DaZiomas: There is a lot of people in the west saying the res system in raids will make the game too casual, it's like they enjoy suffering and being toxic when people die and cause a restart.

Atyuialsen: 100% agree with what you said!

michaelman90: They NEED to add rotating extreme raids. Part of the reason raiding is bland is because it's the same old raids over and over again when they have amazing raids that no one does anymore because they're irrelevant. I would love to do on-ilvl Argos/Valtan/Vykas and sure even maybe Clown/Brel. Challenge guardians/abyss were nice but the rewards were kinda meh and they became too easy after a while, they did Extreme Valtan once and EVERYONE LOVED IT and the rewards were good but for some reason they never did it again, I just don't understand, the raids are already in the game.

But yeah more casual islands would also be pretty cool. Part of the magic of Lost Ark on launch was just doing the island checklist, learning songs, finding hidden stuff, "where tooki," and chilling.

Schweebcraft: I think the bigger issue is there's no divide between hardcore and casual. Everyone has to do hard mode (with a few exceptions). If you look at WoW, they've had this dialed in for a long time. The hardcore world first players never need to interact with the casual LFR players, and they definitely don't have to do it every week. This removes an extreme point of toxicity that Lost Ark has been fighting for a very long time. I will always blame the playerbase on this issue, but the devs should be fighting this issue as well. Human nature needs to be accounted for in a successful game. Solo modes were a great start, and revives are a good second step. Hopefully the next step is to make difficulties into actual difficulties and not just progression steps. I'd love for my buddy to be able to matchmake into a raid with unlimited revives and a guaranteed clear to get the same progression as me doing the hardest difficulty, but if I'm forced in to the same guaranteed clear difficulty, I'll just quit. The Frontier system the west has is amazing in that regard, but it also has a problem where new players never get the chance to experience a hard raid, if they want. A perpetual TFM with the original difficulty would be a great step towards allowing for this separation.

And all of this ignores other issues that need to eventually be fixed as well. Old raids shouldn't be designed to die off. It's impossible for new players to experience valtan like we did back in the day, and we didn't even get to experience valtan like KR players did. It just doesn't exist. Extreme Valtan was a great experience, and is a lot like what I personally would like. An example would be to introduce a different Extreme raid for gold every month. As long as it's balanced correctly, this would give players options between a hard raid and an easy raid for the week. Both casuals and hardcore players would be satisfied, and everyone would get the chance to experience the older raids as they were originally intended.

tl;dr: We need a separation of hardcore and casual players.

countyingula: I was advocating for revives since the beginning and got nothing but hate for suggesting it. It felt really bad to even try to talk about it and made me feel like i didn't belong anywhere in the community. I also wish progression wasn't so heavily tied to economy and that there were more non timegated ways to progress so u could actually grind to catch up or push a character when u want. I've been saying what you've been saying for soooo long. I wish more people were accepting and saw the games potential instead of just treating each other horribly so often.

Great vid imo.

QUANTPAPA: i dont understand why the dont just sell MTX and skill effect skins simulair like path of exile.

supaaznjigga: We have been saying this for fucking years. It is only now after the game went to total shit that he acknowledge our feedback. The raids were too punishing and hw far too much/tedious/ a drag causing a lot of the toxicity/gatekeeping. The game has needed an individual extra life system since launch. Fucking finally for you guys.. I can't wait for it for the west.

jubiejubes: Benji best boi

redmanlaw0002: I enjoyed Rowen PvP with your own constructed character and not a normalized gladiator character. They should bring back some form of mass PvP modes or world PvP modes similar to what Rowen had, just update it with something new, and tone down the damage a bit or use existing gladiator modes to help balance it some. Gotta try something new besides raiding. Horizontal content isn't enough, it's actually very tedious and gets boring fast. They need other play modes to keep the game fresh and allow other avenues for progression other than raiding 30 times a week. The mechanics and gameplay are still great and the raid battles still elite, but the raids overall are becoming too complicated and repetitive. It takes too long and is boring raiding so much over and over. Progression systems are still too harsh and not rewarding enough, too expensive and too time consuming with too much unappealing RNG. The systems they improved and streamlined did help the game a lot and tier 4 systems were an improvement over the past for sure, but they need to continue working on the rest. They need to make tier 3 basically free, similar to how tier 2 was, and just let people all move into tier 4 easily, especially so new players can enjoy the main part of the current game. If not, they shouldn't have made a tier 4 in the first place. New game modes are a must, because infinite raids are already stale, and end game raids are too hard and frustrating for most people. You should not have to study hours of video footage and online guides just to be allowed to attempt a new raid. You should not have to be overgeared and have completed raid rewards just to be accepted into a standard pug raid. The game has become so backwards in many ways, and needs to change. No wonder they are complaining so much in Korea about it and why so many people everywhere have quit. Their systems have obviously been designed to force players to pay 2 win, while detering all new players and casual players from wanting to play at all. That's a formula for a quick cash grab as the game dies, not a formula for a long lasting mmo with a loyal player base. Maybe that's what they want, to attract low numbers of whales for profit and to let the game die for everyone else, so they don't have to work on it anymore. If so, maybe it will be time to move on. Hopefully they listen and fix the main issues everyone has been talking about for months.

gentlycz: i like your content more and more. just a guy who wants to have fun and others to have fun

dutchbozo: Good change, most people complaining are either bussers or hardcore players (just wait a bit you will get Kazeros next with TFM and after that extreme modes)

silvertaken: I read people complaining that this will make the game more casual, but afaik that's the reason Catastrophe (Challenge in the west) Mode is being added, which should be a permanent "The First" mode with leaderboards and cosmetic rewards. That way farming becomes more casual, but if you want a difficult mode, Catastrophe will be there.

sunteraze: Benji, i have sent feedback to AGS 1st week of March 2023 for respawns like Argos an abyss raid has and i remember the month and year because in Feb 2023 my friend who introduced me to LOA quit game after doing Brelz g6, he was like fk this game. He played that game religiously, like he had all mokoko seeds, giant hearts, island souls unlocked till the Brelz addition we had. I reminded to AGS again when they added Voldis raid. Welp here we are, this thing would've existed since Vykas.

They added too much mechs to keep the bussing in-check they could've killed the bussing by add respawning. I don't know which smart guy had an idea to put idiotic patterns and mechs in raids so that people can't get carried boost when they could've just added respawn to get rid of it. People couldn't learn from mistakes cause they kept dying and had to wait for wipe or clear. Too late for change but at least a good change came. Neither new director nor gold river are perfect both have made huge mistakes till now.

owvon222: BOttom right OLDGE

jetpackcabbi8414: totally agree

Awkawaka: idk why they didn't implement this sooner, this could've helped lessen gatekeep by giving people more chance in not wiping and not restrict the many casual players that aren't hardcore giving them a chance to raid. As of right now, too many players have already left this game including me and the gear progression is just too insanely p2w. I would say that even though its good, its just too late tbh.

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Mike-g1d9r: Why didn’t they give the healers the ability to resurrect man they keep missing opportunities left and right.

banzaei: i think this is one of the only lost ark videos where i was genuinely in full agreement and interest for the entire video. here's to a brighter future for arkesia

Squall609: In FFXIV as an example, they have revives, and tbh its a more chill raid experience in general. I'm glad Lost Ark is adding this!

MiguelSedek: Benji the GOAT

jay3865: Well said.

Hoodie325: Nothing will matter for new players unless they will fix the time required to get to endgame from fresh start. 4-6 months of 6-10h daily in order to catch up. No one will ever commit that much time as a F2P/ small investment into mmo just to get gatekept from actual content cuz of lack of cards.

Carlos-qg2me: Never understood why they removed the revives after Argos. Made no sense at all.

alwar104: Benji I think you forgot to lower the volume of the background video xd

cargador2d127: Idk why skins for skills aren´t a thing yet. It sounds like a super cool idea to monetize the game >_<

beluvolk9387: first thing i thank you that you took the time to make a video and talk about it and i mostly agree with you but please my friend if you make a video and will say something either mute the background or put a little bit of music only in small volume like at 2 parts in your video it felt so annoying trying to hear and understand what you are saying because there is 2 voices saying 2 things at the same time. thats all from me and i say it as goodwill thank you and have a good day and keep enjoying lost ark

May 29 2025

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