Lost Ark 2024 Roadmap Surfaces, Includes the Breaker Class
Dec. 18, 2023Next year’s updates for Lost Ark will be packing a punch! Yesterday, on December 18th, Roxx, the community manager, presented the four-month roadmap for the MMO. In collaboration with product manager Andy Lin and editorial head Henry Stelter, they discussed many highlights of what’s to come. Do note that the nearly 20-minute presentation is labeled as “Part 1”, so there’s more that they’re keeping quiet, at least for now.
What’s new, and what’s coming? What can Lost Ark fans expect to see from January through April? More after the jump!
Just like other Inferno tier difficulty raids, players won’t be getting gear or upgrade materials. Instead, emerging victorious through this challenge will award players with coveted titles, achievements, and stronghold decorations which will let the best Lost Ark players shine bright above the rest. Perfect for flaunting your skills!
Player levels and gear will also be equalized so that each group who attempts this difficulty will be on an equal playing field, removing gear from the equation and proving just who is the very best in Lost Ark.
It’s surreal to think that Lost Ark has had its Western version for almost two years now and that it will be celebrating its second anniversary in February. If Lost Ark were a toddler, it would be running around by now. But instead, we’ve had tons of content and even new “catch-up” servers sprinkled into the mix for returning players.
As a celebration, Lost Ark players will be getting a new Arkesia Festival event that will have some new co-op activities that players can partake in. The festivities look to be rotating, ensuring that things will be kept fun, fresh, and unpredictable as they journey through Arkesia. There aren’t any drop tables or other info available, but Roxx did confirm that the Western anniversary will be getting Year 2 Skins alongside the Year 5 skins that Korea just received.
Now instead of rewarding players, Valtan will also be returning to punish them with even more flame and fury. The Valtan Extreme mode difficulty will be introduced which will have Normal and Hard modes (so Extreme-Normal, and Extreme-Hard. Makes sense).
Just announced recently on theLOAWinter Showcase in Korea was the new Breaker class. The Breaker is a subset of the Martial Artist and looks to be a male version of the Scrapper. However, just like theSlayerand the Berserker under the Warrior class, these two will only share some similarities but will ultimately play quite differently from each other.
Breakers are adept at breaking faces and punching heads. They use massively oversized gauntlets, but are very agile and mobile, and can strike things a hundred times over before the foe even realizes what’s happening.
Also happening in the Lost Ark March update is the “Light of Destiny” set of main story quests. These will introduce the next chapters of the game and will essentially close off the first arc of the game. Maybe we will finally find the Lost Ark? Lastly, there will be prequel quests that will introduce the next Legion Commander raid, Thaemine.
It is also worth noting that Thaemine will be released in his original difficulty, that is to say in the state that he was originally released in the Korean version. No nerfs here, as he will be operating at peak strength. A difficulty adjustment patch will be introduced later down the line to bring him more in line with what’s currently implemented in Korea.
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Auberon
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