Lost Ark Will Add New Rowen Continent In February And Release Artist Class Ahead Of Time Come March
With the February update, the devs will throw in events to celebrate the game's anniversary.
Smilegate and Amazon Games dropped a blog today releasing details on the upcoming February 8th update for Lost Ark and shared that the Artist class will come West sooner than expected in March instead of April.
For February, the new Rowen continent located West of Shushire will get added to the game. The backstory of the land is that it used to be home to a prosperous civilization that suddenly disappeared, and eventually, Rowen became forgotten. The continent is now brimming with crimson Sylmael jewels and has attracted two competing factions mustering their forces in Rowen that players must choose to represent.
To start the world quest in Rowen, which sends players into a PvP mode against the opposing faction, players must have Item Level 1445 gear. By participating in activities and gaining Faction XP, players can rise up the 15 tiers of ranks within their faction for rewards. Alongside Rowen, fans can also celebrate the game's first anniversary through new events with prizes.
The devs revealed the Artist class in the 2023 roadmap for the game and at first determined it would arrive sometime in April. Due to the team being ahead of development, the Artist will come in March with a Powerpass and progression event similar to previous Express Events. Leading up to the class release, Smilegate aims to share more specifics.
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Why i mention bots? Well if you are f2p player they devalued your time by over 99% Because if 1000gold could get you gg relic 6months ago, 100000gold can not get you one now. Same for crystal to gold ratio. Bots are basically american goverment, printing money for the rich overlords while making stuff unaffordable for worker-class.
i'd still install the game just to try artist class if the game looked healthy but there is 150k players from 1.3million and from those 100k is bots. For example june's bot ban removed -53.92% accounts. I know it is hard to imagine so many bots, but when there is money they work miracles. Even bots moved to more popular titles as they dropped from 600k bots to 100k. You can tell that they are not gone easily in any city, as they run train in perfectly same straight line to same quest givers in thousands and even have hacks to be faster than possible for legitimate player.
This game is not dead at all, but it is corpse slowly rotting. It can be revived by 3 things 1. Server merges 2.Partial p2w removal(everyone will get access to endgame in reasonable time, p2w players will just have easier time because of god gear they bought) 3. Removal of p2w barriers from trading.
There, game saved and revived in 3 easy steps (it will not happen ofcourse because short term greed>long term income)