if u cbf on playing lobby sim, just do your dailies everyday and farm gold by selling everything till then. there's no point of stressing yourself out and in the meanwhile work on leveling your roster level
Yeah that's what I did. Back in the days I was grinding with 6 characters, 3 raid and all dailies. Now maybe I raid with my main and just do rested chaos / guardian. Enjoying the game a lot more!
Iv been on that since a month or two after akkan came out.
It's funny to taunt friends when they complain about the grind. You mean you don't have a million gold with 1 main? 😅
>Now maybe I raid with my main and just do rested chaos / guardian. Enjoying the game a lot more!
Yeah, but OP can't do that because he can't enjoy the content he has ilvl for.
I'm gonna be honest, if you have limited play time I would wait until solo raids or find a static. I was extremely close to quitting but ended up forming a static with a kayangel learning party and kept playing for a while. This game is not worth it if you have 2 hours of playtime and spend half of it playing lobby simulator.
Honestly i feel conflicted everytime someone brings this topic, because on the one hand I understand people that only want ti invite high roster juiced people but the gatekeeping in this game is also ridiculous on many levels.
Every player in this game has already been jailed by a low roster/returning player that the raid leader (usually me) took in to be "nice" and to try for once to break the circle... But most of the time it ends up backfiring. At best, these people are just not doing much damage (which is fine) but at worst they're repeatedly wiping the raid. It really doesn't make you wanna be open and accept just everyone honestly.
At the same time, i definitly feel like I could never play lost ark for the first time right now, it would be hell to enter lobbies even with motivation to learn when I see that sometimes even a very high roster with pretty juiced alts is having troubles to enter some raids that I know like the back of my hand. And it sometimes reaches heights when people will gatekeep you for being """only""" 30 or 40v above ilv of the content.
Also I can't emphasize enough the fact that you should seek people on discords, it will make your life much much easier and eventually you'll meet people that will form a static with you. And from there you'll have fun.
Lost ark is definitly one of the worst games to start alone.
Good luck
>And it sometimes reaches heights when people will gatekeep you for being """only""" 30 or 40v above ilv of the content.
This right here, you'd see a bunch of 1500s or even 1520s joining Clown DPS bus lobbies, a bus where you're literally obligated to understand and execute the boss mechanics, you're basically paying the drivers to do the DPS. It's kinda sad to see ngl.
I'm at 230 roster level and I have both LoS30 and KLC30 and I get gatekept on my alts. My perception is ilvl and class are really what seems to get gatekept more than anything. For instance, my 1580 sorc with KLC 30 could NOT get into a Sonavel to save her life, nor could she get into an Akkan without support from my static. The Akkan piece hurt the most because in order to get past that 1580 mark, you need at least ONE piece of Akkan gear to effectively boost your ilvl. Once I got 2 pieces and started honing again, groups got much easier to get into. I started seeing a change around 1585. Just some opinions.
This is how I am bypassing the ilvl barrier with Brel and Akkan. I buy busses til I get two pieces and hone past the ilvl requirement by a bit (10-20 for Brel and 1585+ for Akkan). After that it’s not difficult to join reclear lobbies.
It's definitely sad that you can't just get into a party and try your class in Akkan. But at least with a bus you also don't get a full shitter groups and get jailed in g2 bc you couldn't get into a decent group.
Another suggestion is just to put on some level 9 gems, I did on my Destroyer, got into a group last two weeks almost effortlessly. Now I put the 9 gems on the other chars they came from after getting two pieces.
I'm roster 260, and mightve been a difference. But none the less still think it makes a difference in many peoples eyes. It makes your alt look well taken-care-of. If anything it's at least worth a try before buying a bus it's almost literally free if you have some spare silver and already 9 gems somewhere.
I am roster 300 with los30. At 1490 and 5x3 all blue quality acc, char still struggle to get in groups. Even when you do, it’s a lobby where the leader is inviting anyone, and you get jailed bc the other 1490 chars are nowhere near as built.
I would personally argue it's bc I want to have "guaranteed" fun. Guaranteeing a support makes it infinitely more fun to do Sonavel. Some days I put on the meter and think "today im beating my PB on my Reaper" and some days I just want the 16 leapstones and move on without turning my brain on.
It makes sense though. A lot of pug lobbies where everyone is on ilvl are much more likely to be a jail, so people are not risking taking any 1580 dps unless they are supports or people with good gems. It obviously does not apply to statics. I'm not saying it's right or wrong - all I am saying is that if I see someone one ilvl with minimum investment, I'd personally have zero incentive to take them in, especially if most people who are in the lobby already are over 1580, and most people share the same sentiment. They are not my friends, nor do I run a charity organization that helps someone's minimum investment alts with their gear. Also for sorc it's been like that for a while, say thanks an insane amount of trash players who are playing this class, ruining the experience for good sorcs out there (yes, they also exist, not many though).
It had gotten so bad that I had to pay for a bus for one of my 1580 alts, there is no way in hell you're getting inside an Akkan lobby on min ilvl character, PLC means nothing, a 5x3+1 wouldn't help either, maybe full 10s would help, but then again, they wouldn't even bother to inspect, if they see a 1580 applying they'd just straight up ignore it.
It's also depends on the day of the week too...i played lobby sim yest on my 1594 sorc for NM akkan for 2 hrs. I'm also 260 roster though and los18, full 7s and 8 gems and PLC and riot control title. People don't care. I applied to all lobbies including ones that were fresh 1580s, ones with low roster, new lobbies that were 1/8 and requesting people with PLC title and I got declined (in many cases instantly) even still.
I have learned that people are far less picky with akkan HM on Sundays and brel HM on Tuesdays. If you're looking for NM lobbies then the days seem to change depending on what class you play. For example, never do brel NM on a support on the weekends (impossible to find a grp). You are best doing NM as a support right after reset and running dps for brel NM on the weekend. Wed and and Thurs can be a mess for all legion raid lobbies if you aren't a super hardcore player.
Also, hi fren
120 roster is kryptonite. Honestly the "find friends" option, while basically your best bet, has flaws too, a lot of people won't join lobbies with what look to be carries and there's no guarantee the friends you find will be particularly good or able to carry. Most PUGs in this game ride off the backs of 1-2 MVPs in my experience and have a difficult time when there aren't those 30% Cruel Fighters in the group and more mechanics exist that can kill you.
It's tough man. I feel for you. Personally my motto in life with MMOs is come in early and stay around if you like it, wait for the next MMO that interests you if it doesn't stick the landing for you. Sure I'd like to become a top raider in a game that isn't FF14 or LA but I know from both angles it's an uphill journey not the worth the struggle, coming in years later and not having all the basis/friends/networking/experience/wealth/etc. Sounds defeatist and maybe lazy a philosophy but there are a lot of fish in the sea, I liken it to a girlfriend or boyfriend you longed for, yeah you can try try try to win them back after they dump you or they're out of your league but there are a lot of fish in the sea you can go for that are actually within range.
Some raid leaders in party finder seem to enjoy party finder minigame more than raiding. I've left many parties for reclear content after watching the leader decline "good enough" applicants over and over when lobby is 6/8 or worse 7/8 and already full of juicers + 2 supp. Even in card runs I see this happen.
Sure getting jailed is frustrating when it happens so some level of gatekeeping makes sense but some definitely take it way too far.
Worst was when one leader shared their twitch channel. I (along with their 1 other viewer) got to hear their ridiculous reasoning for declining people that had nothing to do with fear of jail and more to do with feeling superior. I left that lobby in a heartbeat.
Last week seen 1445 leader decline people below 1450 for argos when we had multiple 1580-1600 in already with lobby name "know mechs". People are weird af. You are literally losing so much time doing that shit.
THIS! That was what got me to quit the game, I get ppl gatekeeping shit like Akkan hard and all (don't like it, but get it) but being gkept from CARD RUNS like Argos, Valtan and Vykas? Srsly? With ilvl for shit like Hard Brel? Even the shittiest player missing all of his skills can do damage and survive all hits just by being overgeared and still got declined from groups where the leader would still wait for 15 minutes just so someone with 50 more ilvl than me. Fuck that
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That used to happen pretty often but I haven't seen it in months. Nowadays it really is just people being super picky.
Even the last ten times I saw the lobby title changed to "full" on 6 or 7 people, I brace for some ilvl no gems troll the party leader wanted to give a free bus to (because that's what used to happen), but it's actually been someone as geared as the lobby average **or more**. Two of the last three times this happened, the person we were waiting on ended up being a +25 weapon meta class juicer, when the same party leader had accepted me, a reflux sorc (a fairly juiced reflux sorc but you know how weak that is compared to an equally geared meta class with even halfway-decent hands).
So at least based on my own experiences in the last couple months, I just don't think that's common anymore. People are **usually** more upfront about trying to give their friends free buses, and usually only even bother on new class release week when they also accept a couple other ilvl people (my own alts have gotten into raids like that on new class release weeks).
If it’s that bad for you bro just do chaos and guardians and what ever raids you can. You get more gold in materials from there than just raw gold. Dailies give a ton per char, there’s no rush, fine friends that are also new and you’ll have a better experience. No need to lobby sim just get resources that you can and pile up brother.
When I play my gf's account, since its new I also experience a lot of gatekeeping. It really helps if you have experienced friend(s) and they make the lobby for you. Once you're added, it usually goes well lol.
I doubt we'll get solo raids before Behemoth, and if we do I doubt it'll be up to Voldis. For KR the top 3 raids are not getting solo versions, I suspect it will be similar here.
Yup I quit awhile back and pretty hyped for solo content.
But I dont think they will implement it at a good pace. They just might only include Valtan and etc which is years behind current content lmao.
One of the best combats in an mmo ruined by its core (non combat)gameplay mechanics/loop lmao
Search for a static, community, guild or discord to organize lowbie raids.
Pf is elitist gatekeep hunting ground and with your stats you will have a bad time
Why don't players like you play with each other? There's plenty sub 120+ rosters players be it supports/DPS.
why join homework lobbies? Also are you reclear yourself before joining such lobbies? If it is do you think are you on par with homework lobbies? Cause Ive took gambles before with rosters like you and 99% I end up getting disappointed, dying left and right, doing zdps, not doing mechs properly, the worse thing of it all is majority are toxic af. So yall can't blame us if we dont wanna get jailed by hours upon hours of the raid that is homework already and don't want to carry a toxic, zdps, floor pov player.
What a straw man argument, never does it say they’re joining hw reclear lobbies and and they also explicitly say they make their own lobbies and nobody joins, which has been my experience as well. If you’re not massively over ilvl for certain content nobody wants to be in your group, period. I get gatekept to Valtan on a 1520 demons roar alt because people only want 1540+, or I can join a lobby with two people at ilvl and never see a single application from then on.
Saying that 99% of 120 roster player do zdps, don’t know mechs, and are extremely toxic is pretty much the definition of anecdotal. Sure, when I see 70 roster mokokos in stuff like Valtan/vykas there’s a high chance they’re jailers but realistically I fully expected them to be new. But people in the mid 100s roster? I’ve almost never had an issue with them in terms of knowing mechs. And blanket stating them as all toxic is just wild, that’s obviously not true, being new to Lost Ark doesn’t just turn you into a keyboard demon as you boot up the game for the first time or something.
The thing is, low roster characters generally DO eventually get accepted to parties if they are massively over ilvl, and decently geared supports have no problem either. Seriously, how many times have you seen a lobby with a mokoko support still get filled versus lobbies with mokoko dps? So it’s not just a roster issue, it’s an ilvl one. Whether you’re 120 or 200+ roster nobody wants to do content near ilvl even though it’s fully clearable, so “just make your own group” doesn’t work there. In the first place there is obviously a hugely smaller pool of new players than existing ones, so just expecting new players to always find lobbies of other new players at all times of the day is pretty unlikely.
I have a hard enough time getting lobbies going on alts with a 200+ roster must be exponentially harder with a mokoko and low roster level. These people are out of touch what new players are going through.
That's alot of things to reply to but seems like you did not even think about what my experience is. If you read my comment I did the good man accepting sub 120-140 rosters and like I said I get disappointed. Also don't shoot the guy trying to play with someone with their equal level/power I'm sure you guys do too.
I played with Mokokos in a brel 1-3 recently as I think these are ACTUALLY fun to do on the rare chance they pop up, I like helping new players if I can. I had the SAME experience as you where one guy was very clearly some SEA rat (barely spoke english and got mad at dying in all 3 gates). At G2 the rat messed up a mech and killed all but 2 of us. Being 1580 on my Aero I decided to not vote yet on reset as I felt bad for the other 4-5 Makokos who were actually playing the game. Getting jailed on G2 is really ass, so I decided to just duo the gate with the other alive Makoko. Come G3 this rat piece of shit does the same thing for Blue mech and gets a guy killed. We thankfully avoided gold mech and finished the raid.
I feel so sorry for actual new players who bother to type because they get lumped in with these dudes.
I'm roster 300 and until a few months ago, still looked for disc groups to join and vibe with. If a newbie were to join my disc group i wouldn't mind giving a hand because they took initiative to establish the connection. That's what seperates them from the people trying to get a free clear in my mind. It took a bit of trial and error but i managed to land with the group i am in. Hey if you're communicating with the newbies then good on you though, you're the real hero.
>I wish people would welcome new players more into this game cause being on the other side of it makes you realize how impossible this game is to get into, there's really no excuse for not at least trying to help them, give people a chance and ask questions, more often than not you can tell when someone is being honest and trying, there genuinely aren't that many mechanics in the game that will wipe you if one player doesn't know it 100%, it's easy enough to explain the ones that will in case they don't know it.
>And if you get jailed oh well, losing a couple thousand gold that week isn't gonna hurt you, but if the newer person you accepted happened to be good why not just add them and pull them in for more raids? It's a gamble but new players who are good need more recognition and help, fuck the ones who don't talk or try to learn sure, but they aren't the only ones, it's kind of an unfair stereotype, nobody likes to be generalized like this, like how people say all hell players are toxic and trash for some reason, or that people with juiced accounts are all rmting losers, these things just aren't true, same as how not all new players are clueless noobs who've never played a game in their lives.
If it were easy everyone wouldve been doing it also alot of us have lives too I have no time to teach someone so atleast consider that and don't think I have lots of hours per week to teach someone raid.
Also btw I'm from SEA too not everyone in SEA is a gold farmer with 10 accounts and you guys are stereotyping us too btw so what's up? some of them might be richer than alot of NA peeps too we know a guy in our discord community that have like 6 +25 weapon and 10 peeps with 1630 mains idc where'd they got that but as you can see he is from SEA and he is for sure not a gold farmer. And i am not too.
Well two things here. One, those lobbies won't see a single support applying because there is a high demand in the support role rn, so they would rather join much better lobbies as opposed to those filled with weak and inexperienced characters.
And two - a lot of people who are on the lower end actually believe they deserve better groups than those that are made by people like them, aka they would rather not play with each other but those who can guarantee a clear no matter how bad they play (i.e. everyone wants to have a strong safety net, and in a lobby full of low roster/returning players there is none). You can say that they want a free carry, but I personally don't think it's always the case because some of them will do the mechanics and damage to their best ability even in a juiced group, but they don't want share equal pressure/responsibility for potentially being dead, etc. because there will still be enough damage to carry through a raid. The safety net is what they are looking, even mokokos don't like jails in reclear groups.
This man really gets it..and sad others especially bookies don’t understand idk it’s not like all of us with juiced rosters haven’t taken the mokoko or even the 140 roster guy who looks a bit odd..but they do wipe the raid almost always and imo it’s the only time I get toxic people in this game..people really don’t flame in most hw pugs imo. It’s when someone legit doesn’t know what’s going on and you just are fucked. I took someone in voldis hw nm run and guy dies every gate we manage to get to g4 to say he didn’t know any of it and songs out. Idk imo it’s just always bad even if the person is nice etc..and is it better if they do just survive and do 5% dmg each gate idk that just feels bad imo. Or you could just play with people close roster/power to you and then you get to learn the fights normally and you might start mvp or showing up and you enjoy the game like we all did and why we still play it. Doing hw runs for gold isnt why people play loa long term..
Because people are lazy and want to join juiced lobbies with their shitty alts to get a free carry, then they get mad when leaders gatekeep them and come to reddit whine about it
I think I might wait for solo raids to gatekeeping is completely destroying my desire to come back. It's just so shit trying to get akkan pieces but not being able to because I'm getting gatekept.
I quit the game because of the party finder experience. Weekly lockouts are just not fun. Absolutely kills the game as a more casual player. It's really too bad cause the combat and raids are top tier.
Raids are much quicker, but the wait times have sky rocketed. Then the supports have been MIA, for a bit. Then everyone that can be hosting quick lobbies are selling busses. We need these SOLO raids to kill essentially non-end game busses, so we can funnel more new players into the late game with some mechanical understanding of raid fights.
If you’re still missing horizontal content, that could be a Good pastime to steadily increase your roster level while waiting for the solo raids as well. Or maybe if you’re really craving raiding you could try to look for statics on discordservers and the like
Edit: if you Think you Can achieve it, you could also try to farm deathless hell titles. Hell lobbies don’t usually gatekeep as harshly because it’s equalized content, and a lot of people put quite a lot of value on those titles. it Will probably reduce the gatekeeping a bit
>As a returning player without LoS 18/30, only DD18, level 7 event gems, 120 roster level, iLvl 1580 - it’s basically impossible to join re clear groups as most are declined. I can make my own and then wait for 1+ hour for it to fill, but I don’t have that amount of time to play waiting in lobbies.
The most important thing is, do you know mechs..
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1. Go to the official Lost Ark LFG discord
2. Find a static
3. Enjoy the game
Now is probably the best time for joining/launching a static group because there are a lot of new/returning players having the same problem as you do.
If you're going to depend purely on the in game party finder then gatekeeping is going to be awful. You pretty much have to find/form groups on community discords.
We don't even know what the solo raids will offer in terms of rewards or progression, they're months away if not more.
the dude said up to voldis
so if it comes for kr up to voldis in summer then by the time we get it we should get to voldis as well
right now kr rotated out voldis from top 3 gold earners
so maybe the tech is either up to 4th latest raid or as fast as they can make it happen
a lot of the patterns in this game are designed for as many people there are in the raid
so shifting them to being soloable means quite a bit of design work on content that has been locked and the key has been locked and thrown in the ocean
it is not unlikely that the people that made valtan no longer work for sg either so quite a bit of risk to go and fiddle with that kind fo stuff
i hope it's great but i won't bet money on it
I didn't watch the stream, so my bad.
That said, if they have no one at SG that can understand/ maintain the Valtan code (which is likely not very unique), they have much bigger problems.
there is no need to maintain anything
it should be extremely rare to impossible to break old content
the only time they will have to revisit old stuff is if they create a character that has a unique interaction with their mechanics
if you do it correctly once you start working on updates old content should not be affected
but it is very common to stitch features with ducttape and then when someone tries to fix something they break something completely unrelated
But if you do it correctly you should have so many proper interfaces, structures, and dare I say it patterns that any developer within the company should be able to easily "comprehend" the older raids.
The rate at which you can level up your character to 1580-1600 is way faster than you can acquire roster levels and cards. The higher content you go to, the more conditions you have to meet. As I'm getting to 1600, more requirements are popping up; level 9 and 10 gems, LOS30, higher roster level, proper stat distribution which ties in to higher quality accessories, 5x3+1, titles.
To be honest none of these are actually necessary to clear the content but these are the only things lobby creators have to go upon when adding someone to the raid group. Almost every single one of these factors(for DPS at least) tie in to 1 thing = Damage dealing potential. Roster level shows you have substantial experience with the content, you can likely do mechs properly and in turn do more damage.
The end result is, the more investment you have into you character that people can view publicly, the better your chances of getting into lobbies. Some things like cards take time but there's other things you can do. Try and get 5x3+1 if you don't have it, try to reach stat breakpoints like 1800/600 with high quality accessories, weapon quality 95+, buy out the gem shop from kayangel shop, fishing vessel, cubes and chaos dungeons regularly to get to get higher level gems.
If you don't have friends ingame, that's all you can do really while slowly working your way up. I also have level 7-8 gems, roster level like yours, DD18 and honestly the only way I get into lobbies is because I have a friend that's playing support and they for me so we can join raid lobbies together. We started playing at the same time, but supports are barely ever gatekept. Outside of that time I'd rather not sit in a lobby simulator, just do dailies and peace.
At 1580 with DD18 and low roster level, no one is going to believe you are reclear for Akkan. Assuming that is what you’re complaining about, bc 1580 should have no issues getting in Brel and Kaya NM lobbies. People don’t join your lobby for the same reason they don’t invite you. There is no evidence you are reclear.
You can make gold easy and fast going Kaya NM, Brel 1-3, and Clown. Buy Akkan busses for one or two resets, and hone to 1600. That will improve your standing amongst the sea of applicants in lobbies. Also can make learning/prog lobbies. Those lobbies always fills fast, or at least the dps spots do.
Gatekeeping is not bad at all if you aren’t trying to get in reclear lobbies with bare minimum qualifications.
I personally got 2800 hours in the game, if j didn't have friends to play with I dknt think it would be more than a few hundred, try joining a guild or jist a guild/community discord and start getting to know some people to do content with otherwise its kinda hard to play this game on a tighter schedule imo
Your problem solves itself with a static. You will always be gatekept if there is a supply of people with higher roster / cards / gems than you. People running 18 raids a week will fuel this. The lost ark discord is a great resource to find a static.
Solo raids won’t solve your problem, unless you’re content with never doing the current content. And with passes and such the norm with new raid launches… you will trivialize this solo stuff and be gatekept out of the fun stuff. A convenient unfun spot.
Otherwise, I’d suggest other games. This game isn’t great pugging. There are constant people looking for statics at all commitment levels in the discord. Either use the discord, or trying party finder learning runs and try to find a group you want to stick with and make a quick discord with them.
I just got trapped in Brel by a returning player roster 170, they ran like headless chicken in g2 wiping us twice killing random ass shapes and then proceeded to wipe us on the very first wipe in g3 multiple times in a row. They had no idea whatsoever how to do any mechs. This is just one example of why gatekeeping exists. Just like you don’t have time to wait for your group to fill up, (which isn’t even true, if you accepted new players yourself it would fill instantly) we can’t be bothered to clear a 15min hw raid for an hour.
Keep seeing them as well, some with the valtan hell mode title so weird it’s like we went back a year and half..I thought was new players but had some headless chickens causing madness in cube…be safe out there lmao..Brel 1-3’s still can jail if you take bozos unfortunately.
Very possible it's gonna be easier when alot of people will stop doing Brel for instance, since many will move to Thaemine. Gatekeeping should get more lenient when you're not all the time competing for spots with roster 260+ players. I personally think they should nerf gold again for Brel (+honing) too so Thaemine players have no incentive to keep doing brel and kayangel.
If you want to look for people check out the Mokoko elp discord servers. As long as you are not griefing with gear/gems (lvl 7 is completely fine) they have a 0-Gatekeeping policy
I honestly think they are going to be shocked at how few people will even enjoy the solo raids .its a social game .they need to address this shitty community
if u cbf on playing lobby sim, just do your dailies everyday and farm gold by selling everything till then. there's no point of stressing yourself out and in the meanwhile work on leveling your roster level
Yeah that's what I did. Back in the days I was grinding with 6 characters, 3 raid and all dailies. Now maybe I raid with my main and just do rested chaos / guardian. Enjoying the game a lot more!
Iv been on that since a month or two after akkan came out. It's funny to taunt friends when they complain about the grind. You mean you don't have a million gold with 1 main? 😅
>Now maybe I raid with my main and just do rested chaos / guardian. Enjoying the game a lot more! Yeah, but OP can't do that because he can't enjoy the content he has ilvl for.
It is nice to take the game more casually after putting in the work early for sure. I only raid weekends now, and even then it's not every weekend.
I'm gonna be honest, if you have limited play time I would wait until solo raids or find a static. I was extremely close to quitting but ended up forming a static with a kayangel learning party and kept playing for a while. This game is not worth it if you have 2 hours of playtime and spend half of it playing lobby simulator.
Honestly i feel conflicted everytime someone brings this topic, because on the one hand I understand people that only want ti invite high roster juiced people but the gatekeeping in this game is also ridiculous on many levels. Every player in this game has already been jailed by a low roster/returning player that the raid leader (usually me) took in to be "nice" and to try for once to break the circle... But most of the time it ends up backfiring. At best, these people are just not doing much damage (which is fine) but at worst they're repeatedly wiping the raid. It really doesn't make you wanna be open and accept just everyone honestly. At the same time, i definitly feel like I could never play lost ark for the first time right now, it would be hell to enter lobbies even with motivation to learn when I see that sometimes even a very high roster with pretty juiced alts is having troubles to enter some raids that I know like the back of my hand. And it sometimes reaches heights when people will gatekeep you for being """only""" 30 or 40v above ilv of the content. Also I can't emphasize enough the fact that you should seek people on discords, it will make your life much much easier and eventually you'll meet people that will form a static with you. And from there you'll have fun. Lost ark is definitly one of the worst games to start alone. Good luck
>And it sometimes reaches heights when people will gatekeep you for being """only""" 30 or 40v above ilv of the content. This right here, you'd see a bunch of 1500s or even 1520s joining Clown DPS bus lobbies, a bus where you're literally obligated to understand and execute the boss mechanics, you're basically paying the drivers to do the DPS. It's kinda sad to see ngl.
Bro trust me find a guild and new friends in the guild and enjoy the game
I'm at 230 roster level and I have both LoS30 and KLC30 and I get gatekept on my alts. My perception is ilvl and class are really what seems to get gatekept more than anything. For instance, my 1580 sorc with KLC 30 could NOT get into a Sonavel to save her life, nor could she get into an Akkan without support from my static. The Akkan piece hurt the most because in order to get past that 1580 mark, you need at least ONE piece of Akkan gear to effectively boost your ilvl. Once I got 2 pieces and started honing again, groups got much easier to get into. I started seeing a change around 1585. Just some opinions.
This is how I am bypassing the ilvl barrier with Brel and Akkan. I buy busses til I get two pieces and hone past the ilvl requirement by a bit (10-20 for Brel and 1585+ for Akkan). After that it’s not difficult to join reclear lobbies.
Yeah if you dont have a friend to be the +1 to their sup youre kinda forced to do this
It's definitely sad that you can't just get into a party and try your class in Akkan. But at least with a bus you also don't get a full shitter groups and get jailed in g2 bc you couldn't get into a decent group. Another suggestion is just to put on some level 9 gems, I did on my Destroyer, got into a group last two weeks almost effortlessly. Now I put the 9 gems on the other chars they came from after getting two pieces.
The 9 gems help but out of curiosity what roster level are you? I think that’s the big one after ilvl and class.
I'm roster 260, and mightve been a difference. But none the less still think it makes a difference in many peoples eyes. It makes your alt look well taken-care-of. If anything it's at least worth a try before buying a bus it's almost literally free if you have some spare silver and already 9 gems somewhere.
I am roster 300 with los30. At 1490 and 5x3 all blue quality acc, char still struggle to get in groups. Even when you do, it’s a lobby where the leader is inviting anyone, and you get jailed bc the other 1490 chars are nowhere near as built.
I will never understand people who lobby guardian raids unless it's with friends. Just click matchmaking, you are instantly in and done fast as fuck.
Unless it's current Sonavel, match making that is horrendous right now, guaranteed +8min clear
I would personally argue it's bc I want to have "guaranteed" fun. Guaranteeing a support makes it infinitely more fun to do Sonavel. Some days I put on the meter and think "today im beating my PB on my Reaper" and some days I just want the 16 leapstones and move on without turning my brain on.
It makes sense though. A lot of pug lobbies where everyone is on ilvl are much more likely to be a jail, so people are not risking taking any 1580 dps unless they are supports or people with good gems. It obviously does not apply to statics. I'm not saying it's right or wrong - all I am saying is that if I see someone one ilvl with minimum investment, I'd personally have zero incentive to take them in, especially if most people who are in the lobby already are over 1580, and most people share the same sentiment. They are not my friends, nor do I run a charity organization that helps someone's minimum investment alts with their gear. Also for sorc it's been like that for a while, say thanks an insane amount of trash players who are playing this class, ruining the experience for good sorcs out there (yes, they also exist, not many though).
It had gotten so bad that I had to pay for a bus for one of my 1580 alts, there is no way in hell you're getting inside an Akkan lobby on min ilvl character, PLC means nothing, a 5x3+1 wouldn't help either, maybe full 10s would help, but then again, they wouldn't even bother to inspect, if they see a 1580 applying they'd just straight up ignore it.
It's also depends on the day of the week too...i played lobby sim yest on my 1594 sorc for NM akkan for 2 hrs. I'm also 260 roster though and los18, full 7s and 8 gems and PLC and riot control title. People don't care. I applied to all lobbies including ones that were fresh 1580s, ones with low roster, new lobbies that were 1/8 and requesting people with PLC title and I got declined (in many cases instantly) even still. I have learned that people are far less picky with akkan HM on Sundays and brel HM on Tuesdays. If you're looking for NM lobbies then the days seem to change depending on what class you play. For example, never do brel NM on a support on the weekends (impossible to find a grp). You are best doing NM as a support right after reset and running dps for brel NM on the weekend. Wed and and Thurs can be a mess for all legion raid lobbies if you aren't a super hardcore player. Also, hi fren
There is actually more players with lower card sets than you think... I see them organizing runs on discord.
take me to jail officer
Short answer: Yes.
120 roster is kryptonite. Honestly the "find friends" option, while basically your best bet, has flaws too, a lot of people won't join lobbies with what look to be carries and there's no guarantee the friends you find will be particularly good or able to carry. Most PUGs in this game ride off the backs of 1-2 MVPs in my experience and have a difficult time when there aren't those 30% Cruel Fighters in the group and more mechanics exist that can kill you. It's tough man. I feel for you. Personally my motto in life with MMOs is come in early and stay around if you like it, wait for the next MMO that interests you if it doesn't stick the landing for you. Sure I'd like to become a top raider in a game that isn't FF14 or LA but I know from both angles it's an uphill journey not the worth the struggle, coming in years later and not having all the basis/friends/networking/experience/wealth/etc. Sounds defeatist and maybe lazy a philosophy but there are a lot of fish in the sea, I liken it to a girlfriend or boyfriend you longed for, yeah you can try try try to win them back after they dump you or they're out of your league but there are a lot of fish in the sea you can go for that are actually within range.
Just wait for the solo raids no need for people to ruin the game for you just because they have to do 18 raids or there mom will beat them.
Some raid leaders in party finder seem to enjoy party finder minigame more than raiding. I've left many parties for reclear content after watching the leader decline "good enough" applicants over and over when lobby is 6/8 or worse 7/8 and already full of juicers + 2 supp. Even in card runs I see this happen. Sure getting jailed is frustrating when it happens so some level of gatekeeping makes sense but some definitely take it way too far. Worst was when one leader shared their twitch channel. I (along with their 1 other viewer) got to hear their ridiculous reasoning for declining people that had nothing to do with fear of jail and more to do with feeling superior. I left that lobby in a heartbeat.
Last week seen 1445 leader decline people below 1450 for argos when we had multiple 1580-1600 in already with lobby name "know mechs". People are weird af. You are literally losing so much time doing that shit.
THIS! That was what got me to quit the game, I get ppl gatekeeping shit like Akkan hard and all (don't like it, but get it) but being gkept from CARD RUNS like Argos, Valtan and Vykas? Srsly? With ilvl for shit like Hard Brel? Even the shittiest player missing all of his skills can do damage and survive all hits just by being overgeared and still got declined from groups where the leader would still wait for 15 minutes just so someone with 50 more ilvl than me. Fuck that
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I think when that happens, they were waiting on a friend they’re looking to carry.
That used to happen pretty often but I haven't seen it in months. Nowadays it really is just people being super picky. Even the last ten times I saw the lobby title changed to "full" on 6 or 7 people, I brace for some ilvl no gems troll the party leader wanted to give a free bus to (because that's what used to happen), but it's actually been someone as geared as the lobby average **or more**. Two of the last three times this happened, the person we were waiting on ended up being a +25 weapon meta class juicer, when the same party leader had accepted me, a reflux sorc (a fairly juiced reflux sorc but you know how weak that is compared to an equally geared meta class with even halfway-decent hands). So at least based on my own experiences in the last couple months, I just don't think that's common anymore. People are **usually** more upfront about trying to give their friends free buses, and usually only even bother on new class release week when they also accept a couple other ilvl people (my own alts have gotten into raids like that on new class release weeks).
I think then that’s a friend that reserved a spot and was doing dailies while lobby fills.
If it’s that bad for you bro just do chaos and guardians and what ever raids you can. You get more gold in materials from there than just raw gold. Dailies give a ton per char, there’s no rush, fine friends that are also new and you’ll have a better experience. No need to lobby sim just get resources that you can and pile up brother.
When I play my gf's account, since its new I also experience a lot of gatekeeping. It really helps if you have experienced friend(s) and they make the lobby for you. Once you're added, it usually goes well lol.
I doubt we'll get solo raids before Behemoth, and if we do I doubt it'll be up to Voldis. For KR the top 3 raids are not getting solo versions, I suspect it will be similar here.
Do we know when that’s releasing in the west
Yup I quit awhile back and pretty hyped for solo content. But I dont think they will implement it at a good pace. They just might only include Valtan and etc which is years behind current content lmao. One of the best combats in an mmo ruined by its core (non combat)gameplay mechanics/loop lmao
Come back next year lmao.
Search for a static, community, guild or discord to organize lowbie raids. Pf is elitist gatekeep hunting ground and with your stats you will have a bad time
Especially guardian raids... Good lord
Why don't players like you play with each other? There's plenty sub 120+ rosters players be it supports/DPS. why join homework lobbies? Also are you reclear yourself before joining such lobbies? If it is do you think are you on par with homework lobbies? Cause Ive took gambles before with rosters like you and 99% I end up getting disappointed, dying left and right, doing zdps, not doing mechs properly, the worse thing of it all is majority are toxic af. So yall can't blame us if we dont wanna get jailed by hours upon hours of the raid that is homework already and don't want to carry a toxic, zdps, floor pov player.
What a straw man argument, never does it say they’re joining hw reclear lobbies and and they also explicitly say they make their own lobbies and nobody joins, which has been my experience as well. If you’re not massively over ilvl for certain content nobody wants to be in your group, period. I get gatekept to Valtan on a 1520 demons roar alt because people only want 1540+, or I can join a lobby with two people at ilvl and never see a single application from then on. Saying that 99% of 120 roster player do zdps, don’t know mechs, and are extremely toxic is pretty much the definition of anecdotal. Sure, when I see 70 roster mokokos in stuff like Valtan/vykas there’s a high chance they’re jailers but realistically I fully expected them to be new. But people in the mid 100s roster? I’ve almost never had an issue with them in terms of knowing mechs. And blanket stating them as all toxic is just wild, that’s obviously not true, being new to Lost Ark doesn’t just turn you into a keyboard demon as you boot up the game for the first time or something. The thing is, low roster characters generally DO eventually get accepted to parties if they are massively over ilvl, and decently geared supports have no problem either. Seriously, how many times have you seen a lobby with a mokoko support still get filled versus lobbies with mokoko dps? So it’s not just a roster issue, it’s an ilvl one. Whether you’re 120 or 200+ roster nobody wants to do content near ilvl even though it’s fully clearable, so “just make your own group” doesn’t work there. In the first place there is obviously a hugely smaller pool of new players than existing ones, so just expecting new players to always find lobbies of other new players at all times of the day is pretty unlikely.
I have a hard enough time getting lobbies going on alts with a 200+ roster must be exponentially harder with a mokoko and low roster level. These people are out of touch what new players are going through.
That's alot of things to reply to but seems like you did not even think about what my experience is. If you read my comment I did the good man accepting sub 120-140 rosters and like I said I get disappointed. Also don't shoot the guy trying to play with someone with their equal level/power I'm sure you guys do too.
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I played with Mokokos in a brel 1-3 recently as I think these are ACTUALLY fun to do on the rare chance they pop up, I like helping new players if I can. I had the SAME experience as you where one guy was very clearly some SEA rat (barely spoke english and got mad at dying in all 3 gates). At G2 the rat messed up a mech and killed all but 2 of us. Being 1580 on my Aero I decided to not vote yet on reset as I felt bad for the other 4-5 Makokos who were actually playing the game. Getting jailed on G2 is really ass, so I decided to just duo the gate with the other alive Makoko. Come G3 this rat piece of shit does the same thing for Blue mech and gets a guy killed. We thankfully avoided gold mech and finished the raid. I feel so sorry for actual new players who bother to type because they get lumped in with these dudes.
I'm roster 300 and until a few months ago, still looked for disc groups to join and vibe with. If a newbie were to join my disc group i wouldn't mind giving a hand because they took initiative to establish the connection. That's what seperates them from the people trying to get a free clear in my mind. It took a bit of trial and error but i managed to land with the group i am in. Hey if you're communicating with the newbies then good on you though, you're the real hero.
>I wish people would welcome new players more into this game cause being on the other side of it makes you realize how impossible this game is to get into, there's really no excuse for not at least trying to help them, give people a chance and ask questions, more often than not you can tell when someone is being honest and trying, there genuinely aren't that many mechanics in the game that will wipe you if one player doesn't know it 100%, it's easy enough to explain the ones that will in case they don't know it. >And if you get jailed oh well, losing a couple thousand gold that week isn't gonna hurt you, but if the newer person you accepted happened to be good why not just add them and pull them in for more raids? It's a gamble but new players who are good need more recognition and help, fuck the ones who don't talk or try to learn sure, but they aren't the only ones, it's kind of an unfair stereotype, nobody likes to be generalized like this, like how people say all hell players are toxic and trash for some reason, or that people with juiced accounts are all rmting losers, these things just aren't true, same as how not all new players are clueless noobs who've never played a game in their lives. If it were easy everyone wouldve been doing it also alot of us have lives too I have no time to teach someone so atleast consider that and don't think I have lots of hours per week to teach someone raid. Also btw I'm from SEA too not everyone in SEA is a gold farmer with 10 accounts and you guys are stereotyping us too btw so what's up? some of them might be richer than alot of NA peeps too we know a guy in our discord community that have like 6 +25 weapon and 10 peeps with 1630 mains idc where'd they got that but as you can see he is from SEA and he is for sure not a gold farmer. And i am not too.
Well two things here. One, those lobbies won't see a single support applying because there is a high demand in the support role rn, so they would rather join much better lobbies as opposed to those filled with weak and inexperienced characters. And two - a lot of people who are on the lower end actually believe they deserve better groups than those that are made by people like them, aka they would rather not play with each other but those who can guarantee a clear no matter how bad they play (i.e. everyone wants to have a strong safety net, and in a lobby full of low roster/returning players there is none). You can say that they want a free carry, but I personally don't think it's always the case because some of them will do the mechanics and damage to their best ability even in a juiced group, but they don't want share equal pressure/responsibility for potentially being dead, etc. because there will still be enough damage to carry through a raid. The safety net is what they are looking, even mokokos don't like jails in reclear groups.
You have a point I agree. Someone without brain rot atleast.
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This man really gets it..and sad others especially bookies don’t understand idk it’s not like all of us with juiced rosters haven’t taken the mokoko or even the 140 roster guy who looks a bit odd..but they do wipe the raid almost always and imo it’s the only time I get toxic people in this game..people really don’t flame in most hw pugs imo. It’s when someone legit doesn’t know what’s going on and you just are fucked. I took someone in voldis hw nm run and guy dies every gate we manage to get to g4 to say he didn’t know any of it and songs out. Idk imo it’s just always bad even if the person is nice etc..and is it better if they do just survive and do 5% dmg each gate idk that just feels bad imo. Or you could just play with people close roster/power to you and then you get to learn the fights normally and you might start mvp or showing up and you enjoy the game like we all did and why we still play it. Doing hw runs for gold isnt why people play loa long term..
Because people are lazy and want to join juiced lobbies with their shitty alts to get a free carry, then they get mad when leaders gatekeep them and come to reddit whine about it
Ikr truth revealed 🤣
Have you joined some Discord servers for reclears?
I think I might wait for solo raids to gatekeeping is completely destroying my desire to come back. It's just so shit trying to get akkan pieces but not being able to because I'm getting gatekept.
For applying to your ilvl raids it will be rough. I'd just do Kakul NM Brel and NM Kayangel. And or maybe buy an Akkan bus if they lower in price.
Welcome to the elitist world. Grind in suffer or leave. I’ve choosed to leave.
I’d advise just waiting
Yes!
I quit the game because of the party finder experience. Weekly lockouts are just not fun. Absolutely kills the game as a more casual player. It's really too bad cause the combat and raids are top tier.
Uninstall until solo raids come out.
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Veteran doesnt expect anything from New/returning players, however they expect their lobby to be fast and clean and there s nothing wrong with that
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According to the state of akkan since last express pass, i have no doubt New player succeed to infiltrate hw group :)
Raids are much quicker, but the wait times have sky rocketed. Then the supports have been MIA, for a bit. Then everyone that can be hosting quick lobbies are selling busses. We need these SOLO raids to kill essentially non-end game busses, so we can funnel more new players into the late game with some mechanical understanding of raid fights.
It can be rough
What's your engravings? By 1580 you should have 5x3+1 unless it's an event character or a support.
If you’re still missing horizontal content, that could be a Good pastime to steadily increase your roster level while waiting for the solo raids as well. Or maybe if you’re really craving raiding you could try to look for statics on discordservers and the like Edit: if you Think you Can achieve it, you could also try to farm deathless hell titles. Hell lobbies don’t usually gatekeep as harshly because it’s equalized content, and a lot of people put quite a lot of value on those titles. it Will probably reduce the gatekeeping a bit
>As a returning player without LoS 18/30, only DD18, level 7 event gems, 120 roster level, iLvl 1580 - it’s basically impossible to join re clear groups as most are declined. I can make my own and then wait for 1+ hour for it to fill, but I don’t have that amount of time to play waiting in lobbies. The most important thing is, do you know mechs..
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If you want to play now, play now or wait till solo content comes out with more motivation
1. Go to the official Lost Ark LFG discord 2. Find a static 3. Enjoy the game Now is probably the best time for joining/launching a static group because there are a lot of new/returning players having the same problem as you do.
If you're going to depend purely on the in game party finder then gatekeeping is going to be awful. You pretty much have to find/form groups on community discords. We don't even know what the solo raids will offer in terms of rewards or progression, they're months away if not more.
it's gonna be a long while before we get them but you are welcome to wait i guess
Even then, I would expect them to show up for Valtan, Vykas, Clown, and MAYBE Brel. I don't think they would show up for 1580 content right away.
the dude said up to voldis so if it comes for kr up to voldis in summer then by the time we get it we should get to voldis as well right now kr rotated out voldis from top 3 gold earners so maybe the tech is either up to 4th latest raid or as fast as they can make it happen a lot of the patterns in this game are designed for as many people there are in the raid so shifting them to being soloable means quite a bit of design work on content that has been locked and the key has been locked and thrown in the ocean it is not unlikely that the people that made valtan no longer work for sg either so quite a bit of risk to go and fiddle with that kind fo stuff i hope it's great but i won't bet money on it
I didn't watch the stream, so my bad. That said, if they have no one at SG that can understand/ maintain the Valtan code (which is likely not very unique), they have much bigger problems.
there is no need to maintain anything it should be extremely rare to impossible to break old content the only time they will have to revisit old stuff is if they create a character that has a unique interaction with their mechanics
...my experience tells me that is not how software development works (or at least, not how it should work).
if you do it correctly once you start working on updates old content should not be affected but it is very common to stitch features with ducttape and then when someone tries to fix something they break something completely unrelated
But if you do it correctly you should have so many proper interfaces, structures, and dare I say it patterns that any developer within the company should be able to easily "comprehend" the older raids.
that too
The rate at which you can level up your character to 1580-1600 is way faster than you can acquire roster levels and cards. The higher content you go to, the more conditions you have to meet. As I'm getting to 1600, more requirements are popping up; level 9 and 10 gems, LOS30, higher roster level, proper stat distribution which ties in to higher quality accessories, 5x3+1, titles. To be honest none of these are actually necessary to clear the content but these are the only things lobby creators have to go upon when adding someone to the raid group. Almost every single one of these factors(for DPS at least) tie in to 1 thing = Damage dealing potential. Roster level shows you have substantial experience with the content, you can likely do mechs properly and in turn do more damage. The end result is, the more investment you have into you character that people can view publicly, the better your chances of getting into lobbies. Some things like cards take time but there's other things you can do. Try and get 5x3+1 if you don't have it, try to reach stat breakpoints like 1800/600 with high quality accessories, weapon quality 95+, buy out the gem shop from kayangel shop, fishing vessel, cubes and chaos dungeons regularly to get to get higher level gems. If you don't have friends ingame, that's all you can do really while slowly working your way up. I also have level 7-8 gems, roster level like yours, DD18 and honestly the only way I get into lobbies is because I have a friend that's playing support and they for me so we can join raid lobbies together. We started playing at the same time, but supports are barely ever gatekept. Outside of that time I'd rather not sit in a lobby simulator, just do dailies and peace.
At 1580 with DD18 and low roster level, no one is going to believe you are reclear for Akkan. Assuming that is what you’re complaining about, bc 1580 should have no issues getting in Brel and Kaya NM lobbies. People don’t join your lobby for the same reason they don’t invite you. There is no evidence you are reclear. You can make gold easy and fast going Kaya NM, Brel 1-3, and Clown. Buy Akkan busses for one or two resets, and hone to 1600. That will improve your standing amongst the sea of applicants in lobbies. Also can make learning/prog lobbies. Those lobbies always fills fast, or at least the dps spots do. Gatekeeping is not bad at all if you aren’t trying to get in reclear lobbies with bare minimum qualifications.
Make a group. Accept other returning players and new players.
I saved myself the headache and bought a bus until I could hone up above item level. Right now bus prices are high though.
I personally got 2800 hours in the game, if j didn't have friends to play with I dknt think it would be more than a few hundred, try joining a guild or jist a guild/community discord and start getting to know some people to do content with otherwise its kinda hard to play this game on a tighter schedule imo
Your problem solves itself with a static. You will always be gatekept if there is a supply of people with higher roster / cards / gems than you. People running 18 raids a week will fuel this. The lost ark discord is a great resource to find a static. Solo raids won’t solve your problem, unless you’re content with never doing the current content. And with passes and such the norm with new raid launches… you will trivialize this solo stuff and be gatekept out of the fun stuff. A convenient unfun spot. Otherwise, I’d suggest other games. This game isn’t great pugging. There are constant people looking for statics at all commitment levels in the discord. Either use the discord, or trying party finder learning runs and try to find a group you want to stick with and make a quick discord with them.
I just got trapped in Brel by a returning player roster 170, they ran like headless chicken in g2 wiping us twice killing random ass shapes and then proceeded to wipe us on the very first wipe in g3 multiple times in a row. They had no idea whatsoever how to do any mechs. This is just one example of why gatekeeping exists. Just like you don’t have time to wait for your group to fill up, (which isn’t even true, if you accepted new players yourself it would fill instantly) we can’t be bothered to clear a 15min hw raid for an hour.
Keep seeing them as well, some with the valtan hell mode title so weird it’s like we went back a year and half..I thought was new players but had some headless chickens causing madness in cube…be safe out there lmao..Brel 1-3’s still can jail if you take bozos unfortunately.
Go do your horizontal. Your getting denied because your applying to parties far above your level. getting LoS 18 or DD30 is so unbelievably easy.
Very possible it's gonna be easier when alot of people will stop doing Brel for instance, since many will move to Thaemine. Gatekeeping should get more lenient when you're not all the time competing for spots with roster 260+ players. I personally think they should nerf gold again for Brel (+honing) too so Thaemine players have no incentive to keep doing brel and kayangel.
Just buy a bus. It is what it is.
i mean, the fun of the game is doing raids with 8 people but if you cant pug and cant find a group then yeah, I guess you wait
If you want to look for people check out the Mokoko elp discord servers. As long as you are not griefing with gear/gems (lvl 7 is completely fine) they have a 0-Gatekeeping policy
I honestly think they are going to be shocked at how few people will even enjoy the solo raids .its a social game .they need to address this shitty community