The time to drop the nerf hammer has arrived, as Amazon Games and Smilegate RPG shut down the western region for an update. Aside from the promised balances and nerfs, this update addresses numerous bugs as Aura of Chaos, the quest from the Whispering Islet given by Nineveh is finally being addressed so players can continue with the story.
Other than that, the update introduces a lot of balancing issues and a Tier 1 and Tier 2 content nerf. More precisely, plenty of Guardian and Abyssal dungeons are being addressed so that players do not struggle and head to Tier 3 easier. According to many, the game director of Lost Ark wants everyone to join Tier 3, since Tier 3 is where the game becomes interesting to play. It is also when the grind becomes real.
Downtime for this week’s update will begin at 10 PM PT (6AM UTC), with an expected downtime of 6 hours.
This update will include general bug fixes, improving issues with matchmaking, and the balance updates mentioned earlier this week.
— Lost Ark (@playlostark) March 3, 2022
The servers are still down which means the deployment has not been over yet. For the full list of patch notes, check the segment below.
Lost Ark Patch Notes March 3
As posted by Amazon Games on the official Lost Ark website, the game is supposed to go live very soon.
ABYSSAL DUNGEONS
ANCIENT ELVERIA
Necromancer’s Origin
- Improved player forgiveness during the orb phase when trying to defeat Sigmund during Stage 2 of Necromancer’s Origin.
- Improved the visual effect of Sigmund’s color wave to make it more clear to players.
PHANTOM PALACE
Hall of the Twisted Warlord
- Made a change to the Phantom Legion King attack pattern and Phantom Cut debuff stack that is applied to the character.
- Updated the Phantom Legion King Illusion Sword summon attack pattern.
- As the swords follow the players, if a player receives two stacks they will incur damage and upon reaching three stacks, they will die.
Hildebrandt Palace
- Decreased the amount of damage required for the Stagger phase when Ephernia appears in Stage 3 of Hildebrandt Palace.
- Increased the Phantom Energy effect range from the Meteor mechanic during Stage 3.
- Changed the attack shape of the second Meteor mechanic from a circle to a front attack during Stage 3.
GATE OF PARADISE
Sea of Indolence
- Increased the warning time for the omen attack in Stage 2 of Sea of Indolence.
- Changed Indolence Sentinel Akam’s attack from a wipe mechanic to a high damage attack in Stage 2 of Sea of Indolence.
GUARDIAN RAIDS
Vertus
- Removed the stun debuff that was applied when players were hit by the tail swing attack.
- Decreased the damage dealt by several attacks:
- Jumping out of the ice.
- Grabbing a player and breathing ice fire.
Nacrasena
- Decreased the damage dealt by several attacks:
- Tail attack after thumping the ground with tail.
- Jumping out of the ground.
- Lightning projectiles.
Flame Fox Yoho
- Reduced the duration of Flame Fox Yoho’s Flame Ground attack.
- Decreased Flame Fox Yoho’s HP.
- Reduced the effect of the Burning Soul ability.
- Decreased the damage dealt by several attacks:
- Throwing Fox fires.
- Jump forward and claw attacks.
- Jump upward and claw attacks.
Tytalos
- Decreased the duration of Tytalos’ Circle of Spalling rock attack.
- Changed Tytalos’ attack that collects sand energy and explodes from a wipe mechanic to a high-damage attack.
- Decreased the damage dealt by Tytalos’ earth explosion attacks.
Achates
- Modified Guardian Achates summon statue pattern to always summon four Guardian Statues.
- Decreased the damage required to apply Weak Point to Achates.
- To keep Achates challenging in Trial Guardian Raids, that encounter will not have these changes – but more on that in a future update!
Lava Chromanium
- Decreased the damage dealt by the lava eruption attack used by Lava Chromanium when becoming Berserk.
- Levanos
- Decreased the damage required to apply Weak Point* to Levanos.
GENERAL UPDATES & BUG FIXES
- Fixed an issue that caused the “Battle Effects Display – include buff effects of party members” setting to not show some debuffs affecting party members.
- Fixed an issue that caused the top-left in-game clock to show the wrong time zone due to daylight saving time.
- Added an update to prevent players from being booted out of the server while logging in. We will continue to monitor data, feedback, and reports to ensure this issue is resolved.
- Applied a fix to help improve matchmaking issues. We will continue to monitor data, feedback, and reports to ensure this issue is resolved.
- Fixed an issue preventing an object from being interactable during “Nineveh’s Aura of Chaos” rapport quest chain.
- Fixed an issue where the Abyss Trader was missing from Rothun.
- Fixed an issue where the Weekly Battle Item Bundle stated it could be claimed 10 times, correcting it to reflect the purchase limit of once a week.
- Added a chat filter for players to select specific languages.
