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Lost Ark North America Guardian Knight Update and Key Summary of 4th Anniversary Patch Notes
This video summarizes the main points of the Guardian Knight update and the 4th-anniversary patch notes for the North American Lost Ark server. You can find various update information such as the release of the Guardian Knight, revamp of the growth system, 4th-anniversary event, improvement of the skill recommendation system, and content changes.
1. 🛡️ Guardian Knight Release and Major Growth System Revamp
- ✅ Guardian Knight Class Release
- ✅ Removed the honing system for Tier 3 lower ancient equipment and below
- ✅ Tier 2 and Tier 3 lower tier honing materials are no longer used X, can be obtained as Tier 3 honing materials
- ✅ Obtain tradable Honor Shard Chest when disassembling tradable Harmony Shard Chest
- ✅ Upon completing the Voldaik main/world quest in Bell's Northern region, you will receive the equipment set that meets the next level
- ✅ Cant Fortress Removed
- ✅ Changed the level requirements for opening engraving slots (4th: 1340 or higher, 5th: 1540 or higher)
- ✅ Adjusted some quests and Epona rewards
00:00 - 01:24
1. 🛡️ Guardian Knight Release and Major Growth System Revamp
- ✅ Guardian Knight Class Release
- ✅ Removed the honing system for Tier 3 lower ancient equipment and below
- ✅ Tier 2 and Tier 3 lower tier honing materials are no longer used X, can be obtained as Tier 3 honing materials
- ✅ Obtain tradable Honor Shard Chest when disassembling tradable Harmony Shard Chest
- ✅ Upon completing the Voldaik main/world quest in Bell's Northern region, you will receive the equipment set that meets the next level
- ✅ Cant Fortress Removed
- ✅ Changed the level requirements for opening engraving slots (4th: 1340 or higher, 5th: 1540 or higher)
- ✅ Adjusted some quests and Epona rewards
01:25 - 01:50
2. 🚀 Growth Support Update: Reduced Honing Costs and Revamped Character Creation Process
- ✅ Reduced honing costs (Karma cost reduced from 100 gold to 900 gold)
- ✅ Increased novice adventurer level (up to 1700) and set Mokoko chat mentor level (1730)
- ✅ You can play various classes directly before creating a character
- ✅ Ancient Training Grounds available upon initial Jumping Growth (per character)
01:51 - 02:41
3. 🧭 Added and Changed Waypoint Mission System
- ✅ Growth Mission: Total of 8 stages, provided up to 1700
- ✅ Weekly Mission: Earn weekly mission points upon completing missions (up to 300 points), reset every Wednesday at 6 AM
- ✅ Bound gold that could be purchased with weekly Nepona tokens has been moved to the store rewards
- ✅ Removed the Training Room
02:42 - 03:28
4. 🎉 North America 4th Anniversary Event and New Avatar Release
- ✅ Event Period: Until March 11th
- ✅ Limneik Southern Powerpass and 1640 equipment given to all users
- ✅ Challenge Express in progress (for characters with item level 1640 or higher ~ less than 1700)
- ✅ Mokoko Camp Expansion (up to 1710 users)
- ✅ New Avatar Release: Guardian Knight Avatar, 4th Anniversary Avatar
03:29 - 03:56
5. 🛠️ Skill Recommendation System Revamp and Weekly Content Changes
- ✅ Added skill code function (can copy other user's character skills)
- ✅ Skill Recommendation Function: Recommends up to 10 skills based on popularity
- ✅ Weekly Content Changes: Removed some content's existing unique rewards and exchange NPCs, existing unique materials are converted into shillings or clear medals, raid gold adjusted
03:57 - 04:32
6. ⚙️ Content Revamp: Tuning, Trial Guardian Raid, Tower Content Changes
- ✅ Changed content applied in tuning
- ✅ Trial Guardian Raid: Removed Akates and Galventus, Haumata remains
- ✅ Tower Content Removed
- ✅ Achievements for content to be removed are moved to the Legacy category, titles are retained
- ✅ 1-Day Content Revamp: Chaos Dungeon and Cruzan Front are compressed to the limit for each Chaos Dungeon continent and recommended item level is adjusted
04:33 - 05:27
7. 💎 1-Day Content and Convenience Updates
- ✅ Guardian Raid: Can obtain shimmering gem fragments from Gato at purification stage 2 or higher, cannot obtain guardian stones/destruction stones/leap stones, fragments of fate are changed to tradable
- ✅ Chaos Gate: Can obtain expedition bound gold, Wihyeodang section stores are no longer accessible
- ✅ Increased the amount of Soho stones and destruction stones obtained when defeating field bosses Sebek/Atun, can obtain tradable leap stones
- ✅ Convenience Improvements: Added continuous honing/quality upgrade/karma upgrade options, reduced production time for AI stone cutting and Sangje results/resonance results, added DLSS and FSR upscaling options, added notification for items with limited holding period, can use early crystallization crystals for jam processing in Akrid