Shxlly_o: "He wanted to come up with more hype contents for this LOA-ON" Yea i got so hyped and now i am getting hyped to edge the uninstall button XD!

Fasse187: Thank you Memo.

roflret: The main problem I have with the 'only play one character' point is that it's super hard to learn the raids when you can only experience them a single time every week.

Then you either get gatekept cause you dont have the 10x title week 2 or you are holding your friends back cause you haven't fully learned the normal patterns that end up taking too much healing or just killing you.

lucianohenrique3057: For me, this LOA ON was a huge W.

People complain about having to actually play the game, which honestly makes no sense to me.

It feels like most of the players who quit or constantly complain about the current state of the game want something closer TrinityS—where you pick a class, choose your skills, and jump straight into raids bosses with no progression or grinding involved.

Then they get upset when other players who put in the effort every day are ahead of them.

That mindset just doesn't make sense to me.

leadsolo007: arcana hackers can continue living the vida loca?

cherwelyong6209: I am laughing while I saw that shibal at the Flex Raid point. Hahahaha

Jean-christopheLoubes: Nice job thks Memo

gracz737: honing gauntlet doesnt increase ilvl but require mats interesting, maybe it should be only done when a player lack CP? honing gauntlet at some point is better than honing weapon? same with armor and you cant do it infinitely because you need raid mats. it might work then as good CP to gold spent for players that dont wanna push to higher difficulty and just do normal mode or for players that lack CP and have left only expensive upgrades.

jrzlz: Newclass femboy ayaya

desrowfighting: Thank you for the recap king <3

moading: OH MY GOD IS THIS REAL?

K55K75: W - no horizontal content

W - new raid content

W - 3 difficultys forward

LL - new porg system

L - more JG simulator (while JG is still locked on controllstick on controller...)

missing - synergie rework

missing - details about balance

unluckyman214: Doomers be like:

I didnt get what I wanted therefore this loa on on is bad!

LOOOOOOL

LuxAbortera: This was a win for community. Thank you so much for the video detective memochad

leadsolo007: Vambrace will use 4.5 but destruction or guardian stones (red or blue) maybe both?

marcosilva2987: Should I start today or wait for the update?

ohCorz: I think the problem with the alts is if you only play one character you don’t really make enough gold to hone. If I do all 6 characters I’ll only get enough gold to hone twice

ddr9767: Boss now weak n easy mybe ahaha

Trenk2009: I wouldn't say the LOA ON was *bad*. Quite the opposite, actually. Pretty much everything that was announced looked good on paper: good events, a promising new class, solid QoL improvements, new raids, new endgame activities... None of that is the issue.

The problem is that almost nothing people were actually waiting for was there.

For the past year, Smilegate has repeatedly talked about how the fall of Kazeros would mark a major turning point for Lost Ark. The message was clear: less emphasis on hardcore raiding and more focus on exploration and world content. They teased the Sea of Aldebaran multiple times, talked about new ways of telling stories, a revamped collectible system through Sergaton, larger and more meaningful islands, sailing improvements, and even the return of PvP with significant changes.

And then... nothing.

Instead, we got what is essentially the same roadmap we've been getting for years: a new class, new raids, new endgame progression systems, and gradual catch-up mechanics for older content. That's not bad content. It's just not the content they spent a year hyping up.

What's even stranger is that all those supposedly major features suddenly became too secondary to even be discussed during LOA ON. The same presentation was filled with ships and Sea of Aldebaran imagery, yet none of the actual content attached to that vision was shown. Where are the new islands? The world bosses? The collectibles? The sailing overhaul? The PvP rework?

For Korea, this probably isn't a huge problem. The game is stable there, the playerbase remains healthy, and people are still showing up for new raids.

For the Western version, though, this is much more concerning.

The shift in direction that many players were hoping for keeps getting pushed further and further away. Every delay makes it harder to believe the game will evolve quickly enough to address the issues that are driving players away. When you're sitting at roughly 5,000 average players, being told to "wait another six months" feels worrying.

I hope the game holds on long enough for those promised changes to finally arrive. But after another LOA ON where they barely got a mention, it's hard not to feel disappointed.

What a shame.

theolyone723: Play 1 char to progress as good as nothing. Shit will take years everything is way to expensive for that

strife8092: Honestly, that's a pretty good direction - make the alts be about alts and playing the game more, not funneling what they earn into the main. Once this model is able to settle in, fixing issues like not being able to help the alts by funneling into them becomes easy - you could provide additional rewards for multiple clears of the same content or literally anything else. Also, solo hard modes should be a thing, where you get full amount of materials related to that content (serca thorns, mordum globes etc), but reduced or no gold.

Or maybe have solo hard modes have limited amount of clears - it's still an MMO game and interacting with people is very important.

rtotheb3631: The game is still bad. The fact that you say "its not a job" and that u can play 1 char in HM content without lvl8 gems (that's the base or bare minimum) and thinking you won't be gatekept because u also have no 1st week title and doesn't have the same CP as people who have all I already mentioned its making me think you don't play the same game.

Gafiam: Ok Loaon, for it to be good or the best to me it needs Roster Gems xD but was around what we always get, the change to cards seem nice, and the increases drop rate for cores in new dungeons is appreciated

31anno: Classic Lost Ark "we'll fix things, but 2 years after they should've been fixed" approach. And on top of that it's usually too little too late. Still no reason to return to the game.

eam2564: worst LOAON ever 100%, nothing new just more of the same so it will continue to bleed players smh

gabrielteixeira4: It looks like a W but as a player who quit about a year ago i would say that no matter what they do they just can't save Lost Ark west anymore they should just focus on kr/china

TheClairvoyeur: I'm glad I quit, sold all my level 10 gems like 2 months ago. Don't feel the need to redownload the game again. I have empathy for Glife and Valsum.

Jun 21 2026

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