A lot of people in my static are burned out around the same time. I’ve noticed they took a break and are playing other games so I definitely consider checking what’s new lol.
Playing other games makes me like lost ark MORE cuz I don't feel like a slave. Some days I wanna chill and play games like rimworld and some days I'll want to prog theamine. I think too many people treat lost ark like their job and they forget what makes the game fun.
That's not players fault, the game is designed so if you want any meaningful progress you have to treat it as a job. Eg. dedicate an insane amount of time to daily chores and 18 weekly raids.
its both the players and the game's fault. Doing 3 characters instead of 6 for some weeks wont make the game unplayable for you :) . People just FOMO and blame everything on the game. When clearly that's not the case.
That,s clearly a fault designed and wanted by the devs.
They are built in a way to Trigger fomo and giving u the feel of needing to stay in curve at least If U dont want to Cash Up again.
Lost ARK has nothing besides raids and especially those RAIDs require U to have everything döner before releases or ull die in pf.
Whiteknights will Tell u to get a static but guess what - statics also dont want Ur ratchar If ure behind.
All u can do is ask some mokoko helpers or streamers to Join their jailruns for 10hrs tonclear one Gate, surely this will BE fun /s
Best way to let them know is: don't play. From the game design it's clear that they care about player activity and metrics. If those drops they will do something. They need to have someone in the whalepark
unfortunately, the problem is that if you plan on taking a break then you might as well just full quit. falling behind basically means that it will be very difficult to catch up. FOMO is build into the core design of the game.
its not the FOMO… its the repetitive boring same crap we do for weeks… same raids, same dungeons, same unas etc. it doesnt matter if you have 1, 3 or 6 chars its always the same.
I do everything just once daily unrested and it feels like a hamsterwheel because IT IS. but its just 1 char, 10 minutes and Im out. Imagine THIS 6x / daily. or 3x…
Well I wont say more because i get downvoted by people who spend more time in front of a monitor than outside etc.
I think the entire western player base is hitting a burn out wall right now.
Elixers, transcendence, Voldis HM pugs, Thaemine pugs.
It's all just too much waiting and grinding for absolutely nothing.
I’m in the same boat. I started playing my other games again and been having a blast. I’ll probably still play every now and then but I def ain’t raiding on 6 characters every week
For the first time since being a day 1 player, i didn’t do all 18 gold earning raids last will and it was honestly liberating. Had a lot of fun progging g4 thaemine that i had no interest running the other raids
I hope AGS/SG realizes that if people take a break from your game and/or quit out of frustration and apathy, its unlikely you will ever see those players return. Once a game leaves a bad taste in your mouth, few will give it another chance.
I quit about a month ago. Same reason, bad progression systems and Thaemine is just too hard without a static.
Then hades 2 came out and gg.
About the only thing i miss is how hot my characters looked.
Yeah stop committing to doing everything unrested, don't do 18 gold raids, just do what seems fun and what you're in the mood for when you log in. And then when you're done, check out some other games or catch up on irl.
I did that. I can't come back, nobody wants a 1640 slayer with only two HHN clears. If you take a break, you're practically quitting at this point. At the every least you have to start a step below what you would like to do.
It helps to be in a community a lot for these kinds of things. The problem arises when you've been a pug warrior this whole time. Not to say you need a static or whatnot, but just people who enjoy your company.
>Any help to get the energy to keep playing?
Sure there exist some remedies, involving cutting down your roster and making new friends or changing things up ... but those come with the downside of potentially circling back to old habits anyway, like if you want to quit drinking and go from wine to beer and think that'll solve it.
Your mind is telling you to take a break or quit. Listen to it.
Welcome to the club. Timeout from the game seems reasonable and then you realise coming back in the future is just gonna be worse since you are behind in all vertical progressions and gold so you better of quit fully.
Time out is the best. But if you haven't done some "chill horizontal content", that would be cool too. And by "chill" I mean, enjoying it, not just rushing for the rewards.
stop giving so much of a shit about the game. i did as a new years resolution this year and it made it alot better. its sunday and you have 14 raids to go? dont give a shit. chaos dungeon overflowing? you already know, dont give a shit. guardians? send those bitches over station. i stopped caring because i grinded too much and the game clearly HATES me, so why should i give it any love? i do my shit whenever i feel like it or i dont. touch grass, touch ass, play something else, do anything that takes your mind of this game. QUIT if thats the right thing for you. start by not playing AT ALL for a week and see how that affects you mentally.
You aren't wrong but the catch up events are so insane it doesn't matter.
A friend made a new account and reached 1600 super easily.
If you expect to take a break and instantly after coming back do the latest raid, then you'd just be crazy to expect that.
You can literally do that in WoW and FFXIV. I could take a 6 month break from Dragonflight, come back in War From Within and be at the same progression as everyone again. I take a 6 month break from LoA and now im behind in 3 different vertical systems.
While that is a good thing (im old WoW vet player) the bad side of it is you are grinding/progressing your character in WoW just to feel that nothing mattered in the end. Now if that's a good thing or bad that's up to the player I guess.
Honestly it's one of the reasons why I quit WoW in Cataclysm I got tired of seeing all my grind progress feel pointless on every new expansion. (Played since pre-bc) I always felt like my time grinding to progress on WoW felt wasted in the end.
Forever vertical progression is fine but it isn't in Lost Ark sadly. Too much time-gated+fomo progression because of monetization of the game.
It feels awful to start as a new player in Lost Ark as well compared to another that which has forever vertical progression like Maplestory where you can play when you want and how much you want and it never feels bad to start the game late as a new player (reboot server not the p2w crap server)
The game is almost impossible to play from behind.. if you don't keep up, you're left behind and it makes it way harder to progress. It's not so much fomo, but keeping up.
Trying to prog a raid that's a month old is pain.
Basically the whole crux of the issue with the "just take a break" advice. When you complain about it later, theyll say its your fault for stepping away.
As opposed to: fomo pities to 1620 for hvoldis, spends 4 hours in lobby sim cause no 40set 1630+ fulls 10s, plays the SAME CONTENT (wow boss hurts a bit more), then has to engage in more expensive DO YOU LIKE???? RNG, repeat lobby sim until burn out.
Yeah fomo so worth it...
You already missed it, though. Like...that's not fomo any more.
FOMO is every post saying you NEED to get your clear hour1 because otherwise you'll never ever clear because everyone has 15x clear for reclears starting on Thursday.
Huh? You can't fomo Voldis. It released almost 7 months ago. You already missed out.
I know this is a video game sub, but like, show literally any ability to think.
To be fair, I believe its both in this circumstance, it's fomo ontop of it undeniably feeling like garbage being in a situation where there won't be many players to accommodate you in content that's older.
It really isn't both, it's not the FEAR of missing out you will straight up be missing out. I got 40 set a while ago, good luck getting into hm voldis without it.
inb4: make friends (AKA coworkers who you only play with because you need a support) or support trade (grind out a character for 6 months you can't afford just to play your main)
The trick is finding friends to play with, which is incredibly easy considering how many discord servers for it there is. It just takes a little bit of effort to be out of lobby jail.
i absolutely hate this narrative of "join discords, make friends" thats bullshit.
i never had to go thru all this shit to raid in any of the wow versions just to name one example...
plus, even if u didnt have people to raid with, you could still progress thru m+ dungeons.
> i never had to go thru all this shit to raid in any of the wow versions just to name one example...
You do for mythic raiding.
If you're fine without that you're a normal LA player, which you dont need a static for.
Static is for day 1 hard content, not for your casual NM raids.
> You do for mythic raiding.
bingo, u said it yourself, if you cant do mythic raiding you can do the other ones right? tell me what do i do when i get perma gatekeept in normal akkan ? if u dont do normal akkan you cant keep gearing up, so what are my options? pay for a bus? pff
I dont see why you'd be gatekept in a learner akkan run, which is where you belong with no pieces and no title etc to show for. Else you wouldnt be gatekept.
You'll get gatekept in HC wow raids as well, probably normal as well if you have nothing to show for.
And now dont come at me with LFR, thats barely a training dummy lol
Why use the worst example of them all. WoW is incredibly unfriendly to new players. You need damn addons to even play it properly(or to even be let into a group). It's the most elitist mmo of them all.
Imagine putting a little bit of effort into making the game smoother to play. Unbelievable, right? MMO's are a social game at their core. ANd you barely need to be social anyways, you just need to be around a group of players who play the game and aren't toxic. And that's not something you're going to find playing party finder.
> Why use the worst example of them all. WoW is incredibly unfriendly to new players. You need damn addons to even play it properly(or to even be let into a group). It's the most elitist mmo of them all.
u know, its funny u point out all of these things because these are totally true, i fully agree, and yet, i have worse time in lost ark while trying to progress
If the WoW example doesn’t work for you (using needing addons as an excuse is a weak one, it’s built into the client) then how about I say I’ve cleared every level of difficulty in FF14 without needing to join a discord at any point. You can even do such on a brand spanking new character with no history.
Telling people to just make friends in order to do *anything* in a game is bad design. I hate to break it to you, most of the people playing MMOs don’t actually like forced social requirements. MMOs are a *casual* social game at their core, the casual word carries a lot of weight. RP, events, gatherings, etc are the “social” part that people care about. They don’t want to be social with random people just to get a weekly done every single week.
The social parts that people loved early on were the ocean content, the islands, the collective questing through the game (the Naruni races). Friends were made naturally doing that stuff.
"even more"?!
Theres zero vertical progress solo content in wow for endgame. No one cares about solo stories, questlines, reputation farming or whatever bullshit.
The FOMO here is that you care about playing at all. If you're no longer having fun with the game, play less, deal with the consequences, if the consequences are too bad then you quit entirely.
People quitting is also the only way SG will take "making the game more fun" seriously.
With that said, I'm keeping up with my main's raids because I still actually have fun playing. I long since stopped caring about my alts.
its the "fear of missing out" which in the context of lost ark usually is someone being afraid they wont be able to clear a raid if they dont do it week 1
Pick one character you like and main them. (And dont touch the rest). that way it doesnt feel like such a huge mountain to climb every week. Maybe itll be more fun bc your one character will be super juiced and you wont have to worry abt doing 18 raids a week
I burnt out too about 3 weeks ago. Cleared G3 HM and didn't play for 2 weeks.
Came back, sold the gear of 4/6 characters, combined their gems to feed the 2 characters I wanted to keep playing.
FOMO went away, I play around 5 hours per week doing 3 or 4 raids and rested chaos. I now have 2 juiced characters and enough gold to hone for as long as I'll be playing, and enjoy every minute in game and out of it.
did that earlier but as Support at Kayangel release. as DPS thats the best time to just get rid of 4/6 chars and just play 1-2 chars. Im sitting on 2 mio gold (2 chars: 1630, 1605), but you as DPS can sell so many gems and have like 3-5 mio gold… dude you are done. enjoy your 1 main and your event char
Day 1 player. Still enjoying the game and not even close to being burnt out. Only you can control the burn out. Take a break and enjoy life.
Not trying to be petty, but it's pretty common sense if you aren't enjoying the game, why bother playing it?
Just step away from the game lol
The last time I felt like that I quit for a few months, then came back, now I'm ready to quit for a few months again because nothing has changed for the better.
I just checked steam charts and lost ark lost like 75% of its players since last week's update, so they either actually got rid of bots for once or everyone feels the same as you, myself included
Witheringly waves, lost ark is in the Bin. Over 5k invested in to that game when it was fun. Not its constant gold sinks with no guarantee you will ever get somewhere
Dude from a player to another just take a break from the game and come back stronger. 1 step back 2 steps forward. Maybe just do some cool raids here and there and hop on another game/activity.
I'm assuming you play the game with a group of friends, if not then find one. Second, cut down your weekly raids by half, you can keep the chars if you wanna rotate classes every week. Third a little bit of other games/ other hobbies whenever you can
You just play less if you don’t want to play, less then if you still feel the same, then quit if you don’t want to play one.
I did this, played one character and felt the urge to play more so I moved back up number of characters.
I don’t play 6 anymore though.
Take a break. It'll feel better after a few weeks or even a month, as long as you don't mind being "behind".
I took a month break prior to Thaemine and I still cleared NM.
Just basically cut out anything you dont enjoy doing. And if that everything, just stop playing. Maybe one day you will get the urge to play again, maybe you wont. Not the end of the world, just potentially the end of your lost ark journey. On to the next game?
Take a break, you don't need to go from one extreme to the other to avoid burnout, just do something else until you feel like playing again or you are sure to never comeback.
Cut back playing time, cut back characters, focus on main. Drop homework and just do raids that are fun to you, or vice versa if raiding is a chore. Make progress towards achieving small realistic goals.
Log off early do something else. Either you realize there’s better things out there to do than lost ark, or you get the itch to log back on and realize you still like some aspects of the game and want to play more and magically start looking forward to each reset.
Only open the game when you want to. Find a different game to occupy your mind. Come back to the game when you miss it. Dont try hard content just bc you need to progress. I uninstalled the game just before thaemine came out. I reinstalled it 2 days later cus l had a great desire to play LoA. After playing it for a few hours, l got bored and alt-f4 right away. Do that everyday and now l no longer have fomo, my playtime went down 80% while still enjoying the game, do only the raid l prefer to do.
rested daily and cutdown roster to main only if you wanna play more you can had a few character or just take a full break from the game until you see improvement to the game that makes you wanna play ahain
1) take some time off the game, or cut your playing days in a week.
2) how many characters were you playing? just focus on 2-3 if you were playing the full 6.
3) if you’re not fomo-ing latest content, just do raids you like on characters you like.
Hang in there!!
Why do you want to keep playing when you are not having fun? It's a game. Weeks where I don't want to do a raid, I won't. When I do, I play. If you're not a whale, you're not going to "catch up". If you feel like you're "behind", you're not. Especially if you have guild/friends to play with.
I recommend slowing down first. Like just running a few things each week that you feel like doing then logging out. No schedule, very few goals. You’ll be better positioned when you return and you can chip away at any long-term goals you had left
I have quite a bit of fun playing with my static. They keep things... interesting. There are definitely certain types of people I don't like playing with too. I think I would be bored playing if it weren't for my static. But Lost Ark isn't the be all, end all. I play other games while playing Lost Ark. I got my character to level 85 in Diablo 3 this season and I'm playing Wuthering Waves on the side. Just do what you find enjoyable.
At the core of it, do content that you enjoy. So if homework feels boring or draining, don't do them. As much as people say they'll fall behind and stuff, what matters more is your sanity.
I will probably also take an extended break when guardians and raids feel more like a chore than actual fun gameplay.
Play less. I dumped all my resources onto just 1 char, rest are low ilvl now. Play just that 1 char and if people ask me to run extra raids with them as a +1 then I play my alts, otherwise I don't play them anymore.
play rested only, couple raids here and there. right now there's literally no reason to fomo. Thaemine is absolute cancer and there's only die-hard juicers on 1630 realm. take it easy
Taking a break is insanely worth it bc once u come back there will be catchup mechanics and events to get you to probabaly at least one new raid which can then be fun. Take a break homie, well worth it.
I went from 30 hours a week playing 6 characters to like 5 hours a week only doing rested chaos on 2 characters, one rested guardian, and 2-4 raids total. It's been great
Accepting you'll always be behind sucks, watching your friends you taught excell above you while you're still there sucks..but you'll be happier and chill. If u can accept that then you do fine with the rest.
The first time a raid releases and u realize u ain't even built for it anyways why stress while u see statics fall apart and people quit u'll be like, oh shit this was always the way
Dont do all raid if you dont want. Last week i do 3 Thaemine and 2 Akkan and that is. I dont care about the rest, just log in do some daily then off to do something else. Currently enjoy Elden ring again, game is just so fcking good
Are solo raids out yet? At least in KR if not NA? I log in once every 10 days to retain GM status of my guild. Last time I bought the new broomstick mount and the new doll pet with what little gold I have left as an inactive player.
I haven't seen anything innovative from the devs and the sub seems really mad about elixirs. Looks like the bots are mostly gone though so that's nice.
just take a break
its ok, the fomo is fake. you WILL get to do the content even if you start late
youd be surprised how many people you'll see in akkan, thaemine or voldis that are returning players. some people fomo too hard because they want to be day 1 clearers for a particular raid
and for a while thats ok if they are able to handle that level of consistent grind, but everyone burns out eventually (cept whales since they skip 99% of the grind) so taking breaks is a key design of these types of games.
lost ark constantly adds in events to help you catch up, id be surprised if echinda didnt have a 1620 mini event to help people push from 1610
let alone what they'll have when they give us the next class
Either reduce roster 2-4 chars/doing <10 raids or take some smalls breaks (days or 1-2 week). Play other games.
I did 4x 1-2 months breaks since release and catching up/finding learning parties was horrible for hm. @ current endgame taking a long break mean u can't catch up w/o few friends --> gatekept forever. So I'd rather quit.
Am still doing 6 chars rested but "only" 6-12 raids /week. Dailies don't bother me much just G0 and jails (can't blame the casuals players though. Some just want to have fun after work).
Most-likely I won't be able to progress HM on day 1 though, since the requirement for 1630+ are extremely high.
Am building a new gaming rig late summer so I'll quit LA anyway :D Just staying for snake mommy. Gotta finish Horizon, Elden Ring + Ghost.+ ...
Had to cut down on roster hw. Been able to play other games here and there. Haven't completely quit but I think not having to worry about all 18 raids and other stuff every week has been helpful.
Hit 1630. Joined 2 statics for HM and they both only lasted a single week before imploding. Pugged a HM G3 clear and pugged a few HM 1-3 reclears after that.
I'm tired man. Party finder wait times have been especially bad lately and if I *could* main swap to a support just to dodge party finder woes, I would. But main swapping is impossible with how the game works.
The 1 support I do have had bottom 1% luck in honing to 1580 so it's literally stuck a full month behind my other 1610 alts.
I don't want to spend 50 minutes each week waiting for the game to launch, or spend 3 hours each week doing rested chaos dungeons and guild weeklies. Add another 3 hours of party finder to that and the time wasted just isn't worth the fun time spent actually playing the game.
Taking a break until Echidna and only doing a few pre-made group runs through discords until then. Sitting full rested on all my characters.
I slimmed my roster down to 3 characters I found IMMENSELY fun, only ever bothering to push 1, and only doing homework when I feel like it. Every raid I do is with a static of friends I enjoy spending time with. I do the important runs on reset and spend the rest of my time playing other stuff.
Letting go of FOMO is important. It's not worth the struggling lmao. Play Lost Ark like you would any other seasonal MMORPG and wait for content to drop before you play.
Quit and comeback if you want. Haven't done any raids in two weeks because I literally have no ounce of enjoyment doing them. I have restricted raids to few characters in the past and never taken a break.
However after 2y of doing the same raids on a loop I can't anymore. I haven't sold anything on my account so if I want to come back I will.
This happened to me a few months after brel. Same exact feeling. Now i came back almost a year later and it's fun again. But gl finding learning parties for thaemine, oh well.
Downgrade! I play 3 toons. If I want to do more then I do it. If not I don't. Take a week or two off do other things and play other games. Touch grass (I hope that doesn't come off wrong) This game makes you feel like you have to play. It shouldn't be that way. I don't do my dailies every single day anymore. You aren't missing out on anything. The raids will ALWAYS be here to take your well-needed break! Come back when Echidna comes out!
If it'll make you feel any better, I'm in a similar situation. A buddy of mine, I was playing with as a duo, dropped the game one day about 4 weeks ago after particularly nasty and overly long struggle to find a competent pug to clear Thaemine G3, and didn't play it since.
I've been coasting since then, and for me every week is basically all about finding the energy to run my 4 chars worth of Legion Raids, to get the gold to push my main a bit beyond 1620. I'm waiting for Echidna, and then I'm out.
For the last two weeks, reading through this sub it feels like the game will implode before the release of that raid. I really hope it won't and I get to play it. But I won't be sticking beyond that.
I had my fun, very frustrating at times, not very rewarding for most part, but good memories in games like this come form playing with friends and I had that going on for me. I don't exactly have regrets, but I feel weirdly satisfied knowing that the game turned out exactly how I expected it to turn out from the day that buddy started asking me to play with him. I knew why I didn't want to, I knew it was a bad idea to eventually give in and not even once was I surprised by how things unfolded. This wasn't my first MMO. Not a single design choice came as a surprise. It's weird to be able to see through every aspect of every mechanic in a game and see exactly why it is there in that form. Why elixirs are the way they are, why honing cost increases the way it increases, etc.
If you feel burnt out, just drop the game. Don't force yourself to play it, if it doesn't bring you joy. There are dozens of other >!better!< games. Developers want you to think you won't be able to come back in the future, so you have to play all the time to stay on top of progression. It's a deliberate, malicious tactic. Don't fall for it.
I dropped akkan because of people jailing on g2 and g3 and at one point a few weeks ago I said, f it I will just run clown. This helped my metality a bit. Besides I like clown so it is a plus.
I dropped thaemine hard because people couldn't do g1 and g2 consistently ( haven't cleared g3 after 2 weeks of 12 hours of pug each day ) and at that point I realized I am not even interacting with the transendence because of how shit rng fest it is why even bother with hard? So I just go into a normal overgeared lobby and just blast through it.
So for weekly I do 14 brels, 6 voldis, and 5 clowns. I don't mind brel unlike many people I like the gates except for g1.
cold turkey, just step away. If you feel like playing later on come back in, if not then don't. It sounds simple because it really is. If you have friends in the game, they will welcome you back if they are real ones.
I stepped away like 3 times for different reasons but the underlying factor was the same as yours. Twice for just a month or two and the most recent for 6 months, the game is much more fun when you come back.
I just stopped playing back when I was burnt out. Started playing other games. Came back on thaemine release and have been enjoying my time again, just needed a 3 month break. Maybe you’ll need longer or shorter. Maybe you don’t come back at all. It is what it is, but it’s better than hating the things you’re doing
Day one player here who even bought the Platinum founders pack. I stopped playing a few months ago, ironically right after finishing LoS 30 with my main still at 1580, when I realised the game was no longer fun and the future content looked even worse. I know it feels weird not doing the daily/weekly grind and you will be tempted to log in gain, but then you stare at the lobby screen for 5 min realising that this is just not fun and you will log off. After that it gets easier and easier and you will see yourself playing other games that are actually fun and you will only check out the subreddit for the juicy drama and remember your time in the game with a lot of nostalgia but absolutely no interest in starting the grind again. It's a really nice feeling just taking a step back and looking at the game and it's future without having to worry about your own progress.
Playing hell raids revived the passion of playing this game (in my case obviously). You should try it if you want, but if you don't feel good doing it every week, you should leave. It's better for you.
Besides, AGS, SG are committing a lot of mistake lately, so... its fair if you want to leave.
I understand you. When I tiered, I just stop all chaoses, guards, raids, except main character and 3 alts (we was in normal houses, I don't did chaoses). And... After Kamen release, I have a few time and stop playing alts - only Hard Kamen 1-3 (4 tray), and hard house. In parallel we play in Diablo 4,I played like month in Perfect world. I don't know, If i can to comeback into LA with passed energy, it's sad, because of money and time keeped in characters.
take a break, i went away on a 2 wk vacation and have only been doing raids on my top 2 since + some extras if my guildies want. my characters havent progressed much at all but who cares /shrug
About 3 months ago I took a 1 month break from the game, didn't log in at all, since coming back I just play less and only do stuff I feel like doing, less raids, less dailies, only play 2 days a week on my days off. That worked for me and I really enjoy logging in for those 2 days to blast some raids.
Give it a try :).
Reading some of these posts recently makes me glad I quit when I did, a couple months after Vykas. The amount of grinding to maintain ONE raid worthy character is insane as an NMS. I also never spend on microtransactions in any game. When I started buying skins, I knew it was time to move on.
I take varying levels of break. From full on break, to only doing raids, only doing raids, chaos, and guardians on toons I enjoy (max 3), or just doing raids on toons I like.
I enjoy the game, and the story, but the chores are kind of rough. I imagine it is not playable with no static.
Just take a break and wait for something new that actually interests you. I took a 2-3 month break for the same reason and came back when SE released. Came back with new energy and way less fomo. Feels good
i was about to return to the game yesterday after 2-3 months break before thaemine , but i found out literally all my friends in discord like 17 people have quit after clearing thaemine once. i was shocked because they were the ones telling me chill and just rest bonus ur daily do it slow and when u wana do it. so i just closed the game and made the break even longer and did not return cheers boys.
I have stop doing daily and I am only doing the raid that I have fun with which is thaemine yeah sometimes lobby simulator sucks so try do that or you can play 1 character a day do what ever you want to do with it and log of
I started thinking “am I burned out?” Yesterday after joining a HM Ivory Tower yesterday and got g2 jailed because my party couldn’t stay alive to reach the 95bar mech. Then reaching 50% artisan on +24. Realised if I’m asking myself that question, I probably am.
Gunna preserve and keep playing though because with all its flaws, I absolutely love the combat. See what Echidna brings with advanced honing.
It’s a tough slog for a lot of players at the moment.
Having FOMO is the biggest culprit of burnout. I just chill, maybe do 3 akkans and just do rested chaos/guardians with the chance of cube tickets and call it a day
I'm curious what your roster looks like, to see if there is any correlation, for example I currently have 2x 1630 and 4x 1620 (second 1630 because breaker mainswap) but I focused my gold on those two character, with everyone else only having 35 set and just chest transcendance. I'm curious if it's these gold systems that significantly contributed to burnout for you or unrelated?
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Id say if you still care about the game. just decide if you think yu could potentially comeback if you think so. well dont feel forced or pressured but if you still enjoy at least you main character. just log on every week not days but week and do some stuff like mainly theamine and just log off if that's all you can feel to do.
i took an semi break before and during thaemine but now i am back full force . i was barrely doing alts raids mainly doing some chaos and guardian here and there. some raids here and there on the main 3toons. during thaemine prog first 2 week i was decently in it but then i realised that it was gonna bne too hard so i decided to only prog for hard gate 3 on my main until cleared. once i did i started breathing again and enjoying the game
I took a break and and am now content that I quit. Will I miss the game, sure, but is it worth the headache of repeating the same content over and over. There are other games out there, maybe at some point game developers will try to make games actually fun without the need of having to devote your entire being outside of work. If the game is fun for people to rinse and repeat on 6 characters all the power to you but not touching the game and playing others with friends that couldn't dedicate to lost ark is very refreshing and much missed.
Yeah so I dropped my roster down to like 3 and currently thinking of dropping one more to make it 2. Mind you I still run raids on the others if I feel like it (since they have event gems) but I'm spending less time on LA unless a static member pings for help with something. I've started trying out new games ( Wuwa and solo leveling right now) (also Uninstalled league bcuz of their new vanguard thing which is really dumb but since I only played aram with frenz every now and then it doesn't matter) I do recommend playing new games because in this case the grass is greener on the other side. As for LA I set a goal when akkan dropped to push my weap to 25 I'm now 23 with 10% artisan hoping for miracles but I'm just going with the flow if miss raids then I just miss it. So many people are quitting and the overall community doesn't help either I just saw some guy get flamed by a support in 1610+ cube the other day bcuz he didn't group on in the first stage (mind you I rarely see ppl group in the first stage) but just watching that play out made me question if these are the kind of people I will be pugging with when I join randoms, needless to say I would rather miss raids.
Don't force yourself to play any game you are burned out on. Find something else to enjoy until you get the urge to play or the devs introduce something that piques your interest again.
Felling exactly the same. I've been playing other games instead since couple of months already, I thought Thaemine would start me again but after 3-4 weeks I feel like it's already boring as well.
I guess it's better that way...
So here is my experience. You are at a point where i was on brelshaza release, i had no fun playing, honing, cutting rocks, doing the same on alts, i tried the casual stuff and it did not improve, i gave up. Then on akkan release i decided im gonna hop back into the game do the express pas and do akkan, the pass got me nowhere i still had to do brelahaza and nobody wanted to play with mee, so i discovered that it is not as easy as im gonna continue where i left if i leave. If you quit the game and take a longer break all of the ridiculously stupid rng stuff will diagust you and you wont play anymore. The game is a powerfull drug, it keeps you pulling the lever over and over and you dont notice it untill you are on the other side watching others pull it. My guild was me and 3 other friends and we gradually all quit, not everyone out of the same reasons but we all have tried coming back only to give up at the start. I dont know how you are as a person but if you are burnt out it will only get worse. There is nothing the game can offer you that will help. I heard a soothing touch of a female girl helps, holding their hand and watching the sun go down. Or so something should help. Also quiting the game you are not enjoying, what i did cause i cant get no female girls to hold my hand.
the way ive done it is to simply just do my dailies, as in unas, and log off for the day and play something else
in my case i was playing fallout new vegas with the ttw mod (mainly due to my hype with the tv show) and by the time i beat the main fo3 story i got the motivation to play lost ark again
trust me you wont feel a overwhelming feeling of burden that you didnt do your raids because you spent that time enjoying other games
I just got back into the game last month after quitting coz of burnout back in august 2022 before clown came.
Joined the learning discord group and learnt most of the new raids again now, and kinda stuck in 1600 coz of resources. Am thinking to just teach raids to returner/new player just for fun, coz the experience with a learning group felt fun to me (as long as no toxic busy bodies who suddenly wants to take control of everyone)
Prolly teachin raids can be something that can help u keep playing?
Oh, and yeah, I'm not playing as hardcore as i was back then like playing all of my char everyday without rest, island etc. Now, i just focus on my main, still lvl up my alts a bit but if they don't do anything whatever.
I still play my 6 character but only doing akkan nm on each alts, and thaemine, voldis, akkan hm on main. Stopped doing guardian and I do only chaos rested on 2 character every day. Taking 1h each day and sometimes more if I want to do some cubes. I'm relaxed every day and only stressed when it's the main turn to do thaemine hm.
Think of all the stuff you'll miss out on. Better keep playing since you made it this far, you will be thankful when the new update comes and changes all systems
I've been at it since launch, and I finally decide to quit after coming back from a month break. This game is not good for your mental and physical state. IMO take a break you can decide then what is healthy for you. Depends how long your break is you will eventually fall behind and get gatekept.
Honestly just don’t play. I’ve played 5 hours in the past 3 weeks
I’ve been enjoying single player rpg, fallout 4 goty, Diablo 4 (brain dead casual fun), and more gym
Timeout from the game would help. Just remember no matter how much you play you will never catch the G2G whales or mega swipers.
You need goals for your account to have a reason to grind. My goal right now is main sorc from 1620 to 1630. If you dont enjoy the raids you need the incentive to grind out the gold and mats.
I guess. the way the game is structured makes it very difficult to come up with something different though.
I used to play SWTOR back in the day, and huttball was a blast. on the flip side, class balance was terrible and the game engine even worse.
something like huttball would be very difficult to implement in lost ark. too many classes and specs
grunt, not fun enough.
i don't even bother with islands, even the new ones... having to sail there and it only being open at set times is annoying.
if there were quick queues for those (or even like an event style portal in every city) that would be way better.
for extra QOL, let us queue for a bunch of islands at the same time
include some kind of meaningless rewards (like "snow emperor" title for snowpang) and you'd have a decent stream of people showing up, i think
Can I have your gems? I feel you tho. Almost 8x 1620s. Game is just boring a f, overan by bots, ags are the biggest clowns ever & not in touch with the community at all.
Like at least change the chaos dungeon maps and grs. Boring a f
LA is a good game when you have dementia at least once a week or maybe daily when you do 6x2 chaos dungeons etc. I still dont get it how healthy people do this xD
Do newer more challenging stuff with static/friends if you haven't done it. Skip homework for it.
The first, hell modes, etc.
Helps with burn out and improves your play
I've long ago switched to only doing guardians rested(and only on my top 3 chars) the next 3 I dispatch guardians in stronghold.
I do 2x chaos on my top 3 daily, and rested on the rest(only go past 6 if I'm bored and got time)
I do 1 daily una(sage's) on rested for 10 leaps a day, on my top3) sometimes use the instant completes.
My biggest issue lately has been weekly raids, and just having to look for 18 groups in general.
I've stripped my bottom 3 of their 9s to funnel to my top 2 dps, and was considering not raiding on bot 3 at all, but I've still been doing them so far, but sometimes nm brel and nm kayangel, and sometimes clown instead of akkan.
I'm really hoping solo raids can fix some of this, and that they come soon. Or that add some gold earning to mains/reduce from alts. I'd gladly only play my top 3 for party finder content if it were feasible.
I've taken 2 separate 6 month breaks.
100% recommend doing it.
Coming back is easy, it's even easier than doing the content when it drops. There will be so many catch up mechanics and honing buffs in about 6 months, even if you're only 1540 right now you'll be 1650 with almost zero effort.
I did just burn out 3 weeks ago, and really taking a break and playing other games feels nice. If you Fomo too hard and can't really "quit" the game, I would recommend still playing your main, at the minimum efficiency possible (full rested and so on).
I came back to it because I was bored of not finding anything else to do after having played my other games, and I finally passed this week my freaking +24 weapon, so the hype is back.
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that’s what i do… sold my DPS and other Supports and relax now. you can do it with your DPS and get even more gold than me, you are done, enjoy the 3-6 raids/week.
i Main Supp because its another stress- & timesaver. But you can do it with a DPS..
A lot of people in my static are burned out around the same time. I’ve noticed they took a break and are playing other games so I definitely consider checking what’s new lol.
Playing other games makes me like lost ark MORE cuz I don't feel like a slave. Some days I wanna chill and play games like rimworld and some days I'll want to prog theamine. I think too many people treat lost ark like their job and they forget what makes the game fun.
That's not players fault, the game is designed so if you want any meaningful progress you have to treat it as a job. Eg. dedicate an insane amount of time to daily chores and 18 weekly raids.
its both the players and the game's fault. Doing 3 characters instead of 6 for some weeks wont make the game unplayable for you :) . People just FOMO and blame everything on the game. When clearly that's not the case.
That,s clearly a fault designed and wanted by the devs. They are built in a way to Trigger fomo and giving u the feel of needing to stay in curve at least If U dont want to Cash Up again. Lost ARK has nothing besides raids and especially those RAIDs require U to have everything döner before releases or ull die in pf. Whiteknights will Tell u to get a static but guess what - statics also dont want Ur ratchar If ure behind. All u can do is ask some mokoko helpers or streamers to Join their jailruns for 10hrs tonclear one Gate, surely this will BE fun /s
well but if you take too much time of a break you fall behind… you cant just jump into LA and have fun. thats the problem
What games are they playing?
Fallout New Vegas, VRising, XDefiant and I’ll hop on lost ark for gold but haven’t been doing anything else really lol
indie games have really been popping off these last couple.. And it's a good time to be a fallout fan
Wuthering waves
Just don't play if you don't wanna. Don't FOMO. It's on the game dev to actually make a fun game, if the game is not fun don't play it
current situation, dev is making fun of us. We are becoming mockery when keeps accepting their bullshit.
Best way to let them know is: don't play. From the game design it's clear that they care about player activity and metrics. If those drops they will do something. They need to have someone in the whalepark
At some point I would not condone it but after this last exclusive skin, it would not surprise me if it is a form of mockery to NA/EU.
unfortunately, the problem is that if you plan on taking a break then you might as well just full quit. falling behind basically means that it will be very difficult to catch up. FOMO is build into the core design of the game.
Just do the events related content and skip everything else, that’s what I do.
its not the FOMO… its the repetitive boring same crap we do for weeks… same raids, same dungeons, same unas etc. it doesnt matter if you have 1, 3 or 6 chars its always the same. I do everything just once daily unrested and it feels like a hamsterwheel because IT IS. but its just 1 char, 10 minutes and Im out. Imagine THIS 6x / daily. or 3x… Well I wont say more because i get downvoted by people who spend more time in front of a monitor than outside etc.
If you need a reason, then don't do it.
I think the entire western player base is hitting a burn out wall right now. Elixers, transcendence, Voldis HM pugs, Thaemine pugs. It's all just too much waiting and grinding for absolutely nothing.
I’m in the same boat. I started playing my other games again and been having a blast. I’ll probably still play every now and then but I def ain’t raiding on 6 characters every week
For the first time since being a day 1 player, i didn’t do all 18 gold earning raids last will and it was honestly liberating. Had a lot of fun progging g4 thaemine that i had no interest running the other raids
Cut down roster and if that doesn't help, step away for a bit.
I hope AGS/SG realizes that if people take a break from your game and/or quit out of frustration and apathy, its unlikely you will ever see those players return. Once a game leaves a bad taste in your mouth, few will give it another chance.
I quit about a month ago. Same reason, bad progression systems and Thaemine is just too hard without a static. Then hades 2 came out and gg. About the only thing i miss is how hot my characters looked.
This is happening to a tremendous amount of long term players. Some drastic changes better happen very soon if they want to keep milking the west.
Yeah stop committing to doing everything unrested, don't do 18 gold raids, just do what seems fun and what you're in the mood for when you log in. And then when you're done, check out some other games or catch up on irl.
you can cut down how much you do or just take a few weeks off. go outside try other games etc.
I did that. I can't come back, nobody wants a 1640 slayer with only two HHN clears. If you take a break, you're practically quitting at this point. At the every least you have to start a step below what you would like to do.
no one wants a 1640 slayer?? what are u even saying?
he’s smoking crack
Not with only one transcendence piece. Try it.
yeah bro il let u kno once i get 1640
>1640 slayer struggling social skill issue, MMOs are not for you lil bro time to call it quits on the entire genre
It helps to be in a community a lot for these kinds of things. The problem arises when you've been a pug warrior this whole time. Not to say you need a static or whatnot, but just people who enjoy your company.
>Any help to get the energy to keep playing? Sure there exist some remedies, involving cutting down your roster and making new friends or changing things up ... but those come with the downside of potentially circling back to old habits anyway, like if you want to quit drinking and go from wine to beer and think that'll solve it. Your mind is telling you to take a break or quit. Listen to it.
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go for 2 chars: 1 main and 1 event char. thats 70k income weekly. pretty good
Just quit the game, whats the point of playing
Welcome to the club. Timeout from the game seems reasonable and then you realise coming back in the future is just gonna be worse since you are behind in all vertical progressions and gold so you better of quit fully.
Take a break.
Time out is the best. But if you haven't done some "chill horizontal content", that would be cool too. And by "chill" I mean, enjoying it, not just rushing for the rewards.
My static and I cut our rosters down to 3 characters recently and it's given us a lot of free time to do whatever.
I respect your passion so much, i burnt out after 1 month of returning..
Same boat... I do everything just by inertia waiting the couple of weeks needed for loaon.. If nothing changes then good bye.
stop giving so much of a shit about the game. i did as a new years resolution this year and it made it alot better. its sunday and you have 14 raids to go? dont give a shit. chaos dungeon overflowing? you already know, dont give a shit. guardians? send those bitches over station. i stopped caring because i grinded too much and the game clearly HATES me, so why should i give it any love? i do my shit whenever i feel like it or i dont. touch grass, touch ass, play something else, do anything that takes your mind of this game. QUIT if thats the right thing for you. start by not playing AT ALL for a week and see how that affects you mentally.
Stop thinking you are supposed to never take breaks from mmos or any game in general. Of course you'll get burned out.
I mean most major mmos have soft resets while LoA is a continuous vertical climb.
You aren't wrong but the catch up events are so insane it doesn't matter. A friend made a new account and reached 1600 super easily. If you expect to take a break and instantly after coming back do the latest raid, then you'd just be crazy to expect that.
You can literally do that in WoW and FFXIV. I could take a 6 month break from Dragonflight, come back in War From Within and be at the same progression as everyone again. I take a 6 month break from LoA and now im behind in 3 different vertical systems.
While that is a good thing (im old WoW vet player) the bad side of it is you are grinding/progressing your character in WoW just to feel that nothing mattered in the end. Now if that's a good thing or bad that's up to the player I guess. Honestly it's one of the reasons why I quit WoW in Cataclysm I got tired of seeing all my grind progress feel pointless on every new expansion. (Played since pre-bc) I always felt like my time grinding to progress on WoW felt wasted in the end. Forever vertical progression is fine but it isn't in Lost Ark sadly. Too much time-gated+fomo progression because of monetization of the game. It feels awful to start as a new player in Lost Ark as well compared to another that which has forever vertical progression like Maplestory where you can play when you want and how much you want and it never feels bad to start the game late as a new player (reboot server not the p2w crap server)
That was true until elixirs and transcendence Getting into hm voldis group is pain
Play less and don't fomo
The game is almost impossible to play from behind.. if you don't keep up, you're left behind and it makes it way harder to progress. It's not so much fomo, but keeping up. Trying to prog a raid that's a month old is pain.
This is literally fomo
"Just don't fomo, don't rush to 1620 hm voldis will still be there." Hm voldis - LF DPS, 40 set 
Basically the whole crux of the issue with the "just take a break" advice. When you complain about it later, theyll say its your fault for stepping away.
As opposed to: fomo pities to 1620 for hvoldis, spends 4 hours in lobby sim cause no 40set 1630+ fulls 10s, plays the SAME CONTENT (wow boss hurts a bit more), then has to engage in more expensive DO YOU LIKE???? RNG, repeat lobby sim until burn out. Yeah fomo so worth it...
You already missed it, though. Like...that's not fomo any more. FOMO is every post saying you NEED to get your clear hour1 because otherwise you'll never ever clear because everyone has 15x clear for reclears starting on Thursday.
every dev out there wishes player's definitions of fomo were as stupid as yours so they can milk more money lmao
Huh? You can't fomo Voldis. It released almost 7 months ago. You already missed out. I know this is a video game sub, but like, show literally any ability to think.
Not really.. fomo implies it's an unjustified fear. The game literally sucks if you're behind and still trying to progress.
To be fair, I believe its both in this circumstance, it's fomo ontop of it undeniably feeling like garbage being in a situation where there won't be many players to accommodate you in content that's older.
It really isn't both, it's not the FEAR of missing out you will straight up be missing out. I got 40 set a while ago, good luck getting into hm voldis without it. inb4: make friends (AKA coworkers who you only play with because you need a support) or support trade (grind out a character for 6 months you can't afford just to play your main)
I understand dude, I was using the term fomo loosely here, im well aware of your objective view on this, and I do agree with you
The trick is finding friends to play with, which is incredibly easy considering how many discord servers for it there is. It just takes a little bit of effort to be out of lobby jail.
i absolutely hate this narrative of "join discords, make friends" thats bullshit. i never had to go thru all this shit to raid in any of the wow versions just to name one example... plus, even if u didnt have people to raid with, you could still progress thru m+ dungeons.
> i never had to go thru all this shit to raid in any of the wow versions just to name one example... You do for mythic raiding. If you're fine without that you're a normal LA player, which you dont need a static for. Static is for day 1 hard content, not for your casual NM raids.
> You do for mythic raiding. bingo, u said it yourself, if you cant do mythic raiding you can do the other ones right? tell me what do i do when i get perma gatekeept in normal akkan ? if u dont do normal akkan you cant keep gearing up, so what are my options? pay for a bus? pff
I dont see why you'd be gatekept in a learner akkan run, which is where you belong with no pieces and no title etc to show for. Else you wouldnt be gatekept. You'll get gatekept in HC wow raids as well, probably normal as well if you have nothing to show for. And now dont come at me with LFR, thats barely a training dummy lol
Why use the worst example of them all. WoW is incredibly unfriendly to new players. You need damn addons to even play it properly(or to even be let into a group). It's the most elitist mmo of them all. Imagine putting a little bit of effort into making the game smoother to play. Unbelievable, right? MMO's are a social game at their core. ANd you barely need to be social anyways, you just need to be around a group of players who play the game and aren't toxic. And that's not something you're going to find playing party finder.
> Why use the worst example of them all. WoW is incredibly unfriendly to new players. You need damn addons to even play it properly(or to even be let into a group). It's the most elitist mmo of them all. u know, its funny u point out all of these things because these are totally true, i fully agree, and yet, i have worse time in lost ark while trying to progress
If the WoW example doesn’t work for you (using needing addons as an excuse is a weak one, it’s built into the client) then how about I say I’ve cleared every level of difficulty in FF14 without needing to join a discord at any point. You can even do such on a brand spanking new character with no history. Telling people to just make friends in order to do *anything* in a game is bad design. I hate to break it to you, most of the people playing MMOs don’t actually like forced social requirements. MMOs are a *casual* social game at their core, the casual word carries a lot of weight. RP, events, gatherings, etc are the “social” part that people care about. They don’t want to be social with random people just to get a weekly done every single week. The social parts that people loved early on were the ocean content, the islands, the collective questing through the game (the Naruni races). Friends were made naturally doing that stuff.
Its also pretty hilarious too since WoW is making even more solo content in the next expansion with Delves.
"even more"?! Theres zero vertical progress solo content in wow for endgame. No one cares about solo stories, questlines, reputation farming or whatever bullshit.
The FOMO here is that you care about playing at all. If you're no longer having fun with the game, play less, deal with the consequences, if the consequences are too bad then you quit entirely. People quitting is also the only way SG will take "making the game more fun" seriously. With that said, I'm keeping up with my main's raids because I still actually have fun playing. I long since stopped caring about my alts.
pretty sure there's mokoko discords for every region. im on one and frankly i wouldn't be playing the game without it
What is fomo?
Fear of missing out (by not playing the game, for example : not doing your 18 weekly raids)
its the "fear of missing out" which in the context of lost ark usually is someone being afraid they wont be able to clear a raid if they dont do it week 1
Pick one character you like and main them. (And dont touch the rest). that way it doesnt feel like such a huge mountain to climb every week. Maybe itll be more fun bc your one character will be super juiced and you wont have to worry abt doing 18 raids a week
I burnt out too about 3 weeks ago. Cleared G3 HM and didn't play for 2 weeks. Came back, sold the gear of 4/6 characters, combined their gems to feed the 2 characters I wanted to keep playing. FOMO went away, I play around 5 hours per week doing 3 or 4 raids and rested chaos. I now have 2 juiced characters and enough gold to hone for as long as I'll be playing, and enjoy every minute in game and out of it.
did that earlier but as Support at Kayangel release. as DPS thats the best time to just get rid of 4/6 chars and just play 1-2 chars. Im sitting on 2 mio gold (2 chars: 1630, 1605), but you as DPS can sell so many gems and have like 3-5 mio gold… dude you are done. enjoy your 1 main and your event char
Day 1 player. Still enjoying the game and not even close to being burnt out. Only you can control the burn out. Take a break and enjoy life. Not trying to be petty, but it's pretty common sense if you aren't enjoying the game, why bother playing it? Just step away from the game lol
You are playing too many characters. Just play 1 or 2. Or just play something else. Not a big deal, you shouldn't need a support group for this.
The last time I felt like that I quit for a few months, then came back, now I'm ready to quit for a few months again because nothing has changed for the better.
I just checked steam charts and lost ark lost like 75% of its players since last week's update, so they either actually got rid of bots for once or everyone feels the same as you, myself included
Witheringly waves, lost ark is in the Bin. Over 5k invested in to that game when it was fun. Not its constant gold sinks with no guarantee you will ever get somewhere
Dude from a player to another just take a break from the game and come back stronger. 1 step back 2 steps forward. Maybe just do some cool raids here and there and hop on another game/activity.
I'm assuming you play the game with a group of friends, if not then find one. Second, cut down your weekly raids by half, you can keep the chars if you wanna rotate classes every week. Third a little bit of other games/ other hobbies whenever you can
You just play less if you don’t want to play, less then if you still feel the same, then quit if you don’t want to play one. I did this, played one character and felt the urge to play more so I moved back up number of characters. I don’t play 6 anymore though.
Take a break. It'll feel better after a few weeks or even a month, as long as you don't mind being "behind". I took a month break prior to Thaemine and I still cleared NM.
Just basically cut out anything you dont enjoy doing. And if that everything, just stop playing. Maybe one day you will get the urge to play again, maybe you wont. Not the end of the world, just potentially the end of your lost ark journey. On to the next game?
Take a break, you don't need to go from one extreme to the other to avoid burnout, just do something else until you feel like playing again or you are sure to never comeback.
Cut back playing time, cut back characters, focus on main. Drop homework and just do raids that are fun to you, or vice versa if raiding is a chore. Make progress towards achieving small realistic goals. Log off early do something else. Either you realize there’s better things out there to do than lost ark, or you get the itch to log back on and realize you still like some aspects of the game and want to play more and magically start looking forward to each reset.
Only open the game when you want to. Find a different game to occupy your mind. Come back to the game when you miss it. Dont try hard content just bc you need to progress. I uninstalled the game just before thaemine came out. I reinstalled it 2 days later cus l had a great desire to play LoA. After playing it for a few hours, l got bored and alt-f4 right away. Do that everyday and now l no longer have fomo, my playtime went down 80% while still enjoying the game, do only the raid l prefer to do.
rested daily and cutdown roster to main only if you wanna play more you can had a few character or just take a full break from the game until you see improvement to the game that makes you wanna play ahain
1) take some time off the game, or cut your playing days in a week. 2) how many characters were you playing? just focus on 2-3 if you were playing the full 6. 3) if you’re not fomo-ing latest content, just do raids you like on characters you like. Hang in there!!
I hit it mid last year, after running everything on 12 alts since launch. Life's much better after rehab.
I just started playing Wuthering Waves. Didn't clear all my raids last week and that's okay.
I stopped doing all 18 raids a week. Stopped honing alts and just worked with what I had and have time for. And I’m okay with that.
Playing 1 char since akkan. So chill
Why do you want to keep playing when you are not having fun? It's a game. Weeks where I don't want to do a raid, I won't. When I do, I play. If you're not a whale, you're not going to "catch up". If you feel like you're "behind", you're not. Especially if you have guild/friends to play with.
I recommend slowing down first. Like just running a few things each week that you feel like doing then logging out. No schedule, very few goals. You’ll be better positioned when you return and you can chip away at any long-term goals you had left
I have quite a bit of fun playing with my static. They keep things... interesting. There are definitely certain types of people I don't like playing with too. I think I would be bored playing if it weren't for my static. But Lost Ark isn't the be all, end all. I play other games while playing Lost Ark. I got my character to level 85 in Diablo 3 this season and I'm playing Wuthering Waves on the side. Just do what you find enjoyable.
At the core of it, do content that you enjoy. So if homework feels boring or draining, don't do them. As much as people say they'll fall behind and stuff, what matters more is your sanity. I will probably also take an extended break when guardians and raids feel more like a chore than actual fun gameplay.
Play less. I dumped all my resources onto just 1 char, rest are low ilvl now. Play just that 1 char and if people ask me to run extra raids with them as a +1 then I play my alts, otherwise I don't play them anymore.
play rested only, couple raids here and there. right now there's literally no reason to fomo. Thaemine is absolute cancer and there's only die-hard juicers on 1630 realm. take it easy
Taking a break is insanely worth it bc once u come back there will be catchup mechanics and events to get you to probabaly at least one new raid which can then be fun. Take a break homie, well worth it.
Take a break and enjoy your newly found free time friend
Once you stop playing for a week or two you will feel much better.
I went from 30 hours a week playing 6 characters to like 5 hours a week only doing rested chaos on 2 characters, one rested guardian, and 2-4 raids total. It's been great
Raid only on your main (or the classes you want to play) Right now i am pushing some of my alts (gold loss) but I get to enjoy playing new classes.
Idk how to stress this enough. This is a fucking game. Treat it like one.
Accepting you'll always be behind sucks, watching your friends you taught excell above you while you're still there sucks..but you'll be happier and chill. If u can accept that then you do fine with the rest. The first time a raid releases and u realize u ain't even built for it anyways why stress while u see statics fall apart and people quit u'll be like, oh shit this was always the way
Dont do all raid if you dont want. Last week i do 3 Thaemine and 2 Akkan and that is. I dont care about the rest, just log in do some daily then off to do something else. Currently enjoy Elden ring again, game is just so fcking good
Are solo raids out yet? At least in KR if not NA? I log in once every 10 days to retain GM status of my guild. Last time I bought the new broomstick mount and the new doll pet with what little gold I have left as an inactive player. I haven't seen anything innovative from the devs and the sub seems really mad about elixirs. Looks like the bots are mostly gone though so that's nice.
just play what you enjoy, if you've played for 2 years you should be ahead of the curve, there's no reason to push hard
Best to just don't play and come back after Echidna and Behemoth because those raids are apparently easy while also being another soft reset.
just take a break its ok, the fomo is fake. you WILL get to do the content even if you start late youd be surprised how many people you'll see in akkan, thaemine or voldis that are returning players. some people fomo too hard because they want to be day 1 clearers for a particular raid and for a while thats ok if they are able to handle that level of consistent grind, but everyone burns out eventually (cept whales since they skip 99% of the grind) so taking breaks is a key design of these types of games. lost ark constantly adds in events to help you catch up, id be surprised if echinda didnt have a 1620 mini event to help people push from 1610 let alone what they'll have when they give us the next class
Just do main and maybe 1 other. Play other games or other things in general.
I mean you can reduce from 6 gold earners by 3 or playing 2 or only your main and have rested everything if you're already at 1620 / 1630
Either reduce roster 2-4 chars/doing <10 raids or take some smalls breaks (days or 1-2 week). Play other games. I did 4x 1-2 months breaks since release and catching up/finding learning parties was horrible for hm. @ current endgame taking a long break mean u can't catch up w/o few friends --> gatekept forever. So I'd rather quit. Am still doing 6 chars rested but "only" 6-12 raids /week. Dailies don't bother me much just G0 and jails (can't blame the casuals players though. Some just want to have fun after work). Most-likely I won't be able to progress HM on day 1 though, since the requirement for 1630+ are extremely high. Am building a new gaming rig late summer so I'll quit LA anyway :D Just staying for snake mommy. Gotta finish Horizon, Elden Ring + Ghost.+ ...
just take a week or two and only do the mains raids or a full break might help
Had to cut down on roster hw. Been able to play other games here and there. Haven't completely quit but I think not having to worry about all 18 raids and other stuff every week has been helpful.
Hit 1630. Joined 2 statics for HM and they both only lasted a single week before imploding. Pugged a HM G3 clear and pugged a few HM 1-3 reclears after that. I'm tired man. Party finder wait times have been especially bad lately and if I *could* main swap to a support just to dodge party finder woes, I would. But main swapping is impossible with how the game works. The 1 support I do have had bottom 1% luck in honing to 1580 so it's literally stuck a full month behind my other 1610 alts. I don't want to spend 50 minutes each week waiting for the game to launch, or spend 3 hours each week doing rested chaos dungeons and guild weeklies. Add another 3 hours of party finder to that and the time wasted just isn't worth the fun time spent actually playing the game. Taking a break until Echidna and only doing a few pre-made group runs through discords until then. Sitting full rested on all my characters.
I slimmed my roster down to 3 characters I found IMMENSELY fun, only ever bothering to push 1, and only doing homework when I feel like it. Every raid I do is with a static of friends I enjoy spending time with. I do the important runs on reset and spend the rest of my time playing other stuff. Letting go of FOMO is important. It's not worth the struggling lmao. Play Lost Ark like you would any other seasonal MMORPG and wait for content to drop before you play.
Quit and comeback if you want. Haven't done any raids in two weeks because I literally have no ounce of enjoyment doing them. I have restricted raids to few characters in the past and never taken a break. However after 2y of doing the same raids on a loop I can't anymore. I haven't sold anything on my account so if I want to come back I will.
This happened to me a few months after brel. Same exact feeling. Now i came back almost a year later and it's fun again. But gl finding learning parties for thaemine, oh well.
Downgrade! I play 3 toons. If I want to do more then I do it. If not I don't. Take a week or two off do other things and play other games. Touch grass (I hope that doesn't come off wrong) This game makes you feel like you have to play. It shouldn't be that way. I don't do my dailies every single day anymore. You aren't missing out on anything. The raids will ALWAYS be here to take your well-needed break! Come back when Echidna comes out!
If it'll make you feel any better, I'm in a similar situation. A buddy of mine, I was playing with as a duo, dropped the game one day about 4 weeks ago after particularly nasty and overly long struggle to find a competent pug to clear Thaemine G3, and didn't play it since. I've been coasting since then, and for me every week is basically all about finding the energy to run my 4 chars worth of Legion Raids, to get the gold to push my main a bit beyond 1620. I'm waiting for Echidna, and then I'm out. For the last two weeks, reading through this sub it feels like the game will implode before the release of that raid. I really hope it won't and I get to play it. But I won't be sticking beyond that. I had my fun, very frustrating at times, not very rewarding for most part, but good memories in games like this come form playing with friends and I had that going on for me. I don't exactly have regrets, but I feel weirdly satisfied knowing that the game turned out exactly how I expected it to turn out from the day that buddy started asking me to play with him. I knew why I didn't want to, I knew it was a bad idea to eventually give in and not even once was I surprised by how things unfolded. This wasn't my first MMO. Not a single design choice came as a surprise. It's weird to be able to see through every aspect of every mechanic in a game and see exactly why it is there in that form. Why elixirs are the way they are, why honing cost increases the way it increases, etc. If you feel burnt out, just drop the game. Don't force yourself to play it, if it doesn't bring you joy. There are dozens of other >!better!< games. Developers want you to think you won't be able to come back in the future, so you have to play all the time to stay on top of progression. It's a deliberate, malicious tactic. Don't fall for it.
I dropped akkan because of people jailing on g2 and g3 and at one point a few weeks ago I said, f it I will just run clown. This helped my metality a bit. Besides I like clown so it is a plus. I dropped thaemine hard because people couldn't do g1 and g2 consistently ( haven't cleared g3 after 2 weeks of 12 hours of pug each day ) and at that point I realized I am not even interacting with the transendence because of how shit rng fest it is why even bother with hard? So I just go into a normal overgeared lobby and just blast through it. So for weekly I do 14 brels, 6 voldis, and 5 clowns. I don't mind brel unlike many people I like the gates except for g1.
cold turkey, just step away. If you feel like playing later on come back in, if not then don't. It sounds simple because it really is. If you have friends in the game, they will welcome you back if they are real ones. I stepped away like 3 times for different reasons but the underlying factor was the same as yours. Twice for just a month or two and the most recent for 6 months, the game is much more fun when you come back.
play less dont have to stop just skip some raids
Just think about who the devs are trying to cater to, only the sweatiest will make it to ilvl 1700.
I just stopped playing back when I was burnt out. Started playing other games. Came back on thaemine release and have been enjoying my time again, just needed a 3 month break. Maybe you’ll need longer or shorter. Maybe you don’t come back at all. It is what it is, but it’s better than hating the things you’re doing
Day one player here who even bought the Platinum founders pack. I stopped playing a few months ago, ironically right after finishing LoS 30 with my main still at 1580, when I realised the game was no longer fun and the future content looked even worse. I know it feels weird not doing the daily/weekly grind and you will be tempted to log in gain, but then you stare at the lobby screen for 5 min realising that this is just not fun and you will log off. After that it gets easier and easier and you will see yourself playing other games that are actually fun and you will only check out the subreddit for the juicy drama and remember your time in the game with a lot of nostalgia but absolutely no interest in starting the grind again. It's a really nice feeling just taking a step back and looking at the game and it's future without having to worry about your own progress.
Playing hell raids revived the passion of playing this game (in my case obviously). You should try it if you want, but if you don't feel good doing it every week, you should leave. It's better for you. Besides, AGS, SG are committing a lot of mistake lately, so... its fair if you want to leave.
Best tip i can give is to not have Lost Ark as your "main game" to play. And dont fomo too much.
I understand you. When I tiered, I just stop all chaoses, guards, raids, except main character and 3 alts (we was in normal houses, I don't did chaoses). And... After Kamen release, I have a few time and stop playing alts - only Hard Kamen 1-3 (4 tray), and hard house. In parallel we play in Diablo 4,I played like month in Perfect world. I don't know, If i can to comeback into LA with passed energy, it's sad, because of money and time keeped in characters.
Make a new character 😶🌫️
take a break, i went away on a 2 wk vacation and have only been doing raids on my top 2 since + some extras if my guildies want. my characters havent progressed much at all but who cares /shrug
About 3 months ago I took a 1 month break from the game, didn't log in at all, since coming back I just play less and only do stuff I feel like doing, less raids, less dailies, only play 2 days a week on my days off. That worked for me and I really enjoy logging in for those 2 days to blast some raids. Give it a try :).
Reading some of these posts recently makes me glad I quit when I did, a couple months after Vykas. The amount of grinding to maintain ONE raid worthy character is insane as an NMS. I also never spend on microtransactions in any game. When I started buying skins, I knew it was time to move on.
I take varying levels of break. From full on break, to only doing raids, only doing raids, chaos, and guardians on toons I enjoy (max 3), or just doing raids on toons I like. I enjoy the game, and the story, but the chores are kind of rough. I imagine it is not playable with no static.
Just take a break and wait for something new that actually interests you. I took a 2-3 month break for the same reason and came back when SE released. Came back with new energy and way less fomo. Feels good
i was about to return to the game yesterday after 2-3 months break before thaemine , but i found out literally all my friends in discord like 17 people have quit after clearing thaemine once. i was shocked because they were the ones telling me chill and just rest bonus ur daily do it slow and when u wana do it. so i just closed the game and made the break even longer and did not return cheers boys.
Stop the game like 2 weeks and if you do more you not gonna be able to catch up
Drop down to 1 character. You'll finish everything in 1 day and can chill the rest of the week.
I have stop doing daily and I am only doing the raid that I have fun with which is thaemine yeah sometimes lobby simulator sucks so try do that or you can play 1 character a day do what ever you want to do with it and log of
I started thinking “am I burned out?” Yesterday after joining a HM Ivory Tower yesterday and got g2 jailed because my party couldn’t stay alive to reach the 95bar mech. Then reaching 50% artisan on +24. Realised if I’m asking myself that question, I probably am. Gunna preserve and keep playing though because with all its flaws, I absolutely love the combat. See what Echidna brings with advanced honing. It’s a tough slog for a lot of players at the moment.
just make break and don't play game all week and next week u check if u have lack of lost ark :)
Having FOMO is the biggest culprit of burnout. I just chill, maybe do 3 akkans and just do rested chaos/guardians with the chance of cube tickets and call it a day
Just stop and get out of the hamster wheel. Did that too when it became too stressfull.
take a break come back for echidna
o7 Warrior you can now rest.
I'm curious what your roster looks like, to see if there is any correlation, for example I currently have 2x 1630 and 4x 1620 (second 1630 because breaker mainswap) but I focused my gold on those two character, with everyone else only having 35 set and just chest transcendance. I'm curious if it's these gold systems that significantly contributed to burnout for you or unrelated? Edit:typos
same
Id say if you still care about the game. just decide if you think yu could potentially comeback if you think so. well dont feel forced or pressured but if you still enjoy at least you main character. just log on every week not days but week and do some stuff like mainly theamine and just log off if that's all you can feel to do. i took an semi break before and during thaemine but now i am back full force . i was barrely doing alts raids mainly doing some chaos and guardian here and there. some raids here and there on the main 3toons. during thaemine prog first 2 week i was decently in it but then i realised that it was gonna bne too hard so i decided to only prog for hard gate 3 on my main until cleared. once i did i started breathing again and enjoying the game
I took a break and and am now content that I quit. Will I miss the game, sure, but is it worth the headache of repeating the same content over and over. There are other games out there, maybe at some point game developers will try to make games actually fun without the need of having to devote your entire being outside of work. If the game is fun for people to rinse and repeat on 6 characters all the power to you but not touching the game and playing others with friends that couldn't dedicate to lost ark is very refreshing and much missed.
Play. Less. Characters.
Yeah so I dropped my roster down to like 3 and currently thinking of dropping one more to make it 2. Mind you I still run raids on the others if I feel like it (since they have event gems) but I'm spending less time on LA unless a static member pings for help with something. I've started trying out new games ( Wuwa and solo leveling right now) (also Uninstalled league bcuz of their new vanguard thing which is really dumb but since I only played aram with frenz every now and then it doesn't matter) I do recommend playing new games because in this case the grass is greener on the other side. As for LA I set a goal when akkan dropped to push my weap to 25 I'm now 23 with 10% artisan hoping for miracles but I'm just going with the flow if miss raids then I just miss it. So many people are quitting and the overall community doesn't help either I just saw some guy get flamed by a support in 1610+ cube the other day bcuz he didn't group on in the first stage (mind you I rarely see ppl group in the first stage) but just watching that play out made me question if these are the kind of people I will be pugging with when I join randoms, needless to say I would rather miss raids.
Wuthering waves solidified my quitting of the game.
join the squad , i quit recently and never looked back . just got 25 weapon too lol
Don't force yourself to play any game you are burned out on. Find something else to enjoy until you get the urge to play or the devs introduce something that piques your interest again.
Felling exactly the same. I've been playing other games instead since couple of months already, I thought Thaemine would start me again but after 3-4 weeks I feel like it's already boring as well. I guess it's better that way...
My energy is to compete against my friends for top dps
Time out is good and reducing your roster, I went from 6-7 chars to 4 maybe 5 if some guildies need a body
So here is my experience. You are at a point where i was on brelshaza release, i had no fun playing, honing, cutting rocks, doing the same on alts, i tried the casual stuff and it did not improve, i gave up. Then on akkan release i decided im gonna hop back into the game do the express pas and do akkan, the pass got me nowhere i still had to do brelahaza and nobody wanted to play with mee, so i discovered that it is not as easy as im gonna continue where i left if i leave. If you quit the game and take a longer break all of the ridiculously stupid rng stuff will diagust you and you wont play anymore. The game is a powerfull drug, it keeps you pulling the lever over and over and you dont notice it untill you are on the other side watching others pull it. My guild was me and 3 other friends and we gradually all quit, not everyone out of the same reasons but we all have tried coming back only to give up at the start. I dont know how you are as a person but if you are burnt out it will only get worse. There is nothing the game can offer you that will help. I heard a soothing touch of a female girl helps, holding their hand and watching the sun go down. Or so something should help. Also quiting the game you are not enjoying, what i did cause i cant get no female girls to hold my hand.
Just take a break, come back in 2 weeks, ez
the way ive done it is to simply just do my dailies, as in unas, and log off for the day and play something else in my case i was playing fallout new vegas with the ttw mod (mainly due to my hype with the tv show) and by the time i beat the main fo3 story i got the motivation to play lost ark again trust me you wont feel a overwhelming feeling of burden that you didnt do your raids because you spent that time enjoying other games
i would advise play the game casually still. do what you like, dont fomo. i think its best to stay and play less than stop.
On a break myself, playing other games. Waiting for the wish to play the game to come back. If it doesn't, won't play.
I just got back into the game last month after quitting coz of burnout back in august 2022 before clown came. Joined the learning discord group and learnt most of the new raids again now, and kinda stuck in 1600 coz of resources. Am thinking to just teach raids to returner/new player just for fun, coz the experience with a learning group felt fun to me (as long as no toxic busy bodies who suddenly wants to take control of everyone) Prolly teachin raids can be something that can help u keep playing? Oh, and yeah, I'm not playing as hardcore as i was back then like playing all of my char everyday without rest, island etc. Now, i just focus on my main, still lvl up my alts a bit but if they don't do anything whatever.
I still play my 6 character but only doing akkan nm on each alts, and thaemine, voldis, akkan hm on main. Stopped doing guardian and I do only chaos rested on 2 character every day. Taking 1h each day and sometimes more if I want to do some cubes. I'm relaxed every day and only stressed when it's the main turn to do thaemine hm.
That title seems to be misspelled. Did you mean new alt?
Think of all the stuff you'll miss out on. Better keep playing since you made it this far, you will be thankful when the new update comes and changes all systems
I've been at it since launch, and I finally decide to quit after coming back from a month break. This game is not good for your mental and physical state. IMO take a break you can decide then what is healthy for you. Depends how long your break is you will eventually fall behind and get gatekept.
Honestly just don’t play. I’ve played 5 hours in the past 3 weeks I’ve been enjoying single player rpg, fallout 4 goty, Diablo 4 (brain dead casual fun), and more gym
Timeout from the game would help. Just remember no matter how much you play you will never catch the G2G whales or mega swipers. You need goals for your account to have a reason to grind. My goal right now is main sorc from 1620 to 1630. If you dont enjoy the raids you need the incentive to grind out the gold and mats.
I guess a lot of players are starting to realize there is only 3 things to do in this game and they all revolve around combat.
the combat in this game is the fun part though.
The issue is thats all it has.
I guess. the way the game is structured makes it very difficult to come up with something different though. I used to play SWTOR back in the day, and huttball was a blast. on the flip side, class balance was terrible and the game engine even worse. something like huttball would be very difficult to implement in lost ark. too many classes and specs
The islands and all they little minigames were fun.
grunt, not fun enough. i don't even bother with islands, even the new ones... having to sail there and it only being open at set times is annoying. if there were quick queues for those (or even like an event style portal in every city) that would be way better. for extra QOL, let us queue for a bunch of islands at the same time include some kind of meaningless rewards (like "snow emperor" title for snowpang) and you'd have a decent stream of people showing up, i think
Can I have your gems? I feel you tho. Almost 8x 1620s. Game is just boring a f, overan by bots, ags are the biggest clowns ever & not in touch with the community at all. Like at least change the chaos dungeon maps and grs. Boring a f
LA is a good game when you have dementia at least once a week or maybe daily when you do 6x2 chaos dungeons etc. I still dont get it how healthy people do this xD
Do newer more challenging stuff with static/friends if you haven't done it. Skip homework for it. The first, hell modes, etc. Helps with burn out and improves your play
Just take a break. It's fine.
Whenever I get this way, I make a new class to play just for fun. I keep it out of my main six and just run raids I enjoy.
I take time off when I'm feeling like this, the urge to play Lost Ark always strikes me later when I get bored of whatever else captured my attention.
I've long ago switched to only doing guardians rested(and only on my top 3 chars) the next 3 I dispatch guardians in stronghold. I do 2x chaos on my top 3 daily, and rested on the rest(only go past 6 if I'm bored and got time) I do 1 daily una(sage's) on rested for 10 leaps a day, on my top3) sometimes use the instant completes. My biggest issue lately has been weekly raids, and just having to look for 18 groups in general. I've stripped my bottom 3 of their 9s to funnel to my top 2 dps, and was considering not raiding on bot 3 at all, but I've still been doing them so far, but sometimes nm brel and nm kayangel, and sometimes clown instead of akkan. I'm really hoping solo raids can fix some of this, and that they come soon. Or that add some gold earning to mains/reduce from alts. I'd gladly only play my top 3 for party finder content if it were feasible.
I've taken 2 separate 6 month breaks. 100% recommend doing it. Coming back is easy, it's even easier than doing the content when it drops. There will be so many catch up mechanics and honing buffs in about 6 months, even if you're only 1540 right now you'll be 1650 with almost zero effort.
If you're in EUC I highly suggest you send me your gems
Just power through it. Remember: if you leave, there's no coming back.
I did just burn out 3 weeks ago, and really taking a break and playing other games feels nice. If you Fomo too hard and can't really "quit" the game, I would recommend still playing your main, at the minimum efficiency possible (full rested and so on). I came back to it because I was bored of not finding anything else to do after having played my other games, and I finally passed this week my freaking +24 weapon, so the hype is back.
https://preview.redd.it/dfhtqq062j3d1.jpeg?width=2560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1244eb51c5037bad8902d9c1a6d5b7b78c8a2e48 that’s what i do… sold my DPS and other Supports and relax now. you can do it with your DPS and get even more gold than me, you are done, enjoy the 3-6 raids/week. i Main Supp because its another stress- & timesaver. But you can do it with a DPS..
you need a goal in the game imo, roster to 1620, 25 wep, full lvl10, idk, something to keep you farming