group of four players.
As in guardian raids, you may only use combat potions in abyss dungeons and no simple healing potions.
8. The Tower
You tackle the tower alone in Lost Ark. At item level 302, you can enter and fight your way up level by level. You will either face multiple enemies or a boss.
With the higher levels, you need a higher item level:
- Floor 1: Item level 302
- Floor 5: Item level 340
- Floor 10: Item level 380
- Floor 15: Item level 400
- Floor 20: Item level 420
- Floor 25: Item level 440
- Floor 30: Item level 460
- Floor 35: Item level 480
- Floor 40: Item level 500
- Floor 45: Item level 520
- Floor 50: Item level 540
As in guardian raids, you may not use normal healing potions, only the combat potions that heal a specific percentage of HP. Also, if you die, you must leave the tower.
If you leave the tower, whether through death or voluntarily, you will receive rewards for all completed levels. On the lower levels, for example, you will gather card packs.
9. Collect card decks
You receive collectible cards from the very beginning in Lost Ark, but they only become interesting in the endgame. You get them from quests, in the adventure tome, in combat, and through many other means.
You can equip up to six cards in your card deck. Certain combinations, i.e., complete decks, provide your character with bonuses. The effects are activated after two, three, four, and six set pieces.
Now you should decide or check online which deck is the most sensible for you. Then you can start collecting all the cards of that deck. Some, however, are very expensive.
You can also upgrade your card set and add a so-called awakening to it. For this, you need additional copies of the collectible card and generate card experience this way. For a maximum upgrade, you need to collect the card 15 times. If you want to read more about this, check out our guide to collectible cards.
10. Expand housing further
Already at levels 26-28, you receive your own island, your stronghold, and thus unlock housing in Lost Ark.
In the lab, you research expansions and new recipes that you can then craft in the workshop. These include potions that you would otherwise have to buy in the auction house for gold. It’s worth using housing to save gold.
You can also send your sailors on expeditions from the island. They return with rewards, such as pirate coins.
Once you reach level 50 and use the power pass, additional characters in the stronghold can engage in what is known as “training.” This is a type of automatic leveling, so you don’t have to level every twink to the max level of 60 yourself. Leveling becomes very time-consuming after level 50.
Also interesting are the merchants that arrive on your island and stay for a few hours. They offer different items, such as sailors for your expeditions or new recipes. The merchants can be paid with seals you earned through NPC missions.
11. Unas Tasks
Unas Tasks are daily and weekly quests in Lost Ark that you unlock in Vern at level 50. You can complete three quests daily and weekly each. The reset for dailies is at 11:00 AM, and the weekly quests reset on Thursdays.
The quests vary greatly and can be chosen based on what you are already doing. This way you don’t have to put in much effort and can kill two birds with one stone. You can also complete Unas Tasks with multiple characters.
12. Chaos Portals
Chaos portals are only available at certain times and will be displayed to you in the top left at events starting from level 50. The locations of the chaos portals are spread throughout Arkesia. Each portal opens once a week.
Together with about 30 players, you proceed through the portal and will be teleported to a map where you must search for and defeat one boss after another. Rewards include chaos fragments, the rune Rage, and treasure maps.
At the end, the boss drops a legendary treasure map, which is auctioned for gold among all participants.
13. Life Skills and World Tree Leaves
To craft the items for the endgame, you need materials. You obtain these through life skills, often referred to as professions in other games.
Life skills are the crafting abilities you learn at levels 24-26. These include mining, logging, hunting, gathering, fishing, and excavating.
The levels of the tools range from tier 1 to tier 5. You have probably already bought the green tier-1 tools from the merchant. Starting from tier 2, you need to craft them yourself.
Additionally, you receive so-called world tree leaves when performing crafting activities. You can exchange these with the NPC Chapman, and for every six leaves, you receive a reward. These include a crafting skill XP potion, a title, the ability to transform into a rabbit (Yes, really! You can choose whether blue or pink!), and other rewards.
With these 13 activities, you have plenty to do in the endgame. Which of them have you already tried, and what was new for you? Do you prefer going into dungeons and raids, or do you sail around relaxing and improving your life skills in the process? Feel free to let us know in the comments here on meinMMO!
