The new MMORPG Lost Ark is almost here, and many people are still wondering if the game will remain exciting for them in the long run. We from MeinMMO take a look at the endgame and tell you what is particularly worth it there.
How can you get to the endgame the fastest? In Lost Ark, the leveling process usually doesn’t take too long. You quickly reach the soft cap of level 50, but getting to level 60 takes a bit longer. However, this is hardly relevant for many endgame contents.
The fastest way to reach this is by playing through the normal story campaign and completing some side quests and events along the way. You won’t need much more to reach level 50. The last 10 levels to 60 will be quite a grind.
Why should you enjoy it the first time? Take your time with your first character and explore everything you want to explore. There are no deviations in the story and leveling process of Lost Ark.
If you create a new character, you will experience exactly the same thing again. Having multiple characters is important for the endgame and sometimes even essential. You will rush through the story enough to reach level 50.
Activity 1 – Chaos Dungeons
What should you do first? You should complete the first quest series in the new level 50 area as quickly as possible to unlock the first important endgame activity, which is particularly worthwhile, namely the Chaos Dungeons.
What are Chaos Dungeons? Chaos Dungeons are the first of three particularly important endgame activities and the first opportunity to improve your gear score. In the dungeons, you will face waves of enemies that you must defeat.
There you will receive randomly generated loot. So it is rather tedious to improve your gear score this way, but it is the first chance you have to maximize it.
You can complete these dungeons twice a day per character. So if you want to spend a lot of time in the dungeons, it is already worthwhile to have more than one character over level 50.
You can see a complete Chaos Dungeon here:
Activity 2 – The Guardian Raids
How can you improve your gear score further? Once you have completed the quest line of the first level 50 continent, you can directly proceed to the next. For completing the quests on this continent, you will receive a complete gear set.
This gear already has a relatively high gear score and in most cases is an upgrade for your equipment. You will need this as well to face the next of the three particularly important endgame activities – the Guardian Raids.
What are Guardian Raids? To participate in Guardian Raids, you always need a certain gear score. This score is different for each Guardian Raid, and the various raids become correspondingly tougher.
In the Guardian Raids, which you conquer in a group of 4 players, you must defeat a specific boss. You have 20 minutes for this boss, and when he falls, there are good rewards. These are not random, like in the Chaos Dungeons, but somewhat predetermined in a pool.
Just like the Chaos Dungeons, you can complete two Guardian Raids per day per character. Again, having a second character in the endgame is beneficial.
You can see one of the Guardian Raids in this video:
Activity 3 – The Void Dungeons
What are Void Dungeons? Unlike Chaos Dungeons and Guardian Raids, you can only do the particularly difficult Void Dungeons three times a week, no matter how many characters you have.
Void Dungeons are really difficult PvE content, where you have to battle your way through tough dungeons in a group while gradually learning the mechanics of the bosses.
It’s completely normal for you to fail more often than win at the beginning. The Void Dungeons are hard and require practice, but they also bring you the best rewards and a sense of triumph when you can conquer them.
You can see a clip from a Void Dungeon here:
For all of these activities, there are also daily and weekly quests that you can easily take along while playing. These quests provide additional rewards on top of the already good rewards from the activities. Among other things, you can obtain rare emeralds from the quests that help you improve your gear score.
What else is there to do?
The PvP is fun but doesn’t yield much: Of course, you can also dive into PvP once you are level 50 and have reached the endgame. However, fighting against other players hardly advances your character, but it is a lot of fun.
You fight in PvP with normalized equipment, meaning that no one has an advantage due to better gear. You will then face each other in various game modes and fight for victory.
There are also daily and weekly quests for PvP, but besides those, the rewards in player-versus-player mode are scarce.
The Adventure Island: Events take place regularly on the Adventure Island, in which you can participate and thus earn a few rewards. These activities, which are usually more fun, can only be completed once a day.
Flirt for your life: Five times a day you can interact with certain NPCs and thus improve your relationship with them. Depending on the NPC, this varies. Some you must reveal your feelings to, others you will need to sing a song to. Others want gifts from you.
No matter what they want, you can give it to them up to 5 times a day and receive a better relationship with them in return. The better your relationship is, the more rewards they will give you.
Exploration is also worthwhile: At the beginning of Lost Ark, you receive your Adventure Journal. You can fill this step by step by visiting special places, defeating special bosses, and finding the hidden Mokoko seeds in the world.
As the book fills up, you will gradually receive more rewards. So it is definitely worth paying a little more attention to the world around you.
Reputation quests yield big rewards: Similar to the daily and weekly quests, you can expect reputation quests. You should always keep an eye on these special tasks as they provide you with many rewards when you level up your reputation.
You will find them in the same window as the weekly and daily tasks. The extra click here can give you a significant advantage.
What about life skills and housing? For life skills, like chopping wood, mining stones, or fishing, you only have limited energy. You start with a total of 10,000 energy for these activities.
However, you only recharge 4,320 of those points within 24 hours. If you want to farm as efficiently as possible, you should make sure to use at least 4,320 points each day so that you always start the new day with maximum possibilities.
It is similar with your island. You also have limited energy there to perform tasks or send your people on missions. Here you can consume about 1,500 a day, which then recharges in 24 hours.
For maximum yield, you should also take care of your island daily. Exciting loot awaits you here as well.
PvE slaughter without dungeon: Once per day per character, you can also face the powerful field bosses. These are particularly strong enemies that simply appear somewhere in the world. However, you need several players to take them down. And a whole lot of time.
The rewards from the bosses are adjusted to the level of the area. So it is only somewhat beneficial to defeat a level 20 boss at level 60, but it is fun.
The ghost ship, a PvE event that you can do once a week, also brings fun, rewards, and slaughter.
Abyssal Dungeons and Legion Raids: The new content introduced in our version with the update to Tier 3 only comes at the end of the endgame, as you need a relatively high gear score to play them. Briefly described, the two modes are similar to what you already know from raids and dungeons – only harder and better.
What would you say, do you like the outlook on the endgame of Lost Ark or is there not really anything here that appeals to you? Have you perhaps already played the Russian version and have some suggestions on what else to do after reaching level 50? Feel free to write it to us in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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