Ark

[ancient dome]

Try to get to 144

[vestal wraith]

I made it to 144 today

😮‍💨

[ancient dome]

@woeful dagger what makes u run cube number 3 instead of the 5 for extra pd

[woeful dagger]

I have the occasional random death at Damien if I run dice 5.

Cause I’m taking aggro for my team so I have to tank pretty much everything.

[neon knoll]

Hard damien?

[ancient dome]

Normal

I rewatched his vid and saw it lol

[woeful dagger]

Hahaha I got some upgrades

Don’t need dice 3 for normal anymore. 😂

[neon knoll]

[ancient dome]

Are these dudes full necro? Lol

[woeful dagger]

DK and Shade 4 piece abso, DB is a mix of Chaos/Necro/Abso, Phantom full chaos 50

[ancient dome]

Wow u op asf

Only necro is lvl 50 wep still?

[woeful dagger]

Nah I managed to get one piece of abso armour hahaha.

[ancient dome]

op i need a carry'

[solemn prawn]

U ATE

[woeful dagger]

ATE WAT

[solemn prawn]

HAHAHAHA ITS A SLANG

[woeful dagger]

Ono I’ve just exposed that im a boomer.

[neon knoll]

HE ATE

[normal spoke]

Dayummmm that damage phosani

[ancient dome]

Yea I need whatever is in his milk

[ancient dome]

This is hands down my best ark skill wheel yet

I made it to where u can stand still and buff and not die while moving into something (like lotus lasers)

Basically u basic charge drive on the bottom left into the presetted scarlet drive combo and u wont move while doing it

[compact moon]

The levi soullll

[compact moon]

Why not just move scarlet charge drive into the first slot, then the blue skill 2nd, then the dash skill

I think on my ark w that preset I use all 3 skills without moving

Don’t quote me tho

[ancient dome]

Bc itll make u move

[compact moon]

B> more buttons

[ancient dome]

True but u also keep tht basic charge separate for when spectre gauge low

[compact moon]

Like so u can just spam basic charge instead of basic charge + link skill?

[ancient dome]

Omni every other sec and basic charge

[compact moon]

Omni?

[ancient dome]

Nightmare

Never ending nightmare my b

[compact moon]

Hmm what if I preset never ending nightmare w basic charge drive

[ancient dome]

That could work big brain

Didnt think of that

So i got a free slot

[compact moon]

So my preset is basic + all the link skill, use once a min to refresh buff

Then the preset w basic charge drive and nightmare to spam

Why we spamming nightmare during flora state tho? If I read this correctly, after all enhancement, basic charge drive is 9 line w 150% skill dmg. Nightmare is 8 line w 150% skill dmg in flora state

[ancient dome]

Okay i changed some things

[ancient dome]

Nightmare still proc vskill

[compact moon]

Ohhhh. I’m not 200 yet haha

[compact moon]

This is v3 right

I just remember reading somewhere that v3 for ark is a passive line that’s super op

Question: do u switch back to flora state if your self buff from basic charge skill runs out?

Or you switch back n forth often enof that you always have it up

Also while in evil mode, do you use the link skill too or just spam nightmare?

[ancient dome]

i keep dpsing until my flora gets real real low then i switch back to do it then switch back

[ancient dome]

i use the link skills with nightmare when im not feeling lazy lol

[compact moon]

I’m not capping but in my testing, linking it gives like 2-3% more

I wonder how it is when u cap

Are u hard capping impending orb in lotus too? Can I see your stat/gear?

[ancient dome]

lol ur not gonna cap fr

i have a necro lvl 40 wep and i barely cap

i have all exp gears and a lvl 40 necro LOL

but my dps is mad crazy for a person w that type of gear

13.5 mdc

[compact moon]

Wait wut all your gear is exp?!

[ancient dome]

yes lmao

[compact moon]

Level is op!

[ancient dome]

i dont have bossing egars yet

i only have an ancient lvl 40 boots

lvl 29*

and i can get to phase 3 on lotus with like 4 mins left

ususally per class req around 16mdc to clear lotus with a necro wep and all mythic boss gears

im about to try and do it with 13.5 lol

[compact moon]

Nah 13.5 is hard

Plus u might not cap anymore with 16m cap

I think 15m mdc minimum req to attempt solo lotus

And good stat

[ancient dome]

this is how close i got lol

i wasted too many lives

i think i can do it\

[compact moon]

It’s tough

With lower mdc

You are def pushing boundaries if u wanna solo clear w that

[woeful dagger]

Don’t use overdrive.

The purple v3 common.

It’s feel it’s detrimental to our dps

[compact moon]

Can u elaborate?

[woeful dagger]

At lower levels, the buff duration is too short. So the PDI penalty during cooldown is too much for the PDI gains when overdrive is active.

Especially if you are capping without overdrive with the exception of your ADI lines. You’re basically just reducing your dmg when the debuff is active.

[compact moon]

Damn that description is confusing

[neon knoll]

If you have lvl 30 overdrive w/ lvl 50 necro. You gain 25% pd for the first 30 seconds and only lose 5% pd for the next so. The gain def outweigh the loss.

The higher lvl your overdrive is the better as well as the amount of pa ur weapon gives (lvl of your weapon)

[compact moon]

What’s the break even point

that’s the real question

[woeful dagger]

I heard it’s at least lv25

Meaning 20+5

[compact moon]

My first time seeing pirate and archer class buff. Looks bad tbh. Archer has vicious shot that’s 60s cd with 18-20s up time for just cd , not worth a slot at lower level. But

[woeful dagger]

But I’m capping without it anyway so I don’t see a point in using it.

[compact moon]

I see

I’m sad

Classes that genuinely enjoy play style as an alt always end up being hard to fund classes

It’s merc and ark

[ancient dome]

I took it iff already lol

[ancient dome]

Ark not hard to fund

[ancient dome]

Should i got si or se

[compact moon]

Wait wut. I was told it’s very hard to cap w ark

Like impending orb doesn’t cap easily I heard.

[ancient dome]

It doesn’t

That doesn’t make them weak tho

[compact moon]

Can I see v1 v2 and v3 description?

My merc feels very weak coz of all the clone lines and our burst is only 1min with 3 min cd

And another class that’s hard to cap

[ancient dome]

i was still moving w the one u told me to do luka lol

i had to switch back

[compact moon]

What order u have it in

Weird since I don’t move as you can see in the video

[ancient dome]

Yea but when i was bossing i was moving sometime lol

I switched it to the order u had it

[compact moon]

Oh maybe

We’ll actually no

Coz once u out of the first time using preset, now every time u do it it’ll start w basic charge

And if u start w basic charge u don’t move

Lemme test it on mine

However, are u spamming it prettt fast? If u slow down a bit, it might not register as basic charge + link, and count it as just using the link

Similar to how u weave magnum punch w bobbing w blaster

[ancient dome]

yea

[compact moon]

Weird I just test again

It doesn’t move

My order for the preset is basic charge > gust > scarlet > abyssal

[compact moon]

Anyone remember what was the most recent buff to ark was?

[daring marten]

Here you are

[daring marten]

✌️

[compact moon]

Ty

[compact moon]

Hi fellow ark players, I noticed that in ark bossing videos, they don’t use basic charge drive + link skill for buff. They just enter specter state and start dps ing

And use lv150 hyper right away.

Even tho lv150 hyper buff the basic charge drive + link skill buff , so without those buff, 150 doesn’t do much

[ancient dome]

@woeful dagger whats ur emb ratio?

[woeful dagger]

5cd 3ba

[woeful dagger]

https://youtu.be/m1qLIxuNjKw?si=HEn5vzVMX_0a_Hs6

🥹

[solemn prawn]

very strong sir

[woeful dagger]

I miss all my burst damn sad

[solemn prawn]

wait for v4 rebalance more forgiving

[neon knoll]

250k hp

[ancient dome]

u self activate ur spell bullets? y

[woeful dagger]

You can turn it off to store bullets before you go in to whatever boss waiting room.

And turn it on when the boss spawns to release the bullets get the spell bullet buffs.

[compact moon]

Aren’t u getting a bug when u come into the room the bullet disappear?

[woeful dagger]

As long as you don’t disconnect or change channels the bullets will still be there.

There’s a graphical bug that shows that they disappear but they’ll be there

[compact moon]

Wouldn’t u likely change channel when u accept an invitation since the host is likely in a different channel?

[carmine robin]

U make sure ur in the same channel as person inviting

[woeful dagger]

Yep

I’m usually the host for my ark, lotus and Damien runs because of that issue.

[neon knoll]

[vague palm]

anyone facing a bug where your channeling skills does not activate upon pressing?

[woeful dagger]

Yeah I’m getting that too.

[primal nacelle]

I have this issue now too. Need to press again

[woeful dagger]

Reported it on the bug report channel, not sure if they'll do anything about it

[neon knoll]

It’ll probably get fixed eventually

[eternal hollow]

Hello~
If anyone else is able to send me a video of being unable to activate channeling skills when pressing, please send it to me so I can try and get it investigated further^^

[neon knoll]

Would you like through here or dm?

[eternal hollow]

whichever you prefer

[neon knoll]

So, the first clip here is showcasing the user being able to use hold the hyper skill button initially. No problem or bugs being displayed there.
However if you continue watching the clip and wait for the next hyper skill channeling, You can see that the user is weaving in their main skill before the channeling skill.
The issue is apparent when the user is weaving other skills prior to channel skill (from my experience so far) and there is an indication of whether the skill is being pressed and held on the recording.
The user on the 2nd channel had to re channel after a brief pause/delay and the 3rd channel is another instance of the user standing still before channeling. Again no bug or issue there
Prior to recent patch there was no interruption or delay during this interaction between weaving skills and hyper.

This clip has 2 instances of where the channeling hold down skill is not being cast at initial hold down but rather experiencing a brief pause/delay interaction before the user re holds down the skill to basically re-cast.
I’ve only experienced this issue when I’m weaving in my other skills but if I initially use it by just standing still, I have no delay/pause in the skill.

Thank you for your time and consideration on this matter! My fellow Ark players and myself appreciate your efforts moving forward
Quickly name some more issues so we can be relevant! #buffark #bark #buffarkv4

[eternal hollow]

Thank you for the videos along with the thorough explanation of what's happening. This will be very helpful for me when I send it over! ^^

[woeful dagger]

Wow @neon knoll mvp

[woeful dagger]

Thanks for your help too Tsukki!

[ancient dome]

#notenoughlines

[eternal hollow]

Hello again~
Could you please check for me if you're still experiencing any issues with your skill after the update?

[neon knoll]

I haven’t had time to thoroughly test but just from a glance from the daily boss runs I’ve had no issues!
I’m sure one of the other Ark players can confirm! If not I can confirm sometime tomorrow evening for sure

[woeful dagger]

Seems to be working fine now!

[eternal hollow]

I'm really glad to hear that!
Thank you @neon knoll @woeful dagger both for bringing it up along with the videos^^

[prisma elbow]

can u share your ab setting ?

[compact moon]

I’m pre200 but I also don’t main ark. But I found doing a preset of basic charge drive , scarlet, gust, abyssal. Works best for me so far

And just blissful restraint on the skillwheel. That’s it

People have tried different things but nothing seems to work consistently

Choi o server nào vậy?

[prisma elbow]

SCANIA :v

[prisma elbow]

ông main char nào thế :v

[undone jolt]

are the perfect trios not the same as the ones on pc?

[woeful dagger]

Not sure what the PC ones are

Just use these

[undone jolt]

these are the pc trios

but i guess i will follow yours

is it the same where you need to of the same trio to max level it

[woeful dagger]

Either 2 or 3 of the same trios

Depending on your enhancement points set up

So you can do 20 20 20 or 25+5, 25+5

[undone jolt]

okay ty

[solemn prawn]

ideally would be this setup provided u have enough slots

[neon knoll]

If you wanna min max, follow pc trios. However Mh’s trios are the go to until you have enough slots

[compact moon]

Why not basic charge drive in first trio?

[solemn prawn]

your dmg comes mainly in spectra state thus priority to dream, death and agony nodes over drive skills

[compact moon]

Wouldn’t u use basic charge drive more than creeping terror still?

[solemn prawn]

ig u havent hit 200 but creeping terror node applies to creeping terror/blissful restraint/endless agony as can be seen here

[meager hedge]

How is ark for an sf130-144 meso farmer. Does it need alot of investment to survive?

[compact moon]

Really bad

[meager hedge]

That sucks

[undone jolt]

reroll LOL

[worthy pawn]

Its a good news?

[woeful dagger]

Erm

I cant tell

Was gonna ask if we got nerfed or buffed lmao

v3 and impending death

[worthy pawn]

Its sounds like buff for me

[neon knoll]

Seems like bigger burst windows but less dmg when infinity buff is down

The error on the impending orb passive is unfortunate though LOL coulda been huge if they fixed and kept it but oh well

Spaghetti code

V3 lines are now the same as kmsm so it’s no biggie

[neon knoll]

Idk what the “changed to be summoned once per attack of impending orbs” means though

[woeful dagger]

My friends are saying Ark is a god now

But idk hahaha

[solemn prawn]

U are the god

[woeful dagger]

Nonono

Is u

[solemn prawn]

I small fry

[woeful dagger]

See you tomorrow 40m mdc

[neon knoll]

I’ve done some quick testing they are right Endless agony doesn’t proc the impending death orbs LMAO

this is the difference between having the impending orb passive vs not when bossing

30 second window

This is without infinity buff btw so it looks bad rn but lemme do some more

[solemn prawn]

I dont have abso gloves though…

[neon knoll]

With infinity buff

So without infinity. At current hit lines of 2 per orb. You do see a drastic difference between boss vs non boss (x5 lines on impending orbs)

Whereas with infinity based on the test above it’s just shy of x2.5ish.. so if they are doubling the hit count and removing the 5 additional orbs..

I’ll have to guess our burst is gonna be stronger. But after burst we are gonna be hitting the same pre patch if not slightly less

[woeful dagger]

Ty sir for doing the testing hahaha

Am too braindead to think about that now

[neon knoll]

Dw i gotchu ark God

[woeful dagger]

❤️

[worthy pawn]

In short, good news for ark right?

I tried same settings before and after update

My guild boss record almost same.

[neon knoll]

same here haha

[vague palm]

even with the mdc increase/

[neon knoll]

my mdc went up to 42m and i saw a gain around 600m in GD.(2.5m) imma try to test more this week but for ghb with maxxed v4 my ghb score was just shy of 1b multi

[worthy pawn]

Yes.

MDC INCREASE but still same result

[vague palm]

then thats isnt a good news anymore

haha

[worthy pawn]

Yes. Not a good news for update

[woeful dagger]

2 minute fog, I lost 2.2k impending death lines. gained 1.2k from agony

💀

[wraith axle]

I test
2min 12.5k hit
3min 20.2k hit

I think ark nerf 😭

[worthy pawn]

No fun of playing ark… no more frame drop due to impending death

[true laurel]

Definitely nerf. I tried solo cemp with my sub ark and it took like 2min longer than usual

V4 animation is cool though

[woeful dagger]

We've had a good run

Ark supremecy over?

[wraith axle]

Many job can hit 22k line in 3 min

[worthy pawn]

Lets send concern to customer service.

[glossy moth]

i would rather more balls for lag than 2min v4....

[true laurel]

What’s the cd at max though

I only crafted 1 because had to funnel all nodes to main

[glossy moth]

base 180sec every 5 lvl 5sec so 25 lvl 25seci think?

[true laurel]

Oh so 150 sec at lvl 30 ?

Yea that’s still bad

Cut to bucc guys

[worthy pawn]

120 secs at lvl 30

4.7k -> 6.4k

[glossy moth]

yea but theres new cap limit, + fd BA buffs thats why u see increased, so if lets say they didnt removed the ability to summon 5 additional times if a boss monster is present u will hit higher

anyone tested if agony triggers balls per used or per hit?

anyone tested if agony triggers balls per used or per hit?

[grim mortar]

Per hit i think

[neon knoll]

Yeah 1 full agony channel gives 80 impending death hit count without infinity

[glossy moth]

whats the new node buffs to use now if i haven hit cap? currently trio lvl 60,v1,v3,v4,sharp eyes,loaded,grandis buff,hyper body

[neon knoll]

Any of the decent skills that increase your specs

[glossy moth]

isit worth to use v2 at lvl 2? or i just use spd and combat

for bossing i planning to switch hyper and sharp for spd and combat currently have v2 at lvl 2

[neon knoll]

V2 conversion? The blue one?

Or infinity

[glossy moth]

isnt infinity the v2? XD

[neon knoll]

Yeah you definitely want infinity it’s part of your burst

[glossy moth]

so best to swap out which for infinity? grandis? spd or combat?

[neon knoll]

Decent combat probably

Or speed infusion

If solo

If you got pally on team they give combat to whole team

[glossy moth]

sadly my team no pally haha

alrighty thx thx

[worthy pawn]

I do agree. As of now just being happy.. I also felt we lost alot of lines due to bug fixed. They shouldnt fix that lol

[true laurel]

If a bug fix loses us dps

Is it really a fix ?

[glossy moth]

they removed it due to the inconsistency when using agony xD

sometimes agony triggers balls sometimes it doesnt

x5 too

[worthy pawn]

They should increase balls hitline by 1 more

[glossy moth]

they did increase the hit count, problem is now the triggers is lesser when using agony xD

[worthy pawn]

Really lesser because we lost 5 balls when boss appeared.

So we firing 1 ball at the time now?

[glossy moth]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-happy-but-sad-face-gif-19422780

[glossy moth]

that idk...

[worthy pawn]

We lost 8 lines and they added only 3 lines.
So in my opion they should add more lines

[true laurel]

Have to balance those 1b GHB ark 🐳somehow

[neon knoll]

Kmsm got that passive from impending orbs removed as well btw

But ark over there is doing well

[neon knoll]

Trying to figure out why we are having issues with numbers

[worthy pawn]

Before even though without infinity, we throwing 5 balls right?

Based on my observation we lost 5 lines as of the moment

[neon knoll]

That’s when the boss is next to us yes

[worthy pawn]

Without infinity only 1 impending death throwing

With infinity is it 4 impending death

[neon knoll]

Yep +3

[worthy pawn]

I hope they add 4 more lines on impending death…

Lets send ticket guys

[neon knoll]

It might be bugged cuz in kmsm impending is still main dmg dealer

While here it’s very minimal in comparison

[worthy pawn]

We should raise a ticket so developer will do something

I was very excited and also disappointed 😦

[neon knoll]

Don’t be so hasty yet gimme some time to do some end game content and compare from my pre patch runs

But I do agree I’m a little disappointed as well

[glossy moth]

tag us once the test results are out xD

[woeful dagger]

It better be bugged man

Even bishops have more lines than us now

HAHAHA

[neon knoll]

the most line count ive gotten in 2 min so far is 13,255

we dont got much in our kit to sustain dps after burst sadly

[woeful dagger]

I got similar numbers too

[neon knoll]

while some classes get to take advantage of 60 second cooldowns, we gotta wait 2 full min for 1k lines

[woeful dagger]

I think if they revert the "rebalance" back to what it was before

I would be fine with that

Ark is so bad now

[neon knoll]

i dont think so kmsm had the same wording. it was just translated and copy paste probably

on paper it looks bad but we wont know till boss runs wont we?

[woeful dagger]

I have hard damien in an hour

[neon knoll]

mine later tonight

[woeful dagger]

Was easily and happily pulling aggro at 32m mdc vs a 40m pala

I doubt that's gonna happen anymore

HAHAHAHA

[neon knoll]

probably wont be the case anymore sadly

maybe for the first 15 seconds

[woeful dagger]

Cant win pala's v3 burst

They got 9k lines in 1 min now

I tested 8.1k lines in 1 min

[neon knoll]

yeah i got to 8.2k

burst class btw

[worthy pawn]

Hows the result?

[woeful dagger]

I am perplexed

5:30 run, still held aggro

[worthy pawn]

We must wait several months for rebalance again…

[vague palm]

in a 3 min fog, hitting around 19800 lines

[neon knoll]

3 min fog I got around 22k

[vague palm]

did u extrapolate?

or with specter downtime

[neon knoll]

Extrapolate?

[solemn prawn]

My idol 🥰

[neon knoll]

Both you can’t have 100% uptime in spectra for 3 minutes I don’t think

[vague palm]

yup not possible

22k lines in 3 mins is pretty sick

[neon knoll]

Gotta sacrifice some fingers

Can’t get consistently but that’s peak adderall

[woeful dagger]

Dont think you can have it up 100% for 2 minutes even

[neon knoll]

Yeah gotta refresh spell bullet buffs every minute seems like

And just play around v1 and hyper buffers

[wraith axle]

how u can hit 22k line

[neon knoll]

Almost 22k sorry 21,689 is total

[wraith axle]

Can i see this

[neon knoll]

I can show later when I return from work

[wraith axle]

Ty kub

[woeful dagger]

Are you karnji?

[neon knoll]

For this run is the pally usually the top?

Or was it bad orb rng

[woeful dagger]

I pm'ed you

[solemn prawn]

A2S arks unite

[wraith axle]

Yes boss

But i can hit 20k

I dont know how to hit 21-22

[primal nacelle]

All your levels so high! Im the highest lvl in A2L (228). Looking forward to Lv230!

[neon knoll]

It’s prolly 21k peak

[worthy pawn]

Ark is good for 40 second Lmao!!

[woeful dagger]

I got around 21.3k too

[solid swan]

Overall, do you think you've gotten better?

[worthy pawn]

No. DPS got nerfed due to impending death.

[solid swan]

Very bad😭😭

[neon knoll]

[worthy pawn]

Lost fun of playing

[woeful dagger]

Ngl when v4 connects while shade split + ds4 is up, it’s still quite satisfying to see the dps chart jump.

[worthy pawn]

I hope they give us more impending death when attack. 1 per attack is too boring.

[primal nacelle]

Hi all! Any tips for Dream Defender (Lv220 Arcane River)? So tough 🥲

[worthy pawn]

Weekly dungeon you mean??

[primal nacelle]

Yes the weekly river dungeon

[woeful dagger]

Use your bossing loadout, turn fair trade on

Eat some buffs if you have to

I dont bother with the top room, just the main room and bottom 3 smaller rooms

[primal nacelle]

Thanks! Shall ignore the top room

[true laurel]

Cut to bucc for ez 50 🥲

[worthy pawn]

How effective is this buff? Should I put in auto buff??

[woeful dagger]

Yeah auto buff

[compact moon]

I can’t seem to use the fly skill in specter mode consistently

Any tips?

[woeful dagger]

Not sure if you are aware but there’s a 30s cooldown

[compact moon]

Yea even when it was not on cd I keep messing it up

[barren blaze]

#msm-bug-report message

Anyone upvote for ark bug

[compact moon]

I notice we don’t usually do charge spell bullet buff.

Most Damien video I barely see us in flora state

So what good is hyper150 buff?

[hollow comet]

can anyone share boss setup for node tree? thx in advance

[daring marten]

Hello can help me to find the same skill of Ark

@woeful dagger

[woeful dagger]

We don't have any teleport skill

[daring marten]

Thank sir

[woeful dagger]

Best we can do is creeping terror to reposition

[woeful dagger]

1,2 or 3,7,8,9

[woeful dagger]

v3 overdrive is the lowest priority

Get starving beast, infinity spell, devious nightmare and abyssal recall up first for v skills

[hollow comet]

wow! really appreciate that. thank you

[compact moon]

Huh? I mean our skill lv150 hyper buff

[woeful dagger]

Oh I thought you were asking about the hyper passives

You can store the spell bullets

Go into a boss, release them and use the hyper buff

[compact moon]

So only good for first round

And for daily boss it’s useless

[woeful dagger]

Kinda

I just macro it with all my other manual buffs

[neon knoll]

not necessarily, you can refresh the spell bullets buff by going back to flora while your burst window is down "ds4, v skills and endless agony" and quickly refresh it every minute or so.
the 150 hyper buff is very nice because if lets say your duration of the spell bullet buff is about to run out (for example it has 5 seconds left from the 60 second duration) you manually cast the skill and itll refresh the duration of your spell bullet buffs but itll be double value.

[woeful dagger]

And yeah this too

But I don’t bother with it for daily bosses

[neon knoll]

just gotta be minful of the burst timing cuz thats all we have LOL

[neon knoll]

for mains yeah but for alts it can def speed things up

[compact moon]

That’s what I guess we’d do. I just remember seeing some ark dps on YouTube they don’t even have any soell buff on

[neon knoll]

Depending on the spec of your gear it may not impact your dps. I’d imagine if the player alr caps without the spell duration buffs they don’t need to bother applying it all the time

It’s mainly for min maxxing the burst but yeah

[worthy pawn]

Hi fellow ark user’s. Does anyone have extra maplestory pc account? Can I link my account? Need for legion. Thanks

[compact moon]

Gotcha. So primarily for min maxing burst. I’d imagine because in Damien we fly up so much we can keep up specter mode most of the time so it’s not as useful. But for bosses like lotus it’s probably more impactful

[neon knoll]

If you know the boss rotations like for example Damien. There are windows where you can squeeze flora form to refresh buffs rather than staying spectre if that makes sense. Some skill rotations have smaller/bigger windows for dps than others. Just gotta be mindful of the those dps windows such as stuns/splits/echo timings and know when you can go back to flora to recharge gauge/refresh buff

I personally like to use the flora skills when I get orbs for Damien as I move away from the team

And just hold my burst skills for stuns w ds4 active

You wanna change back to flora when you are not dps so whether you blink up, on alter or orb duty

[compact moon]

Yes that’s what I see the arks do on yotuube and it’s enough for them to upkeep specter mode at all time for Damien

I know we did extensive testing with hyper170 skill before for tapping vs holding. Did that change w this new patch?

[woeful dagger]

Gotta hold now

Cause they increased it’s lines by a lot

[compact moon]

Gotcha. Did ark in kmsm receive a buff after impending orb nerf?

[neon knoll]

It’s the same on paper rn. But there’s a big disparity between us and kmsm in terms of dps so idk what the issue is officially. Tbh I feel it’s the server and the overall attack speed cap.

Kmsm servers look and feel silky smooth where animation canceling is doable but here everything just feels clunky and you can’t even chain our flora skills without stutters even at max battle fervor stacks

[woeful dagger]

Maybe…. We’re all trash

#skillissue

[neon knoll]

It ain’t skill issue when I’ve been getting gapped by NL’s with less cap than me

But I do agree somewhat I’m still not able to hit 13k lines in the 3 min

[compact moon]

The struggle is real. I can’t hit 14.4K on my Evan either. My best was 13.9

[compact moon]

How do u guys dash?

Most of the time I’m spamming endless nightmare and when I use the dash skill, it will just link

[neon knoll]

Try holding the directional pad when using the dash skill otherwise if you click too quickly you might accidentally animation cancel the skill

[compact moon]

Ty will try it!

[true laurel]

Am I doing something wrong ? Don’t seem to get the floral state buffs recently for some reason lol

[woeful dagger]

Your spell bullet buff isn’t on

You’re storing the buffs but not being activated.

Gotta turn this on. Otherwise your buffs are gonna be stored. (See the 5 coloured infinity stone thingys under your spectra gauge)

[woeful dagger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBZ0pgosxas

@solemn prawn ark still got hope hahaha

[solemn prawn]

You gotta represent us

[hasty stone]

Hey guys, is Ark an expensive class to fund?

[woeful dagger]

Small lines are not the easiest to cap. Wouldn’t recommend playing it as an alt or budget 2nd main type of character.

Terrible ab too

[stiff solar]

Hi

[hasty stone]

I was a bit hesitant when I saw the skill damage…

Btw is it possible to link skills like on pc?

So that you don’t fly around the map when attacking

Also I read somewhere in the chat that it’s not working as it’s supposed to or smth?

[woeful dagger]

Yeah you can

[mellow mural]

Hey new in this channel, ark got iframe skill?

[woeful dagger]

only these 2 but cant attack during the iframe

[glossy moth]

does battle art hyper passive affects nightmare skill?

[normal elk]

Hello guys, How's ark? any new tips?

[tranquil stag]

Dm if interested

[true temple]

Pls tell me how to boss w ark pls

[true temple]

Hello?

Is this room dead

Can someone pls help me

How to boss with ark

[woeful dagger]

Wdym how to boss?

I have some videos of ark showcase you can watch on YouTube

https://youtu.be/LKD6fjbCyF0?si=m316Y5WQndUJ_kpY

[true temple]

Like what macro to use

[true temple]

I’ve watched all your series haha

But its hard to follow since everything is fast

I noticed u dont use macro

Just spam 1 skill

Can you make a video showing skill rotation and how to maximize dmg?

I’ve used 3 of my youtube acct to subscribe u alrdy

Thx boss

Btw I’m in the same server as u

A2S

[woeful dagger]

I’ll pm you later. At work right now.

[true temple]

Sure broo

[true temple]

I really appreciate it

Thx bro

[solemn prawn]

BIG DADDY

[true temple]

I’ve dedicated my youtube channel for Ark content

https://youtu.be/c-zKQnJbnCU?si=2YDWAOMEDLLMvVeC

Support top 1 ark a2s bois

[woeful dagger]

Oh no @solemn prawn not top A2S ark anymore.

[neon knoll]

[true temple]

Guys

Watch me slaughter Lotus

https://youtu.be/s_iXwrTjnrI?si=LfoeDyzkEbcnAub5

[true temple]

Guys pls drop a subscribe

So I can beat gemini in funding XD

[limber vortex]

How is ark now, why there it not many of them

[serene hemlock]

still playing here 🙋🏽‍♂️

[lavish sandal]

Praying for job balance update. In my opinion very weak compared to other class since Ark class is hard to play compared to other.

[limber vortex]

What you mean by hard? Low dps?

[ornate prism]

according to pc, ark is went from really low player count to one of the top class/pirate after 6th job is introduce, not sure if this will reflect msm

[lavish sandal]

pc is totally different from msm. Wild hundter buffer only for pc but in msm doing great.

[ornate prism]

Wait really? I thought wild hunter is also bad on msm

What is wild hunter’s selling point?

[lavish sandal]

No Idea. I'm Ark player. I think just play ark is you like the gameplay.

Hello guys!

I Just want to ask if you guys using what jewel color for bossing?

Purple or Blue?

[compact moon]

Blue

[lavish sandal]

Why blue became better than purple?

[lavish sandal]

Quality of life for Ark Class

1. Battle frenzy - Need to maintain every 15 seconds with chain skills that requires not to move and Ark Class has lower use counts compared to other classes

Suggestion = make it every attack hit like other classes passive and enhance attack motion or give more hit lines.

2. Flora state/Specter state - completely useless during flora state and Specter hard to maintain during bosses.

Suggestion = give decent buff during specter state or reduce consumption of spectra so it’s more time to deal with specter state.

3. Infinity Spell - 40secs duration and 120secs cooldown - after 40secs, Character is useless.

Suggestion = 120 secs cooldown and 60secs duration or 60secs cooldown 30secs duration.

Dear developer, please considered the gameplay of each classes. When some classes are difficult to play, reward with decent output. This is not for Ark class only but for other classs too.

Any other suggestions guys?

[true temple]

lgtm!

[thin jungle]

is ark good for bossing?

[thin jungle]

Anyone have any necro knuckles for NA Scania. Let me know

[lavish sandal]

Good burst. Play if you like the gameplay of Ark but I don’t recommend though.

[thin jungle]

@lavish sandal I think ark has a lot of really cool visual skills. Sucks that it isn't really good in doing end game bosses

[lavish sandal]

Just cross our finger for revamp. Few years ago I was demon slayer user and one of the trash then ark came I switched then now demon slayer is a God.

[lavish sandal]

Is that true arachnid reflection is good skill or Ark skills are too trash?

[neon knoll]

Well you gotta account that true arachnid reflection is on a 2 min cooldown and it’s a summon that does its lines through a set period of time.

In a 1 minute time frame it may appear that way but over let’s say 3min+ the other skills will eventually catch up in lines

For example the skill abyssal Recall has a 1 minute cooldown by the 3rd minute it’ll have been used 3 times so around 1900 hit count vs ~1200 hit count from the true arachnid reflection

But ye ark skills feels very lackluster after burst doesn’t feel as fun as it was pre V4 update

[smoky canyon]

can someone provide some feedback my updated skill wheel? i replace creeping with blink for dam runs. @rustic egret

first time poster here nice to meet u all im a lurker

[lavish sandal]

Infinity Spell is most likely the body of the Ark so my suggestion is put it at the end.

[smoky canyon]

thank you! @lavish sandal

[lavish sandal]

What Is PBA FOR NECRO?

[drowsy topaz]

Hi guys, need help for my stats. I am not capping yet and hitting about 14-16m per line on bosses (not including v4).
Lvl 224, nodes are maxed, necro wep lvl 42, 7cd emblem (still using top bottom while waiting for necro overall), running 20/50 BA buff 20/30 PA buff 30 PD buff

[woeful dagger]

You are hitting 14-16m per line on which boss may I ask?

[drowsy topaz]

Cra and ark onwards. But for VL, hilla and mag is less than 20m per line

[unique oak]

That's pretty normal.

[neon knoll]

statswise it looks solid. try to get to necro 50 and max symbols for more attack. if you still have issues with 45k+ attack might be a level issue at that point

[woeful dagger]

Where 6th job?

No 6th job no cap

[neon knoll]

where buff

[woeful dagger]

Buff ark pls

[neon knoll]

whoa

OP

[woeful dagger]

Min dmg lines are so bad

[neon knoll]

need very high investment to shine sadly

if you aint a giga whale just rr to shade or viper and youll be timeless till 6th job

[woeful dagger]

Yknow I have a blaze wizard friend

Went into H Archon without buffs

Still capping every line at 100+ cap

[neon knoll]

[woeful dagger]

Most of the arks in my server have ditched

Went to bucc and tb

[neon knoll]

oh? tb good too?

[woeful dagger]

[neon knoll]

thought they were clunky

[woeful dagger]

So easy to play though

You have 2 presets and you just spam them depending on if you have a specific buff up hahahaha

[neon knoll]

[lavish sandal]

I just got my first necro weapon. hoping for ark buff.

[vast siren]

Any pro ark can showcase how do sc

[vast siren]

My endless dream always below v1 and v4

[compact moon]

Your avg seems reallg low for ur mdc

[woeful dagger]

Just ark things, I don’t think my stats are that terrible

[compact moon]

Got shade split in the run ?

[woeful dagger]

Yep

[compact moon]

Oh that’s why it looks skewed

[woeful dagger]

Still very difficult to cap tho compared to other classes

[woeful dagger]

I have a very old video, probably irrelevant by now

[compact moon]

I play merc

[woeful dagger]

Havent recorded anything recently

[compact moon]

Tell me about capping

[woeful dagger]

Damn, there are no more active mercs on my server hahaha

[compact moon]

Yea. Dead class

Got that mulung medal tho

At ur stat, without shade split, I’d expect u to do roughly 77.4m average

V4 has the highest skill % so it’ll be closest to it, which it’s avg dmg is

But our 3 other hardest hitting skill is 10m below v4

And that’s at your stat level which I think is very good already

This is my friend stat as a shadower and his average in gloom

Shadower much easier to cap. And the ones with lower avg dmg is because those skills are affected by his clone.

He got 5000 att more than you, roughly same ba, 90% fd less, and 60 more cd

[royal grove]

Need more buff and have potential since it's a new class, not Cygnus resistance adventure

[smoky canyon]

Happy april all, forgot i was in this channel. monthly reminder to buff ark pls

[rustic egret]

At last, Ark officially buffed 😎

[smoky canyon]

they heard our cries nando

[normal elk]

How's ark?

[hollow comet]

can someone help explain to me how to use conversion overdrive? ahhhaa I can't seem to get it over 2 stacks

[lavish sandal]

Trash skill. it will stacks based on mana consumptions.

[hollow comet]

yeah but can't seem to get the stacks... like not using enough mana to go above 3 stacks tried many ways alr hahaha

[compact moon]

.

[buoyant phoenix]

is there a way to enter spectre state without using creeping terror ?

[true laurel]

There's a bunch of skills that change modes, but there's also one that lets you swap whenever. I think it's in 1st job ?

[upper basalt]

any ark user can tell me about their experience?

[smoky canyon]

fun class

🙂

@upper basalt trickier mechanics than bucc/tb but very fun if you like a unique play style

[ornate prism]

Its a combo class so you can get creative with it

Like cadena

But not as hard as cadena

[ancient dome]

Anyone alive?

[true temple]

Yes

Best job out there

[ancient dome]

Haven’t played in a while

[errant vector]

Are there true guide for ark

[stiff solar]

hiiii

[ancient dome]

Yoo

[errant vector]

Wow ark is so dead #buffarkplease

[ornate prism]

definitely buffed in 2 days, underrated class

[mellow mural]

Guys someone can send me ab skill and boss skill ?

[hollow parrot]

V Matrix up to 250 for Ark?

[primal nacelle]

Not sure what the question is

[hollow parrot]

Sorry like what do you guys have on your V Matrix up to 250? For bossing specifically? The 6 Trinodes take up a lot of space so just wondering what takes priority for the rest of the slots?

[primal nacelle]

I only have 2 Trinodes.
There are 5 more Vslots coming after tomorrow's patch. I'll get more trinodes then

[primal nacelle]

This ^

[buoyant tide]

Seems like the rebalance is so underwhelming for ark compared to other classes

[ancient dome]

Yeaa

Warriors looking nice

Im glad our atk buffs last a minute longer tbh

[neon knoll]

post patch for 250+: slot in the 6 trinodes for all 8 of our boost nodes
as far as decents go: id go Sharp eyes > Hyper Body > (Speed Infusion/Combat Orders depending if you got Bucc/Pally in your party) > Advanced Blessing
if you have more space after that you can choose whatever decents are left for additional stats or the erda stun skill for a secondary stun

got a good bit of testing to do cuz of the vmatrix slots

[hollow parrot]

Ahhh this is what I needed, I appreciate the answer. Thank you

[hollow parrot]

Ty Ty

I know not much people have been responding in this channel but I used to play Cadena but after 250 I rr’d to Shad thinking it would be all rainbows and sunshine now here I am on Ark but man I’m having the time of my life

Maybe it’s bc I played Cadena and this sort of reminded me of it. The Burst on Ark 😳 pretty neat when you’re in Specter mode.

[neon knoll]

both are combo classes and both should be pretty decent after 6th job advancement
ark has a gauge with it which not alot of people are a fan of. Glad youre having fun with the class
what made you wanna switch? cadena looks fun to play as well

[hollow parrot]

I think I was frustrated bc of the amount of effort required to just do DPS and lack of iframes. Just felt discouraging, but I thought picking something brain dead (Shadower) was going to make me happy lol.

[neon knoll]

ark has similar struggles as cadena seems like.
shadowers are strong rn but easier to play overall
most ark quitters already rolled back to Viper/shade/TB the amount of effort to play the class vs the payoff is just a major turnoff
youre doing so much just to get over shadowed by the other 3 classes with little/no repercussion

[hollow parrot]

Seems like you’ve stuck it through, what server you in? I have so many questions but I feel bad hahah, anyways the real main question I have is when DS4 is on CD do you toggle off Specter mode until next DS4?

I’ve pretty much learned to play the class by watching videos so idk if I’m actually playing this class correctly lol

[neon knoll]

NA Scania, just dm me if you have questions i dont really check here till patch days
I try to toggle off spectre outside of ds4 windows but you mainly wanna "weave" in between modes

if you have the hyper that lets you cancel out spectre with master corruption, you should net spectre gauge as you go from flora>spectre>flora and so on

[neon knoll]

im still figuring it out too, this patch should confirm a few things i wanna test

[hollow parrot]

Kk will do, I’ll dm ya

[ancient dome]

Op

Is kaiser dragon form basically infinite?

Our spectre state feels like it barely lasts

Idk how they expect us to do harder bosses that we have to put out dps in

[ornate prism]

No

Kaiser need to charge the guage in order to transform

[primal nacelle]

I put all Vskills in, but there are 3 more empty slots

My guildie says the extra slots could be reserved for v6 skills

[sand folio]

V6

[compact moon]

I’m looking for 2 min line count along with battle analysis results. Please let me know your best number!

[wraith axle]

15.1k

[wraith axle]

@neon knoll bro how u can hit 16.6k in 2 min

[neon knoll]

Fast fingers
Now I’m diagnosed with carpal tunnel

[wraith axle]

Can u share mulong test

[neon knoll]

In realistic boss setting it’s not possible to replicate. Need boss to stand still

[wraith axle]

Can u share this

[neon knoll]

Yeah gimme a sec I’ll dm you

[wraith axle]

Ty bro

[wraith reef]

Anyone know how to toggle on/off spectre mode?

[neon knoll]

^this skill

[wraith reef]

Thanks - didn’t see it as an active buff until 2nd job lol

[tender zodiac]

what is Encroachment- Advanced?

[lusty forge]

This is a fun class

What is a good ark hyper stat split? How many points on which stat?

[mellow thistle]

Good link slave because they didnt gave us kain

[primal nacelle]

Which one do you unlock first?

[undone jolt]

top right then bottom left after

[primal nacelle]

Thank you!

[rocky wing]

Hello, is there a reason to combo at all? Doesn't seem to be an damage increase or is it more of a line count thing

[meager hedge]

dose the info in moonbean ark videos still hold up?

[undone jolt]

yes you get a final damage increase aswell as your buff bullets

[undone jolt]

in terms of hypers yes but skill wheel no

[rocky wing]

But why? Battle frenzy fd is passive and even then endless agony sets it at 3 stacks. Even for bullets your hyper basically makes it so it has 100% uptime

[undone jolt]

you are right you could get full stacks of battle frenzy using endless agony but being able to upkeep battle frenzy without relying on endless agony is also important

having that extra att speed is really important

this is a quick test i did to show the difference that the attack speed can make

what i was testing was how much damage i lose with 1 less attack speed

first image is with the extra attack speed and the second image is without the extra attack speed (i removed knuckle boost buff which gives att speed, not battle frenzy but albeit they do the same thing)

without that extra att speed you miss out on attacking more with endless dream, meaning you wont have vengeful hate and impending death proc as much missing out on alot of damage

this probably doesn't answer your question, but to put it simply it boils down to att speed, you don't want to rely on endless agony/spectre state to proc battle frenzy, and with the new preset changes it's easier to land a stationary combo that you have no reason not to

i hope this helps answer your question

[rocky wing]

I just don't get why it's a bad thing to use agony for maintaining when it's 100% uptime and part of your burst rotation. Or you can even put a macro to refresh it and spam ominous. Like I asked earlier, if it's a line count thing then there's practically no reason to combo at all until you cap. Less chances for accidental movement mistakes too

[undone jolt]

yeah thats true, i guess im so used to doing the combos since i come from maplestory pc and its quintessential to do all the combos !

[hollow parrot]

Anyone nice enough to share their skill wheel for farming on sacred force maps?

[meager hedge]

and pre 6th job

[cold mantle]

Hey,
Anyone can tell how is Ark nowadays compares to Cannoneer?