Don't mind me talking into the aether, I feel like Lost Ark doesn't have much of a presence or fandom here on Tumblr. But this game is my current hyperfocus.
I played it back in 2021 on my laptop and I didn't enjoy it. But now I've had a gaming PC for a few years and Lost Ark was still in my Steam library, so I thought, Why not see how it runs this time? It's free, after all. Not like I'm risking any money.
Valkyrie had come out which is THE class for luring me into playing a game, by preying on my love for Valkyrie Profile. She is my main now. I had originally started with a Bard but that was a mistake being a brand-new player starting with a support class. I still wanted to have an elf so I made a Sorceress this time around and she is much more my speed by having ice skills like my D2R sorceress. Then I saw the Guardianknight reveal and I was like, FFXIV Dragoon but make her tanky? Sold. I'm about to make an Assassin, too, since I heard they got some balancing updates.
I should probably point out that I'm not even at endgame yet, I've only just reached Shushire with Valk. But completing the first phase of the Arkesia tour was very satisfying, and unlocking chaos dungeons and guardian raids gave me a big ilvl boost with gear that I was not expecting. I don't have the full Shining Knight spec since I decided to dps for story, but I'm thinking I'll switch to the Liberator support build when I do reach endgame because there'll be three other dps in my roster. I hope Liberator feels like a mashup of XIV White Mage and Paladin, which is exactly what I want.
Side note: I was able to convince my boyfriend to install the game, so my Sorc and his Artillerist are going through the story together.
I would like to through shade at whoever (I think it was some idiot who used to be in my FC) initially told me that Lost Ark wasn't quite an arpg or an mmo, because he was wrong. Wrong af, even. Lost Ark plays exactly like a mashup of XIV and Diablo 3. It's just missing orbs for life and MP, which honestly would be preferable to the bars because orbs look better and are easier to see. Even Grim Dawn is converting their life and energy bars into orbs before Fangs of Asterkarn.
Anyway, very enjoyable play experience with Lost Ark so far. The story is hella basic (collect Things to save the world) but I like the variety of classes and their expression, the landscape design is beautiful, the music is actually quite good and always appropriate, and the sailing system feels fun and unique. I like having a ton of collectibles to hunt down, and the achievements feel rewarding. Although, somehow, I already have a bunch that less than 5% of players have, and less than 1% for some of them. That's wild to me.
If anyone would like to say hi, I'm Lynnyth on the Nineveh server.
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