The May update for Lost Ark, “Slay Your Way to Elgacia” is coming tomorrow. The update includes the newest advanced class, the Slayer, new story quests, the new Ebony Cube, progression events, and the return of Event Guardians. The update also features a number of updates and improvements, adjusts knowledge transfer requirements, honing updates, and a bunch of quality of life changes.
The Slayer is the advanced class for the Warrior, and the team calls her a “female remix”of the Berserker”, with her own speciality, Bloodlust. Bloodlust becomes available when she fills the Fury Meter and triggers burst mode. This particular specialty will have the Slayer slash at enemies with her greatsword, knocking them back and doing a whole bunch of damage.
Tomorrow's update opens up several progression events like a new Punika Powerpass, a new Hyper Express event,and an Engraving Support system. The update also starts a brand new Competitive Proving Grounds season. Season 3 is ready to go when the update goes live.
As a strike in the ongoing battle against botting, the Punika Powerpass has some requirements. Only players who have a Steam trusted status, or who created their account before December 14th, 2022, will get a pass. After feedback on getting Steam trusted status, there is a path to do that for free listed in the patch notes.
The team recently announced that there will be some new player Guardian Raid improvements that will help newer players, and those who might need some assistance after being away for a while or simply needing extra time to learn the mechanics.There will also be in-game guide messages letting players know when to use these items during the raid. The items will also disappear as soon as the player leaves the raid, as the whole point of this in level 1 to 5 Guardian Raids is to help players learn how to be effective in the raids.
Speaking of raids, Event Guardians are back. Take one of these on solo or with a group, as the Scale of Balance will be in effect. Strike the Guardian, which will drop stackable buffs that massively increase your damage. They’ll eventually drop tokens you can trade for rewards when they’re defeated.
The Ebony Cube is another big part of the update. It’s a ruin and it replaces the Boss Rush and Cube entirely. There will be three levels to the Ebony Cube, and if you take it on you'll have to clear waves of enemies. Making Boss Rush and Cube into one activity is designed to cut down on grind while still maintaining good rewards.
This is a pretty big update, even though a lot of it is more on the technical side. There are a whole series of improvements, quality of life changes, and adjustments to endgame rewards, raid balance, Knowledge Transfer, and lots more.
See the full update notes over at Lost Ark.
