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Lost Ark 2025 LOA ON Winter Major Update Summary
Summarizes the major updates to Lost Ark announced at the 2025 LOA ON Winter Showcase. Covers various update plans including the new class Dragon Knight (Guardian Knight), new story, raids, content improvements, easing of the growth section, and winter events.
1. 🛡️ New Class: Dragon Knight (Guardian Knight) Introduction
- ✅ Inherits the abilities of the Guardian to use powerful force
- ✅ Features freely wielding a giant halberd
- ✅ Skills are divided into normal, manifestation, and incarnation skills
- ✅ Play can be solid and heavy or nimble and flashy depending on the Ark Passive
00:00 - 01:14
1. 🛡️ New Class: Dragon Knight (Guardian Knight) Introduction
- ✅ Inherits the abilities of the Guardian to use powerful force
- ✅ Features freely wielding a giant halberd
- ✅ Skills are divided into normal, manifestation, and incarnation skills
- ✅ Play can be solid and heavy or nimble and flashy depending on the Ark Passive
01:15 - 01:46
2. 🌌 New Story: The One Who Faced the End of the Abyss
- ✅ Story after the end, Ark opening
- ✅ Final battle with Kazeros in the Petraña's Forward Rolling area
- ✅ Released on December 24th
- ⚠️ It is recommended to watch the last scene without skipping
01:47 - 03:13
3. ⚔️ New End Content: Shadow Raid - Serka, the Witch of Pain
- ✅ Consists of two gates for a 4-person party
- ✅ The first gate boss is a witch on a broom, and the second gate boss is Kors Tulark, Serka's true form
- ✅ Battle Features: Boss fight starts immediately upon entry, no HP recovery during enrage
- ✅ Melee System: Fill the melee gauge instead of the destruction gauge to spam skills in a dedicated space
- ✅ Death System: Party-specific VRS sharing
- ✅ Shadow Skill: Players can use boss skills (using battle item slots)
03:14 - 03:56
4. 🎁 Serka Raid Rewards and Equipment Inheritance System
- ✅ Materials can be obtained from 1730 Hard difficulty or higher
- ✅ Equipment crafting is done in short cycles, adding breakthrough stages
- ✅ You can try higher honing stages through breakthrough (breakthrough also requires weekly materials)
- ✅ Can be honed up to +20 when crafting equipment for the first time, and up to +25 when breakthrough
03:57 - 04:39
5. 🛠️ Improved Repetitive Operations and Esther Weapon Conversion
- ✅ Added a 10-time continuous function for repetitive actions such as honing and faceting
- ✅ Added Lovelystone Smart Faceting function (AI automatic faceting)
- ✅ Provides a function to convert Esther weapons into normal weapons
04:40 - 05:06
6. 🗺️ New Story: Cardarum Island and Abyss Dungeon
- ✅ Cardarum Island: A harbinger of the second part of the story
- ✅ Abyss Dungeon: Cathedral of the Horizon (two gates for a 4-person party), scheduled to be released in March
- ✅ The difficulty of the Abyss Dungeon is at a level that can be enjoyed lightly, and the entry level will be determined later
05:07 - 06:08
7. 💰 Maintaining the Limit on Ghost Ships and Adjusting Gold Acquisition
- ✅ The limit on Ghost Ships will not be lifted and will remain in its current state
- ✅ Gold acquisition reduced by 15-30% from Act 1 to Act 3
- ✅ 100% adjustment of Tier 3 character-bound gold
- ✅ Added Gold Shop: Sells inexpensive items for character growth up to level 1700
06:09 - 06:33
8. 🚀 Easing the Growth Section
- ✅ Change the honing cost in the T3 section from gold to other materials
- ✅ Easing of Advanced Materials stages 1 and 2
- ✅ Improved Elixir and Transcendence systems (transfer to Ark Pass Bureau)
- ✅ Removed Canowaty Fortress
06:34 - 07:02
9. ✨ Improved Character Creation and Start Playing Method
- ✅ Can experience all classes before creating a character
- ✅ Updated preview video to match the character creation process
- ✅ Changed to learn only essential operations, introduced a learning process that cannot be skipped
- ✅ Story section improvement: Monetization of all sections, equipment required for the next progress is provided when the continent main quest is completed
07:03 - 07:24
10. 🧭 Added Milestone Missions
- ✅ Provides only the necessary information like a tutorial by integrating guides
07:25 - 08:00
11. ⚙️ Reorganization of Recommended Skills
- ✅ Provides skill setting rankings according to content and combat style (including skills, traits, engravings, gems, and Ark Passives)
- ✅ Can bring the desired settings at once and apply them to the character
- ✅ Can create and share combat settings as code
- ✅ Recommended skill rankings are updated weekly
08:01 - 08:37
12. 🕹️ Expansion of Single Mode and Difficulty Adjustment
- ✅ Added Single Mode Acts 2 and 3
- ✅ Adjusted the difficulty of Act 3 (including parts 1 and 2), removed battle items
- ✅ Act 2 battle items can be obtained in front of the depot
- ✅ Improved deal cut sections and unpleasant parts (including the final act)
08:38 - 09:22
13. 🛡️ Guardian Raid Reorganization and New Content
- ✅ Removed signal flares and pheromone bombs, no area movement, HP bar display
- ✅ Simplified gimmicks and patterns
- ✅ Cardros Battlefield ends with the release of Serka, daily content changes from 1730
- ✅ Chaos Dungeons and Hack and Slash content are changed to Rifts of Chaos
- ✅ Guardian Raids are changed to a Guardian group rotation method
- ✅ Harae Hourglass: Cube replacement content (the next boss appears when the hourglass runs out)
09:23 - 10:04
14. 🗺️ Update Preview After Winter Season: Seikria, Sea of Aldebaran, New Island
- ✅ Visit Seikria
- ✅ Opening of the Sea of Aldebaran (new continents and islands including Seikria)
- ✅ Improved sailing content
- ✅ Provides a new adventure log suitable for Part 2 adventures
10:05 - 10:35
15. 😈 World Boss and Sergatone Content
- ✅ World Boss: Higher version of field boss, played once a week, added contribution system
- ✅ Sergatone: Content that uncovers the twilight secret organization Serekatone that modifies Basilio, tracking down and eliminating executives hidden throughout Arkresia
10:36 - 10:48
16. 🎉 Winter Event
- ✅ Okoko Challenge Express: Supports up to 1700