We are going to list all Lost Ark nerfs in one post, let’s dive into details together. While the major update for Lost Ark is scheduled to be released later this month, a lot of player conversation has focused on the introduction of tier 1 and tier 2 endgame re-balancing.
We know that Abyssal Dungeons and Guardian Raids in Lost Ark are going to be nerfed. Hardcore players who invested large quantities of time and effort into the game were furious that its difficulty was being reduced for the sake of casuals, but there were also a lot of people defending Guardian Raids arguing that they don’t have to be as time-consuming as they currently are.
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All Lost Ark nerfs
In their official blog post, Lost Ark team stated that:
“In other regions, players had to stay in Tier 1 and 2 for a considerable duration, as Tier 3 had not yet been released. With the amount of time spent in these stages of the game, players had a long time to study the patterns and mechanics of the Guardians and Demons they encountered— leaving only a few monsters that ended up posing as challenging hurdles for them.”
The western version of Lost Ark included three levels of endgame activities. The first two tiers of the western edition were intended to serve as a gentle introduction to what comes next. However, that’s not how it turned out.
“With the different purpose of Tier 1 and Tier 2 in our regions, there were some overly difficult Guardians and Abyssal Dungeon encounters left behind. This balance update isn’t about simply adjusting the difficulty as whole. Rather, the focus is to improve some of the difficult patterns to better prepare players as they progress through each Tier and work their way toward Tier 3 endgame content.”
The actual Lost Ark nerfs aren’t nearly as calamitous as many had predicted. Many of them merely adjust the amount of damage caused by certain attacks or alter attack routines, rather than being major overhauls.
These are the officially released Lost Ark nerfs:
ABYSSAL DUNGEONS
ANCIENT ELVERIA
- Necromancer’s Origin
- Improved player forgiveness during the orb phase when trying to defeat Sigmund during Stage 2 of Necromancer’s Origin.
- Improved the visual effect of Sigmund’s color wave to make it more clear to players.
PHANTOM PALACE
- Hall of the Twisted Warlord
- Made a change to the Phantom Legion King attack pattern and Phantom Cut debuff stack that is applied to the character.
- Updated the Phantom Legion King Illusion Sword summon attack pattern.
- As the swords follow the players, if a player receives two stacks they will incur damage and upon reaching three stacks, they will die.
- Hildebrandt Palace
- Decreased the amount of damage required for the Stagger phase when Ephernia appears in Stage 3 of Hildebrandt Palace.
- Increased the Phantom Energy effect range from the Meteormechanicduring Stage 3.
- Changed the attack shape of the second Meteormechanicfrom a circle to a front attack during Stage 3.
GATE OF PARADISE
- Sea of Indolence
- Increased the warning time for the omen attack in Stage 2 of Sea of Indolence.
- Changed Indolence Sentinel Akam’s attack from a wipe mechanic to a high damage attack in Stage 2 of Sea of Indolence.
GUARDIAN RAIDS
Vertus
- Removed the stun debuff that was applied when players were hit by the tail swing attack.
- Decreased the damage dealt by several attacks:
- Jumping out of the ice.
- Grabbing a player and breathing ice fire.
Nacrasena
- Decreased the damage dealt by several attacks:
- Tail attack after thumping the ground with tail.
- Jumping out of the ground.
- Lightning projectiles.
Flame Fox Yoho
- Reduced the duration of Flame Fox Yoho’s Flame Ground attack.
- Decreased Flame Fox Yoho’s HP.
- Reduced the effect of the Burning Soul ability.
- Decreased the damage dealt by several attacks:
- Throwing Fox fires.
- Jump forward and claw attacks.
- Jump upward and claw attacks.
Tytalos
- Decreased the duration of Tytalos’ Circle of Spalling rock attack.
- Changed Tytalos’ attack that collects sand energy and explodes from a wipe mechanic to a high-damage attack.
- Decreased the damage dealt by Tytalos’ earth explosion attacks.
Achates
- Modified Guardian Achates summon statue pattern to always summon four Guardian Statues.
- Decreased the damage required to apply Weak Point to Achates.
- To keep Achates challenging in Trial Guardian Raids, that encounter will not have these changes – but more on that in a future update!
Lava Chromanium
- Decreased the damage dealt by the lava eruption attack used by Lava Chromanium when becoming Berserk.
Levanos
- Decreased the damage required to apply Weak Point* to Levanos.
- *Weak Point is a mechanic which requires players to break a part of the enemy (such as shields, shells, wings etc.) or target a specific area with abilities and battle items marked with the ‘Destruction’ keyword.
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Alberhastic
- Reduced Alberhastic’s beneficial effect that was granted when obtaining the Heat Orb.
- Changed the wipe mechanic to a high-damage attack.
The patch will also include several bug fixes and modifications to how matchmaking works. The update will be live tonight, with a projected downtime of six hours starting at 10PM PST/5AM AEST/6AM UTC. These are all Lost Ark nerfs you need to know about.
