Heroes of Arkesia,
There’s a lot on the horizon for Lost Ark in the coming months, so we wanted to do a round-up and talk through a bunch of key initiatives along with some topics we know the community is curious about. Below a recap of the upcoming September Update, you’ll find a section that covers many upcoming projects with some updates and information. This summer has been a wonderful time in Arkesia, and we plan to keep that up with some major projects, big events, and exciting moments throughout the rest of the year.
Rimeria Besieged
For those who missed Eye On Arkesia or some of our other announcements on social media, here’s a quick recap of how the September “Rimeria Besieged” update is shaping up.
Update Summary
The September 17 update will include Assault: Rimeria, which includes an event dungeon and end-game raid, the Combat Analyzer feature, the Honor System, multiple events, and an additional batch of QoL (Quality of Life) changes. The full release notes will be available on Tuesday, September 16.
Golden Frog Extension
We’ve seen (most) Relic Engraving prices fall despite higher volumes of sales with the Golden Frog. To help increase the supply of Relic Engravings as we head toward the release of Act 4 and Kazeros, the Golden Frog has been extended through October 15th. We also hope that this will allow time for the new and returning players who have started to finish other progression systems to have a head-start on gathering some Relic Engravings.
Prestige Shop Adjustments
We’re planning some ongoing adjustments to the Prestige Shop, where items will rotate in and out. At the end of September, the bound gold offering will be rotated out, and new offerings (such as Pheons and Life Energy/Leap’s Essence) will be rotated in. We will also work to bring over new cosmetic offerings from Korea when available!
Upcoming Projects
Final 2025 Roadmap
The final roadmap for 2025 will release at the end of September, and will include the content plans for the rest of the year. We’ll give one spoiler since we’ve seen a lot of players asking about it— the balance patch that released alongside Kazeros in Korea will be arriving in October.
Region Merge Policy
We’ve nearly locked-in the full Region Merge policy for NA West and East, and will be sharing in the weeks leading up to the merge in October. While you’ll need to wait for that policy for all the specifics, we are excited to share that we’ve factored in player feedback to the naming policy that we saw coming out of previous region merges— as this was a hot topic and something we’ve seen a lot of questions in the community about. Instead of giving either region priority for names, we created a policy that will reward active players. With the enormous amount of players at launch, there are names sitting idle in each region that would mean active players wouldn’t receive their name after the merge, which didn’t seem fair. Our way of rewarding players who 1) are active, and 2) got the name first, will be the following policy:
The name is granted to the player with highest combat level on their roster (ie. a player who has played since the launch of Tier 4 with a lvl. 70 character will receive the name over a roster with a lvl. 60 character from launch).
If both names have the same highest level character on the roster (ie. both lvl. 70), the name will be granted to the player who first created the name.
Guild names will be granted to whichever guild was created first.
We know that there are many more questions, but wanted to give a little spoiler as we’ve seen many players asking about the naming policy. Once again, we will share all the policy specifics and information on the technical side of the merge as soon as possible as we continue planning and preparing for the merge in October.
Kazeros The First Plans
We’ve seen some requests for information on the plans and policies for Kazeros’ release in the West, and wanted to acknowledge. We’ve begun work on the plans and for releasing Kazeros, and the policies for the first clear race in the Western version of Lost Ark. We’ll share some specifics in the upcoming roadmap, and others will be shared closer to the release of the raid once they’re locked in. We understand the importance of this to the hardcore raiding community however, and will work to share information as soon as we’re able to.
Paradise / Azena’s Blessing
We wanted to provide a quick note that in the downtime between Paradise seasons that Azena’s Blessing will not provide +1 Elysian Entry Tickets (as the content will not be accessible). It has been fun witnessing the journey through the various stages of Paradise, and seeing players encounter new challenges now that all 10 stages are unlocked. We wish you luck in the rest of the season!
Mokoko Bootcamp Improvements
First— a quick note to the many new and returning players who have began or resumed adventures in Arkesia this summer— Thank you Mokokos! It has been a lot of fun watching your journeys unfold as you progress, explore, and learn. We appreciate the passion and support and have been listening to your feedback on the events and your experience in the game and will be using it to help inform future progression events for future players just like yourselves. We’ve also been listening to veteran player feedback on the Mokoko Bootcamp event, and plan to use this to help inform changes to the next iteration of the event. As we previously shared, for the next Mokoko Bootcamp there will be a contest to create a special icon and title chosen by the community. As these events are built to promote community cohesion, we thought it may be fun to get the community more involved in the title and icon process heading forward. For future Mokoko Bootcamps, we’re going to run a title and icon contest to put the power in the hands of the community to decide what you want. We didn’t want every title to follow the same bootcamp theme and lose their value, so we thought this could be a fun way for veteran players to choose their reward, and make the title more of a “chase” item. We’ll continue to discuss this topic and share plans as the current event draws to a close and we prepare for the next iteration. We’ll be on the lookout for any feedback throughout this period, and thank you for everything you’ve provided so far!
Team Survey
Our next survey is planned for later this month. The feedback we received in the last one was instrumental in helping make updates to Lost Ark, such as the restructuring of Una’s Tasks, and helping inform the development of Paradise— and we’d love to hear how your experience is going once again! Be on the lookout in the coming weeks.
Thank you for your continued feedback and support, and we’ll be back with more updates and key communications on a variety of these topics in the near future! We’ll see you soon with the September release notes, next player survey, roadmap, merge information and more!