This Thursday, April 21, 2022, Amazon Games is conducting a weekly maintenance aimed at fixing several bugs and issues that have appeared in Lost Ark, in addition to providing the monthly update titled Fight for the throne of chaos and including the Lancer and the Bern-South. The maintenance work is scheduled to start at 9:00 a.m. (Paris time) and end around 5:00 p.m. (Paris time) eight hours later.
The time indicated on the official notice “CET” means “Central European Time”. It is actually Paris time, actually French time to put it simply.
Lost Ark patch notes April 21, 2022
In summary
- New class: Lancer (Warrior)
- New region: South Bern (Level 3, item level 1340+ required)
- Feiton Express growth available (usable on the Lancer)
- New temporary event: Express Mission (until June 30)
- Ark Pass available (Paid Premium and Super Premium variants available in the in-game store)
- Grace of the Monkey skin available in the ingame store
- Noble Banquet skin available in the ingame store
- Several modifications and bug fixes more or less important
New Advanced Class – The Spearmen
A master of an artistic and deadly martial art, the Spearwoman slays enemies on the battlefield with a combination of her attacks, spear, and glaive. The Spearmen has two distinct abilities, Focus and Unleash, whose stances and abilities are embodied by their two weapons. The shorter spear allows him to dish out a barrage of Focus Stance attacks, while the longer glaive uses the Rampage Stance to unleash graceful killing blows and knockdown attacks. Where certain classes require you to focus on one of these weapons, striking a balance between the two stances allows an effective spearwoman to reach her full potential. She stores energy in her starting stance to give her second stance a powerful stat bonus. Learn more about the Spearmen in the latest Lost Ark Academy.
New continent: Bern-Süd
Discover and explore a new region of Archesia with the introduction of South Bern. The settlers of South Bern borrowed technology from various races to transform this once barren land into a place where water and greenery abound. After hearing the rumor that Bern-Nord was being overcome by danger, the Senate decided to close the gates of Bern-Süd and found a new order of chivalry. Ealyn, Queen of Bern, was suspicious and ordered Knight Commander Avele to investigate. So what’s going on on this peaceful continent? Unravel the mysteries of South Bern as you explore this new region, meet new characters, and complete quests. The story of Bern-Sud will end with an epic battle that could change the future of Archesia. Bern-South becomes the second Tier 3 continent after Punika and requires an item level of 1340.
In addition to the scenario, Bern South includes the Chaos Gate region, the normal difficulty of the new Chaos Line activity, and the Thunderwings field boss. Bern South Chaos Dungeons will be added in a future update as more players reach the minimum item level required to participate.
Progression Events – April 21st – June 30th
Feiton expresses growth
Players will receive Express Growth from Feiton after completing the Feiton main story quest “Willpower” during the event period, or if you have already completed the quest before the update, you will receive Express Growth at the start of the event! Feiton’s Express Growth works like the Express Growth available to players in the Lost Ark launcher. Once you complete the story on that continent, you can use it to bring another character to that stage of the game. With Feiton Express Growth, she gets level 960 gear. This is an Event Express Growth that expires on June 30th.
Express Mission Event
This new event allows players to select one of their characters with combat level 50 and item level below 1000 to perform “Express Missions”. This character gains level 302 gear and can complete express missions and bonus missions to earn significant refinement and progression rewards. Missions are divided into four sections corresponding to the main Tier 1 and Tier 2 continents (Bern-Nord, Rohendel, Yorn and Feiton), each granting a wealth of materials corresponding to that tier to help players progress, such as Silver, refining materials, large potions, engravings and more.
We hope this will help new players connect with their friends as they learn more about Tiers 1 and 2 and the corresponding game modes. For players who are already at level 3, this event can be used to quickly level up a new alternate character (maybe the new spearwoman?). Completing all missions will give you a very big reward, so don’t forget to take advantage of this event while it’s here! Like the Feiton Express Growth, the Express Mission Event runs until June 30th.
Shop Updates
pass ark
The Ark Pass offers players new opportunities to earn meaningful rewards just for playing Lost Ark. The Ark Pass allows players to complete missions to level up their Ark Pass levels – and earn rewards with each level reached. The regular Ark Pass is completely free and grants a variety of useful rewards, such as refining material selection chests, pirate coins, and even a mount! In addition to the regular, free Ark Pass, players can redeem Royal Crystals for two additional tiers of rewards – Premium and Super Premium – which contain additional rewards. The progression of Ark is on the Expedition scale.
The Premium Ark Pass adds additional rewards with each level reached, in addition to the free rewards. For example, there will be more Refining Material Selection Chests, Gems, Affinity Chests, and a Virtue Pet! In addition to the regular and premium rewards, the super-premium Ark Pass adds selection chests for the Noble Banquet Appearance Collection, Noble Banquet Wallpaper, and some Legendary Affinity Chests throughout the 30 tiers of the Ark Pass.
The Premium Pass is available in exchange for 1,500 Royal Crystals, and the Super Premium (all rewards + Noble Banquet skins) for 3,000 Royal Crystals. Premium and Super Premium Ark Passes can be earned by July 18th by July 14th.
General store updates and new appearance sets
- Special Lancer bundles have been added, including the Grace of the Monkey appearance set. The Noble Banquet appearance collection has also been added to the in-game shop for players who wish to purchase them separately from the Premium Ark Pass.
- There will be a few other minor shop updates in the April update. The quantities of some items in the Mari’s Secret Shop have been adjusted, and some new crystal packs are available in the in-game shop.
General updates
- Added 25-day tracking of new daily login rewards.
- Improved secret map co-op play. Now all four members can submit a card and receive rewards at once. Don’t worry anymore about someone leaving your party after using your card!
- Changes to the chat tab are now shared with the entire expedition.
- Changed voice chat volume settings to stay within an average volume range.
- The background of the server selection screen has been updated.
- Increased available character slots from 12 to 18.
- Fixed an issue where skill tree information was not displayed when viewing PvP skill info from the coordination book in a custom game lobby.
- Improved coordination book settings. Players can now prepare skill presets, tripod levels, skill runes, gems, item set effects, and more.
- Updated text to better describe some welcome challenges.
- Adjusted reward slots for Naruna Hot Springs.
- Added additional joystick settings that allow users to adjust the pointer speed and joystick dead zone.
- Added a new button in custom PvP lobbies that allows users to view each player’s active Coord Book presets.
- Added option to clear all text in active chat tab with a right click.
- Added new parameter
Notable bug fixes
- Fixed an issue that resulted in unnatural movement of the sails in the A Great Voyage wallpaper.
- Fixed an issue that prevented using the “Push to talk” feature when the “Game Menu” or the “Settings Menu” were open.
- Fixed an issue that caused enemies to spawn too close to certain NPCs, making them difficult to interact with.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in players being directed to the wrong area in the Snooping for News quests.
- Fixed an issue that prevented text from appearing in the Text-to-Speech Chat tab.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in the “Unknown Error” message to appear when traversing the Dark Lair dungeon.
- Fixed an issue where the non-tradable version of the Avenger’s Destruction appearance set was only valid for one slot.
- Fixed an issue where the “Arms to the Rescue” middle scene was unavailable in the Chamber of Memories.
- Fixed an issue that caused the event timer displayed on the map to shift based on the player’s time zone.
- Fixed an issue where the voice would not be heard in several cutscenes when playing a female class.
- Fixed an issue where “unknown error” was displayed when attempting to equip a compass that failed to equip.
- Fixed an issue that prevented completing the quest “A Leap to Death” when logging back in after equipping the Necromancer Disguise.
- Fixed an issue that resulted in VO lines not being audible during Abyss dungeons.
- Fixed an issue where some text in the Coordination Book was not displaying the correct language in French, German, or Spanish.
- Fixed an issue where another character’s voiceover would play when Armen spoke during the A Belated Help quest.
- Fixed an issue where debug text was displayed when opening more than one engraving selection chest at a time.
- Fixed an issue that prevented “trusted” players from initiating a trade on a new or untrusted account.
- Fixed an issue where the total number of members and the number of online members were not displayed in the “Guild Menu” when using a language other than English.
- Fixed an issue with controllers that caused some buttons to become unresponsive after skipping cutscenes
- Fixed an issue where some tooltips were missing in the controller “Settings” menu.
- Fixed an issue that prevented opening the context menu with a controller in the “Friends Menu”.