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Lost Ark 2026 Roadmap Summary: New Raid, Class, and Progression Events!
This video summarizes the Lost Ark roadmap for 2026, highlighting the new updates, including the Cerca raid, the Dragon Knight class, progression events, and adjustments to the game system. The planned changes for January, February, March, and April are discussed, along with the creator's opinion on the impact of these changes on new and veteran players.
1. 📅 Introduction to the Lost Ark 2026 Roadmap
- ✅ Announcement of the Lost Ark roadmap with new content.
- ✅ Includes a new raid, a new class, progression events, and a class balance.
- ⚠️ The class balance generates controversy and negativity in the community.
00:00 - 00:15
1. 📅 Introduction to the Lost Ark 2026 Roadmap
- ✅ Announcement of the Lost Ark roadmap with new content.
- ✅ Includes a new raid, a new class, progression events, and a class balance.
- ⚠️ The class balance generates controversy and negativity in the community.
00:16 - 00:32
2. 💎 Nukman's Illusion Stones: New Collectible in January
- ✅ In January, Nukman's Illusion Stones will be added as a new collectible.
- ✅ Players will have to search for these collectibles around the world.
- ✅ Information from the official Korean page about this collectible is shown.
00:33 - 01:08
3. 📜 Story of the Nukman Stones
- ✅ The stones were left by ancestors.
- ✅ They are scattered throughout Akrasia.
- ✅ They must be gathered to give hope to the Yos.
- ✅ The image of the Korean site is shown.
01:09 - 01:20
4. 🎁 Rewards for Collecting the Nukman Stones
- ✅ The rewards menu for collecting the stones is presented.
- ✅ New collectible added to the game in January.
01:21 - 02:06
5. ⚔️ Extreme Time: New Raiding in Hard Mode
- ✅ In January, Extreme Time is added, similar to phase four of the original Timeline in hard mode.
- ✅ The event will be adjusted in difficulty and patterns.
- ✅ There will be changes such as a resurrection at gate 42 and a buff system when hitting guards.
- ✅ The raid is done once per roster and will be available for a limited time.
- ✅ Offers rewards for passing it for the first time and exchangeable tokens at an NPC.
- ✅ The Argrid system is mentioned.
02:07 - 02:55
6. 🏆 Extreme Time Rewards and Requirements
- ✅ Temine update, released in Korea in September.
- ✅ Rewards include legendary card pack, chemine card, and items to trade.
- ✅ Normal cost of 15k gold and difficult of 30k plus token.
- ✅ The NPC offers a footprint skin, a random relic engraving, cards, bracelet, and accessories.
- ✅ Normal mode of Extreme Time asks for 1690 item level and the difficult one 1720.
02:56 - 03:19
7. ✨ New Ark Pass: Day and Night Ministers Collection
- ✅ To close January, a new ark pass is added.
- ✅ Includes the winners of the recent Moticon contest.
- ✅ The new ark pass has skins and the collection called the Day and Night Ministers.
03:20 - 03:47
8. 🐴 Ark Pass Details: Skins and Mounts
- ✅ The day and night skins are shown, including one of Mate and another of a cyber cowboy.
- ✅ Variants of the mounts, described as mecha unicorns.
- ✅ A cat is shown as part of the pass.
03:48 - 03:58
9. 🗓️ Ark Pass Launch in January
- ✅ The pass came out in Korea this year and will be launched in January according to the roadmap.
03:59 - 04:56
10. 🐉 Dragon Knight: New Class in February
- ✅ In February, the new Dragon Knight class arrives.
- ✅ Gameplays of the class are shown.
- ✅ The class has different builds: one with specialization that fights with the wings, one of non-positional critical that uses the wings, and another similar to the Breaker of Sura.
- ✅ It is a front attacker class that can use engravings like brawler master and barricade.
04:57 - 05:17
11. 🔥 Dragon Knight Builds: Successor of Hellfire
- ✅ The successor of hellfire build is mentioned, which is occupied with red skills and is of specialization.
- ✅ Gameplay of the class in Mordom is shown.
05:18 - 05:35
12. 🎮 Preparations for the Dragon Knight Launch
- ✅ Plans are being made to record videos with more accurate information as the class launch approaches.
- ✅ Gameplays from Koreans in streams have been reviewed.
05:36 - 05:50
13. 🚀 Progression Events and Pass to South Rimeria
- ✅ In February, in addition to the Dragon Knight, new progression events will arrive.
- ✅ A new pass to South Rimeria is added, which allows you to skip the campaign until the last one that came out.
05:51 - 06:10
14. ⚖️ Class Balance and Additional Progression Events
- ✅ In February, a class balance will be implemented that will include the last two class balances.
- ✅ Discuss adding more progression events for the Dragon Knight.
06:11 - 06:54
15. 🛠️ Improvements in Character Creation
- ✅ The option to test all classes from the creation menu will be added.
- ✅ This will make it easier for new players to decide which character to make.
06:55 - 07:07
16. 📜 Modification of the Early Game Story
- ✅ A modification of the early game story will be made.
- ✅ A mission system will be added that will give rewards to players while they do content.
07:08 - 07:21
17. 🧪 Class Testing in Creation
- ✅ A video of the Korean loaón is shown that shows the class testing in creation.
- ✅ You can test the scouter and the Dragon Knight from the same initial menu.
07:22 - 07:32
18. 🗺️ Mission Menu for New Players
- ✅ The mission menu that will serve for new players is shown.
07:33 - 08:01
19. 🔄 Changes in Daily and Weekly Activities
- ✅ Hell modes and some trails will be removed.
- ✅ Tower content leaves the game and weekly tasks will be removed.
08:02 - 08:30
20. 💎 Restructuring of the Daily and Weekly System
- ✅ The daily and weekly system will be restructured.
- ✅ Red and blue stones will no longer be transferable, but will give more materials per character.
- ✅ Improvement materials such as embers of destiny will no longer be linked to the character and can be transferred.
08:31 - 08:45
21. 📦 Transfer of Materials and Elimination of Drops in Chaos
- ✅ Honing material boxes can be sent from one character to another.
- ✅ Shards can also be sent.
- ✅ Gems, accessories, bracelets, and ability stones will no longer drop in chaos dungeons.
08:46 - 09:01
22. 💎 New Drops of Gems and Luminous Shards
- ✅ Guardians over the five test of Byigris will drop gems according to the guardian's grade.
- ✅ Guardians after purification level two will give luminous gem shards.
09:02 - 09:11
23. ⬆️ Increase of Drops and Elimination of Stones in Guardians
- ✅ The amount of accessories, bracelets, and stones that the guardians give will be increased.
- ✅ Jump stones and red and blue stones will no longer be taken from the guardians.
09:12 - 09:23
24. 💰 Gold Linked to the Character in Chaos Gates
- ✅ When passing a chaos gate, gold linked to the character will be received.
- ✅ The higher chaos gates will give much more gold.
- ✅ Chaos gates under 1580 will be removed.
09:24 - 09:46
25. ⬆️ Increase of Materials in Sebec and Atun
- ✅ The amount of red and blue stones that Sebec Atun will give will be significantly increased.
- ✅ The Segat will give transferable jump stones, depending on the character's level.
- ✅ If the character is under 1580, no materials will be given when defeating world bosses.
09:47 - 09:53
26. 🗓️ More Details in the Future
- ✅ More details will be shown by category in the future, when the patch date approaches.
09:54 - 10:06
27. 🏝️ New Paradise Season in March
- ✅ In March, the new Paradise season arrives.
- ✅ Season 2 has been quite popular and helps to have more varied content and boosts progression.
10:07 - 10:23
28. 🤝 Collaboration with Smilgate and Changes in the Team
- ✅ We worked with Smilgate to implement more changes based on community feedback.
- ✅ How the equipment falls and the drop rates of each item at the beginning will be changed.
10:24 - 10:38
29. 🔥 Novelties in the Last Levels of Crucible
- ✅ Novel gameplays can be found in the last five levels of Crucible.
- ✅ Community feedback is still being sought for season 2 of Paradise.
10:39 - 10:49
30. 🔄 Updates in Season 3 of Paradise
- ✅ Many updates are expected in season 3, based on community feedback.
10:50 - 11:21
31. 📖 Conclusion of the Tarlega Story in March
- ✅ In March, the part that follows the story of the Tarlega is concluded.
- ✅ The final quest is called Who confronted the end of the abyss? and is a direct continuation of the last cinematic against Caceros.
11:22 - 11:43
32. ⚔️ Final Fight against Caceros and Destiny of the Tarlega
- ✅ It will include a final fight against Caceros inside Petrania.
- ✅ The final destiny of the fight against Caceros, what happened to Vigris, and the destiny of the loserales will be discovered.
11:44 - 11:59
33. 🤔 Expectations about the End of the Story
- ✅ The creator of the video is excited to know how chapter one of the story ends.
12:00 - 12:19
34. 🧙 New Four-Player Raid: Cerca in April
- ✅ In April, the new four-player raid called Cerca arrives.
- ✅ Requires 1710 combat level in normal mode, 1730 in hard mode, and 1740 in nightmare mode.
12:20 - 12:44
35. 🎭 Cerca Raid Phases: Human and Primordial Form
- ✅ The raid consists of two phases.
- ✅ In phase one, Cerca is faced in her human version.
- ✅ In phase two, Cerca goes to her primordial form called Corbus Tool Lark.
12:45 - 13:05
36. 🌑 Shadow Raid: Sadistic and Gore Theme
- ✅ This new raid will be the first Shadow Raid.
- ✅ It will have a more sadistic and gore theme.
- ✅ YouTube could not upload all the scenes due to its macabre content, with a lot of blood and murders.
13:06 - 13:16
37. ⚙️ New Progression and Equipment System
- ✅ The Cerca raid will give Argrid cores and a new progression system.
- ✅ It will allow you to raise the equipment up to level 20 and up to level plus 25 when it is accelerated.
13:17 - 13:48
38. 🌌 Lord and the Story of the Tark
- ✅ The plot is darker and more gloomy.
- ✅ The Lords are primordial beings who seek a meaning for their existence.
- ✅ They can take different forms, such as Cerca in the form of a witch.
- ✅ In this second part of the story of the Tark, they will face these beings with dark stories.
13:49 - 14:03
39. 💥 Surprise Functions of the Shadow Raid
- ✅ You enter the fight against the boss at once.
- ✅ The boss does not recover his life when he goes to vererker mode.
14:04 - 14:17
40. 🥊 Brawl System and Shadow Skills
- ✅ Two new systems are added: the Brawl system, which unlocks an extra skill when certain requirements are met.
- ✅ Shadow skills that can be stolen directly from the boss.
14:18 - 14:32
41. ❤️ Brave Hearts: Modification of the Life System
- ✅ The life system will be modified in the Cerca raid and will be called Brave Hearts.
- ✅ Lives will be shared by group.
14:33 - 14:46
42. 🔄 New Progression System and Soft Equipment Reset
- ✅ The new raid will bring a new progression system.
- ✅ There will be a soft equipment reset, practically a tier 5.
14:47 - 15:02
43. 💎 Materials to Improve the Equipment
- ✅ The material to improve this equipment only falls in hard and nightmare mode.
- ✅ In normal mode there is no equipment material.
15:03 - 15:16
44. ⬆️ Raise the New Equipment with T4 Materials
- ✅ The new equipment can be raised with T4 materials up to plus 20.
- ✅ With the Breakrook system, this equipment can be pushed up to plus 25.
15:17 - 15:36
45. 🗓️ Pending Details of the New System
- ✅ In Korea this system is not yet out, the detail of how it will be is missing.
- ✅ A kind of soft reset is expected for when the shadow rate arrives in April.
15:37 - 15:58
46. ⏳ Investigating the Timing for Argos and Baltan Events
- ✅ Amazon is investigating the timing to get some things out.
- ✅ It is considered to put the Argos event with Baltan, which has been requested by the community.
- ✅ The changes will be communicated when the articles or the equipment premiere notes arrive.
15:59 - 16:26
47. 🤔 General Perspective of the Patch and Class Balance
- ✅ The perspective of the patch has been negative due to the issue of class balance.
- ✅ The creator of the video believes that it is good to lower the profile of the content and focus on new players arriving.
16:27 - 16:39
48. 🗓️ Delay of the Balance and Claims on Social Networks
- ✅ The balance has been delayed so much that some users are complaining on social networks.
16:40 - 16:53
49. 👎 Negative Note of the Patch on Reddit
- ✅ On Reddit, the patch is with a negative note and they are asking for the balance.
16:54 - 17:10
50. 👍 Invitation to New Players
- ✅ New players are invited not to be guided by negative opinions.
- ✅ The roadmap is quite good, the only issue is that the game is very behind in balance with Korea.
17:11 - 17:35
51. 🇨🇳 Comparison with the Chinese Server and the Balance
- ✅ People tend to compare themselves with the Chinese server, which has things very fast and a balance thought of in Caceros.
17:36 - 17:43
52. 🎮 Invitation to Return to the Game
- ✅ You are invited to return to the game now, because there are progression events for new players.
17:44 - 18:03
53. 🗓️ Preparation for the New Raid in April
- ✅ It is suggested to have a couple of characters ready to do the content and be re-enchanted with the Star that has changed in recent years.
18:04 - 18:28
54. 💬 Final Opinion and Farewell
- ✅ Viewers are asked to leave their opinions on the roadmap in the comments.
- ✅ The creator of the video liked the roadmap, he only dislikes the issue of balance.
- ✅ He says goodbye and announces that he is going to have lunch.