I'm back from Lost Ark

[TaleraRistain]

It is an ARPG yeah. The story is really bad.

Haha well that might turn me off a bit. I've been spoiled now by the story focus in XIV.

Huge Diablo fan, though. Does it feel like Diablo as others have said?

[Retrisar]

It is an ARPG yeah. The story is really bad.

It's less cheese than EW story to be fair. Nothing can be worse than that , especially moon part and yoshi obsession with bunny ppl in this expansion...
Monster design also seems to be more diverse and impressive compared to re-colours of same mobs from arr across all expansion.
And ALL Lost Ark cutscenes are fully voice acted.

Game might be pay to win... but ffxiv was forcing Hrothgar to buy fantasia to change hairstyles plus they having massive shop on website, so would say that SE is also greedy asf.

[Atelier-Bagur]

It's less cheese than EW story to be fair. Nothing can be worse than that , especially moon part and yoshi obsession with bunny ppl in this expansion...
Monster design also seems to be more diverse and impressive compared to re-colours of same mobs from arr across all expansion.
And ALL Lost Ark cutscenes are fully voice acted.

Game might be pay to win... but ffxiv was forcing Hrothgar to buy fantasia to change hairstyles plus they having massive shop on website, so would say that SE is also greedy asf.

Im sorry but Ive seen some of the cutscenes in Lost Ark and the character, writing/dialogue are just awfully generic and atrocious. Even current WoW's story is much more interesting that the odd generic mishmash of fantasy elements of the day.

[Retrisar]

Speaking about fight they more... dynamic

[Skiros]

Haha well that might turn me off a bit. I've been spoiled now by the story focus in XIV.

Huge Diablo fan, though. Does it feel like Diablo as others have said?

Not really at the endgame. The raids become more and more MMO-like, and start feeling like Ultimates.

[Ransu]

I feel like a game that had whales complaining that they have nothing to spend their money on is hard to describe as p2w.

What does that have to do with anything? You can power up your character with real money. That makes it p2w, end of story.

[TaleraRistain]

Not really at the endgame. The raids become more and more MMO-like, and start feeling like Ultimates.

What is there for someone who doesn't raid? Does it have a tradeskill system?

And ALL Lost Ark cutscenes are fully voice acted.

ESO voices everything too, but the drawback is it's the same 5 voices. Makes you forget who you're talking to sometimes. Voice acting is still pretty costly. I appreciate how characters in XIV get their own unique voices.

[Skiros]

What is there for someone who doesn't raid? Does it have a tradeskill system?



ESO voices everything too, but the drawback is it's the same 5 voices. Makes you forget who you're talking to sometimes. Voice acting is still pretty costly. I appreciate how characters in XIV get their own unique voices.

You would basically do everything minus the raids. So that's collecting Mokoko seeds (collectibles you find all over the open world), doing your dailies and weeklies (minus the raids), sailing events and do islands. Trade skills can be fun. They're pretty simple but they have a daily cap.

The islands are all very varied, and they're hit-or-miss. There are islands ranging from a Resident Evil themed island to an island with snowball fights. E.g.:

https://youtu.be/kBdWfUw8EaA?t=591

https://youtu.be/zzE695myxbo?t=233

It is really fun IMO. BUT you will finish them at some point and you will have nothing to do because vertical progression is gated by raids. I would only recommend players who don't want to raid to play Lost Ark if they are OK with not having the best gear and mostly doing horizontal progression. It's not a casual-friendly system. But if you don't care about your gear score that much I think casual players will have a good time. Just go in playing it for free then quit when you reach the point where you have to do raids and start grinding a shit ton (tier 3 and beyond).

[SturmChurro]

I didn't like Lost Ark combat at all when it takes like 10 seconds to even able to attack enemies as sorceress (or what the mage class is called when i haven't Lost Ark over month now) and sorceress base attack is useless due to extremely low damage.

I haven't tried any other class then with sorceress because i don't want grind like +50 hours just to max level and i already lost interest to play Lost Ark completely after playing it around 120 hours due to constant extrenely slow grind and other reasons.

Yes, yes i know, i only like playing bad casual MMO's and not liking true hardcore MMO games like Lost Ark.

As a sorceress main, were we playing the same game?

You literally could get two free powerpasses to boost two alt characters to tier 1, PLUS there was the knowledge* transfer system to boost more, and now they added another free ilvl 960 (tier 2) powerpass to the game. What do you even mean "+50 hours"?

[Theodric]

Yeah, Lost Ark actively encourages people to invest in multiple characters but it's very generous in terms of allowing people to have the tools to catch up with a second or even third character even if they tire of their 'main' or the initial class they chose doesn't click as well as they thought it would.

When the novelty of playing a berserker wore off for me, I decided to play something a little more twitchy - and settled on a deadeye. I caught up to my main character quite quickly and now consider my deadeye to be my new main character.