"A massive, visually stunning ARPG with endless adventure!"

Lost Ark is an action-packed MMORPG that blends the best of both worlds: fast-paced, Diablo-style combat with the depth and world-building of a traditional MMO. From the moment you dive in, the game’s world pulls you in with breathtaking visuals, detailed environments, and smooth gameplay mechanics.

The combat is a true highlight—responsive, satisfying, and full of flair. Each class feels unique, with an array of flashy abilities that allow you to tailor your playstyle. Whether you prefer to get up close and personal with melee attacks or engage from a distance with powerful magic, Lost Ark offers a satisfying experience no matter your preference. The abilities feel weighty and impactful, making each battle incredibly fun.

The world of Lost Ark is vast, and the storytelling is engaging. There are plenty of quests and events to keep you busy, and the lore is deep and immersive. As you explore new regions, you’ll encounter diverse environments and face off against formidable foes, making each new area feel like an exciting new adventure. The dungeons and raids offer some of the best cooperative gameplay, with intense boss battles that require team coordination and strategy.

While the free-to-play model might raise some concerns about microtransactions, the game’s content feels rich and rewarding without forcing you to spend money. The progression system is solid, and there’s plenty to unlock through gameplay, so it never feels like you're being held back by paywalls.

way too much fatigue, toxic community, literally makes no sense to start playing this game in 2024 or 2025. The game is losing players and for veterans like me the homework becomes harder and harder due to less players. Bots are at a peak right now. Necessary changes are made way too late by the devs.

Spend your time more wisely!

After dedicated a long amount of time to mainly playing this game with a full roster of characters keeping up with weeklies I would like to recommend new players against picking up the game unless you've got a group of friends to play with, want to play a support class, or are comfortable stepping into the role as the party leader. No matter what you will need a lot of time on your hands.

The core game play and mechanics are fun and satisfying to pull off, but the design of the fights make deaths very punishable. This is lovely on paper, but leads to a community with low room for failure.

Gearing your character with a good build requires either a good amount of luck, time, or money which will bottleneck a lot of people from getting invited into content.

To get gold you will need to complete raids, and if you get passionate enough about this game it will eventually lead to you doing the maximum of 6x3 raids for gold, which ends up taking a lot of time to complete even if every run goes smoothly.

While not mandatory, grinding for collectibles such as cards, giants hearts, ignia tokens etc. provide fairly significant bonuses that make a noteworthy difference. Everything tied to collectibles take a significant amount of time both in game and IRL to complete.

All of this results in a game that at its core is very fun to play, but sadly falls off due to how the amount of time needed to dedicate to the game seems to almost increase exponentially as you become more invested, and sadly the amount of time needed is way too much for most people to want to dedicate to a singular video game on a weekly basis.