Is Lost Ark worth your time? (Review)
Lost Ark is one of the few remaining hyped AAA MMORPGs, but is it worth your time? I have been playing the game a lot since OBT started in November, and I made this video to help you determine whether its worth your attention and hope.
This is basically a big overview + review based on the most current form of the game. (Lost Ark Review 2019)
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0:56 Starting Choices
1:34 Feel of the game
2:01 Combat
2:20 Crowd control in Boss fights
3:00 Environments & mob variance
3:25 World travel
4:00 Attention to Details
5:05 One Detractor of Game Feel “Trash Mobs”
5:55 Leveling
6:45 Group Dynamics While Leveling
7:29 Story Quests
8:10 Is Lost Ark like traditional ARPG’s?
8:50 Endgame Progression
9:45 Gear Progression
10:06 Armor
11:10 Upgrading System
11:42 Runes
12:28 Accessories
12:56 Ability Stone
14:10 Ring Inscriptions
14:40 Ability Power Ups on Armor
15:13 Skillpoints & Tripod System
16:32 Additional Content Types
18:17 Crafting/Lifeskilling + Battle Items
19:13 Platinum Fields (Crafter Dungeon)
20:29 Hunting Battle Items (Flares + Food)
21:18 Typical Gameplay Loop (From Raiding Perspective)
24:07 My Problems with Endgame
24:16 ILVL is King
24:45 No Real Sense of a Drop
25:57 Stat Re-Rolling Takes Away Drop Excitement
26:21 Gating executed poorly
28:15 Daily Loading & FOMO Mechanics
29:15 Non-Challenging Content Too Rewarding & Mandatory
30:30 “”“You Don’t Have To Play Efficiently”””
33:09 Anti-social Phenomenon of Lost Ark
34:00 Game’s Inherent Systems Cause Segmentation
34:52 The many reasons you probably won’t play with your group
37:26 Game just doesn’t allow you to play the full game
39:42 Some possibly simple fixes
40:03 Under-utilization of it’s own world
41:10 PvP
41:45 3v3 relay arena
42:05 Team 3v3
42:53 Crowd control
44:10 Disparity in tools ‘
44:50 Most high skill cap classes also have really low skill floor
45:04 Devs currently addressing symptoms
45:20 They finally decided to split PvE & PvP balance
46:02 Conclusion
Credit to Steparu - / steparutv "Since I borrowed some of his gameplay clips, for areas I was missing."