Pre LOA ON talk: Hopes & Copes  

my personal wish list (though I know none of it is happening): - being able to play more raids on your main - support rework and maybe a new support class (right now playing support feels like glue eating, bible does make it a bit more fun, but it's not enough) - engine update

Shoot, I unpaused and the next thing was "let me know what you're looking for." Well, I expect the solo content coming within the month. I'm hoping it's coming within the month for us as well, and that the lower abyssals also have solo capabilities so I can maybe get my final LoS card before I pop my selectors. My hopium that'll only maybe happen way down the line is that I want 4 player versions of 8 player raids. Expecting G1 ivory gone; hoping for roster workload reduction that isn't just slashing gates...even though I won't likely adhere to the 6 character limit, I rather have people not feel bad if they can't. Although with solo content, 6 character limit might not be out of my reach anymore. Rework of elixirs--get rid of purples. Make it easier to get your elixir set--make one selectable. The only other thing I really want for this game is on the AGS side though, and that's perma bans for RMTers.

I understand your take on transcendence and agree fully. the problem with unlocking is as follows: i got to 1630 this week, and just to do G1 and G2 i had to wait in lobby for about 4hours (and no im not exagerating) and make a party for first time HM. Now, usually this would be fine but the problem is, supports are so rare on this Ilvl that most of the time, they just get into "lvl7 transcendent lobbies". So as fun as it sounds. im gatekept by not having lvl7 transcendent (unlocked by clearing G3HM). Should i wait for 4 more hours just to probably disband because G3 is actually very hard for casual players? Hell i wouldnt even buy a bus to progress once, since its literally 240k gold, aint no way im wasting that kind of gold just because the community cant help one player at the time, since dmg is not a problem usually. So either Amazon doesnt care or they dont play their game. We know there is giga gatekeep by players (if u dont clear new content on first week u are bound to have a really hard time) and 1630 is impossible to get as f2p if u didnt play since launch grinding everyday. They know the ammount of players in this Ilvl is minimal, therefore they should know that "new" players getting to 1630 will either get "cancer" or give up the game. So making this unlock sistem, according to our hyper rush into latest korean content is just pathetic in my opinion.

Lost ark 2 on a engine newer than UE3 when?

No matter what they announce, it's still gonna feel frustrating. They went so crazy on these timegates and paywalls, the avarage player is already expecting global servers to fail.

4:39 - Pretty much. I think even since last LOAON they had the third awakening scheduled for September for 'all 26 classes'. Counting 26 classes would have included the newly launched Breaker, so chances are they knew that any new class after that would have to have the third awakening built in. Better to introduce the system and then build future classes with it in mind rather than introduce a new class before the system's release and have extra work to add stuff in when you already have 26 other classes to do.

Hard W of hopes and copes. The thing about this stuff is that it could all be implemented realistically. Without the destruction of the current systems. Everything could be altered within the current system to make it so much more enjoyable to interact with. In truth, we need our own loaon for the west because our game and problems are different from KR’s. But that is WAY too much copium haha

I want a full party finder overhaul. I dont mean gatekeeping. This UI is driving me insane. It takes 5+ button presses to set up the filter. The search button has a 3 second cooldown, while pressing enter in the search field is instant. What's the point of the cooldown then. Why cant we search for more than 1 raid at once? Cycling through raids having to set up the filter every time is such a pain. I apply to so many lobbies sometimes that i forget who denied me. I have to use the block list just to remove them from the party finder. Let me hide lobbies or players. At the very least let me block without having to type the name or report them. Sorting by lobby count only resets when you click out of the raid you are looking for. The keyword filter is was a nice addition, but the UI hasn't been updated in so long. For something that we use multiple times per day in a given week, it is the most cumbersome menu in the entire game. We waste so much time because looking for groups is so bad.

I really dislike transcendence locked behind G3 hard. It is terrible design unless the next raid resets the game (which isn’t going to happen), because otherwise every raid will require full transcendence after Behemoth (a pass can happen there due to how easy it is per KR). Beyond the above change, reducing required dark fires by half (hell by a quarter would be great!) would be nice to not lock all characters behind 6 months of normal Thaemine clears. For elixirs, anything to make 5/5 more obtainable or lower set bonus to 30/35 is enough for me.

Yeah , you SHOULD be sorry for not be doomer enough !! lol

I do not expect anything from LOAON that can address the issues on the global release of the game. The game's population keeps crashing and people are leaving ship, unless there will be a massive overall, I'm not going back either. Nobody ask them to make it an actual F2P game, we are only asking to dial down from 3000% to something around 2500% that allows us to do something else than just playing the game day and night to keep up, doesn't seem like too much to ask but would am I kidding. I love this game, I hate how much I enjoy playing it but we got to a point where if the game finally shut down because of greed and massive mismanagement, I'm absolutely at peace with it.

Every time I see doom posts/comments, I always think about my time on Vindictus and how "dead" that game is. Considering how bad the old enhance and enchant system was, compared to where it was 2 years and 4 months ago (haven't really played against since Lost Ark came out) I don't worry TOO much about Lost Ark being shut down. That game is still alive with a relatively small but dedicated group of players still playing. Some whale, but a lot of them don't spend but once in a blue moon--and when they do, it's for outfits. Still, I'm always hopeful that they address more issues within Lost Ark, as I'd rather it be thriving than just simply existing. Sucks to hear they're support shortage deniers.