Lost Ark's Third Anniversary Celebration Offers Some Special Gifts and Refreshed Activities

The third anniversary of Lost Ark’s release in the West has arrived with a new event, an anniversary island, and a bunch of free gifts. The team is also sharing an infographic with stats from the past year.

Over the past year, Lost Ark has added a number of major content updates, including the arrival of Tier 4, a number of different raids, new challenges, new progression systems, and a lot more.  Over the past year, the stats revealed in the infographic show that Souleater was the most popular DPS class, and bBard, the most popular support class. Everyone did 9.4 Quadrillion Hyper Awakening damage with 14.7 million Hyper Awakenings used. 

We also get some stats on the major raids. Some 514,435 raid groups declared victory over Echidna, while more than 22 million players fell. Thaemine Legion Raid clears were 834,634, with more than 40 million deaths. The full infographic shows more of what everyone was up to, including Stare being the most popular emote. 

The third anniversary really kicked off in late January with the arrival of the Frosty Fate update, but now things are really getting into high gear. The Festa of Arkesia is taking place on an anniversary island. There are event quests, activities, and rewards to collect, of course. Among the things to do, the Balthorr event raid is back, this time with updated mechanics for a refreshed challenge.

Grab the Into the Festival quest and take in the rest. The event shop has some exclusive items for this anniversary event so you can spend your event tokens there.  

Now, it isn't an anniversary celebration without gifts. There are two gifts that you should find in your inventory. The first gift contains a 3rd Anniversary Skin Selection Chest and a 3rd Anniversary weapon chest, along with an Abyss wallpaper. Gift number two is a nice package of useful stuff:

•    Pheon x100
•     Menelik’s Tome x10
•     Collective Battle Item Selection Chest x20
•     Destiny Stone x20
•     Transcendence Ruins Restoration Ticket: Armor x15
•     Transcendence Ruins Restoration Ticket: Weapon x5
•     Legendary Elixir Chest x10

You can jump into the anniversary event today, pick up all these goodies, and add some more stuff to your collection through the event activities and tokens.