Lost Ark tackles one of the biggest problems of Amazon’s MMORPG with the new August update

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The new content update for Lost Ark is being released today, August 14, 2024. The name “The calm before the storm” says it all. There are comparatively few new features to expect. The developers want to combat a problem that the MMORPG has been suffering from for years.

What new features does the August update offer? All Lost Ark players can look forward to the following key new features:

  • Indigo Island: You can enter the island off the coast of Kurzan with an item level of 1,600 or higher. Unusual underwater landscapes and a single-player dungeon that includes three paths await you.
  • Bound Gold: Bound Gold will now allow you to earn gold that is used exclusively for certain progression systems. Two current systems will be updated to award bound gold instead of “tradable” gold: Una’s Mark Gold Reward Chests and Solo Raids.
  • New mission system for chaos dungeons: If you play through Chaos Dungeons with the Aura of Resonance active, you will earn weekly Purification Points. You can invest these in reward chests. There is an accompanying event running until September 25, 2024.
  • There is a new Hot Time event and the daily login reward series is updated.
  • The Maharaka Festival continues, with a mini-game and a new daily quest.
  • Names of characters from inactive accounts whose owners have not logged in for more than a year and who are below combat level 50 will be released.

    • The maintenance started at 9:00 am and is expected to last for about six hours, so expect the servers to be back up by 3:00 pm.

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    Battle of exhaustion

    What problem are the developers fighting? Lost Ark is an unusual case. Most MMORPGs struggle with the fact that content doesn’t get onto the servers quickly enough to satisfy a large part of the community.

    The opposite is the case with the online role-playing game from Smilegate and Amazon Games. So much time-consuming endgame content was added to Arkesia every month that players repeatedly complained of fatigue and being overwhelmed.

    That’s why the development team is deliberately putting the brakes on this summer. The July update went live with the motto “Chilled Summer”. In addition to the new solo mode for raids and dungeons and the epilogue quest of the Echinda story, the servers were also updated with new features and support systems.

    With the September update, the adventure in Arkesia will pick up speed again. The new continent of North Kurzan, the next endgame stage of Lost Ark, fresh content such as the Kurzan Frontline and the Kenuart Fortress or the Behemoth Raid await you. Here you can find all the plans from Roadmap 3 for Lost Ark. Continue on the next page with the official German patch notes.

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