Lost Ark News

Lost Ark’s new Breaker advanced class is breaking into Arkesia with the launch of the tongue-twisting Break Through to Thaemine update. The Breaker is essentially the male version of the Scrapper class, and like its female counterpart, is armed with Heavy Gauntlets, mobility skills, and combos that can be used to deadly effect on the battlefield. The update also brings [...]

Lost Ark has successfully completed nearly all of its planned server merges today with the exception of those in NA West. The downtime for the said server region has been extended to 27 hours from the original start time due to the amount of data that needs to be merged. NA West players will get the following items as compensation [...]

The Lost Ark playerbase is currently a shell of what it once was when the free-to-play MMORPG first arrived in the west two years ago. Since then, Amazon Game Studios has had to continually merge servers to maintain a healthy population with a two-stage server merge coming up that will effectively reduce all of the existing servers to a quarter [...]

Lost Ark is preparing for a series of sweeping server merges hot on the heels of its second anniversary. The two-stage server merges will take place this week and next week with the goal of reducing the total number of available servers across Europe and the Americas from 46 to just 12. The first round of server merges is scheduled [...]

Amazon Game Studios whipped out its mighty banhammer last week and swung it hard at real-money traders in Lost Ark. The studio didn’t give specifics but revealed that the “major ban wave” specifically targeted RMT accounts that were found to have traded large amounts of gold. Amazon also shared their general policies on real-money trading in the game to address [...]

Smilegate and Amazon are planning a sweeping round of server merges and one massive region merge for Lost Ark by popular demand. The server merges will include all four server regions and will be done in two batches, the first on March 6 and the second on March 13. Those will be followed by a region merge this summer which [...]

If there’s one thing that Amazon learned in the two years that Lost Ark has been operating in the west, it’s that players suck at completing raids. According to the game’s Year 2 infographic, players have died nearly 61 million times in the fantasy MMORPG’s pinnacle raids. Nearly 50 million of those deaths were at the hands of the commander [...]

Lost Ark officially kicked off its anniversary celebration with the release of its 2 Extreme update earlier today. As previously revealed, the stylized update title refers to the western version’s second anniversary and the addition of an extreme challenge mode for the Valtan legion raid. The anniversary event itself is twofold, promising several weeks of seasonal quests and missions for [...]

Lost Ark is celebrating its second western launch anniversary next week with a lineup of new activities that’s set to open its doors with the release of its 2 Extreme update next week. The update will officially kick off its anniversary celebrations with two back-to-back events – Arkesia Festival and the new Birthday Bash event. “To celebrate the anniversary, players [...]

Lost Ark just opened up a new tropical adventure island map with the release of its major update of the year. The update, dubbed Fire up the New Year, introduced the new Lai Lai island map, complete with tropical island activities for players to participate in. Those still enjoying the wintry activities in Freja’s Island needn’t fret as the icy [...]