Lost Ark News

Last week’s Lost Ark update, dubbed Spells and Spades, introduced the new Arcanist class along with a pair of progression events to help get new players and newly-created Arcanists off to a running start. One of these events is the Punika Powerpass that allowed players to skip the entire Punika questline and jump straight to Item Level 1302. The Punika [...]

Lost Ark debuts its newest class as the card-throwing Arcanist steps foot in Arkesia with today’s Spells in Spades update. The Arcanist is the third advanced class for the Mage and has the ability to imbue playing cards with Magick and use them to devastating effect. The Arcanist’s skills are built around building stacks on enemies before blasting them with [...]

Lost Ark will be welcoming a new class next week in the form of the magical card-throwing Arcanist. The Arcanist will be joining the Bard and the Sorceress as the third advanced class for the Mage. “The Arcanist imbues special cards with her Magick and uses them for a wide variety of effects. From slicing up enemies with a deluge [...]

Lost Ark’s highly-awaited Wrath of the Covetous Legion update is now live but not without a few last minute issues marring its release. First off, the scheduled downtime to deploy the patch was extended by about four hours (6 hours for Europe West) due to a critical issue. The servers were then taken down again a few hours later to [...]

After a slight delay, Amazon Game Studios has officially rolled out Lost Ark’s June update, a.k.a. Wrath of the Covetous Legion. The update brings with it the new Vykas Legion Raid, the Kungelanium Guardian Raid, the new Thronespire solo dungeon, and the new Heartbeat Island where players can kick back and relax after taking on the new bosses that have [...]

Amazon Game Studios has dropped more information on Lost Ark’s June update ahead of its release tomorrow with a particular focus on the new Vykas Legion Raid. The new endgame encounter will feature the same mechanics as last month’s Valtan Legion Raid including gated checkpoints and new Sidereals that players can summon to fight by their side. “Vykas follows Valtan [...]

As promised, Amazon Game Studios is back with more detailed information on why they decided to delay the release of the Lost Ark June patch to the end of the month. Basically, it’s because they’ve got their hands full working on additional content and ridding the game of those pesky bots. “While we originally hoped to release the June update [...]

Amazon Game Studio has pushed back the release of Lost Ark’s June update by a few weeks to the end of June. The studio has yet to reveal a reason for the delay but they promise to do so in a dev update later this week. “We are still working across teams to finalize a build that addresses multiple concerns [...]

You have been warned and Amazon Game Studios has delivered on its promise to bring the mighty banhammer down on botters in Lost Ark. The team reports that over 300K accounts were caught in the ban wave as part of their continued efforts to combat botting and real-money trading in the MMORPG. The icing on the cake is that the [...]

Amazon Game Studios accidentally released a Lost Ark supporter pack earlier this week that wasn’t meant to go on sale just yet. The Punika Growth Support Pack was available for less than a day before the developers pulled it from the cash shop. The $10 pack contained several gear upgrade materials, Honor Shards, and Ancient Platinum Coin. “While we understand [...]