Lost Ark Releases New Roadmap for June and July

Amazon Games and developer Smilegate have released a new roadmap for Lost Ark, detailing plans for the months of June and July. While the title only launched in North America a few months ago, the game has been available in South Korea and Russia since 2019. As a result, fans have been clamoring to see more content released for the MMO on this side of the world. Today's roadmap gives fans information about exactly what will be added to Lost Ark over the next couple of months. The full roadmap from the game's official website can be found below:

JUNE

LEGION RAID – VYKAS (NORMAL & HARD)

Battle the Covetous Legion's Commander Vykas, who will join Valtan as the second Legion Raid available. Legion Raids are difficult team-based activities that require teamwork to understand and enact the strategy necessary to counter each Legion Commander's unique characteristics, abilities, and mechanics. As Legion Raids are challenging and take time, there are gates (or checkpoints) that will save a player's progress as they advance through the Raid. To learn more about some of the mechanics unique to Legion Raids, visit our Lost Ark Academy on the Valtan Legion Raid.

Like Valtan, this Legion Raid will require eight players. To enter normal mode, players will need to reach item level 1430, and for hard, 1460. The Vykas Legion Raid will grant materials allowing successful players to finish crafting their Relic gear sets, alongside a host of other valuable rewards.

NEW GUARDIAN RAID – KUNGELANIUM

Joining Deskaluda, the frost predator Kungelanium will enter the gauntlet of powerful Level 6 Guardians available to challenge in a Guardian Raid. Kungelanium will be available for players to challenge once they reach item level 1460 or higher. Like other Guardian Raids, you can attempt to vanquish alone, with a party, or matchmake with up to three other heroes.

THRONESPIRE

Thronespire is a new single-player dungeon experience in a twisted dimension with 50 levels. Once you enter a floor, you'll have a limited amount of time to clear it before moving to the next, or failing and need to re-try. While similar to the Shadowspire and Fatespire solo dungeons, Thronespire has a few key differences. In Thronespire, you'll battle until overwhelmed, working to defeat as many floors and enemies as possible before you meet your match and succumb to the Demon Legions. Completing the first 25 floors grant first-time clear rewards (you'll earn all rewards for the floors you conquer). The other 25 floors are focused on prestige and completion times— proving you have the solo skills it takes to conquer anything the Demon Legions throw your way. Players will need to be item level 1325 to participate.

NEW STORE COSMETICS – YOZ

Yoz's Jar is a new consumable that arriving in the in-game store that will introduce a variety of Epic and Legendary skins. If you have a skin you don't like or wear anymore (or maybe one from Yoz's Jar you're not a fan of) you can break it down for "Cloth", which can be used with a Jar to roll a new skin from a determined list. This new cosmetic system will also give a chance to acquire Legendary skins, which provide better benefits than Epic skins. No worries if you like an older skin more than the looks of your new Legendary one with bigger bonuses, you can 'Overlay' the skin you like over the Legendary skin! Like the rest of the content previewed here, we'll share more details as we head toward the June update.

JULY

NEW MAGE ADVANCED CLASS – ARCANIST

The Arcanist imbues special cards with her Magick and uses them to for a variety of effects. From slicing up enemies with a deluge of thrown cards to summoning powerful Magick attacks or team effects from the cards themselves, the Arcanist has a trick up her sleeve for every situation. Despite being armed with a variety of skills, the Arcanist will sometimes leave things to the fate of the cards with her specialty skill "Card Deck". When the player lands an attack, it charges the Card Meter. Once the meter is completely charged, a card with random stats registers on the Card Deck, which can be pulled out and used to varying degrees of devastating effect. The Arcanist will join the Bard and Sorceress as the third available Mage Advanced Class.

VALTAN LEGION RAID – INFERNO DIFFICULTY

The most difficult version of Legion Raids, the Inferno difficulty is all about proving you're the among the best of the best in Arkesia, and earning prestige. Rather than chasing the normal rewards of gear, materials, and everything else you'd receive in a Legion Raid, Inferno rewards instead showcase your victory with titles, achievements, Stronghold structures, and more! A new in-game vendor will be added for players to access a variety of prestigious rewards, earned after various numbers of clears.

There are a few key differences between Normal/Hard and Inferno difficulties:

• 'Scale of Balance' is applied, and the raid requires use of the Book of Coordination, so everyone's gear is normalized against the level of your Legion Commander opponent.
• The gate progression system will not be active – you can't make it half-way and come back later in the week.
• Inferno mode will not count against your weekly attempt limit for Legion Raids, so you can play Valtan on Normal/Hard and Inferno in the same week, and try Inferno as many times as you'd like.

Valtan Inferno difficulty will require item level 1445 for players to participate.

CHALLENGE ABYSSAL DUNGEONS

Similar to how the recently released Challenge Guardian Raids applies Scale of Harmony to equalize your power against your foe, Challenge Abyssal Dungeons will use this treatment in a new weekly activity. With greater challenge also comes greater rewards. Various honing material selection pouches— like Challenge Guardians, you can pick the offering closest to your item level— will rotate through the rewards, and cards aplenty are available as drops or in the end-of-dungeon loot auction. You can play through each Abyssal Dungeon once (per roster) each week.

It will be interesting to see how fans feel about this roadmap! According to Amazon Games, one new Advanced Class will release every two months for the rest of the year. Some fans are worried that particular release schedule will make it more difficult for players to remain invested in the game, or get any lapsed players to come back. For now, we'll just have to wait and see!

Lost Ark is available now on PC. Readers can check out all of our previous coverage of the game right here.

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