In Lost Ark, the Arcanist made her debut in July. This is a mage class that brings chance as its central gameplay mechanic. Therefore, it is considered one of the most complex and difficult characters to play in the MMORPG. So difficult that fans built their own game to better understand her.
What kind of game is this? The Arcanist is indeed the newest and one of the hardest classes in Lost Ark, but you can start a separate game to practice. That’s exactly what a user on Reddit took on and quickly built a browser-based mini-game to help you play your Arcanist better.
The fast card magician relies on chance as the central gameplay mechanic. You never know which cards you will draw next and must respond accordingly. To be optimally prepared for each scenario, you can train in the browser game.
There, you select a card and must then input your combo. You will only see whether the entered combination of skills for this card was correct after you have completely typed it in. You can also change your key bindings both in the browser and on mobile so that the skills integrate properly into your motor memory.
You can try the game yourself at pages.dev/arcanist.
How does the game know what is correct? In the background, the web application accesses a whole collection of guides for the Arcanist. These guides are linked accordingly, and you can read them at any time if you need help or want to prepare.
Based on these guides, the game also directly offers you optimization options, thereby helping you learn the Arcanist better.
The Arcanist is one of the hardest classes in Lost Ark
Why do you need such a tool? The Arcanist is considered one of the hardest and most complex classes that Lost Ark has to offer. The entire class mechanic is based on a principle of chance that must be understood and responded to.
She draws from a pool of a total of 13 different cards, each bringing different effects and thus influencing and somewhat determining your next moves. You cannot see in advance, or only to a limited extent, which card will be next. So you must always be prepared to adapt.
Sounds difficult, but it’s even harder: Now your class itself already presents such a difficult mechanic to you, but that’s not all. An Arcanist is expected to deal a lot of damage and to keep an eye on the respective bosses at all times.
In a real fight, you have no opportunity to look at your skills and consider what you could do next. Every combo of the 13 possible cards must hit, and that’s exactly where the tool helps you.
A precise guide on how to properly play the difficult class has also been prepared for you.
In the trailer, you see the Arcanist:
“This is so freaking cool”
How does the community react? The creator of the tool shared his browser game on Reddit and quickly gained a lot of attention. So the post received 300 upvotes and over 40 comments within a few hours.
There, the developer received, along with some bug reports, a lot of positive feedback. People are excited that they can now practice even outside of Lost Ark and simply find it cool that a fan put in so much work.
The reactions to the tool and the work of the user are overwhelmingly positive and inspire the creator to build even more such tools or to work on a real game.
What do fans say? At this point, we would like to share some comments with you so that you can get a sense of the mood. They all come from the Reddit thread where the inventor introduces his tool.
- Shadourow writes: “Dear sir, you are insane. The whole website is insane. You deserve so much good for that!”
- Xardas says: “The tool is just incredible”
- SireDinosaurus writes: “This is so freaking cool”
- WustTheShaman writes: “Thank you for making this. This is really cool”
What do you think of the mini-game? Do you have an Arcanist and will you use the tool in the future to learn? Feel free to let us know in the comments here on MeinMMO.
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